Paradise Lost: Clash of the Heavens - Choose Your Own Adventure

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Aades: Nov 28, 2005; Guns Up!

Do firecrackers exist in Ur?

I would be in favor of licking a toad after this. Maybe we will see Azz again.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 16:30

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 17:17

Cannon_Fodder: Jul 17, 2007; "Hey, where did Steve go?"
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It's a big-rear end toad.

It's got a big-rear end toad tongue.

Remind our friendly balls not to strap themselves into their shields, to keep their shields up.

Toad flicks out tongue, catches raised shield, has to retract tongue. There's our opening to chuck every spear/arrow we have into it's mouth.

Also, don't get bitten by the lovely little ones either.

Edit:

Y*X LR3 M8Xq>eMw$Cr dgG6cx8 s88ceiz

Y(ou) (a)R(e) (M8)u(q>eMw$Cr) (dgG6cx8) s88ceiz.

Cannon_Fodder fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Nov 13, 2014

# ? Nov 13, 2014 16:33

Neraren: Sep 15, 2006; Random Nerd #753897

I swear to El if this is a monstrous Surinam Toad I am unbookmarking this thread forever.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 16:42

Nolaterif: Jan 10, 2003

I know I'm a little late, but FYI: County fairs are primarily for drinking. Occasionally mud truck pulls, which the Blooded/rich people all win, but mostly drinking. Sure, there's talk of 'trends', but that's all it is. A trend. In general, most people in whatever industry already know the standard methods of growing [whatever], and I imagine that's even the case in pseudo-Mesopotamia. Labaras apparently taught them everything they needed to know. But whatever. I'm sure pseudo-Mesopotamian fairs would be so much better!

If people are truly at a point where they care about the whole agriculture thing/soup kitchens for the poor/education, a more realistic way of starting things would be to invest in owning our own land. Naomi's managing the cattle, so she could probably manage the land as well (so no micromanaging). Like I said several months ago, someone else can bring the knowledge to the table. As in, we can rent out our land to tenant farmers. Or keep some farmer dude as a retainer. We'd gain modest rent income + portion of the yields. Plus, it's our land, so we can gently caress around with farming techniques if we want to or actively feed people from our own yields.

Or we can turn it into a slave-freeing operation, where they work for x amount of time and earn their freedom. If we did that, it'd probably be worth our while to keep some real farmers on hand to supervise, but let the new people do the laboring for the aforementioned x amount of time. I'm guessing people probably wouldn't want to stay farmers if they were free. And if they do? Tada, they've learned the basics of farming.

If people care about that sort of thing. And can handle long-term planning without getting bored and voting against it the next cycle. Or whatever.

As a side note, I can't say I disagree with Paebel. While I believe El is a thing, he makes a good point about the orthodoxy. Treating mothers, sisters, and daughters like commodities, while saying "Might makes right" is kind of lovely.

Anyway, just my opinion, if it counts in the scheme of things.

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# ? Nov 13, 2014 17:03

Task Manager: Sep 5, 2008; A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

Cannon_Fodder posted:

Edit:

Y*X LR3 M8Xq>eMw$Cr dgG6cx8 s88ceiz

Y(ou) (a)R(e) (M8)u(q>eMw$Cr) (dgG6cx8) s88ceiz.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 17:07

There Bias Two: Jan 13, 2009; I'm not a good person

Just to be clear I wasn't actually voting to lick the toad.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 17:23

Ouroborus: Mar 31, 2010; I really only come here for the Paradise Lost: Clash of the Heavens CYOA these days.
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Cannon_Fodder posted:

Y*X LR3 M8Xq>eMw$Cr dgG6cx8 s88ceiz

We really need to figure this out.

The most common letter in English is e the most common character in that text is 8, the last word is likely ?ee???? ... feeling? Feeding?

Ouroborus fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Nov 13, 2014

# ? Nov 13, 2014 17:48

Task Manager: Sep 5, 2008; A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

It is worth noting the gibberish has changed. The old gibberish was:

Y_@ pR1 M&aLB!H_M*/ O(^XxMQ >X0013a

New one is:

Y*X LR3 M8Xq>eMw$Cr dgG6cx8 s88ceiz

Anyone a fan of cracking ciphers? I'm not. :effort:

# ? Nov 13, 2014 17:59

Affi: Dec 18, 2005; Break bread wit the enemy

X GON GIVE IT TO YA

Make sure our kids are properly secured they don't wind up sucked into a toads mouth.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 18:06

Task Manager: Sep 5, 2008; A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

Ok I'll put in a little effort. Between the two gibberish sentences, only 3 letters do not change:

code:


Y_ _   _ R _   M_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _   _ _ _ _ _ _ _    _ _ _ _ _ _ _

So, working under the assumption letters that do not change are correct, that makes the 3rd word an 11-letter word starting with M. Past sentences have all been something positive as well, such as indicating bonuses to relexes, or endurance.

Masterfully? Medicinally? Momentarily? Monstrously? Multiplying? Maintaining? Manifesting?

Task Manager fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Nov 13, 2014

# ? Nov 13, 2014 18:30

Cornuto: Jun 26, 2012; For the pack!

Safe to guess "You are M.....? I think the gibberish is gibberish. I don't think its a substitution thing. By that I mean the rest of the gibberish letters aren't coded, they're just replaced with random poo poo.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 18:38

Arkanomen: May 6, 2007; All he wants is a hug

I think the first two words are YOU CAN. 8 is the most common letter and that almost always means it's the letter E. If the second word is Are, that doesn't fit.

I want to say

YOU CAN -E--------- ------- -EE----

Arkanomen fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Nov 13, 2014

# ? Nov 13, 2014 18:40

rex monday: Jul 9, 2001; Pisk. Pisk. Piiiiiiisk!

YOU ARE MODERATELY ?? ??

# ? Nov 13, 2014 18:45

Task Manager: Sep 5, 2008; A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

Arkanomen posted:

I think the first two words are YOU CAN. 8 is the most common letter and that almost always means it's the letter E. If the second word is Are, that doesn't fit.

I agree with Cornuto - given that between both gibberish sentences things change without any rhyme or reason besides 3 exact same letters, I doubt it's a substitution thing; in the first version of the sentence the "&" which would correlate with the 8 in the second sentence does not appear elsewhere.

rex monday posted:

YOU ARE MODERATELY ?? ??

That's 10 letters.

I kept wanting to say that as well. It would fit perfectly.

Task Manager fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Nov 13, 2014

# ? Nov 13, 2014 18:48

Arkanomen: May 6, 2007; All he wants is a hug

It's not YOU CAN BLANK WITHOUT BLANKING because without word has to end in E.

This all going on the single substitution assumption.
8 might not be E. We have Y,O,U,A leaving i and e for 8. And with a word ending in 8 that doesn't leave many choices. So either the YOU CAn is wrong or 8 has to be E

Arkanomen fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Nov 13, 2014

# ? Nov 13, 2014 18:52

Pladdicus: Aug 13, 2010

Voting to take one of the frogs back with us when the fights done

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:00

Nettle Soup: Jan 30, 2010; Oh, and Jones was there too.

I worked it out guys!

It's!

YOU ARE MORONICALLY DELUDED ENKIDEL

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:02

Ouroborus: Mar 31, 2010; I really only come here for the Paradise Lost: Clash of the Heavens CYOA these days.
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Task Manager posted:

I agree with Cornuto - given that between both gibberish sentences things change without any rhyme or reason besides 3 exact same letters, I doubt it's a substitution thing; in the first version of the sentence the "&" which would correlate with the 8 in the second sentence does not appear elsewhere.

That's 10 letters. I kept wanting to say that as well. It would fit perfectly.

They could be two different substitution ciphers, and he just happened to leave a couple letters unaltered.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:03

HiHo ChiRho: Oct 23, 2010

I vote that to solve the puzzle, we cover ourselves in various animal poo poo and lick a toad.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:06

the_steve: Nov 9, 2005; We're always hiring!

Question: When we checked our ??? Bar after being El-potioned, we felt as though something was missing. Do we still have that feeling? Or did it clear up while we were recuperating?

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:06

Aades: Nov 28, 2005; Guns Up!

You can communicate without talking.

I think that sentence had been mentioned the first time the gibberish appeared, it fits the letter count. That assumes the eleven letter word doesn't start with M and all the given letters are indeed gibberish.

We should find the battle toad and think "sleep outside" at it.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:10

Affi: Dec 18, 2005; Break bread wit the enemy

X GON GIVE IT TO YA

First message

Y_@ pR1 M&aLB!H_M*/ O(^XxMQ >X0013a

You can communicate without talking.

As people were guessing.

Second message

Y*X LR3 M8Xq>eMw$Cr dgG6cx8 s88ceiz

Same number of letters as the first.

Y** *R* M********** ******* *******

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:13

Task Manager: Sep 5, 2008; A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

Aades posted:

You can communicate without talking.

I think that sentence had been mentioned the first time the gibberish appeared, it fits the letter count. That assumes the eleven letter word doesn't start with M and all the given letters are indeed gibberish.

We should find the battle toad and think "sleep outside" at it.

When Diog gets around to the questions, one of mine was to try and mind message Danal again. If it works then yeah, it was all just gibberish.

We should totally mind message the toad though, preferably after licking a smaller toad.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:26

Diogines: Dec 22, 2007; Beaky the Tortoise says, click here to join our choose Your Own Adventure Game!

Paradise Lost: Clash of the Heavens!

Aades posted:

Do firecrackers exist in Ur?

No.

Zybourne Clock posted:

Question for Diog:
What does the cave entrance look like? Is it a crack in a mountain face, a hole in the ground, or something else? Basically I want to know if this plan is even remotely possible:

The cave mouth is a large hole in the side of a hill, just like in your drawing.

White Noise Marine posted:

Dio, can Snarls smell any differences between our blood, a common man's blood, or a blooded man's?

Every person smells unique. Your Blood is no more unusual than anyone elses, to his nose.

Affi posted:

Yeah sure catch a small one. Might learn a thing or two.

The walls of the cave, do they look like they've been hit with corrosive acid or fire?

Some of it looked like it MAY have been melted, but it could just be the natural style of the cave? Snarls says the entire place smells TERRIBLE, which indeed it does. If there is any acid, he can't pick it out. You have for a number of monsters in the past who had powerful acids. The burns in the walls are not obvious if they are burns. But they could be. Or not. Another look may help.

Basscop posted:

.ADDED: e: I'd like to grab a small one to study for sure. It may help. But given what we saw with the grove scorpion they smaller toads probably haven't got the full amount of powers and abilities that the big one has. While the big one might spit acid, hypnotic gaze, neurotoxin or whatever, it's highly likely that we won't learn that much from the small ones. But let's do it just in case.

You take one from the edge of the cave. They ignored you when you crept inside but the drat thing screeches not at all like a mamal in terror! You clamped a hand over it's mouth to quiet the drat thing and raced away from the cave. And it BIT you! It's teeth are quite sharp. It has small sharp claws as well. It is coated in a thick, disgusting and foul smelling coat of mucus. It struggles the entire time you hold it and looks like it would gladly chew your hand off if it could. When you think you can learn no more from it, what do you do? Kill it and look at it's insides? Throw it away? Return it to the cave? Eat it? Talk to it? Something else? Teethty, a new pet carnivorous toad for one of your kids? Take a bunch to toss in a pit at home like Hadad and his ranch of giant lizards near Baitel?

Diogines fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Nov 13, 2014

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:32

Ouroborus: Mar 31, 2010; I really only come here for the Paradise Lost: Clash of the Heavens CYOA these days.
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Dissect it, eat a sample.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:34

Dog Kisser: Mar 30, 2005; But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.

Toad pet!

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:35

HiHo ChiRho: Oct 23, 2010

Make it a living suppository and instruct it to find our lost poop.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:36

Tax Inductions: Jul 9, 2007; I carry refreshments to the good guys
I made the good guys some home fries

I have a bad feeling that if we aggro the toad-mother, we're gonna have to deal with a mass attack by thousands of little toothy biters swarming under our shields and chewing our legs :ohdear:

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:38

Slaan: Mar 16, 2009; ASHERAH DEMANDS I FEAST, I VOTE FOR A FEAST OF FLESH

Ouroborus posted:

Dissect it, eat a sample.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:38

Xun: Apr 25, 2010

lick the toad

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:38

Affi: Dec 18, 2005; Break bread wit the enemy

X GON GIVE IT TO YA

Kill it, check it for poison glands or something.

Voting No on eating it or loving licking it.

We've seen loads of monsters and chopped up quite a few. Maybe we can recognize parts?

I will empathize that Basscops plan is the best in this situation! Hundreds of small little biters can be dealt with if we go with his plan. We also lure it out. It's the best way!

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:41

Arkanomen: May 6, 2007; All he wants is a hug

+1 plan Affi

Quickly check that wound!

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:42

Aades: Nov 28, 2005; Guns Up!

Make a donkey lick it.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:53

Volmarias: Dec 31, 2002; EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

Toss it unless we're ready to throw down right now. It could release pheromones on death to frenzy the others.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 19:56

Zybourne Clock: Oct 25, 2011; Poke me.

Lick the toad, Enkidel. Time to go on a magical adventure.

VVVV Yeah, on second thought, let's not drain its magic juice and keep it for Indor.

Zybourne Clock fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Nov 13, 2014

# ? Nov 13, 2014 20:02

Wentley: Feb 7, 2012

Keep it for Indor.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 20:05

Arkanomen: May 6, 2007; All he wants is a hug

Wentley posted:

Keep it for Indor.

Can we keep it alive? If so why not. I mean, I'm sure she's either going to feed it to her plant or vivisect it.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 20:08

Task Manager: Sep 5, 2008; A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

Wentley posted:

Keep it for Indor.

This.

Also Diog can we try the following at some point to assist those of us trying to decipher the Zodiac killer's message?

Ask Danal "Can you hear me?" by thinking at him.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 20:08

A RICH WHITE MAN: Jul 30, 2010; See them other chickenheads? They don't never leave the coop.

Zybourne Clock posted:

Lick the toad, Enkidel. Time to go on a magical adventure.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 20:10

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 17:17

Affi: Dec 18, 2005; Break bread wit the enemy

X GON GIVE IT TO YA

I know people think licking the toad is a fun vote, but let's loving not, these things are probably poisonous as hell and it'll just sad if we managed to survive getting our throat cut just to go out because we're loving morons.

Also no don't let Indor get her hands on live things. Didn't we vote against vivisection?

Both of those options should be full votes.

# ? Nov 13, 2014 20:21

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