Allotter 2010/02/16(Tue)19:22 No. 133163 ID: a56bd0
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Yellow: "And furthermore I thought didn't know were were teaming up and don't think I don't see what you are trying to pull there Red..!"

Black: " Oh come on Yellow *green sniggers at this a moment before a disturbuingly placid anf faraway look returns to his/her/it's lone eye* you know thats how the game is always played.

Red: "Red and Black look so good together.."

Black: "Black goes with everything my dea.. >>133098 >>133099 oh damn I think the atmospheric lighting has started talking again."

White: "..."

Black: " Okay fine whatever, get off my back"

Green *snorts and continues shaking at some private joke*

Blue: "I wanna change boards can we change boards?.. this timefram is boarien lets have sum cool magiken and stuff and swords n' things I haet des slow ivest- ivesti-- detectiven gaems. if we play in 2030 I can bring out this awsumcooldude wiff hiz lazor miniguns and his"

Black: "Shut up you illiterate twink and wait.. we will get there you unclultu-"

Yellow: (wisper):"Erh... hello there 'voices' can... can you hear me? I'm a somewhat new at actually playing this game so... I was wondering how or really if you have any suggestions. I'm really just filling in for someone else. I mean I've seen you pull off some crazy stuff, but I didn't know you were actually watching, or listening... or whatever we are doing."

If you're asking us for help, you're probably doomed. At the moment, we are completely unfamiliar with the game. you'd have to inform us of the rules, the goal, and what choices we have.

>>133163
Yellow: Are you and Green together? We'll help you if you answer all our nosy questions!

The game is very simple. Good versus evil. Good starts, evil has one turn first, but will try to even the game, and if good side isn't lucky, conquer the game.

Blue one usually plays "the pirates" at FIRST because he can't really plot anything and is sentimental.

Green needs help in everything but is a reasonably good buffer and a companion against evil. Otherwise green is very absent and sometimes annoying. White only observes that all the rules are followed. The game is played by first figuring out the rules, by trial and error.

Red never does turns but can cast curses on players. Black is very cunning and active in the game, because of Red's influence. So it will be very challenging, unless Black and Red get wrapped into a perilous rule breaking spiral.

Allotter 2010/02/17(Wed)15:53 No. 133592 ID: 817cd3
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Yellow:>>133173 "Urhm gee... thanks... like I really didn't know how screwed I was when I showed up and White deals me a 10 of Hearts, The Cavalier of Diamonds, a card saying 'No', 3 SORRY pieces, 3d6's... oh and the Monopoly Dog...

>>133178 Together? No I -uhm- I haven't partnered up with anyone yet, I just got here, I've been out of the game for a while, wait erh what do you mean 'together' you don't mean like umh?"

Orange: *fiddling with his pieces* "Come on dudes just cram it and maybe we get caught up to speed again, we are at least 3 sessions behind because of this and I wa..."

*Violet extends up from a near reclining position to take note of the drama... Green seems to almost respond in kind to this movement, perking up a little as it's eye focuses dazedly into Yellow's mask*

Green: "A partner huh? I can help a little if you are willing to let me play my way a little? huh?" *green's vine grip tightens just a little before relaxing and sliding off* "I know the game and if you give me a little maybe I can can try to get a little from Violet, huh?"

Yellow: "Please don't lean on me Green... I erh some of your methods... I mean uhm-"

Green: " Red collects power... I...I... discharge power... disperse it... I am an opposite... a perfect ally."

>>133418
Yellow: Good vs Evil huh? make up the rules? Well I tried a little prep reading back at C-------- before I got here and the impression was a bit like a metaphysical game of Tabletop Calvinball."

>>133592

The No is your trump card, save it. The Cavalier of Diamonds is more of a sideswipe to protect/cancel certain things, or overcome certain challenges.

10 of Hearts is a good solid first play. Sorry is to deteriment other people's cards. d6s help in a pinch, so don't worry too much about using them-they're fairly common.

The dog is a companion. If you play it too early or too late, it will either die (and commit damage) or be ineffective.

You seem top have a lot of reaction and interference cards.

>>133611
... do you actually know the rules, or you ARE playing Calvinball here?

>>133592
What's wrong with Green's 'methods'? If Green can counteract Red, then it should be advantageous to accept an alliance.

Allotter 2010/02/17(Wed)22:39 No. 134031 ID: 817cd3
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>>133800
>>133611
Yellow: "I am not really sure, I'm think that some rules exist... it's just... they are very convoluted and malleable... open to some interpretation. I agree with your assessment of the "No" Card, and yes I'm am certain the Dog is a power servant if used correctly, but I am under the impression the the Cavalier of Diamonds is actually the gift giver.. or perhaps the ability to put the right item in the right hands, but then I heard the Cavaliers really come into their only if you can hold all four."

Green: "ooohh... and you got a Cavalier... but you know to really play that you are going to need certain people, and you can't bring everyone you would need together on a few memories and dreams"

Yellow: "Stop peaking I- we arn't a team, I told you we- fine, hold up- (aside) Green's methods are a little, simple at times, I concern myself more in dreams and memories, Green's motives are far more basic, I'm afraid, far more more... primal.

I mean not that there is anything wrong with basic... if controlled and directed, it's just sometimes Green can't see the field for the flowers is all, get's lost in such petty things. Black however, 'is' a game ruining bastard, never plays alone either. Red is quite powerful in a rather more direct fashion so I 'may' need Green's help this game, especially if Green can bring Violet over."

>>134031
Better do it then. You can really use the help, and it's not like Green's going to fuck up the game THAT badly.

aaand if I'm interpreting Green's methods properly, the 10 of Hearts will be very, very useful.

>>134031

Sounds about right. The Four Horsemen is a very powerful image, regardless of how it's used.

What you really need to do is pit red and black against each other. This tends to create a lot of backlash, so you need to hit them both when they're distracted. Don't know how you'll pull that off, though.

If you really want... the Dog can be used in combination with the Cavalier, or any other number of cards (if I'm guessing right from your skill). You need to make it fully Otherwordly, though. Expensive.

Allotter 2010/02/19(Fri)11:12 No. 135336 ID: 817cd3
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>>134084
Yellow: "I-I suppose... as long as you don't try to fuck around with my units too much. Remember, this isn't some kind of... alliance this is just a mutual enemy thing"

Green:"Mmmsure fellow... I'll pass you a few pieces to play with a little later.. just be gentle with them..."

Orange: ".... and furthermore Blue... stop babbling like an idiot, we know you can form cohesive grammar so do it!"

Blue:"Silly secondy noob... doncha see, all 0f teh grammerings change change an change again...my gud fellu. Tiss awl verily dis most wonderous und grande cacophony of noise und fury signifying..."

*violet quietly wispers*
Violet: "Nothing..."

Yellow:(aside)>>134088 "I see you.. erh.. understand... I was planning to keep the 10 of Hearts in line with the Dog... but it would be much more cost effective if I can use one of green's pawns I suppose.

>>134146
Unfortunately Black is very persuasive... I mean we all know Black will probably screw over anyone who is teamed with them, but Black always knows what tempts you.

> the Dog can be used in combination with the Cavalier, or any other number of cards (if I'm guessing right from your skill). You need to make it fully Otherwordly, though. Expensive.

This... idea.. it intrigues me... Black currently has the Dog blocked as my first round I attacked with it and dealt lasting damage, but he quickly countered and locked it. If I can unlock it again-I yesss-I can boast it's power manifold with a card combination and A Cavalier combined with the Dog's tenacity and loyalty would be truly ruthless."

Orange:"Figuring out how the game works again or just mumbling to yourself like always there hrmm Yellow?"

Question: Is everyone playing the game and making alliances to benefit themselves, or are only some people playing and some people observing, with the observers picking sides and giving advice? If it's the latter, there's virtually no risk in receiving advice (as long as they don't then provide information to the enemy), but if it's the former we must be sure not to make promises we cannot deliver on.

Allotter 2010/02/20(Sat)20:23 No. 136504 ID: 817cd3
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>>136298
Orange: (aside)"Ahaha so he's not just mumbling to himself, don't worry, I'm rather more astute than Yellow, I'll only let those I 'wish' to hear me do so. Now 'who' exactly that includes... well that's my little secret now isnt't it?

Anyhow.. yes 'everyone' plays the game... well everyone but White.. but White deals so that could be playing after a fashion. oh and a little hint... it you want to address one of us in particular you may wish to specify to whom they are addressed... lest messages get snatched from the air ehh?"

>>136298
Yellow: (aside)"I will keep that in mind, I am wary of forming any kind of alliance.. I remember it once said that the enemy of your enemy is merely your enemy's enemy... no more no less... Green is simple yes, but our goals are not the same. I consider accepting the aid.. but my trust is as far as my reach... and I may need the aid of others to bring down Black.

Doubtlessly Black could be secretly influencing almost anyone at the table. Caution is gained from experience and I benefit from experience, though 'this' game is new, the rule holds true."

(To Yellow): Well technically there's absolutely no harm in accepting aid, as long as you don't become reliant on it. Also there's the risk that if you accept aid and don't in any way reciprocate, you may make a firm enemy. Additionally, Orange is capable of hearing un-directed communication, so be wary of what you say and to whom... That may not be an ability limited to Orange. Most importantly... What exactly is your goal, here? I mean, if we're to advise you, I'd like to know what it is you desire. Is it merely to win this game? If so, we need to know the conditions necessary for victory.

(To Orange): There is no technical contract between ourselves and Yellow, so if you wish you may as well address us for whatever purpose you wish. It would, in a way, be to our advantage to gain the perspective of a more experienced player, but I feel no personal obligation to share such knowledge with any other. Without any specific prior allegiances, it behooves one to place one's bets on the side most likely to win, no?

Allotter 2010/02/22(Mon)18:12 No. 137465 ID: 817cd3
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>>136507
Yellow (aside): "Thankyou for the advice... I will keep these things in mind. The game is lost by the destruction of all controlled pieces on the board. If I lose the game... I will have lost what I gambled to join.

My goal is to thwart Black in taking what does not belong to 'it', my desire is to chastise Red for a past betrayal, but most of all, I seek to reclaim what I once lost in a different game a different time... it was..

Orange (aside): " Haha, I like that line of reasoning, very mercenary of you, very cautious for one who has nothing to gain and nothing to lose except the chance to amuse ehh? Anyhow, I suppose this one's >>133099 question must gain an answer, no? We are..

Allotter 2010/02/22(Mon)18:24 No. 137477 ID: 817cd3
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"... a most curious dream. No, I shall correct that, I have had curious dreams, and I have had horrible dreams... but that.. that would just Weird in the most profound and unusual sense... or as I suppose the Norse would have it "Wyrd"?

More confusingly what is this here I drew? The designs to another device perhaps? but the scale of it... and I don't see how some of these parts would manage under the tensions... the materials and techniques would have to be quite obscure... Hell I don't even know what this could even be used for! It looks like a obscene aeroplane with too many wings had progeny with some kind of Chinese Rocket!"

I consider it a moment more before reasoning that I should probably set it from my mind and plan my day. What tasks shall I prepare for and set before myself?

Inspect the drawing closely.

During the day, it might be a good idea to go to the haunted rock where the lightning was last night. It might be a better idea to get a couple of allies before you go.

Sssshhow it to ussssss. Also check in with the sheriff, ask about the pastor's activities prior to his death, eat breakfast.

>>137481
This

Allotter 2010/02/23(Tue)12:51 No. 137838 ID: 817cd3
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I glance a moment over the first page of several seemingly related drawings I sketched out. While considering my options.

I could go try to scale that rather precarious looking hill from which it is said 'the lights' emanate from. I should probably gather together some stout souls to join and guide me to the summit of the 'haunted rock.' I could check in with the sheriff and clear up some questions regarding the activities of the former Father McKenzi leading up to his death.

Perhaps even the Sheriff, if unwilling to join me himself can at least point me to someone adventurous enough to do so.

But before any of these things... I am going to eat breakfast.

Can you read the Latin for us, Mister? Pretty please? And I think it'd be better to be investigating alone, for the time being. I mean, how are you going to justify yourself to whoever else you'd bring? "I saw some magic lightning up this way..."

Eat breakfast, then Sheriff. He sounds like the best source of posse in these parts.

Allotter 2010/02/24(Wed)19:27 No. 138417 ID: 817cd3
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The majority of this here is far too jumbled and overlapping for me to decipher as a short matter.. however, the rather bold subscript seems reads as follows:

"FELIC ERGO NOE QUAE PRAECEPERAT ILLI DEUS"
Or in the King James...
"Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he."

Hmmm... I suppose I 'may' wish look into deciphering the rest of this later.

It has occurred to me now that it would be rather hard to justify bothering the locals to inspect some 'random hilltop' without appearing too suspicious. I will have to think of a reasonable argument to make to Sheriff Parker. if I wish to acquire his aid, the people of these small towns are notoriously suspicious. However, having spoken to and made some kind of impression on his younger sister perhaps she can vouch for me?

It might be better just to ask her to come along instead. She was the large, muscular girl, correct?

You may have made a good impression on Clara (might have), but it's far too early to try to be calling in favors. You need something to give you some credit, first. I'm afraid it'll probably be a solo mission until you find some hard evidence that makes your cause seem plausible.

Allotter 2010/02/25(Thu)20:46 No. 138850 ID: 817cd3
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For a moment my mind considers the completely preposterous idea of taking along Miss Parker with me should her brother not agree to the idea. What could posses me to even consider such a thing?

Even 'robust' as she is this is 'man's work' so to speak... Besides... the gossip could be deadly is a small town as this. A young woman roaming around the countryside with a strange, older man.

hmmm, I suppose I should take my toolbag, but would it be appropriate to be walking through the town with my gun? I suppose I 'could' pass it off a little hunting expedition?

If you NEED to explain yourself, you can say that you want to scout out the premises a bit, and that you're bringing your gun in case the opportunity to hunt pops up. And you can put your bag in your hat.

Allotter 2010/02/27(Sat)00:06 No. 139490 ID: 817cd3
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The wind must have picked up some last night... a strong breeze rustles the dry grasses... and I can taste something different about the air today. It resonates a mournful tone through the hills just noticeable under the normal, if somewhat subdued, small town noises.

I feel all too aware of the weight of the gun upon my back... but no one seems to give it any special notice.

Allotter 2010/02/27(Sat)15:25 No. 139665 ID: 817cd3
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I find my way to the house of the Parker brother and sister by the directions of a few cautiously friendly children in the town. Is seems a well build frame, whitewashed with a black tar sealed roof.

No one answers my initial knock.... nor the second... or the third...

"Curious..."

I peer in through the glass and see no movement from the shadows inside...

I hear no sounds but the creaking frame of the house... and the low moaning wind carrying the sounds of the children playing at rhymes from over the hill behind me.

"Here we... the prickly pear prickly... here we go round the prickly pear at five o’clock in the morning..."

>>139665
Is the door locked?

Just sayin'.

>>139665
Push the door open if unlocked, and poke your head in to see if anything is obviously wrong.

Allotter 2010/02/28(Sun)14:00 No. 140201 ID: a56bd0
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"Erh... hello?"

Nor reply comes to my ears...

The rooms seem quite clean if a little cluttered and there is almost a clear divide between the masculine and feminine (at least I suspect it could pass for feminine.)

Aged posters and notices hang from some half of the vertical surfaces, while the other seems to be unpainted shelves covered in assorted bric-à-brac and whittled wooden toys.

The air smells of sandalwood, cedar and sage.

>>140201
Looks pretty normal. Is there somewhere else he could be during this time of day? You probably shouldn't trespass.

Huh... mono-colored rubix cube would either be incredibly easy or impossibly difficult. Anyway, I don't think going inside like this is a very good idea. Remember, both these people have jobs, and places of work where they'd likely be at during the day. It's only in the evenings, after the day's work is done, that you'd likely find them at their place of residence. DUMMY.

Allotter 2010/03/01(Mon)16:41 No. 140714 ID: 817cd3
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I decide better to not intrude and check Clara's workshop around back... nobody, well nobody but my dead predecessor and he's nailed in tight.

>>140714
I think we'd better check inside to make sure nothing happened, then. This situation seems odd.

Allotter 2010/03/01(Mon)17:10 No. 140729 ID: 817cd3
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I check inside again just to be sure. No signs of a struggle, no odd stains, no peculiar burns or scratches.

However, I do find a note scrawled in a kind of chicken-scratch handwriting on the ledger by the door.

"ARON"S A COWURD GOING TOO FIND SAM. TOOK PISTEL WATUR LANTURN 19 HOURS GONE. FIND ELEVATOR FIRST RESTOR POWER MIGHT WORK, MAYBE HANDCRANK?

CLARA---"

I decide to head over to the Jail/Sheriff's Office back in town. I am greeted by a bit of a commotion and shoo a small crowd of children aside to look in the window. I see a small mountain of a man getting some wounds treated by a few ladies who fuss over his bandages.

He turns a bleary eye to me.
>Who the fuck are... oh yeah.. yor that new preacher fella... well yur gunna be doing mur funerals soon t'looks like so... Whaddah yauh wunt?" he blurts out.

His lower lip is busted and already swollen. I can smell the whiskey in his breath and the sour smell of fear and hard labor on him. The clean shaven and somewhat slight of build Sheriff I met yesterday is nowhere to be seen.

>>140729
"Wait, more funerals?"

Allotter 2010/03/02(Tue)16:45 No. 141297 ID: a56bd0
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"Wait, more funerals?"

>"Yeah after me an Sheriff went n' took the awld fella by his sister to get all boxed up, Parker he said.. whe should go down looken' fer somethen in the mines... wouldn't tell meh whut we was looken fur but him... him and the alw fella was pretty confidential bout somethen.. saw them sometimes wispren bout somethem like they had some kinda secreat.. maybe they had some kinda treasure burried down there cause... suddenly we's getten pretty deep in the mine an the lights they jest go out and we's holleren and whoopen and suddenly I'm like... be'en 'sulted or sumate and theres somethen else down there yellen too and I got bit up and scratched up.. we were fraid of shooten so close and then I jest feal this tightness in mah chest and I kent breath.. s'like i'm froze up.. so I start runnen fast as I ken and I am runnen in the dark be'en chased by somat fur what seems forever.. make it to 'levator. I make it back nd I'm tellen his sister this see?"

"... go on?" I lean forward, trying to make out his hoarse, rambling tale.

>"Ans see the furst thing she does is tell me to get back in there and get her big brother.. so I tell her I'd rathur gotto hell.. fo 'fese sir?"

"erm.. so.."

>"und then she jest lays me one cross the face. was't the 'things' that busted up my face see?"

"...I see." Well, this is somewhat inconvenient.

Well fuck Clara's an illiterate little bitch. There goes any respect for her I might've had.

Anyway clearly this is Aaron and Clara left that message for someone, perhaps you, and took a pistol, some water, and a lantern. Not bad, I suppose. but I think it's about time you hoisted your shotgun and went after her to the mines... If you're lucky you'll catch her just as she's restoring power to the elevator.

...Gods I hate this backwater town.

Allotter 2010/03/03(Wed)20:18 No. 141702 ID: 817cd3
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I gather a few directions to the mine and make the short climb up to what the locals described as an old Spanish mission turned silver mine.

"God I hate the countryside...its not some much the place itself... as *puff* the people you meet and..." I utter under my breath as I scale finally crest the hill.

I recognize someone, the frustrated Swiss gentleman from General Store... Field's was it? He appears to be berating an Oriental looking manservant about something.

>"...and if you hadden't been gambling with my things they would have told us which entrance was..."

>"They told me it had to be lik-"

>"And how often does listening to their exact instructions get us in deeper shi *he notices me*

>"Erh hello? Name's Silus... Silus Fields, I don't believe we've met yet, I've been informed there was yet another outsider in town."

>>141702
Well? Say hello, I guess? And ask him what he's doing out here.

>>141702
"Hello, Silus. Name's Mr. White, I'm the new pastor in town. Taking a look at the mines too, are you?"

Allotter 2010/03/03(Wed)22:46 No. 141803 ID: 817cd3
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"Hello Silus, you may call me Mr. White I am the town's new Shepherd so to speak... out looking for a few missing sheep."

His grip is steady but a little weak. His man however, despite making a point not intrude looks to be made of far studier stuff, if perhaps a bit bowlegged.

>"I wasn't here long enough to be personally acquainted with the previous pastor so I'm afraid my understanding of the situation here is somewhat limited."

"Shh I see however that you are taking a look at the mines?"

>"I was, but after hearing the elevator was out I decided it may be easier to take a look at some ruins across the valley today. Locals say they're haunted or some such nonsense... I'm bit of a archeologist see? Researching North American cliff dweller ruins.. thus my reason for moving here."

>>141803
Elevator's out, hmm?

I guess you could try to find another way in, or... something?

Allotter 2010/03/04(Thu)15:35 No. 142096 ID: 407b5b
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"So the mine's elevator is still non-functional?"

>"I would believe so. Although I believe I saw young lady of sorts go by a bit ago with a rather determined look on her face and a few tools with her. Perhaps it will be running later but till the-"

His man interjects.
>"Sir, we should be off if we wish to make our way before the full heat of the day."

>"Ahah yes of course, as I was saying we'll just come back later after those repairs are done... I'm sure we will have time to converse at length later but for now, ah farewell."

At which he proceeds down the slope at a careful, yet deliberate pace.

"Hmm if the elevator's still out she will likely have been unable to repair it in short order. Clara is a carpenter, not an electrician. Perhaps I can catch up to her before she can access the lower levels?" I mutter as I begin to wonder whether or not talking to myself may not be healthier to my psyche than talking to anyone else around here?

"Also... let us hope I can get some lighting running in those mines... and 'not' have to haul any bodies out." I add under my breath as I make my way to the largest of the gaping holes in the hillside.

First Thread: End Allotter 2010/03/04(Thu)20:06 No. 142248 ID: 817cd3
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"A man must do, what a man must do."