Coralina!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/03/03(Wed)18:07 No. 141605 ID: 4b1405
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>and now you released another demon who's currently in the process of destroying society again, and you're still doing fuck all to stop it.
"...I... released her?"

Coralina!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/03/03(Wed)18:07 No. 141606 ID: 4b1405
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...GRHAHDSOJGLASJFKDSLJVDKSJDSKAA

Coralina!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/03/03(Wed)18:08 No. 141608 ID: 4b1405
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"OKAY."

You of all people should know we're bound to help whoever holds us, Cora. No one here is at fault.

Coralina!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/03/03(Wed)18:08 No. 141610 ID: 4b1405
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"What the HELL do you want from me!?

I ask how to stop him, and you tell me to play his game. I play his game, and then you ask why I'm not stopping him! What the HELL is with you!? There is no PLEASING you!"

>>141610
;-;

Coralina!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/03/03(Wed)18:09 No. 141613 ID: 4b1405
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And then YOU go and let Hope free, with access to ALL of her power, might I add, and NOBODY KNOWS WHERE THE FUCK SHE IS BECAUSE SHE CAN GO GOD DAMN INVISIBLE AT WILL, AND YOU TELL ME IT'S MY FAULT!?"

Coralina!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/03/03(Wed)18:09 No. 141614 ID: 4b1405
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>animated

Coralina!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/03/03(Wed)18:10 No. 141616 ID: 4b1405
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"Hope didn't do a god damn thing while I had her, but you get her for thirty minutes...! AGH! I am sick of your tirades and your fuck ups and your arguing and your implications! Stop blaming me for EVERY GOD DAMN THING, and MAYBE I won't put you back in the endless wasteland in a million tiny pieces!

Are we clear?"

Coralina!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/03/03(Wed)18:10 No. 141617 ID: 4b1405
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"Hah... Hah... Hah... Hah... I get it, alright? I fucked up. Stop rubbing it in."

>I take any opportunity I can to tease someone for dooming the world to destruction. Twice.
"I've gotten quite enough teasing about that, thanks, and you did one of those. 'Give Hope a chance,' you say. 'We can redeem her,' you say. You fucked up too, and unlike you, I've been doing my best for 6 years to fix my mistake. You don't have the right to act all high and mighty. Stop being a bunch of assholes, or I will end you."

>[idiocy] ...but I never said it was a good suggestion...
"If it's not a good suggestion, does it even matter?! God damn you. There isn't anything better to do. If there was, we'd be doing it!"

Yes'm.

Coralina!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/03/03(Wed)18:11 No. 141620 ID: 4b1405
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"...What are you looking at?"

"N-nothing!"

Coralina!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/03/03(Wed)18:11 No. 141621 ID: 4b1405
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"...sigh."

>As for suggestions, how about attuning ourselves to that magic crystal thing? Soon as Hope busts herself outta there all we have to do is be touching it for approximately half a minute and boom INFINITE POWERRR
DM's Note: That's not how it works at all. Go read Kara Quest. Chapter 4, specifically.

>>141616
We are. You're mostly opaque.

Bitch.

We're sorry miss cora please no more wall miss cora

>>141621
Hey, when you touched us to the crystal, part of us got left behind in it.

Maybe you can use that piece of us to track Hope's piece of us.

>>141622
STFU, would you kindly?

>>141621
Cora, you know how many of us there are in here? A lot. Some of them aren't as helpful as others - those are the ones who berate you constantly for your mistake.

We - the ones who want to help you - know that you've done a lot to try to make up for it. We don't fault you for a mistake, and we respect you for all you're done to make it right. And we still respect you for continuing to do so.

>>141621
Actually my lady shattering us would only increase our influence manifold. Ever read the story of the Snow Queen... think of us as the "Troll's Mirror"... shattering us would make us capable of influencing hundreds.. perhaps thousands of lives directly.

Our size bears little influence on our power... also... physically damaging us does little more than panic the more vain and shortsighted among us... I felt nothing.

well, I'M sorry, but I haven't been trying anything less then be helpful.
that's the problem with having unlimited personalities in here, we have both very nice people and also total assholes. especially Mneme, he seems to derive some perverse joy out of tormenting you, if i could shut him up i would, but that's no how we work and i can't stop him.
so before you end us remember that some of us do have your best interests in mind. *hugs*

Apoc paused - mid terms Coralina!94Ud9yTfxQ 2010/03/03(Wed)18:36 No. 141633 ID: 4b1405
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>Hey, when you touched us to the crystal, part of us got left behind in it. Maybe you can use that piece of us to track Hope's piece of us.
...Maybe. Its worth a shot. Should I just drop everything here and go try that? I don't really know any divining powers, so I'd need some help...

>We - the ones who want to help you - know that you've done a lot to try to make up for it. We don't fault you for a mistake, and we respect you for all you're done to make it right. And we still respect you for continuing to do so.
>so before you end us remember that some of us do have your best interests in mind.
...Thanks. Sorry for breaking you so much. I thought you were a little tougher. These things just kinda... build up.

When we're visiting Arcanitech tomorrow, I'll see if they can't do something about your... broken-ness. Sorry.

>Actually my lady shattering us would only increase our influence manifold
Then I'll put you in a concrete block and drop you into an ocean. You can't exactly stop me.

If there aren't any other ideas... I should probably go up a couple more floors and see Remi.

>>141621
Look Cora on behalf of the other voices apologies, its not that we don't want to help you its just we have to help whoever pocess's us with there goals. Honestly we've had all kinds of owners and you are probably the most level headed of the bunch and in regards to Hope escaping, do you really think we would let her get away without at some motive to it, we don't want her to destroy society anymore than you do. Do you have, anyidea how boring it would be for us? Trust us we have a plan. It involves sending Hope into space so we no longer have to deal with her.

don't worry about the cracks. we have limited regeneration, as long as the two parts are there and touching they will seal back together. but we can't regrow lost chunks... maybe we can, never lost a chunk like this before, maybe enough time and it will grow back.

>>141633
> Should I just drop everything here and go try that?
As hilarious as it would be to have made you come all this way for nothing, I'll say no. Remi's just a few steps away, we might as well at least pop in and say hello.
Besides, maybe talking with one of the few actually nice people we've met will take your mind off things.

> When we're visiting Arcanitech tomorrow, I'll see if they can't do something about your... broken-ness. Sorry.
It happens. If they can't restore us to normal, try to at least get some kindof glass prosthetic, would you? We're practically an eyesore! We used to be so nice and round...

Totallynotsamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2010/03/03(Wed)19:24 No. 141655 ID: 67eb8f
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>>141635
That's kind of a stupid plan. She'll probably just blow up the earth once they leave orbit because anyone left wouldn't be perfect before she tortured the few thousand people on the ship for the next untold amount of years.

A much better plan is to get the chunk back with a spell. I mean this crap has to happen a lot with magical artifacts, it breaks, you lose a piece, oh shit gotta teleport it back. It'll be hilarious to see how many shards are around anyways. Be sure to ask at Arcanitech or The Sorcerer's guild next time we are there.

>>141633
Go and visit Remi, Hope isn't going to get any more powerful, and she isn't going to lose her current weakness. Us...

Oh man we should rick roll her 24/7. Or banana phone. that works too. Imagine casting spells with that crap playing in yer head all day.

>>141633
Just go visit Remi. As for the Hope situation... well, just trust us on this. She's busy with her little slice of soon-to-be-in-space humanity, and as such probably won't fuck things up down here for a while at least. If you want to work on divining it can be done later, preferably with help from your contacts at the Sorcerer's Guild. Also, if the orb is kept in pieces then we can likely spy on Hope. We don't have a good track record with stopping her from being all-powerful, per se, but at least we can check to see if she's going to kill everyone or something.

If nothing else, there's at least one of Nihilism Tech that doesn't want to get into your pants now? ...unless she's the sort that likes getting yelled at and masochism. ...but what're the odds of that?

Now... do you want to leave those bits of us in the wall? I'm sure there's enough of us around if you don't want to dig them out. Heck. If you leave 'em there, we might be able to act as a sort of roundabout message service to ya. Like a game of telephone.

...

Yell at me a little more, mistress? heheheh...

heheheheheheee

I'll stop teasing, honest. You did kind of walk right into it though.

If it helps, even though you released both demons, I don't think it's your fault. Just be more careful in the future!

Yes it's not a good suggestion, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be made better. Attuning with the crystal doesn't necessarily guarantee a win (see Rastin) but it would improve your chances a whole lot. I just haven't quite figured how to manage it without Hope killing you with eye lasers.

(and I did read Kara Quest. I thought the previous bearer had to die, which is thus proven wrong since Rastin is still around to be an asshole. I guess he just has to pass out, or be symbolically defeated? Don't hate me for not being patient enough to read through all of Hope's diatribes.)

New suggestion: find coffee. Coffee is the answer to everything.

>>141633
It's okay. We deserve it. Not that we have any kind of masochistic tendencies (mostly), we're just well aware that we're mostly dicks. And again, we know that Hope getting away was our fault, we're just lashing out. But no matter how many of us do that, some of us will always be helping you.

And Hope is not untraceable. She only has her power as long as she's holding on to a part of us, and given our weirdly infinite fractalness, we're bound to get in her head again just like we're in yours. Eventually. Xom knows when. We kinda lose control of that once people start smashing us into little bits. If nothing else, like another one of us suggested, there could be a magic link to be traced.

Related: please no more smashing. We'll be good. As good as we get, anyway. We won't really all be good, because, yanno. Infinite.

And if you can't fix us, we really would appreciate a replacement half whenever you have the time. Regular glass is fine. It's vain, but we're fond of being an Orb, not a... jagged hemisphere. At least I am.

Good thing is you had Hope promise not to be too much of a bitch so I doubt she'll blow up the world or anything.

That's right, Hope did seem to want to keep to that promise.

I think she's just going to aid the Secluded and leave the world alone.

Suggestion 2010/03/03(Wed)20:14 No. 141698 ID: 4b1405
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>Oh man we should rick roll her 24/7. Or banana phone. that works too.
I propose this.

>>141698
...yes. This will be delicious.

Totallynotsamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2010/03/03(Wed)20:34 No. 141713 ID: 67eb8f
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>>141698
Yes, that song for sure.

>>141635
>We have to help whoever holds us

No, we don't actually. People keep thinking this, but it's patently not true. We've sabotaged numerous people "Holding" us in the past, all for the sake of our true owners.

Rastin "Held" us for a while. As did The Collector when Lord Muschio held us. Fifty-Eight held us for a long time, yet we were still working more towards Janine's specific interests than his.

>>141633
>Maybe. Its worth a shot. Should I just drop >everything here and go try that? I don't >really know any divining powers, so I'd need >some help

No, you shouldn't. You wouldn't be able to do anything about her even if you did manage to somehow track her "body" down. Suffice to say, we can consider it a method to track her should the need arise.

>>141723
True. We just talk to whoever's holding us. Helping them is usually more fun. Cora, just ignore the voices trying to bring you down. They're just trollin'.

Go up, see Remi, try the tracking later, it's not like they're leaving for space in an hour.

>>141633

>> Then I'll put you in a concrete block and drop you into an ocean.

Also, we will rise from the deep on dolphins. Vengeful dolphins. With lasers.

Seriously, you'd be amazed how fucking hard it is to get rid of us. I'm not sure if it's our blessing or our curse.

It's like you guys are daring Gnome to quit.

You're all retarded.

>>141758
It *would* be pretty fun to take control of some sea creature.

Um, but first we'd have to get out of the concrete block. Which will likely not happen before we are covered in silt. Sooo yeah, that's a good plan for getting rid of us.

>>141760
Nah that's mostly just Mneme.

Actually this whole time it's mostly just been Mneme.

Cora, can you differentiate between voices or something?

i think we emit some kind of siren's call. or fate conspires us into someone's possession. like a fisherman will one day fish us up and spurned by wondering why a block is in the middle of the ocean and will crack it open and wonder what the heck that thing is and touch us.
so, while, yes, we would more then likely be out or Cora's hair, we would soon be in someone else's.

>>141763

Mneme shall now refer to Mneme in the third person.

Mneme wishes you could have seen the look on your face.

>>141794
psst

odds are it was :| same as ever

Totallynotsamefag!!V1AJL5LzHl 2010/03/03(Wed)23:13 No. 141819 ID: 67eb8f
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>>141794

>>141633

You can't really stop Hope now anyway. But she is still inhabiting a body that your magic summoned. She would have any weakness that a normal summon has. And while she has alot of power that power is limited by her imagination. And she isn't really the most imaginative person around when it comes to her power, hell without us she wouldn't even have thought of turning invisible. She's not the brightest person around.

So go and meet Remi. Who knows maybe you will run into some cute guys along the way.

so let me guess this straight, you found us torn in half and hope was missing. if it helps, we are slow too. also it was impossible to discover hope only needed part of the crystal instead of the whole crystal, the shenanigans still doesnt make much sense rule wise.

well, you need to tell to let us tell vrensch of this or else its gonna be a ass to explain later. if he can use us or the crystal to find hope its even better.

you also need a broom and a shovel. i dont want to figure out later on that the nihilists are willing to die off with the world with a huge breakdancing fight induced by drugs and mind control on the whole population.

also we dont really need to fear you. you are not a enemy as much as we arent a enemy of you, or anything in particular.

you are so much slower that us that you make cirno look smart. destroy us here and you wont have how to stop Hope, in fact, its likely we will simply have even more attention to hope because "here" is missing. shatter us into tiny pieces and we will be inhaled by 30 millions idiots.

if i recall correctly: she plans on helping the isolationist folk to peform their leaving of earth. this could be mutually beneficial for us considering she will spend some time with them before she kills them all or something. they also have a HUEG debt and you may use it as a political leverage, have they success or not. also we must make sure their rockets wont accidentaly the whole city on fire or something.

Hope promised you that she would behave, and since we're with her to remind her that she's lawful good and thus should keep her promises, Hopefully she won't kill too many people. She might lead the spacers to be craaaazy though.

>>141999

NO. No. Revealing this could cause Vresch to question our competency, however undeserved. We do NOT want that.

As it is, Hope has already stated she's not going to act against us or Vresch until Coralina's accomplished her goals. If you absolutely MUST tell Vresch, it is imperative that you give the impression that you have complete control over the situation (Perhaps by passing it off as a clever method of tricking Hope into trusting you. I can already tell you, Cora, that your efforts thus far have made Hope quite partial to you, though how much of that can be attributed to your almost uncanny ability to woo other females, I do not know)

WHATEVER THE CASE, passing this off as an "Oops, my bad" to Vresch is absolutely unviable.

>>142152
NOR do we want Vresch to find out about the Orb and its nature.

Just because we're working for Vresch does not mean we're friends and it does not mean we're going to trust him with us.

If worse comes to worst, and Vresch finds out everything ANYWAYS, then you can hand us to him, and we'll "explain" our cunning plan. Otherwise, continue was we have been.