Lirael puts up a fuss about the full body wrap, especially her wings being bound up around her body but you insist, the few trips you’ve taken outside tell you there’s a dust storm on the way, a big one. You asked Charun about calling the mission off, but he seems convinced that it won’t hit until after you’ve taken the convoy, wishful thinking.

Ah yeah, Charun...you asked Lirael about why she is so afraid of him, and what she’s seen in his head, she refused to answer, only saying that he was bad, and when you pushed her, she burst into tears. You backed off with the questions and spent the next half-hour trying to cheer you up. Still, Charun has been a rebel a long time, finding out he’s done bad things to people wouldn’t surprise you. Hell, the supplies you’re stealing tonight are going to be sold on the black market.

You meet up with the others, Lirael in tow, you spin the same line of bullshit about her being your cousin.

“Bit risky to take her with us Shee” comments Rhydian.

“Can’t leave her on her own” you say “She’ll just hide nearby until we’re done.”

Charun and Rhydian both look sceptical but don’t argue. Rainya doesn’t look bothered, and Dev...Dev is trying to make friends with Lirael, sat on the floor of the hideout chatting to her and playing kids games with her.

Charun calls Dev over, Lirael follows and hugs you with one arm, keeping you between her and Charun “This” says Charun, spreading out a hand-drawn map is part of the route of the supplies convoy, it’s a small run, only three trucks, we’d hit something bigger but we don’t have enough people. The trucks go from Hive 17 to Hive 39 and break from the desert highway here” he points to the map “trying to avoid the sink-sands they’ll take this road through the foothills, plenty of narrow valleys there to trap them, they’ll be wary of ambushes, but it’s miles of rock, they won’t know when or where we’ll strike.”

“So what’s the plan?” asks Rainya.

“The Cellanite we got” says Charun “Make a lot of explosives, I’ve a valley picked out the convoy will be going through, we’ll blast both ends, throwing a lot of gravel and rock on the road, trapping them. We’ll get the drivers out and then take the trucks.”

“And how will we get past the rubble?” you ask

“My truck will be fitted with a ‘dozer blade” explains Charun, “I’ll clear a path big enough to get the trucks out.”

“What about defences?” asks Rhydian.

“The drivers are all armed” says Charun “Shotguns usually, but aren’t paid well enough to die for their cargo, they’ll surrender.”

“And if they don’t?” asks Dev continuing “and if they do, are we going to leave them out in the foothills?”

“They will” says Charun firmly “And when they do, yes, we’ll leave them.” Seeing the protesting looks he adds “As soon as we start, they’ll signal Hive Security forces, which can be there in maybe a half-hour, we won’t have long to get the trucks out of sight and wait for the search to die down. When it does we’ll get to the meeting point with my contacts, the drivers won’t be out in the open for long.”

After going over the plan a few times, you’re ready to depart.

You and Rainya are to hang back and provide covering fire, you with your new rifle, Rainya with your old one. Once the trap is sprung, Dev, Rhydian and Charun will get the drivers out of the trucks. Rhydian, Dev and Rainya will drive the three trucks, Charun will drive his own, and you will ride with Charun, on lookout.

“Are you ready?” asks Charun finally

>Yes, lets go
>No (suggest change to plan, what?)
>Other (what?)

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>>36913687

>Yes, lets go

>>36913687
>>Yes, lets go
Fanworks?

>>36913742
Autism Anon emailed me some rules ideas.

>>36913687
>Yes, lets go

“Sure” you say to Charun “lets go.”

Charun drives you out to the ambush site and you all take up positions as Lirael runs off to hide.

And you wait, and wait. And you wait.

You and Rainya are up high, concealed behind large spires of rocks, Charun, Dev and Rhydian are down low near the road, hiding behind boulders. Lirael is hidden some distance away. The wind is starting to pick up, and from your vantage point you can see Charun and Rhydian arguing, seems Rhydian isn’t as patient as you.

Where are the trucks? They must be an hour overdue already, did they get delayed, take another route, what?

Finally you hear the rumble of engines, ah finally. You see Rhydan break off arguing with Charun and take up position. Throughout it all Rainya and Dev has been waiting patiently. You’ve held it together, but you could really do with some Slowdown right now, just a tab, or maybe two. No chance of that though, Charun hates you using on missions, so you didn’t bring anything with you.

And speaking of patience, what is really trying yours right now isn’t the trucks but rather...

-Please can I watch, please?- the voice in your head isn’t yours for once, its Liraels, and she wants to watch the fight, through your eyes. According to her she can just skim enough from your mind to see what you see and hear what you hear, without reading your mind fully, she seems to be telling the truth, you haven’t got a headache, yet.

-I’m bored- send Lirael –I wanna watch-

Can Lirael watch the fight through your eyes?

>Y/N

>>36913781
>N

>>36913781
>Y
Warn her that this is a bad idea, and to stop watching at any time.

>>36913781
>Y

>>36913781
>Y

2 minds are better than one. Maybe she'll notice something we don't?

>>36913781
>Y

“Ok fine” you whisper “but quit it if I tell you, or if things get to gory.”

-Ok- she responds. You feel a slight pressure at the back of your skull, but it’s not painful.

The trucks enter the valley, going slow. The road here is rough and narrow, they won’t be able to turn around.

As planned explosions erupt at both ends of the short valley, covering the road in two piles of rocks, gravel and dust. The trucks come screeching to a halt, and through your scope you can see drivers on cabs thumping the dashboard, screaming into their radios, and one very fat driver is grinning like a madman and stroking the barrel of his shotgun, oh boy looks like you’ve got a wannabe hero here.

Still, Rhydian, Dev and Charun can probably handle him, and if they can’t....you take careful aim on the man who appears to have a personal relationship with his firearm.

Charun is yelling at all of the drivers to stay in their trucks, waving his plasma pistol at them. They seem to get the point, good for them, if he shoots them with that thing their charred bodies will need to be cut out of the melted wrecks.

Rhydian and Dev work as a team, pulling one of the drivers out of his cab and tying him up, before moving on to the second one.

Then things deviate from the plan.

The hero dives out of his vehicle, stumbling as he hits the floor, the blasts from his shotgun going wild as a result, missing Dev and Rhydian as they both dive for cover, the shells he’s firing explore into brilliant sprays of plasma as they hit the rocks, great, Inferno rounds, his gun is almost as dangerous as Charuns pistol.

Charun calmly takes cover behind a rock and aims his pistol carefully at the guy, who is now running forward and trying what he perhaps fondly thinks of as a combat roll whilst screaming about *colonists rights* and *the coreworld rejuvenant conspiracy.*

Still, his distraction allows the last truck driver to do something smarter. A panel on the last truck opens and 4 thick metal plates rise out, oh joy, combat drones. If you just had a decent rig you could turn them to your purpose.

Appearing as circular disks of metal with a pistol-sized laser gun on the top, the four drones rise up using their hover engines and start circling around the last truck. At the same time, that truck moves forward, forcing its way past the middle truck despite the narrow road, the screeching of metal telling you that neither truck got off lightly and he pushes forwards slowly.

The gun-pod combat drones follow, but don’t attack Charun, Dev or Rhydian, they could be following a Guard command, maybe, if they are they’ll only attack someone who attacks them or the truck.

Or they could be on Follow – in which case they’ll attack anything their AI classifies as *hostile*.

Charun is aiming at the guy with the shotgun, Rainya is looking at you nervously, as if awaiting orders. Dev and Rhydian are in cover.

What do you do?

>Wait
>Shoot moving truck
>Shoot gun-pod
>Shoot guy with shotgun
>Other (what?)

Rainya
>Can do what she wants
>Give her an order (what?)

>>36913893
>Shoot moving truck

Rainya
>Distract the drones with her double

>>36913893
>Shoot guy with shotgun
>Distract the drones with her double

>>36913893
>>Shoot gun-pod
>Distract the drones with her double

>>36913893
>Shoot guy with shotgun

Rainya
>Distract the drones with her double

Charun's plasma pistol would probably wipe out the drones faster than our rifle.

>>36913893

Can Shee teleport to the passenget seat of the drone-truck, or something?

>>36913893

>Shoot moving truck

Rainya
>Distract the drones with her double

>>36913921
>Can Shee teleport to the passenget seat of the drone-truck, or something?
Could but that'd be giving away our powers. It'd be a bad idea.

>>36913921
It's possible, will require a roll of course.

Rainya is on distraction duty.

I'm seeing a tie-between going for guy with shotgun, and aiming for the truck (I assume tyres).

Next vote will be the tie-breaker.

>>36913952
>Shoot moving truck

Truck it is.

Please roll 1d20+8 for ranged attack

Rolled 5 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>36913968

Rolled 2 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>36913968

Rolled 6 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>36913968

Rolled 1 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>36913968
here we go

>>36913970
>>36913975
>>36913980
>>36913981
Jesus

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>36913968

“Distract the gun-pods” you say to Rainya “split up if you have to.”

Rainya nods and separates into two, her double is wearing identical clothes, but doesn’t have a gun, huh, weird.

The Rainya with the gun fires at the gun-pods, two of them fly over to her, firing bursts of laser energy at her, continuous beams of light that briefly connect the gun-pod with its target by a long beam of light.

The shots make burn-marks against the rock Rainya is hiding behind, and then her double runs from cover to hide behind another boulder. The two gun-pods split up, each trying to hit a Rainya as both of her run and hide behind different rocks.

With them occupied you take careful aim at the trucks tyres and squeeze the trigger. The trucks juddering motion as it scrapes past rock and the other truck spoils your aim however and your bullet missed the tyre, striking the chassis of the truck harmlessly, you curse under your breath.

-You missed- observes Lirael

“I noticed” you growl.

Charuns pistol blasts a stream of brilliant energy at the shotgun-waving driver and he explodes, damn, must have been carrying a lot of inferno rounds. The explosions bright flare fades and you see Dev and Rhydian using solid ammo pistols to fire at the two gun-pods circling the moving truck, drawing them off, but not hitting them.

Charun is calmly walking around the immobile lead truck, putting himself firmly in the path of the moving one, you’re not sure what he’s up to.

What do you do?
>Shoot at truck again
>Shoot other target (what?)
>Teleport (where?)
>Other (what?)

Rainya
>Keep distracting Gun-pods
>Other orders (what?)

You can of course as Lirael to join you, as a write-in

Allies
Charun
Dev
Rhydian
Rainya (1&2)

Enemies
Truck Driver (tied up)
Truck Driver (in truck)
Gun-pods (4)

>>36914038
>Shoot at the truck again

Rainya
Keep distracting Gun-pods

>>36914038
>Shoot at truck again
>Keep distracting Gun-pods

>>36914038

>Shoot at truck again

>Keep distracting Gun-pods

Ok, please roll 2d20

First is for you, second is for Charun.

Rolled 16, 18 = 34 (2d20)

>>36914108

Rolled 13, 20 = 33 (2d20)

>>36914108

Rolled 18, 15 = 33 (2d20)

>>36914108

Rainya keeps dancing around the cover, both of her, as the one with the gun fires at the gun-pods, but misses. The gun-pod chasing the Rainya without a gun hits her leg with a laser blast and she goes down screaming, but still moving.

Dev and Rhydian keep firing at the gun-pods circling them. Rhydian hits his but other than knocking it sideways his shot doesn’t do anything, maybe his pistol is just not powerful enough. Devs shot goes wild. The gun-pods fire back at both guys, but don’t manage to hit them.

You take careful aim at the trucks wheel and fire again. This time your shot hits and the tyre goes flat, the trucks slow progress turning into a crawl.

Charun stands plants himself firmly in front of the truck and points his plasma pistol at the cab, holding his gun in a two-handed grip he yells at the truck driver to surrender, or else.

After a tense moment the truck driver climbs out of his cab, hands in the air. Charun secures him and then reaches into the truck and after a little fumbling hits the right button. The gun-pods fly back to the truck and settle into a bay on top of the truck, the fight is over.

-Is that all?- asks Lirael

“A short fight is a good fight” you whisper.

With the two surviving truck drivers restrained, you help Rainya down the slope, seems her leg wasn’t hit that bad, or maybe her recombining with her double healed her a bit or something. Either way she’s limping, but can walk.

Charun uses his truck to clear a path through the gravel and you all drive to the meeting points, getting there before Charuns contact. Lirael rides with you, but stays in Charuns truck, you don’t want her mixed up in this, though you do notice a familiar pressure at the back of your skull.

As you’re standing around waiting, Rhydian takes a look in the back of one of the trucks and whistles, impressed. Out of curiosity you join him, seeing row upon row of medical transport boxes, labelled with all sorts of complex-sounding names. You see bandages, blood reserves, medical equipment you don’t even recognise.

“So how much?” you ask Charun.

“Twenty-five k per truck” he says

“There’s more than that here” says Rainya with some certainty.

“Yeah” says Charun “A quarter-mil per truck, but our cut is *twenty-five.*”

That’s still a lot of money. But even a small amount of those supplies would save a lot of lives in Dust Town, plus the blood units would be good for Lirael, though without any means of keeping them cold they won’t last longer than a day.
And no one said anything about gun-pod drones, the buyers probably won’t care if you took them, though the trucks control rig will be integrated into its systems, removing it properly will take hours. Still as long as you can find a computer you can slave the drones to that.

Before the black market arrives, what do you do?

>Nothing, no sense in antagonising anyone
>Take some of the medical supplies for Dust-Town
>Take some of the blood for Lirael
>Take the gun-pods
>Other (what?)

Option 1 is exclusive, the others are not.

>>36914218
>Take some of the blood for Lirael

http://pastebin.com/yVgtiFeu

Allies pastebin

>>36914218
>Take the gun-pods

>>36914218
>Take some of the blood for Lirael
We don't have a computer for the pods anyway, otherwise I would take those too.

>>36914218
>Take some of the blood for Lirael
>Take the gun-pods

Get ourselves stablished before making our own army

>>36914218
>Take the gun-pods

>>36914218
>Take some of the blood for Lirael
Just as much as we need for a full meal, not much point wasting the rest.
>Take the gun-pods

You climb into the cab of the truck with the gun pods and activate them. Everyone jumps a little at that but you order them to fly into the back of Charuns truck and deactivate, they do so.

[4 Gunpods gained]

Everyone else just stands around waiting for the contact to show.

You then climb into the back of the truck, grabbing as many of the blood bags as you can carry and take them back to Charuns truck.

“Woah” says Charun, stepping in front of you “What’re you doing with those?”

“It’s just blood” you say “Your buyers want the drugs and the equipment, they don’t want the blood.”

“Maybe” he says, looking suspicious “But why take it?”

How do you respond?
>Don’t answer, just push past him
>Joke
>Lie
>Truth
>Other (what?)

>>36914309
>bribe some vamps in the hive the next time an infiltration is needed

>>36914318
The blood doesn't keep, that probably won't work as a lie.

>>36914309
>I need it for a trap for the Gouger

>>36913888
>>36913893
>That future /k/ommando

>>36914309
>"I just told you this morning I got fucked up trying to get the Gouger, next time, I got a surprise of my own. Also, I think someone scavebges on his kills, so either way I get a step closer"

Trap for the Gouger, ok please roll Fellowship 1d20-1

Rolled 1 - 1 (1d20 - 1)

>>36914370

Rolled 12 - 1 (1d20 - 1)

>>36914370

>>36914376
>0

Hahaha good god

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>36914370
sure wish we were good at lying now.

Rolled 1 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>36914370

Rolled 12 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>36914370

“I need it to help me catch the Gouger” you tell Charun.

“You should stay away from the damn Gouger” he says “And how is this going to help you catch him?”

“Look Charun” you say “I got really fucked up by the Gouger last night, I’m not letting it beat me, the next time we tangle I’m taking it down, and” you try to distract him “I think something is scavenging on its kills, I might need bait.”

Charun just shakes his head “Jeez Shee” he says “If you’re gonna lie, make it believable.” He lowers his voice as he continues “Look Shee, I know your past I know some rich vamp asshole made you his blood-toy.” At your rather shocked expression he holds his hands up “I’m not judging you” he says “You were just a kid and vamps are the sort that don’t take *no* for an answer, it’s not your fault.” He gestures at the blood bags in your hands “He’s found you hasn’t he? You’re thinking if you get him glutted on cold blood he won’t want to bite you, right?”

How do you respond?

>Insist its to help you with the Gouger
>Yeah Charun, you’re right
>Don’t answer
>Other (what?)

>>36914423
>Don’t answer

>>36914423
>Its not exactly like you think, but close enough. How do you think I got this gun? Trust me Charun, I know what I'm doing. A rich vampire wouldn't take cold blood in the first place. I got a good thing going, and I'm careful.
I hope this is close enough to truth to count.

>>36914423
>Insist its to help you with the Gouger

>>36914423
>>36914435
Can't see any lie, backing this. Better than having him think we ae already under control.

>>36914435
>>36914441
Fuck, no. We don't have to confirm Shee is a blood whore, that will be awful to her reputation.

>>36914454
We can hnestly say we don't let him bite us.

>>36914423
>Insist its to help you with the Gouger
FUCK YEAH, PSYCHIC REBEL QUEST!

>>36914423
>Insist its to help you with the Gouger

Insist, makes it more beilevable

>>36914471
>A rich vampire wouldn't take cold blood in the first place. I got a good thing going, and I'm careful.

This can be simply interpreted as giving warm blood. It leaves too much room open for interpretation.

Ok writing insist its for the Gouger.

Please roll 1d20-1

>>36914423
>>36914435
backing this but only if we stress this point >>36914471
We got a vampire contact, he doesn't bite us. I doubt we can convince of never having been bitten, he knows that from somewhere.

>>36914435
seconding

Rolled 6 - 1 (1d20 - 1)

>>36914491

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>36914491
Time for more awful rolls?

>>36914491
It was a tie Pally.

Rolled 4 - 1 (1d20 - 1)

>>36914491

Rolled 1 - 1 (1d20 - 1)

>>36914491

>>36914501
Fine, I'll tie-break.

>>36914423
>Insist its to help you with the Gouger
That write-in is terrible anyway.

>>36914500
I don't think we need to pass. He'll just think we're (poorly) denying it out of pride, which is consistent with Shee's character. My current mental image, at least.

Oh cor fucks sake you idiots. yeah, lets confirm in his mind we are under control by continuing the shitty lie he already saw through instead of taking our strength.

>>36914513
If we don't pass he is convinced we are completly under tbat vampires thumb. well fucking done.

>>36914517
You really don't see how badly that write-in could've gone down, do you? And with rolls like these, a +2 wouldn't have made any difference.

>>36914526
Or he's convinced that we're too prideful to admit we need help.

>>36914490
No it heavily implies wr deal with a POOR vampire.

>>36914531
not any wors than now, when he thinks we are so far gone we can't even admit there is a vampire. You just utterly destroyed our trustworthyness.

>>36914546
Completely agree. It really is a shame.

>>36914546
It certainly couldn't have gone any better.

>>36914555
It could have, if the other roll would have failed, at worst he would think we overestimaze ourselves.

What kind of bizzaro shit is this?
Half a day ago you guys made a huge deal out of how great and IC negotiator is, now you can do tbat. AND YOU FUCKING LIE.

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>>36914604
Yep.

I am sorry that this vote has upset a lot of you guys.

>>36914604
Gee, we all know we're shit at social interaction so why did we say anything at all?

>>36914564
If you want to be optimistic about how he'll take things, then he'll just take this failure as denying it out of pride and not wanting to admit we need help.

If you want to be a pessimist like you're being about lying, then he'd take the write-in as indication of us willingly being bitten on a semi-regular basis and receiving gifts from our vampiric patron.

>>36914629
Vote hasn't upset anyone, it's the outcome of it.

If we had nat 20'd it, then it would have been fine

>>36914630
No, we aren't shit at it. You guys just went about it in the worst way possible. We could still fail and not completly fuck up.

>>36914635
>If you want to be a pessimist like you're being about lying, then he'd take the write-in as indication of us willingly being bitten on a semi-regular basis and receiving gifts from our vampiric patron.
Thats not the worst interpretation.
The worst is we don't have a free will anymore. Which is what he will think after our obviously shitty lie.

>>36914642
oh
well then I am sorry that the outcome has upset people.

“I already told you” you say “It’s for the Gouger” you feel your face going warm, hoping he’ll believe you.

“Oh Shee, I’m so sorry” says Charun quietly, stepping out of your path and putting a hand on your shoulder “I know right now he probably makes you feel better than anything, but one day he’ll throw you away, or hurt you badly, just know that when that happens I’ll be there to help, ok?” He motions to the truck and says loud enough that the others can hear him “Good thinking Shee, the Dusters clinics always need clean blood, and my buyers won’t notice such a small amount missing.”

Well he doesn’t seem to have bought it, but at least he’s doesn’t suspect Lirael. You hand her the bags saying “Not until we’re home, ok?”

“Ok” she says quietly, she doesn’t seem too eager to drink blood from a bag anyway.

Eventually the buyers show, a group of serious-looking men in casual clothes. Some are carrying weapons, some just have odd bulges under their clothes, and one is a cyborg, huh, you thought they had serious problems with Dust, but he doesn’t seem bothered, or at least you think it’s a he – looks like an industrial mining robot, only vaguely human-shaped.

Charun and one of the men talk quietly, as they all glare at your group, finally, after checking the trucks they hand Charun a plastic card and they drive off in their vehicles, with some manning the trucks.

Charun turns to all of you, looking old, and tired, dark is falling and the wind is getting stronger, you’ve got less than an hour before a full dust storm hits.

“Lets go” says Charun to all of you. You all pile into the truck and Charun drives. You manage to get back to Charuns place and stash the truck just as the dust storm hits. Before you all go your separate ways Charun speaks to you.

>>36914642
No, I would still be mad even if we would have miracously succeeded, because >>36914604
would still be true.
We KNEW this was going to happen. You had 12! hours to think of spinning this into negotiating.

>>36914655
Then it's also what he'd think after we brick the roll with your shitty write-in, and we have to assume the result of the rolls would've been identical.

“I know this might not feel like it” he says “But today was a win, a big one” he waves the card “We’ve got 75,000 credits here, it’s going to take me a while to figure out the next mission, but there’s an armoury sale in a week, and we’re going to get you some proper weapons, maybe armour too, until then, get some rest” he looks at all of you, but gives you an especially hard look before adding “now go on, go.” You all head out into the thick blizzard of dust, you tow Lirael behind you, until it becomes painfully obvious that she can see easily in the greyout, much better than you. You let her lead you back to your hovel.

Undressing you shake as much of the dust out of your clothes as you can, you’re so tired, despite resting for a day and only a short battle you just want to sleep. But you have a week until Charun will need you. You’ll need to be at work as much as you can, but your evenings are your own.

“Drink it all” you say to Lirael “It’ll only go bad otherwise”.

“Ugh this tastes horrible” says Lirael, but obediently drinks all of the blood you gathered.

Then Lirael asks the question that is plaguing you, is she reading your mind again?

“Shee” Lirael asks “Are you going to keep hunting the Gouger?” crimson stains her mouth after biting so many bags.

Whatever you do, a few days rest first might be a good idea.

How many evenings will you rest?

>Number from 0-6

Afterwards, what is the plan?

>Hunt the Gouger
>Try to find out about Liraels parents/past
>Talk to Ashley about Lirael
>Talk to Ashley about something else
>Other (what?)

>>36914670
No its not, if we fail negotiating, he would think we overestimate ourselves, because thats what the write-in stressed.

>>36914670
>I'm a uncreative shit who can't think for himself so other peoples write-ins must be bad. Can't be that I could make one myself if they were so terrible.

>>36914666
>We KNEW this was going to happen
No, we didn't?
Besides, Charun seems to be friendly enough about it.

>>36914674
>Hunt the Gouger
>4

>>36914674
3 days rest.

In which we will talk to Ash and Lirael.

>>36914689
Did you not read the last thread? We had a huge discussion about having to need to lie next thread because of Lirael.

>>36914674
>5
>Hunt the Gouger
>Talk to Ashley about something else, Gouger hunt going well, we have the suspicion that thing we talked about was a false alarm, just some animal attacked him.
I would like to hint to him something is up, but not sure how to do that right now, backing any attempt to indicate we have something, without saying it.

>>36914674
>3
>Talk to Lirael more
>Hunt the Gouger
>Tell Ashley people suspect something, so he doesn't wonder if he doesn't hear from us for a while

>>36914674
>>36914722
>>36914735
Replacing Ashley convo with
>Tell Ashley people suspect something, so he doesn't wonder if he doesn't hear from us for a while
Still mention that the hunt is going well.

>>36914735
>Tell Ashley people suspect something, so he doesn't wonder if he doesn't hear from us for a while
Wat
We have an untraceable connection with talking to him, so why would we not talk to him over it?

>>36914674
>1
>ask lirael if she knows anything about the gouger
>Hunt the Gouger

>>36914747
Because its explicitly not untraceable?
And its about Charun suspecting something, so I want to be sure, if we get into a situation where we can't be alone for a while, he doesn't wonder why we stopped talking to him. No matter when that might be.

>>36914735
>>36914745
That's fucking stupid, like really fucking stupid.

We don't have to meet him in person to talk to him, remember? And speaking to him online isn't public?

>>36914722
I do not want to lie to ash.

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>>36914747
>We have an untraceable connection

>>36914758
Except that Charun clearly is suspicious, and obviously got more tech than he lets on.
Not to mention, we have no idea what might happen, he should know people someone knows something is up, so he doesn't wonder why we act weird at some point.
Like not taking his calls when the others are around.

>>36914685
I voted for lying in this way because I was pretty sure Charun would assume we were just denying it out of pride if we failed, as I stated about a half-dozen times. I was right.

I didn't make one myself because I didn't believe it was necessary.

>>36914676
Maybe you saw it that way, but I didn't, and, evidently, neither did several other anons. Assuming Charun, who is pretty racist, would see it the way you did seems a bit foolish.

>>36914756
Yes I get it's about Charun expecting something, but that doesn't mean we can't talk online, there's like no fucking reason for that not to happen.

> if we get into a situation where we can't be alone for a while
Unless we botch a mission I doubt that's going to happen

>>36914778
>who is pretty racist
We have literally no evidence whatsoever of this being the case.
He didn't give us shit for being a blood-whore, and the only thing he said is that some rich vampires don't take no for an answer, which is probably more often true than not.

>>36914777
>>36914756
Charun is suspicious that we're being fed upon.

That requires contact in real life. He doesn't give a flying fuck otherwise

>>36914785
>but that doesn't mean we can't talk online
Yes it does, especially in moments when Charun is around or the other rebells, which might happen any time.

>>36914798
>He doesn't give a flying fuck otherwise
He definitly gives a fuck when we get contacted by someone from the Hive who is obviously not our employer.
I have no idea what your problem is, how does it hurt us to tell Ash someone knows we have contact? Its just a safety measure.

>>36914802
Why don't we just talk in our shack then? Like we have been, because we're in complete privacy there?

>>36914818
Because he might call us when we are not in our shack?
Because he can't know where we are when he calls?
I don't want him to think we threw him away after that fight and we got our gun. I might not like the guy, but he is useful to us.

>>36914817
I don't really mind about telling Ash things, but saying we have to go dark which is a complete lie, especially after how angry he was last time, seems like a fucking stupid idea.

So I'm seeing
Rest for 3 days
Talk to Lirael and Ash in that time
Hunt Gouger

Writing.
The actual conversation with Ash will include options on what to tell him/not tell him.

>>36914830
>but saying we have to go dark
The write-in doesn't say that at all. It tells him it might happen.

>>36914828
>Because he might call us when we are not in our shack?
It's not like we have to pick up. It's not like we use voice calls either, we use text. On top of that he hasn't been sending us messages willy-nilly so I don't see your problem there either.

Just wait until we're back at the shack to reply to his messages, done and dusted

>>36914828
>I might not like the guy
What has he done to make you not like him? I'm curious.

>>36914851
>It's not like we have to pick up.
Dude is really clingy, in case you haven't realise that.

>>36914860
...No, he isn't? Where are you getting that from?

>>36914856
I don't need a particular reason to "not especially like someone". I don't dislike him either, I'm fairly neutral over him.
His hissy fit about our perfectly reasonable response why he can't come annoyed me, but he also helped us, so it evens out for me.

>>36914868
We haven't seen him for three years.
He sees us once again, and starts calling us his girlfriend.
Yeah.

>>36914882
That really doesn't back up your point considering it was taken out of context

>>36914868
The fact that he was so heavily offended by us not taking him into Dust Town, despite perfectly good reasons, and his behaviour otherwise definitly shows that.
Not to the point of unhealthyness, maybe, but I can see what he means.

>>36914896
No it wasn't at all.
Thats the word he used. It doesn't have a different meaning in context.

>>36914873
I thought that was less the reason he gave (he thinks we think he's weak) and more being upset about not being able to help his friend after she said she's hunting down a super-vampire. If it had been a full-grown Graced, we easily could've died by going alone. If we didn't have our psionic abilities (which he doesn't know about), we probably would've.

>>36914910
He didn't start calling us that with any frequency or repeatedly though, he slipped up once and corrected himself afterwards. Not really a surprising slip-up, given the situation.

>>36914957
>Not really a surprising slip-up, given the situation.
Not sure I can agree with that, but I can understand that his wishful thinking got the better of him, and its not like Shee has not given him at least some reason to hope for that.
But the point remains. I'm not calling a yandere for it, but its still shows a certain clingyness, especially since we know that vampires get posessiv of their feeders, so its not very surprising either.

You decide you can spend a few days resting, and in that time you find out more about Lirael. She seems to trust you and is always happy to talk, but some of what she says is coloured by her perceptions, and some you think might be made up.

Liraels family lived on spaceships a lot, her father was like her – a winged vampire. Her mother was a more ordinary vampire. They used mental tricks and her mothers command over something called the *lifeweb* to hide what they are.

“Being a different shape is weird” says Lirael “pretending to be older or another species is ok, but one time mummy turned into a *boy* and did you know they have a-”

Yes Lirael, you know, boys are very icky....

She tells you about some of the things she’s seen, either she is making things up or the galaxy is a much weirder place than you know.

“And they have these really big machines called Terror-Firmers that make dead planets into green ones with plants and everything” Lirael explains, sounds impossible.

“And the bug men, the Serk, they capture whole planets and eat people or turn them into psychics” Lirael tells you. Yeah, invading bug-monsters, you’ll keep an eye out.

“And the whole ship was alive and it talked to us and it knew what we were but said that was ok and it could use magic, Mummy said it was the strongest mage she’s ever met.” Living ships with AI capable of using *magic*? Ok, now she’s just making it up.

And so the days pass and you get used to living with Lirael, and she slowly gets used to living in dust town. Having glutted herself on the blood bags, Lirael doesn’t need any more in the days you rest, nor does she complain of being hungry, though she doesn’t know how long she can go between feedings.

On the last evening there’s a text from Ash.

-Shee, have you heard the news about Versmuth?- You recall Sir Galryn Versmuth is the Gifted Governor of Hive 39, your Hive. You recall some gossip in the office yesterday about him being in trouble. You guess Ash is picking a general topic to avoid a fight maybe, or maybe he’s gotten over himself.

Ah well, time to have this conversation.

-He’s in trouble or something?- You text back

-Yeah!- comes the quick reply –Reaper is sending a personal agent to oversee his office due to security concerns or something- Ah. Lord Salvur Reaper, The Silent Breath of Fate, is the Kings right hand man, his hatchet man. Supposedly he’s actually very charming for a Fae Noble, but his intelligent, driven and utterly ruthless. You shiver at the thought of the sort of agent he’d send to oversee a Hive Governor.

-Sounds bad- you send back.

-Eh- sends Ash –I gotta go to this formal dinner, everyone important has to be there, to officially welcome the agent and put on a big show. Which is why I wanted to ask: Will you go with me? It’s the day after tomorrow. Not as a date or anything, but just as friends.-

-Ash I can’t- you respond –Your family forbade it-

-Gotcha covered- he texts back –Macy and her friends will give you such a makeover no one will recognise you, what do you say?-

What do you say?

Dinner?
>I’ll go
>I can’t go

Other
>People are suspicious, we can’t meet anytime soon
>Tell him about hunting the Gouger
>Tell him the truth about Lirael
>Arrange a face-to-face meeting to talk
>Other (what?)

>>36915064
>I can’t go
Go into the very maw of mind-reading fey? How about No.
Sorry Ash.

>People are suspicious, we can’t meet anytime soon
>Tell him about hunting the Gouger

>>36915064
>I can’t go
>Tell him about hunting the Gouger

>>36915064
>Other (what?)
Why do you want a poor duster girl to go with you, even as a friend?

>>36915064
>I can’t go, too scary
>Arrange a face-to-face meeting to talk
>Tell him about hunting the Gouger
>Tell him the truth about Lirael

>>36915064
>I'll go
>Tell him about hunting the Gouger

This sounds very good. We might learn a lot of things, interesting things we can use to further the rebellion.

>>36915064
>I’ll go
>Tell him about hunting the gouger

>>36915064
>Tell him about hunting the Gouger

Before I vote on going, do we have anything to protect us from getting our mind-read?
Lirael is a child and she went into there without a hitch.

>>36915064
>I’ll go
>Tell him about hunting the Gouger
>Tell him the truth about Lirael
>Arrange a face-to-face meeting to talk

>>36915064
>I'll go
>Tell him about hunting the Gouger
But we didn't meet the gouger, did we?

>>36915064
>I can’t go
Too dangerous.
>Tell him about hunting the Gouger

>>36915064
>I can’t go
>Tell him about hunting the Gouger
>People are suspicious, I might be missing some calls, don't worry

>>36915111
If we get Metapsionics, we could get Psychic Shield, but that's not really an immediate solution.

I don't think there are going to be many Fae there and it's probably considered rude to read a guest's mind without just cause for suspicion. So we should probably use those 4 XP to get two ranks of Deception if we decide to go.

>>36915143
I think a straight bonus to fellowship would do us better really

>>36915064
>>36915111
>>36915143
Then I gotta vote
>I can’t go
I can see the use. But the fey rule this world.
We don't even know if people notice them invading minds, or how much stock they actually put into these customs, especially someone send to root out these things.
Not gonna risk the lives of everyone on that.

>>36915064
>I'll go
>Tell him about hunting the Gouger
>Tell him the truth about Lirael

>>36915143
>we could get Psychic Shield
Not sure if that would even help us against sucha big shot. But we should definitly get it as soon as possible.
When can we get back to that trainings facility?

>>36915168
>>36915153
Since when did the Fae read minds again?

>>36915153
To be fair we would be risking lives even with Psychic Shield, its hardly a guarantee.
We need to buff up our willpower more.

>>36915190
Since forever?
They got psychic powers too.
>Reaper is sending a personal agent to oversee his office due to security concerns or something
And a guy send for this kind of job, will definitly have mind-read powers.

>>36915194
We need to buff EVERYTHING up

>>36915111
>Lirael is a child and she went into there without a hitch.
Did I miss something? Also, we might want to ask Lirael about ways to protect our mind from being read, she knows more about such things due to having Telepathy abilities.

>>36915151
All 4 XP would only get us to a +0.

>>36915168
If it's less than 500 km away, we could've chosen to go at any time. Teleportation is based off familiarity, and we probably remember the activation chamber decently well.

>>36915153
Fae are super-strict about their traditions like that, usually. It depends on how different these Fae are from traditional Fae.

>>36915190
Since they were established as powerful psionic aliens?

>>36915194
We can get another +1 max with Willpower, Psionic Shield would let us have a much higher bonus against Telepathy.

>>36915210
But we need to have priorities.
And strength is actually kind of a shit stat.

>Fae are super-strict about their traditions like that, usually. It depends on how different these Fae are from traditional Fae.
They are also known as assholes who love to read the letter of something rather then the spirit. As "feeder" we might not count as person to them, for example.

>>36915212
>All 4 XP would only get us to a +0.
Yeah. So?

>>36915212
>Did I miss something?
She read our mind to find out about us having a addiction. And we got one willpower roll to see through her disguise, not sure if we even got to roll on evading her mind-reading.

>>36915226
Thats worse than (-1)+4.

>>36915212
>If it's less than 500 km away, we could've chosen to go at any time.
Then I suggest we figure that out as soon as possible.

Evading mind reading or defending against it will only show us out to be a psychic.

If anything I say we need to keep our surface thoughts on our Friend's teeth and our addiction, that'll ward anyone's attention off of us quickly

>>36915212
>We can get another +1 max with Willpower, Psionic Shield would let us have a much higher bonus against Telepathy.
That wasn't meant as a "instead" thing. Just, we also need to buff our willpower.
Not sure if the mind shield is more useful than Healing though.

Ok, so not going

And telling him about your hunt for the Gouger

Other options didn’t have much support so not including

[After resting for 3 days your HP is now 14/16]

>>36915233
Oh, that. I thought you meant she went into the hive and back.

>>36915222
We'd be going as a friend, not a feeder.

>>36915266
Probably. The fae agent would only be skimming people's thoughts if he does mind-reading.

>>36915266
Thats not how it works.
We didn't have our surface thoughts on feeding either when we comforted Lirael and she still picked that up.
I agree about the posibility of it giving us away even more. Maybe we could ask our friends if there are some non-psychic tricks to evade mind-reading.

>>36915278
I think going and not going are tied actually

>>36915290
No, its 5 to 6.
One anon included it later since we don't have protection.

>>36915290
They're not, but I got so distracted by conversations that I forgot to vote and I'd probably have voted to go, so they are if OP would count that. So they probably aren't.

>>36915290

Go
>>36915076
>>36915092
>>36915099
>>36915123
>>36915133
>>36915153

vs.

>>36915161
>>36915122
>>36915119
>>36915105
>>36915102

>>36915290
>>36915297
I'm getting 6-5 in favour of not going too.
>>36915303
I can call for FD if players would like. In the meantime I'll write the Gouger conversation.

>>36915303
He doesn't.
Otherwise the write-in with Charun would have won too.

>>36915096
Changing from this to
"I'll go"

>>36915318
No FD again. We got a clear choice. If ever again get a actual tie, lets do "nextvote takes it".
They had enough time.

>>36915318
Really, what I'd most like is for us to be able to investigate mind-reading and ways to dodge it without outing ourselves as a psionic before giving a definite answer.

>>36915318
NO FDs again.

>>36915335
>>36915318
This.

Can we say we'll think about it and ask why he wants us to go too?

>>36915335
Lets do that anyway.

>>36915343
We voted not to. Lets take the crash course in mind shielding and then we can go next time.

Hmm, ok, how about *no because I could get my mind read, but if we can get around that, then I can go*?

One more here voting for I'll go

>>36915335
Then we got our activity for the next day.
Lets ask Charun how to evade mind-reading.
I doubt we get good enough in it to resist a high-ranking fey so fast, so its not gonna be of use in two days.

>>36915357
I'd support that.

>>36915357
Since the "I'll go" voters won't shut up otherwise with their whining, I support it.
It will end up in going anyway despite not having any clear guarentee to resist, but for the sake of preventing another round of shitposting.

>>36915372
Well there's probably going to be hundreds of people at the party, I doubt he'd be doing much more than skimming surface thoughts.

>>36915357
I really do not want to go. this seems pretty scary.

>>36915357
I'm against that.
Even if we get a method, there is no guarantee it works, and the lives of several people hang on it. This is not remotly worth it.

>>36915357
gonna be honest. I don't want to go. And this compromise will not satisfy my concerns.
I only back it if the alternative is FD, because this quest doesn't Need more of that shit.

>>36915357
Sure.

We're at a tie now anyway

>>36915416
We are not at a tie.
All the votes that come after Pallys call don't count. It would be a utter clusterfuck if we would start witht hat shit.
We had 20 minutes to vote.

>>36915357
Lets go

>>36915357
Sounds good

-Ash I can’t- you send back –I’m sorry, all it takes is one fae or vampire to read my mind and we’d both be in a lot of trouble-

His response is a while in coming -Ok- he texts back –That makes sense I guess-

-If I can get some protection against that- you text back –I might be able to go- You’re not sure if you even want to go, you can think about it.

A change in topic is in order, you tell him about your hunt for the Gouger, avoiding any mention of Lirael, and going light on the gory details, maybe Ash can’t help in person, but he can suggest ideas.

Once you’ve given him all the data about the Gouger there’s a pause and he sends –So you’re planning on hunting him soon, but won’t he kill again soon?-

-Yes- You respond –That’s why I’m hunting him tomorrow, if I leave it any longer, he’ll almost certainly kill again-

-But you told me you had no leads- he sends back –This thing hunts over a wide area so it’ll take too long to search the whole place, seems the only thing you can do is wait until it kills again and then try to follow the trail-

He’s not wrong about the lack of leads. Lirael couldn’t remember anything about the Gouger except for a vague memory about the sound of whistling, like someone whistling a tune.

Wait, Lirael is a pretty good mind reader, could she locate the Gouger somehow?

What do you do?

Ash Conversation
>End conversation
>Discuss something else (what?)

The Gouger
>Wait until it kills again, follow the trail
>Search for its lair alone
>Search with Lirael
>Other (what?)

I realise this party decision may not be to everyones tastes, I've erred on the not go side, but left it open.

>>36915460
>End conversation
>Search with Lirael

Its fine, I know why you do it, and its a decent compromise, I'm just butthurt about all the whining when people had the chance to vote for 20 minutes.

>>36915460
>End conversation
>Search with Lirael

>>36915460
>End conversation
>Search with Lirael

>>36915460
>End conversation
>Search with Lirael
>Let her skim peoples thoughts for hints, Just this time!

>>36915460
>Discuss something else (what?)
Is he okay? Say sorry for not telling him join us on the hunt again

>>36915460
>Discuss something else: see if he can find a way to protect us from mind reading. And if not set up a meeting in person to make up for us not being able to go.
Guys, Ash is not only one of our closest friends right now, but also our best contact. If we keep brushing him off like this, even for good reasons, he's going to get mad.

>search with Lirael

>>36915515
>>36915516
This

>>36915515
>>36915516
Second

>>36915460
>>36915507 (me)
Changing from "End conversation" to >>36915515 & >>36915516.

>>36915460
>>36915516
Supporting

>>36915516
This honestly seems like a good idea.

>>36915515
Less so, but we should ask how he's been doing and such

A write-in for Ash and having Lirael help you search, ok.

>>36915627
>tfw your write in gets picked.

>>36915516
>even for good reasons, he's going to get mad.
I don't get this kind of reasoning. If you tell someone why you can't do sopmething he wants, and he gets mad. That makes him unreasonable, and thats not really something to be encouraged.

-I’ll find it somehow- you send back to Ash, omitting that you’re going to ask Lirael for help on this one.

-I’m really sorry I can’t have you with me on this hunt- you send –maybe you can look into finding a way to protect against mind-reading for me, then we can work something out-

His reply takes a few minutes –I suppose I can do that- he sends

-But that doesn’t mean we can’t meet up- you send –How about just you and I get together one evening?-

-Like a date- His use of a picture means his question is supposed to be a joke.

-Not like a date- you send back –just two friends catching up-

-Ok- comes the very quick reply –What do you want to do? And when?-

What do you want to do?

>Visit Ashs home (sleepover? Y/N)
>The two of you go out dancing
>Dancing with Ash and friends
>Dinner and a movie
>Other (what?)

And when?

>What day/evening?

Timeline; Tonight you rest, tomorrow you hunt the Gouger, the following night is the guest dinner, the night after is free, the night after that Charun said you would be buying weapons.

You can do something in the day of course, not the evening.

>>36915753
>Dancing with Ash and friends
>What day
Better be fresh in the morning

>>36915753
>Dinner and a movie
>What day
After the guest dinner seems fair if its supposed to make up for that.

>>36915753
>Dancing with Ash and friends
>After the guest dinner

>>36915753
>Visit Ashs home (sleepover? Y)
>The two of you go out dancing

>>36915753
>Dinner and a movie
>Evening after the guest dinner

>>36915753
>Dancing with Ash and friends
>>36915793
>After the guest dinner
Sounds good.

Is it intentional you make Ash sound so desperate, I mean, I get he doesn't have any close friends. But seriously.

>>36915753
>Visit Ashs home (sleepover? yes )
>The two of you go out dancing
After the dinner

>>36915753
>>36915775
ups, sry.
>After the guest dinner

>>36915814
>>36915835
This

>>36915775
>>36915809
>>36915827
You realize that Ash's friends probably includes Quinn, right?

>>36915753
>Visit Ashs home (sleepover? No, we have Lirael to watch)
>Dinner and a movie

>>36915814
>>36915835
These sound good.

>>36915753
>Dancing with Ash and friends
>After the guest dinner

>>36915814
>>36915835
I hope you two plan on putting out if this wins, because otherwise thats just even more cruel.

>>36915854
Shit you're right.

>>36915835
I'll go with that.

>>36915854
But not only, and I want to see if all of them are assholes.

>>36915863
Please do Pally the favor and link these things to the update.

>>36915753
>Dancing with Ash and friends
>after dinner
No sleepover, we got a child to watch.

>>36915753
>Visit Ash's homes (Sleepover? N, Lirael)
>Dinner and a movie

>Night after the dinner

>>36915753
>Visit Ashs home (sleepover? Y)
>>The two of you go out dancing

>all these people only thinking with their dicks and not about us having a curfew to watch, or having no one to watch over Lirael.

>>36915753
>Dancing with Ash and friends
>After the guest dinner

>>36915907
You mean all two of them?

>>36915907
I refuse to believe its actually still this many fetish fags here that make retarded decisions like that.

>>36915753
>Visit Ash's home, no sleepover
>The two of you go out dancing

>>36915753
>The two of you go out dancing
Don't include his friends for fucks sakes, he doesn't even like them

>>36915907
>accusing every decision of being fetish/magicalrealm shit
You are worse than anyone who actually does that.

>>36915753
>>36915793
Changing to
>Dancing with Ash and friends
because we won't Lirael alone, fuck that

>>36915931
We have plenty of retards who want to go out dancing with the guy who was SPECIFICALLY STATED TO BE A SADISTIC VAMPIRE WHO WOULD FUCK US UP, if we're seen with Ashley too much

>>36915957
Give me another reason for leaving Lirael alone out to sleepover with Ash.
No, seriously. Give me one.

>>36915971
Oh wow, maybe Ash just, I dunno, doesn't fucking invite him?
Do his friends come in a fucking package? No!

>>36915971
I doubt Ash is friends only with a mind-linked hive of people.
He knows Quinn is bad, why would he invite him to come dance with us?

>>36915753
>Dinner and a movie at night

>>36915973
Sleeping in a nice bed, requesting medical supplies, using his information matrix thing, requesting another gun or some such, the list goes on

>>36915985
>>36916001
And what happens when those friends tell Quinn he wasn't invited, and who was there?

>>36915971
>>36915985
I voted for dancing because it was the only majority instead of the shitty sleepover.
And Quinn can stand not being invited for once, wouldn't mind the dinner and movie either, but that just be playing Ash again in my eyes.

>>36916016
>And what happens when those friends tell Quinn he wasn't invited
I would assume if Ashley literally only has friends that are also tight with Quinn, he would tell us, and then we don't invite anyone. Its not like he is a complete moron.

>>36915753
>The two of you go out dancing
Time to get closer to Ash
>What day/evening?
The free night ofc

>>36916001
>He knows Quinn is bad, why would he invite him to come dance with us?
Quinn took Ash under his wings, it may be kind of rude not inviting such "good friend"

>>36916016
>requesting medical supplies, using his information matrix thing, requesting another gun or some such
Thats the extent of the list.
And the ordering of a gun and supplies we can't do at all. Only he can, and he can do that with us being at his house or not.
And I don't want to get another gun of him so soon, he has done more than enough for us, we start getting across as really fucking demanding.

Ok untangling these votes is a little difficult, but I believe the winners were

You and Ash go out dancing, maybe a dinner before dancing (to be decided later)

And that you'd stay at his place.

After the guest dinner seems a clear winner.

>>36916034
If we request to with his friends, aside from him saying "No", there isn't anything he can do.

And he's not going to say "no"

>>36916053
>And that you'd stay at his place.
That didn't win at all.

>>36916053
>And that you'd stay at his place.
That's the only thing we disagree on, that didn't win

>>36916053
>And that you'd stay at his place.
No it didn't most votes did not include that and for good reason. We can't make the curfew back to Lirael.

>>36916053
I'm perfectly okay with changing my vote to just dancing and dinner with Ash.
But
>
And that you'd stay at his place.
I'm against. And I see no reason for us to do that.

>>36916053
>And that you'd stay at his place.
Nope.

But I'm >>36915809
willing to go dancing just with him if we assume he is brainddead enough to invite Quinn. Or friendless enough, I guess.

>>36916053
No problem with dinner and dancing.

Not okay with spending the night at his place, and I don't think a lot of other people are either. I'm fine with visiting his home (maybe for the dinner? Does Ash cook?), but not with spending the night.

>>36916054
>And he's not going to say "no"
Okay, I think you believe him to be a bit more of a doormat than I do.
But you might be right. I concede that much.

>>36916065
>>36916072
>>36916080
Pally's probably including it because some people voted for dancing and then staying the night at his place, as well as the people who just wanted to stay at his place.

>>36916136
No, even counting all versus those that didn't include it at all it didn't win.

So if we drink a Vampire's blood we become a Dhampir then? Is it based of off which Vampire we drink from?

>>36916136
Still doesn't win.
8/19 votes only include any kind of staying at his house. And thats even counting the not proerply linked "this" votes.

>>36916156
Dhampir's haven't been mentioned yet.
It's been implied that vampires can torn normal mortal people into full vampires somehow, but that's all we know about it.

>>36916141
>>36916159
It's not a first past the post vote, you know.

>>36916173
Well, we know its a thing from the pastebin, and I think Pally said that is stuff we know.

>>36916173
If we voted to be drunk from and to drink from Ashley back in the chargen we would have been a Dhampir

Just to forestall the argument, I am listening, and I'm switching to not staying the night because of Lirael.

>>36916176
I'm sorry, I don't understand at all what that sentence was supposed to mean.

>>36916189
If you force the staying at his House on us despite it not being in the majority of votes, at LEAST let us stay BEFORE we go dancing and dinner, so we have no risk of missing our curfew.

>>36916189
>>36916204
I don't like his tone, but I agree with meeting at his house before going instead of afterwards as compromise.
Still not happy about it, but you will know what you do I guess.

>>36916173
Read the setting sheet. We could become a "Created Dhampir" by drinking a vampire's blood.

>>36916156
I don't think it changes based off the vampire's powers. It's basically just being a Dhampir but unable to regenerate your Vitae and requiring vamp blood to keep using your powers.

>>36916176
A what?

>>36916185
Not quite.

>>36916204
Don't be so hostile, please.

>>36916185
Ah damn and we missed that chance?
Poor show /tg, ultimate fetish option is clearly always the best option in chargen.

I'm not serious, of course, but that would be cool. Pretty sure it would be a terrible idea now though.

>>36916215
>Don't be so hostile, please.
Sorry, you're right.
>>36916189
Sorry Pally, wasn't meant to be against you.

>>36916218
>ultimate fetish option
Not sure that many people have a blood drinking fetish.
But besides that, becoming a dhampire would be pretty useful.
And we got a constant supply of vampire blood right next to us all the time.
I'm sure over time we could come to a quid pro quo arrangement.

>>36916218
>ultimate fetish
Dude, c'mon now. Stop putting everything out of the nomr in the fetish bundle, that's just fucking annoying and autist now.

>>36916267
He is a different guy, and he was being sarcastic I'm fairly sure.

>>36916267
>Stop putting everything out of the nomr in the fetish bundle
A fetish is basically everything that can arrouse you in some fashion, and I'm sure it does to some people.

>>36916278
Yeah, and using it as argument (lol) to justify for or against it just plain stupid and tiresome.

>>36916319
Haven't seen that yet.
But the simple fact is, some people, do have a fetish for the whole biting thing, and are clearly voting for getting it. As evidenced by the write-ins last time we visited Ashleys house that even creeped AA and Pally out, and thats no small feat.

>>36916340
Or they could have just, you know, been roleplaying the whole "addict" thing.

> that even creeped AA and Pally out, and thats no small feat.
AA said it WAS a small feat, and I don't remember Pally ever saying anything.

-How about we go out dancing again- you send to Ash –the night after the dinner to welcome the VIP-

-Great- he sends back, -I’ll let Quinn and the others know-

-No- you send back –Just us, we hardly got a chance to talk with Quinn and the others around-

-Ok- he sends back –Will getting out of the gate late be a problem?-

-I’ll figure something out- you send back

-You could always stay at my place- he sends –Watson can easily make up a spare bed-

-I can’t- send back, looking over at the sleeping Lirael, honestly you don’t know if you would or not, it seems far too tempting, but with Lirael to look after you certainly can’t.

-Ok- he sends –When and where do you want to meet?-

You arrange a diner to meet Ashley at, maybe the two of you can have dinner before going out, or maybe just a drink.

-Ok- he agrees –See you then-

-See you then- you say, and then lie down, trying to sleep, trying to ignore the thrill of that old feeling, your heart racing, so very keenly aware of the blood rushing in your veins and what it would feel like to let it out...

---

The next day work seems to take forever. It was Rainyas day off and she agreed to look after Lirael – who has strict instructions about what is ok, and what isn’t.

Finally you get back from work, and get ready to look for the Gouger, there’s a knock at the door, ah that must be Rainya and Li- yes it is.

“Hi cousin” say Lirael pleasantly, having fallen into the role with ease “We had a great day” she starts to tell you all about it. Rainya sidles up to you and says quietly “Charun wants to see us all now, says it will only take a few minutes.”

>>36916365
Talk of getting into his pants and getting "penetrated", is not role-playing an addict, I think you think of the wrong write-in.
That one I aslo voted for before Pally made it clear we are not that addicted.

>>36916384
>Talk of getting into his pants and getting "penetrated"
Were not the things voted for.

You roll your eyes in frustration, but you can spare a few minutes. You and Lirael follow Rainya to Charuns shed. Once everyone is there Charun speaks “Ok, you might have heard, but an agent of the Reaper is coming to the Hive, big deal, I don’t care if he strangles the Governor. But the Governor has captured a dozen dusters, and claims they are rebels – he plans to execute them after the dinner, to show the agent he’s on top of things.”

Rainya gasps, Dev looks upset, with his coverings you don’t know what Rhydian is thinking. Lirael hugs you.

Charuns face takes on a dour, but determined look “I wanted you to know” he says “because we can’t launch any kind of rescue attempt. It’s a party with hundreds of the wealthiest fae and vamps, security will be insane, and the most powerful monsters will be there.”

“But those men” says Rainya “Are just going to die?”

“Dusters die all the time” says Rhydian “Is that all? Can we go?”

“Are any of them rebels?” asks Dev

“I can’t say” says Charun evenly “and yes, that’s all.”

As you leave Charuns shed your thoughts are whirling. Sure, everything Charun said made sense, breaking in or attacking will just get people killed. And even an inside job would be the hardest thing you’ve ever done...

Of course, if you’re going to do this you probably shouldn’t hunt the Gouger tonight, you might get too beaten up to attend.

What do you do?

>No change to plan (hunt Gouger, do not go to party)
>Change plan (do both)
>Change plan (party not Gouger)
>Other (what?)

>>36916252
I wonder if we drank Lirael's blood if we would become a super powered dhampir.
The only problem is that people (read: other vampires) would probably notice if we became a dhampir. That would bring about too many awkward questions.

>>36916267
twas just joking friend anon

>>36916392
Doesn't change the fact that some people made those write-ins. And that is pretty much the point, isn't it?

>>36916395
>No change to plan (hunt Gouger, do not go to party)

>>36916395
>Change plan (party not Gouger)
Even if we don't pull an inside job, we should be there simply to watch.

>>36916395
>No change to plan (hunt Gouger, do not go to party)
Oh for fucks sake, voting on the same thing again. Really? It doesn't even change the situation of us being too exposed there.

>>36916395
>No change to plan (hunt Gouger, do not go to party)
okay, now I'm kinda glad that going to the party lost.

>>36916395
>No change to plan (hunt Gouger, do not go to party)
kay, I admit, this is actually starting to piss me off.
If the re-vote would be done under different circumstances concerning the original refutal, I would get it. But this is just obnoxious.

>>36916395
>No change to plan (hunt Gouger, do not go to party)

>>36916395
>No change to plan (hunt Gouger, do not go to party)

>>36916395
>No change to plan (hunt Gouger, do not go to party)

>>36916432

That's because of plot anon, the party is of interest to the plot and Pally wants us to check it out.

>>36916395
>No change to plan (hunt Gouger, do not go to party)
We have a greater chance to save far more people from the Gouger than some absurdly risky scheme that might save a few.

>(do both)
No Pally, I fear not anymore, sry.

>>36916395
>Change plan
Dammit I really do not want to go to this party but I want to save those dusters.

>>36916395
>>No change to plan (hunt Gouger, do not go to party)
We aren't strong enough to stop this execution. Getting in over our head will only make the situation worse for everyone. For now, let's focus on the problems we actually can address.

And remember the Fae's name, we're coming for him.

>>36916473
>Change plan (party not Gouger)

>>36916468
Yeah I can see that, and maybe I need to apologize to Pally for phrasing it too harshly, but the point is, there is no reason for the character to reconsider after the really valid reasons originally presented.
But yes.
>>36916395
Sorry Pally, I guess I'm just tired. I will shut up now.

>>36916474
>And remember the Fae's name, we're coming for him.
But we aren't.

>>36916496
We can come for him some other time.
He will stay on the planet.

>>36916395
>No change to plan (hunt Gouger, do not go to party)
As much as I want to save them, we don't have the means to do so, even if the party wasn't a drastic risk in-and-of itself.

>>36916473
>>36916485
Snrk.

>>36916496
He's going to be a boss eventually.

>>36916397
>That would bring about too many awkward questions.
Thats a bit of the problem with us still having a public life.
We should go completly underground for maximum rebell.

Ok, no change to plan.

To explain, no I'm not trying to force you to do anything, nor am I calling for a re-vote to waste time.

From previous experience players sometimes want a chance to change their minds once new information is revealed, that's what this was.

I'm sorry if I upset or frustrated anyone by doing so.

>>36916506
Boo, that lacks all the drama of meeting him now.

And there is still the possibility of gathering important intel there.

>>36916515
just fixing it so it's not missing the (party not Gouger).

>>36916554
>I'm sorry if I upset or frustrated anyone by doing so.
People will complain, as long as its only one or two, that just happens.
To be fair, this kind of thing should maybe be spaced out more, because there are QMs who do that, and some here did not read PoJ and this quest had issues, so a bit of hyper-agression is common in these things. As sad as that might be.

Charun is right, there’s nothing you can do for the dusters now, they’re dead.

[Cynicism increase]

You lead Lirael away from Charuns shed talking to her quietly “Ok, I know you can’t remember anything from before” you say “but I need to find the Gouger, do you think you can pinpoint his mind?”

“I dunno” admits Lirael “maybe, what will his mind be like?”

“I’m not sure” you say “It might be an animal, or a very mean person who likes to hurt others, do you think you can do that?”

“I’ll try” promises Lirael. The two of you spend the evening walking through the Gougers known hunting grounds, as Lirael scans minds and you look for any other clues.

Please roll 2d20 – first is for Lirael, second for you, to see what you find.

>>36916557
I noted how Ashley accepted our explanation of possible mind-reading as perfectly plausible and likely.
That scared me a bit.

Rolled 3, 5 = 8 (2d20)

>>36916630
>a mean person
Thats gonna narrow it down.

>>36916630
WE GOT DIS

Rolled 19, 4 = 23 (2d20)

>>36916630

>>36916633
Why? It is perfectly plausible and likely.

Rolled 7, 16 = 23 (2d20)

>>36916630
Dey see me rollin'