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Voting is closed. Working on an update. EDIT: Oh. H won. Uh. Update might take a tiny bit longer than predicted. TheCog fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Dec 14, 2017 |
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Dec 14, 2017 22:24
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Ha! Have you commiserated with Diog yet about insane voting?
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Dec 14, 2017 22:39
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People participate in CYOA's because we get to effect the outcome of a story. We've all read stories before, and most of them follow a fairly consistent path along similar lines. So if there's an option to make a choice that isn't normally done in a book we'll take it because we want to see interesting and novel things happen.
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Dec 14, 2017 22:58
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TheCog posted:Voting is closed. Good luck!
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Dec 14, 2017 23:03
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Outrail posted:People participate in CYOA's because we get to effect the outcome of a story. We've all read stories before, and most of them follow a fairly consistent path along similar lines. So if there's an option to make a choice that isn't normally done in a book we'll take it because we want to see interesting and novel things happen. Its a good thing. Just unexpected. If I wanted to write a novel, I would have not asked for player input. I just thought A had a commanding lead.
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Dec 14, 2017 23:04
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spear was the correct choice
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Dec 14, 2017 23:16
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 You see where the non-existent pedestal stands, and ponder for an instant, before reaching for the charm you've been wearing for almost a year now. You gently take it off, and begin to place it where the seventh altar would exist, if there were one. Which there is not. Yet as you let go of the charm, you imagine one there, for a flicker of an instant, also made of moonlight, but with deep red cracks of blood running through it. But that's just your imagination, because the necklace falls through the air, as if there were nothing there. Which there is not.  Still, as the charm leaves your hand, your feel it. A small zap of electricity. Leaping from the necklace to your finger. Its so small you cant see it. Just feel it. Then you realize. Something is wrong. The flames on the pillars have stopped moving. Sound has ceased. You... you're disintegrating. You see your finger disintegrating. Its becoming dust. Layer by layer. You are peeling away. You cannot move. It doesn't hurt, and you feel oddly calm. If you could move you might scream, but all you can do is watch, as your hand becomes dust, carried away by the wind.  Next is your arm. Your gaze is fixed forward, and you cannot move your head, but as your arm disappears, you can feel your torso disintegrating. Inch by inch. Your lower body. Your neck. Your chin. You... you lose all sense of self.  "Hello child" a voice speaks to you, and you are you again. You look around. You are in an unfamiliar place. It looks like... a study? The room is made of carefully carved stone, and there are all kinds of scrolls on the walls. A table covered in beakers and tomes sits in front of you, and leaning over the table, having spilled a few of the beakers is an older looking man. He has a white beard, and has clearly gone bald. His face is ashen and his eyes look vacantly through you. His voice... it doesn't match his body, it is deep and powerful and smolders with every word. His words are like embers. "You know, in all these years, you're the first to try that? Well done." The mans lips move as he speaks, and a dribble of blood runs down his nose. "I had to borrow this vessel so we could chat, we don't have long I'm afraid, before the Djinni notice." the nosebleed turns into an almost constant faucet of blood as the mans eyes roll in his skull. He twitches and a beaker goes flying off, hitting the floor. "You have a turbulent future ahead of you, I can tell you that, not just from the strings of fate, but from who your mentor is." he pauses, and the man gives a powerful jerk, falling backwards, sending the table toppling. Slumped against the wall, he keeps talking, his voice growing more and more heated. "You will need all the power you can call on. When it seems you can no longer fight the enemies before you, when you struggle to even survive, find the Black Archive, and search the name of the First Ifrit. If you can't figure it out from there, you were never worthy anyway." The man's hair is smoking, smoke is pouring out of his eyes and when he speaks, smoke emerges from his mouth. "Go now girl, we will not speak again before you make it through the Gate of Sands, so remember my words well, keep them secret. I took great pains to keep this hidden from the Djinni. If they find out, your path shall become ten times more difficult." you see the man burst into flame as you fade into darkness again... You are back on the pond, surrounded by the altars. The necklace has just slipped through your fingers. It falls, and splashes against the water. Thankfully since it's wooden, it floats. You kneel and recover it, as lightning shoots in the sky above you, crossing the pillars again, in a strange silent dance. The Sejin speaks with his multitude of voices again "The Djinni appreciate your offer" his voice booms, "But the gifts they offer require no sacrifice but your vows, no gifts but your power. The Almujus and the Djinni have found you worthy to bear this burden! Take from them a boon!" quote:
TheCog fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Dec 16, 2017 |
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Dec 14, 2017 23:23
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TheCog posted:Its a good thing. Just unexpected. It was more a dig at Diog being surprised that we do dumb poo poo on a consistent basis. F, mystery prize
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Dec 14, 2017 23:29
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Dec 14, 2017 23:32
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Dude was literally dying to give us a message. Press F to pay respects.
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Dec 14, 2017 23:33
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Dang! A real mystery here. Sticking with A
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Dec 14, 2017 23:33
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F! loving Whisper Madness and hidden secrets!
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Dec 14, 2017 23:35
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A of course.
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Dec 14, 2017 23:38
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F, if we just listen a little harder...
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Dec 14, 2017 23:38
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Lets Do what they ask and take a Hawk
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Dec 14, 2017 23:40
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Dec 14, 2017 23:43
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My vote hasn't changed.
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Dec 14, 2017 23:43
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A
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Dec 14, 2017 23:45
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dont be mean to me posted:Dude was literally dying to give us a message. Press F to pay respects. Whatever was speaking to us was not that dude. Technically I guess our action caused this non Djinn to use someone enough to cause them to go aflame. Also F
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Dec 14, 2017 23:47
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F Ancient whispers from the beyond the veil of sanity plz
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Dec 14, 2017 23:49
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HiHo ChiRho posted:Whatever was speaking to us was not that dude. Technically I guess our action caused this non Djinn to use someone enough to cause them to go aflame. 'Borrowed' a body. But it's okay he gave it back.
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Dec 14, 2017 23:50
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B take up arms
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Dec 14, 2017 23:54
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Changing my vote to F in light of crazy old man. A secret mission for an old thing requires an old thing!
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Dec 15, 2017 00:02
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A
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Dec 15, 2017 00:15
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B Also, I assume we drew the attention of a Really Bad Dude.
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Dec 15, 2017 00:19
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There Bias Two posted:B No poo poo, man. That guy was probably an ifrit himself, hence the whole burning the old guy inside out thing. Ifrits technically aren't always bad news, especially since that guy seemed to be on our side. But they aren't friendly with other djinni, as you might have guessed. Still, it's exciting! I'll vote for F
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Dec 15, 2017 00:39
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awesome! also B
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Dec 15, 2017 00:50
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B
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Dec 15, 2017 01:03
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Well that was interesting. A.
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Dec 15, 2017 01:38
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B Come on, with this we learn the power of dance!
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Dec 15, 2017 01:41
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A - because I like runestones
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Dec 15, 2017 01:55
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When this game started I thought it was going to be a Conan-style adventure where the character doesn't have magic, but certainly knows how to beat up sorcerers with nothing but wits and fortitude, but a genie wrangler sounds fun too.
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Dec 15, 2017 02:01
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Skellybones posted:When this game started I thought it was going to be a Conan-style adventure where the character doesn't have magic, but certainly knows how to beat up sorcerers with nothing but wits and fortitude, but a genie wrangler sounds fun too. Robert E. Howard's Conan is one of the many sources that inspired this story! (As an aside, I would totally play in a Conan cyoa, and someone should start it)
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Dec 15, 2017 02:10
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TheCog posted:Robert E. Howard's Conan is one of the many sources that inspired this story! (As an aside, I would totally play in a Conan cyoa, and someone should start it) Conan has some...unfortunate elements to it that might not play so well with a modern audience.
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Dec 15, 2017 03:19
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HiHo ChiRho posted:Whatever was speaking to us was not that dude. Technically I guess our action caused this non Djinn to use someone enough to cause them to go aflame. Pretty sure that was a Djinn, and one we've heard of before. TheCog posted:Robert E. Howard's Conan is one of the many sources that inspired this story! (As an aside, I would totally play in a Conan cyoa, and someone should start it) I'm not sure how you'd do a Conan story. It'd be half sex and we know how well goons handle that. Also, where would the tension come from? Now a Cormac Mac Art story...
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Dec 15, 2017 03:20
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There Bias Two posted:Conan has some...unfortunate elements to it that might not play so well with a modern audience. LLSix posted:I'm not sure how you'd do a Conan story. It'd be half sex and we know how well goons handle that. Also, where would the tension come from? Now a Cormac Mac Art story... Look, I just want to kill sorcerers and whine about how the men of the cities are weak because they don't have big hulking muscles like we do, and then get smashed again and kill some more sorcerers and get treasure. (Your points are well taken) TheCog fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Dec 15, 2017 |
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Dec 15, 2017 03:25
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B let's become a flame dervish.
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Dec 15, 2017 03:26
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TheCog posted:Look, I just want to kill sorcerers and whine about how the men of the cities are weak because they don't have big hulking muscles like we do, and then get smashed again and kill some more sorcerers and get treasure. Also kill a giant snake.
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Dec 15, 2017 03:34
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B Dancin'
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Dec 15, 2017 03:35
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B Flame Dervish starts here.
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