1/3 Heretic 2017/09/04(Mon)14:56 No. 827610 ID: 8a947d
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Radio: The boat was found to be covered in dead hornets and fish, when asked about what happened passengers claimed that fish with legs attacked the boat leaving 2 people killed and 10 people injured.

Radio: If you suspect any suspicious or heretical activity in Ebony please contact your local guard station immediately, furthermore-

2/3 Heretic 2017/09/04(Mon)14:58 No. 827611 ID: 8a947d
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Troy: Lesson number one Uma, don't let the church know you exist. They'd jump at the chance of indoctrinatin' you, unfortunately it seems there's already eyes on Ebony now that the mess on the boat's happened...

3/3 Heretic 2017/09/04(Mon)15:04 No. 827614 ID: 8a947d
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Troy: Now that we're here. What's the plan ? From what you've said we've got no way a' knowin' where this Castle guy is and our best chance of findin' him is to just wander around.

You may have managed to slip off of the boat but there was no way to hide the mess that Gya left behind. No doubt Ebony Port is gonna be on alert and you still need to look for Castle. Ebony's a pretty big city and unlike Ender it has more of it under the control of the Regent Church. Troy's right too, the only plan you've had so far was to just look around until you found anything, but you doubt that'll be efficient.

The local priests still don't understand the waypoint system, so your first priority is to find a beacon, then you can teleport back to a safe location and wait it out for a few days.

We've got aether sight to speed things up, but we'd need a suitable vantage point first if we want to make sense of anything.

Would it be bad to travel in a group? We each look kinda suspicious, as a group we might really start attracting the wrong kind of attention.

Find a lone guard. Utilize a Cerebral gnat to extract a lead for "Possible Heretical Activity"
Start asking questions around that place after tipping them off that the guards are on to them.

Heretic 2017/09/04(Mon)17:24 No. 827639 ID: 8a947d
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You: I feel like finding another Waystone in case we need to make a hasty retreat would be a good idea.

You: I've also got a demon I could use to extract information from guards safely, we'd just have to find one alone and use it. There's another thing I feel might be an issue...

You: Do any of you think that us traveling in a group would be a bad idea ? We're not exactly conspicuous together.

Issei: that could be a problem, especially since the city is on alert.

Troy: -but at the same time splittin' up could be dangerous. The only advantage we'd get from goin' separate ways is being able to do multiple things at once.

Troy: So do you think we should split into teams to do more stuff, or stay together and focus effort on one objective ?

Stick together team

We stand a better chance of surviving if we stay as a group

Hey Roland, as far as you know, Freitast seems like a nice goddess, right? Well, imagine if she suddenly took control of Troy's body and, instead of trying to kill someone, she just started doing girl things with Troy's body. And then when she gives Troy control of his body again, he's out in the middle of town wearing a dress and makeup! Wouldn't that be funny? If you start giggling, go ahead and tell them about that! XD

>>827639
But seriously, we should find that Waystone first. Having a quick escape and knowing where it is can possibly be the difference between getting caught, getting killed, or getting away.

And everyone should stick together so that we can all know where the Waystone is.

Hey, now that I think about it, does everyone need a Waykey? Because as far as I know, Roland is the only person in the group that has one. It might be a good idea to get everyone a Waykey, in case we all get split up. That way everyone can still teleport to safety and they don't have to wait for Roland to show up.

If we find a Waystone it means we have a way both to find the person we are after easier by getting info from other pagans and it also acts as a quick escape route that not many people know about if things go south

In our experience waystones tend to be in heretical establishments.
Besides that, one in a public area or in hostile territory wouldn't be too useful to arrive at. It would be exit only as use of it would attract unwanted attention.

I feel that if we find a heretical establishment, a waystone will not be far off.

As for the party, Issei will stand out like a sore thumb. Can he maintain compact carnivore while he travels around with us? I feel his presence will attract attention in the current circumstances.

>>827685
>Can he maintain compact carnivore while he travels around with us?
A pocket sized Issei would be good for surprise attacks. Instead of pocket sand, we throw a pocket Issei!

But I don't think he needs to be that small. He only needs to stop being a freaking 9 foot giant and just come down to everyone else's size. Or at least make himself shorter than Troy and taller than Roland.

If your current appearances stand out, maybe someone should be taking advantage of their womanly curves. They're not looking for a party with two women!

Well, three's a crowd.

Get out the dress, and go with Uma. Troy and Issei can walk in the open, while you and Uma follow them while hugging the buildings.

>Freitast
Oh, now that we know gods *can* take over a Prophet's body if the prophet allows it, ask Troy if he's ever done so. Or is Freitast too weak?

NEVER SPLIT THE PARTY

Heretic 2017/09/04(Mon)22:04 No. 827725 ID: 8a947d
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>Can Issei keep Compact Carnivore for long enough ?

Issei: there's no way i can keep my self shrunken for that long. i can stay like that for maybe a few minutes.

>Freitast taking over Troy.

Troy: Uma only got taken over because she let Gya do it. Besides Freitast told me it would be too humiliatin' to walk around as a human, that it's bad enough she's gotta live in me and that actually bein' me would be much worse... no complaint here though.

>>827685
Pagan's don't make it obvious where they keep hideouts, knowledge of a pagan hideout is usually figured out by word to mouth. Now that you mention it you feel like Flint would tell you if such an establishment existed in Ebony, you aren't sure if there are any pagan controlled Waystones but maybe you can figure something out if you look around enough.

You also can't forget you're here to find Castle and get information from him.

Heretic 2017/09/04(Mon)22:25 No. 827730 ID: 8a947d
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Uma speaks up after being silent for a while.

Uma: H-Hey, can we go to some of the stores around ? I-I'd like to buy some stuff while we're here.

Uma: We have nowhere better to look after all...

>Find and Interrogate a guard
>Go to the Market District

Shopping trip! (Inna dress).

Well, it's as good a place to start as any. At least we'll have an alibi then.

>>827730
Sure, let's go to the Market District.

We might find something useful in the stores and/or we might overhear something about Anthony Jones, aka Castle.

It should be fine to just do some shopping before the mission. Plus we just used a bunch of summoning supplies, maybe we can stock up on some of the essentials. Like feathers and glass.

To the market then.

The place is on mid alert, so if any guards go missing they'll double up the patrols and start actively searching.

Besides, nothing says "annoying as hell" like two ditzes talking about clothes, jewelery, and cute boys. You'll blend in with all the OTHER pairs of ladies.

1/2 Heretic 2017/09/05(Tue)18:29 No. 828017 ID: 8a947d
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You don your disguise and head towards the market district.

Uma: Whoa! You're wrapped entirely in bandages, is that some sort of pagan thing ?

You: Eh, sort of.

Uma:...I-Is the dress a pagan thing too ?

Troy: Nah, he just likes to wear it sometimes.

Issei: he'll think up any reason to put it on, in fact isn't a different dress than the one he wore before ?

Troy: Hey you're right! Did you get a new dress Gallows ?

You: Its a DISGUISE! just in case...and yes the old dress got dirty I needed a new one.

2/2 Heretic 2017/09/05(Tue)18:34 No. 828018 ID: 8a947d
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The small plaza's full of people, a few shops catch your interest

>Pack Rat: Scavenged Good's
>Hack 'n' Slash: Weapon's Shop
>Blue Rose Apothecary

I say weapons first. Maybe we can see about getting some new bullets for the blue baroness, and also a new knife, or mabye something better, because blades never need reloading.

Yeah let's see if we can find bullets for the baroness.

>>828018
The pack rat

>>828018
I'm expecting Uma to now comment on Roland's feminine curves! XD

And I'm expecting an asshole to suddenly walk up to Roland and grab his ass while trying to hit on him! XD

Unless, the asshole does that to Uma, then he's a pervert! >:-(

>Where to?
Let's go to the Hack 'n' Slash: Weapon's Shop.

We should restock our ammo.

Pack Rat's a must, but really, all these places look good.

Heretic 2017/09/05(Tue)19:29 No. 828044 ID: 8a947d
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You enter Hack 'n' Slash.

The shops interior is dimly lit, it smells like steel and gunpowder, a small radio plays music with a heavy beat.

At the front the owner leans back in his chair crossing out and adding to a book he's reading. His name-tag reads Clancy, he mumbles to himself...

Clancy: Spelling error...incorrect information...wrong, wrong, wron- Oh! I'm sorry I didn't hear you come in. If there's anything you need feel free to ask.

You have: 878G

Clancy may be willing to buy unwanted weaponry.

>Guns:
Snub-nose Pistol [200]: A Small Caliber revolver, it's easy to handle and light. Let's you act after shooting.

Enforcer: [250]: A Large Caliber pistol. The sound it makes it incredibly loud. Has a chance of Stunning enemies.

>Knives:
Talon [150]: A Heavily hooked Knife, gives you a chance of Suppressing a struck enemy.

Wrench Knife [200]: A Wrench that's had it's handle banged and sharpened into a curved knife. +2 to rolls involving machines.

>Ammo:
Small Caliber [50G Per 20]

Large Caliber [75 Per 20]

Special Bullets [150 Per Bullet]

>>828044
Buy both knives, you can never have too many knives.

I'm assuming the blue baroness needs special bullets, do we get a case of ammo for the 150? And how many if so?

>>828044
Take a look at the special bullets. Can you tell if they're the same type that the Blue Baroness uses?

>>828046
The price clearly states that it's 150 for 1 bullet.

get to 30 bullets for any gun we own. 60 is better.
Obviously not the BB, at 150 a shot.

We got knives already.

Uma could use a gun. Even if she doesn't know how to use one it will be helpful when she find herself without sea creatures. Snub-nose Pistol look like a good weapon to start.
Can we get a look at our inventory?

>>828050
Our knife broke in the battle against the shark. All we have are guns at the moment.

>>828048
Yeesh... think we can try and haggle a bit to try and get more? Because seriously... what the hell, 150 for one? That's a bit much.

>>828052
No, we've got more than 1 knife. Only 1 of them got broken, so we've at least got 1 perfectly good knife.

But I agree, having another knife could come in handy.

>Haggle for special bullets.
We should at least look at them to make sure they can be used in the Blue Baroness first before we try to buy them.

Heretic 2017/09/05(Tue)20:49 No. 828073 ID: 8a947d
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Inventory - https://pastebin.com/9LPi14pP

You still have your Curved Dagger, but buying another knife couldn't hurt. You ask about the high prices of the Special Bullets.

Clancy: These things are incredibly hard to come by and even harder to make. They're valuable and I can't afford to sell them for too low.

>>828051
You purchase the Snub-nose Pistol for 200G [878G ==> 678G] and hand it to Uma.

Uma: I-I guess it's better to have and not need it, t-than to need it and not have it.

You purchase one pack of each type of regular ammo for 125G [678G ==> 553G] [L. Cal: 19 ==> 39] [S. Cal: 21 ==> 41]

Clancy strikes through two more lines in his book.

Clancy: Will that be all for today ?

>>828073
Buy the wrench knife, sell your old knife, and sell your sixshot pistol.

>>828073
Pastebin updated.

I think that will be all. Was there any other places we needed to go Uma? We kinda strapped for cash now. With the church in town getting our hands on some money through gambling might prove difficult if they outlaw that kind of stuff... but then you have priests like Karas, so who knows.

say "do you sell the equipment needed to make the 'special' ammo on the go, just in case I find the materials that it requires to make it on my adventures"

If those special bullets work in the Baroness, buy two. Then keep in mind from now on that they are extremely expensive and should be used only when you really need them.

>>828073
Make sure you give some of that ammo to Uma. Having the gun won't do her much good if she runs out of ammo!

Wait, ask him if he knows a way to inscribe tiny runes onto a bullet. You're planning to lace them with special prayer materials for special spellshots, but you simply don't know how to etch a rune on something as tiny and volatile as a bullet.

Except that spellshot is called "exploding demon runes".

And if not, then you can also offer to buy some do-it-yourself bullet ingredients in bulk.

>>828097
I'm pretty sure he doesn't know how to do that.

>>828097
No blowing our cover.

at least one special bullet

>>828123
Yes, just 1 will be fine.

>>828073
Ask him about the laws surrounding rifles/shotguns in this area. If they are as open as laws about pistols ask him if there's a store in town that sells them. Most of our combat has been close quarters (>50 yards) and a shotgun is made for stuff like that. Plus a shotgun slug is the ultimate "lock-picking kit" for padlocks and deadbolts (provided said deadbolt is in a wooden door).

Also, while we have time and before you fire the remaining Blue Baroness rounds, you should draw as good a picture as you can of the cartridge and keep the drawing with you. Label things like color, and if you can tell, material. If you end up having to fire the remaining rounds you'll want to be able to reference the diagram when replenishing ammo. Or if you find someone who can make the stuff you'll want to give them enough information to duplicate the cartridge.

Heretic 2017/09/06(Wed)14:20 No. 828211 ID: 8a947d
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>>828134
Clancy: Can't nobody own big guns in the city without a license, and nobody can get a licence without waiting three months for the process to go through.

Much like small caliber pistols take small caliber bullets and large caliber pistols use large caliber bullets you can assume that special caliber guns use special caliber bullets, so if you were to find another special pistol like the Blue Baroness the same bullets would still work.

You buy one special caliber bullet [553G ==> 403G]

You ask about making your own special caliber bullets.

Clancy: If it were that easy I wouldn't have them so expensive. You'd need certain components and lots of knowledge in crafting the bullet, if you do it wrong the whole thing can blow up in your face.

Clancy: The tools themselves are far more expensive than anything in this shop, I only have the one set and even if I did wanna sell 'em they're giant pieces of equipment you can't just pick up an' carry with ya.

You sell your Curved Dagger for 105G [403G ==> 508G] and buy the Wrench Knife for 200G [508G ==> 308G]

Clancy: Will that be all for today ?

>>828211
Yes, thank you.

Let's leave the store and go somewhere else.

>>828211
Tell him thank you then head to Pack Rat.

Before you leave ask what the fancy materials to the special bullets are.
If you come across any in your travels, maybe you two can strike a deal.

Heretic 2017/09/06(Wed)15:28 No. 828246 ID: 8a947d
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You thank Clancy for his time and head to Pack Rat.

The store looks a little ramshackle from the outside, and inside it's not much better. Shelves are packed with miscellaneous junk and scrap metal, in the back boxes full of scavenged and second hand items line the wall. Other jackalopes run in and out of the shop carrying bags full of clanking metal into the back room.

The front desk is run by a small lady jackalope fiddling with bits of machinery, behind her another jackalope sorts a box of scrap he side eyes you before going back to work. Her name tag is written chicken scratch but you make out the name Yormi

Yormi: Hello, welcome to Pack Rat. Feel free to look around and talk to me or Burqel if you need anything.

Burqel: ...

>Stock

Broken Phone [5G] An old smartphone. On the back the symbol of the pagans is inscribed, maybe it has information you can use ? If you can fix it...

Sharp Metal Scraps [5G] Scraps of sharp metal not big enough to write on.

Duck Tape [5G] A Roll of sturdy duck tape.

Mirror [10G]

Broken Gun [20G] Broken gun missing bits and pieces, maybe you can fix it.

Odd Page [100G] A Crumpled paper under a glass case, it's rolled up but the seal on top of it is obviously a pagan symbol.

Waystone Shell [400G] The exterior shell of a Waystone, nodes and wires hang off from the inside.

rolled 16 + 9 = 25

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I'd ask if they had any trinkets they haven't been able to sell, but given their window selection this is it.

Phone, scraps, tape, mirror, broken gun.

Then ask them where they found that last thing. Troy and Uma, you're up.

>>828249
This and the odd page. Could be a spell or summon.

We don't need the waystone shell yet... don't have the means to fix it.
But I feel like we will have things to sell or more money when we do.

>>828246
Let's get the Broken Phone, Sharp Metal Scraps, Duck Tape, Mirror, and the Odd Page.

All of that will cost us 125G.

Unless anyone can think of something for us to sell, let's not spend anymore money. We've gotta save enough for food so we don't starve!

>Waystone Shell
Speaking of which, ask the shopkeepers if they can give you directions to a working Waystone?

>>828246
Buy the phone, the page, and four bits of scrap metal.

>>828246
Is the gun another revolver or some other kind of pistol? If it's another revolver I say we probably don't need it.

At the very least grab the smartphone. We some engineering skill, and if we take our time we might be able to fix it. If nothing else the screen is kinda a mirror and it contains bits of metal.

I agree with >>828255 , ask if they have a waystone.

Heretic 2017/09/06(Wed)19:06 No. 828324 ID: 8a947d
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You ask about the Waystone Shell

Yormi: We just found it out in the wastes, plenty of good stuff if you look hard enough.

Burqel: We don't know where anymore of these are, they're not as easy to make as ham radios y'know...

You purchase Duck Tape, The Odd Page, The Broken Phone, 4x Sharp Metal Scraps, and the Broken Handgun. [308G ==> 158G]

Yormi: Will you need anything else ?

>>828324
Wait, why did we ask that? I thought we were asking for directions to a working Waystone somewhere in the city?

>Will you need anything else?
No, thank you.

Let's leave and go somewhere secluded so we can read The Odd Page.

After that, let's examine The Broken Phone to see what it needs to be fixed.

.....why do I get the feeling that the Duck Tape we bought is going to quack every time we use it? Meh, it probably will won't happen.

Let's go to Blue Rose Apothecary and see if they have anything useful. Then we can go someplace secluded and give our inventory more attention.

>>828328
Duck tape already "quacks" when you unroll it, sorta.

>>828330
I don't want to go there because if we see something we want, we're gonna end up buying it and then we won't have any money left for food!

There's no telling how much they're gonna charge for something as imple as a salad! And without knowing where a Waystone is, we can't get back to a different town with cheaper food!

>>828339
*something as simple as a salad!

Pastebin updated.
Doesn't Troy still have the shotgun he received from Issei? If he gets caught with it, he might be arrested.

Heretic 2017/09/06(Wed)21:15 No. 828357 ID: 8a947d
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You've spent a lot of money for now, you decide not to go to the Apothecary right now. You take the phone out of your pocket and try to turn it on. To your surprise the screen lights up with a message titled "URGENT: ALL PAGANS" you open it and read the message.

To all Pagans receiving this message

One of our own has been taken hostage by Church Guards, Anthony Jones (PA: Castle) has been missing for sometime and as of recently we have gained some knowledge on his whereabouts. Come to this location IMMEDIATELY, only pagan's are aloud in and around the premises. This is a code Tsadi situation, NO NON-PAGAN'S are aloud at this meeting

Well shit. This took a turn for the worst.

>>828357
Tell everyone that you need to split off for a bit. If they need something to do, then they could try finding work or scoping out the rest of the city. Read the page you bought before you leave.

>>828357
Great. I guess you get to go solo for a while.
Wait, the message didn't say what location?

>>828357
That was way too convenient! I don't trust that message, it could be a trap! This phone coulda been messed with and that's the Church sending that message!

Especially since it's asking for all Pagans in the area to gather into a single location! Which would be perfect for a bunch of Priests to show up and capture everyone!

I say bring everyone close to the location and watch from a distance to see who shows up! If a bunch of Priests show up, then leave! But if nothing happens, then tell everyone to wait at that nearby location and if you're not back in a certain amount of time, they should come in to get you!

Also read The Odd Page you got.

>>828373
What's a code Tsadi situation?

And "only Pagans are aloud in and around the premises"? That could mean that only Pagans can make really loud noises in and around the premises.

Which we can use as a loophole to bring non-Pagans, as long as they don't talk. Because that's what the spelling error is telling you!

And if you're asked why your friends are with you, you can explain that the instructions didn't say that they weren't allowed to be there, it just said they weren't supposed to be loud!

1/2 Heretic 2017/09/06(Wed)22:08 No. 828379 ID: 8a947d
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>>828373
The message used Pagan code Tsadi, it means the situation is of high importance and only to be attended by by other appropriately ranking pagans. You've got nothing else to go off of, and the odds of this being a trap by the Church is low.

>>828371
There's a map included in an image file with the message you got.

You: I got a lead on Castle, but I need to go alone. Pagan business...

Troy: Alone ? Fine but be careful.

Issei: you need to be on your toes the whole time okay ?

Uma: B-be safe okay ?

You head off towards the meet up location.

2/2 Heretic 2017/09/06(Wed)22:12 No. 828380 ID: 8a947d
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You read the odd page. It's a summon recipe for a Stygian Facsimile, a clone of somebody normally the summoner.

Stygian Facsimile: 5x Animal Viscera, Gemstone, DNA of the target, Something Reflective.

Neat. Does it have their skills? We should ask Issei if he's OK with getting copied - I doubt it works properly with prophets.

>>828379
>the odds of this being a trap by the Church is low.
That means that there's still a chance that it could happen! And because you're not expecting it, that's why it would be a good trap by the Church!

>>828380
We just so happen to have all of those things!

The question is, should we do it? If it is a trap, then we managed to avoid it, but if it's not a trap, then we just wasted a bunch of reagents!

Hmmm, well, if you don't want to waste reagents by accident, then you could just use Aether Scan when you get to the location. That'll let you identify friend or foe visually.

1/2 Heretic 2017/09/06(Wed)22:36 No. 828384 ID: 8a947d
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>>828381
The Facsimile is a group of small demons that take the shape of the target, it can't talk or attack but it can move and act as a distraction.

After a long walk you end up at a shut down building in the middle of town the building's run down and ramshackle but there are no guards or church buildings within eyesight, a perfect place for a hideout. You double check your map to make sure you're at the right place, when you look down at the phone you notice something.

2/2 Heretic 2017/09/06(Wed)22:37 No. 828385 ID: 8a947d
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You have a new message.

Check it, make sure you haven't been followed.

And nobody made a 'screw yourself' joke, I'm proud.

>>828385
Check the message before you enter the building, it could be important!

>>828384
>can't talk or attack
Well that seems a bit useless. At best you could use it to draw an unbeatable enemy away from a quest objective, or an escape route.

>>828385
You better read that immediately.

>>828393
This thing could lead pursuers in wild goose chases.

Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)00:16 No. 828400 ID: 8a947d
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You open the messenger app on the phone. The sender is literally UNKNOWN in the phone.

UNKNOWN: DARE-Climb to the top of the abandoned building you are standing in front of.

FORFEIT- All of the money in your inventory.

[05:00:00]

Welp. Get Climbing.

>>828400
I don't think that's feasible without summoning a tentacle, which will get you caught.

Just go inside, you don't have much money left anyway.

Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)00:41 No. 828407 ID: 8a947d
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It's totally feasible to get up there if you're STRONG enough to keep hold, but if it isn't worth it then maybe you should just head inside. You aren't even sure if anything'll happen...

>Climb
Roll 1d20 + 4 to climb [Success = 20]

>Head inside the building
lose 158G's

>>828407
Ok, this literally looks like a trap! And the only way they'd know you were here is if they're currently watching you! I say you should use Aether Scan to see if you can spot whoever it is! Look around the street and at the building!

I'm pretty sure if you don't do the dare, your money will be magically gone from your pockets!

Of course, since you just now got this phone, you are allowed to text back, "New phone, who's this?"

rolled 6 + 4 = 10

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>>828407
Rolling to climb.

>>828411
welp

rolled 17 + 4 = 21

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Lets see if I remember how dice work...

rolled 3 + 4 = 7

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If you can climb to the top, beg for a butt-@#$%ing!

AKA Please STOP TRYING TO CLIMB UP. Leave 158G on the ground, go in, go out, get your money back from the ground, go in again.

rolled 6 + 4 = 10

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might as well try

Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)01:32 No. 828418 ID: 8a947d
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>Aether Scan
You activate Aether Scan real quick to check your surroundings [68oz ==> 58oz]. Nothing in your range shows as a threat except for the phone you're holding

>rolled 17 + 4 = 21
You lift yourself up to the top of the building with great effort, once at the top you have a nice view of the whole city but still see nothing else register in you Aether Scan.

You get another message on the phone

UNKNOWN: Fast learner! People usually just ignore the first text I send.

you: Who are you ?

UNKNOWN: Well if I wanted u to know that I wouldn't have put UNKNOWN for my name in the chat now would I ?

UNKNOWN: I know who u r tho, the man in bandages. We were told to look out for u coming here. I know ur looking for Castle, but u wont get to him while im here.

UNKNOWN: I saw u get off that boat with those other 3 so I had to get you away from them, O that reminds me.

UNKNOWN: DARE-Don't tell or show anybody that you're in trouble.

FORFEIT-Anybody you tell or show will instantly enter a coma like state.

[1,440:00:00]

UNKNOWN: That should take care of that for a while.

>>828418
He basically gave us a panic button. You can yell "I'm in trouble!" to render everyone who heard it unconcious.

I would laugh if it was a demon trapped in the phone doing all this talking to you

Also, this phone is not the threat. It's likely that a priest with a phone for their charm is casting spells with their messages. Play along for now.

>>828418
Is this guy a prophet? It seems like a prophet with a DARE/FORFEIT ability.

Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)02:10 No. 828428 ID: 8a947d
File 150477540016.png - (105.90KB , 1212x826 , DARE 3.png )

The magic emitting from the phone feels odd, yet familiar. It's definitely a type of magic you've been in contact with before but that doesn't narrow it down to anything. Not only that but you get the feeling that there's something about this guy that might give you a leg up on him, you're not quite sure what it is but there's something off about this...

UNKNOWN is typing in the chat.

With what little time you have left before your next DARE what should you do ?

>Think about your situation and try to come up with something [Roll 1d20 + 11 from Intelligence]
>Aether Scan from the roof and try to find something
>Try to run to get away from whatever range this ability might have.
>Other (Write in)

>>828428
Ok, so there's something going on with the [1,440:00:00] and [05:00:00]. The [05:00:00] looked like a time-stamp but the [1,440:00:00] isn't, unless they tell time in a really strange way here. I can't quite put my finger on what exactly that means though.

I say you text him "I'm in trouble". His dare was "Don't tell or show anybody that you're in trouble" and "Anybody you tell or show will instantly enter a coma like state". He did say "anybody", and that includes him.

rolled 19 + 11 = 30

---

>>828428
There's no point in running. The range is effectively infinite as long as the target has a phone. This person saw you arrive and knows where you are. Unless there are cameras or they have a way to scry your location, they're somewhere high up with a clear view of the town.
>Use Aether Sight on the tallest building in view.
>Also try to come up with something.

>>828430
Those numbers are the duration of the dare. The first one gave Gallows five minutes to climb the roof. This new one lasts for exactly one day.

>>828433
Ah, that makes sense. I'm wondering, now that we know the format for writing a dare, can we send him a dare? >>828432 rolled well, so we may be finding out pretty soon.

>>828430
>>828418
Might as well try this, also take a screenshot of the messages and send them with the text. He said "Don't tell or show anybody" so showing him will cause a double whammy effect.

>>828436
We can't send a dare, because we don't have a way to cast the spell that causes it to take effect. Telling them that you're in trouble should work, but they might only be in the comatose state for a day.

>>828428
Give him a dare of your own. Dare him to come face you in combat.

OH.

Destroy your phone. He can't dare you if he can't contact you.

1/2 Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)02:52 No. 828443 ID: 8a947d
File 150477797996.png - (129.89KB , 1212x826 , DARE 4.png )

>rolled 19 + 11 = 30
You analyze the situation and put something together.
With an ability like this your attacker can forcefully position you almost however they want. Once you were on the roof he could have easily had a third party shoot you from afar and kill you instantly but that wasn't the case, it seems like this guy isn't working with any partner or outside force aside from himself for some reason. Hey may not be part of the church or he simply chooses to work alone, either you doubt there's anyone to worry about other than him...

2/2 Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)03:04 No. 828446 ID: 8a947d
File 150477865566.png - (67.85KB , 785x812 , Phone Message 3.png )

>>828439
>>828437
You text him a screenshot of your conversation and ask for help.

You: Help ! I'm in trouble!

UNKNOWN:...wat. y r u telling me that wat...

UNKNOWN: ARE YOU TRYING TO USE MY OWN POWER ON ME ? WHY WOULD DARE WORK ON ME AT ALL ? DID YOU REALLY THINK THIS'D WORK ? If nobody believes u or actually cares if ur in trouble or not the effect won't work. Just to be clear.

You:...

You:DARE-Face me head on in direct combat
FORFEIT- Your ability to use DARE.
[60:00:00]

UNKNOWN: WHY WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO USE MY ABILITY !? THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE YOU IDIOT !

UNKNOWN: DARE-Do a handstand all the way to the regent guard out post two blocks from here.
FORFEIT-All of the items that you own.
[25:00:00]

You better be AGILE enough to handstand for two blocks. Roll 1d20 + 8 [Success = 25]

rolled 12 + 8 = 20

---

It is on!

rolled 13 + 8 = 21

---

>>828446
Looks like we have no choice but to play along for now.

Text back: "i'm wearing a dress right now, can i either get a new dare or take this off first?"

rolled 14 + 8 = 22

---

Play along for now.

say "just checking to see if your another one of those churchies, cant blame a bloke for trying".

You may want to void that dare. I bought this phone, so I own it, right? If I fail this dare then doesn't that mean I lose the phone? If that happened I wouldn't be able to do any more dares.

rolled 12 + 8 = 20

---

>>828446
>ARE YOU TRYING TO USE MY OWN POWER ON ME ? WHY WOULD DARE WORK ON ME AT ALL ? DID YOU REALLY THINK THIS'D WORK ?
Text back: "Well, you can't blame me for trying. Last time I ran into a Priest, I managed to trick him into using his own power on himself, so I thought I could do it again with you."

>You better be AGILE enough to handstand for two blocks. Roll 1d20 + 8 [Success = 25]
Rolling.

rolled 18 = 18

---

Let's do this.
If we end up not being agile enough, we could give all our stuff to some sucker, let the time run out, then stun claw them and steal it all back.

I just thought of something.

What if these time limits on these dares are all based on the time displayed on our phone? We were told that we can't show anyone for 1,440 minutes and that equals 1 day.

So if we change the phone's settings to display the date of 5 days in the future (to make sure we go over the time limit and don't accidentally tell them with 30 seconds left or something like that), would that mean we'd be allowed to tell everyone what's going on without them falling into a coma?

The only way we'd be able to tell if it worked is if all of our stuff disappears for going over the time limit of the handstand dare.

>>828528
Hey, you got it! I don't know why the 8 didn't get added, but that's a 26 you just rolled!

>If we end up not being agile enough, we could give all our stuff to some sucker, let the time run out, then stun claw them and steal it all back.
Huh. I wonder if we could do that with the Stygian Facsimile summon we just learned?

Summon it so that it looks like Roland, give it our stuff and tell it "Here, I'm giving these to you. These are your things and they don't belong to me anymore." and then wait for time to run out.

We gonna be handstand if in a dress? Plxy plox no.

>>828535
>Hey, you got it! I don't know why the 8 didn't get added, but that's a 26 you just rolled!

Oh. So I did.

In that case, when we arrive I think the very first thing to do would be to destroy the phone so we don't get dared into turning ourselves in.

We could then go back to the junk shop and find out where they got this thing.

>>828547
>We could then go back to the junk shop and find out where they got this thing.
Now that I think about it, it was only labeled as broken, yet when we tried to turn it on, it worked perfectly fine.

Makes me wonder, why didn't they label it as a smartphone and sell it for a higher amount of money? They coulda gotten a lot of money that way.

I think maybe 1 or both of the shopkeepers is doing this! And they put a Pagan symbol on it so that they'd automatically know whoever buys it is a Pagan!

>>828446
I see where this is going. You do the handstand out there and then he's gonna dare you to turn yourself in. Destroy your phone, but complete the dare. Then go back to the pagan outpost.

>>828552
>The Man in bandages
> We saw you get off the boat with those other 3

They saw us pre-disguise with the party and know we came by boat.

>We
He works with others.
Yet as Roland has surmised, they are acting like an individual with their dares.
The texter clearly is very used to working with other people. So much so that they made a tactical error and revealed a bit too much information.

>Fast learner! People usually just ignore the first text I send.

This has been done before. Meaning he has to have some way of getting text messages to peoples phones in the first place.
While the ability to magically text anyone's phone in range, or the ability to get anyone's phone number are possible, they seem a little far fetched. It would be much easier if he just had a single phone set up that only pagans would buy that he knew the number to.

Also, that alert earlier was bullshit. Pagans have always been low key and would never send an alert like that. We bought it hook, line, and sinker though.
We can however Garner that Castle really has been caught, or the Pagan Colony has a leak.

In anycase, the shopkeeps are definitely in on this. One might or might not be the priest, but this gives us reason to go back and get a little rough.

>>828564
>priest
I was thinking they're either a Priest or another one of the Shadowman's Voodoo guys/another Prophet he's hired.

UNKNOWN mentioned that "we were told to look out for [Gallows]." This means that they aren't working alone. The fact that you weren't taken out on the roof means that your immediate death isn't what they want. This leaves only a few possible motives.

>The church wants you alive.
>UNKNOWN is a priest who toys with their victims.
>This "Dare game" is a hazing that Castle could be putting you through.
>UNKNOWN is a prophet allied with the Voodoo gang.

The messages altering reality don't seem like the work of pagan magic. If UNKNOWN is allied with pagans, then he's probably a prophet.

The third possibility is the most likely for several reasons. You were contacted through a pagan phone, they know you plan to visit Castle, and the dares so far are testing your abilities.

>>828575
>Hazing.
I hope that's all this is!

And if it's a test, then it may also be to see if we blindly follow the dares or try to find a way out.

Oh, there's another thing we can test: whether the forfeit cost is calculated when the dare is given, or when you forfeit. Like, if you dropped all your items they wouldn't be in your inventory anymore, so if you did that then forfeited, would you lose anything? I'm not suggesting we actually do that though, since if it doesn't work we lose way too much.

Also even if destroying the phone doesn't work and Gallows gets dared to turn himself in with a forfeit cost that's way too high to accept, he can say "I'm a prophet and I'm turning myself in" then immediately say "Someone's daring me to do things" to cause the guards to pass out.

>>828592
Risking all of our items is too high a risk, we'd be a sitting duck. Plus it could affect our Azurite!

And telling the guards might not work either. If this guy has done this before then they might know what's up. If they have no desire to help us then they won't be affected!

Can you make a facsimile to do it for you?

After you're done, disable your phone so he's forced to contact you directly.

1/3 Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)14:35 No. 828649 ID: 8a947d
File 150482013766.png - (105.31KB , 1212x826 , DARE 5.png )

> Not alone.
He's attacking you alone right now, "We" may have been a slip up or the others aren't in a position to assist him. in fact his may be a trick to position you somewhere they can help !

Right now you have no choice but to play along

>rolled 18 + 8 = 26

You get on your hands and make way to the guard outpost.

2/3 Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)14:37 No. 828651 ID: 8a947d
File 150482022737.png - (40.93KB , 1212x826 , DARE 6.png )

A few odd looks and snickers later you stop outside of the outpost. You get as close as you can then stop before you attract any attention. You phone beeps.

3/3 Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)14:38 No. 828654 ID: 8a947d
File 150482032866.png - (68.66KB , 785x812 , Phone Message 4.png )

UNKNOWN: LOL that was impressive

UNKNOWN: I wish I could have gotten a picture, u almost fell a few times you know :P

UNKNOWN: Now for the next dare...

Smash your phone.

>>828654
Unload your six shooter into the phone.

Press the call button, with any luck you'll stop them from typing. If they hang up, just keep doing it.

>>828649
Holy shit! When the fuck did you have time to change back to your normal clothes?!

>>828654
Quick run back to the store where you bought the phone! They're involved in this somehow!

>>828654
Continue doing UNKNOWN's dares. This is a game, and you should treat it as such.

1/3 Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)15:13 No. 828676 ID: 8a947d
File 150482242127.png - (203.92KB , 1212x826 , Smash the Phone.png )

>>828670
Yeah you weren't doing handstand in a dress.

>>828656
You smash your phone on the ground, but somethings not right...

2/3 Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)15:15 No. 828679 ID: 8a947d
File 150482250399.png - (130.78KB , 1212x826 , Smash the Phone 2.png )

Inside the phone groaning and squealing organs with sunken faces and vestigial arms squirm about, blood leaks shoots from the phones interior

3/3 Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)15:16 No. 828681 ID: 8a947d
File 150482258263.png - (105.66KB , 1212x826 , Smash the Phone 3.png )

The creatures inside of the phone quickly put the phone back together, the cracks on the screen fill with blood and seal themselves, the screen lights back up and beeps. You have a new message.

That is creepy. Blood is usually pagan magic right? Might be that this is a pagan's phone, and whoever you're dealing with just channels their power through phones?

how about TRUTH for a change, this game's s'posed to be fun, ya know?

Don't read the message. Go into the guard station, hand the phone over to whoever's at the desk, tell 'em you think it might be possessed or something, head back to the supposed meeting site.

Don't read the message!

If this thing's got blood in it, then that means you've got an infinite Aether Scan with you! Or you just keep using Aether Scan until the blood in the phone is all used up!

Now you just need to walk around town with Aether Scan turned on until you find this guy! I'd say you start at the shop where you bought it!

>>828685
Actually, since this guard outpost belongs to the Church, I wonder how they'd react to us smashing the phone and it reforming itself in front of them?

Ok. you know what.
Fire.
Kill it with fire. OR
a roaming gluttony.

Based on his response when we climbed the building, it may be unwise to not read the message.

Also, if his dare is indeed to turn ourselves in to the guard, there is a way to cheat.
His dares must be at least somewhat reasonable or doable.
If he Dares us to turn ourselves in at the station, all we have to do is kill everyone inside before the time runs out.
Then turning ourselves in will be impossible and the dare made void.

Guy said 'most people' ignore the messages he sends- I don't think ignoring it will help now.

Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)15:56 No. 828695 ID: 8a947d
File 150482497290.png - (48.88KB , 785x812 , Phone Message 2.png )

>>828682
Usually, but not always. Everything has blood after all... well phones aren't supposed to

Walking into a Guard Station and turning in something like this is a great way to get yourself arrested. You have no reason not to read this message, besides if you ignore a dare you'll end up with the forfeit. you open the messenger.

UNKNOWN: If it was that easy to get rid of the phone I wouldn't bother with it at all :)

UNKNOWN: Try anything you want the phone is stuck with you. Now I was going to give you something easy, but It looks like you might need something a little more difficult or else you'll get bored.

UNKNOWN: DARE-Burn down the guard station
FORFEIT-Your left eye
[30:00:00]

Well, the bugger does need to see you. You've been walking around the block, if he comments on watching you smash the phone, maybe you can start mentally triangulating where he might be, based on when he's claimed to see you.

Hmm... odd that Aether sight didn't notice anything was strange with our phone when we used it earlier.

rolled 19 + 11 = 30

---

>>828695

SOLID escalation there. Startin' the mental triangulation gymnastics with +INT!

What block does this bloke have to be at?!

>>828695
Okay, I guess that confirms he's not with the church. Ask him why he's doing this if he's not with the church. Is he with the voodoo group that's been coming after you? Hell, tell him you'd do it even without the threat of losing your eye.

We have the ingredients for a Pyre, right? Or at least a fusion of one? Look around the guard station for a good spot to start a fire. Would Aether Sight be able to spot weak points in the building's structure?

I'm not sure he really needs to see you in person. He might be able to see what happens near the phone.

You could have just asked nicely. Fuck those guys.

In all seriousness though, this is getting absurd. We got 30 minutes to get this guy.

>>828695
Did you guys really expect smashing the phone to work?

>Don't burn down the guard station

Climbing buildings and walking on your hands is one thing. Burning down buildings and endangering lives is another. If you refuse this dare, you lose an eye. You can't read texts without it, so UNKNOWN's little game will end if he takes it.

>>828695
Text back: "Really? That's it? All you really needed to do was ask! I fucking hate those guys! I thought you said this was going to be hard?! XD"

Of course, this goes to show that the penalties are very real!

>>828696
It did notice. When we first climbed onto the abandoned building, it lit up as a threat to us.

Those guards might not be part of the church. Regent means appointed by the government. Is the church running this city?

rolled 17 + 11 = 28

---

>>828709
But seriously, whoever it is can see us, meaning they're somewhere nearby.

Let's think about this really hard and hopefully come up with a way to outsmart this person!

Rolling for Intelligence!

>>828713
Actually, the Church is running everything in pretty much every part of the world.

Which is why they're called the Regent Church.

>>828716
The Church is the government.

I'm not gonna say he ISNT watching us from somewhere nearby, but on the other hand, we have a phone full of blood faces that maybe has a camera on it.

>>828716
Alright, then.

Smash the phone, use the blood in the phone to cast empower on yourself. Phone reforms, smash the phone again, use the blood to cast empower on yourself again. Repeat until the phone runs out of blood.

I know it's not going to work because there's a very specific way to solve this puzzle and the above probably isn't it, but hey, I'm tryin' here.

>>828695
>Walking into a Guard Station and turning in something like this is a great way to get yourself arrested.
Unless anyone who you tell about the situation, and who then tries to separate you from the possessed phone, immediately falls into a coma. In that case they'd have a pretty hard time arresting you, no?

Go in there, use the dare to incapacitate all the guards, set something load-bearing on fire and start dragging unconscious bodies to safety.

>>828726
But according to UNKNOWN "If nobody believes u or actually cares if ur in trouble or not the effect won't work. Just to be clear."

So would the guards really be affected or not?

That's all? Alright then, fuck the church!

>>828734
I find it difficult to believe the guards wouldn't care about a phone that ooses pagan magic and blood when smashed. Wear the dress if you need to to look more innocent. It's worked in the past.

>>828709
>Of course, this goes to show that the penalties are very real!
I take back what I said, this doesn't prove the penalties are real, this just shows us that we bought a weird phone.

>>828744
>pagan magic
It's either that or voodoo bullshit.

And if it is Pagan, then we have a traitor that needs to be dealt with.

Do it then Text him: "DARE- meet me face to face at the location of the first dare. FORFEIT- your pride."
When he replys negatively send him "well I guess you have no self pride because you just proved your a big chicken that won't show his face to me in person ".

1/2 Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)20:42 No. 828787 ID: 8a947d
File 150484215328.png - (281.11KB , 1212x826 , Being Watched.png )

>rolled 19 + 11 = 30

You look up everywhere. There are plenty of high areas to look down at you from but you need to look for one that could see you from in front of the guard station AND the top of the abandoned building. After a bit of scanning the area and doing a little trigonometry you see a large pointed building that could possibly see both areas. It's a good spot to check out first you need to deal with this dare.

2/2 Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)20:50 No. 828793 ID: 8a947d
File 150484263757.png - (130.96KB , 1212x826 , DARE 7.png )

>>828734
Any guard that heard ask for help would react, but after they fainted the others would probably assume you were up to something. They're not the sharpest guards, plus they look for anyway to make it look like they're doing lots of work and reporting a suspected "heretic" would work.

>>828705
Just because you can't see doesn't mean he wont stop sending texts. It just means you won't be able to read and complete them, if he can take an eye he can do much worse and you can't respond if you're blind. Besides you already lost one eye to some fucking asshole you're not losing another one.

Maybe you should check around the entire building first.

If not summoning something might work but could draw attention if you're not careful.

If you really want to you can go inside and try to get as many people out as possible, it says burn the building down not kill everyone inside.

>>828793
Place your dead mutant fish in the air vents, then wait for everyone to evacuate. Set the building on fire when you're sure everyone's out.

>>828793
Can we summon a Gelatinous Pyre? We could let it ooze around on the outside walls for a couple minutes like living napalm, then run inside screaming about how the building's on fire? The summon could make its way into one of the windows to spread the fire indoors as well.

I want to look around the building first before we do anything though. If there's a way we can light a fire with just the lantern we should do so, both so we don't use any reagents and so that we don't have to summon a demon.
Like, if we luck out and find any cans of gasoline or oil we could use that.

>>828799
lol that could work too. Dead fish smell is not something people will tolerate.

1/2 Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)21:24 No. 828806 ID: 8a947d
File 150484467464.png - (97.62KB , 1148x621 , DARE 8.png )

>>828799
>>828802
You climb up the maintenance latter in the back of the building and place the Dead Mutant Fish in the ventilation unit on the roof. A normal fish probably wouldn't be bad enough to clear out a building but a mutant one probably will, you were getting sick of carrying this gross thing around anyway.

2/2 Heretic 2017/09/07(Thu)21:27 No. 828807 ID: 8a947d
File 150484486943.png - (148.83KB , 1212x826 , DARE 9.png )

Soon enough the front door opens and people start to rush out covering their noses. You can hear them below complaining about the stench

"What is that ?"

"Oh god! that's foul!"

"It doesn't stink outside, there must be something wrong with the vents"

The building must be empty by now.

>>828807
Check inside to make sure, grab anything valuable, and light it up.

>>828807
>Swarm of people running out and complaining about the smell.
.....huh. I wonder why no one has ever mentioned anything to you about you smelling terrible? You've been carrying that thing around for a while, on top of a few other smelly things. Can no one smell any of that stuff while you're carrying it?

Anyways, there should be a door on the roof that'll let you into the building.

>>828808
This.

Hopefully we can find some good stuff!

And using our lantern's oil and the lighter that comes with it, we can hopefully start a fire! If not, I'm sure we can find the things needed for a Living Pyre or 2 that we can send running through the whole building!

>>828808
This.

Light em, up!

Okay now summon up a Gelatinous Pyre and send it down the vent shaft. Then get the hell out of there.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LkIWmsP3c_s

>>828822
Do we have enough ingredients to summon that fusion? Can the fire really spread through the vents that easily? And would 1 fire monster be enough to burn this whole building? We might need more than 1.

>>828840
We sure do. Gelatinous Cube has 4 reagents, Pyre has 3. We can just leave out all of the Pyre's reagents. Or I guess find something made of wood in the building and use it instead of the cube's reagents.

OR! We could make a Volatile Pyre. Depends on if the resulting explosion would be more effective than what is effectively a cube of napalm.

I wonder what happens if you fusion summon 2 pyres with each other

>>828864
Oh God.

1/3 Heretic 2017/09/08(Fri)03:48 No. 828870 ID: 8a947d
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You quickly sneak into the building through the back and check around. No holding cells, of course, all suspects go directly to prison. Jeez, that fish is rank! you'd better get out of here quick.

You search the room. and find a Ruby Earring and a Pencil, mere trinkets to the untrained but to you it's enough for something dangerous...

2/3 Heretic 2017/09/08(Fri)03:52 No. 828871 ID: 8a947d
File 150486795716.png - (334.53KB , 1212x826 , DARE 11.png )

Burn some paper, Prepare the Horses Jawbone, The Ruby Earring, The Pencil, 2 Handfuls of Animal guts and voila !

You've got yourself one steaming glob of living jiggling Viscid Immolation! Oh jeez, it's burning the floor. You outta get out of here quick...

3/3 Heretic 2017/09/08(Fri)03:55 No. 828872 ID: 8a947d
File 150486812990.png - (244.40KB , 1212x826 , DARE 12.png )

"Does anybody else see that ?"

"You smell that ? There musta been a gas leak !"

"Hows it spreading so fast ?"

You sneak out back and go through some back streets so nobody see's you flee the scene. People stand and stare as the building burns down, hopefully none finds the Viscid Immolation or there'll be a man hunt. Your phone is ringing, you have a new message!

Let's see what our new friend who is also holding us hostage has to say.

"TRUTH: WHERE WILL YOU BE IN FIVE MINUTES?
BARGAIN: I WANT YOUR NIPPLES IN A BLENDER."

>>828768
see what he has to say then do this

I feel like we should Get to the top of that pointy building.
What's our inventory look like for appropriate summons?
Could we use the Blue Baroness to get to the top?

>>828907
I think there's a limit to how far the Blue Baroness can allow Roland to teleport. And if that limit doesn't let him get to the top, then he'll just teleport to some point in midair and start falling!

>>828908

Although using the Blue Baroness and our new Stygian Fascimile to bluff our asshole stalker into thinking we're off to solve his next dare, when we're really going to search for him would be a pro move. Assuming we can fire a gun somewhere that wouldn't get the attention of the crowd/guards.

Do we have enough resources for the Fascimile?

I just thought of something else.
What if instead of breaking the phone, we used it as summon material?
I'd like to see the blood imps fix something that's been magically consumed.

The Glass is see-through and reflective.
The mainboard, LCD Frame, antennae, and more are metal.
The battery is a volatile material.

There is plenty to work with.

>>828872
Can't you just unsummon it now that the job's done?

Anyway, see what he wants now.

>>828911
this idea seems ripe for the testing

Plan:
Smash Phone over and over again, the ability may not work if it is smashed, considering the fact that the text messages cleared last time you did so.

>>828911
Good idea. I vote for it. My plan probably wouldn't work anyways.

Plan C: Text him your life story, make him care enough so therefore you call for help and he cares about you so therefore he is knocked out.

No, that won't work will it? He can amend his power at any time. His power won't really work against him.

rolled 20 + 11 = 31

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Maybe if Roland thinks really hard, he'll come up with an idea on what to do?

Rolling for Intelligence.

>>829028
Alright, a crit! Roland will definitely be able to think of a good plan of action to do!

>>829029
Rolls before they're asked for shouldn't count. Otherwise someone could roll a critfail and everyone else would vote for a different option.

>>829031
It worked right here: >>828787 , which is the reason we believe the guy on the phone is in that tower.

So if Heretic allowed it to work there, why would he suddenly not allow it now?

Could you contact somebody and tell them to investigate the tower without saying you're in danger?

>>829033
Hey that's true, we could ask them to check it out and just say "The reason is a secret" or something like that. Not even implying that there's trouble afoot.

report overhearing a bomb threat at the tower, that'll cause a big raid where they search everywhere and force everyone out of the building

>>828911
It's worth a try.

1/2 Heretic 2017/09/08(Fri)23:23 No. 829041 ID: 8a947d
File 150493821712.png - (68.66KB , 785x812 , Phone Message 4.png )

UNKNOWN: Hey, you actually did it. Nice, didn't think you had it in you.

UNKNOWN: Anyway, new dare.

UNKNOWN: DARE - Go to the Angry Badger Pub at this location, it's not too far but don't fuck around getting there.
FORFEIT - Your ability to speak.
[5:00:00] (It's about a 5 minute walk so get the lead out)

2/2 Heretic 2017/09/08(Fri)23:36 No. 829043 ID: 8a947d
File 150493899391.png - (55.47KB , 1212x826 , DARE 13.png )

As you walk to the pub, you can see the tower in the distance. Not too close but not too far, it's odd how the dare is leading you towards the tower instead of away from it...

>rolled 20 + 11 = 31

Could your attacker's plan be to lure you into a trap, what if he planned for you to pick out the tallest point in the area and deduce that he was in there. Anyone with enough common sense could do it and they may have accounted for it. If that's the case then either they're in that tower hiding and waiting for you to walk in and strike, or they're hiding somewhere else.

Whats worse is that before you made the assumption that this person was acting alone off of one coincidence, when in reality there very well may be more than one person after you. You jumped to a conclusion without much thought, but that doesn't change your current situation. right now you should hurry up to the Angry Badger Pub.

>>828911
The summon sign melts away anytime you place it on any part of the phone.

>>829038
You don't have time to stop by a guard station with the current dare going on.

Heretic 2017/09/08(Fri)23:38 No. 829044 ID: 8a947d
File 150493908674.png - (116.33KB , 1212x826 , DARE 14.png )

You remember the walkie-talkie's you picked up on the boat, Troy should have the other one.

You try to get a hold of him but get no response...

>>829043
Well if the guy isn't working alone then he could have people waiting at the places he sent you to, to relay information or even give him live video feeds. No good way of figuring out where he is from the information we have now.

>>829044
Hmm can you call UNKNOWN? I mean if someone sends you a text you can see their phone number right? If you can get him to pick up the phone you can hear some background noise and maybe use that to figure out where he is.

Regardless, ask him if he did something to your friends.

Heretic 2017/09/09(Sat)00:17 No. 829053 ID: 8a947d
File 150494145692.png - (100.36KB , 1212x826 , Angry Badger 1.png )

You enter the Angry Badger, a sub par drinking establishment to say the least. Despite that it's not too empty, your phone beeps.

UNKNOWN: Good you made it.

You: I can't contact my friends, did you do something to them ?

UNKNOWN: A, you shouldn't be trying to do that in the first place. B, No I haven't I'm focused on you.

You: Oh I'm flattered. Hey can I call you instead of messaging ?

UNKNOWN: So you can know what I sound like ? Yeah right... actually sure but I outta make it more interesting.

UNKNOWN: DARE-Challenge that large man at the desk to a drinking competition. You don't have to win, but don't stop until you get through 15 drinks.
REWARD- A half a minute call with me.
FORFEIT-Issei's left arm

>>829043
>The summon sign melts away anytime you place it on any part of the phone.
What if you draw the summon sign on the ground and put in the other reagents first, then put the phone in last?

>>829051
>Well if the guy isn't working alone then he could have people waiting at the places he sent you to, to relay information or even give him live video feeds. No good way of figuring out where he is from the information we have now.
I would say use Aether Scan to try and find those guys, but that'd be a waste of blood, since he could easily be holding any "associates" hostage the same way he's holding us hostage. Meaning Aether Scan wouldn't pick them up as hostile.

.....unless, they've also got phones? Then those would be the only things lighting up as hostile on Aether Scan.

Wait, I just thought of something, that tower would be too far away for him to see Roland almost falling over when he was hand standing, unless he's got binoculars or something. What if he's using technology to watch Roland? And I don't mean the phone!

There's probably a bunch of security cameras all over town, he might be using those to watch us! Which means that he'd be in a building that allowed him to watch all of the cameras all over town! .....maybe. I don't know, I'm just guessing here.

If he is only using phones, then he'd be in a phone company building of some kind.

>Regardless, ask him if he did something to your friends.
Or maybe his power disables all other communication devices we're holding? To make sure that we only use the phone that we've got?

Or maybe there's something jamming the walkie-talkie and not the phone?

>>829053
An update while I was typing?!

I say do a quick Aether Scan around the room to see if you can spot something other than your phone.

>UNKNOWN: DARE-Challenge that large man at the desk to a drinking competition. You don't have to win, but don't stop until you get through 15 drinks.
He's trying to make Roland drunk so that he'll have a hard time doing more dares!

>FORFEIT-Issei's left arm
That's.....kinda pointless since it can grow back.

But this tells us that he knows Issei's name, but he doesn't know Issei isn't human.

Unless his ability makes it impossible for Issei to grow back his left arm?

>>829053
"Wow that's not fair, how can you set a forfeit for something I don't own? Also that's just gonna grow back. I think I might ignore this one to see if you can even do that."

Also you shouldn't do this because you'll pass out and UNKNOWN will show up to steal your Azerite. ...though if the Azerite is in a safe place it's fine.

OH, I just thought of something clever. The dare didn't specify what size of drinks or what you'll be drinking. How about you set it up so that you're drinking shots of something weak enough that you'll have no trouble getting through 15 drinks? Heck, you could set up the competition so that you stop at 15. If he asks what's the point, just tell him it's for fun.

>>829053
This is a lot less dangerous than the others. Issei's arm will grow back, and he didn't even set a time limit. Challenge the man to a drinking competition, but take it slowly.

This is looking even more like a hazing by the minute.

The fact that he knows there's a large man at the bar may mean he can see via the phone or some other method.

Drink a couple of drinks, tell the big guy you're in great danger and he goes into a coma, drink however many you need to get to 15 at your leisure.

Ask if this is a hazing, or if he's going to be the third Priest whos ass you're going to kick.

>>829057
>"Wow that's not fair, how can you set a forfeit for something I don't own? Also that's just gonna grow back. I think I might ignore this one to see if you can even do that."
Let's not try and test if he can change dares into something worse! And if he doesn't know Issei's arm will grow back, then don't tell him!

>>829059
Aren't drinking contests usually to see who lasts the longest and/or who can drink the fastest?

If only Roland could have Ada's ability to chug down multiple giant mugs of alcohol without getting drunk!

.....actually, the rules are drinking competition. They never stated that the drinks have to be alcoholic! We're just drinking some kinda liquid!

Or we could go to the restroom and summon the Stygian Facsimile to compete for us. The summon requires Roland's DNA, so technically it counts as him doing the drinking, right?

>>829062
you might want to also show him the phone to get this to work.

>>829062
>tell the big guy you're in great danger and he goes into a coma
UNKNOWN has told us, "If nobody believes u or actually cares if ur in trouble or not the effect won't work. Just to be clear."

I don't see how the big guy is gonna care if a stranger is in danger or not, it's none of his business.

...huh, there's no time limit for this one. So we could, indeed, take as long as we wanted with the drinking competition.

>>829057
>The dare didn't specify what size of drinks or what you'll be drinking. How about you set it up so that you're drinking shots of something weak enough that you'll have no trouble getting through 15 drinks?
"I challenge you to a drinking competition, of Malibu Beach shots."

If he doesn't turn down your challenge because it's such a girly drink (thus giving you an automatic win) then you know he's a big enough man to care about a stranger in trouble, and you can use >>829062 's suggestion to knock him out. Be 100% honest about your situation if it comes to that, it will only work in your favor more. And anyway a Malibu Beach is a very weak drink. 15 shots is nothing.

1/2 Heretic 2017/09/09(Sat)01:01 No. 829072 ID: 8a947d
File 150494408894.png - (115.53KB , 1212x826 , Angry Badger 2.png )

Issei's arm may just grow back but you still would hate for him to get his arm chopped off out of nowhere, besides you can only assume he, Troy, and Uma are in a public space surrounded by people. If he were to get his arm removed in such a mysterious manner he could draw large amount of attention to himself and the group. There's that and you've noticed before that Issei doesn't have normal blood, he has deep blue blood and if anyone sees that in the current atmosphere he's gonna get reported.

>>829062
The dare is to challenge him to a drinking contest and make it to 15, not to just drink 15 drinks. Besides this guy wouldn't believe or care if you were in danger.

You walk up to the counter.

You: Uhh...Hey buddy, how ya feel about drink off huh ? You look like a light weight.

Large Man: Look who's talkin' squirt, I've drunk ten men under the table befer. You'd be no different.

You: Then you've got nothing to worry about huh ? C'mon humor me.

Large Man: *snort* Fine! I ain't got nothin better ta do anyhow. Bar keep! we gotta a challenger here!

2/2 Heretic 2017/09/09(Sat)01:06 No. 829073 ID: 8a947d
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People around the bar start to stare at the announcement of a challenge.The woman at the bar brings out double two cups and pours something strong into each one.

You: These are uhh...pretty big aren't they ?

Large Man: HAH! You outta quit now if ya think this is big.

Hopefully you can keep this down. You'll have to ENDURE this for a while.

[roll 1d20 + 5 for ENDURANCE (Success = 15)]

rolled 11 + 5 = 16

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>Hopefully you can keep this down.
NOPE

rolled 13 + 5 = 18

---

I dunno if the dare condition really requires reaching 15 drinks before losing. That seems physically impossible considering the size and strength of the drinks involved. I feel like losing before 15 drinks would count too. So would winning.

Do we need multiple successes here?

Heretic 2017/09/09(Sat)01:19 No. 829078 ID: 8a947d
File 150494515705.png - (102.54KB , 886x728 , Angry Badger 4.png )

>rolled 11 + 5 = 16

One...Two...Hughh, Three, Four...Ugh FIVE! That's FIVE for now. Your phone buzzes on your fifth drink.

UNKNOWN: Hi again! sorry this is kinda embarrassing but SOMEBODY didn't put a time limit on ur last dare. Im so embarrased but you seem well enough along so Ill make it...

[1:00:00]

UNKNOWN: No wait...

[1:30:00]

UNKNOWN: Yeah there we go :) Well you shouldnt have too much trouble as your going keep it up!

Great, fucking great. ten more drinks to go in one and a half minutes...

[roll 1d20 + 5 from ENDURANCE (Success = 20]

rolled 8 + 5 = 13

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>>829078
Alrighty. ...though with the way the skill check is rising, getting to 15 drinks is going to require a perfect 20. Unless this roll is for the next ten drinks.

rolled 7 + 5 = 12

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Use your drunken brain to think of some way to gain an advantage.
This is just for endurance, though

Since you're just slamming them down you should probably get to 15, say you give up, then immediately rush to the toilet to puke. That way you won't have to actually ingest them all and pass out.

rolled 8 + 5 = 13

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Bottoms up...

rolled 13 + 5 = 18

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now I mess it up

Well, since it looks like we've finally failed another skill check, I'm hoping the spoilered forfeit means it's not a real forfeit.

>>829088
didn't say we had to win just chug 15 drinks

Heretic 2017/09/09(Sat)01:44 No. 829091 ID: 8a947d
File 150494666292.png - (62.13KB , 734x641 , Angry Badger 5.png )

You get one more drink down but end up gagging mid way throw the seventh drink. You look over at your opponent, he's twelve drinks in already. You're glad you don't need to beat this monster. You look at the timer on your phone.

[1:30:00 ==> 1:00:05]

You're running out of time.

[roll 1d20 + 5 again (Success = 18)]

rolled 15 + 5 = 20

---

>>829091
C'mon Gallows.

rolled 11 + 5 = 16

---

Y'know, if you pass out drunk before you can even read the phone, you won't have to deal with another dare for awhile. ...Actually, you're gonna be so messed up from these drinks you may not even be able to converse with your antagonist coherently if you do get through all 15 drinks. And inducing vomiting so you don't end up completely wasted while facing the next dares may be prudent.

Heretic 2017/09/09(Sat)01:58 No. 829096 ID: 8a947d
File 150494748169.png - (71.52KB , 746x655 , Angry Badger 6.png )

>rolled 15 + 5 = 20

Seven, Eight...Nine, TEN! That's ten, five more before you're done.

The sickness has passed by now, but something else is crawling up. The rooms starting to spin a little. Your getting tipsy.

Your Intelligence has dropped by 3 temporarily.

Your Agility has dropped by 3 temporarily.

Your Perception has dropped by 3 temporarily.

[1:00:05 ==> 0:35:15]

Five more and you'll be finished.

[Roll 1d20 + 5 (Success = 23)]

rolled 5 + 5 = 10

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>>829096
WELP here we go
This better be the Pagans (Castle specifically, most likely) hazing Gallows. Heck I'm almost certain at this point. This whole dare thing doesn't make a lot of sense otherwise.

rolled 6 + 5 = 11

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Unlucky in love, lucky at drinks.

rolled 12 + 5 = 17

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>>829096
Incoming nat1.

rolled 2 + 5 = 7

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let's see now

rolled 12 + 5 = 17

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Issei needs us to do this, he could be killed or hunted if we fail. (this is most likely where my roll fails)

Eh

rolled 11 + 5 = 16

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I support this failure train.

*Cue scene shift to Issei*
*Issei's arm disappears*
"Huh?"
*Scene shift back to Gallows*

rolled 6 + 5 = 11

---

>>829122
Choo choo

rolled 12 + 9 = 21

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>>829096

Man, I wish we hadn't just shot off taking shots like that. There's so many things we could've done differently. Like...

"Toughie - I'mma up the ante. Lemme drink" [point to something that goes down swift and easy] "THAT from here, 'n if I still loose, y'get 50 bucks. 'tender, line me up five shots o' it, c'mon, go go go."

Charm+[speech]

rolled 18 + 5 = 23

---

let's see how it turns out.

>>829159
You got it!

>UNKNOWN: Hi again! sorry this is kinda embarrassing but SOMEBODY didn't put a time limit on ur last dare. Im so embarrased but you seem well enough along so Ill make it...

Once again sounds like two familiar people.

>>829159
Ninth time's the charm.

Heretic 2017/09/09(Sat)15:12 No. 829281 ID: 8a947d
File 150499513261.png - (121.36KB , 890x740 , Angry Badger 7.png )

>rolled 18 + 5 = 23
You take way too long on each drink, but ultimately make it to 15 drinks with 5 seconds left on your timer. You forfeit the drinking match and stumble away from the front counter, everything's sort of swaying back and forward. You fall face first into a table in the corner of the bar. It's official, you're 100% drunk.

Your Intelligence, Agility, and Perception have all dropped by 3 temporarily again.

Your phone beeps, You have a new message.

UNKNOWN: So I forgot your time limit before, sorry about that. Anyway, you've saved your friend his arm and got a phone call with me.

UNKNOWN begins to call you. You answer and listen carefully to anything that might help. All you can hear in the background is music, music with a heavy beat. UNKNOWN soon after hangs up, you're sure you've heard that music before...

>>829281
>music with a heavy beat.
>>828044
>a small radio plays music with a heavy beat.
I was right about a shopkeeper being involved, but I was wrong about which store the shopkeeper is in!

It's Clancy from the Hack 'n' Slash!

.....maybe? Or maybe it's just some guy that's in the store?

>>829281
Get something to eat and use some of your blood on Aether Sight. That should clear out a lot of the alcohol in your veins and slow the absorbtion of the rest.

The music was on the radio. Multiple people have radios. This doesn't nail down the caller's position. What did the caller's voice sound like? What did they say? If it was Clancy you'd recognize him.

Go puke in the toilet.

>>829299
>use some of your blood on Aether Sight.
Good idea. And it's Aether Scan now. We got it upgraded in the last thread.

>>829300
>What did the caller's voice sound like? What did they say?
He actually didn't say anything. Roland just answered the phone and UNKNOWN was silent for the whole call.

I think it is Clancy because Roland has heard his voice already, so he was silent so that Roland wouldn't recognize him!

But you're right, it could be anyone.

I don't think UNKNOWN is Clancy. When we met him, he was fixing spelling errors and incorrect information in what was likely his sales record. UNKNOWN's messages have all been sloppy, and they've forgotten to add a time limit. Considering Clancy was correcting a book like that, he must have an assistant who wrote it.

Ask UNKNOWN if you can take a break to work off this hangover. Go back to Clancy's shop under the pretence of asking him to repair your broken gun.

>>829281
Look on the bright side. Being drunk means you have a higher tolerance for pain!

Throw up ASAP as alcohol doesn't take much time to get into your system, drink lots of water, go eat some chicken, turkey, or eggs, and I would say take a nap but you aren't really in a position to do that.

>>829306
>Considering Clancy was correcting a book like that, he must have an assistant who wrote it.
Actually, only some of the texts have spelling errors and text speech, like using "u" instead of "you", while the other texts are neatly written.

This, along with that text of complaining about not putting a time limit, and how frequently "we" keeps getting thrown in there when talking about himself, shows that UNKNOWN actually could be multiple people doing this.

And if you're right about an assistant, then both of them could be working together.

Which makes me wonder, does one of them have the dare power and the other is just bluffing or do they both have the same power?

1/2 Heretic 2017/09/09(Sat)16:29 No. 829319 ID: 8a947d
File 150499979716.png - (86.54KB , 991x662 , Angry Badger 8.png )

>Use up blood
You've got about 58 ounces left, you'd need to get rid of a lot of it to fix this. That'd leave you with less blood to use spells with later . Do you still want to burn up your blood ?

You get up to go vomit but before you can get away from the table your phone rings again.

UNKNOWN: Hey wait! ur not done here yet ! turn around and look at the table behind u.

The table behind you has a knife embedded in the wood and multiple nicks in it.

UNKNOWN: Howsabout u play a little 5 finger filet ? its more fun the drunker you are :D

UNKNOWN: DARE-Play 5 Finger Filet: Get the knife across all 5 fingers and back. dont care if u cut urself, but hit near the innermost gaps in ur fingers.
FORFEIT: Troy's right hand
[00:30:00]

2/2 Heretic 2017/09/09(Sat)16:33 No. 829320 ID: 8a947d
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Okay, no problem. You've played 5 Finger Fillet before...Just not drunk

[roll 1d20 + 2 from AGILITY. Below 10 is a cut, above 10 is a miss. If you roll a 1 you'll lose a finger.]

You can still try to lower your blood alcohol if you know a way.

>>829319
>table behind u
Okay that confirms he's able to see through the phone. The only clue to his location we have is the music.
We could lower blood alcohol by using it as a summoning ingredient. It is, after all, a poisonous material. We're missing a dead reptile for the vanguard though, which means, again, it has to be a fusion. Unless... we substitute something else for it? Like a dead bug. Hey, if we purposefully fail a summon does it still consume the reagents? We could do that-- we sure don't want to actually summon a Vanguard in the middle of the bar. We'd have to give up "something used for war" which I suppose can be the broken dagger.

Alternatively Gallows can just Empower himself to get a much higher Agility. Or do both things!

Oh, after the game ask the bartender whose knife that is.

>>829324
I don't think pulling alcohol directly out of our blood for a summon is possible. Empowering ourselves is a good idea, though.