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.