>>1041079
Well, so long as Lak is carrying that 15/21, his tracker will stick to it and he won't know you have one. It's omnidirectional, after all, so it'll only give a reading for the closest one.

>>1041079
The plan is to kill some drones and steal a jeep, right? Let's do that. The bike probably belongs to the rin-reida, and while you might be able to get to it, they have a head start and no reason to wait for you.

>>1041078
>Maybe Dowser might like this, he's totally into big ladies.
How do you know? Did he tell you or is he really bad at hiding his interests?

>I delete the folder.
Was it really that bad? Describe something you saw and we’ll tell you if it was that bad.

>>1041079
Ask if Bry knows who Lak is? Because you’re pretty sure you just met him and you want to get away as quickly as possible before he changes his mind on letting you leave.

Use the radio you took from the dead pomi to (try to) contact Fletcher and her team.
And don't stay near the bunker, once the neumono's team notice they're not hearing from him anymore they might send someone to investigate.

>>1041079
Lets find someplace to set up these cables to ambush that drone patrol.

>>1041079
Ask Bry for a kiss for goodluck.

>>1041209
Pray you were given an easier job in life.

>>1041209
B. Eat and recover your strength.

Honestly, that was an extremely stupid thing you did. You put yourself in a position that allowed them to not only cut your thread and drop you down the mountain, but it also allowed them to keep your weapon.

A

PrAy

>>1041212
I dunno, we seem kinda like a robot-thing. Are praying and eating really mutually exclusive?
Pray and eat at the same time if we can, otherwise Pray. (then eat)

ED-MAN-GOH 2022/08/17(Wed)19:49 No. 1041148 ID: 2ca3ce
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> [NIGHT, DAY 13] - CONTAINMENT ZONE - THE FINAL CONFRONTATION
You decide as a group that at the very minimum, you, Mia, and Key are going to confront the creature. You let QB out and she joins in the planning, this surprises Deus and Mona, but at this point you just find it funny rather than anything else. After that, plans are drawn for your two sure-fire strategies.

Mia will be in charge of nullifying the creature’s healing and dealing damage
Key will be in charge of slowing the thing down
You will be given a choice in combat

Once you attack the creature, it will start to head towards you.

A. Mia: Here’s the plan if we were to just straight up kill him
- You will destroy the body and it will detonate with massive amounts of energy
- This detonation will harm the environment
- Mia will need to be protected for a short duration so that she can nullify the body’s healing
- Mia recommends holding [VIRGE] in the [POCKET ESTATE] just in case he gets any ideas
B. [VIRGE]: And here’s MY plan to drain the big P of all his dirty dirty [SAUCE]!

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Plan A: Explosions! bring both Mona and Deus as backup, but assign Deus to escort Virge and Mona to escort QB and Kris. That's the same effect as just bringing Deus while leaving him more free to cast spells, and keep a watch on Virge. Virge should be given a chance to help, but he should not be given a chance to absorb everything. Kris has fought by your side for years, today is no different. And the Queen... should really bee given a chance to show us what those mimics can do. Team Giant spiders/bees/otters go!

>>1041148
B
Deus, escorting QB and Kris. The extra 5% chance is probably worth it.
Mona, escorting no one. She can stick with Mia since Mia isn't immune to complications.
Also Virge of course. Mia can keep an eye on him.

So we're only leaving Nuki behind; she doesn't seem too keen on fighting anyway.
If we get hit with a severe complication we can use the Perfect Gift to nullify it, I bet.

>>1041149
This seems best!

>>1041149
Let’s do this one.

>>1040917
+1

>>1040919
+1

Baron 2022/08/17(Wed)22:35 No. 1041191 ID: fd2dfa
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"Oi Janny! Or Jimmy! Or Janky! Sumthin' like that. Wo'ever yer name is! Over 'ere"

"Hrrhrrm?"

"Yeah yoo! Wot uh...wot're ya agin?"

"Dagga!"

"wuh?"

"Tar a na dagga!"

"...right. Never seen wunna ya a'fore. Wot ya doin' in this shite-hole?"

[What is Jiang Qi's story? What lead a Tsang Naji to a shithole on the other side of the known world?]

Well uh, you know, sometimes you piss off the wrong uncle during the wrong bicentennial day parade by breaking wind as you bow to the local ruler. Court politics are so dull anyway! (Qi is a lazy, lazy fox. As you can see, she would rather be engaging in hedonism than learning etiquette.)

>>1041191
Well to start with we were a younger member of a moderatly successful merchant family. Only thing that really stands out about that is that it was really boring. As for traveling we're not sure how it started cause we were REALLY drunk for that bit. After waking up on a rowboat in the middle of the ocean we managed to flag down a passing ship before we died of exposure have just sort of been wanderimg ever simce because it's more interesting than anything back home.

Sam 2022/08/17(Wed)19:16 No. 1041134 ID: 899c9f
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Our path is settled, then: we’ll climb the buildings all the way up before crossing the skyway.
Anet and Jaina pry a door open at ground level and we head inside to look for a stairwell. Jaina peers back out at the foliage as we step inside. “...Glad we’re finally heading in. Feels like I’m being watched.”
The interior is divided into several large rooms including a lobby with a whole line of elevators and escalators leading upward. It’s hard to tell what most of the rooms were used for, as so much of it is stripped bare except for trash. There’s one room that looks like a parking lot for rows of bikes, so that was probably a vast fitness center at one point.
We take one of the escalators up and the floors above are residential apartments, all with an identical room layout copied over and over. We’d never have time to search all of them! Like the bottom floor, they seem to have already been stripped of value. From here, we find a staircase that goes all the way up the building.
As we reach the top floor, somewhat exhausted, Jaina pulls me back.
“Sam! Hold it! Look at the top step. Someone’s laid a wire across the doorway.”
Ironically, this is the first sign of civilization we’ve seen all day. I wonder how old it is… and what it’s hooked up to.
“What happened here that made people start booby trapping the hallways?”
“Nothing good…”
We could just step over it carefully, but there could be more traps ahead. There’s no telling what disarming it or setting it off from a distance would do. What if someone’s around to hear us set it off?

>Avoid traps
>Disarm traps
>Set off traps

Set it off from a distance.

Avoid the traps, but CLEARLY MARK THEM.

examine trap. Avoid it just long enough to get to the other side, then look around and SEE what it is hooked up to. Generally tripwires are not complicated, and not terribly stealthy from the other direction.

>>1041182
>>1041196
+1

Guitar pick? Where is your guitar, yo?

Sack of cash, huh? Where's that from, why is it "way too much", and why did you not use some of it to get transportation? Is it perhaps...illicit?

>>1041125
what is your life story?
if you have mizery than there are pockets of heven here and ther, but mostly hidden, a drain pipe that leats to a creek that had a water fall affect leveing a hot tube size pool to "swim" around in.

Well a fitting way to start this adventure would be to light that one last cigarette and then start moving in a random direction

>>1041158
Try to remember how you ended up here

>I could try to catch up with them.
Still too soon for that.
That cough is a bad sign... Not conclusive, but not great. Also our new 'friend' may have heard it. If we plan to leave we better go now
I don't think any of the items are worth taking right now.
>Hopefully the psycho doesn’t check that room first.
Bad news
>Better check on ol’ Nubby
I think Nubby is exactly the one we killed, so that seems like definitely the place he is checking, part of why the going should be a now rather than a later thing.
As for direction, thinking north to the farms, as a potential place to stay the night.
Once away we probably want to write a note about our darts to keep on our person saying how we stole them from a guy at the motel. (wouldn't want anyone finding our body and thinking those are our darts and we were the psycho) We probably also want to fashion ourselves a makeshift gag in case we feel we are losing ourselves, since I don't think the sports store is really going to be viable, still too much of the horde around.

Yeah I think it would be for the best if you make as much distance away from this guy as possible. If you asked me he looks like a person who was waiting his whole life for a zombie apocalypse. Actually did you also daydream about just this kind of scenario before everything went to shit. Because if you did I would like to hear the plan that you had and it would be a good idea to get a idea of your surroundings.

>>1041170
Also hello Thk! I see that you are quick on the update, you are the quickest Updater the west!

Quickly grab the tire iron. Head towards the zombie horde. The psycho won't be able to pursue you effectively if you're near zeds, and in fact that may be our best bet for killing him.

>>1041203
If we could get the Tire Iron in zero (narrative) time and could prevent it from "mak[ing the] steering even more wonky" by like using two pocket slots or something it could (and probably would be) be worth it. But as it is we need to go now and we need all the help we can get riding this bike, if we fall/fail and he notices us, that will probably be the end for us.

The talisman guy, maybe he buys his wares from a wizard, if they are magic.

Kaed 2022/08/16(Tue)16:24 No. 1041024 ID: 22b6d5
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>>1040925
>>1040935
>>1040995
>>1040999
>>1041004


Kuuhr approached the talisman vender, because they seemed the most foreign to the area, and thus likely knew the most about interesting things that didn't involve the local clay and fruit industry. He crouched down in front of the doggish trader and gave his best winning smile.

"Kuuhr came to see all your shiny talismans, they are looking very valuable and good!" the gnoll lied, looking down at the garbage on the dusty blanket. "Black dog must have travelled very far to bring such good trinkets!"

The canine blinked for a moment, then smiled back at Kuuhr, amused. For some reason, a lot of people made that face when Kuuhr spoke to them. Someone had once told him that his trade-speech wasn't very good, but Kuuhr could make himself understood - and that should be enough for anyone! "You also sound like you're from far away, your ... accent... is unfamiliar to me. Do you want to buy something?"

Kuuhr spread his arms, pretending to look interested, and replied,

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Ask which way is Kaemhia, then stow away on a wagon headed in that direction. Repeat this step as necessary.

>>1041037
Seems like a plan.

This looks like a good plan.

>>1041166
B/This

>>1041163
Agreed!

B. And maybe tell Isa that this may get a bit emotionally heavy.

Haha I thought of something amazing.
Once we get into LYST, we can have RED sign a demon contract with Cat (or Set I guess) to allow them to use her infinite cloning power. Also since RED is a demon, and demons can absorb other demons... we could empower Cat that way. Heck, since RED can infinitely clone herself, can't she act as an infinite fuel source for other demons...?

>>1041166
We can probably also send the recording to our sister. Who knows, maybe she'll send it to Cat and the others so they can get a better understanding of what happened too.

>>1041088
>>1041089
dddaaaawwww. that. is. so. PRECIOUS!

I mean, a date ain't a BAD thing, though it seems we keep stumbling head first into them
Lizardman seemed somehow sad Vuota disappeared like that, or that the voidkin fought you, you should ask about that, while you can

>It doesn't seem like they understood what you meant, and probably aren't one of your fragmented cores. Also you think maybe you just agreed to a date with Tricky sometime in the future??
Task failed successfully?

either way I guess you could ask the others in the box if they know anything about what the area on the other side of this ride is like.

Ask about the local food!

Ask the lizard about how their hat seems to fit them better. Were they able to get one more in their size?

Anet & Jaina vs. Princess Reefa Art by Himitsu 2022/08/16(Tue)23:19 No. 1041060 ID: 629f2e
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“Our turn!” Anet says, drawing a card on her tablet. “It’s good that we’re going second, because I can only use this effect if you have a monster on the field and I don’t. I special summon “Cadmus, Polymath Researcher” to the field in Attack Mode! Look! He’s prismatican too, just like you!”

As Anet claimed, a red dragon-looking man came from the card, looking to be of a similar species to Reefa.

[ Cadmus, Polymath Researcher: Dragon-Type, Level 4, ATK: 1200 DEF: 1900 ]

“I’m going to activate his other effect now too. Once per turn, I can excavate the top 5 cards on our deck. If I hit any other Researcher characters, I can summon them to the field too! Every other card gets sent to the bottom of our deck, in whatever order I choose.”

One by one, cards flip up from Anet’s deck, revealing themselves to both players. “Crate of Greed”, “Research Project, Tome of Sexual Magic”, “Very Bad Things Have Happened”...

…“Mary Kil, Genetics Researcher”.

“A-ha!” She exclaims “I summon Mary Kil to the field!” A dog woman appears beside Cadmus.

[ Mary Kil, Genetics Researcher: Beast-Warrior-Type, Level 4, ATK: 1600 DEF: 1000 ]

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C, Reefa probably thinks she's smart enough to outplay Anet and Jaina, but we'll show her!

B. Believe in the heart of the cards! Should this trap be aimed at negating a monster strong enough to defeat the queen, it will find its effect has been... reduced!

B. Heart of the cards and whatnot.

A

SABOTAGE VOTE

Looks like we'll be continuing the no-items challenge. Alright then, I'll play along to help us complete the side-quest.

IF HELP WINS:

Dash for the alley Sweaty Kitty mentioned, and hide behind a dumpster. As Eugene is pacing through ready to find them, Gerbera plummets from the sky and lands right inside the box containing Sweaty Kitty. When Eugene hears multiple voices coming out of it, he runs up and yanks it open, revealing none of the people he was looking for, but instead two people who are both fairly upset with him.

Jerry takes the opportunity to sneak up behind Eugene and shove him inside, holding it shut until the sounds of violence within cease. When the box opens up next, Sweaty Kitty exits fully dressed and Gerbera waves a pleading leaf for their uniform, which Jerry happily provides.

They leave the box on the sidewalk to buy some time from having to deal with him again, as he'll have to wait for foot traffic to die down before he can fetch a new outfit out of a dumpster and plot his next attack.

IF SABOTAGE WINS:

Same setup as before, except you get a bit less lucky on where Gerbera lands. Instead of landing in the cardboard box SK is hiding in, they land straight onto you, leaving you in a daze. In that moment, Eugene is able to grab your pizza box and hop straight into the dumpster you were hiding by, rolling away in it with the pizza in hand! He won't eat it immediately, as the dumpster smell is messing up his appetite, but once he makes some distance and gets out nothing will be stopping him!

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I vote help! Sorry, Eugene, but we’ve gotta show Rocio who’s boss. No items.

The HELP situation is that Jerry runs as fast as he can to Sweaty Kitty’s Dark Damp Alley and just barely makes it to her box before Eugene catches up. Eugene, overconfident as he is after all an alley rat, begins monologuing about how smart he is. Jerry holds up the PIZZID box in surrender.

The PIZZID box has, conveniently, been designed to be seen from low earth orbit, and Gerb slams into Eugene.

If sabotage wins, Gerb crash lands into Sweaty Kitty’s box instead, sending them both sprawling into the alleyway, dazed and confused. Eugene is the only one not distracted by the two nudesters and seizes the pizza!

Bonus: Text Rocio and brag (if HELP wins) or berate her for laziness (if SABOTAGE wins).

Help (?) That's it! This is the straw that broke the camel that split the herd that dried the desert that ruined the whole biome.

Jerry sharply turns around, grabs Eugene by that shirt neck that's as soggy as the rat's brain,

And speaks:

"I've had enough of all of you showing up and making my life impossible every single time I go out to do a simple delivery!
It's always the same! I get an adress, I go out to the streets, everything is fine for about 2 updates, and then everything goes completely pear-shaped, and I get chased down by lunatics that want to steal my pizza, or have a gripe with me over a bad break-up, or want to kidnap me for getting the wrong answers on a survey, or who want to destroy all pizza forever just because they burned their mouth on a hot slice one time. Yeah, sure, that's good enough reason to ruin someone's livelihood.

You know who else hates pizza?
Me! I abhor pizza. Don't get me wrong, I like the taste of pizza as much as anyone. I used to eat it as much as anyone. But this job makes me so stressed, so utterly miserable, that I can't bring myself to grab a bite anymore.
Every day, I have to struggle to even understand the adress my fast-talking boss is telling me to go to, then I have to sneak around to avoid my flower co-worker from talking my ear off about how WoNDerFUl this job is, after which I drive off to work and you bozos pop up at ruin everything, with the customer flipping me off and refusing to pay, and me struggling yet again to understand how exactly my boss is telling me that I totally suck at my job.
Did you know that in my last delivery run, some pizza-headed detective freak acussed me of trying to poison a lactose-intolerant guy with a cheesy pizza and I got banished to an alien dimension I had to escape by the skin of my teeth? I now have a criminal record because I went to the wrong adre

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rolled 4, 1 = 5

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6 HELP votes, 3 SABOTAGE vote

Once the six sided dices are rolled, I will add the votes to the results. the first dice will be HELP, the second dice will be SABOTAGE.

Message from PEA: And HELP WINS this 10 HELP POINTS > 4 SABOTAGE POINTS. The votes are locked in and you can no longer vote, BUT you can still suggest ideas on what will happen. If you previously suggested an idea for how Jerry gets SABOTAGED, you can still suggest an idea for how Jerry gets HELPED if you haven't already and I'll pick one with the most votes, and/or whichever is most interesting and zany

Animal: Seconding Portuguese Man O’ War
Preferences: Bisexual
Gender: Male
Name: I
Fetish: That raccoon cheese grater image from e621

Animal: O'possum
Preferences: Straight
Gender: Male
Fetish: Muscular Women, rat girls
Y/N: N

Driving through the desert, huh? Ignore the questions and pull over to pick up the dude over in https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1041125.html

Animal: Jerboa
Preferences: Bisexual
Gender: Female (But with bits from both sexes?)
Name: Sizka
Fetish: Just, like, being really supportive and patient for people's first times.
Yes/No: No

>>1041189
This, except just female, and fetish is HAND HOLDING! how scandalous!

>>1040483
That status update Eliznyabeth received while scouting ahead was a terse text message on the chainpod's dashboard, saying that Paprika and Natalina are alive, not in immediate danger, and significantly closer to the objective than was expected by this time. It didn't provide much further detail, but lots of bystanders can confirm they saw those two being launched into the sky.

rolled 19, 3, 2, 18, 4, 13, 12, 14, 10, 12, 14, 9, 1, 3, 7, 9, 12, 19, 4, 8 = 193

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Reiko gets started on the disassembly of the Volcano Tamer, asking for Elanyah's assistance relaying the responses from the Volcano King. Having preserved this shoddy, complicated, and noisy machine for the past three months, her only regret is that she can't blow it up for catharsis.

Of course, she'll enjoy reverse-engineering its sub-functions and unlocking its true potential even more. A pity her former boss-hole is a pile of ashes; she'd enjoy dissecting his pride and joy while he's forced to watch.

Merely powering the device off without causing an eruption or giving the Volcano King indigestion will take a fair effort. But her new processing power lets her understand the 'instruction manual' made of floating pointers and ASCII binary.
(Intellect, Effort 1)

rolled 7, 5, 6, 13, 15, 8, 3, 9, 18, 1, 6, 5, 12, 17, 20, 19, 5, 12, 12, 17 = 210

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>>1040650
>handholding
Paprika takes Natalina's hand and her expression shifts into a ragged smile. Small whisps of steam rise and swirl from her soaked skin.

>"Oh, I'm sorry, is setting yourself on fire your culture's standard signal for 'no further service needed, everything is fine'?"
Paprika responds to the light show before Natalina gets a chance to translate. "Well fuck you too. Walking trashcan..."

>one of those chairs in the business center as the actual interface
"The ones with the corpses in them? Can you ask it how they died?"

>Just hop over, five miles in the opposite direction from the train station, patch whatever's wrong (which, if you're lucky, might be as simple as re-socketing a loose cable), and key in the relevant pod's unique 32-character ID code.
"Sounds fun, but I gotta be real with you - I need a breather first. My paper is ruined too so we'll have to figure out another way to write the code down."

rolled 14, 3, 15, 1, 19, 15, 10, 17, 16, 2, 10, 1, 1, 20, 15, 19, 16, 19, 5, 19 = 237

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>Yes, this is a flesh shelter
"It would seem your earlier assessment was correct, Paprika.  We were exceedingly lucky to arrive here." 

>Could spend 2xp to say you happen to already know Uxphonese, in which case you'll be able to converse normally
Sure, let's go with that.  A city with well-established nobility and meritocratic upward mobility is the kind of thing that would have attracted Natalina's interest.

Natalina is quite relieved when she can switch from awkwardly reflecting light with one hand to actual speech...
>"Didn't want to make a fuss about it during damage control, but your Light accent is just awful - like an off-the-shelf format-conversion submodule, with barely any personal idiomatic refactor, choking on an improvised transciever with three-digit actuator ping times."
...as is their host, it would seem.  They're not wrong either, as attempting to 'speak' Light by flashing a hand-mirror in reflected light seems comparable to attempting to 'speak' by drumming one's hand on a table to produce audible words.

"I apologize for the disrespect." she replies in Uxphonese, inclining her head.  (And she'll continue translating into Truth for Paprika as needed).

>>"Oh, I'm sorry, is setting yourself on fire your culture's standard signal for 'no further service needed, everything is fine'?"
>Paprika responds to the light show before Natalina gets a chance to translate. "Well fuck you too. Walking trashcan..."

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>"The ones with the corpses in them?
There are two other chairs currently unoccupied.
>Can you ask it how they died?"
"There was a discontinuity, and when I was reinitialized from backup they were already in that condition. Resuscitation may be possible so please do not disturb them."

>Does the 'parking garage' perhaps contain some mechanism to safely catch someone arriving at high speeds?"
Certainly not at full miss-the-ground speeds, but, if you were initially set on a suborbital ballistic arc by something along the lines of an overclocked gravy bowl... and then, given your respective anomalous capabilities, somehow continuously vented hot gas through an asymmetric phase-pocket plenum for both marginal life support and brachistochrone thrust... relative velocity at intercept could theoretically have been subsonic, while still within a slim window of overlap between 'time in transit' and 'traumatic abaryia survival time.' At that point, perimeter sandpipers and the garage's vapor screen might have brought you to a safe stop with only a few relatively minor miracles.

>the other available path risks hard vacuum
>request the safety equipment from storage
Protective option the spiderbutler presents first (with some passive-aggressive apologies about the engineering constraints imposed by Natalina and Paprika's powers) initially appears to be a comically oversized pair of fur-lined handcuffs.
Looking through either cuff from one direction reveals an empty fishbowl-shaped otherspace, less than a cubic foot. Stick your head in the hole and close the cuff around your neck, smart fluid flows out to cover the rest of your body, supplying breathable air, compression, an

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>>1040244
"Alright, so it's a hostile maze filled with people who die if you hit them with silver and know the territory better. So how many of these wolves are there. Also, what are these demons? Are they things that can strike you from beyond the veil that separates worlds?"

She rubbed her chin contemplatively.

"Also, if they are never all in this pit at the same time, then about how many could we expect to be inside the pit and how many would we have to deal with in terms of reinforcement, and how fast can reinforcement arrive? Would their disposition be to stand and fight seeking glory or run away to try and attack with the entire pack? Are there any notable main support beams that would collapse the whole thing if they were exploded?

"I know where we can get a lot of Silver, does anyone know how to have it made into weapons in a short time frame? What about flamethrowers... Actually," she reaches inside of herself and pulls out a flamethrower, with the tank appearing on her back "cool I can just do that. That should make fighting in cramped tunnels against extremely flammable mass murderers easier."

>>"Not listening"
Ignoring the talking-to-self, as a good friend does, Jennifer nevertheless gives up trying to convince of theharmlessness of spiders. Somethings aren't worth fighting about. And then its time to talk to wolves, and soon enough whoops shes abat-monster again, just kind of there in the background while Hazel does her thing.
And while it may take a bit, from her posture and the shifting of wings her interest in burning out pits of corruption would, in fact be as clear as the light of moon on a cloudless night - and that's very clear, to be clear. But at the same time, well, fighting beasts on thier home territory - for some reason Jennifer doesn't like that thought as much as she would before. And if there are in fact, these foes scattered about in ordinary rats and in lone wolves in the night, why, then it's time to take back the night. And maybe find some of those lost in the world at large, for that matter.
Though when the flamethrower comes out, well, that's a powerful argument right there. Still, "Do you know how to use that?" comes through as a clear thought.

>> A tall order...
Where there's a will there's a way. And even as she wings over the town, when the time comes to do so, Jennifer will be pondering how - maybe one of those spiders that makes parachute's out of webbing, catch the jetstream to get some height, as an intermediate stage? She'll have to ask Hazel if she can control the type of spider that comes out of her transmute corpse to spider spell.

>>1040416
Hot air balloon? If you knew how to sew and had some mechanical skills and weren't too worried about getting down then... Maybe. There are also many army surplus stores and such in Portland. The maths on how many balloons it takes to lift a full grown human being though and how high that could get you before the surplus balloons pop...

There is a feeling - that a spider silk hot air balloon would actually be easy to make with the proper... dedication. Yes indeed, nothing feels off limits.

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So we're on the way back to Mount Hood. You're outnumbered, you know that for sure. The Wolf-Lady spoke of Banes (basically evil demons) and other Dancers. It's no where special. Literally a hole by a rock.

It's all about picking the time and hopping in the car.

In the car. Or cars? Imagination brings to mind snacks and water. Not to ride on - but to have for the apparent miles that you'll have to be walking in total darkness.

It'll take quite a bit of hiking but you'll get there. Will you park on the side of the road or... some place else? What is the plan of approach?

You’ve done this ride before. Part of it, at least. Everyone takes the highway to get places, after all. Mount Hood is always right there on the horizon and you watch it grow larger, dominating the landscape. Reaching to the heavens. Theodore is watching the Wolf-Girl. She did not want to take human form but Theodore is malleable. If she tries to move, he will kill her. If she tries to howl, he will plunge a silver blade in her throat to silence her.

She laughed at this - he looked as broken as ever. Dagger in hand - if you let him have it. He will beg, of course, for you not to go. “No, you mustn’t. It is suicide. It is death. You go down, cramped, for so long. An ancient holy place, tainted beyond recognition.”

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Fuck that. You’re already here. It takes time but you are. So silent - you hear no bugs. You hear no chirps. You see no animals. You can move around the trees, coming from an angle where the wind is blowing your smell away.

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Theodore said more about this place. So did the Wolf-Girl. You will go down. Werewolves are forced down, transformed, and they are rather large. They have to force their way through however. For something human sized it will be cramped but you will have room. You know to expect a climb.

“It will open to a large chamber. Quite suddenly and the ground is at least twenty feet below. This is the heart of the place - filled with poison. The worst of us will be there, the ones that can no longer bring themselves to leave the filth. We - they - throw bodies inside if they don’t drag them screaming inside.”

How big is this room? Vast. You could hold an army inside it. Pile up so many bodies. It is still one chamber however. He hasn’t really been a true Black Spiral Dancer for at least a month now. They breed demons. And just breed. Then apparently eat the babies? Well, fuck.

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>>1040992
Well, we came to this place to kill wolves and wolf like creatures. If this is actually a dog then she'll feel guilty about this, but better to be guilty and alive than betrayed and dead.

Not-Sarah takes the rocket launcher slung around her torso and shoots a silver stuffed frag grenade at the big dog wolf.

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>>1040255
>Oh, does he think you're an experiment too?
With any luck.

>Just say you don't know. Just a name.
"I don't know. It's just a name."

>Are you throwing the books on the floor?! Please treat them with more respect. You shouldn't even need to take them off the shelf...
I do need to take them off the shelf because I need to see the whole thing to check for the scant few distinguishing features I've been told. While I might actually like to read one of these some time, I don't much feel like fiddling trying to get them back on this cluttered shelf, because I want to get out of here as quickly as possible. Speaking of which,

"Are you just going to stand there or are you going to actually help do the thing you came here to do?"
"I feel perfectly comfortable standing whilst talking to you."
"What? No, the book! Finding the book!"
"Oh! Yeah. Well, you looked like you were really into it. I didn't want to take away from that experience."
"Oh my god. Just help me look, alright?"

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>Ask what color the book is, and how big it is. Is there a title on the spine?
That might help narrow it down, at least. But I already know there's no title; he just said as much.
"What color and size is it?"
"Blue, decorated in rich brown and gold, and of approximately this same size."

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...Something tells me this is what he's looking for.

And whatever hazards to your mental health reading it may pose is not what you're looking for, so let Surrogate have the book full of fucked up shit.

>>1041122
Can you read it? Flip through it before handing it over.

We've waited too long to confront Moriko, so that's on the agenda. I'd say as a secondary you get the item made since it's time sensitive. Maybe you can talk to Hin while you are at it, since she will likely be involved.

For the upgrade, a slime lair. Alkaline has a lot going for her but she's still inexperienced and young. A room of her own will help with her independent streak, and give her a little more room to go. Having many slimes is one of the tactics that make them effective, and this should be more true with Alkaline's slimy mixed tactics.

My vote is Lizard Lair, Mana, and Way of the Hammerai. It's best to get this mana issue sorted ASAP so you have the energy and focus for the upcoming weeks.

Also to note, it's probably a good idea to keep the curse in place while you're having mana issues. If your body can get some amount of mana from eating, and the curse is prompting you to do that, then it's helping more than harming when your mana is this low.

First off, work on fixing your mana so you can operate at peak efficiency on all your other tasks. Renovate the Lizard Lair and work on curse breaking too if it’s not mana intensive. Otherwise, speak with your hammerai.
>>1041063
Eating too much will make you sleepy and fat, Deem. Snacking on cake is just empty calories.

>>1041069
Shhh, I'm trying to justify letting a pretty harmless curse stick around for a little bit. Where's the fun if we get rid of it ASAP?

Besides, we do genuinely have more important things to do than Deem's figure, various denizens and projects need attention and we only have so much time. It also is actually helping with the mana somewhat!

Lizard Lair, Mana, and Royal Jelly.

>>1041092
Curse? What curse? There is no curse! *wink* ;)

I summon an oasis

Big fat buttery weeding cake

The most exotic of butters

Summon a gigantic tanker ship.

How about a large supply of golden star balm to help your pain?

>>1040756
Greetings Rozaline. I take it your hunt is going well? For the time being I’ve been asked to smooth things over with you and Delilah. Understandably, I take it you will need many different things to happen before you are ready to even come near her without wanting to shove a spear through her.

*Considers burned corpse a possible meal for the parasite Queen later*
*Sinks through the floor back to the first floor*

*The presence leans close to the figure on the walkie talkie*

What is it,
That you desire?

Absurdity DeVoid 2022/08/16(Tue)17:05 No. 1041036 ID: cd5c4f
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCdGtih-CtM&ab_channel=KillerJunior777

>>1041036
Before I answer that, I’d like to know what you have heard happened first, and who from. Some people’s stories cannot be trusted…

rolled 5, 10, 4, 7, 5, 6, 5, 7, 8, 2, 1, 9, 1, 4, 10, 9, 4, 6, 3, 2 = 108

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>>1039307
Ribbons would be waiting for a call to action, doing their best to make their new companions feel welcome, perhaps seeing what the Family's opinion on the city and the two fighting Gods rumored to be in the city. could do SOME actual work. the destiny that was created and delivered to the Mother seemed to be satisfactory. Until someone comes and fetch them, using that Bond that the Dragon Blooded set up, so might as well try some things out with the willing sisters and Ker. for references for their little blue book, seeing how the rough draft sparks the passion and what descriptors and themes seem to resonate with those willing to listen.

rolled 9, 9, 2, 6, 3, 10, 2, 3, 3, 6, 1, 8, 1, 2, 6, 1, 3, 7, 10, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 10, 6, 6, 1, 1, 6, 9, 2, 7, 6, 3, 8, 10, 4, 8, 8, 4, 3, 5, 8, 2, 3, 10, 7, 8, 4, 8, 10, 9, 2, 3, 9, 4, 1, 10, 6 = 328

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>>1039307
Do any of those stirgefolk leaders seem like they might be anathema?

rolled 2, 1, 3, 5, 8, 5, 4, 10, 3, 4, 5, 9, 3, 10, 1, 1, 8, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 2, 4, 9, 5, 2, 3, 8, 8, 3, 1, 2, 4, 7, 6, 3, 8, 7, 4, 5, 4, 2, 6, 7, 7, 6, 6, 10, 2 = 243

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>>1039309
Well then, if he's going to play these shenanigans, it's time for a new course of shenanigans.

"Well then, as no records of any crimes can be found in this small village, and by crook of your seemingly impossibly long life and impossible parentage, by the power vested in me as an Emissary of the Realm, I am giving you the honored position of joining the entorage of mortals on the present Wyld Hunt. After all, someone with over a century of a record appearing as clean as yours, and who has never lost a fight in their life? Two things that I'm sure will be useful in subduing Anathema."

This was, of course, a white elephant gift, that could absolutely ruin him if he is away from the land for months on end, that he could hardly reject outright given the source of the 'offer'

>>1040079
rolled 3, 7, 1, 5, 2, 1, 4, 1, 1, 6, 3, 9, 4, 7, 10, 9, 9, 5, 10, 7 = 104
>how long has it been since you had ships come in? You've got a port, don'tya get people passing through to the sea sea or coming in the other way who places to stay?
Turns out customs here are just a bit different than what Marisa is used to- ship traffic was slower as of late, not terribly so though, but anyone who wants to stay in town usually sleeps on their ship, or takes hospitality from someone in town- the temple houses the sick or infirm, and the Satrap houses any dignitaries. Most sailors end up staying around the docks though. Marisa isn't even really renting out a room- it's the eaves of the roof, with some straw bedding and comforts placed out, for the drinking halls help to nap or sleep overnight in if need be.

>Marisa successfully identifies the spell Stormwind Rider
>maybe it'll be useful for moving something or a bunch of someones.
Likely what Buonaparte used to ride into town, given the descriptions from of them arriving in a miniature storm. If the cord still has a spell in it though, there's either another one bottling a spell somewhere Marisa hasn't found, or someone else cast the spell that let them ride into town. The latter would mean there is likely a sorcerer somewhere who traveled with them on the first night.

>Marisa's going to [...] track down the other dragons
>>1040519
Ribbons is in the blue-light district, has plenty of tim

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rolled 6, 9, 5, 4, 8, 8, 4, 9, 7, 7, 2, 3, 10, 1, 3, 2, 3, 6, 2, 9, 8, 10, 5, 8, 5, 4, 8, 2, 3, 8, 2, 6, 3, 4, 1, 7, 9, 8, 3, 1, 2, 8, 7, 1, 9, 6, 10, 5, 3, 2, 6, 2, 7, 9, 10, 10, 8, 9, 1, 1 = 329

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>>1040533
>Does it seem like...

>"House Morose" is an unfortunate name, being shared by a "partisan" house which was destroyed three hundred years ago for ties to anathema worship, occult dealings, and necromancy.
>Our family tree goes back roughly two hundred and eighty years when dispossessed wealthy elite from the realm were struck by disaster and left homeless. They learned to wander and trade with the wyld,
>Posu recognizes the timeline to know that Buonaparte may hail from descendants of House Morose who fled after the disaster. It's possible they were innocents who had no where to go after the destruction of their house- after all, not everyone was slaughtered. If they were cultists who escaped however, rogue demons, spirits, or other anathema may be part of her lineage.

Interviewing Stirgefolk you come to the consensus that the heads of the house posses some sorts of supernatural capabilities. What exactly the source of those powers are is unclear, but the Wyld, Malfeas, or the Underworld seem like the most likely candidates.

>>1040611
>I am giving you the honored position of joining the entorage of mortals on the present Wyld Hunt
Ilicium drops his cheerful demeanor, looking down at the floor.
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