Pet it

Starit 2012/04/04(Wed)11:47 No. 398706 ID: f5e4b4
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Ok, I guess we have no other choice... Ew, the Birdril touches my hand with the tentacle. It’s slimy and hairy, but I guess I should be happy I’m not being electrocuted.

I signal Meinir and we both awkwardly sit on the creature.

“Ok, how do we ride this thiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!?”

Aaaaaah! Ok, we’re going, but I have no idea how to control this stupid monster! It’s just flying in circles all over the place! Down there I can see the riots in the streets, and some of the masked men pointing up at us with guns and muskets.

>>398706
Grab its antlers to steer! Or maybe that one long tentacle it has on the top of its head.

Steer them antlers, lean forward, express urgency in some way because it won't react well if shot in the air.

holy crap its tentacle moved from its nose to its forehead I bet it really is like Vik

>>398706
Fondle its tentacle.

there is not enough tentacle action. fix this !

flash your tits in a taunting manner at the masked men

Starit 2012/04/07(Sat)09:53 No. 399234 ID: f5e4b4
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I manage to take a hold of the antlers and it seems that I can almost steer this thing with them. We leave the fight behind and fly across the city until we see...

“There! The city doors! Now we have to figure out how do we get this thing down, and we can even return to our ship!”

I try grabbing the tentacle... and it turns out to be a bad idea!

“AAAah what did you doooo!?”

The birdril didn’t seem to like that! Now it’s flailing about, flying like crazy. We’re gonna fall if it keeps it up like this!

>>399234
Prepare for impact!

here's an idea.

stop grabbing the tentacle.

>>399234
If you found the antlers steer it why would you then grab the tentacle.

Ungrab the tentacle.

too much tentacle action ! profusely apologize and hug and whisper into its hide

Grab onto the antler and release the tentacle, its clearly a sensitive appendage and you're -really- agitating it.

>>399234
Try pushing the antlers forwards to angle its head down, if you want to go down.

If that doesn't work at all, I guess you could try sorta pressing on its body or wings. Or directly telling it to land.

Starit 2012/04/10(Tue)13:39 No. 400122 ID: f5e4b4
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It’s not so easy -Aaaah!- To let go of the tentacle and grab the antlers again! I think I almost got i--

-OOF!-

Starit 2012/04/10(Tue)13:39 No. 400124 ID: f5e4b4
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Uugh...

Starit 2012/04/10(Tue)13:40 No. 400125 ID: f5e4b4
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Ok... We finally stopped. I think... I hear someone talking near me... Ough... I think I’m in danger.

ROLL TO THE RIGHT!! get out the orb! this is the crazy mage that you shot with the orb last time. orb seems to absorb ambient magic. and possibly spells. need to us that to stop anything it casts.

sweep o' the leg!

roll into the attacker

>>400141
This.

Stab the mage with your hook! The distraction will give you a little more time to recover your senses.

>>400130
>>400141
>>400179
>>400126
Combine the ideas!
Roll into the mage while stabbing him with the orb!

Starit 2012/04/12(Thu)12:36 No. 400586 ID: f5e4b4
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I manage to get back to my senses and roll to my right, trying to kick or stab my attacker with the hook! But she proves to be quite nimble, as she jumps back just in time to avoid getting hit. Or should I say hover, rather than jump.

I knew I recognized that voice. It’s that lady with the crazy eyes from New Foria’s prison. I look around, there’s no sign of Meinir around me, and can’t see the Birdril either, not a single feather. I’m cornered against the city wall, surrounded by those masked goons, and that crazy bitch. This doesn’t look good.

“Nice to meet you again, cutie. I was just talking with the men, telling them how you ripped off my arm a few days ago, remember? Well, I’m in a good mood today, and I’m willing to be forgiving. Surrender yourself, and I’ll kill you quick.”

roll out the orb, she already knows you have it. "how about i take your other arm?"
just hold out until the cavalry arrives, aka, your crew in the ship.

>>400586
Ask if you can't make a deal- you have money, won't she take payment to let you live?

>>400593
i think you missd the part where she wants the red ball. and near as we can tell it' bonded to us for life.

>>400586
"Lady, you do not know how to make a good bargain, lemme tell you. That 'kill you quick' offer shit never works, besides, you should always kill your enemy quick."

>>400595
I'm well aware of that. There is no reason not to at least offer money.

We need to buy time, remember?

just attack. those are lousy terms, she could try to trick you at the VERY least

>>400597

you know what else is good advice? never giving good advice to your enemy.

threaten her with the orb. it doesn't seem to shimmer enough to release a blast, but she might not know that.

>>400634
Unless it's good advice that will never matter in the least and is more a mockery of her character.
Maybe "Giving everyone a quick death" is beneficial to her, but she's too proud, insane and sadistic to be practical now, is she?

Headbutt her in the face and be like, "Let's take it slow and deep" and hope you don't get murdered.

>>400586
Just shoot her.

Starit 2012/04/14(Sat)11:13 No. 401068 ID: f5e4b4
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Yeah, I need to buy time. The city guard will be here soon, and my crew are probably coming for me at this moment too. If I can only stay alive enough time.

I reach into my pocket and quickly change the hook for the gem holder, showing the orb, currently glowing softly, to her.

“So how about I take your other arm?”

The witch laughs, a creepy shrieking noise that barely sounds like something organic. “You poor idiot, it isn’t fully charged, can’t you see? “

Indeed the orb isn’t shining as brightly as the last time I used it. If at least I knew how to charge it, what causes it to start glowing harder... I feel like I could still try to use it, but I doubt it will have the same effect than last time.

“So you haven’t yet figured it out!? My, you’re even dumber than I tho-- Oooh, I get it now. Those clothes, the pirate ship... you’re an empty one, aren’t you? Not a single drop of magic in you. So you had to leave your home and family and become a harlot to survive. Hahaha! I think I’m making you a favor, putting you out of your miserable existence!”

“You... you bitch...”

>You can't charge it
>She knows because you don't have magic
>Theretofore, you need magic to charge it
>She can't use magic without charging the orb

THANKS FOR THE TIP, BITCH

"so apparently you are so scare of lil ol no magic you had to get a huge group of guys to come after me? wow i'm flattered."

Wow, she's really letting a lot of info slip. What a dumb villain.

Anyway, challenge her to a duel. Any magic she shoots your way, block it with the orb. That will cause the orb to absorb the magic and charge up.

touch gem to orb. hope it absorbs the mhagcjyyckzshkk.

>>401068
"Harlots aren't pirates, Harlots fuck people for cash. I kill people for cash and fuck harlots. Big difference. And I'm very happy with my existence, magic is for pussies. And not the kind I eat out regularly, the only good kind."

'magic will be the death of you. you would avoid being proven wrong by siccing your goons on me instead of a one on one.'

insult to your lack of magic has no weight until there's proof it matters. the witch knows her magic cant win so shove the fact in her face

>>401071
This.

It started charging again when you were riding on that freaky giant moth tentacle thing.

I think it automatically charges while you're near anything that leaks magic.

It's starting to glow, keep her talking.

Starit 2012/04/18(Wed)04:13 No. 402133 ID: f5e4b4
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I try to ignore her taunts, and focus my rage on my favor. If it’s true that magic charges the sphere, it means she can’t use it against me!

“Harlots aren't pirates, Harlots fuck people for cash. I kill people for cash and fuck harlots. Big difference.”

“So cute of you to believe that, dear.”

“Magic will be the death of you. you would avoid being proven wrong by siccing your goons on me instead of a one on one.”

The witch suddenly bursts in laughter.

“Ahahah, oh by the gods. Poor, clueless creature. Do you think the gem gets its energy from the magical forces around it? Ahah, allow me to prove how wrong you are.”


AAAAGH!

Hmnnff... That hurt... I think I’m alright, it was only... pain... no wounds... Gods, it hurts! And she’s right, the sphere hasn’t gotten any brighter.

...But I hear screaming... fighting. Either my crew or the city guards. I need to stay alive... a little longer.

Hmm, girl, with that information, you can't be an empty one or there's another source of energy it draws from.

Was there a particular emotion you were feeling during your descent into the prison? Think girl! Your crew might be related, it could be about the loyalty you feel for them, and as you got closer, the org glowed brighter.

It gained some energy as you tried your best to defend yourself and your lover as you escaped too, selfless acts or acts of loyalty might be the second kind of power source.

She's pretty braggy, so she might reveal the truth. I suggest revealing that you think loyalty or selflessness powers it, to test her reaction. And you got a whole lot of loyalty.

In case I am correct, however, you should focus on thoughts of your crew and how they'll be off without you. You're a great captain, can you really trust someone else to do the job? You give those brigands a home and a family where all would cast them out.

it charged somehow then. maybe it charges off the energy of those you care for?

I don't think your pistol is loaded, but point it at her anyway, just to make her gloat more about how that won't work on her.

play into her contempt. she's too vain to kill you or she would have done it at the first sign of trouble.

attack her men. she might actually stop the men just so she can ensure the pleasure of hurting you, or youre restrained by her anyway.

make pussy jokes and don't die

Starit 2012/04/24(Tue)07:40 No. 404140 ID: 31015f
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I try to remain calm, reloading my pistol. She just keeps smiling, doesn’t look like she considers herself in a hurry. I point at one of the closest masked goons and shoot him in the face. The rest try to charge against me, but she holds them off, with a slightly interest smile in her face now.

I try to remember how I felt back in the prison, when the sphere started to glow for the first time. I can’t say that I felt especially good. Yeah, loyal I guess, but all I can remember is it being rather gloomy, dark, with all the catacombs, traps and old, dead skeletons left and right. But I gotta keep buying time, so I try to keep her talking. She stares at me intently now, with her hand up like she’s about to smite me.

“So what is it, then? Loyalty? Selflessness powers?“

That actually seems to get her a bit by surprise, as she lowers her hand and doesn’t shoot me with another painful discharge, instead she laughs with that maniac laugh of hers.

“Ahaahah! I can’t believe it! What do you think this is, some old lady’s bedtime tale? What are you going to say next!? True love? Kisses!? AHahahah! I’m almost sorry I’m gonna have to end with this buffoonery and kill you, you’re proving to be quite entertaining, cutie!”

Gloom. Spookiness. Dread. Thoughts of death.

Also zap the shit out of her, the orb's charged.

I guess you gotta kill stuff. or be desperate. I suggest you do both, just to be sure. and try to blast her as soon as you can.

>>404140
"Woman, come on this has the chance of being the funnest fight of your life. Why don't you even the chances a little? We all die someday, don't we? Shouldn't that be the most amusing day of our lives, ideally?"

>>404140
It's charged. Smoke 'em.

it had a black light last time. it's white now. it seems to draw from different sources.

stab another guy. 'how boring. you've given up humiliating me.'

Ask for a round of applause.

Your arm sure is glowy.

Starit 2012/04/26(Thu)12:27 No. 404886 ID: 31015f
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“How boring. You've given up humiliating me.”

I think I might’ve figured it out. I lunge towards another one of the goons and slit his throat with the dagger. The rest of the mob is conflicted between attacking me and following the bitch’s orders. Also it sounds like a fight has started at their rearguard, maybe the city guards finally catching up. Can’t see from here.

The witch seems to be less amused now.

“Actually I agree, this is getting boring. Let’s wrap things up.”

“Woman, come on this has the chance of being the funnest fight of your life. Why don't you even the -ACK!”

T-this isn’t good...

you are at full power!
MOONSTONE CANON, FIRE!!

I think your ball is charged now... Aim it at her head.

YOUR LAZORS ARE CHARGED

YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO SOLDIER

YOU ARE FULLY CHARGED

>>404886
She's got terrible aim, that shot didn't hit anything vital.

Shoot back. Take off her good arm.

shining finger !

do it

Arm? No, take off her head.

>>405093

heads are tiny, rapidly moving targets. go for the center of mass, I say.

>>405151
Yeah.

Starit 2012/04/29(Sun)12:06 No. 405672 ID: 31015f
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I...I raise my arm and focus on the feeling of... anger... dread? I don’t know, I think it’s just sheer power, something huge, terrible squirming like a trapped beast at the end of my stump.

Or maybe it’s just the blood loss...

AAaaarrgh!

I... I think I hit her... I’m not sure. And I think I’ve been hit again. I’m starting to lose focus... fading away...

>>405672

stay awake! Viktorbird and Hammerhips are here to sweep you away. just kill the wizard harder and you'll be free soon.

Was that your hip? I think that was your hip. Groan in agony and fall over.

Try to keep shooting, though.

pass out i guess !

Focus your will, remain awake. Your life depends on it.

oh man take a magic morning after pill so you don't get magic pregnant from that.

Starit 2012/05/03(Thu)13:11 No. 407615 ID: 31015f
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I continue focusing... as long as I can. I don’t know if I’m still shooting HER, the energy seems to drift and jump around me, targeting the masked men... The longer I keep it up, the worse I feel. It’s like my life is getting sucked out of my body... but those might be just the wounds... I’m not gonna stay conscious much longer...

Starit 2012/05/03(Thu)13:12 No. 407616 ID: 31015f
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“M-mein...”

“It’s ok, Cap’n, I got ya. Sorry about the delay, next time you might not want to crash our ride against a wall.”

I don’t even have the energy to give a witty answer. I think I’m just going to pass out...

Starit 2012/05/03(Thu)13:12 No. 407618 ID: 31015f
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...Burnt...ever seen something like this in m...that gem...

...on’t care...our guts out...seen you...

Oh

Hey

You don’t want to be here. Get out.

“Hey, I think she’s waking up. I think I saw her move...”

First concern: Is everything still attached?

Second concern: Are you still (somewhat) clothed?

Third concern: Where is your stuff?

Last concern: Where are you?

>>407618
Do you still remember your name?

>>407621
This.

sleep. rest. recover.

>>407618
=>

You don't sound dead. Guess you won. Hurrah!

I wonder if you got to keep your kidney and small intestine? Well, even if you can't eat solid food for awhile, you did it! You survived when you shouldn't have!

press buttons

cop a feel, it is the only thing i can think of during a black out.

Starit 2012/05/05(Sat)13:39 No. 408358 ID: 31015f
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I open my eyes to realize with relief that I’m in my room at the ship, resting on my own bed. My back hurts, and my lower torso does so too, but it’s not as bad as I expected, more like a numb annoyance. I still feel pretty weak, and just turning my head around feels like a titanic effort.

Meinir is here, and also... oh boy, Doctor. Meinir seems to notice my concern, because she smiles and tries to sound reassuring.

“Welcome back cap’n. Don’t worry, I’ve been watching over Creepo here the whole time, and made sure he didn’t take anything out as a souvenir.”

Doctor groans, annoyed, but not particularly indignant. We’re all too aware of his reputation for that.

“Ahem! As I was going to say... Your recovery is astonishing, captain. You’ve got two holes the size of a ChickenChoke* ball in your hips. Don’t know what made them, but they should’ve pulverized bones and organs in their way out. That added to the massive blood loss, should’ve been enough to do you over. But instead, you’ve only got but mild hip fractures. If we find a competent flesh wizard, you’ll be up in no time.

Meinir pushes Doctor out of the room and decides to tell me what happened when I blacked out.

“Well, I don’t know how did you do it, but you managed to burn down every house around you, and all those masked assholes that were after us. I found you in the middle of that circle of glowing fire, bleeding and babbling nonsense.”

“What about that bitch in black robes? Did I kill her?”

“Don’t know. I guess? There was nobody else with you when I got ya, just flames...”

“... So, what have you planned to do next? We’ve already left the city, I don’t think the people of Livi are very happy with us after that huge fight and the houses burning and all that.”

Ugh... I’d rather not have to make my mind now, I still feel pretty crappy. But I guess you can’t afford that when you’re the captain. The wizard dude at the Guild told me to go to Ovrare, where maybe the wizards can inform me about this gem... Or I could swallow my pride and prepare to reopen all the old wounds and head back home, visit my family and ask the wise men of The Ninoth about it. They’re probably the most powerful mystics alive...

So I gotta decide. Also should I ask Meinir about anything else?


*Popular ball game in the Free Islands with a very complex set of rules that involve twenty rubber balls, thirty players, about a hundred chickens and large wooden clubs.

a sport involving a hundred chickens is a sport i can get behind :v

i cant think of anything to ask. head back to make some connections with the wise men for whatever its worth

>>408358
>Ovrare >wizards >want a flesh wizard
That way.

Also give Manny a pat on the head.

Might want to ask her if she got out okay as well, considering that you were in a huge fight and crashed a bird/bug thingy into a wall. It would only be polite.

Afterwards, maybe some cuddling, followed by going to Ovrare. Also think about how you managed to use the orb even though it apparently needed charging. So you either have magic or something else is going on.

>>408380
think we sucked in the life force of the people we killed.

Ovrare.

>>408358
Ask if Meinir stowed that bird-moth onboard somewhere.
Ask if the mantis was there the entire surgery.
Ask if the orb is still stuck to your hook hand.
Ask if she got your gun for you.
Ask if she could get wizard in here to see if she's got any magic still clinging.

Starit 2012/05/07(Mon)10:13 No. 409386 ID: 31015f
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“Are you ok? I don’t remember a thing after I slammed that bird-bug thing against the wall.”

“Yeah, you got the worst of the impact and fell down. I couldn’t catch you, barely managed to stay on the Birdril myself. And before you ask, the thing seems to have grown fond of us, for some reason. It’s following us, sleeping on the mast when it gets tired. I guess we’ve got ourselves a pet.”

I nod and pet Manny’s head gently. The mantis happily nibbles on my fingers, gently.

“Did Manny stay here the whole surgery?”

“Your mantis? That’s funny, I didn’t notice it until you mentioned. I didn’t see him come in, so I guess he was.”

“Is the orb still stuck in-- yes it is.. *sigh* of course it is. Did you get my gun?”

“Yeah, of course.”

“Ok, tell the first mate that we’re going to Ovrare.”

I can’t help but to let a bit of relief tinct my voice. Meinir, of course, notices it.

“You can’t be running away from your family forever.”

“I know, I know! I just don’t want to go there unless it’s my last alternative, ok?”

“Alright, don’t worry. Now, you should get some rest, so lean back and relax.”

…

“Hmm,,, not sure if this counts as “relaxing”.

“shush...”

happy end.

>>409386
Silly Meinir, you can't straddle a bed-stricken lady and have her enjoy it, that's teasing!

learn magic, become kitty wizard, use orb more effectively.