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Kavak posted:In our Ring's parlance that means "Is it time to go loud", right? Well not Go Loud in terms of burning your Cover and going full Demonic Form. Rather, it's Kind-speak for "should I just shoot everyone now?"
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NinjaPete posted:Well not Go Loud in terms of burning your Cover and going full Demonic Form. I vote Not Yet.
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A I K Doesn't seem like Sunglasses is trying to get the drop on us. I don't think the Quads know we're here.
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I think we've been maintaining cover and I'd expect Kind to warn us if she was bringing a party. But the Quads are looking for someone, could it be Sunglasses? Oh. Thought. Sunglasses could totally be Banks' in an infiltration meatsuit. The sunglasses would cover their glitchy eye just as well as an eyepatch would.
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Does I know someone work in whatever timezone/pocket dimension we're in?
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Outrail posted:Does I know someone work in whatever timezone/pocket dimension we're in? We're not in timewhatever yet. And we won't know until we try!! But considering we are a being with the ability to manipulate reality, there's a chance!
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 You spend some of your precious Aether and breathe in the aura around you. Across the room, in the direction of the four men, there is a large bloom of Aether. A smaller one is directly in front of you, presumably the woman walking towards you. Finally there is something, distant but powerful, far to the south, on the edge of your perception and deeper in the caves. “What is it?” Alex says, sensing your unnatural stillness. “Trouble. I think,” you nod towards Sunglasses. “Something is happening, be ready. Even as you are saying so, Alex’s hand dips into her jacket, drifting close to her holster. Sunglasses has passed the last of the packed bodies between the two of you and as she steps close she pulls down her shades. You tense, ready to grab her wrist and toss her to the floor if needed, but her eyes give you pause. One is brilliant green and the other a dead, dull, white. “At least this time I’m not sticking a shotgun in your face.” “Banks?” you ask incredulously. . “Had to dress up to leave the house. It won’t last long, but it’s fine enough.” “Excuse me, who is this?” Alex asks. “This is Banks....she’s....an ally.” “So far. And who is this?” Banks asks. “Alex. She’s my...--” “Girlfriend,” Alex offers “Really?” you ask. “So far.” She replies. “Well, this is cute, but we’re all in mortal danger.” Banks cuts in. She waits a moment to savor your and Alex’s expressions and then continues. “Word got out about this door to the Loyalists.” “How?” “No idea. But my contacts say agents are coming to lock it down to keep any Unchained out.” “The Machine can’t move that quickly,” you protest. “Machine?” Alex asks. “No, I’m guessing we have a human or angel agent acting on their own volition.” “Human or Angel?” You rub your forehead. Alex wasn’t supposed to hear all this, only the broad strokes. She’d be asking too many questions now, ones you didn’t want to answer. Besides that the idea that the Machine’s minions could find out about this place almost as soon as you did. That bodes poorly for all Demon-kind, you needed to operate in the shadows, hidden from the Machine’s gaze. But what happened when there were no shadows to hide in? “Okay, okay.” You breathe, calming yourself from a physiological reaction you aren’t actually experiencing. “Alex, I..I’ll explain more later. Right now we might be in trouble. Those four,” you nod slightly in the direction of the quadruplets. “Enemy agents, probably not even human. We need to take them out or divert them.” “You’ve misunderstood me,” Banks says. “I’m not here to help you fight them, I’m here to help you retreat. The situation has changed and you need to pull out.” “What? No, we’re here, this now might be our only shot at examining that door.” “Is it even active? Do you know how to turn it on?” “I mean, I think so--” “You think. It’s too much, we’re getting out of here.” Banks reaches over to grab your arm. She is halted suddenly by Alex, who looms in. “Hands. Off.” “Ma’am, don’t think I won’t hit a girl, I ain’t no gentleman.” “What?” “Both of you,shut it.” you say. Let me think.” 1. What do we do next? A Leave as quickly and quietly as possible. B Attempt to stealth out of here using a power or skill (which?) C Fade back into the tunnels. D Confront the quadruplets. E Split up with Alex and Banks (what do you each do?) 2. Do we call Kind over for back up? F Yes, we’ll let her cut loose if needed. G Yes, but we make it clear nothing’s getting razed. H No, she’s too much of a wild card. I No, but we’ll send her off with a text (to do what?) __________________________________________________________________________ School is back in session. Oddly this means that I might update semi regularly because I have nothing better to do during my prep/must escape my nightmare world of teens. I would like to eventually set up a wiki or something with a run down of major players, locals, etc. so if anyone has suggestions on doing that easily, let me know via here or Discord. It’s off in the future, but we’ll see. Votes were split between using Aether and not. I flipped a “coin” on orokos and we ended up using Aether. All votes are Approval unless noted CYOA Discord Server - If you have questions feel free to ask in the thread or here. Rules: From Kickstarter Preview Character Sheet World Map Dice Rolls Conspiracy/Plot Board Offical Playlist 
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E Banks takes Alex to safety. We try to stealthily get to the portal. F we let her make a distraction. Toughy fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Sep 10, 2018 |
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CG If we're quiet and such, maybe we can avoid breaking Alex too badly.
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Blasphemaster posted:CG +1
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Toughy posted:E Banks takes Alex to safety. +1
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AC FG Always glad to have you back, I dig your writing style.
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1A 2F/I Distraction in whatever way gets everyone out safest
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Hey Guys, guess what Player Character/Cover-Relevant Obama decision is being reversed by the Orange Demon? 
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Blasphemaster posted:Hey Guys, guess what Player Character/Cover-Relevant Obama decision is being reversed by the Orange Demon? All of them?
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Toughy posted:E Banks takes Alex to safety. This
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Thinking it’s kind of suspicious that the second we find something out about this place and tell people the Loyslists are crawling all over it.
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Dr Subterfuge posted:Thinking it’s kind of suspicious that the second we find something out about this place and tell people the Loyslists are crawling all over it. Either we're being followed or we have a leak.
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With any luck you’ll pull them off.” “And then they follow us.” Banks mutters. “Listen, they probably don’t know who they are looking for, they just are looking for oddness.” “So what do you do?” “I’m heading to the portal.” “By yourself?” exclaims Alex. The commotion nearby Kind is getting louder. You feel a slight tug of Aether, she must be using some sort of ability to rile up people. “Listen I can get in and out, don’t wo--” “Don’t you dare tell me not to worry about you.” Alex cuts you off, staring hard at you. That gives you pause. She cares for you more than you expected, more than you thought possible. “Alex,” you start. “I will be okay. You need to trust me,” you hold her hands in yours. “I’m not going to get myself killed, but we need to get intel on this doorway.” Alex is quiet for a moment, you hear the sounds of a stool being shoved back and Kind exclaim “Do you know who I am?” shrilly. Finally Alex sighs. “Fine, but take my piece,” she pats her jacket where her gun is, “In case things go south.” 1 Do you take Alex’s pistol? A Yes B No Banks leads Alex away as the scuffle around Kind starts to turn into a Brawl. As Banks is walking past the four agents, she makes a point to shoulder check one of them on her way out. The man in black turns to watch her go, and then turns towards his three compatriots. Though no words are exchanged between them, you get the distinct impression they are communicating. You take that as your cue to go. You quickly walk into the ladies room and, once you see it is empty, allow some of your true self out. Your reflection vanishes from the bathroom mirror. After waiting a few minutes in hopes that someone else will open the door, letting you slip out, you finally chance it and open the door yourself. You squeeze through the smallest crack you can and sneak out onto the dance floor. The lights are still low and the band still pumping a swing beat, but the dance floor is noticeably more empty than when you entered the bathroom. You see a large crowd gathered near the bar, over the music you can still hear Kind cussing, dropping words like “litigation” and “committee” like anvils. You see that there are still two “agents” standing near the entrance, and even after looking you cannot see the other two. They must have peeled off to follow Banks and Alex. You allow your pulse to quicken with worry momentarily before sneaking down the hall.  As you round a corner you gently rest your fingertips against the brick wall and concentrate. The brick you are touching is part of a whole wall, it is connected to the others by mortar and gravity, buy also intent. This brick wall is one of many, lining the tunnels and snaking underground. Walls connect to rooms, ceilings, floors, stairs, doors. Pieces that fit together as snugly as this brick does with it’s brothers. Someone had a design for this place over a century ago and spent their blood, sweat, and years fitting all the pieces together. You can read that intention, you can see how the original structure was designed and laid out.This knowledge allows you to build a map of the caves in your head, complete with hidden rooms and structures. Granted there are places your map isn’t filled in, either part of the natural caverns, and thus made with no intent, or added later and thus not part of the original design. Still, even with the blind spots, you can create enough of a map to find a cavern and doorway that look similar to the one you saw in Drift’s camera feed. Assuming the location is correct, it is lower in the caves, beyond what was once the speakeasy and hidden in the tunnels originally used for, of all things, mushroom farming. You start to head down the tunnels, careful to move slowly and keep and eye and ear out for anything. 2. Do we keep Mirrored Skin active? C Yes, even though we’ll start taking penalties to our compromise roll the longer we stay in it. D No, we’ll spend another Aether and go back to full human. You look track of the time as you walk, the soft clicking of your dancing shoes is the only thing that break the silence. .....tik..tik..tik..tik..tik..tik..tik It is a hypnotic sound, you find yourself lulled into a sort of fugue state by the monotony of it. .....tik..tik..tik..tik..tik..tik..thap The change in sound stops you dead. You’ve stepped on something. Something feels different under your feet, not the compressed gravel and dirt of the tunnel so far. This feels softer. You fish out your cell phone and turn the flashlight on. You’d stepped in some sort of green moss. It’s a dark green color, almost black, and snakes across your path. You look closely at it and see that it’s in some sort of helix pattern. You turn around and point the flashlight in the direction you came, you see more patches of moss in odd patterns, almost like sigils, dotting the tunnel behind you. How long had you been walking through these without stepping on them? The moss patterns are thin a spread out behind you, but thicken as they get closer to you. Pointing your light ahead, you see the patterns grow even larger and thicker, eventually melding together into a thicket of moss about 20 feet ahead. Your light follows the moss thicket forward, and up a wall, to the ceiling where it bulges and turns from a deep green into a bright and vibrant color. A large bulbous growth hangs from the ceiling, like some sort of vegetable pimple. You watch and are only mildly surprised to see it pulse. 3. What do we do here? E Just walk under the bulb F Use a Aether, see if it’s giving off anything G Attack it from a distance (how?) H Smash it from close up. I Turn around, the portal isn’t worth this. 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Per the_steve, we were either followed or there is a leak. I can't remember how much we told Banks, but I'd suspect him the most as a leak, so putting Alex in his care is kind of bad. Was Kind supposed to be here? It's hard for me to get a read on her. She's really protective of her family, but for someone who would want a low profile she sure is trigger happy. As for being followed, we just pulled off a big heist and started a pretty obvious cult, and people could find us to give us this job in the first place, so other people following us is also totally possible.... Yeah, that dramatic failure is the last thing we needed.
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You again use a bit of your precious Aether to reach out and try to sense if this moss bulb is anything important or troubling. You can sense some Aetehr coming off the bulb, but it feel different, instead of the vague “beacon” that you tend to associate with Aether, this feels more like a black hole, something negative sucking in ambient Aether from around it. It feels cold and, before you realize exactly what is happening the “black hole” has reached out and touched you. You feel coldness and a draining feeling as something taps into your Aether reserves and seems to suck it out. You pull back, shunting off your Aether senses, trying to cut off whatever is feeding off your Aether. You see the bulb has grown and is a deeper shade of green previously. As you watch there is a spark of odd-looking lightning that jumps from the bulb to one of the patches in the shape of an arcane sigil. Another tongue of lighting leaps out, this one grazes you and you feel a hot lash of burning on your arm, though due to being invisible currently, you cannot see it. You jump back at that and watch as the mini lighting storm on the moss settles and dissipates. Eventually the moss and bulb looks “normal”, though you think it might have gotten larger in the last minute or so. Some sort of reaction? you think. You have heard of cryptids and cryptoflora, animals and plants being mutated by exposure to Aether, but you have little experience with it. There is the sound of footfalls behind you. You listen for a moment, two sets, hard, flat-soled shoes. 1.What do you do? A Hurry down the tunnel, try to get to the doorway before them. B Wait here and hide, let them pass by. C Hide an ambush, if they are the agents, we can fight them. D Something else. ___________________________________________________________________________ Short update, but playing with the moss has allowed people to catch up with us. We spent an Aether for sense stuff, and the moss reacted and ate another of our Aether points. Then we got zapped. All votes are Approval unless noted CYOA Discord Server - If you have questions feel free to ask in the thread or here. Rules: From Kickstarter Preview Character Sheet World Map Dice Rolls Conspiracy/Plot Board Official Playlist
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Dr Subterfuge posted:How much Aether do we have left at this point? 8, though we'll need to use at least one for shifting back into normal Mabin form when we do that.
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BC We sent Alex away and didn't take her gun so we cannot actually use the portal, so if we run forward we'll probably reach a dead end and be trapped. We've already stayed in invisibility longer than we should have and are at increasing risk of developing a glitch. Given that the magic number for the time portals is 4 I have concerns that if we go through we'll be trapped with Drift as closing/sabotaging/escaping the time portal may require 4 people.
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Without thinking through any of the consequences you shift into your true form. Your arms split in two, your skin blackens and slickens, your face smooths away except for two glowing eyes. You worry you have made a tactical error, left some trail behind, some means for the God Machine to follow your investigation. These four people are agents of the Machine certainly, but you cannot guess their purpose. That unknown frightens you.  You press yourself unto a nook along the wall, as far from the moss bulb as you can go, as your skin turns invisible. After a moment, the footsteps reveal themselves to be two of the men in black, walking shoulder to shoulder in the cramped tunnel. One is unarmed, the other has a pistol out. You will have to strike fast and hard, put them down before they realize what is attacking them. As they get closer, all twenty of your claws unsheath themselves. You wait, your heart (or what passes for one) thudding relentlessly in your chest. Finally, they are close enough to touch, and you strike. Though you are invisible, though you are silent, something - perhaps a change in air pressure, perhaps just luck- makes the first goon stop, and lean back on his heels as your killing claws come within an inch of him. Your momentum carries you forward and you pounce on the second goon, plunging a fist full of knives into his vital areas. Your hands sink into his skin like it is wet clay. You are alarmed to learn, that the skin is behaving like wet clay, not parting like real skin, but sucking in your hand. You yank your fist out hurriedly. The first goon, who still cannot see you rushes forward, arms open in an attempt to bear hug you and pull you off his partner. You sense the movement out of your peripheral and duck and twist to the side, snatching the second goon’s arm has he tries to line up a shot with his gun. You twist his wrist as he fires, the sound explosive in the cramped tunnel. You use his arm as a leverage point to swing around him, putting him between you and the first goon. As the second goon twists around you face you, you plant a foot on his thigh, another on his hip, and grab his shoulders , scuttling up and over him like a spider. You climb onto his back and, holding yourself steady with two arms, use your third and fourth to grab his head and twist viciously. You don’t even know if he has a neck to snap, and there isn’t any sort of satisfying crack, just a sudden release of tension as his head twists one hundred and eight degrees. The first goon has apparently found you, because suddenly too-strong arms wrap around you as you ride the second goon to the ground. The momentum of the grapple propels the both of you to the wall, and you smack into it, knocking the breath out of you momentarily. As you get your bearings the arms around you tighten, and you can see the hands of the goon actually starting to fuse together. You throw your weight backwards, causing the goon to step back enough to give you some room to move. You kick your legs up and plant them on the wall in front of you and then, with all your demonic strength, you kick off the wall. You, and the goon, go flying backwards, clear across the hall. There is a damp thudding sound as the goon smashes into the wall behind you, cushioning your impact. You grab his wrists with all your hands and pull, ripping his fingers apart. He slumps to the floor and you deliver a kick to the side of his head, dropping him completely. Your breath his deep, but steady, as you look over the two goons lying down in front of you. Neither it breathing, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t alive or able to talk. Or maybe they aren’t able to talk at all and are just video recorders themselves. The God Machine equivalent of your drone. You don’t have the knowledge of, say Ruin, to know. As silence settles on the tunnel, you become aware of a new sound. Jazz Music. It seems to be coming from nowhere, and everywhere at once 1. What do we do? A Try to interrogate these two B Go deeper in the tunnels C Go back where we came. D. Something else. 2. Do we spend an Aether to shift back into human form? E Yes F No ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We’ll say we’re back for Native American Heritage Month and not because I got totally distracted by making a Mech Fishing game. We Succeeded on Compromise to get into form, but we are Shaken currently. We also are really really good at killing things in Demonic Form. We can do, easily, 5 Lethal damage with our fists. Sorta makes up for us being a socially awkward robot. We also got one Aether back for going full demon. All votes are Approval unless noted CYOA Discord Server - If you have questions feel free to ask in the thread or here. Rules: From Kickstarter Preview Character Sheet World Map Dice Rolls Conspiracy/Plot Board Offical Playlist 
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