Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/07/31(Sat)09:33 No. 214218 ID: 2222da
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Ugh... I feel like I exploded.

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/07/31(Sat)09:34 No. 214219 ID: 2222da
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What the hell happened?

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/07/31(Sat)09:40 No. 214221 ID: 2222da
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I feel... odd.

you got green lines.

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/07/31(Sat)10:06 No. 214230 ID: 2222da
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>>214223
I who the what now?

the back of your head is covered in green lines.

Part of your head has become green marked. Can you pinpoint how you feel different?

You've got a bitchin green tattoo across your face.

You should update your statue to match.

also, i thought you were changing things? what happened?

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/07/31(Sat)10:39 No. 214238 ID: 2222da
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>>214231
>>214233
>>214232
Green? What? Don't be silly, only Bequenin and Sori can get tattoos. We're not solid enough for the ink to stay for long.

And I feel... jumbled up. A bit like I've been caught in a strong gust of wind and tumbled about. It's really weird...

[Feat applied: Memory Lock: Slater's memory does not degrade from events that would usually cause it to do so. Amount dodged: 17% loss.]

[Effect applied: Mystery Essence Jumble Effect.]

>>214234

If you mean the "change the entire quest" thing, that was one of the possible effects of the mystery essence, but the dice ended up on System Change instead. Which is irritating, because I was going to have Slater forget almost everything at the start of this chapter. Oh well.

what the.. you have essences of other types but can't see what they are.

>>214238

Benquenin and who? Who's Benquenin, and who's Sori?

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/07/31(Sat)11:04 No. 214253 ID: 2222da
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>>214239
Wh- Hey, yeah! I can feel a few different essences... And fair amounts of them, too... What the hell are they?

>>214240
Benquenins? You know? The guys with the weird faces. Smart. They like to wear dresses and call them robes. And you can't tell the guys from the girls.

Sori are all fat. Like, really fat. And they like to eat. A lot. Back before all this went patooie, my first job was mostly spent feeding Sori.

They're all gone now. Probably vanished like everyone else, into the Void.

>>214253
What's the Void? At any rate, focus on the essences and see if you can figure out what they are. If not I guess you can just grab a rock and test some on it.

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/07/31(Sat)11:34 No. 214270 ID: 2222da
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>>214255
What's the Void? Well, this is! Not including my sun and my planet and my kick ass statue, of course. The Void was... made by... something... Eh, I can't remember.

Anyway, focusing time...

...

...I could really go for another cheezeburger...

...

...or maybe something with bacon? Oh wait, focusing, right...

...

Focusing on the essences only seems to bring vague feelings of what they are to mind...

The first new one feels kind of... Moving? Smooth? Flowy?

The second THRUMS. Like, BOOM BOOM kind of vibrations. Really weird.

The last makes me feel really stiff. It feels like I'm having the life sucked out of me. Not pleasant.

What should I screw around with first?

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/07/31(Sat)11:47 No. 214275 ID: 2222da
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[Paused for the night morning, will continue later. Image is the new "tattoo", black-back-grounded for easy viewing. Something about this, if discovered, will give the discoverer one "point" to be used whenever they wish in the Quest. And the fact that the bit near the bottom looks like Slater is only part of it.]

[Goodnight.]

>>214270
Try using the flowy one to create a delicious beverage.

>>214275
The bottom bit has a bunch of icons representing significant events in Slater's past. His awakening, creating a few rocks, making a statue, the forming of the current solar system, etc.

In other words, while locking Slater's memory in place so that he doesn't lose it, the power leaks out via a visual effect representing his memories.

>>214278
[Well god damn, thats BETTER than what it actually is... Slater does have a lock on his memory, and it will become visable, though the head-greenery is seperate from that. One point to a594b9 for astonishing guesswork, and the point for guessing the meaning of the tattoos is still up for grabs.]

[In case you're wondering, points can be used to "nudge" almost any dice roll, including Mystery Essence Consequence rolls.]

[Really going to sleep now. >.>]

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/06(Fri)23:39 No. 216055 ID: 2222da
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>>214276
Delicious Beverage, you say? Well I am kinda thirsty... Let's see now, about 3% maybe...

Right here we g- Wait, that's Destruc-

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/06(Fri)23:40 No. 216056 ID: 2222da
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Gah! Gods damn it, my eyes!

>>216056
That's odd. Did you just accidentally use the wrong essence? Try again. Perhaps you should make a rock first to use it on.

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/07(Sat)09:07 No. 216108 ID: 2222da
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>>216099
I don't know! I could have sworn I was about to use the flowy stuff...

Right lets try it on a rock...

...!

...The hell is this? I just used up some of the thrumming essence instead!

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/07(Sat)09:07 No. 216109 ID: 2222da
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And it did FUCKING NOTHING!!!

>>216109
This is weird. Maybe... Try using the thrumming essence.

Oh shit. Mystery Essence: Jumble Effect.

I WARNED YOU ABOUT STAIRS BRO

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/07(Sat)17:31 No. 216184 ID: 2222da
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>>216126
Grr, thrumming, thrumming....

...Well, I think it worked this time, but I don't see any thrumming going on... Gods damnit, what the heck is this supposed to do?

>>216163
Huh? The Mystery Essence is what's screwing me up? Eh, makes sense. So how do we get rid of it?

rip off that back part of your head. it isn't attached, you can do it.

if not then you need to get rid of the essence tattoo.

>>216184

It looks like while jumbled it's still in some semblance of order. We know Rock -> Thrumming, Flowing -> Destruction so far. Let's try the life sucking essence! I mean, let's try whatever that got jumbled to, to see what kind of essence it is.

>>216056

Also, you have two eyes?

>>216210
No, you dumbass. We used thrumming twice and got two different results.

I would assume thrumming means life and stiffness means death.

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/07(Sat)22:37 No. 216275 ID: 2222da
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>>216186
It isn't attached, per say, but I'm rather attached to it. Considering its the BACK OF MY HEAD, and all. Besides, its really hard to expand or expel parts of your body. Hurts too. I remember hearing a few tales of experts who could throw their limbs across the room to slap someone, but I'm not nearly that good.

But you think the green thing is doing it? Hmm.

>>216210
>>216212
Yup, did thrumming twice. Damn stuff seems useless, it isn't doing anything. And I can't really do much if my essences are swapping around... except keep trying, I suppose. We need to fix this.

>>216211
Of course I have two eyes. I just use one at a time. Though I probably could merge them into one big eye, but that would just be weird.

>>216225
Huh. That actually sounds pretty accurate. Come to think of it, the thrumming is like a heartbeat. Guess I didn't think of it because I don't have a heart. The stiff one could be death, too... But it feels like something else as well. Don't know how to describe...

>>216275
Stiffness? That implies stasis. Try using that on your green head stuff, but only 1% just in case it actually has the capability of killing you.

I uh... I wouldn't try using your essences on your own head when you don't even know which one will pop out.

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/07(Sat)23:26 No. 216287 ID: 2222da
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>>216280
Right, sounds like a plan! Lets do this...

Here we go...

>>216282
Wait, wha-?

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/07(Sat)23:27 No. 216288 ID: 2222da
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MMF!

>>216288

Oh shit! Head rock! HEAD ROCK

>>216288
Quick, destruction essence!

>>216288

PYRAMID-HEAD

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/08(Sun)02:32 No. 216319 ID: 2222da
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>>216289
Mmf mmf MFF.

>>216299
Mmmf...

MMF MFF MFF! Mmmmmf...!

>>216306
Mmf mmf?

>>216319
Try again. That didn't look like destruction.

>>216319
Well, maybe you should've listened to us instead of having such a hard head.

...

I couldn't resist.

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/09(Mon)01:15 No. 216535 ID: 2222da
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>>216358
Mmmf!

>>216363
...

Mmf mmf MMF MFF.

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/09(Mon)01:18 No. 216536 ID: 2222da
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*Bang! Cr-r-r-ack!*

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/09(Mon)01:19 No. 216539 ID: 2222da
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. . .

>>216363
And I mean it.

serious this time, pull off your head. don't need to throw it but getting a good look at the markings may make it easier to figure out.

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/09(Mon)02:06 No. 216577 ID: 2222da
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>>216546
Rrrr.... Fine... But you owe me for this!

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/09(Mon)02:08 No. 216579 ID: 2222da
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Ok... Relaxing... Relaxing....

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/09(Mon)02:09 No. 216580 ID: 2222da
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*Grunt*

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/09(Mon)03:09 No. 216615 ID: 2222da
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Grrrrah, damnit, I hate doing that...

Freaking head feels weird as hell. And it feels cold now, too... Hey, there really is weird green stuff here. Neat.

so can you understand any of it?

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/09(Mon)03:52 No. 216637 ID: 2222da
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A little. Most of it just looks weird, but the bit at the bottom is writing. Some ancient language or other, they used to find the occasional ruin or artifact with it written on it. I... remember it, kinda.

Gah, my head feels like its freezing...

The symbols have multiple meanings, though... This lot could mean just about anything, though I could probably take a guess. I think I used to study this; I remember a fair bit about it, certainly. Maybe if I face away from the sun a bit. Catch a few rays... Each symbol can be an object, or a property of that object, or something connected to that object, or an emotion that is related to that object...

The ancients must have been retarded.

Anyway, they're pretty much what they look like, though 'cause everyone looks at things differently, makes for a bit of a tricky read.

Ahhhh... that's much better.

The first is air, or wind, or gas, or pretty much anything similar.

The second is... something? Dunno.

That dot is separate from the other one... I think. Might be punctuation? Or it could mean something...

Next is obvious. Has to mean "people". Has to. I think.

Dunno the next one, doesn't look familiar to me.

Those three dots mean.... I want to say "and"?

Dunno what that last one is either, but it looks kinda spiky.

Eh. What do you think?

the last one is what mystery essence looks like in the HUD.

>>216637
That second symbol seems to imply... a difference in scale? Like 'giant'. Or it could refer to just a planet.

The box shape thing could mean 'compression' or 'containment' or 'protection'...

I guess the last symbol could be pain.

>> Eh. What do you think?

...no clue. Anyway, rub off that green stuff to get rid of the jumble effect, and put your head back together. Time to make some delicious beverage!

Maybe the three dots has a similar meaning to what it does in math, therefore.

Could be a recipe, that last thing looks a bit like the symbol for your mystery essence, maybe you have to have all the other things in order to produce it.

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/10(Tue)02:46 No. 216956 ID: 2222da
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>>216638
Huh? Hud?

>>216665
>>216846
Hmm. Maybe. Dunno. I can't remember enough of the language to tell for sure, but that seems right, kinda. If it's a recipe, though, what's it for? "Air Giant Dot Person Compressed Therefore Pain?" Well, I imagine if I was giant and got squashed it would hurt, yeah.

>>216741
Gah, it won't come off! It just looks like part of me, but a different colour...

Maybe there's something we haven't tried yet that could help?

>>216956
Haven't tried Stillness.

>>216956
Hm. Maybe it's saying that a solar wind-based spaceship can lead to expansion.

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/10(Tue)03:59 No. 216963 ID: 2222da
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>>216960
Stillness, huh? Well, we could give it a shot, I guess...

>>216961
Say what? How'd you figure that one out?

The symbols look like they could be a suggestion to build a livable planet. You need to have air compress around a giant ball of rock. Then add people. And something else.

Let's make a habitable planet and then zap it with mystery essence.

>>216963
Erhm... well, the first is wind, the second relates to size specifically in a round shape so it could be talking about a star... the third is people, the fourth is like a box so it could relate to a kind of vehicle, and the last has a bunch of lines radiating from a single point so it could mean multiplication or expansion or maybe even explosion.

>>216995

That still doesn't give us any clue about how to remove the jumble effect. This guy is gonna waste all his essences trying to find the one he wants at this rate.

Maybe your head drawings are instructions on how to remove the jumble effect?

>>216963
Oh wait, we also haven't tried using Mystery Essence on it. We're trying to *change* it, right? Well, that essence is related to change. Stillness is more related to stasis than removal of change.

Or maybe you can drain mystery essence from it?

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/11(Wed)03:07 No. 217297 ID: 2222da
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>>216995
Sounds good to me. Just have to get plants and water on a big ball of rock, and we should be set...

>>217051
Uhhh... Kay... Well, I suppose it could be that...

>>217052
Mmm, I used up a fair bit of my reserves with that whole rock-on-head thing... And if they are instructions, they're pretty damn useless if I can't read 'em!

>>217053
Huh. That makes a lot of sense. After all, every other time I've used the Mystery Essence, it's changed something... I don't think I can drain essences, but I could certainly try using some on the tattoo.

What to do, what to do...?

>>217297
PUMP TAT FULL OF CHAOS AND MYSTERY

>>217297
The planet bit sounds a little more likely, I suppose.

Put mystery into it. What's the worst that could happen?

>>217353

He could pump mystery into it, but since the jumble effect is around it'll turn out to be destruction essence, and then I'll say YOU FORGOT AGAIN DIDN'T YOU >:(

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/12(Thu)16:59 No. 217847 ID: 2222da
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>>217298
>>217353
>>217402
Well, may as well give it a shot...

Lets see now...

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/12(Thu)17:00 No. 217849 ID: 2222da
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...Hell yes! Got the bastard! Hah, take that, weird green tattoo!

...Can I put my head back on now?

>>217849
Of course. Then reexamine your essences.

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/12(Thu)17:16 No. 217852 ID: 2222da
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>>217850
Ah, I feel much better.

Well, what now?

let's get back to making that planet. water would be best next. throw a chunk of oxygen and hydrogen together.

>>217852
Use the FLOWY essence on the planet!

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/13(Fri)01:37 No. 217960 ID: 2222da
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>>217854
>>217856
Well then, I guess I'll just...

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/13(Fri)01:38 No. 217961 ID: 2222da
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...

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/13(Fri)01:38 No. 217962 ID: 2222da
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...Go with the flow.

Garnith!!R1LwAuMQIu 2010/08/13(Fri)01:40 No. 217963 ID: 2222da
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

[End Of Chapter]