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You don't actually intend on sleeping tonight but you suppose a smoke and a bit of tea wouldn't do you any harm. Plus, you wouldn't want to offend your host. “I'd be glad to join you, though only for a short while. I've breakthroughs to make and all that, you understand.”

They don't seem to have understood. In fact the vast majority of what you just said seems to have gone right over their heads. The father merely nods, offering you the mouthpiece while the mother starts pouring you a cup of tea. They seem to be drinking karkade, a type of herbal tea made from the dried flowers of the ambadi plant. From what you recall it's rather bitter and very tart, but mulled with a little honey quite delicious.

You take a seat on a plush velvet pillow and take hose from the father, sucking in a lungful of pleasantly scented blue smoke. You hold in the breath and pass the hose back to the father, only exhaling after the mother hands you the cup of tea. As you raise the clay cup to your lips, the father points first to himself and then to his wife. “Mani. Sonal. What are you called?”

The tea is a little sweeter than you'd like, they seem to have added sugar as well as honey and cinnamon. It's all just a little too much, even if it's not really unpleasant. You cradle the cup in your lap for now. “I'm Mikhael, of the tribe Abdul-Hakim. I really must thank you for your hospitality, I hope I'm not imposing.”

The father gestures as if clearing the air of a foul smell. “Bah! Imposing, you do not impose. Honor to house one of the Parbau. Not since the time of ancestors has one walked the sands.”

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You're about to respond when their daughter poses a question. Her accent is not nearly so thick as her parent's, she actually seems to speak rather well. Come to think of it, she's the first person you've seen since coming here with a book. Books aren't exactly cheap, where'd she get it? “What sort of 'breakthroughs' do you need to make? Are you a Vatis? In my books only Grandmasters get to wear purple robes, are you a Grandmaster? What's El-Amin like? My parents-”

Her mother hushes her, babbling something rapidly in their own language. You catch the words 'pestering' and 'guest' but not much else. She appears properly chastened, hiding her face behind her book and seeming to shrink into her pillows. You do your best to calm the woman. “It's fine, I don't mind her questions.”

Mani says something to his wife, which distracts her from scolding their daughter. Sonal simply turns to you and smiles, raising her cup to her lips and seeming to forget the issue entirely. You turn your attention to the girl, running through her questions one by one. “I am a Grandmaster Vatis, though I've yet to earn my robes in El-Amin. Rather, these robes are from a city in the north where I've spent some time. I intend to meditate on how to create objects from raw vys, it's what's called an 'effect', which are often simply aspects of elemental magic separated and refined into self-contained spells.”

“As for El-Amin, well it's a very large city. You're seldom able to find a moment to yourself, so great is the press of people. The market in particular is always crowded, even after midnight you'll often find people rushing through the streets of the market district off to attend to one thing or another. It's a pleasant town, over all. Then again, my opinion is biased. I was born and raised there.”

(2/3)

You pass the next hour or so smoking, chatting, and drinking tea with the family. You have to keep your voices down, to avoid waking the sleeping children, and the language barrier is a bit of an issue when it comes to the parents, but you manage. About thirty minutes in you start to feel the opium taking affect, your limbs growing heavy even as your head becomes light and the world seems to slow to a crawl. Colors initially become very sharp, but by the time you excuse yourself to meditate everything is blurring together.

Mani, who even after an hour and several grams of opium doesn't seem particularly impaired, fetches a spare mat from a chest and lays it out on one end of their hut. You thank him before settling in, folding your legs beneath you and closing your eyes. You don't even really need to focus to slip into a trance, it happens all on its own the moment your eyes close.

>ROOOOOOLL ME 3dd10+14 (+2 from Vatis, +2 from previous attempts, +4 from traits, +6 from opiate high) vs DC 30

Rolled 8, 5, 6 + 14 = 33 (3d10 + 14)

>>40840205
Praise Satan

Rolled 2, 8, 6 + 14 = 30 (3d10 + 14)

>>40840205

Rolled 8, 10, 3 + 14 = 35 (3d10 + 14)

>>40840205
You know what time it is.

Rolled 5, 6, 10 + 14 = 35 (3d10 + 14)

>>40840205

>>40840231
>>40840236
>>40840268
>33, 30, 35 vs DC 30
>Success!
Writin'

So if there's a chance to change our mind on what tattoos we get, what will we choose?
I'm hoping 'Sustain' and an element will give us bonuses to it.

Aw yiss, the best part of the day is here.

>>40840480
>sustain fire
>get lit on fire
>never ever goes out
No, you lost, gg no re

>>40840480
>changing our mind

So what's our opinion on raising a shrine here?

Does it matter if we present it to this tribe or can we raise it in the center of the desert?

Lost travellers or anyone on the verge of death can make their way to this oasis that's actually real and will have no choice but to allign themselves with Kitty.

Just throwing that out, thoughts?

>>40840705
No.

>>40840705
No

>>40840705
Fuck giving the cat followers, he can do that himself, everyone should be worshipping the true gods anyway

>>40840728
Ok, but why?

>>40840705
No, raise shrines in the Pa'vala instead.

>>40840748
Gods rule, spirits rule

>>40840705
> Tribe that has knowledge of enchanting

> Not building a shrine and jewing the cat into revealing ALL the secrets of the enchantments the tribe has recorded.

This thread confirmed for being full of Goyim.

>>40840705
No, these will be ours.

We already have the plan of essentially including the spirit in that game we made which would do well to net him potential followers.

>>40840778
>when we can just figure them out for ourself
The cat isn't a crutch stop using him like one. For gods sake mik used to be self reliant

>>40840818
Well the only crutch is fast travel which could be really great without dick-ass spirits guiding us.

>>40840818
I would rather test the enchantments with some sort of knowledge of what they are, otherwise we're pretty much putting the mask on over and over and over again.

I mean, there's self-reliant and then there's being fucking stupid.

At least with these tattoos, if they're going to screw us up we can always cut our arm off and regrow it.

>>40840818
>trying to figure runes out for yourself
That's a good way to die.

Before anything else, you begin drawing upon your surroundings to refill your reserves. Not that you'd been particularly drained beforehand, it's just habitual at this point. It doesn't take more than an hour or so, and once you've finished you turn your attention fully to the effect you intend to master.
>Vys Pool: (56/56)

Instead of just letting drain from your reserves into your surroundings, you first filter the vys into Water magic and then gather it in front of you, pooling it into a single mass. Just as last time, you plan on creating a cup's worth of water. Water is a substance you're intimately familiar with, so ideally it ought to prove easy enough for you to make.

You start tearing away chunks of the mass and compressing it into thin sheets. This time you form each sheet before you layer them on top of one another. Much of the vys is lost during compression, so you end up with far fewer sheets than you had vys. Fortunately you'd planned for this. You begin layering each thin sheet, one on top of the other. It's a time consuming process, and you have to be careful not to rip or tear the shits. That was another mistake you made last time, the sheets of vys are fragile. You need to handle them gently.

Eventually you end up with a small cube of vys. Unlike last time it's not just an amorphous blob, but rather a shape with very defined edges and planes. It's also not fused together. Rather each individual sheet is still visible, if only faintly considering how thin the sheets' edges are.

For the last step of the meditation you channel vys into the block and the sheets fuse together. The next thing you know your eyes snap open to reveal a perfect cube of crystal clear water floating in the air before you. It's still shaped like a cube, but relaxing your focus it gradually loses its coherency. You will it to dissipate, and it vanishes into thin air.
>Effect Learned: Create
>Vys Pool: (57/57)

(1/2)

The sun has only just begun to rise and most people still seem to be asleep. None of the family you're staying with are awake, Mani in particular snoring obnoxiously. You think the opium's mostly worn off, although you still feel a little buzzed.

The sounds of camels and the voices of men can be heard through the door, presumably the shepherds feeding their animals. You would think that the ink would be ready by now, though nobody's been sent to fetch you. Perhaps they're letting you sleep in, the expectation that you'll find them when you're ready? Then again, perhaps you're simply the first to awake.

>Go out in search of Lilavati, her home was near-by if you recall correctly.
>Seek out the Elder, he seems to run the place after all.
>Try to find some breakfast, they'll probably send someone when they're ready.
>Write-in

>>40840875
>meditate on rune
>dangerous

>>40840854
>build a shrine and I give you shit
>not a crutch
>>40840875
>>40840856
>what is research
>what are the other tribes
>what is meditating on the possible meaning
If you weren't retarded you would realize that you don't have to slam you head against books to read them, nor do you have to get daddy to read them for you.

>>40840923
>>Try to find some breakfast, they'll probably send someone when they're ready.

Rolled 3 (1d3)

>>40840923
1: Go out in search of Lilavati, her home was near-by if you recall correctly.
2: Seek out the Elder, he seems to run the place after all.
3: Try to find some breakfast, they'll probably send someone when they're ready.

Dice gods GO!

>>40840929

Funny, because it seems like you're the one who wants to take the riskiest, most difficult and least likely paths to getting it right.

IDK, maybe I'm not so very insecure in myself that I have to prove at all costs that I'm smarter than everyone else, even when it's just as a character in an online game for shits and giggles.

>>40840923
>Try to find some breakfast, they'll probably send someone when they're ready.

>>40840901
>you have to be careful not to rip or tear the shits
>shits
Are we trying to clear our constipation or something?

>>40840923
> Get fed.

> Play the oud. Tell everyone you're considered to be a musician unlike any before seen back home.

>>40840923
>The most important meal of the day.

>>40841005
Changing my vote >>40841007 to this

>>40840983
>muh u just overcompensating
Nah go ahead attach yourself to him, go ahead become his disciple become his bottom bitch do hard labor for small amounts of knowledge that are nothing to him. Become the slave that your ancestors once were, disgrace the abdul-hakim name

>>40840994
Ahh fuck.
Well, wouldn't be my writing without typos.

I gotta run down to my apartment office real quick. Be back in a second.

>>40809598
>>maluses to our main element of magic
Remind that making a fountain that can make infinite water is simple as fuck.

>>40840923
>>Try to find some breakfast, they'll probably send someone when they're ready.

>>40840923
>Seek out the Elder, he seems to run the place after all.

>>40840923
>Workout
We have to get fit at somepoint God damn it

>>40840923
>>Try to find some breakfast, they'll probably send someone when they're ready.

>>40840923
>Eating before you get to experience excruciating pain
Why would we do that? Do we like vomiting while screaming?

>>40841005
No.

>>40841105
>we roll low enough to resist screaming like before

>>40840923
>Seek out the Elder, he seems to run the place after all.

>>40841131
>low
Anon pls

Rolled 10, 5, 7 = 22 (3d10)

>>40841131
lets see if my dice are working.

>>40840923
>>Go out in search of Lilavati, her home was near-by if you recall correctly.
Cool grannies are cool.
Not as hot as Ghada though

>>40841005
no

>>40841197
>>40841116
yall are wack

>>40841197
You don't need to samefag when I'm the only one suggesting it.

>>40841226
No

>>40841226
>Samefags
anons just don't like your idea

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>>40841226
>s-s-samefag!!!
Not that this proves anything, but this screenshot is the best I can do for you anon.

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>>40841221
>implying

>>40841226
No.

>>40841226
Well I love your idea, Anon.

>>40841226
No.

>>40841283
It's cool, people don't want to play pranks or jokes, just risk our asses playing with powers that could destroy our soul because they can't stand not being the most powerful thing in the setting.

>>40841334
No

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Who wants to cultivate Mani's daughter to the city/magic/Mik life.

Zahak and Aylin could always have a bigger ohana.

>>40841334
Like a wave of sea water.

>>40841344
Don't you have an IRC channel to shit up these days instead?

>>40841334
>pranks or jokes
We mentally scarred our little sister for life and caused a life crisis in her.
People have asked for death rather than listening to the oud.
That is not a "prank" or a "joke".

>>40841357
No ;_;

>>40841354
>mik just adopts all the kids
I mean it's a nice little thing for mik, a soft spot for kids. All insane men have a soft spot.

>>40841354
We should give her the books we've finished reading at least as a thanks for putting us up for the night.

>>40841385
Plus, we'll need those testimonies from our loving children to bail us out of crazy jail.

>>40841399
Why would we give that to a stranger when we can give them to one of our companions?

>>40841418
>>40841399
What books have we finished that would make sense for tribe girl compared to our companions. I'm sure we have one.

>>40841441
Just bop her with the metal codex and be done with it.

>>40841441
Nevermind, unless she's a Vatis, we hav nuffin

>>40841441
I think it would be a nice gift, maybe one that our companions don't need, of which I'm sure we have several.

Besides, she could always bring it back.

>>40841485
We make her a vatis.

>>40841486
What makes sense?

History of Pidjata or The Fall?

>>40841514
Its the only way.

>>40841535
>Give her History of Pidjata
>She goes into the desert to die to confirm the history

>Give her The Fall
>She dies exploring an old Rhynian ruin after being filled with adventurelust

It has been implied if not outright said that Anthus has different means for teaching things, and different things to teach Vatis; such as quantifying their reserves. Next time we go to Anthus, we should ask Demetrios to show us these things, they might not be of huge help to us at the level we're at, but it could help us get a few more points of vys.

>>40841514
Drop the fucking parental obsession, Mik is a shit father anyway.

>>40841571
I'd rather work on our backlog of experiments and techniques. There's well over thirty(ish?) points of Vys on that stuff alone.

>>40841361
>We mentally scarred our little sister for life and caused a life crisis in her.
wot

Wait... maybe not here, but why don't we... why don't we hold the oud and let Ricky slide a few tentacles out to play it?

>>40841560
We could make her our little historian. She seems like the only person in these dunes with a curiosity for the outer world.

We could build on that and promise to build her a library.

Because that's what father's do.

>>40841571
It's been outright said. And Mik also outright thought that the mathematical approach deprived magic of a certain alluring mysticism.

>>40841598
Really? I must've forgotten that we had them.
They're definitely first priotity.

>>40841591
>parental
Mik only fucks those who gud at magic, we are ignoring the human.

>wanting to give random teenager we don't know and only interacted with once rare and valuable books
>not wanting to fug her
I mean, we're Parbau now. Simply staying the night in their house is a great honor. I'm sure de-flowering their daughter would be the greatest honor of all.

Back, sorry that took longer than I expected. The administration of my apartment seems incredibly disorganized. Anyway, writin' for

>Find some eats

>>40841598
>experiments and techniques
>ever being winning a vote
Oh anon, that's just rich, you should already know what this playerbase is like.

>>40841650
No.

BUT, since we're Parbau, we tell the people here not to praise our personal shrine/taxi.

>>40841672
Well of course, everyone is so imaginative so even if we knocked out half the list the knowledge of achieving them will give more ideas than what we currently have. Knowledge is funny like that.

>>40841719
Is it weird that I only associate reading when traveling?

>>40841748
Most subway commuters also feel this way so I'd say not.

>>40841769
Unless we're confined to a room that shuts off all communication AND cuts off our own storage of vys, then we'll finally read all of our books.

>>40841808
Our backlog is mostly experiments though, so that won't do!

>>40841826
We might as well give back our books.

Expermients can increase vys pools iirc

>>40841846
NO WE HAVE TO READ THOSE ANON ARE YOU INSANE

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Alright, back to writing.

>>40841866
Well we are playing Mik so...

>>40841884
kek

>>40841866
I'm not pretending to be retarded.

>>40841884
God damn it Soma you bastard. Right bastard.

>>40841884
The oud thing has worn out its welcome by now though, you should replace that with tearing off his own arm, that will never get old.

>>40841912
When will we tear off our arms and play the oud with our dismembered arms?

>>40841936
When you specialize into "Water Mage Path: Puppeteer."

>>40841936
When we're at 8/10 insanity again.

>>40841950
>not Master of Puppets

>>40841950
Vys+Water+Manipulate

>>40841936
Still want to let Ricky try playing it.

We can shoot fireworks from our fingers while he does.

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>>40841884

Soma I summon thee.

>>40842209
The last successful Soma summoning involved the moon and tame race riots. At least post an image of the popular southern filth that they eat down there.

>>40842242
>Filth
You better watch your fucking mouth, Yankee scum

>>40842280
Oh no, what's my mouth gonna do? Not eat two pounds of meat slathered lard for breakfast that's what.

>>40842242
the last summoning worked before IRC distracted his sister fucking clean shaven ass.

>>40842280
At least my economy isn't based on cotton

I got this
Beef barbecue is only barbecue

>>40842322
>Oh no, what's my mouth gonna do
probably take a dick

>>40842341
no u

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>>40842322
>not liking lard
pleb
although admittedly barbecue is highly overrated

>>40842332
At least my taxes aren't based on sales and service industry performance.

You decide that you'll get some breakfast. You're curious to see what these tribals eat outside of festivals. You're careful not to make too much noise as you slip out of the hut and into the village proper. The 'streets', if you can really call the narrow spaces between huts a street, are abandoned as you make your way through the tiered rows of houses to the sands below.

Camels have been gathered in a pen off on the north west end of camp, while the lizards they ride are gathered in the west. A few herders have gathered around the camel pen with bags and are pouring their contents into long troughs which surround the edge of the fenced in area. The lizards, by contrast, have been thrown the corpse of a tarasa, a type of desert-dwelling canine with a striped hide and a long ridge of bristly hair running along its spine. They're large animals, which tend to scavenge whatever dies out in the desert.

A group of tribesmen have gathered around two older women, their skin wrinkled and bodies hunched, who seem to be preparing some sort of flat bread. Instead of a grill they've just buried hot coals in a pit of sand and cook the bread on that. You've never seen that method used before. You can tell that they're both Vatis, using magic to keep the coals hot. Not particularly good vatis at a glance, but certainly capable enough.

You make your way over to the gathering and a space is cleared for you to sit down. A man hands you a bowl of thick soup and a ball of boiled sorghum dough. You tear off a chunk of the ball and dip it in the soup. The texture is a little odd but it's not necessarily bad, and it's certainly filling. Someone else pours you a cup of camel's milk, which you take gratefully. It isn't long before loaves of flat bread start getting passed around. They're served in a bowl, with the bread pushed into the depression and a a thick sauce of some sort poured inside.

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Overall the food is decidedly rustic but still rather tasty. There's no meat, and very few vegetables. Instead it consist almost entirely of grains and dairy. You suppose that isn't surprising, considering their status as nomadic pastorialist. They rely on their herds to sustain their lifestyle, and if they killed their animals for meat they'd soon find themselves running out of food. At the end of the meal a bowl is passed around with some sort of shredded plant matter inside, which everyone takes a pinch of and places underneath their tongue. You follow suit, and find it surprisingly minty. Even invigorating.

After breakfast the tribesmen sit around, conversing. You're busy trying to interpret what they're saying when someone taps you on the shoulder and points. Following his finger you see Dinesh standing a short distance away, his hands folded in his sleeves. You mumble a thanks to the man who pointed him out to you, though you doubt he understood, and then cross the camp to join him. Without a word he starts leading you towards a complex of four domed huts, all of them joined together. Unlike every other hut in the camp, this one has a chimney protruding from the top of the hut to the farthest left.

The two of you duck through the heavy curtains which obscure the entrance and find yourself submerged in darkness. A woman's voice calls out from one of the other rooms, and following the sound of her voice you find yourself emerging into a room lit by a fire. A deep red substance boils over a fire, various needles laid out on a clay plate next to a stool. Lilavati is washing off her hands with a wet rag, her face and hair covered in red dust.

The ancient crone points at you, and then the stool. “Sit! We do this now, screaming will wake the village. Good. Get them working. Sit, sit!”

>On second thought maybe this isn't such a good idea...
>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.
>Write-in

>>40842463
>>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.
>"But I'm not too sure about the runes I've chosen, can I take another look at the tablets and choose another two?"

>>40842463
>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.

>>40842463
>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.

>>40842463
>>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.
GO FAST

>>40842463
>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.
>>40842494
Kek its far too late.

>>40842463
>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.
Let the Cinnabar enter your very veins! It's only toxic when you cry!

>>40842463
>>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.

>>40842463
>>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.
Make sure we have something to bite so we don't bite off our tongue

>>40842463
>>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.
Oh boy oh boy

>>40842494
Pfft

>>40842463
>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.

>>40842463
>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.

>>40842463
>Don't forget to bite the pillow...

>>40842463
>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.

Can't be worse than a barbed whip.

>>40842463
>On second thought maybe this isn't such a good idea...

>>40842597
It's like injecting yourself with acid. It's gonna be real painful.

>>40842597
Depending on how long both of these lasted, far worse.

Rolled 6, 5, 5 = 16 (3d10)

testing

>>40842608
For Mik.

>>40842613
>>40842613
>>40842597
This is going to have worse repercussions than just pain.

>>40842402
At least I don't fuck my sister

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>>40842626
He's a big Elf

>>40842645
Oh no!

We're going to encourage our children to get tattoos like their father!

>>40842645
It'll be finnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne

>>40842463
>>On second thought maybe this isn't such a good idea...

So any extrapolations or theories on what their "Life" rune really is?

>>40842690
>A bug crawls up our ass
>We can't get him out because his life is contained inside of us.

>>40842529
>>40842528
>>40842522
>>40842504
>>40842502
>>40842501
>>40842494
>>40842532
>>40842533
>>40842542
>>40842531
>>40842597
>No backing out now.

>>40842494
>>40842606
>Let me just reconsider...

ROOOOOLL 3d10+6 (+4 from Frosty, +2 from Arrogance) vs DC 28 (Base DC 20, +8 from "Oh fuck it's like fire ants in my dickhole")

Rolled 2, 4, 7 + 6 = 19 (3d10 + 6)

>>40842734
This ain't shit.

Rolled 4, 3, 5 + 6 = 18 (3d10 + 6)

>>40842734

>>40842721
Is it safe to call it the Soul rule or does it expand more than that?

Rolled 8, 1, 7 + 6 = 22 (3d10 + 6)

>>40842734
weeelllll

Rolled 10, 10, 5 = 25 (3d10)

>>40842734

>>40842463
>>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.

>>40842721
If a living creature comes into contact with us they become part of us, contained within our body.

Rolled 4, 7, 9 + 6 = 26 (3d10 + 6)

>>40842734

>>40842463
>You've come this far, you might as well go through with it.

Rolled 6, 5, 6 = 17 (3d10)

>>40842734
Nat 3

>>40842752
>>40842753
>>40842756
>19, 18, 22 vs DC 28
>Severe Failure!

Spend 6 to make it a Regular Failure?
You're incapable of making it any sort of success.

>Spend 6
>Take it raw, like a man.

>>40842812
>>Take it raw, like a man.

>>40842812
>Take it raw, like a man.

>>40842812
>Spend 6
>Bite the pillow.

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>>40842812
>>Take it raw, like a man.

>>40842812
Shouldn't we get a vys for learning create?

>>40842812
>Take it raw, like a man.

>>40842812
>Raw
They knew we would scream and they were right

>>40842812
bite the pillow

>>40842812
>Spend 6
Prepare the Pillow

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

>>40842734
Nat 3 here i come.
>>40842812
>Take it raw, like a man.

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>>40842812
shut our mouth using vys

>>40842812
>Spend 6
I'd rather not scream like a bitch before we die like one.

>>40842837
You already did, Anon. You can spend 14 vys on any individual roll. You'd need to be able to spend 15 to make it a Success.

>>40842812
>Spend 6

>>40842812
>Take it raw, like a man.

>>40842858
Well... almost a 3,3,3. That's close right?

Rolled 1, 1, 1 = 3 (3d1)

>>40842734

>>40842812
>Tear out your vocal chords
>Take it raw

>>40842889
>3d1

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>>40842889

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

>>40842734
3 rolls left to do a miracle.

>>40842889
Man i'm tired of you 3d1 fags

>>40842865
I dont think I understand the system correctly, the lowest we got is an 18 with a DC of 28, why do we need 15 vys to pass when the difference is only 10?

>>40842812
>Take it raw, like a man.
Mik aint no bitch.

>>40842812
Cut off our arm and let them tattoo it that way, scream at the top of our lungs while they do it anyway.

>>40842927
2 rolls need to beat the DC

>>40842927
Plus the 6 we'd use to make the other roll a pass.

>>40842927
0 passes - critical faliure
1 pass - failure
2 passes - success
3 passes - great success

Rolled 3, 10, 7 = 20 (3d10)

>>40842734

>>40842927
TWO

TWO

TWO NIGGUH TWO

>>40842943
das cheetin

Rolled 8, 9, 4 = 21 (3d10)

>>40842734

>>40842900
>>40842871
>>40842858
>>40842848
>>40842844
>>40842840
>>40842835
>>40842831
>>40842828
>>40842939
>Take it raw.

>>40842869
>>40842864
>>40842853
>>40842833
>Spend vys.

>>40842927
You need two rolls above the DC to make the roll a success.

None of your rolls passed.

Thus, you can spend 6 to make one roll a success, but you'd only have 8 left over.
You need 9 to turn the next closest roll into a success.

Writin' for bein' a man.

Rolled 1, 1, 1 = 3 (3d1)

>>40842889
It was funny the first time, but this is getting old.

Rolled 9, 5, 6 = 20 (3d10)

>>40842734

>>40842812
>use reroll point

Rolled 1, 1, 1 = 3 (3d01)

>>40842988

Rolled 8, 3, 8 = 19 (3d10)

>>40842734

Rolled 1, 1, 1 = 3 (3d1)

>>40843012

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>tfw, you will never take Soma-senpai out to a fancy restaurant to wine and dine him
>tfw, you will never take Soma-senpai back to your apartment and plunder his tender boipussy.

>>40842980
got it, i thought spending increases every roll instead of just one

Yo, my ceiling is leaking really fucking bad so I'm gonna call my landlord. This might take a while.

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>3d1 spam

>>40843105
Everyone quick find out how to get out of this failure.

>>40843105
Its Miks bitch tears coming through.

>>40843139
Tear off arm.

>>40843139
>no bonus for being a healing focused GM
>no bonus from continued exposure to ungodly pain
>no bonus from being prepared
>no bonus from still being slightly buzzed from the opium last night
>no bonus from mik being god

>>40843234
At least we get confirmation that Mercury infused dust takes away magic based bonuses.

>>40843234
Soma wants us to suffer, do write-ins to make up for that last vys

>>40843076
>take Soma-senpai out to a fancy restaurant to wine and dine him
>to wine and dine him
English is not my native, is that a common form of speech or some /d/-tier implications?

>>40843234
people forgot to buff our mind with metal magic, and to paralyze our body.
I can just see this crit failure fucking up the runes on our body because mik kept squirming and screaming.
also because mik is being such a bitch it takes twice as long for an ugly tatto.o

>>40843303
Wine and dine someone simply refers to taking them out to dinner.

>>40843255
Hit on somebody, distraction from pain plus mik is an prideful shit who won't back down infront of a Hotty
Recite the texts of Pani, Pani shall protect us

>>40843303
Yes, wining and dining someone is buying them a drink and a meal. Generally the drink and the meal or mid-high to high-grand tier in terms of quality, for example wining and dining is neither a pizza place nor fast food, nor Olive Garden or generic chinese place.

A refined drink and refined meal in a refined place for two refined respectable gentlemen to discuss just how much they enjoy fucking their sisters.

>>40843105
>>40843234
>All these ignored bonuses
Soma feeds off suffering, butthurt. saltiness and shitposts

>>40843305
I don't understand why Mik shouldn't be thinking of these things in the first place. He solves problems with magic so just do it.

>>40843330
Stare at the sun and think only about the sun
Play chess in our head

>>40843255
Take a hit of opium, should lower the dc

>>40843381
already rolled so its too late to prepare our minds and body.
you need to covince soma to do those thing for us and hope the bonueses are enough.

Apparently the maintenance dudes have already fucked off so I just put some mugs and a bowl underneath the leaks. That'll do it, I guess.

The severe failure isn't going to fuck up the runes, Mik is just gonna scream like a bitch nigga. Damn.

>>40843432
Sever our vocal chords to save face, it's what Mikkle would do.

>>40843432
can we paralyze ourselves and do metal magi?
If so will the added bonuses be enough for the current rolls?

>>40843432
I'd rather die than be a bitch nigga
Also no excuse for ignorance of possible bonuses and write ins, I bet you're doing it because you're too lazy to rewrite

>>40843432
Make sure you record the date of your grievance and take video/picture evidence for future leverage.

>>40843432
Where's that opium bonus? metal? using paralyze to numb the pain

>>40843467
>>40843470
>>40843478

Christ niggas, its not that bad fugggggg

>>40843234
>>40843255
Stick our head in the cloak and converse with Ricky.

>>40843486
>being a bitch infront of everyone
>not bad

>>40843478
People voted not to spend, and were too retarded to suggest it earlier.
Wouldn't have mattered, Banished players usually vote without looking at other votes so they'd have no chance to support a good writein.

>>40843486
Bitch niggas don't get any respect

>>40843486
It is too going to be that bad. This is gonna hurt. Hurty things bad.

>>40843486
Yes, it is

>>40843498
>>40843505
It's not like our son will hear Mikaels bitch screaming with his super dragon hearing. Oh wait.

>>40843501
This is why i hate you retards

>>40843486
>spending vys on rolls is natural and if we win it makes us better than our opponent!
>you're not a man unless you decide to scream like a little piglet pussy!

>>40843536
Because they point out how stupid you are.

>>40843536
Do try to explain, but I already know you have no sensible reason.
Because I said something true?
Because I'm completely right?

>>40843535
We'll scream across the brooches, I fucking bet you.

>>40843563
I hate them for the reasons you stated.

>>40843565
Shut the fuck up and delete this post before Soma sees it.

>>40843565
I think Mik is surely self-away enough after recent events to remember to take it off, and plus he's not shitfaced drunk.

>>40843565
>>New trait acquire!
>Loose lips sink ships: In dramatically appropriate, inconvenient, or embarrassing moments, your thoughts will unintentionally slip through the brooches.

>>40843605this is perfect

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>>40843605
why are you doing this to me

>>40843605
I sincerely hope we're too advanced in Metal for this to happen.

>>40843605
Take off brooch

>>40843565
Oh yeah we still have like 2 other boots to drop from the Nat 3.

I hope you are reading Soma.

>>40843605
Haha, nope, Soma can't do this to us, he has STATED that we won't get a trait for the nat3, and instead we got fucked over with drama, he can't just change his mind now.

>>40843667
too late

>>40843565
Seconded lets do this shit niggas.

>>40843680
>implying soma can't do whatever the fuck he wants with his quest

>soma will ignore all the possible write ins because he enjoys our pain

Wait, has Ricky seemingly been more attached to us than usual?

>>40843771
Dude if I had this playerbase I would too. And so would you.

>>40843813
The one time we've seen him after a period of not being in contact with him, yes.

>>40843771
No, he will do it because he enjoys dumb people acting dumb and believes they should face the consequences their actions bring

>>40843813
Because we were cut off from him for a couple days.

Nigga doesn't like being cutoff from his food source.

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SOMA how's the booze

Like a bitch

>>40844289
>your new tribal name is "lika'bt'ch"

You're hesitant, but honestly you've come this far. Why would you back out now? You take a seat on the stool while Lilavati fetches the pot of boiling ink off the fire. She adds a little more water to the mixture, thinning it, and then stirs it all together for a short while before finally setting it down on the ground next to you and pulling up a stool for herself just in front of you.

Before she begins, she uses the same wet cloth she was washing her hands with to scrub down the skin of your hands and forearms, rolling back the sleeves of your robes for you. Then she retrieves a piece of white wax and starts sketching out the designs on your hands. She starts with the runes themselves, which she draws on the back of your palm. They central rune is 'life', its true meaning a mystery, and directly above that is the rune for 'Sustain'. They're linked by a straight line and both surrounded by a larger circle.

Then she slaps one of your forearms scoldingly. “Channel! I can't see the flow if you don't channel.” You do as she ask, and then sense strong Nature magic pouring off of her. She starts drawing lines seemingly at random, all of them connecting to the central runes on the backs of your palm. Soon this ends up being a much larger series of tattoos than you'd expected, as tightly packed lines start crawling their way up your forearms. They terminate at your elbow, but below that point your entire arm is practically white.

She retrieves one needle in particular which has a hollow chamber running through the center, and a bronze figurine that also seems to be hollow. Using a spoon she fills the bronze figurine with ink and carefully screws the needle onto the base of the hollowed out statue. She turns shakes the device, and then holds it point-down until a red drop begins to form at the base. You must say, it's very well made. You can barely see the hole in the needle.
(1/3)

At first it's not so bad. She pokes the needle just deep enough to dig it under your skin and then moves on, poking you again. The ink burns terribly wherever it touches, but it isn't so bad. However, the more of the design she gets through the more painful it becomes, and the longer the ink sits in the holes she makes on your skin the more the ink seems to burn. It's like acid, you could swear it's eating away at your flesh. She's not even through the first half of the central rune before you're asking for something to bite down on.

You soon learn that the pain you felt was merely the beginning. As soon as she finishes the first rune, fire shoots through your veins. This is far worse than when Aisha started boiling your blood, or when you got whipped by in the temple. This is unimaginable pain. You want to peel your skin off just to make it stop. You scream. You scream your throat hoarse. At some point she must have paralyzed you, because try as you might you can't thrash your limbs about. You can't escape the pain.

At some point you must have passed out because when you wake, she's about to start working on your right arm after starting with your left. You can't even feel your left arm, it's just numb from your elbow down. You have to check just to make sure it's still there. They've wrapped your arm in clean white bandages, though the red has stained through. You're not sure if that's the ink or blood. You also smell something decidedly antiseptic in the air, though you're not sure what.

You would've thought that the second time around you'd be able to handle it a little better, but no. If anything it's worse than the first time. You're still paralyzed, so you can't scream, but the Gods know that if you could you would. You barely manage to make it through the rune on the back of your hand before once again passing out due to the pain.
(2/3)

When you wake up you're lying on a mat in the darkness of Lilavati's hut. You're alone, though you can hear people talking in an adjacent room. Both of your arms burn terribly, and you're bandaged from the elbows down. You have to grit your teeth just to push yourself up onto your elbows without screaming. Apparently Lilavati heard you because she appears at the door a moment later, her face and hair no longer stained red.

She glares at you. “Tried to punch me, had to paralyze! Very bad, very very bad! Never had to paralyze before. Don't heal! Ink needs to set for a day. Then you can heal. Before that, risk fading the ink.”

>Ask if you're free to leave, you should probably see about buying a mount and heading for El-Amin.
>There was someone you wanted to talk to before you left...
>Seek out the Elder and ask about building a shrine here, for ease of travel.
>Write-in

>>40844417
>>40844438
>>40844461
Like a fucking bitch
>never had to paralyze
Ultra bitch, the worst bitch of all time.

>>40844461
>Seek out the Elder and ask about building a shrine here, for ease of travel.

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>>40844461
>Never had to paralyze before.
Ha

>>40844461
>>Apologize for being a bitch
>>Ask if you're free to leave, you should probably see about buying a mount and heading for El-Amin, after thanking our hosts and talking to the elder one more tie.

>>40844461
just build a shrine and give no fucks, whats the elder going to say?

>>40844487
GIGA BITCH SUPREME
MIK IS A BOTTOM BITCH
HE GOBBLES UP ELF COCK

>>40844461
>Seek out the Elder and ask about building a shrine here, for ease of travel.

Why the fuck did we get it on our arms? Now we can't rip them off at will without ruining it.

>>40844461
>Ask if you're free to leave, you should probably see about buying a mount and heading for El-Amin.
>>40844501
No

>>40844461
>Seek out the Elder and ask about building a shrine here, for ease of travel.
Might as well.

>>40844461
>>Ask if you're free to leave, you should probably see about buying a mount and heading for El-Amin.
these guys are nomadic. So why would we build a shrine here

>>40844461
>Ask if you're free to leave, you should probably see about buying a mount and heading for El-Amin.
I don't want these tribesmen worshiping or paying homage to the cat.

>>40844461
>Ask if you're free to leave, you should probably see about buying a mount and heading for El-Amin.

>>40844461
who cares about the elder's opinion, just build the shrine.

>>40844461
>Write-in
apologize to our homeboys then explain how we wanted to do it in person and what happened instead.
better tell them now before they think we're ashamed or do not care

>>40844526
What's the point in setting up a fast travel to a place that hates us for being a heretic? They're totes into all that God shit and spirits are rival faiths.

>>40844461
>>Ask if you're free to leave, you should probably see about buying a mount and heading for El-Amin.

>>40844540
Great argument.

>>40844461
>>Ask if you're free to leave, you should probably see about buying a mount and heading for El-Amin.
Did we copy down all the runes from the tablet?

>>40844559
They wouldn't worship the cat.

>>40844461
>>40844568
+1

>>40844461
Actually, changing >>40844501
to >Ask if you're free to leave, you should probably see about buying a mount and heading for El-Amin.
I wanna see if maybe we meet Sadik finally.

The guys wanting to build a cat shrine are just baiting. Ignore them.

>>40844568
Nah, that would make the whole going there in person pointless.

>>40844584
They wouldn't worship the cat, as in consider it amongst the gods. They would almost certainly pay homage to it. I mean, think about it. Some dude who kills dragons and just became one of the most powerful people in your tribe builds a big ol' shrine for no apparent reason, offers up some incense, and then proceeds to teleport away.

People would probably start offering it gifts, after a while. Which is really all Mahana needs.

Reminder to vote for metal, now and forever.

>>40844646
Oh, that sounds okay then, I guess.
Assuming he doesn't make these people servants, being a servant sucks.

>>40844601
>>40844583
>>40844576
>>40844560
>>40844559
>>40844558
>>40844540
>>40844522
>Get a mount and go the normal way.

>>40844526
>>40844539
>>40844543
>>40844562
>Shrine

>>40844568
>>40844597
>Contact companions.

>>40844417
Just to be clear, I screwed up. That should be "Contain" not "Sustain"

>>40844740
>implying he wouldn't try

>>40844693
<Soma_QM> I'll add "meditate on techniques"
<Soma_QM> To the next vote for meditation
<Soma_QM> As well as experiment.

No. We meditate on techniques and experiments from now on. Fuck your shit.

>>40844792
We need to all vote for sleep then.

>>40844792
>Implying I'll ever let you study point offence

>suddenly everyone is anti-cat

Come on people, i'm not saying we become his disciple, but we can become business partners.

>>40844898
It's disciple or bust.

>>40844898
>here are peopl who did no wrongs to me and are treating me amazingly well
>please turn them into mindless husks to do your bidding
>yes no pls gib runes that you don't give a shit about
We might be a Jew, but we aren't an ultra jewlord like supreme

>>40844898
>Become
We already are, we got a pretty good deal going. We set up shrines, he gives us runes and lets us fast travel.

>>40844923
becoming a disciple is a worse deal then modern day marriage.

>>40844961
>>40844646

>>40844986
Maybe, but it comes with free revivals.

>>40844972
and yet here we are not setting up a shrine for fast travel, like an idiot.

>>40845000
>implying that's not enough for him to slowly corrupt them before taking away their free will

>>40844986
Agreed, we already have all the best points of being a disciple, without the servant status. Fuck being someone else's bitch.

>>40845011
I wanna meet Sadik nigga

>>40845028
Mik is most def a bitch though as that last update said.

>>40845011
Don't look at me anon, I voted to put up a shrine

>>40845008
Giving away our freedom is not exactly free.

>>40845023
I am implying that.

>>40845054
I never thought about it that way. Slavery it is.

>>40845086
Then you're wrong

>>40845031
>implying we're ever going to see him until we get the Warlord's gem

>>40845154
He seems more correct than the opposite actually. What do you have to go on besides rampant paranoia?

>>40845184
Let's go get the warlord gem then.

Last post soon?

>>40845187
The cat having shown several times to be power hungry and to have jumped at every chance to gain power.

>>40845203
>ending a thread before 1 am

>>40845223
So? It still benefits him to tell us the truth or simply remove the enchantment if it puts him at risk.

>>40845202
We're going into the Jungle next. This is confirmed.

>>40845297
Warlord>Elaudia>Pa'vala
Simple.

>>40845264
Did you read anything in that reply chain?

>>40845323
no

>>40845297
Jungle is more dangerous than the Pa'vala, with the Pa'vala we at least know what we're up against, with the jungle, we don't.

>>40845557
With the pa'vala we don't know where to go, with the jungle we just need to find civilization.

>>40845557
>>40845605
Fortunately we know exactly where to go and what we'll be facing with the Warlord. So that settles it then, going to get the Gem wins!

>>40845666
Alright.

>>40845666
>>40845680

Adventure in fantasy Arrakis > fighting degenerate warlord.

>>40845794
We don't have to fight the warlord. It may be possible to jew the warlord.

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You rise to your feet, besides the burning you don't really feel all that different. You don't feel like your life is contained, or anything of that sort. You try casting a little magic, and have no problems doing so. Then again it was a simple spell, just shooting a little stream of fire from the tip of your finger. You'll likely need to experiment further to really understand what it is the runes do.

On the other hand, how do you figure out whether your 'life' is contained? You suppose killing yourself might work to figure out whether it keeps you alive when reason dictates you ought to be dead, but that seems like an awfully risky experiment. Perhaps you could try touching something that's alive? Grabbing on to a dying man?

Well, whatever. It doesn't matter for now. You need to get home. “Am I free to leave? While I've certainly enjoyed my time with your tribe I feel that I must return to El-Amin soon.”

Lilavati waves you off dismissively. “You are free to come and to go, do as you please.”

You step towards her, but she points instead to a curtained doorway on the opposite of the hut. You follow her direction and find yourself in the main room of her little complex. When you slip out into the village proper you find that you'd been in there far longer than you'd thought. It's already fairly late in the afternoon.

(1/3)

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The Elder emerges from Lilavati's hut behind you, startling you when he slaps you companionably on the shoulder. “You will be leaving us then? That is understandable. You have your own people to worry about. Your own concerns. Know that you will always be welcome amongst our tribe, though I cannot always guarantee that we'll be easy to find. We plan to go east soon, and then journey along the edge of the mountains towards Apejo. We will be welcomed there.”

You acknowledge the man with a nod, glancing across the sands towards the pen of lizards, currently occupied sunning themselves. “I thank you for your hospitality, Elder. Truly you have been gracious host. As well, I apologize for lashing out during the ceremony. The pain was greater than I expected. Pass along as such to Lilavati.”

He simply nods, and you gesture towards the reptilian mounts. “How much would you like for one of your sarada? I've need of a mount for my journey to El-Amin and I feel they would be better suited than a camel for the trip.”

The Elder merely shrugs his shoulders. “You are free to take one, any that will accept you as its rider. They are fickle things, known to bite those they dislike. I would choose carefully, were I you. As well, I wish you safe travels Sankar.”

You raise an eyebrow curiously. “Sankar? Why call me that?”

The Elder gestures vaguely to the village as a whole. “That is what people have begun calling you. They do not know your proper name, so they have given you one of their own. Its meaning is difficult to translate exactly, but it would be something to the effect of 'luck bringer'. They say your arrival was a sign of good things to come.”

Huh, you suppose that's interesting. You certainly could've gotten something worse. Like 'loud screamer' or 'rude foreigner' or something to that effect.

>Ask the Elder something before you leave. (Write-in)
>Time to hit the road, you've shit to do and the day's already almost over.
>Write-in