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You reach instinctively to your chest, feeling for your brooch. Of course its not there, you took it off when you shed your robes. You extricate yourself from Aisha, mumbling something about washing yourself by way of excuse. However, as you rise from the bed you notice something digging uncomfortably into your back. A cursory examination reveals the cause of your discomfort, your communication brooch has embedded itself in the fabric of the mattress.

You quickly pluck your brooch from the fabric of the mattress, careful not to tear the cotton wrap, and carry it with you into Aisha's bedroom. You slide the door shut and run the water, only then turning your attention to the mental connection shared between you and Profectus. {What do you mean?}

A general sense of amusement, tempered by vague annoyance, drifts through the mental link. {I mean you've been waking me up every few minutes or so to bombard my thoughts with images of you screwing some woman. By the way, are all Samjan hairless down there or does she remove the hair? Don't get me wrong, last time I checked Elven women didn't exactly grow a bramble bush between their legs, but-}

You can't be bothered to pay attention while he elucidates the differences in pubic hair growth between the various sapient races. Rather, your thoughts turn towards your other companions. Did you transmit only to Profectus, or to everyone linked to you via the brooches? Do you really want to find out?
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Fulvia's voice intrudes upon your increasingly worried thoughts, the vastness of her alien mind brushing against your own. {I am pleased to see that you have found release, Dux. It is often the case that a commanding officer who too strictly refrains from the pleasures of the flesh finds his thoughts clouded. That said, I must caution against over indulgence. Such physical exertion may lead to a pulled muscle or the shirking of one's duties in favor of more pleasurable pursuits.}

Pani be merciful, Fulvia saw it too? Wait, maybe Fulvia seeing it isn't such a bad thing. If you recall correctly, she constantly monitors the network of connections between you and your companions. {Fulvia, who have I been in communication with? Who else did I show that too?}

She responds with her usual promptness. {In alphabetical order you have been in communication with Chryssa, Darzi, Demetrios, myself, Master Karim, Mortia, Profectus, and Thaddeus over the last six hours and thirteen minutes. I believe this is everyone to which your brooch is attuned. Thaddeus has been unreachable since shortly after you began to transmit your thoughts, Darzi has been unreachable for five hours and forty six minutes, and Chryssa has been unreachable for exactly five hours.}

Gods above, this is bad. You're not particularly concerned about most of your companions, though you do worry for Chrys. Knowing her she's either locked herself in her room or resolved to cave your skull in upon your return. This is bad. This is really bad.

>You need an excuse. (Write-in)
>No, it would be best to own up and apologize.
>Why should you apologize? You don't owe them anything!
>Write-in

>>40761975
>No, it would be best to own up and apologize.

>>40761975
>No, it would be best to own up and apologize.

>>40761975
>>You need an excuse. (Write-in)
We had a dream, a wet dream, this is why you don't sleep.

>>40761975
>No, it would be best to own up and apologize.

>>40761975
>No, it would be best to own up and apologize.

>>40762019
Nah, excuses are for pussies.

>>40761975
>>You need an excuse. (Write-in)
It was a dream.
Fulvia can know the truth I suppose, it's for the best, she'd understand, leaders have their secrets.

>>40761942
>No, it would be best to own up and apologize.

>>40761975
>>No, it would be best to own up and apologize.
Sorry you all saw me grind the nasty

>>40761975
>>No, it would be best to own up and apologize.
Oh shit, Be careful where you leave them brooches man. Shits wierd

>>40762019
Soma confirmed this excuse would have an effective DC of around 25.

>>40762019
If you go fishing for excuses at least make a believing one.
>I struck a deal with a particularly rich associate of her and she helped me secure it. This was her choosing method of repayment.

>>40761975
>No, it would be best to own up and apologize

>>40761975
>No, it would be best to own up and apologize.

>>40761995
>>40762016
>>40762028
>>40762043
>>40762054
>>40762058
>>40762066
Or we could tel them it was a dream and avoid DRAMA.
>>40762084
It's perfectly believable.
It's not about them knowing we fucked someone, it's about them having seen it.
Tell them we did fuck her, but not today, this was just a dream, or something.

>>40762105
K

>>40762084
>dream
>not believable
Nigger it came in flashes like a dream would, mik is pent up so why wouldn't he dream about it, mik is insane so why wouldn't he accudently broadcast it?

>>40762105
>enjoy Chryss leaving with our dragon son
>implying

>>40762019
>>40761975
Supporting.

>>40762105
Such baseless assumption.

>>40761975
>No, it would be best to own up and apologize.

>>40762131
Zahak has spent more time with her than with us, at this point.

>>40762131
Who's been raising him? We've been gone more than we've been around.

>>40762164
After the city was destroyed?

Jesus, anons are fucking paranoid.

>>40762169
That did seem to be an important detail.

>>40762169
The city where we lived, our life.
Our life crumbling down due to a hot fiery beast.

>>40761975
For the dream, use Metal magic for mental boost too.

>>40762185
You're not even trying to pretend you're not samefagging anymore.

>>40762179
I would be happy if the Horn bitch took dragon son. It would stop a lot of faggatory in this quest

>>40762155
>>40762158
>>40762164

>Nat 30: +6 on incredibly rare rolls Nat 3: Party relations on the rocks and two unknown events. >biggest hitter has left the party >second biggest hitter has defected to biggest hitters faction >prof: You still have my shitty ass

>Those are some big assumptions.

From the ask.fm

>>40761995
>>40762016
>>40762028
>>40762043
>>40762054
>>40762058
>>40762066
>>40762109
>>40762110
>>40762153
>Apologize, own up to it.

>>40762019
>>40762075
>>40762126
>>40762145
>>40762051
>>40762144
>>40762145
>It was all just a dream.

Looks like apologizing takes it. All these non-unique post for the dream vote. Sheesh.

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Always remember when things are terrible

And everything is falling apart

Things could be much worse

>>40762179
Did you forget it was a natural 3? Did you forget soma feeds upon our plight?

>>40762233
lol suck it nerd

>>40762206
Yeah man.
We should also ditch the cloak, it's been making things too easy.
Where's the fun if we don't have to scrape by every day fighting for survival by the skin of our teeth, am I right?
We should assassinate Kadir publicly, then fuck off somewhere, it'd be fun to have the whole of the Shahdom after us!

>>40762233
Reminder:
>>nat30
>+6 to some rolls
>get out safely from a situation confirmed not dangerous by Soma

>>nat3
>party relationship fuckup
>TWO other bad things coming our way in addition

>>40762213
Fucking rigged.

>>40762267
Sure do love me some party drama. Uh huh not the worst thing in quests, especially when it's easily avoidable.

>>40762260
If you want somebody to blame, blame the one who rolled the nat 3 last thread. It'.s his fault this is even happening.

>>40762267
>A Terrible Thing to Waste: You understand perfectly that you are the only one with dominion over your mind. +4 to meditation and finalization rolls, +6 to resisting outside influences.
All this L&M. It's like I'm really in a QTG.

>+4 to meditation
>+4 to enchanting
>+6 to resisting mindfuckery

>>40762292
That guy should be ashamed, but so should all the faggots voting for party drama.

>>40762260
Oh no, anon you have shown me the way.Fag

Guys, guys. Stop the saltworks. Enjoy the ride. No autism, alright?

Rolled 1, 10, 10 = 21 (3d10)

Rolling for nothing.

>>40762332
No, fuck you

>>40762332
>>40762332
>>40762332

>>40762332
>No autism
Your in the wrong place friend

>>40762305
>meditation
Fair.
>enchanting
Wow why would we ever use that? -anon every time we talk about enchanting
>resisting mindfuckery
The rarest shit.
It doesn't balance anon

Rolled 4, 5, 2 = 11 (3d10)

>>40762344
Rolling for the fate of the universe

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

>>40762305
Wow, so +4 to some magic shit, and an additional +2 for mind shit
AMAZING
>>40762344
kay

>>40762332
>God just enjoy the shitty party drama and listen to your companions drone at you about something a dice roll caused.
No anon, I wouldn't care that much if it wasn't for one thing, we didn't cause this, a single dice roll, not our choices, a dice roll.

Rolled 10, 8, 3 = 21 (3d10)

rolling for wet dream explanation

>>40762354
A terrible thing to waste is permanent. This will pass in time. Also +6 to anti-mindfuckery, while rarely used, is extremely valuable because mindfuckery is the single greatest threat to mik and the quest.

>>40762386
Did I fucking stutter?

Rolled 1, 4, 10 = 15 (3d10)

Rolling to kill ourselves

>>40761975
>Fulvia was completely okay with it.
Confirmed for best waifu.

Rolled 2, 3, 5 = 10 (3d10)

>>40762386
A dice roll that only existed because Soma was drunker than usual and some fag suggested it.
>>40762393
kek no
Mik could easily be permakilled by anyone decently powerful

>>40762386
>we [Mik] didn't cause this
>a single dice roll did this
2meta4me

>>40762405
Naw, you made a shitty decision. And we're gonna keep reminding you faggots of that fact

>>40762386
I mean, if we hadn't elected to screw Aisha then we wouldn't be in this situation to begin with.
So in a way, our decision did cause this.

>>40762441
Oh anon I now see how right you are please continue to tell me how to play a quest on the internet.

>>40762441
That was my first post in the thread. But you are right, I'd have chosen the 'shitty decision'. Please don't let the saltgates open any further.

I'd almost forgotten why I hate this playerbase so much.

Rolled 2, 8, 7 = 17 (3d10)

check it

>>40762478
It's nice that you found a way to feel superior to everyone, anon. Keep on rocking.

Rolled 2, 3, 3 = 8 (3d10)

>>40762481
You dropped these

>>40762460
>nah I'm going to sleep
>roll to dream
>nat 3
You die lol
No anon, it was a drunken call for a roll that shouldn't have even happened

>>40762503
It's not my fault you're a degenerate.

>>40762470
>>40762472
How about you stop being a smug higher-than-though cunt and actually consider the consequences of your actions? I know it's a bit beyond your conception, but at least try.

>>40762515
Soma gets drunk for every thread. Get used to it, he's an alcoholic

>>40762516
:(
>>40762527
That makes no sense, stop being an autist.

Rolled 4, 5, 10 = 19 (3d10)

>>40762478
Because they vote for retarded options that lead to drama, when it'd be in character for Mik to lie about this?
Yeah, me too.

>>40762535
>niggers shoot people everyday get used to it
No

>>40762527
No really anon I now see that the decision you would have made is much better than mine and I will follow your lead from now on

>>40762545
Nah because they overreact. And other things.

>>40762543
>actually consider the consequences of your actions>
>That makes no sense
kek

>>40762543
You didn't consider the consequences of your actions when Soma warned us of "shitting where you eat." You didn't consider the consequences of deviating from our policy of "taking the personal feelings of our team-mates into account."

>>40762564
You know it was. A clean, easy solution, that you disregarded for "muh drama." Man, fuck you. The reasoning you chose to resolve this situation was inferior in every single way, and the you are in proxy inferior in every single way. I don't need you.

>>40762567
But they didn't?

>>40762527
>>40762582
>>40762588
So now we lie to our friends in our attempt to consider the consequences of our actions.
Simply ebin :^)

>>40762601
No, we lie to our friends to preserve our team dynamic so we can focus on the dragons that are burning down the kingdom and the insane entity inside our head, instead of putting our relationship bollocks into the forefront of the quest. Or is advanced planning a foreign concept to your little walnut brain?

>>40762588
Man anon,I can not be any clearer when I say that you are right and I am dumb. Please help me make better choices in this quest

>>40762622
Oh I see, I am sorry anon. I'll make mik act like trash who'd set fire to bars in the future.

This quest is too meta

Rolled 3, 1, 9 = 13 (3d10)

>>40762601
Tell a white lie to save dignity and embarrassment for several parties, not lose respect from them, and preserve some of Aisha's dignity, and to avoid drama.
>"Muh lying is baaaad!!!!!"
You fags had no problem lying to Kadir

>>40762631
>>40762640

That's the thing, no one can you fucking dipshit. I literally can't because you're stupid subhuman trash that constantly screws up everything, and can't resist it due to your own personal, deeply ingrained inferiority compared to my big fucking smart-ass self. So I can only enjoy berating you and watching you type smug comments as I rail your ass with your own stupidity. And I am quite enjoying it because it's like beating a retarded two year old, the effort you're putting in to justify yourself. Keep responding, so I have more excuses to shit up the thread you ingrate.

>>40762663
>kadir
>friend
:^)
No but sure, I'm certain your autistic whining is a brilliant example of understanding human interaction. I'll be certain to follow your lead from now on

Rolled 9, 3, 8 = 20 (3d10)

>>40762640
That is literally what Mik is.

>>40762662
the amount of salt being generated is enough to become a millionaire by devising a way to convert the sheer saltiness in 4-chan into actual salt.

I bet the fags voting for apology were the ones who voted for the mask, the ones who can't or won't listen to reason.

>>40762702
>sensationalistic buzzwords and autistic rage
You sure showed me buddy. Want some ass relief cream?

Fuck. Why do I even follow this quest

>>40762743
Cuz the story is pretty cool sometimes

I'm just waiting for Karim reaction to our 6h fuckathon.
He'd either "buy" it or call us on our shit if we told it was a wet dream.

Rolled 4, 9, 2 = 15 (3d10)

>>40762743
Because you're a shit human being.

More than a hundred posts, and nothing's happened.

>>40762767
We are all shitty people

>>40762770
>nothing
Soma made an important vote at the start of a thread and worst option won.

>>40762770
Salt happened

Rolled 1, 3, 4 = 8 (3d10)

>>40762770
>nothing
kek

>>40762770
Soma went from one of the fastest QM to one of the slowest(still there's much slower QM).
Feels bad man

>>40762742
No, because that would mean stopping. And just like the niggers, once you stop reminding them of their inferiority, your people start getting uppity. So I will continue to remind you that you are infact, a blathering, blithering moron with the decision making skills of an over-ripe tomato. Towelheads are smarter than you. Indigenous goat fuckers are more sensible than you. Early caveman and troglodytes had a better sense of propriety than you.

You have bad decision making skills, and should be resented and disrespected for the next five or however many hours this run lasts. And I will do precisely that.

>>40762795
He also sucks on the bottle like a homeless man

>>40762798
Well anon, I think that means that I've won.
You throwed the towel in way too early, I was enjoying this.
Stay mad.

You briefly toy with the idea of explaining it away as a wet dream, but ultimately decide against it. You need to own up to this, and accept whatever consequences may come as a man. You probe the various links between your mind and the minds of your friends, trying to discern who's still awake.

Mortia's thoughts are a chaotic swirl of emotions, the most immediately identifiable being curiosity followed shortly thereafter by confusion. She seems awake. Profectus' thoughts are slowed and lethargic, you'd guess that he's only just woken up or he's smoked something. Of course, Fulvia is awake. You'd have difficulty discerning whether she's thinking or merely sitting idle, but she's certainly awake.

Your old Master seems to be asleep, his thoughts reach you only as subdued burst. The same is true of Demetrios, save his are much more vivid. He seems trapped in the midst of a fever dream, images of a great tower set alight reaching you briefly only to be washed away a moment later. Chryssa, Darzi, and Skull Kid are still unreachable, as much as you probe the connections to their brooches you feel nothing.

You're not sure whether you should apologize now or wait until later in the morning? You know most of your companions tend to sleep in rather late. Perhaps you could begin the journey back to your estate now so you can apologize in person? You've no other pressing matters to attend to, besides the payment of Aylin's tuition. You could always handle that via the brooches, with Demetrios acting as your proxy.

>Apologize to those of your companions who are awake, you may as well.
>You should really wait until morning, that way you can get it all out of the way at once.
>Gather your things and set off through the Cat's realm to El-Amin. Best to do this in the flesh.
>Write-in

>>40762814
He's almost Finnish drunkard tier

>>40762844
>Gather your things and set off through the Cat's realm to El-Amin. Best to do this in the flesh.

>>40762844
>Gather your things and set off through the Cat's realm to El-Amin. Best to do this in the flesh.

>>40762844
>Gather your things and set off through the Cat's realm to El-Amin. Best to do this in the flesh.

>>40762844
>>Gather your things and set off through the Cat's realm to El-Amin. Best to do this in the flesh.

>>40762844
>Apologize to those of your companions who are awake, you may as well.

>>40762844
>>Gather your things and set off through the Cat's realm to El-Amin. Best to do this in the flesh.

>>40762844
>vote to apologise
>5ever waiting
>whole post of not doing it
>another vote on WHEN to apologise
>next vote will be HOW to apologise
Party drama 5ever

>>40762839
I don't think you understand where this conversation is going, just like I don't think you understand where your choices are going.

Reminder that the reason for this is because you're stupid and you make stupid decisions that I really can't blame a stupid person for making because of their stupidity, of which you have in excess.

>>40762844
>Apologize to those of your companions who are awake, you may as well.

>>40762903
:)

>>40762844

>Gather your things and set off through the Cat's realm to El-Amin. Best to do this in the flesh.

Hey guys, remember that we have an IRC channel for your massive faggotry to go on about shit in.

Otherwise this is going to just turn into MGNQ #2

>>40762844
>Gather your things and set off through the Cat's realm to El-Amin. Best to do this in the flesh.

>>40762844
>Apologize to those of your companions who are awake, you may as well.

>>40762844
>>You should really wait until morning, that way you can get it all out of the way at once.

>>40762844
>drive an ice spike through our skull we don't deserve to live

>>40762844
>>Gather your things and set off through the Cat's realm to El-Amin. Best to do this in the flesh.

Mostly I just want to abuse our teleportation abilities.

>>40762844
>Gather your things and set off through the Cat's realm to El-Amin. Best to do this in the flesh.

>>40762922
I'm going to have to take my car for an oil change, so I'll be an hour away from the thread. Please, take this as a rough approximation for the next hour, if I were still here.

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>>40762844
>Gather your things and set off through the Cat's realm to El-Amin. Best to do this in the flesh.
soma why are you so awful at writing anything related to romance in this quest?

>>40762939
>>40762925
>>40762898
>>40762886
>>40762878
>>40762877
>>40762872
>>40762997
>>40763019
>Gather your things and set off via the Cat's realm to El-Amin.

>>40762894
>>40762904
>>40762943
>Apologize to folks who are awake.

>>40762946
>>40762921
>>40762996
>Viper - Kill Urself My Man

>>40762944
>Wait

Writin'

>>40763017
:(

>>40763019
That's not really his fault. It's mostly us screaming about waifufags and antiwaifufags and having that impact our voting instead of doing in character actions.

Like I said this quest is too meta.

>>40763019
Because he doesn't want this quest to be about romance.

>>40763057
He handled it poorly regardless of the players choices

And now we get to go all the way back to el-Amin, not paying ayy's fees, to get moaned and bitched at by our companions because we rolled badly.
Fun right guys?

>>40763064
Yet he threw in Chryssa's crush.

>>40763019
Because he writes his characters using a list of traits

>>40763098
We'll make Deme pay for Ayy's shit.

>>40762844
>>Gather your things and set off through the Cat's realm to El-Amin. Best to do this in the flesh.
Say goodbye to Aisha though.

>>40763064
Why does he make it about romance and romance drama, then?

>>40763019
Because his area of expertise is incestuous romance

>>40763098
>GOD MIK WHY ARE YOU SUCH A HORRIBLE PERSON
>You really hurt my feelings
>God damn mik I'm an evil bank robber but you fucked up
>blah blah blah
>blah blah blah blah
>options are to take it up the ass because we gud boy or to ignore them
>take it up the ass wins because /tg/ is gud boy
>because we rolled bad on a drunkeness call for a roll
>this is going to take multiple threads.

>>40763019
> Realistic reactions to what we do

> People with opinions other than whatever is convenient for MC

> Actual lines in the sand that people will not forgive us for crossing.

> No Harem ending if we picked Best Girl

Seriously, faggot, if you had a better idea you could always try to write it in. But you don't. Or people don't want to do it. Get over it, or leave. No-one will miss you.

>>40763216
Thad probably doesn't care. Only Horn Bitch will probably care

I hope you people realize that not telling people it was a wet dream is actually the douchebag thing to do.
We just slept with a girl, made a sex tape without her knowledge, then gave it to all our friends to watch as they please, and didn't even bother mosaic'ing her face out.

>>40763201
rekt

>>40763247
>douchebag thing to do.
So par for the course.

>>40763236
>implying Chrys is best girl
absolute pleb

>>40763236
>best girl
Funny way of saying degenerate filth.

>>40763240
And Darzi.
And Karim will bother us about it forever.
And Prof will bother us about it forever.
And Zahak will be upset about Chrys being upset.
And SK will tell us we fucked up.

>>40763316
Because we rolled bad on a drunken call for a roll.

>>40763240
>>40763316
>Not realizing that polygamy is acceptable in Mik's culture (i.e. His dad has more than one wife)
>Not realizing that we could've explained this cultural shit to Chrys so that she'd be okay with Mik fucking another girl.
>Not realizing Harem option is perfectly viable.

>>40763331
Also because you guys keep voting to rawdog randoms

>>40763351
>not realizing we already explained that shit to Chrys
>not realizing she already said she'd only agree to monogamy
>not realizing Harem routeis the plan right now

Whatchu fags listening to atm?

>>40763351
>not realizing she called polygamy disgusting when we talked to her about it
>being retarded
>>40763352
>this would have happened even without the roll
No

>>40763388
Replaying Dishonored.

>>40763388
Kung Fu Yu - BBoss

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You take a few minutes to wash yourself, scouring your body clean with a strigil and then lathering yourself briefly with scented oils before finally rinsing yourself in the bath water. Once you no longer smell like a whore house you slip out of the bathroom as quietly as you can manage, crossing into Aisha's bedroom. She's waiting for you, propped up on her elbows when you arrive. Her smile falters as you begin to retrieve your clothes.

Aisha pushes herself fully into a sitting position, her expression confused and perhaps slightly hurt. “You're leaving so soon? Please, rest here the night. I'd prefer the company.”

You smile apologetically, struggling for a moment with your trousers. “As much as I'd love to my companions have called me to El-Amin.” You hold up your brooch, as if by way of explanation. “Dragons were seen circling above, and they fear an attack is imminent. I'd prefer to be there, just in case something does happen.” Not truly a lie, you are concerned about the increased number of dragons sighted in the area surrounding El-Amin.

Aisha seems to accept this, though she's wary. “You visit Anthus often, do you not?”

You shrug, tugging on your shirt one sleeve at a time and starting to work the buttons. “I suppose that's fair to say, every few weeks or so it seems. Usually I stay for a few days, before turning my attention to other things.”

She nods, pulling the covers around herself. “Good, I hope we can do this again, soon. Perhaps in a slightly more-” She gestures vaguely. “-Romantic setting. At least more romantic than a dockside bar with your friend.”

(1/2)

Of course she'd be clingy. Not that you're wholly against the idea, she seems nice enough. You must admit, she was a good lay. You've never had a woman with quite such extensive muscle control. You consider the idea while pulling on your boots. Would it really be so bad to have a mistress in Anthus?

>Agree, you'd love to do this again sometime.
>Decline, this should really stay just a one-off occurrence.
>Be vague, you'll see how things go but you don't want to commit to anything.
>Write-in

>>40763432
>Agree, you'd love to do this again sometime.

>>40763432
>Agree, you'd love to do this again sometime.

>>40763432
>Be vague, you'll see how things go but you don't want to commit to anything.

>>40763316
>Master Karim
>The man who was rumored to fuck goats
>And who is widely suspected to be a humie fucker.
>Caring.
Heh, no.

>>40763432
>Agree, you'd love to do this again sometime.

>>40763432
>>Agree, you'd love to do this again sometime.

>>40763432
>>Agree, you'd love to do this again sometime.
Winding in the piss

>>40763432
>>Be vague, you'll see how things go but you don't want to commit to anything.
We might die at any moment, don't wanna make promises we can't keep, but we'll keep it in mind.

>>40763432
Set the brooch down and far away from us
>Agree, you'd love to do this again sometime.

>>40763432
>Be vague, you'll see how things go but you don't want to commit to anything.
>Tell her she can contact you through Demetrios at any time though, in case she needs anything.

>>40763432
>>Agree, you'd love to do this again sometime.

>>40763432
Agree to this.

>>40763432
>Agree, you'd love to do this again sometime.
hell yeah motherfucker

>>40763432
>Agree, you'd love to do this again sometime.

>>40763432
>Be vague, you'll see how things go but you don't want to commit to anything.

>>40763432
>Agree, you'd love to do this again sometime.

>>40763432
>Agree, you'd love to do this again sometime.

>>40763479
furry rape columbine shooting....now I´ve seen everything

>>40763388
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYi1cINnHRU

>>40763457
>caring
Who ever said anything about caring?
He'll just use this to embarrass and tease us forever.

>>40763509
okay, I didn't need to see that

>>40763483
>>40763480
>>40763473
>>40763469
>>40763467
>>40763457
>>40763448
>>40763442
>>40763493
>>40763504
>>40763502
>Agree

>>40763475
>>40763471
>>40763453
>>40763500
>Be vague

Writin'

>>40763534
huh well that is interesting...

>>40763548
Contact Mortia right now.
She needs to be calmed down.

>>40763548
if we wanna keep digging your grave deeper, go for it. this shitstorm's as dusty as a desert storm. and why are so many anons posting penis videos behind spoilers?

>>40763604
I keep opening them thinking one is going to be Dio but it's not.

>>40763730
Thanks Anon!

Juden stop posting degenerate shit

Oops, missed the beginning of the thread.

>>40762209
>>40762354
>Nat 30: +6 on incredibly rare rolls
Those +6 are for a thing that might decide almost over life and death, we also used it during the leech tug-of-war with the disciple.
The +4 we use again and again and again. I didn't count how often we succeeded a meditation only because of that trait or how often we had an unassisted success instead of a failure we needed to spend on.
So it's a very very useful trait.

>>40762435
Since Soma counted the nat 30 which was not in the first 3 roll, he had to use the nat 3 which was the 4th roll.

>>40762663
>Tell a white lie to save dignity
A white lie? About broadcasting hot steamy sex in HD 3D+ for hours? Hitting Chrys in her only weak spot? More like a very dark grey lie

Huh, I guess we could have both Aisha and Darzi.

>>40763881
Did you really have to reignite the arguing to feel superior?
How does the subject matter make it less of a white lie when it's to preserve not just ours, but Aisha's dignity, Chrys's emotional stability, and the present party dynamics?

>>40763893
Oh yea we could

>>40763910
Well fuck, At first it was loading and I was fine with horse ass, I mean it's a little funny.

The rest of that? I gagged.... You win.

Fucking hell is this quest's threads nothing but clusterfucks.

Quit being so autistic.

>>40763978
just be quiet and let it pass, fellow anon. shitposters will eventually shit themselves into their own little graves that they've dug filled with their own shit.

>>40764009
Not juden anon not juden

>>40763937
>BBZD
Hahaa

>>40764009
Juden cares not he will continue forever

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You suppose maintaining a mistress wouldn't be such a bad thing. You're young, you're not married. What's the harm in it, really? “I think that sounds lovely, I'll look forward to it upon my next visit to Anthus.”

She smiles, obviously relieved, and you lean back to press your lips briefly against hers. As you stand up to retrieve your robes, a thought occurs to you. If you were to prick her finger on your brooch, and then she were to prick her finger on Demetrios' brooch, she'd be able to contact you via Demetrios. “Actually, give me your hand for a moment.”

She complies, offering her hand. You quickly press the sharpened end of the needle into the tip of her finger until blood's drown. She winces, but heals the cut a moment later. The metal of your brooch seems to absorb the drop, though you feel no new pathways opened. “You're now attuned to my brooch, and I'm attuned to Demetrios'. If you'll talk to him and spill a drop of blood on his brooch, we should be able to communicate freely.”

She raises an eyebrow. “That's useful, just where did you find such an artifact? I imagine such bits of jewelry would be quite common amongst the military of ancient Rhynia yet in all my expeditions I've yet to find a similar artifact.”

You grin. “I bought them off a traveling merchant by the name of Sadik, and I found a few more on an Island off the coast of the Shahdom which housed a Rhynian ruin. Pirates were using them to coordinate. Anyway, I really must be off but do feel free to contact me. I'm planning an expedition into the Pa'vala, so I may not be back for some time.”

(1/3)

Is this nigger fucking serious? Is he really spamming this?

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She smiles, and just as you're about to make for the door she grabs you by the collar of your robes and pulls you in for another kiss. Only after a long several seconds does she release you. “Don't get yourself killed, then. I'll be waiting.” She delivers the last line with a coy grin, before slumping into the sheets of her bed and pulling up the covers. You slip out without another word.

You take a moment to fashion your robes about yourself before slinking out into the hallways. You come upon the sight of two old humans, both grey haired and hobbled by age, playing chess in the central lobby of this floor. They nod briefly in your direction as you ascend the steps to the floor you're staying on. You return the gesture briefly before making your way swiftly to your rooms.

You find your suite of rooms much as you left them, though the coppery scent of blood seems to have seeped into everything. You make your way into the bathroom, where you've stored your various corpses and trophies, as well as the three pelts you still have. You take a moment to draw the moisture from the hides, drying them until you no longer have to worry about rot setting in, then you gather everything up in your arms and focus on your mental image of Mahana.

Nothing happens.

You're crouched there for a solid ten minutes, focusing on the cat spirit and his realm. Trying to get across that you want him to permit you entrance. Just as you sigh in defeat, a soft pop rings in your ears and you find yourself no longer chained within the mortal coil. You, your various prizes, and the bathtub you'd been storing them in have all been transported into the cat's realm. You seem to be lost amongst an endless maze of book shelves, spirits of all shapes and sizes fleeing at the sight of you.
(2/3)

You rise slowly and cautiously, inspecting your surroundings. You've little idea where you are or how you might go about escaping this strange landscape of bookcases towering upwards into the dreary black of the ceiling. You try to recall Mahana's earlier words, regarding traveling through his realm. You need merely focus on a destination and start walking. Eventually, you'll get there.

>Just start walking off, focusing on El-Amin. Turn your stolen bathtub into a cart.
>Try to contact Mahana, and ask if he might guide you. You don't want to risk getting lost.
>Write-in

>>40764198
>>Just start walking off, focusing on El-Amin. Turn your stolen bathtub into a cart.
We don't need to bother the cat

>>40764198
>Just start walking off, focusing on El-Amin. Turn your stolen bathtub into a cart.
Just follow his directions, don't look like a dumb shit in front of the cat.

>>40764198
>>Just start walking off, focusing on El-Amin. Turn your stolen bathtub into a cart.

>>40764198
>>Just start walking off, focusing on El-Amin. Turn your stolen bathtub into a cart.

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>>40764198
>Try to contact Mahana, and ask if he might guide you. You don't want to risk getting lost.

Its our first time so let's be careful

>>40764198
>Just start walking off, focusing on El-Amin. Turn your stolen bathtub into a cart.

>>40764198
>>Try to contact Mahana, and ask if he might guide you. You don't want to risk getting lost.
time to make that ring.

>>40764198
>Just start walking off, focusing on El-Amin. Turn your stolen bathtub into a cart.

>>40764227
We did this already

>>40764198
>Just start walking off, focusing on El-Amin. Turn your stolen bathtub into a cart.

>>40764159
all the better to tune into the IRC channel and hold discussion there and patiently wait for Soma's actual story posts while the shithead entertains no one but himself with his own shit.

>>40764198
>>Just start walking off, focusing on El-Amin. Turn your stolen bathtub into a cart.

>>40764198
>>Just start walking off, focusing on El-Amin. Turn your stolen bathtub into a cart.
In the direction that El-Amin is in the real world in relation to where we were in our room.

>>40764198
>Just start walking off, focusing on El-Amin. Turn your stolen bathtub into a cart.

>>40764246
We did? I thought the first time we were here he just dropped us off after our Q&A?

>>40764257
I wonder how many more posts I have to report (for posting NSFW on a SFW board) before that guy gets banned. I never reported anything before, it's easier than I thought.

>>40764283
No, we found our own way into the academy.

>>40764294
Ban evasion anon

He's really persistent
For what purpose?

Who knows

>>40764253
>>40764251
>>40764250
>>40764247
>>40764239
>>40764231
>>40764223
>>40764221
>>40764215
>>40764213
>Just start walking.

>>40764227
>>40764233
>Call upon Mahana.

Writin'

>>40764294
He's been banned 4 times. He is ban evading

>>40764326
>For what purpose?
He's an autist. He's like the barney poster.

>>40764294
He's been banned like 3 times already, he's on irc

>>40764337
Don't they have area bans for this shit?

Can't wait for the travel post all the way to the drama, fun!

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>>40764561

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>>40764593

Rolled 61 (1d100)

Ignore the man behind the curtain.

>>40764762
SOON

>>40764804
>Not SOON(™)

Step it up

>>40764762
>an encounter to stop the journey to the drama
Wheeeee fun!

>>40764883
You mistyped that, it's
>Wheeee muh adventure!

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You channel magic, water weaving itself into existence all around you. With a thought, you direct it towards the cart. You find the task of constructing a make-shift cart from the ceramic tub and ice even easier than it would usually be. It doesn't seem to drain much of your vys, if any at all. You wonder if Mahana is helping you, or if it's merely because you're in the realm of a spirit?

Regardless you've soon fashioned a cart to haul your things and will it forward with Water magic. As you begin to walk forward, picking your way across narrow bridges made of paper and between narrow alleys flanked by bookshelves, you focus your thoughts on the city of El-Amin. It isn't long before you've exited the endless rows of bookshelves and entered instead a wide hallway which runs straight ahead, seemingly without end. It's sort of eerie, there's no horizon. The hall just keeps going, and going. The dull monotony is broken up only occasionally by tall windows revealing nothing save endless white.

You don't know how long you walk. Eventually, upon realizing that maintaining the cart wasn't really draining your reserves, you fashioned a chair at the front and climbed inside. Instead of walking alongside the cart, you ride at the front. You actually manage to get the cart up to a pretty good clip, the stone blocks speeding past you in a blur, but no matter how fast you go you always seem to cross a window at exactly the same time, with little to no variation.
(1/2)

You start to time your journey based on the number of windows you've passed, assuming that each one marks a minute of time passing. Roughly two hundred and forty windows later, you notice that the hallway splits up ahead at a t-intersection. You're not particularly concerned about the split in the hallway itself, it seems like no matter which way you go you'll eventually reach your destination. Rather, it's the arched passage sitting directly in front of the hall which draws your interest.

You slow your cart, sliding out of your chair to briefly inspect the doorway. You're treated to the sight of an amphitheatre
of some sort, at the center of which rest a number of floating silver balls. The largest rest in the center, with the others seeming to orbit around it. They're all contained within the confines of a glowing circle, lines of power running along the floor with an origin point at the center. You think there might be some sort of portal, or perhaps a hole, there in the center. Just below the largest silver orb.

>Approach and investigate.
>Nah, man. This ain't any of your concern.
>Write-in

>>40765007
>Nah, man. This ain't any of your concern.
FUCK YOUR RANDOM ENCOUNTERS

>>40765007
>Approach and investigate.
Fuck it

>>40765007
>Approach and investigate.

>>40765007
>>Approach and investigate.
Adventure.

>>40765007
>Nah, man. This ain't any of your concern.

>>40765007
>Write-in

Ask the cat what this is

If he can't answer

>Nah

>>40765007
>>Approach and investigate.
NAMEK 2

>>40765007
>Approach and investigate.

>>40765007
>>Approach and investigate.
Please no touching. I don't want to disturb our planet's orbit (not going to happen, but you get the meaning).

>>40765007
>>Approach and investigate.
I didn't want to do anything this thread anyway!!

>>40765007
>Nah, man. This ain't any of your concern.
Let's not do the Fulvia mistake.

>>40765007
>>Nah, man. This ain't any of your concern.
Ain't this like the sphere the cat used to pull us into his realm the first time?
We have shit to do, party shit, this is spirit bullshit, don't mess with it.

>>40765007
>Nah, man. This ain't any of your concern.

>>40765007
>>40765037
I'll swap to
>Nah, man. This ain't any of your concern.
Really quick.

>>40765007
Actually, changing >>40765091
to
>Ask the cat what this is, and if it's fine, approach it.

>>40765092
>>40765091
>>40765051
>>40765031
>>40765107
>>40765115
>You don't trust it.

>>40765081
>>40765072
>>40765071
>>40765064
>>40765043
>>40765039
>>40765035
>May as well take a look.

>>40765058
>>40765120
>Ask the cat.

Writin'

>>40765007
>nah, move along nothing to see here

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>>40764689
Here's a new kind of bait that I made with photoshop.

>>40765159
Since "Ask the cat" also has the intention of not jumping headfirst into unknown shit, can't you roll between ADVENTURE and caution, since ask+Nah votes would beat ADVENTURE votes by one?
>>40765188
3 seconds late

>>40765233
I wonder what Asura would say if he ever saw a Machamp.

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>>40765233
Sweet

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>>40765233
Very nice!

>>40765159
>>40765241

>>40765241
no

You glance back at your cart briefly before stepping through the arched entryway into the amphitheatre. You glance around, making a quick circle around the outer edge of the room. There are no other doors, but there are windows flanking the circle in the center of the room on either side. Unfortunately, just like all the other windows in the cat's realm, they don't actually seem to look out onto anything.

You step a little closer to the center of the room, and the arrangement of the floating silver balls shifts. The closer you get, the more they align themselves in order from smallest to largest, with the smallest ball pointing directly at your chest. As you step into the stone circle at the bottom of the amphitheatre, the silver orb at the end starts to glow. You keep your distance, and again make a slow circle around the edge. The balls follow you.

You take a few steps back, and the silver ball at the tip stops glowing. The arrangement seems to lose a little coherency, but remains pointed in your general direction. You wonder what it is? Some sort of weapon? Perhaps a tool of some sort? What purpose could the device serve?

You don't think it's a weapon, it wouldn't make sense to place a weapon here in this isolated room, which seems rather completely abandoned. Still, you can't wholly rule it out. Thus, touching it might be a bad idea...

>Touch the smallest silver ball.
>Nah, fuck this. You're out.
>Toss something into the circle, to see what happens.
>Write-in

>>40765569
>Nah, fuck this. You're out.

>>40765569
call kat

>>40765569
>Nah, fuck this. You're out.

>>40765569
>Put on the mask

>>40765569
>Nah, fuck this. You're out.

>>40765569
>Nah, fuck this. You're out.

>>40765569
>Toss something into the circle, to see what happens.

>>40765569
>>Touch the smallest silver ball.

>>40765569
>Toss something into the circle, to see what happens.

>>40765569
>>Nah, fuck this. You're out.

>>40765569
>Ask the fucking cat what it is.

>>40765569
>>Nah, fuck this. You're out.

>>40765569
>Touch the smallest silver ball.

>>40765569
>Nah, fuck this. You're out.

>>40765569
>>Toss something into the circle, to see what happens.
Hello mister balls

>>40765569
>>Touch the smallest silver ball.
Come on guys. Puzzle time

>>40765569
>Touch the smallest silver ball.

>>40765569
>Nah, fuck this. You're out
No thanks

>>40765569
>>Nah, fuck this. You're out.
Nigga, no, we have a party to fix

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>>40765690
>Implying soma would do a simple harmless puzzle

We got shit to do, we can come back and ask Mahana later. We can't keep getting sidetracked like an ADD cat.

>>40765569
Call the kitteh.

>>40765569
>Touch the smallest silver ball.
it won't kill us

>>40765569
>>Touch the smallest silver ball.

>>40765724
>shit to do
Whining to listen to*
>>40765569
>Touch the smallest silver ball.

>>40765569
>>Touch the smallest silver ball.

>>40765731
Just like the mask
>>40765569
>>Nah, fuck this. You're out.

>>40765753
This won't stop the whining it will just take up another thread

>>40765672
>>40765658
>>40765637
>>40765623
>>40765603
>>40765586
>>40765681
>>40765720
>>40765710
>>40765767
>Fuck this.

>>40765614
>>40765676
>>40765690
>>40765705
>>40765734
>>40765731
>>40765753
>>40765755
>Poke it.

>>40765687
>>40765653
>>40765638
>Throw something at it.

>>40765730
>>40765661
>>40765592
>Contact Mahana.

Writin' for fucking off.

>>40765569
>>Touch the smallest silver ball.

>>40765569
>Touch the smallest silver ball.

>>40765569
>Touch the smallest silver ball.
Why did we come here if we are going to turn around

>>40765777
>>40765780
>>40765782
Thank God you guys are slow

>>40765569
Ask Mahana, to come here and explain this shit.

>>40765774
don't be boring soma, have something happen anyway

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>>40765782
We're fast travelling you idiot, or trying to.

>>40765802
>don't make the vote count do it anyway
Fag

>>40765803
What I am asking is why did this vote >>40765007
go through and suddenly you just get cold feet.

>>40765830
Samefagging is the answer

>>40765830
because adventure anons first took control of ballot before we-ain't-got-time-for-ADD anons retook control of ballot.

>>40765884
So it was gerrymandering? Or did someone stuff the ballot box?

>>40765866
We are all samefags

>>40765897
the latter of the two. (aka. samefagging) it was merely which party got to the ballot box first before the time limit.

>>40765899
I'm you.

>>40766008
No I'm him, fuck off.

>>40766045
>>40766008
>>40765899
Oh really? Dio?

>>40766045
You're me, stop being stupid, self.

>>40765774
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBX1E71Pdtk

>310 replies

>>40766403
>311 replies

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You cup your hands around your mouth and raise your voice, shouting into the vast emptiness of the Cat's realm. “Mahana! Hey, what is this place?” You get no response, so you try again. “Mahana?” Yet still, you get no response. What is he doing, napping? You wonder what this place might correspond to in the real, or rather mortal, world?

You debate tossing a rock or something at the portal in the center, but ultimately decide that until you know more about this place it's probably best to avoid it. You can always return later, merely by focusing on it and walking in any given direction.

With that in mind you make a mental note to ask Mahana about this room next time you see him and make for the exit. The smallest silver orb follows you all the way up to the entrance, only returning to its original position once you've passed through the stone archway. You hadn't really noticed it, but the entire room had seemed charge, the hairs on the back of your neck are standing on end and an odd, uncomfortable tingling sensation seems to run along the surface of your skin.

You ignore it for now, and climb into the seat of your make-shift cart. You turn the modified bathtub full of corpses left, focus your thoughts on the entrance to your estate, and will the cart to move forward. You resume counting the windows as they pass, the minutes ticking past almost painfully slow. You pass sixty, then one hundred twenty. You lose track for a time around three hundred but eventually get back into the swing of things around four hundred twenty.

(1/3)

Eleven hours. Eleven hours of monotony. Eleven hours of trying to keep your thoughts focused on a single place. You now know what Mahana meant by this not being quite as easy as it seems. However, as you enter the eleventh hour of your journey you start to notice that the scenery is changing. The neat, orderly walls are being broken up. Cracks cutting through the walls. At one point you can actually see the sky where a chunk of the wall has floated away. Oddly, it's white rather than red.

You're so busy staring up at the sky that you're taken by surprise when the walls vanish and you find yourself rushing through a shallow canyon, stones protruding from the ground at impossible angles and floating lazily through the air. They're carved into odd shapes, each one having a hole in its center. You start to see other spirits, minor spirits here and there. They take on metallic forms, their bodies long and worm-like.

One such spirit, slightly larger than the rest, slithers up from behind you to coil gently around your arm. It opens its mouth, revealing blunt teeth. The sort you'd expect to find in an oxen or a camel. When it speaks, its Samjan is almost too perfect. It lacks any sort of accent, although in a way the lack of accent is an accent all its own. “Why do you travel through our gardens, mortal? The Great One himself has permitted us use of this place.”

>Shoo him off of you, you've better things to do than listen to the ramblings of spirits.
>Answer honestly. You're on your way to El-Amin and your path has taken you through their gardens.
>Write-in

I lied.

>>40766515
>>Answer honestly. You're on your way to El-Amin and your path has taken you through their gardens.

>>40766515
>>Answer honestly. You're on your way to El-Amin and your path has taken you through their gardens.

>>40766515
>Answer honestly. You're on your way to El-Amin and your path has taken you through their gardens.

Don't stop moving

>>40766515
>>Write-in
"Move bitch, get out the way!"

>>40766515
>Answer honestly. You're on your way to El-Amin and your path has taken you through their gardens.

>>40766515
>Answer honestly. You're on your way to El-Amin and your path has taken you through their gardens.

Who's the great one?

>>40766515
Hahah and you fags thought this would be easy way to travel. It's full of things to district us