Dodge and strike at the joints. If we can disable her legs we should be able to wear her down and then deliver a killing blow.

Joint strikes are an idea, but he can't chop at 'em, making them a bit harder to disable. He can manage thrusts or stabs, which makes her eyes the obvious place to go after. Thing is, he has to maneuver past at least two carapace'd legs to get at 'em. And ol' mum's probably able to play ping-pong with him if he tries.

Hrm. Put a foot on the slave metal box, and ask her "So how're you planning to get back, ma'am?".

>>113256
...it just hit your weapon? It didn't try to kill you? Maybe it's trying to tell you to put it down.

I wonder if it will try to kill you at all? Keep defensive, don't make any hostile moves.

- Player 2010/01/17(Sun)15:46 No. 113363 ID: 8f529c
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>tac tac< >pssh< >tac<

Hmn, she's just pushing me back, some light sparring?

"Say... you dont fit these corridors. How are you planning to.. you know. Go back? Assuming you just live underground."
-- tttkkttt.... --

I've never seen a monster so disinterested.

Perhaps without a driver she lacks the impetus or the will to continue such a dangerous venture... hell she doesn't even seem particularly intelligent does she?

>>113369
Actually, I have the nagging suspicion she might indeed be intelligent. I almost got a 'I don't know' vibe from she sound she made just then... I wonder if she can comprehend what Player is saying? Maybe Player should say 'If you can understand me, tap the ground three times' or something similar to see whether she can or not.

...Or maybe she just wants to get at the pile of corpses/food you're standing next to. I don't know.

>>113376
Seconding this, but say "I'm sorry, I don't know your language but I want to know if you understand me" (or something similar.)

Might as well try not to offend her if she can understand you, right?

>>113363
She might try and push you back into that web behind you.

- Player 2010/01/17(Sun)16:48 No. 113451 ID: 981f70
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>tap< >tac<
Well, she ain't a genius, if thats what you mean... but still...

"Look, I dont speak spider. If you do understand the language, tap thrice."

- Player 2010/01/17(Sun)16:49 No. 113456 ID: 981f70
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>tap tap<

>.o!

You ask her to tap three times for yes, and she taps you twice on your head. Huh.

Maybe she means 'use your head'. Hmm. Look. Can you press us against her leg or something? We might be able to provide you with some thought-to-thought translation. I dunno. Never done it with a demon-spider before.

>>113474
Might as well try it. Just let her know what you're doing first so she doesn't freak out.

- Player 2010/01/17(Sun)17:49 No. 113494 ID: 981f70
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"Would you mind if I--"
--krrt--

.... yea, that won't work.

>>113494
Pff, fine. Still, 'Mother' hasn't raped your face off, so she probably doesn't want to fight.
This is your chance to get a ridiculously big ally, Player.

You just... sorta.. have to find a way to help her out. Huh.

>>113494
Scratch out a picture explaining what you're trying to do.

>>113494
Ask if she wants the straps removed.

>>113494
ask her to untangle your arm as a sign of güd peece. whatever that is where they live.

two choices, give us to her, we translate.

or simply admit she is some sort of idiotic god like lolth and adandon her there.

she is however hungry, and may actualy be signalizing that if you dont help her out (to eat your townsfolk) she will start with you while the remaining of her son summons more help.

BY THE BY, your glass clone may still be there. we are at least under watch, at utmost, guard up, invisible backstab soon!

Nerts, bad eye-punch associations. Guess we can count that one out.

>Befriend, make an ally.

No, somehow I think that's a bad idea in the long run. Truce for now, though.

>Glass clone still there.

Doubt it. It seemed tied to those big gems around the mother, and Player's nowhere near them now. You're right in that he might be observed through them still, though. There are a lot more crystals than the one Charlotte was using. Someone else might also arrive to take her role.

Hmh. She may want to get to the slaves. For food? For return transport? I have no idea. Maybe you can, I don't know...Just, y'know, leave?

Right now she doesn't seem too terribly upset that you killed her daughter. That's...I don't know what that's supposed to mean. Maybe she -did- need guidance of some kind.

>>113601
we could destroy the gems then.

i agree in ignoring mother, tho id like to kill it. the child wanted to feed a village to it.

- Player 2010/01/18(Mon)07:23 No. 113952 ID: 981f70
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>scratch out a picture
Hey, I can draw; but I cant draw THAT well.

Eh, I can do it myself I think. Just need some time, and a sharp edge.

>straps removed
>destroy the gems
... they do look important.

"Say... that harness looks pretty uncomfortable."
--rrkt?--
"I could get you out of it, just saying."
--ttt-kkrrtt-tkttt-kk--
"Look-- sorry about your daughter, but she was trying to kill me. And you heard her, she's safe at home. Come on! You know you can beat me to a pulp if I do something funny."
..... --kt--

- Player 2010/01/18(Mon)07:24 No. 113954 ID: 981f70
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Hmmmn. Highly magical, I say -- the underside of these straps are full of patterns. No idea about what exactly they do though.

Hmn, this one looks like an eye.

>>113952
Try to unbuckle them before you try cutting them. This is really starting to get strange now.

a eye as in? >>111823

destroy the straps, they can see us.

>>113954

After releasing the gems, give her a scratch on the head and cal her a good girl.

- Player 2010/01/18(Mon)07:51 No. 113963 ID: 981f70
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>they can see us
Its an eye-shaped pattern, do you think they're scrying?

.... I better be quick.
>klk!<

>rrrrrrrr<
Did you hear something?

- Player 2010/01/18(Mon)07:55 No. 113964 ID: 981f70
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>rrrrrrr-SCHWHHOF!<

"WAH!"

- Player 2010/01/18(Mon)07:56 No. 113965 ID: 981f70
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.... I guess that works too.

>>113965

See if you can get your torch back before the fire snuffs out.

>>113965
They'll probably try and come back.

I suggest finding a way to get the web off and leaving.

Any objections?

>>113965
I would say that's enough weird shit for one day. Let's gather up our loot and get out of here before more odd shit shows up.

>>113965
...Nice job! I'm sure you had no idea what you were doing, but being able to win in spite of that troublesome condition is an essessional and treasured skill in adventurers. Glad to see you have it.

...

Anyway, let's loot those demon corpses of as much as we can carry and get the hell out of dodge before some other nasty shows up, shall we?

Perhaps you activated an insta-return feature of some kind. It does seem she was sphagetti-sucked back the wormhole way she came from. Much like that other guy, now that I think about it.

Check the slaves. See if they're really dead, and if they ain't, continue doing that uncoupling thing, and check if you can wake them up. Mayhaps even try to waste a cure potion on it.

You need to go make sure the guards are away. And try to gather back your inventory, the sword and the chain. As well as clear away the webs. Torch fire will probably work. The torch by the slaves was extinguished by the "blood gush" so you may be able to re-light it if you don't want to waste a torch.

>Make sure the guards are okay.

Sorry, slip of the proverbial tongue.

Hrm. Hey, Player? What's your current inventory?

player, check out where the web went. its likely she is now restrained.

inb4 pokemon sidetrack

- Player 2010/01/18(Mon)10:27 No. 113987 ID: 2b255f
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>inventory?
Idunno. You're the ones in that pocket, you tell me.
And seriously, stop calling it an inventory. It makes me feel like I have a general store in my backpocket.

Nothing of value... I prettymuch destroyed the rope when trying to get them free earlier.


... the middle demon-girl-thing still has a pulse...

>>113987
Well then get her to drink the potion. That way you can get her to carry more junk out of the dungeon.

That and you can ask her just what the fuck is going on. But for now lets get her up and running and get back to town. I think your bruised and battered body would really appreciate a hot meal, a hot bath and a decent bed soon.

>>113987
it would be best to question her loyalty before that.

cant you find a way to wake her up? a little of water maybe?

- Player 2010/01/18(Mon)10:53 No. 113997 ID: 2b255f
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She isn' swallowing, so she's coming with me. Father said the acolyte can treat wounded people, I hope he can care for demons. I hope some good comes from this.

>her loyalty
... I'll tie her up.


I'll get my sword as soon as I pass by it. It's probably the other side of the room. And then we'll see if spider silk is flammable.

Am I forgetting anything, besides the guard?

>>113997
loot? i am thinking we forgot to check where the spider went to when it vanished.

>>113997
Pick up the chain as well as the strange metal object on that you climbed up and spotted while going in. And bring the weird box with you as well.

- Player 2010/01/18(Mon)11:37 No. 114006 ID: 2b255f
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>where the spider went
Beats me. Back to hell, for all that I care. Which might be accurate.

>taking anything
Maybe you forgot, I'm not full of pockets. And I wont leave this place without my blade.

>>114006
No I didn't forget. But you should be able to find ways to tie it to your body with the chain or store it in your codpiece or just carry the damn stuff in your hands. Show a little bit of imagination, it's like you never tried to loot a dungeon before.

nononono you dont get. i think she was somehow resized back to fit the original container where it was.

look for some sort of trinket near you. there was a wirlwind of web somewhere around there.

- Player 2010/01/18(Mon)13:45 No. 114038 ID: 2b255f
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>tie it to your body, store in your codpiece, carry in your hands
>whirlwind of web
Sometimes you're just silly.

... scratch that.

- Player 2010/01/18(Mon)13:46 No. 114039 ID: 2b255f
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"Sometimes, you're not."

Well, he's got us there.

>5Copper's pokeman theory.

Not web, and definitely not pokemon. It was a teleport thing, I think. If you check the return method of Stahlvern's body and the demon mage, you'll see that it was similar, only smaller in scale.

>New achievement, same ol' sidequest, interesting tip.

Puzzles, hmm? That's interesting.

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