Well we have a couple of options here. Could try to keep blinding it or blocking it with earth walls or magic walls, and hope the fire kills it.
Or you can go on the offense with stuff like more fireballs, or water whip (assuming the fire isn't actually hurting the parasite much) or make up some spells. Like, earth ball or fire whip, or try something more intense of the light element, like, some kind of holy light whip or holy fire whip or holy water whip...

It's looking towards your ally now so it will probably attack him, you should try to help with one of your defensive spells.

1/2 Claudio 2020/07/25(Sat)11:00 No. 973162 ID: 4fd362
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Many possibilities rush to my mind as I consider what to do next. I decide to try to blind it once again, but as soon as I try that, the parasite suddenly goes in all four again and starts, slowly but menacingly, advancing towards me, not only protecting its eye from my light beam, but also threatening me with the fire consuming the alpha’s carcass.

>Protect your ally
Suddenly I notice that it intends to use one of its… “hind legs”? to strike at the elder’s son as he gets closer with his axe.

He’s too far away and I can only cast the magic barrier right in front of me… but maybe…

>Make up some spells
Well, it’s nothing fancy, but water whip MIGHT be just what I need!

I create the water whip and manage to stop the leg just before it strikes, unbalancing the parasite in the process, and it needs to seek footing as soon as the water whip banishes.

2/2 Claudio 2020/07/25(Sat)11:03 No. 973163 ID: 4fd362
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Although he was surprised at first, the elder’s son tries to continue his strike. To which the Eldritch parasite responds by quickly turning around and facing him with fire… As soon as I try to move, the eldritch parasite quickly turns towards me… Is it… Buying time?

Regardless… I don't know how much it will help it… The fire continues to expand and it seems that soon rather than later, it will reach the parasite…

>>973163
Hrm. Maybe it's trying to finish its metamorphosis, and it's planning to shed the burning parts? Or it's getting used to that particular brand of damage, thanks to its crazy adaptability.

... the Water whip seemed pretty maneuverable.

Whip it in the eye.

Maybe you should extinguish the fire, since it seems to be playing to the parasite's advantage.
Water bolt!

You're just going to get a drink of water? Or to the bathroom?

FrogAnon 2020/07/21(Tue)23:07 No. 972952 ID: 160b11
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>>972481
>You're just going to get a drink of water? Or to the bathroom?

You attempt to save time by doing both at once and telling your Grandma that you wanted a drink of pee?

Your hat starts to pop off your head, in an attempt to escape being associated with you.

well, thats not gonna work. cheese it!

No keep babbling! Between the gibberish and the hat levitation she'll think you're sick!

JUST RUN PAST HER ITS OKAY
SAY "A DRINK AND TO PEE I MEAN" WHILE YOU RUSH PAST HAHAHHA

>>963325
That takes at least a whole day and we need the goods now.

Is this quest still active?

>>969682
Yes.

I didn't notice I was once again late to the party (again).

I say, let's improvise.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.
Except there is no lemons to make lemonade. So you make something else instead, like orange juice. If there is any.
What a pity, to die (inside) by an unflexible mindset!
Or psychically by eldritch creatures, now that does sound more thrilling! But extremely painful.

>>961541
Consider other people around the place that would be more suited to fetch that flour

Ready our weapon I guess?

Dread King Malcor 2020/07/20(Mon)09:49 No. 972822 ID: 5245b2
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I wake up alone, standing in a pool of blood that is not my own. Smoke billows from burning huts and mutilated bodies lie scattered around me. It’s starting to rain...
...Not again... by the forge of my soul, please not again...

>BRYN is currently in what remains of a small town or village. There are bits and pieces of human corpses all around, blood stains the gravel and dirt, buildings burning, the smell of burning flesh is everywhere.
>BRYN does not recognize this place, and does not remember how he got here.
>BRYN is gripping Stormrune tightly. The blade is currently in default position, and the charge meter is full.
>It's starting to rain.


>>What should BRYN do?

Take a moment to remember: you are the one with the sword, you're the one with a choice.

I'm going to suggest you sneak in and look for survivors, but you be you.

>>972925
>BRYN searches for survivors.
>A 4 hour search turns up nothing.
>Not a single living thing in the town.
>Not even carrion birds.
>Not even flies.
>BRYN gets the feeling something is seriously wrong.

She never specified that the power had to be inherent to herself; power she could draw on at will, power she could call instantaneously. You could give her an object that she could lose or have stolen, like a magic scepter that she can ask questions to to get any answer that follows the wish, and lets the user use great magic and stuff once they specify to the staff what they want to have happen. You can possibly avoid them realizing the downsides by making it something really cool looking and dazzle up its creation a little; don't go overboard though, she seems irritatingly savvy.

Alternatively, you could fill up her head with, just, tons of pictures of smut. "Knowledge" doesn't necessarily mean "knowledge she would enjoy having".

Could you interpret the wish to create a magic item that's inherently unstable, so it'll explode or cause some other catastrophe shortly after you stop actively maintaining it? A deadman switch, passive-aggressively violating those "great harm" and/or "can handle" clauses as soon as you're no longer bound by them.

I don't see the value in twisting her wish to be worthless or harmful. Our goal is to topple the thrones of the earth and un-sanctify every sanctum, right? So empowering a gnoll slave into an unstoppable warlord sounds like a pretty good plan to me.

Bonus if we drop hints that we're the source of her power, meaning lots more people will fight to get their hands on us.

So, go nuts with it! Give her a ludicrous amount of power. The absolute most she can handle.

In fact, enhance her body so she can handle a little more than that.

As for knowledge? Hit her with tons of lore. But make sure to focus on all the ways the gods are bastards and have screwed over creatures like her. Especially, anything they've done that's caused problems for her in particular. Give her good reasons to want to disrupt the worship of the gods, and make it seem like you're just unveiling the forbidden mysteries of the universe.

(If you can distract her by sand-blasting her with secrets for long enough that her snake friend steals the ring, that would be just fine~)

Suggestion 2020/08/12(Wed)18:27 No. 974402 ID: 3a7feb
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>>974162
>enhance her body so she can handle a little more than that.
Strong body, strong spirit.

>>972305
>... That is also one potential way to interpret ‘all I can handle’.
Apparently this is also a thing.

So what's the upper limit on how much power you actually *can* give to her? Could you say, give her the Magical Power to reflexively rain long range magical blasts upon anything which she has an angry or annoyed thought about (as long as the target is far enough away that the blast Won't Harm Herself), and then give her the Knowledge of many places along with facts about them that would annoy her (conveniently including cities containing major temples you want razed)?

Alice Hall 2020/07/19(Sun)13:29 No. 972770 ID: b4095d
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This could be us

Get's me every time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovm-ywrerac

>>972788
I hadn't seen this one before so I'll vote for it.

>>972512
Breakfast, brush teeth, comb hair.

That exclamation point is begging to be opened/pressed.

I'm a simple man raised on Mario. I see exclamation block I punch it.

Check the closet, anything else of use there? Umbrella in case it rains for example? Backpack?

Or! You could spend that time climbing your wardrobe. Just a thought...

>rogue supremacists
Explain.

Also go say hi to the cops since you're so buddy buddy with them.

Go say hi to the cops. If you're a freelance cop, maybe you'll get paid for helping them out?

What's this about getting kidnapped? You were kidnapped before?

Killer 2020/07/11(Sat)19:07 No. 971982 ID: 470289
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>What's this about getting kidnapped? You were kidnapped before?

I don't want to talk about it.

And you were about to follow a drone into a dilapidated building? ...Please go say hello to the nice police godzilla, she will keep you safe (from yourself).

I'd be careful before stepping through, try tossing something in, in-case gravity gets all weird.

Boxed In Blobbish 2020/07/03(Fri)12:59 No. 971381 ID: 7f716e
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>>968304
Before stepping through the door, you decide to see if this hallway has some weird gravity properties, just to be safe.
You throw your wallet down the hallway. The wallet lands halfway down the hall. If there was any gravity shenanigans going on, you didn't notice.
You deem the room safe enough to go into. However, as you walk through the door, you notice a slight gap between the room you are in, and the hallway you are entering. These two rooms are not physically connected to each-other.

Boxed In Blobbish 2020/07/03(Fri)13:01 No. 971382 ID: 7f716e
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>>968141
You make your way to the end of the hall.
The object you saw turns out to be a clock, but the hands are missing.
A red light shines brightly above you.
>What now?

>>971382
Well... what time does your phone say it is? Maybe you can mark that time on the clock somehow...

Mark the clock as 12:07.

Keep going. An empty gun is still a heavy club.

Plug this drive into your thumb drive port, wherever on your suit you might have one. If you don't have one, then plug it into the WAT.

>>969828
waylay that, we don't know what's on that drive. Best case, secrets that people would want us dead for knowing. Worst case, some kind of military virus meant to cripple whatever's going on down here.

>>971633
Both your best and worst case sound great to me!

One does not simply obtain a thumb drive and not check what's on it.

>>971649
indeed

Well since Rise looks like it will fail I suppose I'll support a base choice.

Im certain we can find a less destructive way about this, and we have plenty of flesh to spare.

Desiccate

>>970437
Consume

>>970437
Let's eat it! Consume the fruit!

Consume

>>970437
I wonder what it'll taste like? Let's consume it and find out!

We send one climber. then the poetess, then the other climber to keep up with her. With one anchor point at either end, we can hopefully prevent the worst outcome.

You probably can't risk going more than one at a time, but you are elves, and these are plants in an elf city, so presumably you're pretty light and they're pretty strong? Still.

The lower vines will have fastened themselves more securely and the vines themselves will be sturdier and spread the pull wider along the top. Go slowly, don't put too much weight on one thing at a time, and try place your feet and hands near where the branches split if you have the option. The plan to send Eranil in the middle is a good one - with help lowering herself off the first balcony and getting on the second, she can save more of her stamina for the middle portion of the crossing. Vines like these usually break at a point rather than peeling the whole thing off so the lightest person should go last just in case they have to climb over on just one remaining top chunk.

Alternately, if you all used all your clothes, you might make a long enough rope to tie one end to the balcony you're on, and send someone to bring the other end over. If they pull that end around the corner of that door a bit and wedge their feet as they hold it in place for the others, the leverage would help. You'd still be partly using the vines and just using the rope to take some of the weight, but it would help. In that case leave the lightest for last, since the first needs a bit of strength and you'd presumably want to untie the rope and bring your clothes over with you.

>>969799

Ushamerea, you climb the vines over and find something to help your sisters over.

All others, sit tight and stay hidden until your sister comes back.

>>969814
I agree with this. The only thing to add is if the elf-hunter gets too close, you could throw a shoe to make noise and divert its attention. It sounds like they could be blind if they must rely on those other senses? Or maybe near-sighted.

Have the two that can climb the vines do so. You need to step carefully and quietly through the dining hall to go find something to draw the hunter's attention down the hall.

Here's a sheet for Kome's character, pending ST approval.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QsJ_4Ov-elU170e9mWCuF7_AVPESYgs9GXHx4JZT8kM/edit?usp=sharing

"If you're not in control of your own destiny, you're not in control of anything."

Those words still ring through Abby's mind as she marches upwards along the river, with no thought as to where she is going or what she plans to do on this seemingly fruitless journey. She tries for the thousandth time to banish these heretical thoughts, to deny this urge of rebellion, to go straight back to Lookshy and apologize for her infidelity and lack of conduct, taking whatever consequences may come, and just focus on giving the Boss the legal courtroom ass-kicking he deserves.

But she can't.

Years of hard-coded loyalty and professionalism, stripped away in an instant by the incoherently corrupt ramblings of a commanding officer who should never have taken office, never should have risen beyond citizenship, never should have commanded anything more intelligent than an animal, never even should have picked up a weapon in his miserable life, yet was praised for his acts of inhumanity as if they were not a completely subversive abuse of power. She supposes this was the tipping point; the praise. She wanted, desperately, to believe this was one of the inevitable epic failures that occurs when a gigantic realm-spanning organization has to keep track of millions of soldiers and thousands of officers, and would rather allow corruption to fester and spread than process billions of sheets of continuously-conflicting paperwork to possibly get it done. That is the narrative she wants to believe, but the support from his Gen in spite of the verified anonymous tip of his unprofessional and outright malicious agenda paints a different story. A story of endless incompetence and bigoted spite ruling over the strong and incompetent, where the hateful and the mad give orders while the competent blindly fulfill them.

And then she heard the words from that... that nobody, and Abby could believe no longer. No

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Alright, going over the four character sheets as posted, I’m officially signing off on them, and I don’t have anywhere on the map in mind to specifically put places but I know James Leng has already claimed H3 for the wood dam manse, Sidereal Manse J7, and Moonsilver bridge town in B4 or B6

As for the character introduction, great post, though one note I should point out is that Lookshy is one city, and actually cracks super hard down on incompetence, and the gentes basically try and raise an army of elemental Batmen (Batman’s?) and prevents incompetent people from getting into power by encouraging rising stars to challenge them rather than the standard nepotism and the like that happen in the Realm (though they also have no use for incompetent scions). But, something like embezzlement of funds to his Gentes resulting in the deaths of some non-exalted soldiers is a crime that would be hard to prove and would be basically political suicide to try and go after him for, especially as a former lost egg with no social safety net yourself.

The main thing left is to figure out the political stats of each of your kingdoms (and of the ones in the wilderness since you’re not alone) using the Kingmaker system, which is why claiming a hex is pretty important.

It occurs to me that, while inside the Trestle of Lunacy, Inyene Senga will be able to recover her entire uncommitted mote pool in less than an hour and a half. Might be sensible to have somebody continuously rotating little trays in and out of the lab, a dozen seedlings on each, to be blessed with the second step of the Growing Wood Path as spare moments and motes become available. Probably not enough for every single stalk of grain in a field of useful size (back of the envelope calculations suggest months per acre), but growing nutritious fruits and vegetables out of season, or trees and vines in otherwise barren soil, could be significant.

>>969574
That's a clever idea!

Occurs to me one of the first actions I should declare is Senga attuning to the Trestle of Lunacy, which is going to immediately put her into 15 points of XP debt.

Also going to declare, until further notice, every day that she's at the manse, Senga is going to spend an hour using the diagnostic garden to check the health of the local area. The dice pool for that is Perception 6 + Medicine 3 + 1 (from the specialty provided by the manse's archives) against difficulty 5. Should the roll fail, she'll reroll with the third medicine excellency.

Dread King Malcor 2020/04/07(Tue)19:06 No. 961102 ID: 5245b2
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>>Engaging PILLAR MODE

>>Pillar Mode:
>Height: 8'3
>Weight: 385lbs
>Cup Size: E
>Maximum Weight Capacity: 1108 lbs
>Notes: "Mezametamae waga arujitachi yo!"

>>961102
AYAYAYAYAYAYAYYYYYY!!!

Proceed.

>>961102
oh, sweet form
rock his world

Dread King Malcor 2020/05/01(Fri)06:22 No. 964533 ID: 5245b2
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"And then we DIDN'T have to stop because my boss had a job that coULDN'T WAIT 'TIL THE NEXT DAY!!"
>Except that's exactly what happened. Li's phone buzzed not five minutes in, and both
the participants and the whole audience were horrendously blueballed.

Dread King Malcor 2020/06/08(Mon)22:37 No. 969275 ID: 5245b2
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"sigh ...I really wish I could have had more fun, but what the boss says goes. I'm in a carriage moving towards a major city, something about a stolen scepter, and I'm going to be working with another warlock on this. Hope they're chill... and that they are NOT Porter."

E. Worst case... you can make like a tree and leaf, right?

>>966931
Looking forward to seeing where this is going.

Raptie 2020/05/31(Sun)16:42 No. 968617 ID: ee7136
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Taking a mini-hiatus for a bit. Details are on my website here: https://outissa.com/2020/05/22/news-and-semi-hiatus-and-future-plans/

((Take whatever time you need, I hope your commissions go well.))

Sorry to hear your burden is still so great. It had been hoped the global pandemic would shut down enough of the world to reduce the burden on you to a level that did not require such a drastic response from you as a hiatus. But it seems our efforts were less effective then had been projected. Still, we hope that our efforts in creating and disseminating this plague has managed to ease the many demands on your time and efforts and lightened your burden somewhat. We will continue to look forward to when you will once more be able to continue your efforts with the comic.

While we realize that this is past the deadline and can not be considered, in a show of solidarity we would like to offer the suggestion for the pouch of the still beating hearts of those who would attempt to capture, contain or control those of us who are, gifted.

Sincerely, -REDACTED-. Prime -REDACTED- of -REDACTED-.

Closest one. Check the bar.

RANCH QUEST 6 R4N 2020/06/02(Tue)21:45 No. 968839 ID: 9a6f5a
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You decide to interrogate the closest biot,the shitty little camdrone. You approach it, your arm pointed out accusingly, body still in SWAGGER. “You there! Ya’ better darn tell me where the ranch dressin’ in this place is!”

The camdrone looks at you, boops, and then casually backs away, like one would from a landmine that was going to go off. It’s gone before you can question it further. You narrow your eyes. One day, you bastard, one day.

RANCH QUEST 7 R4N 2020/06/02(Tue)21:45 No. 968840 ID: 9a6f5a
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You decide that, having failed to consider the camdrone’s cowardice, to head inside the bar. After all, bars are where all questions can be answered/and or wiped from your memory chip by drinking way too much headlight fluid.

The bar is packed when you get in. Strange, but not unusual- robots don’t tend to sleep, so it’s this or walk in the dark until you need to recharge. Unfamiliar robots beep and boop, filling the air with an overbearing sound of conversation. You hurryingly make your way past them and to the counter- you’ll check with the bartender bot first.

As you approach, you see a small little bot sitting on a stool, wearing a tattered cloak. The vestments of a priest, you think. You look over the counter, but no tender is around. Probably busy elsewhere, with the place this packed, you suppose. You know how it is- you worked in the service industry once too. In the meantime, you look over the menu, which contains items such as-
>Diet Anti-Freeze (half the anti, with the same great freeze you love!”)
.Artisanal Power Steering Fluid
>Sugar Oil
>Decaffeinated Headlight Fluid
among other refreshing drinks. You run a diagnostics check and check your belt- you definitely need a tune-up with a drink, but you only have the spare parts for one. Your programming doesn’t dictate a particular need for anything in particular, so what should you order? And what else should you do while you wait for the tender bot?

Power steering fluid.

Spells:
_Conduct__|__Aspect__|__Element_ _Produce__|___Wild___|___Fire___ __Focus___|__Lasting_|__Wound___ ___Seal___|___Far____|__Fungus__

Inventory:
Treated leather outfit, kobold-sized kopesh, and belt pouch containing storage gems.
Storage gems: five days of rations and five days of water, a bedroll, a medical kit and lab, and four empty gems.

Health:
Energy

Stamina

Endurance

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The academy's roof should make for a good vantage point, try and survey the surrounding area and see if you can spot the Witch Pine grove before heading into the study hall.

>>968281
>urine smell
So, some kind of wild animal visited your shelter and marked it as their territory. That confirms it wasn't undead, at least. Unfortunately it might take issue to you returning to the same location.

>>968282
Head into the dorms first for supplies, as that could make retrieving the lexicon easier.

>>968288
Actually yeah, better idea.

Scout the surrounding area for like an hour, to make sure when you exit you're not going to run into a surprise, especially if you're making a loud exit. Not just if there's anything around but if there's any signs of things that could come back later.

Ask the cop if he's really willing to shoot you.

Is he ready to 'cross that road?'

Zen Quest: Zen Harder Pawn_01 2020/05/25(Mon)16:34 No. 967933 ID: dce46f
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>>967887
>>967906
Listen kid, I don't want it to be this way. The way you tell it seems plausible but you're our only lead, its not a matter of guilt or innocence to the commissioner its a matter of saving face and keeping the department funded. Just confess and we'll make sure your sentencing is lenient.

Zen Quest: Zen Harder Pawn_01 2020/05/25(Mon)16:35 No. 967934 ID: dce46f
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>>967884
while he's distracted by empathy you strike him with your law-fu!

What? The hell are you saying you've obviously already been detai-

>>967881
you don't have a gun, but a fingergun might pass for one in the darkness! You spin the lamp around!
Aaagh my eyes! Mother clucker my eyes!

COP has dropped large GUN!

>>967934
Get the GUN and start interrogating HIM! Where was he on the night of the ascension? What is his relationship with the freeway? HOW MANY CHICKENS HAS HE EATEN IN HIS LIFE?

Quick, pull the Good Cop, Bad Cop routine on him!
"WHERE WERE YOU ON THE 12th!?? I KNOW IT WAS YOU. TALK!"

Cave (2/2) Banshee 2020/05/22(Fri)01:00 No. 967473 ID: 7c0903
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Mode: Mixed low-light + tozol blindsense

Eugh, these things.

They're some of the endemic life in caves. They're nasty, brutish, and not too picky about what they try to eat. Animals, fungi, storage crates, antennae, generators.

These things are resilient, armored, and deceptively quick. Not me-quick... but I would hate for there to be more than one.

They often come in groups of four.

And I'm sure it's heard my captive behind me, who has the good sense to stop when I stop. Unfortunately, I can feel it making some sort of ultrasonic pulse.

Tactics?

>>967473
Shoot it.

Shoot it, then eat it.

Wait. Also: aim for the nerve stem, and put it down for good.

>>967473
Make the first shot, aim for eyes and space between the armor plates.

"Sorry, I was giving them some stress relief, I didn't realize it might be overstepping a boundary. Although, judging from the leakage, you don't seem too upset."

>>965511
Oh no she's hot!
Quick, bow your head down in respect and close your eyes, that'll at least limit how fast you fall under her spell for now. You've clearly encountered succubi before, and know of their allure, surely there's an answer for your situation somewhere inside your head. You best be careful with your words.
"My humble apologies, they seemed stressed and were open to the possibility of some quick relief, but it seems I've overstepped my bounds. I should've sought out the mistress of this place first."
If you can avoid mentioning the map until necessary, it might buy you some time to think. The map was apparently yours, and she was waiting for you, so if she knows, it could spell trouble. Then again, escape from this place has been highly unlikely since you stepped in here and Trina locked it behind you, and this is where you will likely find some answers at least.

Beware the floral scent, it's been trouble since you've first encountered it, breathe through your mouth if it helps. It could be that the scent is associated with certain creatures, and that you could have encountered/been lured into a trap in the sewer, had you gone the other way.

Also, for some reason the cum stains on her breasts made me think she's lactating. And how natural to her appearance would those stains be? She might've just got done with feeding, or you may have interrupted it, which would be bad.

Since you can remember something about them now, how bad is falling under their spell?

>>965511
Any way to escape?

>>965511
Think about scat! that oughta turn off any sane person. You're not that weird... right?