How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/08/31(Tue)21:40 No. 224352 ID: e31d52
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I should also note that my hands are very... unstable and mutate often without my input.

>>224334
I can only use blood outside of my body or blood I've taken control of, (though that will make me feel strange) and my body regenerates blood at the rate of a standard human. I think.


>>224281
... Good idea.

...Hmmm... this is a tough lock.

>"Well, keep at it honey. I'm sure you can manage it eventually. Keep a soft touch, and it'll eventually give in. Don't force it..."

I think I can hear footsteps.

Act sick

get back into the corner and act like you haven't moved.when they get near you pierce their skin and pull all their blood out.

>>224352
Why don't you just ambush them as they enter the door?

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/01(Wed)01:53 No. 224460 ID: e31d52
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>>224432
Mmmm.... It is a good idea, but-

>"If they're mages, you need to get them in one go. Ambush them."

...
I reform the blood lockpick into a long needle, and wait on the hinge side of the door. I'll only have one chance. Should I...

Be fast and brutal? Or careful and deadly?

best bet would be to jam it into the back of their neck and then make it barbed and pull it back out. would shred their spinal cord and should be rather quiet.

>>224460
Finesse will be our virtue this day.

>>224460
Stab them and solidify their blood.

>>224460
Make it quick so that they can't call for reinforcements.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/01(Wed)19:38 No. 224801 ID: e31d52
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>>224481
The long needle slides easily into the back of the man's neck, through his spinal cord, and his vocal box before he can even utter terror. I take control of his blood...

The strange feeling washes over me.

You have lost some sanity.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/01(Wed)19:39 No. 224802 ID: e31d52
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I peek out into the hall. This is a dead end that my cell is situated in, but heading out, I can either go right or left.

There is always more footsteps to the left and the sounds of conversation.

I could also take the man's blood for an infusion and increase my abilities, though that will make me feel strange.

What do you mean by 'feel strange'?
Do you feel the echos of their old personality if you take control of their blood?

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/02(Thu)22:14 No. 225171 ID: e31d52
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>>224836
I... it's hard to describe. It is like... I am losing parts of myself.

I keep the stolen blood nearby. Which way should I go? Should I reshape the blood into something else? If so, what?

>you have 4735 grams of blood available to construct objects. Keep in mind that focus must be maintained on the object, so the simpler the better.

I can also Inoculate the blood for improvement and mutation, with four Chosen mutations, or eight Random mutations, though this will cause strange feelings.


And I still am uncertain which direction to go in.

combine some blood with your needle so it takes the shape of a dagger. a dagger is both a weapon and a tool. head slowly left and listen, see if you can count how many voices are there. if more then 2 then go right.

>>225171
Try to avoid 'losing parts of yourself' any more than necessary. You already forgot much of who you are, more and you may be gone entirely. Save mutations for when you have no other way to progress or if the situation is truly dire.

Try forming some of the blood into a weapon. A sword if you can achieve an edge with it, otherwise just make something to bludgeon with. A shield might serve you well too if you can maintain two things at once.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/02(Thu)23:05 No. 225188 ID: e31d52
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>>225176
>>225175
>Blood Needle upgraded to Blood Dagger.

>SAN loss actions now require two posts to be in agreement to some degree.

I can hear about five or six voices. The room is rather large, though.

if they are conversing then they would be clustered together. you may be able to take out 1 or 2 but the others would kill you. head back and go right.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/03(Fri)00:45 No. 225225 ID: e31d52
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>>225189
Going the other way, the hall turns right again, then left into what appears to be another cellblock. Numbers 20-25 should be here if my memory is correct.

I should not try to eke assistance from fellow Numbers. Many are already brainwashed and many others enjoy the madness.

>>225225
What's up with that tapestry? Look behind it.

do not ASK for their help then. simply lead the foes towards them and then let some loose. they will battle and kill each-other then you mop up the survivors.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/03(Fri)00:59 No. 225230 ID: e31d52
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>>225227
Looking behind the tapestry, I find a small cubbyhole. Inside is a syringe with a single dose of magically infused blood!

Magically infused blood is very very useful to me. It allows me to choose 2 mutations, and then two random mutations will occur. It should be noted that, due to the nature of the magical blood, I will not lose sense of self.

>>225228
I'm not sure if I feel safe letting these creatures loose under any circumstances. Some are even more powerful than I.

interesting. wonder why it was just ina random hole instead of a vault? no matter, their foolishness is our gain. inject it and let's see what mutations we can get.

>>225230
Sweet, use it.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/03(Fri)01:15 No. 225235 ID: e31d52
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>>225232
>>225233
>>MUTATIONS!

>Selected mutations come from a much shorter list than random ones.

>Some mutations appear on the selected mutation list randomly. Those that will always appear are mutations you always have a rank in or ones you lock into place from an earlier upgrade at no cost. Remember, though, you may only see six upgrades at a time! So if you upgrade two seperate mutations, then lock another, you will only see three new ones the next time.

>You may only spend mutations one at a time.

>Select your first mutation and select your first locks, if any.

>>225235
Typo:

>So if you upgrade a mutation, then lock another, you will only see four new ones the next time.

Rune

lock tail.

>>225235
I don't feel the need to turn our body into a that of a beast, so physical alterations should be passed up in favor of defense. Spilling more blood will only hasten our madness, and claws just sounds like it would be harder to manipulate things. My vote is for Rune I, with a lock on Sanity I for next time.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/03(Fri)01:39 No. 225245 ID: e31d52
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>>225242
Rune chosen.

Locking: Sanity and Tail.

>Generating new list...

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/03(Fri)01:45 No. 225247 ID: e31d52
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>>225246
New list. Choose your next mutation and locks, please.

i like breath. is a hidden weapon.

>>225247
Breath. Lock Tail, Sanity.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/03(Fri)01:56 No. 225253 ID: e31d52
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>>225250
>>225252
Mutations locked and chosen. Now rolling for random mutations.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/03(Fri)02:05 No. 225255 ID: e31d52
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>>Mutation! Chaos rune: Allows 7 choices for the Random Mutation.
>>Mutation! Electrical breath!
>>Mutation! You feel genetically stabilized.
>>Mutation! You feel more in tune with yourself.

My arms shiver with strange feelings, and my neck feels strange and tingly.

I'm in the same room as before, and other than the contemplation of these new features, no time has passed.

okay then. lets head in the direction of lower numbered cells.

>>225255
>What those mutations actually do is a bit vague, save for the electric breath. Can we get more details?

>>225262
As good a direction as any. But carefully look up and down that hallway for any possible threats first.

>>225332
he told me on IRC, i'll fill you in.

>Chaos rune: Allows 7 choices for the Random Mutation.
causes a 7th mutation on the random mutation list. this 7th is always a good thing n matter why we are mutating. even if we get exposed to phazon or something :P

>You feel genetically stabilized.
goes well with chaos rune. makes it so that harmful mutations show up less.

>You feel more in tune with yourself.
this is the selection words for Sanity 1. she is now in tune with herself so she will lose san at a lower rate. even from specialized SAN reducing attacks.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/07(Tue)16:48 No. 227680 ID: e31d52
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>>225418
>this is correct.

>Keep going!

These are the cells of 19-25. They are not my friends.

"Number Thirty... is out..."
"Why are you out? Out?"
"Let us play, Thirty!"
"..."

19 continues to slam against his door, shaking the chains and roaring.

>>227680
Are any of them weak? Perhaps we can persuade one to not attack us if we let it out.

yes, if one is weak you can force it to obey.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/07(Tue)18:32 No. 227762 ID: e31d52
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>>227700
I do not think any of them are weaker than myself. The floors are arranged by power, with the weakest closer to the surface and the strongest deep, deep underground. There is only two floors below me, where Subject 1 resides. I dare not go there. I have seen It once, encased in crystal that would not break, warping the view of what laid within.

It is my first memory I can recall. It is not a happy one.

The one who lead me there had bloody ears and eyes, his nose cut out. He stumbled, as if he did not know whereupon he stepped.

19 reminds me of 1 for reasons I cannot understand or clarify.

"...let me out, Thirty." it rumbles, slamming against the door in a tired display of aggression. "I want to eat you. I want to tear you. I want to wear your face."

All of them are mad. All of them. No one lasts the inoculations or the changes for very long. Some go faster than others. But sooner or later, everyone goes.

well, do any hate those guys more then they hate you? they would be willing to fight them before trying to fight you. if not then i guess we should go the other way. odd they managed to get it arranged this way, but no matter. higher numbers we go.

>>227762
We'd better leave. Also stay away from that door.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/07(Tue)20:04 No. 227803 ID: e31d52
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>>227768
I'm really not willing to risk that!

>>227768
>>227769
Yes, most definitely. I turn the corner...

This is a very long hallway. There are five tapestries hung starting about halfway down, each with a different symbol.

19's banging grows more and more severe, and I hear cracking.

>>227803
...uh, better run. Fast.

>>227803
Running is important, but these tapestries may hold secrets. Run down and grab at each tapestry as you run past. If they reveal a hidden compartment you might take a moment to grab it. If they don't, you still might be able to tear one down to trip up your pursuer if it catches up to you.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/07(Tue)20:34 No. 227824 ID: e31d52
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>>227806
>Run!

...That would be an excellent idea right now.

The door smashes open and a huge creature lumbers out.

(cont.)

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/07(Tue)20:34 No. 227825 ID: e31d52
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The creature stands there, an impressive eight or nine feet tall and just as wide. Strange markings festoon bony outgrowths on its chest, shoulders, and hands, which are more like clubs. The growths on the chest undulate and move as it speaks, sending chills up my spine.

"Will you run, or fight?" it asks, its whole body shaking as if barely holding back some infathomable rage.

>>227825
Red: Up to you.

if we run it will just chase us. think we should try to fight.

>>227825
This is a big gamble in more than one way, but might work out very well:
"Would you like to fight me when I am stronger? If you will hold a moment I will see if this room hides vials of blood. If so I will take them and fight you at full strength. If not I will fight you as I am."

Pray he likes a good fight, and for cubbyholes! If he says no RUN and try to discover a cubbyhole as you go.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/08(Wed)00:53 No. 227985 ID: e31d52
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>>227868
"... Very well. But know that I shall prepare as well."

The bony plates snap into place over the red eye, and the runes on his body change and glow, pulsing like small hearts.

okay stick to the plan.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/08(Wed)01:08 No. 227989 ID: e31d52
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>>227987
I run along the hall, looking behind the tapestries. At the end, I've yet to find anything.

Oh no. Oh no.

Heavy footsteps. A roar, beastial and low. I have at most three seconds before he slams me into this wall.

wait until the last moment and then hit the deck, letting him slam into the wall, and then run the other way. let twenty out and hope he slows 19 down some. then run through the room with the mages and just yell "19 IS LOOSE!" they will probably question what you are doing out but will decide they have bigger fish to fry.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/08(Wed)01:33 No. 227995 ID: e31d52
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>>227992
>"JUMP, DAMN YOU! Put that hair to use!"

Instinctively, I follow the command, leaping into the sky, my 'hair' slamming into and finding purchase in the walls and ceiling as the creature slams into the wall below me.

>"Now. You're out of it's reach, for now. We need a better plan than 'release more of the blighters and hope' or 'alert the mages that you are loose'. Think quickly, gel, I want you to try and work yourself outta this one."

... It's stuck. The spikes on its shoulders appear to have lodged into some support beams. It roars mightily.

>"An' speaking from the heart, love, I'm certain they are on their way."

well then, i guess that open doorway right there is a good enough place to go.

OR, option2: we hide in 19's Cell and when the mages run past it to sub due him you slip past and go through the room they were gathered in.

>>227997
That's damn risky, considering we'd be trapped in there. Let's check out what is in this room, if it has one or no exits we'll try your idea.

Otherwise we'll try whatever deceptions later on without intentionally backtracking and cornering ourselves.

>>228042
no dude, they are ON THEIR WAY, we cannot do one and then the other. need to pick.

>>228043
Well then ONWARD.

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/14(Tue)01:47 No. 230717 ID: e31d52
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>>228078
>>228042
I swing through the doorway into a very large room. Three absolutely enourmous tapestries adorn one wall, behind a small stage. There are, in bad repair, rows of pews lined up, all the way to the back of the room, where two staircases are, one leading up, the other down.

I feel a strange attraction to the latter.

Shaking it off, I note that the distant door has a sign that reads "LAB".

I can hear the men engaging 19 behind me. He is too large to fit through the door to this room, and voices his anger. The men attempt to pacify.

go through the tapestries on your way to the lab, just cut them at the tops so they fall away and if nothing then go into the lab.

>>230717
What's that written in the corner?

How do I shot Trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/17(Fri)05:21 No. 231441 ID: e31d52
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>>231221
Scrawled graffiti... no, this is carved.

Remorse?
Fear?
Shame?

I am uncertain. All I know now is that I want out of here. They are fighting 19. They are losing.

You have regained some Sanity.

wow. you feeling okay now? okay, think we ether go to the lab or take the up stairs. i'm inclined to try the lab first. who knows what magical things they could have?

>>231441
Get in the lab.

How do I shot trip?!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/18(Sat)07:40 No. 231657 ID: e31d52
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>>231475
I move into the lab. It's sparse, as if recently cleaned out... or, rather, ransacked.

"It's over. The containments are failing. Good gods, we've failed. Let me join the chorus."

>>231657
"Would you kindly shut up and see about getting out of here?"

"you have two options you can ether continue and kill yourself or you can help me get out of here and redeem yourself a little"

"You can either help me, or your blood can help me. Your choice."

How do I shot trip?!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/28(Tue)07:43 No. 235166 ID: e31d52
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>>231671
The man looks up at me.

"H̛ùr̡r͠y. ̨Y̶o͢u͟ mu̧st̕ ̕esca͞p͝e.̨ ̶Yo͜u m͠u̡st͏ hu̧rry!̶ ̶Befo͢r͜ȩ ḩe̸ t̛ak͟e̢s͜ you̵!"

His eyes seem to be... warping, changing. He's speaking strangely.

"H̢u̵r͡r̵y͟! ̷Yo̷u͘ ́can't let̡ h͡im̕ tak̢e͡ y̕ǫu! ̵Yo͞u ͠mi̵gh͝t̸ b͝e͏ able̢ to ̛f̡r̕e̕e͠ ̀h̢i͠m! T̡hȩn̢ ͜all h̡ope ̢is͢ ̕l̀o̢s̷t!͞"

he seems to be being taken over by something. dart forward and slay him before it is complete. then cut the lock off of the cabinet and open it up.

>>235166
Ask him who he's talking about, while investigating the blue/red stuff under the table? Is that some kind of special blood we can nab?

Grey: More information would be nice, to add on top of his soon-to-be-coming explanation.

How do I shot trip?!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/29(Wed)13:24 No. 235921 ID: e31d52
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>>235260
>There's not much I know about the Entity he speaks of, save that it is the bane of this world and yet its savior. The informant was not very... infromative...

"He is the taker of minds, the Living Madness! You must..."

I spear him through the face with my collected blood, and he falls over dead.

The debris on the floor? Dried blood and glass. The lock I can handle, but it might take a bit.

i think you have time, and if it's locked up it mst be important, i mean, they left magic stuff out in the open. so stuff they wanted hidden?

>>235921
Hmm, would it be faster to pick the lock or smash it open?

How do I shot trip?!H508X.HbJ6 2010/09/30(Thu)01:12 No. 236281 ID: e31d52
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>>235925
That's a good point!

>>235929
I'll smash it. That was pretty easy, actually.

cut that jackasses head all the way off, looks like he was only mostly dead.

>>236281
Small dark and squiggly at stabbed face o'clock!

How do I shot trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/10/01(Fri)00:49 No. 236847 ID: e31d52
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>>236348
>>236308
Even as I turn to attack the scientist I thought dead, his body twitches out of the way, pulled from my assault by an ebony tentacle. And another tears free from his back, pulling him to the ceiling as his robe blackens, and then I realize... it's the man's skin, pulled from beneath the cloak, stretched and mutated until it takes the form of a gristly robe. His eyes vanish into his skull, his mouth agape as blood runs down his cheeks. His hands warp, and as I watch, the skin upon them peeled away, then the muscle, then the bone itself melts into black ooze that reforms into long tendrils that reshape into vile mockeries of hands.

Then, finally, his heart rises from his chest, beating slowly, glistening in the open air.


Something about this stirs a very primal fear within my heart, a sympathetic feeling of loss and pain.

>>236847
Red: Little help here?

lead it back to 19, and while they are trying to kill each other you collect the spoils.

>>236847

Well obviously it inspires sympathetic feelings. You're made of the same black stuff as he just melted into. Even if you can't remember it I doubt you can completely forget the pain.

For the future, don't kill people just because they annoy you, because then you end up having to fight with things like this

>>236993
i said to kill him, not because he was annoying but because he looked like he was being taken over. which as you can see he was. may have gotten something worse if we didn't do it that soon.

How do I shot trip!H508X.HbJ6 2010/10/07(Thu)15:54 No. 239968 ID: e31d52
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With a scream, the creature throws the furniture to the back of the room, blue lines appearing breifly upon them as they lift up and nearly slam into me.

>>236849
The noise has died down. I doubt they are fighting anymore.

>>236848
>I'm not sure but the gigantic swollen beating heart might be something!


I attempt to strike at it, but he raises an arm swiftly, and iron-hard tendrils of flesh block my blade.

Damnit!

Use your electrical breath!

Also possibly hair tentacle stabbing.

yes, a bolt directly to the heart.

Even if the electrical breath doesn't hit the heart directly it should stun or at least distract enough so you can get an opening to stab at it.

>>240308
point, if it does just seem to stun him then split your blood hair in two and grab each of his 'hands' by the wrist to keep them still then stab.

Suggestion 2010/10/28(Thu)00:34 No. 249216 ID: e31d52
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I spew the lightning. It's not much -barely even a few tendrils- but they slide around the arms as if they aren't there, and almost seem to seek the heart.

Suggestion 2010/10/28(Thu)00:35 No. 249217 ID: e31d52
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The heart explodes.

Suggestion 2010/10/28(Thu)00:35 No. 249218 ID: e31d52
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He hurtles into the wall, breaking through, into a darkened room. Hm.

((Whoop! Mah trip went missing.))

Sniff the bubbling goo, get totally high. Oh wait no you probably want to keep sane in this quest. Looks like, are those levers or card slots?

>>249218
Nice.

Check out those posters, and mind the goo.

looks like different color bloods. read the notes first, in case it's like "caution, may turn you inside out"

Suggestion 2010/10/28(Thu)02:18 No. 249244 ID: e31d52
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>>249231
They are both magically infused blood.

However...

The Yellow Blood is called Immortal Sanguination. It grants supreme defense against one attack, taking the power of immortality from Elves and Halflings. The cost is, however, that the area I inject it into becomes paralyzed for one hour.


The purple blood is called Retreading Ichor, and allows me to randomize one of my mutated traits. However, doing so will forever remove a single upgrade from the ones you can see upon using mutagenic blood.

Both papers also note that each vial comes with a certain number of doses, the power behind them such that a single dose is all that is required for their effect.

hurm. take both and cram them into your hair. then look in the formerly locked cabinet.

>>249244
Take the vials for use later, and go unlock that cabinet.