2/2 Ceres 2021/10/24(Sun)22:30 No. 1013564 ID: 39d938
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A few minutes pass after the encounter and it has become incredibly obvious to me that I am being followed. I can't see anything, but I can hear it if I listen carefully. Someone is jumping branch to branch when I move far enough from each tree.

>Team up
Not a bad idea if this ave can be a good spotter. I'll need to know what their intentions are first.

Should I announce my knowledge of them? Should I start talking to them? If so, what should I say? Or should I lead them into an opening to force them into a ground confrontation.

>>1013564
Dive into the bushes as suddenly as you can before you say as much to throw off their shot.

Set the terrain so it's to your advantage. Go where the tree cover is thinner, wear them out, and then try and trap them.

>>1013566
If you feel you have the time, act like you heard something in a different direction. Put him on guard.

If you move to an oppening, make sure you have some cover like big rocks or something. If not your pursuer could be tempted to attack from the trees.

I guess the lesser spirit we caught is one of the dudes that went down here and got done unto. So first I'd try to COMMUNE with the spirit on anything noteworthy in this place, or ask how it died. We'll probably also need to cast GLOW on one of our items. I also feel we may need to CLEANSE this place, however there is no obvious target for such a ritual yet.

Three lords, three paths. A rather arbitrary choice. Our profession does not match any of these lords - we're not a valiant warrior, a pious priest, or an elemental sorceress. But since the SARKEN that went forward likely found their demise, left or right would be a slightly safer choice and one that I would split my vote on.

If we lit the braziers, we might as well put some torches in the scones here and light them up... well, since we only have 3 torches, use 2 to light the path that we'll be taking.

RWW 2021/10/24(Sun)13:26 No. 1013544 ID: 673fe6
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For a few moments you consider which passage to address first, part of you imagining what regular function each might hold and whether the carvings could offer clues to such. Of the three, you regard the right passage first -- taking the time to ignite the torches poised to either side of the archway; fortunately, they are brought to flickering light fairly readily.

With this done, the spirit you snared comes to mind for questioning -- and so you COMMUNE, focusing on the vessel as you cradle it in your grasp and watching as the stirred entity manifests before you. As you suspected, he appears to have been a SARKEN man as the vestigial memory of his garb partly clothes his skeletal visage along faint echoes of long hair and a beard.

"El tlinn co sceath," you offer in customary greeting to the spirit, dipping your head, before you begin to question him. "What can yew tell me off these place?" You gesture broadly. "And how deed yew perish?"

Apparently the spirit is agitated. "What is this--where is Lars?! Egert!" He gestures a skeletal fist towards you. "Who are you--what did you do to me?!" Briefly, a more corporeal facsimile of his form ripples over the remains beneath before swiftly fading. "...perish?" He gawks, looking down -- nothing at all beneath the ethereal apparition's waist. "I heard the snap -- and Lars yelled to jump, but then..." He seems distracted then.

Silent for a long moment, the spirit looks to you with empty sockets. "What of you? Are you a spirit?" You remain partly infused with your SHROUD magic, semi-translucent.

> _

Explain that you are living and they are a spirit. Hopefully, they won't freak out too much.

Then ask their name! Always polite to ask someone's name.

Huh, he only obtained consciousness once you tried to talk to him? What a mindless spirit.

Tell him that you're translucent because, uhh, it's magic and you don't need to explain shit. While touching your tiddy tell him that, see, it's all real.

Anyway, tell him that you came to investigate this place and if he helps you out, in return you'll try to find his body and give it a proper burial. He wouldn't want his body to remain rotting in this place, right?

Pretend to be some sort of psychopomp or judge of the dead, but try to avoid saying anything explicitly false. Calm, formal, like this is serious but also just an ordinary job for you.

"Within the Pall, you died. I found you wandering. Now, we speak. You answer my questions, and I answer yours, in balance - as all things must be. Speak truth and I shall aid the next stage of your journey."

tippler 2021/10/24(Sun)20:12 No. 1013558 ID: eedbeb
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After Vlad decides to sleep, you sneak over to the women’s compartment to see how they’re doing. Kibble is scribbling in a thick notebook, no doubt working on her book while Body sleeps off her injuries and Lori brushes her tails.

“Hi Lori.” you whisper. “How’s it going?”

The kitsune gives you a tired smile. “I’m knackered. All this traveling is wearing me out, we were in Guo Jia for a while before we found you and it’s been nonstop since then.”

“Get some rest if you can, do you mind if I ask you a few questions?”

“Sure.”

“How did you join the Canica government if you’re from the NUK?”

“Agh. Kind of a long story. NUK has a lot more violence than here, so I joined the military academy in my country after school but the first time I saw a battlefield I got put off. Proper dreadful, it was, blood and body parts and dirt and metal. I heard that things were a lot better in Canica so I started applying for jobs and somehow landed this one.”

“I thought this was pretty bad already.” you admit. “I hope I can go back to farming afterwards.”

“If you need some quid to get started we should be able to get approval for some. Y’know, as reimbursement for your services.” Lori offers.

“Really? That would be great!”

tippler 2021/10/24(Sun)20:12 No. 1013559 ID: eedbeb
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It’s afternoon and much cooler when the train creaks to a stop in the stained and somewhat neglected Large Lake station. A few other animals dismount onto the empty platform. Empty, except for a posh magpie in a tuxedo holding a laminated sign that says GIA.

When the bird spots your fangs, he beckons you toward him, extending a creamy card that you take curiously. It reads:

Our esteemed guests are cordially invited to dinner with the vampire Dominic Rousseau. Formal dress is encouraged but not required.

“If you’ll allow me to drive you to the restaurant, sirs and madams.” The magpie croaks.

>>1013559
Well. Sure. Uh, do we have any way to guarantee our host won't time freeze and murder everyone?

Well then, lets go get team naked dressed up for the occasion. tux and suits and dresses for everyone! Ask to stop at the clothing store first.

Who cares if it isn’t mandatory, we gotta make sure everybody is looking their best!
Other than that, make sure no one drinks any red wine and share all knowledge you have on vampire high society, if you have any.

Is there even a remote chance we can talk with the vice warden at some point when we arrive?

Being the only male chimera in a women's prison is going to get you a ton of poon, man.

Nicely ask how to contact with the vice warden. Your companions in your ship will be worried and you have a schedule to adhere.

Ask if there is a way to prove them that you are not that "Rainer". You understand that they can't leave you free without their superiors approval but you are worried that no further investigation will be carried out.

>>1013509
Do you need a lecture on why mammalian wing-wongs don't belong in birds or something.

...Actually Pascoe and Rainer exist probably BECAUSE dared to defy that so nevermind.

>>1013509
ya know... this might just be an reword for a previus past life Pasco...

1/3 Neener 2021/10/24(Sun)12:34 No. 1013540 ID: ede6d0
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[ Sorry for the delay. Life happened ]

This entire room screams trap to you, the Ether is too thick to be natural and the orb-- what even is that thing.
Perhaps ... turning on your heels you take off toward the final guide.
"Little Ippit?" He asks, kneeling down. "Are you okay?"
"Yes ... well, no, I have a favor to ask of you. The room ahead has me a tad confused, would you mind if I took you there? I could use some help."
He gestures over toward the bone littered corridor.
"If you can find all of me I would be honored to help you."
Spending a little while you carefully ferry his bones to the room, he must have been lonely as he had so much to talk about. Tales of his life, his family, his quests. This was to be his last hurrah before settling down...

2/3 Neener 2021/10/24(Sun)12:39 No. 1013541 ID: ede6d0
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With his skull in place he takes a moment as his form click together.
"What a puzzling place." He says, taking a step forward surveying the room.
"No signs of any kind of trap I'm aware of, either. I think you're perfectly safe."
"How can you be so sure? How do you know that orb won't just kill me?" You ask.
He gestures to the ground around "Do you see any signs of damage? Any bones or bodies?"
"... No, nobody else rests within this room other than you."
You hate to say it but he's right, you really don't want to see those things again either. With a cautious step you slowly approach the orb, the smell of Ether burning your nose.
Reaching out the Ether prickles your fingers. With a deep breath You push forward and place a hand upon its surface, it rapidly shifts from warm, to cold, wet to dry. What is this thing? Your curiosity gets the better of you as you lean in closer to try and peer beneath its surface. An eye? No, a smile?
A clicking ticks out and the sound of stone grating against stone rumbles through the room, you turn to see the entrance become fully blocked off by stone.
You slowly turn your gaze toward the guide, your entire body trembling with fear.

3/3 Neener 2021/10/24(Sun)12:42 No. 1013542 ID: ede6d0
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"Wow, you could cut the tension with a knife, huh?"
With a jolt you turn to see something resting atop the altar, its form constantly shifting, limbs and faces appearing, twisting, stretching and disappearing.
"It's a little bit cramped in here, let me just--" limbs burst forth from the mass, spreading out to the walls and ceiling, you watch in disbelief as they all seem to grow further and further away.
"There! Much better, now, where was I." With a sharp snap the limbs recoil back into the mass. It wobbles and then slumps down onto the altar, its entire form enveloping the altar.
"Congratulations Ishpetti! You're the first person I've seen in uh" It begins counting on fingers that seem to endlessly appear and disappear.
"Wow, a long time! You really had me worried for a little bit, I thought brothers doggies were gonna get you there!"
As you open your mouth to speak but a hand stretches out to press a finger to your beak.
"Wait! Wait! Before you ask anything, I have something for you, a gift for completing your first trial!"
It reaches down and underneath itself and pulls out the orb, with a little push it slowly floats its way closer to you, splitting into two and then three. They all stop just within arms reach.
"You can only pick one, take your time, I'll be right here!"

>_What do you do.

Green. You're going to need your courage soon.

"I can hardly make an informed decision with just colors, but I suppose none of them will harm me?" If so: "Right, then if you won't tell me what they do, but none of them will hurt me, then I suppose green is as good a choice as any."

Go in alone and get royally messed up as is proper. Delli can retrive your ravaged body later.

Or just bring the whole gang.

>>1013497
Bring a team. You're leading it, Delli can come if he wants, bring a couple of strong individuals for backup and as witnesses, plus if something goes wrong they can dive into the fog and get reinforcements.

I feel like checking out his fog bubble here might be a bad idea. It'd suck if he knew we got in and decided to smash the memory container or something.

Maybe we could get some of phantom's people and disguise ourselves as a member with them. Say we're archeologists or something digging around the fog pockets.

I'm still against sending anyone for the previously mentioned (>>1013365) reasons.

>>1013497
Is it just me or does that go out into the fog and then back into Haze Town? Or is it just the 3D projection thing and it's actually way behind over there.

>How to do it
Tier your approach, strongest to strong support to less strong. If they've really got an ambush waiting, there's a few things you can do to defuse any risks. Delli goes first, obvs, since he's just about unbeatable, super-fast and all that, and is the natural target of any trump cards.

Juiced up as he is he might be able to do something about any number of things at Crook's base - secure your memories from being asploded, sit on Crook and his minions' beaten-up asses until they choose to self-implode or throw themselves in the fog, or just act as a sneaky scout to see if he can spy on what Crook's got going (they probably have people stationed, but hey, who knows). Hm. You could give him super-strong cuffs to apply on people, maybe? Or a paintgun. Even if they jump into the fog they'd still be cuffed or paint'd, and would be more obvious to any witnesses, might be able to track them down later. Eh. Maybe those are stupid ideas.

Of course, if this is a trap, they'd better expect the strongest card, so Delli might be put in a spot trying to deal with whatever they've got going. So you and a couple of your strongest (or Phantom, if she wanna risk her bacon) can come in a minute or two afterwards in case Delli needs the backup - you're not going first because you ARE just about beatable right now, under the right circumstances, and if you get beaten that power goes to someone who might then try to beat Delli with it while you're gone, however low those odds still are.

Then a squad of more r

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2/3 Buckwheat 2021/10/23(Sat)22:08 No. 1013523 ID: 15a025
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There's an awkward silence after that for a bit. The roadie takes few sips out of his drink. Might be good, since Kaari's sleep-

Roadie: "So...you just security here or you do other kinda work?"

Lana: "Mainly security, but I'm a little bit of a repair gal myself too. Rocking the college life when I'm not here, trying to learn more about electronics and fixing stuff."

Roadie: "Quite the skill set then, brains and muscles?"

He hands me a card and looks at me kinda nervously.

Roadie: "Could uh... really use that ourselves if you're interested. Case you wanna move up a paygrade and do some traveling."

Lana: "That sounds like it'd be fun, but I'm kinda anchored here in town for now. Family and classes to take care of."

Roadie: "You're married?"

I laugh a little at that.

Lana: "Haha, no. I live on my own mostly, but the rest of my family relies on me for a little extra income support. Not having much money growing up is kinda what got me into fixing electronics. Stuff was always bustin or going up in smoke and we just had to go without. Now that I'm in college and can learn, my mom and sister are always asking me for some help fixing something."

3/3 Buckwheat 2021/10/23(Sat)22:12 No. 1013524 ID: 15a025
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Concert must be wrapping up here soon, I can hear some cheering and some louder guitar blasts. Or wait, is there screaming too?

Virgil busts out into the bar and the loud concert music and fans blast into my ears.

Virgil: "Someone get a fire extinguisher!"

Kaari jolts back to life with the rest of us and starts freaking out a little.

Kaari: "Aah! Wh-what happened?"

The music starts to stop, the drummer being the last to slow down and stop.

Virgil: "Amp or something went up in smoke and now it's starting to spark and flame up!"

Shit. If one thing on that line is spitting sparks and flames, we need to cut power to that line too before something else gets affected or lights on fire! Question is, how should I split up group and tasks here? I know at least with Kaari and Virgil, we're all trained on putting out small fires.

You stay behind to guard the cash register. I'd put even odds on this being retaliation or a distraction so someone can come in and rob the place, considering you just chased off some ruffians.

Kaari can get the extinguisher, Virgil can cut the power. Ask Lana to help, since she's trained for repair.

>>1013525
I am a little a confused reading this one, could you clarify? The way I'm reading it, do you want Lana to watch the register, but also help with cutting the power?

>>1013524
Kaari stays here, tell virgil where to find the extinguisher, he should deal with the fire. You know the building best so you go cut the power

What about making dreams real?

You had pressing existential questions to raise with Mayor about the existence of your police-ness as the newly-minted Dorb Smash Club CFB Division. Has he forgotten already? You had this major crisis only, like, two hours ago max.

“We probably don’t need to go but just think of it like a road trip or something. We haven’t actually been to Ceo’s town, that’s a whole new place that hasn’t gotten the Dorb Smash Club experience.”

Yes you big knifehanded dork you do have to go check and make sure she's okay.

There's a... shockingly probable chance that Mayor's sleeping in a ditch somewhere, which can't be good for her. We should do due diligence, at least.

We still need to make sure Mayor is okay.

>Then ask your question while you answer mine.
That is the thing, yo just wont let us! Every time we bring the Dalriver subjet, you avid it. We undertand that it was a painfull experience, belive us, we know, but we also need to know what happend there, what you saw.
We weren't laying when we said we met ten years ago. And you are right, she... did died, along with everyone else. But not really, unfurtunally. If you are thinking of Ema, the doughter of the smith, then you are corerct, we 'were' her. Do yo uremember teh swords in the chapel? They weren't ust swords, they were holy relics from very long ago. We accidentaly made a blood pact before we were killed, and tuned us into what we are now. Which we will tell you, after you answer some of our questions.
Tell us about the Ebony Ravens. They were escorting Madame Nadezhda, we don't know were and why. We must know this.

"Because I was there.
Because I was the one who cremated your friends.
Because I was the one who stole flesh from them.
Because that wasn't enough and I still fell into hibernation from my wounds.
I wouldn't give your petulant village two flips if not for the following: the monsters that attacked you wanted revenge against the adventurer from this village who murdered their children. But they only snapped and exterminated everyone because you 'stole their purpose': toiling to death in the farmlands.
I lost ten years of my life, in a coma, because an army of robot slaves desired their enslavement back.
Their. Enslavement. Back.
I couldn't turn away from the blow to my pride even if you paid me."

>>1013437
>you look nothing like her
He's right, you know. Your horns are wrong, your snout is wrong, your jawline is wrong. Only the scales and eye color match. Why didn't the swords restore your body properly? We'll have to ask them later. Maybe it was on purpose, because Ema was confirmed dead by the survivors and thus any of them seeing Ema walking around again would know that you were a wraith.

>Who are you really?
You're an adventurer. He can call you Amy.
Who are the Ebony Ravens?

>Why are you here?
To set things right. To find then bring to justice those responsible for the massacre at Dalriver. Also there's a massive vampire infestation that needs handling; there are some other adventurers in town working on that and you're planning to help.
Does he know anything about who's responsible for the massacre?

>Why do you care about Dalriver so much?
Well, it was a horrible tragedy, and also it personally affected you. You'd rather not talk about the specifics. (he won't believe that you're Ema without us telling him you're a wraith, so let him assume something else)
Does he know anything about the Duchess? Aside from her being a vampire.

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>>1013437
Tell him that if he'd stop interrupting you when you're trying to explain things, he'd already have all of his answers by now. So you'd appreciate it if he'd stop doing that, otherwise we'll be here all day.

>Why do you care about what happened in Dalriver?
Because he's not the only one that lost friends and family that day. You want to find out what happened because your relatives were killed there.

>What happened yesterday?
You questioned the thieves and found out they were hired to steal a special stone from him and then kill him (he doesn't need to know that they weren't going to actually follow their orders). You even found out the name of the guy that hired them to do that. Then tell him it was his father, Karkan.

>>1013437
>blue scales
If enough time passes, then those will melt away, like all the other samples that Oran collected from you. Then he won’t have any evidence to prove that you were upstairs. But if he can figure out why those scales have melted away, then he’ll realize that you’re an undead.

It pretty much comes down to you getting lucky and he won’t understand why the scales melted or you getting lucky and he won’t tell the guards to hunt you down for being an undead.

>>1013455
This.

>>1013449
No, don’t say that!

Tell Threese that you actually do have a friend back there who you were in fact going to get - and make sure to praise his cleverness in figuring that out - but only the one friend, who's certainly not hiding in any bushes. This particular friend has actually been far more interested in polite conversation, and less willing to assault strangers, than you are, for as long as you've known them.

All technically true, but mostly quite misleading.

Wait, are you implying I look like a lizard? Because that's what you think I'd like, if I was? Maybe I'm complimenting your troll-like looks, because I like how trolls look. Food for thought.

Oh, maybe you can ask what the other trolls are like?

>>1012974
Tell him that you like what you see of him, but you've never seen a troll up close before, and you'd need to get a closer look at him so that you can find even more to compliment. That'll give you plenty of time to stall, to look around the room a little, and to learn more about troll anatomy so you know any weak points or other advantages you might have.

Look, seeing as he's amenable to talking and you still have backup... somewhere nearby, why not just try to calm down and be honest: the local village thinks he's been attacking them when it really just seems like they wander onto his little patch of forest and he scares them off.

I dunno, tout the value of co-existence. Companionship is a wonderful thing. Tell him how there'd be plenty for a big strong troll like himself to do if he was friendly with the townsfolk.

Baron 2021/10/18(Mon)01:17 No. 1013104 ID: 7a1a17
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You and Tok find Waya. Ah, so that's where Oklak went.

"You have one chance to explain why I should not kill you."

"Mrrmjjrnm"

"Quiet!"

Tok explains you idea to her. He even adds his own idea about binding man-magic to them so Sizzala can find the tamed nightblades easier. Waya doesn't get as excited as Tok did. Her eyes narrow on you. "Tell me boy. How do you expect this to help us when Roh-koff attacks us? You have broken the warrior-sellers. You did not break Roh-koff!"

"Oh...uh."

>You forgot the two clans wouldn't be in the same place would they?"
>>How do you deal with Roh-koff?

>>1013104
We have Dokra and Roh-koff females, right? We could make them tell each of their leaders that the other one is in one of the locations (the same one) so when they see each other they start fighting. But we should do this just when we make sure each female is loyal, when each of them is with a pup in their belly.

Baron 2021/10/23(Sat)03:07 No. 1013478 ID: 7a1a17
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"Uh split, split! Split the forces. Some are Roh-koff. Some are Dok-ra. The Dok-ra go to Dok-ra. Roh-koff go to Roh-koff. We attack both, they blame each other when we take their leaders."

Waya stops glaring at you and becomes pensive. "That would still mean splitting ourselves. Unless we could bolster our numbers..."

"With gob-lee? Loyal females? Maybe some Sizzala's magic that makes people blind and stupid?"

Waya turns back with a smile. "That sounds like a plan. I'll let you decide who should attack who. Now get out of here"

Oklak is glaring murder at you. You're not sure why.

Baron 2021/10/23(Sat)03:08 No. 1013479 ID: 7a1a17
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Tok scrounges some of the ghostskins together. One is Oklak's and you know Oklak is thorough. Seqrar's claim-mate you know is loyal. The other two are Tok's, and he assures you they are both loyal.

"Really? Even this one?" you point to the one you remember insulting him in the dark place.[b]

Tok turns to the Roh-koff. "Little female. Ready to lie to your clan for me?"

The Roh-koff faces him, hunger in her eyes. "If you will reward me again, yes Master Tok."

Tok shrugs "Seems loyal enough to me."

[b]"Hrm."

>>Assemble the throngs
>You have yourself, Seq, Bizangi, Tok, and Guk(yes even he will be needed), and Oklak
>2 loyal Daoine that can fight
>30 Gob-lee. You think
>4 Gah-meen
>1 Mah-kahg
>2 Roh-koff

>>1013479
I wonder if is still to early, maybe you should ask Guk what he thinks. I mean he is still the leader, right?

rolled 17 = 17

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Puri you can just type "dice 1d20" in the email and it will roll a d20
Cookie: Quickly write "we are lost" on a piece of paper, put it on the floor, and back away. Hold hands and be ready to make a break for it.

rolled 15 = 15

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Is this our bellboy?

Puri 2021/10/22(Fri)11:20 No. 1013433 ID: b1ffbb
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rolled 4 = 4

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Before Cookie had time to react, the shadow in the elevator lunges for her and tries to drag her in. She grabs part of the gate in time before being pulled in, and her free arm reaches through a newly transparent space. She screams to the shocked boys for help.

Try slipping out of your dress to escape?

Nah, too perverted. maybe later

Use your phone's flashlight to shine a light at the shadow!

rolled 16 = 16

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Escape, be rescued, etc.

rolled 2, 9, 6, 7, 4, 5, 5, 5, 2, 7, 7, 9, 8, 10, 10, 4, 7, 7, 6, 9, 10, 5, 8, 4, 7, 5, 10, 3, 7, 9, 5, 6, 1, 8, 8, 4, 9, 7, 3, 9, 3, 8, 3, 8, 1, 7, 7, 1, 3, 5 = 303

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>>1012908
Posu was looking out at the starless night sky over the mostly still ocean as Marisa came up to her.

"I have barely any idea of what you're talking about. I asked a simple question, I didn't yell or use any explicit threats of violence, and I kept in mind that mortals tend to see broken limbs as 'horrible life changing injuries' instead of a frustrating week at worst."

"But anyway, I'm not going to get into a serious fight on our only method of transportation. If we were going to get into a fight it would be out in the open ocean where you wouldn't be able to get me under the water and I wouldn't be able to fly to fight you in the relative sky. We might as well wait until we're actually in the city and have a free minute outside of the investigation. First to a solid bruise?"

rolled 8, 2, 9, 7, 4, 1, 8, 2, 6, 2, 9, 1, 7, 10, 2, 10, 9, 1, 10, 5 = 113

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"GAaah, don't play dumb Posu, I know you're smarter than me, that's insulting. Ya don't think that, maybe, offering to fight your sworn sister over 'not explicit' threats towards another sworn sister is missing the point?"

The frustrated witch collapses against the rail by Posu.

"Look, I know you don't know magic for a damn, but she literally cannot be out to get you without breaking the Sworn Brother's Oath. Could you stop trying to break the spell and focus on the 'nathema busting and rescuing we gotta do?"

rolled 5, 6, 2, 8, 10, 9, 3, 10, 9, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 9, 10, 1, 10, 4, 5, 2, 6, 3, 7, 10, 7, 4, 7, 1, 1, 9, 4, 4, 1, 1, 9, 6, 9, 5, 8, 4, 10, 10, 9, 6, 10, 6, 6, 1 = 290

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>>1013125
"Have you ever tried to remove implicit threats from inherently confrontational conversations? Anyway, I offered to get into a fight because it's really fun, as opposed to a particularly strong position."

Posu would let out a sigh.

"However, there's new things I am going to be keeping an eye on regarding Ribbons. But, there's a lot of suspicious things going on here. But, as I don't have any kind of proof yet, which I will be collecting as a personal thing. Since even if my gut feeling is unfounded, there is something hiding here and things that don't add up to me.

"You don't need to worry about any actual kind of retaliation or whatever dumb thing she's worried about,provided I don't turn up years of missing back taxes or anything like that."

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Alright, so I am having trouble putting this into words, but I would like to propose is just going in and politely asking to be caught up on the situation and using their unpayed taxes as leverage to push them into helping us if they really don't want to help out and get things back on track.

rolled 8, 5, 6, 1, 10, 4, 2, 3, 6, 7, 5, 6, 6, 1, 10, 8, 6, 7, 3, 2, 3, 5, 4, 8, 2, 10, 4, 9, 2, 1, 8, 2, 8, 9, 6, 1, 7, 3, 4, 8, 10, 2, 1, 7, 7, 7, 8, 1, 4, 6, 7, 3, 3, 2, 10, 4, 5, 10, 6, 6 = 319

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>>1013007
Lobelia's going to share this information with the rest of the team while squinting at the forward horizon, as if those attendance records were posted on a barely-visible road sign.

>Alright, so I am having trouble putting this into words, but I would like to propose is just going in and politely asking to be caught up on the situation and using their unpayed taxes as leverage to push them into helping us if they really don't want to help out and get things back on track.
"Eh, so just go up to the mayor and ask to be filled in? Or... Limani or whoever's actually in charge right now? I guess that works... though they're probably not gonna be honest if they're in the wrong and ran Tellus 'n co out of town.

"...you could probably smooze someone lower down depending on who we hand the prize ship off to? The beastfolk in town looked like the same kind we saw a few days ago too, if they've been fighting pirates, probably looking at some useful gratitude."

>>1013379
"A quarter of the faithful have dropped off the map? Sounds like we got an incident on our hands all right."

1/2 Argine 2021/10/16(Sat)03:07 No. 1012979 ID: 5bf1bd
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>Hmm, either she can use the knives as spikes to climb rocks quickly, or she can freeze them in the air and jump off them to "fly".
Huh, if her knife does go through things easily, then maybe it can be used as a way of helping her scale rocks. Kinda doubt the whole using it as an aerial footstool idea though, since she only has one of things in the first place.

>Do you have enough demolition expertise to use your explosives to break off a large chunk of rock, then carry it as mobile cover?
It's not that I don't know how to blow off a chunk for my own use, but I don't have the proper setup! Can't really blow off a chunk that's even shaped in a way that makes it so I'd be able to hold it and protect myself with it at the same time.

>She may have missed and revealed her position on purpose because she secretly cares about you and wants you to succeed.
She's been trying to blow me up for the past section this whole time, yeah right.

>Wait for the Blink to recharge.
Ugh, I never like doing this kind of thing, but you're right. Against people who outrange me, rushing in's only going to make things worse.
So I wait.
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2/2 Argine 2021/10/16(Sat)03:08 No. 1012980 ID: 5bf1bd
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...
Okay, what the hell is this?
There is no way there's this many shots coming from this many angles! So either Nickel actually does have multiple bodies like you lunatics have been rambling about before, or there's something extremely strange going on.

Is this her Parasignia's effect? It could be.
Makes it a far harder task of tracking where she's gone, though. I'm not even sure if the previous position that's been shown is even accurate if she can spoof data like this.

Alright, here's my plan then - I keep going forward with the current path. There's no grass between me and the next safe spot, but I don't actually know where Nickel is at this moment anyway. If I sit around and wait for the blink to recharge again, the smokescreen's going to clear up and I'm far more likely to get shot again anyway.
Nickel's bound to start falling back as I get closer, since she wants to maintain the range advantage, especially since I can warp and mess her up that way.
For now, got any bright ideas for how I can try and close the gap without drawing too much attention to myself?

I doubt she has multiple bodies. It's more likely she has robot drones. She had a hologram at the entrance, and was riding in a cart, so clearly she's allowed to have gadgets of her own. I think she's got remote controlled guns at various sniper perches, and she's acting as the spotter for all of them. She might have holograms at each one as well, which would mean you couldn't tell which one is the real one with your own eyes... I sure hope not, because that would mean you'd have to either figure out which one is real before attacking, or just attack all of them.
At least it seems like she's not allowed to have cameras spotting for her...
Oh, you said you were surprised that she got up on the rocks so fast. Maybe the one enemy dot we see on the ground is her?
...another possibility, instead of remote guns: she can *shatter* her parasignia's knife, creating electrical chaff, or something else that interferes with our ability to scan the battlefield. Like, a special echo? I have to assume our sensorium can deal with all the echoes that happen in a large indoor room like this one.

Either way, the first shot came from a perch somewhere on the rocks. We saw the bullet's trajectory, you can't fool our visuals that easily even if somehow our audio data is being disrupted.

If you make it to the exit, does she lose? Even if not, if you can get around the rocks at the end of the room, and the enemy dot on the ground is her, maybe you can ambush her from behind. I still want to continue sneaking... oh, can you manage some camouflage?

Suggestion 2021/10/17(Sun)10:04 No. 1013057 ID: 183556

Keep moving through the left-most path (right-most from our perspective), until you reach the final rock formation.
After that move circumvent it and move towards the red dot on ground level for backstab attack.

>>1012981
This

… is she able to freeze time?

Curt 2021/10/21(Thu)20:46 No. 1013388 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: RUN.
>@ThatRandomGuy

You had to. The captain's orders were for to use his teleporter to pull out anyone from that encounter if things got too dire. You have to hope that your work was enough.

Judging by the now-absent sound of gunfire, someone won, at least.

Curt 2021/10/21(Thu)20:46 No. 1013389 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: Tell to warm up the teleporter.
>@Salient

: Teleporter to escape, we need it now.
: What happened?
: Encountered an operative.
: Would classify him in regulations as an industrial-grade truck.
: Dear god.
: What about the captain?
: Maintain a portal. He will need it soon, or he won't need it at all.

Curt 2021/10/21(Thu)20:47 No. 1013390 ID: 0fbdcd
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You reach the Departures dock at last. A few of the crew who haven't boarded yet push and shove a little on their way in.

Curt 2021/10/21(Thu)21:03 No. 1013399 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: Be inspired by that plaque on the statue on your way out.
>@Dork

A standardized statue, featured on some Company installations, of unknown meaning. The plaque reads:

FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT
IN HONOR OF THE ENTERTAINMENT DEPARTMENT.
FOR CONNECTIONS ONCE THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE.
TO EACH SHORE, EACH MIND, EACH HEART, A PARADIGM.

, assist your comrade, he's right there.

Let us continue our parlay from the safety of behind the wall now!

Oh hey, a new person to talk to. Maybe this one is more receptive to negotiations. That is, after we're done exploring other passageways...

That hole is looking mighty inviting about now...

It seems wise to swiftly skulk off, and not make any noise after which one could aim.

The homini lot down here are most rude.

Review how many points you put into "catch bullets"

hmm... if you cleaned your outfit the same way Corax did, that would mean you would have given it to the cleaner and didn't clean it yourself. In that case, wouldn't the cleaner would have said anything or be concerned about the bloody cape to report it when he saw it after you gave it to him to clean? That might have been hard to explain after showing a bloody cape to a cleaner... especially since it would have meant admitting to him that you stabbed someone, even if Corax wasn't effected by it.

inner thoughts: might be important to keep in mind that her outfit is unique, in that there are only two suits like hers in existence. I do have one weird hunch about this, but I suppose it depends on what we'll learn here...

Absurdity DeVoid 2021/10/15(Fri)08:44 No. 1012930 ID: f23762
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk2hu-wtl1M

>>1012930
Very interesting. I have only a few questions for the panel before we continue.

firstly, can this scanner scan other things besides clothes or is that all it scans?

secondly, are prisoners allowed visitation privileges?

Absurdity DeVoid 2021/10/21(Thu)10:20 No. 1013350 ID: f23762
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjN14-9-7kM

Inner Thoughts: Vitals are weak, but he isn't in any immediate peril. It's hard to tell if Dervan is being genuine in his concern, but set that aside for now.

"He's s-still b-breathing and he does -uh- h-have a pulse, alb-b-beit a faint one."

Inner Thoughts: You wonder it could of been stress or some kind of stroke. Your not a doctor so all you can do is guess. Tackle each potential avenue one at a time. First, the paper.

*Threshold carefully steps onto the edge of the paper in Triumphant's hand and slowly pulls it out of his grip.*

Inner Thoughts:Then basics of first response.

*He then rolls Triumphant into the recovery position.*

"H-how long until t-they get here?"

tweet tweet

Up for an encore? You've already sung the closing act.

Toxoglossa 2021/10/20(Wed)21:39 No. 1013319 ID: de852d
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“Ah! Aaa! Viv! AAAH!”

“Yeah! Let! Me! Hear! You!”

Toxoglossa 2021/10/20(Wed)21:39 No. 1013320 ID: de852d
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“AAAAHHHHHHH!”

Toxoglossa 2021/10/20(Wed)21:40 No. 1013321 ID: de852d
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"I love you, my sweet firebird."

"I love you too, Viv..."

End of chapter 13

>>1013166
This but you immediately perform stretch dance moves afterwards.
Then have a nap contest.

Mint comes with Cat, just so Nipha can meet another cat with a guy named Cat. (Plus Cat needs to learn to be more comfortable around Mint by having her with him for this.)

Nipha attempts to rub her nose on Mint's nose, as cats do when they greet each other.

>>1013164
Supporting.

Aphin shows up and you have clone makeouts.

I think there's only a handful of friends Cat's made in this town that he would want to bring to meet his old friend. So my vote is for any of willamina, Mint, Gena, and/or Andrea.

Non of the options seem to have high chances of success. I am going t logo with A, because at least it will free Keimi to do something else, unless you have to keep the buff up all the time. If not, it might at least let Alex be on the same level with the windigo. Let's cross fingers.

By setting the Wendigo on fire, you can replace your current problems with new ones.

A.

Use your enhanced physical ability to kick her in the balls.

Fleeing down a dark passage chased by bloodthirsty monster, unable to go back the same way you came until you find the strength or means to overcome it, or find a way to go around, going deeper through the mountain...

... certainly SOUNDS like the start of an adventure.

C! (and pray there aren't drums in the deep)

>>1013200
A: stop healing Alex and enhance his physical ability, hoping it will be enough to defeat the Wendigo before he dies