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you know if you nerds had picked might in the beginning we'd be strong enough to simply rip the bars outta the way > consider ripping out the bars
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Geemer posted:> Ask the fisherman to reel 'er up. Surely nothing bad could be on the line. Well I dunno what would ever possibly give you that impression! But actually, I should have been more explicit... This is a one time use card, akin to ? UNKNOWN MASS ?. Your powers of belief have more to do with what may be on the end of the line than anything else... however it'll only be a single item instead of a bundle, so all of you... choose wisely Anyway, I lied and won't have nearly the amount of free time to Shade as I was hoping this weekend, but on the bright side that just means more time to brainstorm the line!
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Sep 19, 2020 16:05
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it's knowledge of the Gate and it is the Gate and it's the Key and the Guardian of the Gate
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Sep 19, 2020 16:14
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It's a Ki Attenuator. It collects the ambient energy of the shade o verse to slowly recharge the wearer's Ki. It looks strangely like an inconspicuous ring.
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Sep 19, 2020 16:35
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Chronojam posted:> whistle the same tune   :"Hey that's pretty good!"  YOU HAVE FADED
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Sep 19, 2020 16:37
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> The fisherman reels up a very shiny brass trumpet.
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Sep 19, 2020 17:16
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Stoatbringer posted:> The fisherman reels up a very shiny brass trumpet. stick the mouthpiece end up your butt and give it a toot
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Sep 19, 2020 17:40
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i do NOT like this stab-happy little prick of a guard. speared for whistling, wtf fisherman seems cool though, let's see what's on the line!
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Sep 19, 2020 18:13
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Get a potion of specific forgetting from the void. Send down the effigy. Use the potion to forget what you sent. Transform the effigy into an effigy of the beautiful shade. The transformation should work on the effigy and the priestess.
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Sep 19, 2020 19:22
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The Protagonist posted:
this guy is a dick absolute loving dickhead > tell him his helmet makes him look like a dick
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Sep 19, 2020 19:57
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 oopsCan we easily fit things into the window? It might be easier to fit and stash a harmonica vs a trumpet.
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Sep 19, 2020 20:09
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The object is an Inverted Effigy.
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Sep 19, 2020 22:32
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Is there any reason we can't yank that spear away from the guard the next time he stabs us?
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Sep 19, 2020 22:50
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Cowslips Warren posted:Is there any reason we can't yank that spear away from the guard the next time he stabs us? Probably the fact that we are a weakling with zero points in Body.
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Sep 19, 2020 23:16
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> The lure is the guard's spear, which will dissappear from him the moment the fisherman reels it up.
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Sep 19, 2020 23:26
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I think lockpicks would be quite useful.
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Sep 20, 2020 01:21
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The Protagonist posted:
All Sentries Are Bastards > use Voice of Longing to make the sentry dream about leaving his post Geemer posted:> The lure is the guard's spear, which will dissappear from him the moment the fisherman reels it up. or this
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Sep 20, 2020 03:36
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There's a lot of really solid ideas here for something so relatively formless.Bregor posted:
Should do this in any event
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Sep 20, 2020 05:42
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Bregor posted:
I like this. Could we also connect with the void within and suck the line towards us, kirby-style, so that the fisherman pulls us up onto an upper deck too?
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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chronojam posted:There's a lot of really solid ideas here for something so relatively formless.  This was the most difficult choice yet. It seems to me there are essentially three camps- the practical problem solvers, the soft-locking screwballs and the game-breaking cosmic power mongers. My 5y/o absolutely loved the trumpet idea and thought that the butt-blat should spread throughout the ship, fading everyone. Hard to disagree honestly...
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 You spend a long while contemplating what might be hanging down there, awaiting coalescence... Stoatbringer posted:> The fisherman reels up a very shiny brass trumpet. HIJK posted:stick the mouthpiece end up your butt and give it a toot Could it be an instrument, vulgarly applied?  Xaintrailles posted:Get a potion of specific forgetting from the void. Could you circumvent the difficulties of the journey ahead with a clever concoction?  Presumably you drank from the Ἀχέρων before, and it cost all your memories. Could you risk a specifically applied potion from the same source now, trapped as you are? Best not. Geemer posted:> The lure is the guard's spear, which will dissappear from him the moment the fisherman reels it up. Mayhap you divest the jailor of his armament with some cosmic appropriation...  What then though of the cell... and the inevitable backup? What if...??? SniperWoreConverse posted:it's knowledge of the Gate and it is the Gate and it's the Key and the Guardian of the Gate   ... But no... it is none of these things, exactly. You know what it must be. Or at least you know what you hope it to be. Careful not to alert the guard yet again, you call out to the sedentary fisherman to draw in his line...   :"Don't go anywhere. Heh."With yet more time to kill in this horrid brig, you decide to ply a more subtle strategy against the sentry in hopes of impinging his morale. Bregor posted:> use Voice of Longing to make the sentry dream about leaving his post  You speak to them, quietly, for a good long while about the joys of desertion. They stir some, and you hope it takes. Just then, you're alerted by the azure angler. :"Spool is almost full! I think I can see something glinting..." It occurs that you'd not previously worked out a deal with the angler about the contents of his catch. Oh well, you can only break the 8th seal once anyway.  You use telekinesis to take the catch. You get a-  And also a- 
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Sep 21, 2020 06:46
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Oh good, Ki is a bit more accessible now. Wear ring, bend hook into lockpick to get the door open, maybe, then sneak past the guard. Or maybe the voice treatment worked and we won't have to, who knows.
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Sep 21, 2020 07:58
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Transpose and inspect the ring and your cell.
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Sep 21, 2020 13:52
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> Put on ring > use Psychometry on the ring
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Wild T posted:Transpose and inspect the ring and your cell. Unfortunately you are currently have 0/6 Soul Ki, & transposition requires at least 1 Soul Ki to use. McFrugal posted:Wear ring Bregor posted:> Put on ring  Bregor posted:> use Psychometry on the ring You now have 2/6 MIND KI     :"It seems hoping for a reprieve from the crucifix does little to inspire genuine hope of a return." :"It was worth a shot. Keeps morale up among the remaining faithful at least...":"Mm. More and more will begin to wake from their fugue and begin their inevitable descent.":"I fear our time on this placid little embankment is soon drawing to a close..." :"There must be something that can be done.":"We can yet buy some time. Let the faithless among us leave at their own pace... interning them here with their yearning and longing will only make us more a beacon to the infernal jailors and bounty hunters.":"I'll have the men open the gates for the despairing. Anything else?":"Purge this place of the arcane, any items of power should be considered contraband. No matter the comfort, it'll only help to draw in the buzzards from below...":"I'll see it done.":"Thank you Likhoden... to that end we may as well start here and now. Let this be a consignment to the cooling chaos at the end of all things."   The channeled vision comes to an end. You have gained knowledge of the ring.  McFrugal posted:bend hook into lockpick to get the door open, maybe, then sneak past the guard. owlhawk911 posted:i do NOT like this stab-happy little prick of a guard. speared for whistling, wtf  Not content to wait for the ring to take effect, you manage to break the hook into an improvised pick and torsion wrench and start to work at the lock. It's awkward going from within the cell and it'll take some time. At least you have a moment to decide if you're going to attempt to sneak past the guard when you do spring it, or shank him good with your glass dagger.
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Fade for fade. Shank the bejeezus out of that jerk e: whistle the fisherman's tune right before you do it, too Hello Sailor fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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Sep 23, 2020 02:14
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Too bad the window is too small to stick him out it. Voting sneak past.
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Sep 23, 2020 02:56
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If we shank the sentry, won't it just respawn? >
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Sep 23, 2020 03:32
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I think I'll break my regular silence on  mechanics and say that we're operating more or less on dark souls rules, so generally things only come back when you also die.
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If we had any points in body, I'd say go for the fade. But since we don't, sneaking seems like a better option. But be ready to shank if he wakes up. Can we still contact Dennis? Whatever comes next, I'm sure we could use an ally.
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Sneak attacks are pretty much always successful, I'd think. Shanking him will definitely unlock another Seal, but that particular Seal seems hard to avoid in the long run anyway... I'm on the fence but leaning towards stabbing him since we'll be able to loot his equipment. Hmm, that flashback is concerning. Most of the initial text is blurred too much to recover, but I can make out the second to last line at least: "We cannot last, when fresh souls reach the descent the keepers of the ledger will wise up to our little sanctuary". Sounds like this is a very recent flashback, since they also talk about releasing the despairing. They were keeping souls here and trying to use longing to bring something back... the ferryman, perhaps? Also sheesh is this near the end of time itself? No wonder the ferryman is comatose: nothing's left that can die, so he has no work left to do. This is the last bastion of existence. ...oh man I really want to use psychometry on the ferryman's gear.
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i don't want to stab the guard. he sucks for stabbing us and we're better than him
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owlhawk911 posted:i don't want to stab the guard. he sucks for stabbing us and we're better than him I get what you're saying! > Slit the guard's throat.
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The Protagonist posted:I think I'll break my regular silence on well in that case concentrate really really hard on the ground for any messages from other shades or previous incarnations of yourself. they're probably trolls but maybe something is useful. but those buzzards from below sound like allies for real. make an overture to them with some arcane lure or other.
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Sep 23, 2020 10:32
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Shank him, but make sure it's quiet! then take his helmet and spear.
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Sep 23, 2020 15:56
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Shank the guard
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Sep 23, 2020 16:40
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Shank the guard, then shank ourselves so the guard respawns and we can shank him again
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Tomfoolery posted:Shank the guard, then shank ourselves so the guard respawns and we can shank him again
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lol Looks like we're on our way to stab city, though it was far more contentious than I thought it would be! Respect to those who favored subtle nonviolence, but I fear our transformation into full murder-hobo was inevitable.
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McFrugal posted:leaning towards stabbing him since we'll be able to loot his equipment. Jasus Christ posted:Shank him, but make sure it's quiet! then take his helmet and spear. Butt Discussin posted:Shank the guard Geemer posted:> Slit the guard's throat. Tomfoolery posted:Shank the guard Hello Sailor posted:Fade for fade. Shank the bejeezus out of that jerk After what seems an interminable span the cell lock finally yields to your blind probing. A moment of terror passes as you just manage to keep the cross bar and lock from clattering to the floor... the bars swing freely open.  You are nearly overcome with equal parts giddy anticipation and nerves as you creep silently forward towards the still slumbering jailor. Hello Sailor posted:whistle the fisherman's tune right before you do it, too  >SHADE uses KEEN GLASS DAGGER, CRITICALLY HITTING SENTRY  >SENTRY has FADED quote:THE 6th SEAL HAS BROKEN quote:The Ki Accumulator Procs, you now have 1/6 Soul Ki They pass with a quiet gurgle. Confident no one has been alerted by your violence, you quickly collect their things-   Fumbling through the ring you find the right key for the heavy brig door easy enough. Looking through the small window in the door reveals only darkness. Taking care to open it slowly, it gives way with a low creaking. You risk a peek out and survey the shape of your newfound freedom.  The hall forward fades into darkness, perhaps defunct or unused. To the left you can see firelight dancing from around a corner, and the distant sound of subdued revelry... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ e; quick patchin The Protagonist fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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