Heretic 2019/03/20(Wed)17:12 No. 926540 ID: a451fc
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Your name is Roland Gallows Conroy, and you're getting pissed off. Yesterday you did a full day of training with Flint, the entire day was endless jogging, weight lifting, push-ups, sit-ups, and jumping jacks; and when you got home you were told that apparently that Naos, the masked stranger you met a few days ago, is in league with the gang chasing Troy around and may be dangerous. All of that on it's own isn't too bad on it's own really, you even got to record a new demon thanks to Troy and have it as a specimen. What's adding to you're frustration really, is Flint.

This asshole comes to your house demanding another round of training, this time boxing, and refuses to use his left hand after the first ten minutes. Along with that you're getting your ass absolutely handed to you while he's got one arm behind his back. You have an audience to your humiliation also, Vol, Troy, and Reagan watch you from the sidelines.

FLINT: C'mon Gallows, this is a boxing match not a tickle fight.

You haven't been able to get a single hit on him, he blocks every one of your attacks and seems to hit you twice as fast as you hit him. You're not allowed to use Caesura so that just makes the whole thing harder. This is a great start to a day, and the fight isn't even over yet.

>>926540
Try to hit him at the same time he hits you.

Suck it up.

Punch slower with your left fist so you can break his rhythm with your right.

Also sweep the leg.

Pretend like you're that famous martial arts guy and punch him in the hand when he tries to punch you with it.

...more seriously, what's with that loose guard? How are you supposed to block anything if somebody could drive a whole truck between your arms?

You need to not telegraph your punches then. Also your stance looks like shit. Both arms up, hands = roughly raised in front of the lower half of your face, spread slightly apart.

>>926540
>Flint came to Roland's house to train him more.
Hey, look on the bright side, if he came to you instead of you going to him, then that means he sees potential in you and wants to help you draw it out!

>Flint is only using one hand and is kicking Roland's ass
Think of it this way: if you can hit him or you force him to use both hands, then that's a victory!

>What do?
First of all, calm the fuck down! Getting frustrated leads to you getting careless and making mistakes.

With Flint not using one arm, he's wide open on that side, so that where you should be attacking! However, he knows that's what you're going to do, so he's not going to make it easy for you.

Also, fix your stance and get your hands up! You can't block anything with your guard wide open like that!

1/2 Heretic 2019/03/20(Wed)21:01 No. 926581 ID: a451fc
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>>926542
Your dad always told you there was no such thing as bad advice...then again he also told you the tooth fairy was real.

>>926541
Flint's attacks are much faster than yours are, you also can't tell when he's going to attack so predicting them is next to impossible unless you guess, and one wrong guess leaves you open for more attacks

>>926543
You give him a slower punch and then a quicker jab to try and break his rhythm. Flint blocks the first strike no problem, then ducks your second one just barely.

FLINT: Closer than before! Not too bad.

After he rises back up he immediately goes on the offensive giving you no time to attack his legs.

2/2 Heretic 2019/03/20(Wed)21:02 No. 926582 ID: a451fc
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>What's with that loose guard?
>Your stance looks like shit.

You tighten up your guard, and bring your hands to your face. Flint, without winding up are even rearing back that far, throws a lightning fast hook at you. With your higher guard you manage to block it, but can still feel the force of the attack in your hands.

FLINT: So more defending? I guess it makes sense coming from someone who prefers to make barriers. I assumed you'd be a little more used to fighting hand to hand, the way you form fists from your caesura. Then again maybe that was just a poor guess on my part.

Two jabs quick jabs are thrown your way. Your arms sting from blocking the attacks, Flints punches pack a power behind them that you can barely hold back.

FLINT: Aetherial aura's allow many to utilize abilities that tend to shape around ones personality, even without the magic from Vol I'm sure you would've made shields regardless, but I know there's more you can do.

Flint throws a hay-maker that knocks you back a few inches.

FLINT: It'd be easy to have a giant fist fight for you, but a more skilled opponent would easily be able to read it's movements since it'd probably be really slow, not to mention the bigger it is the less dense it is also. You can go ahead and use Caesura now, but remember that this is still boxing...

>>926582
Alright, time to start treating your caesuras like an extension of yourself. Toss out punches while simultaneously throwing out jabs with Caesura. Act like you've got three fists and you might do better.

Alternatively you could just trap him or his fist in a bubble and get a sneaky hit in like that, assuming he doesn't break out instantly.

>>926581
>You give him a slower punch and then a quicker jab to try and break his rhythm. Flint blocks the first strike no problem, then ducks your second one just barely.
Good, you almost hit him that time!

>>926582
He’s basically telling you that you’ll have more power if you use small Caesura Sharps instead of the big ones you’ve been doing.

>You can go ahead and use Caesura now, but remember that this is still boxing...
I think he’s telling you not to be cheap and try to trap him with your Caesura, since this is just boxing and not a fight for your life.

Well, if you follow his advice, using smaller, more dense Caesura Sharps will be better, so try to keep them the same size as your own hands.

Try doing that slower punch into a quick jab again. And when he ducks have a fist shaped Caesura Sharp do an upper cut right where he’s ducking!

>>926583
>Alright, time to start treating your caesuras like an extension of yourself. Toss out punches while simultaneously throwing out jabs with Caesura. Act like you've got three fists and you might do better.
Yeah, that also works.

>>926582
Make yourself Caesura power-fists. When you punch, a fist-sized caesura fist shoots out of your hand.

Try to have your Caesura fists act as an echo to your punches, following or leading them by just a fraction of a second.

1/4 Heretic 2019/03/21(Thu)00:37 No. 926622 ID: a451fc
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>>926583
From where you stand, you begin to throw small jabs at Flint knowing they won't connect or even be close to hitting him. Slowly, you approach him still tossing the small punches and keeping up your guard. Once you're close enough to actually touch him you make your move.

A slow left, a fast right, and a Caesura headed straight for his face.

2/4 Heretic 2019/03/21(Thu)00:37 No. 926623 ID: a451fc
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You see a glimmer of surprise on Flint's face, but he's not nervous about your attack

FLINT: Oh that's a fun way to use that...let's see how far you can go.

3/4 Heretic 2019/03/21(Thu)00:37 No. 926624 ID: a451fc
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Flint seems to go entirely on the defensive when your attack begins. At first you're slow, attempting to draw out a hit with your slow-fast combo along with some stronger attacks you can afford to wind up with a third hand, but as the fight drags on Flint throws punches back at you. You pick up the pace forcing Flint to not only block but dodge much more often too.

Your fists fly in a flurry, you begin to advance on Flint forcing him to slowly retreat backwards. When he gets used to your current pattern, you begin to ghost your punches with your Caesura to mix it up; You'll follow up a punch with Caesura strike in the same spot, or immediately Caesura after you punch. Your onslaught fueled by the cheering of Troy and Vol who notices the sudden shift in power. Then something clicks inside of you, it's like something was uncorked and your body begins to overflow with energy...

4/4 Heretic 2019/03/21(Thu)00:37 No. 926625 ID: a451fc
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Finally, amid all of the punches and dodging you see an opening. You bait Flint with the beginning of a slow-fast rhythm breaking combo. A slow left, then another, then you ghost a third slow left with a Caesura and throw a straight right at his face. He wasn't prepared, there's no way for him to dodge or block it...unless he uses his right hand.

Flint catches your punch and drops his guard entirely. A smile grows on his face, you don't think you've seen him smile.

FLINT: Congratulations Roland. If I was a one armed professional I would've been knocked out cold. How d'you feel now kid?

>>926625
>How d'you feel now kid?
“I feel like something just clicked inside of me, like something was uncorked and my body feels like it’s overflowing with energy. And it felt awesome!”

>>926625
Tell him you felt some kind of surge of power, is that Aetherial energy?

All right! You are starting to learn how to use your Aetherial power. With this, both your body and your your Ceasura will be more powerfull.
Ask him if there is a catch in using Aetherial energy. What do we do now? What is next?

>>926625
"I feel pretty good!"

Don't drop your guard yet, just in case he takes a swing at you to try and teach you to not drop your guard or something like that.

>>926625
I feel a powerful aura. Aura... Aura. Oura. Ora. Ora...?
>>926624
Ora ora ora ora ora ora ora!

I guess at this point you can start doing some underhand tactics with caesura. Fist from behind their head, back of the knees for unbalancing, nut shots, and whatnot.

Heretic 2019/03/21(Thu)18:31 No. 926736 ID: a451fc
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>>926690
The fight seems to be completely over, there's no need to keep defenses up. Flint has removed his boxing pad, and you remove your gloves and take a seat on a box nearby.

YOU: I feel...I...I don't know it feels like some sort of surge of power just ran through me! is this Aetherial aura?

Flint nods

FLINT: It is the first sparks of an aura yes. Guess taking another day of training after the last one was a good idea after all, I doubt this would've happened if we waited too long...This is a huge leap in your training. You've done very well so far kid, congratulations.
YOU: Okay...What's next? is there more to using an Aetherial aura?
FLINT: Now that you've managed to actually unlock your aura more of your training is going to involve meditation, focusing and strengthening your aura. There's a lot ahead of us but first give me your hand. The one with the sigil Vol gave is on.

You hold your hand out and Flint takes it, unwrapping your bandages to look closely at the demon rune that Vol etched into your skin.

FLINT:...Gallows, I'm going to erase this rune, sever your connection with Vol, and remove the demonic magic in your body. That includes your ability to use Caesura at all. You can say no to this, but if you do, not only will I cease training you, but you will never advance further in your skills. What do you say?

Uh. Sure.
But, I'm pretty sure I managed to piss off the gang chasing Troy.

I'll be a sitting duck without magic, I need to get through this part as quickly as possible.

You gonna be ok with seeing me that much more until then?

>>926736
...I'm willing to do it if that's what it takes, but if it involves Vol, he'll need to be part of the decision process.

>>926736

your friends. they are your friends. could you leave them alone like this? you need time to think to speak with Vol.

>>926736
Ask how he's going to remove it? He's not going to cut off your hand, is he?!

Why?

Heretic 2019/03/21(Thu)19:54 No. 926756 ID: a451fc
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>>926748
YOU: W-wait, why?
FLINT: A couple reasons. That rune let's you use Aether magic without too much effort, in short it's like training wheels for you. Sure as it stands you can expand on the efforts of the rune and create Caesura Sharp, alter permeability, or shield thickness, but beyond that it will stall you and hold you back. The rune is a set of instructions basically, the Barrier rune on your hand is to make a shield, so you make shields. Sure they may be oddly shaped at times, but still they're shields. You won't be able to act outside of the parameters of your instructions. Basically, you'll be stuck at your current strength until you remove it.
YOU: And what will I do without my rune? How will I make Caesura's without it?
FLINT: That's where your aura comes in, after some training you'll be able to make stronger, more specialized, Aether constructs. Along with the aid of the enhancement to your physique with the aura training, you'll be in a much better spot.

>Ask Vol about it
You and Flint call Vol over and tell him about what Flint wants to do.

VOL: W-what!? No! No! Dat's an awful idea! We got murders wit magic on our asses! I can't just let ya take away da best defense Roland's got!
FLINT: ...Vol are you aware of the range of your ability?
VOL: My music?
FLINT: No, the rune. If you get too far away from Roland it's going to stop working. The range is pretty decent, but in a serious circumstance where the two of you can't meet back up in time it could be bad. Not to mention he's got absolutely no way of getting that magic back from the rune if you die. last, and definitely not least, you are a weak magic user; that is not me being mean but it is the truth. The rune is drawing energy from your body to function making you weaker; you haven't said anything because you don't want Roland to worry and you like him having his own defenses, but in the end it'll be bad for both of you.
VOL: ...-I
FLINT: I don't want Roland dead either, this is entirely for his benefit and yours as well. It's for the best this happens.

Vol stays silent for a bit, but ultimately nods in agreement.

FLINT: Well that's that! Anymore questions before I do it kid?

>>926756
>Well that's that! Anymore questions before I do it kid?
Just 2 more questions.

First, Vol, why didn’t you tell me this would make you weaker?! If I’d have known, I wouldn’t have let you weaken yourself just to give me magic!

Second, Flint, can any of this training work for demons? What you said about me and Vol getting split up makes me worry about him and I’d feel better if there was some way I could help him get stronger.

>>926756
Yeah, will we be able to learn other applications of Aether energy?

Back when we first got the demon mark, we also had the option of channeling it through music instead. Could we still learn that method? Would it get in the way of our aetherial training?

>>926765
>I wouldn’t have let you weaken yourself just to give me magic!
Well I mean, I still would've voted for it. Vol just isn't as suited for using it in combat.

>>926765
He did tell us, sorta, he just didn't make a big deal about it.

>>926756
Okay, lets do it, but we need to get some body armor and a big gun, like a stoner 96 and some metal plating.

Vol also needs to start training.

>>926776
either with his powers, or if they are as strong as they are getting, then Vol needs to start practicing with guns.

1/2 Heretic 2019/03/21(Thu)23:03 No. 926793 ID: a451fc
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>Can any of this training work for demons?
FLINT: This is training to strengthen ones aura, demons cannot produce an aura, so of course it'll be useless to them.

>Will we be able to learn other applications of Aether energy?
FLINT: Producing shields and Aether constructs will be the easiest for you since the rune helped you get used to it, but it is very possible for you to learn more of course.

>We also had the option of channeling it through music instead. Could we still learn that method?
FLINT: The Devils Notes are an alternate application of demon runes, using them would involve having the notes etched into your mind, and as such would also interfere with your training. Though, when you get used to your aura, you can use music if you wish, I've seen it done pretty well.

YOU:...Okay, let's do this!

Flint takes your hand and places his palm over it, you can feel a burning sensation. The pain travels up your arm and into your chest. When it's done, the mark on your hand is gone.

2/2 Heretic 2019/03/21(Thu)23:03 No. 926794 ID: a451fc
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FLINT: Go ahead, try to make a barrier now.

You try to go through the same movements you did before to use Caesura, but it's much harder now. All of your strain results in a golf ball sized barrier with incredibly thin walls.

VOL: Well, now ya got no defenses.
FLINT: Yeah, but this is important if you want to get anywhere. It could take a while for you to get used to this, so if you do ever go anywhere in the near future take friends with you. Now that all that's out of the way do you want more training now? With you unlocking aura there's a lot more for you to learn. I'll be honest I'm a bit excited, plenty of people give up before or during this part. Unless you have more things you want to do instead of train that is?

>>926794
Gotta train, we have to get back up to full power as soon as possible.

>>926794
>more training or something else?
“Might as well keep training. Now that my Caesura has been weakened, I’ve gotta build it back up until it gets better!”

>>926794
>golf ball Caesura, thin walls
Still useful. Compress it as much as possible and you can use it like a bullet. ...except you may as well have a gun for that in most cases.

First priority is getting Caesura back up to speed as a defensive skill.

>>926794
Have Troy grab his gun and take Vol out back.

Have him start training Vol in gunplay and conventional combat. Self-defense too.

If we have the cash, getting Vol a custom imp-sized rifle wouldn't be a bad idea. Something select-fire that shoots 5.7mm sounds reasonable.

--

We should get an SUV. We need something we can modify that can hold more than just ourselves. We should see if there are any pickup/SUV/APC/tankette chassis for sale anywhere.

>>926794
Seems like there is a lot of energy being wasted. Try channeling the energy through your tattoos like a circuit. If it works, that should help you take advantage of that energy that just dissipates.

>>926794
Let's keep training.

Ask Flint if he thinks your tattoos will interfere or anything like that? If he questions that, you should tell him about your tattoos and what Reagan managed to decipher from looking at them.

>>926830
>Teach Vol how to use a gun.
What he should be doing is training his blood shaping to get better at that.

Anything that doesn't involve him using what he's already got won't help him get better! Also, I kinda want to see if we can get him to evolve, like we did in the original D3, and using a gun doesn't seem like something that would help with that.

>Get a pickup/SUV/APC/tankette chassis
And make ourselves a slower and easier to hit target? I don't think so!

Besides we've already got something like that. It's called Troy's truck.

The faster Roland learns to use his Caesura again, the better, so training would be the best.

>>926833
Evolving would be neat, but Vol should still learn how to use a gun. That sort of skill is a necessity. I mean, this is the apocalypse.
Either way, he needs to start training.

>troy's truck
But we cant modify troy's truck. That is the main reason we should get our own transport vehicle.

Plus, suvs, pickups, and especially tankettes are pretty fast.

>slow
>easier to hit
Different vehicles for different roles.
Yes it would be easier to hit, but it would also have armor and possibly guns, and it would be enclosed.

>>926844
Considering how much punishment Troy's truck is capable of taking, I think his modifications are fine.

>>926844
>We can't modify Troy's truck
No, but Troy can modify his own truck if we give him the scraps to do so. Which is what he did after the Chucklehead fight, when we gave him some scrap.

>Yes it would be easier to hit, but it would also have armor and possibly guns, and it would be enclosed.
Like you said, different vehicles for different roles. Troy's truck already covers the tank role, Roland's Arges covers being the speedy vehicle.

The armor is covered with Roland's or Vol's magic. And why the fuck would we put guns on the Arges? Roland has demonstrated that his Caesura works better than a gun, when it comes to vehicle combat.

Heretic 2019/03/22(Fri)16:18 No. 926859 ID: a451fc
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>Vol's training
You think about helping Vol use a gun
VOL: I'm already tryin' to learn how to use my blood better, do I really gotta add learnin' 'bout guns on top a' dat?

>Defenses
New vehicles and weaponry would have a hefty cost to them, and right now you only have 500 Cards which you doubt'll catch you anything high grade. You'd need to take jobs to make more money too, and those'll be hard to do if you lack Caesura.

>Ask Flint if he thinks your tattoos will interfere or anything like that?
>Try channeling the energy through your tattoos like a circuit.
You ask if your tattoos will interfere with your training.

FLINT: Those aren't runes meant to grant you magic so you should be fine. Your tattoo's don't seem to really interact with your aura at all.

>More Training
FLINT: Good, now we'll have to go to a different location for most of it later. However there is a little we can do right now...Roland, close your eyes and think of a color.

>>926859
Green sounds like a nice colour.

dark green

>>926859
>Do I have to learn about guns?
No, you don't. Just keep practicing what you're already doing.

>Close your eyes and think of a color.
Blue

RED

>>926867
Actually, I changed my mind. I'm changing my vote to Red.

>>926865
Vote change: red

>>926868
>>926871
>>926872

Red is such an angry color though. Lets go with something more mellow.

Like Yellow

>>926874
fuck, the official mellow-type yellow is completely unreadable here.

Green.

>>926859
>I'm already tryin' to learn how to use my blood better, do I really gotta add learnin' 'bout guns on top a' dat?
No, you don’t have to if you don’t want to.

>Roland, close your eyes and think of a color.
Red

>>926874
>Red is such an angry color though.
It’s only like that if you think about it like that.

I prefer to think of red as the color of passion and love.

>>926859
Green, like the secret sheep!

Red, red is a grat color!

It's... green.

Heretic 2019/03/22(Fri)23:49 No. 926909 ID: a451fc
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YOU:...Red
FLINT: Of course. A very straight forward color, it's the most obvious choice for somebody just learning. It's the color of Aether Aura after all. Not to mention it's the color of blood, we most associate it with anger, but it can also represent love or passion. It's a very physical color.
FLINT: Now, relax your body, take deep breaths, and imagine a river running with red water. A running red river, imagine the sound of the water, maybe even the smell of it.

You do your best trying to imagine this, though you've only seen running rivers on video tapes you can still imagine one pretty clearly. You think about what it may smell like as well and try to bring that to focus as best as you can.

FLINT: You got it? Now, imagine the stream shrinking smaller and smaller. Deep breathes, and a shrinking river. Still running, but growling smaller until it is no longer a river, but water flowing down a small crack in the ground...at the end of this is crack and at the end of this ground is a cliff. Picture the small stream of red water falling over this cliff and dripping down onto your head and into your body.

This command catches you off guard a bit, but you imagine the water dripping into your body from the top of your head.

FLINT: Now I want you to imagine that this red water is not only filling your body, but is instead filling up one single part of your body. One limb or organ that it is falling into like a cup.

What part of your body do you imagine?

Your dick.

Your endocrine system.

>>926909
My broken eye.

>>926913

>>926913
Oh yeah, definitely gotta go with the eye that we keep covered up. Maximum chuuni potential.

>>926909
Let's go with something different from the usual. How about our neck? The part that our father's bandana is tied to.

>>926911
Seconding Endocrine System

>>926920
fourthing chuuni eye

>>926913
Yeah, let’s go for the eye we keep covered.

But if that doesn’t work, then I vote for the good eye that works.

>>926911
Yeah, fuck it, this is bound to be interesting.

Sidenote: we should get a new wardrobe.
We still just kinda look like a mummy with a scarf.

>>926911
Seconding, what could go wrong?

>>926909
our broken eye.
if that dsent work then go for the heart

Go for the eyes! Either one or both of them!

Heretic 2019/03/23(Sat)19:06 No. 927032 ID: a451fc
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>Your bad eye
You imagine the red water dripping into your bad eye. it actually starts to tear up a bit from this. Not only that but you feel a sort of strain behind your broken eye. It grows to become more and more painful as you concentration, you take deeper breaths and attempt to stay focused, but sooner or later the pain subsides into a new feeling. Something tingly and electric. Your bad eye aches constantly, but now the lingering pain is replaced with an intense energy. Soon the feeling doesn't just fill your eye, but your entire body as well...You open your eyes and find yourself standing ankle deep in a pool of red water that spans for miles under an inky black sky with no end in sight. You move to take a step forward, but before you can, Flint's voice shakes you from your vision.

FLINT: ROLAND!

The red water and black sky wipe away from your view and you're back in front of your house.

FLINT: Look at that, you've gotten the hang of it pretty well.

You look down at your body and notice that your aura is much solider, it covers more of your body and is much more stable. Without thought you attempt to make a Caesura, it's bigger now, about the size of a soccer ball, and denser too.

FLINT: Like I said, it involves more meditation than anything physical. That being said that doesn't mean no more exercise.
YOU: Oh thank god, I was scared I'd have an easy time for little bit there.
FLINT: Smartass, now that that's done we ought to to get a move on to our new training grounds. We ain't done yet. Anythin' else you gotta do 'fore we move?

>>927032
Couldn't hurt to ask if you could set up a training grounds at your house.

--

Before we leave, grab a gun. Something select-fire or semi-auto. Grab a hat too.

>>927041
Try forming body armor around yourself with caesura while you are here.

>>927032
Ask about what you saw.

Can't think of anything to do right now. Let's go. Ask Flint what that red and black world was about, is that natural?

>>927032
Ask if he wants you to get in his vehicle or if he wants you to follow him while you ride your Arges?

Ask if anyone is allowed to come with you? He told you earlier that you should take friends with you until you get used to this and you’re not used to this yet.

If he says you can bring someone, ask the others if they want to tag along? It’s ok if they refuse, since you’ll understand that they probably have better things to do than watch you do stuff.

Troy brought me a demon that invades your dreams to kill and devour you in real life. It's also extremely friendly when it goes about this.
I... Don't know what I'd actually use it for.

Wanna see?

>>927059
Also ask Flint why he yelled your name at you? Were you unresponsive or something?

>>927075
This is weird and comes out of nowhere, yet it seems oddly in character.

>>927075
>>927081
Lets do this

1/2 Heretic 2019/03/24(Sun)16:54 No. 927151 ID: a451fc
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>>927044
You definitely can't do that at your current strength.

>Before we leave, grab a gun. Something select-fire or semi-auto.
You only have your sawed off, and only one silver shell at that.

>Grab a hat too
There was only one hat in your house, and your dad wore it. You buried it with him.

>Couldn't hurt to ask if you could set up a training grounds at your house.
FLINT: If we could I wouldn't spend the time and gas driving you somewhere else.

>Ask Flint what that red and black world was about, is that natural?
FLINT: Oh that was just your mind creating a vision based off of your attunement with your aura. You got kind of spaced out there for a little so I had to shout at you a little to snap you out of it. It's normal when that exercise is preformed.

>Can we bring friends?
FLINT: No, this is private training. You'll be fine when comes to protection, I'll be driving you there. Anyway, c'mon we're wasting time here.

Flint leads you to his car. You say goodbye to Troy and Vol and take your leave.

2/2 Heretic 2019/03/24(Sun)16:54 No. 927152 ID: a451fc
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You and Flint take off across the wastes. The drive is pretty silent, so you decide to try and ma.ke conversation

YOU: Troy brought me a demon that invades your dreams to kill and devour you in real life. It's also extremely friendly when it goes about this. I... Don't know what I'd actually use it for though.

You show him the entry in your journal.

FLINT: Nasty, I don't think it'd have any practical use, but then again you don't really know everything about that thing yet. I'm assuming you haven't dissected it?
YOU: No, not yet.
FLINT: Well, I don't really have much advise to give on this stuff. I'm glad to see the demon studies are going smoothly though...Were here.

After some time driving Flint begins to come up to the wall of the crater, and drives straight for it. You panic at first but as the car reaches the wall a large mouth opens up in the rocks and the car passes through it. On the other side you find yourself exiting out of a tree into a large cavern.

FLINT: This is the Pillar Tree Cavern. We'll be doing our training here.

Flint parks the car in the middle of the large stump in the middle of the cavern.

FLINT: So Roland! Out of curiosity, what would you say is your best quality? Would you call yourself fairly observant>

Well you try your best with your one good eye.

>So Roland! Out of curiosity, what would you say is your best quality? Would you call yourself fairly observant

Is that a crack about me only having one eye? But to answer your question... I guess an open mind. Helps when trying to figure out what demons can do.

>>927152
>I'm assuming you haven't dissected it?
>No, not yet.
“I was going to dissect it this morning, but then you showed up and started kicking my ass, so I’ll have to do it later.”

>So Roland! Out of curiosity, what would you say is your best quality? Would you call yourself fairly observant?
I’m kinda spilt on what we should say.

We could say that our best quality is being observant, since we kinda need to be observant if we’re going to be studying demons. Maybe even make a joke and say that we’re surprisingly observant for a guy with only one eye!

Then again, we could also say that our best quality is being able to build things. Roland managed to built a working flashlight and shotgun out of scraps. He managed to restore his Skipper with a bunch of scraps, before Ada upgraded it into the Arges. He even managed to help Ada make that robot and got it to work for a few seconds before it exploded.

So what should be our best quality: being observant or being able to build things?

>>927160
Roland is also very adaptiative. You can throw him in a number of of situations and manage to get out of it mostly unharmed. It also gos with being observant and capable of building things out of garbage. So there, Roland is observant, a handyman AND adaptive. He is full of qualitys!

>>927152
Rol is creative. He is unconventional, and somewhat scatterbrained.

>>927171
This. I wouldn't consider Roland observant seeing as he didn't notice that rock flying towards him. Not to mention the pictures Heretic has drawn of Roland absentmindedly while in danger.

We have been using Caesura quite creatively though. We've used it to defend, trap things, roll around in, make a jumping platform, flip cars, make fists and spikes, even cut angelic chains. If making a defense spell do all that isn't creative, I don't know what is.

>>927202
Well when you put it like that, you make a good point.

Then I’ll also vote for saying that Roland’s best quality is his creativity.

Heretic 2019/03/24(Sun)21:29 No. 927208 ID: a451fc
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YOU: Is that a crack about me only having one eye?
FLINT: Oh, no I mean because-
YOU: I know I'm kidding...I feel like if I say more than one it'll make it seem like I'm bragging...I honestly don't think i'm that observant, but maybe I'd say more inventive? Uh, I can be pretty adaptive to what comes my way...I guess Creativity is my best quality.
FLINT: So despite your interest in the observation of demons, you don't find yourself very observant?
YOU: Well...not really, honestly sometimes I feel like I get too focused on one thing and ignore everything else.
FLINT: So I guess when you focused your Aether aura into your eye, it was because of an emotional connection rather than a characteristic association? I guess it's the same reason you chose red for the color. or maybe both were picked for arbitrary reasons.
YOU: We're those things important?
FLINT: They can be. Really they were more important to helping you create an image in your head to focus your aura. You're going to be doing more of that while you're here. With a more focused aura you'll have more access to energy with which to put into your body and barrier.

Flint motions you to sit on a nearby rock stump, relaxed, and with your eyes closed. More deep breath exercises.

FLINT: Certain colors can correlate with certain parts of the body. If I told you that the two options you chose, the eye and the color red, do not logically correlate well with your personality or with each other at all, Would you do the meditation with a different color and a different body part or repeat both options?

I could adapt, then.

Maybe I should try with my Hands, and White.

An infinite canvas to work with.

>>927208
Maybe no one thought of how the three connect?

The closest person to us has inspired us, given us passion and direction when we were blinded by sadness, and we'll use our creativity to reach our goals. I mean, he also has a red eye, and he's given us great tools that we've used to great effect through creativity.

And if that doesn't help connect them? Well, we're creative. We'll find a way to make the best of what we have, just like before.

>>927209
Alright let's try that.

>>927210
Thats a good point, red and eye are connected to us through Vol, I like that.

Also, can Flint actually tell what colours are associated with our body and is just letting us try to work it out for ourselves, or is he just being hypothetical?

>>927208
I mean... We're not exactly well informed on the whole aura situation, but the aggressive, somewhat irresponsible pursuit of knowledge is like our whole deal.

A red eye that pursues the truth of the world or smth.

also its fukkin sikk

>>927210
>>927222
Yeah, I agree with these.

He's already told us the meanings don't work. I don't know why you'd try to push that.

Heretic 2019/03/25(Mon)00:02 No. 927229 ID: a451fc
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YOU: Yeah I think I would.
FLINT: Then go ahead then, redo it.

You go through the motions once again. Same color and same body part. You can feel your aura swell.

FLINT: Why did you decide to keep your first decision?
YOU: When I think of the color red and eyes I think of demons, and when I think of demons I think of Vol. He's been with me for my entire life. Plus, the pursuit of knowledge with reckless almost passionate abandon is kind of my whole things.
FLINT: Okay open your eyes.

You open your eyes, The wisps from your aura are flying a bit higher than before.

FLINT: The eye is normally linked to perceptiveness and insight of course, red is linked to security, and you're insistence on keeping to your choices despite the idea that they do not mesh together shows that you focus more on your emotional attachment more than the logical side to what belongs where. To me at least, really all of it is speculative.
YOU: So, does it matter that I chose a wrong combination?
FLINT: Well, I only asked If they were wrong would you change them. I never said that you were wrong outright. Now try to make a barrier

You hold your hands out and create a Caesura, it's gotten bigger and sturdier.

FLINT: It's not always about a sound logic, your aura's strength is tied to emotion. If you feel more comfortable following your own instincts then go for it. More importantly! I feel like having lunch. You don't mind getting me the ingredients right?
YOU: I-
FLINT: Great! In this cavern there are a few foods I like to eat the most. At the very bottom of this cavern there's a forest of trees that all grow sour apples but one of them to the north grows ones so sweet and crunchy bring one to me; next, the the south There's a pool of crystal clear water, I'd like some of that to drink; and finally further under the forest there's a beast I haven't gotten to eat in a while, bring it here so I can prepare it. Don't take too long either!

A little weird, but okay.

I think get them in the order he gave: Apple, water, creature. I'm flexible with the first two, but the creature might need some preparation.

How are you supposed to bring him the water? Do you have something to carry it in?

>>927235
Caesura bowl (or ball), assuming he doesn't give us something.

Actually, now that I think about it this could fit in with our answers. The apples seem like they require some perception and insight to find the right tree. We need to be creative to get the water without a container. Finally, we need the power to keep our self safe/secure in order to defeat the beast. I may just be overthinking things though.

>>927229
Oh, tricky tricky.
I guess we're gonna go in the order he said. Also note he didn't say to kill the beast- clarify that, do you need to bring it in alive?

>>927235
Dont ask this out loud, it seems kinda stereotypically naive.

>>927229
>Well, I only asked If they were wrong would you change them. I never said that you were wrong outright.
>It's not always about a sound logic, your aura's strength is tied to emotion. If you feel more comfortable following your own instincts then go for it.
Ok, so there was nothing wrong with choosing red and our eye.

>food and where to find the ingredients
Finding these thing will be tricky, but getting them back up here will be the hard part.

>>927238
>Also note he didn't say to kill the beast- clarify that, do you need to bring it in alive?
Yes, ask this.

An apple, water and a beast, coming right up!
Do i need to kill the third one, or do i just bring it to you?

We remembered to bring pokéballs capture scrolls with us, right?

>>927229
Also, how tf are apples growing in a cavern? Is this some kind of weird dwarven mushroom cave apple thing?

Anyhoo, lets ride peaches down, assuming we have the scroll.

Get the apple first. You'll want to be unencumbered while climbing to get it.
Take care of the beast second and the Water third. The water will need to be held in a Caesura, we won't be able to fight the beast while holding it.

>>927266
>Anyhoo, lets ride peaches down, assuming we have the scroll.
I’m pretty sure when Flint said we couldn’t bring anyone with us, Roland would’ve just assumed that included Peaches and left him behind.

>>927300
yet we do have some things.

Heretic, can we get an inventory?

1/2 Heretic 2019/03/25(Mon)16:14 No. 927306 ID: a451fc
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>Kill the beast?
FLINT: I don't care, if you bring it back alive I'll kill it myself and cook it.

>Did you bring binding scrolls?
You reach own to take out a binding scroll but-
FLINT: Lookin' for these?

Flint waves a bundle of scrolls around in his hand.

FLINT: You'll understand if I don't want you relying on the skills of demons to help you right? I also took your gun too, not like it was going to do you any good. Also here, take this.

Flint tosses you a large piece of cloth, it's a shoulder wrap with a sigil on the back just like the one on his jacket. He also gives you a belt with a few pouches and some gloves.

FLINT: Don't take too long kid, or I might get bored and leave ya here. And remember! Even with how weak your aura is right now don't forget that it's important.

You nod and begin to climb down the side by hand, there are plenty of knot holes and branch stumps to grip onto as you descend. As you lower yourself, you get a good view at the canopy of the forest. Once you reach the ground you look around a bit, all of the tree's have sickly green fruit growing on them. Out of curiosity, you bite into one you find lying on the ground. it's disgustingly bitter, and mushy too. You spit it out, no wonder Flint won't take these. Look's like you'll be getting the apple first...but you aren't really sure where North is down in here. After some thinking, you dig through the pouch Flint gave you and find a compass inside! You're not so lost any more...

2/2 Heretic 2019/03/25(Mon)16:41 No. 927308 ID: a451fc
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and get closer to the wall, there's a large crack making an opening in the sheer face of the rock. In front of that opening however, you see a silhouette...You hear a feminine voice call out to you.

???: Hold it! Gallows right?
YOU: u-uhh...
???: Yeah, you're him alright. Doing some grocery shopping for Flint huh? That lazy bastard can never get anything for himself can he? Well anyway the tree you're looking for is down this crack, but I'm not gonna let you get by easily...
DAISY: Names Daisy Cutter! But you can just call me Daisy! You can get by me if you past one of my tests! and I have two tests for you to chose from.

Daisy raises one of her hands

DAISY: You can either rush past me and make it to the end without me stopping you, or you can simply tell me what number I'm holding up with my hand. Whichever test you pick you can't choose the other one afterwards. Okay?

>>927308
Before we give our answer, I want to try something. Use our aura, and see if we can recognize the shape of her body without looking, specifically her hand. If we can feel, let's try the number. Otherwise, let's try to run past her.

Remember, this is supposed to train our aura. Every challenge is unlikely to be solvable without it in some manner.

>>927311
I'll agree with that. She's likely to obscure the number somehow, it's not the easy option.

>>927306
>Flint took your stuff
Roland, do you know what this means? It means that he’s insanely fast and he was holding back during your sparring match earlier!

Let this show you just how far the gap in power is between you and him.

>He also gives you a belt with a few pouches and some gloves.
I’m guessing one of those pouches also contains a bottle or some kind of container for the water.

>>927308
>Gallows right?
“Wait, how did you know about me? Did Flint tell you about me?”

>>927311
>use aura
If we do that, then we should focus our Nen Aura into our eyes to use Gyo some sort of “Aether Sight”.

Can you use Caesura as-is to flatten her hand out so the correct answer is 5?

Oh wait she might cut a finger off just to prevent you from guessing the 'only' option.

>>927316
She's probably strong enough to destroy our caesura at our previous full strength. As we are, it would be easy for her.

I'm pretty sure she isn't crazy though, so cutting off a finger is unlikely.

Heretic 2019/03/25(Mon)21:04 No. 927333 ID: a451fc
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YOU:...I want to try and see what number you're holding up.
DAISY: So be it!

She puts up her left hand and holds up three fingers.

DAISY: What number am I holding up?

You know it isn't only three fingers, that'd be too obvious.

>Use your aura, and see if we can recognize the shape of her body without looking, specifically her hand.
You close your eyes and try to focus on her aura, it's hard, you have to walk a bit closer until you're within arms reach of Daisy. Once you're close enough you can make her faint aura out, but you can't make out any discernible number this way.

>focus your Aura into your eyes
You back away from her and try focusing your aura again, this time you repeat the meditation technique Flint taught you. You close your eyes, picture a river, make it smaller, draw it into your good eye this time and then open it. You're shocked by how black everything is, it's almost like you didn't open them at all, more importantly you can see Daisy's red silhouette in front of you with the number 43 hovering above her hand.

>>927333
Well, there's our answer. Tell her it's 43, and continue forward.

Compliment her precise control of her aura.

>>927333
Interesting. I wonder if the body part and color matters for this technique? Roland needs to experiment more later. I'd hazard a guess and say that the aether infusion enhances whatever body part you pick. If Roland were to pour the river into his legs he could run faster.
Not sure if the color actually matters... Maybe red is supposed to be used for defense, and a different color would work better for sight or body enhancement?

>>927333
>43 floating above her hand
Ha! I knew that would work! I had a feeling this would be similar to how Biscuit trained Gon and Killua in Hunter X Hunter!

Tell her that she’s holding the number 43.

"So is that like.. forty three, or do I count the fingers too, or what?"

>>927348

Looks to me like 43 over 3, which is 14 and a third. Though it could also be 3 to the 43rd power, which is much harder to do in my head.

>>927364
You are definitely overthinking things. She said the number over her hand, there is no division or multiplication involved here. She's also here to test our powers, not our riddle solving skills.

Oh, guess this cavern isnt just an abandoned, remote cavern. Flint took us to PaganWorld.

>>927333
We should stick with the chuuni eye, but adjust your bandages so they aren't covering it. That is probably why you couldn't aura-see with it. It is probably stronger than your other for this since we were already attuning based on it.

We can get you a (medical) eyepatch later to cover your eye when not in use.

>>927371
>cover your eye when not in use
That’s stupid. Why would he cover his eye? That would make him blind!

>cover your eye when not in use
You can, like, close your eyes to do that, right?

43.
343 if I wanna be cheeky.

>>927333
Tell her that she's holding up the number 43.

>>927337
>Hunter X Hunter
So Heretic is taking us out of Jojo situations and is putting us in Hunter X Hunter situations? I'm ok with that.

>>927371
Why would we cover his good eye? Doing that would make him unable to see anything.

>>927373
>>927381
Cover the bad eye, ya fuckin dingus.

So right now the bad eye is covered up and is probably why the good eye could aura-see better, but if we uncover the bad eye, it will probably aura-see stronger than the good eye since we were using it first. Since it is a bad eye, however, we should cover it up when we arent using it to aura-see with a (medical) eyepatch (to complete the chuuni look).

>>927333
try to be like " Damn i didn't know you had forty three fingers." girls love humor.

>>927404
Guess we could try that, probably wouldn't hurt. Worst, we're probably just as blind in that eye without aura.

>>927404
If that does work, then we don't need an eye patch. Troy would call the fashion police to arrest us for stealing his style.

We can just do it like Kakashi does with his headband. Slide the bandages up and out of the way and slide them back down to cover the eye.

Heretic 2019/03/26(Tue)20:31 No. 927480 ID: a451fc
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YOU: You're holding up three fingers, but above that there's the number 43. Would that be 46? Or maybe the 3 goes in front of that so it's 343?
DAISY: 43's just fine dude. Alright you can pass through.

Daisy moves over so you can walk through the crack in the cavern wall and walks beside you.

YOU: The way you control your aura's so precise!
DAISY: Thanks! I've been doin' this for 5 years now. I think I was just a bit older than you when I began training.
YOU: Do all pagans go through this stuff?
DAISY: Wouldn't know, I'm not a pagan. You aren't either right?
YOU: Well no, but I guess I'm always so close to demons people could mistake me for one. If you aren't a pagan then why did you go through this training?
DAISY: Well in this world going around without some form of protection is crazy, and sometimes guns just don't cut it. Especially with Saints and Voodoo users walking around. Unlike angel magic or voodoo, Aetherial aura doesn't solely rely on an outside source like an Angel or Lowa.

Daisy increases the aura around her body.

DAISY: Aetherial aura is caused by the small dregs of energy left over by Athmor's corpse. The primordial demon's connection to us allows us to use this power, but we don't have to make a deal or get lucky enough for him to allow us to use it, we can make use of it through hard work and training!

You and Daisy make it to the end of the tunnel, at the end there's a small cave where a large tree has grown, you can see shiny red apples growing in it's branches. There are a few fallen apples that seem to be in good shape so you pick up one, and decide to take a bite. It's hard! Like a rock in fact, the apples down here suck.

DAISY: Yeah Flint's got a jaw like a bear trap, he likes it when his food is basically inedible, the weirdo...So! How ya plannin' on leaving here?
YOU: What do you mean?
DAISY: If you want to enter or exit this cave through the crack you must complete a test! Did I not make that clear?
YOU: Fine! I can always look at a number again!
DAISY: Oh, no you can't. Sorry but I did say before whichever test you took you couldn't choose the other one afterwards. So in reality, I'm only giving you one choice. Make it past me without getting stopped and you're free to go!

>>927480
pff, fine.
Alright do meditation to see if you can supercharge your legs. Shall we try green color for this? Or yellow?

>>927481
Yellow is usually related to excitement and hyperactivity, so let's try that.

>>927480
"May I go past you please?"

>>927480
>Yeah Flint's got a jaw like a bear trap, he likes it when his food is basically inedible, the weirdo...
“.....so those nails that I usually see in his mouth, does he eat those?”

>If you want to enter or exit this cave through the crack you must complete a test!
She specified that going through the crack requires a test. The way she mentioned that means that there’s probably more than one way in here that doesn’t require getting passed her. But that doesn’t mean the other paths are going to be easy.

Should you try to get past her or should you look for a different way out?

.....wait, why is she doing these tests? Did Flint tell her to do this or is there some other reason?

Ask her what she does here, what is her purpose?

You know, if you want to go on a date you can just ask.

>>927480
"Want to come with me? You seem nice enough, and I am always looking to make new friends."

Companion get! (We can always use more manpower back at GHQ, once we start fortifying it{if we start fortifying it}.)

Try to talk to her about the demonology; see if she is interested. Ask her about herself. This is like a date, but you are trying for a platonic friendship rather than romance.

>>927521
We need to focus on passing her test instead of whatever it is you’re trying to do.

>>927480
Ask if you can have a little bit of a head start, since you're still new to this.

If she says no, then tell her that it didn't hurt to at least try asking.

Now it's time to try channeling your aura into your legs to try and out run her.

>>927481
>>927486
>Change color
I'm pretty sure that was only for a personality test thing Flint was doing and it has no effect on how our powers actually work, since Flint said that Aether Aura will always red.

I think the only thing that matters is how you use the aura, not what color you're thinking about.

>>927521
No, none of this. This isn't the time nor the place for that.

>>927522
>>927545
Im trying to make a friend.

>>927489
this.

>>927548
We're already on friendly terms with her. There's no need to do anything else to try and win her over.

The only thing we can do is impress her by passing her test.

Heretic 2019/03/29(Fri)03:09 No. 927760 ID: a451fc
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YOU: May I go past you please?
DAISY: Nu-uh.

Well, no one can say you didn't try.

YOU: Why are you testing me?
DAISY: I love cornering people looking for apples in weird cave forests because it's fun, stupid. Obviously Flint's askin' me to do this.

>Yeah Flint's got a jaw like a bear trap, he likes it when his food is basically inedible
YOU: So he eats those nails?
DAISY: What?
YOU: Those nails that he's normally chewing on, he eats those?
DAISY: Pfft! No way...he doesn't...I mean that wouldn't make any...does he?

>There’s probably more than one way out.
That may be true, but from the look of things there's no other obvious way out of this cave aside from the crack Daisy is blocking.

>Do meditation to see if you can supercharge your legs.
You do the river meditation method, this time you try to imagine yellow water and you direct the energy to your legs. It feels weird to have so much energy in your legs. After you've finished charging your aura you leap forward, and the second your foot leaves the ground you feel a sharp pain in your leg and fall on the ground.

DAISY: Oof, you okay kid? You can't just go filling your body parts with Aura all willy-nilly and expect it to work. Your temperament saved your leg from completely breaking but you gotta be more careful!

"Well of course not, but you can't expect me not to try, right? I have to learn how this stuff works somehow." Groan as appropriate.

Once standing is comfortable, can we make barriers big enough to stand on and run over her? Have we ever tried supporting ourselves with caesura?

>>927760
>Oof, you okay kid? You can't just go filling your body parts with Aura all willy-nilly and expect it to work. Your temperament saved your leg from completely breaking but you gotta be more careful!
“Oh, wow, it’s almost like I’m new to this and no one told me how to do any of this!”

might as well use the good ceasara air walk.

>>927760
try bashing her on the head with the barrier.

>>927773
or this

>>927760
Lets ask her how we might be able to get past her. I'd rather not hurt her cuz that is mean and i dont think she is as superhuman as Flint is.

This might be more straightforward than it seems. Lift your bandages and use your Aurasight to see if she put up a maze or obstacles or something.

>>927760
Sounds like this takes some finesse. Maybe you have to only put a little aura in there, or you need to put a mix of colors in there. Like, something for defense in addition to something for energy?

Ask her for tips. If she won't give you any, then just try the caesura bubble jump thing you're already used to.

>>927773
Try this. It should at least give us an idea of her capabilities.

>>927782
>Lift your bandages
He’s already got an uncovered eye. He doesn’t need to take his bandages off.

To learn how to walk some times you have to break a few eggs, right? No? Ouch...

>>927760
>You can't go doing that all willy nilly.
"Well how was I supposed to know that?! It's not like I'm an expert like you or Flint!"

Then politely ask her if she can give you advice or at least tell you what not to do, so you don't end up snapping your neck or something.

>>927782
>Use bad eye to see
He's got a good eye to use! Stop trying to get him to use his bad eye!

And after what just happened, we should probably not try putting aura in our eye for now, so that we don't risk damaging our only good eye.

well, there goes the chances of chuuni rol being a thing.

>>927838
Never was going to be a thing in the first place.

Try pumping Aetherial energy into your tatoos.

>>927760
Aura Hamster Ball

>>927866
We’ve lost the ability to do that. We can’t make any barriers big enough to do that until we get better at this aura stuff.

>>927854
cuts deep

Heretic 2019/03/30(Sat)19:29 No. 928008 ID: a451fc
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YOU: Well, it's hard to know how to do this if I'm new y'know? I put Aether energy into my eyes and this didn't happen what gives?
DAISY: Your eye isn't straining muscles to push your weight off of the ground. From the look of things you might not have focused enough energy into the right parts of your leg, your bone needs more than your muscles and tendons. Though most importantly your natural temperament color makes it harder for you.
YOU: Temperament?
DAISY: Yeah, your temperament dictates what areas your aura works best. I can tell your temperament just by looking at you, but not everyone can do that. It's a special talent only a few aura users know. Your main temperament color is Red: A color tied to the physical nature of the world, as such it's best suited for turning formless Aether energy into physical constructs. You wanted to empower your legs with aura to make them stronger? That's something more suited for Yellow temperaments seeing as it revolves around imbuing the physical with aura.

Daisy continues to explain the remaining temperament colors: Orange deals with emotion, Green deals with healing, Blue deals with perception and Purple deals with spirituality. White is the culmination of these colors that only true masters can utilize through years of grueling training.

YOU: So I can only do things suited for a Red temperance?
DAISY: No, the main color of your Temperament is Red, but you can learn different configurations to utilize different colors. Temperament equals the colors plus the configuration that connects them. The more colors you use the more variety in choices you'll have, but the less specialization you'll have. My natural temperament is Purple, and I utilize Yellow as secondary. As it stands, your temperament is Singular Red, but you have the potential to learn more. Do you understand now?

>>928008
Essentially.

Hmm, I'd like to aim for red plus yellow and blue. That's a useful configuration. Red-green is tempting too but easier access to healing just means we're gonna get hurt more, narratively speaking.

>>928008
I like the ideia of Red and Blue, they're both nice colours.

>>928008
"Do you dabble in voodoo?"

>>928008
>Your main temperament color is Red: A color tied to the physical nature of the world, as such it's best suited for turning formless Aether energy into physical constructs.
Hmmm, then maybe we should do it the way we did it when we got Reagan that bird: >>/questarch/911366 , >>/questarch/911367 .

Instead of channeling aura into our legs, we can put the aura around our legs.

Also, complain about how Flint never told you any of this.

>temperament colors
So if blue is for perception, then did we just get lucky using red with our eye earlier?

>>928011
>Let’s aim for this color configuration
Yeah, that should be good.

In that case, we need to know what color does what, so we can use our Aether properly. Not that we will be able do it now, but we can start learning later.
For now we need to find a way to pass her. Unless we actually have to learn how to do other temperance things now, wich i doubt.

>>928008
Okay, most of the colors abilities seem to be straight forward (who knew Rascal was yellow), but what powers fit under "spirituality"?

On what to do, maybe feint and put a shield on her leg so we slow her down just enough to run around her?

Heretic 2019/03/31(Sun)02:24 No. 928052 ID: a451fc
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YOU: I think I'd like to aim for red, yellow, and blue. That seems like a useful configuration.
DAISY: Oh the primaries. Yeah that's definitely a good combination! The only thing holding it back is the fact that your focus is split between the three instead of two.
YOU: Also, If blue is for perception, then why did using red with my eye earlier work?
DAISY: Using red?...Oh you must be using that river meditation thing Flint likes to do! That doesn't effect your temperament. It's more suited for focusing energy into your body parts then anything, it's also part of that test he does to open up your body's aura more. It seems like you're already accustomed to using blue temperament a little. That's good!

>>928019
YOU: Uhh, out of curiosity do you have any knowledge of voodoo?
DAISY: Nope, don't know why you'd ask that.

>Instead of channeling aura into our legs, we can put the aura around our legs.
Simply putting the aura around a body part doesn't strengthen it, it needs to go in something...but when you think about the way you caught that bird you think of something. You have enough energy to place a Caesura around your leg, with enough aura left over to run it through the Caesura barrier and empower it. Daisy see's this.

DAISY: Oh! Look at that! You're able to utilize yellow temperament too! You're already doing so well. No wonder Flint made you his apprentice.

You push off of your armored leg and dash past Daisy with ease, it didn't even seem like she was trying to stop you. As you rush forward you switch the Caesura back and forward between your legs to keep moving forward, all the while running energy through it to empower it. It seems like you'll be getting out of here after all...until you hear something like a tapping? as if something hard was bouncing off of the ground and heading toward you. You get a bad feeling...

>>928052
Can you not see what it is? If you can't try using the magic eye to see what the heck is going on.

And if you have to get up high, try to wall jump.

>>928052
>You push off of your armored leg and dash past Daisy with ease, it didn't even seem like she was trying to stop you.
That’s because she never said that she was going to physically stop you. Remember, she’s better trained than you, so she’s most likely going to use her aura to try and stop you.

>you hear something like a tapping? As if something hard was bouncing off of the ground and heading toward you. You get a bad feeling...
Yeah, like that.

She’s probably doing something similar to the number thing earlier, which means you can’t see it normally, you’ll need to get some aura through your eye to see it.

Although, since you’re not exactly good at channeling aura in multiple places yet, this means there’s a risk of getting caught when you stop putting aura into your legs to put it into your eye. But that doesn’t mean that you should stop moving!

You sure the noise is coming from behind you? She could've left something at the entrance in preparation for this test, so the noise could be coming from in front of you.

>>928052
Okay, shrink the leg armor to just an exoskeleton frame so you dont need to alternate. Dont look behind you, just go fast.

Really fast.

Charge eye with Blue, spin around, even though it means your gonna land on your ass. Ceasara your leading hand in the spin, swat away whatever she launched at you.

Maybe we should stop and find out what is coming towards you before it's to late. Use aura in your eye just in case there is something invisible up ahead, or behind us.

Hey, rather than using aura to empower our existing sight, can we form a perceptive aura somewhere outside of our body? It'd be nice to see behind us without having to turn around, hopefully while still getting a good enough view of the way in front of us that we don't trip or crash. So just toggle over into the 3rd person camera mode.

So is there no such thing as a black aura then?

>>928092
Maybe we could sort of leave a thin "mist" of aura behind, and feel whatever moves through it?

>>928052
If it's on the ground you need to be in the air. Jump then start kicking off the walls.

1/2 Heretic 2019/03/31(Sun)20:29 No. 928142 ID: a451fc
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>>928064
It's very clearly coming up from behind you!

>>928092
>>928121
Trying anything so new would require time and focus you don't have right now! Though these seem possible to preform, attempting them right now would slow you down in a situation where you don't fully know what's going on!

>>928053
>>928126
The object isn't obscured or invisible, it was just hard to see from so far away. Its...an apple? One of the apples off of the tree, it's bouncing off of the ground like it's made of rubber and approaching you quickly. Regardless of it's harmless appearance you leap away from it knowing full well there's more to it than you can see from a first glance. The apple lands on the area you were in and the ground is flattened, the apple lays motionless on the ground

2/2 Heretic 2019/03/31(Sun)20:29 No. 928143 ID: a451fc
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You can hear Daisy's voice echo from the back of the cave.

DAISY: Wanna know how this ability works? It's made up of two separate uses of my aura each one dependent on my temperament. My first ability uses my yellow temperament to fill a small object with energy, causing it to bounce wildly every time it hits a solid surface, this ability is called Daisy Lane. My second ability uses my purple temperament to have an object draw in spiritual power from the earth below it, this ability is called A Daisy Through Concrete. Together, these two abilities allow me to create a bouncing projectile that draws in and stores more energy with each bounce that I can release at will...

Daisy pauses for a second, and you can see her silhouette crouch down and pick something off of the ground, most likely more apples.

DAISY: When I release the spiritual power in the object taken from the ground, it naturally wishes to return back to the ground. So it all rushes out and crushes anything that gets in the way. That's Daisy Chain. Do you get it?

From the cave's exit, Daisy tosses two apples at you. One bounces like the first one, but the second one ricochets wildly off of the cave walls toward you, possibly to catch while you're in mid air...

>>928143
Wow, purple sounds pretty cool. If it wants to connect to ground, we'll give it ground. Grab a rock and try to throw it at the apple just as soon as she activates it, hopefully the force should be negated into the stone.

>>928143
>causing it to bounce wildly every time it hits a solid surface
That also means that once she lets go of the apples, she can’t control where it goes. So if we give the apples a surface to bounce off of, we can direct them away from us!

>Do you get it?
“That you enjoy putting your own name into the names of your attacks?”

>>928163
That can work.

Or we could also try using Caesura to bounce them away. Just do the same thing we’ve been doing, create a Caesura and quickly expand it to propel something.

>>928143
The way she describes it, they're bouncing blindly. So just deflect them with Caesuras.

>>928169
I don't know, it kinda sounds too simple. But it might work. The idea of using some rocks to attracts its energy sounds good too. We won't know until we try.

Suggestion 2019/03/31(Sun)22:18 No. 928177 ID: 2870a3

arent our casuras still kind of weak? that attack crushed the ground and may well break the casura and injure us

(p.s. i dont remember most of the mechanics of it from hunterxhunter but this seems an awful lot like nen ;D)

>>928177
>arent our casuras still kind of weak?
Then I guess we could make a hand to scoop up some rocks and fling them at the apples.

>hunter x hunter
That’s exactly what I was thinking!

>>928177
Caesuras are generally... separate from Roland's body.

Heretic 2019/04/01(Mon)00:42 No. 928192 ID: a451fc
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YOU: Yeah I get it, You enjoy putting your own name into the names of your attacks.
DAISY: Yeah! It's cool that way!

>If it wants to connect to ground, we'll give it ground. Grab a rock and try to throw it at the apple just as soon as she activates it
As it stands your Caesura is still weaker than it was before, grabbing rock out of the ground should be difficult with it the way it is. So, to increase it's strength you empower the caesura with your yellow temperament. This allows it to be strong enough to grab a chunk out of the ground and fling it backward without too much trouble. Though this draws in the attack and accounts for the bouncing apple, the ricocheting one is faster and slips past the rock.

>deflect them with Caesuras
You withdraw your Caesura hand and create a bubble to try and deflect the apple. You knock it away successfully, but the apple continues to quickly ricochet, bouncing off of the cave wall and hits the ground near you. It's not too close, so it only catches your Caesura, but the pressure on the bubble while still filled with energy causes it too violently burst and knock you on your back. You aren't hurt, just surprised. You can hear Daisy throwing more apples from the cave. From the sound of it it's only two apples bouncing instead of ricocheting.

Can you climb to the top of the cliff?

Attempt to use blue with your eye to try and see a safe path out that the apples wont hit.

We should find a way to reflect them towards her, or just keep going. OR, try to use the impact of the apples to blown away towards the exit. We are good doing that.

>>928192
>Yeah! It's cool that way!
Only if you’re a narcissist! Uh, don’t actually say that out loud.

>More apples
She said that it’s an at will attack, so she needs to see where the apple is to know when it’s close enough to you for her to activate the crushing part of her attack.

If you can block her line of sight, she’ll need to guess on when to activate Daisy Chain and hope she hits you.

So if you kick up a big could of dust, you could prevent her from being able to activate Daisy Chain for a while.

>>928192
If she bounces them, the path needs to be pretty straight, right?

Make the ground uneven, so that they can't bounce correctly.

>>928269
Maybe if we make a big enough hole, she'll be forced to use the walls to bounce, cutting off an avenue of attack?

Heretic 2019/04/01(Mon)19:09 No. 928336 ID: a451fc
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>Try to use the impact of the apples to blown away towards the exit.
The only reason you were blown away the first time was because your empowered Caesura released a shock wave when crushed. Still, it's not out of the question to try again.

>>928221
You're not trained well enough to do that. So far the most you can do is see hidden aura if you concentrate.

>>928269
>>928270
Creating holes deep and wide enough is a bit difficult, especially when you're being chased, but with enough work you create a few pot holes that'll hopefully slow the apples. Even if the holes don't stop them, maybe cutting off Daisy's line of sight will. You use a Caesura hand to kick up dust from the cave floor, enough to block yourself from her view and keep the apples obscured if they get too close. Soon you hear the apples get closer, and stop on the floor when they get near you. As you get up to run away you feel something hard hit you in the shoulder. Instead of bouncing or ricocheting this one, Daisy just chucked it straight at you. It doesn't hurt terribly, but your body feels sluggish.

DAISY: Didn't see that comin' did ya? instead of having an apple soak up earths energy with each bounce I channeled the earth's energy up into my body and then into one apple, then I just chuck it. The earth's energy in the apple passes right into your body and bounces around in there, slowing your body and making jumping off the ground harder. It's not that great though. I can't take too much energy from the earth right into my body or I might hurt myself and It takes a while to charge up also it doesn't do a lot of damage, so Daisy Chain's much better for offensive attacks. Still this abilities good for speedy targets who won't stand still.

You can feel your body vibrate with the earths energy, and you feel like it's a slight bit harder to leave the ground.

DAISY: The earth's energy is bouncing around your body like a bell. That's why I call this ability, Daisy Bell. Pretty neat huh? I only hit your shoulder, so you didn't get the full force of the energy, I won't make that mistake again.

You can hear Daisy throw more apples. Quick pounding on the cave's walls and floor, they must be fast ricocheting ones. The pot holes you created may have made bouncing ones more difficult to use.

>>928336
What's keeping you from just smashing or cutting up the apples with Caesura Sharp as they get near you? They shouldn't be especially durable.
If you can heighten your perceptions somehow to predict where the apples will go, this will be a lot easier. Hearing or sight would work.

>>928336
Check to see how far away the entrance is. Hopefully you don’t have to go much farther.

Perhaps getting a big rock, crushing it, and throwing all of the rubble in the direction of the apples, you’ll be able to knock some of them out of the way?

>>928339
I mean, the apples by themselves are naturally really hard, as discovered when Roland tried to bite into one, so if Daisy is empowering them, then that’s probably making them even harder.

Hold up. Ask her to pause right quick and return to the beginning.
Then ask if she could teach you anything about purple temperament usage.

If you could use purple temperament, you could potentially make a Ceasura that reinforces itself by absorbing the kinetic energy of whatever hits it.

>>928336
Think you could push that energy out of yourself? Slowing down even a bit is going to make things harder.

>>928352
No, we’re not going back to the beginning.

Besides, she already told us having too many temperaments weakens all of them. We’re already pushing it with using 3.

Get knocked out. We clearly are going to be missing lunch.

>>928383
Weakens?
I was under the impression that she meant we would be missing the benefits of specialisation as with any skill, should we not focus on a specific thing.

Be that as it may, there are benefits to having an answer, even a weaker answer, to everything.

>>928416
That’s still no reason for us to go back to the beginning. Flint might’ve told Daisy that we only get one chance and if we fail, then Flint will stop training us.

I’m not sure if that is true or not, but I’d rather not find out!

>>928336
Maybe instead of trying to block her attacks, you should focus more on getting to the entrance to pass this test?

Because she said that you've gotta make it past her without getting stopped. And with this new attack that slows you down, if you get hit by it too many times, you might actually become unable to move at all, which will result in you failing!

So get up, put some aura in your legs, and start running!

>>928439
Although, now that I think about it, Daisy told you that you've got the earth's energy bouncing around in you and she said that the energy wants to return to the earth. So maybe if you can somehow give your body a way to expel the earth's energy back into the earth, that'll help you not feel sluggish anymore?

>>928336
Push yourself off the ground using C-Sharp, like you did in the first round of the tournament!

Heretic 2019/04/02(Tue)21:20 No. 928496 ID: a451fc
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>>928352
There is absolutely no reason to go back and talk when the echoes make speaking to each other possible.

YOU: This purple temperance sounds pretty amazing! Can you teach me anything about?
DAISY: Not really! First off it's one of the more difficult colors to learn unless you're a natural Purple, and even then it's tougher than the others. Second, for you to be able to properly learn purple temperament you'd have to pick a new configuration. The colors lie in a wheel and the possible configurations you take limit how many you can learn and which ones. To learn Purple, you'd have to either drop Blue and add Green to your configuration, or drop Yellow and Blue to learn Orange. And yes, the more colors in your configuration the less power can go to each one, otherwise every Aura user would just take as many colors as possible.
DAISY: You're already doing so well with Red-Blue-Yellow! And doing all of this just to learn Purple, a color you'd have a much harder time to learn, seems like it could be more work than it's worth.

>>928439
>>928453
Honestly you kind of didn't expect Daisy to respond for so long, so you do have time to leg it more down the cave, Even with the extra weight from Daisy Bell you manage to get some distance. Doing anything other than running Aether energy through an armored leg isn't quite as fast. When Daisy realizes you're still on the move, you can hear the amount of bouncing in the cave increase. She's throwing even more than before, there are so many you can't tell how many or bouncing and ricocheting.

>Check to see how far away the entrance is.
With the extra distance you got distracting Daisy and using your Caesura to speed you up again you're actually quite close. Now that you think about it, the fact that the apples have more room to bounce now means they can gather more energy as they hit the ground, the impact will probably be stronger than the ones before!

>If you can heighten your perceptions somehow to predict where the apples will go, this will be a lot easier. Hearing or sight would work.
You focus onto your hearing to try and get a better read on the apples behind you at the cost of your speed. At first all you can hear sounds like rushing water, but soon your hearing clears and you can tell where the apples are hitting the cave walls. It's not as random as it was before, the spacing between the impacts on the rock is steady instead of random. None of them are bouncing, they're all ricocheting off the walls in a pattern!

>>928496
Find the pattern, thread the needle and dodge them all. Stand still to focus if it'll help.

>>928496
>Honestly you kind of didn't expect Daisy to respond for so long
Roland, let’s be honest, if she wanted to stop you, she would’ve stopped you already. She’s being nice and going easy on you. That’s why she responded for so long.

>you're actually quite close.
You’ve almost passed the test!

>None of them are bouncing, they're all ricocheting off the walls in a pattern!
Find the pattern and disrupt it!

Or you could attempt to have the shockwave push you the rest of the way out.

>>928498
Wouldn’t that be bad?

Daisy told us her attacks are at will, so if we’re in the middle of all the apples she’s thrown, she’ll activate them all and we’ll get caught in the middle of the shockwave from all of them.

It’s still a better idea than what I’ve got, so we can try it if you want.

>>928505
She has to see Roland to know when to activate the apple's gravity slam.

>>928513
Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. She can see him right now, right?

>>928544
Dust.

>>928498
this but standing still is bad juju

>>928559
Oh, I thought the dust had settled already.

>>928498
This.

>>928572
Nope, it's still there.

If you can predict where the apples are going, you could use a small oblique caesura to deflect them just enough to avoid hitting you.

Heretic 2019/04/04(Thu)14:13 No. 928669 ID: a451fc
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>>928498
>>928586
You stand still to focus on where the apples are going. At the same time you turn around and make a shield to defend yourself from the attack if it's coming toward you.

The apples ricocheting off of the walls burst through the dust in front of you clearing it away, next Daisy chucks another Daisy Bell apple at you, luckily it connects with your shield and doesn't effect it. What's more worrying is that the ricocheting apples have passed right by you. From the look of it they're going straight for the mouth of the cave.

You're so close to getting out of here. If those apples somehow cave in the entrance you'll be stuck here!

Maybe you can throw some apples back at her somehow? Make a slingshot with your aura and catch an apple?

>>928669
>Apples have passed by you
>They might collapse the entrance!
Then you've gotta stop the apples, you've gotta dig your way out after the entrance had collapsed, or you've gotta dash straight through all of the apples!

Heretic 2019/04/04(Thu)19:06 No. 928692 ID: a451fc
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>>928671
>>928673
You decide to attempt to throw the apples back at Daisy, possibly by making your Caesura barrier stretchy enough to fling it back after you catch it. Your rush forward to catch up with the apples and surround them in an elastic barrier. You manage to trap them stopping the opening from being destroyed, but Daisy still activates the energy in the apples sending them down and while you're still attached to the barrier flinging you forward and out of the cave entirely.

After a tumble and a collision with a tree Daisy exits the cave to meet up with you lying on the ground and slightly concussed.

DAISY: Oh man that was great! I though I had you there for a minute...You okay buddy?

>>928692
I taste all the colors of aura!

Raise a single hand with a thumbs up.

>>928692
>flinging you forward and out of the cave entirely.
Good news, you passed the test!

>After a tumble and a collision with a tree
>lying on the ground and slightly concussed.
Bad news, it hurt like hell!

>Oh man that was great! I though I had you there for a minute...You okay buddy?
“I’ll be fine. Just give me a few minutes and maybe find someone that specializes in green temperament to heal me up.”

“.....hey, were there always two of you?”

After you recover a little, ask her what she would’ve done if you had chosen to run past her first, instead of the number thing? Would she have thrown rocks at you instead of apples?

Then ask if she can give you a recommendation on what to go for next on Flint’s shopping list? The crystal clear water to the south or the beast that’s further under the forest? And ask if she can give you better directions than what Flint told you?

>>928699
Yeah, say this!

>>928692
Well that's new, I didn't think Caesura could stretch. Definitely a useful technique.

Tell her you're good. Then dust yourself off and get moving, you're on a time limit here.

>>928724
Well, maybe caesura couldn't stretch... we're not working with caesura anymore, we're working with aether constructs we've based on caesura because that's what we're used to. Now that we're working under our own power and our own rules, it's going to be a lot more difficult but our options are going to get a whole lot wider for it. The future looks pretty exciting.

For the present, if you hit your head, check it's not bleeding, confirm that current events make sense to you, and make sure you can stand up straight. A quick check to make sure you're good to go before you get back on the trial trail.

Heretic 2019/04/05(Fri)04:49 No. 928752 ID: a451fc
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YOU: I can taste...ALL the colors of the aura...
DAISY: Oh it wasn't that bad you're not even bleeding!...Well not externally anyway. All in all you did a pretty good job!

You rise from the ground, not too badly hurt just dazed. You ask if Daisy can tell you anything else about where to go.

DAISY: Nope! I don't even know what Flint want's from you aside from the apples here. So, just do your best 'kay? I can't wait to see you improve!

You wave goodbye to Daisy and re-enter the forest. You have the apple, now you need the Water to the south and to face the Beast underground.

Where do you want to go first?

Water sounds safer so it may be the hardest

Nice magical gloves that change colors you got there!
Let's get the water first.

Face the beast., Remember, we have to haul the water back and have been given no tools to do so. We might have to haule it in a Ceasura. Let's not hamstring our self during the beast fight.

>>928752
Suddenly red gloves!

>>928752
Face the beast.

>>928752
>Where do you want to go first?
Let’s go get the water in the south.

Check your belt to see if Flint gave you anything other than that compass. He might’ve also given you a container to hold the water when you find it.

And since Daisy said that Flint likes his food to be basically inedible, don’t be surprised if the crystal clear water you’re looking for ends up tasting terrible.

Hopefully Flint got another person to test you standing near the water, otherwise you might not be able to find it! You need the training, so running into another person can only help you.

>>928757
>no tools
Considering we had a compass in the belt that Flint gave us, it might be best to check the belt for some kind of container before claiming we don’t have anything to carry the water.

>>928763
Ok Then.
Check belt.
If belt contains canteen get water.
Else go beast.

>>928752
Tis time to face the beast!

Face the beast!

1/2 Heretic 2019/04/05(Fri)18:13 No. 928779 ID: a451fc
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>>928758
That's just your concussion playing tricks on you

>Water
After checking your pouches for something to carry the water with and finding a water-ski you head south to look for the water Flint wants.

The entire forest is almost silent as you trek through it. Most of the things living here are insects, a few of them are even demonic! Like this little centipede demon! You hold your hand out to let the bug crawl onto it.

YOU: Hey little guy!...you're not poisonous right? probably not.

A little part of you thought that taking up the mantle as a "demonologist" was kind of a knee-jerk reaction to what happened to your dad, but the more you look at and record demons the more enjoy it on it's own.

YOU: Now what do you do little guy?

Almost as if the demonic bug could understand you, the centipede's body extends with frightening speed and snatches a beetle out of the air. Wrapping around it's body around it and eating it.

YOU: Oh that's cool...I'm gonna call you a Lassopede, good thing Flint didn't take my journal!

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After some time walking through the woods recording what you can about the newfound lassopede you finally reach the stream. You also place the lassopede in an empty pouch on your belt for later.

There doesn't seem to be anyone else around. Out of curiosity for the taste, you reach a hand down to cup some water into your mouth, but when your hands near the water the liquid parts and moves away from you. No matter how fast you move the water always eludes you...

our new friend is adorable

also can you make a bowl or hell even just an small shield and pick the water up that way and poor it into the water skin?

>>928781
Pretty much this.

Also... What happens if you recreate the symbols used in the binding scrolls around Lassopede with a Ceasura?

>>928780
This should be pretty easy, just capture some inside a caesura then press the waterskin to it and put an opening there to pour it in.

Ok, try to use aura to catch some of it.

>>928779
>Lassopede
Kinda reminds you of Gwyn‘s right arm, doesn’t it?

>>928780
>water moves away from hands
Try using Aether Sight, aka blue aura in your eye, so you can attempt to see anything strange with the water.

Maybe it doesn’t want you to touch it because you’re dirty and the water wants to keep itself crystal clear?

>others saying use aura to scoop water into the water-skin
Yeah, seems like the most reasonable thing to do.

1/2 Heretic 2019/04/05(Fri)23:22 No. 928818 ID: a451fc
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>Kinda reminds you of Gwyn‘s right arm, doesn’t it?
Yeah, it sort of does. Something to think about when you get home. There might be some connection if you could get a better look Gwyn's arm, did you ever figure out where she lived?

>Use Caesura
You try to enclose some water in a barrier, but again the stream moves to avoid it. Even before you make the caesura the water moves almost like it knows when and where you're going to create it.

2/2 Heretic 2019/04/05(Fri)23:23 No. 928819 ID: a451fc
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As you sit thinking about how this river works and how you can possibly get the water you hear foot steps coming from behind you. From out of the forest a man walks toward the stream, cup in one hand and a bag in the other. He looks kind of out of it, like he hasn't slept in a while. He drops his bag and dips his cup into the stream without any trouble, the water acts normally and fills the tin mug. When he's done he looks at you.

???: Oh sorry, it's just I needed water for my coffee is all. You don't mind if I brew it here do you? This is such a nice clearing.

Before you can answer he already sits down and unzips the bag he brought with him.

WICK: Name's Wick, and it kinda looks like you're havin' a bit of trouble with the water here. It's tricky like that.

>>928819
You think the water avoids aura? Maybe put a bowl or something in and back off?

If it's avoiding aura including what's in your body then just putting a bowl down won't help, it'll jump out of the bowl when we approach.
Instead, Roland would have to try to empty his body of aura so that the water can't sense him. I expect other aura-users would have a hard time sensing Roland too.

Also Roland should introduce himself.

>>928821
Putting the bowl in is more of a test than an actual attempt to gather it. I don't want us to waste our aura if we don't have to, that could harm us for all we know. But there might be spots where our aura leaks from that we could try to patch up. Getting rid of our best weapon in a fight seems like a bad idea.

>>928819
Introduce yourself and ask if he’s got any advice on how you can get the water.

>>928821
>empty body of aura
I think it’s more about camouflaging the aura instead of getting it out of our body.

>>928818
>Figure out where Gwyn lived?
I don't think you did.

>>928819
>Can't get water
>Wick easily gets water
Ask him if he can help you get some water?

>>928845
We already watched him get the water.

>>928855
She said her job involved camping in the wasteland for long stretches of time, so I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't actually have a home. At least, not a static one.

Say the water doesnt like you.