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You decide that you'd like to meditate. After a moment's consideration, you think that trying out that method of meditation based on the forms of Marsala Ve in conjunction with Metal magic ought to be interesting. That in mind, you strip off your fancy new robes, until you're left in nothing save your silken pants. They're new as well, but by and large won't be seen underneath your robes.

You clear a space in your sitting area, pushing the table in the center of the room out of the way and tucking the Prism away inside your cloak. You briefly consider drawing out your spear and meditating with it, but you don't quite feel comfortable enough in your abilities to put an actual weapon in your hands.

You do a brief warm-up, stretching until you feel that you've loosened up your limbs and you're not liable to pull anything. That done you go through the thirty-one basic forms of Marsala Ve twice over, just to make sure you remember all of them and the order you're supposed to go through them in. That done, you set about trying to fade into your trance. You start going through the forms, focusing on the movements and forcing the rest of the world from your thoughts.

Eventually you find yourself simply going through the motions by instinct, beads of sweat already forming on your brow from this fairly light workout. Slowly the world slips away, until all that remains is the blackness of your trance and the bright, flowing strands of vys. They almost seem to sing to you, humming a subtle tune as they weave through the air. Old friends pleased to see your return. It's quite the surreal experience, meditation isn't usually like this.

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As you work through your forms, merely gathering vys for the moment, you consider how you ought to meditate on metal. You could try strengthening your body as you go through forms. You might also try to fortify your mind, though you can't imagine how you'd do so. You've nothing to fortify it against. You have the inkling of an idea that metal has something to do with changing the world around you, but you don't know how you'd go about meditating on that. Perhaps transmute the vase in the corner of the room to water? It might work. You could also try that method you read about in the Metal Codex, where slowly sheath your body in a covering of metal whilst contorting yourself, or in this case whilst going through forms.

>Strengthen yourself
>Reinforce your body with metal.
>Transmute the vase into water.
>Try to fortify your mind.
>Write-in

(Gonna answer that dude's question about infidelity.)

>>36732271
>Strengthen yourself

>>36732271
Reinforce with metal

>>36732301
Actually, scratch my prev. vote.

>>36732271
>Reinforce your body with metal.

>>36732271
can we try the combat plus the battle?

>>36732271
>Reinforce your body with metal.

>>36732271
Can we make ourselves heavier or something with metal magic? So as to increase our strength and knowledge of magic

>>36732271
>Reinforce your body with metal.

>>36732271
>Reinforce your body with metal.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>36732271
>Strength - 1
>Reinforce - 2

>>36732271
>>Reinforce your body with metal.

>>36732327
Meant to say void meditation+combat meditation.

>>36732271
>Try to fortify your mind.
We should reach out to our friends by way of brooch and ask them to try to distract us while we meditate. What better way to fortify our mind than to ignore a direct communicative link to it.

>>36732271
>Reinforce your body with metal.

>>36732271
can we unlock the door so that any one can see us in the middle of meditation, i don't want some loud banging to interrupt us.

>>36732382
You mean meditation on reality?

>>36732271
>>Reinforce your body with metal.

>>36732417
Yeah basically, just want to see if they can be combined, since each is a different form of meditation.

>>36732457
I think you just answered your own question there.

Hokay, so. Infidelity. It's not viewed the same way it is in our society. Men pretty much have license to fuck whatever they please. The caveat is thus: if a man has four wives, he ought to be satisfied with four wives. The more wives a man has the more shameful it is to resort to banging prostitutes. Like, c'mon nigga. Curb that shit. For an unmarried man to associate with high class whores is no big deal, not even really a blip on most people's radar. Same story for those with only one wife, though it's considered slightly distasteful. Men can be brought to court by their wife/wives if they bang someone who isn't a prostitute, or bang someone besides their wives when they already have four.

On the flip side, for a woman to bang anyone who isn't her husband is extremely shameful. If they're caught, they can be brought to court along with the dude they banged and their punishment left in the hands of the jilted spouse. Punishments tend towards whipping, but stoning to death is popular as well. If they don't really care the punishment is usually something like a fine, real minor stuff like that. For unmarried women shit's a bit more lenient. So long as they're not betrothed it's considered generally okay to sleep around a bit but it's still viewed negatively by society at large. If they are betrothed, it's sorta okay for them to bang the dude they're betrothed to so long as no kids result.

As for prostitution, I think I've mentioned this. There isn't really any stigma attached to high class companions. Streetwalkers, on the other hand, are the lowest of the low. Prostitutes are just sort of a facet of life during this era, the oldest profession.

Anyway, writin' for
>Reinforce body.

>>36732468
Never hurts to try and see if they are compatible.
The person who taught us battle didn't know about the reality meditation.
So maybe we can make our own unique form of meditation where we control our body like a puppet(just throwing out ideas here).

>>36732473
>The body shall be ready

>>36732499
I guess it'll go onto the list under "experiments" along with sound magic and other things, et cetera et cetera.

>>36732473
No rolls?

ROOOOLL 3d10+6 vs DC 20!

Rolled 10, 3, 3 + 6 = 22 (3d10 + 6)

>>36732555

Rolled 2, 1, 1 + 6 = 10 (3d10 + 6)

>>36732555
schwing

Rolled 7, 6, 6 + 6 = 25 (3d10 + 6)

>>36732555

>>36732568
Jesus thats bad.
>>36732555
Can we unlock our door?i just want some one to stumble upon us doing this.

>>36732568
Anon, you almost go three ones on 3d10. While you feel some sort of malicious pride from this I'm sure, I'd like to let you know that ur a fk'n cunt.

>>36732568
There are no words for how ashamed I am

>>36732568
>2, 1, 1
Whoa.
Close one.

>>36732566
>>36732568 (Only 1 away from a Nat 3)
>>36732569
>22, 10, 25 vs DC 20
>Regular Success!
Would you like to spend 10 vys to turn it into a Great Success? You're at 41/41 presently.

>>36732586
Maybe it can be used as a stepping stone in teaching out two sisters about battle meditation.

>>36732616
Sure.

>>36732568
That's almost as good as 10 10 10...

>>36732616
Spend this will make us better at fighting, plus the exp table doesn't count for this.

>>36732616
Sure nigga

>>36732616
Yes

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>>36732586
Quit being a pervy onii-chan who wants his sisters to check out his hot bod.

>>36732616
AYE.

Holy dickfuck I just realized it's a meditation rolls. Sorry folks, no spending on meditation since it's pass/fail.

>>36732662
Faaaaaaag

>>36732662
Soma are you tired?

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>>36732645
You act like you wouldn't want some one walking in and see sweat glisten off of our skin that looks like metal at the moment.

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>>36732662

>>36732662
What's more you forgot to pour vys into the swords

>>36732662
Just make it extra for combat.

>>36732568

What the fuck man. You pissed of the dice gods or something?

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Ayo to that anon from last thread that thinks the family is in danger

Although I too feel that shadows creeping across my form I don't think theres much we can do now but keep an eye out.

If your shadows are truly running then I guess we can talk to some of the guards new and old

>>36732662
Aww, I thought something cool was going to happen since we had the opportunity to spend.

>>36732744
I was 100% sure I linked...>>36732662

>>36732701
Oi roight hei forgoit tha swuords hei did hei did, kant forgeit tha swourds oi yis oi yis.

>>36732793
Plz guv

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>Every last one of our sisters mentioned so far has been attractive.
I'm on to you and your sister-fucking ways Soma.

>>36732820
Anon, we're nobles. Nobles are either attractive or so fugly their ancestry lines form a box rather than a tree.

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>>36732810

>>36732662
Make it up to us, by unlocking the door and saving the trouble of finding our little sisters.

>>36732820

Shh. Soma's into wives. not sisters.

>>36732820
Damn right.
It's great, isn't it?
We should have tried to combine strengthen and reinforce, by strengthening ourself and turning our fist into metal when a puch-motion is happening and such.
>>36732838
>implying we're inbred degenerates like the disgusting elves

>>36732271
>Reinforce your body with metal.

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>>36732841

>>36732842
Guys i've been thinking about this.
The helm for warlock armor.
Nature = reading surface thoughts.
We could use that for negotiating. for a huge bonus..
Also when talking to people like our sister. to see if she is lying to us. When talking.

>>36732902
There really should be a pastebin for the info we learned about our armour/stuff, i already forgot about this.

How much longer will you be runnig for, Soma?
I'l have to get going in a couple minutes, but I'll be able to check up on things around one and a half hours from now, I think.

>>36732920
There should be a pastebin for everything we learn just so I don't have to search the archive for them.

>>36732957
If only an anon was dedicated enough to do this, but i haven't done something like that since HMQ for the powers/skills, and the info soma put out in 94 threads is alot.

>>36732898
This looks like that place from excidum except a lot browner

>>36732920
I do agree.
If anyone has the time and is willing should go back and do this.

Also reading var vars notes on people. and his other notes. we would learn a wealth of knowledge reading them.
Easily gain several insights into meditations.
possibly goes over the things he didn't talk about in other notes like how to make sure one doesn't get seperated from their body when doing the meditation.
Certain tricks/spells to use in different ways.
A fucking wealth of knowledge.

>>36733021
So after we are done with them, do we give the notes to our friends and then our master?
or
Sell them?

>>36733057
We burn them.

>>36733021
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/36514819/
some anon said something about spirits being void entities.
That was when we read up on the universe. It doesn't say anything like that so yeah..

>>36733071
Varvar never distinguished spirits from void entities so you've proven nothing.

>>36733069
Why?
>>36733021
master is my vote.

>>36733057
We hold on to them and experiment, our life's work will be solving the universe's secrets with he help of his notes.
I feel it would be rude to just sell/give them to someone, he gave it specifically to us in secret.
>>36733071
I seem to remember spirits beig described as void entities which have adapted to our world and "evolved" in it. They are ifluenced by things around them while small, determinig what they grow up to be like.

>>36733057
I wouldn't sell them ever.
I wouldn't mind giving them to our friends/master.
I would rather burn them than sell them.

>>36733004
>>36733021
I'll do it during the break when I reread everything.

>>36733071
I think that's the second time you read about the secrets of the universe, and note how Varistha calls them 'spirits of the void'. The first time you read his notes on the subject he specifically called spirits simply void entities which had passed into your realm of reality. Thus, void entities are just spirits in their proper place.

>>36733163
So spirits= aliens.

>>36733163
awesome.
We know spirits = void creatures.
hence spirit are lesser gods...
Ricky is almost at god level..
I wouldn't be surprised if he is an old god or something that has lost followers/been weakend/killed once.

>>36733224
What would happen if we got Ricky worshipers?

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>>36733163
>Thus, void entities are just spirits in their proper place.

The majority of them also appear to be assholes

>>36733224
lol no
That's stupid

>>36733240
Do you not already worship the Ricky?

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>>36733195
Not aliens anon

>>36733248
>hur duur thats stupod
I hate idiots.
If you don't agree explain why. Even a retarded excuse is better than
>U wrong cus u stopid

>>36733247
2spoopy5me

>>36733224

Ricky= the earth god datu.

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>>36733247

>>36733294
You're easily spooked, anon, there isn't een a skellington in that picture.

>>36733313
......FUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCK
We need to find a way to talk to Ricky.
Feed him more spirits.
make a deal with him...

>>36733347
>>36733313
...i dont even know whether you guys are being serious. im getting flashbacks to SQ

>>36733281
no u

>>36733396
We're not gonna initiate a cage match with Salil and one of our blood-ice golems, anon, how silly of you to suggest such a thing!
That is of course not without selling tickets first.

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>>36733326

You feel a sort of strangely pleasing tingling sensation across your skin as you start to channel vys, though this quickly fades to numbness as the magic takes effect. You feel it first in your hands and feet, your fingers becoming stiff and inflexible and your legs heavy. Soon you find yourself struggling to bend your wrist or your ankles, forcing you to slow down as you run through your forms. You push through even as the metal overtakes your knees and elbows.

Eventually you find yourself struggling to move your body even an inch. You stand stock still, suspended with one leg raised into a position to strike out at some imaginary opponent. Then, quite suddenly, a revelation strikes you. Who says you need preserve the form of your body for this meditation? You carve deep grooves into your joints, particularly around your elbows and knees, using metal magic. It takes some trial and error, but eventually you manage to warp your metallic flesh such that you're able to move more or less freely.

Once you've worked everything into proper shape you're able to resume working through your forms. You're actually much faster and far more precise than you previously were, though a touch jerky. It's hard to lift a metallic leg with any sort of elegance.

You're not even really sure if you've turned to metal or merely hardened your flesh, it's somewhat ambiguous. If it's the former, then you've just warped your knees into some sort of twisted abominations of bone and muscle. Slowly, you feel yourself returning to normal as you slip out of your trance. You don't really want to wake up, it feels as if you've barely made any progress at all, but eventually you find your eyes snapping open.

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Light pours through your windows. You'd guess that it's mid-morning or so. Your joints are not horrible disfigured messes, so you don't think you were actually warping your flesh. You've little idea what you were doing, in retrospect. It was very strange, almost instinctual. You attempt to stretch out your joints, but almost as soon as you do you feel immense pain shooting through your limbs. Not the sort of gut wrenching pain that comes with something being torn or broken, but the burning sensation of muscle ache.

You stumble on rubbery legs into the bathroom, shedding your sweat-soaked pants and taking a seat on the edge of a porcelain bath. Such extravagance is rare, even among Nobles. Of course, it's fairly low quality porcelain. Not the sort you'd make a fine plate out of, but still expensive nonetheless. Especially considering the gold faucet mouth and ivory-capped golden knobs to control water temperature.

Your family must have spent a fortune securing a still-working heater. Most older estates have them already, but in many cases they've been broken or fallen into disrepair. In many cases they're simply empty or out of power and the cost of hiring a Vatis to refill them or fix them is too exorbitant to spend, especially when they could merely have servants carry in water and heat it for them. The Noble's District isn't like the Vatis' District. There is no vast underground system of pipes and tunnels funneling desalinated water from the sea and heating it or cooling it as one wishes. Just a lone tank buried beneath the house.

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You wait until the water has heated up properly before climbing in and letting your sore limbs soak in the hot water. You take a moment to wash your hair out with scented oils and then scour yourself with a blunted, curved knife dipped in a mixture of olive oil and salt. Once that's done you soak for a while longer before eventually climbing out and drying yourself with a thought. You use a ring of ice around the chain of the cork to pull it free and allow the water to drain. If you recall correctly, the water is recycled and used to maintain the gardens.

Feeling refreshed after your bath, you wash your pants with the water while it drains and then pull them on, along with your fine new robes. You look yourself over briefly in the mirror before pulling on your travel-worn hide boots and unlocking your door, striding out to face the day.

>Check the dining room to see if your family is having breakfast.
>Look for Pratima and Duha, you want to teach them a bit about magic before you leave.
>Find your mother and father so you can say goodbye, you really need to return to Zahak and your companions.
>Write-in

>>36733487
>Look for Pratima and Duha, you want to teach them a bit about magic before you leave.
>Check the dining room to see if your family is having breakfast.

>>36733487
>>Look for Pratima and Duha, you want to teach them a bit about magic before you leave.

>>36733487
>>Look for Pratima and Duha, you want to teach them a bit about magic before you leave.

>>36733487
>Look for Pratima and Duha, you want to teach them a bit about magic before you leave.

>>36733487
>Look for Pratima and Duha, you want to teach them a bit about magic before you leave.

>>36733487


>Look for Pratima and Duha, you want to teach them a bit about magic before you leave.

Become an onii-chan your sisters would be proud of.

>>36733487

>Check the dining room to see if your family is having breakfast.

>>36733487
>>Look for Pratima and Duha, you want to teach them a bit about magic before you leave.

>>36733487
>Look for Pratima and Duha, you want to teach them a bit about magic before you leave.
Can we tech them multiple things?

>>36733487
>>Check the dining room to see if your family is having breakfast.
>>Look for Pratima and Duha, you want to teach them a bit about magic before you leave.
we can study earth with them. should be fine. Something simple

>>36733487
>scour yourself with a blunted, curved knife dipped in a mixture of olive oil and salt
That sounds incredibly painful.

>>36733487
>Write-in

Explore the Estate

>>36733551
It would be extremely painful for you

By the way, I didn't see any discussion about this.
Can someone explain to me and my tired and stupid brain the significance of >>36732254
>Slowly the world slips away, until all that remains is the blackness of your trance and the bright, flowing strands of vys. They almost seem to sing to you, humming a subtle tune as they weave through the air. Old friends pleased to see your return. It's quite the surreal experience, meditation isn't usually like this.

I mean, I don't recall anything EVER talking about singing Vys. Or that vys made sounds at all. Would it be fair game to meditate on what's causing that, or not? Thoughts?

>>36733551
Think the Romans or the Greeks did it, iirc

>>36733487
>Check the dining room to see if your family is having breakfast.
>Look for Pratima and Duha, you want to teach them a bit about magic before you leave.

>>36733487
>>Look for Pratima and Duha, you want to teach them a bit about magic before you leave.

>>36733551
Its like you never shaved with a rock.

>>36733487
Can we ask ricky the question about what would happen if given a brooche, while we search for our sisters?

>>36733551

For you I think. IIRC that's how Romans bathe themselves. And they do it in gymnasiums or local bathhouses. And also the blunted knife works quite well in removing grime from your body.

I used it sometimes.

>>36733551
Never shaved with olive oil before? It takes some skill but with the proper knife you can save fuckloads of money on razors once you realize you just need one good shaving knife and the patience to sharpen it properly on occasion.
Sometimes it's a better shave than all the premium razors can give you. If you fuck up you will bleed.

>>36733617
YES, seconding. Let's get it out of the way quick and sound.

>Pratima and Duha
Writin'

>>36733627

Haha. Well Romans used bronze razors. Not sure on the sharpness level though.

>>36733617
Fuck it, why not thirded.

>>36733487
>>Find your mother and father so you can say goodbye, you really need to return to Zahak and your companions.

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>>36733579
Seeing as how it happened after game night at the Rickmeister's place it may have something to do with that.

If it happens again then yeah we should check it out

>>36733657
Sharpening a shaving knife properly involves knowing how to sharpen it only just enough, it's not really supposed to be super sharp.

>>36733617
Seconding/thirding.

>>36733647
Can we do this?
>>36733617

>>36733617
Please. His opinion actually really matters in this instance.

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>>36733675

>>36733617
this too!

I'll include asking Ricky questions, since I doubt many people will be against it. If you'd like it put to a vote, do speak up.

>>36733617
Just don't be disappointed if he responds with "???" anons. We might be the only guy who's contemplated it.

>>36733617
I think we can talk with him well enough already. I mean we got him to perform soul surgery on us with our current method of communication

>>36733786
Yay!

>>36733786

No need for that, I think. It's pretty unanimous.

However if we need to,

>Yes. talk to ricky, ask some questions.

>>36733786
Go for it. It's better to ask than not.

>>36733802
It's just to know, without having to risk anything at all. Of course >>36733793 is also a potential outcome, it's better than having never asked at all.

So >>36733786 Sí Señor!

>>36733786
Time to put an end or at least help tip the favor to one side finally after 50+ threads of people trying this.

>>36733839

Well we did manage to establish some sort of communication with him-

>>36733724
Aleamond?

>>36733880
Aleamond.

>>36733890
Aleamond!

>>36733880

It feels like, and haven't they frowned upon magic?

>>36733903
Ya, they think magic is dildoes and plan to remove magic

>>36733903
yeah. They say it's what ruined the haician and Rhynian empires.
makes sense since the old gods don't want us having enchanting I believe

>>36733617
Just for the record giving the brooch to our master or Zahak would be a much better idea

>>36733916
>trying to remove a fundamental part of the world
"And in the absence of the power they hated, arose a new power they were unable to contain..."

>>36733937
>Zahak
Agian why the dragon?
He has shown evidence of communicating through minds and to other peoples minds.

>>36733946
Science! We fallout now!

>>36733946

It'd be like namek.

>>36733937
The record has noted this statement, and it shall be archived dutifully. Thank you for your contributions.

I'm just wondering when Soma's going to add our metal insight to our character sheet.

>>36733978
Neeeeveer.

>>36733955
He's got no telepathic range nigga. The brooch has nearly unlimited range

>>36733937
>Zahak would be a much better idea
That is a dumb idea.
We can already speak to him.
He is learning how to use words very quickly.
So that would be a huge waste.
We already have a mental link with him. and He can use words over it as well.
Ricky can give us vague concepts and shity drawings.. We would have to teach him our language.
I don't think this would work. But I remember him combing through our memories. He cold possible do that for learning a language.
Also he should understand exactly what the brooch is for so it would be a good idea.

>>36733999
Isn't his range ridiculous?
I remember he could communicate to us even when he was far away in the sky.

>>36734027
Yeah. That other anon is pulling stuff out of his ass and it isn't candy and lolipops.

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Someone needs to photoshoop this dude brown.

>>36734042
Is that a saying where you're from? I have never heard that one before

>>36734079

Think of pedos. Doing that.

>>36733955
Why the void creature? What would we even talk to him about? Ask him how his skeleton friends are doing?

>>36734079
It's not. I just made it up. Language is fun like that.
Aren't you having fun, you motherfucking motherfucker?

>>36734092
same reason people want our master, knowledge and being able to communicate properly.

>>36734092
Honestly? Yes.

>>36734092
Well, probe him for secrets and details related to the nature of the void and cloak technicalities. That is the big "if" obviously.
Of course the answer to your question should also be equally obvious.

>>36734096
nice meme

>>36734092
KNowledge.
Master a few centeries
Ricky easily several thousand years.
He is an Elder, he clearly knows some stuff.
He may even be one of the old gods struck down from his position

>>36734222
I didn't know common respective definitions became a meme, my apologies.

>>36734122
I thought you typed cloak tentacles and I was dissapointed when I re read it

>>36734340
We can do that too.

As you wander the halls in search of your two sisters, you reach out to Ricky. You feel his mind, this vast thing of which only the barest of slivers touches your own. You don't recall contacting him being like this in the past. It's strange, and just the slightest bit intimidating. His power dwarfs your own a hundred times over, or at least it seems as if that's the case. You focus on the image of the brooch, and it being pinned to Ricky's chest. Followed by a vague mental image of him talking, and you responding. It's crude, but it gets the job done.

He responds with a childish depiction of him tossing the brooch into his mouth with a poorly drawn tentacle, a giant black question mark situated over the entire thing. This is immediately followed by an image of Ricky rubbing his abdomen with his actual hands. You're not sure if that means he wants to eat the brooch, or if it means it would upset his stomach... you're leaning towards the former.

You reply with the same image of Ricky eating the brooch that he sent you, except with a giant X across it. Then an image of Ricky with the brooch pinned to his chest, a circle around it. Then the memory of your speaking with your companions, and an image of your companion replaced by Ricky.

That seems to have gotten the message across a little clearer. He responds with an image of the brooch being absorbed into the ethereal flesh of his upper body, then an image of the brooch slowly dissolving into nothing. Then a crude image of you in the cloak with your hands pressed to your ears hunched over while Ricky is screeching behind you. Then an image of you stabbing yourself in the throat.

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This is followed by a separate series of images. In this one, a strange script fills the air around Ricky. It reminds you almost of bastardized runes, and just sort of endlessly expanding outwards in concentric circles while you stare on, uncomprehendingly. You know, it really annoys you the way he tends to depict you in his thought pictures. You're all tiny and disproportioned. Like a dwarf or a small child. With a very large head. It's strange, and you're not sure you like being depicted as cutesy.

You let the issued drop, you're pretty sure you've gotten all you can from Ricky. You focus on finding your sisters, eventually winding up in the dining room. It seems the most logical place to find everyone at this hour. Your mother is sipping a cup of dark herbal tea with her knees pulled up to her chest, pillows arrayed around her. She still seems half asleep. Duha is munching away at a curved loaf of light pastry bread slathed with fruit preserves and drinking a cup of tea with goat's milk. She's got an empty bowl of lentil soup next to her plate. There is a slave in the corner, dressed in a brilliantly white uniform, who nods to you as you enter.

You don't see your father, or any of your father's other wives. So far as you can recall your entire family tends towards staying up and waking up late. Your mother was the only truly early rise among them, though Duha seems to have joined her. You take a seat next to your mother, who cracks an eye open long enough to pull you into a brief hug.

You return the gesture before focusing your attention on Duha. “I was thinking I ought to give you and Pratima a brief lesson on magic before I left. Do you have any idea when she'll wake up?”
(2/3)

Your sister shrugs. “She usually wanders in around noon. I should probably report to the Guard Barracks soon, it would reflect poorly on our older sister were I to show up late, but so far as I recall most of my scheduled exercises are not until later today. So long as it did not take too long, I would be open to the idea of a lesson from a Grandmaster Vatis. Even if it does raise the ire of my superiors.”

You can't help but find it a little odd that Pratima is the older of your two younger half-sisters and yet Duha seems the far, far more responsible of the pair. You suppose age does not always walk hand in hand with wisdom.

>Have the slave bring your breakfast and wait for Pratima to wake up.
>Ask after the health of your older sister. It's only polite.
>Go wake up Pratima yourself, no time to dawdle.
>Write-in

>>36734379
I think it's kind of interesting that you don't describe the slaves at all, save as distinguished by their uniform. Is that on purpose, or do you just not want to bother with them?

>>36734379
Ricky's a weaboo

>>36734379
Chibi Mik sounds adorable

>>36734405

>Go wake up Pratima yourself, no time to dawdle.

We have a dragon baby to get back to, mang!

>>36734405
>Go wake up Pratima yourself, no time to dawdle.
"Yuo wannai bein' venturer ayye? Git up ye shite, sleap be'afor thi weak'nbody'nmind, venturers' nev'r sleap uin less'thay conqur'd a Rooin, yah heair?!"

>>36734419
Why would Mik notice the details of slaves?

>>36734379
dude. our sister is smokin hot.

>>36734405
>>Ask after the health of your older sister. It's only polite.
>>Go wake up Pratima yourself, no time to dawdle.

>>36734405
>Ask after the health of your older sister. It's only polite.
then
>Go wake up Pratima yourself, no time to dawdle.

>>36734379
Hah. Ricky using SD as his mental image. At least we got a confirmation on giving Ricky the brooch being a Bad idea.

>>36734405
>Go wake up Pratima yourself, no time to dawdle.

>>36734405
>Ask after the health of your older sister. It's only polite.
>Go wake up Pratima yourself, no time to dawdle.

>>36734309
i dont know where you're pulling 'old god' from, we know way too little about divinity in this setting to guess. id say he's just old and good at his job
>>36734405
she should be awake if she wants to learn discipline to become a Vatis
>Go wake up Pratima yourself, no time to dawdle.

>>36734405
>>Go wake up Pratima yourself, no time to dawdle.

>>36734455
yeah, being driven mad by an infinite spiraling vortex of void runes sounds a tad bit unpleasant

>>36734405
>>Ask after the health of your older sister. It's only polite.
While having breakfast. Food is necessary. We can wake Pratima in 10 minutes.

>>36734419
They are slaves, not people. Soma didn't describe the cutlery either. Such is the mindset in slaveholding societies.

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>>36734442
>Prof face when we presents them

Official family rankings.
Mother=Father>Big Bro>Nadiyya>Duha>Pratima>Semiha>other step mom=lil' priest bro=older sisters>Azra>Salil

Ricky's pretty cute d'aaaaaaw

>>36734442
No kidding. What do they put in the food of those guards-people that make them so ridiculously attractive? Is it the unofficial hot people club?

>>36734571
As I explained before, NOBILITY.
Nobles are either pretty, or ugly. There is no moderate.

>>36734442
Meh

So, what Method should we use to wake up our Dear Sister?

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>>36734571
Your older sister actually isn't much of a looker by your people's standards. She's considered mannish, and a bit too muscular. Not to mention a touch light-skinned.

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>>36734598
Darzi isn't a noble. But she is a guard. My correlational relationship observation holds up better than your's.

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>>36734570

>>36734614

Well, her looks tugs other people's heartstrings, Soma.

>>36734613
Freezing Room
Wacky Illusions
Predatory Hovering Grin
Tentacle Footsies
All at once.

>>36734553
...older sisters>guards=servants>slaves>garbage workers>Azra>Salil
FTFY

>>36734623
Fiiine.

>>36734653
I like this list. seems accurate

>>36734643
>Put on Centurion/Hiacian armor.
>Take on a robotic tone of voice.
>Wake up meatbag, it is time

>>36734613
Knock on the door?
If that doesn't work, could always make large ice cubes and then boil their center to make extremely loud popping noises.
That would wake everyone though.

Oh, yeah. Forgot to say. Writin' for
>Wake Pratima.

>>36734694
You have my second.

>>36734613
Slit her throat. If she can't heal the wound in time then she's failed our training.

>>36734694
This.

>>36734728
anon our master only did that when we were an apprentice, she isn't even a novice.
>>36734711
Whats some fucked up shit, our master did to us?

>>36734749
Fine, christ. We'll just cut off a couple of fingers.

>>36734694
Let's do it.

>>36734694
>"So you want to be an Adventurer?"

>>36734762

anon, you do realize this is our noob sister, right? Let's take things a little easier...

>>36734790
Just a bit of blunt trauma, then?

>>36734405
>>Go wake up Pratima yourself, no time to dawdle.

>>36734792
You know she doesn't know anything except novice fire magic right?

>>36734814
And she'll never get better without any incentive.

>>36734694
Lets do this, but also freeze the room to freezing temperatures.
Wheres our brother that wants to be a pani priest anyway?

>>36734825
Thats like saying you could play Bach if someone started to beat your ass even if you never saw a piano before
There needs to be a build up, even we waited until expert before self mutilation

>>36734864
Well you could if they played the beatings in the same rhythm as his songs or played his songs while the beatings happened.

You frown, shaking your head. To think, she wants to be an adventurer! She should wake up every morning seeking to improve herself. That's what you spent thirteen years doing, granted it was enforced upon you by your master. You recall that he once had his hawk attack you while you slept, pecking at your face. Then he had you meditate on healing the wounds. Another time he woke you by pouring water kept liquid despite being below freezing over you with no warning. Another, you just woke up floating on your mattress in the middle of the sea. You never did figure out how he pulled that off. “She's still asleep? Well, that just won't do. I'll go and wake her up. Which room is hers?”

Duha quickly swallows the bite of bread she'd been chewing and then follows it with a sip of tea before answering. “Her room is the second door on the left when you first enter the living quarters. However, I would suggest caution. She tends to be quite cranky when woken up. Usually father has one of the servants bring her breakfast in bed if she simply must be woken early.”

You wrinkle your nose. Soft! Your father has gone soft! Breakfast in bed... the decadence! You'll be having none of that, not from your pupil. You stand, striding confidently out of the room. It takes you only a few moments to find her door. Trying the handle, you find it unlocked.

(1/2)

>>36734749
Our master never slit anything of ours..
that was master someshit that was bat shit crazy.

>>36734888
Anon, did.. your parents ever hit you?

Pushing the door open you step inside to find Pratima sprawled out on her bed, one leg over the sheets and the other beneath, a pillow clutched to her chest possessively. Her hair is in disarray and she wears the usual bedclothes of a noble woman, a silken robe that reaches to about mid calf with some light silk pants beneath. The gem embedded in her palm glows softly. She seems completely unaware of your presence, vulnerable. A rookie's mistake! A vatis ought to never let their guard down, even when they sleep. Paranoia truly is your dearest friend.

If only you had a hawk...

>Lower the temperature of the room itself to below freezing, complete with snow and little ice sculptures.
>Kill the lights and try to scare her awake using your cloak and some illusion magic.
>Wake her by splashing her with frigid water.
>Wake her by having the bed collapse.
>Why not just shake her by the shoulder? Be nice!
>Write-in

>>36734920
Write-in: Play our Oud

>>36734920
>Wake her by splashing her with frigid water.
Make a frosty illusion of us staring at her.

>>36734920
>Why not just shake her by the shoulder? Be nice!

>>36734920

>Kill the lights and try to scare her awake using your cloak and some illusion magic.

And maybe cover ourselves in metal so she can't hit us.

>>36734943
I SECOND THIS

>>36734920
>Write-in

Manipulate her mattress out the window

>>36734920
>winter wonderland this bitch

ice the room. make that shit pretty

>>36734920
>Why not just shake her by the shoulder? Be nice!
Pls no bully

>>36734920
>freezing
Scarring won't help, neither will property damage

>>36734920

>Lower the temperature of the room itself to below freezing, complete with snow and little ice sculptures.

Nice? Us?

>>36734920
>HK-47 impersonation or Oud playing,
>Or HK-47 impersonation playing the Oud

>>36734943
>>36734920
This.

>>36734920
>Lower the temperature of the room itself to below freezing, complete with snow and little ice sculptures.
>>36734943
Plus oud.

>>36734920
>Lower the temperature of the room itself to below freezing, complete with snow and little ice sculptures.
>Kill the lights and try to scare her awake using your cloak and some illusion magic.
>Wake her by splashing her with frigid water.
all these, first the freezing to get the room cold, then the water to wake her up quickly followed by the void cloak to make her shit her pants. She wants to be an adventurer? We'll give her a taste of how fear inducing it can be.

>>36734968
Don't you know vatis grow through hardships? Also you must bring pain upon your apprentices as your master did to you.

>>36734920

>Lower the temperature of the room itself to below freezing, complete with snow and little ice sculptures.

The ice sculptures are the ones waking her! Like a story of the sculptures vanquishing the giants!

I should probably sleep.

>>36734920
>Lower the temperature of the room itself to below freezing, complete with snow and little ice sculptures.

>>36734943
She has committed no such grievous a crime to deserve such punishment!

>>36734943
>>36734920
Supporting.

>>36734989
It is one of the true pleasures in life seeing some one freak out while you teach them dangerous shit.

>>36734943
So much this; never have I wanted a nat 3 to be rolled so badly.

>>36734943
>>36734920
ice palace+oud.

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>>36735025
Haha, this is exactly what i want to happen! If you have your full sanity you obviously aren't ready for a life of adventure.

>>36735044
>>36735025
Some one photoshop an oud in there.

>>36735066
I wish the oud would go away forever

>>36735094
I wish you would go away forever.

>>36735094
I wish you would go away forever.

>>36735094
I wish you would go away forever.

>>36734920
Play the oud- The perfect alarm clock.
Or
Create dew droplets on her bare skin and then make the water super cold.

>>36734943
Seconded

Looks like oud won. ROOOOOOOOLL me a 3d10-4 vs DC 20 to not be absolutely terrible.

>>36735094
I wish you would go away forever.

Rolled 4, 9, 3 - 4 = 12 (3d10 - 4)

>>36735143

Rolled 5, 1, 10 - 4 = 12 (3d10 - 4)

>>36735143
Can we do ice palace as well?

Rolled 2, 9, 7 + 4 = 22 (3d10 + 4)

>>36735143

Rolled 5, 2, 1 + 4 = 12 (3d10 + 4)

>>36735143

Rolled 6, 10, 2 - 4 = 14 (3d10 - 4)

>>36735143

Rolled 6, 3, 4 - 4 = 9 (3d10 - 4)

>>36735143

>>36735143

>>36735159
Boo you shame us anon.
>>36735143
Can we spend 3 to raise the DC?

>>36735151
>>36735158
>>36735159
Can we spend Vys to be worse?

Rolled 9, 4, 6 - 9 = 10 (3d10 - 9)

>>36735151
>>36735158
>>36735159
Don’t spend.

>>36735143
On the contrary Somas. It was our intent to be terrible.

>>36735178
Maybe if we encased our fingers in metal

>>36735151
>>36735158
>>36735159
>12, 12, 14 vs DC 20
>Severe Failure!
You could spend 6 vys to make it a Regular Failure, but cannot make it a success of any sort.

>>36735193
Can we spend to make it worse?

>>36735193
Spend vys to cramp our fingers?

>>36735193
>dont spend
I want to hear the whole estate beg for mercy

>>36735193
Is this DC supposed to affect our chances of waking her up or the quality of how well we play?
Cuz we actually intend to make the music to be terrible.

>>36735193
Soma pls you can stop pretending that we try to be good at anytime, this severe failure should mean we actually strummed a relaxing quiet song, making us more sleepy if anything

>>36735193
>don't

>>36735193
Don't spend

>>36735222
Quality. Look at >>36735143

>>36735193
Not spending it btw.

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>>36735094
Would you say that the Oud makes you Angry? Frustrated? Incensed? Peeved?

Possibly...Berserk?

>>36735193

Don't spend. For love of god, don't spend!

>Not spendin'
About what I figured! Writin'

>>36735251
>rewarding your players for bad rolls

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>>36735241

>>36735251
You doing the ice palace as well right?

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>>36735241
2spooky4me

go away to prepare dinner, come back and see this.
Anon, i am proud

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>>36735241
>Berserk?

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>>36735241
noice

I'm already taking a deep breath because I know that as soon as Soma posts my sides will be in orbit, and there's no air there. The scene where we played next to varvar was 11/10.

>>36735631
yeah the oud scenes are hands down some of the best, I dont even care if we never advance with it but trolling everyone with it is hilarious.

>>36735661
Personally, I think we should never improve the oud, it's just too useful for trolling.

>>36735661
>>36735631
We are bound to advance, i believe the DC had been lowered from last time, by a bit.

You slowly reach into your cloak, withdrawing the slender neck of your oud. You cradle the bulbous body of the instrument in your arms like a child, running your fingers along its delicate strings. A beautiful instrument, the woodwork complex beyond compare. The sound rich and fulfilling. You begin to pluck out a few simple chords you recall Sister Balik showing you. It seems as if ages ago, now.

Then something goes horribly wrong. Your fingers get caught up in the strings, and you tug them out, and then your rythym is all thrown off. You're not entirely sure how it happens, but the sounds the instrument makes. Good gods the sounds. You can only imagine the noise is akin to the screams of the damned as Surya pulls them into his gaping maw, to be consumed and the cycle of rebirth broken.

Pratima bolts upright, casting a panicked look around her room. She doesn't seem to notice you as she flings her feet over the edge of the bed and half-falls, half-stumbles out of the bed. You hear her mumbling something about raiders as she sleepily roots through her drawer, eventually drawing out a knife. All the while you continue to flail away at the strings of your oud.

She ducks down behind her bed. She's not a very good hider, you can still see her hair. Granted it's sticking up at a more or less ninety degree angle to the top of her head, but she really should have taken that into account. You can hear her talking to herself. “What even is it?! It sounds like they're sacrificing cats outside the door! Fucking barbarians!”

You're not sure who it was she was expecting, but they certainly don't seem like nice people. Eventually she seems to start rocking back and forth, still mumbling to herself. “Oh god why won't it stop? Make it stop! It's horrible! What's even making that noise? It's inhuman!” A pause. “Could it be his cloak? Maybe, he said something about a portal to the void... gods, are we being invaded by void monstrosities?”
(1/2)

You consider cutting the lights and surprising her, but she does have a knife on her. You'd rather not get stabbed. Instead you just stay your hand and slip the oud into your cloak. “I'm glad to see you awake, dearest sister! I figured you might wish for a wake-up call. I intend to give you and your sister Duha a brief magic lesson before I depart.”

She stops rocking back and forth, peaking over the edge of her bed hesitantly. When she sees you, standing there, she shakes her head. “Wh-what on Earth was that? I thought... I thought someone was dying. It was horrendous! Gods, Mik. I'm so glad to see you. I feared the worst.”

You frown. “So you didn't like my playing?”

She stares at you uncomprehendingly. “Playing? What sort of accursed instrument makes that noise? It sounded like the screaming of children, or dying cats.”

You shake your head, sadly. “It was just my oud. I think I've really improved, honestly.”

She stares at you as if you'd just grown a second head, slowly standing up and retreating to the bathroom. She draws a curtain across the entrance and you hear the bath running only a few moments later.

“So will you be attending the magic lesson?”

Her voice cries out from the other side of the curtain. “I just... I need to reconsider my life choices! Leave me to my thoughts, Mikhael!”

You think she might be having a crisis of identity. Honestly, your oud playing wasn't THAT bad. It was bad, but it really has improved, maybe!

>Go rejoin Duha and your mother for breakfast while Pratima bathes.
>Go check to see if your father is awake yet, you need to unload the goods you're going to have him sell.
>Read for a bit in the courtyard, after telling Duha to meet you there once Pratima is ready.
>Write-in

Caffeine crash. Think this will probably be the last post but feel free to vote and I'll start off with it next time. Which won't be for a while.

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>>36734379
drawfag here (not sure why you citizens of 4-chan call people "faggots", but I'm swallowing my pride here in calling myself in the proper terminology appropriate to this board site):
The thought of Ricky's mental image of him SKREEE-ing at a chibi version of Mik was so funny that I thought I'd might as well do a doodle of the image.

>>36735830
>Read for a bit in the courtyard, after telling Duha to meet you there once Pratima is ready.

>>36735830
>Go rejoin Duha and your mother for breakfast while Pratima bathes.

Thanks for running boss. When's the next time you think we can get together for another insomnia session?

>>36735830
>Go check to see if your father is awake yet, you need to unload the goods you're going to have him sell.

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>>36735845

>>36735845
>(not sure why you citizens of 4-chan call people "faggots", but I'm swallowing my pride here in calling myself in the proper terminology appropriate to this board site)
Get out.

>>36735845
cute/10

>>36735854
Proooobably next Friday. Wait, what is next Friday? The 19th? Yeah, I can do next friday.

>>36735830

>Go check to see if your father is awake yet, you need to unload the goods you're going to have him sell.

>Jews plan.jpg

>>36735845
You'll get over it and it's certainly not just you. We're all faggots here. Though nowadays I believe the term is "draw-friend."

>>36735692
>>36735689
>>36735661
You do know, if we get good at the oud, we could probably learn how to make worse songs right?
Instead of messing up by accident, we know how to play the notes to torture some one.

>>36735830
When will the next thread be? I remember you saying you were going to take a hiatus, do you think it would be possible for us to get a rough time frame for that?
>Read for a bit in the courtyard, after telling Duha to meet you there once Pratima is ready.

>>36735830
The oud playing scenes are always amazing. I hope we never become competent in spite of genuine attempts to get better. I love that Mik is genuinely just naturally atrocious.

>>36735884
No, no one but shit packers says "drawfriend"

>>36735884
Thanks for the reassurance, I'm just a bit hesitant on the whole name calling.

>>36735904
Stop being a pussy ya faggot

>>36735887
Holy shit the possibilities!!! Could you imagine magically enhanced oud torture? Why I bet we could take a whole country with nothing but the oud.

>>36735904
Don't be a cunt m8, it's generally not serious.

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>>36735899
>>36735913

>>36735904
Oi cunt. Get yer ead out yer arse and liven up a beat yeh?

>>36735904
Never go the the drawing board, its the place where masochist artist go.

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>>36735818
>>36735830
>“It was just my oud. I think I've really improved, honestly.”

>>36735904
As I understand it, drawfag and such are more or less neutral terms nowadays. Not that there isn't a lot of unnecessary and rude namecalling and outright hostility as well though.

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>>36735904
It's like the Russian term Tovarisch. It tears down the walls and infrastructure of oppression, equalizing the masses into one great people. A society of friends and comrades.

Except in this case it's faggots and niggers, and much like in Soviet Russia some people are more equal than others.

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>>36735830
I have to wonder whether our oud is cursed or something similar.
Because it's either that or Mik is actually supernaturally bad at this.
Terrible beyond the ken of man or elf.

>>36735971
they are entitled cunts that usually draw memes instead of real request.
And you need to suck their dick pretty hard for some things.
I do admit they sometimes make something cool though.

>>36735973
Where's the racist soma that I know and love?

>>36735973
Soma, I can't relax with that fucking spider. 3scary5me

>>36735973
as a drawfag, he is much more equal than the ordinary fags that pollute your quest. he's the made man and we're the guys shivering in the gulag

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>>36735973
I feel much better now.

>>36735973
>A society of friends and comrades.

But we all hate each other

>>36736007
One false move and they execute him though.

>>36735973
>>36736004
Good to know Im not the only one concerned about the spider crawling up Gandalf's ass.

>>36736004
S'probly an animal companion or a construct or something.
You got something against spiderbros?

>>36736013
much like soviet russia, no?

>>36736007
>more equal
Git
Out
U
YA
Ninny