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"Can you express what 'Vayahi Or' is supposed to sound like without our head exploding or anything?" It might help us make fire later if we have the 'correct' version in our head when we try again.
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Tomn posted:"Azzazel, did you do something to my dog?" "Aaaah you didnt know? Why... why thats just the funniest bit of all!" Azzazel laughs again, not in a maniacal manner but in the way one does when they hear an amazing joke. "......ah... aha" Azzazel wipes a tear from his eye "Oh Creature, you are too much! Promise me you'll come visit some time! I'll have the good wine ready!" quote:Ask Azzazel: "You quit, huh? So... What did the big guy fire you for?" quote:Ask Azzazel: "So you are the Tester, Azzazel? Do you test everyone who comes through your territory as directly as you have tested me? Has every member of the line of Zepa seen you?
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Oct 22, 2013 20:48
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1. A 2. Accept 3. J Charming a magical creature and winning his aid is heroic, not cheating. We already turned down his offer to make our test a breeze and negotiated successfully the life of our dog and his good humor. We are a boy who speaks with legends. And soon we will be a man making legends.
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Oct 22, 2013 20:50
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1C 2: Tomn posted:2. "Thanks for the offer, but I kinda want to sightsee a little bit on the way home, y'know? Could be handy if I ever needed to come out this way again. That said, friend, I'd appreciate it if you helped fix up poor Snarls here - don't reckon he'll have much fun playing tourist with a bum leg." (I slipped an off-handed "friend" in there. Azzazel may be here to test us, but he seems alright.) 3J Minivote: Get dressed.
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Neraren posted:"Can you express what 'Vayahi Or' is supposed to sound like without our head exploding or anything?" (If he does this grab the words!)
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Oct 22, 2013 20:55
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Zybourne Clock posted:Azzazel is a fallen angel, aka the thing devils are made of Goats are usually associated with devils, btw  Azzazz was probably cast down. He is most likely here as temptation to break us. Snarls only has a Sprain, he will get better over a little time, if needed we can carry him for a little while.Changing vote to: A Terrible Person posted:1C
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Oct 22, 2013 21:05
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1) G - Share with Snarls 2) Ask to heal Snarls instead 3) I Also voting to get dressed.
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Oct 22, 2013 21:07
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HiHo ChiRho posted:To Azzazel: What had three eyes, loves to eat goat and was crushed barehanded by a manimal? Do this.
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Oct 22, 2013 21:09
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For a being that feeds off peoples sorrow/anguish at giving up things that they care about, would be sweeter to him than us to willingly "fail" our manhood test (one of the 2 things we only care about at the moment) on some bullshit technicality, because we accepted his help of an outright, no strings, teleport home? Even if the realisation to us, and thus his payoff, takes years, or even until after we die to come about. Or it might even be Els high priest saying "Hmmm, these offerings don't seem to be that pleasing, to El, but I honestly can't figure out why, they're the best we've seen in decades" or something e: 1 - G, share it with Snarls 2 - (If that doesn't heal him) No thanks, but what is your price to heal Snarls? 3 - I alpaca diseases fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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Oct 22, 2013 21:13
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Tomn posted:2. "Thanks for the offer, but I kinda want to sightsee a little bit on the way home, y'know? Could be handy if I ever needed to come out this way again. That said, I'd appreciate it if you helped fix up poor Snarls here - don't reckon he'll have much fun playing tourist with a bum leg." Changing my 2 vote to this.
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Oct 22, 2013 21:23
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Master-Brother-Father-Bestests-Friend-Ever-Man-Beast-Friend-Who-Knows-Just-The-Right-Part-of-The-Belly-to-Scratch-to-Make-the-Leg-Kick. Looks odd. Smells good. Safe. Home? Snarls looks up at you with sad puppy dog eyes and lets out a small whine.
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Oct 22, 2013 21:24
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1. G share with Snarls 2. No thanks, heal Snarls (Plan Tomn)
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Oct 22, 2013 21:26
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Holy crap we can communicate telepathically with Snarls
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Oct 22, 2013 21:26
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Try and think back, "Who's a good boy? We did good!" Also ask Azz "Is Snarls smarter than a goat?"
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Funnily enough, despite my plan apparently gaining ground, I'm starting to have second thoughts about it. Diog reminded me of dear ol' Mom, though I figure that Azzazel is something of a bonus since we were expecting to walk back anyways - declining doesn't make us really that much worse off than we were before, and we'd still be heading home faster than we would have if we'd stayed out the full period for the pearls. More to the point, recent events demonstrated that there may be a hidden catch to Azzazel we haven't quite caught on to yet... But now Snarls SEEMS to be suggesting that Azzazel may be on the level. Or maybe that as a fallen angel or something he smells good even if he's planning to screw us. Or maybe that Azzazel knows telepathic ventriloquism (though if that's true, he's apparently really committed to scamming us given that we started picking up on Snarls while still running in the forest.) Or maybe... ...poo poo, I hate having incomplete information. So let's start running experiments to determine the nature of our connection to Snarls. It won't tell us everything we need to know by a long shot, but it might help! Do a quick test and think at Snarls: "Can you hear me? Do you understand me?" Also, can we pray to El for guidance or for him to show us a sign whether Azzazel might be trusted here?
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Oct 22, 2013 21:39
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Snarls is hurt and just ran for his life from an abysmal horror. He is stressed out. If you are worried about Snarls and mom, ask Azzazel to teleport Snarls home. Tell Snarls to let mom know we are ok and coming home in a few weeks. Having Azzazel teleport us may render our offerings to El moot--Azzazel has hinted at such. The men of Zepath will not care or know, but El will. I want to gain El's favor with our sacrifices. Also, I think we can make it home by ourselves, once we get to the river.
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Nettle Soup posted:Try and think back, "Who's a good boy? We did good!" Is a goat cuter than Snarls?
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Oct 22, 2013 21:46
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We should heal Snarls and boot it home.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Snarls is hurt and just ran for his life from an abysmal horror. He is stressed out. If you are worried about Snarls and mom, ask Azzazel to teleport Snarls home. Tell Snarls to let mom know we are ok and coming home in a few weeks.
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spacetimecontinuu posted:We should heal Snarls and boot it home. Boot it? Does that mean walk home? Have not heard that phrase before.
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Sending Snarls home is amusing...unless we attach a note saying we'll be back soon I think it would just worry Jalitha.
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Oct 22, 2013 21:48
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Please do not leave the well being of our dog to the guy who wanted us to sacrifice Snarls to him.
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Oct 22, 2013 21:49
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Tsyni posted:Sending Snarls home is amusing...unless we attach a note saying we'll be back soon I think it would just worry Jalitha.
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Oct 22, 2013 21:50
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Tsyni posted:Sending Snarls home is amusing...unless we attach a note saying we'll be back soon I think it would just worry Jalitha. Snarls is smart enough to get the message across.
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Oct 22, 2013 21:51
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Changing the long life part of my vote to "Heal Snarls and send him home, with a message attached. We'll walk."
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Oct 22, 2013 21:54
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JT Jag posted:Snarls is smart. The fact that he'll be upbeat when he gets home will get the message that we're still alive across, especially to Danal. If we vote to do this, I would like to suggest that we take absolutely no risks whatsoever on our way back because we won't just be breaking our mother's heart if we're late/dead, we'd also be making Snarls very very sad. I KINDA like the "Snarls go home plan", incidentally, but there's a few things that worry me: A) We've not a huge amount of fieldcraft, and in the past relied on Snarls a fair bit to get along. Will we make it out all right without him? B) Can we trust Azzazel to transport Snarls safely home and not gently caress with him in any way once Snarls is out of our sight? C) Assuming we do send Snarls back via Azzazel, isn't someone in Zepath going to wonder how/why our dog got back so much sooner than we did? How will we explain it ourselves when we get back?
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Oct 22, 2013 21:57
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If you want to attach a message, and Azzazzel doesn't want to give us a clay tablet or anything for the message, we could shave he message into Snarls fur with our stone knife. Doesn't have to be a close shave, just enough to be legible. The hard part would be finding enough non wrinkly skin on Snarls for a message.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:If you want to attach a message, and Azzazzel doesn't want to give us a clay tablet or anything for the message, we could shave he message into Snarls fur with our stone knife. Doesn't have to be a close shave, just enough to be legible.
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I don't think sending Snarls back is smart. His paw is just sprained. If Az won't heal him we can carry him or just take it real easy for the first little while.
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Tsyni posted:I don't think sending Snarls back is smart. His paw is just sprained. If Az won't heal him we can carry him or just take it real easy for the first little while.
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spacetimecontinuu posted:Holy crap we can communicate telepathically with Snarls This is a precursor to King-sense that determines lies, and possibly Tudiya's summoning of and talking to animals. I've been saying since nearly the beginning we have divine powers  I am vindicated!Or Azzazel is deceiving us, but we first got words from Snarls well before we saw him. And someone in IRC a day or so ago mentioned we were clearly sensing Snarl's thoughts somehow.
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I don't like the send Snarls home plan. Too many questions and we may need him. We have been gone a month. 1 month. 4 weeks. 1 moon. We are not trying to prove our manhood. We acting as a man. Healing Snarls for the trip is in. Accepting Azz's transportation having just had Grigori confirmed as 'Watchers' and him having a problematic relationship with them is out. He would be amused to play a trick on them, even at our expense whether great or trivial. Any response to the goat horn question? Ask Snarls verbally or otherwise 'If we make your foot better think you can walk back home? It will take a few weeks, but we will be going home."
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Sogol posted:We have been gone a month. 1 month. 4 weeks. 1 moon.
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Oct 22, 2013 22:07
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Even with Enkidel's awful fieldcraft, it's simple enough to fashion a litter or big shoulder sling out of part of his robe. Can carry or drag Snarls that way.
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JT Jag posted:Hasn't it been like two months at this point? One month and two weeks. The two weeks was the trip with Tudiya to the scrubland. The month is the time it took us to reach the sea, etc, and fish, get pearls, etc. Question for Diog: Do we have any remaining smoked fish or other food? How many days worth if we conserve it? eta: Also, I vote we reject all aid but do so politely.
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Althair posted:Charming a magical creature and winning his aid is heroic, not cheating. We already turned down his offer to make our test a breeze and negotiated successfully the life of our dog and his good humor. We are a boy who speaks with legends. And soon we will be a man making legends. Well put, pretty much what I was saying with my accept vote. If we'd used Azzazel to avoid our challenges completely, or to conjure up an offering so we didn't have to work for it, we would have been cheating. We've accomplished those though, trial done, heading home; accepting the offer now is just taking those rewards we've earned through our efforts out here, namely in charming this dangerous being, and using them to finish our trial in style. We've crafted our way home, through engaging with the challenges presented, it's a fitting return.
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JT Jag posted:Hasn't it been like two months at this point? One moon. We left Tudiya on the full moon and yesterday was the full moon. So at most add a weeks journey to that. If we walk, and make it alive, without serious delay, we will have been gone two months total.
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Theglavwen posted:Well put, pretty much what I was saying with my accept vote. If we'd used Azzazel to avoid our challenges completely, or to conjure up an offering so we didn't have to work for it, we would have been cheating. We've accomplished those though, trial done, heading home; accepting the offer now is just taking those rewards we've earned through our efforts out here, namely in charming this dangerous being, and using them to finish our trial in style. We've crafted our way home, through engaging with the challenges presented, it's a fitting return. Azzazel is implying that him teleporting us will gently caress up our offering, though the men of Zepath will not know. I'd accept healing and the like, but I'm not even sure about that. We got away with what we did in our first encounter because the aid was minimal, given to Snarls, and we traded stories of Ishamal for it. This? I was on board with accepting, but with him describing himself as a "Tester" and the like, I'm pretty sure he's trying to deceive us. FWIW, I don't think he's fallen per se. I think he requested a transfer from "watching" to "testing".
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Theglavwen posted:Well put, pretty much what I was saying with my accept vote. If we'd used Azzazel to avoid our challenges completely, or to conjure up an offering so we didn't have to work for it, we would have been cheating. We've accomplished those though, trial done, heading home; accepting the offer now is just taking those rewards we've earned through our efforts out here, namely in charming this dangerous being, and using them to finish our trial in style. We've crafted our way home, through engaging with the challenges presented, it's a fitting return. El appreciates effort, not technicalities. The return to Zepath is just as much a part of the trial as getting the offering. I cannot imagine he would appreciate us taking a shortcut from a magic man.
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[/b]1: Some for me, some for snarls. 2: Heal snarls. 3: L[/b] Before we decide to send Snarls back or take him with us we should Ask Snarls which he'd want.
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