You take your chance and charge towards the nearest spider. It rears back, as if to try and scare you off. All this does is provide you ample access to its underbelly. You drive the tip of your spear into the joint between the two halves of its body and thick, black goo sprays out of the wound to coat your hands. You twist the spear sharply and shove the spider back, causing it to go spilling over the side of the walkway. Unfortunately just as you're turning around you're hit in the chest by thick glob of black goo.

The impact knocks you off balance, as do the two that follow it. The substance spreads out seemingly with a will of its own, crawling into the joints of your armor and making it difficult to move. When the fourth blob hit you were already teetering on the edge, and it was just the push needed to send you over. One minute you were standing on more-or-less firm ground and the next you were tumbling through pitch black.

Your shoulder hits the water and you hear a pop as it's pushed out of place. You open your mouth to scream but cold water and some sort of thick, bitter paste rushes into your mouth. You try to swallow, but find yourself choking. It's only your armor that saves you. The visor slides out of your helmet and the mask slides up. Finally, a bag deploys from your lower back, and you find yourself drifting towards the surface once more. Your limbs are caked in that black slime, very nearly immobilized. However, it seems to be slowly breaking down in the water. You ought to have freedom of movement back soon.
(1/2)

The only light seems to be coming from the yellow glow behind the wall far above. It barely reaches this far into the nest, and you're surrounded by sounds of skittering and the soft hum of insectoid wings. It seems as though, by some miracle, you've escaped notice. Perhaps they think you're dead, because nothing comes to attack you. You take a moment to channel some healing magic into your shoulder and suppress a yelp of pain as the bone pops itself back into your joint.

>It's dark down here, you ought to be damn near invisible. Try to sneak a look around.
>Nah, you's gonna chill here for a while. This is good. Wait for the gunk to dissolve in water.
>Wait until you hear the sounds of combat upstairs, that ought to draw most enemies away from you.
>Write-in

>>33951213
>>Nah, you's gonna chill here for a while. This is good. Wait for the gunk to dissolve in water.

>>33951213
>>Nah, you's gonna chill here for a while. This is good. Wait for the gunk to dissolve in water.

>>33951213
>b chillin

Rolled 4, 9, 8 = 21

>>33951213
Nah, you're gonna chill here for a while. wait for the gunk to dissolve in water.

>>33951225
what if there's something in the water anon?
>>33951213
>It's dark down here, you ought to be damn near invisible. Try to sneak a look around
This should be pretty easy with our cloak.

>>33951213
>Wait until you hear the sounds of combat upstairs, that ought to draw most enemies away from you.

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>>33951213
b cool man, b cool.

>>33951213
>Wait until you hear the sounds of combat upstairs, that ought to draw most enemies away from you.

>>33951341
>>33951326
>Wait until you hear combat.

>>33951225
>>33951241
>>33951243
>>33951273
>>33951339
>Chill out

Writin'

>>33951213
>>Wait until you hear the sounds of combat upstairs, that ought to draw most enemies away from you.

You just float for a short while. This is good, you can live with this. Sure, there might be an untold number of hideous monsters lurking just below the surface of the lake, but you just don't feel like moving right now. You'll wait until the gunk covering your upper body dissolves and then make your way to shore in your own time.

You start to slowly work your arms back in forth, careful not to make too much noise lest you attract undue attention. More and more of the dried gunk starts to flake off or dissolve. In the pitch black it seems to take hours until you have full range of motion again, but in reality it was probably only a few minutes. Actually, you're not even sure how time works within Fulvia's mind, or if it flows at all. For all you know it's only been a few seconds since you entered her mind.

You feel something tug on your leg, and another something trying to pry your spear out of your hands. You glance down, but see only a pair of sickly yellow eyes peering at you above the water. You feel another tug on your leg, and suddenly you're being pulled along the water. You tighten your grip on your spear, and whatever the creature is trying to pull it from your hands relents. They don't seem to be hostile yet, but damned if you're heart isn't racing. They're obviously corrupted, or else they wouldn't be in here...

>Attack the one trying to pull you along, it won't be expecting it.
>User water magic to push them away, and then try to make it to shore. (1 vys)
>Just see where this goes, maybe they're taking you to the broodmother. That would save you a lot of time.
>Write-in

>>33951685
>Just see where this goes, maybe they're taking you to the broodmother. That would save you a lot of time.
That would be pretty convenient.

>>33951685
>>Just see where this goes, maybe they're taking you to the broodmother. That would save you a lot of time.

once again we should use our calm down powers

>>33951748
>calm down powers
?

>>33951685
Ask Fulvia about this guy.

>>33951685
Just see where this goes, maybe they're taking you to the broodmother. that would save you alot of time.

>>33951768
And where he's taking us.

>>33951757
Not freak out at everything and try to kill at 1st glance I'd wager.

>>33951685
>>Just see where this goes, maybe they're taking you to the broodmother. That would save you a lot of time.

>>33951685
>Just see where this goes, maybe they're taking you to the broodmother. That would save you a lot of time.

>>33951797
Why not just ask him where he's taking us?

>>33951685
>third option
>this is exactly the kind of shit mik would do
>i dont want to do this
>but its in character.
>shit.

>>33951853
You could totally vote for other options bro, but I think it would be moot at this juncture.

>>33951849
Because it's underwater and we don't know if it can speak.

>Just see where life takes you
Writin'

>>33951933
be gentle pls

>>33951933
This seems relevant to your interest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK-lGSYKaaM

>>33951942
We're going in deep anon.

>>33951874
i could. but it would feel wrong.
seems everyone else agrees.

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You relax, deciding to just see where this goes. After all, they might be taking you to the Broodmother. That would save you a ton of time searching this damned nest high and low for whatever horrible monstrosity is cranking out all these other horrible monstrosities. You have to say, if you were going to get dragged towards your death by any monster this particular variety seem fairly gentle. They don't unnecessarily rough you up, merely pull you smoothly and quickly through the water.

Eventually you feel your back press against stone, you seem to be in some sort of stream draining from the lake behind you. A creature rises out of the water in front of you, submerged to its knees. You'd estimate it to be five feet tall, at most. It's covered in pale, slime-coated scales from head to toe. Its eyes are a sickly pale yellow, they seem to glow in the darkness of the cavern. Two sets of gills cut into the flesh of its neck, flapping uselessly now that the creature is no longer submerged.

Another rises from the water behind you, and grabs you by the shoulders. You find yourself being carried much like a sack through the darkened corridors. As you watch, the creature behind you opens its mouth wide to reveal a row of long, wickedly sharp teeth and a horrifying maw. It leans down towards you, as if to tear out your throat. Fortunately the other creature gurgles something and the other looks up, before snapping its jaws shut and standing up straight again. Well, straight-er. They seem to walk in a sort of hunch-backed shuffle while on land.

(1/2)

The air grows warmer, and then downright hot. The stone floor starts to give way to more of that black ichor and you find yourself in a room filled to the brim with small, buzzing insects. They coat the walls, the ceilings, everything. One even alights on your chest and tries to shove a long proboscis through your armor, only to injure itself in the attempt. The fish-creatures set you gently on the ground, and the one who'd prevented the other from biting you earlier points to you, and then deeper into the cave before turning around.

That was odd. That was extremely odd. Mainly because they seemed almost intelligent. They obviously had language of some sort... you'll need to ask Fulvia about that later. Regardless you stand up slowly, trying to avoid the attention of the swarm of insects surrounding you. They're only about the size of a rat, the largest being closer in size to a small dog, but it's a thousand against one. Sure you'd probably take a hundred or so down with you but you'd still die.

>Sneak off in the direction the fish-thing indicated. He seemed reasonable.
>Observe the insects for a while, see if there is any sort of pattern to their movement.
>Go back the way you came, you're not going to do what they tell you. One of them tried to kill you!
>Write-in

>>33952350
>Sneak off in the direction the fish-thing indicated. He seemed reasonable.

Natives...

>>33952350
>>Sneak off in the direction the fish-thing indicated. He seemed reasonable.
Fulvia what the fuck

>Observe the insects for a while, see if there is any sort of pattern to their movement.
123abc

>>33952350
>Sneak off in the direction the fish thing indicated. he seems reasonable
they could have killed us but they didn't might as well trust the creepy bastards...

>>33952350
>Sneak off in the direction the fish-thing indicated. He seemed reasonable.

>>33952350
>Sneak off in the direction the fish-thing indicated. He seemed reasonable.

>>33952350
>Sneak off in the direction the fish-thing indicated. He seemed reasonable.
Call Fulvia while doing so.
>And they call ME crazy?

>>33952350
Could it be that they're parts of this world that have become mutated?

>Sneak in the direction the fish thing indicated.
Writin'

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better ask her if these fucks where there before or after the corruption set in.

Wait, shit. No I'm not. I need 3 rolls of 3d10+12 vs DC 25 to avoid attracting the notice of the bugs. Your cloak bonus is doubled due to the poor lighting.

Rolled 4, 5, 7 + 12 = 28

>>33952572

Rolled 1, 2, 10 + 12 = 25

>>33952572

Rolled 4, 1, 1 + 12 = 18

>>33952572

Rolled 5, 4, 2 + 12 = 23

>>33952572
heeere

>>33952586
>>33952600
>>33952610
>28, 25, 18 vs DC 25
>Regular Success!
Writin' for real this time!

>>33952350
>Sneak off in the direction the fish-thing indicated. He seemed reasonable.

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You push yourself up, your cloak billowing around you formless and indistinct as it always is in the dark. You must look like some sort of vengeful spirit as you stalk off towards the tunnel those fish-creatures indicated. You manage to get through without attracting too much attention, one of the bugs did land on your shoulder briefly but you froze in place and waited. Eventually it decided you weren't worth investigating further and flew off. You vanished into the tunnel without further incident, and from there all you had to do is follow the path.

The air continues to grow hotter, and the humidity continues to increase. The goo that had covered the floor nearer the water's edge has turned into some sort of thick, fleshy growth. It throbs and pulses rhythmically, not unlike that mutated heart you found in the first Rhynian ruin you ever explored, in the same room where you found Profectus sealed within a strange pod. You're sweating terribly by the time the tunnel begins to widen and you hear the sounds of movement from up ahead.

Finally, you emerge into a large chamber. Unlike the tunnel, this one is filled with a warm glow, radiating from the fluid-filled sack atop what you assume is the Broodmother's head. Two thick tendrils extend from the sack into the ground around her, into the fleshy growth that covers the floor. The entire nest seems to throb in time with the pulse of what you assume is her heart, or at the very least some vital organ. A proboscis extends from her mouth flanked on either side by spiked tentacles, and attached to her back is a long series of armored plates under which innumerable bugs seem to reside. You assume those would be her children.

(1/2)

It doesn't seem to have noticed you yet, a good thing too. This is likely your ultimate target and if you can take it out quickly that ought to end this whole adventure and you can return to the 'real' world. At least, a world slightly more real than this one is. You clench your hands tighter around your spear, trying to think up a plan of attack.

>Sneak up as close as you can get and launch a piercing strike at that weird sack on its head.
>Try to keep your distance, the air here is replete with moisture. Form a cloud of ice shards and hurl it at the broodmother and her welps.
>Set as much of the room on fire as you can and then make a run for it, that ought to take care of her.
>Write-in

>>33952991
>Shoot the sack on top of the broodmother's head with a fire-charged shot from our officer's pistol.

>>33952991
>>Try to keep your distance, the air here is replete with moisture. Form a cloud of ice shards and hurl it at the broodmother and her welps.

>>33953010
Fookin secundead.

>>33952991
Could we try to channel Blast+Fire through our armor for this?

>>33953010
>>Shoot the sack on top of the broodmother's head with a fire-charged shot from our officer's pistol.
seems reasonable as fuck. We have the element of surprise. So our aim should be pretty badass.

>>33952991
>>Sneak up as close as you can get and launch a piercing strike at that weird sack on its head.

>>33952991
When we use consumables in the core do they get consumed in the real world too? Like a bullet or something

>>33953010
Sounds alright.

>>33952991
>Sneak up as close as you can get and launch a piercing strike at that weird sack on its head.
use poison as well, i have a feeling that fire won't do more damage to the surrounding then to her.

>>33953010
oh. this? this is a five star fuckin post

Rolled 6, 5, 9 + 12 = 32

>>33953010
Do this.

>>33953010
>>33952991
any way we can snuggle in the poison, the parallels to the giant hear make me think that poisoning the brood mother would be better.

>>33953144
We could try channeling poison with fire into the pistol since poison is an effect.

>>33953144
>>33953097
>>33953063
>>33953095
>>33953110

We can poison the bullet. , granted it won't be very effective since it will explode into the body and some out. But hey the best of both world.

>>33953176
>>33953184
I'm good with that, hitting.

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>>33953176
>>33953184
THIS

>>33953010
This seems to have the popular vote. It will take 1 vys to charge the shot and since you've spent quite a fair bit of time in this universe around guns, seeing them used extensively, I'll go ahead and remove the usual -2 malus you get when you use a firearm.

Thus, I need 3 rolls of 3d10 flat, vs a DC of 15. You're aiming at a large target and you're not very far away. Your vys pool will be 6/29 after this.

>>33953176
This is indeed something you could do. Normally you would need to cast a ranged, weapon channeled, poison spell but because of the enchantments on the pistol it will merely be a weapon channeled poison spell. Thus, it would reduce your pool by an additional 2 vys, leaving you at 4/29.
>Channel poison in addition to fire.
>Don't channel poison.

Rolled 11, 13, 5 = 29

>>33953223
>>Channel poison in addition to fire.
YES

Rolled 2, 1, 4 = 7

>>33953223
add poison

>>33953223
>Channel poison in addition to fire.
We need to make sure it dies, once we're done with it we're done here.

>>33953223
>Channel poison in addition to fire.

>>33953223
>>Channel poison in addition to fire.
We need to kill this thing DEAD. And it needed to happen a week ago.

Rolled 3, 8, 7 = 18

>>33953223
>Channel poison in addition to fire.
Let's see

Rolled 4, 1, 8 = 13

>>33953254
sorry wrong dice

>>33953223
Could we add a burst metamagic in addition to weapon channeling?

Rolled 6, 8, 5 = 19

>>33953268
here's my roll

>>33953287
>>33953279
>>33953257
I vote "Spend" preemptively.

>>33953287
>>33953279
>>33953257
Well fuck, we'll have to use 2 vys to salvage this.

>>33953287
>>33953279
>>33953257
Spend
Be done with this once and ofr all.

>>33953291
The gun itself sort of applies burst metamagic already. It wouldn't have an noticeable effect.

>>33953257
>>33953279
>>33953287
>7, 18, 13 vs DC 15
>Regular Failure!
You could spend 2 vys to make it a Regular Success
>Spend
>Save

Rolled 10, 1, 3 = 14

>>33953331
>>Spend

>>33953331
>Spend

>>33953331
spend.
If the shot doesn't kill. the poison will do it's job to kill the weakend corruption. and give ample time for fulvia to get rid of it.

>>33953331
>spend

>>33953331
>Spend

>Spend
Back to writin'!

>>33953375
>If the shot doesn't kill.
take a shotgun to the head..anything will go down. especially if you don't know it's coming.. and have no defenses up. * it's his home deep in his lair*

Looks like we are going full physical for now.this makes us going to the forest interesting if we ever do.

>>33953408
When shooting with the pistol can we add manipulate to scramble a body from the inside?

>>33953479
that would be another 2vys, i rather not pass out.

>>33953435
>Looks like we are going full physical for now
what?
1. I don't want to waste time in no god forsaken forest.
2. If you mean after we hit grand master water and grand master metal. with a few in master. Yeah full physical sure.

>>33953489
Just ideas for the future.

>>33953495
I think he means we ran out of vys so we're only using physical attacks.

>>33953495
I said for now, since our pool is at 2vys.
Plus i know going to the forest is a pipe dream since some anons are adamant on leaving no matter what.

>>33953495
Going back into the mine would be dragons, and more meditating in the lake also some golem hunting.

>>33953527
ahh
>>33953530
honestly don't want to be in this world anymore.
And I think Fulvia is going to pull us out as soon as she feels the corruption dying/dead. She will have more control once this thing is weakened. So even if she can't pull us out. She will be pulling off a full army raid.
1. She is gathering vys directly from gate.
2. She will have more control
should be a joke for her to pull us out.

An idea strikes you. A devious, ingenious idea. You switch your spear into your off hand and reach into your cloak, unable to resist grinning like an idiot. Maybe it's just the exhaustion finally getting to you, but you feel genuinely giddy about the absolute carnage you're about to witness. You feel a smooth wooden handle pressed into your palm, and run your thumb along the gold filigree as you withdraw your Officer's Pistol from your cloak. Both barrels are loaded, but you should only need one shot for what you have in mind.

You level the pistol, aiming into the dead center of the bulbous sack protruding from the creature's head. You start pushing fire magic into the weapon, the barrel beginning to smoke. You decide that's not enough though. You push more and more vys into the weapon, until the barrel is glowing red hot. Then you channel a poison spell into the weapon just to really insure that this thing dies and stays dead. The wood warps and rots before your eyes, the metal adopting a rusted patina. Normally you would be worried, but the poison spell always has this sort of effect on weapons.
>Vys Pool: (2/29) You're absolutely dead on your feet. You're primarily still functioning due to adrenaline.

You pull the trigger, and the gun barks in your hand. Your shoulder is nearly dislodged just from the force of the blowback. The sound alone is loud enough to deafen you and it reverberates throughout the room, and surely into the rooms beyond. The Broodmother has only a moment to contemplate the events unfolding before her head turns into a miniature sun, filling the room with blinding white light and blistering heat. Your armor seals itself off just to protect you from the heat, a warning light flashing in the corner of your visor.
(1/2)

When the blast finally subsides, you see that only the lower half of the Broodmother's torso survived the shot, and even it is scorched all to hell. Only a handful of her children still live and the majority of those are in the process of dying. As you stand up, you notice a creeping, black rot spreading across the fleshy growths on the floor and covering the walls. It seems your poison spell will do its work. To all appearances, your work is done here. You take a moment to repair your burst eardrums and notice that the room is filled with the sound of buzzing wings, likely coming from that room the fish-creatures dumped you in. You should probably make yourself scarce...

>Contact Fulvia, tell her the Broodmother is dead, ask her to extract you.
>There is a second tunnel branching off of this chamber, make a run for it and see where it leads.
>Write-in

>>33953555
trust me we will be doing atleast 2-3 meditations while we're at the gate.
possibly master fire just because.
Metal to make mental barriers.
and hopefully slow. that passive heal/mental barricade is pretty bad ass.

>>33953697
Why not both?

>>33953697
>There is a second tunnel branching off of this chamber, make a run for it and see where it leads.
>But also contact Fulvia and tell her it's dead

>>33953697
>Beam me up, Scotty!

>>33953697
>>There is a second tunnel branching off of this chamber, make a run for it and see where it leads.

>>33953697
>There is a second tunnel branching off of this chamber, make a run for it and see where it leads.

>>33953748
This, not sure how fast she can get us out, but I hope it's fast, start running Mik!

>>33953748
This.

>>33953748
This.

>>33953697
>>There is a second tunnel branching off of this chamber, make a run for it and see where it leads.

curiosity killed the cat. But the cat never had a cloak that makes seeing us damn near difficult.
Use the shit out of the cloack so nothing follows us into the tunnel.

>Both
Works for me. Writin'

>There is a second tunnel branching off of this chamber, make a run for it and see where it leads.

>>33953843
>curiosity killed the cat
and satisfaction brought it back.

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Rolled 7, 6, 2 = 15

>>33953697
Magic Mik, World's Authority on Instagibs and Insanity!

>>33953962
I fuckin' love the Arctic Monkeys.

>>33953697
>As you stand up, you notice a creeping, black rot spreading across the fleshy growths on the floor and covering the walls. It seems your poison spell will do its work.
Whoo the poison is working, looks like fulvia will only have to worry about the bugs.

>>33953962
We did this with Baldev too, except he came back as a 'Revenant', whatever that means.

>>33954000
Uh, yeah....I was there for that. I wonder how he's dealing with the angry dragons? Any bets on whether or not he's still un-alive? Guy sneaked up on a bunch of mostly competent people and a chick with some sort of eldritch hunter death-mask.

>>33954000
>except he came back as a 'Revenant', whatever that means.
It's a type of vengeful undead.

>>33954000
Speaking of that, it's the first hint we've gotten of undead in this setting. I wonder if necromancy is some obscure Rhynian thing?

>>33954071
It could be possible with water, animate and permanency on a corpse as cheap golems.

You sprint past the smoldering corpse of the Broodmother on your way to the other tunnel, your only escape route. You send a quick message to Fulvia as you duck into the tunnel, this one significantly smaller than the one you entered through. {The Broodmother is dead, and the hive is poisoned. Send in your security force.} She responds immediately. {Understood, it will take a short while to safely remove you from my programming. Do try not to die.} Well, you weren't exactly planning on it but it's not like you can prevent your death if you're facing overwhelming odds.

The tunnel becomes progressively narrower, until you're forced to practically crawl along the floor to make any progress at all. The fleshy growths that had covered the chamber with the Broodmother turn first to black goo and then to metal. You can hear the distant sounds of combat from behind you, but you ignore them in favor of figuring out where this tunnel leads. Eventually you come to a metal door, barely large enough for you to fit through. Heavy iron chains bar the entrance, but apparently since the corruption began to infect Fulvia's mind the chains have rusted. A steady breeze could probably break these off of the door.

Still, this raises a moral conundrum. This IS Fulvia's mind, even if it was deep within the territory of the Broodmother's hive it probably isn't right to violate her privacy by poking around locked doors. Not to mention this particular door seems to be buried pretty deep, judging solely by the lengths you had to go to in order to get here. Do you really want to go poking around a thousand-year-old AI's suppressed memories? Your curiosity is killing you, but it just seems wrong...

>Break the chains and open the door.
>On second thought... just wait for Fulvia to extract you.
>Write-in

>>33954253
>>On second thought... just wait for Fulvia to extract you.
We can always come back

>>33954253
Maybe ask her first

>>33954253
>>Break the chains and open the door.

Please, oh god please can we do something interesting for once?

>>33954253
Ask

>>33954253
>>On second thought... just wait for Fulvia to extract you.

If it's something that even an AI want's to supress, no good can come from seeing it.

>>33954253
>Break the chains and open the door.
PUT ON THE MASK
PUT IT ON
AHHAHAHAHA
PUT
IT
ONNNNNN
VEHEHEHEHE

>>33954253
>>Break the chains and open the door.
this was the only way..yeah thats right..we went in to make sure nothing else got in.
some enchanting basic's here we come..

>>33954253
>Break the chains and open the door.
I will bet money that it relates to her inventor and we need to know more about that nigga.

>>33954253
>>Write-in
Ask her

>>33954253
>Break the chains and open the door.
>Tell her about it, it's possible something can still chase us in here and the door is the only barrior we can use since we're low on Vys

>>33954253
>Write-in
I'll support asking for her permission first

>>33954298
>Please, oh god please can we do something interesting for once?
If you're so bored why don't you leave

>>33954253
>>On second thought... just wait for Fulvia to extract you.

>>33954253
>>Break the chains and open the door.

>>33954253
>On second thought... just wait for Fulvia to extract you.

>>33954253
>On second thought... just wait for Fulvia to extract you.
We can always dive later when she's clean and we have enough vys to survive

>Break the chains and open the door.

>>33954341
>>33954331
>>33954328
>>33954322
>>33954298
>>33954369
>Break the chains

>>33954289
>>33954306
>>33954356
>>33954371
>>33954384
>...Naaah.

>>33954292
>>33954299
>>33954332
>>33954349
>>33954341 (?)
>Ask Permission

>>33954253
>On second thought... just wait for Fulvia to extract you.

>>33954253
>>Break the chains and open the door.

>>33954396
Whoops, dropped my trip. Anyway, voting's closed.

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>inbe4 ohshit take the spice

>>33954454
I'm hoping we learn something about enchanting, since its hard as balls.

>>33954480
>>33954454
>implying it not a memory of her creator

>>33954480
That's pretty unlikely.

>>33954480
only as hard as we are sane Anon

>>33954523
so we only need to go down the rabbit hole then.

>>33954396
I leave for an hour and you guys manage to fuck everything up...

>>33954574
I regret nothing.

Yet.

>>33954538
Just a little further Anon, and the secrets of the universe will be known

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>IN BEFORE EREBUS RISES AGAIN
SHADOW QUEST 2: EL AMIN BOOGALOO

>>33954601
We should teach hayes this shit, i have a feeling he would be a great partner for duel enchanting and mediating.
I wonder if his crazyness would lower our DC.

>>33954623
What?

>>33954623
Man that fucking devour Erebus choice....

>>33954623
How did that quest anyway?
I sort of forgot about it after some guys kept pushing for a traitorous bitch to live because she was a crying girl.

>>33954623
Pretty sure we aren't gonna get brainjacked by anything in Fulvias mind.

Well..
There is that dead god inside of ours.

>>33954636
Mediating on enchanting is very different from mediating from on an element.

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>>33954643
Guamless, baseless reference to excellent quest that finished this year.
>>33954658
Ended on a high note. The Lord Bill Clinton stepped forward to deliver Venia from the clutches of the Doompauls, and the Knights of Wrenloft swooped from the skies to save the day as all seemed lost.

>>33954658
Badly. The penultimate threads were all from the perspectives of the companions while the MC was on Ereboat mode.

>>33954681
Never hurts to try and see if the crazy fucker mediating with us would help.

>>33954636
Man it's like you read my mind. I've been wanting to do this once we get back to the academy.

>>33954691
Mind giving a tl;dr?
I lost motivation to read once it was obvious she was gonna get spared.

>>33954698
You do realize teaching people enchanting is a bad idea.

>>33954643
Erebus was the ancient evil of Shadow Quest, the MC was a shadow of erebus.
MC fought Erebus because Erebus wanted to kill the world and MC didn't.
MC beat Erebus and when we had the choice of how to kill Erebus choose to eat him(that's one of the power we had as a shadow)
Turns out Erebus planned on that and activated his trap card and eat us instead.
Had to spent the last few threads running around trying to prevent Erebus to destroy the world.

>>33954729
Not the place for talking about other quests

>>33954738
How is resurrecting a lost ancient art a bad idea?

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You stare at the chains for a short while before coming to a decision: It's easier to get forgiveness than it is permission. You grab you spear firmly and use the haft to break away the rusted chains sealing the door. You reach for the handle with no small amount of hesitance and with one great jerk pull open the doorway. A soft, green light shines from inside, and you carefully crawl inside. The hallway on the other side is large enough that you can stand up, and you turn around to slam the door behind you. The last thing you want is a swarm of bugs following you inside.

The hallway makes a sharp, ninety-degree turn directly ahead. It seems the green light originates from just around the bed. You make your way forward, trying to be quiet. However, when you round the corner you can't help but take a sharp intake of breath. You're face to face with a woman, or rather the projected image of a woman's head. You recognize it as Fulvia's face, except not quite. This woman's skin is perfect, if terribly pale in your opinion. Her eyes are half lidded and framed by heavy bags. Machinery encompasses her, and tubes pump a red substance startlingly similar to blood towards the central platform.

Her eyes focus on you, a tired smile gracing her face. Even by your standards, the woman is beautiful. She shakes her head slowly. “You're not supposed to be here.” She whispers. “She'll be angry.”
(1/2)

>>33954738
It was said because it angered the gods, it was never bad per say but i have a feeling that the rythians made too many enchanted items.

>>33954729
Not here hombre. I'll leave the problems where they lie. It's best to let these kinds of things keep to their own spaces.

With that ominous statement the world begins to disassemble itself. Slowly, the world turns to naught but a black void. You hear vague voices, seemingly calling to you from a great distance. An eye flickers open, and you see Fulvia perched above you. Her face is a robotic mask, her projection dropped. As soon as she sees your eye open she stands and stalks off towards the doorway without a word. No 'thank you' despite the fact you just risked your sanity to help her clear the corruption from her mind. Not even a gesture. You're left to the quietly humming portal, your only company the black, androgynous figure dwelling within. It speaks solemnly. “What's her problem?”

>END THREAD

>>33954782
>>33954750
Ok

>>33954761
FFS GUYS

>>33954729
Uh, no dude. SM was serious when he said he wasn't gonna offer stupid or naive options anymore. We ate the shit out of her. Just crit-failed the digestion roll when we got to Erebus, so to speak.

Ok so, was it a good idea to no mess with the painting?

>>33954788
I like the spirit already.

>>33954813
It was a neutral idea. I'd say more, but you may visit her mind again.

>>33954761
>>33954788
HAHAHHAHA

THIS CONFIRMS MY THEORIES
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM

Right from the downfall of the rhy empire to the nature of these constructs, it's all come together!

>END THREAD
Eh, well, next thread I guess.
Thanks for running Soma!

>>33954788
>“What's her problem?”
I have a feeling hes like the three stooges, we should talk to him.
>>33954844
mind saying them?

>>33954836
Ok, could we have leeched the bot that attacked us without risking Fulvia's life?

>>33954854
Yup, she gains vys fairly quickly in high concentration areas. She wouldn't of been happy about it though.

>>33954844
Well speak them then.

>>33954844
Goddamn man, don't be a tease. Spit it out. Unless....oh my god....

>>33954894
>>33954844
I hate you both.
Kill your selves

>>33954844
Yeah I'm thinking the same thing. The separation of them, and this one being in the deepest part of the mind with a different personality were probably the biggest hints. It's pretty wack yo.

>>33954868
Opening that door will come bite us in the as isn't it? We must have lost some point in her favor with that aye?
I guess you'll either put an option to mend the relation somewhere sometime but we'll totaly either miss it or ignore it.

>>33954844
>>33954920
If it's what I think it is, then its definitely a good reason for the gods to smite the empire. Because using runes that way is just OP.
The gods would probably see it akin to using cheat codes in the most extreme sense.

>>33954925
>Bite you in the ass
Probably/Maybe/Depends on your definition of 'in the ass'.
>Mend relations
You'll have to, somehow.

>>33954978
Now your just doing this purpose.

>Started college at 16
Jesus, are you some fuckin' genius or some shit?

Rolled 12

bymp

>>33955016
Yes, but I was also expelled for alcohol-related reasons. Instead of doing online high school or something I just got my GED and went to college.

>>33955036
Better than me, i have shit work ethic when it comes to writing.hopefully being in the stem field will dispel that

>>33955016
Nah its pretty common i'm a sohpmore and there are some highschool kids taking college classes so when they graduate they only have to take 1-2 years of college.

>>33955070
STEM master race, brudda.

>>33955016
You'd be surprised at how many early college students are wondering around on 4chan.

>>33955036
You a fellow EEPster? Or are you from the EAP?

>>33955101
What are you majoring in?

>>33955101
I'm 24 and haven't even started looking for colleges.

No-life no direction master race.

>>33955138
Double majoring in History and Mathematics, specifically stats.

>>33955123
Neither, I don't think. My college doesn't have an early entrance program but I talked to some folks and they said my age wasn't a concern.

>>33955186
Some what similar.
I'm majoring in Computer engineering hardware, and Mathematics.
That explains having to go to a dig though.

>>33955216
Yup, I'll need to start writing my thesis at some point in the near future. Dig ought to provide me some material to write about.

>>33955186
One for fun/sanity and one for jobs? Fellow double-M repping Poli-Sci and Economics. It's my life goal to buy 4chan.

>>33955250
Prepare to brown nose the fuck out of your professor, in it.

>>33955139
The NEET is a truly noble beast, able to pursue his interest without distractions.

>>33955251
Yeah, mostly. My plan is to become an actuary or something and my backup plan is to become a college professor. I've got a bunch of family connections in both fields. I figure I can pretend to be an archeologist on vacations.

>>33955264
I'm as prepared as I'll ever be.

Updated the combat pastebin with the Rhynian Martial Training style and two new maneuvers from getting stabbed in the chest. I'm probably going to be around for a while longer, both on my ask page and this thread.

Archive is here:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Banished%20Quest

>>33955426
So when do you think you're gonna run again?

>>33955460
Maybe later today, probably Friday. Can't be a hundred percent certain.

So that head is just like the one that was screaming in the mines before right? except not in ungodly pain
No wonder shes pissed that we found it, fucking skellys in the closet

>>33958714
Well, I am glad we found it. It will give us a reason to ask Fulvia more about AIs and learn more about them.

>>33958769
We should probably fix the relationship first

>>33958826
It will be all part of our interaction with her. We will be fixing it and then learn more about her.

>>33958847
Works for me