No more facades. No holding back. Reveal your true self, kill everyone in the room.

Kill the injured one by your as quickly as possible, rip his throat out- tear his head off. Close with the paladin before he can recover his spear, and tear into him.

Use the shadow glove- drain someone else, heal Ivet.

...if she's dead we'll burn this whole town down, starting with that thrice dammed item shop.

You guys are overreacting and killing everyone here isn't productive.

Grab the green guy, making sure he can't reach any more stupid explosives, run over to Ivet and use the Harm/Heal combo to fix her up. Righteous fury versus the paladin can come after. Or, blast him while running over to her if it wouldn't slow us down at all.

the innocents not in this fight we can leave alone. They're just cowering in another room.

I gotta agree with making saving Ivet our first priority. Get her body out of harms way first, put on the glove and pump her full of our own life.

Switching into our full natural form might be the easiest way to keep her out of said harms way.

Feel free to eat the giant since we'll be basically on top of him.

>>446043
>>446045
>>446048
>>446051
Ivet is, at best, seconds from death. Keeping her alive is our absolute highest priority.
We don't have time to attack anybody yet.

We only have to use a single charge (equal to cause/cure light wounds) to stabilize her, at which point we'll have time to prioritize threats and revenge versus safety.

Just heal Ivet first before anything else so we don't regret anything later.

Also:
DO NOT HARM THE PRIESTESS YET.

The Paladin is likely obligated to save her life, meaning that leaving her alive will take him out of the fight long enough for us to save Ivet.

Furthermore: ONLY TARGET THE PALADIN IF HE ATTACKS.
If we're actively attacking him then he'll have to respond to us instead of saving the priestess.

Leaving both of them alone will keep both of them out of the fight for a little while, meaning we only need to worry about the green chucklefuck getting in our way.

TL;DR: ONLY TARGET GREEN FUCKER, SELF, AND IVET!

Oooh, when we shapeshift we should say "You call her a monster? You don't know what a monster truly is!"

>>446069
What? No, I'm pretty sure he was talking to Viktor. Viktor went all monstery, after all.

MAXIMIIIIIIZE!

Yeah no need to hold back. Stabilize Ivet and kill anyone who attacks you. Take out the green guy on the way there if you can.

She's probably fine. Finish devouring this guy so he can't recover and rejoin the fray.

Probably fine is not something we want to test out.

Some paladin, aiding another to murder over money.

I thought Ivet killed preistess. If She's dead, I agree wholeheartedly with burning down the town and eating everything in it. If not, only the paladin and the green guy die.

Man, its like this paladin guy never saw a fucking druid use wild shape before. "Monsters" my ass.

>>446110
"The woman gurgles and her eyes roll back in her head, still breathing but only barely."
Priestess ain't dead yet. Getting there, but not yet.

>>446036
I agree with the dialog, if not the natural form bit. I feel like the one would sort of counteract the impact of the other. How about we go with this plan WITHOUT the bit about appearing to be an eldritch nightmare.

>>446121
We intend to eat all the witnesses anyway, and Vik's natural form would let him get to Ivet and healing her soonest.

>>446126
Ivet is still being scryed.

>>446137
Yes, and?

>>446145
And we don't wan't our true form to be known by ANYBODY unless we have their fleshy body in our tentacleyclaws ready to shove down our gullet.

Guys, doesn't Viktor have awesome magic? Can't he will Ivet healed?

Anyway, yeah, time to eat.

Uhhh..
he'd want to be careful he channels positive energy instead of negative energy then.
Ivet would not make a fun undead.

ChildOfAB 2012/08/21(Tue)23:19 No. 446197 ID: 885ee8
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No.
No no no no no.

ChildOfAB 2012/08/21(Tue)23:20 No. 446199 ID: 885ee8
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You can't sense any life. You want to sense some life. GIVE HER BACK HER FUCKING LIFE.
You're not sure if you're thinking or screaming. You can't hear anything. You want to crush the armored man. You want to squeeze the life out of something. Give it to Ivet. You thought you were dead once, but you were just hungry. She's just hungry. SHE IS JUST HUNGRY. FEED HER WITH THE GAUNTLET.

ChildOfAB 2012/08/21(Tue)23:20 No. 446200 ID: 885ee8
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NO. IVET IS HUNGRY.

ChildOfAB 2012/08/21(Tue)23:20 No. 446201 ID: 885ee8
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ALL OF IT.
ALL OF IT FOR HER.
FEED HER.

ChildOfAB 2012/08/21(Tue)23:21 No. 446202 ID: 885ee8
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LIGHT
SOUND
FEELINGS
IT
HURTS

ChildOfAB 2012/08/21(Tue)23:21 No. 446203 ID: 885ee8
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No.
No no no no no.
The roof
fell.
Your arm
fell.
Ivet

ChildOfAB 2012/08/21(Tue)23:21 No. 446204 ID: 885ee8
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gasps.

ChildOfAB 2012/08/21(Tue)23:22 No. 446206 ID: 885ee8
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"V...Viktor?"

ChildOfAB 2012/08/21(Tue)23:23 No. 446207 ID: 885ee8
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The world drops back into place. Rain is falling through a hole in the roof. Your left arm has been replaced with pain. You feel lighter.
The green man is limping away through a hole in the wall. You don't know where the armored man is, but you see the life signs of a horse with a man barely clinging to its back, galloping away from the door. People are screaming downstairs. The priestess isn't one of them. You don't see her life signs anywhere. Ivet-
Ivet is here. She is safe. She is full. Nothing is floating over her shoulder anymore. She looks like she's at a loss for words.
The rain taps softly on the roof, on the ground, on you. "Viktor..." Ivet says, quietly. "You don't look...so good."

Okay, she's back. Good. Tell her to stay safe, reform the arm, take out the green man and see if we can't catch the horseman somehow.

"Your fault, dummy. I thought I told you not to die? Don't do it again." Let's go. We shouldn't bother with the teleporters. Reform your disguises and go hunt down the survivors before they spread tales.

Eat the prestess's corpse.
She is a greedy bitch not worthy of her title.

>>446207
Eldritch abomination needs food, badly!

Eat the priestess, since I doubt she walked away from this. Also eat your arm, or the chunks of your arm. Then maybe the people downstairs. Have Ivet ride on your back again while you're eating and recovering. You can guard her like that. That should be where she is in battle from now on. We also need to get her some armor, jeez!

What to tell her? Ummm... tell her you are glad she looks better than you do. Maybe give her a hug.

"But you do. That is all that matters."

>>446213
hey now, no need for name calling, maybe her god is the god of greed... plus she isn't present it seems.

anyways, i think now is a good time to leave. we may have to hide out in the city for awhile, or even take the long way to get back to the oasis

Oh hey, I just realized we have line of sight on the green guy still. Blast him if we have the strength to do so.

>>446216
say this followed by
"one second, i need to grab a snack" then go eat the green guy.

Yeah if we are not dead on our feet we need to silence witnesses if we can. Also eating someone will help restore our strength and heal us. If we are not up to it then need to grab Ivet and escape.

Okay, Vik? I know you're happy and all, but just for my own mental wellbeing can you just make sure that you didn't:
-pump ivet's corpse so full of positive energy that she exploded
-get traumatized by the explosion and block it out of your memory
-morph your hand to look like Ivet
-convince yourself you lost your arm to complete the delusion

I mean, if you didn't do that, wow. Great job. First resurrection in centuries, apparently. Uh, if you did, just...keep on keepin' on, man.

As far as dialogue, "Yes. That's why I told you not to die" should suffice for covering the whole resurrection thing. We might want to note that we need food badly as well, before chasing after escapees.

>>446207
The green man and the man on the horse... they can't get away. Bring them down with eldritch bolts or acid spit if we can't catch them personally, but do NOT let them leave to gather their respective churches against us.

>>446207
Hug Ivet, say "I almost wasn't.", then hoist her up onto your back. "I love you, Ivet."
Throw the priestess's corpse and the gauntlet into a bag of holding, shift into your treant form, and take off running after the green guy. Have your branches close around Ivet to keep her secure.
"Play dead; your resurrection must be kept secret."

I'm curious, are the divination spells still about or did they get dispelled in all this? Either way you need to get going quick after you finish off as many loose ends as you can...

"I feel pretty bad, but at least Jijhib brought me some dinner."

I think maybe it is time to leave. Two bird bodies, fly out.

Oh, we should make sure Ivet still has her bag of holding too.

Throw something heavy at the green man if you can. Then eat him. Then go after the paladin. These guys shouldn't be allowed to live.

Huh. I think the life-giving / healing of the gauntlet hurt your worse than just draining yourself did- it cost you the arm. We'll have to be careful of that in the future. Did you break the gauntlet? Retrieve it if not.

Daaang. The only one who actually died was the priestess? That means we're going to have a church on our ass. And that the worst possible witness escaped. Paly there is gonna come back with friends to hunt you down.

Don't let the green dude get away. You need him to tell you who sent him. Then you need to eat him. Might as well eat the dead priestess too.

Then we need to gtfo.

Would killing and eating someone in the middle of the street cause us more problems or less?

>>446352
We just blew up a temple, there's nothing much to be gained from focusing overly much on discretion at this point.

Death probably dispelled the scrying spells so luckily we probably won't have to worry about whoever was using them seeing what just happened. Though they might have some connection to the green guy his appearance was to well timed.

Turn into a bird and fly up. Divebomb him, increasing your weight as much as possible and summoning the water sphere. At high speeds the water will hit him like a rock, but since you're inside it it'll cushion the falling damage for you.

By "Him" I mean the green dude.

ChildOfAB 2012/08/22(Wed)14:18 No. 446379 ID: 885ee8
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Your mind still on the recent battle, you raise your claw towards the fleeing green man. You arm shakes and you try to force out another bolt of energy, like before, but nothing comes out. You drop your arm limply at your side. You can hardly move. Ivet's words trickle into your foggy brain and you slowly parse them. You try to speak, but choke a little. Clearing your throat, you rumble, "I almost wasn't."
Ivet hugs you tightly, and you feel some warm drops on her face mingling with the cold ones from the rain.

ChildOfAB 2012/08/22(Wed)14:18 No. 446380 ID: 885ee8
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Ivet pats you comfortingly and stands, looking all around. She walks over to a pile of broken roof and tugs an arm out from under it. The rest of the priestess's body soon follows, and Ivet quickly strips her down and stuffs her things in her bag of holding. With much straining, she drags the bare corpse over to you. "Here," she says. "this should help. I think there's some people downstairs, too..." She says, looking off towards the staircase behind the side aisle.

ChildOfAB 2012/08/22(Wed)14:18 No. 446381 ID: 885ee8
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You waste no time shoveling the priestess into your waiting mouth. You almost wish she was fresher, but your stomach greedily accepts the meal nonetheless. In moments, you feel your strength return a bit. You close off the wound on your arm as a first measure. You feel like you could rearrange some mass to have an arm again, or really shapeshift into anything as usual, but you've definitely lost a lot of raw material to work with. There seems to be no trace of the missing bits anywhere.
Ivet picks up the gauntlet and stores it away while you eat. When you finish, she smiles. "Getting better?"
You stand staggeringly. "Yes. Thank you."
She swallows audibly. "Viktor, I...don't know what words to use to really say what I mean. 'Thank you' will have to do, too. For now." She wipes her eyes. "If you can move, we should go. I think...I think you broke something. The universe, maybe. Someone is going to notice."
No sooner does she say that than you hear a magical crackle outside. You sense the sudden materialization of the life force of a man hovering in the air in the street right outside the front door. He drifts lazily sideways, staring at the church, and you hear him chant something that sounds a lot like Ivet's magic detection spell. You think you can shapeshift before he gets anywhere he could see you, though.

Shapeshifting back seems a good idea.

turn off any magics. your shapeshifting shouldn't count as magic though.

So we overloaded the healing item with god essence and cured death. Surprised the gauntlet isn't a smoking wreck. And judging from Ivet's comments, resurrection sounds like it's not exactly common, or perhaps even possible in this setting.

Oh well. At least she's alive now. And possibly now a new demigod.

Shifting into something more innocuous sounds like a good idea. You're weak, and someone powerful just teleported in to investigate your tearing the universe a new one. We can't afford to fight them.

>>446384
I think the gauntlet was an artifact, probably why it survived, and from what i recall Victor thought it used to be possible but for some reason isn't now. Probably something to do with the gods.

But yeah shift back and try to look victim like.

It's tempting to shapeshift into the priestess... but I dunno if we could pull off that act with Ivet still here.

I suppose we could do it and say that 'he' left in a hurry, and that you've got Ivet taken care of.

Or we could just reform our previous shape and feign innocence. Either plan is kindof risky. Impersonating the priestess at least limits the amount of time we have to deal with the mage, assuming he runs off to try to find the fleeing monster.

So the current course of action I'm guessing is shape shift, pretend to be a victim, and run away from the attack site just like any normal victim would.

If you can shapeshift to half dead looking adventurer do so. Just make sure it someone different than what you started as. Then slowly start making your way out of the area like you are escaping whatever happened.

>>446381
Get back into your disguises and have Ivet play dead. Carry her outside.
The people downstairs would recognize your disguise, but would also realize whatever other form you took wasn't there. Impersonating the priestess or paladin would fail immediately because you detect as evil and can't act the part. They would be hostile in either case.

People saw your disguises go into the church, and they should see them leave. Shapeshifting is common enough for the battle to not have been too strange up until you went full-eldrich, so you should be able to leave fairly easily. Follow the green guy, if the mage doesn't confront you.

Turn into birds. Fly out.

Birds is best idea. Although I'm tempted to turn into that douchebag ranger or one of our confirmed kills. If we can eat him, we should. But if we leave, just fly out of town and we can regroup later.

>>446410
This generally seems like the best idea. Nothing suspicious about random people fleeing from some sort of chapel-destroying magical disaster.

ChildOfAB 2012/08/23(Thu)12:06 No. 446601 ID: 885ee8
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"Uh oh," you say quietly, already starting to reduce yourself down into a more humanoid shape. "Someone just teleported in outside."
Ivet looks back towards the front and reaches into her bag. "Who is it?"
"I don't know," you reply. "Smells human. Hovering, though."
"What are you going as?" she asks. "I'm out of animals for today."
You start to mold a new face you haven't used before. "Wounded civilian?"
She nods and withdraws a leather hat with a large green jewel on its band from her bag. "Okay. Okay, I can work with that. Don't freak out if he sees through this." Ivet plops the hat on her head and you see an image of a red-haired human woman superimpose itself over Ivet. You can still see Ivet underneath, but you deduce that most people aren't supposed to.
The man outside pokes his head in from high up on the shattered window. He looks tired, but well-groomed, wearing a cautious expression. He looks down towards you and shouts, "Is it safe?"

ChildOfAB 2012/08/23(Thu)12:07 No. 446602 ID: 885ee8
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Ivet jumps up and clings to you, staring up at the man fearfully. "AH!" she shouts, "Don't hurt us!"
You're not sure if she's playing at something or if she senses actual danger, but you grab her and shield her from the man regardless. "Stay back! We just want to go home."
The man holds up his hands. "No, wait! I'm not here for trouble! My name's Colby, I'm from the mage's academy, doing a thesis on planar membranes! My instruments detected a disturbance here and I'm investigating. Are you in trouble?"
Ivet sighs in relief. "I'll say! The teleporter broke, we're stranded in town, we come in here to get out of the rain and suddenly all these crazy people started fighting! It was nuts!"
"We've both been hurt," you say. "We just want to go back home and rest."
The man takes out a pad and pencil. "So, the teleporter breaking was a separate incident? Where are you guys from?"
"Stonewell," Ivet replies, not missing a beat.
"Oh, great. I know where that is, my aunt lives there. Oh, can, um, can I ask what's with the illusion on you, ma'am?" the man asks, nearly flinching as he does so. "Don't mean to pry, just trying to get a bigger picture!"
"You can see that?" Ivet asks. "Oh no, please don't tell anyone! They're so hard on interspecies couples here, I just-"
Colby smiles reassuringly. "No, no, I understand, don't worry. I know how people are, and they should be ashamed. It sounds like you guys have had a hard day. Listen, I don't know how to fix the teleporter, but give me just a second and I can teleport you to Stonewell myself."
"Oh!" Ivet says. "Uh, are you sure?"
"That's really kind of you," you respond, not sure if you should take him up on this or not.
The man waves, hovering further into the center of the chamber. "Think nothing of it. Hang on just a second, let me get the stuff I have to get now," he says, jotting things down furiously on his pad. "STRONG necromancy and conjuration, both," he mutters. "Not much, but it's a place to start." Speaking up, he addresses you again, "Anything you can tell me that might help me out? What did you guys see?"

>>446602
"One dude says they just came from Bethli-something's shop, said something about being divination or spied on. They asked the priestess to get rid of two spells. She did for a price, only one went away, then another spell came in with the wind to replace the new spell. The palidan was making a big deal since he apparently sensed the two were evil and apparently that's a universal constant, it ain't subjective like I thought it was supposed to be. The priestess wasn't concerned, just wanted the money. Then a big green guy comes in, attacks the recent shoppers saying he was on a holy mission. Priestess lady was pissed at him at first, but then he offered to pay for damages. Paladin joined in to just kill some 'evil' people. The male shopper called the green guy and agent of the B-people shop, that they were killing people after purchasing high-profile objects to re-obtain them, and things went crazy after that. The Priestess has dissapeared, the paladin and green guy fled, and the two shoppers are also gone."

Inquisitive researcher beats maintenance of reality enforcer.

>Story
I guess we stick sorta with what happened, only make it vague and distorted by fear? Then it won't contradict with reports he may get from other witness, if there were any any.

Some weird looking people came to see the priestess about something, but then they were attacked by this big green guy, and then it broke out into some kind of crazy free for all with the green guy, the strangers, the spear guy, and the priestess, with all kinds of magic getting thrown around. We didn't hear what started it, or what the hell they were doing, and frankly we didn't want to now. We just hid and took cover. Then there was big explosion and flash of light with clawing shadow things going everywhere. When we came up again, everyone involved was either limping away or just... gone.

(If his investigation gets back to the item shop, he should learn about the stranger who bought the "broken" shadow glove artifact. Hopefully he'll blame that, and not go looking for missing god monsters).

>>446602
I think we should tell him about 'the big monster' putting on the gauntlet and draining everyone near him including himself to heal his lady friend.

There really isn't any reason to omit that the gauntlet was used, as we're never gonna use those disguises again. Nobody will be able to trace us, especially if we get the gauntlet duplicated for mass production, and we should.

Fuck, I don't think we're gonna be able to kill the witnesses before they tell others. That means there's two churches who know what happened here and want to kill us. Plus the owners of this church who doubtless also want to kill us, though they'll have to find out what happened here I think.
But that's enough people that too much lying will be suspicious; what we say needs to closely resemble the truth, at least as it could reassonably appear to be to an interracial bumpkin couple.

>>446605
Yeah let's just go with this because it fits our image and like you said it won't conflict with any other stories or accounts of what happened here.

I think we should accept his offer to be teleported to Stonewall. It would shake off our pursuit at least for the moment, and it would move us closer to a functioning teleport node. (If Stonewall didn't have a teleporter in or near it the one here being broken would not matter.)

And killing the witnesses likely isn't plausible to begin with when they are clerics. Spell-granting gods often notice when you wreck their people and temples.

We didn't see much, we just heard the sound of fighting and then the building started breaking.

Take up his offer of a teleport.

Incomplete account, full of generalities and minor missing or incorrect details, but generally hitting the high points. Just like any other eye witness.

"Some people came in wanting a spell cast, but they got in an argument with the priestess because they were evil druids or something. Then a big man came in and attacked them, and the priestess decided it was okay, and everyone else ran for cover. One of the druids turned into some kind of feathered lizard, and the other was in the middle of turning into a treant or something last I saw him. We heard some shouting, and a few seconds later there was.. I'm not sure how to describe it.. A black explosion I guess. I thought the building was coming down on us. When the dust settled they were all gone."

minor points:
-hiding under the interracial couple defense means we should probably resist the urge to call him "green guy" unless specifically asked about his skin color. Likewise for the strange appearance of the people who came in and started this mess.
-I have no idea how many people know what a velociraptor is in this setting. Random ignorant bystander might call it a Quetzalcoatl before a dinosaur, but it was still a memorable event worth attempting to describe.

I'm going to say NOT to take up his offer of teleport, simply because he could be lying and teleport requires consent. Remember that magic is restricted in this town. He could be a cop, planning to teleport us to jail! Our excuse could be that uh... we were planning on staying a bit longer than this.

As soon as we are able we should move somewhere near the edge of town and fly off. Try the giant vulture thing again with Ivet riding.

ChildOfAB 2012/08/23(Thu)15:51 No. 446638 ID: 885ee8
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You decide to trust the man. If he's telling the truth, it would really help you out. "Two people came in and were talking to the priestess. I think they wanted a spell cast," you begin, "but they got in some kind of argument with another guy, and then this huge fella came in just started flinging things at them."
"We ran and hid," Ivet continues, "I think some other people ran downstairs, too. They might still be there."
"There were some kind of black clawed things all over, and then there was a huge...I dunno, black explosion. I honestly don't know what happened. The whole building shook."
"When we came out to look, everyone involved was either fleeing or just gone," Ivet says. "Then you showed up."
"Whatever it was, it knocked out the windows all down the block," Colby says. "But I'll figure it out. Thank you. Where are you closer to in town? I can get you to the square, or the pool down south side. My aunt actually lives along the side of the green district, I can put you down there if you're nearby."
"The square sounds great," Ivet answers.
The man holds out his hand to you both. You take it apprehensively, trying to stay ready for anything. He holds up a staff and the two of you appear on an unfamiliar city street, lined with buildings of similar grey stone but with slightly more flourish to them. The sky is covered with mottled clouds, and you can see a storm rolling far away in the distance. The surrounding people are more human than not, but not as homogenous as those in Fourgate; a few turn to look at you as you pop out of thin air, but most go about their business. "There you guys go. I hope your day gets better."
"Thank you so much," you say, "that's really nice of you."
"Yeah, thanks! And good luck with your thesis!" Ivet adds.
Colby smiles. "Thanks, guys. Have a good one." With that, he raises his staff and disappears.
"Wow, nice guy," you say.
"First one we've met all day. Not trying to kill us or anything!" Ivet adds.
You look around, searching for an inn or a shop. "Where are we?"
Ivet grins and points to an arched building right down the street. "Right by the teleporter back to Oasis," she answers.

ChildOfAB 2012/08/23(Thu)15:52 No. 446639 ID: 885ee8
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A short and uneventful 10 gold transaction later, you find yourself back in the inner city of Oasis. You look up to the roiling fog above, tendrils of blue energy drifting lazily through them, and for once don't feel like you'd prefer the open sky. "I really need to rest," Ivet says. "It's been a long day." She leans up against you and takes your hand. "Can the delivery wait? Do you need a cleric or anything?"

Yes, the delivery can wait. ...I'm not sure a cleric could do anything for me.

The delivery can wait. I don't think a cleric could help us in any way besides as food. Maybe while she rests we should hunt. Eating random targets of opportunity might not be the best for our politics, but we need a meal pretty badly at this point and it'll just get blamed on Singer.

Wellllllll a cleric would probably be noticed if they went missing, and we shouldn't be frequently hunting so close to where we're living, anyway. OH you meant for healing. Nah, we're fine.

Yeah, delivery can wait. Go rest up. Or let Ivet rest up and use a teleporter to find people to eat, if you're not tired.

Go to the cow mart. Buy a cow.

>>446653
Oh yeah we could test out the whole "is livestock any good for me?" thing out or we could just rest up and wait for Ivet to come with us. We really need some easy access food.

>>446653
Oh yeah, we haven't tried seeing if non-intelligent living things are delicious yet, have we.

>>446639
Hmm. A cleric? Perhaps, but we'd want one that can keep their mouth shut in case someone comes by asking questions. We did just use an energy draining attack on ourselves, so there may be some side effects we'd want cured.

>>446649
"I don't think a cleric would be much help to me, but if there's one you trust I'd like them to check you over.
Otherwise, lets just go buy a cow and head home."
Never feed where you sleep. That's always how people figure out where predators live.
Buy a cow and eat that. It might not be filling, but it should at least help the healing process.

Tomorrow we can see about buying emergency teleporters to take us home in case of Singer or other disasters, then go to the ruins and binge on talpids.

Tonight, tell Ivet you love her and hold her while she sleeps.

ChildOfAB 2012/08/23(Thu)18:53 No. 446709 ID: 885ee8
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"I feel okay. I might need to go hunt some more. Maybe I can do that while you rest. Or, we could go buy some livestock." you reply. "It might be good for you to see a cleric, though."
Ivet shakes her head. "I feel fine. As good as new. Just tired. Is eating something going to be just as effective later as it will now?" Ivet asks.
You shrug. "I'm not sure. I guess so. Why?"
Ivet laughs and rolls her eyes. "You really are hopeless, Vik. Come on, walk me home. They're so hard on interspecies couples here," she says with a sarcastic half-smile.
The two of you walk along the winding streets and out past a gate into the outer city, Ivet keeping a hold on your hand all the way. "So, what happened over there? Really?" she asks.
"I used the gauntlet," you reply, "on the other three and myself, to heal you. I don't really know what happened next, but I think there was more to it than that. I was...scared, and angry, and sad, all at the same time. You were gone, Ivet. Don't...don't do that again. Please."
She smiles sadly and clings tightly to your arm. "I'll try my best."
"What happened to you?" you ask. "What did you experience?"
She looks off into the distance and shrugs. "I fell. You caught me."
The two of you walk in relative silence most of the rest of the way, trying to arrange your thoughts. When you round the bend into the alcove hiding the entrance to her house, she speaks up again. "Vik, What I said when we first got to town, when I asked you how you felt about me..."
"I really care about you, Ivet," you say unhesitatingly. "I didn't know what that meant or how to say it then, but I do."
"I love you too."

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End of Chapter 4.

WE ROMANCE NOW

We're totally getting into her tree now.

Hey, remember that one tentacle lady? Remember how you promised to come see her again after you found Ivet?

Guess what you haven't even thought about doing.

>>446748
Now would be a really bad time for that.

>>446748
We really should tie up that loose end. I mean she is in the know, it could be a liability to leave her hanging. We can tell her that we're happy with Ivet now, and thank her.

>>446752
We can do one better. Lets introduce her to Lothar.

>>446748
>>446750
>>446752
>>446893
These things are all so far from Viktor's mind, it's absurd.

Vik, enjoy your passionfuckings.

>>446748
>Tentacle Ivet and librarian at the same time

It was clearly just a one night stand on her part. She wouldn't mind a revisit (and tapping that ass again), but she tapped that ass at least once, so she's good in that department as far as it goes. A nice conversation here and there but his mind was obviously elsewhere beyond the night he was "learning"; he was acting like a big ol' book worm instead of paying much attention to her. Just like they did back at her home, big turn off for her.

Tentacle lady did not bone him for his personality. She boned him for his body and that's about it, maybe she had a naivte fetish, and that technically qualifies for personality, but that's not much of a factor for Vic any longer.
Ivet boned Vic for his personality, his ability to shapeshift into any attractive form for her should she will it, and for saving her life multiple times (or will if they aren't during the between chapter moment and that was just noncanon fanart in that one disthread).