Well since Rise looks like it will fail I suppose I'll support a base choice.

Im certain we can find a less destructive way about this, and we have plenty of flesh to spare.

Desiccate

>>970437
Consume

>>970437
Let's eat it! Consume the fruit!

Consume

>>970437
I wonder what it'll taste like? Let's consume it and find out!

Ixnay on the burninate. We need the power sure, but the long term profits are slim.
Live sacrifices are fine, sure, but if a follower willingly giving up something close to them already provides a fair bit of power, how much better still is a follower willingly sacrificing themselves?

And you know what kind of people are most disposed towards doing so? People seeking redemption! Something to make their existence have had meaning. That means the down trodden, the oppressed and criminals and what have you.

Give this guy a chance to convert to beleiving in you if he wants to live. If you get this chump to do so, you set a precedent.
More people will be willing to turn to you in their darkest hour.

More people who feel like they owe you everything, even their very will to keep living. Not only are they fanatically faithful, but endlessly useful. We can worry about sacrifices later, for now we want a strong foundation. Play the slow game, the long con, and you can't go wrong.

Sacrifices with a twist: every sacrificee gets to declare one person off-limits to the sacrifice, forever. That way you retain at least 50% of your worship base.

)Planning to restart this soon, so making a l'il post to keep it from graveyarding quickly again._

Extinguish the flame as a way to deny their sacrifice.

>>970624
Holy necro, batman!

How's your potato supply? You could make potato flour, and if you still have eggs and milk, you could make something pretty nice with that.

>>963325
That takes at least a whole day and we need the goods now.

Is this quest still active?

>>969682
Yes.

I didn't notice I was once again late to the party (again).

I say, let's improvise.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.
Except there is no lemons to make lemonade. So you make something else instead, like orange juice. If there is any.
What a pity, to die (inside) by an unflexible mindset!
Or psychically by eldritch creatures, now that does sound more thrilling! But extremely painful.

>>968943
A shower? Yeah, that would work... We need to do something about her clothes tho.

I wouldn't rule out the idea about a first aid kit tho, might not help now, but in the future could be handy.

>>968953
>To the emergency shower!
Wouldn’t the emergency shower for chemical spills be located in the lab? The same place all of those monsters are coming from right now.

I don’t think we’re going to get past them to get to the shower.

>>968999
>the lab
Even grade schools have more than one lab room. There will be more lab rooms with more showers that aren't infested.

Chapter 1 End Keimi 2020/06/16(Tue)18:34 No. 969896 ID: ca2950
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Welp, I guess I'm just going to hunker down and try to wait this out, at least for a while to let Alma recover. Somebody must be aware of the situation, so hopefully we'll get rescued and won't have to fight a bunch of awful monsters. Here's hoping.

>suck the poison out
>fuck the poison out
>wipe tiddy

I don't think anyone is in the mood to get weirdly horny for no reason right now. I know I'm not. I just want to sleep. I want to wake up in my bed and have all this be a bad dream.
That would be nice.

This is why you need to be a wolfmilk powered superhero(ine).

Ganymede 2020/06/17(Wed)14:50 No. 969948 ID: 11f77a
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>He’ll probably understand after an explanation
So this is a Huntoon, huh? Their faces are really thin when they look straight at you. Knife-thin. It's uncanny and unsettling to me.

I turn and raise my hands slowly. This guy looks… I think displeased of my presence. He keeps tracing the barrel around me and I cringe up hoping he doesn’t pull the trigger on accident. He bellows another synthetic garble.

Ganymede: Uh, t-thanks—uh. Howdy. Uhm…

Ganymede: I didn’t mean to…

Ganymede: I don’t know what those things were… I took a wrong turn.

Ganymede: Don’t shoot me.

The gunbarrel taps against my forehead—pushing the hat back a little. He warbles again, although I don’t know if it’s a question or a demand.

>>969948
The hat designates you as a delivery boy. Tell him where you're headed, he'll point you in the right direction.
Also tell him you can't understand what he's saying.

Say the company/trader you're working for. You aren't that far from town yet, and even with a language barrier he'll probably recognize the name of a local merchant?

>>969948
Tell him you are delivering a package and take this route without knowing it was private property.

>>969948
"I am just a delivery boy. I did not know I was on private property. I apologize."

We send one climber. then the poetess, then the other climber to keep up with her. With one anchor point at either end, we can hopefully prevent the worst outcome.

You probably can't risk going more than one at a time, but you are elves, and these are plants in an elf city, so presumably you're pretty light and they're pretty strong? Still.

The lower vines will have fastened themselves more securely and the vines themselves will be sturdier and spread the pull wider along the top. Go slowly, don't put too much weight on one thing at a time, and try place your feet and hands near where the branches split if you have the option. The plan to send Eranil in the middle is a good one - with help lowering herself off the first balcony and getting on the second, she can save more of her stamina for the middle portion of the crossing. Vines like these usually break at a point rather than peeling the whole thing off so the lightest person should go last just in case they have to climb over on just one remaining top chunk.

Alternately, if you all used all your clothes, you might make a long enough rope to tie one end to the balcony you're on, and send someone to bring the other end over. If they pull that end around the corner of that door a bit and wedge their feet as they hold it in place for the others, the leverage would help. You'd still be partly using the vines and just using the rope to take some of the weight, but it would help. In that case leave the lightest for last, since the first needs a bit of strength and you'd presumably want to untie the rope and bring your clothes over with you.

>>969799

Ushamerea, you climb the vines over and find something to help your sisters over.

All others, sit tight and stay hidden until your sister comes back.

>>969814
I agree with this. The only thing to add is if the elf-hunter gets too close, you could throw a shoe to make noise and divert its attention. It sounds like they could be blind if they must rely on those other senses? Or maybe near-sighted.

Have the two that can climb the vines do so. You need to step carefully and quietly through the dining hall to go find something to draw the hunter's attention down the hall.

Here's a sheet for Kome's character, pending ST approval.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QsJ_4Ov-elU170e9mWCuF7_AVPESYgs9GXHx4JZT8kM/edit?usp=sharing

"If you're not in control of your own destiny, you're not in control of anything."

Those words still ring through Abby's mind as she marches upwards along the river, with no thought as to where she is going or what she plans to do on this seemingly fruitless journey. She tries for the thousandth time to banish these heretical thoughts, to deny this urge of rebellion, to go straight back to Lookshy and apologize for her infidelity and lack of conduct, taking whatever consequences may come, and just focus on giving the Boss the legal courtroom ass-kicking he deserves.

But she can't.

Years of hard-coded loyalty and professionalism, stripped away in an instant by the incoherently corrupt ramblings of a commanding officer who should never have taken office, never should have risen beyond citizenship, never should have commanded anything more intelligent than an animal, never even should have picked up a weapon in his miserable life, yet was praised for his acts of inhumanity as if they were not a completely subversive abuse of power. She supposes this was the tipping point; the praise. She wanted, desperately, to believe this was one of the inevitable epic failures that occurs when a gigantic realm-spanning organization has to keep track of millions of soldiers and thousands of officers, and would rather allow corruption to fester and spread than process billions of sheets of continuously-conflicting paperwork to possibly get it done. That is the narrative she wants to believe, but the support from his Gen in spite of the verified anonymous tip of his unprofessional and outright malicious agenda paints a different story. A story of endless incompetence and bigoted spite ruling over the strong and incompetent, where the hateful and the mad give orders while the competent blindly fulfill them.

And then she heard the words from that... that nobody, and Abby could believe no longer. No

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Alright, going over the four character sheets as posted, I’m officially signing off on them, and I don’t have anywhere on the map in mind to specifically put places but I know James Leng has already claimed H3 for the wood dam manse, Sidereal Manse J7, and Moonsilver bridge town in B4 or B6

As for the character introduction, great post, though one note I should point out is that Lookshy is one city, and actually cracks super hard down on incompetence, and the gentes basically try and raise an army of elemental Batmen (Batman’s?) and prevents incompetent people from getting into power by encouraging rising stars to challenge them rather than the standard nepotism and the like that happen in the Realm (though they also have no use for incompetent scions). But, something like embezzlement of funds to his Gentes resulting in the deaths of some non-exalted soldiers is a crime that would be hard to prove and would be basically political suicide to try and go after him for, especially as a former lost egg with no social safety net yourself.

The main thing left is to figure out the political stats of each of your kingdoms (and of the ones in the wilderness since you’re not alone) using the Kingmaker system, which is why claiming a hex is pretty important.

It occurs to me that, while inside the Trestle of Lunacy, Inyene Senga will be able to recover her entire uncommitted mote pool in less than an hour and a half. Might be sensible to have somebody continuously rotating little trays in and out of the lab, a dozen seedlings on each, to be blessed with the second step of the Growing Wood Path as spare moments and motes become available. Probably not enough for every single stalk of grain in a field of useful size (back of the envelope calculations suggest months per acre), but growing nutritious fruits and vegetables out of season, or trees and vines in otherwise barren soil, could be significant.

>>969574
That's a clever idea!

Occurs to me one of the first actions I should declare is Senga attuning to the Trestle of Lunacy, which is going to immediately put her into 15 points of XP debt.

Also going to declare, until further notice, every day that she's at the manse, Senga is going to spend an hour using the diagnostic garden to check the health of the local area. The dice pool for that is Perception 6 + Medicine 3 + 1 (from the specialty provided by the manse's archives) against difficulty 5. Should the roll fail, she'll reroll with the third medicine excellency.

((If 3 works, oh baby, but if it doesn't... that said:)) 3: Preemptive strike
((lets go generic with the ))Name: George
For interlude I vote Etzil or, should that be invalid, “Lost in the Present”

adapt.
((An early attack might be expected, and could go wrong. Let us observe and grow a bit and iron out our weaknesses a bit by adapting. Patience is key))
Present or past for me

((>>969576 I am kinda trusting it will work because we are not being given a say in how we do it, for instance the evocation method nearly worked, just needed to be worded differently))

3: the time to strike is now! (I hope this works)
>>969539
I like Stauf, but maybe a last name would be good too. Stauf K. Abbot!

((Alright, the battle will begin at the start of the next proper chapter.))

((But in the mean time, it looks as though the Mortal's name is 'Stauf G. Abbot'))

((Thank you to everyone who has participated and read thus far, I will begin work on "Lost in the Present" right away.))

((See you Wednesday!))

Luckily this hit to your reputation will still leave it at zero.

Protest meekly while moving as indicated

just... just go, man. it's ok to look extremely uncomfortable about it. People that see you should be very well aware that this is super not your jam.

Start running off and ask where?

>>966602
Well, at least people will notice you.

...right?

>>966602
ask if she is "coming on you?"

Dread King Malcor 2020/04/07(Tue)19:06 No. 961102 ID: 5245b2
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>>Engaging PILLAR MODE

>>Pillar Mode:
>Height: 8'3
>Weight: 385lbs
>Cup Size: E
>Maximum Weight Capacity: 1108 lbs
>Notes: "Mezametamae waga arujitachi yo!"

>>961102
AYAYAYAYAYAYAYYYYYY!!!

Proceed.

>>961102
oh, sweet form
rock his world

Dread King Malcor 2020/05/01(Fri)06:22 No. 964533 ID: 5245b2
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"And then we DIDN'T have to stop because my boss had a job that coULDN'T WAIT 'TIL THE NEXT DAY!!"
>Except that's exactly what happened. Li's phone buzzed not five minutes in, and both
the participants and the whole audience were horrendously blueballed.

Dread King Malcor 2020/06/08(Mon)22:37 No. 969275 ID: 5245b2
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"sigh ...I really wish I could have had more fun, but what the boss says goes. I'm in a carriage moving towards a major city, something about a stolen scepter, and I'm going to be working with another warlock on this. Hope they're chill... and that they are NOT Porter."

E. Worst case... you can make like a tree and leaf, right?

>>966931
Looking forward to seeing where this is going.

Raptie 2020/05/31(Sun)16:42 No. 968617 ID: ee7136
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Taking a mini-hiatus for a bit. Details are on my website here: https://outissa.com/2020/05/22/news-and-semi-hiatus-and-future-plans/

((Take whatever time you need, I hope your commissions go well.))

Sorry to hear your burden is still so great. It had been hoped the global pandemic would shut down enough of the world to reduce the burden on you to a level that did not require such a drastic response from you as a hiatus. But it seems our efforts were less effective then had been projected. Still, we hope that our efforts in creating and disseminating this plague has managed to ease the many demands on your time and efforts and lightened your burden somewhat. We will continue to look forward to when you will once more be able to continue your efforts with the comic.

While we realize that this is past the deadline and can not be considered, in a show of solidarity we would like to offer the suggestion for the pouch of the still beating hearts of those who would attempt to capture, contain or control those of us who are, gifted.

Sincerely, -REDACTED-. Prime -REDACTED- of -REDACTED-.

Misery loves company. If they're close enough to punch, they're close enough to dunk in the goop.

>>969012
"Shit. Doodoo. Feces. what, are you dense too?"

I think it's time we went somewhere else.

Sieze him by the throat and throw him in head first.

>>969012
shove heads into it, then rip sock and shoe off. Beat the fuck out of the last guy.

Also take their socks and shoes if you can find some that fit reasonably well.

>>968748
We are the hunter. We know not the prey, but we do not care.

Do the traditional hunter's warble

Snuff the fire it is time to move.

>>968929
The Fire is bait. The Light will lure anything to me.
>>968913
https://youtu.be/QIppGLul3Fk

Ready our weapon I guess?

Closest one. Check the bar.

RANCH QUEST 6 R4N 2020/06/02(Tue)21:45 No. 968839 ID: 9a6f5a
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You decide to interrogate the closest biot,the shitty little camdrone. You approach it, your arm pointed out accusingly, body still in SWAGGER. “You there! Ya’ better darn tell me where the ranch dressin’ in this place is!”

The camdrone looks at you, boops, and then casually backs away, like one would from a landmine that was going to go off. It’s gone before you can question it further. You narrow your eyes. One day, you bastard, one day.

RANCH QUEST 7 R4N 2020/06/02(Tue)21:45 No. 968840 ID: 9a6f5a
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You decide that, having failed to consider the camdrone’s cowardice, to head inside the bar. After all, bars are where all questions can be answered/and or wiped from your memory chip by drinking way too much headlight fluid.

The bar is packed when you get in. Strange, but not unusual- robots don’t tend to sleep, so it’s this or walk in the dark until you need to recharge. Unfamiliar robots beep and boop, filling the air with an overbearing sound of conversation. You hurryingly make your way past them and to the counter- you’ll check with the bartender bot first.

As you approach, you see a small little bot sitting on a stool, wearing a tattered cloak. The vestments of a priest, you think. You look over the counter, but no tender is around. Probably busy elsewhere, with the place this packed, you suppose. You know how it is- you worked in the service industry once too. In the meantime, you look over the menu, which contains items such as-
>Diet Anti-Freeze (half the anti, with the same great freeze you love!”)
.Artisanal Power Steering Fluid
>Sugar Oil
>Decaffeinated Headlight Fluid
among other refreshing drinks. You run a diagnostics check and check your belt- you definitely need a tune-up with a drink, but you only have the spare parts for one. Your programming doesn’t dictate a particular need for anything in particular, so what should you order? And what else should you do while you wait for the tender bot?

Power steering fluid.

1/3 Buckwheat 2020/06/01(Mon)17:23 No. 968731 ID: 15a025
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>Examine objects.
Hm... there's a lot of stuff to look through here. I wonder where I should start?

>is that a sack in the upper right? If so empty the loots into your possession then tear a strip off of it to make into a cool action bandana

There's a lot of uh...stuff off to my right. There's a box of dynamite and bombs, a broken minecart, and... darn. Just an empty sack.

2/3 Buckwheat 2020/06/01(Mon)17:23 No. 968732 ID: 15a025
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I cut off a strip of the sack and try to make a bandana with it, but it ends up looking more like a scarf thing? I'll keep it for now I guess. If it gets itchy though I might take it off.

3/3 Buckwheat 2020/06/01(Mon)17:24 No. 968733 ID: 15a025
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>did you ever ask the name of your Ferret nakama?
Korva: "Mister Ferret! I realized I never asked you for your name?"

Mister Ferret: "Ah! My name is Farris!"

Korva: "And I'm Korva! Sorry for the late introduction!"

> What does the sign above the barricaded door say?
Danger! Keep out!!! THIS MEANS YOU!"

So pretty much what the sign at this dungeon's entrance said. Except there wasn't a barricade there to stop us.

Alright check the benches next.

Stuff your pockets with dynamite (no way this comes back to haunt us, I promise) and then use a spare stick to blow that barricade wide open. All the best treasure requires usage of explosives to acquire, its a fact of adventuring!

Spells:
_Conduct__|__Aspect__|__Element_ _Produce__|___Wild___|___Fire___ __Focus___|__Lasting_|__Wound___ ___Seal___|___Far____|__Fungus__

Inventory:
Treated leather outfit, kobold-sized kopesh, and belt pouch containing storage gems.
Storage gems: five days of rations and five days of water, a bedroll, a medical kit and lab, and four empty gems.

Health:
Energy

Stamina

Endurance

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The academy's roof should make for a good vantage point, try and survey the surrounding area and see if you can spot the Witch Pine grove before heading into the study hall.

>>968281
>urine smell
So, some kind of wild animal visited your shelter and marked it as their territory. That confirms it wasn't undead, at least. Unfortunately it might take issue to you returning to the same location.

>>968282
Head into the dorms first for supplies, as that could make retrieving the lexicon easier.

>>968288
Actually yeah, better idea.

Scout the surrounding area for like an hour, to make sure when you exit you're not going to run into a surprise, especially if you're making a loud exit. Not just if there's anything around but if there's any signs of things that could come back later.

Ask why this place has two names. Otherwise, just wait here patiently

Wait. Maybe they'll let you play some tunes. Got to keep that practice up, and better than just sitting and stewing.

>>968199
Whole place seems like some sort of trap, although I doubt it is for you. Run up and find the guy before they leave through a different exit.

It is strange that he'd just let her walk in, but perhaps that's less strange and more a service they provide. A walk-in service, as it were! Might even have to pay for it, heh. Doubt this is a kidnapping ring or whatnot. If so she'd just been told to 'oh yes, go in, 'Rocker' will meet you in room X' without being given the option to wait and been none the wiser.

Anyway, thank the receptionist. Mention that you weren't told much of this place, so you presumed something just now, and well, you learned recently that perhaps you should presume less and ask more. What service do they provide and what's the going rate?

(brace for sales pitch)

>>968202
This. Stay in the lobby. No need to rock the boat or accidentally stumble into, uhhh, what we suspect could be going on here. Besides, you could chat up one of the other waiting neumonos and try another recruitment spiel for this afternoon's town hall.

Could break the ice with whichever one looks the most bored.

I'd say just wait down here. Probably best to just wait for him.

name: Eva
species: The chosen from the quest Moon. Real old-y
height: 11' 2''
smarts: was raised Amish, so ok with anything that doesn't use electricity, not very good with things that do, and naive.

physical description:
https://questden.org/kusaba/questdis/res/6566.html#47057
but nude

work experience:
hunting
farming
witchcraft
getting stuck in doors

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Name: Doesn't matter because SerGenki never uses it anyway
Species: Human
Height: Head fits between SerGenki's boobs
Smarts: Only when not horny

Physical description:
Lean and a bit feminine body, short hair, black circles due to often staying up late, doesn't looks very happy.

work experience:
None. Was a neet but was forced to get a job for obvious reasons.
Good using fingers because experienced with computers

Other features:
Gets easily horny
Easily embarrassed
Nosebleeding when seeing something sexy or simply too close to a girl
Antisocial
Has a lot of weird fetishes
Always falls asleep after an orgasm and has trouble remembering what happened when wakes up, often resulting in waking up in strange situations

Name: Mac
Species: Human(?)
Height: kinda tall
Smarts: theoretically sapient

Physical description: ...an ogre?

Work experience:
Receptionist
Janitor
(both at oddly high class firms)

Interests:
swinging ball desk toys
jingling keys

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name: newm ohnew
species: neumono
height: womanlet
smarts: has tried on multiple occasions to become a helicopter by spinning really fast and hoping her ears would allow liftoff

physical description:
a pink shortstack fertility goddess

work experience:
20 years of service in doctor dick's sexual healing facility

interests:
being pregnant and the process of getting there
flying
hunting down those who deny sexual healing as a valid practice

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[UPDATE] Thanks everybody that's 8 characters 9 in total, I've got plenty characters for the quest now. Any more and I would probably die, then you wouldn't get your lewd quest.

>>967991
Also this.

Yeah you probably shouldn't step in that. Try to go around. Or take the stairs.

Well get a sample of it to send along with the fetus juice.

Tell the other maintenance drones. Hopefully they will come over and try to fix the maintenance drone. Either they pull it out and take a chunk of the web with them, or the all get stuck and whatever it is eats them all and suffers a food coma.

Cut down the web and continue.

Ask the cop if he's really willing to shoot you.

Is he ready to 'cross that road?'

Zen Quest: Zen Harder Pawn_01 2020/05/25(Mon)16:34 No. 967933 ID: dce46f
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>>967887
>>967906
Listen kid, I don't want it to be this way. The way you tell it seems plausible but you're our only lead, its not a matter of guilt or innocence to the commissioner its a matter of saving face and keeping the department funded. Just confess and we'll make sure your sentencing is lenient.

Zen Quest: Zen Harder Pawn_01 2020/05/25(Mon)16:35 No. 967934 ID: dce46f
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>>967884
while he's distracted by empathy you strike him with your law-fu!

What? The hell are you saying you've obviously already been detai-

>>967881
you don't have a gun, but a fingergun might pass for one in the darkness! You spin the lamp around!
Aaagh my eyes! Mother clucker my eyes!

COP has dropped large GUN!

>>967934
Get the GUN and start interrogating HIM! Where was he on the night of the ascension? What is his relationship with the freeway? HOW MANY CHICKENS HAS HE EATEN IN HIS LIFE?

Quick, pull the Good Cop, Bad Cop routine on him!
"WHERE WERE YOU ON THE 12th!?? I KNOW IT WAS YOU. TALK!"