ArtisanBubblegum 2022/02/03(Thu)22:15 No. 1022332 ID: 7dab23
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Satisfied that the room has been fully explored, Coral carefully cracks open the northern door to peek through.
With neither sign of life, nor imminent danger spotted, Coral Opens the door and walks through.

This is yet another Hallway. But unlike the other hallways, this one has a Large Gate. The gate is made of a thick metal, its hinges are as big as Coral's arm, and the central portion has a large Locked Box. Coming out of the box is a metal cord wrapped around the gate. Coral's UnRusty Key doesn't fit in the lock.
Coral peaks her head back through the door.
Coral: "Baldy, get over here."

Baldy pulls his Longsword out of a chunk of what used to be a Wooden Throne.
Baldy: "Chair not fun anyway."
"Maybe you find Big Spider for Me kill?"

Coral: "No, it's a locked gate. And please be quiet."

Baldy walks into the hallway, and attempts to use his two Keys on the Lock.
Neither of his keys work.

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From what we've seen I think cracked open doors are like that to allow spiders to move around. Let's peek through the northern door first. Load crossbow just before, unload crossbow if nothing's in the room we need to shoot. Thus, avoiding the danger of carrying around the loaded crossbow in a noncombat situation.

seems to me we already have access to both sides of this gate, so it's not a huge priority right now. Lets see where these other doors over here go.

Oh, thought. Maybe if we grabbed those robes we could let anything we run into down here KNOW we are the strongest in the basement. (or maybe that's what the noisemaker is for, keep that handy if you find another spider)

On second thought maybe we should go back up and close the entrance up to keep the spiders from coming out, report our progress to the boss, heal Baldy's weird wound, and take a nap to recover MP.

For Phi², how important is it that the whole thing be exomatter? Could you cut corners with a core of very dense conventional matter, like a Kerr-Newman black hole somewhere around 10^10 kilograms? Embed it in a disposable chunk of nickel-iron, vaporized metal falls into the event horizon until the rate of mass flow cancels out losses to Hawking radiation. Might even be able to scrounge up a naturally-occurring one, since in theory some primordial black holes may have self-stabilized that way. Hook up a few sufficiently advanced electromagnets and it'll double as a flywheel battery and gravity wave transmitter/receiver.

Or build an inward-facing force field and cram it full of ingots of metallic hydrogen or something, tighter and tighter until they collapse into neutronium. As a side benefit, might be able to extract a bit of extra power from nuclear fusion. Make sure to warn whoever's running neutrino detectors before you start, though, wouldn't want them to get the wrong idea.

Also, would it be possible to remotely disable stelluric pipes by using a Faraday-cage equivalent to block the stelluric current to a specific volume of space, without disrupting the rest of the network too much? What about burning them out by modulating generator output in phased-array sorts of ways? Can the emitters be reconfigured to send more in some directions and less in others? What sort of factors define that 90-AU limit?

Let's definitely do the talking--sounds fun.

Also, I miss Mike. Let's drop by and see him afterwards.

>>1012454
notes about the UN meeting:

-provided china, russia, and the US are the same as 2021-era society, we will likely see the firmest challenges from the individualists of the US and the self-interest of russia. Chinese leadership tends to at least be performative-communal, even if that tends to come to wacky conclusions about things like civil rights.
Not pissing these three off is the most important, China plays a LOT of influence games against the US and the Russians are mostly focused on internal stability, so they've all got their hands deep into international affairs.

-Of the three, the most likely to leap to saber-rattling is probably China, followed by the US. Treat any of that as performative and do not give a strong response to it unless they actually attempt an attack.

-Given Elon Fucking Musk:tm: is president, we can only assume Libertarianism has run rampant in America lately. Based on that, I think revealing anything about our plans of surveillance states or us being a hive mind is RIGHT out.
Do not talk about ANY of this at the UN meeting, even if pressed, as it WILL backfire without a planned-out optics campaign. We're here to offer FREE ENERGY and ASSUAGE FEARS.

-One out-there idea is we could advertise our island nation as a vacation destination for a little bit, just a nice place to not have to worry about health or judgement for breaking from cultural norms to recharge before getting back to your normal society.

This would allow visitors (likely leaders or the wealthy) to experience a country where all the high-minded "socialist" ideas actually get put into play, and if they do in fact work, then they might actually think to bring some of those ideas home with them. This isn't a p

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>>1012454
You can do this. We have faith.

I noticed that other-you mentioned that the body which was assigned to Mike had a check-in rejected at the 5 hour mark, meaning it survived quite awhile.
What happened there?

>>1016878
>Chinese leadership tends to at least be performative-communal
>advertise our island nation as a vacation destination

Ooh... idea: pitch it as the world's first five-star luxury refugee camp. Uniformly high standard of service for everyone, with no regard for the cause or duration of their stay.

Neat, what's inside?

Gear Selection kome 2022/01/06(Thu)20:57 No. 1019819 ID: 094652
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I've been having writer's block so I'll just ask for audience input.

I've never been so ecstatic to see sub-standard army gear in my life and... what the hell are these?

5X Slash

[Note that natural dodge chance is currently 5%*Dexterity stat.
There are benefits to mixing block and dodge strategies; if your character has block remaining but manages to dodge an attack that would otherwise reduce said block, that block turns into Combo Tokens, which can be used to block attacks on the next turn or for stronger attacks. Most standard/common cards don't use combo tokens though.]
[All game mechanics may change as the quest continues.]
[Suggest ideas for Common-Uncommon grade equipment. I'll make cards based on the properties of the equipment.]

>>1019819
throwing knives, one shouldn't be found wanting of a ranged option. and maybe like a buckler or gauntlet for some defence

A handful of small metal balls, smooth and cool to the touch.

A thick tallow candle with a curious but calming fragrance.

A smoking pipe carved from gleaming white bone.

A resilient arrowhead with an impeccable edge.

A well-worn worry stone.

A promise yet to be kept.

Ambush or Stealth kome 2022/02/22(Tue)23:13 No. 1024324 ID: 094652
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I don't have the work ethic to draw the cards needed, so I'll just list them here for now.

... Okay. These are playing cards that pretend to be real girls. Har. Har. Ha-
Huh? I can't... hm...
Okay, I think I understand. If I equip the gear, I can use the card enchanted to its effects. They're like two-dimensional brass jail bars otherwise. I've never seen this kind of magic before... but then, nobody ever saw magic from beyond the nether before...

I'll list the equipment, you remember everything for me:

Sword of Dickens
Temporary +1 to Dexterity when an associated card is played. Does not stack.
Cards:
Slash X4 {
DMG = 2+STR/2;
ACC = 10+STR*5+DEX*10
Abilities {

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>>1023221
I'd already drawn the update before I saw this, sorry.

Fucc, pass the rocket launcher to Danovin. We could use a big punch to break up a heavily fortified area.

Wasting a map-clearing ability on a couple of weak enemies when we haven't even gotten to Nakken Daisley...

No trade, go on.

Well, we don't have a breaching charge, and might need something like that to get inside the building the VIP is in.
Also the more firepower we bring to bear against this defense the better off we'll be in the long run.

So let's bring in Fucc, or at least give Danovin the rocket launcher (and ammo).

Fucc - The streets boast large open areas and hefty reinforcements. Melee skirmishers won't be as useful as rocket launchers.
General Strategy: Shoot the buildings to bring down rubble, keep reinforcements from swarming in!

Dorothy 2022/02/13(Sun)14:37 No. 1023387 ID: 94e610
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> How... exactly did you fight a telepath, when you had no powers?

Kiyama Harumi was bad at using her powers, and you weren't so much 'fighting' as 'nearby, in the car, hoping Uiharu and Misaka would do something.' And she wasn't so much 'attacking you' as 'curious about you'. But she's in prison now, so you don't get to ask why she cared about you at all.

You wonder if Hikari has a power that could help. You should know that, if she'san acqu- friend. A friend. A real friend, not a ghost.

...right? Dangit, your head feels foggy suddenly. You push it aside. Her power? Right, pyrokinesis. Barely level one. Not enough to do anything.

The soft-serve machine is digging through the walls. Is it running away? You think it's running away. Though sharp bits and bent pipes are flailing back and forth in front of you, trying to look larger than they are and flinching away when you stare at them.

The soft-serve machine has left a hole in the wall, through which you can see the shop next door. It's messed up as well. Sausages are growing a net of wires and gears, while the candy rack has formed itself into a single huge bar of chocolate. It's got eyes and a mouth and a tongue, and it's staring at you. The ketchup bottles have sprouted tentacles and are reaching out towards the fleeing customers. Which tells you they're seeing this.

Nevermind. This is annoying. You just wanted to get Ui icecream, and the world is being very rude about it. Somehow, that's more annoying than the teeth. You aren't bleeding from the touch, you feel perfectly fine, so what can they do, really?

You could leave now, but Kuroko's still incoming.

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Make it right.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear

Dorothy 2022/02/13(Sun)16:38 No. 1023408 ID: 94e610
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And then you push.

The flames surge outwards, bypassing Hikari, and the soft-serve machine explodes. The walls, the ceiling, the floor, all of them. They're gone, melted by the heat, and the 'aura' around you is boiling. You can feel it expanding, filling the whole room, then spilling into the shop beyond.

It's not really heat. It's scrubbing away the corruption, pulling it down, away from reality. The soft-serve machine turns into a broken mess of metal and plastic. The candy rack breaks apart into thousands of tiny pieces of candy. The sausages are shrivelling up.

Your world freezes into a glassy clarity. There's no sound. It's as if you've been turned to ice, and the noise has frozen with you. Uiharu, Kuroko or Hikari — none of them matter. Your mind is only one thing now, and that is the job at hand. You have to cauterize this infection before it spreads any further.

The soft-serve machine's still screaming. But you can't hear it. You have no reason to. The flow of light condenses around you, turning into an outfit straight out of a magical girl manga: A short dress, white and pale purple, showing far more skin than you'd normally be comfortable showing. Right now it feels simply right.

Data that's been infected by a virus must be deleted. You turn your eyes to Hikari, examining her for signs of infection. You find none. She's free of contamination.

The soft-serve machine has stopped screaming. It's quiet. The room is silent. The air is clean again. The confectionery is gone, melted into puddles of liquid, and the meat-wrapped sausages have dissolved into nothing. A final burst of commands sets them all back to null, erasing the contents of both shops, and the few people who escaped, before they can infect any more. It's a restrained, delicate operation. You aren't able to restore the concept of 'ic

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In any event, I think I'm going to leave this off here.

I started the story with absolutely zero idea of what to do with it, besides that of jamming together Garakowa and ToAru. I now think I have a pretty good idea of how to make a good story from it, though it doesn't look quite like this.

Which is a problem. I just prefer longer-form, better edited chapters, I guess. Still, it was a fun use of a weekend.

This thread can now considered dead. For those sufficiently interested, here's the other story I was fusing with ToAru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afIhxY3ST40

Act like an overprotective boyfriend and jump in, hugging Kelepee to try to separate them and shouting to let Kelepee go. After the War Wolf retreats, tell Ireka not to call Kelepee crazy again, ok? while winking at her.

Doing it like that serves several purposes. It would show Kelepee that you're still the leader here and have command over the War Wizard, it would show Kelepee that you still care a lot about her and, well, give her some attention which is probably also one of the reasons she's so agitated. Hmm, maybe this was a part of Ireka's plan.

Anyway, once Kelepee is calm again, do ask her not to fight with the War Wizard because you need them both of them to protect the group.

"Please don't hurt her." Do nothing else, though; I feel like stepping in directly and breaking the wizard's concentration will only make things way worse than they would have been.

Encourage spanking
Maybe we can shift her away from mindless violence and toward mindless sexual fetish play

Encourage Spanking.
She was standing her ground as this is a Castle Doctrine spanking.

If Kelepee were able to restrain herself she'd already be doing so, and humiliating her won't change that so I don't really see much point in it.

I assume you've already explained your plans to head west to Kelepee but you should do so if not

[3/3] Pawn_01 Zen Quest: Zen Harder 2022/02/09(Wed)01:11 No. 1022842 ID: 894419
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When you step out the POLICE CHIEF is waiting
You’re a loose canon chicken! But you got the confession and got the job done damnit! What kind of crime do you want to solve next?

>>1022842

A murder! There’s word that a scorpion murdered a poor innocent frog while crossing a river, we need to get the details!!

What crime to solve? Why don't we solve the crime of existence itself. It's wrongful imprisonment!

The case of the missing chicken fingers. Thise sick bastards.

You must settle the Tobak-Neumono supremacy conflict.
The victor would acquired the resouces needed for their toy line, animated series, and lackluster video game adaptation of the latter.
The death toll is massive.

Buckwheat 2022/01/21(Fri)20:50 No. 1020927 ID: 15a025
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>Clear the room before you take off the muzzle. Like you said this is a good ambush location.
Right,
>Check behind the bed, in any person-sized cabinets, etc.
Checking behind the bed, all I find is some loose change. Which I quietly pocket.
I approach the bottom cabinets and the tied up crew mate keeps trying muffle something out to me, but I can't understand them. I decide it's best to open from the side, using my sword.

A needle fires out from the cabinet!

...

That can't seriously be the ambush, can it?

As much as I’d like to pat us on the back for uhh, overcoming… that… we probably still shouldn’t let our guard down. Like come on, that couldn’t have been it right? What was plan B?

Anyways go un-muzzle the damn dog, but shush em first.

Free dog

Buckwheat 2022/01/22(Sat)11:23 No. 1020974 ID: 15a025
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>we probably still shouldn’t let our guard down. Like come on, that couldn’t have been it right? What was plan B?
Yeah I'm more on the edge than before now.

Marsh: "Hey, careful opening anything, seems like they've rigged up traps in the cabinets."

>Anyways go un-muzzle the damn dog, but shush em first.
>Free dog
>Put the sword close to their throat, incase they've been muzzled for biting.
I set the radio down on the bed and put the sword up to his throat.

Marsh: "I'm un-doing the muzzle now, speak quietly or..."
I lightly rub the sword across his neck. They nod slowly as I undo there muzzle. They don't say much other than moan in pain.

Marsh: "Why are you in here muzzled like that?"

Wolf: "Got stabbed fightin the mutineers and they just locked me in here instead of the brig. Argh... Said I was bellyaching too much to be with the others, so they just threw me in here. You know how to stitch up a stab wound? If not, where's the Captain?

Anything in here to at least bandage or disinfect the wound?

Consider using dynamite to solve the problem, rethink that decision, then just use something sharp to tear away the web.

Buckwheat 2022/01/05(Wed)17:52 No. 1019691 ID: 15a025
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>Look out for spiders before messing with that web. Cut away the strands.
>Consider using dynamite to solve the problem, rethink that decision, then just use something sharp to tear away the web.

Korva: "Gee, this web sure is sticky. I might have to blow it up with that dynamite so nothing else gets stuck in it."

Farris: "Noo! You'll blow me up too!!!"

Korva: "I guess I could try using my sword then? It doesn't look like there's any spiders around-"

2/3 Buckwheat 2022/01/05(Wed)17:53 No. 1019692 ID: 15a025
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Ah poo, it's on the ceiling isn't it?

3/3 Buckwheat 2022/01/05(Wed)17:53 No. 1019693 ID: 15a025
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It hisses down at me, and I can feel it trying to pull me up. Seems I might be a little too heavy for it. I better be careful though, he's almost as big as Farris! Can't imagine what a bite from that thing would feel like.

>>1019693
You gotta come at that thing with the blade no other choice. On the ceiling its out of reach so start by knocking off the web with rocks and unlit dymanite!

Curt 2022/01/04(Tue)20:28 No. 1019575 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: Maybe if the computer was already on another, more inoffensive stream when he came in?
>@BlevRuz

If you wake up just a minute or two earlier, you should be able to make that happen.

Curt 2022/01/04(Tue)20:28 No. 1019576 ID: 0fbdcd
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You've got a few minutes to wind down for sleep, though. You just finished his necessary medical work, and is bringing him to his bed in the armory. Yours, of course, is in the medical storeroom.

Curt 2022/01/04(Tue)20:29 No. 1019577 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: mmmmm yumie beaker juice
>@Gatling

In the hypothetical future where you drink a beaker of surgical sterilizing fluids, you would surgically sterilize all of your internal organs simultaneously, so, no go.

Your chemical synthesizer station is powerful, effective, and above all else, mostly lethal if you start drinking random things. You use this to produce a majority of the necessary medical supplies for your team.

Curt 2022/01/04(Tue)20:30 No. 1019578 ID: 0fbdcd
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>: examine those mother fucking posters
>@Dork

Promotional materials for organizations and groups whose skill and power you aspire to, and are inspired by. The old gladiators of RHG. The new warriors of the Dojo Duelists. Uncountable freelancers, with immense creative skill in really cool martial arts.

You, too, wish to do cool backflips while slicing ten guys with a sword.

Curt 2022/01/04(Tue)20:30 No. 1019579 ID: 0fbdcd
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> : Start examining every poster just like would do
>@DerpiestBruh

Merch for one of your favorite pieces of horror media, documenting the historical events of a sinister, subversive insurrection performed by threatening forces in a humble church camp. Personally, you root for the Devil there.

In modern times it's mostly used as a cautionary tale against Hiveist sentiments.

>>1016175
What? Of course she'd want Geoffrey to come intervene if that were happening! She wouldn't want to be all alone in such a situation with a threatening person right there in front of her; she'd want to have Geoffrey right there behind her as well.

Examine the cart. Might be something useful you can take

Ring, we can't do this anymore. You can't keep telling yourself lies so it's ok to put yourself in more danger. Geoffery could've been a ravenous beast, that troll could've just killed you just now, or god forbid have done exactly what you are secretly hoping for and permanently messed up your ability to walk straight.

Your therapist was right, you are engaging in risky behavior just hoping to get some attention. All you ever had to do was go ask the cute fox guy back in town out. Stop this before you get eaten.

>>1016605
I'm just going to hit the mute button on this thing the moment this guy starts speaking so that none of this gets out while ring is ALREADY in a frustrated state of mind and not at all open to a hackneyed intervention speech, thx

You can lie to the voices in your head but you can't lie to yourself Ring!

Search up consequences in your book, if it generates that, you should be able to find out more about it.

(I also support reading them a bedtime story before doing other stuff tho because thats so cute)

1/1 Spective 2021/12/09(Thu)22:41 No. 1017019 ID: 4b11a7
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>>1011415
You tell these sleepy-heads the story of the Kolobok and Baba Yaga and they quickly fall asleep.

>>1011416
>>1011440
>>1011450

You flip pages around for a bit looking for information about Consequences. You end up on the first page and a moving image of some weird old man pops out.

"Hello. This Tome belongs to Carter Lewis Umar Eriks. Since you have it, I can only assume that my bloody corpse is lying somewhere nearby, due to some poorly thought out experiment no doubt. Once you've located my body please mail it to the Wizards Guild. They'll know what to do with it. Thank you.

"Note: If in fact you've obtained this Tome through besting me in some form of combat or wit, then please accept my congratulations and well wishes. It must have been incredibly difficult, I must imagine. Being a wizard of honor, I feel its only right that I revealed the source of my incredible power. You see, every spell in here is Cursed. I

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Now that you're aware of the dangers...
1) Explore: Find out where you are!
2) Magic: Take a deep dive into the world of magic and try to learn more about the spells in this book and where it came from!
3) Consequences: Maybe do some experiements of your own... What exactly does Bad Luck even mean?

Look around. Is there a wizard corpse nearby?

>>1017020
We should look around, if it all comes down to endless white void, perhaps a spell could take you out of this plane?

HUG

1/1// sorry not pensive that was an accident 2021/11/19(Fri)23:36 No. 1015599 ID: 4b11a7
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You hug yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[color=#f542f5] Wow we hugged[/color[
Yes, we did :)

The END/

>>1015599
Hugging is about the same as catching! Mission complete.

suggestion

>>1015599
Yayyayy drink a nothers shot bby

rune guy 2021/11/13(Sat)15:20 No. 1015040 ID: 8459f8
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>>1015035
Roll a d20 to determine how well that goes through..
>>1015039
You use the neatly placed sigil on the note in order to work- luckily, it goes through. Just make sure you don't rip it.
[ DRAW -- 80% ]

rolled 5 = 5

---

yeah, okay. Lets try to sneak and take the bow and arrow.

seems we failed I think, ah well.

As a contingency plan, use the paper to deal damage to the guard. Unless they're... friendly?

>>1015040
Talk to the guards

Millie tried to explain that it sounds like Glad went through the same situation that Millie is going through and wants to help Glad regain her memories before Pink, or somebody mind whammied her brain and put it in a robot.

to help jog Glads memory, Millie showed Glad the map, and pointed to the empty cyan room none of the other prisoners were using and asked if that was Glad's room.

Gavin, the guy in white had been in the meeting room for quite a while. Millie decided to check in on him again. When she switched cameras to the meeting room, it looked like Gavin was talking to someone on the large monitor. But the split second Millie took a look to see who was on the montior, the monitor turned off.

Millie wasn't sure, but it didn't look like Pink on the monitor, and instead, the only thing Millie could make out on the monitor was a figure that she thinks was wearing a long blue skirt, yellow shirt, and a large blue ribbon on their chest.

Millie wonders if she was seeing things.

Look who failed to periscope.
Dive for cover and make sure your gun's loaded.

Just like training. Brace on cover, center mass, double taps.

Suggestion 2021/11/07(Sun)12:36 No. 1014447 ID: bc11b8
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I dive for cover and make ready with my sidearm, while the nearest opens fire. He's the priority.

He's able to get off three shots while I brace and take careful aim.

The hostile misses me with his shots. I'm fairly certain I'm hitting on target but he doesn't appear to be stopping... body armor.

As the terrorist starts carefully aiming at my position, I move my aim up a bit and go for the head.

JC shoots, having aimed for 3 seconds with a braced weapon for a +5 to hit. Range penalty is -5, and penalty for the face is -5.

JC hits, doing 28 damage (hit face, bullet went into skull, 7 multiplied by 4). The terrorist drops onto his knees and then forward face down into the grass.

The two in the distance are maybe 80 meters out, and shots are still coming. One's taken cover and is firing, the other one has ducked down behind it.

>>1014447
Cover? Time for explosions.

80m is sensible for a GEP shot, but only if you can get both. We still need that robot down.

The Teacher 2021/11/02(Tue)04:56 No. 1014099 ID: b35aa3
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You turn the page to continue writing, this time the page isn’t blank. It is time to create the eyes in which we will see this story through.

Protagonist

Name:
Personality:
Skills:
Flaws:
Beliefs:
Goals:

A resident of a city that was thought to have vanished long ago, soon to be cast down into a world they never even knew existed...

There is additional space to write any extra information about the protagonist, and a designated area for drawing their appearance.

Nulle
Shy and Violent
Hacking, Divining, Scrapper
Schizophrenia, Scarred
Cosmic - Belief in the vastness of the universe and the insignificance of all that is known
Delete Demonkind from this world with scriptcraft and The Spire.

Our protagonist could be called Oneiro Hulm.

He would be a curious but shy small creature.
Physically he is a fluffy feline with black fur and green eyes, although on a more throughout assessment this may not be entirely correct. The vertical pupils are very characteristic of the elegant cats, but those eyes seem different somehow. It's unusual but not unheard of small ones developing a fur coat so dense and messy, but are those really fur or feathers? And beneath all of that, if we were able to see perhaps we could get a glimpse of what look like scales.

He is an avid reader, or at least he would be if he didn't have difficulty concentrating in written text for long periods of time. Few thing can keep him in one place for longer than pages full of mystery, but he rarely manage to finish his books.
His sense of wonder attract him to tall tales and lost secrets. His heart is easily moved by the most absurd of rumours, and even though the he is frightened by the mere stare of strangers he is willing to face his fears for the mere chance that those could be true.
You could say he is at least partially qualified as a scholar, and although too naive for such he may be optimistically called an investigator. Almost nothing can get him in contact with strangers if it doesn't involve his curiosities, but those emotions dominate him so much that he can be called experienced in the academic pursues.
His true talent however is to move unseen. Only natural for someone who dislike being observed, but the way he does it is unlike anything else. He may not even be aware but when he try to stay unnoticed he is hidden almost as if by magic.

Name: Aseki Anura
Personality: Animated and energetic, which can lead to coming off strong. A go getter and a bit of a people pleaser, though they aren’t quite sure what they’re doing in the long run, they’re putting their all into it.
Skills: Tinkerer, runner, plays a mean kazoo and likes to bake. Considers people easy to read.
Flaws: has a tendency to go to extremes and commit to action when words or time would work better. Considers people easy to read.
Beliefs: There’s no such thing as a coincidence.
Goals: To find goals

Name: Zipper
Personality: Super positive
Skills: Dead-eye aim, speed reading, and fishing
Flaws: afraid of responsibility and missing right leg
Beliefs: Everything is going to be okay
Goals: Fight for the common people and read every book in the library

>>1013814
>But somthing tells me that he would listen to reason if we give him one to give it to us.
Uh, I can't parse that. Explain?

>>1013839
Uhh I meant to say that if we give him a good reason to take the stones with us, he would probably accept, he is not an unreasonable guy. I was kinda tired when wrote that.
Probably the fact that the machines REALLY want the stones will dissuade him from keeping his. He knows what they can do, he wont want a redo of Dalriver here.

>>1013804
"I know one of these metal men. They want the stone back, and likely need it far more than you do."

>>1013804
Tell him what you know. The metal people found his father almost dead, so they helped heal him. He thanked them by stealing the 3 stones you mentioned and running away.

You told him the metal people were reproducing, so explain that the stones are involved in that process. So with the stones gone, they couldn't reproduce, so the chased his father to Dalriver. He's the reason the metal people came to Dalriver and killed everyone.

>>1013934
That might not work. Remember, he thinks the "metal people" are old farming tools. Maybe we should try to phrase it in a way that makes it sound like returning the stones will fix them or something like that?

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"Wow, you could cut the tension with a knife, huh?"
With a jolt you turn to see something resting atop the altar, its form constantly shifting, limbs and faces appearing, twisting, stretching and disappearing.
"It's a little bit cramped in here, let me just--" limbs burst forth from the mass, spreading out to the walls and ceiling, you watch in disbelief as they all seem to grow further and further away.
"There! Much better, now, where was I." With a sharp snap the limbs recoil back into the mass. It wobbles and then slumps down onto the altar, its entire form enveloping the altar.
"Congratulations Ishpetti! You're the first person I've seen in uh" It begins counting on fingers that seem to endlessly appear and disappear.
"Wow, a long time! You really had me worried for a little bit, I thought brothers doggies were gonna get you there!"
As you open your mouth to speak but a hand stretches out to press a finger to your beak.
"Wait! Wait! Before you ask anything, I have something for you, a gift for completing your first trial!"
It reaches down and underneath itself and pulls out the orb, with a little push it slowly floats its way closer to you, splitting into two and then three. They all stop just within arms reach.
"You can only pick one, take your time, I'll be right here!"

>_What do you do.

Green. You're going to need your courage soon.

"I can hardly make an informed decision with just colors, but I suppose none of them will harm me?" If so: "Right, then if you won't tell me what they do, but none of them will hurt me, then I suppose green is as good a choice as any."

>>1013542
Bit of a blue guy myself

Bow before the creature and ask its name and what the colours mean.

“We probably don’t need to go but just think of it like a road trip or something. We haven’t actually been to Ceo’s town, that’s a whole new place that hasn’t gotten the Dorb Smash Club experience.”

Yes you big knifehanded dork you do have to go check and make sure she's okay.

There's a... shockingly probable chance that Mayor's sleeping in a ditch somewhere, which can't be good for her. We should do due diligence, at least.

We still need to make sure Mayor is okay.

>>1013444
Because finding Mayor is responsible and also Gallsby might get to ride the big monster man with the terrible voice.