Strut up to that door and fist bump the hell out of it as hard as you can.

It has to be the way inside.

You gotta go first! Be all assertive and confident and shit. Pound it with the door because it looks like it's begging for a good fist bump.

Man we should have just left this jerk behind and took 100% of the loot. Impressing him isn't worth putting up with him.

>"You gonna lead the way, or am I?" He whispers.
Might as well lead yourself. If it goes bad you can revert and swap.

Show that door your fist!

Seriously, sharky has no idea what you got coming. after this, there will be no denying who is the superior adventurer :3

>>871795
Check inside the hole in the tree to your left.

We lead like a true adventurer!

Get a running start before you bro-fist the door. TRUE bro-fists involve as much energy and spirit as possible, damn the consequences!

Glinp 2018/03/06(Tue)16:51 No. 872050 ID: 7fd053
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>Lead!
We were already inside the door, and since I seem to have accidentally gotten all caught up in thinking about that, I'll take this opportunity to look around more carefully before deciding which way to go.
”I’ll lead,” I whisper. “Let’s look around.”

Voices are definitely comin' from the left, around a corner. Doesn't sound like they're goin' anywhere.
I peek into the middle two paths. Oh, they actually go to the same place. OK then. I think I hear voices from that way too, but farther off.
The room on the right seems to be flooded! It has 3 conveniently raised platforms we can step on to avoid gettin' wet, but the room ends in a corner and the water continues around that.

Which way to go, and am I just goin' gung ho, guns blazin', and damn the consequences?

>>872050
Watch out for fists!

Investigate the voices to the left.

Check left quickly, quietly, carefully. See if you can catch some of them sleeping at the wheel.

Peek at the voices while looking tough in your outfit

>>872050
You go left and Ro can check out the flooded room!

Glinp 2018/03/07(Wed)16:41 No. 872248 ID: 7fd053
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>>872226
Buuuut what if I do something really cool and Ro misses it! Can I take that chance?

>Left! Carefully.
I tiptoe down the hall on the left, and peek around the corner. Can't see 'em. I step closer. There's a chamber here, and on the far wall, there's an opening into another chamber, where the people are talkin'. I eavesdrop. It's two voices, but there could be more than two people.
"I mean, how were we supposed to know she needed the body intact?"
"Yeah. That's the trouble with leading a cult like this, I think. You keep so many secrets, you're bound to leave out details like that sometimes."
"That's... kind of an important thing to leave out... I mean, we would've taken a whole different approach to capturing him if we'd known that."

Should I listen more, or move in?
If I do the second one, do I run in and start jabbin' folks with my spear, or is there a different approach I should take?

Why don't we hear what these fellows have to say. They might give us some convenient exposition!

>>872248

Go up with the gun leaning on your shoulder and ask them why they joined a cult where 'capturing and getting bodies' is, apparently, a thing. You're genuinely curious. Not only is that preeetty blatantly evil-sounding, but it's also seems icky as heck. What made this kind of a work environment start seeming like a good option to them? If they wanted some measure of power wouldn't just worshipping a regular god as a priest do? I mean, if they have to deal with being bossed around and all kinds of rules and other management difficulties ANYway, why not just go legit? Shortcuts to power tend to be kind of a sucker's game, in your humble opinion.

I mean, when you start worship in a murderous cult as an acolyte you sometimes end up having to stand in the way of hardened, well-prepared adventurers and then, well, you're kind of screwed, aren't you? You mean, one such adventurer could at any point rather than talk nice, try to stab them, shoot them, set them on fire, jump on them like fuckin' mario, change their gender, disintegrate them on an atomic level, lightning - just lightning -, brain asplode 'em, question their sanity and intelligence, breathe poison fog at 'em, summon a demon and sick it on 'em, call down the power of a god, offer fashion advice or just distract them while their soul-eating shark-shadow buddy flows up behind them and stands ready to tear their heads off and oh my yes that's oddly specific and would you perhaps like to not die and tell me everything you know about this place?

(Some of those aren't true, but they don't need to know that. They just need to believe our chutzpah.)

If it fails, reload, rinse and repeat until you can say the right things to convince them to quit the cult and/or tell on their master/mistress. I mean, they seem like low-level mooks who're being kept in the dark and are currently grumpy about it. It shouldn't be THAT hard to make them re-think their priorities. If it doesn't seem to work, well, at least you know they're another bunch of pretty fanatical dudes!

Suggestion 2018/03/07(Wed)21:42 No. 872299 ID: 3745a6

Leap around the corner, try driving your spear through the neck of the closest one and into the one he's talking to. If you want to do investigate-y stuff do that first, that should also let you know if the Shishkebab is a viable tactic.

No reason not to listen in.

we need to know if we or sharki make a good whatever they need and if not then they probably wont care about us and we can just do our thing

Eavesdrop even more. Knowledge is power.

Free exposition! And you don't even have to go do some side-fetch-quest from some random chump. Then interrogate them. The best way to do that is to catch them by the balls. And the best way to do that is to point your gun at their groins. Gotta know what makes people squirm!

>>872248
Casually walk in like you own the place. Let's see how they react and you act accordingly when you rewind.

Eavesdrop, rewind with acquired info and attempt to jab cultists with spear

Glinp 2018/03/09(Fri)17:08 No. 872655 ID: 1e95e9
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>Listen for SECRET INSIGHTS
"That's just how it is. At least we found another one."
"Hey yeah, any idea what she wanted 'em for? Was it like a ritual or something?"
"I think it was spell research? I heard something about, uh, spell bullets, I think..."
"Hmh."

>>872267
>>872364
I load my caster gun with a Declothe spell just in case I need to fire somethin', and walk around the corner with it leaned on my shoulder.
"Hey!" Yup, just two. I can tell by the tail that the one closest to me is a Lian, but I'm not sure about the other one, who yells and points at me, getting the Lian to turn around. They both take guarded stances.
"Hey! I'm just wonderin', why'd you join this kinda cult anyway? Like, y'know, what made it seem like a good option? Iiii don't get it."
"Damn, someone actually came here! Well, what business is it of yours?!" Asks the Lian, whose venomous tail is poised to strike.
"I kinda wasn't expecting anyone to be here either! It's not exactly a popular temple, I mean," I chuckle, "Look at the place..." I gesture around, and point my gun at the Lian's crotch.
"What are you doing!?"
"Hands up!" They obey. "Sometimes, bein' an acolyte in a spooky murder cult means you end up in the way of hardened adventurers. Sometimes they've got guns that shoot lightning, or they brought along hungry Shadow Sharks who can sneak up behind you, ready to tear off your head at a moment's notice!" Ro takes my cue!
"Don't move," he says, grabbing the one whose species I'm not sure of.
"Shit!" Says that one. I let the Lian look around so he can see what's happened.
"Oh gods! OK, you've got us! What do you want??"
"Tell us everything we need to know. Who's your leader, what're y'all doin' here, that kinda thing. Then we'll let you leave!" The not-Lian speaks up.
"W-well our leader is Letiel, she started this whole cult. S-she's a necromancer, and uh, we're having a gathering here because the place was supposed to be abandoned..." The Lian nods.
"Yeah! Letiel gives us food and shelter and stuff, and all we have to do is carry things around, help with spells, and ssssometimes kill people..."
"Uh huh..." He continues.
"There's gonna be a-a banquet later, where she tells us more of her plans for the place..."
"What species is Letiel?"
"Lian! But like she drank some kind of liquid magic... um, transformation potion? And now she has powers from it! She can levitate and um, I don’t know what... her powers are, exactly..."
"Great! Thanks."

So, I'm lettin' 'em go? Or nah?

>>872655
let them go but only if you get a hug.

Let Ro finish off the one he has, and demand the lian if he knows anything is coming up in the temple.

Ask them what the thing was they found that's related to spell bullets and what it does. Then ask them to give you a reason not to kill them.

>>872655

They're murderers and cultists, but they seemed honest and more in it for the benefits than the power and mysticism. Acquire their robes - carefully, intact and not-blood-spattered - and begrudgingly let them live, despite bein' bad eggs.

Before you let 'em go, though, you should really press 'em a little more! Get a rough idea of the layout and a who's who of the other cultists (special tricks, where they usually hang...), as well as any more specific banquet details. Once the second degree is done, escort them back out of the temple to whatever portal you/they came in on - or at least be sure to send 'em off in that direction under observation so that they won't just double back and tell the rest of their mates.

Suggest they lay off the skeevy job lists and murdering peeps even if it's a convenient and a good way to fill the tum-tum and the pocketbook. You're no high-falutin' moralist, but people like you seems to happen to murderous cultists a lot. Maybe karma's realm, or something.

>Further plans

Since you now have 2x Clean Cultist Robes, you could try to infiltrate the temple, or use the robes to better sneak up on other groups of cultists.

Take their clothes, put them against the wall and pistol whip them both in the back of the head. Leave 'em naked and unconscious in the bushes outside the temple.

Glinp 2018/03/10(Sat)15:38 No. 872846 ID: 1e95e9
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>>872679
They already said it was a body!

>>872659
>>872685
>>872752
"Alright, we'll let you go... IF you give us the lowdown on what's ahead. Other cultists with special powers, more info on the banquet, and so on." The Lian's tail wavers.
"Y-yeah... yeah, OK. I don't know any of 'em too well, but there's a big tough Lian named Reti, who's like a beefy tank dude. And uhh I don't know his name or even species but there's one guy who can go through walls... They're two of Letiel's enforcer types. Everyone else has just your usual assortment of basic spells, as far as I know..." The other one nods.
"Yeah, that's all I know too! And we don't know the layout! We've never been here before! The banquet is in 4 hours, though."
"I GUESS that'll do... Now, take off your robes and lay 'em on the chairs." The not-Lian eeps.
"Wh... oh, geez..." The Lian hesitantly removes his robes and drapes it over one of the chairs. Ro steps back from the other one and lets him do the same. Wow, he's wearin' a lot under those robes! The Lian's just got some underoos.
"Put your money on the table too." They sheepishly obey. The Lian sees his buddy.
"You were wearing all that??"
"It's very fashionable!"
"Alright! Now move it! Toward the entrance!" Ro pushes his captive forward, and I keep my gun pointed at mine while he steps forward too. We get them out the door, and make 'em warp away. The door closes again.
"Interesting approach. I would've just killed them! They could've been lying anyway..."
"We'll have to find out!" We head back to the room and don our new robes. Cozy.

Do we continue along this path, or check out what's in the others?

Might as well continue along this way. Use the cloaks as disguises, naturally.

Continue!

Let's do a once-over of the flooded room!

>>872655
Did that chill dude from DR really start a fashion trend?

Lets go get a quick peek at the water hall.

Let's commit for a bit and continue this path

Ah, I was hoping for info on what spell/spell bullet the body might be used for. If they don't know, they don't know though. Let's see if we can steal a glance at this banquet. Ro doesn't seem impressed, but he does seem to be opening up to new lines of thinking, which can make bank for you if we make good on the info.

Disguise may work, it will be easier if they're a big cult. May want to do a partial revert and ask if they have a secret cult handshake or something you should know about to present yourselves as neophytes.

Glinp 2018/03/11(Sun)17:15 No. 873038 ID: 1e95e9
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Looks like those guys had 40 krels between 'em. Good start!

>Continue, in disguise!
Ro completes his disguise by looking like a Lian, but still a Shadow one. From this chamber, there's a long hallway that goes two directions. On the right, there looks like more empty chambers. On the left, there's at least two guys that have spotted us!
"Hey Mel, Den, wanna help us settle a bet?"

Oh boy! I don't think I can sound like those guys...
"Think you can sound like those guys we just robbed?" I whisper.
"Yeah, if you gimme a sec."

Do we try to fool 'em, try to kill 'em, or try to run away from 'em?
And whichever one we do, what way do we do it?

>>873038
look at yourselves your not lian arms are sticking out and they know who the names are supposed to be just rob these guys the same way

Fool 'em. Maybe we can get some more information out of 'em.

>>873038
Rush em and knock 'em out!

Play them for the fools they are. See if you can get Ro to ask if they mean about the lines in the floor.

I say fool them. Play along, I mean Worse case scenario we can show of to Ro by feeding them through a trap, or taking more prisoners.
Imagine a Total stealth run, no kills, lol. The all stealth route is Prob not going to go that smoothly tho.

I wonder if they can recognize you by the (shadow) lian next to you or if the robes are distinguished somewhere we haven’t noticed.

This could be a trap corridor. Note the fist-ish floor patterns. Perhaps you're supposed to only walk on tiles that resemble a clenched fist in some way.

>>873038

... are they near-sighted and/or colour-blind? Maybe they just don't expect their mates to have been taken over and so aren't looking closely. Fool 'em if you can (since the cult didn't really seem to know all of its members that well, you could also pretend to be new guys), but if they start getting suspicious, you could at least super-jump over to them.

The whole point of wearing the robes is to get that split second extra to get the drop on other cultists, so if it seems likely to fail you should not hesitate to just use the advantage for what it's worth. Could even repeat the whole 'hardened adventurers' schtick. Maybe use a different tac.

Like, "Hi! Name's Plink, and I'm aggressively anti-recruiting cult members today. You get a choice of going home without your robes and money, or become raw materials for our mistress' experiments. Sorry! The mistress invited a few too many of us for the banquet, see, and we have to thin the numbers a bit. Shame you didn't get the memo before we did!"

Glinp 2018/03/12(Mon)16:33 No. 873154 ID: 1e95e9
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>Fool them, pretend to be thinning the members
>>873066
These guys are probably not lookin' closely, but also perspective is tricky and this hallway is pretty long.
"Actually, I got a better idea," I whisper to Ro. Then I say to the cultusts, "Actually, we're not Mel and Den!" I bet we SHOULD only step on the areas that look like a clenched fist! I make a little show of looking at the floor for Ro, and get him to follow me over to them.
"Oh! Whoops. Who are you then? New guys? Wow are you an undead?!" The Lian says.
"The name's Plink! My undead pal and I here are un-recruiting members. See, the boss ordered us to thin the numbers before the banquet. You can either ditch your robes and your money, or... you can be raw materials for her experiments."
"Oh lordy! Is that what happened to the other two...?" The human asks.
"They picked the option where they got to live. I don't care which one you pick."
"Whoa!" Says the Lian, who is already taking off his robes.
"OK, OK!" The human takes hers off too. "Money's in the pockets." They're both just in undergarments, but more than the other Lian.
"Same! Boy you guys must be high-ranking! An undead and a Lizardfolk..."
"That's right! Sorry you didn't get the memo before we showed up." Ro grunts.
"Now step outside and warp outta here."
"Will do!" We follow them until they leave (and they do step only on the fist spaces!), then go back. 28 more krels! Wow, it worked!

Forward still? I don't hear any more activity this way.

Press on! If there are more dangers ahead, may as well meet them head on and revert if needed.

>>873154
Wow, that worked! Let's check those other paths before advancing.

We sure we're in the right place? So far everything has been super easy. These cultists seem rather lax; amiable even. Not that the upper echelon won't be threatening but if all we find are a bunch of wimps we won't be able to impress Ro.

We might as well explore this thread until it runs out. Why turn around and then backtrack here to find out what is beyond?

how the fuck are we supposed to show up the shark if all these idiots keep being so helpfull

I don't know about everyone else, but my trigger finger is getting a little itchy. Can we use the declother bullets and make a robe collection or something? :3

There's one upside to getting rid of people this way. No loud noises, no traces of battle and no dead bodies for the necromancer to maybe make use of! Just missing dudes. Grab the other robes. You can keep them as spares in case the ones you have get torn or bloodied.

Anyway, we should probably go listen to who's in the middle room to try and get a few more of the mooks to leave of their own accord. For no other reason than it's starting to get funny to see how far we can take a little chutzpah.

Glinp 2018/03/14(Wed)15:09 No. 873664 ID: 1e95e9
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"There's no way you're gonna keep bluffin' these guys like this."
"Probably... But wouldn't it be impressive if we didn't kill anyone?"
"Not if they're all damn pushovers! If you talk down someone actually tough, that might be a start."
"Yeah, that's fair."

>>873587
I think that would take off ALL their clothes!

>>873660
Not giving the necromancer any bodies to bring back is a definite advantage! It'd be great if she tried to bring some around to fight us, and then didn't have any! Hehehe...
I can't fit the robes in my inventory! We’ll have to deal with ‘em some other way...

>Move onward
This chamber doesn't go anywhere, so we go back through the hall, past the room we came out of. The hallway widens on one side at the end, and there's some busted up stone chairs over there. But there's also another room, which we enter, and then the door closes behind us! And then two of the walls start closin' in! A warped voice recording plays.
"if yOU Face the fiiist w" -kldjfngk- "of unrelenting force, you will prove yourse l f t" -nikxdrjnt- "of stone as wwweeellll."
"Fuck! The trap works but the hint is BROKEN? What kinda bullshit is this!"

Let's see what I got on hand! There's my spell bullets,
a protein bar,
a pickaxe that turns me into a dwarf when I hold it,
a tile from a puzzle that's really hard to break,
an extendo-spear with a zappy tip,
some money (304 krels), and
a "Trip Gun," which can move lightweight things but only if they're located somewhere I can't see 'em.

But maybe I can get past this puzzle without using any of those?

>Prove yourself... of stone as well

Easy peasy, just turn yourself into a large stone slab.

Other things to try if that doesn't work:

Wedge the tile between the fists to hold them open.

Use the pickaxe to mine away at least one of the stone fists away enough that the trap can't close on you.

Something of unrelenting force, huh? Maybe stand in the way of one of them to show you have unrelenting force of will? It's a dumb idea, so dumb it might actually work.

>>873664
Punch a fist as hard as you can.

>>873666
Dang, all these are good. Do punch it first though. Not just a quick jab either. Punch with intent to push through the stone.

Fus Roh Dah? Somehow I don't think this dungeon was built around 2011 pop culture references though...

>>873666
this seems like a good place to start, I guess.

Glinp 2018/03/15(Thu)16:45 No. 873791 ID: 1e95e9
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Ro tries beating and pushing at the walls, but they don't slow down at all.

>>873666
>>873717
I try disguising, but I don't get to choose what the power turns me into! I become a piece of rubble. Not helpful! So I try the pickaxe. I take some good-sized chunks out, but there's no way I can gouge out enough room in time! Tile to the rescue!? No! It actually breaks, though the fists crack too.
"You SUCK!"
I revert, before my bones also break.

...

>>873669
>>873704
Back to before I tried anything. To make it look good, I try pushing and hammering on the fists too. Then I wind up and punch one! No holding back!
"NYAAAGH!" I hurt my arm a little, but the fist actually retreats to match, and my fist barely feels it! "Hah! Hahah!" I shake out my hand. Both walls are sliding back into place now.
"Wha... That was the answer? Shit. Good thing you figured that one out!" He pats me on the back, not gently. "Nice... goin'."
"Thanks!" I flex my arms.
"Co"-xksigk- "ay proceed." The doors open. Ahead, there's a pit. In the center, there's a platform with a giant stone fist floating above it. The back of the fist has a gem, which is facing to our left. The fist is rotating slowly clockwise. The platform is too far to Super Jump. There are three other paths connected to the pit room, and they're just as far from the platform as this one.
"Whattaya think this is?"
"I'll bet you've gotta hit the gem to make something happen."
"Huh? Who's there?" There's a person on the path to our left! "Ya'd better not be intruders!" It's a... Fox person, I think? He's got a BLUE robe.

Use the trip gun on the gem to see what happens. I think a good plan is figuring out the mechanism and then reverting so we can casually activate it to make the fox less suspicious.

Try the unrecruiting party spiel again.

>>873791
>BLUE robe
Looks purple to me!

Man do we have to use a spell bullet here? Maybe you can hit it with a rock. Or can your fireball hit it?

Tell him you've never been so insulted in all your life, and that you are close friends of Letiel she invited here for her banquet. Specify she'll be furious to hear you were accosted in such a manner by one of her underlings.

If he runs, use the trip gun on him once he's out of sight. You might be able to use it on the gem as well or just throw your spear at it.

>>873791

A different-colored robe might mean he's a higher-ranking cult member. Anyway, let's change up the story a bit again.

"Hey! That's our line! I mean - yeah, we had intruders! A couple of bored idiot adventurers popped in and ambushed Mel and Den before we jumped 'em back and killed 'em. Now we're checking to see if they had any friends walking around. You haven't seen anyone have ya---heeey... I don't think I recognize ya! How do we know you're not an adventurer in disguise?!"

Ask him to prove he's with the cult. If he does and is a ranker, that's cool and good to know. Apply extra subservience, as you're clearly a recent recruit who doesn't want to upset the upper echelon. 'Admit' you got overeager wanting to find and hunt down any extra intruders, since the adventurers had some valuable magical stuff on 'em.

Try to trick him into coming over to your side to look at the bodies and the cool magical stuff. If he falls for it, he'll probably solve the puzzle for you, or give you a good hint! If the conversation goes sour and you can't trick him to come over just revert - no need to let him raise the alarm due to the less fictional elements of your story.

To get more information on the layout of the area and deflect from raising suspicion, you could also excuse yourself and say you think you maybe took a wrong turn - which makes sense if everyone's new to the place. Ask how one gets to the banquet area.

>>873791
Tell the dude to calm down. You're just new here. Ask him how to get past this room. Running will get him a trip gun round.

Glinp 2018/03/16(Fri)16:28 No. 874087 ID: 1e95e9
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>>873834
I think my fireball can hit it, if it turns to the right angle.

>>873847
>>873856
"Intruders! Us!? Why, I'll have you know we're close friends of Letiel, invited for the banquet! And if you don't show some respect, she'll be furious! We did have a couple'a intruders, and those jackasses ambushed Mel and Den before we killed 'em back."
"I'm not buyin' it! Once this fist turns around, I'm comin' over there!" I fire the trip gun once the gem is totally blocked by the fist.
>-sklitter-
>-choip-
The fist stops spinning, and the platform extends suddenly over to us!
"Nnnuh uh! You're gonna stay there and talk with us! I don't recognize ya - what if you're an adventurer in disguise!? Prove YOU'RE with the cult!"
"Hahaha! You're ballsy, pal, but I ain't gotta prove nothin'!" They stand there and taps their finger on the wall.
"Guess we gotta kill 'em!" I seem to be on a pacifist bent at the moment, so...

...

"Us, intruders? No, we're just newbies... There were a couple'a adventurers who ambushed Mel and Den before we killed 'em back, and now we're makin' sure they didn't have any buddies still around."
"You don't seem like standard purple-robe material, and the boss is reeeal picky about that stuff! I'm ain't buyin' it! Once this fist turns around, I'm comin' over there!"
"Hey calm down! We're just new here!" They stand there and taps their finger on the wall.
"That doesn't explain your robes, asshole! I bet YOU killed Mlem and Dem! Or whatever the fuck their names were, hahah." They whip out a rod with a button on the end, twirl it in the air and catch it, and press a button on the end.
>-bang!-
>-choip-
It was a detonator! Something exploded on the gem, which doesn't appear to have harmed anything, but it did activate the platform so they could walk to the center. They toss another small sticky explosive up there and detonate it, and the fist starts turning again.
"Goddamn slow-ass puzzles!"
Well at least this has been informative! If I want to do this without killing ...her? him? then I'd better come up with a different approach!

Dang, someone who actually seems to know the chain of command. Tell em you are indeed intruders. In fact, you're the kind of intruders who tend to shoot people that make trouble. Level your caster gun at them and tell them to put their hands on the back of their head and lay on their belly. Otherwise they're about to get a whole lot less alive.

In this case, the disrobing bullet may help if they decide to get tricky, since they have some kind of remote bombs.

>>873963
Can your spear incapacitate without killing? If so,run back and ambush this Mook around the corner.

Argh, a bit of competence, that great foiler of plans! Double argh! They're even doing a Hold It pose with their left hand!

At least pretending to be new seems to get them to come to you, though.

>>874092

We'll need some kind of leverage to be able to get them to surrender, and if they feel confident enough to try to charge headlong at two potential enemies on their own... uh, either they're crazy zealous, crazy competent or they have aces up their sleeve that they'll think will even the odds. Maybe they've got some kind of explosion immunity ability? That'd make for a handy suicide charge, and explain why they want to get up close.

Well, since they're nice enough to stand around while we have a ranged weapon... shoot them with the declother to see what they're hiding!

Just smack them into the pit and move on dammit.

Glinp 2018/03/17(Sat)18:28 No. 874196 ID: 1e95e9
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>>874092
>>874103
"Oookaaaay, I admit it, we're intruders! The kind who shoot people when the gig is up!" I point the caster gun at 'em. "Put your hands on the back of your head and lie on your belly, or you're gonna get a whole lot less alive!"
"Never!" They click the detonator!
>-bang!-
>-choip-
The explosive toggles the gem again, and the fist stops and the platform extends away from us! I fire as soon as they press the button.
>-choomf!-
"Yeep! Whaddafuck!" Looks like she's a girl! Her robes fly off, and she wasn't wearin' any undies! She's still holding the detonator. She flees without taking her robes.
"Aw hell, she's gettin' away! What's your plan now, smarty??"

...

>>874093
"Oookaaaay, I admit it, we're intruders! Come catch us!" I run back into the fistbump room with Ro.
"You fucker!" We wait.
>-bang!-
>-choip-
She tosses an explosive into the room with us! Shit!
>-bang!-
I'm committed to this, and not hurt too much, so even though I seem to be kinda shaky and deafened, I jab her when she comes through! Zap!
"Gyaaah!" She jolts straight and falls on the ground. Ro sits on her and points his tail at her head. Then the puzzle starts up again!!
"if yOU Face the fiiist-"
"MotherFUCKER!"

Well, I think we all know the solution to this puzzle. I dunno if that's something we can use to our advantage or not...

>>874196
Hey you know what she has? Explosives and a detonator. Relieve her of them! Feel free to hog tie her with her own robes. After you zap her butt for your safety, of course.

>>874200
Oh, and solve the puzzle only after she starts freaking out. For a good laugh.

Act like you have a way out of being crushed by the puzzle and didn't solve it to get through. If she tries to get you to punch it she'll likely be desperate enough to talk, she doesn't seem unconcerned with her own life. Tell her you'll do it only of she talks. Get her to explain what they're doing here, what are they doing to make spell bullets, why is the banquet so important and what abilities do the lieutenants have? Maybe reverting to get more questions in would be possible if we can think of any.

Tie her up and leave her in the room, step outside the room and ask her questions.

Tie her hands and tell her that she'd better help you if she doesn't want a couple big stone fists messing up her day.

You could also try using one of the turn spell bullets and telling her you'll only turn her back after she helps you clear out the dungeon.

Glinp 2018/03/18(Sun)16:11 No. 874415 ID: 1e95e9
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>>874200
>>874204
>>874273
>>874343
I talk over the message.
"Tie 'em up with their robes! So what's your name?" She fights to keep her clothes on! So I use the declothe bullet again.
>-choomf!-
"Gyack! Whaddafuck!? It's Terry, ya pervs!" Ro catches her robes and tosses them to me.
"Were you seriously wearing _nothing_ under there?"
"It's comfy!"
"Well Terry, my pal and I can just short-range teleport outta this room," I say while dumping out all her explosives from her pockets. "We didn't solve it."
"Ya gotta punch one'a the fists!" She says while I try to hogtie her. She's so dang slippery! Ro slaps her with his tail, but it doesn't help.
"Only if you talk! Why's the banquet so important, what abilities do the lieutenants have, and what are you doing to make spell bullets?"
"Only the boss knows, what the fuck is a lieutenant, and I ain't makin' spell bullets! Now get punchin'!" OK, the hogtyin' was a bust, but I think I got her hands tied up. Tying with robes is uh, not easy, so I'm not sure it'll hold. The walls are really close now, so...
"Actually we knew how to solve this the whole time. I just wanted to mess with ya! Hyuh!" I punch a fist.
"HAH! Youuuu little fucker! So NOW what?" I load in a Turn Male spell bullet and shoot her with it.
>-poof-
"WHOA. Yo I was kiddin' when I called you pervs before but I sure as FUCK ain't now! Hahaha!"
"I'll turn you back, but only if you help us clear this place out."
"What in the goddamn hell kinda threat is that supposed to be?? You're a fuckin' weirdo!" No need to waste that spell bullet!

...

"HAH! Youuuu little fucker! So NOW what?" I don't know! This lady's real tricky... But I have her explosives and detonator now!
"Man what are you, a follower of the way of the Astral Pilgrim?"
"Nah, Dolnar The Black."
"Really?? So why don't we just waste this chick and be done with it?"

Do I take Ro's advice?
Do I keep tryin' to do this pacifism thing?
Do I revert to before we went into this double-fisting room, and try the middle or rightmost pathway that we haven't explored yet?

I don't really want to kill this person, but if we have to, I guess that works.

We could also try coercing her to help us by putting a bunch of stickies on her back and threatening to set them off if she doesn't help. Better than just killing her straight up, imo.

>>874415
"Man, killing is easy! I'm considering this kind of a fun challenge, really. These fools are the first ones in a while who gave you a choice in murderizing them or not. my last mission had me nearly wiping out a whole cell of Quincy cultists! Just let me see how far I can get without clogging the walls with fodder. Not to mention there might be a necromancer around here!"

>ya pervs!

Wears nothing under her robes. People in glass houses, Terry...

>>874415

You're not that opposed to wasting annoying murder cultists, actually! It's just that's what you and Miko did ALL throughout your last quest, so you were feeling like a change of pace after the dual blow of dealing with goobies and Quincies (ugh). That feeling is rapidly going away for this one, so if he wanna get his chew on, well... if Terry here won't play ball now that you essentially have her at your mercy, you're quickly getting there!

Lean in and whisper to Ro:

("Besides, the purple-robes were easy stooges and not killing anyone right now is half precaution. Letiel's a necro, right? Maybe Terry's ghost might end up going tattlin', or something.")

And then carry on in front of Terry with:

"Well, if we do hafta kill her, we should at least dispose of the body nice and good. Squishin' it in the trap might work? Or we can blow'er up with her own stash - which... one, two, twelve, geez, that's a lotta ba-da-boom. Girl, you been feedin' a bomb addiction or were you just happy to see us?"

Go on to ask Terry why she's with Letiel if she's not so high tier as to know what a lieutenant is what's up and doesn't even care about the experiments that are supposedly Letiel's special thing. She can lie, but you can hop back and forth a couple times, phrasing your question differently to see if she comes up with different lies. If she does lie and doesn't let up after being confronted about it, well... Ro's itchin' to waste her, seems. At that point she's proven intractible enough that he may.

A lieutennant, like a higher up underling, does this boss have a trusted second in command? Ask her what the different robe colors mean. Then tell Ro the reason you're not killing people is you're fighting a necromancer, who could use even their disembodied spirits if you annihilated their corpses.

Then say, lile this, arm a bunch of the sticky bombs on Terry and blow her up. Use this to gauge Ro's reaction. Then revert and do whatever pacifist crush you need to to knock her unconscious.

Glinp 2018/03/19(Mon)16:43 No. 874518 ID: 1e95e9
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>>874425
>>874436
>>874428
>>874451
"I'm not opposed to the idea of wasting annoying murder cultists, but Miko and I killed Quincy cultists aaalll through the last mission, and I was considering this a fun challenge! Felt like a good change of pace, but, if Terry here's gonna keep being a pain, I suppose you can get your snack on..."
"Dammit! ...Yeaaah, fine, I guess I don't have any more tricks up my sleeve..." Ro looks slightly disappointed. I whisper to him:
"Plus, maybe their ghosts can report back to Letiel." He whispers back:
"That's only a problem if we don't kill whoever she sends next." That's true... Back to interrogating Terry!
"Well then answer our questions! Does Letiel have a higher-up underling, like a second in command? And what do the robe colors mean?"
"I don't think there's any second in command, but there's her enforcers, Reti and Tosfir. Reti's this beefcake hunk of a Lian, and Tosfir's some kinda ghosty bullshit. She keeps the strongest members closest, see. And the purple robes are for newbies. Humans, Lians, and Reshishi start out as purple robes. Me, I get blue because I'm a step above the rabble! Letiel's got black, and her two besties got like a midnight purple thing. Then between me and them there's like... turquoise, I dunno what'cha'd call it."
"Great! What'd you join up for anyway?"
"Psh, causin' chaos, duh! And we get to go to all sortsa places. And we get food, and shelter. Guess I can find some other group though... S'not that big of a deal..."
"Perfect." I untie her. "Now get yer ass outta here."
"Can I have my bombs and detonator and robes? I don't wanna go around naked..."
"No, but yeah you can have my robes." We swap robes. Now I got the blue ones!
"Arrite, toodles, assholes!" She warps away right in front of us. Hopefully nobody heard.

"I WAS gonna ask if I should step in if a situation came up where you looked like you were about to die, 'cause I know you an Miko are buddies, and she's a Dolnar chick. But if you're one too, I guess I'll just stand back."
"Yup! Wouldn't want you gettin' in the way of my amazing feats!" He grunts.

So I guess we know how to do the floaty platform room. I've got 12 of these little sticky bombs. I use one to get to the middle. 11 now.

The side pathways are dead ends, but there's a treasure chest on the left, where Terry was, and there'sssss nothing on the right? I think?
Middle looks like ONWARD to me.

Let's try the chest. If you die, you can always revert and ask her if she's guarding anything, then ask if it's trapped. Or you could do that now, but I think you might secretly enjoy the risk of death, especially since it's not as permanent for you.

>>874518
Loot time! Check the other path after and then we can move onward.

There's no passing up free loot!
Go get that treasure chest!

Glinp 2018/03/20(Tue)16:26 No. 874622 ID: 1e95e9
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>Chest first, then empty, then onward
>874532

...

Back to before I let Terry go.
"Perfect. Now one more thing. What were you guarding over there?"
"I was supposed to keep mooks like you two from gettin' further in. There's a treasure chest over where I was, but it's empty." Wow bogus! We proceed to let her go again, just like before. We check out the treasure chest, and it is empty! Right pathway has... yep, nothin'. Looks like there WAS another treasure chest here, but it was moved somewhat recently. So we just go forward. I'm left with 9 explosives.
We turn a corner, and find a hallway where the floor is divided into five segments. There are giant impact marks on the right wall, as well as some plants growin' out of the cracks. On the left side, there are five fists. The closest fist goes smack dab across the middle of the hallway when it's activated, but I don't know what activates 'em. We don't get a hint on this one. Just a few seconds of grinding noises that sound like a decaying spell that probably used to give a hint a long time ago.
"This place is a little creepy."
"Why, just 'cause it's all run-down and has a necromancer cult hidin' out?"
"That's about right, yeah."

OK so this is clearly dangerous. How do I play it?

Try tossing a sticky bomb onto the first panel on the ground. Then poke it with your spear to check for the trigger. If that doesn't set it off, maybe leave a foot on the first one and see what happens? If that still doesn't set it off, you might be able to get away with running through it, but that's probably a bad move.

>>874622
Seeing those plants growing on walls makes me think that those fists don't come out all the way to make impact. Might as well test the triggers and start poking at the floor with your spear.

Glinp 2018/03/21(Wed)15:36 No. 874770 ID: 1e95e9
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>>874627
>>874629
I try a sticky bomb on the floor in front of the first fist. I don't know how these things work, and I probably should have asked, but if I blow myself to pieces then it'll probably be quick!
>-BANG!-
>-slam!-
The explosion knocks some dirt off the ceiling, the floor plate drops down, and the fifth fist punches its part of the wall! Then the plate rises back up, and the fist slowly retreats. I try poking with my spear. I barely press it, and the plate drops immediately, and the same fist activates again!
>-slam!-
"Whoa!" I try it a few more times, then step on it. As long as there's a little bit of pressure, it activates. I press the second plate and nothing happens, even if I press pretty hard! But once I step onto it, the fourth fist activates. I press the third plate, and nothing happens. I don't want to step on it.
"Huh, that's tricky..."

Think you can super jump over the third panel? You'd want to time it as the fourth fist is receding, and if it stays with the same pattern the middle one activates itself, the fourth activates the second and the last activates the first. That means only the third might pose a threat. Try doing a fancy spinning dive over it, see if that gets Ro's attention.

>>874770
Depending on how fast the fists retreat and come out, you can try jumping from the second floor panel to the 4th, while staying as close to the right wall as possible. I have a feeling that if you step onto the third panel the third fist is going to squish you.

Yeah looks like the panels are reversed. Would've been more convenient if more than one fist was activated by a given plate and you needed to use the fist cooldown to get through.
Experiment with it a bit further-- will a fist activate when a different one is still receding? If not, you could stand on the second and wait for the fourth fist to recede (it doesn't keep activating if you stay on the plate, right?), press the first to activate the fifth fist, then rush across the third plate while the fifth fist is receding.

>>874770
Try using a bomb to activate the 3rd panel. If that doesn’t work, then it might be broken.....or it can only activate if someone actually steps on it.

Could you possibly use the cracks in the wall to climb sideways over the panel?

Try testing what would happen if you activate the 1st panel while you’re standing on the 2nd panel.

try just hopping over the third panel altogether. You do have super jump, you know.

Glinp 2018/03/22(Thu)16:51 No. 874987 ID: 1e95e9
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>>874773
As long as you stay on the plate, the fist doesn't recede. While one is receding, another can activate.

>>874774
I bomb the third panel. The third fist shoots out, and my panel jumps back up! And then falls down again. The fourth fist looks like it's still in place when the third slides back, but it coulda retracted slightly and then moved right back.
I can't activate the 1st while standing on the 2nd! Bomb works. Also If I jump up so I'm not standing on anything, I can do it.

>Super jump from 2 to 4?
"I got it. Check this out!" I stay to the right side, hop over panel 3... And I hit my head on the ceiling, scrabble at the fist in an unsuccessful attempt to grab on, land on the panel, and get smashed to bits! Just in case, I try punching the oncoming fist, but it seems that is NOT the solution to this one.
>-pchoing!-
"Gah!"
"oh SHI"
>-cru -

Didn't even hear the end of the crunch. Because I was the end of the crunch. I sure am glad I stop feeling pain after I'm dead!
What'll I try next...

Whoops. Try stepping onto the third panel and pulling your leg back, then running over it when the fist recedes. If it just vomes right back at you, maybe you could disguise yourself to not die when smashed? If you stay on the previous panel, does the 4th fist keep activating?

How sturdy are those plants? Do the cracks provide grip?
Maybe you can climb across that wall and avoid the second and third panels altogether.

try cutting hand and foot holds in the wall with the pickaxe so you can climb across the third panel without touching the ground.

>>875050
Oh yeah, the pickax can carve out foot hold for you to just shimmy over the panels. all you need is enough holds for you to make it to the fourth panel without a super jump.

Glinp 2018/03/23(Fri)16:43 No. 875179 ID: 1e95e9
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>>874990
>>875050
>>875162
A quick reversion...

...

"I got it! Wait for it..." I whip out my pickaxe and turn into a dwarf!
"Er." Caaarefully, I dig some foot/handholds out of the wall in front of fist number 3, and grab the chunks so they don't get me flattened from being on the panel. Heck yeah! I land on panel 4 and activate fist 2, then run to the end.
"Ta-daaa!" I say when fist 1 finishes retracting.
"Heh." He follows me across, shrinking temporarily to use the holds I made. After that it's right turn, left turn, left turn, stop. Stop because there's a magical barrier here! At least we can hear the hint for this one.
"Only those who have proven themselves within these walls may proceed." I try touching the barrier and I go right through it! "You have prOven yoursefffffff."
"Eeeasyyy~" Ro strides ahead, thinkin' he can do the same. He bumps into it though. Nose-first.
"Ernk! Hey, what gives?" He rubs his nose, and then abruptly stops rubbing it and takes his hand away. "Do I have to solve a puzzle or some shit?"

I'm in a hallway. There are 4 rooms on each side. I can continue, but unless we figure out what Ro's gotta do, he ain't comin' with. And we can't have that!

>>875179
Ask him if he wants to go back and punch the fist in the first puzzle room real quick. Of course, you could revert and have him punch it instead, the second time around.

>>875179

Maybe he needs to go punch the fist, like you did?

It's been you that's solved each puzzle, try reverting and having Ro solve it with the pickaxe.

Try taking off your robe, and then passing it back to Ro to have him put it on and walk through. Maybe it's letting you through based on your ranking in the order, symbolized by the robe, seeing as how the barrier's the same color as the robe. It would be kind of silly to have a security system that lets intruders by for solving simple puzzles. Not like this isn't a silly place though!

>>875179
He didn't fist-bump the first trap.

Glinp 2018/03/24(Sat)13:14 No. 875274 ID: 1e95e9
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>Revert and have Ro do the fistbump the second time

...

I do just that, and then go back through everything the same as before. So now when he walks through... He just passes on through!
"You have prOven yoursefffffff."
"Yeah yeah." There's some wood at the floor of the entrance to this area, but there's none after that. Maybe they were trying to put some flooring down but gave up? Anyway, I try to open the door on the left, but it's locked. Ro tries the right, but it's locked too. Second door on the left is ALSO locked, but...
"Huh? Who's there?" Someone's inside, and I think they're comin' to the door! Ro opens the second door on the right, which doesn't seem to have anyone in the room.

We could hide out in the open room, or run, or talk to whoever's about to come out. Or something else!

See if you can talk it out. Explain you're here to install the rest of the flooring per the boss lady, but you can't find where they have the palettes of it stored.

>>875274
Stand your ground, spear at your side and act casual. If they turn out to be aggressive that's when you press the Detonator and blow up the sticky bombs you had laying around the doorway!

Glinp 2018/03/26(Mon)16:24 No. 875540 ID: 1e95e9
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>>875277
>>875280
I toss a couple sticky bombs around the doorway and act casual, with my spear out. Another of those guys with the frizzy tails comes out.
"I'm here to install the rest of the flooring, for the boss lady, but I can't find where the wood is stored."
"...No you're not." He notices the sticky bombs. "What the heck are these??"
"I dunno." I'm not sure they believe me.
"Weeell." They bolt down the corridor, away from where we came.
"Get 'em, Ro!"
"Geez!" Ro's faster! He pounces 'em and raises a big set of spooky claws! "What are we doin' with 'er?" They’re past the third rooms.
"AAAAA-mph!!" He covers her mouth with his other hand.
"Be quiet or be dead." Oh shoot there was another person!
"What was that??" A Lian comes out of the third door on the right and gasps! "INTRUDERS!?"

Uhhhh!

>>875540

Ask them to wait, you can explain. Then unleash your secret technique, manual rocket punch the newcomer in the throat and grab around their neck so they can't make any more noise. Have Ro maintain the hold on his target, run up and kick this one in the solar plexus (if lian have such a weak point) or the crotch, whichever is more likely to let you subdue them. While they're in the doorway it's going to be harder for them to use their tail to smack you, striking now is the best option available.

>>875540
Shoot him with whatever round you have loaded and immediately follow through with a spear zap before they recover!

Revert, lets not waste sticky bombs, next time just have Ro grab him and shove him back into his room while you follow closing the door behind you.

Seconding >>875563 ! Let's rewind and press for a better advantage. Keep the straggler in mind in case he's coming to visit his friend or something

Glinp 2018/03/28(Wed)17:25 No. 875754 ID: 1e95e9
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>>875563
>>875580

...

I revert to before I used the sticky bombs, and do it the same otherwise, only this time...
"Ro, pounce 'em and let's pile into the room!" I whisper. The cultist opens the door, and whammo! This time she doesn't even have time to yell before Ro knocks the wind out of 'er.
"Hhhhbp!" I get in the room and close the door. She's about to yell when Ro pulls the ol' claws and the threat.
"Stay quiet or be dead."
"So. Is there anyone else around?"
"I-I dunno! I was just reading while I wait for the banquet! What are you guys doing??"
"Were you reading anything EVIL?"
"Uh!" She looks between the two of us and gulps. "Y...es?"
"What was it?"
"It was... um... Uh! A recipe for an... evil... cake?" Oh no I don't know if I can keep a straight face. The way she said that is making it difficult all of a sudden!
"What makes it an EVIL cake?"
"Well... er... you see... It's made... with... SPITE! Instead of love! Yeah! G-grr! And uh..." I think she's makin' this up! Why would she do that??

She must be an intruder as well. Squeeze her for information before telling her you aren't in the cult as well.

Ask her to show you what she was reading. That way you can see why she might be being deceptive about it.

>>875754
Ask "where you reading porn?"

>>875754
Say that sounds like a good recipe you wanna see.

Is she stalling? Either Way, Grill her for information while keeping lookout. Something doesn't add up and I would like to find out before you are forced to knock her out.

>>875758
Ask this! XD

>>875758
Definitely heavy romance novel.
Was it Yoai or did it involve two adventurers ravaging a pretty girl?

offer gangbang for information

This is classic symptoms of having a Heavy Romance novel laying around.

Glinp 2018/03/30(Fri)07:19 No. 876019 ID: 1e95e9
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>>875761
>>875758
"That sounds like a good recipe! I wanna see."
"Uhhhhh!"
"Were you reading poooorn?"
"That's... none of your business!"
"Hmm... Do you know anything about our cult's inner workings!? Like how did the boss get transformed, again?" She seems relieved at the change of subject!
"W-ell uh, I think... There was this research facility where these bugfolk were studying this one kind of liquid magic stuff? And she agreed to test out their new formula, and it worked."
"Don't suppose you know anything about the banquet or the other blue-robes."
"No, n-not really... shouldn't YOU know?"
"Oh, yeah, y'see, we're not really in the cult." Her eyes bug out!
"Intruders? Oh, maaan... What are you g-gonna do to me?"
"This porno you were reading-"
"Th-there was no porno ok? I just made up the cake thing because I thought you were in the cult and I was gonna get in trouble if I wasn't reading something evil..." Oh! Ohhh!

Do we just knock her out and move on?

>>876019
Oh? It wasn't evil? Was it something GOOD?

>>876019
Make her dump her money and clothes then give her book back plus the choice of warping out or dying in this old temple.

Tell her you know of a good neumono/amtsvane romance novel she can peruse if she's looking for one. Now, what was she up to?

>>876040

We already asked if it was porn.

>>876019

Nothing! I mean, you're not gonna stick around to tell on us, are you? Cuz' then we'd have to start going back to the whole bein' not sneaky, which, uh, you're not much of a match for us, so maybe not do that?

Besides, we had a chat with one of the blue-robes and it kiiinda sounds you purple robes are being hand-picked as fodder for necromantic research, so you'd probs be way better off warping off and getting a different job!

Really. I mean, pff - sorry - but 'evil cake made with spite'? Haha, if that's the best cover story you can come up with you might hafta admit you're not primo necro cultist material! Why'd you even join up, anyway? Benefits too good? That's a warning sign right there, yannow.

Anything available to tie her up before locking her in her room?

Glinp 2018/03/30(Fri)16:18 No. 876135 ID: 1e95e9
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>>876063
Nothin'! Phooey! I can revert to buy some bondage spells and not buy some of the other ones, but I'm only gonna revert that far at most a few of times this mission, so if I do it at all, it better be for somethin' real good!

>>876040
>>876048
>>876059
>>876056
"Then you won't mind tellin' us what you were REALLY readin'."
"It was just a book about The Senyamiahe... This place has a library, and I was bored, so I grabbed it..."
"Oh the guy who founded the temple?" She nods. "If you ARE lookin' for a romance novel, I know a good Neumono slash Amtsvane one..." Ro rolls his eyes really hard and frowns.
"Uhhhhh!" She looks like she should have sweat drops flyin' off!
"How about you just dump your money and robes, and warp away, or we'll kill you?"
"I'll take 'em off!" She does so. "Money's in the pockets." I take out a whooole 16 krels.
"Had a chat with one of the blue robes. Sounded kinda like you purple robes are gettin' picked for necromantic research?" She just warps away without sayin' anything!
"OK then. This, uh, is working a lot better than I would've expected, but it's not very exciting."

Someone says something out in the hallway! I can't make it out, but it might be the guy who came out before. I think he heard the lady warping.

>>876135
Are they coming this way? If so, ambush time! If they're not, rush em! Zap to stun!

Now the fun part. Ambush the hallway cultist with a super jump stab.

>>876135
He's right this isn't very exciting at all. Might be time to go loud.
Say you were getting tired of it yourself. Let's just kill the next one.

>>876135
make a scene claiming she exploded and all that was left is her robes

Glinp 2018/04/01(Sun)11:24 No. 876426 ID: 1e95e9
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>>876142
>>876145
>>876370
I Super leap out the door and zap the Lian before he knew what hit 'im!
"Blaghzkz!" He falls over.
"That girl in the other room just exploded! All that was left is her robes! Did you do this!?"
"What!? No! She exploded!?"
"There's been a rash of us exploding and I'm here to investigate! Mostly purple robes like you!"
"Aaaaaa! What do we do?" Ro comes out holding the other lady's robes.
"It might be something hidden in the robes. We're not sure." He starts takin' off his robes!
"I'm gettin' outta here!" He warps away. There's no money in his robes.
"Pfffhahah, ok that one was a little bit funny. What a jumpy little dumbass..."
"Let's check out these other rooms." Looks like they're sleeping quarters. Nothin' interesting in 'em.
"Wanna try blowing up the doors on these locked rooms?" I try it out.
>-kablam!-
But even with every bomb, I can't get either one open! That's some strong doors!

...

I revert to before I tried the explosives.

I could hold out to see if we find whoever has the keys, or I could try something with more oomph, but that probably wouldn't be worth it.
Keep going, or go bigger just to open some doors?

Let's keep going. If you're gonna be stingy with the bombs, better stinge correctly! What's down this hallway?

>>876426
Wait, I just thought of something!

That book that other girl was reading, the one about The Senyamiahe, the guy who founded this temple, let’s take a quick look through that book to see if we can learn about anything that’ll be in the temple. Hopefully, the book will have something about puzzle locations/solutions, treasure rooms, anything that’ll help us while we’re here!

>>876426
>>876437
indeed, she did mention a library so you should totally go there and check if there is any useful info

>>876437

Yeah, looking at the book sounds like a good idea. As for opening the doors, some seem to have, like, I don't know, bro-punch handles? Maybe there's a password for each one that involves the bro-fisting equivalent of a secret knock?

Fist meeting fist, up top, down low, straight on, that sort of stuff. Bet if that's true you'd find clues in the Sehem book.

>>876426
Let's read the book while we're looking for someone with a key. I kind of doubt that the book will have all the answers tho

Glinp 2018/04/02(Mon)17:09 No. 876730 ID: 1e95e9
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>read book, keep going
I pick up the one girl's book and flip through it on the way. Looks like it's mostly about his history before the temple. Still, there could be some insights about somethin'! I'll start skimmin'.

He was a human, born in a monastery... uhhh, learned martial arts, had lots of monk friends, was a good student, pretty charismatic guy too. A wiz at... Blifferball? I don't know what that is.
Gee that's a long hallway.
>-click-
I step on a pressure plate.
"Oh Hell, what now?"
fzzt ksshhkerp wwwwwwg...
"Thanks, asshole... great hint..." he mutters. Nothing happens for a while.
"Maybe the trap's broken too!" I step back and press on the plate a few times, and nothing happens.
"Maaaybe." We look around, but it looks safe...
>-click. click-
There are TWO buttons on the floor! I stop!
"Mmmm..."
"It's probably broken. Let's go!"
The floor clicks uneventfully several times as we go, and then there are no more floor buttons. We're not even halfway down the hall.

Where was I... oh yeah. So the writer thinks Senyamiahe mighta sniffed too many mystical vapors and gone a little loopy, and then left the monastery after he started getting radical ideas about an elemental plane of fists...

>-KRONCH!-
Fuck! That trap got both of us! I didn't hear a click or nothin'! Fists just came in from the sides and creamed us!

OK, guess you gotta watch where you're going. Go ahead and flip through the pages before heading down this time, let Ro know you're a speed-reader so it doesn't seem strange to him. Then try checking out that trapdoor on the left before you go far enough to get double fisted.

>>876730
Ok maybe don't step on the pressure plate this time.

Consider reverting to before we let the chick with the book go and seeing if she knows anything about traps on this floor. Can't really ask the jumpy dude without changing our little spiel about exploding robes, unless you can think of a way to finesse that...

>>876730
Oh yeah, let's get some trap insight from the cake girl!

Glinp 2018/04/03(Tue)16:43 No. 877009 ID: 1e95e9
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>>876743
I'm pretty sure it's not a trapdoor, just some messed-up flooring.

>>876756
I don't think I can super jump over the plates. There's too many! And the hallway's long enough that my pickaxe handhold trick, while it might work, would take a really long time.

>>876768
>>876861
...

I revert to before Ro suggested for her to dump her stuff.
"OK forget about that. What can you tell us about the traps we'll be runnin' into? Such as how to get past 'em!"
"We're supposed to be escorted by blue robes!" Ro leans in angrily. "B-but I think the next one has something to do with timing! And af..ter... that, uhhhh! They said the next one was a surprise..."
"Great!"
"Er... now what? (gulp)"
"How about you just dump your money and robes, and warp away, or we'll kill you?"
And then yadda yadda, the rest plays out the same, back to the trap hall, only this time I stop before we step on any of the panels, and point 'em out to Ro.
"You sure those are pressure plates? They don't look like anything to me."
"Dead sure-ious! And I see some fists at the other end of the hallway there." I point those out too. "But what do pressure plates here have to do with fists over there..."

Maybe have Ro walk behind you so that when you would step on the two button row he steps on the first row? Try getting both the buttons on the second row at the same time. If they're too far apart, detach a leg at the right time. Hop to it!

Hmm yeah try stepping on both at the same time.

>>877009
If it's a simple timer, have we considered just running through?

Trying for minimal deaths here, but we don't have a lot to go on, and you're especially suited for learning things the hard way, so let's apply what we know and see what it gets us!

The puzzle is probably suited for multiple people, considering how book lady mentioned having an escort, so we can coordinate with Ro to either step on the plates at the same time we do, or else have him trail behind to keep two rows active, as >>877010 suggested.

Glinp 2018/04/04(Wed)15:42 No. 877149 ID: 7fd053
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>>877035
"She said it was about timing, right? I'll bet we just have to run right through!" I start runnin'!
>-click click click click-
fzzt ksshhkerp-
"No I don't think that's SUCH A GOOD IDEA!" Meanwhile I read some more. This time I pick up some personal details. The Senyamiahe didn't like to halfass anything, and when he broke off from his original place, he had two main followers... a hunky beefcake stud of a Lian and some kind of mysterious floating person who could become intangible!?
>-KRONCH!-

Fuck, again! Also, thaaat's weird.

...

I revert to after I pointed out the buttons.
"Maybe it takes two people. Walk behind me, so we confuse it!"
>-click-
fzzt ksshhkerp wwwwwwg...
"Thanks, asshole... great hint..." he mutters.
"It's weird that the hints ain't workin', since it says in this book that The Senyamiahe didn't like to halfass stuff."
"I've got no problem with making yer traps work for a long time, sure keeps me sharp, but for real, not reinforcing your hint spells too? Ugh." He looks exasperated and frustrated.
>-KRONCH!-
Hrrrrgh how does this thing work! I think it only killed me that time, Ro was still a ways back, but he was past the buttons too.

>>877149
Have someone pushing the pressure plates just before the other person walks into the fist area?

You know what fuck this let's just try to break the damn trap. See those holes in the walls? Make em bigger, get into the trap mechanism and break the mechanism.

If you experiment a little it may save you some pain. Try sticking your spear out into the place where the fisting happens and see if that triggers it. Try walking over the first plate, then one of the second ones. Have Ro stand on one of the second plates when you would walk between the fists. If this doesn't work, repeat but leave your tail behind and flop it onto the other second panel. They didn't say how many escorts they took on this path before, so presuming it's one may be our problem.

>>877154
Each row only has one button. The first time through, I was commenting that I'd noticed two buttons so far, from steppin' on 'em. 'Cause I thought it was just the one, at first.

>>877155
Oh, thank you. Well then I guess having Ro stand on the second button when you'd go through, or maybe pressing both simultaneously instead of hitting one and then both?

Ah heck I always forget, you can try to scum it out with disguise just before getting smashed, right? Just depends on if this trap triggers off proximity or just the one time.

Hmm, beefcake Lian and ghosty fella. Wonder where you’ve heard that before....

I say just throw a bomb on the plates to activate them, or just step on them and walk back. Maybe see what all this trap does before it kills you.

>>877149
It really sucks that hint isn’t playing correctly! Because that would be very helpful right now!

This temple is old and dusty, right? If these cultist guys are always coming through here, then that would mean that there wouldn’t be any dirt on the parts of the floor that they walk across. So maybe you could follow along the cultists’ path like that?

Maybe the hints were sabotaged by the leader of these cultist guys.

Glinp 2018/04/05(Thu)17:21 No. 877389 ID: 1e95e9
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>>877186
I don't think they've come through here much. I don't see any paths trodden in the floor. The place is busted, but not that dusty.

>>877187
Sabotage by Letiel is definitely possible... What a dick move that'd be!

>>877154
>>877156

...

I revert to the same spot as before.
"I'm gonna try somethin'. I'm gonna walk almost to the trap, and then I want you to step on the second button."
"Well... Okay..." We try it out. On the way, I read more. Some people theorize that Ol' The Seny was possessed by something, but contemporary accounts present the opinion that he was just crazy. Possessed in a metaphorical sense, because he was nutso fanatical about these kooky fist ideas, but probably not literally.
I don't go between the fists, and the the trap still springs, even before Ro can press the button! "Geez! I didn't touch it!"
"That's ok! Actually, try walking forward onto a few panels, and then walk backward." I yell back at him.
"OK!" He does it. We wait. Nothing happens!
"The hell are you doing? Are you assholes trying to get across the puzzle without... me?" A blue-robed gnoll steps out from around the corner ahead! " Hey Lizard, I don't recognize you. Explain."

Tell him or her that there's been a few unfortunate sudden deaths in the blue robes, and you've been promoted just minutes ago. Letiel's asked you to get this purple robe to the dining hall, but seemed pressed for time and didn't explain how this trap works. You'd be immensely grateful if your esteemed colleague would show you the method by which this trap is bypassed.

(If the dining hall turns out to not be this way, revert and try naming the library, or just say she didn't tell you what was on the other side.)

>>877389
If you can’t talk your way outta this, then revert back and change into purple robes, then repeat everything up to this point.

If Ro asks why you’re switching robes, start scratching all over your body and tell him that blue robe was itchy and you don’t think it was washed or something!

Once you get back here to when this lady says she doesn’t recognize you, then tell her, “I’d be surprised if you did recognize us, since us purple robe guys aren’t really important enough for anyone to remember!”

Pretending to be an unimportant guy should hopefully help. And if she buys it, ask for help to get past this puzzle.

>>877389
There's been restructuring! Just got promoted! Can you show us how to get through, big guy?

Glinp 2018/04/08(Sun)14:55 No. 877935 ID: 1e95e9
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>>877394
>>877482
>>877410
"Not surprised you don't recognize us. I was just another forgettable purple robe until today! There's been a few unfortunate deaths in the blue robes, so I've been promoted just minutes ago! The boss didn't have time to explain this trap, though. Can you show us how to get through, big guy?" The gnoll scratches their head. "That doesn't sound like Letiel... A perfectionist like her ain't gonna just let that kinda thing happen." They take a stance and summon a club! "You'd know that if you weren't an INTRUDERRRRRRRRRRR!" They take a swing and I have to leap back!
>-crash!-
'K, different tactic.

...

I revert to before we left the last two guys' robes, and switch into one of their purple ones.
"Why you switching robes?"
"Felt kinda itchy! I don't think it was washed!"
"Oh. Gross. You think that one will be?"
"Feels like it!" Then we do the rest of the stuff the same, and I read more.
I read that The Sen's original monastery trained warrior monks, not those super peaceful type ones. They followed a small selection of deities, and The S was a follower of Gaam The Upright before he changed.
And then!
"The hell are you doing? Are you assholes trying to get across the puzzle without... me?" The Gnoll steps out from around the corner ahead! " Hey, the party doesn't start for a few more hours. Shoo." They shoo me backward.

Hey, that's different! Now what...?

Ask if you can help out. It's gotta be perfect, right?

Also Glinp your memory's getting mixed up. He didn't swing the club at you when you were wearing the purple robe!

>>877935
Hey, nice dodge! See if you can help him out. You would love to be more helpful!

Suggestion 2018/04/08(Sun)15:38 No. 877941 ID: 6a4a75

It might require a certain combination. In which case, maybe you could fight the gnoll and and make them tell you, but there's an angle left you can play. Just get to about the point they noticed you last time, then let out a bloodcurdling scream, have your arm detach and flop down to the ground, twitching about. Tell the gnoll something like a wraith flew past and cut your arm off, heading for the dining hall. Say you were running from it because it was killing everybody else, leaving bloodless wounds. Maybe it's some kind of adventurer? That should help explain why you're not bleeding everywhere.

>>877941

Notice how it yelled 'intruderrrs' when it saw through the disguise the first time? It's safe to say that someone's within earshot, so any plan that leads to yelling or loud scuffling is probably going to alert the next line of defense. A silent takedown or another round of trickery would be preferable.

First, though, try getting some intel. Maybe you can even get them distracted or get past through guile.

"But we're getting borrred here. Can't you give us something useful to do? We had the bright idea that we could volunteer to help set up the banquet, maybe?"

>>877942

Actually, maybe in the spirit of this martial temple, and if this gnoll is gnoll-bored from standing guard, they'd accept a friendly wager? A wrestling match with your buddy! First to get stuck in a submission hold loses, and if Ro wins, the gnoll will owe you both a friendly favor, like an answer to a question or a cool fact about the boss. If Ro loses, you'll, uh, give him like 100 - 200 - 300 krel (pick whichever seem to intrigue him the most without blowing your cover as poor cultists). Yeah, that'd make it exciting!

Obviously, if you can KO 'em or get 'em into a submission hold you can go on to interrogate 'em, threaten 'em, KO 'em or do whatever. You'd probably want to move a bit away from where anyone can hear 'em though, so you'll have to have something ready to muzzle them with.

Glinp how come you can't rewind to before your village got attacked, and just evacuate or whatever?

Glinp 2018/04/09(Mon)16:28 No. 878073 ID: 7fd053
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>>878029
I DID use my time powers, back then. It took multiple reversions before my village came out victorious from Zorgonok's attack! I could go back and try again, but that'd change all kinds of stuff and I don't want to redo all the friend-making and stuff I've done since then!

>>877937
>>877940
>>877942
"Can't we help out? We're boooored!"
"No! They've got enough help over there! An' if they don't, they'll ask!"
"OK, but aren't you bored too?" They roll their shoulders.
"Yeah?"
"Then how's about a friendly wager?"
"Mmm." They screw up their face for a second. "I'm listening."
"You seem big and strong! How about a wrestling match with my buddy! First to get stuck in a submission hold loses, and if he wins, you'll owe us a friendly favor, like an answer to a question or a cool fact about the boss. If Ro loses, we'll give you... 100 krel."
"Hmmmmmh... HEY YOU, GET OVER HERE! JUST STOP BEFORE YOU REACH THE FISTS!" They yell over to Ro. "And you, c'mere outta the way of the fists." I step forward. We wait for Ro to get close. I guess while we're waitin'...
"Hey, do you know what kind of plants grow in here? I think I saw some rare ones but I'm not sure 'cause I haven't seen 'em in person before, but I wasn't sure..."
"Nah, I'm no what'chacallit, plant expert." Rats. I spotted something that might be a Moso's Mat plant, which would be neat if that's what it was...
>-kchoom!-
The fists slam together. There's Ro, safe behind 'em.
"A Shadow, huh? Alright wiseguy, you think I'm stupid because I'm a Gnoll, huh? I know those guys can shapeshift! Get your asses back on the other end of the hall!"
Dammit...

>>877941

...

"The hell are you doing? Are you assholes trying to get across the-"
"AAAAAH!" I drop one arm and grab the shoulder with the other hand and fall over.
"What the fuck happened!?"
"What! Rrgh..."
"Some kinda wraith thing! Flew past and cut my arm off! I think it was headed for the dining hall! I was runnin' 'cause it was killin' the others, leaving bloodless wounds! It mighta been an adventurer??" The Gnoll summons their club and gets real wary.
"Shit, what do we do... INTRUDERRRR!" Then they call to Ro. "HEY YOU, GET OVER HERE! JUST STOP BEFORE YOU REACH THE FISTS!"
"Yeah we need you!" Ro dashes toward us.
"We gotta make sure the others know... Damn, this is bad! Did they get Terry?"

This avenue looks promising! How do I travel it?

Tell the gnoll that Terry is one of the dead, you just ran past a bunch of corpses and robes with no bodies to get here. You think the adventurer's alone and is a sneaky sort, so if you gang up on them you should be able to take 'em out. If it works, be sure to retrieve your arm, telling the gnoll it was your favorite one and you have trouble letting go of things sometimes if they express confusion as to why you're bringing it.

>>878073
Time to apply the ham.
"The Fox lady? Yeah.. I heard heard explosions then she was gone.. Help us out of here! We should regroup with the others or something! This feels so wrong..!" Rub your shoulder painfully.

>>878073
who is dornol the black?

>>878165
That's the deity Glinp worships.

Glinp 2018/04/11(Wed)15:38 No. 878343 ID: 7fd053
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>>878165
Dolnar's my and Miko's primary deity that we follow! He's a god of one-person armies, protecting the people you care about, and revenge on those who've wronged them or you. And that kinda stuff. He doesn't do the protecting and the avenging, you draw strength from him so you can do it.

>>878075
>>878133
"The Fox lady? Yeah, the adventurer got 'er! Heard explosions, then she was gone... Help us out here! We ran past a bunch of corpses and robes with no bodies on the way over!" I rub my shoulder and groan. "But I think he's workin' alone, and if we can gang up on 'im, we should be able to take 'im out..."
>kchoom!-
Ro's here!
"Step through, quick!" She motions him past the retreating fists. Then another cultist arrives! Uh-oh, it's a turquoise robe! A high-ranking Cutebold?! Well I guess it's not THAT weird...
"What? An intruder?"
"Some kinda weird wraith adventurer hackin' us up," says the Gnoll, pointing to my 'severed' arm. "I haven't seen it myself, but this poor bastard's gone and got his arm cut off..." I pick up my arm.
"We should not tell Letiel. She will get super angry! Do you know where it went?"
"The... Dining hall, I think?" They cast a spell to communicate with the Dining Hall!
"Hey, Srabagapalgus. Something up?" It's a moth Bugfolk!
"We believe an intruder is headed your way. Some kind of... wraith adventurer? That can cut off limbs without causing blood."
"What theee hell... I'll let everyone know."
"Good. I will keep this spell up." Then the Gnoll speaks up.
"Hey, how about some protection over here?"
"Yes right, of course." The Cutebold casts a few protective spells on everyone here! "Now wait, if it is a wraith..." They take out some chalk and start drawing up a spell! "This should capture it! Ha!"
>-poof!-
But since there IS no wraith... nothin' happens! The Cutebold pauses, and with those whiteless, wall-eyed eyes, I can't tell if they're thinkin' or short circuiting. "Could I have done it wrong? No, it must not be a wraith after all... Can you describe what it looked like? And whatever it is, why has it not reappeared..."

Well shit, is this 'bold some kinda ghost expert? No wonder they got that kinda status. Well uh... what do I tell 'em? Hehe.

Admit you didn't get a good look at them, but they had a tattered coat or cloak and were kind of see-through. The sword they had seemed kind of see through as well. You didn't see their face and they kind of bounced from one side of the corridor to the other. Maybe they were actually under some sort of spell? Posit that if the intruder can use magic, they might be able to go invisible or disguise themselves, and then you'd really be in trouble.

>>878343
"Yeah, it looked kinda like this!" Chuck your arm at the bold and psy-beam the gnoll IN THE FACE. Buffs or not, it will make an opening for Ro to attack.

>>878343
have your other arm fall off and scream bloody murder so loud the cult leader sends someone to check

>>878343
toss your head at them as a distraction! the rest of your body is more important, right?

I don’t know what to say or do to get past these guys.
It would be a shame to go loud without any more information about what’s coming next.

That being said:

Try reverting and throwing a bomb (or two) where the gnoll and such shows up, preferably on the ceiling where they can’t see it.
Then do the wraith thing again.
This way, if you can’t get out of it, you can at least kill or maim the Gnoll and/or the magic cutebold.

As morbid as it sounds, if you can somehow hide it right below where the gnoll goes to squat, it might silence the blast enough to not alert any others. (And maybe protect you, although you could just disguise right after you detonate it)

Aside from that, you or Ro could trip them with your trip gun right after you scream bloody murder to help sell the Gnoll on Invisible Intruders .
I mean they are just around the corner.

"Well, I was, uh, hiding in the dorms, I just heard someone say wraith."
If the arm thing could be passed off as delayed, you could even say you tried to open the door to peek out but suddenly felt like something hit your arm and pulled the door shut again.

Glinp 2018/04/13(Fri)17:07 No. 878626 ID: 7fd053
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>>878447
Nope!

>>878354
Psi-beam oughtta blow through the Gnoll's face and then some! It's got some serious pow pow power! But my violent urges seem to be outweighed again this time, if only by a little...

>>878525
The Gnoll was already too close for me to toss any sticky bombs here without bein' noticed, and I like the Trip Gun idea, so I'll see if I have a chance to use that.

>>878353
"I didn't get the best look at 'em, 'cause they were bouncing from one side of the corridor to the other, but they had a tattered coat and were kindof see-through. Oh yeah, the sword they use, it looks kind of see-through too. Maybe they were under a spell?"
"Could it be one of Letiel's spells gone awry somehow?"
"H-hey, is it alright to say that...?"
"Noted," says the Bugfolk, who can still see and hear us through Srabagapalgus' spell.
"If they can use magic, maybe they can go invisible, or disguise themself! Then we'd really be in trouble!"
"Let's not get ahead of ours-"

>>878384
I drop off my other arm and start SCREAMIN'!
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" Srabagapalgus jumps up into the Gnoll’s arms and looks at my fallen one!
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" The Gnoll looks shocked and joins in!
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" The bugfolk in the Dining hall!
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" Ro!
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" Oh my god this is the loudest fucking shit, I did not expect them all to start screamin' like that!! They all went off within like a second of me doin' it!
"BE QUIIIEEET!!" It's a booming voice! A serious-faced, dark-robed Lian that can only be Reti comes around the corner and slams his fist on the wall! That shuts us all up. He looks at my arms and points! "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
Oh gods, help

I'm going to fucking lose my shit

>>878626
Run past the lian

Continue to scream a little, look at your sides in shock and dismay. Maybe you can get them to take you to a healer if they got one?

Ok here is what you got to do.


Step 1: Start waving your stumps around and screaming like you just noticed them.

Step 2: Start moving your detached arms on the ground. Have them come to life and start grabbing at people. Start screaming at that sight.

Step 3: More screaming maybe?

Lose your shit

Wait here is more!

Step 4: Scream that your arms are possessed and thirst for the blood of the living!

Step 5: Have the arms lung at people.

Step 6: Watch them all run away in different directions.

Step 7: Continue panic spree to get farther in temple.

>>878626
>Oh gods, help
>I'm going to fucking lose my shit
Don’t start laughing! That’ll give away that you’re screwing with them!

Just start yelling, “WHY ME?!?! WHAT THE FUCK DID I EVER DO TO YOU?!?! YOU STUPID FU-“, start making choking and gasping noises, then have your head fall off your shoulders, with your body falling to the ground a second later. Let’s see how everyone reacts to you being “killed” by this “invisible adventurer” that’s supposed to be here.

>>878637
>Step 6: Watch them all run away in different directions.
I’m pretty sure they’ll just attack the arms instead of running.

>>878651
>Don’t start laughing! That’ll give away that you’re screwing with them!
Well, maybe that would be a good thing? The girl with the book said they had to do evil stuff, maybe they'd totally love a prank. Like, "Holy shit! I can't believe I got you all with that!" and then get your arms back on.

"MEDIC!"

>>878637
Step 6: Scream "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!".

Step 7: Watch them all run away in different directions.

Step 8: Continue panic spree to get farther in temple.

>>878657
Revealing that this is a prank sounds like an invitation for the gnoll to kick our ass for screwing around on the leader’s very important day!

>>878626

If you do have to laugh, try and make it seem as though you're in hysterics over the "loss" of your arms.

>>878720
You think so?
>"OK, but aren't you bored too?" They roll their shoulders.
>"Yeah?"
>"Then how's about a friendly wager?"
>"Mmm." They screw up their face for a second. "I'm listening."
She seemed interested in the idea of some quick fun. I think a prank would be right up her alley.

>>878776
not with the lian and the cutebold here now

>>878804
There may be some trouble involved if they don't like it, but some risks are worth taking, especially when you can just revert if things go bad. Personally, I think that this would be worthy, that's all there is to it.

Glinp 2018/04/15(Sun)15:29 No. 878935 ID: 7fd053
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>Tell them it's just a prank, bro
I start laughin' my ass off and rollin' on the floor 'cause it's too much!
"Uhhhrrrr..." Reti stops screaming.
(cough, ahem) "Wwwhat is so funny?" He starts to look serious again.
"Hohohah, it was a praank I got you good! Ehehehe"
"A... A prank?"
"You TRICKED us?" They (I don't know why I thought 'she' earlier, I actually don't know still!) start to almost laugh but then looking at Reti makes them not laugh. "How?"
"Hee hee~" I roll so my arms reattach, and then wiggle my hands up in the air. "Ta-daa~"
"What? I can't see!"
"You're modular?" He squints. Ro looks concerned. "And you're a lizardfolk? You, a purple robe? That is not possible! YOU'RE an intruder!" He beats a fist against his other hand and the other cultists look a lot more menacing than they did a moment ago!
OK, bad plan.

>>878651
>>878721
>>878683
I'll go back to before I started laughin'.

...

I look at my shoulders and my arms on the ground.
"Ohohoh, why meeeheheheee!" I fall to my knees. "This can't bHYECK... ghlk..." I drop my head off and let it fall to the ground before my body follows. Reti was still screamin', and now everyone else goes back to it!
"GET AWAY FROM MEEE!" He runs back the way he came.
"Get outta my way!" The Gnoll carries the cutebold over their head as they follow.
"Aw fuck." The spell closes.
"Hahahahah... Oh man..."
"Hehehehe~" Ro jumps a little.
"Pull yourself together, it's creepy when you're laughing and you're... like that." I reassemble myself. "So what now? Follow 'em...?" He scratches his head. "They'll definitely know something's up if we just show up..."

Ok I will look like a backpack or something easily to carry. Then you put me on and run the direction they came.

Then you pretend to be a normal cultist afraid of the invisible monster. Follow after the others that just ran for it and we used the confusion to get closer to the artifact.

>>878935
have Ro run after them while you follow from further behind

>>878935
Turning into an object would definitely let you follow Ro towards the fleeing cultists.

You could use the pickaxe to disguise yourself, or see what the disguise power does for you. Now is the time to covertly see what they'll do, Ro can change shape and possibly robes to give himself a new appearance.

I mean, it is a bit dangerous, but maybe Ro would like to take the shape of this "Adventurer"?

>>878935
>Told them it was a prank.
>They easily discover we’re intruders and prepare to attack.
Yeah, I knew that was going to happen.

>”So what now? Follow 'em...?" He scratches his head. "They'll definitely know something's up if we just show up..."
“They’ll only know something’s up if both of us show up. But I’m ‘dead’ remember? If you show up, they’ll just believe that you’re running from whatever ‘killed’ me. I’ll turn into an inanimate object and you just need to carry me with you when you go follow them.”

>>878937
>Ok I will look like a backpack or something easily to carry. Then you put me on and run the direction they came.
There’s a problem with that plan. Glinp can’t control what he turns into when he uses his power to turn into an inanimate object.

So Glinp is just going to have to keep activating his power until he turns into something that Ro can easily carry.

>>878945
>Yeah, I knew that was going to happen.
Hey, good to get the laughs out of the system.
These guys have a seriously stupid sense of "Perfection in recruits," though. Especially considering the higher ups immediately call you out as being an intruder but don't recognize the names of the real recruits here. Do you think they just have a high recruit mortality rate, killing them for breaking rules they didn't know, or do you think those first few guys were actually intruders themselves? Maybe that's why that second guy was fully dressed.

>"So what now? Follow 'em...?" He scratches his head. "They'll definitely know something's up if we just show up..."
Yeah, let's go back and check out the other paths.

>>878935
Let's just leave our robes on the ground and go in a different direction. Make them think you were taken completely. I don't think there's any way you can disguise yourself as a backpack around here, So your best bet is equiping the pickaxe using that as a disguise!

Glinp 2018/04/16(Mon)16:42 No. 879123 ID: 7fd053
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>Try the Disguise power
"I'll turn into an object, and if it's inconspicuous, you can carry me and run after 'em."
"And I just got lucky and didn't lose any arms? Ah, maybe I can shift away my hand or somethin'..." He concentrates and one of his hands melts into its wrist. "If we're lucky, the puzzle in the next area won't have reset by the time we get through."
"Yeah that might get tricky huh... Well, here goes!" I turn into a hunk of rock. Convenient!
"Weird..." He picks me up and looks real close. "If this ain't you, then tough." He pockets me and starts runnin'.
"True pugilists, welccccome! Pacifists will never MAke it to thhhhee end."
"That is the lamest... (yawn) oh shit Glinp I'm getting rrreally... tired..." He tries to turn back but he doesn't make it before he falls asleep!
>-thumple-
My transformed state, my mind-control immunity, or even the fact that I'm out of sight might be what's protecting me. I transform inside his pocket and rip a giant hole in his robe! Well, it wasn't the mind powers! I'm fallin' asleep! I manage to run to the end, just to see if I can. I can! And there's the three cultists!
"HWAAAGH!" They punt me back!
"OOFfffhhh"

>Check out the other paths
>Use pickaxe as disguise

...

I revert to a minute ago, before I suggested the inanimate disguise thing.
"Let's let those guys stew for a while, and head back and check out the other paths."
"Yeah, we can't count on those guys to lead us through the next puzzle huh..." I don the pickaxe and become a Dwarf, and then we walk alll the way back. I use up two more sticky bombs on the way. Once we get back to the entrance, I pick the middle path. Almost immediately, it forks off to the right, where there's a big ol' pit. On the other side of the pit, there's more passageways. Ahead of us, continuing straight instead of turning to the pit, there's a corner turning to the left. I don't hear anything from either direction.

Do I revert and try to solve the sleep puzzle?
Do I keep goin' while those cultist guys flail around totally unsuspectin'? If so, do we go forward or to the right?

Let's try going forward. As far as the sleep puzzle goes there are two possibilities that come to mind:

1. The puzzle checks to see if you've beat up X dudes in the temple and puts you to sleep if you haven't.
2. Keep punching yourself or each other to stave off the sleepiness.

In the first case, you might as well get punch-drunk with one of the cultists back here. In the second case, you can solve it at any time, but it might be better if three powerful culties weren't grouped together like that.

As far as future solutions go, dwarven mining powers would let ypu make a walkway around the edge of the pit if you can't cross it some other way (super jumping might work, but what of Ro? If he's super light, maybe he could hitch a ride on you).

>>879127
The pickaxe doesn't imbue him with any super-mining power, he still mines at a standard rate, which would take forever to make a path out of hard stone. More useful for busting a big boulder into smaller bits if it's in the way of a tunnel or something.
Unless you want to make a rope out of the robes to form a bridge across the pit, I'd say just check out the third path, where it turns to the left.

>>879123
The sleep puzzle seems to be directly negating our approach to this mission. We can't be a pacifist. You need to beat someone up with your fists.

Hmm...

Maybe see if ro can shapeshifter into something that can hurl your rock form across the trap.
At the very least you can see what’s all over there before reverting.
Maybe even a way to negate the trap.

Glinp 2018/04/18(Wed)15:27 No. 879391 ID: 7fd053
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>Go right...?
"I can jump across easy. What about you?"
"Yeah, I can get across." He takes a few steps back, turns his legs super strong, sprouts WINGS, and dashes over, leapin' and glidin' across! "How'd you like THAT?" I clap!
"Whoo!" I run across and
>-pchoing!-
"Waaaah!" I land! "Ta-da~"
"Great. Let's see what we've got." There's a hall, with three doorways. The middle door is open. Ro throws open the right door, which is closest to us. "HM! Oh." It's a supply closet! There's nothin' in there anymore. "Huh." He closes it.
"Let's see what's in here!" I walk into the middle room. It's got a tidied bed and a desk. But Ro bumps into a forcefield!
"Ow! What?" I look around.
"I think... this is Letiel's room! But wait, you can't get in...?" Ro pokes the barrier.
"Yeah, what, it's got an anti-undead field? Is that what this is?"
"Yeah, maybe, I dunno. Check this out, there's spell research open on the desk! And a disassembled Life spell bullet! Or maybe she was still assembling it?"
"Neat... Guess I'll check out the other room." He throws up his hands. Poor guy!
"'K! Ooh this bullet looks complete..." I load it into my caster gun. Looks like it works! Dunno what it does, though. Hey, this room has a view! A barred window that looks out into a courtyard. I wonder how you get out there. Not that it looks like there's anything there besides overgrown rocks.
"It's just a bathroom. You need to use it? 'cause I do."
"Mmmmnah." He goes and uses it. I locate 36 krels in a drawer!
"Least I got SOME use outta this detour."
"Got 36 krels too!"
"Oh yeah, that's good." His mood seems a LITTLE better. We go back across the pit, since there's nothin' else over here. Around the corner lies another PUZZLE.

"Would you rather be punched once by a very LARGE. FIIIIIIIST! Or, would you rather be punched many times, by smaller fists? Step foOrwArd and choose the appropriate floor tile."
The path is closed, but there are two large floor tiles. On the left, there is one large fist. On the right, there are smaller fists. I take a step and a stone wall falls between me and Ro! "One at a time, please."

Gee! Well, which one do I prefer?

Wonder if that bullet would give life energy, effectively healing its target, or restore life to it, reviving it or making it undead?

Wild speculation aside, choose the many small fists option. You've been down the road of being punched by a big fist. This seems more pseudo-monastic... Kinda.

Many smalls. The temple has been about avoiding big fists, or small fists being the answer (as was punching the one fists trap)

>>879391
Once by a large fist, you can block it better that way.

Whichever way of the fist you choose, I recommend using the disguise ability and or the puzzle piece to defend yourself.

Or you could mine a chunk or chunks of rock with the pickaxe and see if you can fake the trap out.

I wonder if dispel works on those barriers?

shoot the bullet, then revert to the question and take big fist.

Glinp 2018/04/20(Fri)16:17 No. 879680 ID: 7fd053
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>>879462
I fire the spell bullet at the wall behind me!
>-pzherkackclickclok!-
Wow! It's a Summon Skeleton bullet! I have a skeleton of my very own to do my bidding! That's keen!

...

And now I didn't fire the spell bullet. I should save that for later!

>Small fists? And Disguise!
I turn into a rock and fall onto the "many small fists" panel. A ton of... darts shoot over my head?? W...wait... are these...? I turn back and pick one up to get a close look. they're tiny poison-tipped fist-darts. Tricky!
"If you are alive, scoot." The wall in front rises, and the one behind me starts to push forward. It speeds up, and eventually it ends up in the spot where the front wall was, so I'm in the next hallway past the puzzle! The fist darts fall into a small hole on the ground. So now I gotta wait for Ro! And I can't warn him about the poison! I don't hear him through the wall while he goes through it, and then he's dead when it lifts and the new one cycles in, pushing his corpse into the hallway with me. Eugh. He's like, losing his shape and evaporating.

That ain't cool!
...I... kind of want to taste it... since I'm gonna revert anyway...
"Plagh??"
OK that was a real good idea. Now, it's time for a completely different idea.

...

>big fist?? And Disguise!
I revert so I can transform into another rock, and fall on the big fist panel this time. I get bashed REAL hard! So hard I break into multiple pieces!
"If you are alive, scoot." I turn back and I'm so disoriented I don't know which way is up!
But if I didn't switch, I'd fall into the crevice that the fist darts are supposed to fall into. Instead, I just get my foot kind of stuck in there when the wall pushes me out. I count myself lucky that the wall doesn't slide over that opening, so it didn't annihilate my foot in half.

Now, how do I warn Ro about the trap?

>>879680

Is eating other bipeds a thing you're used to doing? Just curious!

You can use the pickaxe to carve a message into the floor, maybe "GET LOW" by the dart trap one so he can do what you did?

>>879680
Try going back to before the wall separates you and Ro. Then point out the tiny holes in the walls where the tiny fist darts are supposed to come out from and tell him, “That looks like a poison dart trap. What an overused cliché!”

If you can manage it, then try grabbing some of the darts for you to use.

>>879729
Yeah check for signs of darts and point out that you two should stick low to the ground and walls if you go with the small fists.

When you're back at the bedroom/bathroom area, say you wanna take a break, and talk about whether it's better to go for one big fist punching you or a bunch of small ones. Maybe people with smaller fists will try to cheat and use some kind of extra weapon or something, though, so you might have to really focus on dodging or shielding against them.

Glinp 2018/04/21(Sat)15:51 No. 879832 ID: 7fd053
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>>879681
This was just a lick, but yeah eating other bipeds isn't against any of the deities I associate with. I don't go outta my way for it or anything.
The pickaxe... hmm. It's not precise enough for something like that. Maybe if the floor had more room.

>>879729
>>879732

...

I revert to just after the hint thing. "Hey, lookit that. Those sure look more like holes for tiny poison darts to come out of, don't they!"
"Nah. In fact, I'm thinkin' I'll pick that one. Poisoned fist darts?" He gestures dismissively. "That would be ridiculous." Dammit!

>>879788
That seems waaay too suspicious...

I'm gonna need to think of somethin' else to get this stubborn Shark through here ali... uh, in one piece.

Bet him 20 krels that he can't press the button while lying flat on it.

Then hope he actually can!

>>879832
>”Hey, lookit that. Those sure look more like holes for tiny poison darts to come out of, don't they!”
>”Nah. In fact, I'm thinkin' I'll pick that one. Poisoned fist darts?” He gestures dismissively. "That would be ridiculous."
Wait, how does he know they’re fist shaped? You only said they were poison darts, you never said anything about them being fist shaped!

>>879832
Could we perhaps use an explosion round to bust through the wall and simply run through? That seems more up Ro's alley.

Hey, maybe that gap collects and recycles the darts.
Try picking them up or moving them away somehow.

Either that or bet Ro he couldn’t take on a BIG FIST.

Glinp 2018/04/22(Sun)15:58 No. 880042 ID: 7fd053
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>>879841
The choice was described as between different types of getting punched, and the markings on the two panels also show one fist or many small ones.

>>879835
It's no good... the dart holes go too low. He'd get nicked for sure!

>>880026
"I'll bet you couldn't take the huge fist! Not even for 20 krels!"
"Get outta here with that crap..."

I try going first again, and this time I grab the darts! Hah!...
But it's no good. He comes through dead again. The darts might be gettin' recycled, but there must be more than one volley in the trap. Figures!

>>879850
It's a pretty big spell to use for something like that, but... I can give it a try!

...

Back to after the voice gave us a choice, I load the spell.
"Y'know what, I got a better idea. I'll blast us through! You better stand back!"
"Seriously? Uh, sure."
"Maybe around the corner... actually why don't you just uh, go back near the entrance?"
"What the fuck spell are you using??"
"Just Explosion, but I'm not sure how big it's gonna be."
"Guess if you're not gonna use it on people, might as well use it on this kind of obstacle. Okay, I'll back up..." He backs up to the wall past the fork, facing down the hall, and leans on it. I back up as far as I can, which isn't too far, and let 'er rip!
>-Ka-fuckin'-BLAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMM!-
I turn into a rock just after firing! Amazingly, I don't go deaf or hurt my ears! Wow! This is a better power than I figured!
"What the absolute CRAP!" I hear someone comin'! Ooh, it's a bunch of people! Can't tell how many. I got flung back down the hall a ways. Ro's lookin' panicked! Maybe he's not sure if I got exploded. I'm not distinguishable from the rubble that's here now. Hey, there's some pieces from the trap mechanisms. I think that mighta been overkill? On the other hand, it did solve the problem!
The first cultist to get through is a blue-robed Ferretfolk! "The trap exploded...?" Ooh where did Ro go! I don't see him.
"Or someone exploded it." Another of those cute guys I don't know the species of! The ferret goes right past me. Sounds like there's more guys comin', too.

What to do about 'em?
Or do I try to figure out another way to get Ro through without exploding anything?

>>880042
Ro won't survive the big fist either I think. You'd have to either sneak him through like in that hole the darts go into, or bypass the trap like this.

How about you un-disguise and ambush one of these poor fucks? Give them some fists of your own.

Ro can hide in shadows, that's probably what he's doing. Wait and see if you can co-ordinate an ambush with hin if he attacks.

I like the idea of the explosion spell being used on dudes, but this may be the best option. Only other idea that comes to mind is to revert and tell Ro that with all the big fist traps in this place they probably have one that's a bait and switch, where it's a big fist that does way less damage than whatever other option there is.

>>880042
revert back to when you were telling Ro to stand back add if people come lets say the ghost intruder found a gun and explosive bullets

>>880067
say he is killing everyone he sees above purple robe quick save yourselves!

>>880042
Surprise electrical spear up the ass!

>>880067
>>880068
Nah, let’s just start killing these guys!

>>880042
L o n g b o i
dang that was a hell of a wallop
Let them pass and let's follow close behind them (disguised as a dorf) and find Ro!

Glinp 2018/04/23(Mon)16:34 No. 880283 ID: 7fd053
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I'm totally sure there's a more smarter way I can get us through this trap, but whatevs! I can kick myself for not thinkin' of it, later.

>>880060
Oh yeah, he could be doin' the hiding thing.

>>880067
>>880068

...

I revert to before the explosion and tell Ro to act like the ghost did it, and it's killing everyone above purple robes.
And then it's Kaboom again!

>>880044
>>880083
>>880180
I turn into me, then into a dwarf, and take a jab at the Ferretfolk with my spear! Ro materialises in front of 'em, lookin' ready for a bite!
"H-whoa! Excuse me?!" They jump up to the ceiling and scurry back the other way! Haha, that's kinda neat! Ro's bite misses too. Aaaaand I hit him with the charged spear! Shit!
"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" He reels back! Luckily it was a glancing blow, but he's weak to electricity so it's still not too good! "Motherfuckerrrr!"
"OK um I'm gonna just go!" He retreats at high speed, but bumps into a Lian!
"Where you goin'?" A Lian with a boxing glove on his tail! With the Ferretfolk behind!

Now is the time to strike, while they're all discombobulated. Aim for the Lian's legs, call out to Ro to go high. If you can take this one out sweeping up the rest will be a cakewalk.

>>880283
>I'm totally sure there's a more smarter way I can get us through this trap
Maybe if you gave him the stone tile to use as a shield. Can he compact far enough for that to work?

>>880283
Wait, can Ro avoid damage if he's hiding? We could try telling him to be ready to hide to avoid any fist related pain in the obvious trap room.

Glinp 2018/04/25(Wed)15:49 No. 880692 ID: 7fd053
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>>880637
Nope, he can just hide real good.

>>880286
"Ro, go high!" I tackle the Lian's legs and get a pummeling from his tail! Owies! I use the pickaxe to hobble him and he falls over on me.
"Gyaaaaah!"
"Grrr!" Ro bashes the purple-robe guy onto the Lian and now I got two people on top of me! And one of 'em's bleedin'!

>>880291

...

I revert to the same place as before, again, and suggest to Ro that he tries out my super tough puzzle piece from the volcano, and shrinks to be less of a target.
"Yeah sure, whatever. I'll try it." He goes through, then I go through.
When I get out, he's still alive! But he got slightly poisoned!
"Blocked all but one," he says. "I don't think I'll die from it, but you were right. Fuckin' poisoned fists. Goooo figure. Ugh..." He looks a little unwell, but if it doesn't get worse, he should be able to fight off those guys that are coming around the corner now..

Do I continue this way, with a poisoned partner? If so, what do we do about this Ferretfolk, Lian, and other guy?
Can I think of something that might get Ro through without being poisoned at all?
Or do I go back to when I used the Explosion and keep going with that one? And if so, what to do there?

Wait a minute. You got this. Revert and give Ro the caster gun with the holy skeleton bullet loaded, tell him to have it trigger the floor trap while he stays in the corner. Then, even if this poison somehow works on an animate set of bones he'll be fine. Explain you can avoid all the damage with your disguise and you figure this is one of those false choices where they're gonna fuck you up either way.

>>880692
We continue on the poison route and ask the ferretfolk (as a dwarf) what to do since this guy (Ro) got poisoned while fleeing the wraith adventurer!

Lets use Ro as an alibi and go around looking for the anti poison!

Glinp 2018/04/27(Fri)17:25 No. 881172 ID: 7fd053
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>>880696
It's not a holy skeleton, just a regular one! Probably unholy, actually. I don't think it'd be very good at blocking the darts, either.

>Continue with poisoned Ro, pretending the wraith got him
"Hey, help! The wraith poisoned my pal!"
"The wraith? You mean the one that's been chopping people up and eating the bodies?" Asks the Ferretfolk.
"Yeah, that one! We got any anti-poison stuff around?" He turns around to boxing-glove-Lian and the other guy. They shake their heads.
"Not me," says the Lian.
"Someone around here has to..." It's pretty dark here. We continue into the next chamber, which has a bunch of pillars and has spooky torchlighting.
"So he's using poison now? What's with that? Are you sure you didn't just get poisoned by the trap you just went through?" The Lian continues.
"Tch! I'd be dead if I pressed the wrong panel in there. C'mon."
"Hmm. Yeah, that's true. Well, you can sit here with us and wait it out. Maybe this wraith'll leave us alone." There's ANOTHER guy here, a blue-robed moth Bugfolk. They wave and I wave back. Ro groans and looks unhappy at me.

This won't do. We can't just sit here! How can we persuade these guys to let us pass through?

>>881172
"hey blue robe do you know where some antidote is!?"

>>881172
Tell them that waiting it out might not be an option for an unknown poison! Start going on ahead and hope they don't try and stop you. If they ask, tell them you're going to see if anyone up ahead has a cure.

Say the wraith stabbed Ro and then went into a wall. If it can see through them, it might be able to just pick you off one by one.

If that doesn't work, try dropping your tail off this time and screaming "It's here! IT'S HERE!"

Look, man! We gotta find the antidote!

now run past with Ro like your butt's on fire!

Glinp 2018/04/28(Sat)17:51 No. 881390 ID: 7fd053
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>>881192
"Ergh... Seriously? What if the poison kills me while we're waiting? Ggh." He starts tryin' to go forward. The Lian gets in our way!
"Hey hey! Stop right there!"
"The wraith stabbed 'im and went into a wall. If it can see through them, we're sitting ducks!" I try to get around him.
"Wait a minute, you two! How're YOU guys purple robes?"

>>881208
The fake wraith trick MIGHT work twice, but if it does, I don't think it'll work after this! Ferretfolk looks like they're about to say something, but then I talk instead.
"Oh, yeah, it's because-GHK!" I drop off a piece of my tail, jump a bit, and then look dramatically back at it.
"Hey, what happened to your tail??" Asks the Lian! I repeat a few times, farther up my tail, and run for the exit ahead!
"Yi-yi-yi-yi! LEMME OUTTA HERE IT'S THE WRAITH! AAAAAH!"
"Quick, we need to do the secret handshake!" Says the Ferretfolk! Here, grab your tail if you want, and I'll show you!" I start pickin' up my tail, and they help, and then they and take me around the corner to the next puzzle. "It's like this!" They try to show me, but then the Mothfolk comes up before we finish.
"Come on, just do it with me! Don't bother teaching them!" They do it super fast and the door opens and we all flood through! There's something on the right, but we go to the left instead.
"What's over there?"
"Dead end," answers the Lian. It looks like there's some statues over there, could be a puzzle? But we're movin' on. We pass another area on the left after that, but we turn right and meet up with another cultist! A Turquoise-robed Lazurek with a staff!
"Halt! Where are YOU all going?" She points the staff at us!
"I got poisoned by the wraith and then it attacked us."
"If we don't move, he'll get us for sure!" says the Ferretfolk.
"Silence! This is as far as you go. Let him come... I will deal with this 'wraith.' What color are the poisoned one's robes?"
"Purple," says the Lian.
"Purple!" She sniffs. "The undead one?"
"Yes, I was wondering ab-"
"Silence!" She shakes her staff at him, while facing Ro. "If I don't hear a damned good explanation for how YOU're a purple-robe, we're going to have a very big problem."

>>881390
We just started not long ago, what do you want from him? We're still new to a lot of this.

>>881390
"Isn't purple robe just the lowest rung on the ladder!? we just got here yesterday! and now ghosts are attacking and my best friend forever is poisoned, and people keep threatening us!"

He just woke up like that a couple days ago. Maybe some spell misfired and turned him into one? You didn't say anything because you didn't want to stir up trouble before the big banquet.

In all likelihood, they're gonna turn on you at this point. I suggest opening up with a fireball to the Lazurek's face.

Glinp 2018/04/29(Sun)17:54 No. 881621 ID: 7fd053
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>>881398
>>881404
"We just started not that long ago! We're still new to this. Now ghosts are attacking, and my bff is poisoned," Ro remains stony-faced when I say that, "and people keep threatening us!"
"What colour are YOUR robes?"
"Purple."
"You're both intruders. The rest of you, kill them." They start to close in! Purple robe guy doesn't look like he wants to do it.

>>881414
"He got turned after he joined!"
"I can believe that, but Lizardfolk don't just start out in purple." She approaches too, with her staff ready! I fireball her face! I fireball all their faces! "AAAH!"
"Whoa shit!" Says the Lian!
"Screeeeee!" says the Bugfolk!
"Yo look out for those fireballs, guys," says the Ferretfolk, who does a sweet leaning-back dodge!
Ro tackles the Lian and gets a taste of the tailpunching! But he cuts the guy's tail off!
The Bugfolk looks like they're gonna burn up, and the Lazurek has almost put out her own fire.

We surprised 'em pretty good, but nobody's totally down for the count yet, and now that they know I can blow fireballs, I don't have as many surprises! Meanwhile, there's gotta be a reason that Lazurek has such a high rank, and once the surprise wears off, the tides could turn...
What'll I do next?

Tell the Lazurek they're already dead, use your ultimate technique: Sticky bomb em and detonate.