You contact Darzi via the brooches, making your way out of the monk's quarters. {I believe I owe you a story. Where are you?} Her response comes after a moment. {So you haven't forgotten! I'm in Skull Kid's room with Mortia and Fulvia.} You're actually relieved to hear Fulvia isn't locked away in her room, but you're curious to see how much progress he's made with that project of his. Especially considering all the help he seems to be getting. You hope he's come up with some sort of solution to his insulator issue.

You make your way through the temple, the hallways are mostly abandoned at this hour with the majority of the monks eating. You knock three times on Skull Kids door when you come to it and his voice calls out. “Come in!” You slip inside, closing the door behind you. Immediately you're assaulted by a heady, chemical stench. Your head begins to ache shortly after you enter, but your armor kicks on and covers your mouth and nose in a mask, as well as protecting your eyes from the fumes. When you survey the room, you see that Skull Kid and Mortia have been busy.

Skull Kid is busy laying out thin strips of a thick, white material on the inside of his nearly completed gauntlet casing. It currently sits in two halves, and you note an intricate series of wires on the inside of each half. He's also created some sort of glove from the same white material, and lined it with metal scales. Mortia, meanwhile, has a massive pile of fresh, green leaves sitting next to her on one side. On the other, a massive pile of dead, crumpled leaves. In front of her are a series of buckets filled with that strange white substance, Fulvia keeping most of them boiling away with fire magic. Presumably the cause of the fumes.
(1/?)
(Pardon typos, it's very late my time)

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“What on Earth are you doing?” Skull Kid is the one who speaks. “Refining natural latex from a certain type of fig tree we found growing in the garden.” You're about to ask what latex is, but he seems to pick up on your question. “Latex is a type of natural material, a rubber, that insulates against electricity. If my theory is correct, it ought to insulate against vys as well. The military applications are innumerable. Unfortunately, this particular latex extract is also a skin and eye irritant, so I'll need to coat it in something to prevent it from inflaming my arm.” You stare at him for a short while. Darzi has a wet rag pressed over her mouth and nose, presumably to protect from the fumes. The two of you share a look and shrug. “Well, we'll leave you to it then, Skull Kid. By the way, you might want to think about a new name.” He waves a hand dismissively, mumbling some vague promise before returning to his work. Before you and Darzi duck outside, Fulvia speaks up. “Mikhael, when you have time I would like to speak with you.”

You nod. “Just contact me via the brooches when you can. My days have been hectic but I ought to have plenty of time tomorrow.” Fulvia doesn't respond, instead returning to her task of boiling the buckets of latex. Darzi and yourself decide to take your leave of the room, ducking through the door. Darzi is the first to speak once you're outside. “Skull Kid's a real genius, to be honest I'm somewhat afraid to see what he'll end up with.” You have to agree. “It is slightly worrying but I have high hopes for his invention's more domestic uses. Now then, a story?” She nods enthusiastically, and you make your way down the hall to her room.
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Darzi stretches out on her bed, luxuriating. You make yourself comfortable in her desk chair. Without further ado, you launch into your tale. You start by relating the sights you saw inside Crazy Hayes' workshop, as well as the man's various eccentricities. You then go on to explain the mask, as well as the various other artifacts', effects and appearances. At your description of the mask, Darzi wrinkles her nose. “Why would you want to wear something like that?” You shrug your shoulders. “I don't know, a giant generator stabbing me in the chest worked out well enough. I figured, what's the worst a mask can do?”

You go on to relate the events that immediately followed putting on the mask. Waking up drained of vys in a mysterious courtyard. Pulling on the cuirass with four arm holes and picking up the rusted out sword. Your journey through the manor, the statue, the puzzle to open up a path to the tomb below. You lavish detail on your fight with the strange vys-consuming creature. Its eventual defeat at your hands followed by the explosion that very nearly knocked you unconscious. You discuss briefly the tomb itself and the engravings on the wall. Then get into just how it was you escaped.

Finally you go into detail about your actual meeting with the Entity, and how it informed you that it was watching. You touch briefly on the godly whispering you heard while you were on the spice and the hallucinatory voice you heard right before your heart stopped. Then you skip all the to the meeting you had with the Entity and the Dragon deep beneath Fort Longia. It occurs to you, she's the only person who knows about your vision of the dragon, and how it seemed to bend your will to its own before those three skeletal figures stepped in and put a stop to it and the Entity both.
(3/?)

You flash back, briefly, to your meeting with the three skeletal figures in the Vault of Anthus. You give her the gist, detailing your conversation and then the artifacts offered to you. You of course mention that, in the end, you chose the cloak you're wearing. At the conclusion of your story, Darzi is staring at you with a mixture of confusion, fear, and perhaps even a touch of admiration. “So do you simply stumble from one horrible situation to another, or do you actively make the worst decisions you possibly can?”

You frown. “Hey! I've done okay. Especially considering I was expected to die in the desert.” She holds up her hands in mock surrender. “I admit, you've done well for yourself. However, judging by the way you tell it you're only a few steps away from being too mad-” You cut in, correcting her. “Insane. There is a difference.” She waves a hand dismissively. “Right, whatever. Too insane to function.”

You don't really think that's accurate. “I'm not really that insane, all things considered. I could be far worse off than I am. All I really need to do is continue to advance my understanding of Metal magic and I ought to be able to ward myself against the worst of any insanity inducing events.” Darzi sighs, shaking her head slowly. “Do you have a plan in place, just in case you do ever completely lose it?” You nod. “Chrys has promised to put an end to me if I ever become dangerous to the party.”
(4/5)

You're not sure why, but that seems to anger Darzi. “How could you ask her to do something like that?! You know how she feels about you!” You hold up your hands defensively. “Hey, I didn't ask her to do anything! She offered!” This seems to throw Darzi off, and she frowns contemplatively. “Fuck, that girl is weird...” An accurate statement, you suppose. Darzi shakes her head, apparently banishing those thoughts. “Look, more important question. How are you going to get rid of this Entity? I think that ought to be priority number one.”

>Just tell her about your conversation with the Varistha, you don't really have a 'plan'.
>Tell her that you intend to create a simulacrum of your body and transfer your consciousness into it.
>Tell her there is a artifact in the Pa'vala said to be able to purge the mind of corruption, even if that corruption is divine.
>Write-in

>>34832161
>>Just tell her about your conversation with the Varistha, you don't really have a 'plan'.

Soma, you never answered my question. What are you listening to?

>>34832161
>Tell her there is a artifact in the Pa'vala said to be able to purge the mind of corruption, even if that corruption is divine.

>>34832161
>Just tell her about your conversation with the Varistha, you don't really have a 'plan'.

>>34832233
https://i.4cdn.org/f/TRUE%20NOTE.swf
Max volume, final destination.

>>34832161
>>Just tell her about your conversation with the Varistha, you don't really have a 'plan'.

>>34832161
>You know how she feels about you!
Explain further

>>34832161
>>Just tell her about your conversation with the Varistha, you don't really have a 'plan'.
I say we keep chugging along as is for the time being, the Entity has yet to become a truly destructive force in our adventures.
Also reluctant to head back to Namek again.

>>34832161
>Fuck, that girl is weird...
Why did I laugh?

>Just tell her about your conversation with the Varistha, you don't really have a 'plan'.

>Talk about Varistha, what is this 'plan' you speak of?

>>34832161
>>Just tell her about your conversation with the Varistha, you don't really have a 'plan'.
>>Tell her there is a artifact in the Pa'vala said to be able to purge the mind of corruption, even if that corruption is divine.
But that is not the immediate plan, we have things to do before that.

>>34832099
Damn it, I didn't think I would stay up this late, super happy Banished Quest is running.
Fucking cows broke out of their pen and are now roaming my neighborhood

>>34832313
Yeah I think seeking a cure in the Pa'vala is the only tenable solution in the long term. Having Mik commit suicide and upload himself into a magic android is hardly an appealing option. But let's do other things first. We never found out what happened to our Guar you know.

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>34832311
Holy shit Soma, you're approaching neverbefore seen levels of QM powerlevels; you've the resilience of Archelon, and you're rapidly approaching the post depth of Deculture. And you're already hands-down one of the fastest QM's. How the hell do you do it?

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>>34832357
The happening happened, you know it.

>>34832357
Anon, I...
No, but seriously, we still have a Shah to kill (hopefully avoid somehow? or kill the fagot we accused, maybe he kills his pa or something), a dragon to hatch, and metal and fire to master. I considered going to the jungle because that's probably the only place where high level metal magic is prevalent, but I think it might have some insanity thing going on in the jungle, maybe as a test, or just a general thing.

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>>34832365
WITH THE POWER OF OXICLEAN

>>34832365
Soma is amazing, I tried my hand at running a quest today, and quickly realized I will never reach Soma level

>>34832393
With your endurance Soma I'm going to assume that oxiclean is slang for speed in Texas.

>>34832365
I bet you he does massive amounts of coke.

>>34832391
Oh fuck me I keep forgetting the job we have in jungle out east. We gotta make time to take care of that at some point.

>>34832391
Not to mention we have to rob that guy on the island fortress or whatever

>>34832464
What about the jobs we have on the islands? Wasn't it mentioned that the elf warlord was gaining power?

>>34832464
Hopefully after we get better at magic and combat, the jungle is a creepy place man, we'll def need nature magic to not be ambushed every 5 minutes. Although there is SOME chance that metal shenanigens in the jungle could help us with insanity, Pav'ala is closer and is a safer (lol, yeah right) bet at this point.

>>34832474
whatever, man, there's no time limit to that, and we can just magic waltz in, and magic waltz out once we're a water grandmaster and quadruple master with 143 effects and 20 metamagics

>>34832474
We will need to commander a pirate ship or two to finish that job methinks.

>>34832488
I hope we get some time to grind out some meditation with minimal distraction (ie time skip with benefits) soon. Get to novice in Nature and Metal and boost Fire up if possible. Learn whatever effects we have on our backlog, get some reading in etc. Then as a reward for ourself and our patient entourage we can go pirate hunting. Set SK to make something that we can use to even the field vs their cannons etc.

>>34832520
I'm waiting for his tinkering to produce a means for his cybernetics to interact with vys. Then we can build him a suit magical power armor.

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>34832488
You know, for some strange reason, I get the feeling that a much older, "magical" warlord with the resources of a small country, a fleet of ships, and the experience of a few decades in war and conquest might gain power and influence quicker than a very rich young, Samja vatis. Also, at that point, the pistol will probably be useless and we could have all the money we ever wanted if we put our minds to it. In fact, with the new Rhynian weapony and Skull Kid as our tech guy, this mission is looking more and more like a bad investment with little return.

>>34832532
Once he has an understanding of vys we should give him that gauntlet to work with. The Shah turned it down right? (The one that was all techno-magicy?)

>>34832520
Some kind of armor the predators ship use in their extended universe.
The armor on their ship "shed" as it gets damaged, there's a lot of layer of that stuff before whatever's trying to punch a hole into it reach the fragile bits.

>>34832536
Sure but keep in mind he's currently of making war on some forgotten elvish kingdom somewhere. He isn't even home right now.

>>34832536
We can still work alongside the warlord instead of trying to tackle him head on. Upon getting the bauble we can perhaps barter with the old merchant and maybe convince him to tell us why he's looking for items like this.

>>34832549
Oh yeah, that thing. It had to be useful to warrant having in maim the users hand right? Who better to use it than the man with extensive augmentations!

>>34832567
Ya'know, if it were at all possible for Sadik to simply barter the gem into his greasy hands, he would have done so already. What can we, a Master water Vatis and his merry band of misfits offer that an immortal merchant with access to the vast majority of a planet's most powerful artifacts can't?

You cock your head to the side. “Well, I recently had a conversation with the Varistha regarding some research he was performing on my behalf. Just to be clear, by recently I mean less than an hour ago. He came up with three possible solutions to this issue of mine.” You stand up, beginning to pace the room impulsively. “The first possible solution relates to rumors of an artifact deep within the Pa'vala in the ruins of a temple. It's an artifact said to cure the mind of corruption, regardless of what that corruption's source might be. However, as I'm sure you know the Pa'vala is a dangerous place rife with beast of all shapes and sizes. Any fool who's dared to try and reach the center has either come back stark raving mad, or never come back at all.”

You launch into the next possible solution immediately, leaving Darzi no time to respond. “Now, I could also kill myself and attempt to transfer my consciousness first into a presumably sentient intermediary and then against transfer myself into an enchanted simulacrum of my former body. Of course, this would require a truly encyclopedic knowledge of enchanting, something no living being possesses. It would also require the ability to transfer my consciousness, and the nearest approximation I can think to mind transfer off of the top of my head is that strange ability Fulvia has to drag others into her mind. However, I'm not an AI so I doubt that's an option.”

You stop abruptly, turning to face Darzi. “Our third and final option is my death. The Varistha thinks it prudent that, should I grow too insane to function or the Entity begins to grow too powerful, I be put down. While on a rational level I recognize this as a necessary precaution to prevent a cataclysmic event on the scale of creating a second Pa'vala, I rather enjoy life and would rather keep on living as long as life has meaning. Perhaps even a little longer after that.”
(1/2)

We need to remember to give that meditative drugs to Skull Kid.

You collapse back into Darzi's chair, sighing. “So those are our options. To be honest, I've yet to give them much thought. I've only just learned of them and as I've previously mentioned my days have been hectic. We also have this pirate situation to deal with. I know I told the Varistha that it was better to leave them be, but this little voice keeps needling at the back of my mind. Telling me I ought to do something.” Darzi frowns, sliding off the bed and placing a consoling hand on your shoulder. “I think, right now, you ought to just relax Mikhael. You're worrying yourself to death.” How can you relax? In addition to the pressing issues you face you need to assassinate a man in a village nearly a week a way, you're supposedly going to assassinate the Shah in a few days, you need to steal a gem from an increasingly powerful warlord, and there is an ancient lost recipe to recover from the jungles of Elaudia. You have more on your plate than any normal person could handle.

>Maybe Darzi is right, you ought to go to bed. Perhaps meditate.
>What did she mean earlier by Chrys' feelings for you? You've had your suspicions, but if she could confirm them for you...
>You've no time for relaxation. You've task to complete. You ought to look into preparing for a journey to Khmedi, Chryssa's village.
>The village can wait, you ought to prepare for a journey into the Pa'vala.
>You need to attempt to commune with your skeletal audience before anything else.
>Write-in

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>>34832612
>>What did she mean earlier by Chrys' feelings for you? You've had your suspicions, but if she could confirm them for you...

Abdulla Ha-Rachne believes now is the time for merry happenings!

>>34832612
>>You need to attempt to commune with your skeletal audience before anything else.
Three stooges time!

>>34832612
>What did she mean earlier by Chrys' feelings for you? You've had your suspicions, but if she could confirm them for you...
>Maybe Darzi is right, you ought to go to bed. Perhaps meditate.
Take a day off

>>34832612
>You need to attempt to commune with your skeletal audience before anything else.
>What did she mean earlier by Chrys' feelings for you? You've had your suspicions, but if she could confirm them for you...

>What did she mean earlier.
>COMMUNE WITH THE SPIRITS!
Writitty wrat wrat writin'

>>34832612
>>Maybe Darzi is right, you ought to go to bed. Perhaps meditate.
>>You need to attempt to commune with your skeletal audience before anything else.
Let romance come as it does, guys. We need to know all the bullshit people want us to do before deciding which to do first, but we should meditate before that as well.

I hope that commune gig won't make us miss our training with miss saggy tits

>>34832612
>but this little voice keeps needling at the back of my mind. Telling me I ought to do something.”
This is a big hint guys.

I'll be leaving for a while to cook, so I'm casting my vote in case we choose to meditate right now.
Use the technique the Varistha suggested, and meditate on fire without the egg. If we meditate with our dragon baby, I want it to be when we're 1 insight away from Master at the earliest, I'm not going to risk hatching a dragon we can't control, and I'd REALLY RATHER IT DOESN'T HATCH HERE.

>>34832698
We would do it eventually.

>>34832612
Soma, you better drink some coffee.
Since soon you might be the record of longest running( if you don't count maverick hunter quest where the QM leaves for hours and comes back), which is around 27 hours.
you only have 13 hours left.

Yeah in the name of our sanity and increased power we should slow things down for a few days, calm down and get to meditating on some of our backlog. The stuff in front of us isn't going anywhere and if we're to kill the Shah either secluding our self here will prevent it or it isn't preventable.

>>34832703
Yeahm it sounds like the QM might be giving us a hint to check out the pirates.

>>34832703
Sounds more like the player's votes are starting to effect Mikhael directly. There were a few anons last thread saying we ought to do something.

>>34832738
I seem to remember the QM from Palladin of Joy running for 14/15h two or three days in a row in the earlier threads.

>>34832745
I'm all for pirate killing, but we should make a whole party affair. Also Fulvia wants to talk about us seeing that thing we weren't supposed to see that pissed her off something fierce. I think most of the thread forgot about doing that way back when.

>>34832739
seconding

>>34832761
>I think most of the thread forgot about doing that way back when.
You forgot, that we told her to come speak to us once she is ready, not the other way around.

>>34832761
To be fair she hasn't been forthcomming since, add the truckload of distraction we had...

So what questions are we gonna ask the three stooges?

>>34832738
If you count total consecutive days, then House & Dominion Quest has in the past run up close to a week for a single thread.

In any case, we should take the next day to chill and speak with our party members, have Prof intensifies his training, have a quick discussion on what Mortia can do and what she can bring to the party, get SK on the training to use vys, get Chryssa motivated to earn her Vatis rank and have Fulvia and us reach an understanding on private matters or something.

>>34832781
1.What we owe them
2.The dragon heart
3.The dead god
4.The message we received
5.Ricky's guest
6.Monster sign language.
7.The artifact that cleanse our mind
8.Grand mastering in water
9.What does the cloak do negatively to us
10.Talk the shit with them

>>34832781
>Who's the entity really?
>Dragon familiar when?
>Enchantment learning
>How is this dude over 1000 years old?

On top of my head.

>>34832781
Since they're all cryptic and mysterious and riddling and shit, just something they want us to know. Preface everything with "will you tell me ___ without me needing to do a favour for you" or something, so we don't get into another "lol, now you u owe us" situation. Ask what they want us to do, but let them knwo we have a lot on our plate, so we definitely aren't going to get on it immediately. Hell, we're not sure if what they want us to do is even something we're willing to do.
Just to reiterate, we have to make sure info from the stooges doesn't cost us anything. Afterall, we've been serving as great entertainment for them, they owe us this much at least.

>>34832803
>>34832801
Soma here us some questions we can ask.
>>34832670

I've been in Africa since the murder drama in the sewer?

Can someone give me a update on what's happened since then?

(p.s. I don't plan on voting on anything.)

>>34832801
>>34832803

All these.

>>34832801
I'd push 7 and 9 up to 6 and 7 respectively

>>34832817
People who were rushing to the water temple, became disappointed and bored.

>>34832817
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Banished%20Quest
Better for you to read and get an idea of what happened instead of having anon explain in an biased manner

>>34832828
>>34832826
Fair point, I'll read it on my day off.

Sidenote: was the reaction that bad?

>>34832836
depends, some where pretty justified as bad.

>>34832836
Not really, but since people kept hyping up the dam place, some voiced disappointment.

>>34832826
The water temple has been pretty cool so far. I don't know about the rest of you. We're just getting distracted with a hundred little fires right now. Next we just need to solo a Hydra and drink it's hearts blood and bam Grand Master of Water Magic.

>>34832860
We need to eat it actually.

>>34832817
>>murder drama in the sewer?
Which one? The one with the mutated elephant guy in SK's world?
>meet other group, fight some pigs, stuff happens
>get to hotel, have fun
>get arrested by government
>agree to do shit with mysterious portal because we're in prison
>do stuff with portal, talk to faggot shadowy figure, manage to get in on conversation with shadowy faggot and "witch"
>tell witch rhynia fell because she' rhynian nationalist and descendant, agree to help her if she helps us
>cleanse Fulvia's core, piss her off to murder-level anger
>do stuff, get witch to portal, rig place with C4, ollie out with witch and SK
>get out in Shah's palace, escape with amazing acting skills
>talk to our Master about shit, find out his new apprentice also saw the stooges
>chrys asks us to kill his husband, she can't do romance until he's dead
>get to water temple, Siege! demonstration, Varistha is hyper strong and old
>stuff happens, interpersonal relationships, meditation, work, potions, drinking
>Chrys is crushing on us pretty hard and pretty adorably
>tell Varistha about dead god, bad news
>do protection job for fishermen, find annihilated ship
>gut fish with magic, get water insight
>dead god discussion, talking with Darzi atm
that's about it

>>34832877
Don't forget healing the scars, but yeah that covers most of it. Also Egg is pretty close to hatching it seems.

>>34832896
oh ye, I wish we hadn't passed out and got cute moments with Darzi though, could've been adorable.

Why do we must kill an hydra just because another Vatis did it that way? If we "need" the heart to absorb the venom, we have some venom gland that are rather potent enough to do the job. Instead of eating it just boil it down and inject it into our veins or snort it if you want.
We could also do something like removing one of our lungs and clean it outside our ribcages or something. Or hell try to breath underwater or shit. Hell why not everyone propose to snort the spice vial full like that friend of the old man did and meditate for a week?

>>34832907
Becuase the hydra is the most reasonable of options he gave us.

>>34832907
because
>She died a week later, facing off alone against a Rhynian golem easily larger than a noble's villa
instant fatal insanity

>>34832911
No, the spice is the most reasonable, we kept that shit "to use it when we'll need to meditate on grandmaster when the time come". The time has come and everyone wants to go fish a multi-headed poisoned giant fish

>>34832907
Snorting spice would end up giving the Entity control or us going full MAIM MURDER KILL mode. It'd be bad end. Injecting the venom may work if it's toxic enough.

You hold up a finger, a thought occurring to you. “What did you mean earlier, about Chryssa...? I mean, I've had my suspicions.” She folds her arms in front of her chest. “Oh, your suspicions? Really? What might those be?” You sigh. “Can we not do this? I mean, lets be honest here. I just spent the vast majority of the day sailing a ship all across the Anthosian Sea, discovered the scene of a massive naval battle, and learned that three out of the three possible solutions to removing the Entity in my head will either require or most likely result in my death. This isn't even getting into the fact that, over the last week, there have been seldom few moments where my life hasn't been in danger. Romance has been a very low priority.”

Darzi relents with a annoyed huff. “Fine, but don't tell her I told you this." You nod your ascent, and she continues. "She is infatuated with you. Frankly, I don't think it's healthy." She pauses, placing a hand on your chin and jerking your head around for a moment, studying you. "Granted you're not bad looking, but you've got the common sense the Gods granted waterfowl. You've admitted yourself you're likely to die or go insane in the next several months. That's not the sort of person I think she needs to be attaching herself too.” Sheesh, when did Darzi become so motherly? “That said, she's a friend and I intend to support her. So if you have any shared interest you need to get off your ass and admit it to her. She's certainly not going to do it for you.”

(1/2 or 3)

>>34832923
“An associate of mine huffed an entire vial of spice and meditated for a week straight. When she emerged, she was changed. Where once my associate was a kindhearted, gentle woman she was now vicious and bloodthirsty, concerned only with the next battle. The next conquest. She died a week later, facing off alone against a Rhynian golem easily larger than a noble's villa.
>instant fatal insanity
20 dose of spices.
We know better to use that much from having tried 1 all these threads back

>>34832948
>common sense the Gods granted waterfowl.

You glare at her suspiciously. “Has she told you that in order for her to 'pursue other romantic interest' as she put it, I'll need to kill her husband and leave the corpse in a very public place?” Darzi looks a little taken aback. “No, I knew she was married but I didn't know the husband needed to die for the marriage to be declared void. The way she explained it, her marriage wasn't even properly consummated. I assumed she could just have her husband declared incapable of performing his duties and thus unworthy of marriage...-" She gestures vaguely about the room. "-or something.” You shake your head. “Disregarding the fact that she killed a man to help me escape and would likely be killed in turn if she returned to her village; to impinge the honor of the military within her society is punishable by death. It's the only reason she agreed to the marriage in the first place.”

You feel a little bad talking about Chrys behind her back like this, but you suppose Darzi is her friend. It's probably not too great a breach of trust. Darzi sighs deeply after a moment's thought. “Well can't you just... I don't know, convince her to commit adultery? It's not really that serious an offense.” You raise an eyebrow. “If I put some effort in I might be able to, but I don't think that's the outcome Chrys desires. She'd probably feel terrible about herself if she betrayed her moral principles.” Darzi waves a hand dismissively. “Fine, well. Do what you wish then.” She seems to have soured on the whole issue. “I can't really say I condone murdering her husband over this, even if he is an awful person.”

(2/3)

You stand, clapping your hands together. “Well! This has been an insightful conversation but I need to go and commune with the three skeletal figures to whom I owe a debt.” Darzi looks at you oddly for a long while. “When did my life become so strange?” She wonders aloud, more to herself than anyone else. You respond anyway. “I'm sure you meant to say, 'When did my life become so amazing? Thank you Mikhael!' to which I say, you're welcome.” You stride out of the room with that final line, since you really have no idea how to follow that up. Once safely away from Darzi you retreat to your room and lock the door, sitting down on your lump mattress and folding your legs beneath you in a standard meditative pose.

You slip easily into a trance, reaching out towards the formless void. At first, you're not really sure how to go about such a task, but as you focus on your memories of that strange plane the trappings of reality begin to peel away, layer by layer. Eventually you float in the endless black, alone...

>ROOOOOLL 3d10+6 (+2 from being a Vatis, +4 from being Insane) vs DC 20

Rolled 7, 4, 7 + 6 = 24 (3d10 + 6)

>>34832982

Rolled 7, 2, 3 + 6 = 18 (3d10 + 6)

>>34832982

>>34832973
You know it's true.

>>34832982

Rolled 9, 10, 4 + 6 = 29 (3d10 + 6)

>>34832982
Pithy remark.

Rolled 2, 4, 2 + 6 = 14 (3d10 + 6)

>>34832982
nope

>>34832994
I just don't get what it means.
>>34832982
So does the DC lower after the first time, or does it stay the same?

Rolled 8, 9, 8 + 6 = 31 (3d10 + 6)

>>34832982

>>34833001
Anon, the void is not a girl who just lost her virginity.

>>34833001
I'd guess the DC would stay the same but the mod would go up or down the more/less insane we become

>>34833015
>Anon, the void is not a girl who just lost her virginity.
One day we'l write a book comparing traversing the void with taking a woman's virginity and it will be glorious.

>>34833001
DC 20 is pretty low, man. You've got a 70-ish% chance of rolling above 20 on any given roll with a +6 modifier.

Common sense God gave a goose is a fairly common saying in my part of the world. It essentially means "X is an idiot/has no sense/would drown in the rain."

>>34832986
>>34832991
>>34832997
>24, 18, 29 vs DC 20
>Success!
Writin'

>>34833001
She was implying that Wisdom is Mik's dump stat. A fair assessment I'd say.

>>34832801
>>34832803
Everyone more or less okay with these questions? Feel free to toss others out while I write.

>>34833045
Still lost me, but helped make sense of it.its funny since i'm from the opposite side of the country
>>34833050

>>34833038
Mikhael Abdul-Hakim also known as Mercurius Decimus Cyprian AKA MagicMik AKA "Crazy" Hassan Adalet AKA Cap'n Mik Half-sane AKA Cap'n Mik Half-insane AKA Mikky Blue eyes AKA Mik Blackcloak AKA Mik the hymen tearrer
That's one hell of a pedigree

>>34833065
Also ask exactly how to hatch the dragon. I know we need to use fire but about how much?

>>34833045
Could we make that into a success+ or would that have no effect? I was thinking they might be in a good mood

>>34833065
Sure those seem fine. Ask them for a heads up on ways to learn more about ENCHANTMENT like places or beings that we might be able to bargain with.

See if they want us to ask for anything in particular amongst Sadik's wares for their collection.

>>34833079
PROSTATE BEFORE MIKHAEL, (sexual) VIOLATER OF THE VOID

>>34833086
We don't "hatch" the dragon anon, we supply it with heat and it hatches by itself. The egg has already began to crack

>>34833089
Your Triskellingtons are always in a good mood! Since it's essentially a meditation roll it was pass/fail.

>>34833065
Ask if they have any jobs they want us to do.

>>34833103
And it'd probably be in our best interest to be better at fire magic before it fully emerges.

>>34833098
The Void Seducer

>>34833065
Make sure to preface that they only answer questions we don't owe them for, we don't want more denbts. Or at least ask them to tell us before they answer something we'll owe them the lives of 7 innocent virgins for, so we can put it to vote, Soma.

>>34833111
Yeah, that's why I posted >>34832706
And it'd probably be in our best interest that our dragon doesn't hatch in a public place, in a water temple.

>>34833105
Did you know everyone has a skeleton inside them?
Only one? *scoff* Sir, I'll have you know that I have 4 Skeletons vying for control inside of me and a shadow of a dead god trying to take other my mind

>>34833137
Honestly, the old man might either kill the dragon or take owner ship of it, since he hints at being grandmaster of fire.

>>34833150
As if our dragon child wouldn't call the old man Shezzy-ojisan.

Guys lets give the dragon our brooch.

>>34833150
Exactly, we don't want people stealing our hard-gotten precious baby

>>34833166
Could be cool, but one that only links to us.
>might be just shouting and stuff
>don't want Fulvia to be privy o our intimate parental bonding
>privacy for the newborn, gosh!

>>34833166
Speaking of handing out our brooch, what if we gave it to the 3 skullies?

>>34833189
Isn't that redundant since they can talk to us anywhere? Besides people want to give it to skull kid.

>>34833189
No, anon. They're always with us anyway. Why would you want to give them a brooch?

>>34833189
They pretty much watch us all the time anyway.

>>34833189
They can contact us whenever they want as it is. It may allow them to talk to Fulvia though.Which would be... interesting.

>>34833200
I don't since it takes vys and he can make his own version of it.

Soma, Can you let us chat with them for a while too? Might be cool.

>>34833215
?

>>34833213
implying I didn't want that too, but majority rules here.

On that note we should talk to skull kid about making us an air tank or something so we can breath inside our cloak. Seems like a good idea.

>>34833237
or just activate hazmat mode before shoving our head inside

>>34833237
All we need is a tub really.

>>34833245
Weird I thought Soma said Hazmat mode didn't work inside the cloak.

>>34833245
>>34833237
Funny enough we have yet to use our improved sword(the one hinted at being better than the one we are dumping vys into), and finish checking out the cloak.

>>34833237
We should also sit down and have him explain modern concepts to us sometime. Like how they managed their society without magic and how their tech got so advanced. Then when we have a bit more common ground we can help him further with the whole industrial revolution thing.

>>34833257
We have a LOT of stuff on the backlog. It's just a matter of finding the time to address it all.

>>34833272
I seem to remember the water temple was meant to be that time, funnily enough. It's just that Soma keeps throwing plot hooks at us, but we were planning on relaxing for a couple days and having a beach episode, training our apprentices and shit.

>>34833308
It's a balancing act after all, if there was nothing to do here people would get bored as hell after all the time and effort it took to get here. I'm still hoping for a housekeeping timeskip in the near future but I'm glad we have a lot of interesting things to keep us occupied as well.

>>34833356
I honestly don't like housekeeping timeskips much, I feel like thy just rob us of conversations, rolls, coming up with ideas, etc.
I always thought it's better to just play along regularly, than use the easy way out.
I agree that it's a balancing act, but now we're absolutely swarmed with side quests and time sensitive events, so you know, maybe balance a bit more in favor of relaxation? That's just my personal opinion of course, and it's not like the playerbase hasn't gone actively seeking trouble again.

Story Post:
You search for the familiar caved-in faces of the trio of skeletal mischief makers you're indebted to. As soon as you feel your consciousness start to balloon outwards, you find them hovering above you. One of their faces is just barely an inch from your own, its breath reeking of death and decay. You'd like to say you didn't flinch, but that would be a lie. Fortunately it retreats, standing up straight and tall until it seems to tower high above you.

{He seeks us.}
{About time.}
{It's always so annoying when they play coy.}
{Oh yes, yes. Much more fun to be desired.}

You clear your throat, opening your mouth to speak. Instead of words the only sound to escape your throat is a dry rasping sound, but the skeletal figures seem to understand regardless. You start off by asking that they refuse to answer any questions for which you'd owe them a debt. That done, you simply start listing off your inquiries. The entire time the three figures talk among themselves.

{This one is so nosy.}
{Ah, but remember the last one we spoke with?}
{Hours and hours. Questions and questions.}
{I wanted to bash my skull in.}

This elicits a round of what you think is laughter. It sounds more like metal grinding against metal, or perhaps screaming children. It's hard to tell, to be honest. You finish off your list of questions with a short, sharp hiss of air, and the skeletal figures once more begin to speak.

{You owe us a debt.}
{Don't worry, don't fret!}
{We haven't decided yet.}
{Rhyming is cliché.}

{The next two questions we can't address.}
{Nonetheless you must assess.}
{Whether or not to obsess.}
{Stop it.}

{Regarding the Shah's impending death.}
{His father's already drawn last breath}
{You're not even good at this.}
{Do not dismiss no be remiss, something is amiss.}

{A monster's guest is best not addressed}
{Lest at best you face contest.}
(1/2)

[caffeine crash intensifies]?
Might be a good place to ends if it proves too much for Soma

>>34833397
>{Regarding the Shah's impending death.}
>{His father's already drawn last breath}
>{You're not even good at this.}
>{Do not dismiss no be remiss, something is amiss.}
WEEEEEEEELLLLLLLL

>>34833407
Considering the amount of rhyming going on in this post I'd say he's still going pretty strong. That oxiclean is the good shit man.

>>34833397
>{You owe us a debt.}
>{Don't worry, don't fret!}
>{We haven't decided yet.}
>{Rhyming is cliché.}
I fucking love these guys.

Man its hard keeping track of what is getting answered.

>>34833428
Yup, no qualms about killing that snooty shithead.
I wonder what order these answers are in though, is the monster's guest referring to the dragon heart, or something else?

>>34833453
Ricky's pal

>>34833453
The thing talking to Ricky I think.

>>34833428
>>{You're not even good at this.}
>>{Do not dismiss no be remiss, something is amiss.}
This lose me.

>>34833457
yeah, I forgot we were going to ask that too, so, was the no comment answer the one about the heart?

>>34833397
>1.What we owe them
{Don't worry, don't fret!}
>2.The dragon heart
>3.The dead god
{The next two questions we can't address.}
>4.The message we received
{Do not dismiss no be remiss, something is amiss.}
>5.Ricky's guest
{A monster's guest is best not addressed}
>6.Monster sign language.
>7.The artifact that cleanse our mind
>8.Grand mastering in water
>9.What does the cloak do negatively to us
>10.Talk the shit with them

>>34833464
I think >>{You're not even good at this.} refers to the rhyming thing, since one of them seems sick of it. The second part lost me though, I guess this is what I get for being ESL

>>34833397
>{The next two questions we can't address.}
Can't tell us about the heart/god
>{Nonetheless you must assess.}
We have to check it out though.
>{Whether or not to obsess.}
real hard
>{Stop it.}
and stop it.

{The old adage goes}
{Some languages predispose}
{Even with additional limbs and extensive practice you probably won't master void sign.}

{Artifacts and enchantment, we cannot answer.}
{Nor is the nature of the cloak a permitted topic.}
{The Millennial Man is tricksy indeed.}
{Artifacts are the tools of his breed.}

{The egg has already begun to hatch.}
{Dragons are not fast creatures.}
{Patience, young one.}

You're not even sure if you got anything of particular value out of his exchange. Frankly, you feel more frustrated coming out of this experience than you did going in, but that might be on account of the skeletal trio's generally patronizing demeanor. You attempt to open your mouth, but find yourself incapable.

{That will be all, we're afraid.}
{Do you think yourself our only client?}
{You're one of few, but there are others.}
{May your journey through life be amusing. To us, that is.}
>EEEND THREAD
>I'm really tired.

>>34833464
Kadir must have made a coup and killed the guy, maybe using poison or something.

>>34833464
They're saying foul play is involved (Something is amiss) so don't dismiss them because they're rhyming/being cryptic, also let them have their fun (nor be remiss). That's my guess anyway.

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>>34833481
>{Even with additional limbs and extensive practice you probably won't master void sign.}

>>34833481
>>34833397
FILTHY IMPOSTER
Nah this is me.

So who can decipher this gibberish?

>>34833497
quick question, were any of those Mik's comments? I thought he was the one interjecting or was it indeed one of the stooges?

>>34833497
thread today/tomorrow?

>>34833481
>6.Monster sign language.
{Even with additional limbs and extensive practice you probably won't master void sign.}
>7.The artifact that cleanse our mind
{Artifacts and enchantment, we cannot answer.}
>8.Grand mastering in water
{The Millennial Man is tricksy indeed.}
>9.What does the cloak do negatively to us
{Nor is the nature of the cloak a permitted topic.}
>10.Talk the shit with them

Strange that the called Shezzy the Millennial Man

>>34833505
stooges, mik can't talk.

>>34833505
Everything in braces (i.e. {}) is the stooges.

>>34833510
They also hinted that he got the way he is partly through the use of artifacts.

>>34833510
>Millennial Man i
I just noticed they talked about the old man.

>>34833481
Well I'm far too sloshed to interpret this quagmire. G'night Soma, thanks for the kickass thread.
Life Quest when? Really wanna eat Robert.

>>34833506
Maybe/not sure. I'll keep you updated.

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

>>34833526
I need to put some time aside for it, fo' cereal.

>>34833481
>{The egg has already begun to hatch.}
>{Dragons are not fast creatures.}
>{Patience, young one.}
No need to rush, though going to master wouldn't hurt, but I feel getting Metal at a Vatis rank would do us much more good.

>>34833498
>>1.What we owe them
>{Don't worry, don't fret!}
Seconded
>>2.The dragon heart
>>3.The dead god
>{The next two questions we can't address.}
Seconded
>>4.The message we received
He's dead, Kadir is Shah, we can prepare the magic spell of destruction.
>>5.Ricky's guest
>{A monster's guest is best not addressed}
>>6.Monster sign language.
>{Even with additional limbs and extensive practice you probably won't master void sign.}
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>>7.The artifact that cleanse our mind
>{Artifacts and enchantment, we cannot answer.}
>>8.Grand mastering in water
I'm not sure if any answer corresponds to this.
>>9.What does the cloak do negatively to us
{Nor is the nature of the cloak a permitted topic.}
>>10.Talk the shit with them
>>Who's the entity really?
?
>>Dragon familiar when?
>{The egg has already begun to hatch.}
>{Dragons are not fast creatures.}
>{Patience, young one.}
It's happening, but the dragon is a baby and we have much time.
>>Enchantment learning
{Artifacts and enchantment, we cannot answer.}
>>How is this dude over 1000 years old?
>{The Millennial Man is tricksy indeed.}
>{Artifacts are the tools of his breed.}
He's using artifacts to get old and stay sane.

>>{Stop it.}
>and stop it.
It's addressed to the other two stooges to stop the rhyming

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>>34833531
>I need to put some time aside for it, fo' cereal.
Oh please do good sir. Please do.