>>342531
[NOPE!
Still has that red hand thing, remember?]
Soo... What's going on here?

Hmm...
"Untiring, unfeeling, and with dead souls bound into them to give some intelligence, they're pretty dangerous; but the spiritual struggle makes them far inferior fighters than they were in life."
"dead souls bound into them"
"spiritual struggle"
"You will now receive instruction on the effects of further attempts to free slaves from the Scavenger Lord."

We can form our very own family of previously enslaved abominations of magic!

The downside is that other!us will likely fight us (assuming it has its own mind). Though if we are anything alike, I suppose we could try bribing other!us with nude goblins.


Hey! Listen!
Hey there! I would say long time no see, but due to memory wipes I can't actually tell. How long has it been since you last spoke to your hat?

>>342525
Unchain the bonds!

>>342537
... What if he talks to hats other than us?
I mean, a nice hat needs to be treated right

>>342539
Are you implying that he is some sort of... of... hat player (who haters gonna hate)?

>>342538
If we're gonna do anything, I want to control him in a more direct manner. We will, after all, have to deal with the necromancer, and he'll be able to steal the king's will. It might be the only way.

Or maybe we don't even have to deal with the chains, and we have to disengage the necromancer's control? That would work a bit differently.

Hello, King. You did not call upon us yet we speak to you anyway. Is it safe to talk, or is someone listening in?

>>342532

Yes. How -is- unlife treating you, Studious, (former) king of the summer elves? Speak. Speak your mind, while you have it. Speak of your state of undeath (since you have no orders not to speak to yourself, one hopes), and where your path has taken you.

You are presumably under quite a bit of... mental stress, after all. Speaking to yourself to get a better handle on the realities of your situation is quite understandable under such circumstances, isn't it? Indeed, hearing voices is a good sign of madness, and relieving that mental tension could be good for you!

So speak, and do fill yourself in on everything you know and recall since your defeat. Just in case it's necessary to keep yourself sharp.

Releasing the undead might mean we simply release the soul to pass on. Merciful, perhaps, but it's a sad fact that mercy would not equate to practicality in this instance. Where is King Studious now, for example? We do not know.

Hello.

If possible, disconnect chains from hand. Connect chains to us. (I suspect if we disconnect all the chains, he'll just turn into a corpse.)

oh i think i know what just happened, a piece of us was on this dead guy, and our new knowledge of our nature allowed us to connect to it.

hi dead guy! until very recently we got our memories wiped whenever we change users so we don't have any memories of meeting you, could you tell us your name and any previous relationship you might have had with us?

>>342584


seriously? dude, look at the name that is RIGHT THERE. that is king studious and he is obviously wearing the crown of summer kings.

>>342551

We can always fully disconnect him at a later date if it seems like the humane thing to do I suppose.

Hail Once-King! We slept, now we wake! What may we do for you?

- 2011/08/30(Tue)19:39 No. 344102 ID: 9f926c
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>Focusing itself, the fragment of Wisdom set within the crown delves into the mind of its enslaved bearer, as it has befOH GODS THIS ISN'T THE SAME THING AT ALL

Does that mean we can't move any of those?

Aww... no zombie friend :(

>>344102
Prune the branches one by one.

ok we'r made out of a dead fay right? fragment or not we should have more power than the binds on any given zombie. lets see if we can blow those vine/tentacle things apart.

[Move those damn thorny vines out of the way.]

>>344102
Considering that if we get rid of the necromancy it will probably deanimate the corpse, and thereby stop us from being able to chat with the guy, maybe that would be a bad idea?

I mean, what exactly are we trying to accomplish here? Of course there's no hand; this guy was a summer elf, whose bonds of blood have been gone for a very long time. If we deanimate him, then we can no longer talk to the guy. If we set him free, the necromancers notice that something's funky with one of their undead and are likely to do something about it.

Further, if we do anything at all it's possible that they'll realize the crown was responsible and decide to do something to ensure that we can't cause more disruption. How is this a good thing?

We've got a reasonably solid thing going on already, why not just chat a bit and try to go back to it instead of causing detectable levels of disruption?

>>344121
You're probably right.

i say just MOVE the branch around the light out of the way so it can shine better.

Use investigative skills to analyse situation: Poke things.

I think finding out if we can influence/free undead without risking the crown we use to talk to Victorious if worth some risk.

Ok guys let's not mess with those thorntacles yet, I mean for all we know the light could be the control magic.

Just investigate for now.

- 2011/09/07(Wed)15:19 No. 346369 ID: 52b98c
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>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>346369
Oh god ABORT INVESTIGATION!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

HOW IS IT RAPE WE HAVE NO HOLES AAAAAAA

>>346383
oh wait, right. all they can do is slap against us ickily. just keep batting them away.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>346369
AAAAAH! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

KILL IT WITH MIND LASERS!

>>346437
NO, USE MIND SCREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I would like to add another vote for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>346446
I vote instead for FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

BURN THEM
BURN THEM ALL

Hi there! How are you doing? I'm guessing you're the primordial force of death, or something along those lines. How's that working out for you?

(Seriously, guys, there's no need to be rude. We just met.)

>>346503
I was under the impression that assorted wailing is polite (or at least flattering) when talking to primordial forces of death. You know, it shows respect for their dread power and all that. Gnashing of teeth is traditional too but we don't have any with us so we just have to make do.


Now that I think about it, I don't think that is a force of death. It would be strange to find one here of all places, in the middle of a web of enchantments designed specifically to deny death it's hold over this body.

>>346369
>image name
>crowntentacles.png
IT'S RAPING OUR SOUL!

runrunrunrurn

Play with tentacles, get raped. No thank you

oh murr, bring it on.
can't rape the willing.jpg

Wake up.

HACK AND SLASH!
HACK AND SLASH!

>>346371

Well, yes. Given that the majority of us wanted to talk to Studious rather than free him at this juncture, aborting sounds sensible and reasonable, and oh sweet wisdom why are you all such a bunch of children.

>>346374

shoosh

>>346383

SHOOOSH

>>346399

*bap* *bap* *bap*

>>346412

shooooooooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooosh

>>346437

*BAPBAPBAPBAPBAPBAPBAP*

>>346446

Sh
oo
oo
oo
oo
oo
sh

>>346447

shosh *bap*

>>346451

*bap* shoosh
*bap* shoosh
*bap* shoosh

>>346710

We've had worse, if that helps. If it doesn't, there's always shoooosh there there shoosh

>>347075

*bapabapabapabap*

>>347398

SHOOOOSHOOOSHOOOOOOOOSH

>>347587
Oh, sure, YOU try being an elemental spirit of flame for thousands of years before being trapped into some weird little fey contraption and having your memory mostly stripped away, and THEN being creative.

Fire works! It's reliable!

>>347587
it's supposed to be pap >.>

[give it a couple seconds, then if nothing interesting happens, wriggle our way out]

- 2011/09/15(Thu)19:23 No. 349288 ID: f2a2e3
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>Stay - 9 votes
>Flee - 6 votes

KRAK

Scrape 2011/09/15(Thu)19:25 No. 349289 ID: f2a2e3
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... won't even sniff us comi- hold on. Somethin' feels different. You guys back?

It's been hours!

>>349289
Yes. We might have made a mistake, but hopefully the only one that will suffer for it will be us.

What's going on?

no idea what the fuck happened.

>>349289
We found another person to talk to then our access got destroyed because of stupid bravado. What are you doing? Anything smarter?

>>349294
i see only a few with bravado. most were inquisitive.

>>349297
How about we immediately take this to questdis?

also
[check status of other gem]

We...uh...got burned.
I think we're all right now, though.

Could have worked better.
Well not much we can do about it right now.
So what happend in the meantime?
Did we miss anything?
And do you know a dead elven King by some chance?

Watching the others react to a bunch of tentacles was fun!

>>349289
Hi again! We found a link to someone with another gem. We tried to fiddle with his mind to see if we could free him, but it was structured differently from whatever was binding you. There was another presence that we didn't recognize; we weren't sure what to do, so we tried to talk to it, but it immediately attacked us. Then we blacked out.

I think the other gem is broken. I hope we can avoid mistakes like that in the future.

So! What's going on now? Looks like some guys are close to spotting you. Where's everyone else?

[Guys, that wasn't a mistake, that was a learning opportunity. We can't be expected to make the correct choice every time when we are flailing about in the absence of even basic knowledge, and now we know more about the nature and power of the control exerted over undead. Learning is fun!]

>>349580
Well, yeah, there's that. It would've been nice to know it sooner, but at least we got to learn a something about our nature and the world's metaphysics.

It's kind of funny, if we had learned that we technically count as undead beforehand, I'd probably have dismissed it as interesting but unimportant... then when we got into that little mess, we'd probably recall that bit of information and known what the right thing to do was.

Oh, well. At least we know now, so we won't mess up on the next person who's bound like that.

>>349580
That excuse only flies when we were forced into taking action in a situation where we didn't know anything. We could've just disengaged and lost nothing. People didn't. That's stupid bravado.

>>349584
And what if we terminated the link and it had permanently closed? It wasn't stupid bravado, it was trying to take advantage of what seemed to be an opportunity.

>>346369
>>344102
>OH GODS THIS ISN'T THE SAME THING AT ALL
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

What exactly about these updates say "opportunity"

>>349593
We had a battle of wits with a floating red hand covered in chains. Why would we expect thorns to be deadly? Also, in >>346369 the crown appears to be ensnared, so some would take that as meaning leaving wasn't an option.

>>349596
Focusing itself, the fragment of Wisdom set within the crown delves into the mind of its enslaved bearer, as it has befOH GODS THIS ISN'T THE SAME THING AT ALL

>as it has befOH GODS THIS ISN'T THE SAME THING AT ALL

That is a direct reference to the red hand. And how this is not the same thing at all.

>>349597
Different =/= Instant death

Different =/= WE CAN TOTALLY HANDLE THIS RIGHT GUYS

[Guys, we have reached the point where this is no longer productive. If you insist on continuing take it to questdisc or big dumb arguments.]

>>349599
THIS ISN'T THE SAME AT ALL+ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA= INSTANT DEATH

>>349600
>>349603
GOOD SIRS I CHALLENGE YOU TO HONOURABLE COMBAT IN THE BDA THREAD.

>>349289

>It's been hours!

Sorry, miss. We were unavoidably detained and now a small part of us elsewhere may have expired or been subverted by a necromancer. Or possibly both, considering the metaphysical implications of one of our demesnes being, well, cracked open like a ripe melon by hungry tendrils of undeath.

Anyway, what happened has no relation to what you're doing. Probably. Unless your troupe of undead soldiers just happens to include a somewhat deceased Summer Elf monarch, in which case... well. We might want to have words.

Anyway, it looks like you've been busy!

How goes the infiltration?

Scrape 2011/09/23(Fri)21:33 No. 351850 ID: 60bb80
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>>349290
>>349294
>>349463

... sweet mother, lads, be careful, will you? Sounds like y'don't know how y'work yourselves. Least you do still work. I dunno how or why, but you went into some sorta default while y'were gone. We waited for you, but when y'weren't comin' back we decided to press on with everythin'. We met another pack, Halfsy here beside me and his crew, and found out we only need to give 'em a poke with the crown and they pass out and come back free.

Just now we picked up a couple'a orcs out huntin'. We're gonna try get them, too.

>>349635
>>349461

Dead king? Y'mean the old elf king? Yeah actually, we do have him with us. The orcs were really proud o' bringin' him down, they really liked 'im, so they left all his stuff on so they'd know which one 'e was. Dunno how much of a comfort that is, poor fella. You were talkin' to him?

Huh. Well, he's not likely to tell anyone, 'less they just say "tell me all yer secrets" or something. And they would've done that ages ago. If they ever did. I dunno, I try not t' hang around the zombs too much.

well he has the king crown which has the other part of us on it. needs to be taken off of him first before it works again though. being dead ourselves means the necromancy holding him together doesn't like us.

anyway, you know if these orcs would like being free?

>>351850
>Sounds like y'don't know how y'work yourselves.
Well yeah. Because we're broken and crazy, remember? Shit, the surprising thing is that we're working at all.

So do you actually know anything about these orcs, or is this an attack of opportunity? In any case, I trust that you have a clever method worked out for getting this to go off smoothly and with no significant risk to yourselves?

>>351850
You were worried about us! That's so sweet of you. We would have retreated, but we didn't realize we could flee until it was too late. Well, not enough of us, apparently. Just one of the dangers that comes with the unknown, I guess.

When you say you have the elf king with you, do you mean he's with you, or just that he was in the detachment we saved you from?

...So we can free goblins without our conscious presence? That's very interesting. Makes me wonder which parts of ourself are us and which are the crown. How sure are you that they're really free?

Now, as for our immediate concerns... it looks like our remote viewing is contracted; all can see is your faces peeking over the brush. Hold on, I'll try to get a better picture.

MAJI JIJIRU

>>351853

Worse, it might be permanently broken.

By the way, Scrape: do we sound any different? We're hoping we brought back our other self with us, but failing that we might want to add "get the King's crown" onto the list of things to do.

Scrape 2011/10/08(Sat)10:10 No. 356773 ID: 4a2efc
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>>352289
>Hold on, I'll try to get a better picture.
>MAJI JIJIRU

Well, something's changed. You keep tryin' to figure it out.

>When you say you have the elf king with you

Not with us right now, like. With the group we're with. Were with. Do we count as still in it?

>How sure are you that they're really free?

Well, they're actin' like we did when we were freed. If they weren't they'd let us know somehow, they're good guys mostly.

>>351853
>would they like to be free?

Why wouldn't they?

>>351887
>clever method

We're gonna distract 'em and tangle 'em up with some ropes while we poke 'em with the crown.

>>353159
>do we sound any different?

Y'sound fine to me. Uh... maybe a little quieter? It's hard to tell. If y'were actually speakin' instead of makin' words in my head I could tell better.

>>356773
Well, you were ready before we showed up so don't let us keep you.
We can talk after the op, since the others are probably still in position.

>>356773
>We're gonna distract 'em and tangle 'em up with some ropes while we poke 'em with the crown.
Well, as long as you think you can pull that off, don't let us slow you.

>>356773
>Distraction

One of you needs to get naked. Okay, stay with me. Grab some branches and cover yourself, then carefully move into view, asking for help - someone stole your clothes while you were bathing. As soon as they drop their guard, drop the branches - this will be your friend's signal to pounce the shit out of them.

pop out and say "orcs come quick, we found this thing while scouting and we need some muscle to move it." and when they start moving tag the one in the back of the two and then tag the one in front

Mm, now there's a nice view.

Mmm.

Oh! Right! Doing things! Um, if you think that'll work, go for it. If you're already all in place it'd be too late to go with another plan anyway (not that I would object to any plan that involves one of you getting naked).

Allons-y!

As enjoyable as nudity might be for all involved, I think the "come quick! something needs moving!" strategy might be simpler and more effective.

Or you could just set one of them on fire. That always works.

Scrape 2011/10/16(Sun)15:10 No. 358664 ID: f45147
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>>357107
>>357109

"<Guys come quick, I need yer muscles!>"

Scrape 2011/10/16(Sun)15:11 No. 358665 ID: f45147
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>the nude ruse was a... DISTACTION

Scrape 2011/10/16(Sun)15:11 No. 358666 ID: f45147
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Alright! This is way better than just jumpin' around all over the- whoops!

Uh, well, at least they haven't got their weapons in. Oh bugger, it's still gonna be hard gettin' in close. Hold on, lads! I'm gonna-

??? 2011/10/16(Sun)15:13 No. 358668 ID: f45147
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>What do you want to do?

>>358668
[Freedom!]

Hey! Stop that!

>>358668
[Freedom!]
Help us free your brother!

[Freedom since it's always in style]

Yeah, help get us onto the other guy!

FREEDOME

[control, have him grab the other orc then switch to freedome]

[Freedom]

Hiyou'refreenoneedtothankusbutsomehelpwouldbenice!

[FREEDOM!!!!!]

[FREEDOM!]

[...and then maybe some nice fire. But first, FREEDOM!]

Quick! Throw us at the other guy, please!

[C'mon, free that dome!]

FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM

Freebump

Why guys, could you keep it quiet? I'm trying to sleep in... Wait. Oh. Oooh. Oh, gosh, I seem to have missed quite a bit of Action lately.

[[Freedom]]
Why hello there, good sir. Would you be so kind as to throw us at your companion's face, as it were?