>>41807911

“Not as many as he might want, but yeah. Nodes form on the ocean floor the same as they do on land,” says Roger. “A couple decades ago, your dad and him would have been neighbors like you and me are now.”

You twist this new information about in your mind. There was a power hungry underwater landmaster right next to your dad’s old turf. It’s not much of a stretch to see the fish king putting together some plot to get him out of the way of his expansionist dreams. “That’s information,” you say to yourself. “Are there any other crazy landmaster facts I should know? Any tricks or whatever?”

“Uh. Yes?” he answers vaguely.

You guess you could be more specific. “Like, how do you open portals to other planes? That seems like the thing for landmasters to do with wells.” That’s what Meckor wanted. It’s what Freddy wanted. Maybe it’s about time you figured it out.

“I’m not the best with explaining these things,” Roger says, “but I could show you at a land node. Most landwells exist in two places. It’s a little like portaling from well to well, but it doesn’t take the same amount of raw energy.”

Now here you go. This is why you wanted to meet up with this dude. He knows his stuff. “You have a well around here or something where you could show me?” you ask. “I mean, I appreciate your time and whatever, but I am kind of in the middle of a road trip. We’re leaving tomorrow. Or if you can’t handle it now, if I could come back up and you could give me some landmasters-for-dummies lessons?”

>>41807920

“It’s no problem,” says Roger. “I’ve lived around this stuff my whole life and even I don’t get it sometimes. I can’t imagine what it’s like to have to figure it all out on your own.” He thinks for a second. “You know, I have a couple wells along your route. I could skip along and meet up with you and your friends a couple more times at least. It’s not that hard to bring across the basics of how to organize your powers or use them. After that you could master them on your own.”

>Awesome. You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to find somebody who actually knows crap about this stuff.
>Ugh. I don’t want to be a moocher. I’ll pay you back, I swear. You’ll get a favor or something.
>Are there any big leagues landmasters I need to look out for going forward, given my plotted course?
>If I run into thin and tall again when I’m on my own, how am I supposed to deal with that?
>One more question. Do you play drums? Because I have it on good authority you play drums.
>Is it like, pretty common for landmasters to have freak out problems or whatever?
>But do you have a well nearby? I mean you teleported in, right? Maybe we could do a quick lesson right now or something.
>Other (?)

>>41807938
>>Awesome. You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to find somebody who actually knows crap about this stuff.

> I’ll pay you back, I swear. You’ll get a favor or something.

>Are there any big leagues landmasters I need to look out for going forward, given my plotted course?

>>41807938
>>Awesome. You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to find somebody who actually knows crap about this stuff.
>One more question. Do you play drums? Because I have it on good authority you play drums.

>Awesome. You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to find somebody who actually knows crap about this stuff.
>Ugh. I don’t want to be a moocher. I’ll pay you back, I swear. You’ll get a favor or something.
>Are there any big leagues landmasters I need to look out for going forward, given my plotted course?

>>41807938
>Awesome. You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to find somebody who actually knows crap about this stuff.
>Is it like, pretty common for landmasters to have freak out problems or whatever?
>Other (?)
"One of my landwell's gave kind me of like a charge that I used to empower Rowan. How common are those?"

>>41807938
>Awesome. You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to find somebody who actually knows crap about this stuff.
>Wait. Organize? You mean it's not just a mystery box gauntlet what I get from the wells?

>Landwells Acquired: 7
>7

Fish Face needs to die. There's no way he's not responsible for the boat murder.

>>41807938

>Awesome. You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to find somebody who actually knows crap about this stuff.
>Ugh. I don’t want to be a moocher. I’ll pay you back, I swear. You’ll get a favor or something.
>Are there any big leagues landmasters I need to look out for going forward, given my plotted course?

Why are spindle wings listed on the charsheet as an [IN] power when Xan said that that spindle wings happen to splitborns who have infernus blood?

Does this mean that the "they're just not finished growing, slap a few more wells on em" theory is right?

>>41807938
>Awesome. You don’t know how long I’ve wanted to find somebody who actually knows crap about this stuff.
>One more question. Do you play drums? Because I have it on good authority you play drums.

>>41807938
>Other (?)
What made you guess Belphgoran? Sure, the crown was a dead giveaway, but what made you think Crown instead of Halo? You've encountered Belphgorans before?"

>>41807938
Supporting this >>41808328

God damn it Languid! Stop making new threads so I can actually catch up you bastard!

>>41808429
What's stopping you?

>>41808444
Too many new threads and laziness.

>>41808328
Ooo, this seems good.

Man. That’s quite an offer.

You grin. “Awesome,” you say. “You have no idea how long I’ve wanted to find someone who actually knows their crap.”

He smiles. “Let me guess. About the same time you realized no one knew what the devil they were talking about?”

“Accurate enough,” you say. Then you frown a little. “Not that I don’t know I’m totally mooching off you. I’ll totally pay you back somehow. You’ll get a favor or something, I swear.”

“Thanks for the sentiment, but I can carry my own baggage,” he says. “You get this one for free.”

You don’t like handouts, but you’ll figure out how to pay him back later, with or without him knowing about it. “Anyway, going forward, are there any big leagues landmasters I need to look out for as I’m driving east?”

“There’s a few, but the only one I’d be worried about is Ossifera,” Roger says. “She thinks she owns the Great Plains, and dragons can get territorial. Beyond that, I’m not sure. I only have one or two wells in the east.”

Good to know. “Cool,” you say. “Last thing. I’ve kind of promised a few of my friends crazy landwell powers after this trip. Are the whole magic boon things common, or are they kind of rare?”

“I’ve found a few of those,” says Roger. “They’re not rare, but they’re not common. I have a few ideas of where they’re more likely to be, but I always prove myself wrong, so I can’t say. You might have one in the wells you already claimed, even. You’ll know for sure once you sort out your connection to those nodes.”

>>41808528
>>41808328
>>41808340
It's pretty obvious with the way we kept slinging around Belphegoran abilities.

>Corrupting Hex everywhere
>blatantly reading emotions through Roger's pokerface
>psionic debuffs (subtle, but Roger's demonstrated some degree of magic sensing)
>All but straight told him we could see his magic aura when we met

Asking just makes Sierra look incredibly careless and naive.

>>41808531

“Up till now I thought landwells were just a mystery gauntlet, so maybe you’ll have to teach me how exactly I can do that,” you say. You pause. “So what made you guess Belphegoran, anyway? I mean, yeah, crown, but how’d you know it wasn’t a halo? You seen Belphegorans before?”

“I’ve run into a few. You threw around a lot of negative energy during that fight,” says Roger. “For some reason I can’t see angels using the same kind of magic.” He glances over at the restaurant door. “Then your halo didn’t look much like your sister’s, and there's this whole slightly strange thing about how you react to my emotions before I express them.”

>I don’t know if you picked up on the subtext, but me and Ro aren’t related by blood.
>Might want to be careful about those hot conclusions. I wouldn’t be surprised if different angel archetypes had different kinds of halos.
>I'm sure if an angel really wanted, they could learn whatever kind of magic they wanted.
>How do you know that I'm just not... really good with people?
>What’s your opinion on demons in general? Or your experience with them?
>Is there like a legimiate thing half-aliens like you are called? I mean, I’ve got Hellborn, so that’s me.
>You ever been off plane anywhere?
>You know, since you’re not a jerk, I’ll look over the whole thing about your enemies using me to find you.
>Other (?)

>>41808587
>>Might want to be careful about those hot conclusions. I wouldn’t be surprised if different angel archetypes had different kinds of halos.

>What’s your opinion on demons in general? Or your experience with them?

>You ever been off plane anywhere?

>>41808587
>What’s your opinion on demons in general? Or your experience with them?
>Is there like a legimiate thing half-aliens like you are called? I mean, I’ve got Hellborn, so that’s me.

>>41808587
>Is there like a legimiate thing half-aliens like you are called? I mean, I’ve got Hellborn, so that’s me.
>You ever been off plane anywhere?

>>41808587
>How do you know that I'm just not... really good with people?

>>41808587
>What’s your opinion on demons in general? Or your experience with them?
>Is there like a legimiate thing half-aliens like you are called? I mean, I’ve got Hellborn, so that’s me.
>You ever been off plane anywhere?

The idea of Sierra being good with people is so hilarious it's not even worth mentioning.

>>41808587
>I'm sure if an angel really wanted, they could learn whatever kind of magic they wanted.
>I never found out about halo variations, but the crowns can look all kinds of different and goofy. So who knows.
>Might want to be careful about those hot conclusions. I wouldn’t be surprised if different angel archetypes had different kinds of halos.

>>41808587
>>Other (?)
Ever hear of Hugo Faustler?

I'm hoping he picks voidborn or something like that.

If he refuses to answer, we can always say it's something retarded like "Earl of space tentacles"

>>41808587
>I don’t know if you picked up on the subtext, but me and Ro aren’t related by blood.

"Wait, you mean to tell me that the short, skinny pale deamongirl with black hair isn't actually related to the 6ft3 blond angel that's build like a brick shit house? Say it isn't so!

>>41808670
>5'10
>short

iirc, Sierra's taller than Ro with glamours off.

>Sierra's the literal Nazi's kid
>She's the only person in the house that isn't ridiculously blonde and master racey

>>41808697
>5'10
>short
Deal with it manlet

>>41808738
That is not short for a girl, even if you're going with the 5'10=manlet meme standards.

Sierra's already nearing tall territory, it's just that Ro is plowing right through into freak height territory.

>>41808587
>Is there like a legimiate thing half-aliens like you are called? I mean, I’ve got Hellborn, so that’s me.
>Might want to be careful about those hot conclusions. I wouldn’t be surprised if different angel archetypes had different kinds of halos.
>Other (?)
>By the way, you probably don't want to ask demon girls about their horns straight up like that. That's kind of indecent I think
Yes/No?

>>41808878
Not really feeling it.

>>41808878
>Yes/No?
Sure

>>41808878
I'll back it. Maybe something to say as we walk back to the table

>>41808878
Roger might end up reconsidering his offer, which would be funny.

>>41808878
Yes/No?
No. If he referred to them as handlebars or something, then maybe. But Sierra is proud of her horns. I don't really see her taking offense at someone asking about them.

>>41809017
I don't think it was meant to be her taking offense but her making an unfunny joke

>>41809017
What Sierra takes offence to is probably very different to what other demons take offence to, we aren't saying we're offended we're saying maybe don't ask the next demon the same thing.

You have to remember horn wraps are a thing.

>>41809017
Sierra doesn't take offense because she grew up with humans but others might that's why she's warning him. I imagine it's like asking about the color of girls underwear to someone from Hell. Like Xan.

Fuck Yeah Hellborn!

>>41809132
???: Hey Xan what is the color of you underwear?
Xan: What makes you think I wear any?

>>41808770
>Ro is plowing right through

Giggity

>>41809274
FUCK YEAH HELLBORN!

“Careful with all those hot conclusions,” you say. “I’ve seen some funky crowns out there. I’m sure there’s more halos in the sea than Rowan’s.”

“Sure, but your eerie ring of light has a few big differences from a solid gold hoop,” Roger says.

“True, I guess. So, is there a name for half-aliens like you? I mean, I’ve got Hellborn, so that’s me,” you say. “I mean. Don’t tell people that’s me, because that’s kind of a problem.”

“I understand,” he says. “I’d rather people don’t find out I’m Starspawn.”

“So Starspawn huh? That’s pretty hardcore,” you say. Not to mention cool.

“Hellborn’s not hardcore?” he asks, incredulous.

You shrug. “There’s this badass guy who calls me spawnling all the time. Maybe I’m biased to words with spawn in them. But speaking of biases, what’s your opinion on demons in general? Or your experience with them?”

“I’ve heard things, and I’ve seen things,” says Roger, guardedly. “But people hear things about my kind and make assumptions, and it’s annoying. I’ve had some bad experiences, sure. But you’re not so bad, so it’s just proof you have to take people one at a time.”

Look at you, being an upright representative of demons everywhere. “There’s some wisdom. It blows pretty hard how crappy people can be to us horned folk. You ever been to hell yourself?” you ask. “Or any other plane? I mean, I’ve been to hell for like two seconds once, and I went to a goblin warren in the mirror plane once. And I’ve spent a couple days at the Cerran renaissance fair.”

>>41809326

“I don’t do much interplanar travel,” says Roger, “but I do go through the mirror plane when I need to get somewhere outside my territory.”

“Mirror travel,” you say. “Uh. By the way, next time you run into a demon, you know, especially a demon girl, you probably don’t want to be nosey about their horns. It’s uh... it’s kind of not a thing you ask about. Unless, you know, she’s coming on to you way heavy, or vice versa.”

You feel a flustered surprise from Roger, enough of one that it makes you snicker.

“Thanks for the advice,” he says evenly.

Just then, out of the Chinese restaurant, the mob of your friends comes spilling out. Looks like they’re good to go. Might be time to retire for the night.

>Dude. Your friends are right. You need to lighten up.
>Remember, you heard it here first.
>I’ll go ahead and punch your favor ticket. I probably saved you from some future disaster right there.
>Whatever. I’m glad you finally opened up. Now we can team up sometimes for two parter episodes and stuff.
>So, we’ll be seeing you out on the road, right?
>Other (?)

>>41809342
>I’ll go ahead and punch your favor ticket. I probably saved you from some future disaster right there.

>>41809342
>So, we’ll be seeing you out on the road, right?

>>41809342
what's she mean by I’ll go ahead and punch your favor ticket. I probably saved you from some future disaster right there.

>>41809342
>I’ll go ahead and punch your favor ticket. I probably saved you from some future disaster right there.
>Whatever. I’m glad you finally opened up. Now we can team up sometimes for two parter episodes and stuff.

>>41809342
>>I’ll go ahead and punch your favor ticket. I probably saved you from some future disaster right there.
>So, we’ll be seeing you out on the road, right?

>>41809342
>Whatever. I’m glad you finally opened up. Now we can team up sometimes for two parter episodes and stuff.
>Dude. Your friends are right. You need to lighten up.

>>41809415
Saving him from embarrassing himself around a demongrill

>>41809415
By warning him about mentioning a she-demon's horns we saved him from making that mistake in the future.

>>41809342
>>Whatever. I’m glad you finally opened up. Now we can team up sometimes for two parter episodes and stuff.
>>So, we’ll be seeing you out on the road, right?

>>41809342
>Dude. Your friends are right. You need to lighten up.
>Whatever. I’m glad you finally opened up. Now we can team up sometimes for two parter episodes and stuff.
>So, we’ll be seeing you out on the road, right?

>>41809342
>Dude. Your friends are right. You need to lighten up.
>I’ll go ahead and punch your favor ticket. I probably saved you from some future disaster right there.
>Whatever. I’m glad you finally opened up. Now we can team up sometimes for two parter episodes and stuff.
>So, we’ll be seeing you out on the road, right?

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>starspawn

Oh snap. I called it last thread.

>>41809594
Hot damn that old native woman was one kinky lady back in the day

>>41809342
>>Whatever. I’m glad you finally opened up. Now we can team up sometimes for two parter episodes and stuff.

I wonder if Roger could bring his mom to the meet ups. She would probbly know more about David than Roger, having actually interacted with him.

>>41809342
>Whatever. I’m glad you finally opened up. Now we can team up sometimes for two parter episodes and stuff.
>So, we’ll be seeing you out on the road, right?
>Other (?) - Do I need a landwell on the Mirror Plane to travel or is that something taught?

>>41809342
>Other (?)
"If you meet a demon who associated with Usholaguissa, stay away from them. Seriously she's a fucking pain in my ass."

“I’ll go ahead and punch your favor ticket,” you say. “Probably saved you from some future disaster right there.”

“I doubt that,” he says.

“Dude. Lighten up,” you say, slapping him on the shoulder.

“What a novel idea,” he says flatly. “Why didn’t I think of that?”

“Whatever,” you say. “It’s good you finally opened up though. Now we can team up for two parter episodes and season finales.”

Roger doesn’t laugh. “Great.”

Your friends come over.

“Did we interrupt some secret landmaster meeting?” asks Vikrama.

“Not really,” Roger says.

At the same time though, you answer, “Well, yeah.”

“I booked us into a hotel,” Ro says, looking to you. “You done for the day, or are you thinking about pulling an all nighter?”

“Eh. I’m beat,” you say, glancing at Roger. “We’ll be seeing you out on the road, right?”

“I’ll let you know where we can meet up,” Roger agrees, moving over to rejoin his friends.

“Oh sweet,” says Nemo. “Can I come?”

Roger sighs. “Only if you clean the gutters like my mom asked you to.”

“He’s harsh, but fair,” Nemo tells Vikrama.

She laughs. “You’ll have to bring some of your hoard,” she says. “I love plates.”

“How’d you know about that?” he asks, amazed.

Because you told her?

“I’ve got my own secrets,” Vik says, mysteriously.

Nemo is impressed.

“Catch you later,” says Wyatt, waving as they head off.

“See ya,” Ro says, with a brief wave back.

They walk away. You grab Reeber and head back to the car with your peeps.

--

It’s the middle of the night, and you’re sitting on the roof with your feet dangling off the edge. It’s cool, but comfortable, and there’s a slight breeze. You would normally be asleep, but sleeping in the car kind of threw off your sleep schedule.

You’re in a more out there part of town, and you guess they conserve electricity at night by shutting off the lights or something? You wonder if it’s normal or just a lucky break. It’s dark enough you can be all scary and whatnot without worrying about anybody freaking out.

>>41809952

You’ve spent the time acclimating to your new wings, getting used to how they feel and moving them around a little. You still feel that strange otherness to you that you’ve been feeling since Sierra National Forest, and that’s something you’re trying to figure out too.

But other than that, you’ve just been thinking about things, like finding Hassatur, grabbing him by the gills, and ripping his face off.

He had something to do with the boat. In fact, he might just be the one at the boat. You feel an unpleasant, aimless pressure building within you. (+15 Stress: 35)

You probably need to think about something else for a while.

>You can always go for a run. Night runs are the only way to run.
>Remember your training. Kethgi.
>Well, since nobody’s watching, might be the time to embarrass yourself by trying to fly.
>Focus on the weird feeling that’s been plaguing you and try to decipher it. Might be the only chance you get for a while yet.
>See if you can sort out your landwells or whatever like Roger was talking about. You don’t know exactly what he was talking about, but maybe you could try some random stuff and see what happens?
>Go grab somebody to talk to (?)
>Give somebody a call (?)
>Other (?)

>>41809971
>>Give somebody a call (?)
Call Wolfgang

>>41809971
>>Well, since nobody’s watching, might be the time to embarrass yourself by trying to fly.

>>41809971
>Focus on the weird feeling that’s been plaguing you and try to decipher it. Might be the only chance you get for a while yet.
Our shadow's doing funny stuff. I'd like to get to the bottom of it.

>>41809971
>Well, since nobody’s watching, might be the time to embarrass yourself by trying to fly.

NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER TO GRAVITY

>>41809971
>>Remember your training. Kethgi.

>>41809971
>>Well, since nobody’s watching, might be the time to embarrass yourself by trying to fly.

>>41809971
>Focus on the weird feeling that’s been plaguing you and try to decipher it. Might be the only chance you get for a while yet.

>>41809971
>Focus on the weird feeling that’s been plaguing you and try to decipher it. Might be the only chance you get for a while yet.

>>41809971
>>Focus on the weird feeling that’s been plaguing you and try to decipher it. Might be the only chance you get for a while yet.

>>41809971
>>Focus on the weird feeling that’s been plaguing you and try to decipher it. Might be the only chance you get for a while yet.

>>41809971
>Focus on the weird feeling that’s been plaguing you and try to decipher it. Might be the only chance you get for a while yet.

I wonder what it is. Shadow of Holding? Just a bigger badder shadow?

Discovering that there's another glyph thingy stuck to us and zapping it before it can do bad stuff?

Wings growing in fully?

Indigestion from sketchy-ass Chinese food?

>>41809971
>Remember your training. Kethgi.
>Focus on the weird feeling that’s been plaguing you and try to decipher it. Might be the only chance you get for a while yet.

>>41809971
>Focus on the weird feeling that’s been plaguing you and try to decipher it. Might be the only chance you get for a while yet.

>>41809971
>>Well, since nobody’s watching, might be the time to embarrass yourself by trying to fly.

>>41809971
>Focus on the weird feeling that’s been plaguing you and try to decipher it. Might be the only chance you get for a while yet.

>>41809971
>Focus on the weird feeling that’s been plaguing you and try to decipher it. Might be the only chance you get for a while yet

>>41809971
>Well, since nobody’s watching, might be the time to embarrass yourself by trying to fly.
>Focus on the weird feeling that’s been plaguing you and try to decipher it. Might be the only chance you get for a while yet.

Between the skeletal wings and the not-halo and general black and red color scheme, Sierra could pull off one sick "fallen angel" getup.

>>41810346
Can't wait till we start the band.

>>41810426
Sierra and Ro on guitars, Ranthix drummer

Harvey: ???
Xan: ???

>>41810532
I don't think Thutals have any inclination for arts beyond dark arts and open fire culinary arts.

>>41810532
Ranthix on vocals, Harvey on drums, Baron is our roadie

>>41810587
>>41810532
Any band composition with Ranthix in it will have Ranthix steal the show even if he were only there to provide catering.

>>41810625
Every gig, regardless of size or attendance numbers, will have enough meat for everyone present and a bonfire large enough to cook it all.

You stand and shift your wings, and then almost fall over backwards. Not because your wings are heavy or anything, they just still surprise you sometimes. It’s like having another pair of arms, except they’re huge, with huge boney hands. Despite their super light-weightness though, you haven’t yet managed to hurt yourself screwing around with them. They’re kind of like your horns in that way. They’re light, and maybe a little flexible, but they’re not fragile.

You’re tempted a little to try to mess around with shadows enough to form some kind of false membrane so you can attempt flight, but you don’t think it’s a good idea to screw yourself right now. You might just leap off the roof and find out too late that you’re not a bird. Or a bat. Ugh.

But you need something to distract you from the building impulse to hurt things, namely fish things.

Just then, that weird sensation that something’s not quite right hits you again. Maybe you’re doubled marked by the Mermenes? It feels like it’s somehow in your shadow, but not. Is it just that sketchy Chinese food you stuffed yourself with? The mystery is enough of a distraction, you guess.

You take a deep breath and sit back down on the gravelly surface of the roof, unsure of where you should be. You guess it doesn’t matter, you’ve done this before all over the place.

You still your thoughts, or at least pretend to, and try to eliminate anything that’s distracting you from the inkling, invasive feeling.

Slowly, you get yourself to a point where you’re pretty much in your own world. (-5 Stress: 30)

And... there’s the feeling. It’s not really a physical feeling. It’s like... a memory. Or something you should remember. Something about the darkness. It’s almost instinctual, somehow, between you and the darkness. Or maybe it is an instinct?

The shadows murmur about you, guessing at your struggle to understand.

They’re whispering, but not amongst themselves. They’re whispering to you, and it’s not just words.

>>41810532
>>41810587
Ranthix as vocalist and drummer

>>41810708

You... feel them. All of them. They press against you, like a weight. Your presence resists them, like a rocky cliff resists the waves.

But there’s a part of you on the periphery, just at the very edge... the very outside. It doesn’t push back against the tide. At the fringe, it mixes. It merges.

And when you focus on that feeling, you wonder why there’s a difference between that and your core. At the thought, you feel your resistance to the shadowy waves break down.

The world goes black.

For the briefest of moments, you’re without edges or borders in a sea of liquid emptiness. You perceive the hotel beneath you, but the awareness is not sight or any sense you’re aware of. You realize you’re drifting off, and you flail wildly, only to find yourself without limbs or body to respond to your thoughts.

You panic. (+10 Stress: 40)

A tension within you resists the shadow pressures, and you collapse back into yourself, snapping back to awareness about ten feet out from the roof.

“Ahh!” you scream, plummeting to the ground.

With a wild outburst of power, you brace yourself against your fall with a huge cushion of shadow. You plunge through and slam into the pavement, taking the brunt of the impact on your hip.

Scowling, you stand and rub at your side. But then you forget your bitterness as you look back up to the roof. Did you just... teleport? No, that’s not quite right. You just... turned into a shadow?

>Stepping of the Shadow: You may enter a shadow form state, during which you can merge with and move through shadows. You may expend power to darken shadows which aren’t thick enough to move through normally, as usual.

>Screw around with new-found superpowers. (?)
>Better not try that again tonight. This could get out of hand.
>Try to shadow step back into your hotel room and break the news.
>Other (?)

>>41810745
>Better not try that again tonight. This could get out of hand.

>>41810745
>Screw around with new-found superpowers. (?)
See how quickly you can move around from shadow to shadow.
Then
>Try to shadow step back into your hotel room and break the news.

>>41810745
>>Screw around with new-found superpowers. (?)
Pop up behind Ro while cackling

>>41810745
>Screw around with new-found superpowers. (?)

Freak Ro out

>>41810745
>Try to shadow step back into your hotel room and break the news.
Just one, otherwise we're going to end up falling through the world or something.

>>41810745
>>Try to shadow step back into your hotel room and break the news.

>>41810745
>Try to shadow step back into your hotel room and break the news.

>>41810745
>>Screw around with new-found superpowers. (?)

>>41810745
>>Screw around with new-found superpowers. (?)

>>41810745
Suck it! My wings may be gimpy but I can freaking teleport! in a way that's more convenient

We need to pop up right in front of Xan and go BOO.

>Screw around with new-found superpowers. (?)
I wanna see what happens when we use displacement while we're merged with shadows. If we can displace when someone's looking at the shadow we're in, that's awesome.

>>41810745
>Try to shadow step back into your hotel room and break the news.

>>41810745
Sounds like the classic Verwelken form. I'm guessing that since the form doesn't not cost or limit, it makes us super vulnerable to light.

>>41810873
>doesn't not cost
>not
note* (for the form itself, that is)

We're like an electron. You either know exactly where we are, or you have no fucking clue where we are.

>>41810745
>Screw around with new-found superpowers. (?)
>Try to shadow step back into your hotel room and break the news.
See what powers we can use while in shadow form. See how it affects their costs if they're usable. See if we can physically effect things and how objects interact with our body. Try to use our umbrakinesis to make an unnatural shadow shape and then jump through that instead of jumping into a natural shadow.

Roll some dice.

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>41810949

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>41810949
ROLLAN BOSS!

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>41810949

Rolled 29 (1d100)

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>>41810961

Damn Sierra teleport champ!!

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>>41810961
Nice.

I fucking love the shadows. I don't think we've ever rolled poorly when it came time to bust a move with new shadowshit.
It'll make it hit all the harder when it eventually happens.

>>41811014
I think talking to them has lost us sanity every time but they work good otherwise

>>41810893
You don't actually understand the uncertainty principal, do you.
The way it actually works is that you can only know where it is or what it's doing, with your certainty of each inversely proportional to how certain you are of the other. This is because in order to determine where a partical is, you need to bounce another partical off of it, which affects the motion of the target. The higher the energy of the ping, the more accurately it returns the target's position and the more strongly the target is knocked around.

>>41811044
Are you saying that Internet pop culture has misinformed me? How dare you.

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>>41811044
cool!

>>41810745
>Try to shadow step back into your hotel room and break the news.

>>41811014
except when we fell off the freeway, but then again we didn't look where we were jumping.

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>>41811044

I'm sorry I just had to make the joke

>>41811295
That wasn't really messing around with new shadow stuff so much as it was jumping off a freeway.

Well, if you can turn into a shadow once, you can sure as hell do it again. You clench your fists and focus yourself again, this time a whole lot faster since you know what you’re trying to go for. It takes a minute, but soon you go formless again, free in the darkness.

You feel airy and weightless, but also way clumsy. You try to direct yourself upwards to the second story hotel room, and drift upwards, kind of like a jellyfish. You could probably scamper up the side of the building quicker than what you’re doing, but going shadowform is almost like flying.

Your shadow-self joins the shadows on the wall and you impel yourself upward.

You avoid the light streaming from a window with a still-awake occupant, though the uncomfortable intensity of even the ambient light gives you a bad feeling about what might happen if you did this and you accidentally ran into direct light, even if it was just from somebody’s cellphone.

Upon reaching the corner of your and Rowan’s hotel room, you slide yourself between the edges of the corner and enter the room, everything exactly how you left it from when you snuck out earlier.

You disentangle yourself from the shadows and step onto the carpet. You look hard at Rowan’s sleeping form. You wanted her to be awake so you could scare the crap out of her or something, but she’s totally out of it. Damn.

Angrily, you go over and shake her shoulder. “Wake up!” you hiss.

Groggily, she rolls over. “Ugh. What’s it Sierra?” she asks.

>>41811378

“I’m totally the shadow walker now,” you say, urgently.

“That’s cool,” she says disinterestedly, burying her head back in her pillow.

“No, you don’t get it. I figured out how to go all shadow and whatever!” you explain.

She squints through the darkness at the nearby clock, and you feel a brush of annoyance from her, and she heaves a tired sigh. “Go to bed, Sie. It’s three in the morning.”

>She’s just not awake yet, push her out of bed or something.
>Cease bothering Rowan.
>C’mon, Ro, this is big!
>Ugh. You’re the worst.
>Well, maybe you should go to bed.
>Three already? You don’t have much more time to screw around with shadow surfing before dawn!
>Other (?)

>>41811401
>C’mon, Ro, this is big!
>Ugh. You’re the worst.
>Three already? You don’t have much more time to screw around with shadow surfing before dawn!

>>41811401
>>Three already? You don’t have much more time to screw around with shadow surfing before dawn!

>>41811401
>>Ugh. You’re the worst.
>>Three already? You don’t have much more time to screw around with shadow surfing before dawn!

>>41811401
>Ugh. You’re the worst.
Other
"Well, if you change your mind, I shall be in the parking lot making Physics my pretty little bitch."
>Three already? You don’t have much more time to screw around with shadow surfing before dawn!

>>41811401
See if we can forcibly turn other stuff into shadows. It's working with our clothes and the shit we're carrying, so maybe we can shadowify some random object.

>>41811401

>Three already? You don’t have much more time to screw around with shadow surfing before dawn!

>>41811401
>Ugh. You’re the worst.
>Well, maybe you should go to bed.

>>41811401
>>Three already? You don’t have much more time to screw around with shadow surfing before dawn!

>>41811401
>C’mon, Ro, this is big!
>Ugh. You’re the worst.

>>41811401
>C’mon, Ro, this is big!
>Ugh. You’re the worst.

Yo, we can go on teleport dates with Wolfgang!

>>41808206
>who have infernus blood?
That's why.

>>41811704
You're missing the point.

It'd be labeled a [Mix] power if spindle wings were the result of infernus + somethign else as Xan said.

The current label of [IN] denotes a pure infernus trait which spindle wings were explicitly said to not be.

>>41811401
>Shadow yourself under her blanket.

>>41811750
The wings are an Infernus trait.

Them being shitty wings is a result of us being insufficiently pure.

You're the one missing the point.

>>41811401
>>Three already? You don’t have much more time to screw around with shadow surfing before dawn!

>>41811750
You're misremembering. She said spiritblooded, not splitblooded. The implication is that there exist purely Infernus bloodlines with abnormal features, which is perfectly in line with what we already know about highborn exclusive abilities.

>>41812024
nope >>41558160
>Xan tries to keep herself from snickering, but does a poor job despite the horror of your situation. “Spindle wings lack the flesh,” she says. “Splitblooded winged Infernus are sometimes born with them. They’re flightless.”

>>41812024
>>41812070
kek

We're still going to try to fly, we have to.

>>41812136
We can fly/drift in complete darkness now so the whole shadow membrane idea is kind of pointless now

>>41812185
It's like you don't even want workable wings!

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>>41812185
That's not real and you know it.

>>41812185
The shadow self is what we'd use to make the membrane and that is far more resistant to light than the shadow form is.

Shadow self can survive sunlight. Shadow form is warded off by the glow of a cellphone.

>>41812136
>>41812185
At some point you'll just have to devote all attention and resources to flight, otherwise languid will just keep jerking you around forever.

You scoff. “You’re the worst,” you say.

“That’s nice,” she mumbles into her pillow.

Stupid Rowan not freaking out about this. You storm back to the window and let yourself out. If it’s three already, you don’t have much more time to screw around with your new superpowers before dawn comes and ruins everything.

You head over to a nearby park and spend the rest of the night (morning?) testing the extents of your power.

Unfortunately, shadow stepping isn’t really as much like teleportation as you wanted it to be. You can merge into shadows and come out of them somewhere else, but you have to spend time as a shadow between the two and claw your way along through force of will. And you’re not even that fast. You can totally run faster on foot, especially when nobody’s looking.

But you take your clothes with you when you go into the shadows, so you figure you should be able to take other stuff with you, too. Little things aren’t much of a problem in your initial trials, though taking bigger things, like chairs or whatever, requires some more power to keep you in shadow form. You try to see if you can make cars vanish and things like that, but it’s no good if it’s nailed down or too big to carry.

And while shadow surfing is cool, it seems like you’re pretty limited in terms of stuff you can actually do whilst shadowed up. Like, you can’t sling around most of your magic, because that requires too much centralized willpower, and that just shoves you right out of your symbiotic shadow form. And you don’t even want to try throwing fire around while you’re in the dark. Bad idea. But so long as you stick to Verwelken stuff, it’s pretty synergistic, if that’s a real word.

When dawn starts coming on, you’re severely limited to surfaces when you’re shadowing around. In the night you might be able to basically fly, but ambient light really limits your options. And you don’t even want to try this kind of crap during the day.

>>41812298

You don’t want to find out which one wins, Infernus fire immunity or deathly Verwelken light weakness if you get hit by direct sunlight while shadow stepping.

You slouch back to your room around six, drained and satisfied, and pass out.

You guess at some point you wake up, enter zombie mode, and go out to the car, because you’re pretty sure you remember some of that. It’s not till midday you awake in the backseat.

“How late did you stay up?” asks Moriah.

“Late,” you say.

“What were you talking about last night?” Rowan asks. “Something about shadows?”

You give everybody the rundown on your freaking cool discovery.

“Cool!” Vikrama says. She gets it.

“I was under the assumption you could already turn into a shadow at will,” says Xan, affecting a bored tone, though secretly impressed.

Reeber would also be impressed, if you could speak dog language to him. But he is a foreign dog and probably doesn’t speak any dog language you’d know.

And then your trip continues down lonely Canadian roads. The scenery slowly changes from moutnains to more mountains, then to less mountains. You wonder how many more wells you’re going to find, or if anything out there is going to find you first.

You’ve got landmaster lessons scheduled, a travel route locked, and one of your dad’s old enemies maybe identified. When you get to New York, you’re going to have to rip that storage shed apart to see if there’s anything there that gives you any clues. But if Hassatur did do anything to your family, you’re going to turn him inside out and wring him free of his briny fish-faced blood.

You’ve just got to keep it under wraps till then, and gather as much power as possible so you’ll be ready for it.

--End Part 122--

Got called into work early today because somebody was sick, so I’ll just leave off here. Thread at 5:00 PM MST tomorrow.

Also, just curious and for pacing reasons, what do you guys most look forward to in the quest?

>>41812223
It can survive light but can it stay strong enough to carry Sierra without huge power drain?
Also
>You may expend power to darken shadows which aren’t thick enough to move through normally, as usual.
Spending PP to not get fried by a cellphone seems to be implied here but I might be wrong

>>41812329
>But he is a foreign dog and probably doesn’t speak any dog language you’d know.
That's logical.

>>41812329
>what do you guys most look forward to in the quest?
Hell.

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>>41812329
>But he is a foreign dog and probably doesn’t speak any dog language you’d know.

>>41812329
>what do you guys most look forward to in the quest?

Meeting more unnatural, supernatural and extranormal people during our travel. Also to get to know Roger, Wyatt and Nemo better.

>>41812329
Both how Seirra develops power and form wise, and how she develops as a person.

I love the fact that she is a much different person now than she was at the start of the quest. I'm also looking forward to the changes that'll happen to her when she eventually starts getting serious about becoming an Imperiate. Ruling, building and leading and army (and the inevitable regret due to your own people dying), bargaining and cowing powerful figures. All of this should greatly change her.

>>41812329
I always look forward to the fights but then when we get there it's always frantic and terrifying and I wish we'd stuck to the shadows and shot the thing in the face with a high powered rifle from far away.

I really like exploring though. The Cerra trip was fun. Learning more shit about the setting is always enjoyable.

>>41812329
Sierras development and setting exploration.

Oh and Harvey. He's pretty cool too.

>>41812329
>Also, just curious and for pacing reasons, what do you guys most look forward to in the quest?
Character development, I can wait to see Vic get better at magic and Xan get better at people stuff

>>41812329
FUCKING WINGS

>>41812329
I'm still looking forward to wings. Actual ones.

>>41812329
>Also, just curious and for pacing reasons, what do you guys most look forward to in the quest?
Finding out what happened to mum and sis.

And even though you didn't ask for it: What I like most about the quest is the character interaction and banter.

I bet the north pole has a landwell right on top of it.

>>41812441
I'm curious as to what the hell's actually gonna happen with the boon if she gets one.

Also I was surprised as fuck that she seemed to hit it off with Nemo far moreso than Wyatt.

>>41812487
I still stand by my theory that Roald Amundsen is a landmaster and lives up there.

>>41812487
>Claim all the Antarctic wells
>Use landmaster powers to change the weather to be hotter there
>Melt all the ice
>Fucks up the sea life
>Apocalypse the world just to give Hastur a middle finger

>>41812329
>Also, just curious and for pacing reasons, what do you guys most look forward to in the quest?


Imperiate stuff

>>41812329
I look forward to more opportunities for Unnatural Charm shenanigans.
With unnatural charm, terrorizing glare, inflict pain and sap will, Sierra could become a terrifyingly effective interrogator.

And I also look forward to see what Sierra could get up to in Vegas with her suite of powers.

>>41812520
Didn't we already promise our next boon to Harvey?

>>41812329
We need to get one of our friends to let us check whether or not Dark Heart works in shadow form.

>>41812582
We promised the next one to Vik, then after that we went to Harvey and promised him one too. We never told him Vik was next in line, though, and we never technically decided to honor the promises in the order they were made if people feel like dicking Vik over here.

>>41812607
Harvey called dibs long before Vik knew shit.

>>41812620
Harvey isn't here and the trip has months left.

>>41812555
He's a fish man, he'd love it.

>>41812662
Also who really cares about him, he already has his own powers. Vik would benefit a lot more from them.

>>41812700
We don't really know that.

>>41812298
>or too big to carry.
We just need to lift some more with Ranthix.

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>>41812329
Most? Man, everything, I guess. I can't really rate one thing above other since everything's equally well written.

I like the combat, slice of life, power gaining / level upping. It's all good!

>>41812700
Vik lacks hereditary qualities that Ro and Harvey have. At best she would get more PP. At worst she falls in to coma as her physical body is unable to handle the powerload. Even in best scenario her inexperience would not allow her to use the extra pp in any meaningful way.

>>41812947
Pretty good art. 8,5/10.

>>41812957
Quit being a pessimist.

>>41813023
We should still learn more about what boons do before we pump one into a normal human.

>>41813055
Let's ask Rodger what all of his have done/about them.

>>41812329
>what do you guys most look forward to in the quest?
Getting back to shadowrunning.

Attacking that compound where we first met Ranthix was the best part of this quest.

>>41812957
No, at best she gets her own powers. At worst shenanigans happen and we spend half a thread sorting it out.

>>41813175
No at worst we finish of some ancient prophesy, and bring about the end times as the world cannibalizes itself.

Probably won't happen but that is AT WORST.

>>41813055
>>41812957
Oh not this shit again. Landmasters generally use these things on animals.

>>41813311
There's no evidence even kind of suggesting that.

Landmasters just use summons. It doesn't mean they use their boons on them.

>>41813331
Hugo's goat was a real animal pumped up with land magic, not a summon.

No, I'm not talking about the earth ram thing. That one was summon.

>>41813331
Goat-Master had summons, but he actually had a real, flesh and blood goat, that presumably received a boon that made it bigger, stronger, and whatnot.

And Reeber is first on the list for getting a boon, not Harvey, and certainly not Vik.

Boonsperg is cancer every time the discussion starts.

>>41812993
lel sure. I especially like how the room turned out. I think I really captured the intricate details that make Sierra's room.

>>41813380
>And Reeber is first on the list for getting a boon
I support this notion.

>>41812947
Needs more being on fire.

If we died, would Rowan instantly lose her wings?

Should she be careful about flying for that very reason?

>>41813426
Ro has a damn near godmode spell that tanks impact damage no problem. If she's high enough to get injured, she has time to activate it. If she's so low she can't activate it in time, it's too low for her to get hurt.

The only thing we know of that's hurt her through her holy shield thing was Sierra during a bloodrage, when she grabbed Ro's arm and twisted it. Apparently godmode shield is bad at dealing with grappling and grappling-like attacks.

>>41813481
>Ro has a damn near godmode spell that tanks impact damage no problem.
Did she have that before getting Booned?

Because everything that's come since is something that we have to consider she might lose if she lost the boon.

>>41813510
>Did she have that before getting Booned?
Yes. It's a basic Seraph power.

>>41813417
Maybe some time in the future. I'd like to draw the part where The Group rams through mirrion mermens but it turns out I suck at drawing even the simplest of cars

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See pic.
>>41813347
Hate to break it to you son, but there was never any goat. Sierra refers to the ram as goat while she is spying on Hugo through Monster, and Languid never mentions any goats again after the Ram gets statted.

First sighting of Hugo refers to his animal companion as a Ram: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/39381023/#p39386197

No goats in sight. Nothing, but summons.

>>41813705
Ok, fine, be pedantic about it and pretend that means there were only summons.

>>41812329
I'd love to try to shape a custom imagination summon thing from one of the landwells we claimed. Not sure how you'd handle that, but it'd probably be fun. Give Sierra a chance to show the artyness and stuff.

>>41813705
The Ram, the horse sized sheep of his that carries a pile of his stuff, is not a summon.

It says so pretty fucking explicitly in that thread you linked, we requested that real animals be left out of the fight, and it stayed out of the fight, just like we had Reeber do.

>>41813278
Um. No. I don't think us giving Vik powers would make lawngod want to stop the quest.

>>41813380
>>41813347
You mean the same way we have Reeber?

We should spend like 5 wells to make a copy of us.

>>41813853
Shit son, you are right. I was in belief that his mount and the stone ram were the same and Hugo had given command to remain on the field. I checked the next thread and the stone ram gets rekt. I need to pay more attention when I go searching over old threads.

>>41814038
That's what Monster is. It's a little genderswapped Sierra copy. The more power we give it the more like her it gets.

>>41814038
>>41814079
Monster is A+ husbando material after 5+ wells.

>>41814116
I plan to give all of our "upgrade the summon" buffs to Monster.

In honor Monster from thread 1.

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>>41814164
RIP BRO

You know what'd be a neat summon? Generic human-looking goons with guns. Wouldn't have to worry about using blatantly demonic or magical summons and blowing our cover.

Or maybe make some kind of lightning monster thing. We're pretty familiar with Zelathis so she could probably make an electricity based summon.


Ooooh. Idea. We have a link right to Ro because of the boon, and we live with the Hallows, so maybe we could make/get a pseudo-angel summon thing. That'd be fucking awesome.

>>41814255
>You know what'd be a neat summon? Generic human-looking goons with guns.
It'd be funny as fuck if the next summon she got was a squad of 3 or 4 human gangstas.

>>41814288
But anon, if we got a human gangster summon he would be called Ben

>>41814288
>Sierra, don't landmasters summon animals? Why did a bunch of black people just materialize.
>...
>Ok, I know about the nazidad thing, but this is still kinda fucked up.

>>41814408
10/10

>>41809296
fug yah ayllborn