Well, thats just perfect. Now what starts with C here? Cracked mirror maybe?

It's the flowers! The flowers are drugged! Throw them out of the room!

Also he probably meant that there's something lying in the corner.

...great. Down to one part member. Gotta keep Kev conscious, or we're forced to hop into Hans or something. And I kind of suspect he's used to hearing voices, and not about to listen to ones telling him to help people.

We need to determine what knocked Gravs out fast, or get Kev out of the room. Something in the air? Caught from checking on Maggie? The picture?

The flowers are doing something, but we can't be sure it is them. Grab Graven and run for the door.

There's something in this room that's making people fall asleep, probably originating from the invisible object Graven sensed. Either a gas canister, area of effect magic item, or some Precursor-tech gadget. You'll figure out what later, just get Graven out of here. He wasn't exposed for long, so he might recover if taken outside right now.

Before heading back in, stand back from the doorway and take several deep breaths, then hold your breath and rush back in. Feel around in the corners of the room for any invisible objects. Once found, judge how big it is by touch. Head back out, and either fill a bucket with water, if it's small enough to fit in one, or carry it at a run to a nearby water barrel or tank, to drown the object in. If it's a gas, the water will absorb it, and if it's Precursor-tech, it might short out, so don't hold your hands in the water. You only have to worry if it's a purely magical item. For that you'll have to wait for Graven to wake up, or find another mage to dispel or deactivate it.

Dammit guys, the flowers are new despite being here for two days. It's the flowers! Don't be idiots!

Yes, eat the flowers. It's the only way.

>>453414
> And I kind of suspect he's used to hearing voices, and not about to listen to ones telling him to help people.
I'm offended by your statement. If helping Lizabeth means killing many things, and it certainly does, Hans will be more than happy to oblige. Besides, he's such a cutie, how can you not love him?

Lizbeth 2012/09/11(Tue)05:55 No. 453583 ID: b3ca75
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>It's the flowers! The flowers are drugged! Throw them out of the room!
I’ll throw them out into the back ally, just to be sure…
>Yes, eat the flowers. It's the only way.
Yes, because the potentially poisons plant is clearly a delicacy.
>Don't be idiots!
Kevros try’s not being an idiot and fails horribly.

>Grab Graven and run for the door.
But that would leave Maggy alone with whatever is in here… maybe it’s deadly and… and… I’ll just grab both of them... gods, I’m stupid sometimes…
>stand back from the doorway and take several deep breaths, then hold your breath and rush back in. Feel around in the corners of the room for any invisible objects.
I can’t feel anything in any of the corners or by the mirror. I swear I heard someone move around in here thought…

>He wasn't exposed for long, so he might recover if taken outside right now.
Oh right, Peoples health would probably be the first thing I check shoul- Oh gods, he’s not breathing! What do I do? WHAT DO I DO?

Insert STOP! Heimlich time!_

>What do I do? WHAT DO I DO?
Start bagging 'im, call a code, check the EKG, break out the paddles or epi if necessary.

...oh wait, you're alone* in a hallway, not in a hospital. Time for mouth to mouth instead.
*barring invisible assailants.

Also, look up, there are flowers directly above Graven up by the ceiling for some reason. And there's... magicite? something in the doorway you just came out of too.

>>453583
Magic healing! Then mouth-to-mouth!

Lizbeth 2012/09/11(Tue)11:15 No. 453616 ID: b3ca75
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>something in the doorway you just came out of too.
That’s clearly just bad graphics. Blame the hallucinating artist for that.
>Magic healing!
I only know how to heal torn flesh and broken bones, not make someone breathe again.

>Then mouth-to-mouth!
…okay, Kevros… you have trained for this… stop thinking those thoughts… stop focusing on his soft scales… but they are so soft… and-
>Also, look up, there are flowers directly above Graven up by the ceiling for some reason.
What? …why, yes… that are clearly the flowers I threw away… hovering above my head… getting closer…er… that’s not good is it?

Insert Magical hover flowers! Only 4 gold! Buy now!_

Clearly the best option is to slice them into itty bitty pieces.

Oh, and calling for help might be a good idea too.

>>453616
You are a paladin of Batman. You have canned fire on hand for warding off Poison Ivy.

Whatever you do, do it fast. Gravs still isn't breathing and we only have so long before we start losing those precious spelllcasting and knowledge knowing brain cells.

Lizbeth 2012/09/11(Tue)13:17 No. 453639 ID: b3ca75
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>You are a paladin of Batman. You have canned fire on hand for warding off Poison Ivy.
I’m only a novice! I haven’t earned my utility belt yet!

>Clearly the best option is to slice them into itty bitty pieces.
>Oh, and calling for help might be a good idea too.
>Whatever you do, do it fast. Gravs still isn't breathing.
AAAAAAAAAH!! HEEEEELP!!!! MEEEDIIIIIC!!!

Oh gods, I-I think I’m only spreading whatever poison it had… I’m… I’m feeling kind of dizzy... and… and is that blood?

Insert Great Cleave(age)!_

>>453639
GRAB ALLIES AND RUN.

>>453639
Jump slash! Eliminate the assassin!

>>453652
Don't stab mysterious shapes when you have allies unaccounted for.

You are in no condition to fight and your friends are a priority. Take them and run, Hans is at the bar.

Dangit, you just got a big dose of whatever that sleeping stuff is. You're going to keel over if you stay here.

Break off the attack, grab Graven and Maggy, and haul tail to whatever the nearest commons area is. As soon as you're clear of the flower dust, start yelling for help.

>>453758
I'd like to note that if it is Liz there by some bizarre mind control or advanced levitation, killing her will only result in time being rewound.

GREAT CLEAVE THAT SHADOW

Lizbeth 2012/09/12(Wed)09:07 No. 453888 ID: b3ca75
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>Dangit, you just got a big dose of whatever that sleeping stuff is. You're going to keel over if you stay here.
And I can feel it taking affect… I can barely think straight anymore…
>Jump sla- GREAT CLEAVE THAT SHADOW!
I don’t think I can jump that high… besides, there is a big cloud of that sleep stuff in the way…

>You are in no condition to fight and your friends are a priority. Take them and run, Hans is at the bar.
Must run, must save friends…
Please don’t die, Please don’t die, Please don’t die…

Graven is dying!

Crap crap crap crap crap

Lizbeth 2012/09/12(Wed)09:07 No. 453889 ID: b3ca75
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I asked what you wanted to drink, miss…
…oh, well… um… I’ll take something… strong?
…of course, miss…

>As soon as you're clear of the flower dust, start yelling for help.
HEEEEEEEE-AAAAAAH!!!!

Cupiditas uses Leaf storm on Kevros for 23 damage!
Kevros Left leg is crippled!

SON OF A B-!

Insert -Itch that I want to scratch_

Lizbeth! Get your scrawny, immortal ass over here! Your friends are dying!

We need a healer. Where is Hans? Lets go talk to Hans. He can bring Hilda too.

Lizbeth! Where are you? Stop talking to that figure we can't see and answer us there's big trouble.

Kevros can you heal that leg well enough to stand on it? If you can do so and draw your sword either way, I don't think your going to be able to run from this with two friends on your back.

Lizbeth 2012/09/12(Wed)13:43 No. 453936 ID: b3ca75
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>Kevros can you heal that leg well enough to stand on it?
I can only heal others, not myself…
>draw your sword either way, I don't think you’re going to be able to run from this with two friends on your back.
…At least I’ll die protecting others…

>Lizbeth! Where are you?
LIZBETH!? Where are you!?
yeah, where are we?
…err…at the arena? The grand opening, you know? Big party? Everyone is invited?
oh…

>Lizbeth! Get your scrawny, immortal ass over here! Your friends are dying!
We need HELP! …please help me, liz…
help with what?
Graven is alm-

Graven has been slain!

no.......

Lizbeth 2012/09/12(Wed)13:43 No. 453937 ID: b3ca75
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you… YOU BASTARD! I’M GOING TO SH- HHHhhh!

Cupiditas cuts Kevros throat for 43 damage!
Kevros can’t breathe!
Kevros is dying!
Kevros auto uses determination, 1 round until death!

…er… Kevros? You okay there, cutie?
Hhhhghg…hh…HhhHhh...hh…h…

Insert sonic drowning music_

...use a healing potion?

This would be a good time to be able to rewind.

Kevros is nearly dead Liz. Sorry we couldn't help them more.

kev, you just need to find out who this is, so we can strike first ina different time.


liz, drop whatever the fuck you are doing and just come here to kevros.

>Graven has been slain!
Oh gods, I hope we can get Hans to fix that.

>Kevros is dying!
>Kevros auto uses determination, 1 round until death!
Desperation attack limit break!

Cupiditas.... you will DIE for this. In every time, in every place. We will help whomever we encounter erase you from existence if need be.

ZA WARUDO!!

No, I'm serious here. Maybe you can go back in time only when you die, but you probably have enough power to stop time. Almost certainly. Surely. Yeah.

Please!?

Kill yourself Liz. It's the only way to beat Cupiditas.

>>453960
She can self-terminate? Would that work? Let's find out! But first, a few words from our sponsors!

Hey, if we're supposedly the nearly all powerful voices of magic, why the hell can't we just fireball this guy? Or this city?

>>453960
>>453963
No, it doesn't work. We covered that already- she would just rewind to just before killing herself. The rewind is only useful for preventing a gameover from something happening to HER.

Unless there's some way for us to get better control over that rewind power, we lost Graven. That's it. Death is the end, there's no resurrection. Also Kevros is about to die, but... I'd like to note that if he does die, then Oracle was wrong about his fate. If he dies, then that proves Oracle is fallible, and everything she's predicted about the future goes down the toilet.

Personally I'm hoping this is a dream sequence or something. Liz DID just fall asleep. Heck, we might even be disconnected from the true timeline due to hopping into Maggy's head.

Oh, fyi Cupiditas is Ridcully, and is supposed to die from "too much power". I haven't the foggiest idea why he attacked us, after we gave him that virtue gem. He should be grateful, not trying to murder us out of nowhere!

Liz, shouldn't you be asleep and kidnapped due to the drugged flowers? Wait, is Kevros with you right now? It's possible that we're not seeing the right reality. If Kevros is with you, I think we'll want to switch to you again to try to realign ourselves.

Alright, we might have focus switched to Maggy, and whatever part of her had a bad reaction to us is showing a possible time-line in her dream. One way to find out.

[SWITCH FOCUS: Maggy]
[SET: INTERNAL VOICE VOLUME: %MAX]
WAKE UP, MAGGY!

Alternatively, if that doesn't work:
[SWITCH FOCUS: Lizbeth]
And we'll figure out what the hell is going on here from there.

Lizbeth 2012/09/13(Thu)05:58 No. 454198 ID: b3ca75
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>[SWITCH FOCUS: Maggy]
Unable to connect. Target is non-responsive.
>[SWITCH FOCUS: Lizbeth]
Unable to connect. Target is already occupied.
Ow…

>...use a healing potion?
…I don’t have… one…

>Desperation attack limit break!
AAAARG!
what? Imposs-
Kevros is going berserk!
Kevros uses limit break (Batman’s vengeance!) for (66x4) 264 damage to all enemies!
Cupiditas has been slain!

Lizbeth 2012/09/13(Thu)05:58 No. 454199 ID: b3ca75
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>liz, drop whatever the fuck you are doing and just come here to kevros.
>Cupiditas.... you will DIE for this. In every time, in every place. We will help whomever we encounter erase you from existence if need be.
…I don’t think they can hear you…
>Kill yourself Liz.
…no…no, she can’t…no…please…

I’m sorry, Lizbeth. …I love you…
Ihh LhhVhh YhhU…
you have to wake up, Kevros, you’re having a nightmare.

Lizbeth 2012/09/13(Thu)05:58 No. 454200 ID: b3ca75
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kevros?

Kevros has been slain!

KEVROS!?

A GLORIOUS VICTORY! YOU HAVE DEFEATED KEVROS!
You gain:
+10 pain
+15 suffering
+7 happiness

Most fearsome opponent defeated: Kevros Bravesword!

>a few words from our sponsors!
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...please be a dream sequence or a hallucination or something. Otherwise I'm just gonna sit here mashing the reboot button on the universe. Or waiting for the next iteration of the time loop to start.

>>454200
Wait, Lizbeth is already occupied?

...[switch to Kevros]

Lizbeth is already occupied? How? Unless... Unless something else is in whatever "slot" we occupy when we switch focus. Guys, someone is impersonating us! Oooo! We're going to give them such a thrashing!

Wait a sec... Shouldn't we be auto-switching focus since Kevros is dead? Something is really wrong here. I'm suspecting an elaborate illusion.

A-ha! Graven's corpse vanished when Cupiditas was slain. That means he may still be alive. Time to go through the "switch focus" Rolodex.

[SWITCH FOCUS: Graven]
[SWITCH FOCUS: Kevros]
[SWITCH FOCUS: Maggy]
And just to see if this shoves the impostor out:
[SWITCH FOCUS: Lizbeth] x 99

>>454395
Dangit. Didn't see the new thread. Sorry for bumping the previous one.

err new thread has started http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/454256.html