yay, now examine bars.

Whisper to her "Good girl, Scarlet!"

How hot is a salamander's bite? Think you could get her to chew on one end of a bar for a bit and get it to melt? Or just hot enough to be bendable?

Check if these bars can be dislodged as easily as the previous cell bars were.

Lilac 2012/11/15(Thu)20:17 No. 472050 ID: befc95
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The bars seem must more stable. You think for being so technologically advanced the Geckos would be a bit better at this! I mean, at least make ALL of the cells flimsy. Oaa.

I give Scarlet a snuggly hug and tell her what a good girl she is. She's so toasty~

Sweet moment over, I prod her mouth against the base of a bar. She make an angry grumbling noise for a moment, but eventually opens her mouth and bites the bar. It make smoke!

(Okay, I finally have an art program to get some damn consistency up in here.)

Lilac 2012/11/15(Thu)20:27 No. 472054 ID: befc95
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Look at that thing glow, must be hot!

Where I come from things glow red when they're hot. I mean yeah it's bright but... it's weird.

spit on it.

Lilac 2012/11/15(Thu)20:35 No. 472057 ID: befc95
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>>472055

It sizzles and smells like a butt now.

Hopefully whatever the bar is made from is non-conductive enough that you can push an higher portion of it without being burned. Try spitting on a part that is further up to test that.

Lilac 2012/11/15(Thu)20:48 No. 472061 ID: befc95
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>>472059

I hock up some more saliva, I wish I still had that cup of water...

It's not hot up here! Buuut it's also not melted, I could probably coax Scarlet into another chew.

wiggle it a little.

It isn't melted up there, but the other end of that bar is melted. See if you can push it first, then have Scarlet chew above that point if it cannot be pushed now.

>>472061
If the bottom is literally molten, it should be quite soft and thus responsive to the leverage of twisting/tugging on the cool parts.

Melt the top and give the center a good push or two, careful with your flippers there.

>>472061
if the bar is not too big for your hands it can be turned in a spear!

Lilac 2012/11/19(Mon)21:06 No. 473128 ID: befc95
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>>472122

I convince Scarlet to nibble at the bar once again. The heat in her belly is greatly diminished, and she seems a bit sore at me!

The bar melts up here too!

Lilac 2012/11/19(Mon)21:08 No. 473129 ID: befc95
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>>473128

I muster up a bit of strength and SHOVE the bar out of place, bracing for the clatter I'm sure will follow!

...

Silence. I hate this place, I really do.

you now have a nice metal staff to bonk people over the heads with.

Lilac 2012/11/19(Mon)21:32 No. 473135 ID: befc95
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I re-enter the HALLWAY. (Which I fucked up the layout of before. I'm retarded.) to my right along the same wall is the SHELF and the HEAVY STEEL DOOR, across is my original cell and a POSTER written in Gecko. The keys are no longer present on the wall, probably added to the giant box of keys up front.
To my left is the desk and that lady chameleon.

>>473134
It's still glowing on both ends, far to hot and dangerous for me to mess with!

(I seriously fucked up the initial layout, but I've made myself a map! I will do my best to not horribly ruin it again!)

>It's still glowing on both ends, far to hot and dangerous for me to mess with!
It seems to have been fine to hold in the middle, and in a situation like this a dangerous object can come in handy.

Carefully look whether the guard is still at that desk.

If the guard is gone, this might be a good time to introduce yourself to the lady.

I'd suggest having Scarlet use the same trick on this cell, but it sounds like she might need to rest for a while.

Pull the poster from the wall, and leave it near the bar to be rolled up around the middle later. Paper makes for a good insulator, so it'll protect your flesh. That is, up until it catches fire.

Hide Scarlet in the cell you just came out of, then go sneak about a see if any Geckos are around, or any new stuff is here. Color shift to blend in, like you did before.

Read what the poster says.

>>473243
this and read the poster first, if you can read gecko

Lilac 2012/12/05(Wed)17:42 No. 476735 ID: befc95
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>>473336


I want to go home.

Lilac 2012/12/05(Wed)17:44 No. 476738 ID: befc95
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>>473243
>>473443

I RIP the POSTER in a small burst of anger. Scarlet happily clicks along behind me as I grab the HEATED POINTED BAR and wrap the offensively unreadable poster around it. I can't see the Guards desk from here, I'll have to go to the end of the HALLWAY to check.

Should I attempt to sneak and see if it's safe, or just run in with my pointy stick?

Well, you're completely silent. You don't need to sneak.

Don't run with pointy sticks. It's a good way to hurt yourself. Besides, stealth and the element of surprise are all that allowed you to get as far as you did last time. That's probably your main advantage over the bigger, more numerous geckos.

Your chief weapon is surprise. Surprise and fire.

Lilac 2013/05/12(Sun)20:39 No. 510190 ID: befc95
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>>476761

I don't know what I was thinking, the adrenaline must be getting to me. I scoot along the far wall and proceed along the hallway.

The GECKO GUARD's desk is right around the corner, and I can see FINE LADY CHAMELEON's cell from here. Scarlet is hanging on my back, to avoid clicking along the floor this close to the guard.

My heart is racing in my chest, I'm so nervous! Now or never, h-how do I do this?!

>>510190
Peek around the corner. You need to see your target before you stab it.

Then once you see him, either run up and stab his shit, or sneak up and stab his shit. Actually, considering you are incapable of making noise perhaps we don't need to sneak.

1/2 Lilac 2013/05/12(Sun)20:58 No. 510199 ID: befc95
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>>510192

2/2 Lilac 2013/05/12(Sun)20:58 No. 510200 ID: befc95
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Uh... S-stab now?

either that or see if scarlet can burn this guy for you.

Poke him. Hard.

By which I mean stab him, and also maybe burn him, yes.

Lilac 2013/05/12(Sun)21:29 No. 510218 ID: befc95
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>>510205

Oh shit oh shit oh shit

Lilac 2013/05/12(Sun)21:30 No. 510219 ID: befc95
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>>510218

ohshitohshitohshit

Lilac 2013/05/12(Sun)21:31 No. 510220 ID: befc95
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>>510219

[/i]OHSHITOSHITOHSHIT[/i]

What part of poke and stab do you not understand?

...never mind.

roll to your left!

>>510220
Don't let Scarlet get crushed! See if you can tip this guy over to the left.

quick try and get him off of scarlet, she just helped save your life after all the least you could do is return the favor

Once you and Scarlet are out from under the lummox check on the fine lady. The brute didn't hurt her after we passed out did he?

>>510220
try and push him off to the left. push the bar to the right, and the gecko should end up rolling left. most of its weight will end up on the floor, so you won't be horribly crushed.

Lilac 2013/05/17(Fri)23:53 No. 511482 ID: befc95
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I manage to gather my thoughts enough to worm out form under the GECKO GUARD. He...h-he's making an awful noise, it sounds like a thick moist sucking.

I shake myself out of it. Gotta breathe. Scarlet is... wow, she's PALE! Little girls still breathing, I owe her the best for saving me.... Oa-il I could be DEAD right now.

Ew. Ew, there's dark GECKO BLOOD on me. It tingles in a bad way....

>>510311

..The FINE LADY CHAMELEON.

Lilac 2013/05/17(Fri)23:54 No. 511483 ID: befc95
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>>511482

"Lady. LADY! PLEASE RESPOND."

Oa-il please make her okay, she isn't moving...!

Lilac 2013/05/17(Fri)23:55 No. 511484 ID: befc95
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>>511483

I breathe a sigh of relief, the FINE LADY CHAMELEONs head turns towards me. She.. she seems unharmed I suppose...?

Lilac 2013/05/17(Fri)23:56 No. 511485 ID: befc95
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>>511484

*gulp*

At least she's alive but uh

fuck.

Explain that you don't know what the FUCK you're doing.

Just let her out before someone else shows up.

>>511486
>>511487
Multitask. Scramble over to the desk and rummage through the keys, holding each one up for her to indicate which one is for her cell, while blabbering out of control a stream of apologies for screwing up before, and that you're infinitely sorry for what you assume happened to her after, and you don't know what the fuck you're doing, and that you're a complete moron, and so on and so forth.

Also, put Scarlet on the desktop, and peek around under there for anything that might be used to wipe that horrid Gecko blood off.

Tell her you're an idiot.

Chicks dig honesty.

U gonna get admonished

Yeah, that unknown potion was reckless idea. Guess we'll get to see how loud she can be while we dig for the keys.

Lilac 2013/05/20(Mon)23:00 No. 511820 ID: befc95
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"I'm sorry I'M SORRY I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING."

I try desperatly to explain myself. I'm as lost as she is! B-but I don't think she can hear me over her own rage. By the Gods I was wrong about her, she's as noisy as they come!

I-I hope that was the only guard, she certainly isn't being shy.

-AND WHAT KIND OF VENT SOD WOULD EVEN THINK OF-

Lilac 2013/05/20(Mon)23:02 No. 511821 ID: befc95
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keys, keys, keys.... ignoring her. Just gotta ignore her and focus. FOCUS.


t-there are several keys here. Chameleons are not gifted in the art of... dexterity. I can take 2.

just slide the whole box over.

Lilac 2013/05/20(Mon)23:15 No. 511827 ID: befc95
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>>511823

Lilac is still too weak from the UNKNOWN POTION. He cannot move the HEAVY BOX OF KEYS.

Move that card thing in the upper left, just in case it's covering up another key.

Pick up the key in the upper right and either throw or slide it across the floor to under the cage lock, or as far as you can get it to go. Then pick up the other two metal keys and walk to the lock, kicking the third key along if you couldn't get it all the way to under the lock.

Uh... You know what salamanders eat? 'Cause Scarlet could probably use a bite right about now. Or do they "eat" heat? Either way you best put Scarlet on your head so he doesn't get left behind.

I'd tell you to inspect the lock, but in the time it took you to do that you could make two trips to carry all the keys. I'd tell you which keys to take but without even inspecting the lock there's no way to tell. Just pick two at random and hurry. Now that she's warned the entire complex, time is of the essence!

so you got three keys, a keycard, and some headphones. Ok we can ignore the headphones completely and as for the keys, I bet one opens the cage the the ANGRY LADY CHAMELEON is yelling in right now so if we can figure out which one that is we can just leave that hear and grab the other two, maybe see if you can take the keycard as well as it could help later.

>>511827
take the one that has all pointy teeth and the one that has all squared teeth. unless something horrible happens in the next few seconds you have time for a second trip.

oh crap someone's going to come check on the noise. GET HER QUIET.

Just start throwing keys at the angry chameleon lady. It might get her to shut up and when all the keys are near the cell door we won't have to run back and forth between the desk and the door.

use the loose wire to make a makeshift key ring to hold all of they keys so you can carry them in one hand and take the card too.

>>511864

Yes, yes! This! This is the clever plan.

Lilac 2013/05/26(Sun)19:35 No. 512766 ID: befc95
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>>511846

Shush, be quiet Fine Lady! I have no idea if there are more guard but I DON'T NEED HER BRINGING THEM AROUND.

WHAT IS WRONG WI- SHH

Lilac 2013/05/26(Sun)19:46 No. 512769 ID: befc95
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You aren't very bright, are you?

Well that puts a bit of a wrench in our plans.

good news, scarlet is awake, what do salamanders eat?

...Facepalm in self-disgust at your lack of observational ability. Question how the FUCK did you miss that; Looking right at it before.

Fire back at the Fine Lady that you've been just a LITTLE BIT distracted, what with escaping again, being nearly captured by the gecko guard and impaling him with a hot metal bar wrapped inside a poster.

So if she's done insulting her rescuer, does she have any clue how to unlock this thing? The guard didn't happen to have the combination written down someplace nearby, did he?

...Wait a second. How far apart are those cage bars? Is it just a trick of the view that they're that far apart? She can't just slip past them?

and he's all you got lady so you better suck it up. Ask since she seems to know everything where you might find the combination to here cell, or a bolt cutter, I mean really who the hell uses a padlock to lock a cell door, you might as well just tie the door to the wall with some rope. If Scarlet is feeling better you could see if she could get rid of the lock but lets save that as a last resort.

Lilac 2013/05/26(Sun)21:11 No. 512811 ID: befc95
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>>512787

I've had kind of a bad day okay?! T-there are Geckos, and there was some fire, a-and I don't even know where I AM! To top that off there's this stinging GECKO BLOOD all ov-

She cuts me off, rolling her big judgmental eyes at me

6-4-10-8- something else, I can't remember the last number.

luckily it has only a few numbers so you can just brute force it, try every number for the last number.

just keep trying until you figure it out, just ask her to keep an eye out for any more guards and ask if she knows where you guys are.

14!

>>512811
It goes up to 14. So lets go downward from 14 as the last number until something succeeds.

Er... Yeah. That didn't help any. Escape now, yell later.

Okay, so the pattern would put the last number as 14, but the lock only goes up to 13. Try putting 1 in as the last digit, but if that doesn't work you're going to have to try every other number.

While you turn the knob remark about how stupid it is to put a combination lock on a jail cell door, especially within reach of the prisoner.

>numbers
Assuming that's supposed to be a pattern, it looks like alternating between subtracting 2, and adding the last two numbers in the sequence. So with a seed of 6:

6-2=4. 6+4=10. 10-2=8. 10+8=18.

6 4 10 8 18.

...unfortunately, there is no number 18. The dial stops at 13, so 14=1, 15=2, 16=3, 17=4, 18=5.

So... 6 4 10 8 5 is my guess, I suppose.

Although it's entirely possible that any pattern in the first 4 digits is completely coincidental and we'll have to brute force the last digit anyways.

...or do we? It's the last digit, can't we just keep turning until we feel or hear a click? Often, with that style lock, you don't even need to remember the last digit, since the latch catches and releases as soon as you twist the dial past it.

>>512811
If it's the last number then you can just check each number on the final spin to see if it's unlocked yet. It'll just take a little time.

On the other hand, the pattern is 6-2-6-2. As in, 6 left, 2 right, 6 left, 2 right. So continuing the pattern you would go 6 left after the 8, which is 14. Much faster than checking each number.

Drgons 2013/06/01(Sat)20:25 No. 513961 ID: befc95
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>>512882

I roll in the numbers. I-I've never seen a lock like this before, so I go in sequence.

No, not like that idiot. left, then right, then left again.

I'm sorry! A-all this metal stuff is too weird.

Lilac 2013/06/01(Sat)20:28 No. 513962 ID: befc95
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>>513961

The lock pops off! FINE LADY CHAMELEON pushes the metal gate open and steps out into the LOBBY. She looks down at her hands for a long moment.

...a really long moment....

You're out! we're free!

Drgons 2013/06/01(Sat)20:29 No. 513963 ID: befc95
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>>513962

*SLAP

It almost seems like she is mad at you for some reason.

Let some tears well up in your eyes and start babbling about how you just woke up in this horrible prison and some guard tried to molest you and all you wanted to do was try to help her escape and now your salamander is tired and its all gone wrong.

Try not to pause or breath in-between words.

>>513963
If there is anyone that should be angry here, it's US!

Well SOMEONE is ungrateful. What, you upset you didn't get rescued by a knight in shining armor? I could have just gotten out of there while I could and left you behind for that gecko to do whatever he wanted with, but instead I tried to make sure YOU were safe before leaving. Oh, go ahead and tell me how much of an idiot you think I am. Because that's what you're going to do, isn't it? Berate the guy who just busted you out? Because if that's how you feel then you can just STAY in the cell, because you're on your own.

>>513963
Ask her what that was for.

tell her if you don't like it out here feel free to go back into the cell. and if she gives you crap about you being useless or stupid or something then point out the fact that since you where the one that let her out what does that make her?

Fix your salamander.

>>513976
Do this and then
>>514014
Give Scarlet the poster to eat, fire likes paper, doesn't it?

...You know, you actually deserved that slap for the unmitigated stupidity of drinking that potion earlier when nearly any other plan short of slapping the guard's ass would have been better. And considering what vile things the gecko guard must have done to her due to your moronic actions, she's letting you off lightly.

Just look her in the eye and say you deserved that for what you did before, with the potion. You're still are going to cry a bit, 'cause that hurt.

Go over and pick Scarlet up and put her on your head, then start picking the keys up from the floor. Tell the Lady that there's a big metal door with a lock back there that might have something or maybe another prisoner behind it that could help us, and ask her to help pick the keys up with you.

Feeding Scarlet some paper from the poster, or even some of the dead gecko guard, might work to bring his flame back.

>>514160
I would not be surprised if she can consume flammable material to fuel some sort of magic chemical reaction.

If not this, some actual food will have to wait.

>>514298
Let's not get hostile with one another, Lilac doesn't need to worry about us arguing.

Yeah, let's see if we can find some way to make Scarlet feel better.

Lilac 2013/06/04(Tue)13:15 No. 514547 ID: befc95
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>>514014
>>514160

I go to pick up Scarlet, my eyes watering just a bit, W-what was that for...?

Oh she wasn't happy about that. She runs over and snatches up Scarlet before I can get over there.

What was it for?

She goes over to the dead guard, her anger is thick enough to taste, but she handles Scarlet gently...

WHAT was that FOR?

Her foot crunches into the dead guards nose...

You can't be stupid enough to ask that. Stop being stupid. Get some of that poster for her.

I oblige, tearing an un-bloodied piece of paper from the metal bar, trying to avoid touching anymore gecko blood, the last of which I think my skin absorbed, gross!

Lilac 2013/06/04(Tue)13:16 No. 514548 ID: befc95
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>>514547

Scarlet eagerly takes the paper! Her color returns, albeit not as bright as before....

Lilac 2013/06/04(Tue)13:20 No. 514549 ID: befc95
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>>514548

I-I'm sorry. I deserved that slap... I'm not a real hero type, y-you know? I just want to go home and get away from all this grey. I feel like I can't breathe or think straight...

She seems to consider my apology, her face softening a bit. She continues to kick and prod the guard though

...Thank you for saving my salamander. Come on, you're stupid, but I'm sure I can figure out the big door and we can leave. Which Forest are you from?

what forest are you from?

>>514298
Wow, rude?

The North Forest

>>514555
Yeah, judging by the head-shapes, he's from the north, and she's from the east.

On the topic of introductions; Chameleons may not use proper names, but it seems like it'd be a good idea to ask what she'd like you to refer to her as, and what her salamander's name is.

We can't just go around referring to her as the FINE LADY CHAMELEON, and it'll be awkward if we refer to the salamander as Scarlet and she's already chosen a different name for it.

>>514549
It could be she's mad because we've kinda mistreated her salamander in the course of getting its help. Pretty sure it only bit through the bars because it was agitated by them. Plus we worked the poor thing to exhaustion in the proccess.

>>514581
>We can't just go around referring to her as the FINE LADY CHAMELEON

Says you.