>>297835

Right, I said we when I meant we should have somebody do that. Well, Curiosity is right there, and assuming she can hear us better than we can her, I'm sure she can run some twine through the hole and make a necklace. For one, it would mean that even if we snooze to repair, we'll hopefully be still attached to somebody when we become active again.

>>297837
We can't kill her, because she hasn't done anything more than the equivalent of punching us unconscious, and also it is also a terrible idea to kill you only ally's diplomat.
We should repair ourselves most of the way first, because we need to be able to talk to have someone get us a cord.

why did she do that? what did we say?

[repair]

I miss Fireclaw

Consider the following: We didn't even know we could repair until recently. In most cultures killing the ruler's chief advisor is pretty much considered treason, regardless of how annoying they might be.

Spidergirl needs to smarten up.

Consider: Hitting on women from an unknown culture can easily be deadly if we don't conform to laws, social norms and personal expectations. She may be within her rights to destroy us for the insult, or a physical challenge may be part of their courtship.

Also consider: Liteeh seems fairly knowledgeable about magical things (seen when she talked about the wind enchant on the city), so it is quite likely she already know we could re-form ourselves.

I DON'T LIKE HER
I WISH TO CONSPIRE TOWARDS HER DEMISE

>>298695
NO SHE IS TOO CUTE TO KILL

>>298681

We are an orb.

Damnit guys, talk about that kind of things where the the very peoples we're talking about can plainly hear us ! THAT is why we're currently leaking fucking acid everywhere.

[Repair]
Obviously, Liteeh is our romantic interest.

I'm pretty sure just as we can't hear them clearly (as per >>297780) they can't hear us

>>298744
You know you are right...
[Secret internal orb communications(SIOC): Ok, testing testing. Let's use this to avoid being destroyed again.]

>>298755
Since when?
[SIOC: I'm ok with this.]

[SIOC: well obviously, look how tsundere she is]

Use spoiler text not sotto voce, you prats.

>>298740
A horny, perverted orb that keeps on making lewd suggestions.

i think it's more a matter of one person says something stupid and it fucks it up for everyone no matter what.
99% say "you are very pretty" and then one guy comes in and goes "durrr, tits" and then we get punished for saying tits.

Good idea with the spoiler text. Here are spoiler tags, for those (like me a few minutes ago) who don't know how to use them:

[.spoiler]wordswordsSECRETSwords[./spoiler]

(remove the periods to make them work).

bg!5E5cOpffmA 2011/04/24(Sun)10:51 No. 298857 ID: 9deea0
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rolled 6, 72 = 78

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Curiosity: ..***nd he wa** ***lking about murd**ing the sp**er...

Think***noll: AH! DO** M*ND WH***E BAL* S*YS, ALL DECISI*** A** ULTIMA****Y MADE BY O** MIS***SS... NO****ETS LEAVE ****O FIN**H IT*ELF

[60% (1-60) the doll doesn't shatter, Armor Success 70% (1-70)]
[1 Days for Fireclaw Recovery]

Yes, don't listen to the ones who want to kill Liteeh. It is a terrible idea.

*and keep [repair]ing*

Okay so maybe they CAN hear us.
Anyone want to try their hand at translating all this? My best is

"Curiosity: ...and he was talking about murdering the spider..

Tinker Gnoll: AH! DON'T MIND WHAT THE BALL SAYS, ALL DECISIONS ARE ULTIMATELY MADE BY OUR MISTRESS... NOW LET'S LEAVE IT TO FINISH ITSELF"

I could be wrong.

That thumbnail looked a bit inappropriate!

Even when we are a chunk of rock we still ogle ourselves. Wow...

We must cultivate our own power. At least a defensive mechanism, at best a way to defend Lady Fireclaw from harm.

>>298807
One or two voices making idiotic suggestions does not justify breaking the ball which contains ALL of us. If Liteeh doesn't like one of the voices she should just IGNORE IT like a sane person.

She needs to be punished in some fashion, but termination seems excessive.

>>298892
[spoiler]Clearly, she should be our designated holder when Fireclaw is indisposed.[/quote]

>>298892
Yes continue discussing that out loud where people can hear us. Now instead of being pissed off she might find it as an actual threat instead.

Anyways. Thank you Curiosity for having that piece attached into us. It's a nice gesture

Should be easier to carry us around as a necklace or attached to something so we don't provide such a burden

There is the question of how often we will need somebody else to carry us around. Hopefully Fireclaw won't spend all that much time unconscious. If it does happen again, we should find a random guard to carry us. We have some of those around, right?

the biggest problem we have is that we aren't just voices in their heads. we are voices... this means they can hear us... that means that indeed if one of the voices says something really stupid....

what is the "doll doesn't shatter" roll? I don't remember a doll

I think the stuff about the doll shattering refers to the focus for the protective wind enchant we have going.

GOOD GRACEFUL GOD

WE WILL NEVER GET THAT DAMMED ARMOR

>>298755
I completely agree with this notion.
We must strive to continue our romantic sub-plot with the tsundere, Liteeh.

bg!5E5cOpffmA 2011/04/27(Wed)22:29 No. 299801 ID: 56e913
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While repairing, you can feel the presence of Fireclaw, while her body is almost healed, her soul is trapped in the immaterial realm, she might need guidance to return to her self, but be warned as direct interaction with a being soul in this place might change their personalities and capabilities...

B̴̡̢̀͡R̛҉È̀A͏̶̡͡Ķ̶̨̕͝ ̸͘͞A̸͟͜L͏̴̧̀L҉̶̧̡͢ ̶̵̀T̀̕҉̕H͞E͡͠ ͞͠Ć͢͢Ḩ̀͢͢͟A̡̛͝I̧͘N̸̡̡S̨͏̛͜

[move to fireclaw's physical body]

[act as beacon]

Ṡ̫̟̙̝̆̓̑̽͛ͤH̘͕̹̰ͦͫͩ̀ͬ͟E̠
̰̈̎͛́Ṃ̼͗̓Uͥ̿ͨ҉̰̞̥̩̜S̲̪̪̩̱͓ͧ̀͂̓̍T̄̔̈́҉͉̳̤͚̠͕̞
̪̜̝̙̉ͦͯ̀̽͌̚ͅB́̽ͭ̆̃͏̥̟̘ͅͅE̫̟̩͇͚̓̈́͑
̡͔͉͉̖̱ͬ̅̄ͬ͐Fͯͫ̍̆͘R͉ͦ̃̅̌ͣ̆́E̓̃̾͘Ẹ̰͈ͮ̾͑

yes, break chains, act like a light house.

Yo Fireclaw! It's wakey wakey time now.

We don't even know what the chains are there for. Perhaps we shouldn't be so hasty to break them. Yes, they might be some representation of some limit on her powers or something, but they could also be what holds her together, so to speak. I just think more thought should go into things before everyone just starts demanding the chains be broken.

Maybe we could try to open communication first ? You know, instead of rushing headlong into trouble and make things EVEN WORSE then they already are. Just a though.

>>299816
The fact that those chains are attached to the tatoos tells me otherwise, however removing them may cause more harm than good (for all we know, it could be binding things to her).
Voting for beacon and looking at whatever the chains are attached to outside the picture so we have an idea of what is happening.

>>299821
Some of that stuff looks like barbed wire. Barbed wire is NEVER good.

We must strive to guide and empower her. Patience. We have time. We should do it safely even if it takes a few extra days.

Try and send out our senses to feel whether we are urgently needed or we have time. If we don't need to hurry, we can do things like go ask someone who might have a clue what we are seeing, like dragon guy. Knowledgeable allies are good for more than just flanking maneuvers.

USE THE MAGITAMA TO BREAK HER PSYCHE-LOCKS!

QUICK, PRESS X TO BOOST TRHU

AND REMEMBER TO SAVESCUM

If there isn't time to ask dragon guy if he knows about it, we should try to use our MAGICAL SENSES to inspect the GLOWING CHAINS. In the meanwhile, the 'beacon' thing seems like a fairly safe bet.

Barbed wire is good when it is used to protect you from an enemy... same as any other weapon...

heck barbed wire can be used to herd cattle...

But it is possible that it means something bad in this context... it should be pointed out that she WILL finish this without us, if we interfere 2 things happen.

1. she finishes slightly earlier.
2. We might drastically alter her personality; not necessarily in a good way.

>>300070
But not necessarily in a bad way either. Fireclaw has issues, dude. She won't tolerate other magic users, she's insecure, we bugged her into being self-conscious about her tits... Bunch of things that are holding her back. These are probably representing by the chains. Sure, we can study, but if we don't know what's what I go for removing all the chains.

>>300084
It could just as well result in her becoming an overconfident megalomaniacal bitch who doesn't listen to us. I advise caution.

The chains are likely linked to her powers in some way, because they are attached to her tattoos, which also seem to be associated with her powers. And since the nomad princess (unless she was lying) broke the barrier on Fireclaw's power, it is fairly likely they do something useful.

Can we use our magic perceptions to locate/identify where the other end of these chains go ?

>>300084
but we have no idea what we are doing... "lets smash stuff in her brain because she has issues" MIGHT fix her, but seems more likely to make her worse.

We can convince her that having magic capable underlings is beneficial to her once she awakens rather then taking such a risk

Does anyone else feel like we've been blundering about uselessly here? How'd it get to be like this?
Do we have a quest-dis?

>>301350
http://quest.lv/kusaba/questdis/res/335940.html

bg!5E5cOpffmA 2011/05/28(Sat)17:36 No. 307440 ID: 870c03
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chains bind self define change break repair

>>307440
...Chains bind the self and define the self. We can change them, break them, or repair them.

That's my interpretation.

Hmmm,
The circle has words on it, in the upper right is says magic and in the lower left it says knowledge.

top left says power. but are these restraints or goals or amplifiers? would breaking them all make her more powerful? or would fixing them do that?
let's use
Define Magic

>>307440
What's in the lower right?
I'm tempted to say to break the barbed wire, but the chains are making her bleed.

Maybe we should fix the concepts she's attached to?

Rather than breaking, see if we can drag them with her!
-Her form draped with chains, not bound, but loose, the chains are hers, she is not the chains, pull and hold, chaos in the links. Remember You are and were Fire Claw, a Gnoll, but NOW You are the Mistress of Fire and Chains, AWAKEN!-

Madcap attempt at breaking the chains, freedom/ultimate personality wipe, fixing them maintaining self, then changing them so that they drape themselves on her form, seizing power.

I think its whats important to her,
Magic and Knoweldge are both very clear and readable.
Power isn't as important but could be repaired to make it much more so.
The one in the lower right isn't to important right now and isn't readable, so it could be repaired or changed to something else.

>>307468
Repair the words, LENGTHEN the chains, cut away the barbed wire.

Part of me says that we should just assist her in whatever she's trying to do. We might not know enough about everything to justify an educated guess. Other than that... this >>307479

okay why is everyone saying to take an action right now when we can use define and maybe get a better idea of what is happening?

>>307493
no clue... we got lucky and this is ridiculously oversimplified so we have 50% chance of destroying her and 50% of improving her... But we are still going "durr hurr lets break shit in her brain and hope it improves her"

>>307440
Define EVERYTHING. More information is required.

>>307504
I think 'defining' might mean more than just looking at it more closely. It likely makes it more prominent as well. So we should try slightly defining something we would like in focus anyway (if that is what it does), like Magic. We should also avoid breaking things that we don't know the function of.

bg!5E5cOpffmA 2011/05/28(Sat)20:01 No. 307508 ID: 870c03
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MAGIC flows stream holds material binds word chains creation magic was first with material created world not hold properly separated two realities six types

EVERYTHING concept sum of all individual parts contrary nothing, fireclaw not everything not nothing

BLOOD material concept erroneous not part of soul representation hint not there

define chains
define barbed wire

>>307508
... Clever thing.

Define chains. Define barbed wire.

bg!5E5cOpffmA 2011/05/28(Sat)20:15 No. 307512 ID: 870c03
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CHAIN material concept representation bind concept self to identity chain natural everything to material self to immaterial self

WIRE different chain put there added holds self unnatural

wire chain meld new self change sum of change makes self

>>307512
hmmm
define broken concept
break barbed wire

>>307512
Cut barbed wire. Carefully.

Wait, before breaking the wire, there is something we should check. At least two of the wires have non-chain connections, (one to MAGIC and one to POWER), so the wires might be forming new chains, which are apparently useful
So:
Delay [break wires] order
Define [non-chain strands] (the yellow lines between the concepts and Fireclaw that are not chains)
While we are at it, Define [white winged thing]

bg!5E5cOpffmA 2011/05/28(Sat)20:45 No. 307524 ID: 870c03
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WIRE reacts intention cut form connections

LINES weak links represent use help connection concept cannot hold if chain broken

erroneous definition no WHITE no WING in representation

Define SELF.

i think the broken one is trust!
define trust.
destroy wire!

>>307524
CUT WIRE! Repair trust.

As we speak some LINES appear to turning into WIRES, which are creating new LINES which are routing into the (CORE?). One one hand this is somewhat worrying, but on the other hand (Core?) seems to be glowing brighter, so they may be connecting her more directly to the magic.
Maybe try {Define} [CORE] (the thing that is glowing brighter as more LINES attach to it)?
We should not yet cut the WIRES, but we should see if we can {Halt} the LINE/WIRE growth until we can get a better idea what it is doing.
I am going to have to go to sleep now, try not to break stuff too hastily while I am not there.

bg!5E5cOpffmA 2011/05/28(Sat)22:46 No. 307547 ID: 870c03
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SELF sum material and inmaterial binded magic everything fireclaw not self incomplete lack

TRUST dangerous trust lies trust kills dangerous trust lies trust kills dangerous trust lies trust kills dangerous trust lies trust kills dangerous trust lies trust kills dangerous trust lies trust kills dangerous trust lies trust kills dangerous trust lies trust kills THERE IS NO CORE OUT-enough... she is incomplete, immature... begone...

NO U.
DESTROY WIRES!
REPAIR CHAINS
REPAIR TRUST

>>307547
BLIND THE EYE! UNRAVEL THE WIRES!

bg!5E5cOpffmA 2011/05/28(Sat)23:13 No. 307554 ID: 659a7b
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The Eye bulges and expands outside fireclaw's soul, it cracks this dimension as it creeps closer...

you SImply don't have enough power here to DEstRoy me! she cant hear you anymore! BEGONE NOW!

bg!5E5cOpffmA 2011/05/28(Sat)23:14 No. 307555 ID: 659a7b
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...

>>307554
PULL THE FIGURE THROUGH THE BARS!

and this is why barbed wire is bad. let's remember that if we get a next time.

bg!5E5cOpffmA 2011/05/28(Sat)23:24 No. 307559 ID: 659a7b
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...

*cries*

>>307559
Goodbye for now, Fireclaw. We'll be back. I promise.

nowyoufuckedup.jpg

bg!5E5cOpffmA 2011/05/28(Sat)23:51 No. 307568 ID: 659a7b
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Something... something is different... AUGH... why am I so hungry!?... oh? hey, what happened to you? where are the guards? and why is this place so bright? you know what, forget those questions, lets go eat a rat or something...

-END OF CHAPTER-

>>307568
Welp. That's a thing. I like the new look.

i dunno if this is good or bad.

Our little fireclaw is looking a bit... Hot

>>307570
Bad without a doubt. Fireclaw's a damn living seal for some sort of Old One or the nearest equivalent. We're going to need to step lightly from now on.

*Facepalm* Aww... I became one of those people. The ones who's attempts to study the mysterious and sinister event keeps them from destroying it before it grows uncontrollable. *shame*

At least it did not turn out nearly as badly as it could have. We blew a hole in our mountain, (and are possibly now in some sort of demonic pact), but Fireclaw seems sane, and she doesn't have any writhing tentacles or extra eyes.

dice1d100

dice 3d6+1

DDDD