>>31807512
>Lauren. What happened to her, where is she?

>>31807512
>Lauren. What happened to her, where is she?

>>31807512
>Matt. Where is he and what is he doing?

>>31807512
>The circumstance of your betrayal.

>>31807512
"So, how does an AI get to be the messiah of a Dragon-centered religion, eh?"

>>31807512
>The circumstances of your betrayal

“What happened to Lauren? Where is she?” you ask as you cross your legs and sit next to her. Victoria sighs, the wound in her chest making it difficult, and closes her eyes.

When she opens her eyes again, you can tell she has an honest forlornness about it, and you can already tell what she’s about to say. “She died during the attack on HQ. You couldn’t save her, and you paid the price for it. Not even the dragon can bring her back now. I’m sorry Josh.”

You tighten your lips and steeple your fingers, working them back and forth as you think. “Can’t, or won’t?” you ask, a knot of burning bile forming in your gut.

“He said he already dispersed her soul,” Victoria answers. You slam your fist into the ground, smashing the foundation and shattering your wrist. You growl and shake your hand, the tissue regenerating in mere moments. “I’m sorry, but that’s all I know for certain.”

“What the fuck happened back then?” you roar. Victoria flinches back from you, and something tells you that you were too rough, but you can hardly care about that right now.

“I don’t know! You sent me away before the attack, and the next time I saw Matt it looked like he had nearly been killed too, and wouldn’t say where you were, just that you’d be gone for a while. I thought he meant you were hunting down your betrayer, but if you were regenerating than I really don’t know what happened at all.”

>Vent
>Where is Matt?
>Ask something else
>Other

>>31808247
...This religion. It put Lyrra as the religious figure head...how does that work out? How does an AI have influence like that in this tech-deprived society?

>>31808247
>Other
Get her medical attention

>>31808247
>Where is Matt?

We're a single man again.

>>31808419
Let's give it...three days of mourning, so that we don't look as heartless as we truly are.

>>31808307
well Lyrra never stoped to be in control of everything i guess.

>>31808247
>Where is Matt?

>>31808247
>>Other
Heal her

So, are we just going to let her bleed out as we ask her questions?

That would be hilarious, but it seems a little counterproductive.

>>31808638
There are votes there for healing her already. Add your voice.

>>31808638
If you want to treat her you'll have to decide between mundane treatment, and using GRD

>>31808671
We have full control of GRD, yes?

Vote is tied right now, so I'm using the time to edit the memory

Make a good argument and I'll tip the vote for you.

>>31808726
Something like that. You have all of his power he owes you, which is almost everything except what he needs to be alive.

>>31808671
GRD, mundane treatment seems to have no upsides.

>>31808662
I already did, I'm not about to samefag, however.

The point of my comment was to either make people realize what we're doing and see if they still choose to vote the way they do, and if they don't care, hopefully they'd say so and I'd get a chance to convince them otherwise.

>>31808671
Can I get a reminder of what you said last time if we wanted to use GRD to heal her?

>>31808736
We just found out someone we care about is gone for good. Someone else we care about is bleeding out in front of us, and we've been an asshole to her for a while now. Seems like a situation where we reevaluate our priorities.

>>31808736
Alright, lets make her a deal. "I'll heal you...after you give me what I'm owed. Or you can run off, heal the old fashioned way, wait for me to beat the shit out of you and ruin your political position, and then I'll ask you again. Or we can take advantage of a nice, soft mattress and I'll ask you in the morning."

>>31808736
>Make a good argument and I'll tip the vote for you.

We can ask her where Matt is AFTER she's healed and not about to die, and if she refuses to answer, she'll still be recuperating and we could always bust her up again if we really need to.

>>31808743
I believe I said something along the lines of It would be faster but there's of course a chance for things to go wrong

>>31808789
>>31808818
Seems good, I'll get to writing.

ok, i change my vote from
>>31808589
to
>heal her.

>>31808803
I'm all for getting our powers back first, before healing her, maybe not with that exact wording though.

>>31808855
right, I actually need a d100 for this

>>31808862
She might actually be a bit weak to do that. You heal better the more power you have after all.

Rolled 23

>>31808883

Rolled 57

>>31808883

>>31808901
... It's a 50% chance to roll over 50, right?

>>31808940
yes

>>31808940
doesn't seem that way with /tg/ dice

>>31808901
QB deal time ?

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>>31809015
?

>>31809036
no

>>31809053
>>31809036
Fuck no

>>31809036
I honestly can't imagine taking that deal in any situation other than the failed roll is going to lose the quest, right there.

>>31809136
that's a pretty poor imagination
I'm sorry

>>31809158
And you apparently make terrible life choices.

>>31809196
while you have an irrational fear of these deals

>>31809258
>guaranteed failure at a time of the GM's choosing
>irrational fear

>>31809278
That entirely depends on how you think I'm going to use it, doesn't it?

>>31809278
yes
that's irrational

>>31809258
My understanding is this "You don't fail now, but I make you fail latter" that is not worth it because we will win at something smaller then what we'll fail at later on, because the quest will have progressed and the stakes will be higher.

So not only do we negate the loss, it goes to jail, thinks about what we did to it, works out, gets buff and gets released wanting revenge.

“You’re going to have to help me track down Matt after this,” you state as you gently pick up her hand.

Victoria’s eyes go wide as you help her to a sitting position, but her face is so pale she must be struggling to stay conscious. “What are you planning to do?”

“I have to heal you, and this is the easiest way to do that,” you explain, picking her up and putting her in your lap so she can drape her arm around you.

“No, the easiest way to do that would be an ambrosia packet, not drinking your blood. GRD’s in there,” she responds, her lips curling back in disgust.

You shake your head and put your hand on the blade in her chest. “You just told me that my wife is dead. Alice told me that almost all of my family is dead. You are almost the last thing I have left in this world. You can’t expect me to not do everything I can to protect you, whether you’re trying to kill me or not. And my blood basically is ambrosia anyways.”

“I’m not going to drink it.”

“You’re full of yourself. The wound is too much. Back in the day you might have been able to be treated properly, but that’s not really an option any more. Now, I’m going to pull this knife out, and you’re going to drink. Okay, Tory?” you state.

“Don’t call me that,” she says, but she nods slightly, and you yank the steel from her chest. Blood squirts across both of you as she sinks her fangs into the side of your neck. You can feel yourself immediately get light headed, but her bleeding stops.

Then your resolve starts to fail. You hang your head and wrap your arms around her. “I,” you start to say, tears stuttering your words. “I really want to believe you’re just lying to me, but I know you’re not.”

1/2

>>31809346
except that assumes that the only variable affecting the severity of our failure penalties is the time elapsed in the quest, which is incorrect. There are some very important decisions we can make at all points in a quest.

>>31809411
>Then your resolve starts to fail
That bitch

Victoria pulls her lips away from you, and lets your body seal up. “I’m sorry you never had your chance to live in peace with her, however short it would have been,” she says as she rests her head on your shoulder.

"So then, she really was incompatible with the transdifferentiation organ?"

"There was nothing you could have done."

"There's always been something I could have done."

>Take her back to the brewery to rest for the night
>Where is Matt?
>Say something else
>Other

>>31809425
Yes, but the longer the quest goes on the important decisions tend to become more frequent, and the ramifications more apparent due to our growing power and influence.

>>31809485
But screwing up early makes everything down the line harder

>>31809462
>>Take her back to the brewery to rest for the night

>>31809462
>Take her back to the brewery to rest for the night
let's walk there slowly
and on the way,
>Where is Matt?

>>31809462
>>Take her back to the brewery to rest for the night

>>31809462
>>Take her back to the brewery to rest for the night

>>31809522
However, we won't be as aware of what could have been, but we will see the immediate cause of our actions later on so it will hold more weight to use personally.

and I forgot what we were arguing exactly, did we agree the deal was a horrible idea?

So, who's on the Victoria ship?

>>31809588
Yo. I'll even write up some smut if OP really wants it.

>>31809585
Everyone always assumes the worst of me. I'm a narrativist, I'm just going to use the fail to make the story more interesting, or justify something happening that I find hilarious.

And you probably should have taken that deal, but that just means I'm going to have some fun in about ten threads.

>>31809588
I am until we learn she's influencing us mentally with that bite of hers, then it's all rage.

>>31809627
You're pretty sure you're immune to that, and even if you weren't, it wouldn't trigger until she looked you in the eye and gave the command to do something.

>>31809627
We just need to be outside and catch some sunlight to nullify the poison

>>31809612
Do it even if he doesn't want it.

>>31809612
QMs aren't supposed to scrounge for fan content, that's really pathetic. It only has value when you offer it forward freely.

>>31809615
You're really determined to have GRD take over a body, aren't you?

>>31809654
>You're pretty sure you're immune to that,
>pretty sure

>Two things are important when it comes to the difference between Vampire and Human. The Transdifferentiation Organ, and their poison. Their saliva contains a very peculiar macro-protein structure that science hasn't had the luxury of studying the mechanics of. When they bite you, they will often drain you of enough blood to make you woozy, although this isn't to feed them, they can eat just like a normal person if need be. They drain your blood to make you light headed, and thin your blood to let their poison flow up to the brain easily. There, it will usually deposit along the ocular nerve.

>This then allows the vampire to impress their will on the victim, order them to do various tasks, but nothing obscene such as suicide or murder of a friend.

>After enough times feeding on a single victim however, enough poison will accumulate in them to render them into a ghoul, a person incapable of freeing themselves of the vampire's will.

>On top of this, they are faster, stronger, and have reflexes simply unimaginable by human standards.

>True to the old stories however, men of faith have been reported to repel them with their holy symbols, but according to the Dragon, that is merely due to their own force of will bolstered by their false beliefs, nothing inherent in their creeds.

>They don't have a particular weakness to sunlight, but it breaks the poison down rapidly.

>>31809411
>You can feel yourself immediately get light headed, but her bleeding stops.

>Then your resolve starts to fail. You hang your head and wrap your arms around her

Don't even fucking try, I'm on to you

>>31809689
Eh, I don't want to insert a scene that hasn't happened yet. Feels like I'm forcing the plot.

>>31809718
You're just fucking with him aren't you.

>>31809757
Frank is doomed to be forever cockteased by smutfriends.

>>31809757
Shush you, you'll ruin it

>>31809772
>>31809768
The playerbase is also getting cockteased you know.

>>31809795
Not me, I'm one of the ones doing the teasing.

>>31809795
In all seriousness, however, I really do need this to happen canonically so that I can understand the actual circumstances. Alot can change about the scene if it's angry, her comforting him, him comforting her, them both comforting eachother, the actual anatomy...I'm not even sure if either of them have scars, a fact that's quite important when describing a nude body.

>>31809845
Now that I think about it, I know Josh is scarless aside from the spot on the back of his head, and another one that hasn't come up yet, but thats only because GRD prevents scar tissue.

Victoria doesn't have that, I'll have to figure that out.

>>31809897
Well, give me a scene and some circumstances, and I'll see what I can do. Their opinions of eachother are a rather large factor in how a scene develops.

“Come on, I’ll take you back to where Alice and I are staying for the time being, we both need some rest,” you say as you dry your tears and gently reset her broken arm. You know that must have hurt her, but you know there’s enough energy in your blood that she may as well be high on endorphins.

“I can’t exactly say no to you in this state. Where to?” she asks as you scoop your arm under her legs and stand up. You lose your balance for a moment, stumbling to the side, but catch your footing. “Are you alright?”

“You’re the one who drained me, maybe I should just drain you back real quick, and then we can be even more of a bloody mess together,” you say, chuckling as you start carrying her back out of the warehouse. The magpie follows behind, crawling on the ground rather than flying. Victoria laughs a bit as well, but rests her head back against your shoulder.

You carry her in silence until you’re almost halfway back to the brewery. You notice distinctly fewer hoodlums in the alleys of the slums, as if they’re in hiding for something. So you ask her, “So where the hell is my brother?”

“Coming here actually. He’s been playing Napoleon or whatever, trying to take over the world. He’s Naaf’s greatest military leader, and he’ll be here tomorrow on a show of force. I wanted to get my strength back before then, but I don’t think that’ll be happening.”

“I guess he actually went through with it then. At least he finally got promoted, more or less.”

“If he does actually come here, Josh. I’ll need a favor from you. You nearly killed me or I’d do it myself,” she says as you round the last corner to the brewery.

>Sure
>Depends
>I have to take care of everything with Matt before anything else
>Can’t this wait?
>Other

>>31810055
>Depends
What is it, and when are you giving me my power back?

>>31810055
>Depends

>>31809948
There will very likely come a time in the course of this quest where you will save her damsel in distress style, more or less. I don't want to tell you who though because that'd be spoiling. If I had to choose a time for the deed, that'd be it.

Also, her contract seal is right on her abdomen, think ye olde infinity symbol.

Now, if we were talking Alice, then it'd just be any time she jumps in your bed at night for a quickie, after your mourning period.

>>31810055
>Depends

>>31810083
>>31810099
>>31810171

You waffling dickmunchers. Have some balls

>>31810055
Yes, if it doesn't prevent me from meeting with Matt, I will help you.

>>31810055
>Depends
you want me to protect the queen ?

>>31810055
>Depends
We'll almost certainly do it if it's stupidly risky but almost certainly won't if it's obviously immoral.

>>31810187
i'm almost sure she'll ask us to kill him

>>31810135
>>31810135
You're a dirty old man. Since I'm lazy, I'm only going to be doing one a character, so it'll be the first time they bang. I'll need to know everything that happens up until that point so I can pop in some dialogue, have it end where the scene fades back in, all sorts of fun stuff.

I'll also need to know where it happens because I have doubts a simple cot on a wood floor can survive Josh going full speed.

And yes, this is silver. Get in the IRC you perv!

>>31810217
I'm using Ass Mangled's ban as an excuse to break that addiction. And explaining who did what before saving her, if you people even do, would be major spoilers, so we'll just have to wait.

Or you could just get imaginative, set it back before he met Lauren during some arbitrary mission out in the wastelands.

At this point though, I really need to finish editting the memory.

>>31810288
Please do. I'll need circumstantial details at the very least.

Oh, and you WILL have to tell me fave position of each~ More details can be discused in IRC

>>31810325
And thus began the age of QM endorsed and edited smut.

>>31810356
began?

>>31810439
Name a QM that has editted their own fan smut

>>31810325
Can't you show a little initiative? Just make something up. Good Lord, you're making me want to write some smut just to show you up.

“Depends.”

“Why. Why did I think you were going to say something else. Lauren was the only one who could get you to make snap decisions,” Victoria said, shaking her head.

“Death finds the hasty first. What of it? What do you want me to do?” you ask as you slow your pace, giving the two of you more time to speak.

“The Queen is going to need a bodyguard, someone who can stand up to Matt when he shows up. She’s a gentle girl, she doesn’t know how to stand up to someone like him. All you’d really need to do is catch him and do what you were going to do anyways, but you have to make sure that he doesn’t meet with her without you.”

“Sounds like my brother has gotten quite a bit ruder since I last saw him.”

“Politics will do that to you. He’s gotten lazy as well, just glamor’s people half the time. I think most of Naaf is ran by his ghouls actually. His or Faye’s,” Victoria explains. Then her eyes cut over to yours as your mind fondly recalls Faye and you smrik. “And no sleeping with Faye.”

“You know that’s always been a tall order for me, but…”

>Deal
>No Deal
>Other

>>31810461
>implying that's not his plan

>>31810459
Dunno about editing fan smut, but there have been tons of quests that had sex scenes in them.

>>31810521
>>Deal

>>31810521
"Keeping Matt in line I can do...but Faye...can I at least get my power back, first?"

>>31810521
>Deal
"You're the only ancient lay for me."

>>31810566
Give the guy a couple days to grieve before sexing up everything with a vagina in ten square kilometers.

>>31810521
>Deal
we do owe her at least a favor for leaving her all alone all that time

>>31810521
>>Deal

>>31810566
But that's a lie.

Faye is The Best Looking, but she's Matt's vampire as Victoria is yours, so she also has the personality of your best friend and brother. She's just always been off limits. Victoria is teasing you.

>>31810521
>Deal

>>31810645
>Deal

>>31810591
If you think about it, he's had a century.

“Deal, although I know you well enough that there’s going to be more to this. You’ll just have to tell me before it’s too late, okay? Also, I’m about to pass out. So we kind of need to get back in there,” you say with a halfhearted laugh.

“I’ll be there with you. It will be fine. Thank you Josh,” Victoria says as you push into the Gremlin Brewery. Candles are lighting the main area and you can smell fresh liquor. A higher quality bottle than the last one Cyn had. She’s behind her counter, sipping it and reading a book by the candlelight. You only catch a quick glimpse of the title, something about a maid, before she shoves it under the counter and jumps to her feet.

“What happened?” she asks as she runs over to you.

“Oh, you know me. Always showing up with bloody women in my arms. You’d think it was…”

You can’t bring yourself to finish the joke, so Victoria speaks up for you, “We got in a bit of a disagreement but everything’s fine now. You have a bed for me, right?”

“You better not be bringing more trouble down on me. And the only bed I have is the one I gave you the day before yesterday,” Cyn explains as she starts leading you over to your room.

“It’ll do,” you say, following behind her. Then you notice Alice and Lucian. She’s quietly snoring, sitting against an empty vat, and he’s sprawled out on the ground next to her and they both reek of sweat and booze.

>Inquire what happened to Cyn
>Wake up Alice to find out what happened, and get her help with Victoria
>Lay Victoria down to rest
>Say something
>Other

>>31810591
Laughing on the outside, crying on the inside is best grief.

>>31810946
>Ask what happened.

>>31810946
>>Wake up Alice to find out what happened, and get her help with Victoria

>>31810946
>>Lay Victoria down to rest
It doesn't seem too hard to guess what happened to alice, and Cyn seems fine. Probably get some shuteye yourself.

>>31810946
And now we have a smut scene for someone to write

chop to it!

>>31810946
>Say something
"looks like these two had some fun"
>Lay Victoria down to rest

>>31810946
>Lay Victoria down to rest

>>31810946
>Wake up Alice to find out what happened, and get her help with Victoria

“Looks like the kids had some fun,” you comment as you walk past the two of them.

“What possessed you to leave her in charge of a child?” Victoria asks as you step into the small bedroom.

“What are you talking about? Lucian was clearly the one in charge and responsible. He’s a whole like, eight years old or something. If he weren’t unconscious I’m sure he’d happily tell you he’s nearly a man grown,” you respond.

“Whatever, I’m not responsible for the little slut. Never have been, never will be.”

“Speaking of which, why was she more or less homeless this whole time?” you ask as Cyn steps out of the room.

“I offered, but she could only stand being cooped up in the palace for so long. Last I heard she was with that fatass Cubierre. What happened there?”

“She got fed up with him for being creepy, apparently,” you answer as you set her down on the bed.

“I will never be able to fathom that girl.”

“It’s fine, just rest. I need some too,” you say as you stretch the dirty blanket over her. Most of her wounds are already gone, but she’ll need a few days.

>Go to sleep yourself
>Go out and have a drink
>Other

>>31811344
>>Other
Check on Alice.

>>31811344
Go out and get a drink

And try to kill the pain with beer

>>31811344
>>Go to sleep yourself
It's been a busy day.

Sorry to say, but I'm unexpectedly falling asleep right now. This thread will only get a few more updates, enough to finish the night so the next thread can start at Matt's entrance. I should be able to get the memory to you before I end though.

>>31811344
i approve of that: >>31811360

>Go out and have a drink

we really need one.

“Rest easy Tory,” you say as you push yourself back to your feet and wander back to the main area of the brewery.

Cyn quickly speaks up whens he sees you. “So do I get to ask what the hell happened after you ran off on me?”

“It’d be very hard to explain. By the way, the demon is outside, and should probably be let in before someone sees him,” you say as you wander over to Alice. You crouch down to check on her, but she seems fine. Her breath is saturated with grain alcohol, enough that you can still see a bit of flush in her face.

“So you got in a fight with your girlfriend or something?” Cyn asks as she gets a tankard out and pours it full for you.

You groan and wander over to the front door to let your magpie in. “Ex actually. My fights with ex’s are a bit more literal than most people. I envy most people,” you state as the bird wanders into the brewery on all fours, waddling like a badger. You can see Cyn stiffen at the sight of it. “Relax, he can barely chew a fish right now. He won’t cause you any trouble.”

“So, are you going to tell me what’s going on? Or are you just going to drift out of my life?” she asks as you sit down and pick up the drink she offered you.

>Tell her the whole truth
>Tell her your wife died
>Answer her questions, after some more drinks
>I think I’ll be leaving tomorrow
>Say something else
>Other

>>31811746
>Tell her your wife died

>>31811746
>>Tell her your wife died

>>31811746
>>I think I’ll be leaving tomorrow

>>31811746
>Get drunk as you can, first.

can I get a d100?

Rolled 57

>>31811904
sanity check?

Rolled 57

>>31811904
Here ya go

>>31811915
tolerance check.

>>31811938
Can't we drink like entire kegs without getting buzzed?

>>31811980
Tory drains us a lot, we are very weak at the moment.

>>31811980
You will be drinking entire kegs, also you are out a third or so of your blood.

You glance at her before dropping your gaze back to the booze on the counter. You pick up your tankard for a moment, before putting it back down and snatching up the bottle. She tries to grab it from you but you upend it and start chugging ti down in gulps. The alcohol is flavorless and strong, enough to make your eyes water. At first Cyn tries to stop you, but you wave her off. Halfway through the bottle and she just starts watching in disbelief. Then you finish the bottle and drop it on the ground before dropping your face on to the counter.

“You’re not alright at all, are you?”

“My body is functionally immune to nearly ever poison known to man, with only one exception I know of. Alcohol is not that exception, but I’m pretty woozy from blood loss, so I might get a bit drunk off that,” you explain to her without lifting your head.

“Because you’re an elf? I’ve never heard of anything like that,” she responds as you grope around for your tankard.

“My wife died.”

“Oh, you were married?” Cyn asks, and then as an afterthought, “I’m so sorry.”

“She died, and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I swore to protect her, and I failed. And now I’m going to drink,” you declare. “I’m going to drink as much as I can to try to get wasted for the first time since I was like sixteen. Because being drunk is the correct response to this according to all the normal people I’ve met, so I’m going to try it. And then tomorrow, I’m going to track down my brother, and get to the bottom of this mess.”

“Drinking isn’t a very healthy response to grief you know. You’re supposed,” Cyn says, but you shatter the tankard in your hand, sending the splinters flying in every direction.

“I’ll be drinking now,” you state as you push up to your feet and wander over to a rack of bottles for sale.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“So it was a director?” Matt asked as he wiped the sweat from his brow. It had been a long day, even for the two of you. Punched out in a drop pod before the sun was up, and the marauder war band spent all day playing cat and mouse with them, quibbling between their honor of the fight, and retreating. When one of the marauders beneath Matt’s feet shifted, just a slight move to grab his weapon again, Matt plugged his skull with lead. The thing would have wanted to die with a weapon in its hand, but that was unnecessary risk.

“Yeah, director. Not sure why it didn’t come from higher. We should probably open up Lyrra and find out what actually happened,” you respond, tossing another corpse on the pile. The half of the body was missing most of its guts, so it was a light toss, but you had to make sure not to step in his entrails. The only support you were going to get for the mission was a blaze team to destroy the corpses before they attracted an alpha, but they weren’t coming until after the sun went down.

“A good idea regardless. I want to do some snooping around. The casualty rate for div seven has gotten way too high recently. If Christie and Kate decide to come back and don’t just elope on us, there’ll only be thirteen of us remaining,” Matt explained as he stepped into the shade of the bloody mound. The sun would set soon, dropping the temperature down to reasonable levels for the hike back to the Ohio River. There wasn’t even enough wind to keep the flies away, not even the big bone eater ones.

“You know, I get sleeping with your squadmates and we’ve both done as much, but they might have taken things a bit far,” you said, sitting down on a small boulder to fan yourself with the war chief’s head dress. It was made mostly from Roc feathers, although about half of them had broken during the fight, and what appeared to be finger bones.

“You heard the rumor didn’t you? Christie’s sixth demon was Kate. And I’m pretty sure they were in each other’s pants even before then. Remember when you dragged Lauren back that first time? Sargeant Babyface couldn’t give less of a shit, know why? They broke the entire bunkhouse together,” Matt said as he picked up the war chief’s head to look at the curled horns. “Think this would make a good mug? I haven’t had a good drinking horn in years,” he asked, snapping one of the horns off, but cracking it.

“It’s not particularly impressive. This guy was only leading like ten dozen marauders.”

Matt shrugged and tossed it aside. “I was hoping for more of a fight. The intel must have been shoddy. We were way overkill for this, and there’s no nearby strategic value that I know of. Do we still have nuclear silos?”

“Alpha-in-a-Can? Don’t think so. Once upon a time they may have been hording them for after the Demon War, but not any more.”

“Then I think they’re trying to kill us,” Matt said as he sat down on a dead jotnar, the giant’s thigh making a suitable seat after being severed from torso.

“A few dozen marauders aren’t much of a threat for us, so they’re doing a pretty bad job of it. If they really wanted to kill us, wouldn’t they just poison our ambrosia packets?”

“They did, I swapped all of our packets with the terminal ward just before we left. I was listening to the net chatter on the way out and like twelve of ‘em rotted to bones,” Matt said, holding his hand out for the headdress fan.

“Isn’t that a semi-normal reaction to ambrosia overdose?” you asked, tossing it over to him. “The shit’s a bit volatile for normal humans.”

“Nah, they fixed that like twenty years ago or so. I thought you heard about that? It was about the time they figured they could put a transdifferentiation organ in a normal human. Shit, if I remember right, they were one and the same discovery.”

“I don’t buy it. Even poisoned ambrosia isn’t enough for some marauders to kill us. And what would they gain by killing us anyways?” you asked as you leaned back and opened your eyes to the power of the Dragon. You and Matt both shone like the great bonfires, but between your glows you could see the twisted souls of the marauders rising up through the air, swirling about each other. The Dragon illuminated half the world from his seat beneath the Annihilation Wall, hundreds of kilos away and his pull on the souls was visible already.

“You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. We could conquer the entire city with our power, and do it handily. They’re scared of us. So they’re being preemptive. The brass aren’t exactly tactical geniuses,” Matt said as he leaned against the corpse pile and fanned himself.

“Okay, I can understand them being afraid of you because you might get bored one day and do that.”

“But why would they try to kill you? You ask?” Matt responded as he tossed the fan back over. “Maybe they’re not. Poisoned ambrosia and a few marauders wouldn’t kill you, but there might be more. It’d take two alphas at the same time to maybe kill you. But if they are trying to kill us, we have to do something, right? That’s the law of war.”

You snatched the fan and shrugged. The temperature was disgustingly hot. “I suppose, if they’re making an enemy of us. Suffer not an enemy to draw a single breath and all that.”

“Then when we get back, we’re cracking into Lyrra and taking the offensive. Remember, it’s not just to protect us, they’ll also be going after our siblings, and Lauren,” Matt said as you turned around. The smell of sulfur had reached your nose. Five kilometers away, a new sun was rising. Thousands of souls were chained to the body, burning endlessly. The pile had attracted an alpha.

“Alpha is coming, fire type,” you said, discarding the fan and picking up your sword again. Fire types were a pain to fight. If you took too long cutting them down, your blade would lose its edge and you’d stop cutting so much as bashing. Not to mention they would usually set you on fire as well.

“Our little assassin is right on time then. He should be a minotaur type, about ten meters tall, on fire all the time,” Matt said as he grabbed his own sword and walked over to you. The sparse forest was already ablaze and smoking into the dusk. “I think HQ forgot that I used to track the Alphas myself. Probably because we’ve had it automated since they enlisted as boot sloggers.”

“Modest as ever bro. But, this is actually perfect for me. For the soul of an alpha, the Dragon’ll fix whatever’s wrong with Lauren, so I’m going to rip this thing apart,” you said. “And I’ll need your help.”

I’ve got your back if you’ve got mine,” your brother said, holding up his fist to you.

“Forever and always man,” you responded, bumping his fist with your own.

“Those bastards really have no respect for us, no trust. Eighty years of service and no extended leaves of absence, no failed missions. It’s like we haven’t seen every battlefield possible twice over already. Let’s start a new war Josh.” Matt said as the Alpha demon climbed atop a distant hill. Twelve meters of fire and muscle, swinging around a club made from half smelted cars. “The demons are boring.”

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Alright that's thread, it's already archived. Hope you enjoyed. As always, if you have any comments or critiques, I'm all ears, even if it's just to say you want to see more/less of something.

The SAD will be over soon.

And I hope these memories are time well spent on my part.

Rolled 53

>>31812240
>>31812220
>>31812201
>>31812186
>>31812168
>>31812151
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh fuck.

So that's who betrayed us...

>>31812293
cool thread,dude, i like the memories

>>31812314
Is it?

>>31812337
>>31812314
Hmm, I really didn't expect the player count to ever get this low.

Someone really needs to come through on the Victoria smut though. My dick demands it.

So, UNAAF cut a deal with the demon lords
Demon Lords convinced them to kill Div Seven for self defense
We go win with Matt and kill them all
Lauren gets killed in the crossfire
We hunt down the demon lords and lose
Matt escapes

?

[part of me is sad we lost our wife, but the other part is happy that she apparently wasn't behind everything and didn't end up like some kind of mind broken half-demon slut queen

>Revelations.thread
>*crickets*

Come on guys.

>>31812617
>Matt betrays us

GIT UR FACS STREOIGHT M80

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>>31812794

>>31812852
>>Matt betrays us
>doubting our brother

You must be that scum that through our wife did it

>>31812994
But she did do it.

By creating that AI.

Oh come on now, there's discussion to be had here

so why didn't we push Victoria to return or power?
We should do that next time ASAP l. Doubt she would resist much anyway.

>>31812485
Matt seems unlikely to me, though he may have been the one to bash us on the head for some reason. As he knew we'd be 'out' for awhile. He may have done this as the person who betrayed us was someone we knew and would never turn against like our wife.

Lauren made Lyrra and is also a director so she could be the one hiding her results from everyone. It could be because the demon's organ corrupted her. During Matt and Josh's rebellion she opened the gates to let demons into the annihilation wall. Then when we found out that Lauren was corrupted Matt knocked us out and killed Lauren, something he knew was for the best and that if we were conscious we'd never let happen

So, the UNAAF was losing the war on the purpose to get more founds to develop a toxin strong enough to kill us, and possibility a new batch of more controllable soldiers.

Why Lauren was still in the HQ at the time of our rebellion? we sent everybody we cared on some useless missions, we surely would triple checked that our wife was 200% safe.

>>31812485
Matt would never betray us, but he would stop us from doing something extremely stupid.

>>31819867
>the demon's organ corrupted her.
Transdifferentiation organ is just flesh, the corruption comes from the soul. Not to mention she didn't get the transplant.

>she opened the gates
There are no gates. The Annihilation Wall is a field of anti-soul essentially. Anything alive that passes close to it dies, except the Dragon. You get in and out by flying really fucking high in the air.

>>31822276
...so demons have souls?

Iiiiiiinteresting....

>>31822314
...Yes?

It's how you take their power, and what defines them as demons. They're the souls of people that were never meant to reincarnate, and were stuck in a roiling hell until the world killed itself and the Dragon shat himself trying to put it all back together before everything was dead forever. Now they're mad.

Also, Victoria was pretty evil/sociopathic before you contracted with her, though not as much as say, Akab. The bond goes both ways after all.

>>31822360
>Akab
>Backwards

So he's an idiot?

>>31822276
Alright thought she got the transplant but it failed to take/she sealed the report on what was happening to her

Wait if you have to fly that high how the hell did demons get inside the wall?

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>>31822476
I was wondering when someone would notice that. That's one of the preliminary names I kept. Pic related names most of my character ideas

>>31822551
Some can fly that high, you don't know about the others.

>>31822551
Wait if you have to fly that high how the hell did demons get inside the wall?
digging, i bet

>>31822726
>>31822736
Doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of a wall if they can get over/under it though?

>>31822757
Well, the ones that can fly that high can get shot to death "fairly" easily, and the wall should extend far enough down that they can't go under it without burring through bedrock, which no demon has shown the ability to do. Although bedrock is kind of a loose term for drained aquifer.

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>>31822726
How's stuff down there Vega?

>>31823226
I actually have no idea what that image is from, reverse search just comes up with 4chan links

Your image implies ME3, which I never played because 2 was terrible for obsessive side questers like myself.

>>31823266
If you didn't like 2 stay as far away from 3 as possible

>>31822360
who the hell is Akab?

>>31823843
our marauder

I'm thinking of running again today, who's here?

>>31824998
I am.

>>31824998
Yo.

>>31824998
me three

>>31824998
ahahahha

>>31824998
Also, how close am I?
>We (Josh, Matt, Victoria, Lauren (Lyrra through her), some of the other first gens) all make war on the UNAAF Brass following the betrayal
>Things go swimmingly, we take down UNAAF easy.
>First gens get killed off in a game of politics, starting with Josh since he'd beat ALL of their asses for being such idiots
>Only Matt and Alicia and Victoria and a few non-first gens are left. Everyone else is killed off.

Am I the only one who doesn't care about shadowruns and simply wants to recover our power?
We should really try to get our power back from Victoria. She was one of the strongest demons and it would be a great upgrade.

>>31825162
I don't really care about shadowruns. After all waifu dead only real thing to live for is revenge and the remaining friends.

>>31825251
But which is which?

Wow, i was expecting like, two or three of you, so I grabbed lunch. Guess I'll start writing

>>31825091
You might be saying some right things, but you certainly don't have the full picture

>>31825285
Alice is pretty trustworthy and Victoria seems all right. Not really trust trust but enough not to fly off. Matthew on the other hand is someone to be distrustful of.

>>31825330
It's kinda clear Matthew did the deed himself. Perfect position, plenty of motivation, few other people could even manage it.

>>31825351
Maybe. I get the feeling he may have just done something then someone else used that to take us out.

>>31825351
>plenty of motivation
que?

>>31825091
I reckon during our rebellion a 3rd party turned up, and that's why everything turned medieval

>>31825367
Boredom. His whole urge to attack the UNAAF was because they might be more fun. It's not like their attempt at offing them really did anything.

>>31825415
>boredom

Best motivation ever.

>>31825162
Don't really care about power. The entire concept of it being 'our' power just screams self-justification to me since we're obviously stealing it from other entities.

>>31825415
>implying it even happened

>>31825434
Joshua kind of needs all the power he can get. Before he gets rick rolled by whomever fucked him up last time.

>>31825452
All that power didn't save him then, either. Just trying to out dragonballz whoever did this is a losing proposition.

>>31825415
I got the idea matt wanted to enjoy retirement and not fighting, plus he seems clever enough to realize that doing that wouldn't sate boredom as after he conquers 'the world' what then? he'd still be bored

>>31825481
No but less won't help his cause at all. If he lost at full strength then how badly would he get wiped now?

>>31825492
>Not forcing people to fight to the death for your amusement.
>Not building a massive harem since your immortal.
>Not building a statue of yourself and making the masses worship you as a god for fun.

I can think of plenty of things.

Trumpets and horns blare over the beat of drums as great, demonic beasts lumber forwards. Naaf is declaring to the entire city that they have arrived, just moments after the sun has risen. Your head pounds with every sickening beat. You groan and wrap your arms around your head to muffle the noise. You roll over and break through the crumbling vat you fell asleep in as Alice runs over to you.

You drank the brewery dry last night, and that’s about all you remember after your first drink. The stuff was strong, and Cyn had a lot of it. Due to your regenerating, it hit you hard, and now you reek of it. You probably look worse than a fresh recruit on his first leave of absence.

“Matt’s here!” Alice declares as she jumps into the vat with you, splashing dirty booze across you. You groan again, so she grabs your elbow and pulls you to your feet. “Come on, we should go see him. Maybe we can go sort everything out.”

You scowl. “I have more than you know to sort out with him.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” she asks as she pulls you out of the still wreckage.

“You’ll just have to see,” you answer as you scratch at your face. You feel like a dirty bum. Then you glance at your hands, the knuckles are covered in faint scars, but they look like they’re supposed to again. A quick check at your nose and ears confirms why your face was itchy, you sliced off the excess cartilage while drunk.

>Go get cleaned up
>Just go to the entrance parade
>Talk with Alice about something
>Talk with Victoria about something
>Track down some food, the booze wasn’t enough
>Other

>>31825558
>>Talk with Victoria about something
We still don't have her power, yet, right? I mean, if we're going to protect the queen or whatever, we should probably have it.

>>31825558
>you sliced off the excess cartilage while drunk.

Ow. Fuck that hurts just thinking about.

>Go get cleaned up
>Talk with Alice about something

>>31825558
>Talk to Victoria about something.

"Hey, Tory...I'm gonna go see Matt now. And he might end up killing me if I don't have my power...sooo...."

>>31825558
>Go get cleaned up
lets not look disgusting for our reunion

>>31825531
Enough things to fill the rest of eternity?

>>31825599
eh, they were too big. Now we look normal again. Probably back in our thirties at least.

>>31825558
>Give Victoria back whatever power of hers you still possess.

>>31825651
this

>>31825558
>>Talk with Victoria about something
get our power from her

>>31825651
>>31825672

are you people fucking retarded

>>31825706
>steals power from other creatures
>GIVE ME BACK MUH POWER

one of us is retarded here.

>>31825725
We need the power to kill whoever killed our wife

>>31825734
Do you know what the definition of insanity is?

>>31825725
>one of us is retarded here.

yes, you

>>31825743
You realize there may have been extenuating circumstances at the time?

So the vote is to try to coax Victoria into giving you your power back.

Writing

Also, you're at like 15% power, getting Victoria's power back would bring you to about 30% total power

>>31825558
>Go get cleaned up

>>31825772
that would be nice...out of curiosity, what percentage was all dragon?

>>31825772
it shouldn't be too hard:
1. We beat her handily and she's pretty wounded and weak right now
2. If she wants us to complete her favour then we need to be as strong as possible
3. How can she say now to our handsome rugged looks?

>you sliced off the excess cartilage while drunk.
>wife is dead, commit sudoku on face with broken shards.
yep, we were drunk.

>>31825799
30% by your estimate

>>31825868
....and the marauder would be...what? 10%?

>>31825912
12%

A sword wielding brute is much less threatening to you than someone equally skilled in combat, who can also mind control your allies.

>>31825957
....what else did we have? GRD + Magpie + Victoria + Akab + Dragon = 72%...

You try to wipe the crud from your face and stumble over to the bedroom Victoria is in. Lucian is still fast asleep, and Cyn is nowhere to be seen. You must have scared her off during the night. When you throw the door open, sunlight finally reaches the room and you see Victoria wince away from it. “Morning Sunshine.”

“By the Dragon, that name’s back,” she grumbles, using her arm to protect her eyes.

“I had a lot of names for you, didn’t I, Sunshine?”

“And I believe I had a few for you, Sisterfucker,” she responds, sitting up and examining the bloody hole in her sweater.

“Morning Victoria!” Alice says as she bounces into the room behind you.

“Speak of her and she shall appear. Good to see Alice. That racket outside is our brother then?” Victoria asks.

“Seems like it. Mild psychological terror methods I suppose. He’ll be meeting with the Queen soon,” you respond.

“No he won’t. That would give her too much importance. He’ll bugger around with his generals, visit his political pawns, have tea, and then see her. Can’t let them do anything on their schedule afterall,” she explains, wiping the sleep from her eyes. Then she looks up at you. “What the hell happened to your face?”

>Joke
>Truth

>I’ll need my power back
>Do you have a plan?
>We should meet him before then
>Say something else
>Other

>>31825985
Beelzebub, the doppelganger (10%) and Skath, the skin shifter (8%)

>>31825990
>Joke
>Do you have a plan?

>>31826040
that only adds up to 90

>>31825990
>>Truth
>>I’ll need my power back

>>31826040
can we feel where the rest of our demons are?

>>31825990
>Joke
>I'll need my power back

"I think inviting him to have tea with me and the queen at noon would be plenty of fun. And let him know if he doesn't show I'll be going for a walk...and finding Akab, when I do.

>>31825990
>Joke
>Other
You asked for your power back yesterday - do you still want it?

>>31825990
>joke

>Do you have a plan?

>>31826098
Fuck you

>>31826098
This.

>>31826119
>>31826098
Stop samefagging

>>31826060
Curious. I guess I messed up my math, I was wondering why the dragon was only 30%, but I just believed my notes. The Dragon is actually 40%.

My apologies

>>31826061
The Dragon is down in Epsilon level, closer to the Annihilation Wall
Akab was in the city, but has since left
Beelzebub is beneath the ghettos, somewhat near the fighting arena
You don't know where Skath is

>>31826132
>people have an opinion other than mine
>SAMEFAGS

stop being the prefect example of why humanity deserves everything that's happened to it.

>>31826098
yeah, no

>>31826098
i'm ok at giving back her power someday, but in doing that now we will lost part of our memories forever, right ?

>>31826146
Then why isn't the other guy objecting?

>>31826173
no idea, qm will have to answer that one.

Did you people miss the part about her being a demon sociopath when not contracted to us? We give her power back, and she'll betray us and who knows what else.

>>31826187
She gave us the power willingly to start with.

>>31826173
You'll get them back actually, ending the contract returns both of you all that was originally yours.

Do you have a plan
and getting your power back has it

Writing

>>31826241
"Suggest to Victoria inviting Matt over for lunch with the queen at noon."

>>31826241
Any particular reason that one took it? i count three options with 2 votes.

>>31826266
Only five votes were linked to my post, 2 for plan, 2 for power back

>>31825990
>I’ll need my power back
>Do you have a plan?

>>31826283
So how do we support write-in's? Just copy-paste the text in a response to your post?

>>31826332
Link to main post
Link to suggestion you support
Don't samefag (I know you're the same one suggesting to give her back our power, noone else here is that new)

>>31826187
I'm more laughing that people thing that giving power back is somehow a inherit right when they already gave it in a bargain to start with. What's even more hilarious is we know there is someone who took us out in prime. So even if we out shadowrun them they are at least strong enough to fight us at max if poisoned.

>>31826353
It hurts when not everyone's as sociopathic as you, doesn't it?

>>31826365
>implying getting our power back is sociopathic

Seriously, read up on the quest.

>>31826373
>implying forcing an old ally to weaken themselves against their express wishes isn't sociopathic

I know it's hard for you to understand, what with not having any friends.

>>31826384
She wants us to protect the Queen, she can't do that at the moment because she's badly wounded. We'd have an easier time of it if she gave us power.

>>31826384
>Implying that the power they have was fairly, willingly given to us as part of a bargain.

>>31826394
Or we gave her power back, in which case she could do it herself.

“Things got a little frisky when we made out last night,” you answer.

Alice spins around on you and stares. “What did I miss while I was asleep?”

“What did we miss? I leave to work a job, incidentally finding these two, and come back to you drunk ish and sleeping next to Lucian?” you ask, pointing back to the main room.

Her face flushes. “That isn’t, I wouldn’t ever do something like that! He’s just a kid! Why would you think that?”

“Why do you think I would think that?”

“That’s rude!” she shouts at you. “I wouldn’t do something like that,” she declares, stomping past you.

She slams the door shut behind her, breaking the frame, and continues on. “She totally slept with him,” Victoria says.

“Yeah probably. Doesn’t really matter though, do you have a plan for today?”

Victoria takes a deep breath and brushes her hair back behind her ears before answering. “The two of us will have to look presentable, so a trip to the baths and the tailor. I can get us into the palace to do that though. Little Lyanna will gladly have us by her side but I don’t know what I’m going to say you are. I don’t want the two of you going off on each other until after he meets with her though. No matter how it turns out, I’m sure he’ll be busy for the rest of the day and we can figure it out from there.”

“I’ll need my power back you know. If he was responsible for Lauren’s death, I have to know.”

She responds slowly. “We’ll talk as the day goes on. I don’t want you getting in a fight in front of her, and withholding my power is just about the only thing I can do to stop you.”


>No, give it to me now
>Fine, let’s go to the palace
>Say something else
>Other

>>31826405
Knock it off. You're alone in this. Accept that you're wrong and move on to another quest.

>>31826384
>Perfectly logical reason not too
>it-it's because you don't have any friends!! hah

Please kill me. Going to laugh when we lose power then she gets her head ripped off because we weren't' strong enough due to losing power. Jesus the waifuing is happening already.

>>31826407
"Or I'll be severely weakened when he decides to kill her in a fit of boredom, or he kills me because maybe he was the one who brained me in the first place and I can't even stand up to him."

>>31826423
Yes, your crushing two votes is obviously the same as unanimous support.

Not everyone is as crazed as you about upping a single number that has no obvious effects.

>>31826441
See, this is why you need to read. You don't know what you're talking about.

>>31826407
>Fine, let’s go to the palace

>>31826407
>>Other
"Not having my power is not going to stop me getting into fights, you know. It will only decrease the chance of my survival and completing your task. So getting as much of my power back as soon as possible is the best course of action.

...Don't worry, I wont start any fights."

>>31826441
>3% power
>Full body slam a grown man, break a pew
>15% power
>punch the ground
>Break an entire stone foundation

>No obvious effects

>>31826473
We weren't trying to kill the guy, but I suppose memory is not your strong suit.

Even in our past memories, we're basically wolverine, not whatever wank fantasy you're imagining.

>>31826466
haha i like that

>>31826466
Oh, and add that the fight with her just the previous night is proof enough that we are not going to shy away from a fight, even if we are outclassed.

>>31826491
Okay, 100% power we were physically on par if not superior to a Belrog with a mace made of mutliple cars

>no obvious effects

>>31826466
this

>Fine, let’s go to the palace
>If a fight does break out though give it. I'll need everything I can get.

>>31826466
I can do this.

>>31826407
>>Fine, let’s go to the palace

>>31826466
I like this.

>>31826407
>Fine, let’s go to the palace
"you're right Tory, i can be quite... aggressive sometimes."

>>31826491
>More ad hominems

Guys why are you bothering to argue with this guy? I instantly decided it was worthless and didn't bother. So I can't figure out why people care about this guy.

>>31826549
...good point. Argument>Dropped

>>31826549
same here

I'm half-sure he is trolling anyway

ok I see my opinion of giving Victoria back her power was unpopular. Guys, it's her power. Let's give it back.

Also I had to grab food, that's why I didn't object earlier.

>>31826579
Eh, there are 2 sociopaths vocally opposed to it, otherwise it has about as much support as anything else.

>>31826579
>>31826591
Are you people missing the word 'contract' in there?

Making an argument for your powers back, but mostly acquiescing for the time being. Writing

Also, I'm not going to really step in on the power back or not problem. It's being discussed more than any other big issues you guys've had, so yeah.

>>31826631
That's because it's an extremely dumb idea, and it's mostly outrage at how these people can think it's okay. These people are missing the words 'Demon' 'Vampire' 'Contract' and 'Ex' in there. Any one of those would be a good reason to get our power back ASAP.

>>31826625
Contract doesn't imply it's eternal or immune to cancellation.

>>31826625
we made a contract with her where it was implied we wouldn't keep her power for centuries

if this had happened in reverse everyone would be screaming about how we got cheated, robbed, and should kill her at the very least.

>>31826652
>>31826659
But why would we do that? Weaken ourselves and let Matt rule the world for what? So we can be unnecessarily nice to the demon vampire ex-girlfriend from a hundred years ago who wants us dead anyways? Where in there do you see a good idea?

>>31826650
>our power
it's hers, not ours
she was nice enough to let us borrow it for a while, and we selfishly kept it for far longer than she expected.
It's time to give it back.

>>31826669
She only wants us dead because we stole her power. You'd be the same in her position. Hell, you would still want to kill her.

>>31826631
>but mostly acquiescing for the time being
I don't think people were aquescing for time being. At least I didn't intent for that with my write-in option. It was mostly trying to gently convince her to give it back now rather than doing it by intimidation.

>>31826669
Because we don't care about ruling the world. Doing something that's morally right does not necessarily have to have tangible benefits.

>>31826693
The people saying "Let's just go to the palace" were the ones acqueiscing

>>31826700
Isn't the morally right thing to do stop Matt on his world conquest and rampant enslavement of people?

For fuck's sake people. Someone KILLED OUR WIFE.

100% of our priorities should be finding them, killing them, and pissing on their corpse.

Who gives a shit about morally right or not?

>>31826721
I can support this

>>31826721
I do.

>>31826721
I'm down with being a moral person.

>>31826704
As long as we get it back, I guess. Though I would be much less anxious if we got it back now.

>>31826631
I have an idea, Gabriel. Make a save point here. Give her her power back, and when we die because this was a stupid idea, we load the save and the people telling us that being morally good was intelligent in the least can piss off?

>>31826721
>>31826735
>>31826736
>>31826748

This is like a halftime-show in a quest, pls don't stop

>>31826774
Sure, i'll support this.

>>31826774
>>31826810

this would drag on for a long time
it obvious we wont die immediately after relinquishing our power.

>>31826860
Who knows? Victoria, no longer needing us, might just kill us when she has the chance. Or Matt might try to kill us the moment he sees us, or we'll be detained an executed, or, or, or, or...

>>31826860
Could just ask QM if doing this is an automatic Bad End.

>>31826860
plus the don't give back fags will be intentionally trying to get killed by voting for stupid options

>>31826881
matt could just kill us even with her power
he's stronger than us at 100%

“You say it will keep me out of fights, I say it will weaken me and get me killed if he starts it instead,” you respond.

“Then you’ll have to make sure he doesn’t try to kill you. He is your brother you know. Shouldn’t the two of you be on the same side?” Victoria asks.

“You’d think that, but I’m not so certain. Either way, let’s get going to the palace,” you say, offering her a hand up. She ignores it and gets up on her own. When she stands though, she tucks her right arm, the break must not have healed completely yet.

“Then let’s get going Snake,” she says as she walks out ahead of you. Lucian mumbles something about Cynthia as you walk past him. The front door is open, so Alice must have already left. As the two of you leave, you wonder for a moment how the demi-human kid will react to the magpie sleeping the in same room as him.

Out in the streets you can see and hear hundreds of people migrating from their homes to the main streets, where Naaf is marching in. Part of you wants to confront him immediately, but you know you aren’t prepared, instead you follow Victoria back to the palace. She introduces you to the guards as her brother from the south.

After speaking with a servant for a moment, she quickly leads you to a small building behind the residential area, and somewhat near the temple. Inside is a luxurious bath for the royal family. Interlocking pools of steaming water, excess water pouring down stones to other pools. As the two of you start stripping, she explains that the royal tailor will be around shortly. You nod and the two of you take opposite sides of the bath to clean yourselves up.

But as soon as the hot water hits your back, you can feel scars you didn’t know you had. The hot water burning a winged serpent across your shoulders. And you can feel the presence in the temple once again, but you’re certain that it’s not one of your demons.