You lift a hand, maybe with the index finger pointing up, up to face height asking for one second. Maybe cutting a promo and verbally accepting her challenge would be a good idea. BUT make sure you get your hands on some kali sticks. They're your main fighting method, after all, and you don't want to go into this handicapped. If actual kalis are not available, get replacements that might work against that helmet. You don't want your face to go through what Karate Joe's did.

Find a way to get some sticks. She's going to tear us apart if we don't.

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You hold up a hand. "Actually, could I - ah, could we take a second?"

"Why?" she asks. She hasn't put down her fists.

"I don't have my sticks. It's my usual style. It won't be a good match if I'm unarmed."

"W-wait," she says, turning red. "I read about this, you can't-"

"Sticks! Just sticks!" you say. "I'm an eskrima fighter!"

She doesn't move an inch, only regards you with that unwavering stare. When she finally speaks she doesn't lower her guard. "It doesn't matter. You're not winning this fight whether you're armed or not. I'll give you three minutes."

You give her your best smile and turn to face Pete. He shakes his head and shrugs - no idea where you would get kali sticks at this short notice.

>where can we find any on this short notice? roll 2d10 and tell me what your plan is

Rolled 7, 5 = 12

>>21151737
find them in a nearby closet.

Rolled 6, 10 = 16

Ask the crowd.

Rolled 1, 18 = 19

>>21151737
An idea from the original game long ass time ago.

TWO CATS IF NEED BE.

Hopefully something better, though.

Rolled 4, 8 = 12

>>21151796
And wrong dice.

Rolled 4, 8 = 12

>>21151737

You pick up that microphone. This is a stadium full of fighters, fighting fans and people related to both. There has to be SOMEONE who can provide a pair of rattan sticks, they're literally the most basic and common weapon in Eskrima. Make it very public.

Eskrima is your style. You're perfectly willing to fight Skullgirl with or without your preferred weapon, but who here would not enjoy seeing a more even bout? Do they really want people to talk about how the east coast World Warrior champion lost because he was handicapped?

Rolled 4, 10 = 14

>>21151737
>"I don't have my sticks. It's my usual style. It won't be a good match if I'm unarmed."
>
>"W-wait," she says, turning red. "I read about this, you can't-"

It make my smile! :)


But anyway, try to find anything that may turn into sticks. We can take mop, broom stick, wooded pole, anything that take shape of wooded stick. And then break them into pair of sticks.

>>21151783

You don't have a lot of time. You pick up the mic from the floor and turn to the crowd.

"How you all doing tonight?" you ask. The crowd roars. Maybe doing this whole mic-work thing isn't so hard? "In case you didn't know, I'm Anon, the World Warrior for Metro City - the toughest town on the east coast!" The crowd goes nuts for that one. Like taking candy from a baby.

"So now this is kind of a long shot, but...would any of you happen to have eskrima sticks? You know, rattan, about the length of your forearm?"

The crowd goes silent on that one.

>roll 1d100, let's see what happens

Rolled 70

>>21151838
Someone bring me a broom, thank you.

Rolled 49

>>21151838
FIGHTAN WORLD UNITE IN THE NAME OF FAIR COMPETITION

Rolled 8, 7 = 15

Check the obligatory souvenir shop. They're bound to carry Official Kali Sticks.

>>21151851
fightan world u dissapoint

Rolled 36

>>21151838

Our challenger's fear of dildo beatings is pretty funny.

Rolled 62

This is gonna end terribly. I can feel it.

One man stands up.

"I've got a Black Mjol-"

"THANK YOU BUT NO," you say. "Why do you even carry that around? Just - just sit down."

You turn to see Skull Girl's reaction. She's beet red now. When she finally attacks this is going to be bad.

"I've got one," a man in the back finally shouts.

"Just the one?" you ask. "I'll take it! Thank you!"

You dash to the back of the stadium and take the stick from a man wearing a pink gi top under a leather jacket. You have the feeling this is the same guy who showed up at the last two World Warrior bouts. He's obviously frustrated. No time to deal with it now, though.

Skull Girl is still waiting in the center of the arena. She seems kind of relieved you came back with an actual weapon. You try smiling at her again with no response before taking a modified ready stance. Only one stick means your options are going to be limited.

"That's all the time you get," she says. She nods to the announcer.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a rare treat tonight! The World Warrior title and the chance to compete at the national level will be decided between two weirdos who refuse to tell us their names! AAAAAAAND FIGHT!"

>How do we do this? Roll 2d10 and choose a strategy.

Rolled 6, 9 = 15

>>21151985
She's flustered. Get in close and throw. Get a combo in and start up the beatdown.

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>>21151985

Captcha ate that poor announcer's headshot.

Rolled 8, 1 = 9

>>21151985
I was gonna suggest being gentlemanly and not cracking her face open with a rattan stick, but that might just piss her off. Still she obviously has the power to knock us out cold, best strategy could be to move around and dodge as much as we can while using our stick range to land blows.

Not sure where to strike though. Go for the quick knockout with blows to the head? Go for the body and crack ribs? Smash her legs so she can't move? This is gonna be complicated.

We all know where that stick is gonna end

Rolled 6, 5 = 11

>>21152068
Nah, no need to go at it gently. This bitch smashes heads in.

Attack for your life. Go for the killing shots. She can take them.

Rolled 5, 9 = 14

>>21152038
This. And for the love of god don't let our live hand stay idle.

Rolled 8, 8 = 16

>>21152107
Think this out loud and get her even more red.

Then beat her down.

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Rolled 2, 5 = 7

>>21151985

Give her the stick.

Rolled 7, 8 = 15

No whammies.

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>g-gentlemen!

You saw what she did to Karate Joe. No half-measures. You rush in with an overhead blow with the stick aimed right for her forehead.

She steps in. Throws her right hand up to intercept your hand - not the stick, your hand, you notice, a smart move - and palm strikes at your ribs with her left.

>roll 2d10! defend!

Rolled 7, 1 = 8

>>21152192

Crap! Backroll!

Rolled 7, 8 = 15

>>21152192
She needs a headbutt. For Joe.

Rolled 7, 4 = 11

>>21152192

>implying our ribs can't tank

Rolled 6, 7 = 13

>>21152192
Ooh, ooh, THROW!

We already got her other arm at our sticks mercy.

Rolled 10, 5 = 15

>>21152227
This. Slip past the hit and smash her face in with out forehead. Its coming straight to the counter.

>>21152269
with our* forehead.

She can't really defend when she's coming straight at us with both hands occupied.

Rolled 4, 4 = 8

>>21152192

Grab her left wrist to stop the palmstrike, then smash the shit out of her arm with the stick.

Hey OP, I was in the original quest, the one where we rolled as a claw ninja wannabe.

Keep going bro, I'm enjoying this quest.

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>>21152227

You twist as best you can to turn it into a glancing blow and whip your head into hers, hard. She lets go of your right hand and makes distance for the first time in the fight. She puts her fists up again.

You notice she's smiling for the first time.

>We have the initiative! Roll 2d10 to attack!

Rolled 1, 1 = 2

>>21152323
Initiate rushdown.

>>21152292

I liked that! Somewhere in this setting is a Claw Ninja that nearly challenged Boss Honda before remembering his girlfriend would kill him if he came home covered in bruises and with the police looking for him. He put those garbage-lid claws on the counter, bought Boss Honda a drink and left the streets to become a family man.

Rolled 5, 9 = 14

>>21152335
Oh god I've doomed us. I am so sorry.

>>21152335
dayum man

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>>21152335

Rolled 5, 3 = 8

>>21152347
It's funny because I got the high roll last time. I think I'll just put the dice down.

Rolled 5, 3 = 8

>>21152323
Feint a sideways blow to her temple with the stick (I assume we're holding it with the right hand), then throw a left body hook. Or whatever of the sort you can manage you eskrima wierdo. Straight punch to the solar plexus?

Rolled 7, 9 = 16

>>21152323
Dunno if the first one is always taken, but another roll can't hurt.

Charge!

Rolled 5, 6 = 11

>>21152323
I only went to drink and god damn. That sick sweet combo we keep seeing?

Yeah, do that.

Rolled 1, 2 = 3

>>21152399
And throw?

I hope we know how to throw. Because beating someone who's on the ground with a stick should be really damn easy.

Rolled 7, 7 = 14

Feint a strike with the stick and go for a body blow with our empty hand.

Rolled 10, 2 = 12

>>21152323
Don't hold back. There's plenty of girls who could kick our ass in the world, and though we're a man of honor, it would besmirch it to not fight at our best and acknowledge her as an equal.

That said, feint high and kneecap the bitch.

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>>21152335

Time to rush in while you've got the momentum. You feint with the stick and try to sweep the leg.

It couldn't go worse.

Skull Girl ignores the feint and closes distance again. Pulls her right fist back while your foot connects with empty air.

She hits you so hard you lose main character status for awhile.

>>21152488
Well, that went badly.

Does this mean we get back to the "FAMILY MAN" quest?

>>21152488
>She hits you so hard you lose main character status for awhile.

Goddomot. And now we play as her and just dismantle Anon, right?

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Your name is BOSS HONDA and you really wish people would stop kicking the shit out of you for just a little bit.

Little over a week ago you lost a fight to some fancy lad. Just a few days ago a girl in a skull helmet and biker gear knocked you out and threw you in a hospital elevator. It was cold, but it was cold with a certain style. You've actually sort of come to grips with it.

You now find yourself outside of the Shinkiro Community Center drinking malt liquor from a brown paper bag. Across the street an older karate hobo - maybe in his seventies? Sometimes they start aging in reverse, it's hard to tell - is being hassled by some Mad Gear punks.

>What will you do?

>>21152537
Eh, why not? We need SOMETHING to distract us. Let's crack some Neo Mad Gear skulls.

>>21152537
Casually walk over and kindly suggest they cease and desist before something regretful happens.

If that fails we start Hundred-Hand-Slapping their shit.

>>21152537
Haven't read olden threads, is there any way BOSS HONDA would side with the thugs just to be on the safe side and actually win?

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Rolled 9, 5 = 14

>>21152537

Mad Gear is always problem. Show them our expression by using Sumo Splash move on them for harassing karate hobo.

>>21152567
I disagree, boss honda is not the polite man anon is, when he wants to do something he will do it without the niceties, especially with punks like mad gear.

Our last sumo headbutt went really shitty, we should make sure we still got it by smashing into one of these fucks at full force.

sheeeeeeet son...
>>21152537
check if there's Poison around.
if yes, just lay on the floor pretending to be a wet cardboard box

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The old you would have flying headbutted straight into the bunch of them and started slapping left and right. These last few days have taught you the benefit of patience, or at least of trying to gauge your opponents before things go down. You put the bag aside and walk over to the old man.

"He's had enough, guys," you say. "Why don't you just head home?"

"The fuck did this guy just say to me?" their leader says. He's trying way too hard to look cool. "The fuck did this punk just step up to Neo Mad Gear with?"

This is going nowhere. At least you're standing between them and the old man when one of the young punks chucks a bottle at you.

>dodge it!
>tank it! SUMO STRONG

>>21152638
SUMO STRONK

>>21152638

Tank it. If we dodge it might hit the old man.

>>21152638
Sumo strong.

Rolled 5, 3 = 8

>>21152638

Let tank it!

Come at me bro!

>>21152638
>tank it! SUMO STRONG

Let the Slapping begin.

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You let the bottle crash against your head. The gang pause, waiting to see if you're hurt.

"AS IF I GIVE A FUCK!" you roar, and then it's on.

Rolled 8, 8 = 16

>>21152638
>Neo Mad Gear
lel
>use the nearest guy to tank it!

>>21152693
Ask how many fucks I give. Here's a hint: it's less than the number of headbutts you're about to take.

>>21152693

In seconds you've decimated most of them. After your last two opponents it feels like these punks may as well be made of cardboard. Pretty soon it's just you and Tryhard Coolguy standing.

"G-get back!" he says, reaching into his waistband. He pulls out a pistol, some shitty Saturday-night special. "Get the fuck away from me!"

You feel the old karate hobo's hand on the small of your back, and a warmth you've never felt before floods through your body. "Don't worry," he says quietly. "You're a sumo fighter. Do the slap thing.

>roll 1d100 for hundred hand slap

Rolled 23

>>21152724
Go go sumo slapthing.

Rolled 36

>>21152724
"Slap thing?"
"Slap thing?!"
BITCH DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM

Rolled 62

>>21152724
Do the slapthing

Rolled 48

>>21152724
>do the slap thing

Rolled 36

>>21152724
hobo-powered slap thing

Rolled 95

>>21152724

Rolled 70

>>21152771
You, sir, are the new King of the Slapthing.

Rolled 99

>>21152724

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq9n9bt9Wvk

I say we add that throw and falling final slap. We've been having a bad couple of days.

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>>21152806

>these rolls!

You feel the old man's energy coursing through your hands, something new but somehow familiar. It feels like summers when you were a child, when everything felt possible and the world was infinite. Like sunlight, like everything good in the world.

"Hundred Hand Hadouken!" you yell, fireball after fireball exploding from your palms.

Rolled 36

>>21152831
HELL YEAH DOSUKOOOOOOOI

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>>21152831

When it's over you feel drained. The way you feel after a good workout, or good sex. Drained but you still feel the charge of that energy.

The Tryhard Coolguy staggers, sways and falls down. Behind him the every window of the 7-11 shatters. Then you notice every car alarm on the block is going off.

The old guy tugs on your coat. "Cheese it! I can hear the fuzz coming!" You let him lead you as you run through a maze of back alleys, dodging sirens and hopping fences. You can't stop laughing with the raw joy of it all.

>pic unrelated, it just seems to get brought out every time Boss Honda appears

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You signed up for this event under the name Skull Fighter. People have been calling you Skull Girl all week, no matter how gender-neutralizing you think this outfit is. Your dad calls you Pumpkin, you really wish he'd stop doing that in front of people.

Your name is Ellie. You just punched out the Street Fighter for Metro City. Now you've got to decide what to do about it.

>He's snapping back to consciousness. What will you do?

>>21152963
That headbutt was pretty nice. Ask him if he'd like to learn how to really fight. He'll probably be thrown from a helicopter at some point though.

I feel genuinely bad that I lost that fight for us. So much for impressing the girl.

Rolled 64

>>21152963
Well this is akward. Beat on him some more I guess. Go for the mount and pound his face into the floor

Rolled 22

>>21152963
Punch him again. Make sure this scrub knows that the fighting world is not for babbies.

>>21152963

This was supposed to be an evaluation, not a formal fight. Tell him how he did.

>>21153000
Derp. Was thinking that bit of unconcscious was the end. >>21153006 works well enough.

>>21153000
Yeah. Thanks, man.

Rolled 37

>>21152963
Kill the guy. No reason to even consider weaklings like him.

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He may or may not be a threat, but there's no sense in letting him be more of a danger than he needs to be. You kick the stick out of the ring. He's starting to sit up, slowly.

"You're strong, I'll give you that," you say as he staggers to his feet. "And the headbutt was nice."

Reeling back and forth, the man puts his fists up. Manages pretty good form for his condition.

>round two! fight!
>ask him what day of the week it is. if he can answer, fight!
>try gently shoving him. if he can defend against that, fight!

>>21152963
Didn't we challenge him for the title and win? So we're the Regional Champion or something?
Let's ditch this scrub and go work on preparing for the next upcoming tournament.

>>21153071
This is Street Fighter Quest, not Mortal Kombat Quest.

>>21153049
Would've deleted my post but wit that being against the spirit and all...yeah.

>>21153079
>try gently shoving him. if he can defend against that, fight!
Let's see just how much of him is here.

>try gently shoving him. if he can defend against that, fight!
He really should just lay down and take a nap.

>>21153079
BASH HIS HEAD IN! Hit him so hard that that the quest gets back to the correct point of view.

>>21153124
I'm sure that the quest will come around when Anon KOes her.

>>21153136
Well, obviously someone needs to get their head bashed in.

Let's try the head that was originally responsible for this mess.

Rolled 9, 8 = 17

>>21153079

rolling for gentle shove

>>21153092

You decide to lean in and gently shove him. That'll be a good way to see just how awake he is.

At your touch he lashes out with a one-two combo. It misses you by a country mile, but it orients him in your general direction. Slowly, one step at a time, he advances.

"You can sit down," you say. "You can't win this." He throws out a jab that misses you by a foot and keeps walking. You take a step back.

"I'm serious. You might get brain damage if I keep punching your skull in," you say. He steps forward and throws outa one-two. This one almost connects.

Fuck it. You throw out a jab that should be just gentle enough to knock him over again.

>>21153158

You are Anon, Street Fighter for Metro City. You were knocked out for a bit until you woke up from the pain of a punch. You find yourself already standing up in a ready stance. Skull Girl is standing well within punching range, arms down at her sides. Funny how these things work out.

>roll for berzerker! 1d100

>>21153158

This guy means business, so do we. If he wants to play hardball, then let's treat this like an actual fight and not play around. It's his funeral, after all.

Rolled 44

>>21153181

ATATATATATATATATATATATATATATTA

Rolled 11

>>21153181
So much for fighting like gentle(wo)men.

Rolled 68

>>21153181
Funny how that works! GET MAD!

Rolled 96

>>21153181
GENDER VIOLENCE AHOY

Rolled 1

>>21153181
Well then. Time to MASH HARDER.

Rolled 74

>>21153181
oh shit, are we about to go full Satsui no Hadou?

Rolled 64

>>21153181
SHE'S SOMEWHAT SMALL.
THAT MEANS SHE HAS SMALL GUTS.
Oh well.
BLUDGEON AND BRUISE.
BLUDGEON AND BRUISE HER FLESH.

>>21153214
Oh my god I am so sorry about that.

Rolled 90

>>21153214
>>21153222
Ha. At least it wasn't me this time.

>>21153216

Actually, >>21153204 reminded me that Anon's entire purpose is to be the elegant gentleman.

Gentlemen, I revise the choices.

>berzerker
>do the gentlemanly thing. you don't need sucker punches to win.

Rolled 85

>>21153229

Berzerker... with STYLE and REFINED GRACE

That's how we fight

Since thread 1.

Rolled 37

>>21153229
We don't necessarily need to go berserk, but this girl of all people should know not to be sloppy in the middle of a fight like she is. Act like we're still dazed, then tag her real good with a punch.

"Didn't your school teach you to keep your guard up?"

Rolled 31

>>21153229
Just give 'er a 'Here I come' and start the rushdown.

Should totally keep these though.
>>21153208
>>21153227

>>21153229
Well, inform her to "Get ready."
>>21153208
Something along these lines. Gentlemanly berserk.

Rolled 8

>>21153229
Nope, berserk. Gotta go all MAXIMUM ANON on her ass.

>>21153273
God fucking dammit I should just stop rolling in these things.

(just like I should just stop rolling in CvS2 HEYO)

Rolled 79

>>21153229
We're a gentleman, and true gentlemen know how to waltz, right?
Weave, weave, punch to the jaw.

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Every instinct in your body is screaming at you to go berzerk. Every instinct in your brain is telling you to be a gentleman and buy her flowers.

You split the difference and bark out "Get ready!" Startled, she barely has time to get her hands into a ready stance before you start in.

It's brutal and messy, relying more on brute strength than finesse. At a guess you'd think this girl might even match you on the brute strength. You're not awake enough yet for your brain to register the pain of her counterpunches and body blows. You shovelhook a hard left into her ribs and follow it with a right cross to the face. They should put that right cross in textbooks.

Skull Girl barely stops for a moment. She chambers a punch and drills it straight into your midsection, firmly knocking the wind out of you.

"Stop, stop, stop," she says. She's actually laughing a little through her bloody nose. "You pass."

>pass out
>yay?
>KEEP FIGHTING

Rolled 66

>>21153320
>yay?
"Yay?"

>>21153320
>yay?

Rolled 91

>>21153320
Try and keep fighting. Or at the very least end the fight on your goddamn feet, looking like a man even if you mostly got your shit kicked in. Don't you even dare use the ropes or turnbuckles to help yourself up either.

>>21153343
She just conceded. Let it go.

Rolled 67

>>21153320
KEEP FIGHTING
RIP AND TEAR

That is like the third straight 90+ roll I've had. My luck now demands a period of -10s. I do believe I'll stop rolling as soon as I get my first shit roll,

>>21153320

KEEP FIGHTING

AND WINNING

"I defended the title. As the reigning World Warrior of Metro City, I have just one question:

Will you go out with me?"

Tell her to concede the world warrior match. If she does, then yay

>>21153359
No. Hell no. That's just weird.

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You throw out another straight that she simply backs away from. When you try stepping in to close range your head starts spinning. For a second you're convinced you can see the line of your people stretching into Valhalla. You shake your head and they're gone.

"I'm serious. If this goes any further you're going to spend the month in the hospital instead of the dojo."

"Title," you say, barely awake. "Who has the title?"

"I do. You were unconscious for like an entire minute." She looks you over, almost approvingly this time. "You have one month. Train your body, harden your fists and become a first-rank fighter. Then you can try to win it back from me."

"Seems fair," is all you manage to say. "See you in Southtown."

"Yeah." She steps halfway out of the ring before turning back. "For the record, I would've liked it better if you hadn't held back. Give me a good fight next month."

You barely have the brainpower left to wonder what she meant as you stumble out of the ring into Karate Joe's waiting arms.

>>21153454
and smell. Can we even smell things anymore?

Rolled 45

>>21153454

I think we faint harder in arms of Karate Joe...

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That's it for today, I was supposed to spend the last three hours cleaning the apartment instead of writing a quest thread. Whoops?

Here's a hint about tomorrow's quest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y69hSa02LC0

While I'm at it, is this starting time for the quest working for most people? Concerned I may be running it too early for most people that want to participate.

>>21153524

Honestly it's peachy for me, more or less after I'm done with lunch and before I gotta go do other stuff. I'd love it if it kept going like this

Rolled 24

>>21153454
So we're not learning from the Kyokugenryu people? Damn.

>>21153524
btw, if we ever decide to train our grappling/throwing and you make Segata Sanshiro one of the masters I will love you like I love my family.

>>21153581

Sorry if I was unclear - we haven't put it to a formal vote yet, but the overwhelming response in the other threads was Kyokugen. Karate Joe just happened to be the biggest guy around to catch us.

Also I love that picture of him and this might be his last appearance for a a little while.

>>21153586

You're going to have to pass a lot of ridiculously hard checks to defeat him at any Saturn games. He probably won't train you until you do.

Rolled 17

>>21153615
>Sorry if I was unclear - we haven't put it to a formal vote yet, but the overwhelming response in the other threads was Kyokugen.

Sweet. And the time works fine I think.

>>21153615
And the games improve our coordination, reflexes, timing, concentration and endurance. And then we'll have mixed Segata Sanshiro with Yu Yu Hakusho. You see, now, why this must be done.

I just want to say I love this quest. I don't even know why, it's just very satisfying to me. And the time works well too.

That actually makes perfect sense. And the guy's probably an absolute beast at Virtua Fighter.

>>21153678

...hm. I know a way to work him in. I'll get some Segata Sanshiro images together and throw him in when it's appropriate.

>>21154965
You are a fine man. A fine man, indeed.

>>21155214
>>21153880

Y-you too.

That goes to anyone who's said nice things about this quest. It's nice to know people like it! Thank you for coming along with me on this ridiculous journey.