To the north is the Slant Milieu, where gravity itself bears the scars of an ancient war, and winds blow so fiercely the locals go about on hands and knees, building no structures more than a meter tall. Trees hug the ground like rivers, while watercourses often abandon their beds to stretch upward, waving like glassy flags on knotted looping arcs before touching down again. The apex predator around those parts is supposedly a type of moth.

To the west, through Cerdyn's Pass, is the allied trade-town of Hallux, and beyond it the great nations of the Steadfast. Aid may surely be found there, but not cheaply, and rumor has it they face their own problems of late. Previous thread: https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1034928.html

To the south, Curtaris, a peaceful and prosperous city-state from which few have ever escaped alive. Further south and east, primeval vastness of the Ba-Adenu Forest continues for hundreds of miles, out to the edge of the known world, beyond which some say the clouds become stone, while turbulence like a second sky gapes open below.

Northeast, the Plains of Kataru, home to huge grass-eating beasts, nomadic tribes, and trade caravans. Mythic birthplace of Jack the First, and countless lesser heroes. Most likely the direction in which your kith and kin will end up fleeing if worse comes to worst.

tell him how good he feels and how thick he is and how deep he's going, it'll drive him nuts

Hold him tight with everything you have; he's wonderful

Wait
Did you forget the condom?

>>1064676

She might have an implant, at her age. That'd make sense.

Yeah, take it! Seriously though, that's pretty much all you can do unless you change positions.

Oh, and FIND THAT SPACESHIP!

>>1064645
Oh no, the psychic neumono is trying to get at your thoughts and feelings directly!
Don't panic. It seems to both have a sound motif and huge ears, inform them of your resort's privacy policy by yelling over it over the speakers with max volume. That should break their concentration.

> fire is bullshit
see this is why I suggested that adaptive regen thing, but that's besides the point now. is the vending machine goop also flammable or could you maybe coat a few minions in slime to buy them some time against firemech?

As for some new trick, they're only thinking of the knotvines as a trap in/around valuables, but we know they are able to help the vertically challenged. Have them and some carried bedheads hang from the ceiling in one of the taller rooms. Nobody ever looks up, and that walker doesn't seem to have a canopy.

clones.

THat means you need to capture them if you want to take their ship.

So get to eating only limbs.

If they hate closed spaces with knotvines, force them into closed spaces with knotvines so they have no choice.

(Will say, I'm curious if this is just an alternate timeline situation or actual continuation of the Bloom Quest because oh god I just want things to be better for Alice)

Can bedheads be detected psionically? Could you rig up a psychic-jammer with them by treating them as radios in a radio-jammer, except psychic instead?
how certain are we that Alice would wake up again if she went to sleep? I am pretty sure that the bioweapon will still be active even with nobody at the helm, so it probably isn't doing as much as a human body would to keep Alice's mind active.

kpwlt 2023/05/19(Fri)20:50 No. 1064173 ID: 127310
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You look across. The wall you're standing on is vast. It could take an entire day of just walking to get all the way around it.

Probably will be the same regardless of where you are. Might as well head down to go up right here

Well that's not a good sign. Presumably this guy knows how to avoid being turned into one of those dead bodies, otherwise he wouldn't be here.

"How do we avoid becoming two cadaverous dudes?"

Would a body part make a good gift? Probably not...

Oh you could ask your new buddy and pal if he wants to try searching for a way around while you get some L U M B E R from the nearby forest, mayhaps a long log of sorts to use to help climb the second wall whilst one of you braces it?

It is perfectly clear people do not want us sneaking in. Maybe the first wall was easy to climb to lure sneakers into a false of security and get killed?

Ask this man if he has any ideas on how to cross undetected, or if not, whether he has a two-people plan to convince the gatekeepers to let you enter.

Sam 2023/05/26(Fri)16:54 No. 1064619 ID: a7a180
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Well, that took us nearly an hour, but we did it: one giant paper airplane! I'm no aerospace engineer, but I think I did pretty good with it. it's exciting that I’ll actually get to ride in one of these but also sort of terrifying. Hopefully this design will catch a lot of air to make up for the lack of a throwing arm.

Design a paper airplane for Sam & co to ride. They’ve got access to tape and cutting tools to reshape the paper, plus you can add decoration if desired.

Well regardless of other details, add a paperclip rollcage.

Any access to Balsa Wood? Rubber Bands? Any of the other materials to make this more badass?

>>1064624
That's the plan! We're going to throw it on top for the real deal.
>>1064653
If it can be found in a high level classroom, it can probably be justified!

>>1064654

Something like one of these?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Sig_01_450.jpg

https://kelvin.com/KELVIN%C2%AE-Rubber-Band-Plane-Kit_p_1508.html

https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Two-Minute-Airplane/77DFF1701C0E467C

Any of these types would work, but make sure that the group has some harness they can hook onto the leading wings! And the thing has flaps they can manipulate!

Alternatively, rather than a rollcage, you could have an actual cabin, like this:

https://volareproducts.com/blog/?product=sky-box-indoor-embryo-laser-cut-short-kit

Though that said... you might not want a cabin hanging below it! You could have it have an enclosed fuselage, like this:

https://jhaerospace.com/product/babyshark-manhattan-cabin-short-kit/

And stretch tissue paper or plastic wrap around a balsa frame, include some more sturdy reinforcements where you expect it to impact.

Train the long-legged kabots to race.

Posit one. Don't have a high enough population for hot kabot sex to be more useful than induced mutation and cloning.
Posit two. You are a horny teenager.
Conclusion: hurr hurr

>>1064628
Maybe we should put off more intelligence boosts for now.

Mutate and clone BCE1 to have strong legs as well as tongue. Maybe when there are two they'll figure out sign language.

tippler 2023/05/26(Fri)20:37 No. 1064639 ID: 9ea24b
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I can see the letter system for mutations is getting confusing, so everything is now summarized in the new wiki page here: https://questden.org/wiki/Kabot_Quest

Note that all of the B Kabots have the strong leg gene already.

>>1064629 This. Perhaps also place food near a faux-cake, give the food to the first to bite the prop.

Everyone fall back! Get back up the stairs, fight there!

The rogue needs to disappear! Joanir, chaaarge!

Baron 2023/05/27(Sat)00:54 No. 1064656 ID: 7a1a17
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Unfortunately you can't leave. The ruckus you make however will no doubt get everyone else's attention so...maybe they'll arrive before you're in real danger?

Oh who are you kidding, if you don't move you're gonna die! Viyasda has the right idea and drops a smoke bomb! Your party disappears into the murk!

Baron 2023/05/27(Sat)00:54 No. 1064657 ID: 7a1a17
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The smokescreen provides cover to escape the wild swings of the lead huntress. Her entourage enter the light as they attempt to spot you in amdist the smoke, revealing themselves!

>You face 3 Gormoamhi Huntresses
Health - 5
Action points - 3
Combat - 5
Tactical - 8
Esoteric - 2

>Actions?

Balboran and Jiang Qi: Throw rocks and run away. Lure the enemy party out of formation, use the smoke as cover, and remember to dart randomly.
Joanir: If the rocks manage to deal damage, execute a single foe.
Viyasda: And all this chaos gives you enough time to stab one and slink back into the shadows.

C: Ground Erupting Tunnel Crab!

C. A giant sand whale emerges from the sand with a geyser for a spout. It swims in the sand but is slow to attack, but makes up for its high defense and hp... and its special move

Move: Kaiju forms a rainy mist from it's geyser spout in the area (probably 50-100 feet radius) which lasts for several updates, causing objects and fabric to slowly melt away. When fighting in this mist, clothing slowly gets destroyed each update until player is completely naked.

It'd be a race against the clock to defeat the kaiju! And with high defense it has, that will be the challenge.

>>1064621
C. One Giant Enemy Crab, along with around a dozen Larger Than Usual Neutral Crabs, and one Short Passive-Aggressive Crabkin named Matthew.

B. tiny Enemy Crab!

…Okay okay I’ll provide one of my own…Okay.
A jellyfish, about the size of one of those hippo monsters from before, but this one, among other things has the power of levitation, and tentacles that sting with the trademark acid of the Kaiju.

>>1064621
C. A land shark that swims through the ground!

Note: the land shark's gills are only good for breathing while it's in the dirt and is not meant for breathing in the water! It will start drowning in the water, even though it can still swim pretty good while in the water.

>>1064592
Yes. How are we going to get Stetson on board with that though? It's something that we can maybe approach AFTER Gengar does her thing. Stetson does seem to have enough of an unhinged drive that he might be convinced to do it just out of the sheer glory of it, but... can't be sure yet.

>>1064567
B. Do the battling, get it outta the way, then come victory dance!
Seriously, if and when he beats the Elite Four, has Stetson consideres what he would do afterwards? Continue training, battling, camping, traveling? Go back home? Get a job? Aspire to become a gym leader? Pokemon Ranger? Breeder? Rancher? Other things? I mean if he wants to be an accountant we could probably teach him *something.* I dunno, for all badass his father is he doesnt come off as someone who knowns how to file taxes.

I forgot where i was going with this. Eh, maybe offer to teach his pokemon how to write so he can communicate with them better.

tippler 2023/05/26(Fri)19:16 No. 1064630 ID: 9ea24b
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>What will Stetson do after his Pokemon adventure?
Ugh, I’ll have to go back to school after summer break ends. I’ll keep all my Pokemon but I’ll spend most of my time in class.

>What does he want to do with his life?
I dunno, when I was young I wanted to be a firefighter, but that’s just baby stuff.

>B, keep that kid on track
You don’t like the uncertainty of changing course so drastically. Stetson should still be able to complete his wish even if he didn’t finish the Elite Four, but this way you can distract Phoebe to help Gengar and also delay Stetson from fixating on the Legendaries.

You tell Stetson that you and his other Pokemon are super excited about getting stronger and hype him up enough that he’s enthusiastic about the Elite Four again.

There’s a cozy hotel near the entrance to Victory Road, and Stetson books a room there for the night. You drowse on the spare bed, crammed between Sceptile and Aggron.

What would you like tomorrow morning? Stetson wants to focus on training.
A. Finish going through Victory Road (guaranteed high value training, Stetson will run into his rival)

B. Train somewhere else in Hoenn (suggest where)

>>1064630
A, let's see what the rival is like.

A. Have a greeting prepared for them too.

Now that you have your stuff back (shake the pickpocket to make sure there isn't more he took), you can leave and never interact with these people again!

>>1064497
Probably was a disapointment to his own mother if not the fact all 3 are not dragons or that she could not change there ways "you ended up just like your father">>1064508 he is probably just doing it for attention and pleasure not to feel sad

It's true, that poor kid is clearly trying to get response out of his neglectful father.

I vote to band together and convince Cyrus to give his son a hug.
Yes,right here.
No, you can get a shower after.

The cycle must stop now. We have to be a positive role model to these children. Or, alternatively, use Lesser Gift to give the Lesser Gift of Good Parenting to a Summoned Goose and make it be a good role model and get those creeps as out of your hair and your tits as much as possible.

>>1064555
"Are you a little disapintment for Mommy" but sensually tits literally blocking the light along with a ass so wide and thighs so fat he is thrown into total darkness free to pick any of the 3
 "I can see down your shirt, hee hee hee!"
Funny thing is.... anyone can at any angle due to there sheer size not sure it can be called a shirt

Thumb your nose at him. While eating his donut.

Say the only thing of his you'd see to a finish is his DOUGHY NUTS.

Speaking of, score! Snag his leftover donut, wave it at him, snack it down and then go clean your dang wound (and sticky fingers) before you buy something more wholesome to devour. Maybe first see if you can bum a bandage off of the person behind the counter. Surely they got a first aid kit or something.

Then ponder maybe chatting with them for a bit to see if they've heard anything on the local grapevine about these bums or whatnot. Not like there's a lot of other customers at the moment.

Take is donut, and eat it right in front of him. Say "thanks for the snack"

"Well I'm finishing this donut!"

>>1064609
Yeah.

smooth.

Tell her the reason you need someone that can fight back is because you want to test how effective the arm is if you were to try and disarm someone. That and you want to see how hard it is for someone to escape a grab from and how strong it is so if she's willing maybe see if she'd be willing to arm wrestle it and than after winning or losing try to see how easily she can escape it's grip.

She's a girl of science... kind of, tell her you want to figure these things out for science!

>>1064471
Youre literally incapable of finishing the job and need us to step in, can you really say that youre good with girls?

>>1064471
Fuck man I got nothing, usually by the time you're whipping tentacles out you either get an enthusiastic yes or you get shot.

>I'M GOOD WITH GIRLS FUCK YOU.
You are good with "chicks", not with "woman".

"Do you need help with the 'processing'? I could give you a hand with that. Thanks to you a have a good one that would do the trick."

>machine spirit
Is she referring to AI or machines that have developed souls?
Actually, not important right now, I can see you’re preoccupied but make sure to find out for us later!

>>1064562
retrieve(standard superculture military PROVISIONS)
accept message(Sheri)
send message(Sheri): where did you come from? You weren't in this pocket before. Were you changing the time and using the Fretrieve command?

Well, security blew up the Overseer. 3% corruption in our sector. Retrieval errors, link errors, scene asset server missing. 96% corruption in sector 1 south, probably nothing left but a gaping hole there. sector 2 north has 2% corruption even though their security hasn't gone batty. Three completely unresponsive sectors two to the north and one to the south. So you could say we've been better, but our memory has also been completely wiped, so as far as we know, this is the best day ever!

How about you, Sheri?

Fretrieve(superculture standard mil provisions)

>>1064577
We are not supposed to use Fretrieve! The long string of alphanumeric characters afterwards might be needed for it to be safe. Or maybe that was the fingerprint of whoever used it?

>>1064578

I tried using retrieve, there wasn't even a response! The jolly campfire fun is getting ruined because we deleted the provisions! This is an emergency!

Reluctant to try the alphanumeric characters afterwards; they might be some sort of buffer overrun exploit.

...wait how come scanning Sheri didn't give any information?
scan(Sheri)

3) Freak out because registered superheroes cannot be Luchadores under recently legislated federal laws.

3.

Nah, light on some candles and keep playing. It's all good. Mistakes were made but life goes on.

Do what any true gamer would do. Attack the darkness!

3. Your new wizard powers will come in handy for defeating Tsuki

>>1063066
The old woman has one of the missing keys. My bet is the S. House. I guess it's *possible* she's staying in the crypt though... We need to investigate both locations eventually to see which one she's in, so that we can break/pick the lock to the one she's NOT in.
...ugh, the keys are all the same, aside from their teeth. We need to label them so they don't get mixed up! Do you have some markers somewhere? Or colored tape?

>>1063067
>will not allow him to do to Edward what he wanted to do to Björn
"He" being the thing that possesses people, I gather. Sounds like an alternate personality takes over the heirs. Literally a possession. Which means, yeah, it's one at a time, and Chris is probably fine for now, aside from the ambient corruption in the area, which you felt in your very head.

Sounds like Edward planned to kill himself to prevent a full possession? Then Björn got possessed because Edward didn't even know about him due to his alternate personality, I bet. It's very likely Björn killed the rest of his family, though... it's also possible Edward didn't kill himself in time and instead the demon did it during his death throes.

>names
Hmm. Might have to do with the names of the male heirs? If we can find a list of the heirs, then arrange the bottles on the left side of the rack matching the first letter of each name, and in order, that might work?
Might have to get into the crypt to collect the names, and also take into account Björn is the current hei

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Evil space ghost got someone pregnant and is using that connection to try to reach and presumably destroy the world. It's not a "what happened" so much as a what to do about it. For sure, getting the amulet to Chris is top priority. That is... assuming something isn't terribly wrong, and _you_ are somehow the descendent who is prey to the red star, not Chris.

Seems Edward was onto something, a different option other than sacrificing the red one's kin to keep him from returning, but he couldn't figure out certain things, and ran out of time and sanity.

There is apparently already some sort of supernatural influence over everyone, not just the prey, if they were influenced into thinking Edward committed heinous crimes. The amulet might protect against that, letting its bearer find things, where everyone else's perceptions were twisted to lead them to a blank wall instead.

Why did Edward give up his amulet to the gay fish dude? Something seriously wrong with that. Even if the red star is pure hogwash, and Edward simply an ordinary madman, he needed the amulet so desperately he would never have just... given it away. Why did the gay fish dude give it back? Guilt? Hm...

The wine bottles are clearly involved with Edward's "secret entrance in the cellar" but for the life of me, I can't figure out how they'd be used to open it. They can't be rearranged into a different order, they're built into in each slot. Do some of them sink in when pressed, like some sort of switch? No clue what the "pestilential procession of names" may be.

Kaktus 2023/05/24(Wed)13:08 No. 1064478 ID: 681cb5
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>The old woman has one of the missing keys. My bet is the S. House. I guess it's *possible* she's staying in the crypt though...
That’s where you’ve seen one of these keys before! That old crow had one! Of course! But which key it is you have no idea… if only you knew what they meant with M.River S.House. Either way, you need to find her tomorrow and get it back.

>The wine bottles are clearly involved with Edward's "secret entrance in the cellar" but for the life of me, I can't figure out how they'd be used to open it.
You try to push them, pull them and even twist them but no matter what you do they refuse to budge. These bottles seem to be built into the shelf itself! Then there’s thing Edward wrote down, the “pestilential procession of names"… what does that even mean? Maybe it’s the names of the male heirs? It’s possible… though you probably need to get into the crypt if you want to find all the heirs names.
>Also take into account Björn is the current heir.
This thing was clearly built sometime in the late 1800s, long before Björn was born. His name will probably not be part of this puzzle.

Leaving the basement enigma for later, you return to the serene light of the kitchen, where your cute little hubby is waiting for you with newly cooked dinner. As the two of you eat you get lost in thought, barely following the small talk Chris is partaking in.

>"He" being the thing that possesses people, I gather. Sounds like an alternate personality takes over the heirs. Literally a possession.
There’s definitely something that is driving the Kråkholme’s mad, but what exactly is it? Is it just a disease of the mind that plagues the family… or is there something far more sinister behind this? Is

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> what is this about sacrifices?
> He was found in the wine cellar, smashing bottle while holding the axe that killed his family, covered in their blood ranting about how he set them free from the blood or some such.

That is what's about sacrifices. Edward sacrificed his family, thinking he was saving them from the red star. Or was framed for doing so. You weren't thinking about any sacrifice other than simply that. Perhaps the witch burning. That did hurt an awful lot...

> the Kråkholme family line returned, with Dragomir as the new heir

It's reasonable to assume that Dragomir was, or was descended from the rabbit depicted in the painting being spared from the witch burning. No telling whether the painting was accurate or dramatized though, or perhaps even altered to add the fleeing matron and child.

>>It's very likely Björn killed the rest of his family, though.
> Is it?

On the contrary, Björn has shown no inclination towards violence so far. Your brief possible experience with him was... rambunctious at best. And his one remaining eye as blue as the sky matched with the photograph of him as a child. It was in no way rimmed in red like the mad eyes you've seen before. Whatever drug, or... effect is turning people toward irrational violence, he is probably not yet touched by it.

Oh right, concrete plans. Yes. Do recall the old map of the house that had the phrase "Where is the dome?!!" inscribed on it. You've been in the attic, and the observatory dome is clearly on top of the house. Can you see the peaked attic roof from outside the house, and where the dome is in relation to that? Might give you some idea where the entrance to the dome might be. If the blueprints did not have the observatory in them, it may have been constructed after the building was finished. An outside entrance, perhaps?

1/2 Cross 2023/05/25(Thu)19:31 No. 1064560 ID: 58e9c7
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“Davey, is there a toolbox around? The valve’s broken off, but a wrench should get it handled properly.”
You watch as his little legs slosh through the water, his head swivelling back and forth as he searches for the toolbox. He leans over, grunting as he strains to pull the box out, lifting it above the water and placing it to the side, near the pipe.
As he opens the lid, water gushes out and Davey gives it a gentle push, draining the container before grabbing a soggy wrench.

He’s holding the damn thing with both hands. For a gardener, he really doesn’t have much for upper body strength, does he? Maybe he’s just built that way.
The wrench slips back and forth before finally, he’s able to align the nut with the wrench - and starts to tighten the valve.
With each laboured pull, the trickling stream grows thinner and thinner until finally, the sound of water can no longer be heard from the television.

Then there’s the issue with the clog.
“You can see a plunger, right?”
Davey gives a weak nod, trudging offscreen before returning, plunger in hand.
Sooner than later, there’s the sound of gurgling water, disappearing off into the depths of whatever elaborate plumbing system that his city had concocted.

2/2 Cross 2023/05/25(Thu)19:31 No. 1064561 ID: 58e9c7
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With his plants safe, you can feel the tension dissipate from Davey, before he slumps down on the plunger he was just using.

“Dang… I haven’t gotten a workout like this in ages…”
Davey absolutely looks winded, drenched in both sweat and water. While a few puddles surround him, neither him or his plants are in danger of being flooded.

“Are you okay?”, you ask, a twinge of concern bubbling up inside of you.

He groans, giving a thumbs up.
“I think the plants will recover fine, I made them to be resilient… I’ll make adjustments later. Hahh… remind me again, was there something else I should be checking on? ”

Well, there were the other two options; his kitchen and the pneumatic pipeline.
Still plenty of time left in the evening to resolve these problems, and you don’t have other plans. But maybe you should say something to him, while he’s recovering from the ordeal?

What kind of problems a broken pneumatic pipeline can cause? I don't know a lot about this but I'm assume it can't suffocate Davey. Maybe it can, is his house hermetically sealed duo to the cave in?
If those are just paranoid thoughts of an ignorant, let's focus on the kitchen.
Unless he is extraordinarily unlucky a flooding shouldn't cause as much damage to the food as it did to the plants, but I'm concern with gas . ...Assuming they burn gas underground, they could rely exclusively on electrical heating for safety. It usually takes hours to fill a room with enough gas from a pipe to suffocate, so it should be relatively safe breathing for now, but sparks and open fires are very dangerous.

Check his kitchen next. He should be able to salvage anything that spilled.

Tell Davey what he did was impressive. You're there for him, and as long as you work together, everything is gonna be okay. It might be exhausting, but he stopped the leak. He saved his plants. He can do this.

Bad fishy! Go for a throat punch. Focus on your pain.

Well, if the lure is the issue take a page from Oglaf. Focus on the boobs, while ignoring the medusa eyes shiny lure. Lower your hood further if you have to do so.

>>1064547
I like this plan...but there might be a better target. Use the hood to cover Garrin's eyes and then grab the lure with his beak. His head's close enough that he should be able to bite it off before she intercepts it.

>>1064541
Get Coi-Shi to cover up the lure with his helmet!

Force face against the boobs to hide from the lure. Ask for Coi-Shi to help push her over but do not use fire on her. She still works for your boss and also you are very close to possible splash damage.

I think shes learning now that in this world, nobody ever gets what they want, not even us, and not even her, and probably not even Happy. even if he succeeds, its probably going to backfire on him. This world was designed to make every single person who enters or even associate with this world to suffer in their own personal Hell.

We were like her too, trying to save something, or save ourselves, but in the end, It's pretty much impossible and too frustrating to succeed. She may have failed her mission here, but she made us fail our mission by pushing us the way she did



Scarred, can we just tell them to piss off and not fuck with us again? They can continue whatever hopeless mission they want, as long as they dont fuck with our hopless missions again.

And also, tell her: Welcome to hell, and that If it means anything, I wanted to give that to her before this fight started, and after things chilled after the fight and before Scarred did that attack just now against Ember. but fate wouldnt and wont let me or let that happen, because Hell, but At least she can have it now.

>>1064327
*correction: scarred shoots just slightly off to make her flee and make it look like the revenant failed to stop her, but not directly as to actually hit her*

Absurdity DeVoid 2023/05/22(Mon)17:19 No. 1064368 ID: dc13c4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2B8S9gPPqY&ab_channel=%E5%BC%B5%E7%91%8B%E5%B3%BB

Rosaline use your fingers as a shield from the below as for you Toothpick can you levitate that shield with all of us on it and turn it into a makeshift magic carpet?

>>1064405
Levitation could work, it’s not an overly complex spell and it can lower us to the ground. Rose, can you still extend your arms like you did in the fight with us? That could also work for creating a fast shortcut to the ground. I can outrun them and run a diversion giving you time to escape. Invisibility and a spell called Long Strider which makes me much faster, hard-core parkour if you will.

Buckwheat 2023/05/23(Tue)18:36 No. 1064441 ID: 15a025
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Suddenly a gunshot blasts back at you!

Hit the deck!

Hit the deck, yeah - but can you tell where it's coming from?

>>1064441
Get behind cover, yell at the offending shooter.

Tell them deer season ended months ago!!!

False Prophet 2023/05/23(Tue)11:28 No. 1064418 ID: eb494d
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"Please, don't tell them."

False Prophet 2023/05/23(Tue)11:29 No. 1064419 ID: eb494d
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“Please, don’t tell them what we were doing, I wanted to learn about fighting and he let me learn a bit. We only just started. Just tell them I was goofing off in the caves, please!”

Drat this kid, he really understands what he is in for, isn’t he?

It is the Martinets’ duty to fight and practice combat, not the Artisans’. Skimming one’s chores to go play is one thing, but training to hone the skills of a different tribe without authorization is quite another.

The punishment for such an act for a child would not be anything permanent, obviously, but it would be severe, especially for his Martinet friend.

The boy’s eyes and mouth continue to plead a little more, but he knows what is asking is a tall order. Chug would take some persuading to not tell anyone, and a punishment already awaits the kid for running off from her Ward. And besides, Trezi is not the kind to lie about such serious matters,

Is she?

Art requires knowledge of the subjects to be depicted. Maybe he thought he needed fighting expertise to sculpt an accurate soldier model or something. Ask him if he did and when he says yes, drop the issue.

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I agree. Ask the kid if their reason for practicing weapons was, in fact, something FORBIDDEN, or something PERMISSIBLE.

Hint, hint.

Play is not training. Holding a spear is not combat. This is a child playing with his friend, not secret military training. A broken arm should be punishment enough.