>>21170728
Time to buy some more shotgun shells in the short term. We need a revolver, though, because it plays both into the PI archetype and the gritty gunslinger archetype, and both of those are survivors. Once we're somewhere safe, let's continue on that PI license. We really need it if we're to survive.

Interesting, so this is whats become of the summoning grimoire thing.

Rolled 80

>>21170728
Summon sprite!

Previous Thread:

You are Roxie Cohan. Untill recently, you were a hipster barista with a B.A. in art history with no home but the bar you worked in. Nowadays the most significant trait about you would probably have to be the fact that you are a fucking cat.

<So? Where is the GPS saying you are> You ask Leet, your boss and fellow warlock.

You see him panning out on his smartphone map.

< Massachusetts I thi. . . Salem? really? Actually I guess that makes sense. With the way magic works being in a historically significant place with ties to witchcraft probably makes you stronger or something> He answers.

<Well I guess just try to catch a plane back?> you suggest.

>>21170787
Roxie has it in the basement, but she is a cat.

Leet got summoned somewhere and doesn't know where he is. He needs to find out his location and try not to look like a madman running down the street with a shotgun.

>>21170815

Forgot to actually put the previous thread by the previous thread spot.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/21164535/

>>21170815
Ask her if she can find a teleportation spell in the grimoire or something. Some kind of portal. This is a dramatically-appropriate time to find a portal, or if not now, then in a few minutes when one of those demons is closing in on us.

>>21170815
Try not to be a cat, and see if we can find a spell to summon Leet back here.

>>21170856
we could always try to pact the hipster to an imp for his safe return

>>21170800

Roxie both cannot summon a spryte right now due to the lack of hands to draw runes with, and has no desire to summon a Sprite due to being turned into a cat and nearly killed last time. Also last time she summoned something she ended up unleashing 3 demons in the world.

<So can you find a person summoning spell in there?> Leet asks you.

<Even if I got that lucky, which I never do, I wouldn't be able to arrange the ritual.> you reply.

<ok, I'll just let you know when I'm about to get ripped a new one by demons and then you'll probably get it>

You sigh, which comes out as a hiss.

You hear a knock at the door.

>>21170917
is there a cat-height window where she could look outside? i kind of doubt it's a demon...not that shew can open the door anyway

>>21170917
Meow

>>21170917
Shit, let's look for a person-summoning spell again. We need Leet back here ASAP before someone busts in and steals the grimoire.

>>21170917
have her find a window to look out of, if they appear non-demonic, then use the wizard search engine to find a person summoning spell

>>21170996
>wizard search engine
Oh shit, this. Totally forgot about that.

You check it out.

The window reaches from the floor to the ceiling so you can see out of it easily. On the otherside of the window is a man with an eyepatch, a woman in a black gown, and another woman in street cloths. You recognize the first two as a warlock and a witch from the place Leet literally just escaped. You have never seen the third one before.

<Leet they're here!>

<I can see, hide the grimoire or summon something>

<Summon an imp?! That's probably the succubus!>

<yah I guess she can teleport, or maybe the witch can, I don't know. Do something, I'll be there in a couple days unless you figure out a way to teleport me>

>>21171013
yeah! she can't cast it though, so he needs a teleport spell or something

>>21171022
Wizard search engine.

Rolled 76

>>21170917
Or.. she could go to /a/ find a mastah, i am sure there are plenty looking for cat girls, literal cats...
----

Look for teleport spell to get leet back.

>>21171022
This sounds like as good a time as any to try summoning an eldritch lord

>>21171013

The idea comes to you to research spells on the internet. you scurry downstairs to where the laptop is and do your best to type with your awkward paws. God dangit why do Tor browsers have to be so damn slow.

<It would be faster if you didn't download all that shit onto my laptop> Leet points out.

<The browser IS what I downloaded asshole>

You hear the knock again. Why would they wait a whole minute just to knock again.

You find a ritual to summon a person based on longitude and lattitude.

< Alright do it now, I just got out of the gun store.>

<shells?> you ask

<shells.> he confirms.

<I don't know if I can do it>

<TRY, or at least grab the grimoire and i'll summon you. We can't let a demon get it>

You hear a knock again, are they taunting you?
What do you attempt

>>21171022
push the grimwoire behind/under something so that it's hidden and then look for teleport spell on search engine until the people inevitably break in, then pretend to be a normal cat

>>21171119
Try out the new ritual, I think. Oh, and hide the book.

>>21171119
Have leet try to summon you with the new ritual

>>21171119
>shit i was late
focus on summoning Leet, if time allows hide the book

>>21171119
Summon Roxie and the grimoire to Salem. Private investigators ironically end up operating best when NOT on their home turf.

>>21171119
Have Leet summon us.

Even with more shells that Succubus will probably kill our shit.

>>21171158
It would be best to take out the witch now, though. She is going to cause problems if we leave her. The succubus is probably non-hostile, as I do believe she saved our asses already once.

>>21171191
She did not. It was the angel that saved our asses. The succubus is quite hostile.

>>21171202
Okay. But I still feel uneasy leaving the witch alone, given that she has tried to kill us once already and can teleport.

>>21171174
the description for succubus says not stronger than a shotgun and we have a shotgun and the power of archetypal P.I. magic I think we can handle her

>>21171233
Actually, since when do PIs get in shootouts at their own homes? Their homes are usually reserved for sleeping, and all the shooting and research and whatnot is done elsewhere.

>>21171135
I think I want to change my vote to having him summon us and the book.

>>21171227
The succubus is a far, far deadlier threat.

>>21171045
I can see that working in sick twisted way,
Anyways i vote for teleport the fuck out!

>>21171269
A cat is fine too.

>>21171255
Damn you're right, the only times that happens is in the third act when the bad guy decides he doesn't like the P.I. snooping around.
>change my vote to Leet summoning us and the book

>>21171322
I actually plan to take all my ques on this guy from Demonbane, so I hope we run into a magic loli sooner or later.

There is a lot of conflict among the logical part of your mind as to what the best plan is, and the indecision threatens to waste what little time you has.

Thankfully your cowardice makes the decision for you.

<I can't do it> you say.

<Ok, just stare at the ritual for a bit, I'll do it here>

You jump up to the laptop and stare at the screen, watching him write the runes on a concrete ground with some kind of marker. He is in a ally, semi-public. You hope no-one sees.

You hear footsteps down the stairs. How did they get in without making a sound? The door was locked!

<Leet. . .>

<Shut up I'm working>

you curl up on top of the grimoire, sink your claws into its cover, and feign sleep.

"There it is," You hear a cold voice purr. "Eleraim's Grimoire. The cat has good tasts." The speaker laughs and the hair stands up all across your body.

"Ha, I scar. . ." the air shatters around you.

You are laying before Leet, who appears to have armed himself with a new double barrel shotgun and a thick overcoat.

"Finally, jesus christ." He says, scooping down to pick up the tome.

>>21171284
I know....

OK now cast shroud spell !

>>21171332
Is the shotgun side-by-side or over-under? Anyway, we'll be needing to find a spell to mask us from scrying and other locating spells soon. We'll probably figure one out near the end of Act I, when shit starts getting realer. Until then, let's find an internet connection somewhere, get on scryorb, and try to find a way to fix Roxie. A second set of reliable hands would be profoundly useful right now.

>>21171332
first order of business, get that P.I. licence

>>21171332
Haha, this is crazy.

I wonder if the Noir Detective archetype is actually working.

>>21171376
According to the last thread, that's about a week away at the soonest.

>>21171382
Of course it will. The alternative, of course, is death.

>>21171382
We would have certainly died in the basement had we lacked it.

>>21171390
good point, until then let's work on magicking up the boomstick and masking our presence, i think Roxie works better as an incognito helper than as a human

You are Erik Leet. Former small business owner, current P.I. and neophyte warlock.

"Now what?" you ask the cat at your feet.

<Go back home I guess>

"they will be waiting for us don't you think?"

<Maybe, but they also just teleported to us across the states, they may be able to follow teleports or something.>

"yah, another good question is where is the other demon that was with the succubus."

<you think it's following you>

You look over your shoulder, half expecting to see it.

"Yup."

<allright. . . pick me up, lets go.>

". . . What?"

<pick me up, have you seen how short my legs are? if we are going to walk all the way across town to find some hotel or whatever to set up shop I'm going to need to be carried. If your scared for your masculinity consider it offset by the shotgun in your other arm.>

You sigh, and pick her up.

Where to go. . .

>>21171424
I'm not so sure. If she had hands, that would surely be most useful. I'm hoping for a spell that lets her shift between human and cat as she pleases. That would be an ideal scenario, since she would retain the 'nine lives' advantage from her feline archetype. That way both Leet and Roxie would have survivor archetypes.

>>21171443
Literally anywhere with free high-speed wifi for the smartphone. Somewhere that lets you take pets into the hotel room or shop, ideally.

>>21171443
How much money do we have? If possible, a decent hotel would be good, and then we should do some research.

>>21171443
Where do we actually live? Not in the cafe we own, right?

Anyway, it will take a while to get back home, by the time we're there, they might have left already. Lets go back.

>>21171454
good point, also kudos on the magic system OP, i really enjoy it
>>21171443
roach motel with free wifi

We are currently suspicious as hell. If we want to fly back, we need a case for the gun and a carrier for the cat. Otherwise we need to appropriate a car or something.

>>21171613
Magical PI in witch country, and you want us to go back home, a home probably laden with magical death traps to boot?

>>21171613
>>21171623
I vote to shroud spell to mask our presence and leave the country.

Your assets are dependent on your small business, Leet's, the bar you own in Tampa Florida. You basically randomly closed today without explanation due to your entire world being turned on its head, but if you want to not go broke you are going to need to manage it. You can't even call people in to cover for you with all the shit in the cellar right now, and the possibility that the place is a demon hangout now.

You sigh.

If you just remove all your funds from the bar though you'll be sitting on quite a bit.

you decide to stay at a motel at least one night before heading home. Making sure to pick a place with good wifi.

<any masking spells yet> Roxie asks.

You flip through the book. "No, damn thing isn't giving me anything."

<I can't find any polymorph magic online. All I see are recommendations to summon a Spryte if you want a poly effect, and there's no way in hell i'm doing that>

"you sure?" you ask

<Well. . . I don't know, what do you think?>

>>21171647
No, we need to set up base here. This is the best place to be short of R'lyeh.

>>21171647
We'll need a shroud spell for that, and we won't get one until we're tracked down at least once more, according to the rules of magic, since that next time will be the third time.

>>21171661
I vote we summon another sprite and prepare to sell off the bar.

>>21171661
Let's go for it, but only if we're seriously confident when it comes to containment procedures. Do the equivalent of taking 20, if need be.

>>21171692
Taking twenty implies several failures before success. You can't do that when failure could have dire consequences.

>>21171661
look for a way to make our weapons more effective against magicy shit and then summon a sprite to turn Roxxie into a were-house cat

>>21171692
Or we could just wing it.
>Catgirl familiar time go!

>>21171661
Summon a Spryte. Physically secure the Grimoire beforehand by locking it in a drawer or putting something heavy on top of it.

<Alright, we are going to have to go outside though. Can't draw on the motel carpet>

You head out to a empty lot behind the hotel, you take out the grimoire and and do all the necessary procedures before then hiding it under a dumpster.

You chant to summon a Spryte.

[roll 1d100, goes to first]

Rolled 28

>>21171896

Rolled 93

>>21171896
Rollan.

>>21171905
>>21171906
pfft

>>21171905
>>21171906
Heh. Damn it. Well, good thing we have shells for our shotgun.

>>21171905
Nothing happens, you try again.

>>21171906
The air above the runes shatters, leaving behind a technicolor plane of alternate reality. It crumples closed quickly, leaving a foot high humanoid female with dragonfly wings in its wake.

"I. . .Wha. . . Are you a warlock!" It asks, slowly gaining excitement.

"A man warlock! Wow I never thought. . ." She suddenly seems overtaken by sadness. "y. . . you dont even have a hat. . . No one will take me seriously now. . ."

The spryte is bound to the circle and cannot return home without your consent.

>>21171985
I'll let you go home, but you need to turn this cat back into a human girl.

>>21171985
"I need you to undo a polymorph done on my friend." Indicate cat.

>>21171985
"I'll put on a hat if you turn this cat into a human woman."

>>21171985
Now this is precisely what this quest needed - hats.

>>21172015
>I'll put on a hat if
My fucking sides, mate. That's probably the best bet for what would work too.

>>21171985
can you turn this cat into a catgirl?

>>21171985
Being summoned by a warlock without a cool hat. How embarrassing.
Tell her we'll fashion a hat and put it on if she'll "return this cat to the exact form she had before she was a cat".
Also tell her that if she can make it so that Roxxie can switch back and forth at will, we may sweeten the deal.
Bargaining has to begin somewhere.

>>21171985
Promise to get a hat if she works for you. Fairy familiar get.

>>21172045
And then we get a proper fedora

>>21172084
It is traditional PI headwear.

>>21172045
Promise to pay her in sugar.
The small fae like sugar, right?
Put on hat and release her back to her realm for undoing Roxxie's affliction.
Some sugar plus the former if she can switch back and forth at will.
A regular supply of sugar and every other Tuesday off if she becomes our familiar.
And we get a Fedora regardless.

>>21172128
Probably should not start making odd deals like that. Start light and see how far it goes. Hell, maybe she hates sugar and that will offend her.

I glanced at the OP's name and thought Deity Quest had returned. Oh well.

>>21172176
I thought the same at first. Oh well.

>>21172146
Well, we should ask her what she likes, first, that's a good point.
I still think we should make similar offers, though, at least in regards to what we get out of them. What we offer can change based on what she wants.

" I will put on a hat and send you home if you transform this cat back into a human woman."

"WOman? Is that like a subspecies of man?" the Spryte asks, genuinely confused,

<OK! Whats the fucking deal with you fairies and thinking men are the representatives for our whole race. . .>

"Roxie. . ."

<I mean, over half the freaking population is female, and in fact we are more crucial to the species then men! I get that. . .>

"Roxie shut up." You interrupt.

The Spryte seems quite flustered. "um. . . I'm sorry I think?"

"It is basically like me, but with your anatomy." You tell the Spryte.

<And without wings!>

"and without wings" You agree.

"but. . . why wouldnt she want wings" The Spryte aks.

"look. . . Can you just undo a polymorph cast on her by another Spryte?"

"Not unless that Spryte wanted me to! Which is really silly cause then that Spryte would just do it herself rather than ask me to." she answers.

<JUST MAKE ME A HUMAN GIRL> shouts Roxie.

"but then you would have wings and. . . I want to see the hat first."

<for fucks sake, I'd rather just deal with a demon>

You try to think of better wording for your demand. Also, it seems you need a hat. Perhaps a pact is in order so that you aren't standing out here in the open with a fairy for a few hours while you buy a fedora?

If you wish to enter a pact, just say so and write the pact, along with a d100 roll to gain priority over other wordings

>>21172218
Any lawyers here gonna take a crack at our new fairy familiar?

>>21172218
Keep the wings for awesome factor! big roxie with wings I approve.

>>21172218
"I wish to enter a pact with you. The pact will last until you perform one polymorph and I am wearing a hat. After the pact is concluded, you will return to the wyld. Is this acceptable?"

>>21172218
Just use the same terms for this pact that we used with the imp when giving it the list of musts and mustn'ts.

>>21172247
Roxie doesn't want wings, that wouldn't be nice.
Ask what the Spryte likes, what she wants. Get to know her so we can make an informed deal that maximizes both of our gains.

Rolled 56

>>21172271

>>21172268
Stop trying to send her back. She could be pretty useful beyond one shapechange.

>>21172218
"You will be my familiar in and return I will wear a hat."
What could possibly go wrong?

Rolled 74

>>21172218
Pact:

Spryte will make honest, concerted attempt to polymorph Roxie (currently in the form of a cat) back into a human female. In exchange, Leet will acquire and don a hat prior to dismissing Spryte back from whence she came.

Along with the standard pact boilerplate about not lying or hurting eachother.

>>21172278

You will prephrase your pact with that same list of preemptives just to be safe.

>>21172294
Don't ask that, this quest runs on narrative causality so asking will show us how wrong things can go.

>>21172277
My reasoning for this is, if she ends up back in the wyld, we could get a reputation as a nice warlock who's good to the fae he summons.
That would make future bargaining and dealings with sprytes easier, because they may not be so intent on fucking with us.

Rolled 75

>>21172302
This.

Rolled 12

>>21172294
Gonna roll for this so we can avoid sending her back.

>>21172317
That was just a typo. What I meant was "what could possibly go right?"

Rolled 91

>>21172277
But it would be cool. i'd do it to my friends.

>>21172302

"[lay down the law] also, Spryte will make honest, concerted attempt to polymorph Roxie (currently in the form of a cat) back into a human female. In exchange, Leet will acquire and don a hat prior to dismissing Spryte back from whence she came."

"The Pact is accepted!" the Spryte shouts happily. Moving from her circle and floating directly onto roxie, mounting her like a horse.

<the last encounter i had with a spryte ended with me biting its head off>

"Why did you do that? Was she trying to kill you? hex you? curse you? summon you? eat you? rule you? sex you? speak to you? harm you? trap you? inconvenience you? lie to y. . ."

you grab the Spryte lightly and set her in a inside pocket of your overcoat before Roxie kills are gets killed by her.

Ok lets go find a freaking hat. . .

>>21172378
91!!! keep the wings on roxie

>>21172393
Too late. Some idiot just send home our chance at binding a magical being to our side while we try to evade a full fledged witch, succubus, and unknown number of servants and allies teleporting across the country in search of our head.

>>21172388
On the plus side, once we have a fedora, we'll be even more in line with the archetype and therefore one step closer to unkillable.

Rolled 6

>>21172419
Why not a pimp hat? I'm rolling for it!

>>21172388
We should tell Roxie to quit antagonizing the spryties. It's best to just play along with their antics so we stay on their good side.

>>21172408
I'd say sprytes are too unstable to keep around for any significant period of time, it's too likely they'll get bored and do something stupid and dangerous.

>>21172429
Fuck....

>>21172429
Because pimps get killed all the time. We need a survivor archetype, not just a nice hat. The way we dress, the titles we hold, the way we act, these are all fundamental aspects of the way magic works in this setting. We need to BE the noir detective. That will guarantee we survive past the third act, to matter how battered and bruised we get along the way.

>>21172429
Fedora is more thematically appropriate, so we could fool the world into assigning us a major archetype with it.

>>21172433
None of them are going to serve us well unless we rope them into a good contract, which is what we had a chance to do.

>>21172433
>I'd say sprytes are too unstable to keep around for any significant period of time, it's too likely they'll get bored and do something stupid and dangerous.
So much this. If we could get another angel, though, THAT would be worth keeping around.

>>21172408
I've taken magical shits more useful than a bound spryte.

>>21172453
Reminds me of the Avatars in Unknown Armies.

>>21172461
Summoning an angel seems like a good idea. At the very least we can point it in the direction of the succubus or the enryies to fight our battles for us.

>>21172453
>neophyte warlock
>>21172460
What setting is this? I don't know. Hell what game are we playing? I wanna joing but i don't want to screw up

>>21172466
But Leet hasn't. He doesn't have any magical shit to work with here. And we need some magical shit in order to combat warlocks.

>>21172491
Unless it tries to kill us for infringing on the territory of god or destroy the grimoire and leave us vulnerable to the people after our head.

>>21172491
>Reminds me of the Avatars in Unknown Armies.
Precisely. That's how magic works in this setting. The only reason the spells work is because someone built a warlock archetype and then penned some nonsense that worked because someone with the warlock archetype penned it.

>>21172497
Just read the first thread.

Don't female bookish sidekicks live the longest? For sidekicks, that is.
We need to get Roxie to act a bit more like that, so she doesn't die.

>>21172497
The short answer is that magic works by following themes. We're going for the private eye archetype as they tend to survive just about anything. So we need to look, act, and think like a stereotypical private eye.

>>21172531
She is a cat at the moment, which gives her phenomonal luck and several lives. Turning her back into a normal human is going to put her into a very dangerous situation, and as she is a liberal arts college student and apparently feminist is not going to play along with that.

>>21172544
ok, then, why not go die hard next time?

>>21172548
Why the fuck are we making her a human again?

>>21172572
Fuck if I know.

>>21172572
She does not want to be a cat.

We're making her a human because why not.
That's what it seems like.

>>21172572
>>21172578
Because good guys survive longer than bad guys. And a P.I. would never let a dame just suffer if he could help it.

>>21172572
We're a P.I., and they always trouble with the dames. Or they are the trouble

>>21172572
Because she wants hands and a voice and stuff. Ideally, we'll leave a little bit of cat in there, like feline eyes or something. Enough to leave her with the 'nine lives' thing.

>>21172602
>>21172605
damemind

>>21172582
A cat is fine too.
God we need this char dead so we can go Die hard with Brooklyn cop who just divorced.

>>21172602
The archetype is a base line. We are using it to give us a chance because this guy is a random bar owner. But that does not mean your are bound to the archetype either. That does not mean the villain has to fail. Especially a villain protagonist. Which brings me to my next point; if this guy dies, I vote we have the next one pronounce himself king of the world.

Thirty minutes and a thousand explanations of why you need to either stay in the pocket or wait outside later you have a fedora.

You head back to a relatively secluded spot and allow the Spryte to watch you don it with great aplomb.

"YAY! The Spryte exclaims happily. "Now it is my turn to make honest, concerted attempt to polymorph Roxie (currently in the form of a cat) back into a human female!" Her voice is suddenly serious "Do I have your consent mortal?"

<Uhm. . . Yes?>

"YAY! ok Roxie I want to to image what you looked like before very hard. We are going to do this together ok?"

<That. . . Is actually very comforting> Roxie answers.

"GREAT!"

The light seems to increase around the three of you. You almost feel lighter, and the air seems to refract colors it shouldn't.

Roxie turns transparent, then shifts into the form of the pixie, then grows about four and a half feet, then assumes the facial structure, hair color etc. . . that you knew from before all this. About half way through you also take off you overcoat and hold it up near her, realizing the odds were good she was going to be naked. When you throw it over where you assume her to be after the magic fades, however, she quickly throws it off revealing herself to be wearing a much larger version of the Spryte's armor/dress. She still has wings.

"I. . . Wait no you. . . " She seems dizzy.

"GREAT! be sure to duck in 12 seconds or else be Erinyes practice! 8 seconds now! Bye!" She disappears.

you begin scanning the area around you, shotgun ready, but see nothing.

Rolled 18

>>21172610
CAt girl? I vote sprite screws with us a bit.

>>21172622
We don't have enough setup pieces for that because we don't have any crazy combat skills. We drink too much, lack just enough self control to get into trouble, and had a marriage ended by our vices. We work in a bar and advertise as a private investigator, and will have a license therein by the end of the week. We're pretty much solidly in 'noir detective' territory, which is great because those guys survive ANYTHING, no matter how painful. At this point, we just need to keep reinforcing that archetype.

>>21172635
Count to six and tackle her to the ground.

>>21172635
Fucking DUCK in six seconds.

>>21172635
Duck.

Rolled 56

>>21172653
>>21172635
Those wings....
sexy.

>>21172635
Damn, she left Roxie with wings and nothing cattish? Okay, we're going to need to fix that, because right now she has no survivor archetypes going for her. Anyway, at the 12 second mark, duck, and make sure to pull down Roxie too.

>>21172635
Count to six and duck

Rolled 90

>>21172689
Well i would be dead i just rolled 56 to look at ehr wings...fuck
roll for quick thinking to goose, ii mean DUCK

>>21172693
She now has some ties to the fae, however, which gives her a distinct step up from what she wanted, which was to be a normal human again, and she was clearly not going to play along with any useful character archetypes.

>>21172707
Who just gave us godly ducking powers?
I did.

>>21172714
I think we're only rolling when we're summoning things, brah.

>>21172712
Yeah, but she needs some kind of survivor archetype, even if it's something she is rather than something she does. Being a catgirl, even if just in the eyes, would make a huge difference. Getting her to be a plucky assistant, a Robin to our Batman, could work too.

Maybe as a part fairy Roxie can play up the unbelievably lucky trickster angle to protect herself. We should start buying lottery tickets.

Rolled 83

>>21172635
Tell her to start making cryptic comments referencing obscure things in nature that are somehow relevant to our current situation in retrospect.
She fae-touched seer, now.
Also duck.

>>21172714
Okay, I'm asking this seriously. Are you drunk? Because you're annoying and spammy.

>>21172732
So far it seems like she's getting into the comic relief archetype. Which is good, because the comic relief usually doesn't die.

>>21172721
I'm rolling for everything, it makes it more chancy.
In life you can duck but the roll dictates if you fail or not.

>>21172739
I hate it when I forget to turn dice off...

>>21172743
True. Well, if we keep bouncing from failed transformation to failed transformation with her, that archetype might stick. Good call.

>>21172743
They get mortally wounded.

>>21172743
Though she will probably have a lot of comedic misfortune befall her such as unwanted transformations. Better than being dead.

>>21172732
Didn't Batman go through at least 3 Robins due to them dying under unnatural circumstances?

>>21172772
Just one, and he came back.

>>21172741
You don't have to be drunk to be an asshat.

>>21172772
One died...as far I remember

>>21172772
Most of his Robins are dead, crippled, or emotionally traumatized to the point they can no longer lead a normal life. His current Robin is alright, if an underaged rape baby.

>>21172788
I'm not the only one who finds him annoying and spammy, though, right? It's really obnoxious.

>>21172805
Absolutely not, no.

You see no thread. You aren't sure Sprytes can actually see the future, and if they can you are fairly sure warning you about it invalidates it or something.

But damn if you didn't begin counting down the seconds the moment she said it. And without a moments hesitation you tackle Roxie to the ground at 0 seconds, as you weren't really sure who the Spryte was talking to.

You feel the heat of the sun off your back for a brief second as something human sized flies overhead.

You roll off Roxie, shotgun readied, and scan for your target. You don't like the idea of firing this loud weapon outdoors in a city, but no way in hell your fighting that thing without it.

You don't see the shadow, you feel it. The slight coolness on your back as the winged creature swoops in from behind you.

You lay flat and bring the shotgun up horizontal, deflecting the sword but causing the blade to slide across the smooth barrel right into your right hand, where it digs inches into your pall before sliding out.

You cry out in pain as you bring the barrel around to point at where you know the momentum of her swoop will take her, and fire. A cloud of black feathers appears where she was and a loud thud shakes the ground a few meters ahead of you.

>>21172805
Yup.

>>21172827
Noir detective for the win. We get banged up, but we survive. Anyway, interrogate her, then kill her when she inevitably tries to backstab us during the questioning. We intended to be merciful, but it's clearly not an option. That's how this plays out for our archetype, right?

Rolled 69

If this character fails, we need to have our next guy improbably gather copious amounts of girls of various species who are enamoured of him together, including one who would usually be or once was an enemy. And never actually make it with any of them.

you stand up and look at your hand. You're surprised you could even pull the trigger earlier, the cut seems to go straight through the muscles that let your index finger operate. You also see the form on the ground move up ahead. You try to ready your shotgun again but find that with the realization of how hurt you are you can no longer work the trigger, or even bear any weight on that hand.

The erinyes is on her feet now, bleeding from the back, but not apparently lethally wounded.

>>21172827
'what the FUCK man'

>>21172889
Grab shotgun with left hand, prop against shoulder, use leverage to angle the gun.

>>21172889
Shrug it off. Decide it's just a flesh wound and fire again. Embrace the noir detective archetype.

>>21172889
Switch gun to other hand, tuck stock under arm. Have a hard time missing from this close either way.

Trouble will be when it comes time to reload.

>>21172889
Stay on the ground, don't say a goddamn word or get proliferated with more buckshot.
Switch gun hands, our character is ambidextrous, it helps with the barkeeping, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Archetype stuff about magic and shit.

>>21172889
From now on we are not directly looking at any of our injuries. What we don't know can't hurt us. That said, grit your teeth and keep fighting.

Do we have a .357 snub nose revolver? If not we need to get one badly. A shotgun's got great stopping power, but a P.I. needs his classy revolver.

>>21172889
Ah, narrative ignorance. So it does work that way.
We need to be careful what we try to enforce.

Rolled 69

>>21172918
Does our liberal arts major know how to put shells into a shotgun?

>>21172889
"Put your hands where I can see them and lay down on the ground If you want to remain in one piece."

>>21172932
Oh, we need a hip flask of whiskey. It's a great pain killer. Just take a swig of it every time you get injured.

Cut off hand, buy and attach chainsaw

Alright no more observing our own injuries if we can help it.

Archetype shopping list:
Bourbon
Overcoat
Revolver
Stubble

>>21172964
Oh, this. A hip flask and a .38 special.

>>21172973
We already have an overcoat.

>>21172889
Don't let the Erinyes know that you're hurt. Even if it feels like hell, you need to keep up the appearance that whatever you just got hit with is a flesh wound and that you are still more then capable of handing its ass to it

>>21172973
We got a coat and hat already. I think we've got cigarettes but I'm not sure.

>>21172996
We do have cigarettes.

You consider using magic or trying to club her with the weapon, but decide to go with just shooting her again. You struggle the butt of the shotgun against your left shoulder and grip the trigger with your left hand. You rest the barrel on your forearm and. . .

The Erinyes knocks the barrel away from her with her sword. Both of your weapons are now overextended, but you can see her other clawed hand moving for your face. Cold fear races down your spine as you remember what the succubus did to that warlock, stabbing the eye. You know you wont be able to exert enough force with your right hand to push the blow away.

so you step in and headbut her in the nose. Her thumb slips into your mouth and she gets a grip on your cheek. You lean back as much as she lets you and headbut her again, both of you falling to the concrete floor. You hear somthing metal hit the ground near you and to your left. You grasp it with your left hand and stab the sword into the Erinyes' flank. The claw comes loose from your cheek, taking a nasty bit of meat with it, and falls limp to the ground.

Next time you remember not to treat these things like humans. Shoot till they die. kill them as quickly as possible. Use magic if you have to, catching your hand on fire sucks in the long-run but it it gives you a edge in a brawl with one of these monsters do it.

you roll off the Erinyes and feel your cheek. That's going to leave a bad scar. . .

Perfect. . .

>>21173030
At least we're alive. Survivor archetype for the win. Let's get stitched up, get a shot of whiskey, and most importantly check the grimoire for the healing spell that's certainly now there to fix our hand.

>>21173030
Get alcohol, some to clean wounds, some to drink. Give Roxie our coat for now so that she doesn't look like a giant fairy as we attempt to leave this interdimensional crime scene.

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"That was a close shave."

I picked a bad week to quit sniffing glue...

>>21173086
It is absolutely vital that you continue doing that.

>>21173086
Yes, keep it up with the puns. They may very well save our lives.

>>21173117
I'll do what I can.

Another possible one liner, "That dame was a cut above."

>>21173146

Not liking this one so much.

Rolled 10

>>21173146
I think she got the point, though.

>>21173066
>healing spell
>not mangled first aid
come on man try to stick in the archetype

>>21173178
Wouldn't surprise me if we can somehow turn our flask of whiskey into some kind of alcoholic healing potion.

>>21173178
Yep, lotta gauze and some amateur stitches, liquor as disinfectant and painkiller.

>>21173178
The shot of whiskey might be sufficient to fix it enough to repair the hand's motor skills, but I'm not sure if we're deep enough in the archetype yet. For now, we absolutely need our trigger finger back.

After we get patched up and purchase a few more archetype items we need to start looking for clues on how to deal with the other two demons and their whereabouts.
Can't really claim to be a P.I. if we don't investigate.

>>21173178

Staying in-character is important, but if this doesn't work right we're going to have a permanently maimed trigger finger. Let's try to play it safe.

>>21173222
Shit, that's what Roxie needs to be! Our Watson! Have her document our shit, write it as a story or whatever. The reporter/writer/bard/whatever following around the protagonist always survives.

>>21173201
>>21173236
We could always try mangled first aid, and then, if this is ineffective at returning use of the trigger finger, using a healing spell if one is available?

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You sit up, leaning on your good hand. Roxie looks hurt, maybe you tackled her to hard. The way she is curled up brings "broken rib" to mind. You wonder if her new flight ability came at the cost of bone density.

You laugh out loud at the though, this magic that makes almost no logical sense deciding to just this once do what's a little tiny bit more logical just to fuck you over.

You drag the grimoire over and see what you got.

. . .

Nice, just what you needed. Though you think it looks really difficult.

You need to get going now... lots of people heard those shots.

What to do with the body. . . Roxie. . . yourself. . .?

>>21173244
Genius. She can't tell our story if she doesn't survive.

>>21173263
Exactly! Have her start a blog or even just a twitter feed. That will keep her alive and out of the line of direct fire.

>>21173272
Opening up a world of magic to the general populace will either have us written off of senseless crazy people, or even worse, will convince them what we are saying is true.

>>21173256
We should take Roxie back to the hotel and patch up the hand a bit, then try out some of this restoration magic.

>>21173256
Fix the hand, fix Roxie's rib before it punctures her lung, set the body on green-fire, then get out of there. Once back at the hotel, make Roxy properly human, maybe slightly cattish to exploit the nine lives aspect of the archetype; just cat eyes would be sufficient.

>>21173256
Roxie's supernaturally light now, we can carry her. Take her and the grimoire and flee back to the motel.

>>21173290
Then set the tweets to private; just as long as they're being written.

>>21173293
Why not just leave her in her form? Sometimes it works better to go with the flow.

You cast Emerald flame

First roll d100

Rolled 61

>>21173316
/tg/ stop fucking me over.

Rolled 97

>>21173316

>>21173313
She gets broken ribs from a protective tackle and has wings that totally blow any cover we might have. We need to fix this.

>>21173290

Have Roxie start it up as a "fictional" story where her employer is secretly a badass PI magician. Say she got the inspiration because of how his taking up the PI business sort of came out of left field after a really bad day at the bar, so she made up an explanation that she thought was most interesting. It's the sort of thing a hipster would do anyway (although that does mean we run the risk of magic deciding that it's true, which could be bad).

>>21173256

If we can cast that ritual twice in about forty seconds, let's patch both of us up. Otherwise, let's scram. At some stage we need to test if we can Control Form Roxie into a cat since she's already been one. But only after we have access to rez magic in case it goes horribly wrong.

>>21173325

You nail it, and throw the emerald napalm all across the Erinyes' body.

You move over to Roxie. Moving her could puncture her lung, you need to try to heal her. After that your going to tail it out of here.

Cast Control Form

Rolled 1

>>21173359

Rolled 52

>>21173359
Here goes nothing...

Rolled 78

>>21173359

>>21173369
Shit.

>>21173369
Guys, we may need a new dame.

>>21173369
Oh, god. We just killed her, didn't we?

>>21173369
So punctured lungs huh?

Rolled 94

>>21173359
They see me rollin'

>>21173359
Also, for a suggestion for questing Uraemrys, you probably don't want to take the first, go with randomly selecting which one you use and keep the number to yourself. This way you can fudge rolls if completely necessary just as a DM can behind a DM Screen

>>21173372
On the plus side, this gives us a haunted past and a reason to hold all future girls at arm's length, further strengthening our Noir archtype...

>>21173369
here's hoping roxie is a cat again

>>21173369

Oh.

Well, hipstercat may have made a good familiar, but I'll be honest, Roxie was not super great in the dame department.

>>21173412
True, but damn it.

>>21173412
We'll have to make a stoic promise to avenge her.

>>21173433
>it's literally all our fault
>no really, literally it is
>"I will avenge your death."

>>21173474
Definitely her fault.

You hastly try to perform the ritual while ignoring your own pain.

These both of those prove impossible to do, on top of a unfamiliarity with the ritual and its general difficulty you couldn't have failed worse.

You can hear the cracking, she screams loudly in pain, coughs blood, and begins gasping for air.

You don't know what to do.

You think you can actually see the splinters from her almost hollow bones poking through her flesh. You hear the first hint of sirens on the distance. you look around yourself.

A grimoire, a spryte summoning circle. human sized spryte, and a pyre of emerald fire.

You don't know what to do.

She looks up at you with mixed confusion and pain, and though you doubt she is lucid enough to know that it was you who did this, you think you even see betrayal.

you look around again, struggling to keep your shit together and beginning to very rapidly fail.

>>21173480
PERFORM IT AGAIN

DON'T YOU DIE ON ME GOD DAMMIT

>>21173480
Grab your shit; the grimoire and the shotgun and anything else we left, and run.

Doesn't the 94 count for anything?

>>21173499
Definitely does not outweigh the one.

Rolled 91

>>21173480
Desperately try again.
Desperately.

>>21173480
Try it again.

Rolled 84

>>21173480
AGAIN WITH THE HEALING SPELL, QUICKLY!

If that fails, leave her, promise we will come back for her, and we shall, maybe someone else can help her. Some council or something, actually that might work in the end. Some supernatural occult council covers it up, helps her, and we, through our PI archetype track her down and come in communication with said council.

>>21173511
No damn it, if we try again the cops will get there and we are fucked. Think for a damn second. Nothing short of a miracle can save her by now.

The sirens grow louder, but you tone them out.
This isn't how this is going to happen. You'll figure a way out, and it will be without letting this girl die.

Roll again First roll

Rolled 54

>>21173534

Rolled 71

>>21173522
If we leave her, we irrevocably lose our Noir Detective archetype. No self-respecting PI would leave a dame in need.
The only option, literally, is to try again.

>>21173551
Well now she will probably live just enough to be a cripple in agonizing pain for the rest of her life instead of dying, and the cops will get here.

>>21173548
There she should be stable enough to move. Get the fuck back inside the motel, lock our door, and do not answer it for the police.

>>21173562
As long as she lives we can always cast the spell again to fix the damage. Though we should get her stabilized first and only try the spell in a safe location.

>>21173586
Assuming she and probably us are not hauled away by the police moving toward us.

Rolled 65

>>21173551
Well, if we leave her, we have to pick up the cold and calculating Noir Detective archetype instead.

>>21173604
We'll probably have a heated argument with the police and might get called a loose cannon but will otherwise get off scottfree.

Her face contorts into another scream, but she doesn't have enough air to produce it. Still, this time you helped, your sure of it. But you aren't sure it was enough.

You pick her up, forgetting about your wounded hand, and grab the grimoire. You run out of there as fast as you can, but can hear tires screeching across the court before you round the corner.

But you don't stop running, something in your mind seems to click, like unlocking a new spell only more personal. Your stamina seems limitless, bound only to your will.

You cannot enter the hotel with Roxie like this. You are now somewhere you are sure the cops wont find you, and where the public cant see you.

Roxie is alive, but unconscious. Probably in shock or something, you don't know, your not a doctor. But you need to figure out how to get her to one, preferably without having to use the control form spell on her more.

>>21173647
Could we look up doctors in a directory on our smartphone, call one, and then through careful wording get him to consent to come see a patient, and then use the summon person spell?

>>21173647
She has fucking wings, we can't take her to no doctor.
Actually, her being unconscious is better for us to do more control form spells on her since she wont feel pain

Well I need to be getting to bed. If we manage to heal Roxie tonight or accomplish any other tasks, be sure to make a witty quip.

>>21173709
>almost killed her once with it
>LET'S DO IT MORE

>>21173733
No idea where you pulled those quotes from, but I think we should let her rest for now. She is a fairy now or something, so maybe she can heal herself if we leave her to rest.

>>21173690
We should call that doctor who comes to our bar every so often and owes us for some vague thing we did for him way back when.

put another down for letting roxie chill for now
since we have no idea where we are and we probably don't want to leave roxie alone, can we opt for trying to heal our hand in case we end up needing to fight again soon?

Rolled 46

>>21173767
this, I like this

Unfortunately as you spend time trying to figure out what to do with Roxie you realize just a little too late that you have been neglecting you own injuries. Blood loss and coming down from the supernatural adrenaline high suddenly take their toll and you. You sit against a building just for a moment, just to regain your balance, and before you know it you are out cold.

>>21173752
I was summarizing what had just happened, and that anons suggestion.
Since he was using bad logic to make it sound like a good idea.

>>21173767
He's in Tampa. We're in Salem.

>>21173854
Neither of which are actually quotes, of course.

Rolled 10

>>21173856
I completely forgot about that.

You are Ted Sours, and you are the luckiest hobo in the world.

Two people just walked into your home and both are sleeping, you think. They could also be dead, but you don't want to think about that.

They have clearly been in some kind of fight recently. The man almost looks like half his face got ripped off, and his hand is sliced up real bad. The girl you don't know what is wrong with. You think she is one of those cosplayers wearing fantastical armor and plastic wings.

Anyway, that isn't the reason you are the luckiest hobo in the world. The reason is that the guy had a book of magic on him.

Oh, I forgot your personality traits, right.

You are brilliant, lazy, emotionally maladjusted and medically diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

So anyway, a book of magic. You've always known it exists, and you've always known it was your calling. I mean, who could control the illogical forces of magic better than a schizo right? Well maybe that fairy girl. . . NO, not a fairy. That is the illusion, dont pay attention to it.

hm. seems like only some of this is legible, the rest is clearly chicken scratch.

You head to the back of the ally and try to figure out what to do first with your power,

>>21173909
Time to take over the world. Maybe we should consider calling in some magical creature to serve us?

>>21173858
We're lazy. Summon a Fae to do all the casting for us. It looks risky but we're too good to fail.

Rolled 11

>>21173909
cover up the bodies, wouldn't want any unwanted attention, he also has a gun, we should take that and any ammo he has

We can question them after they wake up.

Rolled 63

>>21173948
I am going to regret this so much, but do this and start summong a Fae.

You see the shotgun and take it, you stash it in a secret place. You don't take the shells though, then you would have a loaded gun and you cant be trusted with loaded gun. . . Now back to that grimoire. . .

OH you almost forgot to cover them up, you dont want them getting cold. The best you can do is a few trash bags however, but you think it should help. Especially that girl, she is in no way dressed appropriately for this weather. shame on her.

Yes the Fae does look nice. . .

You go for it!

d100 first roll, +5

Rolled 3

>>21174002
>Mad hobo gets a plus 5 to magic

HERE WE GO

Rolled 31 + 5

>>21174002
Please do me well, /tg/.

>>21174011
Well my idea was to turn the next character we got into king of the world, so hopefully we can suduce her. I knew I would regret this.

Rolled 5

>>21173909
We throw a die decide what to summon. One is an Imp, two is aSpryte abd so on.

On another note I leave the last thread thinking the next one would start with us summoning Celestials and goping demonhunting. Intstead of a Celestial inclined to help us we summon a fucking spryte to heal the fucking hipstercat, turn her into a giant pixie and almost kill her, get almost killed ourselves and now a hobo has the insanely powerful grimoire. Fan-fucking-tastic.