>>216092
I am curious as to what information it thinks is valuable enough to spare its life.

okay fine, hear it out, and then kill it if (when) it's info sucks.

>>216260
>>216273
Let it have it's say they said...

No, No, NO. Don't let it talk, just shove your sword into it's first available orifice.

>>216274

Wait. This is a world where music and the spoken word have power. We should kill it, yes.

(post edited)

itit has drank the blood of silent so much that it is unable to use any song based powers. hold your sword to it and tell it that the info better be exactly what you want.

How do I shot Trip?!H508X.HbJ6 2010/08/09(Mon)02:48 No. 216605 ID: e31d52
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>>216213
>>216274
>>216278
Its begging does not earn it anything.

Retrieve sword, check on musician.

Or a victory pose, whatever.

see if it has any loot. think this would be a good stopping spot to rest for now.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/08/11(Wed)07:33 No. 217324 ID: e31d52
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It takes some time, but Mordecai awakens.
"What happened?"
"We got him." Farah says, "Thanks mostly to you... but what the hell is your mother up to?"
"I have no idea!" he says, throwing his arms into the air. "This is all so surreal! My family doesn't have any influence, we just lord over a tiny rich section of a tiny town of a tiny nation! We're as nobody as you can get while having a family crest!"

"Well. With that in mind, we still need to decide whether to move on or call this operation shot."

"...Why are you all looking at me?" asks the bard, looking around. "Farah, shouldn't you decide this?"

Farah thinks for a moment.
"Look, it seems to me something bigger than ourselves is going on here. This isn't about some musty old tome anymore. We need to find out what's going on. The question isn't whether we need to call off the mission, Mordecai."

"It's whether you want to be along for the ride."

hell yeah, we going for the ride.

anyway, your mom could of BEEN a simple noblewoman, but what could she have BECOME? she may have be hoarding countless samples of blood somewhere and then chugged them all after you left. just some speculation.

since they were here though, the book may be something you can use on them.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/08/12(Thu)12:20 No. 217727 ID: e31d52
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$#%^&*()^%$

>>217358
"You bet your sweet ass I'm going for the ride!" I say, shaking her hand.

>>217727
You have a dagger. Use it.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/08/13(Fri)10:52 No. 218036 ID: e31d52
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None of this makes any sense. To realize the level of power and blood manipulation Sanguine had, you'd need thousands of infusions of incredible quality. At that point, your sanity would be gone, your mind would be rendered to that of an animal. Something just isn't right about this.

"Should we head topside and rest? Or push on?" Frederick asks.

"I'm not sure." I reply. "I get the feeling things will be a lot worse once we continue forth."

ask if freddy can set up some kind of teleport rune or something. so that with a use of a attuned item it brings you right back here. so that if any traps get reset we don't have to get past all of them again.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/08/13(Fri)11:16 No. 218047 ID: e31d52
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>>218043
"Hmmm..." he thinks for a moment. "Keyed teleportation is rather complex. There's many many factors involved, namely that you have to account that reference points are hard to set because of rotational and universal movement and that the area must remain completely sterile, not to mention the difficulties of various random chance..."

"er..."

"Sorry. More to the point, if you flub that sort of thing, which is very easy to do, I would end up teleporting us either into stone, or very very very high up. I just graduated, I'm not really an expert on anything but tattoos."

Well, we did get into some nasty fights, but we still have most of our supplies intact. Just play that healing song for a bit to recover, and we can get moving again.

I mean, what reason do we have really to go back up?

What about folding space instead? Portals? Those are like holes in the wall, you could see where you'd come out and everything.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/08/14(Sat)18:29 No. 218445 ID: e31d52
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>>218087
That's true. I play the song of Respite, sitting down and letting the song flow through me. It feels good to just play.

>>218243
Farah interjects quietly.
"Weavecraft, the magic of the way the universe handles space and places, is a lost magic." she says softly. "There's too many factors to take into account and no graceful solution for magical traveling like that. Summonings only really work for things that don't natively exist in this world, and thus have to deal with far fewer of those problems... needless to say, unless it happens to be in the book I'm after, we aren't going to be able to pull it off anytime soon."

"Then how did sanguine teleport the guy?"
They stare at me a bit, then look at each other.
"No idea." they reply.
"Either way." Zang states, looking at the creature's arm. "This thing was not crafted by an amatuer. I daresay it's naturally made."
"You know about that sorta thing?" I ask.
"Not formally educated, but..." she turns it over in her hands. "You pick things up. You learn. You slay enough creatures, you start to notice things."
"Like that spit?"
"A common ambush predator aberration mutation." Zang says, moving the fingers. "As for the hoods and that strange humming, it's likely that was a method of communication, not unlike hand signals. This is no normal homunculus."

A homunculus is a being created by blood magic or thaumaturgy or something similar.

>>218445

>> Summonings only really work for things that don't natively exist in this world, and thus have to deal with far fewer of those problems...

Well then, teleportation is as easy as summoning yourself into a neighboring world, then summoning yourself back again. No problem!

...where's my crowbar

Oh hey in case you're wondering why Sanguine was able to have so much power? He was manipulating a bunch of other, stronger things via their blood. He just needed to control their minds, not wield their power.

How do I shot Trip?!H508X.HbJ6 2010/08/17(Tue)18:40 No. 219261 ID: e31d52
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I send Zang to look into the next room.

"Lotsa doors." she reports.

and they are all numbered. let's try door number one.

How do I shot Trip?!H508X.HbJ6 2010/08/17(Tue)18:58 No. 219280 ID: e31d52
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>>219270
"They're numbered?"
"Yep."
"Let's look in number one."
"About that..."

Mother of Song.

>>219280
Oh, this was Thh's cell.

Check the rest in order. See if you can find any more Silent to free.

should be a dagger with your family insignia somewhere in the gore.

anyway yeah, that is apparently what happens if you infuse a silent with a LOT of anger.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/08/21(Sat)13:56 No. 220573 ID: e31d52
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>>219286
The rest are empty, some with skeletons of large, monstrous humanoids, like bugbears, or Yuan-ti, or Suhaugin...

"This isn't a prison." Zang states after the third cell, quietly. "It was a farm."

I frown.
"But why would you need so many? I ask quietly.

"I have no idea." Zang states. "But there are four floors of this. Hundreds of cells. Someone must be told."

I take a look at the paper beside cell III.

wow, that is VERY thoroughly researched. is the book still even here?

>>220573
Oh fuck no, they're making a goddamn army of blood-infused abominations.

Let's get the book ASAP then leave as fast as possible. We really do need to tell someone about this. Or we could leave now and come back tomorrow for the book.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/08/22(Sun)19:38 No. 221251 ID: e31d52
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>>220603
"We need to get the hell out of here. Get the book and get out."

My companions nod in agreement, then stare behind me, their eyes going wide.
"What?"

whenever someone looks at you and then suddenly goes wide eyed it means HIT THE DECK!!

>>221251
Large thing behind you. Dodge.

>>221251
Oh crap, Mordre came to eat your soul.
Game over man GAME OVER!!!

but seriously, you should get out of the way.

(you gotten your inspiration for the day ?)

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/08/24(Tue)13:04 No. 221821 ID: e31d52
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>>221255
I leap back and turn around to see a bugbear.

Bugbears are the First Children of Farnle, and they are an ancient race. Most ruins are of Bugbear make, but their empire dissolved into civil war soon after it reached its peak. I take a few steps back as it raises a club easily as large as I am with one hand.

>>221821
Err... think we can try diplomacy? Make a small bow and say "Well met, descent of Farnle. My name is Mordecai, me and my companions mean for no harm to you."

And be fucking ready to jump away like a frog on fire when it likely doesn't work.

challenge him to rock off? show you are more farnle then him! if hat doesn't work then have zang stab him in the gut.

>>221821
Can't tell if he's friend or foe. Take evasive action while telling him you're not with the Blood Cult. They do speak Common, right?

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/08/28(Sat)01:04 No. 222872 ID: e31d52
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>>221857
"Well met, Son of Farnle. I am Mordecai. I do not seek to cause you harm."

The creature sighs and puts down the cudgel, setting it aside. He removes his helmet.

"Shows how far they've taken me." says the... no. This isn't a bugbear. Mother of Hrya. "Name's Art Big." he says. "Mordecai, huh?"

oh, i'm guessing he is the "brute" that paper was talking about. infused with so many bugbear samples he isn't recognizable.

oh, and i guess say sorry and ask what he is doing around here. if he wants to get back at those guys for doing this to him then sweet.

>>222872
At least this guy is sane and not indiscriminately violent. Those notes had me worried we'd get attacked by a flipped out monster. Again.

Make conversation, ask him what his story is and what the hell has been going here.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/03(Fri)03:59 No. 225273 ID: e31d52
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>Make conversation, ask him what his story is and what the hell has been going here.

"You aren't gonna believe me. Man, that was..." he shakes his head quietly.

"Try me."

"Alright. Alright. Let's jus' siddown for a minute, I been running through this place like a madman. Seeing people again is nice." We all sit down, and he begins to tell his tale.

"So, it was about a year ago when they first hired me. They said I could make lots of money, that... they'd make me stronger. There was a chance of side effects, but that was, you know, normal. Same as always. I'd done lotsa work for mages. So they take me down here, start giving me injections."

(cutscene)

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/03(Fri)03:59 No. 225274 ID: e31d52
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"At first everything is pretty nice. I even meet a nice young lady. She talked oddly, though. Broken sentances, like... some parts of her head caught up or fell behind. She'd been there longer than I and was really smart. Anyway, after some time, they give me armor and this here weapon, and stick me in front of the biggest goddamn door I've ever seen, laden with symbols and seals and shit. Creepy as hell. They tell me, you sit right here, Big, you don't let anyone pass."

"So I does whats I'm told, and I sit there."

The big man sighs heavily before continuing.

(cutscene)

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/03(Fri)03:59 No. 225275 ID: e31d52
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"And then the weird shit starts happing. Little noises from places noise can't be coming from, like inside the walls. Whispers. Giggles. I shit you not, man. Weeping. And when I fell asleep, oh Farnle above. Big, shining smiles fulla teeth, white eyes. Predatory grins. Like... like a damn wolf or something. It doesn't see a meal or a friend, it sees a toy. At that point I just couldn't help it. I ran. Farnle bless me I ran like a little child. And no one stopped me."
(cutscene)

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/03(Fri)03:59 No. 225276 ID: e31d52
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"Because... because, Farnle help me... everyone was gone. Neatly folded robes, everywhere. Dust. As if it had been abandoned for years. But... I was only gaurding that door for a week, tops. And then I stop, and I realize, I'm in a different facility. None of it makes any sense."
He covers his face with his hand.
"No goddamn sense at all."

tell him that you just ran into someone who seemed to have mastered teleportation so he could of been moved with magic. and that his perception of time could of been altered so that unless something noticeable happened he didn't feel time as much.

That is pretty weird. I'd say time dilation or teleportation was involved.

Or maybe every facility links up in some manner to a central hub where that door is...

And I bet that the door is gone.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/09(Thu)19:58 No. 228862 ID: e31d52
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I try to comfort him.

"No... Get away! Get away!" he roars, shoving us all back.

And then he starts to laugh, and his eyes... Change. His teeth shift and warp... and I swear I see small faces radiating from his head.

"[s]Haha! Ha! Hahaahaha!
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul!
Haha! Ha! Hahahah!
/s]"

He's not... doing anything. Just standing there and laughing with that strange voice.

he seems to be partially insane from whatever they did to him. if we can get into his head we MAY be able to put him back together.
[switch to Art Big]

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/10(Fri)03:02 No. 229062 ID: e31d52
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Darkness.