Berserker Management 101:
Bash him in the dick until he grabs his weapon from you, then MOVE.

Honestly? Darkness, surprise and speed are your friends here. Turn the lights off and then find a convenient corner or pillar to hide your slim frame behind. When the first assassin approaches, kill him and then the others.

>>929501
We could try to [Enhance reflexes]

He's got this, he doesn't need us to further abuse reality itself for his benefit. Things aren't that dire yet.

>>929846
It's a midnight ambush by trained assassins while he's tired, poorly armed, naked, and in the comedown from sex.
Giving him a magical dose of Jet is appropriate, and not at all the same as countermanding physical laws.

>>929870
There's also the fact that there is a sleeping unarmed combatant in the room we must be worried about as well.

Baron 2019/04/16(Tue)07:22 No. 929992 ID: 482fee
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Enhance my what-whoa! It feels like I've been going through life with a blindfold and cloth ears until now, this is amazing! Is this what Kells hears with those big ears of his? Wait...there's only two, but I know a third is lurking somewhere. Where is the little pavosh?

"...thinkin-a-dat we takin-a-da-bunnyman aftah we-a-dun-killiins da milk-skin."

"Das-wuzza-man? Thinka-weze can gettum-a good price sellin-da bunny-man to-data Gamvafuck guys?"

"Dems-a milkskins-a-try ta-boing-bonk anyfin wit-a hole. Deys-a-buy it fer good-sure...

>>929992
Most likely watching from the hall, or holding back.

These two aren't the threat, they're the bait. Their job is to be as subtle as a forest fire, forcing you to pay attention to the very visible threat while the killer uses the distraction to go in for the kill.

As frustrating as it is, you need to ignore these two and focus on finding and eliminating the third.

Terrorize these bozos, then guard against the upcoming sneak attack. Also, did you equip Kells with any weapon?

One of them is watching the hall you'd have to traverse to kill them. Track down the third and kill him instead, if you can do so.

Baron 2019/04/22(Mon)07:54 No. 930731 ID: 482fee
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Last weeks of the semester are kicking my ass, so things might be slower while I churn through this. Sorry for the delay

I left a weapon by Kells, I dunno if he'll even notice it though. I can try to pick them off to scare the crap out of them. With all this...I dunno what to call it. Super senses? I bet I'm even stronger to lemme try something.

"Oi-a diggum. Yousem getta-da up-in da-place-here. We-got-em a jobs-right doin-does. Stop-a fussin wit-a-da guardo there, he's-a-not-em goin place-wheres."

Holy hells! I just wanted to slit his throat! His head came clean off! You didn't say I was stronger too!

Repeat on the other.
Save the heads.
Return them to sender.
We'll deal with figuring out exactly who and where that is.

Baron 2019/04/25(Thu)07:08 No. 931108 ID: 482fee
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Repeat nothing! Why bother with subterfuge if I can kill them this easy?

"Oi thinkum itsAUGH!"

"Ha! What was that about you killing me? What was that? Last job you'll ever take eh? Ha ha ha!"

Baron 2019/04/25(Thu)07:08 No. 931109 ID: 482fee
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"Whoa! Heh! I knew I heard a third set of steps but I didn't think they'd be coming from you. Bet you thought you were being quiet too!"

Hmm. Throwing knives.

...I wonder what happens to a body when another body is hurled at it at mach speed.

Let's find out.

You're going powermad bud. Capture this one alive before it wears off, we need him to tell use who hired him.

>>931109
There's ONE left alive.
ONE.
These aren't the only assassins that were sent out, but you're looking at the LAST survivor. Veni will live, but the traitorous family who sent the assassins is going to send more, and we don't yet know who they are.

You NEED to take this last one alive. It is ABSOLUTELY VITAL.
You NEED to disable them so they can't harm you, and you NEED prevent them from being able to kill themselves.
This is because we NEED to get them into the hands of a karver, and find out how to kill the people responsible for these attacks.

Baron 2019/04/26(Fri)07:14 No. 931180 ID: 482fee
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Ah piss this one didn't post yesterday. Sorry about that, thisi was supposed to be the last post in that string.
"Heyha! So what family do you come from cutie? I'm gonna kill em!




"Nothing to say? That's fine, I can pry it out of you once I break your fingers!"

This power you just gave me, it isn't going to like wear out anytime soon or leave me weaker than a limbless baby when it does will it?

>This power you just gave me, it isn't going to like wear out anytime soon or leave me weaker than a limbless baby when it does will it?

If you don't want to find out I suggest you finish this quickly. Don't fuck around right now!

Do NOT fuck around and find out.

And don't threaten people's families, it's very rude. Resrain or knock this one out and call the guards at your door.

>>931180
Oh boy, here we go again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSP8M4x-nKk

>>931180
Hurry up and disable her. We don't know how long this will last.
As far as why we don't do this more often? The comedown is... unpleasant.

If you want permanent you can't have it. Sorry. We can do "until reality backlashes and something awful happens" but you don't want that either. Wrap this up fast as you can and we will do our best to make the come-down smooth instead of something like a hangover.

Baron 2019/04/28(Sun)14:59 No. 931441 ID: 482fee
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Oh I'm sorry, but who is the one getting knives thrown at them? Me? That's right isn't it? Me. I am-

"Ack!"

And she threw another one! Another damn knife!

Baron 2019/04/28(Sun)15:00 No. 931442 ID: 482fee
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"Hold still you little- get back here!"

That girl is full of air! Even with all that stuff you gave me, I can't hit her. I even threw the damned body at her and she jumped over it. And me! Both of us! How does anyone do that?!

"Hey! Guard! Be useful for once and help me here oh. Your dead. Of course you are.

I don't think fast is an option. She's still faster in many respects. I can see the knives coming, but I don't know when she'll run out. Maybe that was the last one?

Baron 2019/04/28(Sun)15:00 No. 931443 ID: 482fee
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"Again with the knives! Where are you hiding those things?!"

Nope.

How is she.. We are enhancing you to near peak condition, how is she this good!. There's something off about her.

*Scan Assassin*

Throw the hammer!

>>931443
Grab some of her knives and use them to deflect the knives she throws at you.
"I admit, the Gamavo have quality assassins.
Pity their counter-intelligence agents are an embarrassment - they already failed your mission for you before you even arrived. Is it true that you'd have a fate worse than death waiting for you when you got back, since this silly little plot exposed the Gamavo?"

>>931460
Breh, you are monologuing during a fight. Let's try to throw some knives and try to incapacitate her with her own weapons, then interrogate her.

We don't know how to hand out ninja powers but maybe we can steal some from her and learn how!

Zap the ninja!

>>931510
A few things here:
1: A door is defensible.
2: Her zoning game is strong.
3: We aren't likely to be able to hit her at range.
4: We don't want to give her more ammo.
5: We want to make sure she can't flank us.

Going out is probably suicide, we can't hit her from here, and we've been making enough noise that somebody is going to come investigate soon enough.
We can win by either making her disengage and pressing her on retreat, or by running out the clock.
So the strategy is delay and demoralize. The ideal outcome would be her defecting due to their opsec being in shambles and her head being on the chopping block for it - that's unlikely, but if she's a merc it's possible.
If she's more strictly loyal, then opsec being in shambled raises the possibility of there being a mole. Her focus may shift to live capture, which makes her job far more difficult.

Baron 2019/05/02(Thu)06:19 No. 931737 ID: 482fee
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Assassin: All Skill Baby

All good points that mean nothing to me! I wasn't the studious one remember?! That was Veni! If you want to yarp on about tactics and shit, talk to him, I dunno what's the better choice, I just kill stuff!

Zap her with what? I'm not a damned karver. I tried the hammer though, and I think I broke the stairs. Oh tuv she's in the air again what the hells do you want me to do!? Decision now!

Reverse the grip on your sword and then Sweep upward.

Your arms will block the knives about to be thrown at you and the strike will force a dodge that ends with her landing in a heap, giving you a chance to finish this.

Slide forward, grab her leg, swing her around like a burlap sack full of kittens.

>>931739
Supporting

>>931739
ahha what. His grip is fine. In fact, if he rotates his wrist clockwise, the tip of the blade will be aimed at her center of mass.

Or he can just pitch the damn thing without rotating at all and it'll seriously mess her up.

Throw the sword horizontally at her torso so her reflexes force her to duck, then dive and tackle.

Baron 2019/05/06(Mon)07:17 No. 932118 ID: 482fee
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I AM GETTING NO DECISIONS! JUST ARGUING AND NOISE! THE HELLS AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THA

Baron 2019/05/06(Mon)07:17 No. 932119 ID: 482fee
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"Ow! That hurt! How did that hurt?! Whoa no you...don't?!"

What the piss?! She can hit hard enough to hurt me, and she's actually beating me! This...I always expected to die under a cute girl. Not quite...like...this

Baron 2019/05/06(Mon)07:18 No. 932120 ID: 482fee
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"You! Geroff ya twiggy slut!"

"Kells?! About time you woke up. What took so long?!"

"Well I dinnae know wot ye was sayin! I thought ye meant somethin' else."

"How many ways can you interpret 'Wake up Kells, there are intruders'?"

Baron 2019/05/06(Mon)07:18 No. 932121 ID: 482fee
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"W-well I was also lookin fer me kilt. Dinnae wanna go around swinging with me indecency in full display. And me socks."

"Kilt I can understand. But socks?"

"My feet were cold..."

"Feet were-nevermind. You girl! Time to-aw piss! She's running off!"

"That was a rezan girl? Ye look a lot like her."

She's as strong as you, as fast as you, and can tank a hammer to her spine like a champ without any buffs(that we can detect). Dead or alive you need to catch her! Kells knows the building better than you. Tell him to head her off while you herd her to the entrance.

Even if Kells knows the building better, splitting up may be a mistake if the assassin takes a different route other than front entrance while we chase her.

Both of you, chase that assassin. No heavy weapons like that hammer, leave it. Grab whatever light items you can get along the way and hunt her down!

>>932150
Supporting this.
If there is a big red alarm button, now is the time to press it.

>>932121
Pursue and have Kells raise the alarm!

Having fun yet?

Don't bother pursuing. 2 out of 3 ain't bad, and if she can survive a surprise berzerker hammer to the base of the spine and take off running, I don't think there's much else you can do to her.

>>932221
What. NO!
Two of the three are DEAD, and we need information! Follow her and take her down! Alive, hopefully!
[Track her]

>>932232
We can talk to the dead, remember?

>>932255
Those were the catspaws, and weren't Rezans.
The odds that they know anything useful are minimal, and with them dead that strongly limits how we can exploit having them.
She, however, is going to know quite a lot. I expect she is actually part of their family.

Baron 2019/05/10(Fri)06:43 No. 932469 ID: 482fee
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No, you were right. She got out of the building before Kells even reached the bottom. Hells below she's just as bouncy as the beginning, and I'm not talking about that bosom. I wasn't staring.

Oh and apparently the city is real quiet. Like the quietest I've ever heard. No one responds when I call, just total silence. This shit is so surreal.

"Oi Iagn, I got'er!

"No you don't Kells, that crazy girl nearly killed me."


"Yeah but I can fight lots better than ya.""C'mere ya bampot!"

That damn Daoine rage is going to get the boy killed. Hey are you there? Gimmie strategies! Make it good this time.

Honestly? You've got the advantage in reach and... not a whole lot else, unfortunately. Your best bet is to try and clip her with the blade as she lands, preferably at the exact edge of your blade's reach.

And no shorter than this, if she gets on the ground then she'll be under or around your blade in an instant and that's game set match.

Of course I'm assume she's landing on our side of the waist-high obstacle and not the other... In which case, well, if you can jab at her from your side that might work but clambering over it might get you killed.

>>932469
[Increase gravity on her to 6x normal]

>>932469
Tackle her while she's distracted by Kells, and then both of you disarm her. We are trying to keep things nonlethal.

>>932475
I don't think we can warp reality that much around a stranger. So far we've only been able to really crazy stuff with people who touched us.

Her extreme athleticism indicates she is either using, or the benefactor of, sorcery. We can affect that. We should turn off her boosts. That should give you an opening, I think.

Throw your sword at her while she's in midair and can't dodge.

Guys, we're casting with causality. We need to use small effects with drastic consequences.

[Cause minor nuclear meltdown in assassin's eye]

Baron 2019/05/12(Sun)15:38 No. 932617 ID: 482fee
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Yeah half that sounds crazy. I am not throwing my sword, and she is moving too damn fast more me to swing at her, even when jumping. I dunno what a nuclear meltdown is but that sounds like something that's lethal. None of that! Screw it all, I'm tackling! If I can push her down to the boat, I can knock her senseless enough to disarm and tie her up! Be ready to do that thing you said about making her slow as soon as I grab her!

"Kells! Turn her to my side!"

"Ifn ye gun do somethin; best do it quick! She's like a quicksilver roach!"

Baron 2019/05/12(Sun)15:39 No. 932618 ID: 482fee
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"Now dammit! Now!"

[Induce coma in assassin]

[Disable leadfoot powers]

Can you whack her on the head with the flat of your blade?

>>932640
[Disable her powers]

after non lethally knocking out and/or disabling the hostile, is it possible for us to scan her thoughts or mind like how we are talking to you? if not see if you can find a way to get info out of her, without accidentally killing her of course for she is more useful to us alive then dead. it she expire somehow we can always talk to her ghost but otherwise i personality rather keep that as a last resort if possible.

>>932618
[Disable her powers]

...

[Switch to controlling her]

Baron 2019/05/15(Wed)07:26 No. 932901 ID: 482fee
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The hells are you doing?! That's not what we agreed on!

TOO MANY INJECTIONS UNACCEPTABLE UNACCEPTABLE UNACCEPTABLE

"Ow! Why is everything burning?! OW! OW! OW GODS THAT HURTS!"

Baron 2019/05/15(Wed)07:26 No. 932902 ID: 482fee
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Ach ka...the hells happened. What did you do? Why am I still alive? Where's my sword? Where's the girl?

Baron 2019/05/15(Wed)07:28 No. 932903 ID: 482fee
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Aw...piss

"Iagn! Iagn! We gotta go now!"

"Gods...don't tell me there's more."

"Nae! Well. I mean. Maybe. The sentinels be comin. They talkin' all kinds o things involvin' us supposin tae be dead an tae finish some job."

"...the hells are you talking about?"

"The sentinels! Guards? Soldiers? The ones a-comin down 'ere tae see wot pasty-ponce jus' murder three o' their kin?. Ye think me ears is just fer show?"

"What? But I didn't even kill the third one. The other two were in defense."

"I dinnae think they be carin'"

I'm starting to see why Veni doesn't like you. Does shit like this happen everywhere you go?

Well the other option was for you and him to be dead. So you can dislike us, but we'll keep ya alive!.. Time to move though!

>Does shit like this happen everywhere you go?

Yes, but it's only our fault half the time. You got more important stuff to worry about! You're on a boat. Steal it and sail out of there. You get a boat out of the deal and keep the corpse for us to examine.

>>932903
While we ARE harbingers of misfortune, we it's generally because we show up when terrible things are about to happen anyway, and then we make things less terrible.

Grab her corpse and run. We need to see what we can do with it.

Why yes, our charges do survive battles and assassination attempts. You're welcome.

Honestly, the fallout is much more personal and alot more localized when we intervene than if we didn't.

And if you disagree, you might as well impale yourself now because we've ensured your survival, more or less.

Now steal the boat and flee or leg it on foot.

Baron 2019/05/17(Fri)18:32 No. 933154 ID: 482fee
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"Right! Kells! You got experience with these boats, we're stealing this one! Lift anchor and do all the other stuff these tufta do to set sail!"

"These not got no sails ye daft prick! An' it handles like a full tub!"

"Don't care! Get us out!"

Baron 2019/05/17(Fri)18:33 No. 933155 ID: 482fee
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"Well thass it then. We cannae go back. The river'll take us to th'fort in a coupl'a days. Dun even need tae steer. Those gits is good at makin' boats that follow the stream on their own."

"No chance they'll chase us?"

"Nae, they'd need another boat an' thass not coming for anuther week. I been workin them docks for a while, I remember their whole schedule."

Well good. Now I can focus on important things. Like seeing if the assassin's clothes fit. I am freezing. Damn, this has a hole in it.

>>933155
Ok, now, pull your sword out of the assassin, and make skin-to-skin contact with them.
We're going to see what we can do with her.

Baron 2019/05/19(Sun)13:51 No. 933411 ID: 482fee
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Oh right and the girl. You wanna do your thing...whoa.

"Oh girl, oh girl what happened to you? Strength, bone-restructuring, vocal sealant, pain nullification."

"Wotsit all mean?"

"It means I was fighting a corpse this whole time. If this girl wasn't dead when these glyphs were getting carved into her, she most certainly was by the time they were done. Hell the only reason she died again was because my lucky stab destroyed a keystone glyph holding this mess together."

"Holy's mercy...this typical Rezan fare?"

"No, most karvers can manage one glyph per body, adding extra glyhs is much harder with each new glyph. Whoever did this has a lot of power, and knowledge of glyphs that extends beyond most users. I don't think anyone in Makag can do this. "

Stick your hand on her! We want to attempt to eat all those glyph's and learn how they work.

Plus maybe we can get some glimpses of her past?

>>933411
[Revive dead]

>>933424
Too far AND behind a locked vault.

[Copy Rune Signature]

>>933435
She is literally right there. We have a local nexus for exerting our power, so dragging her back far enough to converse with her is within our power.
Ideally we would be forcing her body into a not-dead state, but we don't know how much damage was incurred.

Baron 2019/05/24(Fri)07:27 No. 933922 ID: 482fee
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Alright if you think I can get anything from this. So what do I do? Just grab her face and...why is there sparks?

ANATHEMA

Baron 2019/05/24(Fri)07:28 No. 933923 ID: 482fee
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"Oh no. Oh gods dammit not agAAAAUGH! I'M ON FIRE AGAIN! WHY AM I ON FIRE AGAIN?!"

Roll over

Hey man. Get back in the water yo.

It's not that bad anyway. Now we can conflagerate our friends at will.
It's a good thing.

>>933923
Well, shit.
Believe it or not, being on fire was worth it.
The karver here? They're from outside of reality. You're up against eldritch forces.

Anyway, the corpse is floating in mid air. You need to douse that fire and prepare.

Baron 2019/05/27(Mon)13:23 No. 934198 ID: 482fee
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No, no, I'm fine. We're fine. The body isn't rising. I just got a...I don't know what to call that. The fire doesn't even burn, it just hurt a lot.

"Ye alright? Wot was tha?"

"Damned if I know. I was trying to figure out who put those marks on her."

"Rezans can do tha by touch?"

"I...y-yes. That's how. Also are you wearing her barrette? That's going to get you all sorts of odd looks."

"It holds long hair, an' I got long hair."

Baron 2019/05/27(Mon)13:26 No. 934199 ID: 482fee
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"...sides, I thought it might give ye somethin' tae grab when we...y'know. Do that thing wot we was doin' a'fore all this killin..."

"You mean to tell me you want to have a go again? Now? We are next to a body and that's what you're thinking about?"

"Well this boat be followin' the river. Don't need to steer it. An' it's at least two days ride a'fore we make the fort. Nothin' much tae do besides...f-foolin' around. Also I'm Daoine."

""I'm Daoine."? The hells does that have anything to do with it?"

"We have erm...deep appetites?"

...Are you really going to complain about how eager he is?

Whatever you do, don't mock him about this. Not even a snide/cynical "Oh, I didn't notice at all during the last few hours"

Search the boat for supplies/location suitable for fucking and then get on with it.

Satisfy your boyfriend you reprobate!

Should probably give the girl a funeral at sea first. We'll report our findings.

Play the bunny pipe, we're going back to Gyoji.

You all think that maybe we have overdone it and now can't do too much mucking around with reality? Maybe we should stick to normal advice for awhile.

My totally normal advice is to put the body on ice or preserve it as best you can. Failing that, copy the runes as best you can and a diagram of where they were located on the body.

Skinning the body would work.

Anyway it's evidence and your best lead, once you get it to an expert.

Also take the corpse's pants. Corpses don't need pants and you will.

Baron 2019/05/31(Fri)07:20 No. 934513 ID: 482fee
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Good gods I've created a monster and you're helping him

First extra over. I'm thinking of making more side character stories like this. Hopefully my schedule won't screw me up too bad. Question is if you guys would like this or prefer I stick to the main stories.

Also bonus ending: Lewd or Safe?

>>934513
More stuff like this would be fun. And go for max lewd.

>>934513
activate lewd, need to witness this monster and turnabout amuses me.

Having side stories is quite fun! Characterful stories is what we're all about.

Also maximum lewdage.

Baron 2019/06/02(Sun)13:38 No. 934743 ID: 482fee
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And lewds it is! I'll still make a comfy, but I might post it later...somewhere else once I decide where to do it.
Achievement: Hippity Hoppity

"Harder! Harder damn ye! Make it huuuuurt!"

New Quest coming up later today. It's back in space.

New Chapter head on over
https://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/934774.html