All around you lies hostile jungle. Ahead lies a vast barrier of spider webs, impossible to move through without cutting or burning you way through it and you still have no idea where Jane Vindels base or hideaway is. And finally, the mind of the forest itself is all around you. You spoke to it before but even a short exchange took hours. Still, it might be your best hope of locating Jane Vindel without spending days trudging through a vast jungle.

Actions?

>Head towards spider web barrier
>Contact forest mind
>Do something else (what?)

>>38393673
>Contact forest mind

>>38393673
>Contact forest mind

>>38393669
>Contact forest mind

>>38393673
>Contact forest mind

>>38393673
>Contact forest mind
Forest bro will help us.
What name do we give?

>>38393754
Daughter of the Tyrantslayer

>>38393803
Best name it is then, I was going to add a vote for that to my post but my brain would not let me spell Daughter.

>>38393831
As long as we don't know what this thing is, I would not bring dad into this.
He made a pretty large variety of enemies.

Assuming this thing even gives a shit about names at all, which I kind of doubt.

>>38393673
>>Contact forest mind

>>38393860
If we bring dad into this we learn if it cares about such things, if things go wrong we're faster than it is.

>>38393898
>we're faster than it is
Its literally everywhere around us.
I wouldn't bet on that, especially since we win nothing by bringing it up.

>>38393898
We would also lose our current best chance at finding and ending Jane.

Oh, and keep in mind that it's been blocking our attempts to see anywhere too far from ourselves in the canyon effortlessly in spite of being slower, so I wouldn't rely on that to keep it from hurting us if it wants to.

“Again?” asks Rainya as you settle down against a tree after telling the others to keep watch. Kaelyn and Dev simply nod and accept your decision, Lirael pouts when you tell her that she won’t be joining you.

“Yes again” you say to Rainya “I think this thing is the whole forest, and perhaps something more besides, it might be the only way to find her.”

“Alright” says one of the Rainyas, shrugging as they all take up position around your small encampment.

You reach out to the forests mind and sink into a deep connection with it.

-WHAT ARE YOU?- the vast mind enquires

-I’m Shee- you say, there doesn’t seem much point in hiding your name, Jane Vindel already knows you are here, and this thing probably hasn’t heard it.

-WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?- it asks

-I come from a long way away- you say –from outside the canyon-

-OUTSIDE? ARE YOU LIKE THE CREATOR?- it asks. You sense some sort or turmoil in its mind but don’t know what it means.

-Who is the Creator?- You ask

-THE CREATOR MADE ALL- responds the mind

-I’d like to know more please- You say, if Jane Vindel made something like this, just how powerful is she? This forest mind can brush you aside with its sheer strength easily.

-ONCE THERE WAS NOTHING, ONLY DREAMS, THEN I AWOKE AND SAW THE WORLD. THEN THE CREATOR CAME AND TOLD ME THAT SHE MADE THE WORLD AND MADE ME AND THAT SHE WAS PLEASED AT WHAT SHE HAD MADE- responds the forests mind.

Huh, so it existed before she showed up perhaps? –That sounds incredible- you say politely –then what happened?-

-AT FIRST I DID NOT BELIEVE, FOR THE CREATOR WAS SO TINY, SO HARD TO SEE. I DENIED HER, SHE DEMONSTRATED WHAT SHE WAS BY CREATING MORE, AND BY SHOWING ME WHAT PAIN IS. I DO NOT LIKE PAIN.- it explains.

You are dimly aware of someone saying into your ear over and over “It’s 3 o’clock Shee” sounds like Kaelyn.

What do you do?
>Stop talking with it for now (exclusive)
>Try to read its mind
>Tell me more about what you are
>Tell me about the Creator
>Try to convince it that it has been lied to
>Other topic (what?)

>>38393946
>Tell me more about what you are

>>38393946
>Tell me more about what you are
>Try to convince it that it has been lied to
Time for Gauntlet of Fellowship with the Genius Loci

>>38393946
>Try to convince it that it has been lied to
>Tell me more about what you are
>Tell me about the Creator

>>38393946
>I don't like Pain either that is why I am here.
>I am here to find the creator (Assuming it talks of Jane)
>Try to convince it that it has been lied to

>>38393946
>Tell me more about what you are
>Try to convince it that it has been lied to

>>38393946
>Try to convince it that it has been lied to
Tell it we can create too, it's not hard. Throw around some of our blood to make it grow plants where it hits the ground and heal/encourage the growth of the plants it splashes on. I don't want to hurt this thing, it's been fairly nice so far.

>>38393946
>Try to convince it that it has been lied to
Let's keep this quick.

>>38393946
>Tell me more about what you are

>inb4 Jane has Aspects of Creation and Destruction

>>38393946
>>38393979
Seconded

Huh. So this is why Pally actually held a vote on whether or not to do that retarded "magic space kudzu" plan. Guess it wasn't so retarded after all.

>>38394066
It still would've been retarded, just for slightly different reasons.

ok, so asking it about itself and convince it that it has been lied to.

roll 1d20+19, Fellowship

This early in the conversation, DC is *very* high

Rolled 16 + 19 (1d20 + 19)

>>38394090

Rolled 3 + 19 (1d20 + 19)

>>38394090

Rolled 5 + 19 (1d20 + 19)

>>38394090
Dammit.

Rolled 12 + 19 (1d20 + 19)

>>38394090

Rolled 5 + 19 (1d20 + 19)

>>38394090

>>38394100
Normally 35 should be enough, but *very* high makes me worried here.

>>38394090
>>38394100
35? Is 35 high enough?

>>38394003
>Throw around some of our blood to make it grow plants where it hits the ground
That only works in our realm.

>>38394129
Best case scenario, we've planted a seed of doubt and the conversation continues.

Middle case, the conversation continues with the Hivemind being slightly more terse than before but still curious.

Worst case, we roll for Willpower.

>>38394144
No, worst case we roll 5d20 for CON.

>>38394143
Nope. The blood thing actually works everywhere.

>>38393946
"One does not have to be the, or even A creator to show other beings pain. I believe you are much more ancient than she is. And if she causes you pain, I can help you with that, and make sure she won't hurt you ever again."

This thing's just a poor little baby.

>>38394162
Has not yet happened in the story outside of our realm, and the Gift write-up mentions that effect right after specifically adressing our Realm, so I'm gonna sa, no it doesn't until we get prove it does.

>>38394173
>That late
Wow, looks like I managed to not refresh for much longer than I thought.

>>38394173
>"One does not have to be the, or even A creator to show other beings pain.
He doesn't believe that anyway. He believes she is the creator because she created things.

>>38394174
We could probably make it work with Corruption.

>>38394174
The power dealt with plants in general whether in the realm or not. Specifically, in relation to the realm, it makes the plants created there persist when removed. Everything else about Fecundity of the Ocean was about plants in the real world, including the blood growth.

Whether or not Shee knows it, she's got instincts related to her powers that have been touched on before. Unless Pally tells us "you need someone/something to introduce that", we can usually vote to do it.

As for the order of the sentences being a factor, no. It's already been stated that the only reason we didn't have plants growing everywhere after the knife blew up on us was because the blood was flowing over antinite before it hit the ground.

>>38394222
>including the blood growth
Again, there is no evidence to that, and we can't create plants outside of our Realm, so until we get indication it works like that, its a foolish thing to assume it does.

>>38394222
>It's already been stated
>[cititization needed]

>>38394243
http://ask.fm/AnAspiringQM/answer/124775886636

Also, there's one from a couple hours ago that, while not directly stating it's possible to grow plants with our blood here, heavily implies that it is. http://ask.fm/AnAspiringQM/answer/125048764972

>>38394243
We can't create plants from nothing outside of the realm because that's not what the power does. It makes it so that our blood encourages plant growth. The realm itself and our control over that is what we're using to create plants in there, FotO just enhances that. You're conflating two different but related things.

>>38394222
Factually, no plants grew when our blood was sprayed around in the fight against the shadow vamp.

>>38394261
Which appears to have been a oversight on Pallys part, then.
To be fair to the other anon, not everyone reads the ask.fm. Usually we keep questions to the thread for that reason.

Your blood *does* grow plants outside your realm. My apologies for not being clear about this.

IC Shee knows this would happen, but not the specifics (how big a plant, what type, does it die if it grows on concrete etc)

>>38394295
>Which appears to have been a oversight on Pallys part, then.
That's probably what happened seeing as he forgot we had Divert teleport during that fight and that's way more relevant than FotO 99% of the time.

But I'd rather think that Shee just didn't care enough about it for it to be mentioned in the narrative. Like, "Oh, my blood is growing plants. That's so normal I shouldn't even have to mention that. Would you specifically mention that the ground got wet if your blood landed on it? No? Then why do I have to mention that mine made it plants".

>>38394324
Thank you.

-Tell me more about what you are- you say to the forest mind

-I AM ALL- the mind responds –I AM THE JUNGLE, THE PLANTS AND THE TREES, I BIND ALL TOGETHER-

-Is that how you can see me?- you ask –Because I’m not a part of you? Why are you stopping me from looking ahead?–

-THE CREATOR SAYS ALL THOSE FROM OUTSIDE MST BE TRACKED AND KEPT FROM USING ANY FORM OF *MAGIC* TO SEE VERY FAR.- It responds

Damn, so maybe Jane Vindel knew you were here, but if so, why not attack straight away? You formulate your next question –How are you tracking me? And how can you stop me so easily?-

-WHEN I WAS CREATED I COULD SEE THROUGH ALL EYES, HEAR THROUGH ALL EARS, FEEL ALL THINGS, AND I COULD USE WHAT THE CREATOR CALLS *MAGIC*-

Well that explains that. –And why are you talking to me- you ask –Has the Creator not given you other orders?-

-THE CREATOR WISHES TO KNOW WHERE ENEMIES ARE, AND THAT I ATTACK THEM- It says, then seems to hesitate before adding –I DO NOT KNOW WHAT AN *ENEMY* IS, THE CREATORS EXPLANATION SEEMED TO INDICATE A PREDATOR, BUT THERE ARE MANY PREDATORS THAT ARE PART OF ME, AND THIS DID NOT MAKE SENSE. YOU HAVE NOT KILLED, YOU HAVE HIDDEN, I THINK YOU ARE NOT A PREDATOR OR AN *ENEMY*-

You’re suddenly very glad you weren’t more trigger-happy when you arrived.

-I think the Creator has deceived you- you say –You told me that you were aware before the Creator came to you, perhaps she didn’t create you at all, perhaps you came into being another way and she simply found you-

-THE CREATOR MADE ME- it say stubbornly –THE CREATOR SHOWED ME HOW SHE MAKES THINGS, AND SHE PROVED SHE WAS MIGHTIER BY HURTING ME. SHE IS THE CREATOR-

-If she was the Creator- you say –Why would she need to hurt you?-

-SHE IS THE CREATOR- it insists, then adds –TELL ME ABOUT OUTSIDE?-

Kaelyns voice comes again “Shee we’re going to bed”.

You wonder how you can convince it that you’re telling the truth. Perhaps if you spilled your blood here, or linked your mind to it? Or maybe if you made friends with it?

Your response?

>Stop talking with it for now (exclusive)
>Tell me about the Creator
>Try to convince it that it has been lied to
>Other topic (what?)

Convincing it
>Tell it about your home
>Spill blood to grow plants
>Try to read its mind
>Other (what?)

It is assumed you will be talking in the morning, unless write-ins request talking through the night.

>>38394351
Its actually important if our fight left plants behind, since we don't know what plants it makes grow.
Its a rather huge lead to us, so it would actually be noteable.

>>38394374
>Try to convince it that it has been lied to
>Tell it about your home
>Spill blood to grow plants
>Talk through the night
We don't have infinite time here.

>>38394374
>Tell me about the Creator
>Tell it about your home
>Spill blood to grow plants
>Tell it about the Reunited

>>38394374
>Try to convince it that it has been lied to
>Tell it about your home
>Spill blood to grow plants
>Talk through the night

>>38394386
>>38394394

>Tell it about the Reunited
To what purpose? I don't see what that would do, especially since everythign we tell it takes huge amounts of tiem, so we should keep the conversations as short as possible.

>>38394374
>Tell it about your home
>Spill blood to grow plants

>Other
I don't like Pain either that is why I am here, to stop the pain.

I am here to find Jane (The lady with metalic legs and black-coloured lightning)

Tell It about our realm

>>38394374
>Try to convince it that it has been lied to
>Tell it about your home
>Spill blood to grow plants
>talking through the night

>>38394374
>Try to convince it that it has been lied to
>Tell it about your home
>Spill blood to grow plants
>Talk through the night

>>38394374
>Spill blood to grow plants
>Tell it about your home and how young a human is.

>>38394386
>>38394394
>>38394415
You guys do realise that trying to say "all the things" means giving Jane more time to prepare for us?
Since talking to it takes huge amounts of time.
We just don't have that time.

>>38394374
The plants we care for grow at 5 times the normal rate. Is that all the plants around us or do we specifically have to do "care" actions to them?

Could we ask the mind if it can feel us healing/helping it around the area where we are?

>>38394374
>>38394394
>>Tell me about the Creator
>>Tell it about your home
>>Spill blood to grow plants

>>38394374
>Tell me about the Creator
>Tell it about your home
>Spill blood to grow plants
>Talk through the night

>>38394410
Undermining Jane's claims by explaining the nature of the Reunited and the contest, the timeframe of the contest and the Astrobleme in particular, presumably.

This is looking more and more like the personal realm of an incredibly powerful senile fae has spilled over into the real world. It even has the abnormal time flow thing happening.

>>38394374
>Try to convince it that it has been lied to
>Tell it about your home
>Spill blood to grow plants
>Talk through the night

Better to get done fast, I'm worried about her using the time to kidnap our people to use against us.

>>38394463
>Undermining Jane's claims by explaining the nature of the Reunited and the contest
I can see that?
But I don't think the benefit would outweight the cost here.
It would already need to believe us for it to work, and in that case demonstrating we can create to, already undermines her claim sufficiently.

And then there is the issue that she might have told him all Reunited are enemies.

>>38394503
I agree, that's why I didn't vote for it. I just thought I'd try my hand at explaining the possible rationale of those that did.

We do have the option of using Corruption to make this quick but we could easily fail so we would need to explain that we were giving it part of us so it could understand us better.

>>38394468
I don't see evidence of abnormal time flow.
Our talking to it only takes so much time because the thing is huge and slow.
It might be a huge fae like Geheganesh, but since his arrival was a pretty big deal, I can't imagine Kae wouldn't know about a second.

Some sort of magical intelligence seems more likely.
Possibly the remnant of the war, given that the War Follower is here.

>>38394449
>Could we ask the mind if it can feel us healing/helping it around the area where we are?

You have to feed hem, water them, the usual.

In here though, things grow plenty fast on their own

writing convince it has been lied to, telling it about your home, spilling blood and talking through the night

Please roll Fellowship 1d20+19

Rolled 10 + 19 (1d20 + 19)

>>38394543

Rolled 8 + 19 (1d20 + 19)

>>38394543

Rolled 2 + 19 (1d20 + 19)

>>38394543
So tempted to buy more Charisma of the King of Hell for this.

Rolled 8 + 19 (1d20 + 19)

>>38394543

Rolled 17 + 19 (1d20 + 19)

>>38394543

The rolls have me worried.

Rolled 14 + 19 (1d20 + 19)

>>38394893
I think we just spent 20 hours being told to FUUUUUUUUUCK OOOFFFFFFFFFFFFF.

I hope not, but it's probably what happened.

>>38394893
The long writing time is what gets me
Its probably just Pally having a life tho

You break off from your conversation just long enough to say to Kaelyn “I’m going to keep going, don’t worry about me.”

Kaelyn says something else, a worried look on her face as you sink back into the mental connection with the forest mind.

-My home is far from here- you explain as briefly as you can about the Hive, the people living in it, and your own Realm. The forests mind is intrigued by the realm you made and keeps asking questions about it.

-ARE YOU A CREATOR TOO?- it asks

-There are some things I can create- you answer. You return your consciousness to your body long enough to cut yourself with a knife, your blood spilling on the ground. As it soaks into the soil you look around. Your body feels stiff and unresponsive and the campsite around you has a latrine pit, a cooking shelter made from spare tent sheets and several other small embellishments. Only Dev and a couple of the Rainyas are nearby, of Kaelyn, Lirael and the rest of the Rainyas there is no sign, but Dev and the Rainyas don’t seem worried, perhaps they just went for a short walk after setting all of that up.

You sink back into the mental connection with the forest mind as beside you, strange multi-headed flowers and weeds sprout.

-WHAT ARE THESE?- asks the forest mind –PLANTS BUT NOT A PART OF ME? HOW?-

-I told you I can create some things- you answer –I still think the Creator has lied to you- you try to persuade it –I don’t think she made you at all and-

-I CAN USE THESE- says the forest mind, ignoring your attempt to convince it –I CAN LINK THE NEARBY PLANTS TO THEIR ROOT SYSTEMS AND-

You feel like something is brushing across the surface of your skin, and then everything seems to go dark.

-What is happening?- you ask the forest mind, as you start to wonder exactly what it just did, you think you should be worried, but you oddly feel calm, so calm, and so tired....

You feel a familiar touch on your mind, then it is gone again, there, and gone again, is that...Lirael?

-What are you doing?- you ask it

-THE PLANTS YOU CREATE ARE AMAZING!- says the forest mind excitedly –THEY ARE LIKE NO OTHERS, I MUST GROW MORE OF THEM, I NEED MORE OF THEM, I NEED MORE OF YOU!-

You feel cold, and sleepy, so tired, so easy to just rest. Your skin feels damp and clammy, you try opening your eyes but cannot see through the darkness, no, not darkness, soil. You are underground. You return to your own body only to realise that all around you is wet soil, that were it not for a long hollow vine stuffed down your throat you would not be able to breathe, and with every beat your heart pushes more of your blood into the tiny roots that have dug into your flesh and are draining blood from your body, slowly but surely.

-Stop this!- you thunder at the forest mind –Release me!-

Through the roots within your body, and from your connection to the forest mind you can sense...a vast world. New plants are growing within the jungle. They are spreading out rapidly from where you were, growing like a stain, or corruption within the forest, but spurred on by the forest mind itself. You can feel vines growing teeth to attack nearby animals and plants and drain them, trees growing tentacles to attack other nearby trees and grab animals. Where the new plants reach the river running through the canyon they don’t drain it, instead the water level rises. Within the area of the new jungle the shadows come alive and start moving.

The fruits and plants of the forest can become sweet and nourishing or toxic at a moments notice, under the control of the forests mind. You can dimly sense your companions somewhere within the jungle, but the new jungle doesn’t attack them, instead you see it protecting them from the animals of the jungle...and from the hunting parties of beastmen that are searching from them. The plants hide them and harass the beastmen – you see beastmen wrapped in vines that drain their blood or lashed at by bone-tipped tendrils from nearby trees.

As the beastmen hack at the plans around them, the severed limbs and parts of the plants simply grow into new plants once the beastmen have passed, seemingly impossible to truly kill. As they try concoctions and poisons to battle this new plant life, the plants do wither, and some die, only for the survivors to adapt quickly to new forms of attack. The harder they try to kill the plants, the harder they fight back. The plants begin to develop impossible methods of defence: claws wreathed in green flame, auras of fear that terrify those that get too close.

You see your new plants defend your allies, protecting them from the beastmen and stranger things that hunt them. All the while the forest draws forth more from you, giddily wanting more, and stranger plants. An unseen *somebody* directs the beastmen in their hunt for your allies, Jane Vindel perhaps? You cannot perceive her properly, though you think you can sense her approximate location, many kilometres away.

You pull yourself out of the connection with the forest mind, realising your body has grown weak, how long have you been here? Can you break free and dig your way out? Can you teleport away?

Still, the forest has grown a lot of new, strange plants, too many perhaps. Before you returned to your body again you thought perhaps the plants grown from your blood where about to overwhelm the jungle, make it into something like you, make it into yours.

[Corruption +1]

You’re trapped an unknown distance underground and you feel weak and malnourished. Only your superhuman constitution has kept you alive so far. What do you do?

>Talk to the forest mind, convince it to release you
>Teleport out
>Dig your way out
>Overwhelm the forest with the new plant-life, make it yours (corruption)
>Other (what?)

thanks for waiting

voting time 15 minutes to allow for reading and discussion

>>38394981
>Overwhelm the forest with the new plant-life, make it yours (corruption)
>force the plants to bring nutrients to your body

>>38394981
>Heal Self
>Overwhelm the forest with the new plant-life, make it yours (corruption)
This forest should turn into something hilarious when we unlock PoB.

>>38394981
>Teleport out

>>38395004
Heal self won't work, it doesn't help with malnutrition. At best it could heal the damage of it until we run out of PE.

>>38394981
>Teleport out
Fully transforming this place right now is a bad idea, inevitably someone will find this place transformed and it will give us away.
Better to keep the changes containt until later.

>>38394981
>Overwhelm the forest with the new plant-life, make it yours (corruption)

>>38394981
>Overwhelm the forest with the new plant-life, make it yours (corruption)

>>38394981
>Teleport out

>>38394981
>Overwhelm the forest with the new plant-life, make it yours (corruption)
We control these plants.
Make the nearby forest heal us, instead of messing us up. tempoary symbiosis go

>>38394981
>>Teleport out


>>38395046
Won't work that way. What that options means is basically mindrape.

>>38395046
>We control these plants.
We don't, currently. We might be able to take control of them, thats different.

>>38395053
I am okay with that

>>38394981
>Teleport out

>>38394981
>Overwhelm the forest with the new plant-life, make it yours (corruption)

>>38394981
>>Overwhelm the forest with the new plant-life, make it yours (corruption)

>>38395046
>Make the nearby forest heal us, instead of messing us up.
We are drained because we need to feed ourselves into the forest, so you can only have messing up and corruption, or have it feed us an no corruption.

>>38394981
>Teleport out

>>38394981
>Teleport out

What do you want to do next after teleporting out?

1. The forest is likely going to try and fight back against us and attack our friends for doing this.
2. This is basically enslaving a sentient being.
3. We do This Jane will be running faster than you can say Oh shit, and we'll be too weak to follow.

>>38394981
>>Teleport out

>>38394981
>Teleport out
Can always resume Corruption later, from a safer spot.

>>38395111
Find Jane, we got a idea of her location now. And the forest likes us.

>>38394981
>other (corruption)
Use our connection with forest-mind to send war-follower after jane

>>38394981
>Waifu the canyon.

>>38395123
haha, canyonxshee, I ship it

>>38394981
>Overwhelm the forest with the new plant-life, make it yours (corruption)
We CAN do this.

>>38394981
>Overwhelm the forest with the new plant-life, make it yours (corruption)

>>38395112
1.I don't think the forest would actually mind or even neccessarily notice what we are doing.
2. Thats true, actually worse than enslavement, we reprogram a sentient being basically just because we can.
3.Thats the worst part about it, yeah.

>>38394981
>Teleport out

>>38394981
>put out for the canyon.
YOLO

>>38395112
>1. The forest is likely going to try and fight back against us and attack our friends for doing this.
It literally can't because we corrupted it to be like us, as in it can't attack them.
>2. This is basically enslaving a sentient being.
Yes, and? It stuck us in a hole for forced feeding. Any vamp that tried this shit would get killed or controlled.
>3. We do This Jane will be running faster than you can say Oh shit, and we'll be too weak to follow.
She hasn't run already when things started going weird with the forest, I don't think she'll be running now.

>>38394981
>Teleport out

>>38394981
>>Teleport out

stopping vote here and counting

And here comes the part where people keep voting even though there's more votes than IPs

>>38395144
>It literally can't because we corrupted it to be like us, as in it can't attack them.
Not yet it just has our plants under it's control, so it actually can right now.
>Yes, and? It stuck us in a hole for forced feeding. Any vamp that tried this shit would get killed or controlled.
Point but it's a child it doesn't know any better, like when we first met Lirael.
>She hasn't run already when things started going weird with the forest, I don't think she'll be running now.
Big difference between Forest is weird and Your enemy just turned the very ground you stand on into an extension of herself.

>>38395144
She is definitly going to run when we subsume the entire forest.
She is currently not running because just some weird shit is happening, if we make her hiding place into a extension of ourself, she will run.
Stopping now gives her the wrong impression we were stopped by something.

Looks like Teleport out won narrowly.

Please roll 1d20+23 for teleporting.

And please vote on extra HP used

Average of 5 votes will be used.

[Shee Vitae 0, PE 0, HP 50/147]

Shee has been using her powers to keep herself alive, hence the lack of PE

>>38395171
>Not yet it just has our plants under it's control
I actually got the impression the new plants protected our family because they are made "from" us, so they incorporate Family Aspect as much as all our other abilities.
So at least "our" plants, won't attack them.

All the other ones though...

Rolled 2 + 23 (1d20 + 23)

>>38395210
20

Rolled 1 + 23 (1d20 + 23)

>>38395210

>>38395210
Rolling
5 hp

>>38395157
I was thinking the same.
also without samefagging the ratio between ip and vote are like 2/3 at best, seeing how people come and go.

But its probably from both side so..

Rolled 8 + 23 (1d20 + 23)

>>38395210
That would have been nice to know beforehand, just saying.
I suspected as much, hence why I wanted to force it to feed us, but I imagine it would have figured into a lot of peoples vote.

>>38395210
20
Why just 23? Aren't we in complete darkness right now?

>>38395210
...

Is this a narratively appropriate place to buy PoB and make a Void Jump?

I would really much rather do that than spend HP.

Rolled 8 + 23 (1d20 + 23)

>>38395210
>>38395220
woops

>>38395225
>Void Jump

>For others, spatial dimensions are something they must spend great effort to defy. For you, it is merely an act of will.

>When you wish to make a Void Jump, make a Nihil Dominus check against DC 35. If you pass, you may relocate a number of kilometres equal to how many points you beat the check by. This is not a teleportation effect and cannot be blocked by teleportation wards, instead requiring anti-magic and/or extremely strong wards against Void and incursions from the entities therein in order to stop, as this power involves stepping across the Void to reach your destination rather than true Teleportation. This power costs nothing and may be activated at will, however, you may not bring more than 20kg beyond your personal equipment or any living beings along with you when making a Void Jump.

For anyone who hasn't read it, basically a teleport that costs nothing and is way harder to block.

>>38395223
>Why just 23? Aren't we in complete darkness right now?

Thanks for the reminder, will add manually

>>38395237
Its not really equal to teleport, because the distance you can jump is far smaller.

>>38395243
You're right, but for the purposes of getting out of the ground I don't think we'll need to go much further than 1km.

>>38395237
>basically a teleport that costs nothing and is way harder to block
In exchange it also is a lot more limited, since distance is a lot smaller, we can only carry 20kg and no living beings with us.
So its not like teleport at all.

>>38395239
Teleport to Rainya

ok, writing

After we Get PoB we might want to level FoL some more, especially if we want to keep the genius Loci.

>>38395333
We can only get one more level of FoL right now.
And it has nothing to do with the genius loci anyway.

>>38395341
Didn't Pally say we were saving the exp for something

>>38395333
I want to get more FoL no matter what, but it doesn't really have anything to do with jackass forest mind.

>>38395354
AA got a bunch of bonus xp that he's hoarding until it's "narratively appropriate" for us to get whatever upgrade he's planning on spending it on (probably PoB and a couple other things).

>>38395355
Friend forest mind, ftfy
future waifu forest mind maybe?

>>38395341
It might help it not drain us as much for the new plants.

>>38395355
Hoping it's less a jackass and more that big dumb kid who doesn't know it's own strength.

>>38395354
What has that to do with what I just said?
We can only get gifts up the level of Favour we have with the god in question, which is 7 for Baalzamon right now.

>>38395372
>It might help it not drain us as much for the new plants.
That makes absolutely no sense, FoL has nothing to do with how much it drains, and it drained HP anyway, we just used PE and vitae to keep ourselves alive.

>>38395372
>Hoping it's less a jackass and more that big dumb kid who doesn't know it's own strength.
Even when she went totally feral, Lirael still only scavenged the dead. She could have torn Dust Town apart, but she didn't.

This thing is more together than she was and it's worse behaved. It's an ass and I'd bet my nipples that it will still be an ass even if we get out of here and lecture it on why what it did was wrong.

>>38395355
>with jackass forest mind
But I want to keep coming back here to create hilarious plantlife with the forest mind.

That stuff is fantastic. We just need to find a way to make the link more controlled.

>>38395403
We should totally make this our base after jane is gone or dead

>>38395403
This thing's an asshole. I don't care if you like em, it's still an asshole. I like Baalzi and I can admit he's an asshole, I hope you can admit the same for Jungle mind.

>>38395417
I hope we can get another portal to our realm.

>>38395390
Meant FotO sorry.

>>38395395
Okay anon, that bet has pretty variable value. And trying to judge a genius Loci on human standards is like trying to judge the five on human standards. Except harder because Loci rarely talk to humans.

>>38395417
Open another portal to our realm here?

>>38395440
>I hope you can admit the same for Jungle mind.
I can't admit things I don't know if they are true.

Its mindset is alien, that doesn't make it a asshole.

>>38395458
It using Shee as fertilizant counts as being an asshole. Well, much worse than an asshole, Quinn was an asshole, the forest is absorbing Shee.

>>38395440
More likely it just doesn't realise our corporal body is important to us, since we have a "presence" like it does, it most likely assumed we don't really need that body.
So, form its perspective we just did a really cool thing toegether using that flesh thing as medium for our interaction.

>>38395466
>Tasting Shee's blood for the first time
>Not wanting to absorb her
What are you, human?

>>38395466
If it thinks we are on or above it's level, it likely fails to realize how important our body is. After all, it's so tiny, no way someone so strong could be that small and insignificant.

>>38395458
The fae's mindset is alien and they're still assholes. Baalzi's mindset is alien and he's still an asshole. This forest doesn't get a pass because it's like a giant retard who hugs puppies to death.

>>38395466
Are you on a phone or something?

>>38395482
We should really just tell it this

>>38395494
>>38395482
It doesn't care. It wants all of Shee, body, mind, spirit, whatever. It will keep draining her until there is nothing left.
>>38395499
Just woke up.

>>38395482
>>38395502
Ah, yes...and let it know how weak Shee is and not as strong as the CREATOR, so something inferior and not to be obeyed...

>>38395499
>The fae's mindset is alien and they're still assholes. Baalzi's mindset is alien and he's still an asshole.
The faes mindset isn't actually that alien, and we know the fae perfectly well understand how people don't like being treated that way, the forest doesn't know that, and can't know that.

And I disagree on baalzamon being a asshole, he hasn't done anything to us sfoar, he has actually been pretty cooperative with us.

>>38395505
>It doesn't care.
You now that how?

>>38395515
Except needing our flesh medium to interact with ther world doesn't make us weak, since clearly the creator needs to do the same thing.
The fact we could warp it into things in our image, somethting the creator can't, we already proved we are better anyway.

Also, we just debunked the creator thing, so it doesn't even matter anymore.

>>38395524
By the way it buried Shee and is eating her to make new plants and how it stated it needs more of her.

>>38395505
>It doesn't care. It wants all of Shee, body, mind, spirit, whatever. It will keep draining her until there is nothing left.

You know this how?

>>38395499
>The fae's mindset is alien and they're still assholes.
They know people don't like being treated a certain way they don't care. They're for the most part Slaaneshis
Baalzi's mindset is alien and he's still an asshole.
He's true to his nature, Anyone expecting him not too be is an idiot. We are careful around him for a reason.
This forest doesn't get a pass because it's like a giant retard who hugs puppies to death.
It's a matter of intent, Retard who does it on accident is sad, tragic and may be taught better. A retard who does it on purpose is an assshole.

>>38395554
That doesn't show at all it doesn't care, in fact that it did what it could to keep the body alive proves it does care, it just doesn't get how we work.

>>38395564
If that is so, then why is Shee's vitae and PE depleted and her HP is so low? The vine conencted to her is eating her, not feeding her.

>>38395564
It didn't do shit to keep Shee alive beyond air, and that was literally a hollow tube jammed down her throat. The only thing that kept Shee alive was her own powers.

>>38395601
>that were it not for a long hollow vine stuffed down your throat you would not be able to breathe
We are depleted because it uses Shees blood to spread her Corruption through the forest, since that that is how nutrients get spread through plants.
It simply doesn't get that Shee could "die" from that.

>>38395630
No, it's fully aware of the concept of death. It just does not care.

>>38395626
>he didn't do anything to keep Shee alive
>except for that thing he did to keep her alive.

>>38395630
It's a fucking forest, it knows how both plants and animals die.
>>38395640
Doesn't change the fact it's still eating her.

>>38395654
>It's a fucking forest, it knows how both plants and animals die.
Except Shee is clearly not like any of these things, from its perspective Shee is a lot more like itself than any plant or animal around it.

>>38395640
>It totally cared about us!
>It provided the singular most basic need after putting us in a place that denied it naturally and neglected all other resources and care.
>It cares about her so much!

I gotta say, anons making assumptions is my favorite part of this quest.

The truth is we have no clue what's happening. The tube might be feeding us or eating us. The forest might listen to us or ignore us. Becoming the forest might work or it might not. It's all a moot point, now, since you lot chose to pussy out with teleporting instead of corrupting the forest like the badass mofo we are.

>>38395637
It might not understand that that body is all we are. After all, it has thousands of bodies, and we're greater than it is.

You have no intention of staying trapped underground being slowly drained of your blood. You focus on your psychic abilities and despite feeling like there is a heavy weight pressing down upon you, you manage to teleport. It’s hard though, as if something is actively trying to stop you.

[HP 35/147]

You appear in the midst of some trees that are twisted and curled like some sort of puzzle, why did you end up here?

The answer becomes clear when two people in battle armour come rushing around the side of the three and point makeshift spears at you. Their armour looks familiar (if ragged), as does their identical build.

“Rainya...?” you gasp out, your voice a raspy whisper.

“Shee?” says one “Is that, is that you?”

You try to nod but all you succeed at doing is falling to your knees.

“By the Mother!” exclaims one of the Rainyas “Shee, you’re alive, I can’t believe it you’re alive!”

They both rush forward to grab you and things go dim.
---
The next thing you recall you are in some tiny underground room or den of some kind, having a sweet-tasting thick broth spooned into you, as a Rainya sits beside you on the bed you are lying on, all wrapped up in blankets. A dim artificial light illuminates the place.

“You’re awake” says Rainya “here, eat” she spoons more of the broth into you. The two of you are alone.

“What happened?” you whisper

“It’s a long story” says Rainya, still feeding you

“Not going anywhere...” you mumble

Rainya sighs “When you disappeared we tried to find you, but then the beastmen came back in force and we had to run. We’ve been trying to stay ahead of them ever since.”

You notice her face looks thinner than usual, almost gaunt.

“How long?” you ask

“A month I think” she says “It’s hard to keep track in here, the ammunition ran out after a few days, and the food after a week.”

“I’m sorry” you say “I was trying to-”

>>38395669
I'm not even sure what argument you are trying to make, if it didn't care, why would it bother with the air?
That makes absolutely no sense, if it just wanted to absorb Shee, it wouldn't have bothered with that.

“It’s ok” says Rainya gently “It’s not your fault, I know you would have come back if you could, it’s not your fault.”

“Is everyone ok?” you ask

“We’re fine” says Rainya “tired, some scars, in desperate need of a bath and a long rest, but everyone is fine.”

“Ah good” you say weakly, wondering what you would have done if anyone had died in your absence.

“You stayed” you say “thank you”

“I wasn’t going to abandon you” says Rainya firmly, adding “Dev and Kaelyn wanted to head back to the Hive to get *help*, though I don’t know exactly who would be able to help, but they couldn’t even get out of the forest.”

You give a slow nod “too many beastmen?” you ask.

Rainya shakes her head “the forest” she says, “every plant, every animal is trying to kill us, in the old forest at least.”

“Then how...?” you ask

“Did we survive?” says Rainya “It’s strange, a lot of strange plants started appearing wherever we spent the night, and the old forest wasn’t hostile at first, that only started after two weeks, buy that time we knew the new plants, the new forest was helping us: fruit whenever we needed it, wide leaves to hide us, long vines filled with water. By the time the old forest turned on us, the new was big enough to protect us, and it attacked any beastmen that got close.”

You feel yourself drifting off “Lirael...” you mumble

“She managed to contact the new forest yesterday” says Rainya “from what she says its young and excitable, but sees us as important to it somehow, I believe she’s called it Randolph.”

You drift away into darkness again.
---
You wake up, still feeling hungry and tired, but no longer mostly dead.

[HP 85/147, PE 20/48, 0 Vitae]

You find your way out of your underground hideaway into the light. All around you is lush jungle, but it is all plantlife, no animals in sight.

The plants are strange, twisted into strange shapes and some have tentacles, or thick armour, or fanged maws, others bear coronas of green flame. Even in the bright sunlight dim shadows twist and writhe, some reaching towards you.

As you look around you can see you are in an encampment of some kind. Sat on a rock a little ways away is Lirael, she is cross-legged and is wrapped up in vines, her eyes are closed but she doesn’t seem to be hurt. Most of her is obscured by the wrapping vine limbs, her face is only just visible.

You see the Rainyas about the place, one cooking over a fire, a pair skinning a large animal. The others watching through the trees, their backs to you, looking for invaders?

You see Dev sat by another fire, it looks like he’s cooking...laser gun power packs? That’s risky, it might charge them or they might explode.

Kaelyn is nowhere in sight. None of them seem to have noticed you’re up yet. It looks like it’s midday, maybe?

Actions?
>Talk to someone (who?)
>Get everyone together, planning time
>Go looking for Kaelyn
>Other (what?)

Thanks for waiting

10 minutes time as usual for vote

>>38395707
>Go looking for Kaelyn

>>38395707
>Talk to Lirael
>Get everyone together, planning time

>>38395707
>Contact the New Forest.mind

>>38395707
>Talk to someone (who?)
Lirael

Looks like Old Forest must die. New Forest probably ok.

>>38395707
>>Talk to someone (Lirael)
You ok? Plants not being a problem?
>Go looking for Kaelyn

>>38395707
>Go looking for Kaelyn
A fucking month lost to not change anything. Goddamnit.
We need to find the odl forest and make it submit to the new one. Fucking faggot.

>>38395707
>Go looking for Kaelyn

>>38395707
>>Go looking for Kaelyn

>>38395707
>Talk to someone (Lirael)

>>38395707
>Talk to someone (who?)
>Lirael

>>38395718
>>38395723
>>38395721
New forest is the one that was eating us. It's the result of our Corruption fucking with the mind of the Old Forest, y'know, that thing you guys said was so horrible to do.

>>38395736
Stop assuming shit.

>>38395707
>>Talk to someone (who?) Lirael
>>Get everyone together, planning time

Would this be an appropriate time to spend XP on the others?

>>38395736
>Lirael would give something that hurts Shee nice pet names
You are getting really retarded now.

I'm going to enjoy tearing off MirrorA's head and waving it at her patron.

>>38395736
Now you are just badly trying to troll us.
>“It’s strange, a lot of strange plants started appearing wherever we spent the night, and the old forest wasn’t hostile at first, that only started after two weeks, buy that time we knew the new plants, the new forest was helping us: fruit whenever we needed it, wide leaves to hide us, long vines filled with water. By the time the old forest turned on us, the new was big enough to protect us, and it attacked any beastmen that got close.”
5/10, made me reply.

>the old forest wasn’t hostile at first, that only started after two weeks
Wanna bet this is Jane at work.
she is probably torturing the forest into obedience.

>>38395707
Mental contact doesn't have a range limit doesn't it? So we could contact Gambon or Tenley to see how everything is back in the Hive and the restaurant while we were gone?

Because by now the Syrnians have probably already arrived and started doing their thing.

So anyone else really wanting to buff FotO now?

>>38395707
>Get a drink from Rainya. +Vitae

On that note, who has Lirael been feeding from?

>>38395776
Kinda.

>>38395779
She doesn't actually need to feed from anyone, even after a month she only lost 30vitae, she is just now getting hungry.
And she had blood fruits, so she might not even be hungry yet.

>>38395775
Hopefully with us not there they have been left alone.

>>38395779
I'm hoping the forest. But probably Rainya. meaning she's addicted.

>>38395779
We brought a lot of blood fruit.

>>38395796
>But probably Rainya. meaning she's addicted.
Would people just fucking look up how addiction works already.
Even if Lirael did feed from Rainya, it would only take a feeding per week or so, and thats not enough to start addiction.

>>38395779
Better question is: Who has Kaelyn been feeding from.

>>38395776
There are a lot of gifts we want to buff.

>>38395815
All supposing Lirael hadn't been using her power in the interim. Lirael's power cost Vitae, the more she fights the more she needs to feed.

>>38395822
Either our friends or the forest, maybe an unlucky Beastman or two as well.

>>38395822
The same hired feeders as always, I see no reason why she couldn't connect to Oneira from here.

>>38395848
When did we hire them?

>>38395845
>All supposing Lirael hadn't been using her power in the interim.
No, even assuming she did.
Liraels powers are very vitae efficient, and she has a huge vitae pool.
Together with the blood fruits we brought, she can easily have made it sofar without even being hungry by now.

>>38395853
We told her to hire them. Already long time ago.

>>38395707
I want this new forest to expand upwards and spread out across the desert, replacing the dust with lush green.

Meanwhile in Chaos Sorceress Cyborg Quest...
>Fucking Mirror. "Oh yeah, attack this chick. It'll be easy, so many gifts." Bitch is like fucking cancer.
>Ok, PallyB, I could deal with her magic fuck-you-waifu but this forest takeover thing is too much bullshit.
>Nice job retards I told you she had Corruption.
>I want to buy that thing that everyone else hates.
>I bet she's dead and Mirror is jewing us out of gifts. I knew we shoulda gone with Baalzamon.

>>38395827
FotO would hopefully help us with Genius Loci in the future and now.

>>38395874
kek

Looks like talking to Lirael won out, writing

>>38395891
At best it would allow us to make animals too.

>>38395900
If we level it to increase growth rate and couple it with a certain aspect we have. it'd help a lot.

>>38395874
You missed
>STFU about her stealing our scry power with impossibility. Mirror said he had that covered.

>>38395874
>Just talk to her and offer her the deal. What's she gonna do, summon a giant monster?
>Yeah, totally ignore that she's PISSED and has that Family aspect, which formed the entire basis of our last plan to kill her

>“By the Mother!” exclaims one of the Rainyas

You know, I really want to buy some Ichor gifts for Rainya now to reflect her growth in that regard in this month.

>>38395868
You know, this might work with impossible plants.

>>38395675
I think the assuption-making would be awesome if it wasn't because it was communicated via passive-agressive taunts, irony and arrogance
exhibit A
>>38395669
exhibit B
>>38395515
exhibit C
>>38395640

>>38395980
When did people on this site get so sensitive?
Grow a thicker skin then.

>>38395933
>Guys we should get out of here, she knows we're here and if she's still alive she'll be coming hard and fast.
>Phew this is the heart of our power why would we move?
>Because she could corrupt the rest of the forest?
>Doubtful the forest stopped her, no way she's that powerful. Besides running would cost us this place we worked way too hard for it.
>Dude she's going fuck us up.
>Please she's not even an avatar.

>>38396000
>implying she isn't secretly Baalzamons Avatar
>She makes bullshit vampire plants, how obvious does it need to be?

>>38395980
A test then.

You're all a bunch of raging hormone-using ladyboy faggots.

Now, let's see what the response is to this common, quite natural 4chanese greeting.

>>38396028
I wish I was.

>>38396028
You aren't going to get anyone angry on /tg/ with ladyboy.
Aroused, maybe.

Just watch, our new forest starts expanding from here to cover more of the world with green.

>>38396020
>Nar she's just Pallybs WiSue

>>38396020
>An Avatar of Baalzamon having family Aspect? Are you retarded?
>She's Obviously Ichor's avatar. She used her power stealing gift to steal all those other powers from reunited and vampires.

>>38396052
>thinking Baalzamons Avatar can't fake a Aspect
>She let that dude fucking bleed out right next to her, if she actually had family aspect she couldn't have done that

>>38396052
>let's just Arm Wrestle her. We know she's not good with Jaggantha, so what could go wrong?

You wander over to Lirael “heya sis” you say “How’re you doing?”

Its several minutes before Lirael replies, her eyelids fluttering open “Shee!” she says happily “we’re sooo glad you’re ok, we thought you’d never wake up!”

“Uh, we...?” you ask.

Again, Liraels reply is a few minutes coming, until she speaks she just beams up at you, still wrapped in vines “Randolph and I” says Lirael “We’ve been talking a lot – yes I’ll tell her Randolph be patient – the lady with the spider-legs convinced the forest you were evil and that it had to destroy us but by the time it attacked Randolph was just starting to wake up and – I’m getting to that part, geeze! – he protected us, he’s fighting for survival against the forest and keeping us alive, yes alright! Randolph says he’s sorry the forest tried to kill you to make him and he didn’t know what was happening and he’s separate from it and please forgive him mummy?”

Wait, mummy?

“What have you been telling *Randolph* Lirael?” you ask.

Again that weird pause “We found out that the new plants were made from you Shee” says Lirael “especially when they started growing bloodfruits, so when I started sensing Randolph I told him about that and explained mummies and daddies to him and so now he knows your his mummy and the old forest is nasty and bad” here Lirael falters “but its still his daddy I guess” and then she brightens up “and I’m his auntie.”

“That’s great Lirael” you say faintly, slightly bemused at her reasoning, adding “so you haven’t been hungry at all or...?”

“Oh no” says Lirael. One of the vines wrapped around her uncoils and you see a large ripe bloodfruit handing from it.

“Randolph wants to know if you’re hungry” says Lirael.

>>38396052
She has powers from all four elements gods
She is the AVATAR

You take the bloodfruit and bite into it carefully. It’s as sweet and tasty as those you made in your own realm, with a strange but not unpleasant aftertaste, something about the soil it grew in perhaps? Or that it was made from your own blood?

“It’s nice” you say “very sweet.” Lirael smiles up at you, again that strange pause, seems *Randolph* is faster at talking and thinking than the forest itself, but not quite human-fast.

Actions?

>Talk to Lirael some more (topic?)
>Try to contact *Randolph*
>Talk to someone else (who?)
>Get everyone together, planning time
>Go looking for Kaelyn
>Other (what?)

>>38396057
>He died immediately dude. She couldn't have saved him which was the point. To make the bitch hurt.
>Besides Growing plants is Ichor's domain.

>>38396065
She's a psi, she can buff her strength on her own. She doesn't need Jaggantha to fuck us up in CC.

>>38396088
>Try to contact *Randolph*

>>38396034
>>38396039
Different test.
So Shee got raped by the forest, Randolph is her rape-baby and old forest is the rapist, wat do?

>>38396077
>mummy
Oh damn.

Does... Does this make Ichor happy? I know this isn't really what she had in mind, but it is our kid and she wanted us to have kids.

>>38396088
>Go looking for Kaelyn
make sure she's ok then
>Try to contact *Randolph*

>>38396088
>Send someone to go looking for Kaelyn and gather everyone
>Try to contact *Randolph*

>>38396088
>>Go looking for Kaelyn

>>38396088
>Try to contact *Randolph*
>Go looking for Kaelyn
Find her boy.

>>38396109
Embrace Randolph kill the old forest, obviously.

>>38396109
>implying Shee didn't rape the forest

>>38396088
>Try to contact *Randolph*
>Go looking for Kaelyn

>>38396088
>Try to contact *Randolph*

>>38396088
>Other
Spend a little time with Rainya
Then
>Try to contact *Randolph*

>>38396109
No anon, you got that wrong. Shees Corruption transformed the forest after she entered him.
So the forest 'tried' to rape Shee, but then she reversed it and raped him.

Femdom on forest reversal.

You have the weirdest fetishes Pally.

>>38396109
Beat the old forest into submission and feed its body to our son.

We're going to be a god, may as well start acting like it.

>>38396088
>Go looking for Kaelyn

>>38396088
>Try to contact *Randolph*

>>38396085
The Avatar is the avatar of Raava, the spirit of Good and Order, bending all elements is a side effect of Wan intentionally learning all four.

>>38396085
>Water
>Fire
>Shadow
>FLEX
Only the Sheevatard can control them all.

>>38396088
Could we contact Randy and ask if he knows where Kae is at some point?

Is Dev late for work yet?

>>38396164
>Could we contact Randy and ask if he knows where Kae is at some point?

given all the look for Kae votes I expect that will be in the conversation, yes

>Send someone to go looking for Kaelyn and gather everyone
>Try to contact *Randolph*

>>38396077
>Wait, mummy?
>Ichor favour incoming

>>38396173
Poor Dev.

Maybe we'll be able to open our own shop and put Dev in charge.

King would probably like it if we had our friends be in charge of people.

>>38396173
Probably fired, The Waystation likely captured by anti-magic cultists, with our realm invaded.

>>38396088
>Go looking for Kaelyn

>>38396065
>What do you mean "she brain raped the forest and had a baby"
>FUCKING MAGICAL REALM ICHOR BULLSHIT FUCK

>>38396173
Hopefully we can use our Deception mod to convince them we are a botanist and made a small expedition on which we had accident.

>>38396206
>Well at elast we lead to her restaurant captured by Sirynens and her peronsal realm invaded. That counts for something right? She has no presence in the city now.
>As if it mattered the Kullen patriarch has the police out for her blood and Kulrathe is turning the city upside down to find her.
>of course all this doesn't matter as she is right next to us on the FUCKING MAP!

>>38396173
Well, without wanting to stire anything. But I remember more artifice would allows ut to make machines that can be brought into the real world.

So that would be a good way to make them forgive Dev, if combined with a plausible excuse.
Might even get us a neat partnership with the mechanics.

A mixture of get someone to fetch Kaelyn and get everyone together whilst you enjoy some mother/son time.

Writing

I can't wait for Ichor to make some comment about how this only counts as one kid. Bet she has some cheeky remark about how we have a thing for family with one mind in a spread-out body.

>>38396265
Between him and Lirael we have two.

>>38396230
I wonder who the waifu is on Chaos Sorceress Cyborg Quest.

>>38396282
Probably the forest, she needed to do something to turn it against Shee. Of course given she killed her husband take it with a grain of sand.

>>38396295
Forest husbando?
I wonder if she feels NTRd now.

>>38396300
No, no , no She husband him after Shee raped him. Best way to get him on her side. Poor thing Doesn't know she'll dump him after she has what she wants.

>>38396282
>When she demanded Jade's head on a plate I almost had my beastmen kill her right then and there
>But for the ruse to work I had to maintain my calm demeanor
>I felt sick when I said 'An unusual request, but one that doesn’t present a problem, anything else?'.
>This bitch is going to die

>>38396311
>taking used goods
>As if, we just off him like the other one afterwards
>You shitty edgelords just keep fucking things up with killing our lovers and making Ichor hate us

>>38396320
>She knows, she was messing with us.

>>38396336
>Ichor's powers suck anyways, no loss.
>Those Tentacle are pretty baller though we missed out.
>Stop it with the muh tentacle fetish.
>>38396353
>You think so? I thought we covered our tracks on that pretty well.

>>38396369
She has so many bullshit abilitys and has been looking into the rules the 5 set. she's OP and Pallyb is looking to stop running quests.

>>38396414

>I can't wait for this Quest to go up in flames when we lose because PallyB has her pull some bullshit new abilities out of nowhere. Again.

>>38396414
>Mirror Told us she had all of their backing at one point. Did you really expect someone with Impossibility as an aspect to go down easily? It didn't help we really fucked up our opening attack.

>Goddamnit bullshit psychich gestalt dickery.
>I told you faggots. We should have tamed the War Follower, now we lost everything again.
>STOP FORCING THIS SUE ON US PALLYB FUCK
>this is bullshit, why are we facing the BBEG this soon in the quest, damnit.

You head over to one of the Rainyas on watch “Where’s Kaelyn?” you ask. Rainya turns to you “Shee you really should be resting” she says “you look awful.”

“Thanks” you say with a half-smile

Rainya seems a little flustered “I mean, you look great considering what you went through, but you look sick, you should be lying down.”

“I’ll live” you say “for now, can you get everyone together, including Kaelyn, I need to talk to uh, Randolph, I guess.”

“Oh I couldn’t do that” protests Rainya “Kae doesn’t like to be interrupted on her hunting trips, but don’t worry, she should be back in an hour.”

You open your mouth to tell her to fetch Kaelyn, but then you recall, you’ve been gone for a month, perhaps Kaelyn stepped up to take charge...either way a problem for later.

You head back to Lirael and sit down next to her “Lirael can you introduce me to Randolph?” you ask.

“Sure” says Lirael after a few minutes, and then you feel her mind reach out to yours and-

“Mother!” says an unfamiliar voice in your mind, clearly happy to be speaking to you. It feels at little like the forest you spoke to earlier, but only in that it’s a non-human mind, the individual *feel* of it is very different.

“Ah Randolph?” you ask “I’m Shee, Shee Hyul, how are you?”

“I’m great!” says Randolph “Auntie Lirael has been telling me all about you and I’m so happy to meet you and Lirael said you’d make it all better and tell me what I should be doing and-”

You cut the enthusiastic greeting short “All better?” you ask “what’s wrong?”

“It’s Father!” you get a sense of a whining tone “the *Creator* he keeps talking about keeps telling him I need to die, or become part of him, I don’t want to do either, so he’s always at me, pushing at the edges, trying to destroy me!”

“How’s that going?” you ask, more than a little concerned.

>>38396473
TFW killing her nets us favor with The Reaper.

“Ugh! He’s so slow, and stupid! He takes forever to adapt to anything new, like, weeks, I’d have beaten him already!” boasts Randolph “but he’s so big and strong, I think he might be able to wear me down, maybe, but now you’re here, we can beat him together!”

You decide not to respond to that and ask instead “Do you know where Kaelyn is?”

“Oh sure” says Randolph and you see a picture of Kaelyn wearing stained travelling clothes...impaling the torn off head of a beastman onto a wooden spear and planting it in the ground, whistling to herself.

At her back in the familiar, if unusual plants that make up Randolph, and ahead of her is the plants, and animals that make up the old forest, a border of sorts you suppose.

All around her are dead beastmen, many with heads and limbs twisted at odd angles, some with burns or chunks torn off them. As you watch vines and tree-tentacles wrap around the bodies, pulling them down into the soil. You suppress a shudder at that reminder of your fate.

As you watch Kaelyn heads back deeper into the forest that is Randolph.

“She should be with you soon” notes Randolph.

You prepare to end the connection and start your little conference when Randolph asks “Shee, are you really my mother?” It’s hard to tell, but he sounds a little...scared maybe.

How do you respond?

>Yes
>No
>Other (what?)

(Yes pleases the Ichor in the Depths)

>>38396499
>>Yes

>>38396499
>Yes

>>38396499
>Yes

>>38396499
>Yes, technically I'm your father, since the bforest gave birth to after I fertilized him

>>38396499
>>Yes

It is the truth. You were born from my blood.

I tried to talk to your Father first, but he was tortured by the one he called the Creator (who is lying).

Because of her, Father has been convinced that I need to die.

>>38396499
>Yes.
>"First thing we need to do is get rid of your Father. As long as he's around, he's a threat."

>>38396499
>Father, actually. But for your purposes, yes.

>>38396499
>Yes, In a way I am

It is the truth. You were born from my blood.

I tried to talk to your Father first, but he was tortured by the one he called the Creator (who is lying).

Because of her, Father has been convinced that I need to die.

We either need to overpower father or convince him of *CREATORS* wrongs

>>38396499
>Yes

>(Yes pleases the Ichor in the Depths)
This really needs to give us a Fecundity level up. Unless there's more plant stuff, I can't think of anything more appropriate.

>>38396499
>>38396521
Does Shee know enough biology to realise that technical truth?
In that case I'm seconding it.
Because its too hilarious.

>>38396499
>Give him a dracanae plant.

>>38396499
Uh, I expected Kaelyn to ditch the clothes and take up the tribal/amazon look, with tattoos and all.

>>38396556
Also Randolph seems to have characteristics from both father and mothe

>actually, I'm your father
>Luke_Skywalker_no.jpg

Do people really want to go the father answer?

I wonder how dad will react when we tell him he's a grandfather now and the kid is a giant hybrid of forest and chaoswell.

>>38396585
No.

>>38396585
n

>>38396585
I want to, I don't want to give poor education to our first child.

>>38396585
>No.

>>38396585
No.

>>38396585
Sure, its the truth.

>>38396585
Mom is fine, but whatever, really
Father might make more sense, but...

>>38396585
Well, its true, so, I see no reason why not.
>Yes

>>38396585
Yeah, no. Mother is fine, and will confuse Lirael as well.

>>38396585
Eh, sure.
Don't think it makes a difference, but as a thought he picks up from Shee it would be pretty funny.

>>38396585
yes

>>38396585

no

>>38396585
N

>>38396585
No.

>>38396585
Nah, Mother is good.

>>38396573
>delicious tribal warrior Kaelyn
I would have liked that.

>>38396585
>No

>>38396585
Explain how the mother/father thing works but say we like mother.
on that note we have another mum for him to meet maybe.

Is there a particular reason why the opposition to the joke?
I mean, its literally and objectively true.

>>38396585
>yes

ok, mother it is

>>38396585
>No
Why confuse the thing?

Christz, people actually samefag this shit?
Both people samefagging No and yes should start looking really hard at what the fuck they are doing here.

>>38396624
>, and will confuse Lirael as well
Lirael knows pretty well how it works, at worst she would have teased Shee about it.

I wonder what Rainya will say about our unfaithfullness...

>>38396703
>Shee, why didn't you invite? This was so kinky...

“Yes” you say “I am” you briefly wonder about telling him about how he was made from your blood and the body of the old forest confuses the mother/father labels a little, but why confuse him, he’s only a month old.

“Thank you” he says simply “mother...”

You close off the connection and are left with a lingering feeling of longing, and loneliness.

You and Lirael both rise and head over to where the Rainyas are cooking, seems that lunch is ready. You notice that both vines and their shadows reach after you and Lirael plaintively.

“Dev?” says Rainya “Dev leave the power packs alone, you’ve cooked them too many times already.”

Grumbling, Dev pokes the power packs out of the fire and heads over “Shee?” he says with a look of surprise “You’re up, wow, good for you, are you feeling ok?”

You shake your head and laugh “You didn’t notice?” you ask “I’ve been sat with Lirael for a couple of hours”.

Dev shrugs and blushes “caught up in my work I guess” he says. He is saved from further embarrassment by the arrival of Kaelyn.

“Shee darling” she says, hugging you “so glad you’re back, how’re you feeling?”

You know you will get tired of that question soon.

“I’m fine” you say “bit hungry, bit tired, but fine.”

“Excellent” says Kaelyn “lets eat, and then plan.” Well someone is in a take charge mood...

As you sit down and eat, Kaelyn tells the Rainyas, Dev and Lirael what’s she has been doing, where the beastmen tried to invade, and what weapons they were using.

As she talks you feel the liquid power of the Ichor in the Depths roiling within you.

Accept Gift?

>Y/N

DC 25