Water's Sweet But Blood Is Thicker StrangeFrontier 2019/12/11(Wed)16:56 No. 951452 ID: 2cb137
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> How weird would it be to start walking out of a morgue, or whatever this place is.

It’s harder getting out than getting in, that’s for sure. I wasn’t expecting every door to have an arphid lock. That’s my own lack of imagination, really. There’s no need for safe evac when most everyone inside isn’t getting any deader. And maybe big media is right about all the body snatching going on.
Fortunately, the masks that the crew wear limit their peripheral vision. Just a matter of patience and timing.

Water's Sweet But Blood Is Thicker StrangeFrontier 2019/12/11(Wed)16:58 No. 951453 ID: 2cb137
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> The sinner was a woman of wealth and taste, but now they are only a woman of taste. The Reverend is here to meet a Sinner about a golden ticket - a forbidden device, the kind of technology that the powers that be insist does not, cannot, and should not exist.

There’s a lot on this green earth that people say shouldn’t exist. Who can judge the Creator above for what they choose to put in our hands? Maybe nothing existed before last Thursday and this is all one big joke. It would take some sort of theologian or minister to make decisions about that sort of thing, and heaven only knows where we could find one of those around here.
Now comes the tricky part: finding a sinner who pines for something that no one should have.

1. Get money first. Money makes everything easier.
2. Everything sinks to the bottom. Ask questions in low places.
3. A pilgrimage begins with a single step. The more you dally, the closer your enemies become.
4. Or something else... ?

>>951453
I guess we didn't get to specify the location.
1.

1. Get money first. Money makes everything easier.

2. Get info. Information is power

>>951166
I...

Dread King Malcor 2019/12/10(Tue)18:00 No. 951418 ID: 5245b2
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I was. Once.

>>951418
Tell us your story.

>>951420
No. I will not relive those days.

>>951423
Taking a shot in the dark here, but my guess is that you came out here because you are trying to escape from that darkness...

that about right?

>>951316
This

>>951344
>>951364
I like this two, maybe, Droog a little more.

>>951315
+1 this

>>951344
This one.

>>951329
+Herm

>>951315
>>951326
These get my vote for species and name

>>951227
>>951231
>>951274

>>/questdis/131569

Do as much as you can and try to be gentle.

>>951194
Fix the eyes, leave the legs for later.

It occurs to me that if Emils gives her two separate treatments, she can copy two skills. Then we won't have to argue about Ice vs Sentry, just get both.

>>951447
This is an excellent idea!

Nah. Let's collect the bleeders first I guess.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Keep going

Suggestion 2019/12/11(Wed)07:11 No. 951437 ID: d91ef0
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You instead walk back to the road, you follow the blood trail It goes all the way up to a old wooden shack.

It's pitch black inside, next to it is a boat shed with broken debris and wooden rowboats from where you can see.

What would you like to do.

Is there any way to get some light? Don't suppose we brought a lighter or anything like that, huh?

>>951437
Grab an oar or comparable piece of wooden debris as a weapon. Very quietly call out, ask if the two girls are in there.

DescriptionThe Moskstraumen or Moskenstraumen is a system of tidal eddies and whirlpools, one of the strongest in the world, that forms at the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway between the Norwegian Sea and the Vestfjorden. that’s what the Moskstraumen in real life is for point of reference and the word Moskstraumen translates to Maelstrom

anything besides Moskstraumen in your maze?

Daedalus thinks for a minute
There should be...
And I don’t sense anything other than the occasional flicker and sometimes fragments... but there is no complete creature inside my maze other than Moskstraumen...

Daedalus, is Moskstraumen perhaps split into multiple parts? I know of at least three things that should be in the maze. I know them as Gate Keeper, Logical, and Artificer. They seem to not know how or why they are in this maze.

No no Moskstraumen is a single creature
Beings split into multiple parts
Well fragments of people sometimes pop into the maze
Wait what is it doing no no No NO
It’s breaking the walls it shouldn’t be able to do that unless
The bond has been made the contracts complete its drawing power from them!

No point in starting any projects, since they'll get halted when shardfall happens.

Let's ask Ssolaku for some reforms. The status quo is going to change so we must change as well.

Let's meet some family members as well.

Baron 2019/12/11(Wed)00:50 No. 951430 ID: 482fee
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>Anytime you come to Ssoolaku asking for progress, he will present three potential options he has drafted that may improve family and holdings. You decide which to enact. There is an inertia cost to enact it, and it will be in effect across all family holdings by next turn:

Ssoolaku comes to you, papers in hand. “I and the sssscribessss have deliberated how besssst to ssssever our relationssss to the royal family. We feel these optionsssss are besssssst.”

1) Dismantle Royal Infrastructure: There has been a tariff on all trade in Taruvik lands for generations that went to supporting the king’s guard. As the king no longer guards us, we shall take that tariff for ourselves. (All money generating improvements increase gains by 10)

2) Defense Force: With no king’s guard to patrol the roads for vermin folk, and no royal force controlling family raids, it is only sensible that we raise additional forces to defend ourselves (+1 standing armies)

3) Applied Workhouses: It was by decree of the Deinoka that all work shall cease by the setting of the sun. Such niceties cannot be allowed when everyone is a potential enemy. By altering the schedules and pay of working families, freemen and slaves can have day and night shifts to ensure workshops and smithing houses are always productive. (All Industrial Improvements have additional work output of 5 per civilian and slave multipliers increase)


Welp my computer stopped working over the weekend. Turns out it was a motherboard issue. Swapped that out, now I'm back. Feels like I have a new problem every week...

> Dismantle Royal Infrastructure
Not yet. Keeping up appearances as submissive subjects will draw less aggro from our local subjects. Once our numbers dip into the red we can draw from our taxes with justified desperation, but for now, a few extra coins to whoever is hogging the gold means they'll spend money to preserve our tribute state.
> Defense Force
Not until after Shardfall. Conscripting people specifically to guard them during the ass-end of winter is liable to piss them off. We're better off fortifying our defenses with sturdy walls and bunkers than paying extra to make under-prepared scouts stare in the distance and get pneumonia.
> Applied Workhouses
Yes, great idea! Workshops shouldn't be emptied out and left alone for 66% of the day! That just makes them prime targets for gang hideouts! We can free up some land and materials and give jobs to everyone in our district at once!

2) Defensive force
Seems the most sensible to me. A protected people is a happy people. Plus, the prevention of raids will keep any resources we gain in our hands.

>>951432
The main thing we have to watch out for with Applied Workhouses is to keep the freemen from being worked like machines. While it'll boost our productivity for a bit. Men are not machines and will eventually break before the workhouses do.

>>951442
I think the idea is not to make people work more, but to make more people work in the same space.

Of course, that reasoning is only useful if we currently have either idle people (or people working jobs in which they're in surplus), or space problems (highly probable in a walled city).

>>951375

So like, what else does Balzan do? Mostly since it's pretty obvious by now that dancing and being the center of attention aren't really our thing.

... actually, we should ask Roz for an overview of all the dars, since we've kind of forgotten to do that.

Think about the words Roz said
>big thing
and let them echo in your head.

And make grabbing motions with your hand.

"Are sigarzghars allowed at the fair?"
"Will there be any males there?"

Also, in how many days will the fair be?

So what music do you like to dance to, or planning to? Or is that a spoiler?

>>951373
Oh no! I want to play with his ass cheeks like they were bongos! What to do?!?

Ask how dating and romance works in this society. Is it hard to get laid, requiring several successful dates before it reaches that point? Do people fall in love and have exclusive relationships? What's marriage like?

Try to ease up a little, Penny. You came to relax and to get information; it's a mite bit too early to start looking for friends with benefits. At the very least you should want to do a bit of a background check on your potential paramours!

Besides, getting a boy or girl-friend here would tie you down a bit, wouldn't it?

>Only time of the year outsiders come here.
Hm. That has implications. Namely: artists need an audience. Does Dar Balzan operate off-shelf? If so, it may end being a better pick for us than we thought if we can get a role in a production elsewhere.

Ask Roz what Dar Balzan does the rest of the year. Do they only entertain on Red Shelf, or do they get sent off to theatres, operas, dance exhibitioons or whatnot off-shelf? How does an artist Dar make its living?

>The festival
What's the festival about? Just an excuse to show off how well the system is running and generally be merry, or is there something more to it?

>Other Dars
Her opinions on 'em, straight up, no filter, just lay it out.

Get as much distance as you can from the beast and the sniper.

Alright maybe you should turn around and make camp somewhere that doesn't have ichor beasts.

If it could eat you, it would already have done so.

If a sniper shot it, we would've heard the shot and the impact. There was neither of that.

My guess is that this one is sick. How do we heal a sick ichor beast?

>>951141
Unless we were at a long distance, and it almost seems like it could have come from behind us maybe the Angler's work? I'm not sure on the range of a jezail but maybe he's particularly good.

Either way, we fed it seafood so I would like to get some return on our investment. If it's dead, I'd leave, but if it's still breathing maybe give it something else? Otherwise I would leave a wide birth around it and continue on.

perhaps its been pacified by something in your memory of the ocean monument?

A prison cell? Check out the thing in the middle in more detail

Oh. Great. The ink monster went through that door. Is that bright red in the cracks your blood?
The basin might make for a decent bludgeoning weapon, assuming it's no longer connected to the ink monster.

>>951390
This.

>>951377

We sure hecked the place up, didn't we.

Well, provided that all of this was just one big hallucination or something, I guess ... we should see what's up with that door.

Get some light in the room.

>>951067
If you can’t convince Tunu to give up, then you can propose a toast to you two traveling together and slip some of that sleeping potion in her drink. Then when she wakes up, Ema can convince her that Tana had run off and left her behind.

>>951071
>...Karn isn't with her
We actually don’t know that for sure.

Ema said that Karn was waiting for Oran in his shop, but we don’t know if Karn was waiting alone. Alisa could be with Karn in Oran’s shop and they decided to have some fun while waiting for Oran to arrive.

>she hooked up with Danus. Nice.
I mean, Danus did tell us he wasn’t really attracted to Alisa’s body type, so I have my doubts that he would’ve changed his mind.

But if it is Danus, then yeah, glad those two got together. Not sure if they’ll stay together, but glad they could at least have a fun night together.

>>951123
This is important.

Suggestion 2019/12/10(Tue)13:12 No. 951405 ID: 1301e8
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>I guess vampires can see through walls (sense life?).
Vampire is well known to have all kind of bullshit powers, so being able to sense blood or something wouldn’t be too farfetched. You really need to read up on what they can do if you want to hunt down and eat them later.
>Wonder whose it is that Alisa is with. Could be either really good or really bad. ...Karn isn't with her, so unless it's someone we don't know, she hooked up with Danus. Nice.
Nice? That’s not nice at all! Danus is your hubby and no one else’s! ...but as long as she isn’t trying to keep him to herself… *grumble*…
>Ema said that Karn was waiting for Oran in his shop, but we don’t know if Karn was waiting alone. Alisa could be with Karn in Oran’s shop and they decided to have some fun while waiting for Oran to arrive.
Considering how they acted when you left them together, you don’t think they would be in any mood for… “fun”.

>If she asks for one last fuck uhhh I don't know what's in character for Tana, act natural.
You d- Tana don’t have time for a last fuck. She needs to run away right now after all.
>Before you end it all.
You’re not some… Tana is not some wimp that would take the coward’s way out. You’d rather go down fighting; sticking a dagger in whomever it was that was coming for you.
>You killed a kid.
She already knows about that… though she thinks it was more of an accident that it really was…
>Can you speak telepathically like a Serpens?
You are a Serpents. Why wouldn’t you be able to talk like a Serpents?

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>>951405
Tell her yes, you planned this out. Someone's helping you get out of the city, so you don't have to worry about supplies or the any dangers on the way, but you won't tell her any more than that. Now you have to go, you're not even supposed to be talking to her!
Just fucking splash her with the damn sleeping potion if she won't let you go. Serpens drink with their bodies so it'll kick in pretty quick.

Fuck that "talking your way out" shit, you were not born with a silver tongue, you were born with big muscles! Make her drink the sleeping potion, by force if you have to. Take her to Oran's place and be done with this.

I think A, B, and C are the best choices.

Yes, all of them.

B, c!

B

>>951352
B , a

Eating is important and you wanted to talk to your mother for adventuring tips. Why not combine these options and go somewhere with Tyrsis and your Mom to get something to eat?

Alternatively, if you don't bring your Mom, you and Tyrsis will be able to have a date somewhere together.

>>951352
C, a.

>>950627
I recommend the Brewery. There's some loss of potential compared to the Heart Chamber upgrade, but permanent potion effects is a steal when we even have Belphejar, who literally is made of potions, and have a great deal of experience in potion shenanigans.

>>951128
Keep in mind that Belphejar's potions have side effects, which we may want to be more cautious about if they're going to be permanent. Also, we don't know what 'reprocessing' the potion involves, there might be some sort of bottleneck. I do think there probably will be synergy there, but we don't really know how much yet.

>>950627
Should tell our denizens at some point that our dungeon is going to be plant/growth themed? I know we don't bother to keep them in the loop on a lot of stuff, but it sounds like this is going to be a pretty major feature of our dungeon going forwards, and it's going to directly affect them and their development.

Verdant Heart. The metaphor for your own rebirth isn't complete until you're actively creating new life.

Realize that once you congeal, your fragment will never again fit within the confines of your heart. The piece of you that is now golem Deem will eventually grow into a new, separate dungeon.

Have a minor existential crisis.

>>951272
The easy majority of potions we've made period have had side effects. Additionally, most of of the potions we make we wouldnt really need to be permanent, like stone skin, or growth, or satiation.
Compare that to what we'd get from Curio bud, which creates items, so the effect might as well be permanent as long as someones wearing/using them, but they can still take them off if necessary, we can use them for treasure, Or sell them for more gold, which Deem loves, And it will give Hin a steady source of work that doesnt involve fighting. Less side effects involved too.
So If im going to choose a denizen buffing option, it'd be curio bud rather then the brewery.

Kind of a reverse Mr. Bubbles sorta thing going on here.

>>950831
"wow, you have really nice teeth."

don't realize how weird that is to say until exactly three seconds after you've said it

>>951156 Oh yeah! The Red Riding Hood approach is golden! + alloftheones!
This lady is very intimidating in appearance, but we know nothing of their personality other than being used as a seat. She probably either has a strong sense of hierarchy, in which case you're doomed, is highly submissive, so just asking should be enough, or is heavily conditioned, in which case you could try to figure out what stimuli signal her masters and duplicate it, and you will want to know if they are brainwashing people too, or growing giant slaves somewhere...

So ask her to be polite, and watch for any arbitrary responses.

Any way to get a message out to any of your superiors before you get... whatever she's planning to do?

Also uh, this doesn't seem like the kind of environment conducive to being a Scout? Normally you don't want adults going around like walking HR violations.

>>951156
oh my god do this lmao

Gotta sweep left.

Tindo 2019/12/09(Mon)18:12 No. 951345 ID: cbeaea
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>>950963
>>950964
You super liked: Yodling, you have no super likes left for today

Tindo 2019/12/09(Mon)18:13 No. 951346 ID: cbeaea
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Still no matches huh?

Check the internet for a discussion board, see if there are instructions for tweaking the search parameters.

Horrible taste in music, and a prodigious ass.

Par for the course, might as well match.

>>950882
That choice must be yours to make Ana. What both of us want is for you to be confident enough to make that decision. If you do take Anthonys offer I can say that Godfrey is a good man, he was my master and who trained me.

>>950889
Hmm. Fortune, wasn't Scarlet the name of one of Essence's cronies?

(inner thoughts: I wonder if Wicker Kid is actually Jerry... his eye bulged when I brought the question up implying it was personal. and he neither confirmed or denied he was one of the people at the party)

I think this choice between us is one impasse we cannot come to agreement with, no matter how much we argue to convince the other.

Ana, you said you don't know what choice is a better outcome at this point. You know, a lot of people say that us voices are bad influences that shouldn't be listened to. But if you are left with two decisions without a third choice, and one voice wants one choice, and other voice wants the other choice, then what decision can you make without following our "bad" influences? With that in mind, Ana, I guess we can conclude that there is no such thing as "better" choices, and that there was never any good choices in previous decisions we have come across in the first place. every single decision is a damned if you do, damned if you don't decision, each being equal in how bad they are, not one choice being better than the other in any way. every decision is a "pick your poison" decision, and not choosing will only have the poison force fed to you.

What I'm trying to say, Ana, is that there is no "better outcome" here. they're all equal in how terrible these choices are. And I guess if us voices are a bad influence like everyone says, then you need to make a choice here on your own. It'll have to be a choice you yourself have to make without our influence.

That said, I have nothing left to argue. I've given my suggestion and reasoning of wanting Ana to leave and why. I still want you to leave. Leaving is something that needs to happen for multiple reasons, not just because I want Ana to escape for her safety. There is nothing more for me to say...

...Follow your heart, Ana. I want you to escape with t

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Absurdity DeVoid 2019/12/09(Mon)08:53 No. 951289 ID: f7ff14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id2EeW5a2l8

>>951289
Because I said, no.

>>951289
Yeah I know them, but I also know they can't see inside of my head like Scarlet can, so again, you're lying.

But here's something else, everything you say is bullshit! Ana, the answer really is, despite anything he says, is because he said so! I've heard enough to see past this game, Dervan!

Ana, I won't stop you if what you want to do is escape this world, and I don't blame you for wanting to either. But don't escape it with him. If you want out, leave with someone who respects you as much as you can respect them. Dervan, is worthy of no respect from you.

The truth of the matter is Dervan won't take you because there was no winning to this to begin with! From the sound of things the only thing he wanted was to create chaos and pit your voices against each other. My guess is they fell for it, hook, line, and sinker. This whole situation was meant so that no matter what, he wins. If you leave then he's done his job. If you don't leave your voices start arguing with each other and he wins more. What he said also isn't true, based on everything he's done, the loudest can win, but they can also throw the biggest tantrum when they lose. The one who really wins is the one who set the rules to begin with! He could just have easily decided said the rule was majority vote, that way he would have taken you anyway, but because your voices couldn't agree he gave you an unwinnable condition! He's the one who set the rules, he was the final choice to take you or not. There was no way to win at this! My guess is the only thing he wanted was chaos and to tear you and your bond apart, if he's working for Lorence, then of course he would want you doubting them!

I've seen that world Ana, I'

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pull forward to keep it in the door no more, kill it in the door to keep it wedged open so we can get out afterward.

Use whatever means necessary to bust out his elbows. Gun or TK. Once his elbows go, he won't have any support to hold the doors open and it should slowly start to crush him.

The beast is preoccupied keeping the doors from french kissing its face! Everyone get in close and aim for the heads! TK on the breach doors.

Is this ded?

>>951298

Nope, just sleeping. Currently working on updates. Stay tuned!

>Apprentice: My name? It is…
>Change name?
Yes, that's right, your name is "Change name?".

1/2 Claudio 2019/12/02(Mon)10:16 No. 950730 ID: 4fd362
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Edwin: I’m Edwin, Edwin Redvane.

Elder’s son: Nice to meet you. Follow me, the wolves’ den is deep within the forest. They seem to only leave their lair at night, so we’ll most likely find them there.

He starts guiding me through the forest. There is no talk and it’s very uneventful. We follow a small path, barely noticeable until we reach a slope and we start climbing up. I have some problems trying to keep up with him, but he waits until I get to him.

2/2 Claudio 2019/12/02(Mon)10:18 No. 950731 ID: 4fd362
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Eventually we reach a small clearing in the forest. There is what appears to be a small cave in the center, and I see four wolves around it.

Elder’s son: The alpha must be hiding inside, and it seems like they don’t know we are here yet. Alright, how do you want to do this?

A fireball should be enough to take out one of the wolves, but afterwards, the rest of them will find out where we are. It’s possible they will charge towards us. I will need to be prepared for when that happens.

Alright, fireball and an arrow will take out two. Then when the remaining two charge (if they don't run) you can slam one with land strike. Both if possible. The last one can be taken out by axe and possibly water whip.

Can you get a fire wisp out without alerting the wolves? It'd also help thin their numbers.

>>950733
This seems like a good plan

Silence 2019/11/26(Tue)12:33 No. 950429 ID: ed041d
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>>949788
You have decided to call these things Motorcycles when you make more.

>>949847
Badlands Ratler works.

With nothing else to cover for the day, you turn in for the night, Will standing watch.

Silence 2019/11/26(Tue)12:34 No. 950430 ID: ed041d
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New day ahead, you step outside, ready to get dealing with the list of problems you have that somehow just keeps growing.

What's step one for today then?

*Fence check, sting up some barbed wire around the perimeter.
*Tend to any animals or crops that need minding
*Begin construction on a bow for William, and enough arrows to practice with
*Don't overwork yourself, no telling when things might go south.

Silence 2019/12/09(Mon)12:36 No. 951300 ID: ed041d
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Short update since I've hit a relative creative block

You check the fence, no damage to it, the bandits that caused this entire event never touched your fence, thankfully. You have no wire to make a barbed fence, so that will have to wait.

You check your crops, you grow corn out here and distill it to make fuel for yourself, and for your new Ratler. You ponder if there is anything else you can do with the corn and what it is distilled into.

Could make some firebombs. Ethanol isn't that great for it, but it'll work.

AC; Awkward kiss

B

>>935130
Let's Bang the Bee

"We'll Bee, Okay?"

"We'll Bee, Okay?"