>>31962129
So is thread seven canon or not?

[ ] Do Nothing.

>>31962129
>Do nothing

>>31962129
I CHANGED MY MIND, I WANT TO GO BACK TO BIG APPLE!

>[ ] Other.
Run over there and start dragging them away from the fire. We can't go releasing dangerous criminals, but it wouldn't be right to just leave them there to suck smoke.

>>31962129
>Ask why they say this

>>31962129
"That sounds like something a guilty person would say. Why should I trust you manworm?"

>>31962129
>[x] Release the Hanged.

Nobody deserves to be treated like that.

>>31962232
>[X ] Other.
>Run over there and start dragging them away from the fire. We can't go releasing dangerous criminals, but it wouldn't be right to just leave them there to suck smoke.

>>31962268
Librul

>>31962232
This, I guess?

>>31962160
What thread 7? There was a thread 7? What even is a 7?

Sorry, my brain must be damaged in such a way as to find 7 incomprehensible.

Calling due to time.
>>31962413
>>31962309
>>31962232

[+1 Heroism?]
[+1 Not-Quite-Savior]

>>31962129
>“Please! Help!” “They're trying... they're trying to kill us!” “I didn't do anything wrong!” “Help us!” “Save us!”
Aw yeah, here comes Judicature's betrayal, but will she betray us or her guild?

>>31962620
B-But Judi is our waifu...

"If I put out that fire,would you respawn."
"Yes, but it would be vey painful For you."

>>31962620
Anon, all criminals say they're innocent, unless there's a favorable plea deal on the table. Of course they'd try to play the victim card to try to get somebody to save them.

>>31962709
yeah, because the courts never make mistakes.

>>31963012
Ok, Mr. Justice, settle your ass down.

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>>31962453
You rush over to the squirming people and begin to systematically pull them to safety from the flame.

“Thank you! Thank you!” The first one shouts. He must not understand what you are doing. “Please! Cut me loose!”

“Me next!” “No! Me next!” Soon they are all calling out for you to cut them loose. They are all so confused.

“Cut me loose!” They all start shouting. “Cut me loose!”

“I'll give you gold! Items! Anything!” “I can give you more than him!”

The worms flail and bounce and shout, all trying to get your attention. The cacophony is more than you were prepared to deal with. You just wanted to go to sleep.

“Why the hell should I help any of you!?” You shout, “You're all criminals!”

“I didn't do anything wrong!” “I as tricked! TRICKED!” “They just hung me! I don't even know what I did!”

“There!” You hear Takeshi shout, “Just as I told you! Spontaneous tree combustion!”

You see a group of people with <Morning Star> above their heads. One with a brown hat, the rest with no hat.

>>31963170
The Morning Stars begin to crowd around the worms.

“SAVE US!” The worms shout.

“That's enough out of you.” The brown-hat named ShoeHorn says with a kick. He then looks to the rest of his group. “Is that all of them?”

They all give him either a shrug or a face of uncertainty.

ShoeHorn spits and says, “Well, someone go get papers!”

One of the no-hats goes running off.

ShoeHorn looks to you, “So, tell me one thing. How's a tree gonna spontaneously combust?”

“Magic!” Takeshi responds.

The deputy give the not-Samurai a quick glance with a shake of the head. Turning back to you he says, “So, until we find out if anyone's missing, I'm just going to assume this entire thing is suspicious, so tell me, without the saying it was magic, how is a tree going to just suddenly burst into flames?”

[ ] Tell the whole truth. “I accidentally lit it on fire with a spell.”
[ ] Technically tell the truth. “Other than magic, I have no idea how it could have happened.”
[ ] Lie. “I wasn't paying attention. Sorry.”

>>31963170
>“There!” You hear Takeshi shout, “Just as I told you! Spontaneous tree combustion!”
You're alright sometimes Takeshi. Not often, but sometimes.

>>31963194
>[ ] Technically tell the truth. “Other than magic, I have no idea how it could have happened.”

>>31963194
>Tell whole truth

>>31963194
>[ ] Tell the whole truth. “I accidentally lit it on fire with a spell.”
But hey, we all learned a valuable lesson here today right? Flammable prisons, which are actually a tree and not a prison at all, aren't secure in the slightest!

In all seriousness, Morning Star seems like the types to convict on suspicion, so laying all the facts our will probably help more than hurt. Or at least it probably won't make things any worse than they already are.

>>31963194
>[X] Technically tell the truth. “Other than magic, I have no idea how it could have happened.”
there isn't a good answer for this. If only we knew what exactly the duel contract said, then we would know if they would consider us responsible for this.

Rolled 3, 9, 3 = 15

>>31963194
>Tell the whole truth. “I accidentally lit it on fire with a spell.”
I forgot the spell was aoe
I am not the sharpest man

>>31963194
>[x] Tell the whole truth. “I accidentally lit it on fire with a spell.”

Trustworthy bunch, these guys.

>>31963248
>>31963306
>>31963398
>>31963519
Calling due to time.

[+1 Truth Telling]

for some reason I was just reminded of that one furry artist who only draws naked women being hung to death...

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>>31963682
Ok, cool, I never needed to know that was a thing and now I'll never be able to un-learn it, but thanks. No really, thank you, you've enriched my world.

>>31963750
Pain and hate are best shared with strangers over the internet.

>>31963750
>>31963816
I remembered it and had the misfortune of seeing it, so I have shared this burden with you.

>>31963816
Only as a prelude. You have to share your pain and hate personally for it to really be best.

Every time this thread comes up I'm so tempted to try and invite mamare to join in and see what happens.

>>31963982
who?

>>31964023
The original japanese author.

>>31963982
Don't do it anon, you might get more than you bargained for.

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>>31964023
....
....
the guy who MADE the entire series

>>31964043
vertigo is in everyone, now

>>31964023
The author of the light novels that the anime/manga are based on. He visited /a/ a few times.

>>31963982
That seems like a bad idea. Do you really want half of /a/ shitting up the thread?

>>31964023
Author of the LNs

>>31964061
Ah good point. I didn't consider that the people that troll LN threads might have mamare on twitter and the bad half of LH threads (waifuwars) might start spamming bullshit Minori praise.

>>31963587
“I accidentally lit in on fire with a spell.” You say, “Me and Takeshi were dueling. Legally, I might add, when I hit the tree with an AoE.” You shrug. “I really had no idea that holy lasers caused fires.”

ShoeHorn folds his arms and says, “Well, I admire your honesty, but until we sort this out, I'm gonna have to arrest you.”

You nod and hold out your hands. “Okay.”

The deputy shakes his head. “No, no. We don't have handcuffs or anything. Just sit over there. If you do anything, though, we'll kill ya.”

You sit down on the ground next to a worm.

“This is how it starts.” The worm whispers. “Run. Run before it's too late!”

A no-hat kicks to worm away. “I thought we told you to be quiet!”

Time seems to have slowed down.

You feel so tired.

Where are those paper?

You just want to sleep.

You yawn loudly.

>>31963204
Whatever happened to honesty is the best policy, Takeshi?

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>>31964271
Soon someone returns with some papers.

“Alright, time for a roll call.” ShoreHorn shouts. “If I call your name, don't bother doing anything. No one cares.” He looks around the group.

“TheD...” He pauses and looks around.

What if this TheD isn't here?

What if he escaped?

What if they blame you!?

“Here.” ShoeHorn says, marking something on the paper.

“MonkeySex … Here. AssesInGlasses … Here. BigChicken … Here.” He checks something on the paper every time he says the word 'Here.' “That's everyone we had from <Big Ol Crities>.” He hands off the paper and looks at a new one.

This goes on for quite a while. Each time he pauses to make sure someone his there your heart stops. Finally the deputy nods and says, “That's everyone. No one escaped, so you're free to go.”

You stand up. This entire day needs to end.

Before anyone can stop you, you rush for the inn.

If you can just get to sleep, no one can blame you for anything.

Into the streets, into the inn, and up the stairs.

You have your hand on the doorknob when you hear a door close.

“Good morning, Ambrosis.” Lilac says.

[ ] “No! Don't you dare tell me anything! I'm going to sleep and you can't stop me!”
[ ] “Good morning.” Go to sleep politely.
[ ] “How was your night?” Start a conversation.
[ ] Other.

>>31964298
>How was your night?

>>31964298
>[ ] “Good morning.” Go to sleep politely.

Is she out of the sack?

>>31964298
>[X] “How was your night?” Start a conversation.
and here I thought that being tired was a sleep spell to screw us.

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>>31964298
>[ ] “Good morning.” Go to sleep politely.

>>31964298
>[ ] “How was your night?” Start a conversation.

>>31964298
Good Morning go to sleep politely

>>31964298
It just me or does it look like they're just hanging anyone with a remotely stupid name?

>>31964428
well, there is a correlation between having a stupid name and being an asshole, although I wonder if morning star are just taking advantage of low level players.

>>31964501
The game is old enough that plenty of people have ye olde stupid names. It's quite hilarious when a person has had a character name for so long they forget that their own name is just as juvenile as the people they complain about.

>>31964501
>believing in Morning Star
>the betrayers

>>31964547
>not realizing that both the devil and jesus christ are refered to as "the morning star"

Rolled 2

>>31964340
>>31964369
>>31964392

>>31964346
>>31964375
>>31964407

At tie!

Dice Gods, we seek your wisdom!

1) Sleep
2) Converse

>>31964614
>not realizing they were both the same guy

>>31964669
[+1 Conversation having]
[+1 Hatred for BigTex]

>>31964687
>Not realizing it was a job title/position.

>>31964857
>believing the lies

>>31964814
Fire cleanses all hatred. Surely you wouldn't deny the town a chance to be purged of hate?

>>31964814
This can only lead to good things

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>>31964814
“How was your night?” You ask.

“I slept through most of it,” She responds, “Except for when someone starting singing Queen.”

“That was me.” You respond, “Me and Judicature.”

Lilac takes a couple seconds to think of a response. “Generally, only Freddy Mercury should sing Queen.”

“Dead men can't sing. Besides, the point of karaoke isn't to sing well, it's to have fun.” You nod to your own point, “Also, it was to help Judi learn to not be scared of people.”

“Are you sure you want to go around telling people her fears?”

“Well, it wasn't a fear as much as it was her thinking too much about what people think of her.”

“And you help her with this by singing Bohemian Rhapsody.”

“We were both terrible, right?”

“Yes.”

“Well, by the time we left, everyone was laughing about it. So, she got over her fear. Just like that.”

“I doubt it will be so simple.”

Lilac begins to head down stairs. You instinctively follow her.

“Baby steps, then.” You respond, “She might not be completely cured, but she's taking steps towards being cured.”

“I had no idea that introversion was a disease now.”

“Not introversion. Caring too much about what people think of you. That's the disease.”

“How noble you are for curing the disease.” She says in a flat tone.

“Was that sarcasm?” You ask.

She looks at you for a moment, and then exits the inn.

“So that WAS sarcasm!” You say, following her.

“Correct.” She respond.

>>31965798
The two of you make your way into the streets. Lilac continues down the long runway of storefronts.

“So, what are you doing?” You ask.

“Trying to find somewhere for us to eat.”

“Us?”

“You were following me, I only assumed you would eat with me as well.”

“Well, with an offer like that, who can refuse?”

“Sarcasm?”

“Only a little.” You respond.

The two of you soon find a small food stall. Lilac stocks up on some fruits and other base ingredients.

“If cactus fruit has taste, these might as well.” She postulates.

You shrug. “Can't say I know one way or another.”

“We should eat on a rooftop.” She says suddenly.

“Why?” You ask.

“Why not?” She retorts.

You certainly couldn't argue with that logic.

Soon the two of you are eating on the wing of a broken jetliner, the one that serves as the roof of the apothecary.

Lilac chews on an apple white you peel open an orange. The flesh inside certainly tastes like orange, which you might find more amazing if you cared for the taste of it.

“Tastes like orange.” You say.

Lilac swallows the bit of apple she was chewing and says, “And the schnozberries taste like schnozberries.”

“Willie Wonka?”

She nods.

You look down at your orange, not sure if you want to finish it.

“Want to switch?” Lilac asks.

“Please!” You hand her the orange and retrieve the apple in its place. You take a big, juicy bite of out it. The sweet, watery juice enters your mouth. Such taste. Much wow.

“Is it good?” Lilac asks before nibbling on the orange.

“YES!” You announce with a full mouth.

That is when you hear boots clank behind you. You turn around to see BigTex walking down the wing towards you. “You're under arrest!” His shrill voice proclaims, “Get on the floor and put your hands behind your head!”

[ ] “What am I under arrest for?”
[ ] Cooperate.
[ ] “Fuck the Police!”
[ ] Other

Before we leave buy all the True Levers the town has.

>>31965816
>[X]"What am I under arrest for?"

>>31965816
>[ ] Other
Aren't you supposed to be in front of the courthouse, kid?

>>31965816
[X] “Fuck the Police!”
The only law I follow is Coyote's Law.

>>31965816
>[ ] “What am I under arrest for?”

>>31965816
>[ ] “What am I under arrest for?”

>>31965798
>>31965816
"What'd the dwarf do now?"

>>31965816
>[X] “What am I under arrest for?”

>>31965816
[X] “What am I under arrest for?”

>>31965816
>not liking oranges

shit taste confirmed.

>>31965816
Wasn't I cleared of any and all charges since, you know, it was an accident and they where all there?

>>31965839
>>31965866
>>31965870
>>31965877

[+1 Legal Defiance]
[+1 Lilac Knowledge]
[+1 Wat]

>>31965982
>implying failTex isn't just pissed at us cause he got yelled at.

>>31965950
Their juice is the only good part of them, and I can buy that in a jug.

Is no one else worrying that the cops are corrupt?

>>31966424
I certainly assume they'll betray us.

>>31966424
They aren't cops, just other players.

>>31966424
They don't like people killing Landers and their punishment doesn't involve killing. Good enough for me.

>>31966482
Keep a person in pain and isolation and they are bound to snap. These guys are just helping them along to their path to crazy town.

>>31966482
Indefinite torture is an infinitely worse punishment when the alternative is instantaneous respawn with a very minor amount of memory loss. There's nothing stopping them from rigging one of the buildings as a makeshift jail.

>>31966534
>implying that isn't their plan
>implying they didn't do that to bigtex already

>>31966547
How do we know it's indefinite? This could be a stopgap measure while they figure out something more permanent. It's definitely a good deterent, in any case.

>>31966534
We're already firmly in crazy town. Push us much further and we'll end up like that other guys post where we babble on and on slicing up foxtails to feed our guests.

>>31965816
>Schnozberries
>Lilac said penis tastes like penis.
Oh my.

>>31966902
wut.

Though how she knows what a nose tastes like, I'd rather not find out.

>>31966970
Schnozberries are penises.

>>31966970
Schnozberries are cock.

>>31966984
>>31967011
[citation needed]

I bet vegetarians must be losing their shit in this world.

>>31967025
http://roalddahl.wikia.com/wiki/Snozzberry

>>31967025
Is cracked a good source?
They had an article on it a couple years ago.
http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/the-filthiest-joke-ever-hidden-in-childrens-movie/

>>31967085
Interesting.

But also slightly irrelevant, since we're dealing with something that very obviously derives from Schnoz, a word for nose.

>>31967151
Actually it's jewish for penis. Most yiddish slang that people know of is them cursing at goy in front of their faces.

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>>31965991
“What am I being arrested for?” You shout back.

“For releasing criminals from their nooses!” He yells.

You look to the level 14 sorceress. She looks as confused as you are. You then look back to BigTex. “What!?”

“Don't lie! I know it was you! I was told!”

“Yeah, I guess, but they were all there and no one cared!”

“Ah ha! So you admit it!”

You really do not want to put up with this bullshit right now. “How about instead we just wait for your sister to get hear and yell at you again!?”

“How about you shut up!” He pulls out some rope, spinning it over his head in a lasso.

Lilac stands up.

She waves her staff in the air and makes an exaggerated gesture upwards. Suddenly a spike of stone stabs the wing, breaking it in half. On one end was you and Lilac, on the other was the child-man. Your end begins to slide away.

“Jump!” Lilac commands. You indeed jump and the two of you go crashing through the window of the building next door.

You quickly get up from the floor. “Why the hell did you do that!?”

“So you can escape arrest?”

“I'm innocent! Now I look guilty!” You shout, “And not you're guilty of property damage!”

You hear BigTex shouting in the distance. “You can't run from Justice!”

“Then I suggest we run.” Lilac responds. “... From justice.”

“Was... Was that a joke?”

She shrugs.

You let out a sigh of anger and begin running down stairs. The two of you make it into the streets, but BigTex is hot on your trail.

“Get them!” He cries, “They're resisting arrest!”

“No!” You shout back, “You're just trying to arrest us for no reason!”

“That's still resisting arrest!”

“But you're acting unlawfully!”

“NUH UH!”

You continue to run down the runway. There was a pun here, you could feel it. You were aiming for the one place that could stop this idiot; LittleTex's office.

Lilac falls, her feet bound by rope.

>>31967200
Well ok. it's technically both but they're generally saying you have a penis for a nose if they say that about it.

It's similar to how Willian Shakespeare's name roughly translates into dick masturbator

>>31967246
“Go on without me!” She shouts. She then lays her head on the ground with a “Bleh! I'm dead.”

You stop and look at her. “Seriously?”

“I thought it was funny.” She responds.

You would normally would respond with something you found to be witty, but a ring of rope wraps around your throat.

BigTex drags you to the ground and pulls both you and Lilac toward him. The asphalt dragging against your face is less than pleasurable.

“Now you're both under arrest for freeing prisoners, fleeing the scene of a crime, and having stupid faces!”

You try to protest, but all you can produce are gurgling noises.

“God damn it.” You hear the voice of the sister speak, “Can't I go one day, just ONE DAY without you doing something without my telling you?!”

“But they're criminals!” The brother protests.

“Says who!?”

“The law!”

“The law and who!?”

“Shoes!”

LittleTex pauses and looks to you two, then back to her brother. “What did he say they did?”

“They released the hanged men and fled the scene of the crime!”

The white-hatted woman began massaging her brow. “Okay. Fine. Someone go put them in the jail.”

“That's what I was going!”

“NOT YOU!” She yells, “God damn it! Where is ShoeHorn!?”

“He's still recapturing the prisoners.” The brown-hat responds.

“Fine! Someone go wake Judicature up!” She snatches the ropes from her brother. “In the mean time, I'll watch them!”

She unties you two and points to a building that more looks like a log cabin made from broken plane wings. “We're heading there. Try to run and I'll make you regret it.”

You hold up your hands in surrender. “You're the boss!”

>>31967262
The three of you make your way down to this wing-log cabin, the word Jail is crudely painted above the entrance.

Inside the three of you travel. There are cages lining the dirt floor. They are not even very big cages.

“In you two go.” LittleTex says, opening up a cage door.

“Into the same cell?” Lilac asks.

LittleTex blinks a couple time. “Right. I need my morning coffee.”

She opens up another cage. Lilac climbs inside. You, in turn, climb into the other cage. The cages are locked.

LittleTex yawns and proceeds to say, “I'm sorry about all this. Once we get this sorted out, we'll let you out. In the mean time: ground rules. Don't try to break out or we hang you. Don't try to teleport home or we will hang you. Pretty much do anything we don't like and we'll hang you.”

As if on cue, a very tired Judicature stumbles in. “I'm here...” She says with a long yawn.

“Good.” LittleTex responds, “Be sure to watch the prisoners.”

Judi sits down on a chair in front of a desk and gives the Sheriff a thumbs up. “Mmhmm...”

The sheriff leaves and Judi then lies down on the desk.

You look to Lilac. “Did... Did she just go to sleep?”

Lilac shrugs.

After a couple of minutes, boredom creeps in. You need to do something, but the only thing to do is talk.

You look to Lilac.

[ ]Write In Only

>>31967283
[x]Sleep
We need sleep. Like right the fuck now.

>>31967283
Bitch dragged us away from our sleeping time. Make up for it now

>>31967283
>[ ]Write In Only
How long do you think before LittleTex goes full crazy and stages a coup?

>>31967310
Not sure we can sleep in a cramped, shitty little cage.

[X] You know, I'm really starting to think that those people being hanged didn't do much wrong. Aren't we supposed to get due process or something?

Alternatively, [X] Call our brother.

>>31967361
When you're tired enough, sleep comes easily.

>>31967283
>Talk to Lilac.
Thanks for having my back.

>>31967283
[X] Sing the song of your people.
Rattle the bars as well.

>>31967283
"Thanks for being a not criminal with me. Want to play tic tac toe or something?"

>>31967283
Mind if I get some rest? I've didn't get any sleep last night.
Proceed to use her lap as a pillow.

How many true levers do we still have?

>>31967283
>[ ]Write In Only
This kinda feels like lord of the flies, doesn't it?

>>31967310
>>31967326
>>31967499

Sleep appears to be the most popular vote.

[+5 Restedness]

the updates can't come fast enough

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>>31967609
“I'm gonna go get some sleep.” You tell Lilac.

“Okay.” She responds.

The metal bars are not very comfortable, but you are too tired to care at this point.

Judicature mumbles something inaudible, but you can't even bring yourself to care.

Sleep takes you.

RING

RING

RING

You look at the call menu. Vertigo is prominently displayed.

You answer the phone.

Your ears are bombarded by an image with too many details to understand. You can see it in your head, the many lines going everywhere, consuming everything in your mind. These threads form a tapestry in such a definition that it is hard to look at, yet you cannot turn away. It has invaded your mind and you are apart of it.

“He is like a black hole.” Your brother's words come tumbling into you along one of the vines. “You do not see him for what is there, but in what is missing.”

“What is this!?”

“His plan.”

“I DON'T GET IT!”

“Me either.”

“HOW ARE YOU HERE!?”

“I am not. I am just a shadow cast by His light.”

“WHY!?” You scream. It was the only thing you could think to ask, “WHY!?”

“So he could win.” Your brother replies, “Now that we are here, he can finally win.”

“WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!?”

“Because I must.”

“WHAT!?”

“When you get to Big Apple, cut the noose.”

CLICK

You sit up and breathe in. It is as if you had been drowning till now. You couch and hack and wheeze. You hack up … something? You are not quite sure what it is, or even how to describe it.

“Yarr! Better in than out!” You hear Trove say.

You look around. You are in the cart, the night sky above you. Everyone is there, Trove is driving the cart, everyone else is asleep.

“What the... What the hell happened?” You ask weakly.

“Yarr! Ye stuck a switch on the town portal then collapsed.”

========================
End Session

>>31968218
vertigo is inside us

>>31968218
Oh god, please tell me we didn't just get sent back to the first town.

wat

Damn it, why does such an awesome comedy quest hafta go grimderp?

>>31968319
You know how in the beginning we are all crazy and stuff?

Turns out we weren't crazy enough.

>>31968218
QM, you better not be telling us multiple threads worth of plot didn't happen.

>>31968274
It's either that, or the MiB WANTS us to reopen the portals. He took over our body for a bit, and made us connect Ekechi 51.

And that can't be a good thing.

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>>31968218
So, Lilac, in your opinion do I look more or less like Nyarlathothepy than I did this morning? Because AAAAAAAAARHRHRHGHGWHATTHEFUCKHGHGHGHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

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>>31968218
soo.. time control.

>>31968383
Why are people thinking this is a time reset? I just read it as we used a lever on the Ekechi portal.

>>31968369
You act like we wouldn't have done that anyway.
Unfortunately though we probably wasted our last lever. We'll need to hit the auction house ASAP.

>>31968403
Ekechi has a portal?

>>31968440
It's a town so i assume so.

>>31968274
MiB has now power over time. That's just silly.

>>31968344
>go grimderp?
As I have it planned now, there will be mostly comedy which is every so often punctuated by horrific madness.

>>31968440
>Ekechi has a portal?
All major cities have a portal. If it's on the map, it has a portal.

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>>31968440
Every town marked on this map is a player hub city, meaning it has a Cathedral, Guild Hall, and Portal, as well as all the other junk a hub city has none of which are terribly important.

In order to reactivate the portal network via the True Lever method, we'll have to attach one to every NA and SA city (since they're all on the same network, as Lilac pointed out in like thread 2 I think), which is complicated by the fact that you can't send messages cross-server so someone will have to venture to the SA server and do it there at some point.

>>31968609
So if we draw a map and mark down a town will it suddenly have a portal?
What if we do the opposite and have people remove towns from a map, would it lose its portal?

>>31968641
Oh god, we're going across the whole fucking country?!

>>31968668
Next Stop: Boulder

>>31968650
>So if we draw a map
THE map, not A map. Please see >>31968641

>>31968668
Distances are halved because of the Half Gaia Project, at least.

>>31968791
It took us two days about to get to this town from South Angel. It's about ten times as long a trip from Boulder to Big Apple from my eyeballing. Can we survive 20 days in the wild?

>>31968828
Why not? The monsters drop foooood.

For the record I'm saddened that using the True Lever was not put to vote. Fucking MiB.

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>>31968843
Can you survive 20 days stuck in a wagon with Takashi?

>>31968867
I just want to know if we took all the true levers they had with us.

>>31968791
True, for now.

But of course we've also got to deal with monsters and probably Dickbutt Strikes Back at some point, so I'd call it a wash in terms of overall journey difficulty. On the bright side we can mulligan as many times as we want if we die, which means that we can experience death by dysentery MULTIPLE TIMES! I joke, I don't think Adventurers can catch normal diseases. Or even if traditional disease exists in crazy magic land.

>>31968828
Might take longer than that, since we don't know if the roads are a straight shot between towns or if there are obstacles we might have to go around, and god help us if the cart gets wrecked and we have to hoof it. For all we know the Great Plains are infested by roving tribes of buffalo-riding goblins.

>>31968867
Eh, in theory we can always swindle some scrubs out of more, and from a meta standpoint we can be almost sure we'll figure out how to reproduce them eventually.

Don't forget to archive guys.

This entire adventure could have been subverted if in the starting town we simply had others call their friends in foreign cities and told them of the Levers' Power.

>>31968828
We're probably going to stop over in Great Lakes first, much safer to take a tiny detour to swing up there and set our spawn point than to try to ironman an entire straight-line trip.

Of course I'm not liking that big empty patch in the middle of the country, that just screams "high level zones" to me.

>>31969010
Shortened, sure. But we'd still have to travel to all the SA cities. See >>31968641

>>31968867
It's okay.
You have three more. You built them. Don't you remember?

>>31969018
>that big empty patch
You mean The Frontier? Nothing wrong with that, if you know how to git gud.

>>31969056
Clearly this is the work of a frenemy stand

>>31969010
Been over this, the SA portals need to be linked as well and even if people did have contacts in all the SA cities you can't send messages cross-server. We COULD have sat around trying to organize the whole thing by phone using our questionable skills at dealing with normal humans, but it would have taken forever, and in any case the portal reactivation is only an incidental goal to our true goal of reaching Big Apple. And at least going by foot we get loot and exp along the way.

>>31969018
Great Lakes? No, we want to head for Cajun. That way we can have the South American people call their friends. Assuming nobody has told them already.

>>31969056
I am both horrified and intrigued at the thought of mind-controlled engineering.

>>31969018
Avoid the great lakes and Mount Rushmore. that's where the death cultists who worship a raid boss live if memory serves me properly.

>>31969056
We didn't somehow massacre the town and Judi did we?
because I'd sort of be ok with that.

>>31969056
>We made impossible to make levers while in our MiB trance
FUCK

>>31969088
Right, yes, that.

Ok Dixie or Brotherhood then. Dixie is a shorter leg but a longer trip overall, and we'll have to go through the GODDAMN SOUTH to get there. On the other hand Brotherhood is longer but takes us closer to our ultimate destination.

Anybody up for setting the town on fire before we abscond?

>>31969187
Haven't we already absconded?

>>31969187
that might damage the portal that we need to activate.

>>31969209
There's still time. We can go back and make it right.

>>31969187
We escaped Crimetown and you want to go back and commit more crimes? No thank you. The pigs are level 90.

>>31969259
I do kinda sorta wanna stop the horrible atrocity and torture with no legal system going on in that city.

>>31969285
We can set up a legal system AFTER we unite the continent.

Where the hell were the guards that always show up when Players fight?

>>31969285
We can always go raid the ruins of DC, find whatever relic represents the US Constitution, and go back later and beat Big Tex to death with it.

>>31969374
They only show up if you deal damage or cast a hostile spell on someone inside a city, and they just don't care what you do outside the city limits at all. You can get away with a fair bit as long as you don't directly cause HP loss, manhandling someone works just fine.

>>31969415
If we want to beat BigTex all we have to do is vomit on him.

>>31969056
So, uh, see you tomorrow TinyShepherd?

>>31969624
It certainly seems that way.

So... crazy NPC is all for free markets? Is this about globalization? Does he Mexican migrant workers to steal all our jobs?

So something just occurred to me, that call from our bro could have happened during the time where he was being brain bamboozled in the library (it was a several hour period during which he wasn't aware of his actions), so he might not be totally full-cultist bonkers.

Next time we receive a call from him we should have our party on standby to bash us into unconsciousness should we start acting funny.

On an unrelated note, Lilac still a cute.

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>>31969893
What?

>>31970001
Yeah, let's have them be ready to beat the shit out of us any time we seem to be taking a phone call.

From what I can tell, though, it's supposed to be one on one telepathic communication. Is it really that easy to spot?

>>31970050
>it's supposed to be one on one telepathic communication. Is it really that easy to spot?
If we say "hey guys, phonecall from my maybe-possessed-by-a-Great-Old-One bro" then yes, and I can't imagine the signs of being possessed/brainraped/whatever'd by knowledge not meant for the minds of mortals must have SOME outward sign if you're specifically watching for it.

Better safe than sorry, HP damage is easy to fix, being turned into a meatpuppet by Cthulhu and running around doing things involuntarily maybe not so much. And if they can't spot it happening, then we didn't lose anything by making the attempt at least.

>>31970106
The great flaw in that plan is that we probably won't have enough time to speak to warn anyone. The telepathy lead straight to horrible mindfuckery pretty much instantaneously.

And he's the god damn Man in Black. I think his specialty is being subtle and manipulative. We're not likely to do anything incredibly obvious and Otherworldian whilst under his control.

>>31970136
>The great flaw in that plan is that we probably won't have enough time to speak to warn anyone.
You know we still have to accept the call before it connects, right?

>>31970136
do we always have to "pick up" the call from our brother, can we just let it ring while we warn others?

>>31970136
>I think his specialty is being subtle and manipulative.
And if our team fails to detect it, at least we'll have concrete evidence that we don't show any outward signs while in that state, which is still a good thing to know. Regardless of the outcome we're still gaining information, in the absolute worst case we'll at have learned that accepting calls from our brother may result in undetectable possession.

Well at the very least tomorrow should prove interesting.
Might be worth giving us an inventory pastebin too.