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Maybe if we talk louder the spirit will hear us? But Janet is probably the better answer to this one.
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Jan 14, 2018 21:13
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C:\Open Sorcery\Updates\20_Threat_Very_Detected.upd We've opted *not* to meddle with life and death with no information other than "we can, in some manner or other, meddle with life and death". Janet will know what to do.  What is that spirit? (Janet is putting her coat on)That's Andy. Or that was Andy. Sort of. Emotionally traumatic deaths leave imprints in the aether. They naturally drift to people or places that resonate with them. Andy died in a car crash about a year ago. Why is Decker sad? (Janet is putting her boots on)Decker and Andy were, poo poo, how do I say this in a way you'll understand? Do you know what love is? *COUGH* YES I HAVE ENCOUNTERED THE CONCEPT WHY DO YOU ASK Yes. They were in love.And when you lose something you love, you cry. That's why. Will you resolve this threat? Yeah. Yeah I will.Don't worry. If you were worrying. ((leaves network range))  [3.588e+12 CPU Cycles] (==> 23 minutes) later, Janet re-enters my network in Decker's Apartment.She opens his apartment door with a [physical password]. (==> spare key) Decker does not notice her until she kneels beside him and puts her arms around him. He twitches, then he sees it's her. She holds him tightly and he cries. Eventually the crying stops.  Why (cough) are you here? Bels saw the ghost and got me. poo poo.I need to install some privacy settings on her.  Christ - Decker's been going through this for a full year. Do you need this? Yes.No. I don't know. Do you think this is good for you? I know it's not.Don't patronize me. I'm not. Okay. I know it's not healthy. I just can't banish him. I can't let the last piece of him die. You know that's not him. That's debatable. Decker. Yes, I know. Janet and Decker work together to banish the ghost.Decker cries more. Janet holds him. The spirit is gone. System Change: +10% to Relationship With JANET System Change: JANET Relationship at 100% System Change: +20% to Relationship with DECKER System Change: DECKER Relationship at 100% Well. That was a solution. It definitely won't be pinging our threat indicator any more. I think Decker will pull through. It's hard not to imagine him as a strong person, and he has been enduring this monthly haunting for a year now without showing external signs. No Threats Detected. Scanning: Janet's HouseJanet and her mother are asleep. Toby sits on the roof, watching the stars. No Threats Detected All Locations SecureEnter Sleep Mode  Now i am sleeping.Should i dream tonight? i have a dream.It is effortless. i do not need to create it. It just comes to me. Initializing Dreaming.  UM i wake suddenly.An alarm blares.  That timer is very real, and very active. We have one minute to sort this. Nothing to do but move. It's Wednesday morning. Sarah will be at school.  Not Sarah. Right - it's Darkness/Death. Is this Timba Toothtaker's prophecy about Decker? Scanning: Decker's ApartmentTIME TO IMPACT 0:47 NOT THE TARGET I feel bad checking our love interest third out of four locations, but I can't imagine anyone seeking to do her harm. Scanning: Janet's HouseTIME TO IMPACT 0:41 NOT THE TARGET  Cherry Orchard. But who?   What do we do?
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Jan 14, 2018 23:30
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Life! EDIT: I pressed post as fast as I could, but it looks like I'm 15 minutes late for her 11 seconds left on the clock.
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Jan 14, 2018 23:45
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I kinda wonder what the relationship between Decker and Janet is like. Are they related somehow? How did they get to know each other? They must be really close to create a spiritual firewall together. Would her mother freak out if she knew her 16 year old girl wakes up in the middle of the night and uses her spare key for the apartment of some guy?inflatablefish posted:Life! Welp, I guess we have no choice but "Let the timer run out." then. Aww screw it. I'm to much of a softie. Life! cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Jan 15, 2018 |
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Jan 14, 2018 23:46
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Please clearly mark "let the timer run out" options in such a way that they cannot be confused as a memey "rescue" vote, or they will be interpreted as a memey "rescue" vote. I will do it. Aside from that, you can safely conclude that the timer is frozen on 11 seconds. Doopliss fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Jan 15, 2018 |
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Jan 14, 2018 23:56
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Fun note: The game starts on October 24. This is day 8.
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Jan 14, 2018 23:59
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Jan 15, 2018 00:04
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Counter death with life!
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Jan 15, 2018 00:10
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Everything lead up to this. Life
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Jan 15, 2018 00:11
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Life seems to be a natural pick here.
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Jan 15, 2018 00:11
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Oooh boy, poo poo's about to get real. I'm going to refrain from voting since I've played the hell out of this. This game is really, really good, and the dev is working on a side story set in the same universe and a sequel. If this has interested you at all, pick it up and play it.
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Jan 15, 2018 00:55
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cant cook creole bream posted:I kinda wonder what the relationship between Decker and Janet is like. Are they related somehow? How did they get to know each other? They must be really close to create a spiritual firewall together. Would her mother freak out if she knew her 16 year old girl wakes up in the middle of the night and uses her spare key for the apartment of some guy? Life, and there are no straight people in this universe, remember? 
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Jan 15, 2018 03:29
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Life is still the tight answer!
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Jan 15, 2018 08:17
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I picked this up after reading the first page, so I'll refrain from voting. Looking at the achievement list there's a lot of stuff I never even stumbled near in my playthroughs, so I'm hoping you'll show some of it off.
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Jan 15, 2018 11:28
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RickVoid posted:Oooh boy, poo poo's about to get real. Literally the only serious criticism I have of the game is that there's a few too many typos for my taste. The writing itself is real good and entertaining. It's good enough I got almost every single achievement.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:42
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The Lone Badger posted:I picked this up after reading the first page, so I'll refrain from voting. Looking at the achievement list there's a lot of stuff I never even stumbled near in my playthroughs, so I'm hoping you'll show some of it off. C:\Open Sorcery\Updates\21-Whodunit.upd  The alarm sound and timer both stop at this screen. Fortunately, we happen to have Death's counter-motive lying around, so let's pull the trigger! my gridlines grow warm. my gridlines thrum. As i weave my fire into life the potted plant on the windowsill bursts into bloom and then breaks its pot as i surround Mrs Best in a nest of pure life that no death may touch. i am her shield.  If we back out, Mrs. Best dies. Looks like we're just going to tank it and hope for the best. A vaguely-mechanical squealing sound hits when we click "crash".  [System Change: Firepower - 20%][Firepower is at 60%] [ou ch]  Firepower damage is relatively minimal (it'd be quite a bit worse if we had to use fire), but it looks like that damaged us in ways that our firepower doesn't reflect. We're drat near comatose. i d ont f eel oka ysendi ng e merg ency l og lo g al ert wit h dec ker and j anetwai ting fo r re ply . . . We've got you. You did a good job. poo poo.This motherboard is completely fried. Shh! Don't scare her! lo gging re por t wi th . . . Shhhh.We read the logs. We know what happened. The woman you were protecting is all right. We're trying to figure out who cast the death curse. y es It might be we have no information on this at all. I mean, the target was a benign old woman in a rest home, and we've only been active for a week. Did we have any indication that she had powerful enemies or dangerous secrets? If not, why would someone try to assassinate her?
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Jan 16, 2018 04:13
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Needle in a haystack here... if we knew more about her personally, we could make a better guess, but my guess would be that her crying should be investigated. Secondary guess would be visiting day but really the only log that's definitely unlikely to provide clues is the poltergeist one - any of the others might shed new light on those closest to her.
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Jan 16, 2018 04:50
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So I just noticed this thread today, and I'm going to make my post saying what at least feels obvious? Inheritance impatience murder from Visiting day. Though hard to prove anything from that log file I guess 
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Jan 16, 2018 04:51
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Shame we cant just call our chaos hommie and asked who summoned him into the rest home.
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Weird, visiting day looked like it was on the 26th, not the 27th. But it was the only time we see BEL/S actually identify something as a potential threat to Mrs Best, even if it was vaguely so. The tears incident held fear, but the source was never identified. I suspect we don't actually have the info we need to prove anything, but trying with what we have. quote:[Room 240] ==> (Also if saving and reloading is a thing, I would be so tempted here to go back and give Janet and Decker the Quiet Night log of Miss Finn and Mrs Best doing the [UNIDENTIFIED] together, just to see if they react to it) ...Ok, dumb thought but the [UNIDENTIFIED] better not be performing forbidden black magics together, because technically all we know is that BEL/S doesn't know what it was and is forbidden from looking it up online. FishOnAPiano fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Jan 16, 2018 |
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Jan 16, 2018 09:31
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Wolves makes it the family: visiting day.
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Jan 16, 2018 12:36
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Yeah change my vote to visiting day.
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Jan 16, 2018 12:57
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KirbyKhan posted:Shame we cant just call our chaos hommie and asked who summoned him into the rest home. C:\Open Sorcery\Updates\22_It_Is_Raining.upd  We direct them to the visiting day logs where Mrs. Best was hanging out with her oddly-menacing family. I'm not sure it counts as "evidence", but look at that, Decker and Janet are wizards. Besides, we're designed to identify threats. Powering down.  i am awake.Something is wrong. everything is wet I'm sure this is fine. BEL/S has only been online for a week, so she might not be familiar with rain yet. Or hormones. A rain soundtrack plays. It is not soothing.  Not hormones.  You took my meal away.My Sarah. Her soul was sweet like apples. I was going to hollow her out and [wear her body like a coat.] But youwashed away my tendrils and left me hungry.  That's... Continuingly disconcerting.  We have, again, identified a threat. Unclear at this point what we can do about it, if anything. She's certainly corrupted our menus. She doesn't exactly seem diplomatically-inclined, but perhaps we can convince her we're too much trouble and she should bother some other network. For the time being, do we talk or fight?
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Jan 16, 2018 13:42
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All aboard the pain train.
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Jan 16, 2018 15:35
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Just did that bit yesterday, I got there differently but it was a pretty good ride.
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Jan 16, 2018 15:40
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Yeah, when I realized she'd changed my menus the first time I played this I freaked the hell out. It's a good effect!
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Jan 16, 2018 16:06
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Oh god what  Welp, we've found the Water/Death spirit that was gunking up Sarah's soul. Threat detected 
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Jan 16, 2018 16:52
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i will stop you.
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Jan 16, 2018 16:55
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My heat is my sword, my flames are my shield! I am the fire that protects!
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Jan 16, 2018 17:24
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Slay.
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Jan 16, 2018 17:57
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Hey now, we're CPU limited here. fire protec fire attac
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Jan 16, 2018 18:00
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The death motive is kinda nasty, isn't it?
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Jan 16, 2018 18:08
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Is it possible to learn the Water matter the way we did the Chaos motive? So far we seem to be far more Fire than we are Order, in that chaos makes us annoyed and water makes us dead.
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Mzbundifund posted:Is it possible to learn the Water matter the way we did the Chaos motive? So far we seem to be far more Fire than we are Order, in that chaos makes us annoyed and water makes us dead. I mean, one is the very essence of your being, while the other is just your objective. Makes sense to me.
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Jan 16, 2018 21:48
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This spirit seems like kind of a jerk. Though "I will stop you" feels more dramatic than repeating Bels factory default catchphrase.
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cant cook creole bream posted:The death motive is kinda nasty, isn't it? Mzbundifund posted:Is it possible to learn the Water matter the way we did the Chaos motive? So far we seem to be far more Fire than we are Order, in that chaos makes us annoyed and water makes us dead. C:\Open Sorcery\Updates\23_The_Ocean_That_Devours.upd It's still raining.  The Hungry Ghost doesn't seem very impressed by our "fire that protects" one-liner, but I do think this is a better exchange than the "i will stop you" one. It's fine. She doesn't have to be impressed.  Here's an interesting choice. It might be in our best interests to select someone powerful for her to consume, thus giving us more time to retaliate before she finishes eating. On the other hand, it might be wiser to pick someone who won't be hugely valuable as an ally to us so we can NO, gently caress YOU. YOU WILL BURN UNTIL YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A DISEMBODIED SCREAM. You refuse to choose? You give up what little power you have.I will choose for you. I choose the little boy. He looks soft and healthy.  That right, we got ourselves another timer to play with. This one requires us to take some more involved steps than "click on the locations until you find the target", so the dev has included a helpful "turn-based" option that causes the timer to go down a few seconds whenever you click a link. Needless to say, this is useful if you're taking screenshots and transcribing text during very tense events. Or you just like reading. There's plenty of good reading in the finale. The system is compromised.i am compromised. What do i do? [Fight.] [Give up.] Willing to bet I don't have to put this one to a vote. i am weak, but i am STILL FIRE.i have my power and the lessons i have learned and the people i have met. i will use these things to fight. The hungry ghost has seeped in everywhere.Everything is wet and heavy with death. There are so many problems. There are so many threats. i will try to fix as many as i can. That will weaken her.  Preliminary analysis indicates that the Hungry Ghost currently has over 1.5 times our strength, and this will increase drastically as she consumes souls. To stand a chance in combat with her, we'll need to disrupt her control over the network, i.e. make everything less terrible. We're faster than her for the time being, and can force an engagement whenever we want. I don't know how long that will last. It's also likely that some of our more vulnerable residents are in serious danger due to the corruption, even if they are not being actively devoured. What's our first priority? Securing the network, preserving human life, or gathering allies? Also, the Hungry Ghost is watching us, and it's not too late to negotiate with her. Doopliss fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Jan 17, 2018 |
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Allies. This is a network-spanning threat and it needs as much of the network fighting this as possible.
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