>>675751
>fired with one appendage and no other supports
No. Anyone who actually knows anything about guns knows you hold pistols with both hands. Just because it looks like it can be held one-handed doesn't mean it should be.

'Course, that doesn't actually solve the mystery since I'm pretty sure a 20mm+ bullet firing would still probably break your arms. And why the hell would you need that big of caliber in a pistol?

>>675762
Ummm, I don't think we did this. But whatever. Let's find some stories! Start with basic recon; look around the room and out the window. Also, read that sword, it looks significant.

So is there a point where this stuff will start making sense, or are you going to continue doing the thing where you ramble incoherently and then get mad when we don't understand after explaining practically nothing?

Well, first you should figure out if anyone lives here or nearby. Hard to have a story with no other characters, and I assume you don't want to end yourself for a meal.

Suggestion 2015/10/11(Sun)01:00 No. 675949 ID: 763a04
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>>675804
Yes.
>>675807
Given the state of furnishings, it is highly likely the space is occupied. Of course, objects can have stories too and can be just as fated as anything, even in some cases yielding more energy then a story involving the living. This is not the norm however, since they mainly just sit there.

>>675770
Hmmmm, there is a larger inscription reading "I Will Uphold" on the sheath on one side and "Unity Makes Strength" on the other in some language. On the inside of the hilt is a lengthy inscription that when translated reads

"Awarded for extensive acts of valor at Marabastad and Majula in service to our children of the new nation of South Africa, for furthering the cause of independence from tyranny, and for the willing conversion of 181 Bushmen to the light of Protestantism in the Name of God and His Majesty Charles III, Enlightened Soverign Of The United Neatherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and...

It goes on to list assorted other titles, places, and achievements.
Fascinating.

>>675949
Hmm, so this world shares... some history and geography with ours. I'm guessing that's referring to Charles III of Spain, but he didn't quite so much of an empire in our world. As far as I know, anyway.

I see Death Note among those more literary books, so this must be 2003 or later. Which means that sword is a family heirloom. Is that any good for story energy? Probably not.
(And, uh, fictional stories don't have any values either, right?)

What else... we've got a map, which includes the Kalahari desert and Namibia, probably just another heirloom from explorer grandpa or whoever. Hey, are we actually in South Africa? Pretty sure it's time to check out that window.

The Plastic Sun 2015/10/16(Fri)14:37 No. 676896 ID: 763a04
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>>675959
You seem to be quite the expert on such things (this is after all, why you were employed) so your judgements on such issues seems sound. Just as a warning however, it is often folly to rely on ones own internal logic in evaluating other dimensions. By definition, ANYTHING could be true. Looking around, this room lacks windows, just more books and oddities. It is conceivable, for example,that this entire dimension is composed of rooms such as this, or that even this might be the only spacial location for miles. Time could flow different, names and locations could change, and events could occur in differing orders. Such is the...

OK THIS IS AN EXCESSIVE NUMBER OF BOOKS. There's barely anything else here!

Hate books. If only burning them destroyed the stories they contained. Pity they would only impact the ones who read and are influenced by that particular version. They are much akin to a bag of potato chips with but a single crum inside, a shadow of something larger and untouchable.

Once upon a time, an Obliviator of great repute was trapped in a dimension with a corpse and millions of books but not a single story. It was not a happy ending. Regardless, there is no way to check the surroundings.

have a look at that fellow on the chair.

>>676896
> expert
... of a sort, I suppose. (The Google sort.)

> no windows
Is that not... one... above the fireplace... Okay that doesn't make any sense, because chimney, but there does appear to be a... painting behind curtains? Okay, that's weird, check it out, but check the chair dude out first.

And uh hmm...
> millions of books
Maybe check
> corpse
Also maybe check...

The Plastic Sun 2015/10/23(Fri)14:20 No. 678922 ID: 763a04
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>>676920
>>677362

An emancipated figure sprawled on a chair of rough red leather. His skin, papery-white and just as extended over a dimunitive frame, a heliotrope bathrobe wrapped like a penitentery around him. A cloth of similar material wrapped around the eyes like a blindfold. His smell indistinguishable from the house, the smell of the old, the dried, the preserved, with no clear indication of which came first.

A book sits in his lap, now embalmed in the ashes of an upturned pipe, piled like the lower sand of an hourglass.

Despite expectations due to the severity of his condition (theorized by his state of cellular degradation to be due to the disease known as aging) he is very much functional and alive, merely sleeping, with symptoms pointing to exhaustion and overconsumption of alcohol as the cause.

He was the first thing observed when entering this room from the fireplace, and seemingly for good reason. The chair sits at the rough center of the room, its axis mundi, suggesting that he is the arranger of the space here.

Altogether an intriguing individual, perhaps of some value to the occupation, although conclusions should not be drawn hastily.

The Plastic Sun 2015/10/23(Fri)14:38 No. 678923 ID: 763a04
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>>677362
The picture is of course the other item of note, situated directly across from the sleeping fellow. It is unusual as you know for paintings to be covered, as they are created to be seen, much alike books or offspring.

The curtain is curiously made from an identical leather as the chair, suggesting common origin. Perhaps salvaged from another?

The painting itself depicts, with frankly poor skill (the painter was clearly no craftsman) a woman upon a stormy beach, likely posing for the painting.

Her gaze is turned away from the painter, gazing instead upon the very sword still in hand, a curious vague smile on her face. Judging by the hurried strokes and the water damage at the bottom of the painting, it was clear that a moment was trying to be captured, explaining the paintings poor quality.

Interestingly, the woman's texture is clumped, painted with different paints of assorted ages and qualities, suggesting the painter attempted to repaint the figure in the piece multiple times over the course of many years.

The most apparent exterior aspect of the piece is the long gashes through the face, likely inflicted with a sword of all things!

There are mysteries to this painting, and despite its low quality, it would be a curiosity to certain aesthetics.

Highly curious.

>>678922
>an emancipated
emaciated. God damn it man.

>painting
Okay, my guess: That was his wife, the day she died. He kept trying to repaint it to show her properly, eventually got sick of it and slashed the painting, then covered it up with the fabric from what was once her chair.

...Well, it's possible that wasn't the day she died, but some other important date; but I'm quite certain she's gone now.

Interesting, but unless you can travel back in time (which I'm not ruling out by the way) there's nothing of value there.

The Plastic Sun 2015/10/26(Mon)20:00 No. 679560 ID: 763a04
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>>679017
Useless, eh?

X-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx~~~ Just have to see about THAT!

INTO THE EXALT IT GOES!

The Plastic Sun 2015/10/26(Mon)20:14 No. 679564 ID: 763a04
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Now while that's burning nicely, a word or one hundred and sixteen.

While Obliviators are often called Exterminators of stories, and fulfill that space to an extent, it is oft the case that the profession includes the act of story PREVENTION.

For example, the painting. What would happen if someone saw the painting years in the future and, curious, attempted to discern her identity? What if she or the man was important or of historical importance or were part of something greater?

Why, by burning it, we negate all emotions, thoughts, and actions any could elicite in response to it. Now no one will be curious or facinated or inspired or moved to action, and the energy they would have spent is instead reaped as product!

Brilliant, correct?

The Plastic Sun 2015/10/26(Mon)20:27 No. 679569 ID: 763a04
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And here, dear friend is the fruits of such efforts! Destinic Energy, the Potential Energy OF energy as it were, nutrition for many an abstract being, and lifeblood of fate itself!

A paltry first excavation, as can be seen by the few number of strands. The more extrusions, the more events influenced!

If the SIGIL had been used, the exact quentity of energy could be examined, as well as what events had just been prevented (and caused of course, for it is the difference between the two that is gained)by these actions.

Regardless, this marks the incipience of the first of the two extremes of this relationship. To an exfinite life and stories ended!

CHEERS!

The Plastic Sun 2015/10/26(Mon)20:32 No. 679571 ID: 763a04
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Om.
...
...
Tastes of fleeting curiosity and despair, and...hmmmm, right?

...

...well now on to professional business. Whats the next step, dear colleague?

>>679571
Oh, hmm. Well if that did remove a story... you might see if the sword also would. It seems like the type that might cause a story by its absence though (or make a story more interesting) so be sure to sigil it first.

The Plastic Sun 2015/11/21(Sat)13:10 No. 685164 ID: 763a04
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Before I continue, I should first apologize for the lengthy delay between this and the last post, due to exams and a make-out session between my head and a marble countertop several weeks ago. However all of that is now solved, happy, and past, so now the nefarious interactions between you and this dimensional troublemaker can now continue anew. And if exam and injury cannot stop this, nothing will. Except for maybe the count from Sesame Street with a baseball bat with calculus equations written on it. Anyway.

The Plastic Sun 2015/11/21(Sat)13:19 No. 685165 ID: 763a04
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>>679679
You are quite correct, dear friend. It would be folly to experiment without the aid of the alembics procured for these express operations.
Let us see...which one was the Sigil? There's like ten things in here it's hard to tell what's what.

OH RIGHT THE EYE THING.

The Plastic Sun 2015/11/21(Sat)13:28 No. 685167 ID: 763a04
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Primarily, this appeared to be some method of stethoscope or watch, although what use a deathcult would have for either such existence is dubious at best.

Although it can be supposed that much watching will be done with it. It appears to be applied to the upper extremity in some manner, and then activated, triggering the supercomputer.

It also...appears to be quite snug to look at it. And smells terrible from here. Like someone dying on top of a new chessboard, if you can imagine that.

The Plastic Sun 2015/11/21(Sat)13:45 No. 685169 ID: 763a04
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In beginning to utilize this device, it appears to extract a scan of the example in question for a period of seconds, after which the computer...
after which the computer...

The Plastic Sun 2015/11/21(Sat)14:04 No. 685175 ID: 763a04
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AH HA!

EXPECTED TO GET THE DROP ON US, HMMMXXXX?!

FOOL! SCHELIEL! DUNDERHEAD! TURKEY! You CANNOT COMPREHEND THE FORCES YOU HAVE AGGRAVATED! THEY ARE BEYOND YOUR EXISTANCE, UNBOUND BY THE EXPERIENCES OF YOUR UNIVERSE, CAPABLE OF EXPLODING THROUGH YOUR VERY DESTINY!

QUICKLY FRIEND BEFORE HE ESCAPES, YOU NEED TO...

The Plastic Sun 2015/11/21(Sat)15:18 No. 685190 ID: 763a04
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Oh.

OH.

This must be The Sigil. It doing something I mean. This must be what that looks like. The Sigil...working?

Well at least we know it works. Doing...whatever its doing.

hmx.

HMMXMMMXMMMXMMMXMMMMXMMMMXMMMMMMMMXMMMMMXMMM

hmx.

EXCITING! It turns out that it is not useful to destroy the sword. Although it places a central role in several events in the future, including being the tool of a murder hundreds of years from now, it appears that several individuals, including what is presumably the old man before us, expend tremendously more energy trying to find the weapon after its been destroyed. This means theres actually a NEGATIVE energy differential between the two story lines, which is...inadvisable. Rediculous that the man wont even notice that the painting was gone, but touch something three inches in front of it and he expends as much energy as a change in causality for THAT.

Curious how some things only become truely powerful when their gone.

Regardless, it appears we must expand the horizons of our job to find something productive. What do you advise?

>>685190
> won't even notice the painting is gone
Well, it is under a curtain. Which is presumably because he didn't want to look at it, so maybe he did notice and just doesn't care.

> what do
Well, guess it's probably time to head outside, then? Can't imagine there would be much in here more noteworthy than the sword or painting.

Plastic Sun 2015/11/23(Mon)16:37 No. 685417 ID: 763a04
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>>685278

You are of course right. All that's left is paraphernalia, books and maps and by the time we scanned all of it, we'd use all the energy we gained. Not to mention we'd get diminishing returns since each exterminated book would increase the risk of discovery.

Getting discovered is never a good deal, it ruins everything and makes us traceable.

Given that the other doorway is more enshadowed, it can be assumed that this one leads to the exterior. That animal pelt hanging from the ceiling makes for grim and forboding decoration frankly. Likely as not to keep out mischievous spirits. Or was one. At least it's not more books...

Hopefully there's something close, it is fast approaching time to extricate ourselves and move onward.

Plastic Sun 2015/11/23(Mon)16:39 No. 685418 ID: 763a04
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HFVGCVCCXCXXXXDXXDXXDCXVEXECRDCXDFXDXX

Plastic Sun 2015/11/23(Mon)16:40 No. 685419 ID: 763a04
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...

Plastic Sun 2015/11/23(Mon)16:43 No. 685421 ID: 763a04
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>>685278
...
We can't go OUT because someone is attempting to come IN.

Plastic Sun 2015/11/23(Mon)16:44 No. 685422 ID: 763a04
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FUCK

Plastic Sun 2015/11/25(Wed)17:40 No. 685744 ID: 763a04
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He's waking up and someone's coming in! You left the Briefcase by his feet!
WE HAVE TO HIDE!

BUT WHERE?!

BUT THAT WOULD MEAN LEAVING THE BRIEFCASE AND THE ENTIRE SAN OUT IN THE OPENING!

BUT HOW CAN WE GET IT IN TIME?

BUT WE CANT RISK DISCOVERY!

WHATDOWEDOWHATDOWEDOWHATDOWEDOWHATDOWEDOWHATDOWIEDO OHNONONONO

ok chill my dude. i assume we cant kill the old man so grab the briefcase and hide behind the painting curtain. if he discovers you, punch him out and jump out of a window. no one will believe him that a weird spaghetti dude with a briefcase socked him in the face.

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/06(Sun)01:27 No. 687305 ID: 32ce64
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>>685746
You are entirely exact. Better to risk discovery than discovery AND forfeit the San.

Just...quietly...ohnoohnoohnoxxxxxxx...huuuurrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyy

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/06(Sun)01:34 No. 687306 ID: 32ce64
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TEN STRIKE!
We have the case, the intruders stopped expending energy to get in, and no one woke up! Plan Perfectly Executed! Now to de-exhibit ourselves and plan our next extraction.

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/06(Sun)01:34 No. 687307 ID: 32ce64
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...

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/06(Sun)01:35 No. 687308 ID: 32ce64
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...

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/06(Sun)01:35 No. 687309 ID: 32ce64
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..........

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/06(Sun)01:40 No. 687311 ID: 32ce64
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>>685746
DESTINY-INCINERATION EXECUTION X-FIST

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/06(Sun)01:41 No. 687312 ID: 32ce64
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WHAM

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/06(Sun)01:44 No. 687313 ID: 32ce64
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Literally every aspect of the plan has failed.

grab briefcase and scuttle as hard as you can out the front door. or alternatively, lie and say you are an angel here to take his soul to the great beyond but he has too many loose ends and you're giving him a chance to take care of that before he dies. and then gtfo

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/17(Thu)20:46 No. 689433 ID: 32ce64
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>>687406
N-no one would believe that! He just punched someone! And there's someone at the door! We'd never make it out!

Unless...
AG! Dietmara, is that ya, you little skurk? You STILL haven't gone back to ya dear little mother? Donner blisken! She must be out of her mind! Where are you? Out! Outa here! Out before I krak th'hide offa ya! Come out and get out!

Can...can he not...see us?

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/17(Thu)21:03 No. 689434 ID: 32ce64
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...

...
Mej Sparrenziel? That is, ag, ya, ain't it? I know ya here, I gave ya a donner jus now.

...

gave SOMEONE a donner jus now...


ohthankeveryequationanddiety the odds of this turn of fate are astronomical...in fact...this lends itself to an idea! One moment, don't move! Let's use this opportunity to experiment!

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/17(Thu)21:13 No. 689435 ID: 32ce64
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...

Well, if it ain't Dietmara Sparrenziel that I kraked then GET OUTTA THIS OLD MAN'S HOUSE OR I KRAK YA HIDE SO HARD ILL NAIL IT ON THE WALL.

Also, if this IS Dietmara, playing an old man a fool, then GET OUTTA THIS OLD MAN'S HOUSE OR I KRAK YA HIDE SO HARD ILL NAIL IT ON THE WALL.

...
...
Kak right.

...
Where I drop the necklace? KAK! WHERES IT?"

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/17(Thu)21:23 No. 689438 ID: 32ce64
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AG DIETMARA YA SEE MA NECKLACE WHILE YA SPOOKEN?

...
Course not.
Ah, there you are, mijn Schatje. Don scare this WHAMWHAMWHAM

!

?!...........................................

xxxxohpleasenoxxx

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/17(Thu)21:25 No. 689439 ID: 32ce64
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But then tha would mean...
Did I just...
But then...
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/17(Thu)21:37 No. 689442 ID: 32ce64
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Skort en Skrik, ya sneeudier, something woes vrot 'ere.

The Plastic Sun 2015/12/17(Thu)21:41 No. 689445 ID: 32ce64
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Didnt expect this to work at all. By the nearest extimation, we now posess about ten seconds. Exceptional compared to prior. What's the plan?

>>689445
Hmm, so you're wrapped around the suitcase, yes? (Quietly) follow the blind man into the entry hall, then sit still in the foyer until he and whoever's trying to enter head further into the house and you can make a break for it. With any luck the knocker, if he sees you, will just think you're a suitcase and pay you no heed.

wait a minute, if the old man is blind then why was he reading a book? is the book braille?

Alternatively, are you good enough at climbing and resistant enough to fire to get up the chimney?