Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)19:24 No. 272423 ID: 9a4dc6
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He is Nameless, and it is best he be that way - until he is sanctified as an adult, the forest might find a way to steal his name, and take him away as well. His village is too small to afford such a loss. He's more than happy to stay Nameless in the name of helping his people.

The hard part is, of course, finding the right to a name.

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)19:25 No. 272424 ID: 9a4dc6
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To find his name, he had to go into the forest - an easy enough task, for someone as experienced as he in the ways of his homeland.

But then he got lost.

And then he found something incredible.

Update Mirage ;_;

What did you find in this world so green?

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)19:28 No. 272427 ID: 9a4dc6
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...but what to do about it?

Hell, he could try finding his way back now, but...

Maybe it was a sign? Stay or go? Maybe it was a horrible death-trap set by the forest in an effort to steal the name he didn't have yet?

Shit. What should he do?

Seems like in this kind of situation you just gotta pick a path and go for it. Go check it out.

Examine this thing closer without touching, attempt to determine exactly what it is before making a decision.

>>272427
What kind of gear do you have with you? Try to chop down that incredible thing and take it with you, mission accomplished. You should probably also be ready to run when horrible things happen after you cut it down.

>>272427
Touch it, obviously.

Big question: How does one become sanctified to become an adult? Apparently he can't gain a name until he's an adult, and he can't be an adult until he has the right, but how exactly does one gain the right? Better details means we can help more.

Which option is more likely to involve you and titties?

This is a real question.

>>272430
Chop it down? How barbaric. At the most, take a cutting. First, the lights. Are they fruit? Are they edible?

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)19:40 No. 272444 ID: 9a4dc6
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>>272426
Nameless has no idea what the hell that thing is. A big tree? It's a really big tree.

>>272430
Nameless realises that from this angle, it must look possible to chop it down, but...

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)19:42 No. 272446 ID: 9a4dc6
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It's actually very big. Wow, the forest sure is weird! He might possibly do all that weird touching stuff though.

>>272430
He's got...pants? Pants. Claws, and pants.

>>272434
He's got to find his name, obviously. Sheesh.

>>272438
Getting a name lets him be an adult, and then he can pretty much have the titties, but damn it there's this tree here.

Nameless starts making his way to the tree regardless. Any more questions for his mind to mull over?

Woah, no titties til you have a name?

This is goddamn serious. Show me your best serious face and let's be careful, I can't have you dying without them in your hands.

If you can find any tools on your way there to help with the chopping, can't have you ruining your titty grabbing hands.

Psh, I guess that's big if you're a little baby.
You should try to claw or rip off a branch, at least. Then you can bring it home and try and graft it onto some other tree, or just try and eat it. Vibrant green means you should eat it.

>>272444
No no no, it's quite clearly stated that if he finds a name before he's an adult, the forest will find a way to steal his name. Therefore, he shouldn't be looking for a name, but looking for a way to become an adult. Without any other knowledge, one might suggest that finding a nubile female and going 'primal savage' on dat ass is a somewhat standard ritual to make a boy into a man...

1) Touch it.
2) Find/Look for Fruit.
3) Eat it.

Beyond that I'm going to ask what is his village like? What is his race like? Does he have any interactions with GREAT BEASTS?

Could the tree itself be a Great Thing? Might he become some sort of Treespeaker?

We have to get a big long, elaborate name for the ladies to admire, maybe even get it engraved in cursive or something. Wait... what do the ladies like?

Climb up it. That seems like an appropriate activity for a rite of passage.

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)20:20 No. 272471 ID: 9a4dc6
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Whoa whoa whoa! Time for some exposition. Nameless doesn't want to get on the wrong foot with his thoughts. As he heads down, he finds the answers.

>>272456
Nameless should've put the difference between the right of, and having a name, and the entire process down more clearly. The right to a name? This entire trial. Once he's found -a- name, he can take it back. Then, it'll be his for real, and not just his in owning, and made safe from the forest by the elders.

Then he will totally go primal savage on dat ass. It's his duty. Also, awesome.

>>272454
>>272457
Taking a bite out of a weird bright tree? Well, alright...

>>272463
Nameless is pretty sure trees don't talk. Erm. Maybe. This one's kind of glowy though, hn.

>>272464
You know what the ladies like? Nameless. Soon. Soon ladies, soon.

His village? A small outpost, deep in the forest, with little contact with other Tumyu. The BEASTS? Hasn't seen one in years.

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)20:22 No. 272472 ID: 9a4dc6
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BITE THE HELL OUT OF THAT TREE--

oh god nameless can't feel his tongue

Try climbing the tree. If that don't work, try climbing around it. There might be a way inside, or... something.

>>272472
Continue biting but be sure not to bite your tongue. You gotta eat that shit if you ever want to go primal savage on dat ass.

You are not a beaver, stop that. Begin make shifting up a tool, or use hulk strength and uproot tree. (The latter is unlikely).

>>272472
Wait, what? You just bit the branch? Well, if it's poisonous or something you have discovered MEDICINAL VALUE!

it's poisonous or something, probably. Let's make a weapon out of it and stab some creatures. The blood spatter might coincidentally look like a name!

Oh shit abort mission, take that thing out of your mouth ASAP and start spittin'

FRUIT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO EAT THE FRUIT

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)20:45 No. 272484 ID: 9a4dc6
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Nameless stops chewing on the stick and...

uh

makes it

sharper

Nameless now has a POINTY...STICK?

okay let's just

climb

yeah

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)20:46 No. 272485 ID: 9a4dc6
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oh gods

what is this even

we're going up

it's a good thing nameless has claws

you'd all be fucked if he couldn't climb

the tree is so soft

This is working as intended. Vision Quest, fuck yeah!

What is he seeing as he climbs?

It's so soft. You want to rub it on your bare skin. Your bare skin EVERYWHERE.

>>272485
Keep climbing and rubbing up against that soft tree.

Hell the fuck yeah.

If you find some fruit that isn't impossible to get at, eat it. It's probably part of the test. Seriously.

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)21:03 No. 272498 ID: 9a4dc6
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>>272487
uh

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)21:03 No. 272500 ID: 9a4dc6
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nothing

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)21:04 No. 272501 ID: 9a4dc6
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we're at the top

okay

there's

like

some fruit and

I don't even know

what now

investigate big glowing thing, after you pick a fruit, just in case, in case it needs to be eaten. Later. Yeah...

Chew chew.

Is that a beast in the background pattern?

Get closer to the thing-what-you-don't-know-what-it-is.

Is it... full of stars?

>>272501
Eat the fruit. Bath in the light.

W-what was that white outline thing?

>>272501
Say "Hello?"

Aww yes, you are hallucinating like a savage shaman oughta.

Eat that fucking fruit. Cram it in your fucking face!

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)21:20 No. 272520 ID: 9a4dc6
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Nameless gains A...FRUIT?

It's kind of small

or his hands are just

so big

or

the fruit is

either way he's not sure he wants to eat it right now, uh

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)21:22 No. 272521 ID: 9a4dc6
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Nameless checks out the...pond?

it's beautiful

he could totally go into that

he says hello to it

but all he hears is a sniffle

lick that pond

put the whole world in your mouth, man

Little pond, why are you crying?

>>272521
Slip into the pond. Take your pants off, they'll get wet. Eat the fruit, fruit are made to be eaten. That's how the tree spreads seeds, you're doing the tree a favor. Ask treeghost if it wants to talk or fuck don't ask it if it wants just think about it. Don't get an erection.

Look up.

>>272521
Drink the water before you jump in and get it dirty.

say "are you sad?"

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)22:00 No. 272536 ID: 9a4dc6
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this

pond

it apparently doesn't feel like talking cuz whenever he asks it just kind of keeps sniffling

that is okay though

we're cool with it

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)22:01 No. 272537 ID: 9a4dc6
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up is

well

nameless is pretty sure he's out of his mind, there's something flying up there

huhn

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)22:02 No. 272538 ID: 9a4dc6
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get naked and romance a hallucination, hm

well

what if she's a classy hallucination

we can't blow our chances here right

asking a lady if she wants to fuck can't be classy

nameless thinks so anyway

>>272537
Back away some and look up to see what it is.

I think we should ask the hallucination if it knows what our name is, that makes sense.

Also that thing... up there... we should check that out, but we should entreat out hallucination to polite conversation first and foremost.

>>272541
Perhaps we should leave the name part out of it. But we SHOULD be curtious, even if it IS a hullucination. It may be real though, not sure how to tell.

>>272538
Don't say it, just think it. Eat the fruit. Lusciously, with trickles of juice running down your bare chest.

>>272544
I think we can hold off on the Fruit -just- at this moment. Flying BEAST should probably be a priority over getting -more- high.

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)22:24 No. 272546 ID: 9a4dc6
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seeing is strange

flying serpent

golden and bright

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)22:26 No. 272547 ID: 9a4dc6
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try a sexy thought?

maybe polite?

hallucination smiles

she's almost real

>>272547
Be polite. Bow or something.

I say polite. I also advise speaking aloud, it requires thinking after all.

Screw that, you're naked and handsome and you are what the ladies like. Play to your strengths. Go with sexy.

"Say my name, bitch."

Polite but sexy.

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)22:56 No. 272557 ID: 9a4dc6
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hell yeah nameless is

nameless is the forest's gift to WOMEN EVERYWHERE

even fake ones

nameless bows and almost gets a little sick but fuck it's so polite

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)22:56 No. 272558 ID: 9a4dc6
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dizzy

warm on cheek

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)22:57 No. 272559 ID: 9a4dc6
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uh

uh

uhhhhhhhhhhhh

chillax bro just go with it, pink is now your favorite color, you'll find out sometime soon maybe yeah?

Roll with it.

DO NOT THROW UP IF YOU THROW UP YOU WILL SURELY DIE

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)23:19 No. 272563 ID: 9a4dc6
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You know what?

Nameless is tired of this dizzy and being high off his ass bullshit. There is a woman RIGHT THERE WAITING TO BE KISSED.

And he kisses the hell out of her.

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)23:19 No. 272564 ID: 9a4dc6
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And they fall in together.

>>272563
Good. You're making us proud.

If this is a test of manhood I think you are knocking it out of the park. Keep at it. In before it is a monster.

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)23:41 No. 272570 ID: 9a4dc6
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The water is warm, almost as warm as the kiss, and he has no trouble breathing.

Falling deeper, deeper...

>>272571
<3

i'm ok with this

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)19:20 No. 273571 ID: 240362
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Nameless finally lands.

Having passed through light and liquid, it is surprisngly dark at the heart of the giant tree, though the glow of fungi and plants and all manner of strange creatures makes the place atleast somewhat visible to his strained eyes.

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)19:25 No. 273573 ID: 240362
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He doesn't really bother much with opening his eyes yet though.

His head is still swimming from the strange things he'd been busy ingesting, tasting, and kissing.

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)19:26 No. 273575 ID: 240362
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After a few minutes to recover his thoughts and put them together in some semblence of order, he looks around. There's only one exit besides up.

>>273575
Relax. Lean back again. It's a nice, peaceful place and so many strange things have happened already. Maybe you should take a little nap? You're in no hurry, are you?

Glowing fungi sound like something a man should have, stuff some into your pants if you're even still wearing them, or just hold some. Go strut through the only exit, WE GOT MAN THINGS TO DO. Locate something new to kiss or taste through the exit.

>>273575
Wait, where did sexy chick go? You cannot abandon her sweet embrace so easily!

Walk along the floating, glowing lillypads.

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)20:30 No. 273600 ID: 240362
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Nameless takes the moment to rest and gather his thoughts further.

The lady seems to have disappeared sometime during the fall - he's not sure, but after a kiss like that, it's not like the dame's going to leave him. If she was falling too, she must be down here somewhere as well, right?

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)20:31 No. 273601 ID: 240362
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Alright. Time to do manly things.

Nameless gathers up some of the glowing moss, putting a small amount in his pockets before moving on ahead with the rest as a light. He steps lightly over the surprisingly supportive lilypads.

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)20:32 No. 273603 ID: 240362
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But the more he walks, it's...

It feels like he's venturing into an endless darkness.

Is there an end to this?

>>273603
End or not, you must continue your journey.

>>273603
Well, keep moving forward, and eyes in all directions. Maybe there's something interesting up down or sideways. Nothing is forever, so this certainly won't be.

Keep going. Don't chicken out.

>>273603
Are you hungry yet? Eat the fruit.

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)21:14 No. 273618 ID: 240362
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Nameless continues forward. It'd be weird to turn back or something now, right? Sheesh, what was he worried about?

Finally, in the depths of the dark, he finds some kind of glowy vine-tree-rope leading up towards...some more glowing. How odd. Some strange lights burn in the distance, but they're too far away to worry about, probably some kind of fungus.

Eat the fruit? Well, he's a little hungry, but he'd need a better reason than that!

>>273618
>Some strange lights burn in the distance, but they're too far away to worry about, probably some kind of fungus.
Well, as long as they're not a Great Beast's eyes.

Better start climbing!

>>273618
Climbing is pretty manly, so you go primal savage on that tree.

Up seems like a solid direction, climbing is something you should do.

Maybe take a bite of this tree too, that worked last time.

Look a little closer at the glowing not-eyes.

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)23:07 No. 273643 ID: 240362
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Nameless takes a bite out of this tree.

A little chewy...not the same intensity of numbness either. But it gives his teeth something to work over as he climbs again.

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)23:08 No. 273644 ID: 240362
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Finally, Nameless makes it up to...some other...floor? Of the tree. A strange, flat, glowing plane in the dark.

And he sees something strange.

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)23:08 No. 273645 ID: 240362
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Her. The girl he kissed. The hallucination.

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)23:09 No. 273646 ID: 240362
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But she's tangled in the tree like she's been there for centuries.

Another figure watches his hallucination-made-real sleep fitfully in the binding roots of the tree.

I don't suppose you're armed? Something to cut her down with?

Tell it to let her go.

Unless you think you'll get your ass kicked. Then just sneak up closer and find a hiding spot.

>>273646
Well, nothing for it but to move up for a closer look, with the tentative overall objective of getting the lady out of the tree and into your arms. But just finding out more about what's going on here would be nice too.

The situation bears watching, but I am inclined to agree with the sentiment that she needs to be freed... it just seems unlikely. We need to know more. We're not reckless, just manly.

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)23:51 No. 273655 ID: 240362
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Nameless stands armed.

All he may have is claws and a sharp stick, but damn it, he's not going to let injustice befall a dame.

Nameless proudly, loudly asks for the girl to be let go. And maybe an explanation for all this.

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)23:52 No. 273656 ID: 240362
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The figure turns, slowly.

"Let her go? Outside of my power. But an explanation?"

Suggestion 2011/01/21(Fri)23:53 No. 273657 ID: 240362
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"That might be something I can do for you."

The face is androgynous and old without showing true age, scaled and horned unlike any other creature he's seen.

"After all, it's not like I didn't see you climbing here."

>>273657
Make the manliest pose you can and ask "Did you like what you saw?"

>>273840
this