Toxoglossa 2026/02/28(Sat)02:40 No. 1122709 ID: d10be1
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Cecil opens a door at the heart of the collection leading to a familiar, windowless chamber. Inside is a couch, a standing lamp, a folding screen and resting on a cushion, the bowerbird’s favorite toy: his “joy”.

Mr Ochre sighs happily at the sight of the phallus, as if seeing an old friend for the first time in years. He then turns his attention to the room itself; checking all of the corners, behind the screen, under the couch, even peeking inside the lamp.

“Okay, we can talk now.” He says, finally. “Apologies for the secrecy, but unfortunately while you were gone, the situation has… evolved. Thankfully I had this room warded against scrying years ago.”

He spreads his hands and continues, “First of all: welcome back and congratulations on the successful theft! You actually arrived earlier than I had expected, so I'm a little under-prepared. I do hope that your time away was a pleasant enough one and that Argus wasn’t too... demanding of a master.”

>>1122708
Hehe, that's what having a big noodly boyfriend does I guess. No need for sex toys.

>>1122709
Demanding? Well, to a degree, but he was quite benevolent.
What's the situation?

First thing's first, what happened here? Why are people suddenly scared?

Though we can probably make a fair guess. The Court of the Reflected Sky either attacked, or are about to attack. They're clearly keeping a very close scrying eye on the city if precautions like this are needed. But what kind of threat is there if it isn't even safe to talk out in the open?

That leaves the truly important question, what's the status of the Academy? The other guardians? Is it safe to go there and try to link up with them?

Ask what the status of their Colorful Deity lover is. They're usually outside and... Scryable?

Given the gardeners reaction its possible there might be some taboo keywords that trigger alarms, scrying, or might incite immediate response from the Fey.

Its also possible ANY mice of their approximate appearance are persona non-grata currently (hopefully no Fey tracking cought them entering the manor).

Oh shit, we need to ask about Clio too. If the courts came here really gunning for someone, knowing full well that we were stuck with Argus, it would've been her. Has Ochre heard anything from her since that night?

>>1122688
Stirring not sitting stir always when Heating so this should take in total 6 minutes

>>1122667
Dig deep.
There could be a booty themed prize.

Ensure you arrange the fridge magnets in the rudest phrase available. Butts seems like a low hanging fruit though.

Need to think about how to make those 17 bucks stretch to fill a fridge.
What?
Fifteen percent service charge is fair. And you aint spending your own hard earned cash, are you?

Cost effective foods:
Rice, beans, maybe milk (by volume per dollar), raw ingredients like sugar or flour, raw vegetables

>>1122695
Means we can make out own bread and pastry dough the two food groups also beans surprisingly Good on toast

I don't see baking turning out well. Better to get food that's simple to cook.

Rice and beans are cheap yeah, but don't forget store bought bread and pasta. Eggs tend to be affordable (even in this fucked up economy) and sometimes groceries have short-lived sales to get rid of food that's about to expire; you can take advantage of that. Might even be possible to find someone selling bruised or unattractive produce at a steep discount.

rolled 8, 9, 8, 1, 6, 5, 5, 3, 4, 4, 10, 8, 8, 8, 5, 6, 5, 4, 7, 3, 8, 10, 1, 9, 5 = 150

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Xi-hun tells herself that it seems these people understand good enough to not try high realm: "So the grand news for today. I'm in need of a little base of operation at the moment, your village has been selected to be the base of it. On the good side, you can expect some major build up in the area. Any question?" she clamps her hand together and looks around, not really expecting to really get anything good but so far it seems to be going better than the usual attack on village she's done. Nobody is screaming yet.

>mostly trying dices, but if needed

>>1122607
Malice shrugs and heads down the stairs. What's our prisoner look like?

>>1122592
>Linguistics 1 (Flametongue)
>Intelligence 2 + Martial Arts 5
Scattered across canyon walls, mostly eye level, are posters in a consistent format: Name across the top, close-up portrait on the center left, side view of fighting stance on center right (sometimes with colorful streaks painted around it, suggestive of anima flare or elemental techniques), noteworthy violent deeds and a numbered quantity of money listed below. Overall layout, and exact copies of some designs, standardized enough that there's surely a printing press in use around here somewhere.
>Lore 0, Barbarian flaw
Unsure whether the information being presented is supposed to be bounties on dangerous outlaws, or mercenaries advertising their services, though. Might even be both.

In a side street, two merchants - one in a narrow wagon whose wheels fit into grooves in the ground, the other leaning out of a second story window, under a protruding beam which supports a rope and complex set of pulleys - are haggling over bolts of cloth, seemingly encrusted with alternating stripes of amethyst and emerald.

Bonsai tree on a windowsill with a tiny fired-clay blood ape (glazed in red, with black and white highlights) hanging from one of the branches, slice of actual dried banana (proportionately the size of a huge wheel of cheese) in his mouth and other hand as if he was eating it.

The bonsai tree's wood is tin.

Front wall of the church has lifesized statues of the four of you - somewhat caricatured but unmistakable - along with a fifth figure you don't immediately recognize, posing in front of a bas relief prominently featuring something which at least vague

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>>1122631
Male, 40s, northerner. Whitewall, maybe? Brown hair, pale blue streaks on the sides of his beard. Squints like he's nearsighted, marks on his nose from glasses he's not currently wearing. Scholarly, but, based on his callused hands, and overall muscle tone, also has some reasonably recent experience wrangling heavy machinery. Hasn't gotten much sleep in the past week but was eating well before that.

He's scooting the chair backward and trying to steer toward a pile of stuff on top of a cabinet in the corner. Pile looks like... overcoat, chainmail shirt, backpack, couple of books, gold necklace with a sunburst pendant, knife on a belt.

rolled 6, 9, 4, 9, 2, 7, 5, 1, 10, 3, 8, 8, 8, 5, 6, 9, 1, 10, 10, 2, 7, 2, 4, 6, 9, 5, 9, 7, 9, 6, 8, 1, 1, 7, 8, 1, 4, 4, 2, 10, 9, 1, 10, 4, 3, 5, 2, 2, 2, 9 = 280

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Malice circles around behind the prisoner and drops Hidden Predator Camouflage. She steps over to the cabinet and picks up the knife, pulls it out of its sheath, pockets the necklace, leafs through the books a bit. Then she turns around and speaks, trying every language she knows. "Hey! Why do they have you tied up down here? You're not going to hurt me if I set you free, right?"

Can I find the guy's glasses?

>mechanics
Mostly a Dex + Larceny roll (5 + 5) to steal the necklace without him noticing.

Silence 2026/02/25(Wed)14:37 No. 1122624 ID: 6d1406
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>>1122540
>>1122541
You inform Paul that you're just wandering around, there's nothing for you to do.

Ah, passing time and getting a lay of the land. I get it. Yeah for you pilots there's really just short downtime and the next mission, think you get wired up that way?

You're not certain.

Well regardless, you've probably got a lot of questions. Go ahead, ask em. You wouldn't be the first one I've dealt with all day.

>>1122624
Do any of these vehicles ever get used? What are they used for? And what's your opinion of the current situation on this planet?

Don't want to interrupt him while he's on the clock. Maybe you can hang out and talk while he works.

Silence 2026/02/27(Fri)15:00 No. 1122690 ID: 6d1406
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>>1122636
>>1122644
If you wanna stay here for a bit, that's fine. Got time to kill, just doing some tuneups.

The APCs you should be familiar with, they're used for transporting people, occasionally VIPs for important missions.

The trucks however are for cargo and logistics. Most of the parts around the ITA campuses on the planet get their parts shipped from here and there. These things usually ship them.

Can't wait for this war to be over though, I want off this world...

oh yeah? Where's he want to go?

>>1122679
Vi: get loaded guns into Eiko's hands. Stay out of the angel's range.
Eiko: start shooting at body parts of opportunity. Hitting the spear arm would be great, but really anything that slows them down is good so that you can try to get a lethal shot in, or fully disarm them. If you can manage it, shove some health into Vi so she isn't so close to falling over, and direct the pack to flank the angel. At some point *someone* is going to have a clear shot, and if they get stunned even for a moment more bullets will fly in.

...guess we should've used some downtime we spent talking to transfer health from a mook to Vi, but I guess we didn't know Vi was this scrappy.

>>1122680
Agree with directing Vi to get guns into Eiko's hands.

You've got the angel riled up, now feign seduction to really throw them off with rage!

Stick your tongue between two fingers while grinning, add a corny one-liner for extra insult.
"You're gonna have to get your other spear if you want to penetrate me!"

>>1122685

Also, add "Oh, what long spear you wield."

Being seductive just plays into his superiority complex with eiko and vi being lowly beasts.
Thatd have little effect.
Hit what he cares about.

Brainstorming taunts:

"I guess zir decided you have to fight like youre having a seizure too, huh?"

"Zir foresaw THIS performance and he sent you anyway. Dude has a sense of humour. The choir must be pissing thrmselves laughing."

"Now now. Zir is the god of serenity, not frothing impotent rage. Hed be soooo disappointed in you."

"Hey listen! His Zirness is singing a new verse just for you! *sad trombone noises*"

Just a few quick options.
Whatever we pick, target his object of devotion and his inadequecy in serving them.
There, he is vulnerable as in his mind he is the heroic crusader, not a target of mockery.

Absurdity DeVoid 2026/02/27(Fri)21:29 No. 1122702 ID: 6ca3f9
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A) No, I will not need your help anymore.

B) Maybe I will be interested in your services.

C) Yes, I would like to get more of your predictions.

>>1122702
B) I'll see how accurate they are tomorrow, and come back with my decision.

B. maybe not every day, but return visits are possible depending on accuracy and emblems.

This is probably going to make Ratislav and his other spy rats even more nervous about doing spy work if it died. We are going to have to fix their confidence at some point. That said, from this point on, we should not be sending off any rats to do any kind of spy work anymore until they get properly trained (and by that, I mean INTENSIVE training, I don't want a single one of them to be slacking during this break from doing spy work to train), and get little weapons of their own for protection. Because so far, their track record of staying hidden while spying on others have been pretty abysmal. (this means we sadly won't be able to use our plan to spy on Kenku, meaning he got away from us unless Gramleza can do something about that)

Credit where credits due though, that spy rat managed to get back in the lantern without Bobbie noticing.

But all the same

C) Stay a little bit longer in this room.
Abdle, keep cheering on the rat as Bobbie tries to stay in this room as long as she can, hopefully the rat can climb out of whatever is trying to eat it. Just because it isn't responding doesn't mean its dead or can't hear you. It probably just needs your encouragement to get out alive.

Also about Caroline: I think if we want any kind of alliance with her, we will have to be in good relationships with Dizelu (the green masked guy) as he is part of the Heroes guild, and Caroline is under contract with them.

... I think the rats need to stop going spying. Or like, they can if they want to, but not under orders.

Lets go in the dining room

B) + C) we need to know where the rest of the guests will be moving. As for the rat, well you know shit happens.

>>1122650 Well you've sealed it with that one. Perk usage on Dizelu confirmed. Especially since we can subvert those mechanical people. Just treat them like people and we'll have most of them on our side. Great to have a strategic coup as an ace. Oh and stay to find our spy because we should at least attempt to.

So are you more of the type to have set this regulator down somewhere odd, or the type to have just forgotten where it should be?

Check the bathroom.

Make sure you didn't leave your one-night stand partner in the bathtub.

>>1122609
We're not actually sure what we are to you, only that we can communicate. This is the first we've heard about you having... brain implants? Is that what your "augs" are?

If your uniform isn't made for humans, who is it made for?

Okay, back to the task at hand. Did you check in and around all the furniture in this room? You mentioned that you sometimes leave the house without the regulator, so are you sure you had it when you came back? Where do you normally put it when you come home? Do you use it inside the house? Does it need maintenance?

>>1122609
Ok.
Cool.
Im gonna try tomfind a superchat button.
In the meantime I'll be keeping an eye out for your regulator

Say, what does it regulate?
Oxygen mix?
Bloodpressure?
Its not bladder control is it?

>>1122528
yes, that, please

Absurdity DeVoid 2026/02/27(Fri)01:02 No. 1122671 ID: 6ca3f9
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giUh5r-Ancg

>>1122671
Then as the current and one of only TWO people who make up the current tribunal and as it’s currently only functioning senior member, blah blah blah- I hereby grant you pardon. Hopkins do you object?

Of course not. She's like the only nice person I've met in here.

>>1122681
Then by the powers vested in me, blah blah blah, you are hereby pardoned. We’ll work out the paperwork later when I can feel my fingers and I’m not bleeding and burnt.

As for you Happy, I hereby— Ahh, to hell with it.
*Shoots Happy with the rifle.*

Let's go Leeroy Jenkins on this dark hole. The more time we spend second-guessing ourselves the more time we give our ENEMIES to attack us. We need to keep moving.

Nalthar 2026/02/22(Sun)03:29 No. 1121377 ID: fd169b
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The two pull their heads out of the hole, and not a moment later you hear, or rather, feel a screech pass by you that leaves your teeth on edge. Dis nods to herself "Mm, yes. Bat."

"I want out." Cedric says, fiddling the chain in his hand "Come on there's five of us, we can take em!"

You agree "But lets not take any chances. When they come by here we can rush them."

Lisel taps the side of her acid thrower's tank. "I've enough for one or two more sprays. How should we array ourselves? Perhaps someone should go in the vent to ensure their attention is drawn past here."

We could try to make this a pincer attack. Have Lisel go into the vent with Kh'khechil as a meat shield, and those two engage the patrol and force them to chase them past the hole. Then Lisel sprays them; and after they're hopefully blinded, the other three charge in behind for a sneak attack.

My thought process is that the bat knows we're here, but not how many of us; so if they encounter more than one person in the vent they likely won't be expecting anyone else. Having Lisel go first means that she can spray them without having to worry about hitting anyone else behind her targets. She does need some way to stay in the fight once her acid is exhausted, though. Are there any other weapons she could use?

>>1121377
Similar tactics to last time? You're in a choke point. You can surprise them as they come out. Maybe one person in the entrance to create the illusion of a single passer-by, who can bolt from the hole and draw the rest into an ambush, starting with Lisel's spray.

>>1121377
Five against four, and one of them is a bat. This is going to draw a lot of attention.

Send the beetle and Lisel out first, in opposite directions. The beetle approaches the enemies slowly and cautiously, blocking their view of Lisel with his large body. When the guards think they've found a lone beetle to attack, go into a fighting retreat until he reaches reach Lisel's position, giving her a perfect chance to hit the whole group with an acid spray and avoid friendly fire.

By this point, the enemy will have alreadu passed by the hole, letting the rest of our group ambush them from behind while they think they've already been ambushed by the beetle's single ally. If we've got backup weapons to share, I'd give the chain blade back to Tem'rty; he's injured and its added reach will let him attack from relative safety and without having to move too much.

How sure are we that "four pairs of feet" mean "four opponents"? I wouldn't put it past this house of horrors to pit us against a bizarre monster that defies conventional anatomy. Even if we've got the four of them surrounded, be wary of other enemies coming from behind us.

>>1122635
Nnngh.
She looks hurt, but you guys nearly died.
Ok

Haul off on her. Say all the shit you wanted to day to herbover everything that went rown. The good and the bad, the worry and the anger.

Then, when youre empty of all that, think about her question again.
Think about what itd do to you to help, but also what itd do to you if you didnt.

You are in no way obligated to help her. At most, she can have some bandages for her paws (assuming the bloody footprints were hers), but that's the amount of help you are offering. she can bandage herself up.

>>1122637
this

Why is she here? She was in the cave, we saw her shed fur. Is she with the poachers now?

no no no. if she's here those psychos could be hunting her down as we speak.

But, it would be great if she was far, far away. So lets hear it fox, what's your plan? Where you trying to go?

Also if you're going to be talking to her for more than a minute or two, you need to get her away from the geocache. You're probably not the only ones searching for it, and you *will* be seen with her if you stay where you are.

If you're going to do this, you also want to get her bandaged up first. The trail of fur and blood she's been leaving is very bad in her situation, and also bad for you as long as you're in her vicinity.

I'm going to say have her bandage herself up while you close up the cache, then get somewhere more secluded while you figure out what to do with her.

LW 2026/02/25(Wed)05:55 No. 1122605 ID: 0d1c28
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Iolantha stashes the books underneath the bridge, maybe to return for later.

LW 2026/02/25(Wed)05:56 No. 1122606 ID: 0d1c28
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They continue down the river.
Porala spots a cave along the river it might work but she'd have to check it out further.

"It's so cold in the river..." Iolantha complains.

This is as good a hiding place as we're likely to find, if it has enough space. We need to make sure we have a place where we can get out of the water, and enough space to rest while drying off. It's likely to be cold and uncomfortable; safety is our first priority, but we need to make sure we're not going to develop hypothermia.

If nothing else, we should be able to stop here and recover our strength.

>>1122628
Agreed.
The ladies who arent born to it need out of the water for a while. Hopefully a dry ledge at least in there to huddle together on and share body heat

stop and rest in the cave

very fashionable. About time to see what the rest of the crew's been up to while you've been serving, isn't it?

New outfits get!

Toxoglossa 2026/02/25(Wed)03:13 No. 1122604 ID: d10be1
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“If that’s everything, you better get going.” The fae waves a hand and a stone gateway opens in the wall, through which Cecil’s garden is visible.

“If I may…” Casey steps forward and nods, “We appreciate the training and trusting us with your heartspace gate.”

“Yeah, I can’t wait to show Del how much tougher I’ve gotten.” Gabe flexes an arm, showing a hint of a bicep.

“I definitely learned a lot. It was an honor.” Kol nods in a slight bow.

“What’s all this? Gettin all mushy on me, are you?” Argus grins and opens his arms wide. “Alright, guys. Bring it in…”

The former servants come in and embrace their master, feeling his arms wrap around them one more time. Even without his full strength, the werewolf’s muscles crush them together gently, as if reluctant to let go of the moment.

“Thank you, sir…” Casey tells him, her voice low and quiet.

Argus drops his arms and steps back. “You three come back sometime! We’ll have a rematch: you might actually stand a chance next time!” He says with a chuckle, discreetly wiping away a tear.

“You’re on!” Kol tells him, turning back as they leave.

As the three cross the boundary between the faewild and their world, the wolf’s howl follows them, bidding them farewell and good luck on their next journey.

End of Chapter 17

Well that was fun
next stop: the moon

Sweet, another one for the books, great chapterrrr

>>1121302
This could either be very good or very bad.

If we're lucky, we made a new friend! Yay! And he's really nice and cute and understanding and likes talking to you and wants to share your interests and he's getting you medical attention which is pretty important too I guess but also he's super cute so don't be ashamed about having fantasies about him.

If we're not lucky, we just let a weird stranger take you away from your friend and drag you off to an unknown location. Even if he's not planning anything unwholesome, they might think you're taking the chance to get away from Jaden. It could make him look abusive, which he is not.

Okay, I'm pretty sure this is bad. Tell Swiss you changed your mind and Jaden should be here with you for whatever he's planning, because we trust Jaden and feel safe around him and Swiss seems nice but we just met and we want to be around someone we trust. I'm all for helping you gain emotional independence, but right now your and Jaden's safety is our highest priority.

>>1121325
Yeah we should have him around for our and his safety feels weird being without the guy who by action to care about us like none else he was ready to kill and die for us he has proven himself... It feels nice someone who would go to all this effort unprompted it gives just farmfuzzy feelings in the chest and Tingeling in the stomach.
Also really dont want Jaiden our J-Dawg Onmew-chan getting in trouble what if he gets arrested for what out teacher does

Think it's good to get some medical attention, after the whole car crash thing. Just stay calm.

Yeah. Calm. The chances that Swiss Cheese is dangerous are quite low.
Statistically speaking the greatest potential danger are family members, romantic partners and authority figures (such as teachers)

Relax. You can't be having your heckles up 24/7. That'll burn you out.

Open the door first to stablish domminance

Since you'll be reported missing at Violet's you could leave a trail from there to the ambush spot

>>1122517
He thinks he's sneaky. Show him what sneaky is. Make some pit traps in the woods full of sharpened branches and cover them with a layer of leaves to disguise them. Remember to leave a simple marker you'll remember.

In a chase, you can jump over, and he'll fall in and hurt himself.

tippler 2026/02/25(Wed)02:12 No. 1122602 ID: f1368b
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We discuss tactics over breakfast at Root’s favorite patch of grass. I’m not in the mood to speak, but I guess my brothers are looking to me to come up with ideas since I’m the one who found the gun in the first place.

“This chameleon, does he know we live around here?” I ask.

“I don’t think so. The undergrowth in the forest is too dense for him to see through and we make sure we’re not being followed whenever we come back to the burrow. We usually spot him by the road with the field where we escaped.” Root mumbles through a mouthful of bark.

Grass wrinkles his nose. “Dumb lizards, they don’t even realize we moved further away.”

“Okay, well, this is going to be risky, but if we want to lure him towards cover where we can hide with the gun, someone will have to be bait.”

Three big pairs of eyes look at me expectantly. I let out a long sigh.

“Fine, whatever, I’ll do it. I think Violet is going to report me as a missing pet anyway, so the chameleon probably won’t shoot me on sight.”

>Violet report as missing pet check (30% since the knife wasn’t stolen): Result hidden
“Yeah, good idea. You should keep that collar on and pop up around town.” Grass says.

I nod. “In the meantime, I want you three to prepare some pitfall traps. If he chases me here, we need something to hobble him.”

“If you want to go into town today I can show you that house where the snakes were arguing, since we still haven’t checked on it.” Root offers.

A. Visit the house
B. Visit Minnie alone
C. Other (suggest)

>>1122602
Sure, let's check out the house.

Check it, maybe the heat has died down there.

Trol Con eh? some kind of troll gathering?
just kidding it says 'control'

It feels like something's trying to communicate through your divination. Feels... corvidy
Does Sam know any birds?

also there seems to be a faint something right in front of you. Like a dark red star. Is that coming from the sigil?

also also, what are the red and green symbols?

>>1122582
>something bird-like in this cavern
Not really, but... those little stone figures could be similar if their arms were raised up instead of down.
>it's the map
Oh! There's birds in the background. Crows? They're saying something.
The first time, it was "Quit pro quo, Samantha"
This time, it's "I have waited... so long... ...to meet you"
>letters
CONTROL.

The divination still has a dark red reading here. I think we need to do something with the big bird symbol. Try touching it, saying "control", or maybe using that lockpicking spell again.

This room also has an eye symbol on it... looking up? Is there anything on the ceiling? Could just designate that there's art here.
The black symbol shows up in the remaining two rooms we haven't been, and it's also drawn on the wall. I guess we'll get an idea of what it means when we visit those rooms. Fairly sure the red !! symbol signifies threats, and the blue/red arrow symbol is for travel.
The green symbol wasn't here before... did someone new show up? I guess it could be Hella, but I expected her to correspond to the orange symbol, due to her text color. Oh, she can't be the burning figure though, you saw what she was wearing and it didn't match what the figure was wearing, right?

>>1122596
given the eye symbol's placement on the first map it would seem to indicate Sam's position

>>1122580
Mary was holding one of those figurines? We saw the burning thing just after we found them, but it was in another room looking through a different crate. Maybe it's searching for them, and it sensed us messing with one of them, but didn't know exactly where they were because we put them back in their box. Or it could have been after something else in the box, like the amulet.

Where did Mary find the figurine she had, and how long did it take the burning thing to appear?

i think it's time to leave, before they have a chance to "sniff you out". we need to tell the others what we've learned, and that our enemies may have a way to track us

...It was never just the meat the Gormoamhi witches were sacrificing. And they had no idea.

The Rezans did the impossible. They brought the dead back to life. This is not something you can discard back into the void. It could change your way of life. It could make you worthy of bedding your goddess...

And, of course, it could let you torture these @#$%s to death over and over for all the hurt they've brought upon you.

Be patient. Wait. Trust the Daoine.
Silly, I know. But if you succeed, you're both going to live for a very long time.

Baron 2026/02/23(Mon)23:14 No. 1122552 ID: 89ca74
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Loquui is hesitant, but she trusts the dah-een that smells like Yahn. He is ingratiating himself to the other creatures with all the skill she expects of a subservient nonperson. In fact, they seem to accept him as just another servant, even though he clearly doesn't have the wrongness of the other Dah-een or Yakubi.

Baron 2026/02/23(Mon)23:15 No. 1122553 ID: 89ca74
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Loquui cannot hear, but the big Ghostskin, barks something at Yakubi, and Yakubi barks at the Dah-een. They follow. So Loquui follows.

They weave through the streets. Loquui is struck by a sense of nostalgia. These places used to be filled with her sisters, and bitches that needed a good thrashing, but there was always such noise and life. Now they are empty. It makes it harder for Loquui to hide, but she has experience. As a pup, she'd used the strange stone buildings and their funny holes to crawl into places the mistress could not sniff her out.
Though she is bigger now, Loquui finds all the old places with amazing ease, and gracefully climbes back into the narrow spaces betwe-betwee-BETWEEN-it seems the walls shrank since last time Loquui used them, as she it stuck. She'll have to wriggle her way out. Hopefully Yakubi will leave a scent she can follow-

Baron 2026/02/23(Mon)23:16 No. 1122554 ID: 89ca74
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Oh, Yakubi is getting pummelled. That's funny.





Wait, Yakubi is getting pummeled! BY SHOKZALI?!

Fox here.

Dammit Kome, you've gone full conspiracy theorist. Yea, there is SOME evidence about the cult and past Tanna and all that, but Kome you're drawing wayyyyy too many conclusions and specifics and things that suggest particular courses of action when that exact scenario is NOT supported!

Also I think the lizard lady killed the people there as loose ends, not kidnapped them. She was about to release some sort of spell on them with an outstretched hand, and the angle we viewed, with the shadow and everything, was dramatically appropriate to, in visual storytelling, implying that someone was going to be executed but that the act wasn't to be shown.

As far as actionable information, the the reason I suggested the mechanical discussion was one of the things that sent Kome to do... his thing; there's technology present in your reality that is implausibly advanced, and also working implausibly well given the lack of necessary supporting infrastructure (a smart cellular telephone should require visible cellular towers which should require an electrical grid which should require an electrical power plant, and all of that needs to be maintained, etc. etc.), and we need more information and a baseline to figure out what to do about that. Preferably something beyond a basic, 'hey people are importing high tech stuff, go find whoever is inevitably importing insanely advanced firearms and take them, and then take them to someone for turning them into magic weapons'.

Anyway Tanna, the last part of the dream where you felt like you got shot? In the dream, the other you did actually get shot by a revolver that's one of the aforementioned insanely advanced firearms, which, though it wasn't real and was a dreamscape, the fact that it caused you pain (a headshot from a real one would have been painless, instant annihilation, by the way) and the concept of the item existing locally, even i

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>>1122542
Oh my... That's a lot.

>Ask your companions if they have heard of ‘firearms’, ‘guns’, or ‘muskets’ or ‘flintlocks’.
Evel’yee already mentioned 'flintlock' in response to Tanna attempt to describe the concept of 'future-tech bows' she got from kome.
Took a long time for cannons to make tall vertical stone walls forts obsolete and that was a limitation of material resistance. It's possible that there are magical solutions that counter firearms in some way or that increase the efficiency of static defense making the need for a radical change of paradigm not yet needed.

>if there is an ancient civilization that has ruins of lost and poorly understood magic, it probably used Primordial Magic, and it probably did magic as physical infrastructure – that is, non-Weave-based wondrous architecture – to bypass the limits of people only able to cast so many spells a day to do many powerful and useful things.'
Interesting theory but there is a problem: When Roderick died the Primordial darkness he casted was dispersed. It's not guaranteed that it always works like this, but it doesn't bode well for the idea of a civilization that uses this phenomenon if it needs to be replaced each time someone involved dies.

>we talked with your other self, the evil one
Maybe try to be less abrasive to hotter Tanna. She will remember this next time we meet and I am hoping that can develop more towards a steamy dream than whatever that was.
>presumably to make a new one
I wouldn't presume that at all. If anything I feel that her goal supports my old theory th

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>>1122547

Fox Again. In response to the guy that responded to me. Yea, it is a lot, I came up with a lot. Subjectively, it's been a VERY long time since Tanna and I chatted, from my point of view. I forgot Flintlocks were mentioned with the future-tech bows thing. I'd describe firearms as closer to future-tech crossbows or future-tech slingstaffs, though. Also the Fireball spell alone should change fortification design, since you can set it to explode above and behind the heads of people taking cover behind a wall's battlements/crenelations like a dialed in explosive shell.

As far as a steamy dream and Other Tanna remembering and Evil. Did you miss the part where she's talking about murdering lots of people? And that she exists in a world where, like it or not, Evil is an objective force. And that because of her, Tanna scans as Evil to Detect Evil? Now, whether or not there's some mitigating circumstance that her actions are less immoral (I'll use moral/immoral for the approve/disapprove terms in the 'I don't like objective morality physics' bit) than it seems, I'm all ears about, but she wasn't trying to present an argument that her point of view is ethically sound and cohesive. Maybe she'll give us an argument in favor of her worldview and actions at some point in the future, I would be keen to listen to what she has to say.

As far as steamy dreams, do you mean encouraging Other Tanna towards sensuality and eroticism, and the reality of the dream to that sort of dream? Ehhh... I'd want to get to know her first. Also, normal Tanna can explore that part of herself too, nothing stops her. I get we're often quite, ah, frustrated and that Tanna is very beautiful (you are!), and that the dream was a little surre

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>>1122548
I don't know what reason she had there. Not even going to speculate. If she want help she will need to give an explanation with or without a Yellow related censorship in effect. No benefit of the doubt for something that large scale.
But at the same time I'm going to hold personal judgement until more context is reveal.

She is hotter Tanna because she is a crazy edgy goth chick, that automatically make her hotter. No deeper reasoning needed.

To ruin the joke by explaining: The "steamy dream" comment is more meant to weird out Tanna when she eventually come across those messages than something I actually expect to happen. When it comes to narratives I prefer a "fade to black" approach but I find provocations funny.
Also I'm not considering hotter Tanna as her "older sister". They are the same person and current Tanna would experience such a dream even if she forget details about her world ending conspiracy plans after.

Maybe you would get more reliable answers about cautionary details like contraception from Mina. The rogue-y ones might lie about stuff like that to mess with us or Tanna.

>>1122549


Contraception was just one of the things I'm curious about to ground myself in this particular world and its logic. Like, we could ask Mina, I suppose which species of people are interfertile with which others and why and whether it was always that way IS something to ask Mina?

Also, are you entirely sure they are the same person? To a large extent, we are our memories and our beliefs and personality and the decisions we make. How sure are you that those things are the same? We don't know the particular metaphysics, we don't even know if that being has a separate body and is sending dreams remotely. Sure, it's possible it's just a dream, but in my experience, in worlds like this, in situations like this... dreams are often more than just dreams.

Brett 2026/02/22(Sun)00:44 No. 1121373 ID: 0d1c28
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As the journal hits the ground it opens revealing the final page written in blood

Brett:"huh? what's this? 'Run, Run! before the Wendigo gets you, I have to hide, it can smell me'"

It detects you through scent? Looks like the secret strat to throw it off its game is by throwing used clothes around so it never knows where you are! Brett must be impressed by the dedication to this prank in such a short account of time! So impressed he tells Kimberly and Dean they totally scared the pants off of him. And then he throws his pants at them, which he took off, what a guy! Chekhov's Dropped Pants to distract the monster later at the perfect time will maybe save the day, or at least one person in that moment.

Yeah yeah, real funny prop. cool that they made it land with the right page of its book open, but let's not give this any real weight. A real skeleton wouldn't still be holding its journal after dying. That sort of thing only happens in cartoons and cheap B-movies.

And this is real life, so it must be fake!

Don’t look at the prop too closely, it’ll be right behind you!

>>1121373
Brett shouts up at the door
"Hey guys? Aint a wendigo one of those cool RV things?"
Camera pans up with the book as brett picks it up, pulling back to see the horned shadow over his unaware shoulders.

>>1121037
Crows are already most of the way to sapience already, so why not. In exchange, they can help explore more of the area around here. If they see any signs of living humans that would be a big lead towards finding out what happened to the planet. Or maybe they can find some newspapers... or an intact, unlocked phone or computer.

Crows would be extremely useful to have on hand, both for our own party and for the commune we're building. Their dietary needs are fine for the setup the bugs have built. Ascending to sapience would not be a major shock to them. This looks like a pure win-win.

Maybe you can unify all the crows under one group, the slime animal convoy.

crow wars crow wars crow wars

(crows are intelligent enough for tool building. perhaps they'll learn how to make computers in a year)

Time to eat some bad crows! We need a start making a name for ourselves. All who oppose us will go in our belly and we will not spit them out.