Ever the sensitive soul, Chuck. Just stay quiet.

>>742961
d) > "It's okay, take your time, take a breath. You aren't nuts for having encountered this. Ramona and I both have too."

d) You're a burglar, Chuck, you've spent time casing a joint before going in, haven't you? Patience. You need to know things before you can get the job done right.

D) just wait, drink your tea. If she's going to say it, you should let her come to terms with how she wants to say it. As she said, in 10 years she only let 1 person know.

>>742961
"We've both seen it, you won't sound crazy."

>>742967

Zip it and sip it Chuck. Try and let her come to terms with this. Maybe give her a pat on the back and tell her things will be alright?

D. Say nothing, just let her come out with it on her own

D. Ask if the other person she talked to was Donna or was it The Mayor.

D) just let her speak, Jesus don't be such a prick for once in your life.

>>742965
Seriously chuck if you wanna get anywhere you need patience. Zip it.

D) Stare Impatiently

D hug her

D)"Take your time."

We don't need a repeat of the slumber party with someone who's already messed up.

D) Wait and drink your goddamn tea.

For fuck's sake, are you that devoid of common decency to wait and hear what a clearly traumatised person has to say? This is obviously something she's burdened with from (practically) childhood.

You better feel like shit after this is over, Chuck.

D:patience Chuck. This is important, give her time. Sip that tea.

d. Wait.

Give her the D
D - wait

D: Say nothing Chucky boi.

The quest went from "bang everyone" to "lets try to be a good person, and also bang everyone"

A then something like D: "You're driving me crazy!"

Chuck seems the type to not have a filter in such a sensitive moment.

>>743022
Yeah, and the reason this is a quest and not a webcomic is because we're advising him instead of letting him do everything himself.

D, stay quiet.

If the common D fails, go for E: offer to tell her about your encounter! Maybe hearing somebody else talk about it will help her talk.

>>742961
Imagine how you'd feel if two people you barely know were trying to get you to open up about an exceedingly traumatic event you went through, Chuck.

Goddamn, put your Investigation Boner away and have some compassion.

D. You've done harder things Chuck this is just like safe cracking...sometimes you need to sit still and listen closely

>>742961
chuck, you're terrible at this.
just shut up jesus. you're in no hurry.

D. Which person?

It shows you're paying attention. Even if we know the answer, clarifying info she volunteered may get her started better than a cold opening. .

D: Who else did you tell?

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You just remain quiet, and so does Ellen. Ramona gets up to refill her drink. Her next one doesn’t even have any ice in it.

Ramona: “Ellen, child”

Ramona: “You don’t need to tell us if you don’t want to.”

Ramona: “But I know that saying something out loud helps.”

Ramona: “It takes that twisting feeling in your chest and loosens it ever so slightly.”

The dog mom looks down at her lap, then at you, then takes another drink.

Ellen puts her head between her knees.

Ellen: “Please don’t tell anyone any of this.”

Ellen: “You will ruin my life.”

Ramona: “That’s…”

Ramona looks at you again, then decides to just shut up, same as you.

You: “Who have you told already?”

Ellen: “Donna Lee. Davey’s daughter, I told you that…”

Ellen: “It just… I guess it all kind of started on one night. After a big apple harvest. Davey took out the cider and brandy from the year before and let Donna and me have some.”

Ellen: “He played his fiddle and we danced and… it was actually, I don’t know… fun. Donna drank too much and fell asleep, so it was just me and Davey there. I guess he drank too much too, because he was awful sad-looking.”

Ellen: “He looked at me and he said ‘The Maiden’s Prayer, that was Amy’s favorite song’. That was his wife, he said. I asked what happened to her, and…”

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Ellen: “He said…”

Ellen: “He said… ‘the woods got her’.”

Ellen: “He said Donna told him she didn’t remember Amy and it made him want to die. And then he put away his fiddle and went to bed.”

Ellen shivers and puts her head between her legs again.

Ellen: “I was too stupid…”

Ellen: “Just a stupid dumb idiot”

Ramona: “Ellen, don’t talk like that!”

Ellen takes a slow, deep breath and grimmaces.

Ellen: “I went into his bedroom. Davey’s bedroom. And I crawled onto his bed and kissed him… like… somewhere on his neck or something. He was asleep I think, and he started to hug and kiss me and all that…”

Ellen: “And then he opened up his eyes and pushed me off the bed and started to shout at me… I guess. He told me to sleep in the barn.”

Ramona walks over to sit down next to Ellen.

Ramona: “You didn’t even tell your parents about this?”

Ellen: “They already thought I was… one of ‘those’ kinds of girls because they…”

Ellen: “found some drawings I made”

Ellen: “I never told them about anything I did there besides picking apples.”

Ellen is shaking violently. You don’t really know what to say. You want to ask her if that was it, but you somewhat don’t want to sound insensitive, and you know that there must be more to the story.

Ellen: “That was the first night I slept in the barn. I hated it so much! It was cold and full of ticks and rats!”

Ellen: “But… then Donna started visiting me there. She brought snacks and boardgames, and even slept beside me.”

>>743139
Oof. Offer her a hug, you know how it is with shit parents.

>>743140
Yeah, or wait for her to continue.

...did she develop feelings for Donna as well?

go ahead and sit next to her too man, put your hand on her shoulder or something

Just stay quiet and let Ramona handle the talking.

>>743140
She wanted distance before, so a hug might be "uncalled for." Also un-Charles.

Charlemagne 2016/08/18(Thu)21:29 No. 743157 ID: a339be
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Ramona rests her hand on Ellen’s leg. She seems to have some way of administering physical comfort that women don’t find threatening. If only you could master it.

Ellen: “He made me sleep there every time I came over. I don’t think he even knew Donna was going out there.”

Ellen: “Donna… Oh gosh…”

>>743158
Did you two do lewd stuff?

>>743158
gaaaaay

(but refrain from saying it aloud)

>>743159
>>743160

Yeah Chuck the only thing you should say out loud at this point is something like "Sounds like you two got to be pretty good friends."

>>743158

cute

>>743158
Alright, what did you two little trouble makers really do out there?

>>743157
Donna seemed nice when we met her.

>>743160
refrain... AND FAIL!

"there's that smile I knew you had."

>>743161
Say this in typical manner.

Then realize what you did and and throw up your hands and say sorry.

not sure if you should say something or not, I'm thinking not though, not yet anyway

>>743158
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Myff5xAZM

No but seriously just keep quiet.

Resist boner.

So in addition to picking apples, you spent time with board games and riding horses.

But that's not the whole story, is it?

>>743174
To say that now would be like.
Legit Creepy.

awkward situation wood rising!

Also didn't he ask us to get him a quick lay? Why would he chase her away then but then ask us to get him someone now? did something change or is it because shes young?

>>743212
...Well, yes, presumably he's not a pedophile.

>>743212
That was ten years ago, dude.

>>743157
wait so davey didn't touch her? i thought for sure he molested her or something.

>>743216
No, the opposite thing happened.

Keep being patient, we're doing pretty good so far.

>>743216
He technically did, but I'm pretty sure that was when he was dreaming of his dead wife or something.

>>743219
That is almost certainly what he did. Also considering the age difference, he didn't send her to the barn out of cruelty but rather to prevent such a thing from happening again.

More than likely a lot of Davey is talk -- not that he can't back up a threat, but I wouldn't take all of what he says at face value.

Interesting, but she hasn't explained where she recognized the monster from yet.
Engage eyebrow oscillation.

So when are we getting to the horrible part?

>>743158
Eyebrow internally, Chuck. Eyebrow internally.
Well, so she's the one that molested Davey... okay. Then she did his daughter. Well... okay.
Why did she bring that up if its got nothing to deal with the monsters, unless she's ashamed of it and wanted it all out?

>>743276
Maybe she wants to do it again. We could work with that...

But alsoprobablythestorysnotfinishedyet

"I told you that you must have a great smile."

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You: “So, what’s that got to do with the monsters? Why are you even telling us this?”

Ramona: “Chuck!”

Ellen: “Uh…”

Ellen: “Donna and I spent a lot of time in the barn”

Ellen: “We became friends, I guess.”

Ellen: “It was a couple of weeks later when we were out there…”

Ellen: “We just heard someone kind of… I dunno… scurrying toward the barn”

Ellen: “I didn’t think nothin’ of it. Donna went to open the door and see who was out there. She thought it was her daddy, but it wasn’t. We thought it was just maybe him with a sheet on top of him or something, but he didn’t have no snout.”

Ellen: “He started to say some weird things, like some ‘fire and brimstone’ type stuff I guess… and he hit Donna and then came after me. He climbed on me and hit my head against the ground, and I felt like I was bein’ stabbed. Donna came and hit him with somethin’, I think a saw or somethin’. And when she screamed, Davey came out and”

Ellen: “Started shootin’ him…”

Ellen: “I couldn’t even hear the gun on account of how loud I was screaming”

Ellen: “There was blood all over me. I think it was my blood, but Donna was bloody too”

Ramona’s face shows little expression - not even so much as empathy.

Ellen: “It’s the footsteps that scared me most. That man… he sounded like anyone else. Not like the monsters in the movies. When he ran it just sounded like… I don’t know. A person.”

>>743327
Yeah, they probably used to be people. They seem to attack those who go against fundamentalist teachings, for some reason. She didn't deserve that though.

Ask if she wants to see Donna and Davey again.

>>743327
"I tugged the sheet off one first time I met one, they're not human.
And they seem to have a common thread of hating fun, which I personally find utterly reprehensible."

Its no man its a monster.

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You: “Would you ever want to see Davey or Donna again?”

Ellen: “Davey comes to town once in a while”

Ellen: “But I haven’t seen Donna since”

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Ellen: “I doubt she’d want to see me…”

>>743345
...I'm suddenly guessing Ellen made a pass at Donna that wasn't reciprocated.

New quest: Hook dem gals up.

Now why would you say that?

>>743345
Oh no. She definitely has a crush on Donna. One she developed when she was 13.

Well, regardless, tell her that whatever happened in that barn, you believe Donna is still her friend. She tried to save her, after all.

We KNOW Davey still remembers her fondly.

Hell, us Biblezombie fearing types gotta stick together.

>>743353
She was the only Coxwette person who he spoke even remotely fondly of, come to think of it.

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You: “What makes you think that?”

Ellen: “I don’t know…”

Ellen covers her face.

Ellen: “She’s really pretty and great and sweet and I’m just”

Ellen: “…she fought that monster and I just did nothing.”

Ellen: “I think I should go to bed-”

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The front door opens. Sally enters and yawns, walking behind the couch opposite you and stopping suddenly.

Sally: “Ellen…?”

Ellen: “Oh, hi Sally”

Sally: “What are you doing here?”

Ellen: “I’m staying a night at your B & B… I guess.”

Sally: “Oh. Cool. Well, it’s nice to see you. Good night Chuck.”

Sally turns her nose up at Ramona and walks upstairs. Ellen follows, leaving you with the dog mom.

You: “What was that about?”

Ramona sighs and drinks.

Ramona: “Oh, Sally and I had a fight. It’s nothing.”

>>743384
Get frisky with dogmom

So is it late? I've half a mind to call up Naz and collect our bat and shirt and things.

On the other hand, it's not as if we need them right now.

"Was the fight about me?"

>>743384

it was a fight about your penis

i hope you're proud of yourself cat man

>>743384
"If it's about the sneeze thing, it's no big deal."

Ramona may be confused that we suddenly are aware of things that transpired during our lack of memory, but that's easily explained by the truth that we bumped into Sally and she was acting weird. Spilled the beans.

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You: “…was it about me?”

Ramona rolls her eyes.

Ramona: “No, it wasn’t about you.”

Ramona: “It’s a fight we’ve had before.”

Ramona: “Sally just… well”

Ramona: “She wants to do things her way. Dress her way, talk her way… eat her way. She talks back to me and cakes on so much makeup. She’s eighteen and beautiful, how much does she need?”

She shakes her head.

Ramona: “I let slip that she will obey my rules when she is under my roof. And…”

Ramona: “She said…”

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Ramona: “That maybe she’ll move out, then.”

>>743394

Just let her know that if she ever tries to leave she'll probably get killed by a monster

>>743394
"Talk things through with her, try to allow her some freedom. My parents were overcontrolling to the extreme and I don't talk to them anymore because of it."

>>743394
Well honestly if she could support herself why not? She has to leave sometime and become her own woman she already has a job so she can pay rent in the apartment buildings. She might also get some people to move into the Plath house by talking with some of the people there so you will have someone to keep you company, say the last part while looking at Ellen.

>>743394
It does kinda suck, huh? But I'm sure this is something every teen goes through. I'm guessing Ramona never has moved out?

>>743394
This seems about normal for her age. The desire for independence struck and she wants to live like she wants. So if Ramona wants to keep her close she could establish new boundaries that aren't so stifling. Sally will move out eventually anyway though. Say, ask if Ramona has been giving Sally any of that reveyee. How often do you have to eat that stuff to keep its effect? OH RIGHT also tell her it occurred to you that if she cooperates with Marcie she could give that resistance to the entire town... if Marcie can make it taste good.

...if Chuck is feeling especially selfish he could encourage Sally so that he'll have easier access to her in private.

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You: “You have to let her have her independence, Mona.”

Ramona: “I know…”

Ramona: “I know, but… she’s my baby. I don’t want to be left alone. I don’t want to die alone.”

Ramona: “I’ve lived in this house literally my entire life.”

You: “Sally can still visit, right? I mean, I assume you’ve been giving her reveyee like you have with me.”

Ramona nods.

You: “I mean, it’s not abnormal for a teenager to want to be independent. She’s becoming a woman. It’s just natural.”

Ramona nods.

Ramona: “You just don’t understand. It’s… about time.”

You: “What…?”

Ramona: “Time, wasting time. Living without her is just wasting time.”

Ramona: “Chuck…”

You: “What do you mean?”

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You: “Ramona?”

Charlemagne 2016/08/19(Fri)23:34 No. 743409 ID: a339be
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Ramona: “I have cancer.”

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END CHAPTER V

damn

"Shit."

"Wait, you didn't give it to me, did you? We didn't use protection! Now I might have it too!"

>>743427
Im sure chuck is smart enough to know that it doesnt work like that. Even if it is a joke, i dont think he would joke about something so serious. Time for chapter 6

..... Boy.... This chapter has been such a freaking downer......

>>743409
......Holy shit.

What. What the fuck.

Welp. I don't really know where this story is going, but god damn if I am not hooked.