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If you guys still suspect that we're being searched because Ogkindel is black, then I'll suggest once again that we should just stand back and let Danal lead the caravan through the next checkpoint. You know, something we should have tried before sending the medicine off to the inn, where we'll never see them again because the merchant will snatch them on the way out of Baital. Partially related note: How tall is Danal now? He was like 7'3 or so when he got back from his Manhood Trial, and it's been several months near on to a year since then.
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JT Jag posted:If you guys still suspect that we're being searched because Ogkindel is black, then I'll suggest once again that we should just stand back and let Danal lead the caravan through the next checkpoint. You know, something we should have tried before sending the medicine off to the inn, where we'll never see them again because the merchant will snatch them on the way out of Baital. Everyone just needs to vote B. Vote B, damnit.
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Jun 18, 2014 04:45
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B ....I'm at a loss as to what to vote for the other thing. Splitting everything up would help us figure this out, but it will disrupt our pilgrimage and make everyone traveling with us unhappy at being separated. Plus if one of the groups that isn't our group gets into trouble we won't be there to help them. 
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Jun 18, 2014 04:48
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hollylolly posted:B If we're the only ones stopped, it's because we're black, so we can come up with something clever to counteract that. But a one-day separation of the caravan seems to me to be the smartest way to figure this problem out for good.
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Jun 18, 2014 04:50
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1. B 2. I first, then F, bring Jobe along. Welcome to america I mean Baitel! We don't take too kindly to yur kind round these parts I bet you that it's the Presences of our Balls.
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Jun 18, 2014 04:55
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I don't know who first suggested it, but maybe we're a Weird Baby like our own kid. ...and I just realized don't remember the name of Enkidel's son. Whoops.
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Jun 18, 2014 04:57
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A Terrible Person posted:I don't know who first suggested it, but maybe we're a Weird Baby like our own kid. Asahel
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Jun 18, 2014 04:58
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A Terrible Person posted:I don't know who first suggested it, but maybe we're a Weird Baby like our own kid. rip Asahel bro 4ever in our hearts
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A Terrible Person posted:I don't know who first suggested it, but maybe we're a Weird Baby like our own kid.
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Jun 18, 2014 05:01
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Jun 18, 2014 05:05
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We seriously named our kid after the guy who didn't want us to talk to others about him after we forced him to sacrifice himself? Wow. I bet I voted for it, too, but... that's awesome. I honestly thought it was partially disguised like Ashahel or Asazel or something. We are amazingly trustworthy. VVVVV That works. And it is clever. A Terrible Person fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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Jun 18, 2014 05:12
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We thought it was exceedingly clever, seeing as Asahel also means created by EL. Wordplay! :nerds:
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Jun 18, 2014 05:15
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K is for kick the poo poo out of a guard. Not literally. But make it clear that we aren't going to stand for this poo poo. Next time we get searched, we wait until they're done, overpower the five or six of them, and have them walk with us the rest of the way to Baitel to let people know we're clean. Edit: Also our point from vote:E last time that our unmighty Balls mysteriously have a presence.
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Jun 18, 2014 05:56
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Volmarias posted:We're being searched because we're black, aren't we? No, it's definitely what was being discussed previously. The guards are picking up on the weird presences from our group, particularly our non-blooded balls. Its why they aren't searching us, or our Mighty Balls. We're obviously blooded, we're supposed to feel that way, there's nothing suspicious about us. Our obviously non-blooded Balls though? Whatever they're sensing is obviously something that doesn't set up flags with blooded people, only the non-blooded, so they're not bothering to check us, as it must be something else. Also, Diogenes, does the 8-foot guy in the middle look any different each time? Just utter paranoia here, but this isn't some sort of magic test is it? It really does seem unusual that they'd have this many super-blooded guys hanging around, just to man guard posts a month out of town. And it's the same every time? Weakly-presenced tower, ballista, eight foot, twelve fingered guard in the middle of a group, etc?  Anyway. Can't believe we sent the medicines back without even doing the test with Snarls and Paebal once. There was no drawback to having them go around and test it before doing that. It was even stated that Paebel would have to travel cross-country and avoid the guard-towers going back, so the excuse that it'd be risky sending him around gets no traction there. What's done is done though, hopefully we won't need healing potions in Baitel. Suppose it might help to not carry them into the city anyway. 1. A. 2. E+F.
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Jun 18, 2014 07:13
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1. A. We don't need the bloody things in Baitel anyways, if we're dropping them off let's keep them dropped off. I don't see there's much percentage in keeping the things on hand. 2. E+I. Right. Let's get this sorted. I see no reason not to check the Temple of El to see if we can't narrow down what this is all about - even if it turns out that Zybourne Clock's theory is actually true and it's the presence of our Balls throwing the guards off, with some discussion with the priests we could get some sort of confirmation that we're good to go which could speed us through the checkpoints.
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Jun 18, 2014 07:20
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1-A 2-F Just because the guards aren't pinging the medicine doesn't mean it wouldn't get us into trouble in Baitel, Holiest City on Earth where even a hint of non-kosher goods will likely be seen as open heresy, better safe than sorry. F seems like a foregone conclusion, we're literally on a mission from God 
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Jun 18, 2014 07:22
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B. Get the meds. Meds are edible and we Are HUNGRY H. Screw the monk.  Bonus points if we make our caravan of pilgrims into a caravan of cannibalistic bandits here to destroy El's domain in the name of Slaan fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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Jun 18, 2014 08:02
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Slaan posted:B. Get the meds. Meds are edible and we Are HUNGRY This. Also, let's let Dave be the leader at the next checkpoint.
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Jun 18, 2014 08:38
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Tomn posted:1. A. We don't need the bloody things in Baitel anyways, if we're dropping them off let's keep them dropped off. I don't see there's much percentage in keeping the things on hand. +1 vote to this
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Jun 18, 2014 08:51
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Theglavwen posted:No, it's definitely what was being discussed previously. The guards are picking up on the weird presences from our group, particularly our non-blooded balls. Its why they aren't searching us, or our Mighty Balls. We're obviously blooded, we're supposed to feel that way, there's nothing suspicious about us. Our obviously non-blooded Balls though? Whatever they're sensing is obviously something that doesn't set up flags with blooded people, only the non-blooded, so they're not bothering to check us, as it must be something else. I like this. We have not actually moved over the last month or so. There is really only one tower. If you feel weird to them and they can't figure it out it casts a glamour that makes you walk 8 hours in a circle until you arrive back at the same tower. Since it clearly has something to do with Bloodedness and presence we just need to start extracting the blood from different members of the pilgrimage until we figure it out. Did I understand correctly that the ballista is only brought out when they suspect trouble? If so, how far off are they feeling us? Or since the very first tower not being able to figure it out, has it now become a competition among the Tower Guard to be the first to figure it out? The Towers have a presence and can probably communicate with one another or something. Seriously, this is really important information. I am just not certain how to go about figuring out what it is. There is the risk that it is in fact an amazingly hidden object (Indor) and we don't really want to find it since doing so probably means forfeiting all our goods even if we cooperate.
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1A. I don't like that we parted with our medicine and fear that it might be lost forever if Paebel reaches Avram's friend, but I do not want to enter yet another infinite loop like the one where we went from deciding to cut off our deal with Indor to re-establishing said deal two hours later. 2EIF.
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Jun 18, 2014 12:00
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1. A 2. K Ask the next guard to stamp his seal on a clay tablet saying that our caravan has already been searched. Keep collecting those. Eventually a guard will say "gently caress it" and let us pass. Invent passports.
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Jun 18, 2014 12:44
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Diogines posted:2. Well, have you opened it to see what was inside? I'm going to take the hint that the reason that this seemingly random little vote came up just prior to us getting hassled is because they are related. Tudiya's package is the contraband.
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Jun 18, 2014 12:53
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Tomn posted:1. A. We don't need the bloody things in Baitel anyways, if we're dropping them off let's keep them dropped off. I don't see there's much percentage in keeping the things on hand. +1
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Jun 18, 2014 13:13
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Diogines, can we verify from landmarks that we're actually moving closer to Baitel?
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Jun 18, 2014 13:33
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A Terrible Person posted:We seriously named our kid after the guy who didn't want us to talk to others about him after we forced him to sacrifice himself? We were the only person who knew his real name was Asahel. Everyone else knows him as Billy since that's the name we gave him. Remember he told us he was a slave from Ibleam? We didn't want to give him away so we called him Billy.
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Jun 18, 2014 13:35
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Plan LLSix per Mike Gallego, Plan Ralith if LLSix fails
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Theglavwen posted:No, it's definitely what was being discussed previously. The guards are picking up on the weird presences from our group, particularly our non-blooded balls. Its why they aren't searching us, or our Mighty Balls. We're obviously blooded, we're supposed to feel that way, there's nothing suspicious about us. Our obviously non-blooded Balls though? Whatever they're sensing is obviously something that doesn't set up flags with blooded people, only the non-blooded, so they're not bothering to check us, as it must be something else. I wasn't onboard with the whole "guards sense our Balls" theory until you explained it like this - with the potions theory, it seemed they knew there was an odd presence but couldn't pinpoint it due to Mt. Har. However, it was the opposite. They can pinpoint to a degree all the presences of our group - and are only focusing on those who shouldn't have presences at all, but do, our non-Mighty Balls. If the Temple of El can't give us a clean bill of holiness, we should just be blunt with the next guard - we know he can sense presences, we get that our unblooded companions appear to have presences they shouldn't, but we are men of Zepa and have done much work in the name of El - they're merely sensing what years of monster slaying can do for your presence. Maybe us pointing out from the get go what the problem is will prove to the guard he can trust us. "Look I have a metal plate in my head its going to set off the metal detector, just so you're aware."
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We're not moving in circles, there's an internal compass in our head that would tell us if we were lost.
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I don't think we should mention anything about us detecting presences, I get the impression our senses in hat regard are different from theirs? Apart from that the theory is looking quite plausible, but hopefully getting inspected by the local Shrine will give us permission to move along without any more controls.
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Algid posted:We're not moving in circles, there's an internal compass in our head that would tell us if we were lost. That and the giant glowing pillar of El
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Prase to be El's massive phallus.
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Theglavwen posted:Also, Diogenes, does the 8-foot guy in the middle look any different each time? Just utter paranoia here, but this isn't some sort of magic test is it? It really does seem unusual that they'd have this many super-blooded guys hanging around, just to man guard posts a month out of town. And it's the same every time? Weakly-presenced tower, ballista, eight foot, twelve fingered guard in the middle of a group, etc? Someone else posted an observation about what this meant. That Baitel has enough Blooded men to station 30sh really Blooded guys just on one road of possibly several? You are approaching the most important place in the world, the center of art, culture, politics, power and very literally the center of civilization, a massive city so large it takes a month to walk through the farmland feed it. See that mountain ahead which is so large it may pierce the atmosphere, whose top you can't see? You cant see the top but even trying to consider the dimensions involved makes you feel a little dizzy. You are looking at the place where the creator of the universe lives. God is ontop of that mountain. They have the resources and Blooded men to do this.
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Diogines posted:They have the resources and racist cracka Blooded men to do this. Fixed that for you.  
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Jun 18, 2014 15:26
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Ok, for question 2- Plan LLSix per Mike Gallego
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Tomn posted:1. A. We don't need the bloody things in Baitel anyways, if we're dropping them off let's keep them dropped off. I don't see there's much percentage in keeping the things on hand. Jumping on the Tomn train
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Perhaps I should have asked this before voting, but if one/some of the pilgrims were smugglers, would there be a difference in consequences between the village El folks finding something vs. the guards catching us riding dirty?
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Jun 18, 2014 19:26
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1.A and 2.I Search our Mighty Men's packs as well
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1. B 2. E F I don't trust Avram's smuggler buddy with the meds. I'm guessing the unblooded people with presences are causing the inspections. Not much Og can do to help that, maybe the priests will help.
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