Try to get her attention. I dunno, tap her on the shoulder or something.

What all have you learned to say, just so we know?

Wander around and check how the others are doing.

was she wounded recently?

>>403707
Where are the others? Are they near?

if giant waifu is no more I will be sad forever...

1/2 Three Stripes 2012/04/23(Mon)09:38 No. 403738 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes has learned enough that he can understand most of what they say. Food, go, come, stop, and they are beginning to teach him individual names and how to count up to five. They also tried to name him something but he got them to teach them the word stripes so that he can say his first name in their language so that he can keep things simple so now they call him Three Stripes. It sounds different from when Silent said it to him so many she has a different set of words than these neumono. Language is hard.

Three Stripes nudges Giant.

2/2 Three Stripes 2012/04/23(Mon)09:38 No. 403739 ID: c811c4
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Giant swats at Three Stripes and says "Leave, me, *****." Three Stripes doesn't know the third word.

There is no one else around. Everyone else is gathering food. Three Stripes doesn't think Giant is wounded at all and she looks okay except that she isn't moving much.

>>403739
She might just be having an off day.

Why don't you curl up next to her like some kind of giant cat? If she's resting I can't imagine she'd object to you also resting.

What interesting places have you discovered? Just walk around near the camp. Not much to do right now but rest.

sounds like it's exploration time.

She's not sick, is she? Or, um, "on the rag"? ...do neumonos even have that?

If she's in good shape you can go on your own. Maybe surprise her when she wakes up!

yeah maybe she is ummm.. "post ovulation"

try broadcasting a sense of concern. it seems like she is under the weather for some reason.

>>403739
Tried to convince anyone to let you eat a limb, yet? Or maybe just an ear?

Maybe you should emotion-broadcast that you are worried about her.

Give Giant a bit wet lick. Giant is awesome and will definitely keep you safe, so if she's having any problems you gotta help her.

>>403739
Give a quick pulse of concern, then kiss her.

Three Stripes 2012/04/23(Mon)11:26 No. 403800 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes doesn't want to eat any part of these neumono because he would need to control them to make sure that eating them is painless and nice. If he ate them normally it would be so very painful for them and Three Stripes is willing to give up neumono food for that.

Three Stripes gives off a sense of concern, and Giant returns saying she is fine.

Three Stripes goes off to take a walk alone but is nervous, and so is Giant. As soon as Three Stripes approaches the leaf line, Giant yells at Three Stripes to come back and he is not sure what she wants from him so he goes to rest by her side. He just licked her and got swatted for it so he just lays down.

Then the Salikai appears through the leaves or maybe that is a different one it is hard to tell.

>>403800
Uh oh. I don't think this is good news.

Radiate a giant sense of alarm, readiness, and come to me.

Stand and face the new arrivals.

>>403800
Yeah this could be very bad, what with the armed small things. Nudge her again with a sense of alarm.

He looks a little mutilated.

Careful, you wouldn't want him to get short with you.

Do radiate a sense of alarm and concern, but don't stand up or make sudden moves. Wait for Giant to respond to these arrivals. This situation might be normal, if not common.

>>403809
Looks like the salikai is stepping through the leaf wall. It's a little hard to tell.

Express the fear and "HOLY SHIT" emotion

they have guns. those things hurt.

Three Stripes 2012/04/23(Mon)12:02 No. 403820 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes sets off alarms and tries to call any other neumono to him even though he can't sense anyone but Giant. The salikai isn't mutilated but it always looks like that whenever someone steps through the leaf wall.

Then Giant goes silent even though she's right here and Three Stripes can't sense her and Giant is trying to calm Three Stripes down but he is so very worried.

Giant tells the salikai something and then the salikai tells the small thing something and then Three Stripes can sense Giant again and gives her another kiss because she is okay. Giant tells Three Stripes it is alright. Giant and salikai start talking a lot and Three Stripes can't understand any of it. Salikai keeps on pointing at Three Stripes.

>>403820
I think we should try to calm down and focus on what they're saying.

>>403820
Okay, try to calm down a little bit. She seems to have the situation under control for the moment.

Change the empathy emissions to caution, readiness, and come to me.

Wait and try to keep calm.

>>403820

We must stay with giant, for she is waifu and bestfriend.

I wonder just how intelligent Giant is...

looks like it wants you. maybe you could explain four stripes is still in the lockup place and he would be better for the salikai.

Same guy. Did she just shut off her empathic link for a moment?

>>403820
Woah did she just shut off like that little blue silent neumono from earlier?

This is significant.

Did Giant just go quiet like Silent did before? You didn't know she could do that! And she hid her emotions on talking with the salikai! What's going on?!

Emit a sense of confusion with a tinge of fear. Cower a bit behind Giant. There's something odd going on here, and you don't like it.

The little thing did something, and then Giant stopped being silent. Maybe the little thing had done something to block your empathy because the salikai thought you were controlling Giant and does not want that? That would mean he cares about Giant, which probably means he's Giant's friend and has no reason not to be your friend to.

Ask him if he's a friend.

>>403830
no t looks like they have a jammer. they thought we were controlling them not we were being friends.

Three Stripes 2012/04/23(Mon)14:08 No. 403860 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes tries to listen. They are using a lot of words and he doesn't understand much but he is sure the salikai said 'Polo' which might be the name of the silent one. There is also 'danger', 'fighting', and 'food' but Three Stripes isn't sure if any of the words have anything to do with each other here.

Three Stripes asks if the salikai is a friend, and Giant hesitates before saying kind of.

They keep talking and the conversation gets calmer and there is less pointing at Three Stripes. The salikai leaves, and Giant says she will have to leave tomorrow. Three Stripes asks for how long, and Giant says for two days.

"Can I come with you?"

>>403860
Ask if you can come. Will it be dangerous?

Three Stripes comes too, right?!

she goes, you go. no matter what. she says you stay you sleep now and wake up early but fake sleep and follow giant when she gets up.

"What danger and fighting? Fight who? Fight Polo, the silent one? I come with, help!"

Why is she doing this for the salikai? Is she afraid of him? What did she feel when she said he's a "kind of" friend?

>>403860
"Know Polo.
Fighting, Polo Danger. Not fighting, Polo not danger."
Give her a flash of love
"Caution, mate"

>>403912
:I

"I know Polo. Polo is friendly. Where is polo?"

"Ah, my dear I believe that an individual called 'Polo' was brought up in your conversation with your acquaintance the Salikai. First I must again emphasize my distrust and fear of your chosen associate in both motivation and method. But more pressingly I am in relative good standing with miss Polo and believe I should accompany you my friend if indeed you intend on involving her. I must warn you that miss Polo is of great resilience in the nuances of strategy and warfare, so much so that I suggest you approach a diplomatic and mutually beneficial accord. Indeed miss Polo would make a more trustworthy ally over you mr Salikai. Not that I mean to insult the honor of an individual I have yet to acquaint."

>>403860
"Polo?"

Can you convey that you... well, you at least think Polo is something like a friend?

>>403912
We haven't gotten that far yet.
>>403929
Sounds good to me. Then if anyone looks funny at us, go back to hulkspeak.

Three Stripes 2012/04/24(Tue)00:10 No. 403971 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes asks who Giant will be fighting and if he can come too. Giant says she will be fighting other queens from other tribes for food. It isn't dangerous, the fights aren't to the death, but the more she wins the more food the dispenser gives.

Three Stripes tries to use a lot of fancy speech to tell Giant that Polo is a friend and is dangerous, but gets stuck on the third word and just says Polo is dangerous friend. Giant shrugs and says the salikai said Polo is not to be killed. Giant did not feel any friendship from Giant towards the salikai, but sees the salikai as beneficial and not mean.

Giant says that she will be resting today for preparation for the fights, and Three Stripes isn't allowed to come to the fights and should stay here and wait a couple of days. The other neumono will take care of Three Stripes and Three Stripes wants to follow her but he isn't sure if he should do that.

>>403860

Yep, we definitely know "Polo". She is our creepyfriend.

Also, if Giant is going to be gone, we must give her extra hugs and stuff.

stay here, but don't stop getting into shape. run, hunt critters, do something to build up your condition.

>>403971
If the fights are some sort of contest or something, things might go badly if you come along even though she's telling you not to. She might not get any food at all and that would be bad for everyone.

Still, a couple of days is quite some time. It'd be nice if there was something you could do...

Lets go explore and make more neumono friends!

Did it know where Polo was? Maybe we can catch up with our dangerous friend.

Three Stripes 2012/04/24(Tue)01:25 No. 403991 ID: c811c4
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Giant says that she does not know where Polo is but apparently she has a tendency to get around and may show up eventually.

Three Stripes spends the day with Giant and the others and the others wish Giant to have good something. The next day when Giant has to go she gives Three Stripes a pat and tells him to stay put while she's gone but he doesn't want to stay still for two days. He hopes that Giant will have a good time and he hopes that he won't run into bad things when he goes exploring.

Three Stripes knows where the leaf line stops and there are open fields but he has never been there before. There are also areas still within the leaves that none of the neumono ever go to and they just say it's off limits.

>>403991
Are the other neumono around?

It would be more okay to head out with one of them, I'd think, if that's what you want to do.

Yes carrying a neumono around and running fast would be a great exercise! And lets first go explore the place where the leafline stops, to gather some courage so we may later brave the off limit areas.

Three Stripes 2012/04/24(Tue)02:01 No. 404004 ID: c811c4
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The other neumono are around but they said that Giant said to wait here until Giant comes back. Three Stripes puts on his best pouty face but they don't change their mind.

then do some fucking weightlifting.

>>404004
Act despondent for a while. Surely one of them will try to at least make you stop doing that.

see if you can sense her far away.

Hmm pacifying our new friends feels wrong but could we just pacify them for few seconds? Long enough for us to get out of sight and then run like the wind! To find other neumono friends or food or something else to impress giant and prove we are not usless.

>>404011
No.
You need to show her you can be trusted.
She wants you to stay here with the others? You can do that. It's sad that you can't be with her, but you don't want to make her unhappy!

Get to know some of the other Nuemono better while you're waiting. Are you good with children?

Seems like strength and speed training are the order of the day. Push-ups, sit-ups, any motion where you must move your body mass will work. Find a place within the group's area where you can dash back and forth. If it starts seeming easy, ask some of your not-to-be-eaten neumono friends to lay on you and hang on. Remember your goal, to be a better fighter beside Giant and the others.

>>404004

Let's make giant a castle! Because that way when she can come back, she can be queen of the castle!

1/2 Clamp 2012/04/24(Tue)04:23 No. 404060 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes is very good with kids but there are no kids around so he cannot prove it. Giant can't be sensed from so far away so she disappears and Three Stripes at least isn't lonely since usually there are other neumono.

Right now he will exercise but usually Giant has him run around and push things and he isn't sure how to do it right so he just starts flailing around and hope that moving is good enough.

2/2 Clamp 2012/04/24(Tue)04:23 No. 404061 ID: c811c4
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He tries to build a castle for giantqueen out of leaves but it ends up just being a pile of leaves and then he can't make it bigger because the other neumono start lying on it between food trips.

Maybe he should get to know them better or maybe not because Three Stripes likes to keep things simple and he doesn't know if talking is simple.

>>404061

socializing is good for the soul, man. talk to them. let 'em know you're a person.

Yeah lets find out more about that crown wearing one, where did it get the crown? Can we get a crown too?

>>404061
You can at least try to talk. Only way you'll get better.

How many neumono are in this hive? Can you tell them apart?

>>404061

Huzzah! We have made happiness :D

Let's try to learn more words. Then when giantwaifu comes back, we can show her how much we learned!

Three Stripes 2012/04/24(Tue)06:41 No. 404109 ID: c811c4
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There are 10 neumono in this hive and Three Stripes knows all of them but some of them only a little bit.

He asks Crown about her crown and she says it made of special feathers off of a beast. It is very important to her because it was given to her by her mother and if Three Stripes wants one he will have to find and beat that beast.

>>404109
Do they have names for themselves? You managed to teach them yours, after all.

Maybe you could chat with one of the ones you don't know about, well... anything? You seem to know Crown better than most of the others.

I wonder what they think of you?

don't need to beat it, just rip out some feathers and run. get enough for a bracelet.

Ask if the beast was really tough.

Three Stripes 2012/04/24(Tue)07:17 No. 404121 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes asks if the beast is very tough. The giant says yes and that Three Stripes probably shouldn't try to find it.

Three Stripes can find out their names but it is simpler to just call them by what makes them different. They all are okay with Three Stripes, some are just okay but some of them including giant like him and that is good.

ask if there is an enemy tribe that ever attacks.

>>404121

I like her crown. It is cute :D

>>404124

Good point! Ask Crown if we have anything to worry about with Giantwaifu being gone~

>>404121
What do these guys do for fun (besides lay around in piles of leaves or neumono, that is)?

Three Stripes 2012/04/24(Tue)09:40 No. 404213 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes asks if things will be okay without Giant and if other tribes attacks. Crown assures him that everything will be okay, and the only time there is ever any fighting with other tribes is a once a month occurrence when the queens gather to fight each other for dispenser food, and even then that is only the queens.

Three Stripes asks what they do for fun besides hugs and cuddles. They seem confused and say they do not know.

Three Stripes finds this to be an absolutely appalling revelation.

>>404213
SHOW THEM FUN, THREE STRIPES

show them some games.

Three Stripes 2012/04/24(Tue)10:02 No. 404233 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes will show them fun! He will...

Three Stripes can't remember how to play any games! This is horrible!

uhh uhh uhhh TAG!

Catch?

Eat the Neumono?

>>404233
Tag is good! If you can't remember how that works, one person is "it" and has to try to "tag" (that is, touch) the other players, who try to avoid them. When you get tagged, you become "it" and you keep playing until everyone gets too bored or exhausted.


Um... try not to tag anyone too hard.

>>404237
>>404238
>Um... try not to tag anyone too hard.
Or with the inside of your mouth.

And don't go anywhere unsafe while playing tag!

1/2 Three Stripes 2012/04/24(Tue)10:28 No. 404259 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes teaches them no-eating tag! It is difficult to explain but eventually they get it and the leaves make it good to sneak up on neumono and it is fun.

2/2 Three Stripes 2012/04/24(Tue)10:28 No. 404262 ID: c811c4
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But it doesn't last very long at all because they say they have to conserve their energy because this doesn't bring in food.

Those mushrooms you used to have your friends get to eat. Where are those? Could we start growing them here?

Aww.

... Can you help get food or something?

>>404262
So that's why they lay about most of the time?

I guess you could draw in the dirt with sticks.

yes, the mushrooms! find some so you can start a mushroom farm.

>>404271
Also, what did they grow on? Dead neumono bits? Some special kind of rotting leaf?

>>404264
Doubtful there are any of those mushrooms down here, but you could ask if there's anything that grows around here that's edible. Something they could cultivate to supplement what they get out of the food dispensers.

>>404262

You know what this calls for? SNUGGLE PILE.

Three Stripes 2012/04/24(Tue)13:17 No. 404324 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes thinks of the mushrooms that grew in the caves and he thinks that they only would grow in the cave. And even if they grew here too he wouldn't know where to look for them and when Three Stripes asks if he can go and find other food they say he is supposed to stay here.

Three Stripes enjoys any snuggling and company but he doesn't like being stuck in a little tiny area so he is starting to want to sneak off even if he isn't supposed to.

Do eeeeeeeeeet!

See if you can find something that is food like the mushrooms but can grow where the neumono live...once you sneak out~!

Give your buddies goodbye huggles/kissies before heading out (but don't wake them up)! =3

Also, a little late here, but I didn't realize Predators had this many teeth!
>>404259

You don't like to be confined, even if it is much nicer than sharing that pen with Four Stripes. Time for exploration!

Turn your empathic link off, like you're going to sleep, give everyone a goodbye nuzzle, then sneak away before they wake. Once outside, try climbing a tree or tall rock to get a better view of the area, and what's above it.

sure.

Three Stripes 2012/04/24(Tue)22:24 No. 404413 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes makes sure to give everyone a snuggle and sneaks off when no one is looking.

He goes off farther than he's ever been and almost falls down a cliff when a leaf wall doesn't lead to solid ground. It is very foggy and Three Stripes can't see far. He hasn't found any mushrooms or food yet and none of the dispensers had any food.

Double back to check on camp then head off in another direction.

What are those lights in the distance?

>>404413
Hmm. I'd be wary of getting too far afield...

approach shiny things in the distance.

Carefully climb down that cliff. We need to check out those lights!

Three Stripes 2012/04/25(Wed)00:21 No. 404427 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes slides down the cliff and heads towards the lights. It is very quiet except for the wind. The lights are making a hum.

GTFO. Double back to base, head in new direction. We have no idea what those things are. This area could be dangerous. And we have to make sure our friends stay safe. They are counting on us to be there for them.

check where it sinks below the earth, or if it does so at all. it's probably a plant, but you gotta make sure.

If we always played it safe our quest characters would sit in an empty room all day and never move.

Touch the lights.

>>404427
You ever seen anything like those before?

get below the leafs.

Before you go rushing off in all directions, get some information. Your friends seem to be hunters and gatherers, but you know a few things about farming and herding. Find out what your friends eat, and communicate these ideas to them.
Meanwhile, examine these glowing things, and see if they're somethig you can dig up and bring back. Even if they're not food, being able to light up your area at night will help whoever's on the night watch see enemies and dangerous animals coming quicker.

>>404429
Good plan. Try digging one up.

Check if it shocks like the food dispensers do first. Poke it with a stick, then one paw, before starting to dig. Maybe see if the glowing part on one of the others can be pulled off, and taste it. Who knows, it might be edible.

>>404427
Uh, you could climb up the cliff again to get back, right?

Three Stripes 2012/04/25(Wed)03:23 No. 404480 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes has never seen lights like these before. They look heavy and it would be very difficult to drag all the way back but they smell sweet and edible. Three Stripes could at least try to bite one and then bring back a bulb or two and see if the neumonos like it. Nothing happens when Three Stripes gives it a poke or looks around at where it grows from.

Grab a few and bring em back then. Get back and check on base I don't want anything bad happening to your friends while you are gone.

>>404480
Bring one back, but... don't try biting it yet.

>>404480
Do not bite. Try to grab it and pull it off, if it's not sticky. This could be a trap lure.

could be poison that doesn't smell like poison. rip one out and run back.

Bring none back. Ask abut them later.

There must be a reason why the lights are here and there are non at the neumonos place. Stay away from them and go back to the village. Ask around if they know of them. if its not harmful then you can go back and carry some for you and the village.

get some. don't eat any. show 'em to the others and see what they think about it. it's worth the risk because you might've discovered a new source of food.

Don't try to eat it if you don't know what it is. Glowing things are probably not good to eat. I just hope it's not some kind of lure.

Hmmm... If neumono could eat them, then wouldn't the hive have come down here to harvest some, instead of fighting for food at the dispensers? This field isn't that far away, right? So don't try to eat them and continue onwards. You can pick one on the way back.

Three Stripes 2012/04/25(Wed)08:51 No. 404629 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes isn't good at holding things but he can keep one and moves back looking around at all the metal walls.

Then a blasty gun shoots the bulb he was holding and Three Stripes freezes because that's all he knows how to do now when a blasty gun blasts.

>>404629
No sudden movements. Whoever took that shot clearly has good aim.

duck into the leaves and throw away the pod.

Look at where the shot came from.

Duck and throw it away so they can see you tossed it. Start crawling back home. Stay as low as you can.

try to see who shot at you but don't waste too much time doing so. just a quick glance. if it was a neumono you might be able to pacify it. otherwise run.

Drop the bulb. Get flat on the ground, under the leaves. Shimmy back the way you came, and see if they take another shot at the bulb. Look at where the shot came from.

Is that red fog still around? You'll blend in once you get rid of that bulb. That's likely what they aimed for through the fog.

Your assailant is either a bad shot or doesn't want to kill you. I'm betting the latter.

Toss the orb and raise your hands to show you don't have it anymore.

>>404658
>aimed for the bulb through the fog
My god you're right. The shooter probably can't see us, they only saw the bulb move. Drop the bulb and get your camouflage on, triple-S.

Three Stripes 2012/04/25(Wed)20:22 No. 404702 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes drops to the ground and drops the light.

It is quiet. He can't see through the fog very well but he just started looking up and there are passageways in the air. Maybe the blasty gun is getting closer because Three Stripes is starting to be able to sense a neumono that he does not know.

they most not know you are a predator. stay silent until they get closer so they can't run out of range before you take control.

Stay low, stay quiet. Try to pacify it and bring it over to you. We'll let it go after we figure out who it is and what it wants.

Stay down. No way do you want to get shot.

>>404702
What is its emotional state? Angry, curious, fearful, what?

Pacifying it is a good idea, as we have enough friends, and this one shot at us. After we get it closer and pacified we should ask why they shot at us.

>>404706
That depends on whether it would be a good idea to let it go back and on how delicious it looks.

Stay low and silent, in both the sound and empathic sense. Wait for the neumono to get within sight, then judge whether to pacify it or not. What's it emotional state?

calm it down.

Three Stripes 2012/04/26(Thu)11:06 No. 404863 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes thinks that its emotional state is distressed. It is getting kind of closer but not coming straight for Three Stripes but when it is close enough Three Stripes starts trying to control it.

But it disappears when Three Stripes tries.

Crawl away as fast as you can. This is dangerous.

>>404863
Try to head back, but stay low.

go towards were it was.

Three Stripes 2012/04/26(Thu)12:01 No. 404878 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes crawls back to escape and nothing else attacks him on his way back.

He is almost back to his home and his friends are looking for Three Stripes. They are kind of worried but also mad that he snuck off.

Three Stripes is in big trouble.

you were teaching them a hide and seek game, right? that's why they couldn't find you.

>>404878
I'm pretty sure you knew you were going to get in trouble when you snuck out.

At least you didn't get hurt or anything.

say you are sorry and tell them what happened.

>>404878

Use your totally awesome pouty-cute-face and drawing powers to explain your fanciful tale of finding glowy things and that someone had a blasty gun!

well shit. I guess you'll have to take it like a man.

Project that you're really, really sorry you sneaked off alone. You were almost shot out there, so you won't do it ever again.

Do tell them that who shot at you was a strange neumono. When you tried to control it, it vanished from your senses, like Giant did when the salikai was here. It wasn't Polo, so you don't know how it did that.

Three Stripes 2012/04/26(Thu)13:17 No. 404913 ID: c811c4
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It's horrible and Three Stripes feels horrible but he still won't control them even though he could. He emits that he is very sorry and sad and they feel a little bad back for hitting him because of it but they want to make sure Three Stripes doesn't go off on his own again and Three Stripes tells them he'll never do it again.

He tells them of the balls and they get all serious and ask if Three Stripes ate it and said that it is a sleeping poison and that monsters underground will rise up and be able to track where the bulb is and finish off the one who ate it.

Three Stripes also tells them there was a neumono that vanished like Giant did when the salikai came. They said that a salikai sometimes has a device that blocks their links, but they don't know about any other neumono that is allowed to have one.

So the neumono was helping us, i wonder who it was.
Well if we promised not to go off alone maybe we can go with our friends when they go forage food or something.

>>404913
Sheesh. Good thing you didn't eat that, then.

>>404913
Man, they don't own you. You're not some pet, you're part of the hive. Ask them to not demean you in such a way, you're not stupid or less than them. They don't have to treat you like a child that needs to be beaten to learn.

You're not naive, you know the world is dangerous.

You wanted to find them food so they could play with you! But you couldn't find anything like the mushrooms. :<

"Fuck you, I do what I want. You don't own me. I'm not a pet. I'm your friend. I'm your team mate."

Three Stripes 2012/04/26(Thu)14:58 No. 404940 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes realizes he is getting treated like some pet, but he's not some pet, he's one of them! He tells them that, and gets up from getting hit.

They don't like that at all. They tell him he is a pet, and only accepted as much as he is because of his link.

I retract my previous post. Get what information you can out of them, control them to stand aside, and leave. Maybe you can find a way back up to the tunnels you used to live in.

of course your only accepted because of your link, that's like saying to people can only get along because they can communicate. neumono cant really get along with anyone they can't emotionally link with. ask them how well any of them would be accepted without there link.

are the ones talking to you are the ones who are only ok with you? that could explain why they are being mean about this. if they are your are arguing with neumono who don't like you very much and no good will come of prolonging the argument. just say something like "I am a person not a pet, if you disagree that is your problem" and then just walk away.

>>404940
Protest.

"i could kill you all if i wanted to, but i don't because i WANT to be your friend. i am trying my best but you need to try too"

Controlling them is a bad idea and will only piss off Giant and we'll never get Giantwife.

Offer to prove you're not a pet, and ask as to the whereabouts of any rival tribes. Then control the rivals and have them tapdance.

Emit a feeling of disappointment and sadness, like you've been fooled. Say that only wanted to be part of their hive; To have the company of neumonos without control over them. You still do. You'll stay in line with the hive, and do what you can to prove your worth from now on. However, if they're never going to treat you better than a dumb animal, you're going to leave.

>>404945
There's a post delete function here, you know.

>>404959
Also this.

That is upsetting! You thought they really liked you without you controlling them and you weren't eating them or anything like that and now they are being mean to you! D:

>>404959
>>404949

+

Broadcast angry, upset, betrayed. Head out again in another direction. Don't let them stop you.

>>404959
Best

Three Stripes 2012/04/26(Thu)16:11 No. 404990 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes just wanted to be part of them, on equal ground, and he tells them that. Three Stripes tells them he'll prove he's not a pet, if he can get to an enemy hive. They just say he's not allowed to go to an enemy hive.

Three Stripes repeats he's not a pet, but they repeat that he is. Even the ones that like him, and still do like him, say they never thought of him as a real neumono. He is welcome to stay, they say, but now their thoughts are in the open, and they don't think he is a real member of the hive, just an outside friend at best.

Three Stripes makes sure to let them know he is mad and disappointed and sad and everything as he starts walking away. Some of them don't want him to leave, but aren't changing their mind about him stopping him and Three Stripes isn't sure he wants to stay here anymore. Maybe another hive will accept him. He has already broken rules before, and doesn't care about the salikai's rules.

"An outside friend is fine. But I'm not a pet. If you don't like me as a free individual, tell me and I'll go somewhere where I am considered free."

The only thing to do now is go find our silent friend.
She never treated you like a pet.

we don't know how giant feels. she may think of us as something more. find another hive an if they are mean take control of them and then find that bird that crown talked about and have your controlled ones kill it and get the feathers. and make a better crown for giant. and drag back the corpse for food.

>>404990
You know you're not a neumono, but you're not a pet either.

Yeah, you still like Giant, right? Maybe you should come back when she's due to get back from the fight.

>>404996
Yes, you know you're not a neumono, and that they wouldn't accept you like one. You would have been fine being a friend of the hive, but not as a pet, and definitely not beaten like an animal. You're going to leave and see how these other hives will treat you, but you'll be back before Giant returns. You want to know what she really thinks of you.

>>404990
Are you hungry? Control and eat them.

Three Stripes 2012/04/26(Thu)17:41 No. 405022 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes says goodbye and may come back later to says he might come back to say goodbye to Giant too but he really just misses her and wants to see her again.

Three Stripes isn't sure where to go now because the dispensers he knows about are claimed by the neumono and he doesn't think they'll let him have any and dispensers farther in the leaf caves have monsters so Three Stripes might need to go out in the open again and try to find something. He is kind of hungry but can't bring himself to eat anyone from that hive.

He isn't sure where to go to escape to find another hive or maybe the silent one.

find a dispenser farther away.

Find another hive

Eat them

>>405022
I guess you'll need to go out in the open again, then.

Perhaps it's time to try to link up with Polo & co. God knows she could use your help.
Let's explore and look for a way out of this Salikai's area. The leaf-walls must end somewhere: why not head through 'em until we hit something more substantial?

You could try to find where Giant is, just to know where she is. No clue which way to go, though. Maybe head to the pen you were in with Four Stripes, find a wall and follow that.

If you get really hungry, as a last resort you could go back to the pen with Four Stripes. He'll be obnoxiously smug, but it's better than dying of starvation. You probably wouldn't be able to get out easily again, so this option is definitely Plan Z.

>>405039
Actually, don't try to find Giant. If you get near the competition, she would get accused of trying to cheat with your help. She and her hive would lose, big time, and she'd be furious with you. So if you do get near a bunch of fighting neumono, pull back; It may be the competition.

>>405022
Go wait between where Giant went and the hive. Tell her you aren't a pet, but the others think you are. Ask for a chance to prove you're more than a pet to her and the others.

>>405022
You could go back to where Four Stripes was.

You could go wiggle one of those glowy orbs again. That seems to make neumono come. Then you can eat them.

>>405034
This

Three Stripes 2012/04/27(Fri)10:51 No. 405176 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes heads to the pen with Four Stripes but the door is locked and he can't get it open and when he bangs on the door Four Stripes doesn't answer so he heads through the leaves. He goes far and far and eventually runs into a wall. He hasn't found any dispensers.

grab onto a crack or hole and pull it open.

Might just have to control the neumonos and eat them.

>>405176
Can you climb over that?

go somewhere you didn't go before. don'tr stop looking until you find non-suspicious-looking food.

1/2 Three Stripes 2012/04/27(Fri)15:32 No. 405227 ID: c811c4
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He still does not want to control the hive yet but might if he will starve but he hopes it won't come to that. The walls are metal and strong but Three Stripes might be able to pry one open. It will take a long time.

But it isn't like he has anything better to do and he wants to leave.

2/2 Three Stripes 2012/04/27(Fri)15:33 No. 405228 ID: c811c4
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It is dark and metal.

>>405227
You know there are other hives without Giantwife in them. Go near-ish to that competition place and follow some back to their tribes if we can't find anything useful in this dark metal place.

proceed with caution.

woah. is this a dead hive living place? check it out.

>>405228
Whooaaaaaaaaa.

What's in here?

Investigate with caution.

Doesn't look like there's anything edible back here. Doesn't look like there's anything alive back here. Can you hear or smell anything living?

Hey, maybe the conduits that deliver to the food dispensers come through here. Finding where the food is stored would be good to know. Raiding it, if you can, would be even better. Break through where you could get back to the leaf jungle, and look for big pipes sticking out below where ground level is where you're standing.

This reminds me a little of Aperture Science's big crashed space thing in the early sections of Portal 2.

Careful, there are big drops here, but there's a light, so try to investigate it.

>>405236
Yes, finding a spot to enter that doesn't have a big drop would be a good idea.

Anybody else see the vaguely creature-like silhouette about one inch from the left edge of the pic and two inches from the bottom ?

>>405296
Yeah. Looks like a hole.

Make a loud bark and listen if there is an echo.
You can bark right?

Three Stripes 2012/04/28(Sat)06:53 No. 405419 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes is able to climb down, all of the metal on the wall is crumbling but still can hold Three Stripes' weight.

There are many buildings here. They are all empty and everything is dirty. Three Stripes doesn't know much about buildings but he does know a thing or two and he notices there are blasty gun holes in some of the buildings but most are just old and falling apart.

There is a big tower that reaches into the ceiling or an area deeper back behind a more broken wall or just lots of little buildings.

>>405419
Explore all the things. All of them. After you make sure they can take your weight, of course.

>>405419
This place is a little creepy.

Uh, can you get up into the tower? We might get a view from up there.

>>405464
Yeah the tower's as good a place to start as any.

Go to the tower and see if you can get into that lit section. Also keep an eye out for anything you could eat - a place like this might have some sort of small vermin living in it.

Three Stripes 2012/04/28(Sat)13:05 No. 405511 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes heads to the tower. The doors are tiny and made for neumono sizes but Three Stripes can fit in them if he wants.

Three Stripes wishes that skeleton still had neumono meat on it so he could eat something.

push all the ^

>>405511
Hey, it looks like some of the stuff in here might still work.

push butan and hopefully receev bacon.

Check the dust on the floor for recent tracks. Especially neumono tracks.

You must push all the buttons. It worked for you before, so it'll work for you now.

Three Stripes 2012/04/28(Sat)15:49 No. 405532 ID: c811c4
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All of the buttons are hit, and Three Stripes hears a humming through the walls.

He checks the dirt on the ground, and finds a set of tracks that move back and forth. He cannot tell what they are, but they are not neumono.

Three Stripes is not an expert tracker, but he notices there is still dust over the tracks so they are probably not very recent. Maybe.

wait for the humming to stop and go in the little room that opens. then push the least dusty button.

where do they goooooo

Down here, tracks, even old tracks, are of interest. Follow them. You can always come back here.

Keep sniffing the air for anything other than dry dust and old death. There'll likely be a breeze where there's a way out.

>>405545
Seems about right.

>>405761

indeed.

Three Stripes 2012/04/29(Sun)20:50 No. 405808 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes follows the trail to the only place where it could have come from. Three Stripes doesn't smell anything new but the hallway he comes to is much bigger than before.

He does not like the buzz that the lights make in here.

... is that a microwave security hallway? you aren't a tozol. follow the tracks backwards.

Quick! Floor is lava! Walk across by gripping the sides of the walls. It'll be hard, but it'll see if you're in shape or not.

Proceed carefully. If you get hurt at all run back to where you came from.

There's something off about this hallway. That buzz sounds like the food dispenser, right before it shocked you. Grab some long bones from the neumono skeleton and throw a few in to see if anything happens.

>That buzz sounds like the food dispenser

you gotta teach me how to hear words sometime.

proceed ever so slowly.

Don't go in there. You don't want to be microwaved. Go back to the other place. Press the buttons again. Step in one of the doors that opens.

>>405808

I somehow want to imagine it's either the over-the-top use of halogen/florescent in a decaying facility, or it's some kind of touchless sterilization passage.

Considering there are no conveniently placed dots on the wall to put your mitts on, I'm assuming the former.

Either way, before proceeding, let's be smart and carefully touch the floor ahead of us while paying attention to our surroundings. If the noise gets worse or things change, we get out of there!

>>405808
Are the lights on the top making that noise, or on the sides? Try poking at the floor and the sides, those panels look odd.

Suggestion 2012/05/05(Sat)16:53 No. 408529 ID: c811c4
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A meatless neumono bone is grabbed by Three Stripes and then thrown in and nothing happens so that's good. Three Stripes slowly and carefully makes his way across the hall. On a closer looks it looks like the lights on the panels are all actually shiny big rectangle holes that Three Stripes could put his fingers into.

Stick a bone in there and see what happens.

Push another meatless bone in. See what happens.

Insert bone in hole.

A long bone is a useful tool. Maybe carry one in your mouth.

Use the bone as a hook to try to pull each panel when it gets in there. Those might be drawers.

>>408529

Maybe they are vents that blow air?

Duck your head down and look through, Three-Stripes. See what there is to see. Then consider boning the holes.

Suggestion 2012/05/06(Sun)06:20 No. 408793 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes picks up a large neumono bone and pokes around in the hole. He can't pull very hard because the bone doesn't hook well, but then Three Stripes hears a clank behind the panel and something pokes the bone and that is not doing Three Stripes' nerves any good.

poke it back.

>>408793
Er. Did you hit something that poked the bone, like a protruding bit of metal, or did something actively poke it and then withdraw?

okay, forget that and walk down the hall. keep bone handy.

Wait... Could these be cages? Lean down and look through the holes. Sniff the holes as well.
Keep that bone with you. An object to stick in things that isn't your finger is good to have.

Take a peek.

take a peek

Resuggesting looking through the holes.

Suggestion 2012/05/22(Tue)20:50 No. 415254 ID: c811c4
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>Did something actively poke it and then withdraw?
Three Stripes is confident that this is what happened.

>Sniff
Smells like nothing.

>Take a peek
This hole is funny and Three Stripes can't see through it easily but Three Stripes might be able to stick a paw in and maybe pull on it to open the panel thing.

>Look at other panels
Three Stripes does the same thing with poking around with the bone a bit and there are a couple more pokes but sometimes nothing.

ignore slots, go down hall.

Pull on the panel in a spot where there's no poke.

>>415258
This sounds like a good idea. Wonder what these things are. Cages?

This is getting boring, and is not food. Pull open the panel thing, and if that's not interesting either check the back of the room for more exits or food or buddies.

Suggestion 2012/05/22(Tue)21:28 No. 415270 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes opens one that didn't make a poke.

There is a funny thing inside but it is not food and Three Stripes is kind of sure it is not a friend either.

grab it and pull.

Poke your nose in that slot in the back and sniff, then try and look inside. Give the cable a yank at the same time and see if anything happens.

Next try opening one of the cages that poked back. Only a enough to peek inside.

1/3 Suggestion 2012/05/22(Tue)22:08 No. 415285 ID: c811c4
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The metal thing doesn't do anything with Three Stripes pulls on it.

Three Stripes pulls on its rubber tube things instead and it is stuck so Three Stripes pulls harder and then it gets a lot easier to pull and there is an end to it. The light turns more red and now it is flashing.

2/3 Suggestion 2012/05/22(Tue)22:09 No. 415286 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes will move to another panel now and put his head very low on the ground to peek through the bottom to see one of the ones that did poke his neumono bone.

3/3 Suggestion 2012/05/22(Tue)22:09 No. 415287 ID: c811c4
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poke

...Are your eyes made out of marshmallow?

rip it out and rip the door open.

>>415287
Ow. Okay.

Don't fool with the jerkass robots in the cubbyholes. Move along to the end of the corridor. We know they can't exit the cubbyholes so they are harmless so long as we don't stick anything in the slot (or put our eye near them)

...Ow. OK, don't freak out. That'll make things worse. Hold the panel shut with one paw, grab the metal poke-y thing with the other, and slowly move your head away from it. I really hope that'll heal up, eventually.

There's nothing but nasty little eye-poking metal things in here, so continue on down the hall. Maybe you'll find where they store the food for the dispensers.

1/2 Suggestion 2012/05/22(Tue)23:05 No. 415311 ID: c811c4
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The panel is closed again before the metal thing comes out all the way.

Three Stripes isn't crying he

he had something in his eye.

2/2 Suggestion 2012/05/22(Tue)23:05 No. 415312 ID: c811c4
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There is only a door at the end of the hallway.

Stairs, the question is do we go up, or do we go down? In any case open the door.

while your regen is amazing, that WILL heal up right?
open door.

>>415314
*isn't

>>415312
May as well.

>>415315
I believe eyeballs, while incredibly sensitive, are very sturdy and strong. It should be alright for anything that has better regenerative abilities than a human, because a human's healing factor might still even repair their own eye from that. These predators are relatives to Neumono, so it's likely superior to a humans despite being inferior to a Neumono's.

Open the door and take a look in. Will you heal from that eye-poke any time soon?

Pokes are bad! This is not a fun place. :(

Make a note to scavenge some safety glasses if you can. Bound to be some in a lab.

I don't think his eyes are made of marshmallows.

Suggestion 2012/05/23(Wed)05:53 No. 415378 ID: c811c4
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No Three Stripes' eyes are definitely not fluffy food of any kind. His eye will heal for sure he hopes but it will take awhile and it hurts so much.

He goes through the door and there is just rubble and trash and broken metal and there is an exit on the other side and oh wait.

Wait.

There is a neumono here and Three Stripes knows this one it is one of Silent's friends but Three Stripes isn't sure that this one is friendly to Three Stripes. It is somewhere in the other room and it is searching the place but isn't feeling much.

>>415378
Look as harmless as you possibly can and try talking to it.

say some of your new neumono words to it, like 'friend' and

try greeting it.

>>415378
Nightmare Before Three Stripes?

>>415381
His new neumono friends didn't sound like silent's group very much. It might not work, but it can't hurt to try I guess.

It totally can

Best way to handle this is to maintain head-radio silence and be as passive as you can. If you think you can safely control it, do it and you can release it later after distancing it from any weapons. Otherwise make like the french.

>>415421
problem is, silent could be with them. you can't tell cause she is silent.

Try asking where the silent one is! Maybe she's around too~!

Is it the one that the third predator, the one that was killed by Silent, tried to control, back when they first showed up in the spire? Yeah, he's not going to react well if you pop-up suddenly, even if you are mind-silent. He'd think you were lying in ambush to empath-control him, and fight. Best to stay back where you can duck into cover, keep mind-silent, and call out "hello" in the neumono language you know.

The green long thing taught you how to pacify, so if the neumono attacks you can do that. You don't want to eat its mind though. Silent would be way mad if you did that.

Suggestion 2012/05/23(Wed)21:42 No. 415579 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes heads across the room to where the new one is coming.

>Look as harmless as Three Stripes possibly can
....

Three Stripes says 'friend' but the purple eyed one doesn't speak the same language as Giant and the others so he doesn't understand.

He starts backing away slowly. He says something Three Stripes can't understand and he is scared. Three Stripes knows this one well so Three Stripes can pacify purple eyes very quickly if need be.

If he's saying something, he's probably talking to someone. Maybe it's your silent friend! Don't pacify him even a little unless he starts threatening you--you want to make a good impression on the silent one, should she be here.

That position is probably one of the best you could take; it showcases your harmlessness. Keep it up, you suck at CQC, you'd get killed by gunfire regardless of your position, and you can still pacify/MC them if needed from that.

show him your eye is hurt and try Vaota.

Do you remember your old word for peace? Polo probably taught him that word.

Wait, isn't this the one you and Four Stripes drove crazy with that peace/fight thing? Express an apologetic feeling to let him know you're sorry about that.

Look around. Maybe he's not scared of you?

Anyway you can say Vaota and 'emit' peace like you did with Silent originally, that will probably work better.

Also get up, you look ridiculous.

...Yep, that's looking pretty harmless (and adorable.) Stay that way, and don't make any sudden moves.

Don't pacify Purple-Eyes; Silent will get angry if you do. Instead, emit a feeling that you're glad to see him, and that you'll be cooperative and helpful. Silent knows one or two words of your old predator language, so try saying "hello," "friend," or "peace" in that as well.

You don't need to look unthreatening. He knows in your head is more threat than in your body (which is a wimp). That said, you are absolutely adorable your psychic belly rub waves are breaching the dimensions and OH GOD MUST RUB BELLY

>>415623

yyyyyyyye-e-e-e-thhh.

DO NOT PACIFY HIM, we all know what happened last time we did that.

>>415579
Don't pacify him unless he tries to hurt you.

Use various words you know for peace/friendship, and emit feelings of the same.

Use only slow, deliberate movements, and act passive until he seems more comfortable with you.

Suggestion 2012/05/24(Thu)10:10 No. 415681 ID: c811c4
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Three Stripes lets Purple Eyes know that he doesn't mean any harm. The neumono gradually turns okay with this and Three Stripes is sure that he isn't pacifying the neumono so it should be okay.

Three Stripes' bad eye is shown and Purple Eye grimaces but feels apologetic. The neumono probably doesn't know how to make Three Stripes' eye any better, so Three Stripes tells, through empathy, that he is very hungry.

Purple Eyes gets more nervous and says that he knows where a food silo is.

Three Stripes is happy now that there is food and can stay here for...

Three Stripes didn't think this far ahead and doesn't know what to do anymore. Also this neumono looks like he is all alone. Maybe Three Stripes should introduce him to his new red friends but oh wait no Three Stripes is supposed to be mad at at his hives because he was a pet.

>>415681
I think it's pretty obvious that hugs are the correct course of action at this point.

after eating show him the poker things. maybe he knows what they are.

TO THE FOOD SILO MUSH, MUSH