It might be a good idea to run away. It's on fire, which means it will eventually burn to death right?

1/3 Claudio 2020/03/27(Fri)09:23 No. 959827 ID: 4fd362
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>>957137
R-Right! I need to remember what I studied about them… let’s see…

The eldritch parasites are very rare to find, even among other eldritch beings, and they are often seen as little more than insects by them. Their origin is unknown, even after many centuries of research, and there is only speculation and theories.

(…)

Once they feed enough, the parasite will develop to a point when it no longer needs the host to survive (…) They are the most vulnerable at this stage, as they are still adapting themselves to live without the host. They are still very weak against pretty much anything, specially the elements, but they compensate with an unnatural speed and mobility, and a matching strength. Some have been found to be surprisingly intelligent. At this stage, the best place to attack is on its eye, or around it, but anywhere should also work.

(…) If they are allowed to thrive, they will continue to develop, becoming even stronger, smarter and resilient (…) It seems to be impossible to predict how it will evolve, but it seems they adapt to their surroundings (…)

2/3 Claudio 2020/03/27(Fri)09:26 No. 959830 ID: 4fd362
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Luckily… It seems that this one developed itself in a hurry to try to protect itself from the fire… one of its “arms” seems longer than the other one and it seems to be overall unbalanced.

>>956868
I try to throw a fireball at it, while the elder’s son fired another arrow. The parasite quickly reacts to the attack, and blocks it with its arm… it would seem it’s using the wolf’s carcass as a… meat shield…

... It seems like the arrow actually managed to hurt it, although only slightly.

3/3 Claudio 2020/03/27(Fri)09:28 No. 959831 ID: 4fd362
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It suddenly starts rolling on the ground before stopping and facing us… I don’t think the alpha’s body is supposed to bend that way…

It’s not burning as bad as it was, but the fire is still there, and it might grow overtime… but it seems that is no longer one of its worries!

>>957170
S-Should I? If I run away, I might escape but… who knows what this thing might do if I don’t stop it… And once it escapes, It probably won't be easy to find it again.

You want to hit the eye... but in the stance it's using the eye is on the underside. I think the best way to kill this thing, or to get a good opening to do so at least, is to cast Land Strike underneath it. Either to hit the eye or flip it over so you can fireball the weak point.
I feel like it's about to charge forwards, but the host body has no eyes left. It shouldn't be able to see where it's going, and is either hoping you don't move, or is using its ears to tell which direction you move. Maybe you can lure it into smacking into something, and using that opportunity to hit it with a well-aimed Land Strike?

OH. It's a magical being! That means you can use your barrier spell. It'll run into the barrier, then you can hit it with a Land Strike to stun it and flip it and maybe hit the eye, at which point you can follow up with a Light Beam, because this is a good time to find out if it damages eldritch beings. Plus it could blind its one remaining eye.

Tbh, with that much hair, if we cut it short, we could probably use it for making fabric or something.

>>959471
A passage into adulthood means that you can finally cut your hair and your mom can’t do anything to stop you! Go ahead and get a haircut!

Also, your hair is just going to get in the way. And with that much hair, it could easily get snagged on something.

>>959495
>Ask your mom about the argument, to jog your memory.
The argument is mentioned here: >>956749 . Salmon has been arguing with her mother about her hair, because for some unknown reason, her mother won’t let her cut it!

>>959490
Support

>>959471
I do want to keep the hair and it would be more a wisdom thing if we talked with lance or just admited we where a little scared to even come here

haircut sounds good

>>959543
D3.

Investigating corrupt memory may cause external symptoms. Icarus may decide to terminate. Wait until alone.

>>959543
D3

Ask Icarus to clarify which food is which color. Then ask him what "overfit psychosis" means and what the symptoms are.

>>959543
B3

>>959543
Can we taste? Is that a thing we can do? Do we even know what they meant when they said sweet, savory, etc?

Also, idk if it would work, but we can bypass the 20% chance by knowing that when switched to grayscale, yellow is going to be the brightest, followed by green and then red which will appear to be the darkest. We could test this by picking one and seeing if it ends up being the correct one (assuming we can taste).

So A 3

We should also probably set up a virtual machine to isolate, repair, and access memory phi so we don't suffer unforeseen consequences.

>>959651
That is a good metod this way we can get a feel for colour and stuff our small tube face
Should we really pick at that memory in our current situation

It probably has an escape hatch or release mechanism in case the door's stuck. Look around for anything with emergency or hazard markings on it.

Anon44!9Ni.nfJm6s 2020/03/22(Sun)14:55 No. 959502 ID: b5fb67
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Tracy scans the room for tools. After a few minutes of searching and catching a few more drops of liquid, she finds a solid crowbar. Returning to the jammed door, Tracy slides the crowbar into the gap and starts to force the door open. After a minute of grunting and pushing, the door unjams and swings open.

Inside is a large vertical structure, dotted by consoles and containers. Tracy grins.

Tracy: "Siren 1, I've reached Engineering."

Su-Yeong: "Excellent. See if you can re-route the fuel to external ports near the ship's location. And make sure to grab as many industrial motherboards as you can carry."

Tracy scans the room. There are multiple consoles that could contain motherboards, but she would need them to divert fuel from the consoles first. Question is... where does she start?

>>959502
What's with that grating on the floor?
Check all the consoles, see if they're all running. Divert fuel as instructed, wait for it to complete, then start taking things apart.

I say give the room a once over first to see if their is anything useful laying around before you start poking things and taking them apart.

Start with the closest console to check it for fuel controls. Time is money, and money is money!

Also, I want to see if Glad is responsive. Try asking Glad if he is still observing us and responsive while Pink is gone to start out with and if we can ask it questions during this trial.

Lastly, be sure to take out the Whiteboard map and markers out of your suit before putting on extra clothes. See if the other clothes has items inside as well

>>959207
>>959209
>>959211
Support to all of this, especially the ideas of using the broken table as a wind screen, and possibly donning a total of two additional layers.

Ideally we try'll to find the balance between mobility and insulation. Put on too many layers and we run the risk of selectively overheating parts of ourselves. The resulting sweat would doom us in the long run, but I think that once were are done with whatever tasks we can achieve before nightfall we can revisit the idea of fully layering up with all of the suits.

>>959419
Okay, okay. We'll figure a way out of this...

Even if you can't wear any of the suits over your own doesn't mean you can't use them for slight insulation. Tie one in a sort of loose sling/turban over your head since you'll lose the most core body temperature from there. Tie another around your shoulders, knotting the arm sleeves, and tie the legs of the suit waist level so that the bulk of the suit is covering your back. Do this again but this time have the next suit cover the front of your body. It'll buy time and we afford the minor loss in mobility.

Luckily we can use the suit's toughness to our advantage. Wrap a sleeve around one of better glass shards to make a shiv and use it to cut into the back of the whiteboard map. (Preferable using maps provided by the others rather than our own, but judging from the current assessment, we can't be picky). Most whiteboards are are set onto a cork-board backing and that should be both dry and flammable.

Finally use the shiv to strip off wooden chunks from the wall (preferably as high as you can comfortably reach) most of that should be dryer since it has been kept off of the ground.

((Failing that we can use a table/chair leg to wedge into and pry off some parts of the interior wall. Judging from the damage we can see in image 6 (counting images left to right) there seems to be parts of the wall that we can put our wedge into.))

((I'd post more, but I need to see how the previous tasks progress, as they would modify various priorities I have. I'm sorry Millie that I didn't check if the wood was damp or not, it would've modified my decision, but right now we'll focus on seeing you through this.))

>>959245

Oken needs no pants, only the glory of serving the Astramar.

Ok, you look better, much less dead. How are you feeling?

Is that a blanket or are you strapped to that bed?

Getting out of bed is the obvious first step. Do not take any shit from nurses or doctors telling you to sleep.

>>959239
Now that you are patched up, call for an orderly and ask how long you were out, and what your condition is.

>>959298
That's a abstract way of saying "let's go streaking"

>>954158
Wow, Erika sucks.

>>954940
Yeah but usually she sucks a lot better than this.

Anyone interested in continuing with this?

I liked the way you write stuff, but I'd like to restart/reboot. We've been aimless for too long.

>>958665
Thanks man! Yeah I might do a reboot, probably with Bjorn not showing up until later.

Well, that's not good. Brace for impact! Tuck and roll!

This isn't over. You will stop at nothing to have your revenge. That hen-bitch took something of yours, and you'll take everything away from her. No more hostages, you kill any freedom fighter scum outside of a jail cell on sight now. No half measures.

First, you must begin your vendetta by healing, or finding a replacement for your arm and tail. Contain the rage and let it build up and fester inside.

Also, land on a kobold.

>>959107
At least we got the hydra into being nude.
Mission accomplished?
Hit the floor and keep your sliver of dignity intac with a rightly positioned hand on the crotch before you get ragdalled with the fall impact.

+1 to the idea of landing on a kobold. specifically poor Vovo as he come in with those new reinforcements you asked for. Give him a face full of that scale puss.

I think to end this you could have him along with pretty much a groupshot allies like skrelp, the assorted generic minions & the wasp. Possibly throw in the as of yet unseen king? all reacting to your mangled, charred possibly dead body. Wait scratch some of those cameos. The wasp woman is being taken to taken to the city gates at this time by skrelp & the map layout pic means renforcments wouldve had to come through the prison fightzone. Meh maybe space, time & logic will bend for the sake of getting a dramatic picture to play out. It certainly didn't do as much enabling player backed for purely eroticly motivated stupidity that's for sure. Have them look down through the hole you fell into instead?

>>959107
Brush yourself off when you land, this ain't over.

>>959107
Brace for impact. Not sure what's below us but anything to cushion the fall. It's not over yet.

Dread King Malcor 2020/03/14(Sat)02:36 No. 958973 ID: 5245b2
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{A semi truck's horn blares, evade!}
ROLL FOR EVASION
15 or Higher for complete success
14-10 glancing blow
10 or lower is direct hit

rolled 16 = 16

---

DERP YOURSELF ALIVE

>>958975
SUCCESS!
Bryn rolls to the side, and the truck's brakes screech as it attempts to slow!

yell at guy in the truck

>>959140
"To be fair, I did cross in front of his truck."

Get a large flint, it’ll last a long time. But keep in mind you need more than a flint to start a fire. You need something very hard to strike to flint against, such as an Iron or the spine of a knife, and you need something highly flammable, such as paper, light cloth, frayed rope, etc. because the sparks off the flint aren’t hot enough to catch wood on fire by themselves.

You should definitely invest in a knife, a high quality one. What kind of knives do they sell? For survival purposes you’ll want something weighty and sharp, but not too large for finer tasks. I’d suggest a clip-point blade about five inches long, with a handle of checkered hardwood that fits snugly in your hand. Get a good, oiled leather sheath for it as well: that baby needs to be kept dry.

Aside from that get a Canteen, some Rope, a First-aid kit, a Notebook and Pen, and a really loud Whistle. That whistle is really important for calling help if you get in trouble.

X 8
X 2
Knife claws: Never leave home without them!

>>959044
This is solid for Kliss's pack.

Lets get one for Tyrsis.
Sleeping bag, food ration, water canteen, knife and notebook. He can borrow one of your pens.

>>959042
Food Ration: 3 spaces. 85 gems.
Water Canteen: 4 spaces, 50 gems.
Rope: 2 spaces, 50 gems.
Knife: 2 spaces, 30 gems.
Hammer: 3 spaces, 50 gems.
First Aid Kit: 4 spaces, 80 gems.
Writing Pen: 1 space, 10 gems.
Notebook: 1 space, 25 gems
Mining Goggles: The googles stay on, 65 gems.

Space: 20 Cost: 445 gems

Also get Tyrsis a bag.

>>959069
This un's pretty good.

>>957081
Them's some mighty fine ears, yeah.

B.

A

A or B sound good.

B

>>958139

A ride back? Jeez, yeah.

And maybe some pants. We can write the report once we've had some time to decompress it all and get our thoughts in order.

... oh, and before we forget, ask if Baxton has seen or heard of some weird cat guy wearing a cloak, or anything, since he might be kind of a victim / witness / good samaritan / vigilante or something.

Yeah ask him if he has any spare pants too since the guy shredded yours off. On second thought, maybe don't give the details, he probably doesn't want to know.

#freevabrelius

Also, innuendo about getting a ride, obviously.

A ride back and some actual clothes would be nice. Don't forget to mention he's got a secret stash of stolen stuff somewhere.

Yes. Please. It's been a long day.

>>958892
Tell them you found it in a wrecked camp, but since you have amnesia it could've been your camp for all you know.

Vraptor130 2020/03/12(Thu)00:47 No. 958898 ID: 1c7258
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Augh,after spending so long making the new body assets for the art I ended up making a mistake on the final page. Here you get a bonus, the fixed page 19.

Feel proud about not getting an arousal from nakey snakey... (then fail)

A proud, professional warrior woman, and a fellow exhibitionist at that. Our introduction to her has been rocky, but she did give us a hell of a greeting at the door, so let’s not burn bridges yet, tempting though it may be to joke about the lady with the large, ring pierced ‘knockers’ having to watch the door. Likely not one for small talk, but she can still be buttered up all the same. Above all though, be cooperative.

For the moment, let Lola work in peace, poor dear is probably distracted with whatever is going on under that table, and they appear to have been at it for a while, if the sticky floor is at all related to their current activities. Briefly mention the camp and the Rotam Vulpex, though not by name. And on that scent, try to identify it subtly. We’ve encountered similar scents before, perhaps this time it’s coming from Lola? No idea what’s up with her eyes, but unless we see someone else with a similar coloration, there’s no need to panic.

While we wait, keeping our hands in sight of her, ask Trina about her workout routine and diet, as she clearly takes good care of herself. Not that we should point it out to her, but her bust must give her some trouble, wobbling and bouncing as it seems so willful to do. Perhaps those rings serve a function, to be bound or weighted for her convenience for training, though there is a temptation tug on one of them.

If all else fails, passively sway our tailfeathers side to side and try to figure out the scent. Maybe passively wonder if Trina is checking us out while we have no way of knowing. If we do get excited, make a small attempt to hide it from Trina, and hope that we’re standing close enough for Lola not to notice.

Sorry for the wall of text. This quest is awesome, and I really suck at pruning words and ideas.

>>958904
I agree
Accidentally pop one to our new snake friend

>>958311
Not surprising really.

Hmph, clearly some form of rogue. The criminal element will no doubt make every effort to swindle you, even in minor acts such as following them, although they will no doubt scurry back to more of their ilk, and they deliberately evade renown in all but the vaguest of senses. Still, Contacts are always useful, even if only to learn who has the most worthy horde to confiscate...

I would be wary of this thing, even vermin can be dangerous. Do not enter whatever ambush it has planned without subtly determining what it most values, and holding such to ransom upon its fair behaviour.

>>958318
support one should not trust this being as it also would have reason to send us to the "MEAT LABS"

>>958290
This

He wants to USE you.

Begin contemplating his shiny chassis. How much gold was used to create him and will it still melt like all the other parts in his body?

>>958473
Tired? Sleep. Otherwise,
Get Fair Exchange? Ask what's what? Fix up the deal? Rip off ear if you dislike what they say?

Get sleep. You’ll consume less calories and you need actual rest.

Go check on that blood-vine thing so maybe you can finally eat something. If it sprouts you can eat ze fish.

>>958473
Go get some actual sleep, dream a real dream.

You are getting veeeeerrrryyyy sleeeepyyyy...

Go to bed

>>956511
Because we aren't Lackey, in either case you can't do what you are about to when someone could interfere with this.

Simplified SQL speak? I dig.
Hmm, I doubt this'll work, but just to be sure,
[QUERY:KITER_PARASPACIAL_DEFENSES]
[QUERY:SELF/PRIVATE_KEYS]

Oh geez buddy, what shell you running? You're way behind the times. Time to update.

>>956511
"I was a bird. I still am in part. This is one of the personality composites I was made from."

"I was him. And I think I was her. I was all of them and none of them. I was the worst parts of them, because Voidsong's twisted mind could only see their conflicting, self-destructive tendencies as pure potential."

Dogs of War 1/2 Grid Iron 2020/03/06(Fri)16:57 No. 958260 ID: 5d6605
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He drug himself into the command tent, tracking mud and blood behind him. Eingrid was there, pouring over a map.

She looked him over. “You look like shit, more than the last time I saw you. What happened?”

Dogs of War 2/2 Grid Iron 2020/03/06(Fri)17:00 No. 958261 ID: 5d6605
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He threw the cassette wordlessly onto the table.

“You got the intel.” She stood up straight and turned to him with a tired, bemused expression, “But what took you so fucking long?”

He lit up a cigarette and took a pull. “The stitches in my leg came undone, slowed me down. And the intel you gave me on the patrol’s route turned up bad, I had to figure out their new route, which took time.”

One of her brows rose in mild surprise, but the flat tone stayed, “Hmm, good job. Better than I was expecting, anyway.” Her gaze shifted to the dried blood on his hands and her tone became suspicious, “How many Hael were there in the patrol again?”

“Five. All corpses in the rain now.” He took a drag from his cigarette, staring off into space. I wonder how long they’ll sit there.

Eingrid nodded, “Yeah, figured. No judgement here, needs must. Sounds like you’ve been in the suck long enough though. Go get some rest, I’ll find you when I need you.” Though her scowl remained unchanged, appreciation crept into her tone, “And, good work.” She waved dismissively and turned back to her map.

He gave a lackluster two-finger salute and turned to leave.

“Oh,” she added over her shoulder, “you never gave me your name; I want it for posterity. If you can even remember it, I mean.”

He froze in the doorway. His name? Yes, he remembered. “Ryker.”

“Well con-fucking-gratulations, Ryker,” She said flatly, inspecting the tape he’d brought, “‘cause starting now you’re an honorary member of the 23rd Razors.”

dogs are proven to help with stress,
pet Eingrid to sooth war trauma

They seem to be pretty casual with that, so it's probably not too big deal to them. So give them an appreciative thank you before you get stitched and rested.

You don't have to roll out a cake with a stripper in it on my account.

Just let me get field-ready again, and we can celebrate with some fireworks.

Use Astral projection to enter Gramgram's internal thought dimension, and watch her life replay from birth through to the current moment to know all that which she know's and thennrerurn to your physical body before she has a brief mental break from the trauma and relieving all of her past trauma in a single instant.

You need to continue the tradition to learn the recipe. Who does gramgram wish you to kill?

>>956055
The secret ingredient is murder, thats why she killed someone. It had to be done

USE IT AS THE ULTIMATE WEAPON

Lets go over the river and through the woods to GramGram's house we go

>>957803
I think the symbol on the right is our health.

Alright if the current spell is Wood, then let's not cast it at the moment.
Rest a bit, get some water, sniff at a dead dog to see if it's appetizing.

Seek out the dog corpses and imbibe of their life essences.

>>957773
Level up from that sweet sweet dog XP

>>957804
Yeah, that makes sense

>Component Requirements: Drawstring Bag, Lit Candle
... Okay. You're not going to like this, but you have the tools you need to construct the ritual components. It's going to be boring and disgusting though.

>Lit Candle
Combine [Mummified Goblin Corpse, Enchanted Banana Peel] with [String from Silk Rope]. Scratch your flint arrowheads on the starmetal nail file to light it on fire.

>Drawstring Bag
Use the [Flint Arrowhead] to cut a small piece of leather out of the [Mummified Goblin Corpse]], then use [String from Silk Rope] to tie it all together. Use [Torn Paper from the Map] to reinforce if needed.

>Zinc coin
The heck did that come from? Did the banana peel interact with one of your coins? Keep it, though; there are alchemy tricks you can do with solid zinc.

Oh and nice to meet you.

>>956452
Sounds pretty solid, only a few alterations- make the candle out of the wax you have, rather than the peel, and you should probably avoid destroying the map. Leather bag and wax candle to get help does seem like a good place to start.

Is the peel of the Elsewhere banana magical enough to act as a safe handle for the starmetal nail file?

I've assembled a crude goblin-leather pouch, suitable for basic summoning rituals. Not enough subcutaneous fat for a candle's worth of tallow, though, probably meaning an extended period of starvation. If that's how they treat their own allies... I definitely need to get out of here.

Silk rope reduced to 74 feet. Wax half-banana reduced to wax third-of-a-banana.

Gained small, lumpy, banana-scented candle.

Flint struck against starmetal doesn't produce sparks. I'll need iron or steel to actually light the candle. Or, with the First Scribe's sigil wrought in gold or brass, I could call on miraculous flames... among many other things.

Deliberately damaging such a rare map would be a clear violation of the tenets of my faith.

I can hold the nail file safely, just need to be careful about applying too much force. Wrapping it in banana peel would NOT help, and might risk damaging the (bizarre, shoddy) enchantment keeping that extradimensional space stable.

>>956722
Steel hook mounted in the center of the ceiling seems like the thing to strike against for sparks then, just be careful with your hands and the file.

As for what to summon, not sure what the limitations are, but priorities seem like First Scribe's Sigil, so if there's a way to conjure a creature that gives access to that, lets do it. Other ideas seem like a creature which would allow you to handle the starmetal file safely, weapons/armor, strategic information gathering, body guards, that sort of thing. Creatures which can give you things, something with it's own magical power to conujure or what have you.