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>>31606045
Canis cries out somewhere behind you. You turn around to see the Wolf-Hair Bard grabbing at his posterior, Trove standing above him.

“Whyyyyy!?” Wails Canis, “My ass!? Really!? You shot me in my ass!?”

“I warned ye! Yarr!”

You notice Lilac's head pop out of her tent. “Are we under attack?” You almost didn't notice her. With her lilac hair; fuzzy, lilac hat; and lilac eyes she was practically camouflaged against her lilac tent. You got the distinct feeling she really liked the color.

You yawn. “Not yet.” You can't seem to remember how to fold your tent up, so you just ball it up and shove it in your bag. “Trove is just waking everyone up.”

You turn around again and see Lilac taking down her tent. How the hell do these people actually accomplish things this early in the morning?

“You SHOT ME in THE ASS!” Canis continues to complain.

“Aye, an' if ye don't start getting' packed by the time I'm done reloadin' I'm gonna do it again.”

You and Canis were the only sane people in this crazy group of early risers; even the golden-armored Judicature is packing up her tent.

Your eyes scan the horizon and as far as you can see are just bushes, sand, and a lone cactus. You look back to the group and notice that Lilac has not packed away her sleeping bag and pillow. You tilt your head in confusion when you suddenly realize her plan. She throws both onto the cart and climbs aboard. You stare in utter jealousy as she covers herself up in the sleeping bag and rests her head on the pillow. Why the hell didn't you think of that?

“Yarr! We be ready to set sail!”

You look at the cart, and then back to Trove.

[ ] Farm Cactus Men for their fruit before leaving.
[ ] Lilac has the right idea. Go back to sleep.
[ ] Start traveling.

>>31606068
>[ ] Farm Cactus Men for their fruit before leaving.
FFFFFFFFFFFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDD

>>31606098
Also if we can't sleep, nether can that Lilac bitch

>>31606068
[X] Farm Cactus Men for their fruit before leaving.
I wholeheartedly support making booze from their fruit.

>>31606168
>>31606098
Just going to call the vote there.
[+1 Fruit Farmer]
[+1 Enemy of Cacti]

>>31606068
>[X] Farm Cactus Men for their fruit before leaving.
And maybe try to find more monsters that drop food to check if this is a one time thing.

>>31606346
“Not just yet.” You respond to the pirate, “We should go hunt some more Cactus Men. We can level off of them and more importantly they drop real food with a real taste!”

“Yarr.” The pirate nods in agreement, “And with it we can make some grog!”

You were quite certain you needed rum to make grog, and whatever rum the pirate may have had was certainly no longer rum.

“The samurai code agrees with this action.” Takeshi says, having somehow gotten behind you. “Only Ambrosis and I have tasted the flesh of our enemy. Everyone must taste the fruit for us to grow as a unit.” Takeshi nods to his own made up rules.

Getting away from Takeshi, you go up to the cart and prod the tiny Lilac. “Hey.” You say, “We're going to go farm some more Cactus people. You're coming with us.”

“No.” She responds.

“If you don't get out of the cart, I'll drag you out.”

“No.”

You grab her lilac sleeping bag and start to pull, dragging her with it. “Let me say that again. Get up.”

“No.”

You yank her sleeping bag, and her with it, off of the cart. She lands on the ground with a small thump. "I warned you."

She pouts a bit before finally getting out of the sleeping bag and rising to her feet.

"Alright!" You announce, "It's time to get to work!"

You and your party head out into the desert, pulling Cactus Men towards your group where you slice, shock, shoot, stab, and beat them to death. Time passes, at least a couple of hours, but soon you have yourselves a basket full of Cactus Fruit.

"Eat!" Takeshi commands, "Eat and gain their strength! Gain the power of photosynthesis!"

Everyone digs in, now understanding the taste they had so greatly missed. Everyone except for Judicature, that is. The duelist just nibbles on her piece of fruit, but hardly eats half of it before she stops eating it all together.

You notice Canis take notice of this. "Something wrong?" He asks.

"Hm? Oh. No. I am just not hungry."

[cont]

>>31606346
Well that was quick.

Also I had a thought a few days ago... what if a fox tail got stupidly lucky with his/ her random skill swaps becoming a mish mash of abilities from different classes in the game that happen to sync up perfectly?
Like casting an aura that heals for 3/4ths of the damage of your next attack, then launching a massive kill strike that would normally drain most of your health, only to have it bounce back up?
Or a mage in cloth who can tank?

>>31606661
She is not looking at you. In fact, it feels as if she is avoiding looking at you.

Was she ignoring you?

What a bitch.

The group soon make their way back to the cart, basket of fruit in hand. Everyone piles into the cart and you set out on the road once again, Canis in front, you beside him, and everyone else in the back. It does not take long for the monotony to get to you again. Bushes and Sand. Bushes and Sand. Cactus. The sun slowly makes its way across the sky. Bushes and Sand. Bushes and Sand. Tree.

“Are we there yet?” You ask to no one in particular.

“At a standard rate of speed,” Lilac informs, “It takes about an hour of travel to reach Ekechi 51.”

“We've been traveling for about ten hours now!” You pull out a lever.

UP

DOWN

UP

DOWN

Lilac looks up to the sky, and then back to you. “Each day in game is only an hour IRL.” She pauses, “Perhaps our travel speed has been slowed down the meet the speed of this world.”

“So how long have we been going, then?”

She rests her head on her hand in thought and, after a pause, responds, “Twenty five minutes.”

“And there's no way to go faster?”

Judicature butts in, “There is a way.”

You look to the Duelist in the bandoleer of knives. You wait for her to explain, but she does not. After what feels like a minute you finally ask, “And that way is..?”

“I could drive the cart.” She responds, “I have eighty-five levels in the Cavalry subclass.”

You stare at her. You stare long and hard. Then you yell, “And you're only telling us NOW?!”

She is taken aback by your shouts. “I thought it would be rude to demand taking over the cart.”

“Just... I...” You jump into the back of the cart and throw your hands up in the air. “Just give her the reigns, Canis.”

[cont]

>>31606661
The Betrayer shows its true colors! Strike them down while they are weak.

>>31606750
“Hya!” Judicature shouts, and the sudden burst of speed sends you falling to the floor of the cart. Your opinion of the <Morning Star> member only worsens.

Moving yourself into a sitting position, you decide now is a good time to ask everyone about their subclasses before something like this happens again.

“So, what's everyone's subclass?” You ask the group, “Canis' is physician, Judi's is Cavalry, mine and Lilac's is engineer.”

“No it's not.” Lilac responds.

You raise an eyebrow, “But when I asked for all the engineers to-”

“I AM an engineer, but-”

“You have two subclasses!?” Takeshi blurts out.

“No.” She responds, “My subclass is blacksmith, but I, as in the real me, am an engineer.”

You are not entirely sure how to respond, so it's a good thing that Trove took it upon himself to continue the discussion.

“Yarr! I'm a brewer! I brew me own rum!” He says, “I have enough rum to drown the ocean!”

“And all of it is water.” You say offhandedly.

“Yarr...” The pirate responds with a broken spirit. Perhaps you should not have said that.

You look to Takeshi, “And you're a...?”

“Only the most important profession in the samurai code!” The assassin responds, “A chef!”

You let his statement sink in for a moment before you respond, “How is a chef important to-”

“If I have to eat all of my enemies, I need to be able to cook them first!”

You should have known that would be his response. You have no idea why you asked. The conversation dies there. The boredom comes back.

Bushes and Sand. Bushes and Sand. Cactus.

Bushes and Sand. Bushes and Sand. Tree.

You begin to fiddle with one of your levers again.

UP

DOWN

UP

DOWN

You needed to get another conversation going before the boredom consumed your mind.

[ ] Ask about what they did before the Databasing.
[ ] Ask about guilds.
[ ] Screw these guys, call your brother.
[ ] Screw conversations, start singing sea shanties!

>>31606785
[ ] Screw conversations, start singing sea shanties!

>>31606785
>[ ] Ask about what they did before the Databasing.

>>31606785
[X] Screw conversations, start singing sea shanties!
Singing is a great way to pass the time and piss off people.

>>31606785
>[ ] Ask about what they did before the Databasing
So Lil is an actual engineer. Perhaps she could use her real world knowledge to help us level up our game. Provided she's a mechanical engineer and not something worthless to this world like electrical.

Lilac... come on Lilac. You're super low level and we need to grind your ass if you're going to survive this trip and avoid the inevitable super sad death scene.

>>31606785
>[X] Screw these guys, call your brother.
See if the riots have started yet

>>31606893
>Can't talk, looting rare weapon dealer and burning potion shop

>>31606876
>inevitable
You can stop it from happening, Anon. All you need to do is choose the correct options.

There's not a lot of people here right now, I'm dropping the vote requirement to 3 instead of the normal 5.

And drawfags around that might be able to whip up some quick sketches of our band of adventurers?

Rolled 2

>>31606850
>>31606821
>>31606809
>>31606803


Calling vote due to time.
Dice gods decide our fate!

1) Sea shanties!
2) Pre-Databasing Profession.

Well this thread turned into a ghost town pretty quickly...

>>31607086
Pre-databasing!

>>31607396
Yep; obligatory backstory episode inbound.

Also I found a link surfing suptg that might be helpful to you TinyShepherd:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1emQ6IYzRYN4MG45Zl9a-0UH0ARuWLaBB_U924NXc-DY/pub

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>>31607086
"So..." You begin to ask, "What did everyone do before the Databasing?" Part of you can't believe you just used Takeshi's word, but the other part of you stopped caring at this point. "I was a student studying computer science at uni." You explain, "Which probably isn't the most useful thing at this point."

"I studied psychology." Canis says from up front, "Same university as Ambro."

"You two knew each other?" Lilac asks.

"Our friendship is so old, it could order a drink at a bar!" Canis announces.

It was true, and the two of you had realized that a month ago in a bar no less. You had proceeded to try to open up a tab under your friendship and order some drinks, but intangible concepts are apparently unable to open a tab.

"High school student." Takeshi says. There is a pause in the conversation, but he simply leaves it there.

"Weapons engineer." Lilac states. "I can't say anything other than that."

"So, a military job?" You inquire.

She pops a cactus fruit in her mouth and says nothing more.

You look between the two who have yet to speak. "Trove, what abou-"

"Yarr! None of that matters, we're adventuring now and that's all that matters! Yarr!"

You look at Trove with suspicion, but do not ask further.

"What about you, Judi?" You ask.

She mumbles something.

"I'm sorry, what was that?" You ask, "I couldn't hear you."

"I'm a..." She pauses, "It doesn't matter. Hya!" The horses begin to move faster.

You look between the two who did not answer. How suspicious these two were. All of the outlandish, secret professions danced in your head. Remorseful assassins? Secret agents? Prostitutes? You were not very interested in what they did before, but now you felt you needed to know.

Lilac stands up and looks over your head before ducking down. Trove, who is on the same side has her does the same. You turn around to see a giant wave of dust heading your way.

"The hell is that!?" You yell.

"Sand storm!" Lilac announces, "We need to get to shelter now!"

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Great, I just notice the thread is up and I have to leave in five minutes to go venerate Rabbit God or whatever the hell this holiday is about these days.

Try not to die horribly in a sand storm before I get back. Or do, should it prove more amusing.

>>31607587
Trove is probably a huge NEET, which is why he wants to escape reality so much.

Lilac is a NERF developer.

"I'm a... betrayer" - Judi

>>31607587
QUICK someone magic up shelter

>>31607834
>My name is Michael Westen. I used to be a spy.
>Until, “We got a Burn Notice on you. You’re Databased.” *Whistle*

>>31607834
Or maybe Judi is a bit tsundere About Ambro ?

>>31607587
Ford the storm.

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>>31607587
"Someone needs to keep me healed!" Judicature yells. The horses suddenly gain an insane burst of speed.

The wind begins to pick up, it is becoming hard to hear. "Why the hell do I need to heal you!?"

"Horse Symbiosis!" She yells, as if you have any idea what that means.

"It's a cavalry ability!" Lilac educates you over the raging wind. "You take damage over time to increase the speed of your horse!"

"Who the hell would do something like that!?" You yell.

"People who gotta go fast!" Judicature yells. The cart shakes as it barrels along the uneven road and a pothole almost flips the cart over. "Hang on!" The duelist continues.

You notice her HP begin to lower quite quickly. Drops of blood begin to flow from her mouth and slap you in the face from the wind. You do your best to keep her HP up, but her HP is draining faster than you can heal.

"Yarr! Where our port for this storm!?"

"We are almost there!" The gold-clad woman responded.

Sand begins to pelt you. You try to shield your eyes from the sand, but to no avail. With your eyes closed you are more or less healing blind, for lack of a better term.

"We're at least four hours away from Ekechi!" The light-purple one responds. "Where are you- OH!"

"Yes! That place!"

"Is this the best time for a quest like that!?"

"For the best quest in the game? We can always make time!" She pauses, "No spoilers!"

"Secrets are against the samurai code!" Takeshi yells, "What are you two talking about!?"

"We will be there any second!" Judicature responds, "Someone hand me a healing potion!"

You try your best at healing and can only hope Canis has a healing potion on hand. The cart comes to a sudden stop and you go toppling over the front of the cart. "WHY DID YOU STOP THE CART!?" It only now dawns on you that the wind has suddenly stopped.

Judicature responds, "It's afraid."

You have no idea what she means by that, but you open your eyes to see a large mansion standing before you.
[cont]

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>>31608105
>"People who gotta go fast!" Judicature yells.

She's got her priorities straight at least.

>>31608105
Burn it to the ground.

YOU'RE TOOOOO SLOOOOOOW
C'MON STEP IT UP

>>31608105
>Haunted house
Yes
YES
YEEEEESSS

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>>31608105
The storm appears to be raging all around, but not in the area of the mansion. You turn to the cart. "Where the hell are we!?"

"Mr. Boddy's mansion!" Judicature says with absolute glee.

"Who!?" You respond.

"Hya!" The cart goes barreling past you. God damn bitch.

You meander all the way up to the front gate, your face does not hide your rage. You begin to flip your switch to calm down.

UP

DOWN

UP

DOWN

UP

DOWN

It does not help very much.

"Alright!" Judicature says excitedly, "You all ready for the greatest quest in the game!?"

"No." You say, "I am not ready for spooky mansion stupidity."

"But it's the best quest in the game!"

"It's only C-" Lilac begins to say, but the duelist cuts her off.

"No spoilers!"

Lilac looks to you Judicature, then to you, then back to Judicature, then back to you. "It's Clue."

Judicature yells in agony, "Spooooooileeeeersssss!"

Takeshi adds his opinion on the matter, "The samurai code says that one should always find a way to test their mind."

"Yarr! The butler did it!" Adds Trove.

"Spoilers!!"

"Yarr. I've never been here before. Ye just spoiled it for me. Yarr."

You can't take this any longer. You push through the door and announce, "SELECT OPTION OPEN PARENTHESES ACCUSE BUTLER CLOSE PARENTHESES!"

Inside the mansion is a well lit hallway with a marble floor, four doors, and a stairway upwards. There is not a single person here.

"MENU DOT ACCEPT OPEN PARENTHESES CLOSE PARENTHESES!"

There is only silence.

"Where is everyone?" Judicature asks. She runs over to one of the doors and opens it up, "There's no bodies!"

"Perhaps the event did not start yet." Lilac responds.

"But then Jim Kurry would be here!" She points to a spot on the floor.

"Then maybe the event is over."

"Then he'd be dead and right there! Also, Mr. Boddy would still be in the room! Why is everything missing!?"

"Yarr! Ye need to calm down!"

"Best quest, Trove!" Judicature grabs the pirate and begins to shake him, "BEST! QUEST!"
[cont]

>>31608545
CLUE IS AWESOME. THIS GIRL GOT IT RIGHT

>>31608545
Judicature's reminding me a LOOOOOOT of one of me ex's right now.

Glad to see she can get excited about things though.

>>31608545
Judi might not be so bad after all.

>>31606785
Small question.
Is the rum actually water or just tastes like water?
The alcohol is "supposed" to be fully powered but merely smells/tastes like water if crafted via menus.

>>31608545
"If ye don't let go, I'll shoot ye."

She lets go and takes a couple steps back. "Sorry." She sighs, "I guess there is nothing to do here now that the best quest is gone forever!"

"That is not completely true." Lilac rebuttals, "The mansion is still a place to hide from the storm and also has a working kitchen, well, and several bedrooms. This will be the only place we can stay in a real bed till we reach Ekechi. I suggest we take this opportunity to not sleep on the ground tonight." She pauses, "Furthermore, it has a bathtub and I would like to not be covered in sand for the rest of the day."

You turn to the front door to see Canis driving the cart through the front door. "The hell are you doing!?" You exclaim.

"Making sure the cart stays safe." He responds. In some strange way, it did make sense, so you said nothing.

It looked like everyone had already decided to stay for the night, but the night was far away. There had to be something to do here.

[ ] Take a bath.
[ ] Get food from the kitchen.
[ ] Look around the bedrooms.
[ ] Other

>>31608807
reminder that we need to trick takeshi into making food the old fashioned way so we can have food with taste

>>31608807
[ ] Look around the bedrooms.
Maybe there's someone around?

>>31608807
>Take bath
>try not to masturbate

>>31608807
>[ ] Take a bath.

>>31608807
>[X] Get food from the kitchen.
And hope to hell that the food here doesn't taste like soggy unsalted crackers

>>31608807
Bath with Judi and Lilac

>>31608807
[X] Head down to the basement.
You know what's going down.

>>31608807
>[X] Other
>Search spooky scary house for supplies

>>31608880
>>31608896
>>31608903

[-1 Rep with Judicature]
[-1 Rep with Lilac]
[+1 Perversion]

>>31608986
Do we still have any of the fake levers around?

>>31608986
Well I guess there's no winning with Judic-
>>31608880
>>31608903
You guys just HAD to...

>>31608807
>[X] Other
Ask if this quest is based on the board game or the movie.

>>31608986
>we split up
>in a murder mansion

We are going to die first aren't we.

>>31609112
Based on the video game that was based on the hit movie that was based on the boardgame.

Are those guardian NPCs limited to just the cities? Because if not then I feel we're about to get shanked.

>Takeshi dies I can't NOT think of IGPX when I say that name and everyone just says "Welp..." and waits out the sandstorm normally.

>>31608807
Hey TinyShepherd, think we could eventually get a description of how each character looks?

>>31609305
I don't think so, no. In the other LH quest; there's one in the Lighthouse location in Dixie where another quest chain starts. It's quite possible that someone's just mukken about.

>>31608986
"I'm gonna take a bath." You say and then point to Lilac and Judicature, "You two can join if you want."

They both give you less than pleasant looks.

"I would rather not." Lilac responds.

"No thank you." Says Judicature.

"I ... I was just joking." You say with an awkward chuckle.

"I do not think that changes what you just asked." Lilac replies.

After a couple of minutes of silence you ask, "Where is the bath?"

"Top floor, master bedroom, unless you want one of the smaller, servant baths."

"No... That's fine."

You trod up the stairs. Why the hell would you ask such a stupid question!? God damn it, why are you so stupid some times!? These thoughts permeate your mind until you finally find the bathroom. Fill up the tub and painstakingly take off each of your sand and grime filled pieces of armor and clothing. Good lord did you smell putrid right now. Perhaps you should wash your clothes after this.

You slide into the warm waters. It feels like it's been so long since you were able to just relax. You grab a bar of soap and begin to lather up, shedding the layers of gritty junk from your body and, most importantly, getting sand out of your certain crevasses. The sand sinks to the bottom of the bath and you slide deeper into the warm water.

Ring ring.

Ring ri-

You pick up a call from your brother.

"Hello?" You ask.

"Hey!" He responds, "How goes?"

"It goes well. We're at Mr. Boddy's mansion right now."

"Yeah!? Shit. Best quest in the game. Hands down."

"That's what I heard."

"So, what part are you on? Do you need help?"

"Nah, the quest never started. The house was empty when we got here."

"You're kidding!"

"Nope."

"Shit. Well, the answer was it was all of them except Sir Reen, who's an under cover magistrate. Oh, also, the butler, Jim Kurry? He was Mr. Boddy all along."

"Cool."

"No, I'm not spoiling it for him! The quest broke so he can't even complete it, so I'm just telling him the ending."

"Is someone else there with you?"

[cont]

>>31609533
So we are not on a playful banter level with our party members yet...

>>31609533
>Presumably they all killed the same guy and no one knew about it
heh

>>31609600
You'd think they'd be used to us spearing out although we haven't really joked. We've been pretty serious business with a massive side of eccentric.

Lilac double plus confirmed for no fun allowed type and Judi... I don't think she liked us much anyway.

>>31609533
>>>31608545
>Best quest
best quest
>>31608807
>best quest


>doesnt let us do the quest
;__;

We're about to reenact The Hills have Eyes aren't we?

>>31608807
>[ ] Get food from the kitchen
Did this place suddenly empty our or something?

>>31609733
Who says?

>>31609846
Ya for some weird reason activity was high to start with then died down. Petty weird.
Once the quest hits its stride though I bet we'll get more.

>>31609930
>>31609846
I think we are just waiting for a post

>>31609533
"Hm? Oh ye- No!" Your brother yells, "No one else is here with me!"

"Then who were you ta-"

"Hey! Want to know a guild secret?"

"Do I have to join your guild to find out?"

"Nope!"

"Sure. Lay it on me."

"Food, right?"

"Following you so far."

"You know how when you craft it into something it loses its taste?"

"It does?" You question, "I just thought anything pre-Databasing didn't have taste."

"Databasing?"

"It's our word for... whatever happened that got us stuck here."

"Oh. We call that... Dramatic pause... The Event."

"Pffft! The Event?"

"It was better than the Loggening!"

"Well, if you only had those two options, that makes sense."

"What were we talking about again?"

"Food."

"Right! So, when you craft food it loses its taste, right?"

"Okay..."

"Well, we found out a way to keep the taste!"

"Cool. You gonna tell me how you did it?"

"Nope! Guild secret. Now, if you joined us..."

"No thank you. I have no need to follow someone calling themselves KingAzebo."

"Pffft. You're no fun. King's the coolest."

"Mmmhmmm...." You begin to sink further into the water.

There is a long period of silence.

"So, what'cha up to now?" Your brother asks.

You resurface your mouth and respond, "Nothin' much. Relaxin' in a bathtub."

"Yeah. Doin' the same."

"Oh yeah? Great minds or some shit, I guess." Then something dawns on you. "Wait, weren't you talking to someone just a second ago?"

Click.

You sink back down and sigh up bubbles in the tub.

Between the bubbles you hear a faint voice.

[ ] Listen for voice.
[ ] Ignore it.
[ ] Yell for help.
[ ] Go running out towards the hall while yelling for help.

>>31609957
>[ ] Listen for voice.

>>31609957
>[ ] Listen for voice.

>>31609957
[ ] Listen for voice.
[ ]Try and dry off and get dressed quietly. No caught naked in bathroom shenanigans

>>31609957
[X] Sing sea Shanties.
It will be done eventually.

>>31609957
>[ ] Listen for voice.

>>31609981
>>31610049
>>31610068
>>31610147

[+1 Caution]
[-1 Genre Savvy]
[-1 Metagaming]

>>31610164
I've got a feeling shit's about to be less clue and more House on Haunted Hill.

>>31609957
Hmm, seems our brother is a chronic liar between all this and leading a raid without armor.
or he's flamier than buddhist monk ghost rider names johhny storm

>>31610412
No; he'd still be a slut. Being gay and dressing like a slut doesn't make you not a slut.

>>31609957
>KingAzebo
A gazebo pun? That's bad

>>31610412
Either that or he isn't even in New York and just trolled us for calling him out for his armor

>>31610164
You wait and listen, staying as still as possible. You swore you heard a voice, but it could very well just be Canis screwing with you again, like he did back in college. Fuck scary movies after midnight with best friends.

You heard the voice again. It's repeating something. You slowly get out of the tub, trying to make as little sound as possible. You grab a towel and dry yourself off methodically. The voice keeps going in and out, but you think it's coming from somewhere above you. You try to stand as tall as you can to make it out better, but it's just not enough. You decide to balance on top of the tub and put your ear to the ceiling. You can hear the voice better. It's definitely masculine and you think it's saying...

"Swa-"

BANG BANG BANG BANG

You instinctively leap in the air, hitting your head on the ceiling and landing in the tub with a loud splash.

BANG BANG BANG BANG comes from the door. Your hands begin to shake and your voice trembles. "H-h-hello?" You ask.

[cont]

>>31610678
"Others need to bathe too, Ambrosis." Comes to voice of Lilac.

You are both elated and pissed the fuck off. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU KNOCKING LIKE THAT!?"

"Would you prefer I not be heard?"

"Who the hell is above us right now, by the way?"

"Takeshi, I think." She responds, "I think he's doing something in the attic."

You put your head in your hands. Of course it was Takeshi. This murder mansion is getting to you. What the hell are you even worried about anyway, you're an adventurer. Any NPC trying to murder you would be level 10 tops. That might be enough to take out Lilac, though. Perhaps you should keep an eye on her?

"How much longer do you think you will be in there?" She asks.

You sigh more bubbles and throw the now wet towel to the floor. Taking another towel, you dry off again and take your dirty clothes in hand. You open the door and there stand a quite perturbed Lilac. She does not seem to have much joy for your presence currently.

"Oh come on, it was only a joke!" You say.

She shoves you out of the way and slams the bathroom door behind her.

You sigh once more and wonder what to do now.
[ ] Go clean clothes.
[ ] Go get food from the kitchen.
[ ] Go look at the bedrooms.
[ ] Other.

>>31610702
>[ ] Other.
Go to the attic and tell that fucker to shut up

>>31610702
[X] Go to the basement.
I stand by the 'stab the beast' school of ghost busting.

>>31610702
>Clean cloths

>>31610702
>[ ] Go look at the bedrooms

Since I'm waiting for people to vote...

>>31610191
I think you mean BETRAYal at House on the Hill

>>31610412
Both are possible.

>>31610504
And here I thought it was the promiscuity that made one a slut.

>>31610512
It's terrible. King is a horrible person.

>>31610518
Possible.

>>31610904
Takeshi is working with the NPCs isn't he? I knew we couldn't trust that punk.

Rolled 4

>>31610991
Possible.

Also, all four votes are tied. Dice Gods save us!

1) >>31610740

2) >>31610762

3) >>31610862

4) >>31610873

>>31610991
It's the way of the samurai
testing your blade on hapless victims I mean.

Rolled 4

>>31611027
You decide now is a good time to look at the rooms and stake a claim. You enter into the master bedroom, the one with the large, ornate bed, only to find a crudely scribbles note.

>Lilac's Bed

Is what is written.

Part of you wants to crumple up the note and claim the bed for your own, but that would no doubt cause even more problems between you and her. You travel down a floor to the servant rooms. They are much smaller, both the room and the beds. It looks like while you were cleaning yourself, everyone else was busy staking a claim. There is only one room left, the one with the wobbly bed. It could be worse, though, at least you only share a wall with Canis.

You fling your dirty boots, clothes, and armor in a heap in a corner of the room. You look at it for a while and think you should probably wash them unless you intend to go to Ekechi naked. You look down at this Half-Alv body you have and realize you look good. You look REALLY good. Look at all those muscles! You're a god damn sexy beast! Maybe you should just walk around like this for a while.

Then again, Lilac didn't seem very interested in you a second ago, Judicature will most likely be the same way. You pick up your armor and clothes and go down stairs to the main hallway. The horses and cart still stand there. You are quite certain Canis is insane on some level.

Opening the door, you see Takeshi stripped down to nothing. "W-why are you naked!?" You ask.

"Because I needed to clean my clothes." He responds.

"But why are you NAKED!?"

"The samurai code tells us we should never fear our own bodies. Also I needed to clean everything. It's drying now."

"Go... Go put a towel on or something."

"Do you fear the naked body, Ambro? Do you deny the wisdom of the samurai code!?"

"NO! I JUST DON'T WANT TO STARE AT YOUR DICK ALL DAY!"

"I understand your concern. My dick is quite magnifi-."

You shove him out of the way. "NOPE!" You go towards the well to fetch a pail of water.

[cont]

>>31611520
Our dude needs to flip some more levers. He's loosing his cool

>>31611520
fucking highschoolers...

>>31611520
Oh god Judi is my ex and Takeshi is my old roommate...

lets see where this is headed...
How long do you plan to run tonight?

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>>31611520
>mfw "My dick is quite magnifi-"

wait, what are the races of our companions? And what do they look like anyway?

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>>31611520
Takeshi you're killing me here. I didn't need that mental image right after getting back from dinner.

>>31611767
also he's a highschooler. We're gunna get party vanned

>>31611643
Lilac is lilac. She's probably really short too, maybe a dwarf, she is a blacksmith?

Judi reminds me of Leona from LoL.

Takeshi is probably an elf.

Trove is human because he sounds RP based, maybe?

>>31611520
Not now, Dice Gods!
==============

Takeshi calls out to you, "It was only a joke!"

You wanted to yell at him but the sudden irony of the situation denied you of your ability to. Instead you call back, "What did you find in the attic?"

"I didn't go to the attic."

You stop. "Then who did?" You call back.

"Trove did!"

"Well, tell Trove not to be so loud! You can hear him from the floor bellow! Hearing murmurs in a MURDER MANSION is really messed up!"

"Will do!"

As Takeshi enters the mansion, you get to work pouring water on your clothes and scrubbing out the grime. You continue to do this until you are finally satisfied with the level of cleanliness. You see a clothesline which already holds Takeshi's leather armor and other clothes. You are not sure if leather should be left out to dry like that, but at the same time, you don't really know anything about leather.

You hang up your own clothing and look at your plate mail. You should probably wipe it dry instead of leaving it to rust in the open air, but the only thing you have to dry it is the towel you're wearing.

You look left.

You look right.

It will only take a second.

[cont]

>>31612098
You get to work quickly wiping down your armor when you hear a voice from behind.

"When I came outside to check the weather, this is not what I expected." The voice belongs to none other than Judicature.

You take a moment to ponder your luck before tying the towel around your waist again and turning around. "I needed to dry my armor before it rusts."

"I could see that." She responds.

You stand there fore a while and then say, "Is there something that you need?"

There is another long silence. She opens her mouth to say something, but then closes it. Another pause. She shakes her head and says, "No. I'm fine." She then turns around and walks back into the house.

You throw your arms up and in your mind you ask, What the hell was that all about!?

You need to go do something while your clothes dry.
[ ] Go to Kitchen
[ ] Go to Attic
[ ] Other

>>31612124
[X] Go to Attic
Naked exploring is a great way to get in touch with yourself.

>>31612124
>[ ] Go to Attic

>>31612124
>[ ] Go to Kitchen
Or bro gave us a hint. Time to experiment.

>>31612124
>[ ] Go to Attic

>>31612124
>[ ] Go to Attic
Ah yes the house of awkward misunderstandings, also known as a dorm.

>>31612170
>>31612176
>>31612198
>>31612199

[+1 Naked Exploration]
[+1 Sleuthing]

>>31611643
All will be explained at the end of the thread because I can't into imagery.

>>31612124
Y-you too Judy. You too.

Seriously that was legitimately kinda creepy.

>>31607504
Damn fine resource

>>31612252
Keep at it friend, you'll get there one day. It's been enjoyable this far.

>>31612124
Judi... I'm taking a shine to you, but what the fuck is up with your class spec and sub-class selection?

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>>31612252
You travel back to the house, through the hall, up the stairs, up some more stairs, and into the attic. There is no light up here save for a hole in the roof bleeding sunlight into the room. You look around. There is no one up here, which is not so strange. Trove could have easily left since you were in the tub. The floor is actually quite dusty except for the few places where someone stepped. From how the footprints are laid out, they person was stepping left and right over and over again in some kind of sweeping motion; it almost looks like this person was doing some kind of jig. It would explain the repetition. Then it hits you.

Trove and Canis were up here singing sea shanties and you missed it. Lilac said that Takeshi was up there too, though. Was everyone singing sea shanties but you? You suddenly felt left out. You take out a lever.

UP

DOWN

UP

DOWN

UP

DOWN

It made you feel a bit better, but the fact that you have been left out of so much fun still hurt. Why didn't Canis invite you? The fact that he didn't hurt most of all.

You look down at the dusty floor, sigh, and start ambling back to the first floor. Perhaps something to eat will make you feel better.

You find your way to the dining and flop into a chair with a sigh.

"Yarr!" Says Trove from across the table, "What be the problem?"

"I haven't sung sea shanties with Canis." You complain.

"Yarr. That's a tragedy. What say I bring Canis here and with all sing sea shanties together!"

"You mean it?"

"Yarr."

You didn't know exactly what that meant, but you assume it meant yes. "Where is Canis anyway?"

"He be takin' a bath. Yarr!"

"Oh." You slump back in your chair. There is silence that you can't stand, so you ask, "So, why are you a brewer instead of a sailor."

"Yarr! Sailors be for people who want to be captinin' ships. I don't want to be not cap'in. I just want to go on adventures. Yarr."

That is when Canis walks in in just a towel. "What's going on in here?"

[cont]

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Trove dies first, in the attic. Everyone will have alibis.

Lilac dies second in her bedroom, with all the doors and windows locked from the inside.

After that we all panic and kill Takeshi, because he's an Assassin so obviously he did it.

Shortly afterwards, Canis is found dead along with the horses.

Because we were having another awkward staredown with Judi at the time of Canis' death, we'll accept the fact that the crimes are unsolvable and obviously a witch did it. THAT IS WHEN HE STRIKES.

>>31612897
Trove sounds like a cool guy

Ok so are there two separate houses or what?

>>31613098
Pretty solid bro. A little deep into his character, but it adds to the charm.

>>31613143
Only one house

>>31612897
dining room*

"Yarr! It be time for drunken sea shanties!" Trove lifts one leg like the Captain Morgan logo.

"Woah woah woah!" Canis yells, "I'm not drunk!"

"Arr! Ye be right!" Trove then proceeds the two bottles of rum at everyone. You miss three before you finally catch one, the three you missed are now shattered glass and colored water on the ground.

All three of you open up the bottles and begin drinking heavily.

"What will we do with a drunken sailor?"
"What will we do with a drunken sailor?"
"What will we do with a drunken sailor, early in the mornin'?"

"Way hey, an' up she rises!"
"Way hey, an' up she rises!"
"Way hey, an' up she rises, early in the mornin'!"

"Shave his belly with a rusty razor!"
"Shave his belly with a rusty razor!"
"Shave his belly with a rusty razor, early in the mornin'!"

That is how it all began. By the time you had all finished you were singing "I'm the last of the Iiiiiirish Roooooover!"

You lean back in your chair and point to the sky. "One more!"

"Yarr! I don't know anymore!"

Canis points to you and says, "How long have we been naked?"

You laugh, "I don't know!"

By now the night has taken over and and all is dark outside. Your clothes are no doubt dry by now. You stand up and wobble over to the entrance to the house. You wave a hand and a small, round creature of light appears, lighting your way. You spot your equipment and finally put them on. Only now do you realize how cold it is being nude all the time.

You turn around and look at the mansion. Now that you've spent some time in it, it doesn't seem so spooky.

[ ] Go to sleep.
[ ] Other

>>31613359
[X] Go sleep outside.
Did all the people of the land off themselves?

>>31613359
[X] Go to sleep.

>>31613359
>[ ] Other
Head back to the kitchen and grab a few slices of bread then brush our teeth before bed.

>>31613359
>[x] Go to sleep.

>>31613423
>Did all the people of the land off themselves?
There's one region of the house that wasn't explored yet, but only people who have watched Clue would probably know what that is. Although, it has been mentioned before in this thread.

>>31613359
GO TO THE KITCHEN

>>31613359
>Go to the Basement

>>31613359
>Go to the Kitchen
Late night snack

There's also the option of burning the mansion to the ground. After all they can't betray you if they're on fire.

>>31613359
>go to kitchen

Why not, oh and get something for the massive headache tomorrow.

Rolled 1

>>31613629
>>31613606
>>31613563
>>31613492
>>31613447
>>31613446

DICE GODS!

1) Go to sleep in your room.

2) Go to Kitchen

NPCs leave corpses right? Because that is a whole lot of loot if the pantry is full.

>>31613359
>[X] Other
Go to the conservatory

>>31613766
Wait...isn't that technically 4 for for kitchen?

>>31613826
You are correct. I completely missed that.

>>31613766
Yeah, there are four for kitchen.

>>31613858
You stretch and feel a rumbling in your stomach. Something to eat before bed would certainly be a good idea. You head back inside and head for the kitchen. You find all kinds of ingredients here, but no real food here other than bread.

There's nothing wrong with bread, so you take a bite, but it too tastes of nothing. You think long and hard about what your brother said. If you make it, it tastes like nothing.

Do... do you have to make food by accident? How do you even do that!?

You fling the bread in the air, "Oops!" And then catch it again. It still tastes the same. This disappointing food is just too much for you. You leave the kitchen and head up stairs to your room.

You lay in your bed, which wobbles to and fro as you do. You relax and close your eyes. You slowly drift into unconsciousness.

RING RING

RING RING

Why the hell is Lilac calling you at this hour!? God damn! Who does that!?

RING RING

GO AWAY!

RING RING

RING RIN-

"Hello?" You ask in a very weary voice.

"Could you please stop singing and dancing and go to sleep?" She responds.

"What?"

"Get out of the attic and go to bed."

"I'm not in the attic."

"But... I can hear your... But then how are you talking to me right now?"
============================

END OF SESSION

Sorry, guys. I'm really tired and cliffhangers are fun.

I will stick around for a while to answer questions and take criticism.

>>31614178
Pretty good

>>31614178
Thanks for running.
Can't think of any questions to ask right now; but you have my attention.
Still going to do those character look descriptions tonight?

Don't forget to archive.

>>31614386
It has been; although someone unfortunately marked it as 3 when it should be 4

>>31614430
shit, that was me, I just copy-pasted the name from the previous one.

>>31614576
mistakes happen; build fighters has only had 2 threads and both of them have been marked as #1

Shepard you've improved a bit. I'm more interested in the characters and story and all that jazz. I usually give a quest 5 threads before I decide to drop or keep following it and you've shown a marked improvement since your first thread. Keep it up!

>>31614178
Can you give us a description of the races and general appearance of the characters?

>>31614922
Working on it.

I'm not good at imagery so it is taking a while to try to get the words right.

>>31614922
Here's everything you need to know about the races ascetics: http://lh.oksub.me/wiki/Races

Ya I'd probably be a fox tail if I played eldar tales. I like random weird shit like that.
At least as an alt.

>>31615106
I think a lot of veteran players would at least have an alt fox tail.

It's like playing the lottery--you never know what you'll get, and if you've been playing for 10 years, you have nothing but time.

>>31609398
Lilac: A tiny woman (read: Dwarf) with long lilac hair and lilac eyes. She wears a round fur hat with a leather top, which is also lilac. She has a long sleeved dress which is (of course) a solid lilac color. Her staff is a black wood which bends into a spiral towards the top.

Trove: A large, muscular human with a big, linen coat which is a dark and faded red. Underneath the coat, instead of the normal white shirt is a breastplate, similar to the kind you would see on a conquistador. He has a big, black, scruffy beard which reaches down and overs part of his breastplate. His hat is the simple two-sided hat (I have no idea what it is called, but it's the pirate hat which is not a tricorn.), which is the same color as his coat. He wields a flintlock pistol which looks tiny in his hands, and a cutlass which also seems strangely small for his size.

Takeshi: Takeshi is human as well, but his skin is a light brown color. He has a very thing figure. A bamboo hat, which is not tied down, sits atop his shaved head. It bobs in all different directions as he walks, but it somehow remains on his head at all times. His armor is a white, sleeveless, leather jerkin. Underneath the jerkin are white "samurai clothing" which is just a mage's robe customized to look like Samurai Jack's clothing. He wields an enormous no-dachi which sits in a black scabbard that is strung to his belt.

Canis is a Wolf-Hair (Or Wolf-Fang depending on translation) with long (for a man), blue hair and blue eyes. His clothes are a simple light brown leather coat, which reaches down to his knees, and a black pair of pants. He wears no hat, instead opting for his tiny wolf ears to simply exist unimpeded. He wields a set of drums which are kept in place via a leather strap that is wrapped around his waist.

[cont]

>>31606927
But this is not Vancouver!

>>31615189
>Roll cloth cleric
>Get best tanking ability in the game
>Get one of the best assassin skills
>Damage you deal heals you
>Use massive damage assassin skill that drains your health
>Auto heals
>Tank and kill all the pulls while wearing cloth

>>31615234
Is Lilac stocky, since she's a dwarf? Or merely thin and tiny?

>>31615234
Judicature: Another human (Humans are so popular, god damn!). Her character model is quite tall and thin, gangling. She has short, blond hair and her body is covered by golden chainmail and said chainmail is covered by bandoleers filled with knives of various types. (Returning knives does not come into play till mid levels, so all of her knives are one time use.)

Ambrosis: I really have no idea. In my mind I always write from his perspective, so I never really think about what he looks like.

>>31615309
She is thin and tiny.

>>31615234
>Lilac is a dworf
>high stamina and magic resistance but plays a back row class

>His hat is the simple two-sided hat (I have no idea what it is called, but it's the pirate hat which is not a tricorn.)
It's... it's a bicorn.

>A bamboo hat
Do you mean a straw hat like farmers would use to keep the sun off them?
>Underneath the jerkin are white "samurai clothing" which is just a mage's robe customized to look like Samurai Jack's clothing
>melee DPS using clothy armor just for looks
Godamn it Takeshi you are the worst.

>Canis is a wolf-fang bard
>Wolf-fangs get bonuses to strength
>Plays a support class

Do these niggas even min-max?

>>31615379
>It's... it's a bicorn.
I thought it was, but some part of me said, "No, bicorns don't sound like a thing. That's silly."

I am too tired for this.

>>31615408
HAHAHAHAHAHHA

>>31615379
Not everyone min-maxes their MMO character, anon.

>>31615373
I kind of picture Ambrosis as a fatfit kind of guy with short black unkept hair and a shitty beard he's trying to grow and glasses.

As for his character; I guess he's a buffish blonde guy. Probably with a well kept goatee and slicked back hair. Because you gotta look sharp and slightly villainous for god.

>>31615471
Sounds good to me~!

>>31615471
I also approve

>>31615471
So he's Green Arrow in a tunic and armor.

>>31615471
Ass a facial scar and I'm sold. Gotta make him stand out some way.

Personally I imagined his character as a pale hunched over recluse looking guy with eye bags and generally looking pretty creepy since he's eccentric and is an engineer cleric.

I blame Phyrexia and Wakfu.

>>31615582
Eh; he's a front line guy and he said he looks pretty good so he has to be built well.
Your guy sounds more like a casting priest and not a tanking priest like we are.
And don't forget MMOs are almost always physical ideals with little possibility to craft awkward or ugly characters; not that many people would want to do that anyway.

>>31615582
>Add a facial scar
Actually, in Log Horizon, the face of the character is replaced by the face of the person who played them. The Guardian's character originally had a scar on his face before the Apoch

>>31615582
This, somewhat. He would've been pale and rail-thin in real life. He's just too autismal to be otherwise.

In game, though, I'm fine with the previous description.

>>31615471
>>31615373
>>31615234
drawfags assemble?

>>31614178
Are we doing next Wednesday again?

>>31615835
I will be moving soon, so you will need to wait till next week Sunday for the next thread.

>>31615865
awwwww
fair enough though.

hope your move goes smoothly. I hate doing that shit.

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>>31615865
I can hardly wait.

Moving is awful. Good luck little nigga.

>>31615865
You might want to change it to Saturday, this thread clashed with Game of Trones.

>>31615948
then it'll clash with toonami

>>31615408
>tri
>three
>bi
>two

>>31615379
>>Underneath the jerkin are white "samurai clothing" which is just a mage's robe customized to look like Samurai Jack's clothing
>>melee DPS using clothy armor just for looks
>Godamn it Takeshi you are the worst.
Well, I do similar shit in games where skill matters, because that handicap isn't all that problematic there. So not in an RPG.

By the way, OP, what do catfolk look like in this version of the setting?
It always bothered me that they didn't give a fuck about turning into cats.

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>>31618955
>It always bothered me that they didn't give a fuck about turning into cats.
Here's a pic of one of the cat characters from the anime. Cat people are the most divergent from normal humans, so most animal people look mostly normal. Don't forget that the beast people are the least common of the available races due to the severe drawbacks that come with them.

>>31618955
>It always bothered me that they didn't give a fuck about turning into cats.
Two things should be noted:

1. The anime largely glossed over the "holy shit everyone is freaking the fuck out" phase, so they may very well have been flipping their shit about it early on.

2. The only cat-person who got any significant screen time is Nyanta, and he's chill as fuck about everything all the time, so he might not be a good metric for the average person's reaction to being turned into a catman.