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##vote 1. A best check it out for ourselves, and I don't trust him enough to just send him on his merry way.
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Apr 27, 2016 16:45
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##vote 1. A, D, E
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Apr 27, 2016 16:55
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Well, I guess we shouldn't shoot 'em then. A
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"This I have to see." You lower the Rumbler's hand cannons. Jane is still pointing directly at Spyridon's midsection. "We'll be escorting you back, Spyridon. The Argus can take care of any dragons." Year 19 Post-Flood, day 318 Afternoon You watch Spyridon's back as it trudges ahead of you through the Crest. There's been no spoken communication between the two autos since a couple of days ago. He just walks and you follow. You wonder about the praetor ahead of you. How must he be feeling? Pretty lovely, most likely. Maybe you should talk to him? You know what it's like to lose your entire hometown. The little secondary explosions of grief every time you suddenly recall yet another place you'll never see or voice you'll never hear again. Hopefully he's not going to be too big a pussy about it.  "That's a nice auto, minus the battle damage," Crik says. "Think it's a grappler, judging by the hands." "Them shits is dangerous to us," Zaphidor says. "He pins us down and gets out of the way of Jane we'd be pentafucked." "Minus the battle damage," Crik says. "Just saying," Zaphidor says. "I like the look of those Uchuam threads. Looked like silk. Think their undies are silk?" "Could be, Zaph, could very well be." Crik says. "I could use some silk boxers. drat." "I call dibs. You get the linen ones, Zaph. To absorb your berzerker grundle funk." "Bitch I bet your ballsack smells like sulfur. Shady devil bitch." "They've been quiet," you say. "I mean probably they're sad, but.... they've been quiet." 1 "I could go aboard," Ghostly Anastasi suggests. "To observe them. They wouldn't know I was there." A Good plan. Stay for a day or so and report back. B No need for them not to know. If they're aware that there's a knife somewhere in the dark they'll be on their best behavior. C No. If they catch you somehow the whole dynamic of this thing is gonna change. I don't want them to have a hostage. D I think I'm just going to talk to them again. I want to know more about these guys. Might recruit them. E I'm not just sending you over, I think. I'll send over a whole detachment of men to keep them under guard. Year 19 Post-Flood, day 319 Morning "Ire says it's urgent," Crik says. "He had that look on his face like: you know the look. He's dragging Toth up here right now." "Uch. Inky." You wiggle your foot and Volter stops massaging it. "Did Toth piss him off?" "It looks that way as hell," Crik says. "You might want to hold your nose, Vic." "Ire like that guy who manhandled me that one time?" Volter asks. "He seems always kind of pissed off." "Yeah but there's pissed off and then there's Ire pissed off," you say. "Ma'am." Ire storms into the Head, Toth swaggering at his heels. "Good morning, Ire-- oh, God." You wrinkle your nose. "What smells like cow poo poo?" Volter says. "Cow poo poo." Ire holds up his scarf. It's spattered with dung. "Toth has crossed the line and I demand his incarceration pending a court martial." "What did he do?" "During our morning arms check and reload practice," Ire says, "I opened the pressure release only to be struck by a flying manure projectile. Someone had packed my release valve with feces. If it had not properly vented the cannon would have malfunctioned. One of Toth's men was apprehended in the left arm hallway with dung on his hands belonging to the bovine species; he claimed that Toth ordered him to carry out this action and when questioned Toth freely admitted it. Toth has directly tampered with crucial components of our firearms systems and I recommend his incarceration pending a court martial." "Thought you demanded it, Ire," Toth says. "Quiet," Ire says.  "And it did properly vent, cause it's just poo poo," Toth says. "Just a harmless team building exercise for me and the gang. You have yours, I have mine. Yours is doing drills over and over for no fuckin reason when we can't fire our cannons out here anyway, mine is a little more creative." "Quiet," Ire repeats. "Seriously. Mama Mantis. C'mon," Toth says. "My dudes are wicked bored. We haven't even gotten to livefire anything in forever. And I think by showing Ire he's vulnerable to sabotage like that I helped out with his training in the extreme. Really Ire should be thanking me, really." 2 You say: A Ire's right. You can't go loving with my cannons. Your punishment is: _____________ B I'm not gonna punish you, Toth. I'm gonna punish the guy who did it for you. You can decide how you feel about that. C Give Toth a slap on the wrist. Ire's going overboard with the accusations. It was only a prank. D It's just poop, Ire. Lighten up. E This is not the kind of thing I want brought in front of me. You two are grown-ups: sort this out on your own. LordVonEarlDuke fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Apr 27, 2016 |
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Apr 27, 2016 22:58
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##vote 1. D but not alone, right? 2. B can't be loving with the cannons!
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Apr 27, 2016 23:31
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A - Let's find out what they're thinking first. That makes negotiating easier. Spy THEN talk. C - with the slap to be delivered by Ire. He can decide the punishment but we get to veto to make sure it isn't more than a slap on the wrist. We recommend humiliation.
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Apr 27, 2016 23:40
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##vote 1. D 2. Tran Ire and his crew are to personally oversee the application of dung to every article of clothing Toth owns in whatever manner they see fit. He'll be smelling crap on his clothes for months of washing. It's a punishment for messing with the guns, but one that gives Ire a bit of satisfaction without compromising any of our crew..
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Apr 28, 2016 00:23
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1: D 2: write in. Toth gets a month's latrine duty, as he's clearly so fond of excrement. And to make it extra fun we're introducing taco tuesdays, what the hell, let's have taco thursdays as well.
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Apr 28, 2016 00:40
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##vote 2: Paul That was a childish prank, children get punishment. You're getting two weeks of of after-shift detention under Ire's watch, one hour a day. Maybe he'll have you do math problems, maybe he'll have you do jumping jacks. Whatever, he's in charge under penalty of Me. And an 8 pm curfew for a month.
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Apr 28, 2016 01:10
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##vote 1. D 2. B - Next time, prank them in a way that doesn't gently caress with the cannons.
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Apr 28, 2016 01:11
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##vote 1. A - I'd prefer our intel unfiltered. If we want to recruit this crew we can always press-gang them later. 2. B - Toth is too useful (and awesome) to sideline before a possible combat situation. However, loving with the cannons can't stand.
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Apr 28, 2016 01:26
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##vote 1. A 2. A (one month's duty cleaning up after the cattle when not in combat); B - Pranking is fine. loving with the cannons is not.
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Apr 28, 2016 09:06
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A And plan Paul Whatever we do with him, I suggest some'a that characteristic Mantis honesty. "Look, Toth, this'd probably be funny as hell f it didn't involve loving with my cannons in the middle of dragon country. But unfortunately it involved loving with my cannons in the middle of dragon country, so - and I mean this in the nicest possible way - pull your head out of your rear end, wouldja?"
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1. A 2. Volmarias Toth, we're in dragon country, with a grappler of unknown trustworthiness right in front of us. This is almost the definition of the very wrong time to gently caress with the cannons, prank or not. Ire, you need to grow up. It was a harmless prank, and you need to settle this between the two of your from now on. Now, fire your bicep powered arm cannon directly into Toth, wherever you please, and get back to work, both of you.
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Apr 28, 2016 14:30
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##vote 1. A 2. B
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"Look. Toth." You rest your cheek on your fist. "This would be funny as hell" (Ire glowers) "if it didn't involve loving with my cannons in the middle of dragon country. But it involved loving with my cannons in the middle of dragon country so I can't let it just breeze by." Toth droops. "But I can't tie up one of my cannon captains on dumb punishment duty either." Toth perks up. "So I'm just going to punish whoever you had do this in the first place. And let them take responsibility for what they did." "Aw boss no come on," Toth says. "It wasn't Strummos' idea." "Well Strummos can decide where the blame goes," you say. "I only decide where latrine duty goes." Ire nods. "I am satisfied." Toth glowers. "This is bullshit." You point at Ire's spattered uniform. "That is bullshit, Toth. This is justice." Year 19 Post-Flood, day 325 What remains of Uchuam "Profound grief." Anastasi looks up from the daily notes she took while aboard Spyridon. "Drawn faces. No plans for subterfuge. I think they were too drained for it." "Yeah, well," you say. "That kind of makes sense."  The Earth has swallowed Uchuam, like a reverse recurrence of the Crimson tide. A monumental, yawning wound in the ground stretches out in front of you. The wind pulls little eddies of clay dust swirling into its depths. On the far lip sits a single surviving caravan wagon, its wheel keening mournfully as it turns in the breeze. "You see it now." This from the praetor of Spyridon. "A half mile deep or more. And no indication of its cause. Only its effect." You clear your throat and lower the mic to your mouth. "That sucks, Spyridon." "It does." The wind turns the wheel. 1 You break the silence: A Well allons y, Spyridon. Let's find a place our autos can climb in. B Stay up here, Spyridon. Work on getting that arm put back together. If you try to run away you're gonna get shanked. C I'll fire a winch down to the base of it and we can dismount our automata and climb down. It'll be far easier to get down and up on foot and I don't want to be stuck down there. D I'll fire a winch down to the base of it and you can dismount your automaton and climb down. We'll keep watch up here. For dragons. E I'm satisfied. We're leaving before whatever happened here happens again. F Something made that hole and I want to find out what. And when I want something my usual strategy is to fire big loud cannons into it. So that is what I am going to do with this here deep pit. G You wanna, like, talk about it? LordVonEarlDuke fucked around with this message at 05:15 on May 1, 2016 |
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May 1, 2016 05:11
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Push the other auto in, it'll be hilarious
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May 1, 2016 06:04
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##vote 1. E Going into the hole seems unnecessarily dangerous.
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G Let's sit backwards on chairs and rap about the random cruelties of an uncaring universe bro.
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May 1, 2016 07:30
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It occurs to me that flare rounds are a thing we do not have that would be incredibly useful in a number of situations.
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Slaan posted:Push the other auto in, it'll be hilarious If we have any reason to do this do it. B
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May 1, 2016 07:33
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G, but let it be known we're really curious about what's down there and gauge if they're interested too.
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##vote 1. G; C; B because voting for dialog in a LVED CYOA is always the right decision.
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C. Except we send an exploratory team to be combined of 2:1 ratio of our guys with their guys, pick someone to lead from our ground teams who knows and understands climbing. Assure Spyridon and it's Praetor that the lopsided numbers have more to do with us having crew to spare then some elaborate plan to kill the Spyridon's crew (which we could have done at like any time), if the numbers become an issue. The task should be to see if it's safe for the Autos, or even safe for humans to go down or climb back up. This is pretty important guys, we need to know what is going on. For all we know this could affect Anabas as well a march back to Anabas might mean a march to a similar eerie pit even. But IMHO, it's too dangerous to send either Praetor in the middle of Dragon Country, and leave the auto's vulnerable. Plus, if everything goes well who knows what we could recover!
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FaustianQ posted:C. Except we send an exploratory team to be combined of 2:1 ratio of our guys with their guys, pick someone to lead from our ground teams who knows and understands climbing. Assure Spyridon and it's Praetor that the lopsided numbers have more to do with us having crew to spare then some elaborate plan to kill the Spyridon's crew (which we could have done at like any time), if the numbers become an issue. The task should be to see if it's safe for the Autos, or even safe for humans to go down or climb back up. Switching to this
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Keeping the Praetors topside is good tactical sense, although I suspect it'll involve us missing out on some beautiful art.
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Ralith posted:Keeping the Praetors topside is good tactical sense, although I suspect it'll involve us missing out on some beautiful art. Volter can teleport things, if it comes to it, send him with the rest of the crew when it's deemed safe and just have him teleport up what he thinks will impress us.
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May 1, 2016 08:19
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##vote E - I doubt we'd learn anything substantial.
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May 1, 2016 08:24
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G I want more data before we climb down the city devouring hole.
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Ralith posted:because voting for dialog in a LVED CYOA is always the right decision. This ##vote 1. G; Plan FaustianQ
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Slaan posted:Push the other auto in, it'll be hilarious
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Get one or more of the mages to whip up a camera, maybe a optic fibre cable to play periscope with. even its not long ranged enough for it to be launched with the winch it would be a very useful splunking tool C
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May 2, 2016 08:40
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*poke poke* Is this thing on?
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“Do you want to talk about it?” you ask. “I wouldn’t know what to say,” the Praetor says. “My life was here, and then it wasn’t. And that’s all. I feel as if my heart should stop but it doesn’t. And I guess it’s not going to stop on its own. Just because of a hole. How would that affect it? What difference does it make? Does that make sense?” Spyridon sits at the edge of the sinkhole.  “My cousin made bread pudding with raisins,” the Praetor continues. “It was the best bread pudding I’ve ever had. And I’m never going to have it again.” He clears his throat twice. “But other than that,” he says. “I’m golden.” “You’re gonna keep remembering things like that for a while,” you say. “Don’t let it get to you. Or like let it but in the shower.”  You pull away from the mic to let him consider that and see a cloaked, masked figure resolve itself from the gloom at his shoulder. You glance to Ghostly Anastasi. “Who’s the spook?” “The Confessor,” Anastasi says. “His second.” “Is that a boy or a girl?” “I don’t know. It is the Confessor. I didn't see them very much." You squint. “Well whoever they are I like their hat.” You return to the mic, flicking the switch to broadcast across the Rumbler’s PA. “Listen up, team. “There’s a mysterious hole down there, and you know if there’s one thing the Rumbler likes better than cracking cities open it’s sticking itself in mysterious holes. “I’m putting together a spelunking detail. No claustrophobes or sissies. 1 I’m going to need: A As many hands as I can get. Those nonessential to the Rumbler’s systems, report to the winches. B A dozen of you with stones enough for the going. C Zaphidor’s berzerkers. D A few good men. Maybe just my Talons. 2 And I’m going to send along (pick all who apply): A Zaphidor. B Crik. C Anastasi. D Strix. E Pacitar. F Volter. G Myself. H Someone else ___________ Note: If Victoire doesn’t go down you can shift your perspective into whichever of the above characters leads the expedition, y’alls choice. LordVonEarlDuke fucked around with this message at 07:37 on May 14, 2016 |
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May 14, 2016 07:33
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##vote 1: B 2: G, H H is anyone who volunteers
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May 14, 2016 07:50
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##vote 1: B 2: G, F, H H for volunteers. A teleporting mage is a good thing to have on recon trips.
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May 14, 2016 08:47
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##vote 1. B 2. A,D,F,G
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May 14, 2016 08:51
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##vote 1. B 2. A, F, G, H H is anyone who volunteers. Just want to say I caught up and love your CYOA, and your art is fantastic. Zaphidor and Mantis are 
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##vote 1: B 2: G, F, H H for volunteers as stated before. 
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