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393082 No. 393082 ID: e82d4b

You awake under a pile of splintered wood and plank. The air is mostly silent, hearing only the dead whistle of faint wind. Your leg is sore and your head is pounding.
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No. 393083 ID: 1854db

Push wood.
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No. 393085 ID: e82d4b
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393085

>>393083
Dazed, you do your best to try and shove some wood out of the way, a few broken pieces fall away. The rest of the pile creaks dangerously.
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No. 393090 ID: e82d4b
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393090

Shoving a bit more wood away, you manage to create an exit. You cautiously peak your head out to try and find any sign of hostile or friendly life. The coast seems clear.
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No. 393095 ID: ed57e8

shake your head a little to help clear your vision.
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No. 393096 ID: e82d4b
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393096

>>393095
It doesn't seem to help much. It mostly just makes your head hurt more.
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No. 393097 ID: ed57e8

okay then. get out and look around some.
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No. 393100 ID: e82d4b
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393100

>>393097
You crawl out of the mess, surveying the scene around you. It looks like your camp.. Or at least, what's left of it, after-... You can't really remember. You can't remember much of anything, actually.
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No. 393103 ID: ed57e8

is that water? go get a drink.
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No. 393105 ID: 1854db

Check the contents of your pockets.
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No. 393106 ID: 0d7a83

>>393100
Well first thing to do is check your injuries out.
Are you bleeding? Can you stand on your leg?
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No. 393113 ID: e82d4b
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393113

>>393105
I don't have pockets.
>>393106
I can stand, and limp. It's a deep gash on my left ankle, nothing I can't patch up. My head, though..
>>393103
It is. I don't have a canister or anything though. I guess I could j-...
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No. 393114 ID: e82d4b
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393114

I notice my reflection in the water. I'm a kobold. I can assume based on my clothes I am male. I still can't remember anything else, though. My head looks pretty bad.

This water is too dirty to drink.
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No. 393115 ID: ed57e8

dang. try to think, do you have a well or river? go to there for water.
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No. 393120 ID: e82d4b
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393120

>>393115
If we do, I wouldn't remember. I'm not very thirsty right now anyway, and it looks like there's more pressing matters.

My vision is growing slowly worse.
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No. 393124 ID: 1854db

>>393120
Call out, ask if anyone is around. That you need help.
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No. 393127 ID: ed57e8

the water is more to clean out your wounds. take shelter and pass back out.
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No. 393128 ID: e82d4b
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393128

>>393124
No real effect. I secretly hope nobody heard that, you never know who you can trust..
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No. 393129 ID: e82d4b
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393129

>>393127
I might not have time to find shelter.
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No. 393132 ID: ed57e8

that hole thing you came out of, it isn't much but it looks sorta like a shelter.
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No. 393133 ID: e82d4b
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393133

>>393132
It's too unstable to be worth it. I'd be safer out here, without the possibility of being crushed.

I can't feel my feet.
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No. 393134 ID: e82d4b
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393134

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No. 393135 ID: e82d4b
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393135

...
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No. 393138 ID: e82d4b
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393138

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No. 393139 ID: e82d4b
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393139

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No. 393140 ID: e82d4b
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393140

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No. 393142 ID: e82d4b
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393142

I'm awake.
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No. 393144 ID: ed57e8

sit up and look around.
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No. 393145 ID: 252e1b

>>393142

How's your leg and head? What's around you? Anyone nearby?
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No. 393148 ID: 6e44d2

Look around.
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No. 393149 ID: 369d34

>>393142
Check your head and leg, and sit up slowly, in case you get a dizzy spell. ...Were you crying?

Since you're alive and not stuffed in a cage, whoever you encounter here is almost certainly friendly, or at least not hostile.
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No. 393150 ID: e82d4b
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393150

>>393149
I feel fine, as if it's just a really bad bruise. I can see straight again too.

...Manly tears.
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No. 393151 ID: e82d4b
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393151

>>393145
>>393148
I don't see anyone. This place is not familiar.
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No. 393152 ID: ed57e8

well whoever lives here took care of you, call out again.
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No. 393154 ID: e82d4b
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393154

>>393152
It looks like there's no need.
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No. 393157 ID: e82d4b
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393157

I think she's an elf. What should I say?
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No. 393161 ID: 1854db

>>393157
Ask where you are, who they are, and thank them for saving you. Also maybe introduce yourself.
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No. 393164 ID: 252e1b

"Arr matey, be ye the winsome lass that the great pie-rat no-beard be owin' his life to?"
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No. 393167 ID: e82d4b
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393167

>>393161
>>393164
She says she's relieved I'm alright, and explains my camp was attacked. She and her friends found me after hearing a yell in the distance.

She says her name is Tariel, and she's an explorer who travels around destroyed towns, deserted homes, looting what she can and finding interesting things to keep as souvenirs.

I thank her for rescuing me and do a pirate impression to lighten the mood. She smiles weakly and asks if my head feels alright.
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No. 393168 ID: 12c19f

>>393167
Ask for a mirror to acknowledge your awesome scar.
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No. 393170 ID: ed57e8

a little sore but alright it seems.
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No. 393172 ID: e82d4b
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393172

I tell her my head feels fine. She asks me her name.

I-... I don't know.
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No. 393175 ID: ed57e8

you are tuna. obviously named after the big fish someone else in the village caught around the time you were born.
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No. 393176 ID: 12c19f

>>393175
I figured that was the author.

I say your name is Snippet due to your shaky past and scar.
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No. 393182 ID: e82d4b
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393182

>>393176
I like it. I jump up dramatically and swiftly and yell "I AM SNIPPET, CONQUEROR OF STUFF."

She jumps back, clearly alarmed by my fierce bravery and power.
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No. 393183 ID: 365adf

(That's a she?)

Calm down, don't incite something.
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No. 393185 ID: e82d4b
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393185

I then sit back down because that really hurt my leg.
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No. 393186 ID: e82d4b
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393186

>>393183
happy?
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No. 393188 ID: ed57e8

>>393186
he ment hair. but whatevs.

anyway, ask if they have a crutch or cane.
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No. 393189 ID: e82d4b
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393189

I catch myself yawning. She asks me if there's anything else I need. I say some sleep would be nice.
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No. 393190 ID: e82d4b
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393190

End of session. Thread will continue tomorrow!
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No. 393191 ID: 12c19f

>>393189
Some rest would be nice. You're clearly emotional and delusional from what just happened. When you wake up see about asking Tariel what happened to your home.
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No. 393208 ID: b9d767

Crazy flashback dream sequence is go!
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No. 393234 ID: e82d4b
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393234

>>393208
I'm in a dark hallway.
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No. 393235 ID: e82d4b
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393235

There's a door and a corner to turn.
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No. 393282 ID: e82d4b

>>393235
Look through the keyhole on the door. If there isn't one try to look under.
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No. 393286 ID: e82d4b
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393286

>>393282
There's no keyhole, and it's flush against the ground. The door is completely plain. I can't even tell what it's made of.
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No. 393312 ID: 98ae60

>>393286
At the end of the hallway- was that a window or a painting?
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No. 393317 ID: e82d4b
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393317

>>393312
Neither. It appears to be a plaque.

[i]A sub-reality undefinable between time and space, where moving forward makes you see what you could not before. But remember, time can not go backwards.
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No. 393346 ID: 1854db

>>393317
That sounds confusing. Let's just open the door instead.
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No. 393358 ID: e82d4b
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393358

>>393346
There's three switches on the wall, each with numbers. Is that bl-... I don't really want to know. Another plaque sits above the switches.

“Threads streaming down a black woven dress of thought and uncertainty, each with a corresponding emotion and reaction.”

There's a window at the top left. The air feels lighter somehow.
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No. 393383 ID: 1854db

>>393358
uhhhhh... try the 11 switch.
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No. 393390 ID: e82d4b
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393390

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No. 393393 ID: e82d4b
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393393

Click.

The instant I pull down, pain shoots through my head. The air begins to feel heavier again.
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No. 393398 ID: 1854db

Dang, pull it back up and try the middle one.
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No. 393428 ID: e82d4b
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393428

>>393398
No need. As soon as I pull it it sinks back into the wall. The sensation fades away after a few seconds.

Click.

This time I feel only a cool breeze on my face. The air feels lighter again. But I can just barely smell smoke.
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No. 393431 ID: ed57e8

memories. the 11 was the last one. you getting your head hit and blacking out. this is number one. a dragon attacked. it's wings made the breeze.

pull the last one.
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No. 393438 ID: e82d4b
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393438

>>393431
I go to pull the third lever, but as soon as I reach for it a horrible yell fills the room, the wind irritates my eyes and makes my ears flail back.
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No. 393440 ID: e82d4b
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393440

I jerk awake.
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No. 393447 ID: 1854db

Can you remember what happened, now?
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No. 393451 ID: e82d4b
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393451

>>393447
Sort of... It's all really hazy. I remember someone screaming and running away from something big and loud and black and mean an-

shudder

I'd rather not think about this right now.
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No. 393457 ID: 1854db

Ok, let's wander around the building a bit, then. Go out into the hall.
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No. 393458 ID: 832169

You leave this room right now and go find you a weapon son
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No. 393460 ID: 88e5ad

remember anything from before the attack?

stand up and explore the house.
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No. 393462 ID: e82d4b
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393462

>>393460
No, not really. You know as much as me.
>>393457
>>393458
There really isn't much in this room. I'll carry on down the hall.
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No. 393463 ID: e82d4b
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393463

I enter what looks like a tavern. I can s-

>"Ixen!!"
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No. 393465 ID: e82d4b
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393465

>"Oh Ix I'm so happy to see you I thought you were dead I saw your house collapse when the d-"

who are you and my name is snippet
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No. 393467 ID: 832169

No your name is Ixen
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No. 393468 ID: ed57e8

you have two names now. ixen snippet. to names means you are important. show her the head wound mark and say you got hit too hard so you don't remember.
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No. 393469 ID: c4a1fc

>>393465
That was a temporary name. Looks like it's Ixen now. This thing might be a liar somehow. Be paranoid. Be alert.
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No. 393472 ID: e82d4b
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393472

>>393469
>>393468
>>393467

>"Y-.. You don't remember me?"

I'm sorry. I don't remember anything before what happened to the camp.

She explains to me how we've best friends for two of our three years alive. She couldn't sleep last night because she thought I was dead. Tariel took care of her until she was ready to go back out there, but she comes in to relax every now and then.

..How long has it been since the camp was destroyed?

>"About a week."
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No. 393473 ID: e82d4b
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393473

Session will continue at 7 PM Central on Sunday. Save your tabs!
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No. 393475 ID: ed57e8

you don't need to session this. things wont fall off the board for.. a few months.
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No. 393481 ID: 1854db

Sessions are cool anyway.

>>393472
Ask what destroyed the camp.
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No. 393529 ID: e82d4b
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393529

"A WEEK? I've been out lying in a bed for a WEEK?"

>"Look, you've been through a lot. Why don't we sit down, I'll get you a punch."
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No. 393531 ID: e82d4b
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393531

>"...I like your scar."

"Thanks. I like your burn."

>"Thanks."

This conversation isn't very substantial.

"I think I remember seeing something at the camp.. What attacked us?"

She flinches slightly as she remembers.

>"It was a dragon."

"Wh- a dragon?! That's impossible! They went extinct thousands of years ago, they're a thing of myth!

>"They WERE. But I didn't get my shoulder seared by a myth."

"Wow, uh.. So what's your name?"

It saddens her I don't already know.

>"Lia."
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No. 393534 ID: e82d4b

>>393475
Yeah, I guess. Just playing it safe.
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No. 393537 ID: 1854db

>>393531
Ask what you used to do together. And what the village was like.
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No. 393539 ID: e82d4b
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393539

She laughs and smiles.

>"We used to play hide and seek for hours on end to see which of us got the last fish. The place was alive and bustling with markets and trading and everyone chipped in to help build a new house and there were parties when there was a baby... I miss it, Ix. This place has everything bigger and better except the people. You'd never find a kobold back home who'd want to hurt you or sell you something illegal or steal from you or berate you for being a sub-human. I mean they're not all like that, but there's some real jerks here."
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No. 393544 ID: 1854db

>>393539
Huh. Maybe we should go beat those jerks up!

Actually, ask about what the nice people are like here. What sort of folks are around? All elves?
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No. 393549 ID: e82d4b
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393549

>"Elves, humans, goblins.. You name it, and it lives here. And has a black market for slaves and trafficking."
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No. 393553 ID: 1854db

That sounds like something we should worry about actually. Perhaps you two should stick together.
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No. 393556 ID: e82d4b
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393556

Friends become allies, teammates in fighting crime. Or perhaps just survivalists.
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No. 394400 ID: ed57e8

now look for breakfast
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No. 394480 ID: e82d4b
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394480

>>394400
I'm in an inn, so it's not hard.

That sandwich was really good.
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No. 394490 ID: ed57e8

good good, you need your energy. now we need a direction... anyone around looking for two bolds?
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No. 394498 ID: e82d4b
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394498

>>394490
>"Not that I know of. And if they were, they'd be looking to buy slaves. Hey, we're in the middle of a market. Here's 50 gold, go get something to defend yourself."

She hands me a hefty bag under the table.

"Whoa, how'd you make all this?

She gives me an odd look and says she'll explain later.
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No. 394499 ID: ed57e8

untrained in combat? shortsword.
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No. 394511 ID: e82d4b
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394511

I walk outside. This place seems big.
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No. 394512 ID: e82d4b
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394512

I go in the nearest weapons shop I can find. Various items are hung lazily on the wall.
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No. 394515 ID: ed57e8

are they scaled for you? if so then that short sword and shield. if you have enough left get the bow set for lia
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No. 394518 ID: 369d34

>>394515
Skip buying weapons for Lia. You don't even know what she's good at using. She certainly has her own weapons, anyway.

Pick up a short sword and shield. Also, perhaps a kobold sized dagger if you have some money left over. It's good to have a backup weapon.
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No. 394526 ID: e82d4b

...AND THEN MY TABLET BROKE.
Replacing as soon as possible.
Gah.
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No. 394543 ID: 252e1b

>>394526
Draw with your mouse
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No. 394681 ID: 88e5ad

crossbows and boldlings go excellent together.

granted, I'm talking about the reptilian, tailed, usually lawful evil kind of kobolds, but still.
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