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SniperWoreConverse posted:Yeah gently caress it idk it's probably going to make somebody have to change their vote if order matters or doesn't matter. Really, just whatever gets us off Skull Island, I vote that.
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Oct 3, 2023 05:35
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yeah just everyone who wants to vote vote your poo poo and we'll gtfo
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Oct 3, 2023 14:48
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I'm sorry I pushed us to come here. I was expecting Tropic Thunder or Welcome to the Jungle not Apocalypse Now.
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Oct 3, 2023 19:29
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lol, look everything worked out fine, it's perfect. I'll give it like one more day or something in case there's scragglers and then we'll lock it in and gtfo
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Oct 3, 2023 23:33
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4 up the rope no cursed rear end cave loot for us FGII
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Alright, according to my bullshit calculations, Zlata is gonna stay down here for 5 and do DGIBF. Also that she's going to destroy the core and take the back way out. Maybe this was not optimal for everyone but it was a super obvious lead to get magic stuff from here, and then in second place was focusing on not looting but other stuff. Basically nobody really got wat they wanted lol. Or maybe most people got like 1 thing they were hoping for but not everything. Was sorta hoping you'd try to steal some actual furniture tbh, but it only got one vote. But who's gonna lug an armoire through the jungle, really? -- Retinue posted:Toby would be able to identify what of this stuff can sell, maybe even on black markets. You can do this too of course -- and would have a better idea of what'd be valuable to keep, what would be socially acceptable for someone of rank to have -- but in this hideous pit the best role for him is watching your back. Cash isn't what you're after anyway, you're flush from selling off the paladin loot. Feels like it all happened years ago now,  but you got your stacks of gold. What you really want is what can't always be bought: magic and information.Noble Scion & Well Read posted:Like you, Sevan is extremely obviously literate, and can certainly recognize books and papers like anyone, but from your conversations with her she's able to identify different hands and could distinguish how old or new a book might be. If Purnam stupidly kept a log of her many evil deeds, then Sevan's going to have a good chance of finding it. Even if it's in some foreign language, she could probably tell just based on the apparent age of the book or manuscript. You doubt there's going to be an illuminated scroll entitled "My Crimes, Which I Totally Did & Have No Regrets About & Would Do Again if Given a Chance, by Purnam, Matron of Soligi" -- but, there could be some kind of experimental record? If that's the situation. Do evil wizards and witches keep tomes like that? Maybe? They're known tome-havers, right? Magic Charms & Diamond Bolt School & Poetics posted:Then all this magic-seeming stuff. Yeah, you want it, who wouldn't? You might never get a chance to get things like this again. Yes, you flunked out of magic school. Yes, Auntie Ell was livid. But like a lot of things, "you know it when you see it." It's real stuff, at least partly. Too dangerous to let any moronic buffoon get it, you should deal with it. Yeah that all makes sense. You can tell yourself that. However only an absolute actual moron would ever fail to see that gross dead core nucleus thing is evil. The only solution to this pollution is incineration. Purnam died not far from her pile of... whatever, so you kick her skin onto it. Nothing else is close enough to matter. You're not in danger of burning down the cave over this. You ask Toby and Sevan to help you move things along. *cough* "Toby, are we alone down here? Better check. Sevan, if you could do me a favor? I'm sure Purnam had books, if you don't mind try would you try to collect them up, especially anything that looks like she wrote it herself?" "Yeah, good idea." "It'd be my pleasure." You have had, for some time now, six metallic nails -- all inscribed with various runes. The iron one has so far been the most useful, but each one can ward against various evils, and each one was made under the light of one of the planets at the time of year it shone the brightest. It's trivial to just push them into the thing with your bare hands and it'd be best to hedge your bets on this and use them all. You start with the gold one and proceed counterclockwise. Copper. Iron. Then the other way around. Tin. Lead. Silver. Begin and end with the nobles. Thinking that you better really seal the deal, you dump your tiny vial of quicksilver in the middle. It's going to get burned off, but it's more important to be safe than sorry. The seven metals, the seven planets. As far as you are aware, this is the whole shebang. You dump all your remaining lamp oil over it, whatever isn't being currently used. Then light it up, and quickly step back. It goes up quick and burns clean. There's nothing left at all except the nails -- which aren't even tarnished and hardly have soot. You pack 'em away and move on. -- While the others are busy it seems like the best time to check over ~the remains~. There's hardly anything except her cut up skin which... She's got tattoos. They look bad. Really bad. Not in the sense of being poorly done or stupidly chosen, but something's wrong with them. Kam Indah posted:E: Persuasiveness. Two small tattoos, and a tiny one. A beautiful bird on your throat and a vixen with multiple tails, on your tail. Two symbols on your abdomen. She has these, something very like these, and they've gone rancid, literally. You couldn't quite make them out correctly in the darkness, not before, but the tattoo has rotted, like what the old sage said. Good Lord this could have been you! What did she do? Looking at that pile of fabrics she was lounging on, they're not silks but skins. Of people. A mix of human and dragonfolk. On this island that means her own people. Flensed down thin. You:  : Throw the skin on the pile in disgust. Any royal inquisitors will be able to see it and being locals they're certain to understand what happened here and finish dealing with any problems. : Are quick and cool. While the others are distracted you quickly and carefully pack the skin up. No one will see. This skin of hers is magically potent. Useful, "differently-righteous," contraband.-- Well, if you take the skin or don't there's still other items of interest, great interest. We'll get to those probably tonight or tomorrow, as well as what other loot you get, some other things, and getting to the boat and getting out. Plus I don't have a decent comp to AI gen images that aren't hot garbage, I'd pretty much have to let them slow-cook overnight if I installed anything like that on this piece. Trying to find pics via search is a pain in the rear end these days too, I keep getting similar but not really what I asked for results, or just garbage that doesn't work at all. For now just vote on taking the skin or leaving it.
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Oct 5, 2023 18:22
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Magpie instinct says take the skin, but magpies are sometimes very stupid. Leave it. Your writing is really good and you don't need pics unless you want them.
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Oct 5, 2023 18:36
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Bad juju.
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Oct 5, 2023 18:42
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We're maybe evil, but not "skin your friends" evil.
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Oct 5, 2023 19:03
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Yeah, we're into organized crime, not blood sorcery.
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Outrail posted:Your writing is really good and you don't need pics unless you want them. Honestly it's more an excuse to deal with my extremely weird time scheduling situation. Not having pics sucks rear end tho. -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQZfGa5t4e8&hd=1
There are some interruptions. The sound of Toby killing something echoes through the caves twice. A creature even approaches you and Sevan while you search for stuff -- like the "old hound" this thing is gross as hell. It's small, a bit listless, and when it rears up to attack you're able to swiftly dispatch it. Toby reports back the same thing: the creatures he saw looked like they were already dying. No one wants to spend the rest of their life down here, so you make the call: time to go. There are a lot of other interesting things, but no reasonable way to get them out. As Sevan & Toby help each other cross through the partly flooded back exit (being very careful to avoid letting anything important get wet), you can't help but look back and consider what an insane waste this all was. No wonder the pixie seems so morose. At least the villagers should be able to deal with the rest of this mess and maybe even put what you leave behind to good use. Going right, like Sevan said, leads you to the hidden exit. You follow the light. It also seems she was right about this place connecting back to some old road that heads east. Forget it. You're through and out, and nothing interrupts your roundabout trip to the shore. The boat out is there, and it seems the commoners and all the stuff you left with them is aboard. Stampy is wading nearby, not particularly inclined to be loaded up just yet. You're quickly aboard yourselves and everything seems pretty alright. The villagers are milling about confusedly but they should be ok, better to have no matron than an evil one. The captain greets you all politely and quickly orders a return back to the capital. This seeming alrightness is very rapidly dispelled. Mary, Felix, and Lemon are already aboard. Lemon is even being human now, which she's normally loath to bother with. And they've got everything you've brought with you from Xoma. And they look concerned. -- As you escape this craphole island they explain that since your last meeting several things have changed. Mary's got a hefty stack of letters addressed to you. They're unopened. Felix is... more literate than most. Not saying much, but he knows not to open your mail even if he were a professional scholar. You page through them while Felix elaborates. Letter from Auntie Ell wanting to know how things are going. "The letters started I think maybe one or two days after you left." Letter from your aunt wanting to know how close you are to completing that job. "For a long while it was pretty normal--" Several more letters from Eluned getting increasingly frustrated about the lack of communication. "--then the other letters came in." Diot Vail posted:Ms. Zlata -- Gerd posted:Miss Z, Diot Vail posted:Ms. Zlata -- Diot Vail, marked urgent posted:Z -- Count Anka, Lord of Kegslamnr, Three Rock, Tendog, Asswhashen, Fendval, Southwood, Dulcimer, & Passwall posted:Miss Zlata -- "Yeah Felix these ones aren't normal or good news at all. Is there anything else?" "Not letters, no." Lemon pipes up. "It gets worse." -- Skin voting is still open. If you wanna vote about it. It'll stay open until the next vote is complete. I'll get this last part up later and then the rest of the vote will open.
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Oct 6, 2023 20:54
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See? You turn your back for three loving minutes and everything turns to poo poo. Tell the pixie we're going to let them go as soon as we can confirm they're not a monster in disguise or otherwise pose a risk to us. Ask if theres anything we can do/give them. No need to answer if they don't want to.
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Oct 6, 2023 22:45
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Outrail posted:See? You turn your back for three loving minutes and everything turns to poo poo. Yeah, confirm that the pixie isn't a threat or something and let it go, no need to let it suffer (and the resale value of a clinically depressed pixie is probably pretty low)
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Oct 6, 2023 23:27
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Or, if the pixie isn't sure what to do with themself, are they looking for gainful employment, non-judgemental company or people to hurt? Coz we can offer all of the above.
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Oct 6, 2023 23:49
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Side vote to add in with the skin vote: When you talk to it the pixie grumbles noncommittally, ignores you and turns away, waves you off, or some mix of these. It does this for anyone who tries to talk to it, regardless of what they say or try to offer it. It also looks to be physically healthy and in good shape. According to Felix & Lemon it seems like an otherwise normal pixie & not any kind of mysterious threat or disguised evil. Do you let the pixie loose? y/n
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Side vote to add in with the skin vote: YOLO Looking forward to our imminent demise, fisherman and the djinn style Volmarias fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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Oct 7, 2023 03:30
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We open the Pixie's cage, it can choose its own fate. We spent WAY too long on this damned island. Let's get some letters written and go sort out the next fustercluck.
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Volmarias posted:YOLO  Tell the pixie they can leave whenever they want, and we'll give them whatever they need in the meantime (within reason), then unlock/open the cage and let them make their own choices. Grumpy non-communicative pixie best pixie.
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Respond in kind: Just slain a swamp demon while under a spiritual trance - taking a boat to your general locale. I'll be bringing exotic gifts from afar~! > The Pixie can stew and fume if she wants but ask her how she's doing every night at least once for a full week before we decide to release her.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm7LU8-VPhc&t=3040sNoble Scion posted:Wait a minute, what is this? All these towns are pretty big area for a mere count. And you've been through this area! Horsewoman & Retinue posted:You can't expect Vail to have decided to flee for no reason. Good horses, the kind your people need, are expensive and big and not just something that "gets eaten," either. Not by just one creature. A pack of wolves or something could eat one. Some kinda big monster like maybe a lion could eat one. The way Vail describes it as "eating all the horses" makes it sound huge, like one horse wasn't enough. And she wouldn't just let the horses get rustled by bandits and make up an easily disproved lie. Light & Medium Armors posted:Knowing if they went out with the horses barded or not would have been useful. Most creatures aren't going to want to eat any kind of metal, and while you don't have cataphracts exactly, even mediumweight armor isn't going to be palatable to anything you can think of at the moment. Maybe rats or vermin would gnaw lightweight armors, or there's some exotic monster that eats metal, but that's not what's described here. Did it knock them to the ground and just eat the whole horse, armor and all? They'd be lucky to avoid getting crushed. Maybe it killed the horses and visibly started eating them when your crew realized they were beat and hoofed it themselves. Poetics & Well Read posted:But it didn't eat any of the people. It gave them a letter -- whatever the hell that means. Monsters don't "give letters." Only the most magical of creatures (like pixies) can even talk. What, there's been an ancient beast sleeping under some swamp like it's no big deal and they built a city over it? Better ask Mary about this later, she may have heard something through the monster hunters' guild. She's probably not highly ranked enough to have learned anything really esoteric like this is shaping up to be. The city is destroyed? Maybe it was some beastmaster barbarian invasion? Well these letters are yoking you pretty well to something you might not want to get too involved with. "Worse. 'It gets worse,' you said?" Lemon and Mary reveal that they were sitting near the top of the mountain, like they had grown accustomed to, eating lunch. From there, you can see a good part of the kingdom, and it's obvious that their king had formed a military expedition. A set of ships, five or so large ones. "So?" "Well, they were headed towards Xoma." Mary remains concerned. "So?" "The Holy City? City of Saints?" "Maybe not a great idea, but--" Lemon interrupts "They're already all dead." The sound of seabirds and waves. Soligi is receding towards the distance. "Dead." "Even if no one else believes, I know what I saw. They were all sunk." The people you left back in the main part of the kingdom haven't only been enjoying scenic lunches. They've also been gathering information.
The ships left port and headed towards Xoma. When they got to the horizon everything was fine. That night there were flashes of light and distant thunder, and the next morning some thin, dissipating clouds. Felix and Mary both agree this was probably some freak storm. Even if it wasn't, it probably wouldn't concern you. It's Lemon who's taking things seriously. With those letters, whatever they say, and now this? Things are going seriously enough she convinced the others to come out here and meet you, bring all your stuff and make sure you're ready to take whatever actions you're going to take. "They were probably just shooting their cannons at pirates." "A weird storm? Near the Spice Islands, known for their magical weirdness?" You know them. They're not entirely sure they believe it's not a major problem. Lemon stands her ground. "Zlata, those weren't just lightning bolts. Lightning bolts aren't red and orange like that. Something's happening. I can feel it." Maybe she can, maybe she can't. None of your people know if this would have happened within the area controlled by the Sorcerer King or out on the open sea. And they aren't stupid enough to have this discussion out in the open on deck, but in your cabin where you can be pretty sure nobody else has heard. The crew and the castaways are pretty busy themselves. -- Regardless of how credulous you are about all this, there are problems you need to resolve. It's going to take a little bit of time to get back to the capitol -- with Vail and the others under house arrest, and your job with Esmail, it'd be foolish to sweep around and dump the castaways off anywhere else, even if you'd prefer to get wash your hands of them as soon as possible. Going to investigate their camp can be left up to the locals. You're done here. Sevan has moved her stuff into a cabin and seems to be pretty normal. Much better, although she clearly still hates the other castaways. Orn & Taiwo are doing their best to stay out of trouble and contribute to crewing the ship. Your own people are taking care of your stuff, Stampy, the horses, etc. Some reminders: Kam Indah posted:"As for you, whatever your decision, I will ask that you return to your teacher and tell her everything that has happened here. It will take 14 hours to recite the secret knowledge Esmail desires. Can you memorize this, although it is a language you do not know?" You're supposed to hand off the secret scroll to Esmail and nobody else. Then track down and kill Siemowit who is one of these itinerant nobles of the kingdom, who at this point may or may not be in Zbub. Ideally you can somehow roll this into retrieving your pack of idiots at the same time, or just chain them together on your way home. First is getting the scroll to Esmail & dumping these castaways off. If the survivors make it to the capitol there's a chance Sevan or one of the others is going to bring this up with the courts to demand justice. Which might mean testimony. Which might mean delaying your exit from this kingdom. You won't have enough time to do all of these, maybe three if you're lucky, so you need to prioritize. What do you want to do first?: A: Write up a testimony regarding the castaways. You should be able to pass this off instead of having to testify in person, if it comes down to it. Be up front about killing Purnam but leave out the parts where you looted. B: Spend some time talking with the two commoner castaways. Get a feel for how they plan to testify about what happened if a trial were to start. Maybe some gentle extortion for saving their lives? C: You want to spend some time with Sevan. She still might find a way to execute her own justice. It might be good to get on the same page if there's a trial about what happened. And she has some interesting things to talk about. D: Spend time consulting the captain about these events your people saw and what their ominous meaning could be, and the general state of things. He'd know more, wouldn't he? E: Write some letters allaying your aunt's concerns and letting Anka know you'll be there as soon as possible. Also let Gerd know that you'll be coming home to deal with things, that should chill whatever pagan fervor is heating up. F: f u Indah. Copy his secret knowledge scroll. Genuinely possible this could really gently caress you up if you aren't ready for it, but it's not like you're closely studying it, just duplicating it. Some yes/no votes that need resolved and won't take any time Did you take Purnam's magic skin? y/n Are you letting the pixie out right now? y/n
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Oct 7, 2023 18:39
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PS you don't have to read the whole goddamn epic to vote don't think i missed the goons who voted like 1 time and then disappeared mysteriously
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Oct 7, 2023 18:55
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E What do we know about pixies in general?
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Oct 7, 2023 19:03
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ACE No Yes SniperWoreConverse posted:PS you don't have to read the whole goddamn epic to vote don't think i missed the goons who voted like 1 time and then disappeared mysteriously 'Dissapeared mysteriously' working hard on the undertones
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Oct 7, 2023 19:08
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HBar posted:What do we know about pixies in general? Not very much. They're magical tiny creatures and sometimes hang out in magical places or ruins, and can do things like turn invisible, or glow, or sometimes change size or shape. Sometimes they can trick people into doing something fatal, or give them good luck or help. They're kind of like humans or elves or dwarves but aren't really like people. Outrail posted:ACE on this i'm doing it diog style like enkidel's kingship votes: we're just gonna vote out one thing at a time. Enkidel can do them all, but with this if Zlata runs outta time she's outta time, so I'm gonna assume you're voting A immediately Outrail posted:'Dissapeared mysteriously' working hard on the undertones hardly, it's a common turn of phrase. comes up all the time.
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Oct 7, 2023 19:42
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Oh, C first. I want to recruit Sevan the murder lizard to our group.
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Oct 7, 2023 19:45
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E we've been incommunicado a stupid amount of time.
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Oct 8, 2023 02:11
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A Yes Yes
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Oct 8, 2023 04:24
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Seems like bad luck to keep a pixie caged up. Yes, open the cage door and see if it at least has the motivation to get out on its own.
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Oct 8, 2023 04:31
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C No to taking the skin Yes to freeing the pixy (but maybe make talk to our retinue for make sure it's ok and isn't going to bite us in the rear end??)
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Oct 8, 2023 05:46
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A, dont take skin, free pixie
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Oct 8, 2023 07:19
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Writing letters, E, then A skin: get pixie: freed Bonus: Ask pixie to purify skin before she goes
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Lmao drat I rolled my 3 sided die and it came up C, then got like 1/3 the way thru before being forced to pause by the curse of bullshit (which is also blocking Dracula) I should have been clear if I forgot: it is gonna be individually which option you wanna do first 2nd etc, no you can't get enough time to do them all, and no this isn't timey-wimey do em then integrate into the end result -- the order you do them in changes the situation. The yes/ no votes are not going to influence timing, those are the ones that are more timey-wimey and are individually handled without changing anything else atm. Talking to Sevan first is gonna be different than writing multiple letters and a legal document and then maybe getting around to talking to her before disembark. It's not gonna be a major thing to switch gears, voting remains open until the last second, & don't change nothing if you don't wanna.
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well I prob won't have time to do the full update today, but I can at least do the y/n's. The skin vote was not unanimous, but leaving that thing in the lair clearly won. Besides, if you got caught with someone's skin you'd be in serious trouble, unless you could somehow play it off as traditional dragonfolk burial practices or something. For sure not guaranteed. Wtf am I posting, 'for sure not for sure?' A good chance of getting caught out as some necromancer of evil. It was gross anyway. If inquisitors go down there they are assured to see it and will almost certainly write the whole thing off as some serious magic malfunction. You hope. -- Now your other concern is unanimous: the pixie must be released this very second. Volmarias posted:Yes to freeing the pixy (but maybe make talk to our retinue for make sure it's ok and isn't going to bite us in the rear end??) SniperWoreConverse posted:According to Felix & Lemon it seems like an otherwise normal pixie & not any kind of mysterious threat or disguised evil. That's the best you're gonna get and that's what you're gonna do. When you get to your cabin you get this cage placed somewhere decent. There's a little desk built into the wall (so it won't flip over in a storm), and it's the perfect spot. As you're getting everything explained to you, you take a moment to tell it that it's free to go, you're not going to keep it trapped, and it just doesn't seem right to even try. You don't get the usual response, instead you get a "Huh." It doesn't even smile or anything and just waits where it is. Seems better than nothing, so you open the birdcage door. There's a brief flash of light, and inside the cage is no pixie. Instead there are a tiny pile of dried out pixie bones and a wings. You poke 'em with one of Purnam's styluses. Yeah, looks to be a full skeleton. "Do I even wanna know where you got that, Z?" Mary's pretty weirded out. Felix is confused, baffled. Lemon frowns, not saying anything. "It was down a hole, don't worry about it too much." Toby also is kinda disturbed. You shut the door and the bones flash. The pixie looks around. "Yeah..." it shrugs and goes back to moping. "I tried?" It nods and flits up to a perch, where it closes its eyes and waits. "Uncharted waters I guess." After a moment Lemon continues claiming the ships are definitely toast and this is serious. -- Unless you can think of anything to do for the pixie you just hang its cage up in your cabin for now. Write in some idea if you want. Otherwise the vote is still open, and you're prepping to get your letters belted out and sent.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Unless you can think of anything to do for the pixie you just hang its cage up in your cabin for now. Write in some idea if you want. Bend the bars enough for it to try and slip through without the door opening.
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Welp. Put down some fresh newspaper in the cage and let it know we'll try and do what we can for it. Put it up on the deck if it wants so it can get some sunlight and a view at least.
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Oct 9, 2023 19:58
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"Any.... amenities you'd want in the cage dear?"
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... can we just break the cage so that they are dead forever? Does the pixie know why this happened and how to break it?
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Tweezing the bars with your fingers, yeah it seems like you should be able to just smash the thing open if you wanted, or bend the bars. You aren't sure what would happen, if you squeeze them too hard there's uncanny ripples of light that travel across the outside of the thing. Also if you wanted to try and kill the pixie... you maybe could just leave the door open? Take the bones out or something? You really don't know what any of this would do, but it seems maybe impractical to do it right now. -- I'm gonna go ahead and pat myself on the back for the scene we had set up if you had talked to Sevan first, but frankly? She'll be fine. You have got to get these letters dealt with. First, the ones you've received from your precious aunt, who's given you everything, and is clearly tremendously, overwhelmingly worried about you. You carefully burn them without catching the ship on fire. Criminal Connections posted:There's no sense in anyone accidentally getting a peek at private correspondence like that. What are you trying to set yourself up for failure? She didn't mention anything suspicious, but... c'mon. Wasting any of Purnam's exotic writing ink or using her pens doesn't seem like it'd matter much, but you've got your own that you're used to, so you dump the ashes out the porthole and with the gentle rolling of the ocean you quickly scribe out an appropriately vague account of what happened. Noble Scion posted:Coming all the way out here just to get Toby patched up might seem a bit indulgent, but really it's paid for itself with the huge amount of gold you got for selling the dead paladin's stuff and other trade goods. Plus you've obtained various other useful items you couldn't get back home. Yep this trip was completely worth it and not a nightmare slog through a hideous forest of horrors. After these minor inconveniences everything is fine and completely on-track. Next, Anka. Kind of a prick, and greedy. You consider how you might want to portray yourself. Lux Anima posted:Respond in kind: Good in concept, but maybe you're going to want to avoid being too familiar or overflattering. And avoid ramping his expectations too high -- could be a mistake. You do apologize on behalf of your, hm, recalcitrant vassals. This pigheadedness was valuable in the northern campaigns and remains much less so in court. They're surely a handful and you'll be arriving with all speed to take them off his hands. In fact you're abord ship, on your way right now, having done some trade and having been unfortunately forced to personally deal with various jungle monsters in the process. Yes, after collecting your retinue you're inclined to return north, unless some pressing concern or opportunity interrupts you. Retinue & your many skills related to combat posted:Yeah! Vail and the others are real poo poo-kickers, and you're a total badass and rich. Not someone to toy with, but not a threat. Unless he decides to make you a threat, this is actually a positive thing for him. Alright, Ell & Anka done, you pen off a quick letter to Gerd -- you'll be back, Vail is on her way back as well, tell the peasants to knock off anything too unusual or you'll be forced to deal with it. You don't plan on executing anybody at the moment, and honestly really can't legally do it unless you catch them in the act, but everyone knows you can make things pretty unpleasant. If it's making you look bad or you have some ridiculous cult forming you probably will have to. All signed and carefully sealed, you hand them off to the ship's steward. This thing is big enough to have it's own aviary for mailbirds and the letters are off. You ask if it's known how much time it will take to return to the capital. "As long as the weather holds I'd consider it a matter of hours, miss." -- You find yourself getting pretty tired, Swordswoman posted:Yeah you're such a drat badass you forgot about your sword! Here it is in your cabin, all stained up by vile ichor! It's probably evilly corrupted or something! "Euuuuugh... drat it." What do you do next? A: Write up a testimony regarding the castaways. You should be able to pass this off instead of having to testify in person, if it comes down to it. Be up front about killing Purnam but leave out the parts where you looted. B: Spend some time talking with the two commoner castaways. Get a feel for how they plan to testify about what happened if a trial were to start. Maybe some gentle extortion for saving their lives? C: You want to spend some time with Sevan. She still might find a way to execute her own justice. It might be good to get on the same page if there's a trial about what happened. And she has some interesting things to talk about. D: Spend time consulting the captain about these events your people saw and what their ominous meaning could be, and the general state of things. He'd know more, wouldn't he? E: Examine your sword to see if it's actually damaged in any way, or haunted or some intolerable bullshit. F: f u Indah. Copy his secret knowledge scroll. Genuinely possible this could really gently caress you up if you aren't ready for it, but it's not like you're closely studying it, just duplicating it. G: Just sleep it off. Everything'll be fine. You haven't slept in anything remotely resembling a normal bed in 6,000 years. But wait, there's more: SniperWoreConverse posted:"Shouldn't someone say something?" Taiwo asks. Yeah Shazgob gra-Luzgan is tragically dead and buried. Someone really should take custody of his remaining stuff. To give back to his family. In Bartertown, which has been destroyed. Do you take Shazgob's stuff? y/n Doesn't seem to be openly known his hometown is annihilated.
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