Bats don't see in the dark they use echolocation to hear what they can't see. SO maybe that can help you.

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.

Damn, he didn't even close the door.

Well, someone DID telepathy the word "Barge" at you... they probably DO have a reason to be scared.

Actually, looking two chapters ago, Rodwin said that he would could "contain the horde for some time"... and a month is a while when stretching even that much mana to seal that large a horde.

you may as well enter.

Feel your servant instincts kick in and set out to gather cleaning supplies.

Really hope barge wasn't a clipped way of trying to say barghest...

Let me guess: it's been 30 years and you're talking to Cecil II

>>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.

How can she lie that she is beautiful when she is fucking bald! As for her constructs the one the cat used helped more us and not the cat, it even started attacking the her later. I don't think the machine that her guild is making are working properly.

to add to my post, after the rat hit's whatever is grabbing it (I'm thinking it's one of the guest's pet that Dream Droplet mentioned) and is let go from the impact, Spy Rat needs to immediately run behind Maya Din's armor before people can focus on the rat (I'm sure the ringing of the bell will get people's attention) The reason why to run behind Maya Din's armor and not go back in Bobbie's lantern is so that if anyone does focus on the rat, they won't see it going to Bobbie, linking the rat to her as it goes near Maya Din's armor. Also, Maya Din's armor is enchanted to move on it's own. If whatever is trying to take the rat continues to pursue, Maya Din's armor can block it. Rat should hang around behind her armor.

As for Von Caroline, let's not insult her or the constructs or mention us meeting with the cat's construct, especially if we are in disguise.

Absurdity DeVoid 2026/02/26(Thu)01:43 No. 1122646 ID: 975793
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Move to the dining room.

B) Observe what the other guests will do.

C) Stay a little bit longer in this room.

D) Other suggestions.


This is just a small comment to the Grand Marshal. In this room, all the guests are characters who will appear later in the story. While in the dining room, guests who are just visitors to this world. They will not appear later in the story and are more cameos to my other older quests. That is the main reason why I separated the guests into two separate rooms, but in the next update, these guests will start moving to the other room. I just wanted to point that out to you.

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.

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

'I'm one of the mech pilots. I've got nothing to do, so I'm just wandering atm'

There's nothing to do, so just looking around. Seeing what we've got and weather we'll stand a chance.

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.

Absurdity DeVoid 2026/02/25(Wed)10:32 No. 1122617 ID: 975793
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A) Despite that, I am still interested in your prediction.

B) This doesn't give me confidence in your abilities.

C) I don't think that I can pay you at the moment.

>>1122617
A) There's no harm in a prediction.

How much is it going to cost us to get this suggestion?

A. But only if it gives us a free sample for this first time, we haven’t been given our pay day yet

A) who cares what they think, find out for yourself.
But eh, how much does it cost?

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

>some discord discussion later
Malice knocks on the warded door. She tries to make it sound as ominous as possible.

rolled 10, 4, 9, 6, 5, 3, 9, 7, 2, 8, 5, 4, 10, 9, 9, 2, 1, 10, 6, 8, 10, 9, 8, 6, 2, 7, 4, 1, 7, 10, 2, 7, 4, 8, 1, 6, 8, 9, 10, 9, 8, 3, 9, 1, 9, 6, 4, 4, 4, 9 = 312

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>One of us could pretend to be a sorcerer?
>Stonyarse here will probably have to focus mostly on looking tough without doing or saying much. Think you can handle lounging around in the sun doing fuck all for a while?"
"Hahaha! Yes, pretend!" Anjanya laughs and gives Akemi an enthusiastic thump on the back that almost bowls her over. "Win them over with your hidden healing bug and fine cooking."

The two clearly have very different ideas about what's going on.

>>1122589
>captain leaves the airship directly above the city
The Defiler peers downward. All right, now that Anjanya can see this place with her own eyes, can she make out anything of interest below? Anything... perched on a ledge? Anything big and shiny (that bell, perhaps)? Anyone strong looking, perhaps marshaling in response to Captain Xi's public speaking? The geometric center may have been momentarily claimed, at least.

Looking for threats and/or opportunities to pursue desires. Perception 3, Awareness 1 (+2 for hearing), possibly Investigation 1 (Shiny Things +1). Assuming we stuck to the Slayer's plan it took more than an hour to get here, so I have personal motes again: willing to throw 4m on an Excellency activation.

>>1122590
>sound as ominous as possible
>strength 1, charisma 1, manipulation 1, presence 0, performance 0, socialize 0
Interrogator hustles back up the stairs, glances around - managing to overlook the only other person present, even though Malice is standing right in front of her in a well-lit room - then leaves, to see what that commotion out in the street is all about. Her apprentice follows, but fails to re-lock the basement door properly.

>>1122589
>Urban Hell Renovation to create a column from which to stand above everyone
>charisma 2 + Craft (Earth) 3 + excellency 5
An elegant Gothic archway extrudes itself from the canyon walls and slams together, keystone neatly positioned under Xi-Hun's descending feet, just high enough off the ground to permit wagons to pass underneath, while those walls themselves are subtly re-textured for improved acoustics - tuning partly based on the echoes from that bell rung with a kick on the way down.

Crowd quickly gathers - probably between a third and half of the town's population. Most don't seem to understand complete sentences in Old Realm, but based on where many of them are pointing, and cheering or chanting, they DO know your blade's name. Lot of excited mumbles about "moon-salt" and "The Prophecy!"

Some foul-smelling goo is dripping from up inside the bell, into a bucket. Leakage only started when it began to ring.

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?

>>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.

Baron 2026/02/25(Wed)06:49 No. 1122608 ID: fd2dfa
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>>1122578
>>1122563
I just made my bed. First time all vacation too so I know nothing's under there but bedsheets and my socks from yesterday.

Baron 2026/02/25(Wed)06:57 No. 1122609 ID: fd2dfa
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>>1122563
Okay yeah TECHNICALLY I've seen it, but not knowingly. I mean if you told me to point to which dot that looks sorta blue in the sky and figure out which one was Earth, I couldn't tell ya.
I checked the drawers. That's where the arms were. And the chest part they attach to. I swear the school did like the bare minimum to adapt the uniform to a human body.
>>1122570
>>1122598
I hate the arms. They got these zippers I have to connect to the chest piece first, then patches I need to adhere together, it feels so weird! If their goal was to make the school uniform uncomfortable for everyone, good effing job.

What I did though, was I went outside, made sure the trash cans were back in, took a walk down to Space Supply to get groceries for the next month, took a break cause I was getting all light headed, then came home. I hadn't been out for the past 2 days so...I know the regulator is in the house. Either here or downstairs.

Classes start again tomorrow, so my plan is to get some food for me, and dad if he decides to come home tonight, and get my shit together for tomorrow morning. That includes the regulator. I'm not taking one of the public ones, their airflow sucks.
>>1122568
Uh it's about this big? Gray with some red squares on it besides a small button to turn

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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.

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?

(3/3) OMNI 2026/02/24(Tue)06:54 No. 1122573 ID: ca56f7
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Eiko nearly skids the grip off her heels as she dodges back, acting off instinct as the spear strikes right where she stood, an afterimage of her head still present where it would've struck.

Her heart skips.

The angel's halo retreats into its normal shape, revolving around their head, as if recovering.

They cross their fingers once again, pulling their spear back in Eiko's direction.

Act Quickly.

[EIKO STAMINA: 9/18]
[AMMO: 1/6]

>>1122573
Never be where the angel thinks you are. Move erratically. Try not to make much noise. False Acceleration covers only visuals.
I think the best thing we can do is get in fast, grab their arm, and shoot their hand to make them drop the spear. Then take it, and use it to kill them.

If you miss your shot you can throw your gun at your pack members to use them to reload it. Or hopefully one will throw you a loaded gun without having to instruct them. In that case you'd also want to try to keep the angel busy by targeting joints, especially if they try that rope trick again.

Just a note here, after the fight try to heal anyone that got speared.

>>1122573
One bullet. Some pain.
The pack is with you but hurting too.

We need to take a risk here, but it's what's shes all about...

The spear.
Next time he lunges for your after image, erratically dodging as already advised, dont attack him.
Grab the haft, let him pull you towards him.
He pulls that spear back as swiftly as he stabs.
Less than a second.
By the time he realises the weight he feels isnt your dead bodymon then spear but your very live one closing the distance, you'll be under his reach.
A spear that isnt being used to keep its opponent at a distance is just a shitty club.
Once your in there...
Rip and tear and drain until its done.

You still have ammo in your gun, wait until he does his attack avoid it and then shoot him. Maybe it will get him to be in a stunned state and that will leave him open for more attacks.

Harvest life force from the dying. The angel will likely stab their heads anyway if you leave them there... would that absorb their souls?

Make it look like you're faster than you appear, get them to exhaust themselves and lay down fire each time they're stunned. Use the gang's reams of bullets to lay down attrition, that's what they're for.

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.

>>1121181
Damn it all, hand me that case!
*Corax takes Lorence's case and opens it up and takes the grenade launcher, quickly loads it and fires as many grenades as he can in rapid succession at the weakpoint.*

uh um uh
*shoots at Happy's eyes*

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py-eu1KipNw

>>1122523
Well done… Ana, toothpick, whatever the hell you call yourself— would you kindly set this thing on fire?

>>1122528
yes, that, please

>>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.

1: Rank these individuals in order of who you would like to awaken, from MOST to LEAST

1 - Lillian, The Athlete (she's gonna need our help to deal with the misfortune she will be facing thanks to Clive)
2 - Enid The Homeschooler Miracle (might as well get the original 6 kids we started out with awakened, feels that makes the most sense)
3 -Louie The Class President (I am not going to be holding my breath that we will succeed, as the original 6 kids we are helping is my main concern. but since we made it this far...)
4 - ‘Bec, The Rebel ( Influencing her will be tricky, as she’s loath to follow anyone’s will but her own. I feel the best way to direct her will would be to make our suggestions as appealing to her as possible if we want her to do something, while also allowing her to do what she wants now and then to still give her that sense of freedom if we want her to listen to us).
5 - Lemmy The Class Clown (ED couldn't have said it better myself... minus the jokes part, I can tolerate them)
6 - Jojo The Bully (seeing she was fated to meet her end until Albert intervened, and nothing of benefit will come from helping her, unfortunately, she has to face hardship she was originally fated to face if we want to push forward to a brighter future for everyone)
7. (UNKNOWN BOON) (Maybe if one or more of the people we followed had died, I would have taken that boon, as tempting as that is. I feel that Boon is for if we are desperate after losing lives, and if we got nowhere with the power plant investigation)


2: How many characters would you like to awaken?

four please.

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1:
Enid, Lillian, 'Bec, Lemmy, ?Boon?, Louie, Jojo
It might be surprising to see Lemmy not in dead last, but we can't really vote for the Mystery Boon- who frankly I assume is Aiden, without him too.
2:
All Seven.
3:
'Bec, Albert.
If we're awakening Bec, which looking at the count, we are for sure, she's probably going to need the safegaurd to act as freely as possible.
Albert is made of tissue paper.
...And in an ideal world, Louie would be third, for some reason I expect him to be one of the others with the highest Fear right now. Just a hunch.

One person voted seriously for an all in strategy therefore I am changing my vote to that (but my ordering for characters remains the same)

The Ranked List:

1)THE UNKNOWN BOON (the mystery box beckons! the box! the box!)

2) The Athlete (we stole her spotlight for too long)

3) The Miracle (the bad guys are always defeated by God's smallest creations: the marketable 5-year-olds)

4) The Class President (We mostly know him from Secret Santa 2022, but we need him for the best ending, and also I drew him playing with my character in that Secret Santa and sniff that stuff sticks with you, man)

5) The Rebel (she is willing to stick her neck out for others when things are bad, she's extra capable and interesting...but she's rude, potty-mouthed, so she lost points for that)

6) The Class Clown (he has a hard time taking his surroundings seriously, he's unpredictable, and his jokes sometimes land, which makes feel inadequate)

7) The Bully (She is interesting, but after going through the trouble of saving her, I think she deserves her rest)

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Hmm actually, you know what if I'm able to shift my protect votes from albert to Temmie in the unlikely event that actually works I would be interested in that.