have will of kings say it.

Amy 2010/05/14(Fri)00:06 No. 177103 ID: cf68aa
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>>177092
>>177102

>"Ah... He.... Ba..."

She punches the wall again and turns away from it to find another way around it.

>>177103
Oh. We can translate what you're saying for you. You said:

"Ah... He.... Ba..."

Maybe you can learn how to speak, kindof, with our help?

we been all over the place, unless an entire wall fell down since then you need to use that one.

>>177103
Amy no, please it's ok just calm down. These doors are everywhere, they even seem to close themselves again. Getting around them probably isn't possible without further damage.

You have a hindrance, and you do far more than make up for it with your skill and tenacity. This stupid door doesn't know or care about that, it just has a stupid trigger. Will of the Kings is your power, your tool, and right now your voice. There is no shame in using it.

>>177104
oh yeah. we only need to jury rig it enough that it counts. start making noises and we'll tell you which ones you need.

>>177103
This is one of Lord Z's puzzle doors. If you can't give it the right answer in a way it will accept it you can't get through, and any other ways around would be blocked by similar doors. Blasting it down would probably get you killed.

I'm sorry, Amy, I really am, but there aren't any other viable options at this point. Master L needs you, you need to go through this door to get to him, and the fastest way to do that is with your King.

okay, quick sound lesson. to make a 'F' sound place your lower lip against your upper teeth and blow between them. 'TH' is made by placing your tounge against your top teeth and blowing between them. now the 'ER' and long 'A' sound are hard to describe because they are all vocal cord no mouth. try making a few sounds and we'll tell you which ones are close enough.

>>177114
Well, ok, MAYBE we can help.
Put your lower lip against your upper teeth and breath out through it, then open your jaw to pull them apart. That makes the "Fa" sound.
Move your tounge so it's against the bottom of your front upper teeth and breath out through it. That makes the "Th" sound.
"Er" is a little tricky, but you can do that by breathing out with a relaxed mouth and then moving your tongue up to partially restrict airflow.
Put it all together and do it in one breath.

>>177104
She THOUGHT that. We're deaf while riding with her, remember?

>>177122
no, her thoughts show up in the image, she said that.

>>177125
We felt her say it, didn't hear her say it... I don't think. ...We can see by another viewpoint besides the users, can we also hear from a deaf persons perspective?

Oh and Amy sorry for our ignorance, even us disembodied voices can be thick headed.

Amy 2010/05/14(Fri)00:43 No. 177133 ID: cf68aa
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>>177109
>"....."

Amy shakes her head at the thought.

>>177119
>>177121

She spends a few minutes practicing the sounds. She begins to say the sounds at the door. She mixes them up, says them at different speeds and even tries to say different ones

>"fu....Th...er.. Fu-th-er"

With a click the door swings open. Amy smiles and her heart beats a bit faster, ecstatic at her accomplishment.

[SQUEEEEE!!! so cute]
excellent! let's claim out prize!

>>177133
Yep! Now, go find L and rescue him!

Well, it seems you're only mute because you've never had a chance to learn speech.
Well, that should be easy enough to fix. We'll just have Cecil use ReWrite to insert an understanding of Speech into your memories - you don't mind somebody screwing around with your memories like that, right?

>>177137
but where would you put it? something like speech is picked up over YEARS of listening and mimicking. it's not something you can just FORCE.

>>177133
Alright!

>>177137
I... don't know it can work like that. I mean, rewriting new skills into someone? Maybe. I get the feeling she would rather do it the hard way though.

What do you say Amy? Want to find a magical way to learn, or we can help guide you as you do work through it yourself?

Amy 2010/05/14(Fri)01:10 No. 177149 ID: cf68aa
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She goes into the next room

>"Ah!"

She runs over to Master L and begins shaking him. He doesn't move.

>>177149
Get the debris off of him, then back out of the room. Keep the door open though, and stand behind it.
Our spells can backfire, and we don't want you caught in that.
[Cast Zeroon on L.]

>>177151
Hold on that spell until Amy tries her healing magic. We don't want it possibly backfiring. If she can't do anything, let it be cast.

Amy try what healing magic you can for him. We'll try our emergency resources if there is no other way.

>>177152
agree, no point risking it if amy can do something.

Amy 2010/05/14(Fri)01:30 No. 177154 ID: cf68aa
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She tries caster her healing spells but they have little effect. Zeroon is cast through the Red Stone but it only reaches 13% power. More b lood flows from Master L's wounds. Amy panics and tries to clear some of the debris away. Some of the rocks were pushing against his veins, once released more blood pours out.

>"Ah!"

@Cecil: get in here, now!

>>177154
Dammit!

[Cast Zeroon again]

@Cecil
Master L is in bad shape, and the Red Stone isn't doing well at all right now. We are trying again, but cast a Zeroon through the stones to him to back it up a little!

>>177154
First: Stop panicking. This is nowhere near as bad as you think.
Second: Keep healing him. We've got plenty of mana potions, so don't worry about running out.

@Cecil & Alex: Come here. L's in really bad shape and we really don't want Amy to see him die.

>>177158
[No. Not another Red Stone spell.]

[and i'm not entirely sure a Down would work on him, because of how far past his natural lifespan is.]

>>177158
Wait, let's try this first...

[Switch to Master L]
[Cast Zeroon from his Philosophers stone]

>>177163
[NO! You could destroy Laura!]

Cecil 2010/05/14(Fri)01:43 No. 177167 ID: cf68aa
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>>177163

[Nothing happens]
----------------------------
Cecil and Alex rush to the door only to find it locked with a new riddle on it.

>......
>What?

>>177167
6 and 3.
Hurry up!

>>177167
There aren't many numbers like that, and the maximum is the biggest possible number. I think the ones you want here are 3 and 6, which is 3*6*6 which adds up to 108. 2*7*7 would be 98 and 4*5*5 would be 100 and anything further either way would be worse.

[Cecil gains new skill: Math wizz]

Cecil 2010/05/15(Sat)00:00 No. 177684 ID: cf68aa
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>"I don't have time for this you damn door, my friend is dying you'd better let me through before I meteor your ass!"

With a soft click the door swings open. Cecil rushes in and begins healing Master L. Amy stands by and watches. Soon all of Master L's wounds are healed. He leans against the wall and breaths in deeply. He looks Cecil in the eyes

"What took you!? I could have died!"

>>177684
Ok, now we can go rescue the others.

@L: Being unconscious under tons of debris, actually. Don't worry about it, we'll keep you alive. Is Laura's soul ok?

>>177684
...that Philosopher's Stone is really tiny now.

Dammit dammit dammit. L's got like... 5 years left now probably.

@Master L:Hey, why is it so important that you stay alive? Aren't you basically annihilating souls by using that stone? I mean, the afterlife can't be that bad, can it?

>>177738
@Master L: Ignore him. The not-crazy among us want you alive, meaning we'll secure a less evil source for your immortality before letting those souls go free.

>>177757
How DARE you accuse me of wanting Master L dead! I asked why he needs to be alive. Why he uses the Philosopher's Stone in the first place. WHY HE WOULD ANNIHILATE THEIR SOULS JUST TO EXTEND HIS OWN LIFE.

>>178142
I never said you wanted him dead, but trying to talk him into departing for the afterlife is not conducive to his survival.

Master L 2010/05/15(Sat)22:02 No. 178154 ID: cf68aa
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>I stay alive because I don't want to die. Simple as that. Also, for me, I don't think the afterlife will be all that great..

he gets up and makes new glasses. He also hands Cecil a box

>"This was on that Mizuno dude. I was gonna open it but I really don't have any mana left."

"Here, we have some potions on u-"

>"nah, save it for yourselves. I'm done casting anything for the day."

@L: unless you make or get another stone then your only option is to start hitting on some elves. also, we taught amy how to say 'father' because so she could get past the riddle. she had such a happy face about being able to actually say something, here look
[>>177133 show him her expression]

leave the box closed for now, only try it outside or it could blow up a wall, and that is the last thing we need. let's find chel and gene.

>>178154
Ah, remorse. You've done some horrible things and don't want to face karmic justice.
The solution is to try and make things right.

Also, lets explore other venues for immortality, such as de-aging you with time magic, soul-binding with an elf, contributing to Cecil's research...

Have you checked the box to make sure it's safe to open?

Oh, and we could really use your help to dig people out of collapse. It's a mess.

@Cecil: Save the box for later. We need to rescue people first. Have Amy stay with Alex and stabilize the people she uncovers while you head down a floor to rescue RJ.

Oh! Right! I forgot!
[Forward Master L's hearing to Amy]
Ok, now she can hear herself well enough that she can correct her attempts at speech. As long as you're nearby, anyway.

Cecil 2010/05/15(Sat)22:25 No. 178164 ID: cf68aa
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>>178158
>heh.. That's pretty cute. I'm glad she's happy. She still looks happy.

>I don't want to face her just yet..

>>178160
>The box could probably be opened by some type of magic. It's been giving off this low humming sound the whole time.

They go and start their search for the others. As they walk Alex begins rubbing the arm that wasn't cut off

>>178164
@Master L
Well I can understand you wanting to take it easy, but we were really hoping you'd help dig out everyone else. Unless there is something making spellcasting a problem for you right now we'd really appreciate you drinking a potion and assisting us. Otherwise you could head to the entrance and keep an eye on things. We've got Nari sleeping, Mizuno on ice, and the creepy I-Shopkeeper in that area. They all cause us concern one way or another.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFff!!! throw that box as far as you can outside! it could be another warp bomb like felix had!

>>178164
Seal it and keep it with you.

@All: Cecil, go get RJ. Alex and Amy, you two stick together and rescue people up here. Start with whoever is closest. L, you're not going to follow our orders anyway, so if you want you can go find your old room and see if there's anything worth salvaging. Or use the watch to find Laura Winselm's body. Gene, it's safe again, so get back here - you still have Lord Z's section to search in your quest for number 1.

>>178164
This box friggin scares me, can you seal it away? Detect what you can about it? If it's something Mizuno found it shouldn't be immediately dangerous... but if he brought it I don't care to think what it'll do.

Cecil 2010/05/15(Sat)22:48 No. 178176 ID: cf68aa
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>>178171
>I can check real quick

She examines the box for a while. After finding no magic she holds it up to her ear and shakes it a bit A voice is faintly heard

'epeat, respond now. Mizuno respond now. Mizuno respond now. Densi keru'

it's some kind of back up to the cell stone. can anyone fake voices?

>>178176
Interesting... Dart isn't using the black stones to give orders.
Seal it and go rescue RJ. We're going to do some spying.
[Monitor Dart]

Dart 2010/05/15(Sat)22:57 No. 178182 ID: cf68aa
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>>178179

@ Master L: oh jeez oh jeez oh jeez he's at the school he's at the school. Maybe if we play dead he'll go away. It's motherfucking Dart!

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. DART IS HERE!!!

@others that aren't Dart

That Dart motherfucker is outside the building.

@Dart
[emulate Mizuno's voice]
I'm here.

>>178182
@All Dart's at the school. Drop everything, get to the entrance, retrieve Nari and Mizuno, then go back and continue work. L, if you can call in a favor from Fai now would be a good time

@I Shop: I don't suppose there's enough money in the world to pay you to kill Dart right now. So, you're the philosopher?

>>178182
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

@Party
DART IS HERE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE SCHOOL

@Alex
Can we cast a spell from the Red Stone through the black ones? I really want to freeze bomb his ass.

@I-Shop
Are you still near the entrance? We've got what you might call a bad customer right outside, if you can hide away the little girl asleep there we'll be so grateful I don't even know how we'd pay you back.

>>178188
[Bad idea. The speech patterns are just as important as the voice, and we haven't heard enough of her speech to pull that off.]

>>178193
[agree, hopefully he will just grab mizuno and leave.]

>>178195
[Stick to simple responses. Patterns are difficult to detect that way unless Mizuno never speaks with simple responses}

@All: Actually, new plan. Rush to the entrance, grab Mizuno and Nari, then head back to the collapse,cut a hole to the dark world, and hide there. He won't expect it since it's supposed to be impossible.

>>178199
What about Felix, RJ, Nari and Chel? Would you leave them behind for Dart to get his hands on? We need more time!

>>178199
no, we still have people trapped and he may find them, let him find mizuno while we get everyone out. if we get everyone out before he get's to our place we can cut a hole but not before then.

>>178199
@All: Oh, and Alex? Leave behind a Cell Stone with a contingency spell on it so we can destroy it remotely. Don't bother making it a huge one since it won't kill Dart anyway, just make it enough to render the stone completely useless.

@King Rai: We have Amy Sky. She's alive and her soul has been returned. We are inside the school and half of us are trapped in a collapse.
Dart is at the school's entrance. Little help?

>>178200
Nari's at the entrance. We're retrieving her.
@All: With Cecil, Alex, and L all working together we can rescue the others in minutes - before Dart finds us, hopefully. L, you go after Chel since she's most likely inside a protective bubble. Cecil, you head for RJ and clear a path for the others - you're best suited for that. Alex, you save Felix.
Gene, get back here before Dart kills you.
Everybody meet at RJ's location once your respective tasks are complete.

>>178202
agree, with calling rai, this is the time to call in the big guns.

My plan is this:

Leave Mizuno behind for Dart to find. He'll thaw her out and talk to her. We'll be speaking to her at that point as well. Hopefully we can goad her into resisting the punishment, or at least delay him long enough for us to dig the remaining people out and escape.

Dart 2010/05/15(Sat)23:41 No. 178217 ID: cf68aa
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>It's been a while since I came here.. Nostalgia.
>I remember teaching here.. Helping students learn the wonders of magic in hopes that they will use it to help others.

>And I saw it be abused by their 'teachers'.

>I hope Mizuno is okay..
--------------------------------------------
Master L

>DART!?

Everyone begins to panic

>"Shut up! I need to think! We need to get out of here fast!"

"But how w- OH! I have teleportation stones! They'll take us anywhere!"

>"Really!? Okay, this makes my life easier. Here, take this"

He pulls out a tiny shard of his Stone

>Voices, I can stall for time and maybe even take out Dart. It's a pretty tough to pull off spell but I think I can do it. Just gotta make sure everyone's outta here first though.

>"Guys, go find the others fast! Take them with you!"

Cecil and the party begin to spread out and quickly search for the others

>>178217
[keep watching Dart]

@everyone: if you can help look then start looking, if you can't then use your stone.

>>178221
... ow. i just got an anurism from shear stupidity. what's stopping him from thinking she is an illusion and just blasting her? he thinks amy is dead.

>>178221
>>178217
@L: No. I don't know what your plan is, but it's dumb.

@All: New plan. Amy, go say hi to Dart. I'm betting he'll be ecstatic to see you; he won't do anything to hurt you. That will give everybody else enough time to rescue the others - Amy, we'll meet up with you later, but no matter what don't lose sight of what actions are right and wrong, no matter what the goal may be.

>>178221
I... actually like that idea. Except... we'd have to tell Amy how we brought her back.

She could be our diplomat. Our negotiator.

>>178223
Simple. She has a soul, and he's smart enough to check before he blasts.

fair enough, second concern: are you SURE he wont? i mean REALLY FUCKING SURE.

>>178217
@Master L
Everyone who has thought that they could take him out has been violently disappointed, don't get cocky. And Nari is asleep at the entrance, for gods sake don't engage him until she's safe.

@Alex
Can we channel a red stone spell through the black cell stones?

@I-Shop
You by no means obligated to help us, but be aware that the dark mana master Dart is here. We're hoping to get everyone dug out and use teleport stones to escape in time. Act on this as you see fit, if you help us we'll owe you. The young girl Nari in particular is vulnerable and near the entrance.

@ Cecil: Master L is gonna suicide bomb Dart into pieces. L has only got a tiny bit of helpless souls to sacrifice left, so he hasn't got much time anyway. You should just ignore him and escape while he blows up Dart, the only teacher who could be your ally.

>>178229
Yes. I'm not sure enough to say with certainty exactly what happened, but I can say with certainty that we don't need to worry for Amy's safety.

>>178232
@Cecil: Yes, L is planning on a suicide attack. Also, he has about 5 years of life left on that PStone whereas we could get him an alternate source of immortality by the end of the day.
Tell him his plan sucks and to help you rescue people and escape, then give Amy an extra Cell Stone and get to work.

Dart 2010/05/16(Sun)01:13 No. 178245 ID: cf68aa
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The groups begins to gather everyone up including Nari and Mizuno. Master L reluctantly agrees to let Amy try to stall for time. He gives her brief instructions and sends her out with an extra Cell Stone

She goes outside and waves at Dart.


>Can it be...?

>"Amy?"

>>178245
[Switch to Dart via OUR cell stone network.]

Yes, which means she can't hear you. Hold on.
[Link Dart's hearing and understanding of sounds and speech with Amy's hearing and understanding of sounds and speech]

Ok dad, hopefully she'll be able to understand you now, and it'll help our attempts to teach her how to talk.

Also, she's alive because Cecil figured out how to revive the dead without horrible rituals or affronts to magic. Although I suppose you could technically call it an abuse of magic if you don't think people should return from the dead - in which case I would like to point out that she was being chewed on by a soulless, not at peace in the afterlife.

So, I suppose the real question now is "Why?".
Why are you trying to conquer the world?
Why are you using such horrible methods to do it?
Why are you keeping your motives secret?
Why did you turn from being a genuinely nice guy into somebody who would erase a hospital?

If we knew what your ultimate goal was, then perhaps we could help you achieve it without causing so much suffering along the way.

END OF CHAPTER 7 Dart 2010/05/16(Sun)01:32 No. 178247 ID: cf68aa
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>>178246
>.......





>"Shenjou"

>>178247
Ok, see, that? That was completely needless. She came here to talk to you, and hasn't taken sides. She didn't believe us when we said you turned evil, and she wasn't even alive when Cecil took-out Mizuno.
She's an innocent bystander here; she hasn't done anything against you.

We're here under a banner of peace, which is why we haven't attacked you. We listened to Mizuno's claims up until the point where she got pissed at us for insinuating you're not a nice person and started bringing the structure down, which forced us to neutralize her.
At any rate, she caused us to question some of our assumptions about you and thus we decided diplomacy was in order.
So, are you willing to talk?
Or would you rather not try to negotiate?

Perhaps a question that doesn't relate to you; who or what caused the demon incident that destroyed the school? Who or what ended it?

Oh, and in case you care:
Felix's memory was wiped to some point before he ever challenged you, and he seems to be doing quite well.
We know Master L has done some completely horrible things, and we're forcing him to set things right as much as possible.
We also know that Rai is far from innocent as well, although we haven't determined the details yet. We'll force him to fix the damage he has done once we've got enough information to do so.

@Rai: Dart just cast Shenjou on Amy.

>>178254
Dart could have used it on Mizuno. We weren't allowed to see.

>>178247
GODDAMMIT, why'd you have to go all super "why you doing this shit" in the middle of a goddamn emotional moment. We should have just opened communication networks between her and Dart and then he wouldn't have made somebody and freaking tranny mindslave.

It might have made him sorta good again. Hell, we go into his thoughts and see that he sorta believes in his own bullshit so he wasn't that far-off. Goddamn, it was the same with Alex.

Yoho, mister Ishop guy, mind redoing that over again with another time spell? No, everybody just gets one? Well goddamn son. Maybe if we go down to IHOP and get you some pancakes?

I KNEW IT!! I FUCKING KNEW IT!! i told you seven, i told you it was a bad idea and you were like 'oh, he would NEVER hurt amy' and i was like 'ARE YOU REALLY FUCKING SURE?!?!' and you told me you were sure. i knew it wouldn't work!!

also, from now one. no matter how big a sob story any of his minions spin we assume dart is pure evil and base what we think he would do on that.

>>178285
Good advice, he's just got a almost good philosophy and intention, but he'll fuck everyone up in the process for his to be spread and stuff. He's technically an Ubermensch. You don't assume an Ubermensch will do something completely different from what their currently doing with others because of some girl he cared for a lot in the past.

>>178273

You are right. I screwed up, and for that I am sorry.
Too bad nobody pointed that out before it was too late. :/

>>178279
You are wrong. She's fine, and will either continue to remain fine or be restored to fine.
While I was hoping that it wouldn't come to it, I did in fact plan for this possibility.
Perhaps you wondered why I instructed Cecil to store a sample of Amy's blood, then attempt a resurrection using a different sample?

At any rate, this advances several goals. Chief among them being providing King Rai with a personal stake in these events. Further, we can use this entire visit as leverage to coax Rai into granting us boons, such as carte blanche to use illegal spells, take prisoners, and pass judgement at our discretion, as well as mobilizing the royal army mages to sanitize the school ruins and start recovery and resurrection efforts.

Oh, and there's nothing stopping us from Banshing the Shenjou on her.

>>178308
we couldn't stop you because i was asleep, it was 4 am here.

>>178279
Well, if you feel that strongly about it then you can ask for a Rewind.
However, Amy being captured is better than L dying, or Dart recovering Mizuno and/or capturing one or more of the others.

>>178320
who says he isn't going to just grab mizuno as well?

>>178308
You planned for this? What are you doing, playing a game of Xanatos Roulette? Christ, your not a magnificent bastard, you don't get to pull those off.

>>178322
From what I understand, Seven means he just had a contingency set up in case anything happened to Amy.

I wonder what happens if we cast Zeroon on the blood when there's a larger corpse around? Do healing spells only work on the 'main' body? We might have to reduce Amy's main body to ash before we could recover her using the blood as a base.

>>178325
but it would result in an interesting experiment, would the amy made from this blood only remember up to her time of death or are the memories stored in the soul?

My god, your going to implement a MY OWN CLONE scenario in a quest.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OppositeSexClone

There's only one soul. We can't resurrect Amy while she's still alive, guys.

>>178332
well yeah, but since we have a sample if she tries to kill us we can go full force on her instead of trying to make sure her body stays intact.

>>178332
Technically, "Amy is alive" and "Amy's body is alive" are two different statements.

>>178333
> if she tries to kill us.
Heheheh.

>>178330
Don't be silly! Amy only has ONE soul.
Although...

>>178321
That's why I sent Amy out to meet him; to buy enough time to retrieve Mizuno and Nari, then dig the others out and escape to the Dark World.

Revisiting the Dark World has been part of my plans for awhile. Did you notice, by any chance, that locations in the Dark World equate to locations in the Light World but the relative distances are different?

Here, just in case it works:
@Cecil: Cast Miracle on the Red Stone. Quick!
[If Cecil can't cast Miracle on the Red Stone, then cast Miracle on the Red Stone]
[Cast Ol Rethono on Dart via the Red Stone]