>>1101584
Would.

>Maybe it'll be funnier if you find out yourself.
My guess is his grease is a potent universal aphrodisiac.

>>1101588
>I can't be near anything from the Blot! I have a condition!
We should probably let her know in advance that Glass-Folds-Nine-Circles is also Blot-touched and has others with him and might be one of our potential allies here, because we met and talked in a dream.

In the interest of full disclosure with our mechic.

>>1101590
>diplomat
Softfoot is cute and adorably naive, it's endearing to anything with any kind of empathic neurology.

Anyways we should probably analyze that blotgrease more vigorously while we wait for them to get back with the shrooms.

>>1101584
>some other time
He's saying you're repressed, because he believes that all beings have reproductive urges. (and we've seen evidence that it's true, too)
>reproduction is a threat
Uh. No. FAST reproduction is a threat. Constructs made of Shapeless material could cause a runaway planet-eating reaction like that but I don't think Blot-created beings such as him are like that. The Blot makes things that are... similar to what they appear to be, and he doesn't appear to be Shapeless, does he?

>>1101588
>Li.ni.si can't be near Blotlings
>you have Blotling residue on your hand
You have to do something about that. Ah shit, which hand did she touch? I really hope it wasn't your contaminated one.

>>1101589
"lordling" is probably referring to you being created directly by a Lord, yes. It's a sign that you've been given preferential treatment and thus do not understand the struggles of more commonly-born constructs. Seems like you really don't.

>>1101590

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>>1101611

To be fair, reproduction that can go exponential or super-exponential in ways that ignore the main barriers to continued growth at that scale is a threat, even if it is relatively slow. Mostly, a lot depends on how the beings reproduce, what constraints there are, what ways they can take from their environment to enable reproduction, what possible costs or others their actions cause etc. etc. It's not really an easy problem to pin down.

Ka.ga.ta may be a sleaze, but I for one would rather not pollute our thoughts of him with murder conspiracies. He's an ally of Glass and the criai, who we preferably do not want as enemies.

Besides, it's not like he consented to My.a juicing him up on eldritch particles. If we've got a thought percolating to try and find a way for Va.ne.tu to not be executed for the crime of existing, we might as well afford Ka.ga.ta the same consideration.

>>1101614
Yeah but here's the thing: I don't think blotlings can reproduce without limit like that. They need to eat!

Charm, looking good in a sweater, and innuendos. Is the kneady girl ready to heat things up in the kitchen?

>>1101583
How did he seduce her in the first place actually? His good boy thats baaadd energy perhaps that subtle fix me allure

Wear the shock to showcase your solidarity towards dogs and their brutal oppression.

Reasure her you'd never own a dog. Unprompted.
Adressing the issue before she even asks will prove her your sincerity.

Time to bust out some of that old knowledge. Favorite foods, favorite drinks and such. Lots of sincere attention and goofy smiles that won her over the first time.

Wear fake boobs

I think maybe you have to wonder how portals lock to their relative point on the world's surface? Technically they move anyway - this is a problem that should already be solved if you make a long distance portal across the curve, or from a low altitude to a high one. Perhaps it's been baked in to the most fundamental calculations? Or something to do with the perceptions of the portal's creator?

>>1101594

The only way to accomplish it is from a point not too far above the lunar surface, and adjust the far gate's configuration to have an exit velocity equal to the moon's orbit ... but also in the same direction of travel, as otherwise those forces will compound tremendously.

Basically it's the equivalent of stepping off a platform and onto a moving cart passing underneath, compared to launching yourself so as to land upon it at an apparent standstill.

Gabe has got a LOT of math to do.

>>1101601
while portals DO move, assuming the planet itself does, they don't in respect to eachother I *think*. for all I know that's just a limit with the math used though

>>1101594
Question: can you orient the portal so that the velocity is "upwards", allowing gravity to slow you down, at which point you use portals to get back near the surface?

Your best bet would be to create supply drops. Use portal magic to send spherical capsules containing supplies, mana, and the components you need to construct another, stronger capsule for the ride back. Now that you don't have a timer, you could plan this expedition out over decades, sending materials to the moon until there's enough to build a lunar base three times over.

But yeah, I think the direction to go with Heartbeat's son is to try to make it look like that Iron Dredge sent Ramming Rage not to offer a deal with us like a hero would do, but more to start a conflict with us.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/12/23(Mon)03:43 No. 1101529 ID: 9246cb
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Put in the mind of Heartbeat that Dredge wants to kill him.

B) Tell Heartbeat that Dredge wants to kill him.

C) Other suggestions.

Dredge is threatening to tattle? Well dead men tell no tales... Living in fear of reprisal is living on your knees. When a greater threat shows itself petty squabbles lead to ruin and downfall. What you do in the face of such things is not divide by petty things but set aside feuds and unite. Dredge will never see that because he is a mercenary loyal to coin while we are leaders with homes and people to defend. (Pivot to rage who did have a home to defend and thus attempted to avoid the land's curse affecting his home at all costs?)

It is better for him to conclude that he is being marked for death than for us to tell him that, so Gray put that idea in his head.

https://questden.org/kusaba/questdis/res/140583.html#143199

A Christmas present for all the participants of the Rotten Apple Quest.

>>1101534
If it's the source of the breeze, they may be doing what we were considering with the sails and the wind magic for propulsion.

We should prepare a combat spell in case we need to defend ourselves.

Spell suggestion: Stream + Breeze + Harm, to hose down enemies with a battering stream of water like a fire hose. Stream for the substance, Breeze to compress the water so it doesn't scatter before it hits the target, harm to give the impact force. It should cause less collateral damage to our island than a fire blast.

>>1101536
Fern, you did a wonderful job there while silv rested.
Well done.

...what IS that thing...
Lot of light coming off it...
That is definitely something that itd be better to check out before its colliding with us.

We need a spell that would form some kind of wall or shield. Stream to start, with Gale to spread it out and Ice for solidity.

Something that can repel what they throw at us without being hostile ourselves.

>>1101536
I guess we'd better go out there and intercept it. We wouldn't want it to crash into our island, and if it doesn't do that then it'll fly past us and we'd lose the chance to interact with it at all.

First thing's first, we need to prevent a collision.

Cast the following spell upon the Manapulse nexus.

[Static]-[Eldritch]-[Tremor]

[Eldritch] will be the core of the spell and will be modified by [Tremor] and [Static] to focus and make efficient its capabilities.

In essence this spell is a ward.

When casting the spell the castor must designate the target to be warded. It must be either an object made of stone or a landmass containing large amounts of stone.

The warded object will be passively surrounded by a detection zone equal to ten times its total area in size.

The Detection zone is linked to a trigger. The trigger condition is a single stone object or landmass entering the detection zone with at least 10% or greater the amount of mass as the warded object.

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oh also we should tell the veilgaol,
"Hey Veilgaol, Glaive left a note telling us to fuck Veil?? is Veil into cute lil fops like Dez?"

Voting in support of sharing the full note from [Glaive] with Veilgeol or maybe even with [Veil] herself. I'm thinking [Glaive] left it intentionally vague so we couldnt spill anything important even if we wanted to. So the wise thing to do would probably be to foster trust with [Veil] and the geol.

In the next few minutes we should be able to talk it out with [Veil] but soon after we'll need to manage Lilio's oncoming freakout as well as whatever Vitto might try to play at. I propose that Lilio is best dealt with alone or over text since having a terrified quick trying to get user [Dez] out of this situation however he can could cause some Problems. [Vittorio] ought not to be a danger so long as we're near [Veil] as it's well established that he expects his head chopped if he interferes with her.

This is all too much at once for a system that was very recently (still is?) in extreme danger. Can we just sit in this moment for a bit? Really savour and carefully log the warmth, the closeness. I just want to process and hardcode this for a bit so I can pull it up again whenever we might need it.
Someone more adventurous/with a sense of humour should try to see if part of our "travel" capabilities extend to [BIKKY] though. Could be useful, but more importantly it could be funny. Just make sure not to break it, user [DEZ] would likely be upset by that and we don't need that souring this moment.

>>1101540
Now there's an idea, will the little thing have enough processing power to support some of us though?

vit pit.

disregard that.

can't believe glaive spent several whole lines on Be Good Be Normal and only put a "hopefully" re: us remembering anything. not remembering anything makes Good and Normal totally incomprehensible.

>>1101454
I agree with everything said here.

I trust a bunch of us are going to record in detail this situation and sensation. the imagery is fantastic, after all.

but let's travel, or figure out where we can travel anyway. who else wants to come nose around in every direction to see where we can go?

Give her the hadouken

Fire punch!

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/12/24(Tue)04:16 No. 1101573 ID: 9246cb
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A) Show her no mercy.

B) Accept her surrender.

It is too little and too late for apology, time to go all out on her ass. She earned a good beating.

That's your friend right? You can't beat her after she gives up.

But you can tickle her until she really surrenders.

C. What if you hid in a rock that she tossed into the camp, and attacked them from the rear?

Go for a good old reliable ambush.

C, Prepare an ambush and be ready to cover Herocea's weaknesses. Don't let them run her off again.

C sounds best to me.

D. Herocea's failed to overcome these harpies before, your job is considered complete if they cannot pursue her.

Silence 2024/12/20(Fri)07:21 No. 1101409 ID: ed041d
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You return to base, where shall you head to first? You still have the Mech Arm after all.

>>1101409
tell the handler about arm and where you should put it

>>1101411
Do this

Head to the bar while your mech gets repaired

Need to stash the arm in the garage, hide it in plain sight with a little disguising.

>>1101423

Leaning a sign against it that says "NOT the arm of Red Mask" should suffice.

Wow, so this entire universe is one big Space Australia? And now Space Australia has become its own oppressive empire.

And now we have to wonder what became of the conquerors.

"So, that's it then. What the Phenocosm fears most is the empire which accidentally created it - because they would see us, and everyone in this universe, as one big mistake to be... corrected. Again. How can you guarantee that you won't accidentally give the universe-colonists enough intel to find out about their reborn universe and 'reclaim' it all for themselves?"

Hold out your hand.

"It would be hypocrisy for me to try and convince you to abandon this obsession just to be my big sister, when you helped build an entire universe on the hope that you might see your parents again. But that's exactly why our choice can't be cut-and-dry, why it has to be complicated and weird. You're as much my family as your parents are, this universe is as much a part of you as your home was, and you can't abandon us both without risking your conviction break apart."

Grasp.

"So we have to get freaky. Merge part of your soul with mine. Part of you has to be with me forever... and part of you has to leave forever. Find the rest of your family, tell them all that you accomplished and how they helped make what we did possible. You have to be two to be you; it's messed up, but so are post-universe colonists. And if I have to... part of me should go with you."

>>1101327

Considering everything she knows and what she's been through, I don't think we ever HAD a chance to fight her.

Let's submit. Better to have her on our side, an actual founder of the phenocosm, than fight what's starting to sound like a battle we were already set up to lose.

Hmmm... I'd like to confirm she's telling the truth by reading her full memories. Plus, let's face it, a super-powered combat scene has been a long time coming.

[musical note symbol] Fighting tiiiiime! [/musical note symbol]

Her crime of defecting from the phenocosm is nothing compared to the crimes she had to endure. Can you really fight and turn her in after seeing all of what's she been through? Give your sister a hug and team up.

Her—crimes? You still haven't identified any crimes. It may be completely sensible to execute any memory artificers who try to retire, but it's convenient to keep that secret, and thus extralegal, and thus Pillet has broken no laws.

If Pillet is this... incomprehensibly ancient being older than the phenocosm itself, who helped create all the stars in the sky then the phenocosm has a duty to serve her, so serving her is doing the phenocosm's duty, which is doing your duty. There's only one problem with this that doesn't quite add up.

You are her sister. How old are you? Her parents didn't get taken through the rift, so you have to be immeasurably old too, don't you? Are you really her sister?

Radio 2024/12/21(Sat)17:16 No. 1101483 ID: d4d7d9
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>Jiggle the barrel a bit. Maybe you can guess what's in it from the sound.

Before moving onto other places of interest, you attempt to give the barrel a jiggle. It's quite difficult for a girl of your stature, given that you're a literal child and you could very well end up vending-machine style murdered, but you manage to give it a jostle without crushing yourself senseless.

Surprisingly, it doesn't sound like there's any liquid inside. Instead you hear a CLA-CLANG CLA-CLANG like something small and hard is banging around inside the drum. Though it's hard to tell, it sounds like it might be made of metal?

>Examine power panel closer.

You take a closer look at the panel. Hm.
The panel appears to be hanging on one screw that is somewhat loose, but the other three are still present in the plastic rectangle holding the buttons. Inside you see a mess of wires going every which way, though none appear to be broken or frayed. Instead, there looks to be two wires with odd rectangular plugs on their ends. They seem to lock together at their ends, but a big circular piece seems to be missing.

>Hotwire the switch!

You're not sure that you would be able to do that particularly well, even if these wires seemed like the kind that COULD be hotwired, which unfortunately they're not. Regardless, you are admittedly freaked out over the idea of becoming a fried little whisker girl.

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So we have doll, paperclip, yoyo... nothing was in the other box? So just those items... so we don't have anything to open the barrel or fix the circuit.
Check the terminal. Is it on, does typing do anything?

So someone sabotaged the switch. And in some haste it would seem, else they would have replaced the cover. Check the corners and under or behind everything in case they dropped the missing piece in their haste.

When that proves fruitless check out the console.

>They seem to lock together at their ends, but a big circular piece seems to be missing.

Maybe the missing cirrcular piece is the YOYO in our inventory? If not, maybe the paperclip could be twisted to hold the plugs together.

Might need to find an APPROPRIATELY SHAPED COIN to fix the switch. What is on the computer?

1/2 Nalthar 2024/12/20(Fri)17:23 No. 1101421 ID: 6c233e
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You grab her wrist. "Red? That must be what hexed me! The beast let out a cloud of the stuff right before the visions started."

Lisel's grin only widens. "And you brought me samples? Ah, you spoil me friend." She slides her free hand back into her coat's wide cuff and whips out several vials. Scraping them through your fur, she soon has three packed full of the vivid dust. The strange materiel glitters dully in the harsh lamplight. Stowing them away in her sleeve, she examines her other hand. "Hmm, no effect from skin contact. It must need to be breathed in. Hmm, yes, and from there it would enter the blood, and from blood the brain. This might have some usefulness to us, seeing as the glow-eyed ones seem to be controlled via their brains."

Surrep stalks over "How do you know that Lisel? You didn't practice that 'anatomy' did you? To butcher an animal is a sin Lisel!" The little chemist's enthusiasm falters, and she scrambles to defend herself. "No no, it wasn't that at all! Before, in the washroom, it-" "There was a fight." You interject "Before we met up. A bat attacked us, and it ended up getting it's head caved in. There were a lot of... wires."

Your family is somewhat more pragmatic on these matters, but you know many woods families take the proscription on hunting one's fellow animals very seriously. It may be the biggest taboo in the forest. So it is with relief that you see Surrep calm, her ire fading back into her normal more dour expression. "Very well then. If you think this powder can be used against them then investigate, you'll have my family's support. Let us retire for the evening, we can talk more when we are safe."

2/2 Nalthar 2024/12/20(Fri)17:23 No. 1101422 ID: 6c233e
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The three of you make the trip back without incident. Through the dusty and gray library, out the broken window and through the snow. The storm has broken for the moment and a brilliant full moon makes the night almost pleasant, the crystalline glitter of the hard packed snow matching the stars above. You take a minute to rub handfuls of snow over yourself, ridding your fur and cloak of the maddening dust.

Inside the shed is a bustle of activity. The fire pit is surrounded by cooking fungos and the eager mice that tend them. A few rats standing nearby look over as Surrep enters. She gives them a surreptitious hand signal, they nod and head away, weaving through the crowd. Surrep turns to you "Get some food in you, then come to the shelf. There is much planning to be done." With that she follows the other rats, only pausing to gather a few roasted fungos from the fire.

Lisel hefts the mechanical heart you two pilfered earlier in her hands, safely hidden under ratty cloth. "I should get this secured above before anyone sees it. Before you join us, you should take your finds to the tinker shrews. They may be able to make something from them. Thanks again, for all your help today." She executes a little half bow, more of a deep nod, and scurries off.

Left alone, you look around the hubbub. Some faces stand out from the crowd. The aforementioned tinkers are sitting on the stoop of their wagon, chatting with passers by.
Jasper is sitting with Horace, who looks some the worse for wear.
Afton is walking around, stopping to talk to various folk. His hedgehog bulk making him easy to spot in the crowd.
That sorrowful bat from this morning is also moving anxiously through the crowd, shadowed by her, you assume, younger sibling.
There's a set of three beetlefolk just come into the shed behind you. You would be alarmed, but you remember Lisel mentioning them earlier. They seem to be carrying

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>>1101422
We should make a sketch of the spore-fungo with a warning not to breathe the spores, so that people will recognize it and know to hold their breath to avoid the hallucinations.
Talk to the tinkers, we've got business with them already.

First of all, what is this bullshit against the butchering of corpses, it isn't butchering it is research and you should encourage your science friend to do that no matter what others say. Knowledge is power and we need to know as much as we can. As for who we should visit, I just have to say to go to the almighty wagon. If I could I would make a religion over that object, that is how much I am fascinated by its existence.

Yes, heed Lisel's advice, and visit the shrews. They will be good people to know better, if we're seeking to best the master of the house without the home court advantage. If there's any time, I think it would be nice to say hello to Jasper and Horace, as well, and catch up with them.

I worry that being too bold in professing a desire to dissect any creature we come across may push us away from allies we cannot afford to lose. We may be sympathetic to Lisel's scientific efforts, but if it's known we're pushing for the whole den to abandon decency and plunge itself into barbarism, that may quickly put ourselves in need of another place to live. If there's any reassurance, it's that there is no desire to butcher for meat; we know well what happens when one eats the flesh of another. The desire is for knowledge, that would be pursued by dissection.

And a job well done. Remember to hydrate!

Toxoglossa 2024/12/19(Thu)20:08 No. 1101403 ID: 86847c
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Kol and Casey collapse on the bed, chuckling hoarsely as they gasp for breath. Beside them Gabe and Clio join in; laid out flat and stacked on top of one another. Exhaustion finally sweeps over them, sapping the last of their strength as the toll of the day is exacted.

The four sprawl out in a jumble of arms and legs, falling asleep in a naked, sticky pile. With the city safe, they rest with a soundness that they haven't known for some time: knowing that whatever comes next, they’ll face it together.



END OF CHAPTER 16

Sleep well heroes, you've more than earned it.

A great conclusion to this day!

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>>1101155
Strong enough.
If one fought a gorod alone and without magic, they'd have a non-zero chance of winning. An incredibly low chance, but a non-zero one unlike most other races. That alone should tell you something.

"Alone, I am weak. But the goddess has many kinds of thralls and I draw strength from each of them. That is the Rezan way."

Use various sex techniques from different cultures to emphasize this.

Strong enough to break your skull if you don't retake control.

might be strong enough to crush your skull if she really wanted to. you should take control, you need to assert that you're the Consort and you need to claim her so she doesn't dominate you. while her guard is down, climb up and start rutting her, figure out the best position to get her to cum so she's drained of energy and more willing to submit to you. don't be afraid to play with her clit at first to get her off faster as you fuck her

Baron 2024/12/23(Mon)18:14 No. 1101544 ID: 7a1a17
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Right. I don't think I'll survive foreplay if she keeps squeezing like this. I-

"Mnrrrgh!"

"Haaah-nye-haaah! Enough! I want more. MORE!" She pulls my head out from her thighs and pulls me into her breasts. I'm losing control of this-nope! None of that! I'm the consort here! I grab her leg. Shokzali doesn't fight it. No, she knows what's about to happen and she wants it.

"Wait Consort Yahn wait!" Now Loquui is interrupting! If this was a service, I'd be demanding my money back about now. "Shokzali, you were always calling Loquui stupid. Beating Loquui. Well Loquui is the first of Consort Yahn's nakumu! That means you need to beg me to join!"

Oh right, Loquui's whole inferiority thing. She hovers over Shokzali, pulling at the older woman's hair."I know you want Yahn to breed you Shokzali. You want a consort's pups! That's the only kind of man you think you deserve! So beg me!"

Shokzali's breathing is heavy, and she's still grinding against me. Still she manages to look proper pissed. "You disgusting ash-spawned pup..."

"Beg me."

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1/2 Buckwheat 2024/12/21(Sat)22:16 No. 1101493 ID: b6ea64
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>cobble together an improvised torch out of something from the wood pile and some greasy rags

Gretchen: “Got any decent chunks of wood we could light up for a torch? Can’t say the lights in this place are very bright.”
He shoves a big ol chunk a’ wood in the barrel and pulls it back out.

Gasket: “That bright enough for ya lassie?”

It’s a little awkward to hold, but it is pretty bright.

>probably wherever the most scrap would be; the switch room.
>Gasket did say it might have been someone looking to to steal copper.
>If these are a common burglars, they'll likely try to steal some wiring from the switch room,
>If it's cultists, they'll go there anyway to turn off the lights and leave you vulnerable.

Gretchen: “Let’s check the switch room. Whoever it is, I’d say they’re either in there trying to scrap for copper or kill the lights. They might have grabbed whatever tools they could to try and get in or open something in there.”

Gasket nods in agreement as we make our way over.

2/2 Buckwheat 2024/12/21(Sat)22:16 No. 1101494 ID: b6ea64
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The switch room is a mess with a giant hole in the wall!

Gasket: “Oh fer the love of! I just put up the dry wall last time I was out here!”

Scattered across the floor is a heavy brown coat, a crushed up soda can, nails, some kind of saw, but no lug wrench to be found.

Gasket: ”Wait a moment, keep quiet and listen.”

It’s faint, but there’s some kind of electrical humming sound.

Hmmm... Can you stick your head into the hole and look around to see what's going on? Whoever shed that coat might have done so to fit inside the space between walls... wait, the studs get in the way, don't they? Well maybe there's still some purpose to it.

...where'd the drywall go?

They left their coat? But they aren't still in the room right? Well, no turning down a free coat on a night like tonight. Check the pockets for clues.

So is something sparking in the wall? Is that what's making the hum? It doesn't look like anything is missing, aside from the drywall.

Is that blood on the coat?

>>1100414
Damn.
That was cute.

Mhhg. Okay.
To business.
Treat rodericks body with respect.
He paid the heaviest price this night and in doing so you will convey your reluctance to have felled him so.
Predistigitation cleaning. Pose him restfully. Close eyes and drape his cloak over him.
No looting slinky.
Hes got nice stuff, sure, but his status to the others is more important than a smattering of treasure and kit. Examine it, sure, but dont keep it.

Now, bakoth said something as you stifled him.
He was cut off but expressed fear at the prospect of the preist touching him and that it would have an effect on us both.
Possibly both.

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>>1100414

Oh no! She's reached murderous levels of cuteness! She must immediately put on a very serious no nonsense frowny face before she kills us all!

Yeah, no looting. If anyone should get his stuff, it should be his friends.

You know, maybe before you lost your memories, you were able to keep him silenced before, just like now, which might actually put your pre-amnesia self in a better light.

If you get the stuff get it to show his friends and ask what they want to do with it. But hmmm.

Maybe just ask his friends what they want to do with his effects? Don't actually loot their friend?

We could very likely use the same White Magic we used to paralize Vax to resurrect Roderick tomorrow.

>*sniff* No, it's imposs-

It's a power not bound by the laws of physical reality, do not tell it cannot do something.

The only Power that could prevent Roderick from coming back is the Law of Drama, and it's not like we are stuck in a play. Unless...

>I will be part of this story.

Oh ho! So we ARE in a story!

Tell us, Bakoth, what do you know about the Yellow Man, the Thespian King, and his meddling in all this?

>>1101398
Oh boy here we go. Time for the more economically-minded to haggle on prices. Obviously we can get some good information but there might not be enough *valuable* information to be worth the services, so perhaps we can get some materials or currency out of this too.

"We will demand much, I warn you. And it will not be a price many of your strongest will wish to pay.
... We demand a world where fathers do not sell their children to demons. Where strangers do not look upon love and curiosity with hate and disgust. Where what is needed to live well is what is always freely given. And most importantly, we demand a place in such a world.

Can you meet that offer?"

Your first born son.

..No wait, we'd are looking for a place to settle down, with plenty resources to eat and trade with, so if you know of a good place to start a settlement and ways to get on the locals' good side, we'd be very happy.

Also, how what kind of horns do you want?

>>1101400
Indeed, we should allow the traders to haggle our services.

Oh, crud. I almost forgot: We should also look into someone who can remove Martah's curse.

I mean I don't think he really tolds us who caused and why, and he's a fleshcrafting wizard who got exiled for fleshcrafting too much, so he probably deserves it, but let's break it anyway, because he is the protagonist and that's what must be done.

(2/3) OMNI 2024/12/21(Sat)21:22 No. 1101491 ID: 9f3801
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You've learned to take your time tracking her, since she's been driving around the city in a way that's slowly making you go fucking crazy. Her cars been circling the same damn blocks and winding all around the streets, back and fourth like a lost dog. It's like she knew she was going to be tracked. If it were anyone else doing this job, they would've given up from how confusing the scent trails go around, nevermind how it already starts fading away from general city smells.

And with how your nose works, you have to follow her pathway exact to keep the scent imagery clear. Unfortunately for you, that means circling the same 5 blocks for half an hour. On foot.

Though it looks like you're almost at the end of the trail as you approach the edge of the city.

(3/3) OMNI 2024/12/21(Sat)21:23 No. 1101492 ID: 9f3801
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Which leaves you to your thoughts. You haven't spoken to her before, but you've seen her around and heard the rumors. Hell, there's already one going around right now about her eating some body.

Purely based on appearance and scent alone, Eiko is one scary bitch. It's.. pretty hot.

How will you confront her?

>>1101492
Ideally? You don't. As said earlier: 'tail one of the members and see if she's hiding anything.' If you can, keep it outside of her sensory range if she has any way to keep tabs on her surroundings that you know of. If not, then keep it casual. IF she realizes you're there, you can honestly be halfway honest: 'Came around to make sure you've got things handled. I'm in the area for other shit and he said to stop in on you.' You're not there for other purposes, but that's not the point.

The point is making them believe you're there for a completely different reason than you are and thus not a threat, or making them think (or at least have to consider the idea) that you will be at X location at Y time, when you will really be at location Z. So wherever you give an excuse needs to be something either unverifiable but logically sound, or something obvious that any superiors she checks in with will recognize is a cover story and corroborate with you on.

>>1101496
Aye, just some sneaky spying, with a plausible cover if she spots you.

If she's acting smarter than she usually does, she might not be alone. Plan for anything from her hiring an assassin, to her building up her own sub-gang.

Better living and Marital guidance through texas holdem?
No, julianne,
stop.
No more weird books.
Weve got insectoid horrors to evade.

LW 2024/10/26(Sat)14:32 No. 1099067 ID: 0d1c28
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Dalvari doesn't see any cloth around, she'd have to use part of her outfit if she wanted to muffle sound under the book case.

she glances at Lord Xielphiane book collection again
"Better living and Marital guidance through Setax holdem?"

she wonders how she ever came to work for such a strange man

Continue through the passage and read the book on magic if there’s enough light.

>>1099067
An apron can be sacrificed while protecting your dignity.
That is an apron shes wearing or is it a smaller pinny?
It might be enough...

Your masters eclectic collecting is a mystery for another time, unless theres a copy of "harroctar obedience academy: 30 tricks to teach your new nightmarish horror." Sitting on the shelf. Im not even sure you can get that anymore either.

Unless any of those books have any practical aplications right this moment, leave them. It's not them these creatures are after.

Follow down the tunnel and close the passage behind you. If anyone still alive knows about it they'll be able to open it.

>>1101348
Normally I'd say "heavens, no", but if the house is less likely to try to kill you this time around, maybe it's worth it.

Have you ever seen an exit?

take a peek!

Use the tape, create a unique glyph on the door, then leave.

Definitely open the door and check out what's making that noise. As far as it seems, YOU are the only one in this place. If YOU can find evidence of someone (or someTHING) else here, that might either be good news or bad, but regardless it's good to know.

Have YOU ever seen other means of egress other than doors? Are there any windows in this house?

>>1101347
Open the door a crack and peek inside