Victor 2014/01/27(Mon)18:07 No. 559775 ID: 431163
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[[right here. Not a central location, perhaps, but it hardly matters in this modern world of planes and leylines. Besides...-]]

Victor 2014/01/27(Mon)18:07 No. 559776 ID: 431163
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[[Oh! Hello. I was showing Vicki where, exactly, we are. It is easy to get lost in this city. In any case, how are you all? Ready for a new day?]]

I know this might be rude but who the fuck is that on your right?

But way good as we'll ever be

it's one of the thugs. the random effect was turned head into a green... thing. instead of death.

ANYWAY. i guess we are

Victor 2014/01/27(Mon)18:40 No. 559780 ID: 431163
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[[Excuse me, I should have introduced him. He is, indeed, one of the thugs. Or, at least, he used to be. I believe I accidentally created something new.]]

"Something really fucking creepy."

[[Perhaps so, but it does not act violent or otherwise share the previous man's hostility. Instead he acts more like a dog, or maybe a small child. He's apparently deaf and mute, and doesn't have comprehensible thoughts, so even I cannot understand or communicate with him. I did not feel right simply tossing him out into the street, but I'm not entirely sure what I should do.]]

can we talk to him, can he even drink coffee?

...I wanna try something. I REALLY hope this works!
[stand up, wave]

From how full his cup is I would say he cannot drink coffee.

How about we use this new thing as a way to attract another mage? Someone who would want to study it.

I am thinking mr creepy there needs a lampshade. Should be useful for something. Even if it is just creeping people out.

Victor 2014/01/27(Mon)19:40 No. 559788 ID: 431163
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>>559782
[[No, to both questions. I believe the heat calms him down, since he has resisted attempts to take it away from him, even though he can't drink it. It doesn't matter.]]

>>559783
[[Interesting concept, but it doesn't seem to have worked. I do believe he perked up slightly, but no standing. Oh well. An extra pair of hands could have been helpful. In any case-]]

"I totally like that lampshade idea."

[[Then we can get him a lampshade. But for now, we have more important things to discuss then the green headed fellow. He will stay put for now, he has not made a run for it yet. As it stands... I have not seen the dwarf since I woke up this morning, although I have not gone looking for him, either. Hopefully he liked what he saw, has decided to join us, and is just in the process of packing up his bags. Even with his support, though, we have lots more to do. The mansion must be renovated as it is currently mostly empty, we must recruit more mages, and, related to the last, we absolutely must find someone who can understand that book. It is our strongest bargaining chip at the moment, aside from me... and this green fellow, I suppose. But if we cannot find mages who can actually use the book, then what should be our strongest quality will be our weakest.

I have scrounged about four thousand dollars, from wallets and underneath floorboards. It is not much of a fortune and it will not support us for long, but for now it allows us to begin buying items we need, and it gives us the opportunity to travel the globe.]]

by talking to greeny I meant could you cast that spell on him that lets us talk you you and Vickie but yeah not to much of a big deal right now.

So as for travel, can we use the layline across the street as a form of travel or not really, Also what kind of things should we get for the magic school? I mean I would guess books and other schoolish things but I'm not sure if we should maybe buy some more cots or sleeping bags or maybe even some strong fabric and some rope and make hammocks or something if we're planing to actually have the students and teachers live on campus. I mean I'm sure we can come up with ways to get bargain whatever for the school but even if it's us just going dumpster diving $1000 means we should really only focus on one thing right now till we can make more money. So since you probably have a better Idea of what we need is there anything you say we should try to get above all else? Just list off things from most important to have to lest important

Also on the subject of money, how are we going to make more? I mean we're probably going to charge students right, but are there other ways to make money? I mean if we can get someone to enchant things or make potions we could sell those as well to make some more cash right? Hell Firebeard knows some magic, if he could teach us we could maybe set up a clinic or something. Just fishing for Ideas here feel free to through me a bone at any time.

>>559791
and by magic I mean healing magic

biggest thing is to find someone that can teach us to read the gobbledy gook in the book.

So tell us what's on this map.

Victor 2014/01/27(Mon)20:24 No. 559803 ID: 431163
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>>559791
[[Before we discuss what we can do, and where we can find more mages, allow me to throw you all a big bone, and explain a little about how exacty this world works. I painted a map this morning, as I woke up early. As I usually do. The kitchen table was, unfortunately, the largest whole surface I had to work with, so it had to do. I should tell you that did not mark the various countries, as I did not feel it would interest you. Instead, I marked territory based on who has the dominant claim. Hopefully that will give you all an idea of where we should start searching. Excuse me for this lecture, I am afraid it will be somewhat long.

The grey land is owned by the humans. It is almost entirely made up of one large megatropolis, called Manifest City. This city is too large to reasonably mark out all the key parts of, but if we are looking to shop for anything at all, it won't be too hard to find it here. As long as it is not goblin-made, that is considerably more difficult to buy. We could also likely find mages at any of the many competing schools, of which there are dozens. But the issue is that they will most likely already be secure, and not terribly willing to jump onto our project. Or so I feel.

The green land belongs to the elves. They are similar in temperament to the humans, with only a few differences- one, they are far less expansionist. Quite the opposite. Humans outnumber elves ten thousand to one. This says less about the elves then it does about humans. Two, elves have a preference for magic rather then technology for their everyday needs, but technology rather then magic for specialty tasks. The opposite is true for humans. In most other ways the two are indistinguishable. It would be much easier to find magic users among the general population here, but I am not sure how eager they would be to travel out of their homeland and join a fledgling school.

The few chunks of red island are all the orks have kept for themselves, save a small bit on the mainland, which was given to them by the goblins. The orks are deeply tribal and have a close-knit family structure. They are hostile to outsiders but will treat their friends as well as they treat their own brothers and sisters. Ork wizards are not unheard of, and may well jump at the chance to move to the more modern human world, but they are also not renouned for their talent and skill.

And finally, the icy tundras of the north and south belong to the goblins, who are the only ones who want them. Goblins have absolutely no magical ability at all, but they are by far the greatest craftsmen on the planet. Goblin technology is ludicrously advanced. They also do not like to share it with anybody, save a few scraps that they give to orks, with whom they feel some kinship. Searching for wizards in one of the walking goblin fortresses would be absolutely ridiculous, but if we're looking to buy anything technology-related, you could not possibly do better. Assuming they will speak with you at all, that is.

I have marked the capital cities of each race in yellow. I have also marked the domains of the six gods and goddesses in purple, although that is more for future reference. Heron, the god of air, water, and knowledge, could be of help to us now, as could Lord Baron, the god of magic, chaos and pleasure. But although most will happily accept an audience, dealing with any god is extremely dangerous. Especially Lord Baron. I cannot say I personally endorse going down that route.

Do you all have any questions?]]

Uh, where are we on that map? Does it even matter, since we have access to a leyline?

I'd say approaching Heron should wait until we have at least asked a human mage about the book. Bothering a god when we have not tried all other obvious options is a bad idea. Can't we just find a language specialist in Manifest City?

Why is Dreamstealer marked with a question mark?

I kinda want to check out the City of Dreams, but that's for tourism, not business.

what about dwarfs?

But yeah for now fuck the gods as I'd like to save those for when we're desperate, The human lands sound like a good place to maybe find students and sounds like that's where we're going to go for most of the things we want to buy for the school simply because it's all there. As for finding more teachers for our school, at this point the only people I think would join would be those who are not doing to well themselves like Firebeard, have some kind of mark against them in there record (like drinking during class), or don't like the rules or structure of whatever school they themselves work for and are looking for a change of scenery. I say when we're picking up stuff for the school we should keep an eye open and an ear to the ground for any mages who might be willing to work for us.

The elves I feel would be our beast bet to find mages simply because they don't sound as competitive as the human lands but like you said we'd have to find a way to get them to come over her in the first place, Could also be a very good place to try and see if we could find someone to read the book since magic is so well used over there, assuming the book isn't illegal over there like it is here.

The orks would be probably the easiest to convince to join our school as both teachers and students assuming we could actually get to a point where they won't kill us on sight. Defiantly something we should look into but I still think we should probably hold off on the orks until we can defend ourselves properly incase things don't pan out so well over there.

The goblins at this point and time are even less useful then the gods because they have nothing we want and if we do want some of there tech I pretty sure we don't have the cash to even buy there garbage if they're as tight fisted as you say they are. Might be able to work out a deal that we could maybe act as a middle man and sell some of there scrape technology they let out to try and make some extra money but I have no idea how we'd pull that off.

So plan, head to the human lands first just to buy things and see if we can't find some teachers or students if you think we're ready to find some. Then if we can't find anyone head to the elf land to see if we can't get the book translated and again more teacher hunting. The rest can wait till later.

Victor 2014/01/27(Mon)21:26 No. 559808 ID: 431163
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>>559804
[[We are near the "M" in Manifest. But no, it is not important. I did not bother to mark it, as, with the leyline directly across the street, we do have easy access to almost anywhere on the globe. Although, not cheaply, most leylines are regulated and have tolls.

Dreamstealer is marked with a question mark because nobody knows exactly where he is. There are only rumors. That spot is given as the most likely, but nobody can verify it. He is the only god who does not accept any visitors. Or, at least, never returns them in one piece.

And we can find many language specialists in this city, but that is not what we need for the book. It is not written in another language, it is written in magic. Do not ask me, I do not understand it either. It is a human thing.]]

>>559806

[[Dwarves live all over the globe, in small, scattered villages and communes below the surface. Assume that they co-own every land, but also have no noteworthy cities to visit.

I would like to remind you all that we are two, and you can send us off to do two different tasks at once. However I think Vicki would prefer to stay close to home-]]

"Where I can swallow a whole fucking bottle of tylenol and just nap for the next four or five days..."

[[-as she is not in the best of shape. Crawling around on bare stone and spending extended periods of time in a dwarven town would be difficult on anybody. But if you feel she needs to, say, go visit the elves while I search the city, it is up to you. I'm sure she'd manage.]]

huh, it look like greeny is looking at something, kinda hard to tell though with the whole no face thing.

But yeah splitting up doesn't sound to bad, You seem to be the more charismatic of the two of you so I'd think having you in the city to try and convince people to join our school would be best, but is they're anything we should know about the elves and there land before we head off with Vickie to try and see if we can find someone to translate the book, or at least teach us to read the damn thing?

Lets start out by consolidating our base of power and making sure we have day to day funds first.

Also we need to fix this place up. The condition of where you live says a lot about you and unless all of our prospective student/teachers are murder hobo's we need to look nice.

For money could you start up your side business of selling bottled chaos again? If you do not like the idea that's fine but it seems like a good way to make money.

As for finding someone to read the book do we know the location of any of the other magic books? Someone wrote the thing so there has to be a way to translate them.

Victor, the uh, not-dead guy has been mimicking your movements when you're not looking at him. When you look at him, he mostly stops moving, I think. I don't think he is deaf and mute, I think you made a completely new being that has no understanding of your lang-wait how do you speak anyway? We hear your words but it is like you aren't saying them out loud, more like it's directly sent to us.

Anyway, I think it is trying to learn by imitation.

A book written in magic, being a human thing... we definitely need to find a human mage. Elves won't help. Is there anywhere nearby that fits the bill?

Well, she can probably rest for a while, at least. Maybe a day, if she's really that out-of-sorts. Not too long, though - time's a-wastin'.

>>559819
While I'm not convinced he's mimicking Victor, it seems possible, at least. Can the speak-with-tgchan ritual be performed on him?

But yeah, what kinds of things do you suppose we need? What kinds of things does the mansion already have? While you're out getting supplies (preferably at thrifty places), it would be good to keep your eyes peeled for unhappy mages.

Victor 2014/01/28(Tue)15:52 No. 559925 ID: 431163
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[[That is an idea. Here, Vicki, take him.]]

"I- what? What am I doing?"

[[You are going to put the guide's voices into his head. With any luck they'll be able to communicate with him. Or at least understand him.]]

"Uhm. okay. I think can do that."

[[Good. I'll leave you both to it. As for us...]]

Victor 2014/01/28(Tue)15:53 No. 559926 ID: 431163
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[[I believe the first order of- oh. There he is.]]

[[Hello, Firebeard! I take it you like it here?]]

"Aye. Jus' as long as yeh all don' try an' get inteh my study, Ah don' mind teachin' a bit o' my fire magick tah whoever wants it."

[[We wouldn't dream of it. What's yours is yours. We are just glad to have you on the team.]]

[[Which brings me to what I wanted to discuss. Mages tend to be picky and fickle. Even the 'murder hobos', as you so eloquently put it. They have great demands for space and comfort. A typical school of magic has fewer chalkboards and rigid wooden desks, and more sofas, lounge areas and elaborate personal apartments. Mages as a whole are remarkably inefficient and demand a great deal of space, which is why I aquired such a large property. But as long as it is empty of comfort items, you are correct in that we will not attract most wizards.

Actually buying the couches and wallpaper and such will not be difficult, and I won't need your help for that. Unless, of course, you want to help suggest decoration or layout, in which case I would be happy to listen. But what we need most is money. Four thousand will be enough to furnish perhaps two or three rooms, at best. As it stands most rooms are filled with little more than the occasional sliver of scrap wood or metal. Only the kitchen survived the assault completely intact.

I can only see a few avenues for cash flow. I could, indeed, start up my business again, but I am several hundred miles from my original store, and I doubt my regular customers would care or be able to use the leylines to reach me. I have no established clientbase here. And, far more importantly, I am not sure if mages would appreciate such a reckless business going on under this roof. However, I could still gather up my potions and perhaps talk to Seshe about back payment, if you believe that's the path to take. Other then that... I am afraid all I can see is criminal enterprise. Robbing a bank or finding another gang to extort could be very profitable, but obviously less than ideal.]]

how do most magic schools make money?

Back payment? She owes you money?

Can't we, I dunno, collect bounties or delve into dungeons? I suppose wiping out another gang would be profitable. How about we scout around in the other nearby warehouses? Clean the neighborhood up, eh? Otherwise... man I don't even know what the job market is like in your world, what with both magic and technology existing.

It seems like any overt criminal activity would quickly be traced back to you because you're the only Anelyd with arms. Unless you can do it without being seen, and there aren't any magical detectives that can see into the past to see that you did it.

If you did not ask for your full share before it might be a little rude to show up looking for it now. I would just go over and tell Seshe you are thinking about getting back into the bottled magic business and you need to make some money fast.

Heck she might have some ideas for you. Also have you tried Ebay?

Hmmm. Any reason you can't just keep selling those potions where you were? Perhaps just have Seshe sell them for you? Which might not work well. Maybe you could find someone to take your place at the store? Perhaps the new guy, if he turns out to be capable of it, or maybe somebody unskilled looking for a job?

Victor 2014/01/29(Wed)11:53 No. 560004 ID: 431163
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>>559930
[[Through student funding, research grants granted by the government and private institutions, and low overhead. Traditionally, teachers of magic do not get paid, instead they are provided food and accommodation, a place to study, and whatever other odds and ends they need.]]

>>559942
>Back payment? She owes you money?

[[Not entirely, no. But goblins aren't terribly greedy. They like money as much as you and me, of course, but they are more concerned with respect and social standing- their own respect, and their own superiority. Money comes as a distant second in comparison. I was hoping I would be able to weasel some cash out of her, somehow. I was going to, as humans say, "play it by ear". Perhaps rely on her to have not kept close track of her finances, or ask for a departing present, or simply beg and constantly reaffirm that she is much better then I am and that as lowly as I am, I need money more then she does.

But, moving on. Firebeard would consider a request to take my place as a salesclerk to be beyond offensive. Besides, he cannot actually bottle magic, that is a skill only I possess. And I cannot continue to work there, it is not close to a leyline, and seeing as how I am now standing close to four hundred miles away, leyline travel is a must. I can make the trek today, but not every single morning.

I could also do some freelance work. That is not something I considered. However, I am not at all good with computers, and any such work would probably be found there, on the 'message boards' and 'forums' and such. Generally, when it came to matters of technology, I asked Vicki or Seshe for help. And as there is no internet connection here, Vicki cannot do much. So, either way, I feel I will be heading to Seshe's shop. But what will I be asking for, when I arrive? I imagine I will be taking my stock of potions back, either way. They may be useful in a pinch, although I personally wouldn't recommend using them.]]

yeah well the potions thing could be useful somewhere down the road so we should try and get that back if we can. Not to worried about an internet contention seeing as we could always just go to a library or internet cafa or anywhere with free wi-fi really to work on that. but as for other things to make money... I once heard of a guy who tried to turn lead into gold, don't work out to well back where he was but is they're some way we could maybe magic something into something more valuable?

>>560004
Referring to it as a departing present might be good. Heck, she might even have an idea of how we could make some money! You should of course mention that it's either this or resorting to crime to fund your venture. On the other hand maybe she won't appreciate you generating MORE competition for her business. Is there any way you can think of to avoid being her competition?

Hey, has anyone managed to combine magic an technology on one device?

Hmm. Well, it still seems like you ought to be able to find someone to take your place at the shop - you'd just keep bottling magic where you are, and somebody else could sell it. It would be a shame to close up shop if you didn't need to.

Yeah we could just send regular shipments there...

Victor 2014/01/30(Thu)13:33 No. 560155 ID: 431163
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[[I will leave the potions, then, and see if we cannot find someone else to take my place as sales clerk. In the meantime, I will visit anyway, and attempt to wrest some amount of cash from my former business partner. The trip will take a little while, and it would be fantastically boring for you all to stay and watch, so I will leave you with Vicki until I am there.]]

Vicki 2014/01/30(Thu)13:34 No. 560156 ID: 431163
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"Huh? Oh... hey, guys. I'm close-ish, should be done in like, two minutes. It's not super long or hard. Uhm.. so. What's up?"

Discussion thread is up. If I miss a question or you want to know something specific or whatever else, ask me over here: http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/79363.html[/spoiler]

not much, just thought we'd check in on you, see how you're doing and all, maybe see if Greeny is doing anything new.

>>560156
So the book is written in human magic, right? How come you can't understand it? Could someone teach you?

Vicki 2014/01/30(Thu)15:44 No. 560184 ID: 431163
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>>560163
"Not really, he's just- hey. Hey, hey! No! Stay here! He's just kinda.. I don't even know. No idea what's going on in his head. That's kinda the point of this, right?"

>>560177
"It's 'human' magic, but, uhm, pretty much all the branches of magic are similar, just with a few differences. Like, a good dwarf mage should be able to read this too. They just have to, you know, have aptitude in it. I /think/ this is a book of, like... 'subtle magic'? If that makes any sense? Nothing seems super 'in your face', like a fireball or whatever. If we found someone who can do stuff like that, they can't help me read the book up front, but they could help me understand the sort of stuff I need to read the book. I think. I don't really know? I'm just sort of going along as I go along.

Whatever. Wait up one second, I am juuuuuust abooouu-"

??? 2014/01/30(Thu)15:44 No. 560185 ID: 431163
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hello What whos this Hello who are you How are you here

>>560185
Hello. We mean you no harm. We are guiding voices summoned from another dimension or something. We have been speaking to the other two- Vicki and Victor, and they cannot seem to communicate with you so the one with you called Vicki decided to cast the spell to let us talk to you.

How are you? Who are you? What are you? Is there anything you want? Do you need to eat or drink? If so, what? You don't seem to be drinking the coffee but you want to keep it. Is it because it is warm?

Is there any way we can help you communicate with Vicki and Victor?

we are disembodied head voices, your green ball counts enough as a head that we can talk. so do you have nay clues as to what you are?

Hey Greeny, good to see you're doing alright. We're just friends of the two you've been drinking coffee with. We're just figuring out how to get money for the school we're trying to start and how to read the book you're touching right now.

??? 2014/01/30(Thu)21:02 No. 560211 ID: 431163
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>>560187
i Am victor. it is cold But the Cup is warm so i keep The cup

i do not kn

"%7%&th HHrr2@ adah%R% H%$2 2@2(($*? A&U%hh% %#NN#(A *DDAHSN"

i wish vicki would not Talk it is annoying

"stop Talking please leave me Alone"

okay now she doesnt Talk that Is good

>>560190
i am Victor

>>560205
what book

books not important right now. Hm it seems that you can't understand Vicki and nether can we. Trust us when we say she isn't actually that annoying it's just something is messing with our hearing. Have you tried talking to Vicki at all today or was this the first time you actually talked to her? Cause if this wasn't the first time then I don't think she can hear you, kinda like how we can't really hear her right now.

So how do we go about fixing this.

>>560211
I see.

What's the earliest thing you remember? Tell us about yourself.

>>560215
I think by her expression it should be obvious that she heard that, the same way we heard her.

...maybe we should tell Vicki's friend about this development.

??? 2014/01/31(Fri)14:37 No. 560300 ID: 431163
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>>560215
i did Not Talk to her but Now I did Talk to Her

>>560222
i was Hurting bad men when I was a bad men too But i saw me too but i am Gone now

i Am victor

okay then, we will talk later
[switch to vicki]
he is... a thing. also that complaint was because all he hears from people is complete gobbldygook.

so what do you want to do now victor? want to help us build this school up? we do need all the help we can get, Also would you happen to know of any ways for us to make money?

>>560300
So you understand. You have become two people. You seem to be having issues thinking and speaking in this new body though, maybe we can help with that somehow.

Shall we go back to Vicki for now? We'll tell her you're cold, so she can bundle you up or something.

??? 2014/02/01(Sat)02:18 No. 560374 ID: 431163
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>>560301
What are You doing

>>560303
i Do not know but I may know but i Left so i am Not here Anymore

i want Me to Come back please

>>560307
i dont-

Vicki 2014/02/01(Sat)02:18 No. 560375 ID: 431163
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"I feel you guys again. Awesome. I lost you there for a second. Okay, so, as soon as you guys leave, he just starts... like... do you have dial up there? He just started to squeal out of nowhere! Right at me!... I think. I mean, I can't really see his face.

So... whatever. I brought you guys back, and he's calmed down again, so we should be good. Whatever."

So, ah, you should be aware that he hears your speech in the same way you hear his...really grating. I forget,we can hear you think at us, right? You should probably do that.

yeah, he doesn't really like being around people when they talk because he hears the same thing. also throw a blanket over him, seems to still feel cold.

eh, we just talked to Greeny for a sec, or Victor as he's calling himself. I'll just call him Vic to keep things simple. Anyways he seems to be a part of victor or at least thinks he is. also whenever you talk to him all he hears is that same staticy noise you heard when he ask you to keep your voice down, so try not to talk to much around him as it's kinda of annoying to hear that noise. We're going to have to add that to our list of things to figure out.

>>560375
Victor has cloned his own mind inside that poor thing, but he can't think properly. Let's call him V-2. He likes warm things because he feels cold, and he likes having Victor-1 around, probably because he feels like he is both people and wants to be able to see himself so he can be himself? That's what I would guess from the way V-2 mimicked Victor-1's movements. His perspective is a bit difficult to understand, obviously.

Like others have said, your voice sounds completely fucked up to him, just like his voice sounds to you. So don't talk while he's nearby, he finds it annoying. Also, while we're in his head, everything is green EXCEPT where his green orb should be. Instead of the orb, there is empty space that we can see right through.

Vicki 2014/02/01(Sat)16:12 No. 560474 ID: 431163
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"So- oh, right!"

So... uhm, I take it you guys were talking with him?.. At least that worked. I'm happy you guys can understand each other. Kinda weird about the whole 'V-2' thing... but, uhm, we'll deal with that later. For now, you said he's cold, right? We can totally take care of that. I have, like, absolutely no idea how to take care of anything else. If we're both hearing each other like this then how the hell can we communicate..?! But whatever. We can absolutely get him a blanket.

"C'mon buddy! Let's go get you a blanket, huh?"

"AYGA&^^* #$#HHHTTN %%#*% KL:KGHNN<>>!!!"

"We'll come back for the coffee, okay bud? Just follow me!"

Vicki 2014/02/01(Sat)16:12 No. 560475 ID: 431163
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Oh! Victor was mentioning. You guys might have had some questions for me? About the dwarves or whatever?.. May as well get that out of the way, huh?

>>560475
I think it was the other way around, that you might've had questions for Firebeard about why the Dwarves live like they do.

Then again do you really want to talk to someone who tried to kill you twice?

Seriously though do you really need to talk out loud to us? It is annoying V-2. Maybe you should get pen and paper for communication.

so where do dwarfs stand in the world? I mean it seems like the biggest races out there are humans, elves, goblins, and orks. Plus what we saw with how poor the dwarven town looked and with victor saying they don't have any noteworthy cities I can't help but feel like they're near the bottom of the totem pole.

also what are dwarfs know for? I mean goblins seem to be know for they technology and poor manners, humans seem to be know for being expansionist, orks for there violent natures, and elves for being a more magical version of humans.

Also one for you, where did you learn the two magic spells you know now and from who?

Vicki 2014/02/02(Sun)01:45 No. 560550 ID: 431163
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>>560487
I'm not talking out loud! I'm just thinking this stuff. I guess you guys probably hear the same thing either way, but I swear I am just thinking this stuff. It's... kinda weird, actually. I feel like I'm talking to myself. If I could talk out loud I totally would, but for now this works too.

As for talking to Firebeard?... I mean, he seems okay when he's not all twitchy and angry? And I sort of have to talk to him now anyway, right? He lives here and all. So whatever.

>>560537
I'm not, like, an expert on dwarves or anything... one second!

Vicki 2014/02/02(Sun)01:45 No. 560551 ID: 431163
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There we go! He looks... okay, well, he doesn't have a face so it may just be me but he looks a little more relaxed, at least. Hopefully that helps!

Anyway. So, I'm not a big dwarf expert or anything. I just kinda know the basics that everybody knows... but, basically, like 50 years ago, the dwarves used to be king of hot shit mountain. They totally dominated the industrial revolution, with their steam machines and forges and stuff. But the goblins sort of took their job when they introduced computers and digital stuff. So now everybody goes to the goblins, or steals their patterns off the goblins, or just obsesses over goblin made stuff, and the dwarves kinda get left by the wayside a little bit. They get a bit of business, but there's not the huuuge market for ore mining and dwarven metal any more.

Uhm, and as for my magic? Basically, back in highschool, I had pick one more elective credit. And I qualified for fundamentals of magic, so I thought, y'know, what the hell. Could be fun, right? I failed it pretty bad, but I did manage to master two spells, so whatever.

really not liking how there's still blood around here but eh, so now that's taken care of what's next, to go out and see if we can't find a way to figure out how to read the book or talk to a (hopefully) calm firebeard?

I think you should put more effort into studying the book. Surely there is another page in it that you almost understand?

Oh, have you tried touching the green orb?

Vicki 2014/02/03(Mon)15:33 No. 560772 ID: 431163
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>>560593
>really not liking how there's still blood around here

I- ew! I didn't even see that last night! And I put my bed right against it!... Eugh!.. Whatever though, I guess. What's done is done, right?

And I'm not gonna just go and touch his head! That's, like.. how would you feel if someone came up and just poked your forehead? I mean, I can't even ask if he's okay with it. So I am totally not doing that.


But, uhm. I can take another look at the book. I don't know, I was pretty stressed out last time, this is a little nicer place to look at it? Even with the blood stained pile of crap there. Ew. Whatever. It's still a nicer place to look it over, so, you know. Let's seeeeeeeee-

Vicki 2014/02/03(Mon)15:33 No. 560773 ID: 431163
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-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-

Vicki 2014/02/03(Mon)15:33 No. 560774 ID: 431163
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eeeehng.

Goddamn it! I actually understood that one for a moment! It was, like... you could whisper into people's minds, but with different voices, and it felt super strong. Like, you could make people do whatever you wanted them to do, every time.

This is SO FRUSTRATING. It's like, I got it, and then it was torn away from me! I mean... maybe I wouldn't have used that one, because it's kinda creepy, but goddamn it! Maybe I could have understood the other ones too?!

Fucking book!

hey, it's still progress, also your eyes are bleeding, is that normal?

Hmm; how much does the study of magic usually depend on prerequisites? Like, do you usually need to study lesser spells before you can understand greater ones?

Also, yeah, uh, your eyes are bleeding a bit. Did you see the blue filter over everything?

you had it and it was...torn from you?...That description...
Okay, soooo do you know a way to um, 'undo' the one spell you got from the book?

>>560774
It sounds like your mind isn't toughened up enough yet to handle it. Good news, you get that from practice.

Does getting better at dwarven magic work the same way as getting better at human magic? You could ask Firebeard for advice on becoming just generally better at magic.

Just be sure to knock, don't try to go into his study.

>>560774
Worrying: that sort of sounds like us.
Possibly more worrying: I think he's looking at you now.

Wait, could he have done that? Or maybe he just noticed it.

Maybe you could send us over to see if he did/saw/felt anything when that happened.

Vicki 2014/02/03(Mon)16:35 No. 560782 ID: 431163
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Wait! Wait, just, shut up a minute!... I am bleeding from my eyes?

Why- WHAT THE FUCK? WHY AM I BLEEDING FROM MY EYES?

Vicki 2014/02/03(Mon)16:36 No. 560783 ID: 431163
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Goddamn it! I knew it was weird that I could get that! That is... I don't know what the fuck is going on, but... what the fuck? This isn't... I shouldn't be bleeding from my FUCKING eyes!

What the fuck is going on?!

maybe you're just tapping into your inner mage but you're not use to the magic yet so your body is reacting poorly. Still I think it would be best if we only try reading the book in front of people we trust incase something doesn't go right.

Okay...
Step 1, consult experienced mage on eye-bleeding.
Step 2, next time we try and read book, keep it to...Maybe like the first 30 or so pages? Depends on how many pages the tome actually has, but the general idea is stick to the easy stuff from now on- no more trying the super-advanced stuff- reaching beyond your abilities is normally fast way for a mage to die, instead of learning things.

>>560783
Do you fully understand our nature? Is it possible we are responsible?

Vicki 2014/02/05(Wed)19:49 No. 561080 ID: 431163
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Okay, so, put a hold on the book for now? I can totally get behind that. I am honestly a little skeeved out. I mean, first my fire thing goes nuts, and now I'm bleeding from my eyes? I don't, like, /feel/ any different, so I feel like I shouldn't be doing this stuff, but... I don't know. It's just weird.

And, uhm, I don't really understand you guys, no. Maybe you are what's causing it? I don't know... but I don't want to, like, banish you guys on some off suspicion or whatever. You guys have been pretty helpful so far. I think.

Plus, you know... I don't think I know how to banish you guys. So that's pretty much off the table either way.


So... if I'm not reading the book, my only real option is to talk with Firebeard, right? Unless I want to just sit around twiddling my thumbs for a bit. So I /think/ he should be calm. He was doing pretty well when we left off last night, and he's had all night to himself on top of that.

Whatever. Let's go check it out, huh?

Vicki 2014/02/05(Wed)19:49 No. 561082 ID: 431163
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Man, this place is really big. I wasn't expecting any of this at all, honestly. I don't even know what we're gonna do with all this space.

Vicki 2014/02/05(Wed)19:49 No. 561083 ID: 431163
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Ooookay. So, uhm, good news! I found Firebeard's room!

Vicki 2014/02/05(Wed)19:49 No. 561084 ID: 431163
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Bad news... well, you know. All of that.

Am I still calling for him? I'm guessing I should probably be super careful about this, not even like, knock or anything. Just ask if he wants to come upstairs for a bit or something.

Get away from the door, like perhaps stand in the middle of the stairwell area, and call out to ask where he is. If the door is that securely locked he might not even be in there.

just call out and ask if he's free. Failing that we can always just hang out in the main lobby and wait for him to walk by.

Vicki 2014/02/06(Thu)15:07 No. 561195 ID: 431163
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I'm not super sure if he can hear me from the lobby, but, uhm, I'll try from back here? Should be far enough.

"HEY! FIREBEARD! ARE YOU AROUND HERE?"

...

...

I don't think he's-

"Give me jus' a minate!"

Vicki 2014/02/06(Thu)15:07 No. 561196 ID: 431163
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"An' what can I do for yeh, lass?"

"Uhm... d'you wanna grab a coffee or something?"

"..Ay, why not?"

Vicki 2014/02/06(Thu)15:08 No. 561197 ID: 431163
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"Sooo... uhm. The banks were after you?"

"Business's been slow. There jus' ain't enough forges 'round, let alone forges tha' need a man like me. An' not many other people are needin' a good fire. Ah was down to jus' a handful o' steady clients, an' when one went down, well... nothin' like the ol' days. Durin' the revolution, I was single-handedly fuelin' all sortsa industry. King o' the Coal, they called me."

"When you say revolution... you don't mean the industrial revolution..? That was, like, two hundred years ago!"

"Ay, it was."

>>561197
How long do dwarves live normally? Oh, tell him you saw a dwarf kid across the street from his house while trying to find him, and he was just sitting in a bare room with some blocks. Is it normal for dwarves to not have any furnishings or toys?

After some talk like that I guess you can go into what happened with the book. You were just trying to learn a spell, it felt like you understood it but then the knowledge just slipped away and your eyes started bleeding. Does he recognize those symptoms? If not, could he just give you some advice on how to generally become better at being a mage? Maybe practicing the spell you can cast will help? Don't offer to give him a connection to us, that means we'd be able to invade his privacy at any time I think. Unless you can block us, and tell him how to do that?

Ask why he hasn't tried the teaching business before, I mean the way he makes it sound he was on of the best wizards around in his day and I doubt his skills have changed much since then, I'd thought other schools would be lining up to ask him to help teach.

Vicki 2014/02/06(Thu)15:55 No. 561209 ID: 431163
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>>561199
Dwarves can, like, usually live to be around maybe 120ish? Tops? Not that much longer then humans.

"So... uhm, your neighbour, she's got a little boy, right? And his whole home's pretty much barren..."

"Ay. It's easy t'get a home in dwarven society, but fer all intents, a lot o'dwarves are more'r less homeless. They're too poor t'do anythin' with it but sleep."

>>561201
That's, uhm, a good question actually.

"Why hasn't anybody ever, like, come to you to teach others? I mean, that's usually something to fall back on, right? And you seem really good at this stuff."

"I am, lass, bu' there ain't nobody who wants fire magic these days. No colleges are teachin' it, nobody wants tah hear 'bout it. They think it's useless."

"Well, uhm... is it useless?"

"'Course not! Fire's the breath o' life! Fire is energy, an' energy's wha' keeps this world turnin'! Jus' 'cause fire can be used for hurtin' don't mean that's all it's good for!"

"True... one other thing, though. I was trying to read my tome, right? And, well, I got this flash of insight but my eyes started bleeding and then I lost it... I don't really know much about magic. Is that, like, normal?"

"Cannae say I've ever heard o'it, lass. Could be a firs', 'course."

>>561209
Does he know about V-2? Might want to warn him about that so he doesn't freak out about a green-orb zombie walking around. Make sure he knows that V-2 doesn't like it when people talk near him.

Also ask how he lengthened his lifespan. He said fire is the breath of life, is he using fire magic to extend his lifespan somehow? Maybe that's why his journal is so valuable and his study is so private. He's studying immortality through fire.

wait wait wait wait waaaaiiiit, you're telling me that people can't see fire magic useful for anything but fighting... and even as effective as fire magic is at fighting they don't even use it for self deference or combat purposes either... the people of this world are some ignorant mother fuckers I'll tell you that.

anyways ask how Firebeard learned his magic, I mean even if it's different for every mage there have to be similarities as well. Maybe from hearing how he learned it could give us some ideas on how we can learn as well.

I think the issue is..Fire's kinda 1 dimensional to most people. Like...
So you're a mage. You can throw fireballs now. Wait, you wanna MASTER fireballs? Looool!
Dude, you won't be able to stop other people from blasting you.
Instead, why not, say, look into wind magic! throw wind blades around! deflect arrows and projectiles everywhere! Oh, yeah, and there's a little thing you can do with the wind called flying.
Or Water! Again, offensive tricks as well as defensive, and you get to do fun things like instantly rip all the water in someone's body out.
And if you're really paranoid about getting hurt, just go Earth!
I could go on, but that's the general opinion of fire magic I think. It's generally not worth it until you get to the point you can create seas of fire, and even then...That much magical power would be scary no matter WHAT magic you used.

Vicki 2014/02/08(Sat)19:23 No. 561545 ID: 431163
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>>561210
Uhm, he tried to kill me the last time I went snooping around. I don't really want to get on his bad side.. and with him, I guess that means not pushing it? If that is what he's trying to hide, how do you think he's gonna react if I just go and say it to his face?

But the V-2 thing is a good point.

"You should know.. there's a green-headed guy wandering around a bit. We're not totally sure what his deal is, apparently he's some sort of clone of Victor? The Anelyd, I mean... uhm, anyway. He doesn't seem to be aggressive or anything, but he doesn't like people talking around him if you can help it. Otherwise, as long as you leave him alone he should leave you alone!"

"Ay. Thanks fer the warnin'."

"How's the coffee, by the way?"

"Terrible, lass. Bu' Ah've had worse."

"Sorry about it! All we have is this shitty instant coffee stuff."

We gotta get better stuff in here, though. This coffee really is pretty bad.

>>561219

"So, uhm.. how did you learn fire magic?"

"I taugh' myself, really. Learn'd a bit abou' magic from a human, Sir Edward. Knighthood an' all. Bu' none o' what he had tah teach interested at all. 'Cept tha' first spell he ever taugh', fer basic ignition. Fer lightin' oil lamps n' such. Took to it, expanded on it, been learnin' 'bout it ever since."

"Could you teach me a little of it?"

"Ay. Sit down an' listen."

Vicki 2014/02/08(Sat)19:23 No. 561546 ID: 431163
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"Right now? Okay, well... I'm kinda, I didn't really want to do it inside, I think I mentioned that last time it went a little nuts? Started burning solid rock? I really don't..."

"Ah can handle anythan' yeh can throw at me. Give it a shot. Jus' follow my lead..."



"A cup, lass?"

"Well, I needed to ignite something."

"If that'll work for yeh... now, don' try an' control that fire. Yeh aren't really ownin' it, yeh're jus' guidin' it a lil'. Relax, an' let it come nice an' easy."

Victor 2014/02/08(Sat)19:26 No. 561548 ID: 431163
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[[Hello again. Please excuse me for the delay, but we are here now. Time to go in and see what can be done, yes? With any luck Seshe will be in a good and receptive mood. Within a day we have secured a place to stay and our first teacher, I would hate for our progress to be halted.

How has Vicki held up with our green headed friend?]]

>>561548
We managed to get in his head, guess what we found out? The green headed friend is YOU, Victor. You cloned yourself, in an imperfect form that can't think clearly and hears any speech in an annoying mess of static. When he speaks, the same mess comes out. Also he feels cold so we gave him a blanket. I've been calling him V-2. When we're in his head, the green orb goes perfectly clear and everything outside that space is tinted green. Not that I expect that to make sense to you.

Oh also Vicki tried learning a mind-control whisper spell from the book and basically managed it but at the last moment the knowledge was ripped out of her head. Her eyes started bleeding too. So we're gonna put book study on hold for a while.

well Greeny is claiming to be you or at least a part of you, Vickie managed to read a spell in the book for a split second before she lost it and started bleeding form the eyes, and now she's getting some pointers on magic from Firebeard.

How bout you, anything interesting happen to you since we last spoke?

Victor 2014/02/10(Mon)15:23 No. 561921 ID: 431163
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[[That is all... interesting, news. Vicki bleeding from the eyes, "V-2" blaring out static?... I should mention, as it seems relevant now. Earlier this morning, I attempted to look inside his head, but all I found there was noise. 'Feedback' was the word I used to myself, at the time. I am glad that you can understand him, in any case, although the implications of accidentally creating my own clone- in such a flawed format no less, is... disturbing. But we will deal with it as it comes.]]

Victor 2014/02/10(Mon)15:23 No. 561922 ID: 431163
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[[As for Vicki? I cannot say that bleeding from the eyes is an ideal predicament, but I am glad that she is at least making some progress. Even if she did not manage to hold onto it, it promises good things for-]]

Victor 2014/02/10(Mon)15:23 No. 561923 ID: 431163
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[[-oh.]]

Victor 2014/02/10(Mon)15:25 No. 561926 ID: 431163
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"YOU CLOACA SUCKING PIECES OF DOG SHIT! YOU FUCKS! YOU MONKEY FUCKS! I SWEAR TO THE FUCKING GODS I WILL EAT YOUR FUCKING HEARTS WHEN I GET OUT OF THIS! I WILL DRILL YOUR FUCKING HEAD OUT AND FUCK THE WOUND DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME YOU MONKEY FUCKS?! I'LL KILL YOU ALL! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!"

[[My head...]]

"I HOPE YOU ARE READY TO SUCK MY CLOACA YOU BITCHES! YOU FUCKING PIECES OF FUCK! DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKING IDEA WHAT I'LL DO TO YOU?!

"Yo, Seshe, I think they got a pretty good idea."

"I'LL RIP OFF YOUR MONKEY DICKS AND FUCK YOUR OWN SKULL YOU COCK SUCKING MOTHER FUCKERS! YOU SHITHEADS! DO YOU HEAR ME?!"

>>561926
Well this ain't great. I'm glad you're alive at least. Looks like there's some green glowy writing on the sack they've got you in, is that a ward to keep you from using magic? You lost your mask, but do you at least still have your arms?

Can you tell where you are? We just need a location, and we can get Firebeard and maybe Vicki down here to teach these fuckers a lesson. Actually I wonder if V-2 can use magic? Ask the other captives for an update on the situation.

well that would explain the hole in the wall then, I just guessed it was from a potions or something.

So, you got a way to dispel the magic holding everyone or no? If not just see if you can't look around, or we can't look around and get a better idea on what's going on.

>>561929
Hole in the wall? I thought that was a display window.

Victor 2014/02/10(Mon)16:04 No. 561934 ID: 431163
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>is that a ward to keep you from using magic?

[[I guess so?... explains why I'm feeling so tired.]]

>Ask the other captives for an update on the situation.

[[That... I can do.]]

[[Hey. K'orr..?]]

"Yo hey, Victor! You're up, man! What's up?"

"DICK LICKING FUCKNUTS I'LL RIP YOU UP I SWEAR I'LL FUCK YOU ASSHOLES UP!

[[What's... going on? Where are we?]]

"Not a fuckin' clue. We get to sleep in our place above the shop, right? Next morning we wake up in chains. 'Bout an hour ago some dudes in masks dragged your ass in here too."

"I'LL KICK YOU IN THE BALLS SO HARD YOUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL COME OUT STERILE! I'LL PISS IN YOUR THROAT AND LET YOU CHOKE ON IT FUCKHEADS!!"

"I don't think Seshe is taking it good, man. She's been doing this since this morning. I'm fuckin' amazed her voice hasn't given out yet."

"BITCHES! COCK SUCKING MOTHERFUCKS!"

So your magic might be having issues but you seem rather pointy naturally so can you poke a hole in the bag? Also worth trying your magic if you can.

We will let the others know shortly but will hang out here for a bit to see what info we can get from your surroundings.

Well, they warded your magic, but you still have your arms and you're not magically restrained like the other two. Are you strong enough to break those chains? Hmm, let me try something.
[sense location]

maybe you can mostly slither your tail out the top and use it to loosen your chains. use us for eyes if it can help.

Victor 2014/02/10(Mon)20:40 No. 561975 ID: 431163
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[[One... I cannot use my face as a... a... a puncturing tool. Scissors, perhaps?... In any case, my face may be 'pointy'... but it... well it's a face. It's soft. I just can't do it.]]

"COME IN HERE BITCHES, YOU THINK YOU'RE SO FUCKING TOUGH, COME IN HERE AND SPEND TWO FUCKING MINUTES WITH ME AND I'LL KICK YOUR FUCKING SKULLS IN YOU WORTHLESS BASTARDS!!"

[[Two, I do not have my arms. Which is troublesome.. I feel naked without them. I hope they were not destroyed.. I had grown attached to them. Ahh... so to speak. And, as far as I can see... there is nothing else that I could use as arms in this room, either. Except, perhaps, the chains...]]

"YOU FUCKING SHITHEADS! YOU FUCKS! YOU JUST FUCKING WAIT, I'LL SHOVE MY FOOT SO FAR UP YOUR ASS YOU'LL BE LICKING SHIT OFF MY BOOT!"

[[And neither wriggling nor magic seem to have any effect. Whoever did this... they know what they were doing.

I only wish I know who they were... or why they did it.]]

"Y'know, Seshe. If you stopped struggling for a minute, maybe you could relax a bit. I mean, fuck, how often do we ever just sit back and do nothin', man? It'd be almost tranquil if you weren't screaming."

"GO FUCK YOURSELF, K'ORR!! GOD, I'M GONNA KILL THOSE MONKEY FUCKS!"

>>561975
Hmm. Perhaps if you tried to take up less space in the bag, you could loop your face under the chains to move them around and- wait why are you even still in the bag? Worm your way out, you're a worm, if the opening is big enough to let part of you stick out the rest of you can go through.

Heck, you could pull on the light to pull yourself out of the bag, if it's too awkward to just crawl out.

wait, if you have now arms, and are basically just a noodle, what the hell stopping you from worming your way out of the bag? anyways failing that, think you could roll over to the ork bodyguard and use his shoulder pad's spikes to tear the bag a bit to help you wiggle out?

You are not hurting yourself wiggling around are you? It looks like there is some pinkish stuff coming out of the top of the bag.

If you can get her to stop swearing for a bit your goblin friend might be able to give us instructions on how to help get you out of here.

crazy idea here. what if instead of blowing magic outward, you suck IN magic? just pull the magic right off of the runes.

Victor 2014/02/12(Wed)16:47 No. 562259 ID: 431163
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[[The bag is tied very tight... luckily, I do not need lungs to breathe, and I do not feel much pain. But I cannot... simply pull out.]]

"YOU CLOACA FUCKS! PIG SHIT MOTHERFUCKERS BITCH FUCKING CUNT FACE RETARDED PILES OF MONKEY FUCK DICK FUCK!"

[[I would attempt to pull myself out,.. but I do not think I could lift my own body weight. I am not strong. And I am still exhausted... these runes are not very helpful.]]

>>562022
[[I could, of course, 'suck' magic in, but, I highly doubt that any competent-]]

Victor 2014/02/12(Wed)16:48 No. 562260 ID: 431163
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[[-oh.

Well... shit.]]

"TROLLDICK MOTHERFUCKERS I'LL CUT OFF YOUR-"

Victor 2014/02/12(Wed)16:48 No. 562262 ID: 431163
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[[It feels good to be free. And I feel far more awake as well. Much better.]]

"Goddamn, man! You got out in, what, like 2 minutes? You're a regular fuckin'.. Seshe, what's his name? The escape guy?"

"Hou... Houdini..."

"Yo, that's the one! You're a regular fuckin' Houdini!"

Hey just wondering out loud here but do goblins actually have Cloaca's as such? Did they evolve from birds or lizards and thus have different anatomy than humans?

Just curious about your friends ranting.

Anyways lets get to freeing everyone if we can and then a murdering spree.

>>562262
Suck the magic off the others' restraints. Also tell Seshe to keep yelling. Don't want our captors to get suspicious before we're ready to break out. Then once everyone is free and prepared for battle you can suck the magic out of the bars on the door and we bust through and out.

huh, well points for style I guess, now if we free our friends will they go up in flames like you almost did or can we just absorb there restraints and try to brake out of here?

yes, she should keep ranting. suddenly going quiet will make them suspicious.

Victor 2014/02/14(Fri)19:29 No. 562609 ID: 431163
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>>562264
[[As far as I am aware, that is more or less the case. Orks and Goblins evolved convergently alongside the races of man, but are completely separate. I believe they have ancestors with reptiles, although I am not entirely sure.]]

>>562265
[[Ah... you do not need to call it 'sucking'. It is a bit of a vulgar word, is it not?... In any case, I am one step ahead of you. I dispelled the magic as soon as I got free.]]


[[Ah.. Seshe? Could you continue with your ranting? Otherwise-]]

"No, I get it... COME ON YOU COCKSUCKERS! YOU FUCKS! COME IN HERE AND FUCKING SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU, SHITEATING FUCKHEADED MONKEY FUCKS!"

[[Ahh.... hm.]]

Victor 2014/02/14(Fri)19:29 No. 562610 ID: 431163
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[[Seshe. I do not believe your ranting will be needed after all.]]

Well lets scout out the area and try to leave as little evidence of our escape as possible.

Any ideas who made off with you or why and where we are?

>>562610
Well that's interesting. I suppose we'll need to figure out where we are... Can you climb a tree?

how long were we out?

Vicki 2014/02/16(Sun)15:02 No. 562944 ID: 431163
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Oh, god, are you guys finally here? I've been trying to grab you for the last like hour! Where were you?! There's been a bit of a fucking problem! Firebeard's got it sort of under control but it's been slowly spreading and it's getting really fucking hot in here and he's like in a trance or something and I don't know what to do!!

did you try to show him your fire magic or something?

your BF has been in trouble too, explosion and woke up in a sack.

open the freezer and throw ice magic into it. tech and magic don't mix well right? well desperate times and all. just a little ice magic should freak it out.

Am guessing you started another one of those burn anything fires right?

Well we will do what we can to siphon off the power if it comes from us. But it came from you so you probably will have to stop it. Where you feeling anything special when it started up?

[siphon magic from flames]
Hrrrm. Now might be the perfect time to ice breath. Hopefully whatever it is you put into your fire spell recently will go into your ice spell and cancel it out. And don't worry about putting out the flames- if we can remove the mystery element from the equation, FireBeard can handle the rest I bet.
We COULD do the ice breath into the fridge if that doesn't work.

Calm. Calm down. Reach out with your magic/mind to the fire, guide it so that it flattens out. Decrease its power.

Or just y'know go find a fire extinguisher. Or a bucket of water?

huh, we'll tell you where we've been once this is settled but what exactly is on fire? Cause I'm seeing two options here
1) Take whatever is burning and just hurl it into the street and let it be someone else problem, or
2) see if your frost breath thing hasn't become super charged since last time and maybe help put out the flames.

Ice breath, remove burning materials, or bucket of water.

Vicki 2014/02/18(Tue)15:34 No. 563364 ID: 431163
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Okay, okay! That's kinda a big, like, a big jumble right now, I'm sort of reeeaally just worrying about not dying right now! Uhm, that thing with Victor, that sounds really incredibly important and I really want to hear it right after all this and I like appreciate the whole attempt at helping me with fire power stuff but I kinda just need to put this fucking fire out!

Usually, like, if you mix magic and technology they both just sort of fizzle out a bit and stop working, I know you guys didn't know that, but you know it now right? I'll like, I'll try it because we got pretty much nothing else better and that fucking fire keeps creeping in from like everywhere but I need some more suggestions besides getting water from a bucket I can't reach or like trying to control this uncontrollable fucking fire!

Deep breaths...

Vicki 2014/02/18(Tue)15:35 No. 563366 ID: 431163
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oh god i cant move and i am so fucking cold i feel like my skin is on fire

please god help

oh for...

Good news, your powers are growing. Now we just need to control it.

OK now I need you to listen to me, CALM DOWN! DON'T ARGUE RIGHT NOW JUST CALM DOWN, YOUR FEAR IS SUPERCHARGING YOUR MAGIC. Just focus on another fire spell but just focus on the heat, not the flame, your going to have to thaw yourself out but you need to be CALM when you do it.

>>563366
Uh. Oh dear. Well, if you start a fire everything's covered in ice so there will at least be water to prevent you from burning. On the other hand Firebeard is probably going to be better at warming things up in a controlled manner than you will be.

Hmm. Yes, the common element seems to be fear. If you can be calmer when using your firestarting spell you might be alright.

or extreme emotions, regardless of kind. but yeah, calm down will make thins stable.

Hmm, I wonder what would happen if you cast both spells at once?

Vicki 2014/02/20(Thu)15:07 No. 563638 ID: 431163
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it reeeaally hurts but i am trying to stay calm

i think it's melting because i think my finger is free but its hard to tell because i can barely feel anything... it's so goddamn cold i feel like im going to die. i have never been this cold before

i want the fire back

Sorry about the slow update speed despite so little going on, shit's a bit hectic over here. Adjusting to some changes in living arrangements. Should speed up again soon.

You're right, your fingers are coming free. Try the fire spell again.

Alright, while staying calm focus on the fire spell again see if you can't thaw yourself. Don't think about the flame, just focus on the heat. If it starts getting to warm back off from the spell.

it's working. stay calm though, don't get excited about it working.

Vicki 2014/02/22(Sat)18:08 No. 563920 ID: 431163
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its really slow but im trying to stay calm

i think i feel you guys slipping though..

Victor 2014/02/22(Sat)18:12 No. 563921 ID: 431163
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[[There you are. You weren't gone long. Went to check in with Vicki, I assume?

Before you tell me anything, you had some questions? I do not know who made off with me. I can, however, assume we are somewhere in the elven lands. The vast majority of forests in the world are owned by them. It is also possible we are on an ork island, but goblins and humans do not seem to tolerate trees for long in their territory. Unfortunately, whether we're infringing on elves or orks, both of their forests are sparsely populated, and without a plan we could be walking for weeks before stumbling on any cities or towns.

I have been talking with Seshe and K'orr while you were away. She believes whoever attacked us was likely either a less savoury competitor wanting to get rid of the competition, or perhaps a slighted customer who she may have insulted. She does not get along well with elves. Of course, she does not get along well with anybody else either. I, personally, do not fully accept either of those explanations, although I do not have any better leads of my own.

In any case. How is Vicki managing? Well, I hope?]]

Good news! She successfully did an uber-ice breath.
And she's also slowly thawing herself out as well!
She might be starting to gain control over the Uber-magic power she's been demonstrating as of late...But that's something to consider when you get back I think...Where's your arms? Do you know?

she lit the house on mega fire. probably trying to show firebeard what was going on. it spread and they were trapped in the kitchen/map room where firebeard managed to hold it at bay for a while. we had Vicki use a desperate measure, opened the freezer and cast ice on it. the freezer sorta exploded and the room was iced over. they looked like they were going to be okay before we left.

anyway, plan for you, get thrown in to the air and look around. smoke = fire = people.

>>563921
Before you got blown up she was about to test out her fire-starting spell with Firebeard's supervision. Turns out even Firebeard can't control it enough to keep it contained, so it was slowly spreading. She tried an ice breath spell on the freezer to try to get it to put out more cold, and froze the entire room solid. Now she's trying to get out without setting herself on fire again. Exciting!

Have you tried climbing a tree to get a clearer view? If you can spot any disturbances in the canopy there could be a town there or something.

Alternatively, do you have a way to sense nearby leylines? We just gotta find one of those.

well first she almost burned down the school then manged to put it out but turned herself and firebeard into a living Popsicle. Last we saw she was thawing herself out while trying not to freak out.

Anyways as for your situation, could one of you clime a tree and look for any signs of civilization or do elven cities tend to blend in with the landscape?

Victor 2014/02/24(Mon)16:02 No. 564184 ID: 431163
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[[I suppose there is not much I can do for Vicki, being where I am, seperated from any leylines or other means to help. It is still worrying. I just wish I could do more.

Before we continue... there is one small thing I would like to get out of the way, as I heard one of you ask, and I believe some of you may be labouring under a misconception. My arms were made of vulcanized rubber over a chainlinked metal frame. Built by Seshe here, as a matter of fact, although I take full credit for carving my own mask. In both cases I have no sort of connection to them, I do not know where they could be.

But figuring out where we are is more important then recovering my arms and face right now.]]

[[Hold up, everybody.]]

"What's up, man?"

[[I- actually. I suppose Seshe cannot climb anything with her shackles on, can she?]]

"No. I can't."

[[And K'orr? I imagine you are too heavy. I don't have the physical strength to manage it. But we need to get someone above the trees to look around.]]

[[Perhaps we should try to get Seshe's restraints off, first. I cannot 'magic' them away, and K'orr cannot break them off, as either method would damage her hands quite badly.]]

>>564184
What sort of restraints are they? Chains? Smash them between two rocks if so.

If your arms weren't anything special, why are you able to control them and similar things? That sounds like some form of magic that ISN'T random for you. Perhaps you can learn to use that control to channel other sorts of magic?

An alternative is that you could send us above the canopy. You were able to manipulate our point of view once before, why not again?

well can't you try and make her shackles another limb? I mean if you can make inanimate objects limbs would it be beyond the realm of possibility that you could try and control her shackles and just "flex" them open or something? If not then just have the big guy throw you up into a tree, you seem light enough and I don't think you have to much to worry about the fall.

Victor 2014/02/26(Wed)14:56 No. 564482 ID: 431163
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[[Her hands are encased in metal spheres, just as K'orrs were. Smashing them between two rocks would be counterproductive, seeing as how her hands are inside. And I cannot 'flex' them open, as they do not seem to have a joint. They were likely put on by magic, but somehow welded shut, I cannot open them again now.

But if you have no better suggestions for how to free her, and as I cannot move you so far out of my line of sight, I suppose there is just one unpleasant path forward.]]

[[K'orr. We need to see above the treelines, and since Seshe is indisposed-]]

"Yo, I was thinkin' the same thing. Buckle up."

[[Wait, wait, what are you-?!]]

"Good luck, man."

Victor 2014/02/26(Wed)14:56 No. 564483 ID: 431163
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[[OH FUUUUU-HUUUUUU-HUUUUUUCK-]]

Victor 2014/02/26(Wed)14:57 No. 564484 ID: 431163
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[[-ING GODS ALMIGHTY-... oh! How fortunate!]]

Victor 2014/02/26(Wed)14:57 No. 564485 ID: 431163
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[[...But this is much less so.

Shit shit shit shit CATCH ME CATCH ME CATCH ME]]

Victor 2014/02/26(Wed)14:58 No. 564486 ID: 431163
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[[CATCH ME CATCH ME CATCH- MMPH!]]

"Shit! I thought you were over here! Fuck, sorry man!"

[[...It is... alright, K'orr. Pain is nothing but weakness leaving the body. And I did see what I had to see. We are in Ork territory, and the black tower is not far off. The Ent city of Inoth' Eao has apparently wandered this way well. In either case, we are not too far, and in fact the ent appears to be headed straight for us.]]

[[That leaves us with three choices, far more then I was expecting. We could head towards the ork megacity, the elven megacity, or we could attempt to find a wandering ork tribe. Now that we know we are in their lands, we can likely wander in any direction and find one soon enough. If they haven't already found us, that is. It's quite likely we're being watched already.]]

>>564486
You're near the Black Tower? That means whoever kidnapped you probably lives there. Get to Inoth' Eao. ...I'm assuming it would not be difficult to gain entry?

>>564489
actually, they could live anywhere, if the city has a leyline they could come or go through it.

anyway, can Seshe handle being in a city that magical without trying to fight some archmage or something? if so then sure sounds like a destination. while walking perhaps ask about the exploding freezer thing, mayhaps she has seen a tech object go WEIRD when exposed to magic before?

well we have an ork in our party and a goblin, the ork city is looking like the better of the two options here unless you think they'll attack us. Then fuck it elves it is. If you're not sure ask Seshe, she'd probably know.

>>564499
Leylines... well... that's true. There could be a leyline out in this forest somewhere that they used, even. So nevermind. If we went to the Orks I'm sure they'd welcome your group. On the other hand... Victor, races all have different magic, right? Did the magic in the prison seem elven or orkish or human or what? We should avoid whatever race is responsible for that, at least for the time being.

Due to minor surgery this will be on hold for a few days. Will be back up as soon as I'm not feeling like shit, and hopefully it'll be updated faster too.

>>564642
Get well soon!

Victor 2014/03/05(Wed)15:43 No. 565358 ID: 431163
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>>564503
[[Although I am sure that different races leave different magical signatures, I haven't a clue what those signatures could be. I may have been a little lax in learning the theory and background behind magic. It comes easily enough to me that I never especially needed to bother. Perhaps I should fix that in the future.

But for the immediate time being... the consensus seems to be split. I, personally, would like to track down whoever tried to kidnap me, and assuming they were strangers passing through, the elves would be much more hospitable then the orks would be. So, that is who I will head towards. As a boon they should have a tremendous abundance of leylines, since ents have a deep connection with the earth.

The journey will take a half hour or so, so I will relinquish control for now. Take care of Vicki until we speak again.

Please follow me, I will lead you towards Inoth'Eao.]]

"So you're done rambling? Who in the flying fuck were you talking to?"

"That was a little strange, man."

[[Ahh... I had meant to block that off from you both. Well. I'll have to explain it along the way. To the guides, goodbye for now.]]

V-2 2014/03/05(Wed)15:44 No. 565359 ID: 431163
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hEllo
i am

lonely

she left And she was Not Here for a long time
i hear her and She is in There but i Cannot get in There

it is Cold but i have a Warm Blanket

vicki is cold too now. break the door down and help her get warm.

maybe she's lonely as well, you should try and get in there again or perhaps find another way to get to her.

>>565359
Get something heavy and bash the door down.

V-2 2014/03/06(Thu)18:06 No. 565477 ID: 431163
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it did Not work

New plan-we don't mess with that area anymore-are you stuck in that room?
And...Could you do magic, if you wanted to?

>>565477
Ok plan B, can you absorb magic using that body? That ice is definitely magical- look at how it spread onto what you hit the door with.

Plan C, you could zap the door with magic.

Plan D, you could light a mundane fire to thaw the door.

huh, are you aware of any other means to enter that room?

V-2 2014/03/06(Thu)21:08 No. 565500 ID: 431163
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>>565480
>are you stuck in that room?
no

>And...Could you do magic, if you wanted to?
no

V-2 2014/03/06(Thu)21:08 No. 565501 ID: 431163
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>>565481
>can you absorb magic using that body?

V-2 2014/03/06(Thu)21:08 No. 565502 ID: 431163
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no


my hand Is cold

yeah don't touch anything else coated in ice from now on, it seems like a bad idea.

So you know of any other ways to get in there?

find some loose wood and make a torch. put torch near door to heat it.

>>565502
Well. Get a torch or something and see if that melts this weird ice.

Last resort if fire doesn't work is to go get help. You can't speak, but you can write. Write down a brief explanation:
A, please don't speak near me.
B, my friend is trapped in a frozen room filled with ice that grows on anything that contacts it, please help.

Then go out and find someone nearby who can help, like a guard or something. Um, get something to wear that hides your head, you look a bit scary.

Oh, I have an idea. There's a heater installed in this building, right? Turn it up. WAY up.

V-2 2014/03/09(Sun)17:47 No. 565782 ID: 431163
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>>565503
no

>>565504
i Do not know how to make a Fire

>>565507
i Cannot Write

>>565510
and i Dont know where It Is


my hand is hurting A Lot

it is Very very c-

??? 2014/03/09(Sun)17:47 No. 565783 ID: 431163
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Sorry for interrupting! But I've been knocking for the last ten minutes. Couldn't you hear me?

??? 2014/03/09(Sun)17:48 No. 565784 ID: 431163
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I got a little impatient, so I took a peek inside. Hope you don't mind! I saw you all, and your green headed friend too. I can't really force him to do anything, so I brought you out instead.

But enough with all that! I'm just here to deliver a message. My Lord wishes to apologize for this streak of bad luck- he isn't responsible for any of it of course, but he still feels guilty for not doing more to prevent it. He's taken a liking to you! You and Victoria both. He's a little less sure about the worm, but he was still upset about the explosion. So he can't dislike Victor that much. I assure you he's looking to find whoever is responsible.

I'm also supposed to deliver a tome, to add to her collection. My tome, actually, but I'm happy to share it. I just need someone here to pass it off to.

We would take it for you but you know how it is with not having hands and all. The door should be open if you want to drop it off at the lobby.

While you are here do you mind lending a hand with our little freezing problem? Either way tell your Lord thank you for the concern. We would love a introduction but at the moment we are still new to this plane so barely know anyone important yet.

>>565784
What- who- oh, you're a goddess. Um. Another Tome would be nice but I'm afraid we will shortly have no use of it because there appears to be no way to save Vicky and she's sure to die of hypothermia very soon. Can't even get in the damn room.

Could you perhaps help us out with that?

>>565787
Oh wait, maybe not a Goddess. A cultist? Who is your Lord?

Uhhh...Okay minor problem missy- or maybe major problem. See, Victoria's kind of in the middle of a magical experiment gone awry. Unless we lucked out and you're some sort of null mage this mess might not be easy to deal with- Vicky's room is filled with magical ice. If that Green-headed friend of ours is any indication? The ice will spread to anything that touches it. It may also be massively magically powerful/soaked in energy, in case that matters to how you plan on dealing with it. I don't know anything beyond that.

if you could heat the room up that would be nice.

??? 2014/03/09(Sun)19:04 No. 565802 ID: 431163
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>>565787
"A goddess? Ha! If I was a goddess, I wouldn't be cutting, now would I? I'm sorry. Blood mage humor. In all seriousness, I am not one of the gods. I just work for one. I am not allowed to say which if you haven't figured it out already, although it should be obvious. Or maybe it isn't? You are new here, after all.

Oh no. I knew there was some disaster going on, but I cannot see through the ice. That is pretty bad.

Let's see what the damage is."

??? 2014/03/09(Sun)19:05 No. 565803 ID: 431163
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"Hello!"

"hello. who Are you?"

"I'm just a messenger. Please don't mind me, I will be gone shortly.

Let me very quickly explain what I can do. Blood magic is the art of life. We can see and manipulate the life around us. I can boil blood in the vein, manipulate a man like a puppet, see a crowd through a ten foot steel wall, and congeal a wound instantly. A little less obvious, but I can also understand any sentient creature with a pulse, and I can open 'doors' in walls, by forcing some life into the wall and then pulling the cement and plaster apart like a wound.

Obviously I am leaning towards the last one, although it will hurt quite a bit and worse, will take a lot of my blood. I would really like to not bleed out and die. Not today at least."

can you just make them warm instead of boiling? practice of greeny here, heat his hand up and see if that melts the ice. try highish fever, 102F.

... Would that boil blood trick keep you warm? Might help counter the ice's power and let you open the door normally...

>>565803
I'm kindof surprised he has a pulse, to be honest. Can you tell why he's cold all the time? Is he perhaps missing a large portion of his blood, from the initial massive head wound?

How big a hole in that door do you need to make? Actually, consider that the edges of the door are premade cracks. If you can use those to start the new door you may be able to get the thing open. Just try not to let the ice grow on you. It spreads by contact. Consider it a hostile force.

Once you have an entrance or even a sizable gap you'll want to somehow warm up the two people in there, again without letting the ice grow on you. There's Victoria and a mostly-sane fire mage dwarf that goes by Firebeard.

well um, we might have a few dead gangster bodies around for you to use but we're not totally sure where they'd be at. Anyways with that blood boiling thing could you maybe just warm someone up with that, you know to stop them from freezing to death cause that may be an issue once you get inside the room. But for the whole force your way in thing, if you can't see through the ice then how would your magic work at forcing the ice open? Also another idea, could you maybe only use a bit of your blood to melt some of the ice into water then spreed your blood throughtout the water and boil that as well so you could just open the blood, I only bring this up cause isn't blood mostly water anyways so if you can just spread enough blood in it even if it's diluted it could still do what you want it to?

Come to think of it, you miiiight be able to 'borrow' some of Green's blood, to distribute the load, though actually convincing him might be hard.

??? 2014/03/11(Tue)13:57 No. 565991 ID: 431163
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>>565808
>I'm kindof surprised he has a pulse, to be honest.

"Only his head does. It's not exactly a real pulse, but it's close enough it to work. His body is completely dead.

Anyway! If his blood starts boiling out of his head wound it shouldn't matter that much, so what the hell. I'll give it a shot."

"what Are you-"

"Shh! Shh! Just hold still. Be a big boy and hold still, it'll be over in a moment."

??? 2014/03/11(Tue)13:57 No. 565992 ID: 431163
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"His body isn't exploding into bloody chunks, so that's good! How do you feel there, big guy?"

"warm
...
thank You"

"You're welcome! That works, then! Smart move, by the way, I would not have thought of using half a charm. I can try it on myself now. But... if the ice spreads? That makes the real problem a little harder. I could use his blood to open a door, he isn't using it. But what if it spreads out to the rest of the house? I believe I could contain it, but it will take a lot of blood. I will need to infuse life into this entire section of the hall.

And, since you asked, using water to dilute blood makes it worthless. I don't really need blood, I need the life inside it.

So! If you have a stockpile of dead corpses somewhere, then we will look for that. Would you like me to transfer you to Victor or Victoria while we get that set up? Or would you like to stick with me?"

we should probably check in on Victoria to see if she has or hasn't passed out yet. Just call us again when you need us and don't be surprised if we pop in to see how you're doing.

>>565992
Expand on it. Can you detect the two lifeforms inside the ice and raise their body temperature to survive in the ice?

There are two people frozen in there, by the way. The more time you waste the colder they get.

Well considering how cold they are they might be in suspended animation right now rather than dead. Blood Magic seems to be ideal for bringing someone out of stasis, so we should be covered.

torn between Vicki and Victor, honestly...
Vicki I think we could manage to calm down until you rescue her, while we could watch over Victor and give him a hand with whatever he's doing...
I'm for Vicki I think- might be a good idea to keep her calm, and I dunno if there's much more useful advice we can hand to you.
Hey, think you could teach Vicki how to move us around at will? That could be a very useful for us to have.

??? 2014/03/11(Tue)20:40 No. 566024 ID: 431163
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>>566007
>Hey, think you could teach Vicki how to move us around at will? That could be a very useful for us to have.
"That- that wasn't exactly why I was sent here. If I have time after this, I can absolutely try. I'm not making any promises... I don't mean to sound rude! It's just that my first priority is to my Lord, and he is expecting me back.

We'll see about that stuff when we're done with this. You're going with Vicki, and we're going searching? We shouldn't be too long. It's much harder to see a dead body. Buuut if we get, say, a room or two away, I'll be able to see them again. It'll speed things up! Keep her calm in there, we'll be there soon.

Come on, Greenie! Let's find us some dead guys, huh?"

"yes Okay"

Vicki 2014/03/11(Tue)20:40 No. 566025 ID: 431163
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Oh. Hey guys.

So, uhm... Firebeard thawed out before me. I was getting there, but, y'know. He's way smaller. Plus he's way waaaaay better at this shit then I am.


It's pretty damn cold but it's not too bad, apparently his fire burns really really hot. I think he's really mad at me though.

Hrrrm, to be honest, I don't blame him- panicking rarely leads to optimal decision-making.
We've got good news though! There's a Blood Mage outside who's working on the thawing issue as well- she's here to teach you how to control us, if she can manage in the time she has. And no she's not related to FireBeard... As far as we know, at least.
Oh yeah she's also brought another book with her I think she said?

so I take you've apologized to him by now? Also ask if he has any idea what happened with both the fire and ice thing you just pulled off. I mean before this whole thing started you said you could only light a candle or cool a glass of water no your able to nuke shit with fire and ice. Just wondering what his take on it is.

Also do you have any idea what god would send a blood mage to help someone? I ask because there's a blood mage here claiming to be sent by one of the gods to help you for reasons.

>>566025
First off, tell him that you've just received word that there's help on the way. Secondly, well now that you're not in any huge panic maybe you can ask him about how this is happening at all? I mean I doubt it was the fridge that caused the ice to grow out of control just like the fire. Also, ask him if he thinks he could have eventually gotten the fire under control, because it looked like it was spreading slowly.

I was expecting you two to get hypothermia and pass out, leading to a state of suspended animation. Did you two get frostbitten and Firebeard had to use his magic to heal the both of you? Also, from what we've seen the ice spreads. When you two thawed, what kept the ice from growing on you again?

yes, is working for a god who feels it really isn't fair how much bad luck you just had in a row. so she is here to help set things straight and give you another of the big books. then head back to the temple, or something.

...I don't really see why he's mad at you, since you did express concern that something like this might happen, and you're both still alive, which might not be true if you hadn't smothered the fire with ice.

That's not really the most calming thing to say, though, so I guess say sorry if you haven't, and relay the news about the blood mage showing up. I'd like to clarify that she isn't here to teach you how to send us around, and instead just to give you another tome, but will try to teach you if she has time. You might also consider asking her about the craziness with magic and bleeding from the eyes and stuff.

Vicki 2014/03/13(Thu)02:17 No. 566147 ID: 753e50
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"A- a BLOOD MAGE?"

"Wha- I dinnae say anythin' 'bout a blood mage!"

"No! Not you, it's, it's those voices. You know, the guides. Just- just give me a second here."

Okay, so, like, wait up a second... I know you guys don't really know how stuff works here and all, but, uhm, here's a little hint. If something has "Blood" in its name, it's probably not a super great idea to let it in your place! Blood mages are... well, it's not like they're illegal, technically, but nobody really likes them very much. I mean, they're only really good as assassins and murderers and stuff like that, there's only a handful of things they can do that's actually helpful and everybody else can do that stuff better. They're just... they're usually not very good people. I mean, it's not even racism or whatever, because you totally have a choice, and what kind of person is going to choose murder magic?

But, let me guess, she's part of a church, right! She's gotta be totally charitable and stuff! That's kinda the really bad part... like, I'd be willing to give her a chance. But let me give you a quick little rundown of the gods, just super quick. So you've got Heron, god of water, air and knowledge, and Hammersong, goddess of fire, earth and workmanship. You got the Queen of Dreams, goddess of dreams, life and charity, and the Dreamstealer, god of nightmares, theft and death. And finally, the- the kind of 'top gods', sort of, the most powerful two are A.A.E., goddess of machines, order and duty, and Lord Baron, god of magic, chaos and 'pleasure'.

There's only two of those that could possibly ever want anything to do with a blood mage, and I really, really don't want to get tangled up with either of them! The Dreamstealer kills everybody he meets, and Lord Baron fucks you up hard, and THEN he kills you! And even if he doesn't kill you, even if for whatever reason he's actually telling the truth for once, then! Then! Then you get carpet bombed by a fleet of remote drones in the middle of the night, because A.A.E. hates anybody who is even sort of remotely related to him in the tiniest little itty bitty fucking way!

Can you, just, like... go back and tell her to get out or something? Because this is so not going to end well...

if A.A.E. destroys every person that is tangentially involved with lord baron then he would have literally no followers. how would this blood mage work for him and not have been destroyed? simple, propaganda. A.A.E. SAYS she will destroy everyone in order to scare them into listening. make a big deal out of every win, and play down all your losses. and you sound a lot more dangerous then you really are.

basically, being new in town, we haven't heard any of the flim-flammery the gods spew about. and thus take everything on a personally level.

also mage lady has another of The Books. and was told to give it to you. i dunno about you, but like the idea of having TWO of the ultimate magic books.

I see...Hrrm.
This is worrisome. Lord Baron being interested in us, specifically us achieving more power, and finding us like that means we might need some help if we're to turn him down...
How well might A.A.E respond if we were to go to him for protection or something? Because if we're already going to be hated by A.A.E, then we might not really have a choice in the matter.

Now I know you have some preconceived notions about Blood mages and some of the gods. Heck some or most of them might even be true.

But you are currently living in a mansion you stole from some gangsters that are all lying murdered in the basement. Also your new friend is a corpse with a green orb for a head.

We do not want you to get hurt but you made the choice to step into the world of magic. And it gets crazy here. A blood mage cultist is sort of par for the course for us. We get called up to help all kinds of people and we try not to judge anyone unless they mess with our masters.

Plus if she is here to give you a book on presumably blood magic that means her patron thinks you are going to be something big eventually and he wants in on the ground floor. You do not have to go learn blood magic and start exploding people from the inside but this is sort of what you wanted when you bought that book. Once you have the power you get to decide how to use it.

>>566147
She's a follower of Lord Baron then. God of MAGIC AND CHAOS, Vicky. That's probably HIS BOOK you've been reading. Why else would he send a blood mage to rescue you? It's a bit too late to disassociate yourself from him now.

I would like to point out that, at least from your description, the Queen of Dreams (having jurisdiction over "life") might be considered a reasonable candidate, since "Blood Magic" seems strongly tied to the concept of "life", particularly given some of the spells she's described to us.

...Well, except that she said, "Lord" and not "Queen" or "Lady" or anything.

Regardless, she at least seems to have your interests in mind.

yeah don't think she's going to leave because we asked, I mean she did say that she was sent by her god to help you control us better and to drop of another book of magic.Plus right now she seems helpful at least and I would rather not piss of the person who has , as you describe as "murder magic". She also said she'll leave soon as her boss needs her to do other things so if you really want her to leave I think your best bet is just take what she's selling without any mess so she'll leave sooner.

Also she has huge tits.

>>566169
yeah that is probably a thing too.

Vicki 2014/03/13(Thu)16:19 No. 566220 ID: 753e50
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>>566177
"Well, fuck! I guess as long as those tits are big, everything is A-OK!"

"Aye, lass... yeh're nothin' to scoff at bu-"

"Not me! For fucks sake, did I say that out loud? It's- it's the guides, they're saying there's a blood mage outside-"

"-tha' has big tits? Well... tha' changes everythin'..."

"Oh for-...!"

Is everybody else crazy? Am I the only one who's upset by a FUCKING BLOOD MAGE barging into our house?

Okay. Fine. So if she's going around saying "lord" then it's definitely Lord Baron. None of the others are really pompous enough to use titles like that. I... I guess I don't want to piss him off, so I'll accept whatever he wants to give me. But I seriously don't like anything about this.

I guess the only other question is, what should we be doing? Firebeard's shown that his fire can hold off the ice and cut through the cold a bit, so, I guess.. move the fire beside the door? I kind of don't want to have her crazy magic blowing up against his fire magic or something, but... I don't know. I don't really want to die in here either, so, what can we do to help? I've been practicing a little and I may be able to help him maintain a second fire, but, like... I also don't really want to set the house on fire again.

how bout you ask firebeard about your powers then, I mean if you damn near burned down the house trying to heat up some coffee he had to notice something about your magic. It might help you control your powers a bit, or at the very least let you choose when to blow shit up.

>>566220
Moving it over to the door would be good. She's going to use the blood in Victor's pile of corpses to turn the hallway "alive" so she can open the door without the ice spreading throughout the rest of the building. If the ice is melted near the door then we can get out of here without having to cross the ice.

You do not have to make friends with the blood mage. Just be polite and accept her help. You will not get far if you get flustered every time someone dangerous shows up.

Also offending powerful people just because you disprove of there lifestyle is never a smart idea. Once you get some power yourself you can pick and choose. But right now you are in a dangerous place. You have just enough power to kill yourself and all your friends but no way to control it.

Also the opportunity to learn some blood magic is a good thing. Magic is all about what you use it for. You do not have to go around boiling peoples blood for fun. There should be plenty of other constructive uses for it.

>>566232
building on that! The same blood boiling charm that can so easily kill can also be used to protect from the cold!
Honestly? This particular guide agrees-this doesn't seem good. And now that I think on it, we might be able to foil Lord's scheme by running to A.A.E with this once Lord Baron's blood mage isn't around.

>>566237
she may already hate us though. i doubt she approves of someone learning from the any of the big books. she is goddess of tech. book magic is as opposite of her as it gets.

Oh, and just a warning: she solved V-2's cold body problem by inscribing half a bloodboil rune on his face. He's warm now! Also we found out V-2's body is totally dead. He has a "pulse" near the green orb, but otherwise I think he's just puppetting the body.

Vicki 2014/03/17(Mon)19:59 No. 566795 ID: 753e50
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She's going to turn the hallway alive?! I- oh, for fucks... okay. Fine. Whatever, if it'll work I guess...

So, uhm... one of you was saying I should run to A.A.E. with all this. Honestly, A.A.E. really isn't much better. Like, let me put it this way- she used to be a goblin before she was a god. So, you know, she's got all of their charming qualities on top of her godly egomania. She'll be totally honest and straightforward with you, if you make a deal with her you can be 100% sure she'll keep it. But, it's like, usually her deals are more along the lines of "if you don't worship me unquestioningly for the rest of your life I'll rip out your spinal cord and strangle you with it." or "I'll give you this perpetual motion machine but you better convert two thousand to me by next week or I'll slaughter your boyfriend and your parents and everybody who's ever met you ever. And THEN I'll choke you with your own spine.".

I really don't want to get involved in this whole thing because it's really, really fucking stupid and brutal and violent. Their followers on both sides get killed all the time. Stupid people keep getting involved with it though because Baron can make you better at magic and A.A.E. can make you smarter, on top of all the other stuff any god could give you. Plus A.A.E. is the only goblin god so practically all of them are worshippers of her just by default.

I guess we really don't have a choice about being in this war though. He's kinda already singled me out, so... whatever. If this blood mage has a tome for me, I guess I'll take it. But I was just starting to get my head wrapped around the 'school' thing, and now we're getting involved in some kind of war..? ...I am such an idiot for starting all this shit.


And I'm still not happy with the hallway outside being alive. Like, not at all.

>>566295
At least we got something out of all this. A little bit of information, huh? So he's definitely dead. I kinda guessed that, I mean, he's got this big gaping headwound and all... but it's good to know for sure.

well your at the door so you might as well open it, might be able to get into the hall before it becomes alive

and I'll stop asking you to ask firebeard about your magic as you stopped seeming to care at this point.

>>566795
Right, so, this situation seems handled. Want to send us to Victor?

Hunh...Well hey the door's right there. Maybe you guys could open it? No need to do the hallway alive thing then, unless, yanno, it's dangerous to get caught in that spell.
As far as landing yourself in the war...I figure if it wasn't you, it'd be someone else, and you have Victor-you're probably better suited to this than your average schmuck, even if it doesn't feel like that at the moment.

also, a blood mage may be able to explain the bleeding from the eyes thing.

Vicki 2014/03/20(Thu)16:40 No. 567134 ID: 753e50
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>>566798
>and I'll stop asking you to ask firebeard about your magic as you stopped seeming to care at this point.

I'm sorry. It's not that I don't care or that I'm ignoring you or whatever, I've just got... stuff on my mind right now.

"Uhm... Firebeard? So, uhm, since you saw my magic and all.. do you have any idea why it went all haywire and crazy like that?"

"Nae, lass. Whate're yeh did, it ain't real fire magic. Nothin' like anythin' Ah'd ever seen. Dinnae feel righ'."

"Well... can I still try and learn real fire magic from you?"

"...Aye, but we're doin' it ou' in tha' open next time."


Okay, so, this is where we put the fire before. Trying to unfreeze the door was pretty much the first thing we did. We moved up to the table afterward because it was a little more elevated and I felt a little claustrophobic and trapped down here.

The door was totally jammed.... nnngg!! Yeah... it still is. I think the ice got into the mechanism stuff inside. Goblins can't just make, like, a super-simple sliding door, it's just a waste if they don't stuff at least four thousand gears and wires in there just because.


I'll send you guys off to Victor. I hope he's doing okay.

Victor 2014/03/20(Thu)16:42 No. 567136 ID: 753e50
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[[There you all are. We ran into a small problem.]]

"Ionathi vionn eoh."

"VIAH NEH AIEH IANNI COCKSUCKING VIHN!"

[[We managed to track the Ent down a little before nightfall. We flagged down the foot and got inside perfectly fine. However, we are stuck in the lobby, so to speak. I was going to summon you all back earlier when we discovered the doorsman does not speak English-]]

"Ionathi vionn eoh."

"AHN EITH VINNAE AEETHIN you FUCKING RACIST PIECE OF SHIT LET US IN!"

[[-but fortunately, Seshe speaks fluent Elvish. Unfortunately, the doorman has no intention of allowing an Orc, a Goblin, and a walking Anelyd inside.

It appears his position was decided long before she ever began calling him a "cocksucking whorelicking fuck-head". Although I am sure that is not helping.]]

"Ionathi vionn-"

"AIETH NIH VIONNA FIO UETH VAHN!"

"Ionathi vionn eoh."

>>567136
Tell him it's fine, and that you are perfectly happy camping here. In front of the door. I'm certain this will not have a negative impact on visitors.

Or he can point you all to the nearest lay-line and you can all cheerfully leave him alone.

huh, think if we told him the sooner he lets us reach the layline or whatever the teleporting thing was called the sooner our little friend will stop yelling at him. We just want to get home.

Also Vickie is about to gain a second book, Lord Baron has seemed to take an interest in her, and he sent a blood mage over to the school to help teach Vickie some magic. Please don't shout this out loud either as we also learned that A.A.E. kinda kills the hell out of anyone even associated with the Baron and seeing as most goblins worship her I'd rather not have you old boss know about this, just a bit of paranoia is all.

So whats he saying? Ask your angry goblin friend if she minds us trying to grab some language from her head.

>>567136
Yeah I figured this might happen. Are you any closer to the Tower? Maybe we can just hop off and go there.

He keeps saying the same thing, it sounds like he's asking for...Some sort of proof? Password?
That's the thing that strikes me as odd.
He seems just somewhat weary, but I feel like an angry goblin in your face would eventually get to you if it was just a technicality thing...I wonder if it's more like 'you need X level of druidry' or something to go further...
Sorry, I can't offer much more than speculations here, though I DO see a ladder leading upwards...Which probably is the gate he's gaurding.

I bet he is asking for our passports.

Victor 2014/03/26(Wed)18:11 No. 567741 ID: 753e50
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>>567144
[[We are actually further from the tower, as this city does not like to stay in one place, and has been steadily moving in the opposite direction. Also, it is dark outside, and I do not wish to be out hiking during the night in uncivilized ork-inhabited woodland. It seems a poor idea to me.]]

"ONATH NIH FIO-"

"Ionathi vionn eoh."


>>567139
[[I was rather hoping we would not catch the attention of the gods so soon. That is not at all a good thing. However I suppose there is not much we can do about it. It is already done.

We will worry about that later. There is nothing I can do right now, stuck here as I am. For the time being...]]

"UIRITH OAN INNO VIOS DICKLICKING FINNI!

"Ionathi vionn eoh."

>>567140
[[Probing around her head would be exceedingly offensive, both because I know her as a friend, and because as a goblin she is intensely opposed to magic.

That does give me an idea, though. I will attempt to transpose you onto the elf, instead. I have had some practice with manipulating you, after all. And if you could understand my green headed clone, you should be able to understand and converse with him.

You may wish to remind him that I could boil his skull out through his ears if I chose to do so. With a more pleasant choice of words, of course. I'm afraid I'm a little too tired and frustrated to be diplomatic right now, but I do not wish to be labelled as criminals before we've even stepped foot inside.]]

"IRITH-"

"Ionathi vionn eoh."

"NAIEH--"

"Ionathi vionn eoh."

??? 2014/03/26(Wed)18:12 No. 567742 ID: 753e50
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Goddess almighty it's only been twenty minutes. Am I going to be putting up with this all shift?

"I SWEAR TO GOD YOU FUCKING PIECE OF DOGSHIT CUM GUZZLING FUCKHOLE!"

"You're not allowed inside."

"What the FUCK do you want US TO DO? We NEED TO GET IN!"

Of course you do. And I really need a break from stubborn goblins.

"You're not allowed inside."

Maybe I'll call in that favour. Let Arleyn deal with this shit.

"I'm NOT FUCKING LEAVING UNTIL I GET IN YOU GODDAMN LONG EARED MONKEY!"

"You do realize that you are only proving my point, right? We have a clean, organized city, a city I am pretty proud of. We do not need orc thugs, goblin nut jobs or... talking magic worms ransacking and causing chaos in our city. Only the races of man are allowed in. I did not set the rule, but that is the rule. It is also a rule I personally happen to like. Any one of you could cause goddess knows how much damage, and guess who would have been held responsible for it?"

"GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKER! I DON'T GIVE A SHIT JUST LET US IN!!"

"Ah... of course you don't. My answer is still the same. You are not allowed inside."

maybe if you tell her where to a layline so she can leave you wouldn't have to put up with the goblin anymore.

>>567742
Hi dipshit. Guess who else you're keeping out? Us. I'll give you three guesses as to who we are.

Now. These three were kidnapped and stranded out in the middle of this forest, and wish only to find the nearest leyline so that they can get back home. If you're so worried about your city just have some guards escort them to a leyline.

Or, y'know, we could cause you untold pain and suffering. Up to you. You don't even want to know what the Anelyd is capable of.

>>567743
Nah. Let's not say that.

>>567742
Tell her you can let her in if she can manage to be quiet for ten minutes, and then ask calmly and politely to be let in. Alternatively point them towards the nearest leyline and tell them to go fuck off towards some other city.

Hell, you could even call security over to "escort" them into another place.

Oy, Goblins, am I right?
And if you're wondering what's going on with your thoughts...We're voices from another dimension. Magic wierdness with that, and we were sent to you via that magic worm guy. He's normally pretty swell, but he really isn't in the mood for diplomacy, hence the sending of us to talk to you.
Basically, these three got kidnapped by...We dunno, but the kidnappers were rather incompetent about it, given how easily the worm got out. Effectively? The three of them just want to get to a Leyline so they can go home, or at least the worm does. That's all we need, so we can get out of your hair, so to speak.

>>567746
>let's not say that
You mean >>567745 right? I reposted because I said nexus instead of leyline.

you do know the talking worm thing is basically the most magical thing around right? and it was recently attacked and had it's stuff destroyed and so is rather upset and just wants to go home.

??? 2014/03/27(Thu)16:51 No. 567813 ID: 753e50
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"Please wait for a few minutes."

"What are you- OH NO YOU ARE NOT SHUTTING ME OUT MOTHERFUCKER DON'T YOU DARE CLO-"

??? 2014/03/27(Thu)16:51 No. 567814 ID: 753e50
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"I needed a break. Thank you for the excuse.

So... you guys again, huh? You don't need to introduce yourself, my little Sis' is a magic crafter. She used to torment me with this crap all the time. I'll be falling asleep when WHAM, voices in my head that won't shut up.

At least you're easier to deal with then the goddamn goblin is. Except the one calling me a dipshit. He can go suck a dick.

I know you're on a time limit. The worm probably just summoned you, so you have ten, fifteen minutes? I'll get to the point. The only leylines I know about are the ones upstairs. And maybe there's a few in that ork city we passed, but that's a hike away by now.

I cannot allow them upstairs, even with a guard. It's not allowed. The councilmen and the house of law set down the rules, I won't go above them. Elves, dwarves and humans I can let in. Nobody else is on the list. And I'm just a doorman, even if I wanted to let them through with a guard, I have no authority over the police. My job is to push a button to open the door, or shut it.

Besides, the leylines are closed. Locked off. Doors won't open until tomorrow morning. If I had to guess it's probably the same over with the orcs."

>>567814
Wrong. We're not on a time limit. We can bother you all day.

Why are the leylines closed? Who is Arleyn? Can you get us in touch with someone who DOES have the authority to get these three home?

well shit, hey can you give us some information then, these oh so lovely people were actually kidnapped and kind left tied up in a shed out in the middle of the woods. The goblin was a shopkeep, the orc was her bouncer/deter teenagers from loitering around the ship, and the worm was simply passing by and got hit with some kind of magical explosion and then we all woke up in a shed here in these woods tied in magical binding chains. Any idea what that was about? And why are only humans, elves, and dawrves aloud in? I mean elves are a given but still what's up with that?

oh no, we have... i dunno, forever? we are from the true spell that summons us. from one of THE FIRST BOOKS, you know what i mean.

anyway, are there any leylines in the woods or something? can just point us there.

>>567817
Dude don't tell him about the book.

>>567817
can we mute him before he tells the elf this, those books are ILLEGAL and seeing as we have the only magic worm in the world we're not exactly hard to find.

>>567821
>can we mute him before he tells the elf this
Nope, this shit's live. No take-backs.

Nobody 2014/03/27(Thu)18:24 No. 567823 ID: 753e50
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>>567815
>Who is Arleyn?
"You heard that, huh? He's the guy who has the shift after mine Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. I... hmm. It doesn't matter, long story short he owes me a little favour. But he's just a doorman, like me. It's not going to help you much."

>Can you get us in touch with someone who DOES have the authority to get these three home?
"...Not really. No. The rules are strictly in place, I can't go and call a councilman down here to review the case for a handful of strangers.

If they really were the victims of kidnapping and all that crap, then I do feel bad for them. But not bad enough to risk getting kicked out of my city for disturbing a councilman without reason."

>>567816
>Any idea what that was about?
"Why would I? I'm a doorman."

>And why are only humans, elves, and dawrves aloud in? I mean elves are a given but still what's up with that?
"It's good business. Human tourist money props up half the city. Dwarves aren't as big as they used to be, but every now and then some rich ore baron will come along and donate a few million to the casinos or stripclubs or whatever billionaires do."

>>567819
>Dude don't tell him about the book.
"I'm an empty, I honestly don't know what the hell you're talking about. I don't really care either. Your books are your own business. If you say you can stay forever I'll believe you."

>>567823
What's an empty?

If you can't find someone to help us out, what about your supervisor? Your supervisor's supervisor? We can just keep going up the chain of command.

Hey, just curious, how would one unlock a leyline?