Shula carry Celst on back.

Call yourselves Master Blaster.

>>180257
Orach candy can have some special properties in certain cases. However, of course, I won't make it if I don't have a means of doing it safely - It'd make things even worse if I burned my fingers.

Here's what I feel I should do next:
1. Help Shula up.
2. Look for traps past where the cylinder is, just in case the folks who made this Labyrinth were super mean and added one where we couldn't see.
3. Practice balancing with a chunk of my tail missing for a short while. It still hurts a lot, but the most problematic thing I can see resulting is trying to make a precise jump and then falling forward, due to the difference in weight of my tail.

>>180279
Jasper.. I'm not that fucked up am I?.. Am I going to die?.. I can't feel my legs.. Where did they go?.. Why can't I stand..

>>180294
You'll be all right, Celst. We'll make sure of it. Your legs are... Well, they aren't working right now.

We'll find a way to restore you after we get out of here. Just hang tight.

>>180299
Aren't.. Working?.. I don't understand what you mean.. I smell something that hurts my head and burns my nose.. And.. Blood.. And.. And..

>>180302
Don't overthink it, Celst. First priority is to get out of here, if you panic or go into shock it'll be a lot more difficult to get out.

>>180304
But.. I.. I don't know.. What to f-feel anymore..

>>180309
...

Shula hug Celst. :(

Jack WOULD say how they'll totally get her a new pair when they get out. With rocket boots, and laser blasters, and a cupholder, n' everything!

But... uh.. those organics are pretty touchy about their original limbs. Something about 'loosing their humanity'. Best let Shula do the hugging, maybe a little head motion towards her to suggest as much.

"Just try to relax a bit...we're still getting you out of here"

Ehn... also way awkward with me having to cut them off, and stuff... nugh. That was so not awesome.

Also note to self:see about cup-holders when arm is replaced. The hell didn't I think of that sooner?

Anyway keeping an eye out for any new surprises, and giving those two some rest time makes sense to me.

2010/05/21(Fri)00:29 No. 180653 ID: 8d3380
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Why in all of the hells would you possibly suggest to Jasper to make candy out of the melted acid drenched gore of their appendages? That is absolutely disgusting and you won't verbalize the idea to him. Celst begins to speak.

"Jasper.. I'm not that fucked up am I?.. Am I going to die?.. I can't feel my legs.. Where did they go?.. Why can't I stand.."

Jasper frowns, helping Celst up some. "You'll be all right, Celzt. We'll make sure of it. Your legs are... Well, they aren't working right now. We'll find a way to restore you after we get out of here. Just hang tight."

"Aren't.. Working?.. I don't understand what you mean.. I smell something that hurts my head and burns my nose.. And.. Blood.. And.. And.." Celst seems to be at least mildly delirious. Jasper motions for you to come closer before responding.

"Don't overthink it, Celzt. First priority is to get out of here, if you panic or go into shock it'll be a lot more difficult to get out."

"But.. I.. I don't know.. What to f-feel anymore.." Celst says, but you lower down and give Celst a hug as Jack finally speaks up, his voice as bold and confident as it had been since they met him.

"Just try to relax a bit...we're still getting you out of here."

You do however rip up some of your apron like clothing and form a cloth belt in order to tie Celst securely to your back with some help from Jasper and Jack.

The group rests for a while. Sitting around and being quiet while Jasper tries to get used to what happened to his tail, and Celst is ready to move on. "We should get going," Celst says after a few minutes, her deep pool of wit having been removed with her legs for the moment's passing.

Jasper checks the room after the group climbs up the incline to the new door.

"The room is safe. I can guarantee that there's no direct traps. There's a device on the wall opposing that will trigger something, probably the door, but we can enter without worrying. Jack, should we install something on your arm before we continue?"

The party's current hoard of things include:
Jasper's cane, Jack's broken blade, Jasper's bone cutter trap, and a lot of tattered clothing. If the group and/or Jack wishes to have a new arm installed, what it should be crafted from is important.

>>180653

I guess the broken blade would be the sensible thing to attach.

>>180653
Graft the cane and the blade onto Celst's stumps.

Would fool her for a while, I'm sure.

>>180661
is that blade still covered in acid?

How would we attach the bone cutter trap to his arm? If we can do that, then Jack could use it and the blade. Two weapons!

2010/05/21(Fri)03:01 No. 180705 ID: 8d3380
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Jasper barely manages to properly attach even the broken blade to Jack's arm, but it works.

The group enters the room after fixing Jack's arm, in order to closer see what's against the west wall.

It is an obvious puzzle. The input device for your answer is a two digit tumbler, and you must press the Red Button once you have the 'correct' answer.

You may only have one try, hopefully your chaotic thoughts can agree on an answer.

TotallyNotSamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2010/05/21(Fri)03:08 No. 180706 ID: cff943
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>>180705
the ? should be a 6, based on the pattern there... but I have no idea what number should be put in the tumbler.

If all the numbers on the lower right are multiples of the central number (5) and on the lower right they are multiples of 3, then it would only be logical that since all the numbers on the top are multiples of 6 that the missing value is 6.

Any other theories before we commit to dialing it up to 6 and pushing the button?

>>180707
Several, it could be 90 (multiplying all of them together), it could be something based on the patterns of mutiples (working on this), it could be 69 for shits and giggles :v

>>180705
Okay, I can't think of anything reasonable besides six. It seems too obvious, but nothing else fits.

What I am going to suggest is that Jasper set up a button-hitting-trap-mechanism that will only trigger once you're all safely away from the panel. Like, in the previous room safely away.

>>180708
Well the numbers on the top left and right of the hex subtracted from the number across from it on the bottom equal lead to the answer on the other Hexes, so I'm leaning to guess it's 6.
I want to know what the side portions of it mean before we act though.

So we're assuming greatest common denominator here?

>>180705
try moving around or yanking on the things there. see if there's anything around or underneath em

Roll the tumblers to see if the last number possible is a 9 or a 7. This is important.

 

Well okay. Maybe it isn't a chainsaw. But hey Jack isn't fussy!

But yeah.. more puzzles, seems you guys have a good idea on this one. Though Jacks a little confused at that strange number between the big 3, and the little 12. Looks like a poorly drawn 4 or something....

But I kid! "Who's willing to be this has a twist like the last one."

2010/05/21(Fri)09:17 No. 180754 ID: 0f8ef4
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You roll the number to 06 and click the button carefully with your claw.

The display below it says, "Correct. Receive your reward."

You can hear the door slamming shut that you entered the room in, but the door to the South is still closed.

"That's weird," you say softly.

>>180754


FFFF, buggggs. And probably lethaly poisonous, I'm seeing it.

Everybody, run to a corner in the room! Then "aim" Celzt to the center of the room, where hopefully the bugs will be swarming in larger quantities, and tell her to throw a lightning bubble.

Jack 2010/05/21(Fri)09:31 No. 180758 ID: c8bce1
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>>180754
"Whoop! There's our twist. So called it... but bugs? Seriously guys?"

Bugs. They're attacking Jack with Bugs. Poison against a robot. An Android who can electrify his entire body turning himself into a giant bug zapper. There isn't even any risk of them crawling inside to chew on his circuits, they'd be fried first!

Jack gives a wave back to the others "You bunch get back I SO got this one.. figure out how to get that door open will yah? Right answers locking the door again Wooo~ They must think they're smart"

>>180756
Celst, can you use your lightning bubbles to maintain a shield around you or us, or are they one-shot bursts?

>>180759
I've never tried so I really don't know...

kill the bugs and make bug candy.

>>180758
go with this

>>180758

If they're small enough, bugs can get in between your joints and mess you up from the inside. I think my plan is safer.

>>180944
What? Are you calling me [overconfident]? What's the worse that can happen

^______________________^

>>181253
You could die like Epsilon.

Aren't pangolins naturally bug-resistant?

2010/05/22(Sat)15:15 No. 181359 ID: 8d3380
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Celst can hear the disruptions in the air from the bugs and she cries out a, "Watch out," but only Jasper starts to react in time, but fails to get out of the way. Two of the bugs land on Jack, one on Shula, and another on Jasper. The other two land on the floor.

"Take out the two on the floor with your bubble, Celst," You say, and help point her towards them. Celst readies a lightning bubble.

"Whoop! There's our twist. So called it... but bugs? Seriously guys?" Asks Jack, as he backs off a little bit with a confident grin. "You bunch get back I SO got this one.. figure out how to get that door open will yah? Right answers locking the door again Wooo~ They must think they're smart"

Jack begins to electrify himself to take care of the bugs on himself, and to attract the other ones, possibly.

2010/05/22(Sat)15:16 No. 181361 ID: 8d3380
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Jack was a Freedom Fighter on the outer reaches of the Islands. He did not keep himself hidden, and made his presence, and deeds well known and in the open. His most famous act was infiltrating the Power Plant near the King's Castle. He took out the power and re-routed it to the poor as a message to the King's abuse of the people.

Several days later, once the King had the electricity issue "resolved," Jack was on the news, having publicly boasted about being responsible, among other acts of Royal Sabotage. The King saw this from a television near his throne, and he was not one to take such acts lightly. He hired a mercenary who knew Jack, and his weaknesses and habits.

The mercenary struck him down cold, and he was sent to the Labyrinth without so much as a trial or a night in jail. The King wanted Jack dead before he could do any more damage.

Jack kills the bugs with his electrical charge shortly, around the same time Celst's lightning bubble is eradicating the ones that aren't attached to anyone.

This is a bad time to find out the bugs are explosive. Jack's body is shattered across the room. The blade on his former right arm narrowly misses Shula's shoulder, but causes the bug to leap off of her onto the ground.

This leaves Shula and Celst standing there, and Jasper with a bug on his shoulder.

"Oh g-gods, get it off of me!" Jasper whimpers. His body shivering in fear.

[ Party member lost. ]

>>181361
Carefully lift the bug off him and throw it at a wall.

i knew it wouldn't be that straight forward.

okay shula, carefully grab the one on jasper, and give it an underhand toss to the other side of the room. as well as the other then. then have celst blow them up.

oh, and grab his head. his personality core may be intact.

Jack 2010/05/22(Sat)15:27 No. 181367 ID: c8bce1
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Yeah~ Sorry about that. Had to keep him in character. His overconfidence was going to be his downfall sooner or later, it was only a matter of Time.

Jack you shall be missed~

>>181365
They have other priorities! Namely those Bugs.

They don't seem to explode unless irritated... they could very well be the way out of this room with the door sealed shut as it is.

>>181368
oh, that's a good one, throw the bugs over to the door and have celst lighting them.

>>181363
>>181369

She can't shoot anotehr lightning bubble yet! Maybe jus throw them against the furthest wall, the collision might make them blow up.

>>181361
Wear Jack's head as a hat.

Throw bugs into other bugs.

Also, have Celst wear Jack's head like a hat. Don't tell her what it is.

>>181370
then throw them at the door. may as well see if that is how it opens, and if it isn't then no harm done.

>>181361
Does anyone here have any computer skills? If so we can MAYBE take out Jack's hardrive/memory chip/whatever and maybe stick it in something else later. perhaps

>>181361
What was that noise? And smell?.. I..I take back what I said to Jack..

>>181367

You win... so hard...

>>181386
Out of character, Jasper has some engineering skills (which translates in to traps for BBQ). I don't know how skilled he can be, as the specific focus is traps - Nothing was specified about other engineering skill. However, I'd imagine Jasper knows enough to keep some parts of Jack intact, if they're common sense to most people involved with engineering. I don't know if he'd be able to get his soul back, though, as I'm not 100% certain how robots work after they've been destroyed.


In-character:
If Shula isn't able to get close enough to get it, I'll gently try to brush the bug off my shoulder (Away from Shula and Celzt) and run along a clear course away from it in case it explodes upon impact with the ground.

>>181643
I dunno, do you get a new soul every time you black-out?
As long as Jack's data is all there he can be restored without involving the discontinuity dilemma.

>>181648
Good call, thanks for hitting me with that logic, particularly on the emphasis that he's recoverable if (and likely only if) his data remains intact.

2010/05/23(Sun)01:10 No. 181695 ID: 8d3380
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Jasper carefully removes the bug from his shoulder area. He then hurls it towards the other bug.

"Why sweet lady, you are wearing a mighty fine sun dress on this certainly dreadful afternoon, I do hope you have baked some of your scrumptious biscuits." "Oh good sir, you sure have caught me in a pickle, I have not even began to cook, by chance did you bring any more of your sugar cubes, I am out and I just could die from how strong this tea is, suh." "I could spare a few, for you my darling." "Oh you are givin' me the vapors." "Oh stop, this is no ti--"

Boom.

>>181695

Success.

Now see if a door or something opened. I guess you could carry Jack's head hoping that all the important data is stored there. Also his sword, that'll be useful.

>>181695
Phew! Shula, the bugs can be held onto carefully without exploding, I think. In case there are more near you, that is. Keep an eye out on the ground, make sure you're not stepping on any.

Celzt, if you feel any bugs on you, don't hit them. Bad things could happen.

I'll keep an eye on the ceiling, but I'll check the floor every once in a while to keep one of those bugs from crawling onto me.

>>181698
Are they the cause of those explosions? They make my ears ring.

2010/05/23(Sun)11:16 No. 181837 ID: 8d3380
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The second the last bug explodes, the door to the South, to the new area, Shoots open, and immediately begins to slide downwards to close.

You can hurry and go through the door, which is especially difficult the more time passes for you specifically, Celst doesn't even make that big of a difference. (You are a big girl, after all).

That being said, You can hurry through the door, or risk not making it, and collecting Jack's pieces.

You might have to summon more bugs to open the door again if you try and collect Jack.

Neither of you are very agile, will you risk it?

You don't want to leave Jack behind, but you also know he'd want you to survive.

>>181837
CONTINUITY ERROR

Jack's head still attached to his body wut.

Anyway, grab the nearest piece of Jack and use it to attempt to jam up the door. He was a robot, robots are not made out of weak metals, it should hold temporarily. At least long enough to drag his torso portion along with.

That or you could go all AMAZON PANGOLIN and hold it open with your BEAR HANDS.

TotallyNotSamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2010/05/23(Sun)11:20 No. 181843 ID: cff943
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>>181837
just go, there's noting you can do for him.

Eh, just go, then. If you have to do the bug things again, yer gonna die, I'm sure. And trying to jam the door will probably result in the door snaping someone in half or something.

Just go.

>>181841
And now Word of God is telling me that it's coincidence that head and torso landed near each other.

So, to reiterate: Prop door open with Piece O' Jack and/or hold it open using nothing but the FURY OF THE PANGOLIN, then have Jasper skitter over and grab the head, then dive through the open door while you dive into the next room after him, the door shutting in your wake.

Also make sure that Celtz is securely tied still. Wouldn't want her to slip off after all that and end up getting trapped in the room.

>>181837
Operation GTFO sounds like it goes hand in hand with Primary Objective: Don't Die.

 

Save yourselves! You do not want to deal with more exploding bugs!

Jack will totally kick all your asses in the afterlife if you get yourselves killed! Even if he has to march out of machine heaven to do so!

Well unless he's like, on a hot date with Mew Cai or something, but after that! Butt kicking!

We can dooo it

WE CAN SAVE HIM...
Or at least his head... or core... or something...

We don't know that opening the door again will release bugs again. It could release something different, and someone else will die.

Let's go while we still can. Perhaps some other prisoner will find Jack and bring him to safety. One day.

Leave Jack. I'm sure he'll be happy to wait for the next guys to come along, to inform them that the bugs explode!

Either that or his charred body parts will inform them. But you know, whatever.

2010/05/23(Sun)16:51 No. 181993 ID: 8d3380
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You look away from Jack and rush underneath the closing door first, looking around the room.

It's a pretty empty room with a thin grating in the middle of the floor.

It would be impossible for anyone to fit down into the grating, especially you.

As soon as Jasper slides underneath, the door momentarily slams shut. Once the door is shut, the walls to the east and west begin sliding inward.

"Called it," you state in a Testy manner, noticing a Pattern with this place.

You have much more time in here, it's not moving at a speedy pace, but it's definitely not a good idea to waste too much time.

The obvious thing to do is to check the grate in the center of the room. Also check it for traps. The fact that there's a big obvious trap in the room doesn't mean there isn't going to be smaller ones waiting.

While Jasper checks the grate, Shula, see if you can find a secret door or some kind of mechanism in the opposite wall.

check the ceiling and the far wall. need to find the button that makes it stop.

Jasper should check EVERYWHERE for traps.

Examine ceiling?

>>181993
Turn the door to the previous room into candy.
Or turn one of the moving walls into candy.

>>182012
I believe that it needs to be edible to make candy from it.

>>182018
You don't eat stone? o.0

2010/05/23(Sun)17:58 No. 182021 ID: 8d3380
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Jasper examines the room for traps. Sans the obvious one slowly drawing in towards them, there aren't any. On the ceiling, there is a passageway.

It looks like there is a way out, it's just not easy to get to.

>>182021
Shula, use your abilities to carve a crude ladder up to the exit. It doesn't need to be pretty, it just needs to get the three of you out of here.

Expect it to be full of some kind of fluid, though.

TotallyNotSamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2010/05/23(Sun)18:01 No. 182025 ID: cff943
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>>182021

Check out the grating. I'm sure it's populated by kittens.

Shula: Use STURDY PHYSIQUE to throw Celst through the hole. Have her use remains of everyone's clothes as rope to hoist Jasper out, then he and she hoist you out.

>>182021
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

If Jack had lived through that last room he'd be able to get everyone out.

It looks like the only way to progress is to wait until the walls get close together then climb up via bracing yourself against them. Like on that Ninja Warrior game show. Another way to do something similar to that would be having Jasper and Shula brace themselves back to back against the walls and walk up like that.

OR we could yank out the bar from inside the drain to use to brace the walls. Or we could do both things.

Don't worry. Being crushed to death is a lot like falling asleep.

In a giant crushing machine.

>>182027
this sounds like the best idea. try getting bars out first then try the bracing walk up.

2010/05/23(Sun)18:29 No. 182035 ID: 8d3380
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You pull the grate out of the flooring, and hold it up to stall the crushing walls. Jasper goes up first and you hold Celst up for Jasper to pull up and out. With Jasper's help you hoist your heavy self up and out of the pit slowly...

And so ends the account of the final run of the Labyrinth just a few years ago. The only time anyone survived.

The King was infuriated...

2010/05/23(Sun)18:38 No. 182041 ID: 8d3380
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"Ugh, I feel like I was just smashed through a wall."

"Because you were."

"Who the fuck are you?"

"An answer to a question."

"And what question is that?"

Left vs Right?

>>182041
Pick a number, any number.

What is true death?

>>182041
"'What am I sexually attracted to?'"

How might I reverse Entropy?

2010/05/23(Sun)21:17 No. 182109 ID: 8d3380
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"...This Labyrinth shit hole sure has been quiet, but it seems like it was abandoned. The voices in my head have been quiet for a few hours. I think I'm almost out of this place, and I have no idea why I stopped to put this little bastard together. I'm hoping he'll be able to do at least one thing to aid in my Survival.



...Oh hell, the voices are back."

>>182109
Sup, bitch.

Jack 2010/05/23(Sun)21:42 No. 182119 ID: c8bce1
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Thus the real reason I didn't want anyone tampering with Jacks remains.

01[18:21] <%Bribri> Honestly I'm not TOO worried if Jack dies. Primarily because well.. he's a robot.
01[18:21] <%Bribri> A Master class 3d6 Skill dice Engineer just fell into the dungeon in the future.

Screw you fate! PARTY MEMBER GAINED. Whatever that weird fucking Shadow crap is it better go find a corner to hide in AS JACKS COMING TO KICK ITS ASS.
...
...
...
Not the Shark dude shadow though... he's cool n' stuff. Be a heck of a surprise to see him Alive!... or.. well.. not alive.. but not dead, for the second time. Whatever!

>>182109
We'll play nice with you if you go back and retrieve a few people's remains for resurrection.

>>182120
Seven the only other person unaccounted for is Nic and she is very much frozen/exploded.

>>182122
We just need a goo sample. Humans are not prone to vaporization, so there would be plenty of residue left over.

>>182124
I think you had better talk with Som about how resurrection works in this universe.

Suggestion 2010/05/23(Sun)23:35 No. 182176 ID: eb6d46
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>>182109

I love you insomnia

>>182124

There isn't going to be anything left from Nic to rescue, you know. It's been several years since all this happened.

Hey Asali you didn't happen to see any ghosts did you?

Trust me, getting him operational is a good thing.