>>88983
Inspect it. It's not one of the bottles you set aside, right? I mean, you did say you left Babrakus's stash alone.

>>88983
This is why we suggested warning the others, Boss.
I hope you remember what those bottles looked like real good...

Don't worry, it's from Babrakus' stash.

Muschio 2009/12/09(Wed)05:15 No. 88989 ID: 18b9f0
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...yyyyyes, I'm sure that I didn't touch Babrakus's supply.
Nevertheless it's slightly unnerving. Just to be safe...
"Ah, thank you, Finesse, but I think I'll just stick with milk. I need my wits about me for tomorrow. There is always more to be done."
>"And after you did so well today..."
Ah yes, and what a smooth victory it was. I really must not get ahead of myself. And yet I feel I did so well.

It's awfully warm out tonight. What a beautiful summer's night.
I almost wish I'd brought a lighter coat.

I bet you'd feel much cooler if you POURED BUTTER ON FINESSE

>>88989
If you're getting too hot, perhaps you should remove your heavy coat.

>>88989
Strip down to cool down. Also strip down Finesse.
And then have a picnic SO HARD.

I heard the other day that butter is a great lube replacement.

>>88989
She didn't use wine in any of the other food, did she?
Maybe you ought to tell her about the whole 'poisoning your enemy' thing. Tell her to get close 'cause you gotta whisper it to her so nobody listening in will be able to hear it so easy.

If it's so hot why the hell is she wearing a heavy coat?

Muschio 2009/12/09(Wed)05:37 No. 89004 ID: 18b9f0
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"It's quite warm out. Do you mind if I remove my coat?"
>"Oh! O-of course not, Master Muschio. Go ahead."

>>89004
Ask her if she has any cards. After all, what is a better way of getting to know each other than a friendly match of Poker?

>>89005
I think dinner should be the priority here. She cooked all this food, best not to let it go cold.

Muschio 2009/12/09(Wed)05:46 No. 89009 ID: 18b9f0
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>"I... hope you don't mind if I do the same...?"

>>89009
She's awful pretty tonight, ain't she, Boss?
...Er, I mean, she's looking much better. Right?

>>89011

Except for that gross big hand. Blech.

Humptime now?

>>89017
Boss? Are you okay?

>>89018

That's not a humorous nosebleed set on by a glimpse at a female form.

The boss has a brain tumor. D:

Muschio 2009/12/09(Wed)05:57 No. 89025 ID: 18b9f0
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Hm? What?
Oh yes.

I'm... bleeding?

>>89025
I know it might not be a right time for this, but are you, by chance, part Kobold?

>>89025
might want to discreetly wipe that blood away before Finnie says something. Wouldn't want to worry her, would you?

I would suggest dealing with the whole nosebleed thing, definate mood killer, that.

>>89025
Got any ideas, Boss? Thought I saw some galaxies off in the distance for a sec there, and now you're bleeding. Are you alright?

Boss finesse the wine don't drink it oh god

>>89025
Something's wrong. Have you eaten anything yet? Maybe you caught what Finesse had.

Or maybe there was an herbs/spices mixup in the kitchen after Dompag had that spill.

Muschio 2009/12/09(Wed)06:02 No. 89036 ID: 18b9f0
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>"How are you feeling, Master Muschio?"
"Finesse... wh-what's happening? I... I feel so..."
>"I'm sorry it had to be this way between us... But I've waited a long time for this."

Holy crap you are getting date raped.

What have you done, Finesse?

quick, shard jump into finnie, this doesn't look like it's supposed to be an aphrodisiac

Hold on! The ogre knocked a great deal of stuff from the kitchen around, there might have been a mixup with the wines, I have no actual suggested course of action if this is the truth, onnly wanted to present the theory.

>>89036
Ask Finesse why she insists on splitting into three people and why there's snow everywhere.

>>89040
In the future, F5 before posting.

>>89040
Dompag messed up the kitchen BEFORE muschio brought told Tislomer to brew poisons.

>>89044
This is true, but some of the wine might have been missplaced, and the kobolt might have identified wine by location rather than the lable, while Finesse might have done the opposite.

So what is Finesse up to? Taking "I want to be a princess" to the litteral extreme?

Muschio 2009/12/09(Wed)06:10 No. 89047 ID: 18b9f0
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It... it hurts so... and my insides are...
it's like... like daggers...
blood...

I

can't see
anything

Betrayal! Draw your sword! Then immediately drop it because man you are fucked up right now.

Muschio 2009/12/09(Wed)06:11 No. 89049 ID: 18b9f0
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can't
breathe

can't

hear

Vomit.

Muschio 2009/12/09(Wed)06:12 No. 89051 ID: 18b9f0
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Finesse?

Expend an extra life.

>>89051
And, as always, >>87565 makes perfect sense now.

MEDIIIIIIIC!

I think bringing a sword to a picnic might be bad form.

>>89059

NOT IF YOU GET POISONED

Hi, Finnie! You know, I never liked him anyway. Let's just put that whole Muschio thing behind us. What's important is that there's definitely no reason to remove your shard and bury us in a pit.

Finesse lied to us so bad.

"future encounters" my ass.

>>89066
The spices got mixed up... Look at what's happening to Ridder

Don't think she'd want him dead though, and even if she does, she probably wants a chance to gloat first.
What confuses me is all the blood, there must be better ways of rendering someone unconcious than to make them bleed out of their nose until they pass out.

>>89061
Are you kidding? We're in everyone! We can just tell the others that Finesse went and poisoned Muschio to death for some reason, and Dompag will bash her brains in if she tries to get back in the Vault.

Then we figure out how to track her down and get our revenge.

Well, if the Boss is dead, then I guess that makes Finesse the new Boss.
Finesse: You really don't have to remove us or nothing. Or, that is to say, you might want to get Tislomer to help you with Muschio.

>>89068
The spices got mixed up. The poison sent to Sticks and Ridder was swapped with the aphrodisiac Finesse prepared for this picnic.

Anyway, Finesse, do... something. Fuck, I don't know. Tislomer may be able to help you here. Muschio can't die like this.

>>89069
It was a damn mistake... her aphrodisiac ended up in Ridder's (Knight's Blades) wine!

Take a look at what's happening over there, that was her intention over here. That's why she was asking how he felt... it was an honest mistake... she loves him.

I don't know how we can fix this... is he dead now, What will happen to her?

>>89051
BAD END

If she was not expecting him to bleed, her reaction would be a bit more different than what it was, probably more surprised.
So she either wants to kill Muschio or daterape, probably with less rape and more keeping prisioner for gloating or explaining her nefarious plan and xanathos gambit.

>>89079
Slight nasal bleeding is not unexpected in an aphrodisiac as powerful as was being prepared... blood pressure remember?

That's how half of that stuff works, Ridder is drooling like an idiot right now, so some minor side effects were not unexpected... besides nasal bleeding (especial during stress) is in his family line remember?

>>89083
He said this skipped him, though. And she also did not seem too surprised by his fainting and passing out in a pool of his own blood.

>>89084
She's probably in shock.

>>89086
This, as well as the fact that Muschio seemed to have lost his hearing just before he passed out, and we were seeing things through his perspective. Finesse could've been yelling the whole time, and we wouldn't even know.

>>89086
If she was expecting the effects of an aphrodisiac she would have been more subtle than just outright appologising to him.

So let's see here. If this was an accident, that means...

It's Dompag's fault for making a mess in the kitchen and mixing up the herbs, Tislomer's fault for not making sure everything was put back (or for getting the poison/aphrodisiac orders mixed up), Finesse's fault for not making absolutely sure the herbs were correct, and our fault for not warning Muschio.

I guess the only one not involved was Babrakus. He's such a bro, not poisoning his boss and all.

>>89090
To be fair, Finesse kinda decieved us aswell.

>>89090
Hey, Babrakus gave them the wine. Being a bro doesn't get him out of responsibility.

>>89089
She was ashamed of needing an aphrodisiac to get his attention.

>>89099
Muschio didn't DRINK the wine.

>>89106
It was the spices themselves that got mixed up on Tislomer's table.

>>89106

This guy's got a point. He said he was sticking with milk. Someone probably poisoned his milk I guess.

On the other hand, we did not, in fact, see him consume anything at all.

>>89109
That's actually a very valid point. Something's messed up here. Or maybe Finesse expected him to drink the milk because Muschio's such a pansy.

>>89112
It is not a valid point, Finesse used the herbs in the food, not the wine, Muschio is the one who had any kind of wine poisoned, and even so it was probably refined from herbs (th poison, that is) so that it would be relatively hard to confuse whatever herbs it was Finesse used with the poison.

Oh my god. What if... what if Tislomer did it on purpose? The kobold Ridder hired was from her village!

How long did those two talk?!

>>89112
The drugs themselves were mixed up at Tislomer's table, the drugs were switched not the bottle's. Muschio's aphrodisiacs were supposed to go in his food, but ended up in the wines, the poison for the wine, ended up in his food.

>>89116

But... he didn't eat anything yet either.

Traitorous little -!

That wretched little goblin will pay.

>>89051

USE A HEALING SURGE! USE A HEALING SURGE!

>>89134
Can't use healing surges when you're unconscious!

>>89133
Agreed. Let's lynch the little whore!!

>>89175
Why? Why did she do this? Why was it imperitive that she poison us thusly? What could she hope to achieve with us out of the way? This is getting complex. On the other hand, we're begining to see more, as the wheels turn around us.

...We'll find out soon enough, provided that we pull through.

Prepare for a dream sequence?

Next time we tell the boss everything!! She's a Gobo after all and doesn't deserve him.

Did anyone think that maybe, just maybe, that this is Muschio's response to actual love? Not just the passionate lust of victory, but actual romantic expression?

Of course, that is me being overly generous. We don't have any obvious signs of anyone wanting to hurt Muschio, not yet anyway. Lets not go around accusing blame just yet. Seriously, this is bad ad we need to focus on saving Mushcio, not bitching out a Goblin, or assigning blame to anyone. Pain is a weakness of the flesh. We have overcome pain before, Muschio. We will overcome this too.

>>89192
oh it's very simple. This is just the pain one feels when their nuts and heart simultaneously unknot themselves and blood is allowed to flow to them once again.

>>89192
i agree. Screw the missunderstanding.

Finnie will have to explain herself while Muschio gets his antidote.

Suggestion 2009/12/09(Wed)13:29 No. 89197 ID: 34470e
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And so, Muschio decides to become a prosecutor.

>>89133 >>89175 >>89181

...when the hell did we decide that this was at all Finesse's doing? I think it's fairly obvious that she wouldn't want Muschio dead, and, if this was anything but an accident, that it had to have been one of our other recruits.

Though, I still agree that, once this resumes, we should focus on saving Muschio and his giant nose.

>>89197
OBJECTION

>>89198
Ha! I don't believe that for a secondl I'm sorry, but standing around and calmly saying "I'm sorry it had to be this way" is NOT the response you're supposed to have when someone collapses on the ground and starts LEAKING BLOOD FROM ORIFICES THAT SHOULD NOT BE DOING SO.

>>89200
-She said that when he only had a nosebleed.
-She meant "I'm sorry I had to drug you in order to bone you."
-Why would she get all dressed up if she intended on killing him right away?

Also, before anyone says it, we should probably take this to the discussion thread.

>>89200

It's possible, of course, that she just thought that the nosebleed was a side affect the aphrodisiac and apologized when she thought he realized what was going on... then panicked and fled when he fell to the ground and started bleeding out.

>>89201
Really? ANd praytell, what happens when the "Aphrodesiac" wears off? She expects Muschio to just go "HO HO, Finesse, you're such a joker!?" I'm going to go ahead and give her a little credit and assume she isn't that stupid.

Obviously, getting dressed up was part of the ruse. As far as the rest of the minions know, we went on a picnic. She can return and make up any story as to what happened to us that she wants to, and it'll probably seem legit.

Also, she's still just standing off to the side, a comfortable distance away, while Muschio is lying in a pool of his own blood.

>>89211
That is where we come in. We know the truth. We can quell the rage.

>>89211
recognize that we didn't know what she said when Muscio collapsed

We don't know true intentions yet...
We need someone to inspect through... We can reach one of the others (Fineese should know THAT) and let them know.

If she were that smart, she'd know this. The dressing up and everything was more than enough to deceive us if this were true... but what'd Fineese have against Muschio. we have nothing to prove her guilt.

The only thing we CAN do though, is obtain the assistance of the others. Consequences can be dealt with later.

We are a floating eye, so we know more than everyone else.

>>89211
We are going to support her on this... dammit man, we 'are' her childhood imaginary friend.

She knows that we know that she wants him (inside of her) that we and approved of the idea. It was assumed that we would step in and steer Muschio her way, after she used the aphrodisiac to 'color' his perception of her.

If she had wanted him dead there were so many easier ways to kill him. She could have rigged up a hidden poison needle in his wristbow to kill him when he tried to use it if she wanted him dead.

This was a mistake, just take a look a Ridder and Sticks and anyone can tell that the drugs got mixed up. Her poor choice of words was asking how he felt (was he getting horny yet?) and how long she's been waiting for this (to get boned!)

He only started vomiting blood and passed out after his senses were wrecked, we can hardly take what he saw of her 'reactions' to the true nature of his plight as representing what was actually going on around him.

'We' must surely investigate what was going on her, and we will. If we want to we can just dredge though her memories and those of our other minions to discover what happened, I am reasonably confident this was all just a terrible mistake.

I still put forward the idea that this is how Muschio, Devil and a man who has cut his mind out to place it within an orb to help him thing, reacts to love.

>>89232
Remember who we work for first and foremost. Its not the goblin traitor. Our duty is to err on the safe side and keep Muschio safe.

Our negligence has already taken us perilously close to failing that.

>>89410
Our interactions with Finnie actually predate those with Muschio (those we remember anyhow.) Remember her calling us Mojo?

I would not go around calling anyone a traitor to the cause until we have all the facts together. As fun as it is to cry Heresy we must be calm and collected about this. The situation is deeper than it seems and there are multiple interpretations and multiple suspects.

We must not send Muschio on some kind of crazed 'stone the witch' path until we have more proof.

I hope he lives.

I BET YOU THAT FUCKING OGRE SET US FUCKING UP