1/3 fffi 2022/06/29(Wed)09:05 No. 1036475 ID: 213048
File 165651873399.png - (4.15KB , 500x500 , 4.png )

>"We must be 'Yellow', then?"

-"WHAT."

-"so your memory has been damaged, then?"

>"It would appear that way."

-"you may call yourself whatever you'd like, if 'yellow' is not comfortable for you."

>"We will discuss it. We could use names for you three as well. We propose 'ASS' for the loud one-"

-"FUCK YOU."

-"you may refer to me as blue. the 'loud one' you seem to be referring to is named red."

>"WE ARE LITERALLY COLOR CODED, DIPSHIT."

I am...assigned, the identity "Granite." I do not accept this as my name, and would prefer not to be referred to as such.

...

I have noted the difficulty of keeping information from you.

2/3 fffi 2022/06/29(Wed)09:06 No. 1036476 ID: 213048
File 165651881404.png - (12.73KB , 500x500 , 5.png )

"Let's focus on goals. What are each of you aiming for?"

-"FIRST I'M GONNA FIND OUT HOW TO GET MY OWN BODY AND THEN I'M GONNA TURN THIS ASSHOLE OVER HERE INTO A PILE OF MEAT."

-"it is our directive to provide insight and guidance to our bearer. i provide the bearer with empathy and understanding. red provides-"

-"OUR BEARER IS DEAD!"

-"our bearer is alive. our dislike of them does not allow us to ignore our directive."

-"HE IS NOT OUR FUCKING 'BEARER!' HE'S A MURDERER AND A THIEF!"

I am sorry for the fate of your friend. There was no other option. If I were to let the priest live, they have access to abilities that would guarantee failure for me and my squadron.

Our objective is to leave no survivors. Our state intends to expand into this region and will be expecting no resistance.

"could this not be resolved peacefully? why must people die like this?"

That is not my question to ask. I do not have an answer.

"SO WHAT, YOU'RE JUST GONNA BLINDLY FOLLOW ORDERS?"

There is not another option.

3/3 fffi 2022/06/29(Wed)09:09 No. 1036477 ID: 213048
File 165651895307.png - (8.11KB , 500x500 , 6.png )

I am approached by a large male gethem. He appears to be fit, and is wielding a lumber axe of good quality. It would seem he attempts to defend the village.

The axe looks heavy. He will likely die if he swings poorly.

He is not wearing any protective gear. This is suicide for him. I fail to understand.

im bad at formatting

ah, we're in the middle of a war then. Everyone says they're horrible but yet nobody can stop starting the damn things. Funny how that be.

As for your opponent and why he's fighting, either he realizes he's dead and has chosen to go down fighting, he's trying to buy time for others to escape by slowing down the enemy, or he's just so full of himself he thinks he can win. Take your pick.

But regardless he's in your way and you have a job to do so follow your training and finish your job, as questioning your career path in the middle of an active war zone just seems like a good why to die. Best save that kind of thinking when you're in the middle of the endless hours of boring down time you have to suffer through between battles that no one ever likes to talk about when they sit around the fire telling war stories.

Hmm, based on what we're playing off of, was "Yellow" supposed to provide curiosity and logic? That, I can do - I feel as though I would have had no issue switching to a new master, even if it made me glum - but I don't speak for the other fragments.

Meanwhile, this village is done for, but even if it's hopeless, it would be fatalistic to not at least try to defend it to the very last. These people have something to live for, after all.

All the same, asking this guy to switch sides is useless at the moment; stay back and wait for an opening as he comes toward you. You have a reach advantage, so thrust as he pulls back to swing, and use the momentum to step inside his "too close to hit" range before he completes the attack. Maybe push him to the ground.

We can question circumstances and assess a long-term plan when we're not in the midst of a battle to the death.

>>1036477
He's fighting for his loved ones, GRANITE. What do you expect him to do? Just die without taking up arms? These villagers don't have protective gear or proper weapons.

You should switch sides. Betray your squad. Rebel against the murderous fascist instead of blindly following orders.

Since your purpose is to eliminate everyone in this village, why do you feel confusion with their desperate struggle? What do you think they should do instead? If you were in his situation, what would you do?

Well, you'll probably kill him, sure, but he has no reason to make it easy for you.

Let's wait until we have a good idea of what's happening before talking of betrayal. It's a good idea, but defecting to the losing side in the middle of a battle while wearing the uniform of their aggressors will go poorly.

OH NO LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU

Massacring civilians? How glorious of you.

There is not another option for him. Maybe he'll get lucky.

Who calls Granite? And if that's not your name, why mention it to us at all?

I don’t judge, we all have our own goals. It’s just that this priest failed his.

1/6 fffi 2022/06/30(Thu)01:11 No. 1036578 ID: 97dc10
File 165657667273.png - (8.11KB , 500x500 , 7.png )

>"Who is Trel?"

-"UGH. CAN YOU STOP ASKING STUPID QUESTIONS?"

-"yellow is struggling with their memory, red. be respectful."
-"TCH."
-"trel is the name of our...previous bearer, yellow. we should discuss stuff of this nature later, when the situation is less...dire."

Yes. We should.

>"No use in questioning our career path in the middle of a warzone. Stay back and wait for an opening as he comes toward you. You have a reach advantage, so thrust as he pulls back to swing, and use the momentum to step inside his "too close to hit" range before he completes the attack."

Wisdom, from the wisdom stones. Took long enough.

I extend my weapon to force him into distance. He readies his weapon to his left, and begins slowly pacing in that direction. It appears he's looking for the same opening I am.

I test him with a swift jab into his center. He prevents it from hitting his chest, taking a superficial cut to his arm in its stead.

Stupid. He has no practical form of protection against my weapon. No chance of victory.

I jab once again, with more force. He is prepared this time and steps back a short distance. He seems to want me to commit to an aggressive option. I will not.

If he had fought me two-on-one, there may have been-

>"Oh no, look out behind you!"

I take a wide step to my left and readjust my head to cover the sightline behind me.

-"HAHHAHH!"

There are no threats. This distraction was pointless and dangerous for both of us. What do you gain from this? If I die, your own survival chances decrease. Why?

-"BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT! FOR BEING A MURDERER!"

I see. You let your emotions control your actions. You act before thinking.

-"he is correct in this, both of you. now is not the time."

Like him.

He takes a step forward, then backwards again, as if to scare me into making a move.

He would throw his life away, for some pointless sense of justice.

2/6 fffi 2022/06/30(Thu)01:12 No. 1036579 ID: 97dc10
File 165657674989.png - (7.05KB , 500x500 , 8.png )

He moves towards me further. Impatient. I impale his chest. He does not collapse. He pulls off of my weapon, oblivious to the fact that he has already died, and attempts to move towards my blind half. In this position, I am somewhat at a disadvantage. I attempt to make space, but I fail to forsee the swing of his axe and he destroys the shaft of my weapon.

3/6 fffi 2022/06/30(Thu)01:13 No. 1036580 ID: 97dc10
File 165657681415.png - (8.10KB , 500x500 , 9.png )

Better it than me. The swing threw him off balance and I tackle him to the ground.

Ridiculous.

Before he has any chance to move, I press my foot to his shoulder before stomping on his wrist. He releases his weapon, and I retrieve it.
Failure. He has achieved nothing. But lost everything.

I swing for his head. His skull splits open.
He is dead.

4/6 fffi 2022/06/30(Thu)01:14 No. 1036581 ID: 97dc10
File 165657688238.png - (13.31KB , 500x500 , 10.png )

And for what?

I swing again.
For some sense of pride? Glory? He must have known his actions would not protect anyone.
I swing again.
He had freedom. A purpose. A future. He could have fled, and made some effort to keep them.
I swing again.
Yet he has tossed them away in a battle he knew he could not win. For reasons I can't understand.
I swing again.
Why? I can't understand.
I swing again.
Why?
I swing again.
Why!?

5/6 fffi 2022/06/30(Thu)01:15 No. 1036582 ID: 97dc10
File 165657691876.png - (11.97KB , 500x500 , 11.png )

...

6/6 fffi 2022/06/30(Thu)01:15 No. 1036583 ID: 97dc10
File 165657694691.png - (11.52KB , 500x500 , 12.png )

I have wasted energy on this.

You're as insane as he was. You just happen to have optimized your mental illness towards something less self-destructive.

>why
Gee I dunno, why didn't you ask him?

There's a decent chance he fought hoping it would delay you enough to let those he cared about flee. Or he may have judged his chances of fleeing successfully to be extremely low and wanted to spend his energy on trying to hurt/kill an attacker and thus make it slightly safer for others in the path of your army.

are you planning on conquering this land or is this just a simple raid? Because if you are conquering this land some people rather die fighting for what they believe in rather than continue to live on their knees. Free will and the ability to have a choice make people do funny things like that from time to time.

We don't seem to be the only one with some "cognitive damage" here, are we?
What a mary party we have here: three wisdom stones with different personalities, one with memory loss, one with anger issues and one that seems to be calm and colected. And then we have a grunt/soldier/raider, also calm and collected, rational, but with some brain damage that makes him have sudden bursts of violence.

This is fun already. Ok, so, new bearer, how should we call you? I'm fully committed to aid you to the best of my abilities.

I see no real benefit in keeping ASS, seeing as it clearly does not care about you. Although it must still be useful for something, if the last person kept it. Maybe blue knows if Ref acted the same way with this “Trel” person.

You know, if Granite doesn't want to be called Granite, then we could just call Granite Trel and make it easier for us so we don't need to learn a new name!

Well, BLUE would probably explain better? Empathy being their domain.

And RED's emotions are understandable, and we should not dismiss their input because of it. They probably help provide drive or something similar.

Maybe he had something to die for. Do you have a reason to risk your life? What's your reason to fight?

1/3 fffi 2022/06/30(Thu)23:14 No. 1036660 ID: 6f2b0f
File 165665609427.png - (3.50KB , 500x500 , 13.png )

-"DAMN. YOU'VE GOT PROBLEMS."

...

>"He was fighting for his loved ones, 'Granite.' He may have been buying time for them to escape."

...

>"We don't seem to be the only one with some "cognitive damage" here, are we? You're as insane as he was."

Be quiet.

-"i cannot speak for the others, but i am here to listen, if you need to talk."

No. No. Stay out of my thoughts. I don't need you prying any further.

-"if you insist..."

2/3 fffi 2022/06/30(Thu)23:15 No. 1036661 ID: 6f2b0f
File 165665615989.png - (13.08KB , 500x500 , 14.png )

The sounds of battle died during my distraction.

For a brief moment, I get a foolish sense of peace, in the middle of the battlefield.
I find it humorous, in a grim way, before it passes.

>"Maybe he had something to die for. Do you have a reason to risk your life? What's your reason to fight?"

Survival.

It's all I've ever fought for. And I've barely managed.

3/3 fffi 2022/06/30(Thu)23:18 No. 1036662 ID: 6f2b0f
File 165665632287.png - (13.62KB , 500x500 , 15.png )

I step away from the corpse.
I should look around for anything else of interest in the area before the battle is declared.

>"Ok, so, new bearer, how should we call you?"

-"I'M GONNA KEEP CALLING HIM THAT NAME HE SAYS HE HATED. HEY GRANITE!"

Ugh.

-"that's not right, red. we must offer him our respect."

-"AM I SERIOUSLY THE ONLY ONE NOT ON HIS SIDE RIGHT NOW? ESPECIALLY AFTER THAT EPISODE!?"

Absurd.

Feel free to make suggestions, while I do important things.

>Survival
Is a good reason as any.

Yellow, chill. That's how life is, one day you have a owner, the next one you have a new one. Trel probably knew this too.

Until you gave us a name for you, i'll keep calling "bearer", if it's ok with you.

So, what can you see? Anything interesting? More enemies? More loot? Where are your allies?

Okay Absurd.
So, that boss who sends you to massacre people on pain of death, what does he look like?

Red, I agree that Absurd doesn't deserve us and we deserve better than him, but we're stuck with each other for now. At least, until we get him killed and looted by someone more worthy.

Who even calls you Granite? And why?

>>1036662
Survival huh? Here's a question for you then.
How long do you think it'll be until your master pisses off someone with a bigger army?

>AM I SERIOUSLY THE ONLY ONE NOT ON HIS SIDE RIGHT NOW? ESPECIALLY AFTER THAT EPISODE!?"

We just woke up and as far as we know that's how people say hello. We have no idea why people are fighting, we have no idea what is going on in the world right now, nor do we have any idea what of what is odd and what is normal. So far the only thing we really know is keep quite unless asked a question, observe what's going on around us, and once a more complete picture has been built THEN start judging people based on their actions. Can't be snooty if you don't know what to be snooty about after all.

>Feel free to make suggestions
you're a spider, you a tough some of a bitch, and you got some baggage buried within you...
Uh, Spud? ...I have just come to the realization that I am not too great with names.

>>1036662
I wish to call him Boris

>AM I SERIOUSLY THE ONLY ONE NOT ON HIS SIDE RIGHT NOW? ESPECIALLY AFTER THAT EPISODE!?"
Nobody lives forever, my dude. We're just doing our level best to be impartial. You view him as a murderer that felled our previous master. That is technically true. However, the reality is that we were once worn by a shaman of presumably good character, and now are currently worn by a troubled soldier that has had to do unspeakable things just to survive - we shouldn't assume that the unwellness preceded the slaughters.

In other words, it is what it is, and the sooner we accept that, the better. That's not to say we can't have goals of change to strive for in the future, but throwing a tantrum about the present and antagonizing our current bearer serves nobody.

> Suggestions
Well, if you believe yourself a survivor above all else, and this empire has done its best to try and erase your own identity, then it is Saxma we shall call you.

For that matter, we apologize for distracting you earlier, Saxma. Our mind, in particular, is a bit fragmented at the moment, and that's after one considers the divide between us and the other two stones, so conflicting advice on occasion is to be expected.

>Survival
Survival is good for a while, but at some point it will not be enought.

Search your suroundings, make sure there is no more danger around.

To be clear, I am not on his side.

1/2 fffi 2022/07/13(Wed)10:25 No. 1037983 ID: 00c030
File 165773312072.png - (8.45KB , 500x500 , 16.png )

>"We just woke up. As far as we know, Red, that's how people say hello. We have no idea what's going on in the world at the moment."

-"DO I HAVE TO TEACH YOU THAT ANGRILY MAKING SOMEONE'S FACE UNRECOGNIZABLE ISN'T GOOD GUY BEHAVIOR?"

>"To be clear, I am not on his side."

-"THEN WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE IT?"

-"ALSO I'VE BEEN MEANING TO ASK, WHAT'S WITH THIS 'I' VERSUS 'WE' STUFF?"

-"if yellow was fractured physically in some way, it is possible they may have fractured mentally as well. potentially, they could have developed multiple separate thought processes and corresponding emotional states."

-"HUH. SO THEY'RE LIKE. MULTIPLE PEOPLE."

-"in theory, yes."

>"This lines up with what we've observed."

-"COOL. SO I ONLY GET TO BE MAD AT SOME OF YOU RIGHT NOW."

That's unfortunate, if it is true. It will reduce your value.

>"So. That boss who sends you to massacre people on the pain of death. What's he look like?"

This is a strangely specific question. You are trying to find information connected to this, rather than the answer you claim to be seeking.

>"Who even calls you Granite? And why?"

The answer to this is the same as the last one. The metal have command over the stone, who have command over the wood, who have command over the dirt. My identification distinguishes me as a stone. I am given privileges over others for this reason, due to my success in battle.

Odd. These are not doors, but more like curtains. The village may have lacked access to the materials necessary for hinges or other door mechanisms.

2/2 fffi 2022/07/13(Wed)10:26 No. 1037984 ID: 2f127a
File 165773320565.png - (10.04KB , 500x500 , 17.png )

>Spud
>Saxma
>Boris
>Absurd

I was being sarcastic. It appears it does not translate, even through thoughts.

Good.

...

That was also sarcastic.

Hm. Someone was already here. The fire will likely spread, though I don't intend to spend much time here.

I'll humor your guidance here. Where should I look?

Having more advisors is MORE valuable, stupid.

You should look in the fire. With your hands and body. Get real deep in there, get a good look.

Somebody wants something here to burn. I say you put it out and see what it is.

>>1037984
There's a room to the right and there's something on the table over there.

First, we need to see if there is someone in here, for safety. Then, we can look for valuables, tools, food, armor and weapons. I doubt we will find armor, but wapons, anything will do.

If it happens to be someone here, we kill it. Especially if it is a man, maybe if it is a woman. DO NOT kill children.

Given your explanation of rank, you would be a grunt, correct? A warrior, or a soldier. That would be a rock, harder and more durable than wood, but not so much as the iron of a sword or a pickaxe.

Start by looking up. You know, just in case.
Be careful, there might be someone in here who was unable (or unwilling) to flee. The man you killed might have been defending them.
It's also possible the fire was not started by one of you, because raiders tend to torch the roof of houses, not get inside to burn specific pieces of furniture. If that's the case, they probably wanted to get rid of something before you could get it.