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>>42984545
After a few minutes of turning green and making horrible noises in the back of your throat, you manage to lever yourself up to all fours, ignoring your braids swinging and weighing you down, and stare fixedly at the inexplicable ground supporting you. Good, stable dirt. You'll never take striking the goddamned earth for granted, ever again.

... right. Gathering your wits (such as they are), your memory quietly starts filtering back into your brain, as cautiously as dwarves reclaiming a site that may or may not be infested with demons. Clearly, Leanbox's stupidly ominous reality-bending Red Ring of Death kicked in. According to its patron goddess, CPU Green Heart, its purpose was to rip out the dark goddess Arfoire and shunt her between dimensions, like some big beast's immune system purging a particularly bitchy virus.

Mmhmm. You just BET that went just as fucking planned. Goddess or no goddess, you're gonna have some words with CPU Green Heart next time you see that... that big dumb green tit goblin.

You still try to get your bearings, but it's hard to concentrate with how you're sort of stuck between dimensions and are being subjected to forces that no mortal mind was ever meant to handle. The last few moments while you were being discombobulated are still hazy- all you can remember is screaming in pain, being wracked in pain, and hearing Shovel Knight screaming just as loudly as you-

(Cont.)

>>42984545
I CAN SEE FOREVER.

Also, we're early! (I always add one hour to announced start times.)

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>>42984545
sweet right at the start

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>>42984571
- but there were the hands, desperately reaching out for you.

Estelle, the Dragon Warrior, happy-go-lucky veteran adventurer and your surrogate big sister, if only because she was one of the first to take some sort of interest in you and your filthy dwarven ass; your first friend other than Mojang, and a girl you're still trying to figure out.

Rokko, the Blue Bomber; crippled and closing in on obsolescence, but one of the few adventurers who could understand what your glitchy ass has been through, a stalwart companion, quiet and fighting her fate, yet burning with an inner flame that's positively dwarven.

Blanc, CPU White Heart and the patron goddess of Lowee; combat-damaged and wrecked in some way by the dark goddess Arfoire, exhausted to the point that her trademark berserker rage was gone, but filled with an urgency you didn't comprehend.

And then-

>CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
[ ] [ESTELLE] had grabbed onto your arm, unwilling to once again let a little sister figure slip from her grasp.
[ ] [ROKKO]'s gauntleted hand clamped onto you, the former super fighting robot hurling herself once more unto the breach.
[ ] [BLANC] had thrown herself forward, the weakened goddess latching onto you for reasons of her own.
[ ] [NONE OF THE ABOVE]. You refused to let any of your friends get dragged between the dimensions with you.

>>42984599
>[ ] [NONE OF THE ABOVE]. You refused to let any of your friends get dragged between the dimensions with you.

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>>42984584
>(I always add one hour to announced start times.)

... honestly, after QMing here for a few years, I cannot refute that in any shape or form.

>>42984599
>[x] [NONE OF THE ABOVE]. You refused to let any of your friends get dragged between the dimensions with you.
Urist won't drag any friend down to a fate worse than death.

>>42984599
>[ ] [ESTELLE] had grabbed onto your arm, unwilling to once again let a little sister figure slip from her grasp.

>>42984599
> [ ] [BLANC] had thrown herself forward, the weakened goddess latching onto you for reasons of her own.
NONE seems nice and dramatic, but I think Blanc will be a good help and she could use some spotlight anyway.

>>42984689
I couldn't begin to guess what reason Blanc might have, so I'm going with that
[X] [BLANC]

>>42984599
>[ ] [NONE OF THE ABOVE]. You refused to let any of your friends get dragged between the dimensions with you.
A dumb kind of dwarf loyalty.

So it really happened Blorp

[ ] [ESTELLE] had grabbed onto your arm, unwilling to once again let a little sister figure slip from her grasp.

>>42984599
>[ ] [BLANC] had thrown herself forward, the weakened goddess latching onto you for reasons of her own.

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>>42984599
>[ ] [ROKKO]'s gauntleted hand clamped onto you, the former super fighting robot hurling herself once more unto the breach.
My beard is ready.

>>42984599
>[ ] [BLANC] had thrown herself forward, the weakened goddess latching onto you for reasons of her own.

Wanna see where this is going

>>42984599
>[ ] [NONE OF THE ABOVE]. You refused to let any of your friends get dragged between the dimensions with you.
Don't bring the goddess. Taking her already weakened outside the dimension is only going to make her worse.

>>42984599
[X] [NONE OF THE ABOVE]. You refused to let any of your friends get dragged between the dimensions with you.

>>42984599
>[ ] [ROKKO]'s gauntleted hand clamped onto you, the former super fighting robot hurling herself once more unto the breach.

>>42984599
>[X] [NONE OF THE ABOVE]. You refused to let any of your friends get dragged between the dimensions with you.

We've gotta fill all our party slots with the friends here we're going to drag back to reality, can't clutter it with people who HAD BETTER DAMN WELL BE SAVING LITTLE SIS MOJANG.

>>42985128
Mojang probably got sucked into the sam hell dimension we did, the Ring got everyone that was originally from GG

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>>42984545
Not bad.

Well, comparatively.

>[ ] [ESTELLE] had grabbed onto your arm, unwilling to once again let a little sister figure slip from her grasp.

While Blanc is my favorite, Estelle makes the most narrative sense.

>>42985128
and if mojang is from the grave yard like us?

cause it seems all indie titles and a good number of the pc titles come from the graveyard

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yeah i think i was supposed to post this last thread or something so here's some pixels

also does anyone have one of those really cliche bubbly shoujo backgrounds? i need one for reasons

>>42984599
>[ ] [NONE OF THE ABOVE]. You refused to let any of your friends get dragged between the dimensions with you.

maaaaaximum suffering

>>42985176
>>42985230

Yes, but she's also been made into one of Vert's official ones, what with how Mojang was bought out by Microsoft. I imagine that changed her. . . code? or something.

>>42985329
Vert didn't do anything beyond like, stamp a paper though, I mean Shovel Knight was screaming along with us

>>42985329
I don't think that changes the fact she was 'born' in the graveyard though.

>>42985402
>Shovel Knight was screaming along with us

Maybe she didn't want to feel left out?

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>>42985317
>what the
>oh fuck
>it turned into a moeblob too
>it's calling me oneechan
>I NEVER ASKED FOR THIS

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>>42985459
I imagine Urist was like that when Mojang first called her Sempai and years later when she got promoted to Big Sis

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before I forget, I'm gonna run my bastard of a quest again tomorrow.

>>42984599
>[X] [NONE OF THE ABOVE]. You refused to let any of your friends get dragged between the dimensions with you.

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>>42985317

>>42985317
Amazing.

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>>42984599
>[X] [NONE OF THE ABOVE]

You'd like to say that you /chose/ not to take any of their arms. Hell, you'd LOVE to claim that it was your hard-boiled dwarven honor that made you willingly sacrifice yourself in order to valiantly chase down Arfoire or whatever. Or that you, with your totally sober insight, immediately realized that your friends would be better off keeping an eye on all the shit going down in Gamindustri, and- since the Red Ring of Death affected Leanbox, and Leanbox only- maybe make sure that Arfoire hadn't left behind any nasty surprises in the other nations. And looking back, it could've been a problem if the patron goddess of Lowee was thrown into the fucking abyss, however temporarily.

In reality, you flailed around so much that you completely whiffed. Besides, on the spur of the moment, your pain-wracked brain could only pull up the half-baked reasoning that you... you didn't really want to see your friends dissolve into thin air, or scream in tormented pain. Even though they're all adventurers who'd likely experienced worse things, you really, really wanted to spare them that much- it was bad enough hearing someone as young as Shovel Knight getting torn to shreds, after all you'd put her through.

Yeah, yeah, you know, it's sappy as hell. All this adventuring with pals thing is making you damnably soft. Hell, that's half the reason why you avoided traveling with Mojang.

You brush yourself off and look up at the sky (galaxies? dimensional chaos?). Standing all alone in the middle of goddamned nothingness stretching from here to infinity, you can feel all your half-baked chivalrous feelings fade into an extremely vivid appreciation of how insignificant your shit is in the grand scheme of the universe.

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>>42985882
Quietly, you sink back down to your knees, cold sweat trickling down your back. After a moment, you've had all the staring-into-the-void shit that you can handle, and you fall back down on all fours, squeezing your eyes shut, your hands clutching fistfuls of grass. Right now, you... you really could use all the help you could get.

... grass.

Grass?

You lift your head and take a good, close look at the land around you. It's... it's got trees, and grass, and flowers, and shrubs, and rocks, and mountains, and and and and and all that good shit except there's no sky, there's just floating islands everywhere, all beholden to their own stupid laws of gravity that turn your stomach when- okay, screw the damn void, focus on the land.

You sink your hands into the dirt like it's your only lifeline, your eyes widening in surprise. You know this dirt. It's... it's /your/ dirt.

Endinomon, the Enchanted Realm. A giddy giggle escapes your lips, girly enough that you'd normally smash anyone who overhears, but you're beyond caring now. It's your fortress. YOUR fortress; whatever threw you between dimensions apparently counted this as part of yourself.

Your stupid fucking barely-excavated hyperdimensional fortress, the best lifeline you could ever ask for in this Armok-forsaken place.

[ ] [EXPLORE THE ISLAND] Secure the area, watch for dangerous beasts or unwelcome hitchhikers, get the lay of the land, scout out good sites for construction. You'll need it.
[ ] [BUILD BUILD BUILD] You have no way of knowing how much time you have until shit happens. Dig out a bunker ASAP, one that can be secured against whatever this place throws at you.
[ ] [START SUMMONING] See if you can summon any minions, be they monster, dwarf, or otherwise. You don't know how the laws of this reality differ, or affect summoning.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>42985919
>[ ] [BUILD BUILD BUILD]
>[ ] [START SUMMONING]

Better start up a fort so you can hide inside.

>>42985919
>[X] [BUILD BUILD BUILD] You have no way of knowing how much time you have until shit happens. Dig out a bunker ASAP, one that can be secured against whatever this place throws at you.
>[X] [START SUMMONING] See if you can summon any minions, be they monster, dwarf, or otherwise. You don't know how the laws of this reality differ, or affect summoning.

>>42985919
>[ ] [EXPLORE THE ISLAND] Secure the area, watch for dangerous beasts or unwelcome hitchhikers, get the lay of the land, scout out good sites for construction. You'll need it.
Find a good mountainside to strike

>>42985919
> [ ] [START SUMMONING] See if you can summon any minions, be they monster, dwarf, or otherwise. You don't know how the laws of this reality differ, or affect summoning.
> [ ] [BUILD BUILD BUILD] You have no way of knowing how much time you have until shit happens. Dig out a bunker ASAP, one that can be secured against whatever this place throws at you.
SUMMON DWARVES
We may not be sure it'll work as intended, but if we want a real fort well need a real crew. Recall the dwarves we saw in our previous vision.

>>42985919
[ ] [START SUMMONING] See if you can summon any minions, be they monster, dwarf, or otherwise. You don't know how the laws of this reality differ, or affect summoning.

>>42985919
[x] [EXPLORE THE ISLAND] Secure the area, watch for dangerous beasts or unwelcome hitchhikers, get the lay of the land, scout out good sites for construction. You'll need it.

>>42985919
>[ ] [EXPLORE THE ISLAND] Secure the area, watch for dangerous beasts or unwelcome hitchhikers, get the lay of the land, scout out good sites for construction. You'll need it.
Know what we got around. We should build in an optimal spot if there is one.
>[CHECK THERAPIST]
If only to see if it works and if anyone we know came with and is nearby.

>>42985919
[x] build

>>42985882
Yup, too late for the first vote.

>>42985919
>[ ] [BUILD BUILD BUILD] You have no way of knowing how much time you have until shit happens. Dig out a bunker ASAP, one that can be secured against whatever this place throws at you.
>[ ] [START SUMMONING] See if you can summon any minions, be they monster, dwarf, or otherwise. You don't know how the laws of this reality differ, or affect summoning.
Have the minions look for Arfoire/Mojang/Shovel/Anyone Else

>[Therapist] Ping Shovel and other friendlies
ALWAYS therapist

>[INVENTORY] Do we still have medpacks or do we need to make our own tools for Surgerydwarf?

>>42985919
>[X] [EXPLORE THE ISLAND] Secure the area, watch for dangerous beasts or unwelcome hitchhikers, get the lay of the land, scout out good sites for construction. You'll need it.
Shovel Knight, are you there? Mojang, you better fuckin' not be here, or Vert has some shit to answer for!
>[X] [START SUMMONING] See if you can summon any minions, be they monster, dwarf, or otherwise. You don't know how the laws of this reality differ, or affect summoning.
We need Dwarves. And we need them to. . .
>[X] [BUILD BUILD BUILD] You have no way of knowing how much time you have until shit happens. Dig out a bunker ASAP, one that can be secured against whatever this place throws at you.
Dwarves away! Built us something servicable in your sturdy Dwarven hands whilst I check for any friends or little sisters who might be around.

>>42985919
>>42986072
>>[Therapist] Ping Shovel and other friendlies
>ALWAYS therapist
I'll second that.

>>42985919
>[x] [BUILD BUILD BUILD] You have no way of knowing how much time you have until shit happens. Dig out a bunker ASAP, one that can be secured against whatever this place throws at you.

>>42986072
>>[Therapist] Ping Shovel and other friendlies
>ALWAYS therapist

True. Another vote for using Therapist. Although we might not want to pay too close of an attention to what we or they were just doing, in case it involves being turned inside-out through a star or something.

>>42985919
>[ ] [BUILD BUILD BUILD] You have no way of knowing how much time you have until shit happens. Dig out a bunker ASAP, one that can be secured against whatever this place throws at you.

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>>42985317
>>42985742
adding bubbles made me feel like a mad scientist for some reason

>>42985919
>[ ] [BUILD BUILD BUILD]
does urist even know the evil/savagery of her embark?

if it's not terrifying + reanimating ground i will be disappointed

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>>42986272
By Armok, that's super Moe.

Now I want one with Urist. Except she notices the bubbles, panics, then tries to knock them away by flailing her arms.

>>42986412
>not shooting them with crossbow

.....can you breath fire using alcohol spray+lighter in DF?

>>42986412
Vert go home, your making a mess

>>42986451
>wasting alcohol
I don't think it's actually possible for a dwarf to spit out alcohol

>>42986505
Don't they just breathe out alcohol fumes instead of CO2, though?

I mean, their blood-alcohol content is high enough to be called their alcohol-blood content level.

>>42985919
>[ ] [BUILD BUILD BUILD]
STRIKE THE EARTH!!!

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>>42985919
>[X] [BUILD BUILD BUILD]
>[X] [THERAPIST] as a secondary action, since it's comparatively easy to do.

For a few moments, you waffle indecisively between trying to summon minions and building something as soon as dwarvenly possible. Eventually, you're swayed by the prospect of accidentally summoning something horrifying and having nowhere to run; more importantly, you've got your deeply-embedded fort mode instincts.

Rule number one of settling in a high-risk area: get all your dwarves into the safety of a dug-out bunker and set up some way to close the door as soon as possible.

"You have arrived."

Muttering to yourself, you flex your liquid metal gauntlets; in response to your mental command, the strange alloy melts down a *blorp* before reforming around your hands, turning into the all-too familiar shape of mining picks.

"After a journey from the Mountainhomes into the forbidding wilderness beyond, your harsh trek has finally ended."

Your shoulders relax as you begin tunneling through the soft soil with ease. It's good and honest physical labor, and the horrors of the hyperdimensional realm fade to the back of your mind as you hit the zone.

"Your party of one is to make an outpost for the glory of all of Gamindustri. There are almost no supplies left, but with stout labor comes sustenance."

A three-square wide entrance. Showy and maybe not necessary, not right now, but it's been a force of habit for so long that it's done before you even realize it. Well, three-square-wide bridges look good, and it'll avoid you having to deconstruct it later in the unlikely event you want to widen the entrance-

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>>42987069
"Whether by bolt, plow or hook, provide for your dwarves. You are expecting a supply caravan just before winter entombs you, but it is Spring now."

Trade depot first...? No, forget that; you seriously doubt there's any prospect of trade up here. For similar reasons, you leave out the stockpile, at least for now. You need this place locked down before you can think about anything else. Come to think of it, you don't know what kind of place this is. You desperately hope the biome hasn't defaulted to evil or something, or-

"Enough time to delve secure lodgings, 'ere the ą͎̺̐͛͌̒̇̾ḅ̳̝̪̮̥̙͌̊̓̍ǒ̲̖̠̳̙͍̝mͤ̽̄̍̎ͭȉ̫͚̥ͭ̈͜n̗̪̯̮͌͊̋͌ȧ̧̯̠̬͑͑ͮͦ̈́̚t̴̺̯̑ͬ͐̊̈́i̺̪̞̲̱̱͕͐͋̐̔ͮ̾̈́͞o͕̣͚̦̫ṋ̙ͯs̶̳͉̲͕̰̼ͯ̅ͧ̍̋̌ ̫̤̼͈ͪ̄̈́f̡̦̝̤̃͌̚r̠̰̖̯̦͌͋ͧ̐́oͨ̚͜m̸̭̘͈̮̬̰͍̂̅̂̏ ̻ͩ̅b̰̈́e̛̘̻͕̮̗̳̎͗y̻ͫo̝̗̰̞̣͆͗͟n̟̮̮̮̈́̌ḏ̳̦̥̾ͨ̇̎̉̾ get hungry."

...

Yeah, that's your cue to fucking WORK FASTER. In record time, you bash a rock into the floor with so much force that it shatters, the fragments instantly pulling themselves together into a Mechanic's Workshop. Mechanisms for the drawbridge, mechanisms for the lever, stones for the bridge itself- maybe it's just your paranoia, but you SWEAR you catch glimpses out of the corner of your eyes, like the swirling void outside is peering down at you, judging your worthiness.

Or maybe just gauging whether or not your soul tastes good.

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>>42987101
"A new chapter of dwarven history begins in this place."

Your feet almost catch on the uneven ground, but you regain your balance just before you trip, and your mad dash to the entrance goes off without a hitch. Breath catching in your throat, you hurl your materials to the ground, kick a mechanism so hard that it hurtles in a straight line all the way to the back of your fortress (a lever pops up at the point of impact), and then you just stomp on the rocks and mechanisms until they flatten into something vaguely resembling a rough stone bridge-

"Abidrovos. 'Hyperdimension.'"

Blood pounding in your ears, one last stomp finishes up the bridge, and you howl triumphantly into the uncaring sky.

"STRIKE THE EARTH!"

Feeling almost completely spent, you make your way to the back of the cavern, collapsing in a heap and pulling the lever. After just long enough for you to start worrying that you wired something wrong, the bridge grinds closed, sealing you and your fortress off from the outside world. Void. Whatever.

As your eyes adjust to the dark, a wave of relief threatens to pull you under. It's done. You've got a safe zone all to your own, and it feels damn good.

Once you catch your breath, you idly activate Therapist and try to see what's what.

... and you expel the remainder of your breath in a groan. It's just a jumble of c̘̮̘̲̳̕o̻͚̖̜ͅr͓̝̟r̷͕̭̜̦̘͔͉up͓̱͕͔͓t̷͙͈͙͈e̖d͙̜̖̹̯͍ ͕͕̘͎̫̝̥t̳̳̬̣̮͚̹ex̡̮̤̜̞̟̺͔t͏̬͇̝̬̞̝̘.̢͖̰. You're not sure why you expected anything different, of COURSE there would be nothing but-

You pause, tilting your head. You're hearing bits and pieces of someone's voice, clear enough to even drown out the ever-present BOOMing and THWOMPing that seem to permeate the entire galaxy. It sounds vaguely familiar, but whatever it is, you're not even sure if it's directed toward you, or if it works under the rules you'd come to take for granted back in Gamindustri.

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>>42987133
You frown thoughtfully, scratching a cheek. If... if you tried, you might be able to triangulate where that voice is coming from. On the other hand, that means leaving the safety of your burrow- er, fort. On the other OTHER hand, there's not much you can do to improve your situation. You barely have any shit on you at the moment: no seeds, no materials outside of stone, no nothing. All you have is that [Medkit], some strange [Key Fragments], and your booze.

... right. The Medkit.

You really, really, really hope that Mojang wasn't caught up in all this bullshit.

[ ] [SEARCH FOR VOICES] Make a beeline for whatever you're picking up on Therapist. You know you heard something, and you do need all the help you can get... hopefully.
[ ] [EXPLORE] Get the lay of the land- /your/ land, and all the shit that's around your fortress. Who knows what being between dimensions will have done to Endinomon?
[ ] [BUILD DEFENSIVELY] Enclosed watchtowers, fortifications, traps; make sure your base is nice and secure before you do anything drastic.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>42984545
If you're compiling these posts into some form of archive be sure to link it in the OP or something. I've been aching to start work on a shitty RPG maker game and this might be a good excuse to release my autism.

>>42987149
>[ ] [SEARCH FOR VOICES] Make a beeline for whatever you're picking up on Therapist. You know you heard something, and you do need all the help you can get... hopefully.

>>42987149
>[ ] [SEARCH FOR VOICES] Make a beeline for whatever you're picking up on Therapist. You know you heard something, and you do need all the help you can get... hopefully.

>>42987149
>[ ] [SEARCH FOR VOICES] Make a beeline for whatever you're picking up on Therapist. You know you heard something, and you do need all the help you can get... hopefully.
Might as well go find our friends

>>42987149
>[X] [SEARCH FOR VOICES] Make a beeline for whatever you're picking up on Therapist. You know you heard something, and you do need all the help you can get... hopefully.
Collect whatever allies you can, even if they used to be enemies. I think being ditched here by their mockery of a Goddess will get most of them more worried about surviving then fighting you.

Hell, you might even be able to mold them into proper little siste. . .

Shit, is what Estelle has contagious?

>>42987149
>[x] [BUILD DEFENSIVELY] Enclosed watchtowers, fortifications, traps; make sure your base is nice and secure before you do anything drastic.

>>42987149
>[TUNNEL] It'll be slower, and whatever enemies you find will have a direct line to your base, but at least it's only going to be ONE kind of baddie, and not more of the abominations outside.

>>42987149
>[EXPLORE]

WE DON'T HAVE ANY SEEDS. WE NEED TO FORAGE FOR PLANTS FOR FOOD, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY BOOZE.

>>42987151
Wait a second, I completely missed the obvious "ARCHIVE LINKS" header
Sorry for being a retard, OP.

>>42987069
>>42987101
>>42987133
>Urist narrating to herself
As long as doesn't regress all the way to narrating her whole life again.

>>42987149
>>[ ] [SEARCH FOR VOICES] Make a beeline for whatever you're picking up on Therapist. You know you heard something, and you do need all the help you can get... hopefully.
Search for friends!

>>42986272
There's plenty to feel mad science-y about. Your laboratory pumps out terrifying moe.

Your bundles of black (and occasionally multicolored) pixels are always amusing! Thanks dude!

>>42987151
>>42987229
No problem! Thought you were talking about cramming it all into one chaptered document file or something, and I don't have the skills for that sorta thing although oh my god an RPG Maker version of this...

>>42987199
>Shit, is what Estelle has contagious?

I'm starting to think that it's some sort of condition endemic to this particular version of Gamindustri. Dumping the CPU Candidates into this quest would probably be like hurling buckets of chum into a starving shark tank.

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>>42987246
Eh, she shouts stuff like 'it was inevitable' while fighting. Makes sense she'd mutter the introductory text of fortress mode when beginning a fortress.

Pic not really related, but still DF related.

>>42987294
>Dumping the CPU Candidates into this quest would probably be like hurling buckets of chum into a starving shark tank.
Oh absolutely. But it would be hilarious and I do hope they appear at some point.

A part of me came into this thread with this weird, in between dimension as a chance of somehow meeting at least one.

I don't put much into it happening though

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>>42987294
Just looked at the Twitter..
Shit dude, where's the drawfag that did pic related? I'm shit at drawing art assets outside of spriting/animating, so I'd prolly need him to do artwork if I actually try and make a vidya based off this.
You guys have a Rizon or something?

>>42984545
Damnit blorp y u run when i got work late?!

>>42987149
>[ ] [CAT] Send out a few cats to scout too

What the fuck is with captcha? It just isn't showing up except now and I suspect it will disappear again after this. I actually have to use the non-quick reply box.

>>42987149
>[ ] [BUILD DEFENSIVELY]

>>42987462
An IRC for a single quest?

Not a chance, you'll have to stick around and get lucky

>[X] [SEARCH FOR VOICES] Make a beeline for whatever you're picking up on Therapist. You know you heard something, and you do need all the help you can get... hopefully.

Mojang get.

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>>42987655
Well there IS a /tg/ Rizon channel but alright.
You want me to make the battles side-scrollers or the kind where you beat up .jpegs in first person?

Here, I illustrated this in Photoshop to make up for my poor literacy.

>>42987655
>An IRC for a single quest?

You'd be surprised at how many actually have those.

>>42987793
I like side-scrollers. A lot.

But really, that depends on a lot of factors:
>Is the MC Urist, a diff character, or is it possible to choose?
>Do you want EXE drives?
>Will Lily Ranks only provide stat boosts, or effects that require their own modifications to animations/new abilities?

>>42987149
>[X] [SEARCH FOR VOICES]

... shit.

You lie back down, bumping the back of your head against the floor. As much as you'd like to turtle up and ignore the outside world forever, you'll get abso-fucking-lutely nowhere. That's the sort of ironclad common sense that even you can't deny. Sure, you've known fortresses that've thrown that aside in search of a bigger challenge, but in a situation like this-

You unscrew the top of your flask and guzzle down the last few drops of your super mushroom wine; far from comforting you, it only serves to remind you that you're running critically low on /everything/. You might even be forced to build an outdoors garden, for crying out loud- and that's only if hyperdimensional weather doesn't prove fatal to crops or some shit like that.

Minutes later, you've lowered the drawbridge, and after failing to get torn apart by any abominations from the great beyond, you start walking with a hand to your temple. Whatever's wrong with Therapist, there's still enough of a signal to lock onto the voice, so you've got a general direction-

... you pause, glancing back over your shoulder at the cheerfully yawning maw of your underground bunker, and screwing up your face. Dammit. Can't close the damn fortress from the outside, and you're not entirely convinced that it's /wise/ to leave it open. Last thing you want is to invite someone back to your humble abode, only to find it infested with goblins (FROM SPAAAACE) or demons (FROM SPAAAACE).

[ ] [TEMPORARY BLOCK] Wall off the entrance to your bunker for now. You can always deconstruct that shit when you get back- or should be able to, anyway.
[ ] [SUMMON MINIONS] Your dwarves can seal and unseal the drawbridge, and watch the fort while you're out! Assuming that, uh, they're okay, of course.
[ ] [LEAVE IT] The voice you're tracking in Therapist isn't that far away, and you shouldn't be gone long. Besides, there's literally nothing worth taking from your fortress.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>42987919
>[ ] [SUMMON MINIONS] Your dwarves can seal and unseal the drawbridge, and watch the fort while you're out! Assuming that, uh, they're okay, of course.

>>42987462
No IRC channel, sorry! I did post this pic on Twitter, and I THINK you just have to click on it in the "Photos and Videos" sidebar to get taken to the tweet (which has the appropriate credits).

But damn man, if you really get something like this rolling, just poke me on Twitter or something if you have questions or need more info or something.

>>42987919
>[X] [SUMMON MINIONS] Your dwarves can seal and unseal the drawbridge, and watch the fort while you're out! Assuming that, uh, they're okay, of course.

>>42987919
>[X] [SUMMON MINIONS] Your dwarves can seal and unseal the drawbridge, and watch the fort while you're out! Assuming that, uh, they're okay, of course.

I honestly want to summon forth a single, tiny eldridtch horror wearing a dwarven helmet that's as unhappy not to be a dorf as Urist is.

>>42987919
>[ ] [LEAVE IT]
If there's anything too dangerous there when we get back, we'll just abandon the fortress and start a new one.

>>42987919
>[X] [SUMMON MINIONS] Your dwarves can seal and unseal the drawbridge, and watch the fort while you're out! Assuming that, uh, they're okay, of course.
And maybe they can make some improvements while they're at it. Oh, who am I kidding? They'll be migrants with useless skills.

>>42987919
>[ ] [LEAVE IT] The voice you're tracking in Therapist isn't that far away, and you shouldn't be gone long. Besides, there's literally nothing worth taking from your fortress.

>>42987919
>[ ] [SUMMON MINIONS] Your dwarves can seal and unseal the drawbridge, and watch the fort while you're out! Assuming that, uh, they're okay, of course.
Let's hope we get not monsters

>>42987919
>[ ] [SUMMON MINIONS]

>>42987919
>[x] [LEAVE IT] The voice you're tracking in Therapist isn't that far away, and you shouldn't be gone long. Besides, there's literally nothing worth taking from your fortress.

>>42987919
>[ ] [LEAVE IT] The voice you're tracking in Therapist isn't that far away, and you shouldn't be gone long. Besides, there's literally nothing worth taking from your fortress.

>>42987919
>[ ] [SUMMON MINIONS] Your dwarves can seal and unseal the drawbridge, and watch the fort while you're out! Assuming that, uh, they're okay, of course.

>>42987919
>[ ] [TEMPORARY BLOCK] Wall off the entrance to your bunker for now. You can always deconstruct that shit when you get back- or should be able to, anyway.

>>42987919
>[ ] [LEAVE IT] The voice you're tracking in Therapist isn't that far away, and you shouldn't be gone long. Besides, there's literally nothing worth taking from your fortress.
Meh, we'll clear it out if something shows up with our new friend

>>42987871
I really just showed up with barely any prior knowledge of this specific quest. I am an avid DF fan, but I merely half-understand what you mean by EXE drives and it's nearly certain Urist would probably have unique abilities (if that's a thing in the quest). I'll need a bit to read through the thing and draw up possible avenues to take in regards to characterization and other gimmicks.

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>>42988184
Dwarf Fortress as a game is only 20% of the quest at max, the rest is Hyperdimention Neptunia.

>>42988240
Okay then, magics and meme abilities or what-have-you will definitely be a thing then.

>>42988184
>it's nearly certain Urist would probably have unique abilities (if that's a thing in the quest
no, the problem is that EVERYONE has unique abilities, and vetting it all out is impossible in first person.

>>42987793
So the first one is a requirement if you have a char select anywhere.

But if you're speaking as an avid DF fan, I'm not sure if either really works. It might be better to go turn/tick based with very, very complicated attack mechanics with tons of options.

>>42987919
>[ ] [SUMMON MINIONS] Your dwarves can seal and unseal the drawbridge, and watch the fort while you're out! Assuming that, uh, they're okay, of course.

>>42988184
We play as a migrant who goes around and ruins everything.

It's a lot of fun, you should stick with us.

>>42988277
Okay, so I'd imagine there would be a broad range of abilities for all characters. Is it not similar to Joe-Joe's Bizarre Adventure or something?

>>42988391
It probably make sense if you just went through the archive and read the quest, maybe looked at the Neptunia wiki for context

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>>42988391
>>42988441
Or just played the game. It makes much more sense there.

>>42988456
Oh, I cannot wait for RB3 to get released.

>>42988441
>>42988456
I know nothing about the game itself except what I hear about here a and I've managed just fine.

>>42988472
So you admit that you're a filthy degenerate masochist? That you actually want a woman to step on you and insult you like the pathetic worm you are?

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>>42988472
Well, at least you could use Purut in RB1 with that DLC.

>>42988391
I don't really know what you mean by that.

If it's sidescroller, it'll probably end up like the new smash bros where you pick a set of abilities to use. Abilities are distinguished by range, power, recovery time, and flashy sparkles.

If you go with something like FF Tactics, every character is a unique job and there's probably a lot of splash damage going around. Make an AP system so that moving decreases the number of attacks you can do, but staying still is bad because there are a lot of attacks that happen over time, and the really strong ones have chargeup time.

And if it's flat turn based jrpg, the only way to distinguish it is to add DF rules to the basic attacks and wounding system.

>>42988511
...yeah.

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>>42988518
Yes.

>>42988589

Meant to quote >>42988511

>>42988528
I didn't mean an action game, I meant turn based RPG lol
Like FF6 or something.
Too lazy to script an action game or FFT-like, especially so with fucking RPG Maker.

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>>42987919
>[X] [SUMMON MINIONS]

Of course, there's the logical explanation for what you're planning to do: you don't know how hostile this realm is, and you don't want to come back to a bunker invaded by monsters. But it runs deeper than that. Leaving any fort unmanned, no matter how small, feels far too much like abandoning the damn thing. Whether because it's become too hard or laggy, or because there's nothing else left to do, it's a flat-out admission that you're giving up.

Maybe it's your pride as a dwarf, but you at least have to /try/.

You swivel on your heel. You thumb your nose and glare at the outpost you've scratched out of dirt and rock- well, it's more like you're glaring at the realm in general, but staring at the void would just make you throw up.

Fine. Let's see how this shit goes.

>Urist Twelfthbay pulls something out of the warp...
ROLL d100! (dice+1d100 in the email field)
Taking the best of three!
DC: 70
BONUSES: Reliable Creature Summoning: +5 to highest roll!

>>42988675
there are turn based first person games?

Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>42988735

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>42988735
Some migrants have arrived.

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>42988735

>>42988747
The Doom RPGs were that way I think

Rolled 70 + 5 (1d100 + 5)

>>42988735

>>42988749
>>42988758
>>42988761
>>42988767
Goddammit.

>>42988767
At least you tried.

>>42988767
This is just cruel

>>42988747
Some dungeon crawlers were, Grimlock off the top of my head

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>>42988758
>>42988761
Well, shit.

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>>42988767
Every. Goddamn. Time.

>>42988749
>>42988758
>>42988761
>>42988767
I guess our new system luck couldn't last long against DWARVEN LUCK

>>42988796
Grimrock? I played that, and it is NOT turn based.

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>>42988767
Tell you what blorp, throw a dorf or two along with whatever else we managed to do.

>>42988860
>good things happening
Don't you wish

>>42988879
>Implying getting a dorf is necessarily a good thing

>>42988749
>52
Thats enough for what, a kobold?

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>>42988758
>>42988761
>>42988767

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Poor Urist. Maybe she's just getting the bad luck out of her system, r-right guys? H-he heh.

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>>42988955
No matter whatever dimension Urist is in or in between, she must fail.

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>>42988996
This is clearly Neptune's divine vengeance for stealing her main characterhood.

Rolled 72 + 5 (1d100 + 5)

>>42988735
I forgot if Blorp cares about modifiers.

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>>42988966
With Urist, it's more appropriate to say in those sparse times she actually magically passes is her getting her good luck out of her system.

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>>42989041
Apparently, the dice gods wanted modifiers on if anything.

>>42988749
>>42988758
>>42988761
>>42988767
>>42989041

Blorp!
Give us
>>42987984
>I honestly want to summon forth a single, tiny eldridtch horror wearing a dwarven helmet that's as unhappy not to be a dorf as Urist is.

Feel free to give it some sort of miasma harmful to us to punish our bad rolls.

>>42989132
>I honestly want to summon forth a single, tiny eldridtch horror wearing a dwarven helmet that's as unhappy not to be a dorf as Urist is.
>Feel free to give it some sort of miasma harmful to us to punish our bad rolls.

... well, anon

Two out of three ain't bad, right?

>>42989172
Depends on which two.

>>42989172
Lemme guess, we get the tiny eldritch horror wearing a dwarven helmet part.

And the not happy about not being a dorf part.

There's just a TON of them

>>42989200
Or maybe we get an inanimate object instilled with the mind of s depressed dwarf with some sort of horrible miasma.

It can't flip switches or do anything, because it's a nightstand or something, and just reminds us in Therapist how horrible we are all the time, and we can't bring ourselves to destroy it.

I just really wanted a little minion that had to roll for every order or else it would be interrupted by breaking down in tears that it wasn't a dwarf.

>>42988747
Apparently there are.
RPG maker defaults to it, I have to script my own side view battles

>>42989297
It's the Dragon Quest style.

>>42989297
>>42989334
oh, oh okay, I get it now. The picture made me think of skyrim as opposed to Dragon Quest.

>>42988735
>Best out of three
>DC: 70.................
>FAILED

You can tell, right off the bat, that you fucked up.

Doesn't take a goddamn genius to figure this out. Normally... well, when you concentrate and summon minions, it's just a straight shot from the center of your being, through the palm of your hand, and to a spot on the ground. Here, you can /feel/ the summoning energies (or mana, or coding, or however Gamindustri works) twisting through the core of your being, undulating like an angry serpent and almost forcing you to double over-

You choke on your own spit and desperately try to flick your wrist. With any luck, it'll cancel the summon, and... you are absolutely not surprised when it /hastens/ the summon instead. Right. Yeah. Why the hell would anything good ever happen to you?

The split-second the summon goes through, you flick your wrists, turning your gauntlets into an axe and shield, because you KNOW that the damn whatever-it-is will end up being hostile. The best you can hope for is a Forgotten Beast, because you KNOW how to deal with those on a case-by-case basis, but if it's an unknown, it-

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>>42989543
A blue misshapen thing stands before you, grotesquely lopsided. Hell, "grotesquely lopsided" is the perfect description of the creature, period. The thing's head is gigantic, making its shrunken, wrinkled body look even smaller, and its hooked nose doesn't even look like it's on right; its misshapen eyes are large and almost alien, staring at you with cold calculation, and the smirk on its mouth doesn't help at all.

Almost as if mocking you, the blue demon has a small horned helmet perched on its potato-shaped head, tilted at a rakish angle. And a beard, blue as the sky.

The... the creature isn't scary. It SHOULDN'T be scary, it's like some kid's idea of the monster under the bed, and scrawled into reality with about as much skill as said kid with a crayon. You'll just kill the damn thing and be done with-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9wjYbJDe6k

The blue demon's lips peel back to reveal serrated fangs and it starts walking towards you, faster and faster and faster and nope nope nope nope NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE-

Before you even come to a decision, you're shrieking at the top of your lungs and running away from the damn monster as fast as dwarvenly possible, pumping your arms like a champion marathon runner. Trees and shrubs pass by in a blur, and even the dull roar serving as the hyperdimension's ambient noise seems drowned out by the footsteps of the thing behind you and you glance back over your shoulder and IT'S GAINING SO YOU KEEP RUNNING

Endinomon, the Enchanted Realm, ends very suddenly and VERY literally, a ragged edge of normal dirt and stone overhanging the void in its entirety. It almost looks like someone decided that that's as far as this dwarf shit goes, and took a pair of hedge clippers to your realm-

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>>42989569
Aaand that's about all you have time to think of before you /jump/ off the edge, hurtling across the void. You can't even gauge how fast you're going, or even WHERE you're going; all the stars and galaxies and weird space clouds spin by at ridiculous speeds, and only by glancing back over your shoulder are you able to tell how far you've come. The blue demon stands at the edge, staring balefully at you, before turning on a heel and trudging back toward your fortress, "Hyperdimension."

After a few moments, just long enough for you to wonder whether you've consigned yourself to a fate of floating through infinity, your feet touch down onto solid ground, almost making you stumble.

R... right. You'll deal with that blue thing later, preferably at range and with enough crossbow bolts to turn an elephant into swiss cheese. First things first. .

You've landed on one of the many weird clumpy "islands" floating through the void. Unlike your own humble realm, there doesn't seem to be one set direction for "gravity"; the ground swells up in hills, plateaus, and overhangs, except the plants don't seem to give a fuck about the ground's orientation and grow in whichever direction they damn well please.

What's more worrisome is the large balls of light flitting through the sky. You hunch down behind a withered tree, cursing to yourself, but the things don't appear to see you. Good thing, too; you're having to count them by the dozens, and you REALLY don't want to get swarmed.

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>>42989588
You put a hand to your temple, activating Therapist. Your heart leaps immediately. Throughout all the jumbled, corrupted text, one name stands out clearly- not that you need it, since the voice coming through loud and clear is instantly recognizable, even if it's currently yelling things like "stay away!" and "stop attacking me!" and, more quietly, "t-two sticks left, my durability won't last at this rate..."

Mojang. Her voice doesn't sound to good, either. And judging by the combat logs scrolling down your "screen," she's taking a beating.

[ ] [CHARGE] Your friend's in trouble, and that's on TOP of whatever health problems Arfoire gave her. You don't have time to do anything but dive in and retrieve her, and you don't want to risk your powers backfiring even MORE.
[ ] [SUMMON MONSTERS] Make a distraction! It doesn't matter if your summons are successful or strong or whatever; all you need is something to draw the light balls' attention away. Hopefully it won't shred you apart, too.
[ ] [HANG BACK] Concentrate hard and try to reach out to Mojang with Therapist. Ask her for a handle on the situation, and see if you can't coordinate anything- assuming she's lucid enough for anything extravagant.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>42989612
>>[ ] [CHARGE] Your friend's in trouble, and that's on TOP of whatever health problems Arfoire gave her. You don't have time to do anything but dive in and retrieve her, and you don't want to risk your powers backfiring even MORE.
MOJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG

>>42989612
>[ ] [CHARGE] Your friend's in trouble, and that's on TOP of whatever health problems Arfoire gave her. You don't have time to do anything but dive in and retrieve her, and you don't want to risk your powers backfiring even MORE.
>[ ] [SUMMON MONSTERS] Make a distraction! It doesn't matter if your summons are successful or strong or whatever; all you need is something to draw the light balls' attention away. Hopefully it won't shred you apart, too.

>>42989612
>[ ] [CHARGE]
This is no time for rationality!

>>42989612
>[ ] [CHARGE] Your friend's in trouble, and that's on TOP of whatever health problems Arfoire gave her. You don't have time to do anything but dive in and retrieve her, and you don't want to risk your powers backfiring even MORE.

>>42989612
>[EXPLODE] Reach out to her on Therapist, get her to explode. We'll be right there to pick her up afterwards.
Explosion then build a bunker over the crater.

>>42989612
>[ ] [CHARGE] Your friend's in trouble, and that's on TOP of whatever health problems Arfoire gave her. You don't have time to do anything but dive in and retrieve her, and you don't want to risk your powers backfiring even MORE.

>>42989612
>[X] [CHARGE] Your friend's in trouble, and that's on TOP of whatever health problems Arfoire gave her. You don't have time to do anything but dive in and retrieve her, and you don't want to risk your powers backfiring even MORE.

LITTLE SIS needs MEDPAC badly!

>>42989673
That's a bit risky, given wonky powers. She may not take booming well.

>>42989612
>[ ] [CHARGE]
>[ ] [SUMMON MONSTERS]

>>42989696
Riskier than charging straight into battle?

>>42989708
Well, if we charge headlong into battle, we might die.

If we get her to blow up, and out here it erases her code, we'll have betrayed one of the few people who not only do we care about, but genuinely cares about us.

Yeah, I'd say that's riskier.

>>42989612
>[X] [CHARGE] Your friend's in trouble, and that's on TOP of whatever health problems Arfoire gave her. You don't have time to do anything but dive in and retrieve her, and you don't want to risk your powers backfiring even MORE.

>>42989708
If she leaves a crater and doesn't reform? I'd consider it worse.

>>42989708
Yes, charging in only puts us in danger where her blowing up puts her in danger

>>42989734
>>42989752
is it really that likely? I mean, the abilities that were converted into gamindustri mechanics seem to be wonky, but classic things like crafting and building work fine.

You could say that a PLAYER exploding is unnatural, but respawning is core to them, not that I really remember how Mojang's explosions work in the first place.

>>42989809
She needs to sleep somewhere first. Considering this place, that isn't likely and even if it was, it would probably be near hostiles.

>>42989612
>[X] [CHARGE] Your friend's in trouble, and that's on TOP of whatever health problems Arfoire gave her. You don't have time to do anything but dive in and retrieve her, and you don't want to risk your powers backfiring even MORE.

>>42989809
Her respawning requires a bed. Beds don't work across dimensions.

And it's very unlikely that she has had a chance to sleep since coming here.

Now stop being a retard.

>>42989612
>[X] [CHARGE] Your friend's in trouble, and that's on TOP of whatever health problems Arfoire gave her. You don't have time to do anything but dive in and retrieve her, and you don't want to risk your powers backfiring even MORE.

Military dorfs will charge ANYTHING.

>[X] [CHARGE] Your friend's in trouble, and that's on TOP of whatever health problems Arfoire gave her. You don't have time to do anything but dive in and retrieve her, and you don't want to risk your powers backfiring even MORE.

>>42989612
>[X] [CHARGE]

... y'know, literally anyone else would've hesitated. And you don't mean that in a cowardly sense; you mean, like, stopping to think about shit. Taking the time to weigh the odds and come to a decision, even if it's just over a millisecond- that's the mark of a great adventurer, or a natural-born asskicker, or whatever.

The mark of a great (military) dwarf, however, is someone who runs as fast as she can toward an enemy the moment it becomes visible.

Coming to a decision, you're running across the twisted landscape before you even start /thinking/ about a plan; the only concession to common sense is that you don't howl your usual battle-cries, and that's less due to /actual/ common sense and more because running on this ground is... really fucking tough.

This gravity throws your balance off- you come to a hill and hurl yourself at it, but the "uphill" turns out to be a flat plain and you're doing a somersault to stop yourself from faceplanting. And against all odds, occasional spots of flat terrain suddenly seem to bend into slopes or inclines, throwing you off further-

And there's suddenly no time to worry about that, because you're cresting a "hill" and taking in the scene before you, bathed in the muted, flickering light of the hyperdimensional void. A valley (or a "valley," but fuck gravitational relativity) stretches out as far as the ragged edge of the "land," and as to the number of floating lights...

Well, all the stars in the sky seem to be your goddamn enemies. Yours and Mojang's.

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>>42990170
Your longtime friend- your very FIRST friend- has her back to an outcropping of rocks, sheltering under an overhang. A broken wooden bow lies discarded next to her, and there are countless arrows scattered around her; many of them skewer fading lights, a mute testament to her skill with the thing. Panting with exhaustion, the hooded Minecrafter has propped herself up against the wall, a stone sword held out in front of her in an all-too-familiar guard position.

And the reason for THAT becomes abundantly clear; the lights in the air flash, and something about /that/ engulfs Mojang's general area with explosions, chipping away at the rock. Without her bow and arrows, and in her current state, she's a sitting duck against flying enemies.

You don't have this problem.

So far, either through luck or distraction, the will-o'-wisps haven't noticed you in your mad dash. It's a different story when you kick off a tree, soar through the air, and collide with a ball of light, bearing it to the ground and crushing it under your armor-boots. You snarl and squint at the squirming light- there's something small and vaguely humanoid underneath it- before slapping down at the /thing/, liquid metal gauntlet pulverizing your opponent as easily as a butterfly.

Half the lights turn toward you, illuminating your position like some police helicopter's searchlight, but they do absolutely nothing to outshine the radiance of Mojang's unbelieving smile.

"Oneechan!"

You snort, refusing to let your PROPER DWARVEN FROWN curl up into an exasperated grin. Goddammit.

[ ] [OPEN FIRE] Pull out your much-battered crossbow and skewer these lights. Gotta show little sis how it's done.
[ ] [BRUTALIZE] Take down another light and tear it to shreds. Maybe that'll convince these things to back off.
[ ] [CARVE THROUGH] Fight your way to Mojang's side. She can barely stand as it is- can't risk little sis getting more injured.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>42989612
>[X] [CHARGE] Your friend's in trouble, and that's on TOP of whatever health problems Arfoire gave her. You don't have time to do anything but dive in and retrieve her, and you don't want to risk your powers backfiring even MORE.

LEEERROYYYYYY JEENNKIINNSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

>>42990180
>>42990180
>[ ] [CARVE THROUGH] Fight your way to Mojang's side. She can barely stand as it is- can't risk little sis getting more injured.
Kept you waiting, huh?


But we should get her the medpack stat so she can do her own thing.

>>42990180
Open fire, then once you run out of bolts or the enemy closes the distance, start hacking your way through to Mojang. Staying close is better for survival.

>>42990180
>[ ] [OPEN FIRE] Pull out your much-battered crossbow and skewer these lights. Gotta show little sis how it's done.
If we can strafe ourselves towards Mojang while we do it, all the better.

>>42990180
[X] [CARVE THROUGH] Fight your way to Mojang's side. She can barely stand as it is- can't risk little sis getting more injured.

>>42990180
>[X] [WRITE-IN]
1 - Throw Mojang the Medpac.
2 - Grab nearest light.
3 - Witty quip.
4 - Call for a roll.
5 - Anons pray for good rolls (Remember to use your modifiers, people!)
6 - Profit.

>>42990180
>[ ] [CARVE THROUGH] Fight your way to Mojang's side. She can barely stand as it is- can't risk little sis getting more injured.
Gotta get her healed up so we can make a getaway or finish off everyone.

>>42990180
>[X] [OPEN FIRE] Pull out your much-battered crossbow and skewer these lights. Gotta show little sis how it's done.

Lets show them the power of the dwarven machine gun!

>>42990180
>[ ] [MARTIAL TRANCE]

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>>42990250
Too far to throw the Medpac, unless it's with intent to injure

>>42990286
.....wait, can we throw the lights at the other lights? Use the downed corpses as ammo to throw at MORE lights?

>>42990250
>(Remember to use your modifiers, people!)
Right, about that: don't worry about putting modifiers in the roll itself, I'll add 'em if they're missing!

>>42990216
>But we should get her the medpack stat so she can do her own thing.
[CARVING THROUGH] to give her the medpack is totally a thing I can add to that option that I forgot to write IN the option, whoops

>>42990306
>.....wait, can we throw the lights at the other lights? Use the downed corpses as ammo to throw at MORE lights?
... I'll add that under [OPEN FIRE]!

>>42990329
>... I'll add that under [OPEN FIRE]!
I am suddenly unsure whether to change my vote.

>>42990329
But what about the trance?

>>42990180
>[X] [CARVE THROUGH] Fight your way to Mojang's side. She can barely stand as it is- can't risk little sis getting more injured.
Fly like a ballista arrow, Urist!

>>42990329
Yes, you'll add the modifiers, but, it was a joke, because earlier the rolls that did really well were the ones the modifiers were added to, and the ones that did poorly, they weren't.

>>42990329
>[CARVING THROUGH] to give her the medpack is totally a thing I can add to that option that I forgot to write IN the option, whoops
That was my intent with carving through

>>42990286
Unless the medpac is just a video game USE item we probably want to be beside her to give her space and time to apply it.

>>42990180
>[ ] [OPEN FIRE] Pull out your much-battered crossbow and skewer these lights. Gotta show little sis how it's done.

>>42990350
>But what about the trance?
That... will probably happen in [CARVING THROUGH], depending on how it goes!

>>42990180
>[ ] [CARVE THROUGH] Fight your way to Mojang's side. She can barely stand as it is- can't risk little sis getting more injured.

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OKAY, looks like [CARVING THROUGH] is the winner of the vote, so...

>Urist Twelfthbay hurls herself at the enemy and tries to look cool in front of lil' sis!
ROLL d100! (dice+1d100 in the email field)
Taking the best of three!
DC: 70
BONUSES: Martial Trance activated; +10!

Rolled 79 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>42990547
MARTIAL TRANCE ~

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>42990547
CHARGE FORWARD!

Rolled 4 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>42990547

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>42990547
For armok!

Rolled 8 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>42990547

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>>42990556

>>42990564
Stahp please, the dice rolls are affected by number of rolls in a certain time frame. Your gonna either give us crit fails or crimoderate failure if you roll to much

>>42990556
martial as fuck

>>42990556
Super cool

What is with this pattern?

>>42990562 and >>42990564 are double of >>42990558 and >>42990560

>>42990636
Meaningless coincidence, move along.

It's a Blorp quest. Even without ogres the double still follow the Blorp in hopes of more traumatization.

Thought: Would the RRoD have thrown Mojang out since she signed on as an official Leanbox adventurer? What I am saying is, any chance this is Arfiore trying to trick us?

>>42990914
The terms she stated were "Anything to do with me[Arfoire]". Seems like it cares less about contracts and more about origins.

>>42990934
Regarding that, is the idea that any series that started as a PC-only title was born into the Graveyard, and is somehow connected with Arfoire? Is that something from the actual HDN series (Arfoire beig related to PC games, that is) or is it a Blorp thing?

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>>42990971
Arfoire is piracy in the games. Blorp just put them in the graveyard because each nation represents a console.

>>42990971
Blorp thing

>>42990971
The whole "Games are characters in Neptunia" thing is pretty much entirely Blorp's creation. In the games proper, the other characters are personifications of game companies, not individual games.

Well, other than Tekken, of course, but she's a special case.

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>>42990547
>>42990556
>[X] [CARVING THROUGH]
>DC: 70!
>PASSED! + MARTIAL TRANCE

You've never really taken a good look at how Mojang looks at you. Okay, you KNOW she glows with pride when she talks about you, or when you teach her new things (although there's nothing you CAN teach her, nowadays), or when she thinks back to your supposed acts of badass dwarven heroism, but it's really kind of embarrassing, so you always act grumpier in return, like a knee-jerk reaction. You're a dwarf, dammit, not some touchy-feely little girl filled with interpersonal drama.

But... y'know, you can't look away from that light in her eyes.

You're her big sis. These past few days of non-stop adventuring and almost getting killed and shit happening at a stupidly breakneck pace and having a big sis of your own- that's all branded into your mind just what all this means to Mojang. You've forged an unbreakable bond of friendship with this, this formerly blocky adventurer; she'd also been born in the Gamindustri Graveyard, and also fought all sorts of bugs and glitches and instabilities.

Her peppy optimism sometimes grates on you, yeah. Or how she just straight out /admires/ you and your stupidly buggy ass, even when you're chewing her out for taking too many risks or whatever. Even when you left her behind under the flimsy pretense of letting her carve out her place in the world, she never once changed how she looks at you.

Maybe, just maybe, you're the reason why Mojang grew up to be so optimistic, and why she turned out to be so goddamned happy and peppy.

...

You wish you had an awesome quip ready for Mojang- something like "Don't worry! I have arrived!" or, uh, "Death... how terrifying. FOR THEM!" or something less lame. Instead, you just sort of end up howling your surrogate little sister's name as you slog into the fray. Immediately, the swirling balls of light cluster toward you, circling you from all sides and flanking you and-

(Cont.)

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>>42991020
>Urist Twelfthbay enters a martial trance!

- and you absolutely do not give a fuck.

Blood rushes to your head, your heartbeat pulses fill your ears, and the world around you slows to a crawl. You don't even stop walking, marching forward as inexorably as lava surging up from an incorrectly dug magma forge. For every step you take, your liquid metal gauntlet lashes out, changing forms with every blow- the will-o-wisp to your left raises its 'hands' to shoot at you, only to begin peeling into neatly-cut halves; the next one up barely begins shifting away before it's smashed into a shower of sparkles, and your backswing cracks against a third, caving it in.

You don't even bother counting your kills after you hit double digits.

'Course, even you aren't fast enough to hit EVERY light, and explosions rain down around you- but you're certainly fast enough to slip by these projectiles, and the only thing grazing your braids is the wind of your passage. You're airborne before you even START thinking about what you're going to do next, and you lazily twist through the air, kicking a will-o'-wisp into its fellows, before spinning back to land on your feet, and find yourself-

- right in front of Mojang, and the world speeds back up again.

For some reason (that you'd rather not contemplate), your surrogate little sister's clasping her own cheeks, the doofiest expression you've ever seen plastered all over her big dumb face, and she looks like she's about a hair's-breadth away from hyperventilating. That's... normally, that's picture-worthy, but you'd rather not get blown to smithereens- your customary growl snaps her out of her OWN martial trance.

(Cont.)

>>42991007
Or a console.

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>>42991028
"... right! I knew you'd- o-okay! Let's go! And on a completely unrelated note, that was super-cool, oneechan!"

Mojang holds her hand out toward you, but you both pause as something resembling electricity arcs between you. The hell? That-

... didn't hurt.

Huh. Right, there was that... that thing between you and Mojang, last time you looked at Therapist. Didn't think it'd feel so horrifyingly /pure/, though.

[ ] [HUSTLE HER OUT] No time- take Mojang and get the hell away from this place! You need to be a moving target!
[ ] [MEDKIT] Hand her the medkit and heal her up- gotta get her back up to full strength if you're to stand a chance!
[ ] [CLASP HER HAND] NONE PURER.

>>42991043
[ ] [MEDKIT] Hand her the medkit and heal her up- gotta get her back up to full strength if you're to stand a chance!

>>42991043
>[ ] [MEDKIT] Hand her the medkit and heal her up- gotta get her back up to full strength if you're to stand a chance!

>>42991043
>[ ] [CLASP HER HAND] NONE PURER.

>>42991043
Hand her the medkit and go for a manly warrior's handclasp/handshake, but have it entirely ruined by Mojang not doing it right.

>>42991043
[ ] [MEDKIT] Hand her the medkit and heal her up- gotta get her back up to full strength if you're to stand a chance!
only because i feel like we will somehow not have a chance to later

>>42991043
>[ ] [MEDKIT] Hand her the medkit and heal her up- gotta get her back up to full strength if you're to stand a chance!
>[BUNKER] Build walls around you to buy time for Mojang to patch herself up

>>42991007
>>42990971
The whole PC-only titles being born in the Gamindustri Graveyard thing is something I made up! Mostly because PC-only titles don't really APPEAR in the Neptunia series and I figured hey, why not.

The games-as-characters thing does happen in the Neptunia series, and it's a central theme in the spin-off Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart.

It also kind of helps that there are a LOT of alternate timeline/universe things going on with the Neptunia series, so I just sort of branched off of that and did my own thing.

>>42991043
>[ ] [CLASP HER HAND] NONE PURER.
Combination EXE DRIVE MOTHER FUCKER

>>42991043
> [X] [MEDKIT] Hand her the medkit and heal her up- gotta get her back up to full strength if you're to stand a chance!

>>42991043
>MEDKIT

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>>42991075
What about game series released on console and PC like TF2?

>>42991043
>[X] [CLASP HER HAND] NONE PURER.

>>42991127
Just look at Mojang.

>signed onto Leanbox
>Minecraft on Xbox

>>42991043
>[X] [CLASP HER HAND] NONE PURER.
>[X] [MEDKIT] Hand her the medkit and heal her up- gotta get her back up to full strength if you're to stand a chance!

>>42991043
>[ ] [CLASP HER HAND] NONE PURER.
Feel the power flow

>>42991043
>[ ] [CLASP HER HAND] NONE PURER.
PUREST FORM

>>42991139
And just imagine any console with mothafuckin dwarf fortress on it.

>>42991043
>[ ] [MEDKIT] Hand her the medkit and heal her up- gotta get her back up to full strength if you're to stand a chance!

>>42991043
>[ ] [CLASP HER HAND] NONE PURER.
Mystery option?

I can't say no to that.

>>42991170
Nono, you think too small.

DF on WiiU, with TOUCHSCREEN SUPPORT.

Think about it.

>>42991086
>>42991150
you guys don't want to wait until Mojang is healthy enough to do it well?

>>42991127
I think the Graveyard is if they appeared FIRST on PC. Wasn't Shovel Knight being effected at the end of the last thread, too?

>>42991197
Nah it's cool, we'll wipe everyone out and heal Mojang without anyone bugging us

>>42991198
Yep

>>42991043
>[X] [MEDKIT] Hand her the medkit and heal her up- gotta get her back up to full strength if you're to stand a chance!

Status effects are the worst.

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Alright, looks like the winning votes are... basically [MEDKIT] and then [CLASP], since they're pretty damned close and not necessarily mutually exclusive! But it's getting late, so I'm wrapping the thread up tonight. Next time... well, let's try for Monday, 10/12, at 9-ish pm EST, though that's a little uncertain. I'll keep you all updated through https://twitter.com/BlorpQuest, and questions can go here or ask.fm/BlorpQuest!

Thanks a lot for participating, guys, and I hope you all enjoyed the thread!

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. September was a pretty rough time for threads, so I think it's time for another bonus scene. Let's try another method of voting:

Vote for any character that's been shown in the quest so far (no matter how many or how few appearances they've had); the character with the highest number of votes or the two characters, depending will get their own scene!

Votes will be counted... basically until the thread falls off the board, which ought to be tomorrow-ish. Let's see how this works!

>>42991043
If using the medkit isn't instant, do we have any food we could pass her instead? As long as her hunger is high enough she'll start healing automatically.

>>42991197
Could it even run it? I haven't tried to run it before but df has a reputation of being relatively hard to run. Involving actual graphical rendering can't help.

>>42991330
Neptune

>>42991330
Still a fan of Blanc

>>42991330
Mrs. Capitalism

>>42991330
Uh, oh jeez too many choices, maybe we could see what Nep's doing? That, or Rokko, seeing her thought process would be really interesting.

>>42991330
Rush.

>>42991330
Thanks for the thread Blorp

How about our Blue Bomber Rokko

>>42991330
Rokko

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>>42991330
Blanc is still the best goddess.

>>42991330
See you whenever you run Blorp

I'll vote for Blanc

>>42991336
... I think Urist still has SOME food on her, but we'll burn that bridge when we come to it.

>>42991367
>Rush
I actually can't tell whether you mean Rokko's robot dog, or the proprietor of the Fighting Frog with the unfortunate name change...!

Catch you all later!

Jeez, you expect me to choose between Blanc and Rokko?

I love me a Blanc but:
>Rokko

>>42991330
I'll support >>42991362's request for Recette. You did say ANY character.

>>42991330
Blanc

>>42991446
Has Recette made an appearance?

>>42991330
Blanc

>>42991490
she made a short appearance as the shop manager

>>42991490
She was the shop keeper when Urist had her money issues.

>>42991330
Blanc

>>42991563
>>42991541
Oh right, I remember now

>>42985317
Toady called, they are properly intergrating mugs in the game, now dorfs will drink from mugs instead of drinking it straight from the barrels.

>>42991330
Blanc

>>42992163
Urist also fixed that, now she drinks from the barrel by choice

>>42990655
well I was goin g to explain my self...tehn I was suddenly perma banned from 4chan using my phone...said I was baned back in sep 15 yet I still posted that "for armok!" roll.....Thanks for running the quest blorp.

>>42991330
Rokko pls

>>42991490
>>42991541
>>42991563
>Welcome, welcome, to the surprise RROD shop, ready to sell provisions and information to confused and translocated adventurers!
>Why yes, I was transported as well, when I went over to Leanbox after spotting a prime opportunity to reap profit. Now that I'm here, I should make the best of what I have!
>LOWER THE PRICE? GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY STORE

>>42991330
Iffy or Rokko

>>42992218
Well.
I guess Urist counts as an adventurer as well?

>>42991330
Thanks for the run Blorp. Fell asleep before it ended, but still enjoyed it!

Voting for our waifu best friend and honorary dwarf Rokko. Even if there are several characters I'd other characters I like to see, like more Vert.

Guys, I just thought of something. We couldn't Planepacked in Gamindustri because it'd destroy the universe.
But currently, we are -OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSE.-

We can Planepacked!

>>42991330
>>42991428
If we can still vote, I'd like a Segata Sanshiro Bonus Scene.
I'm saving Hyperdimension Boss Bawss for Christmas.

>>42993672
Arfoire's plan is revealed, to use Urist to build her paradise, Outer Gamindustri.

>>42993696
>Urist constructs the beginnings of the PC realm
>It is built atop a hodgepog pile of DF code, Hyperdimension, Pipes, Steam, Valves, and a little DOS crying in the corner all alone.

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Think we might run into Ultradimension Neptune?

>>42993696
>"Arfoire played us like a damn fiddle!"

>"Mojang... I'm already an animu."

...I bet Metal Gear-tan is still manly enough to make Urist jealous. Even WITH that bit of Raiden in her.

Hm... I just occurred to me, would Undertake be the sweetest, most kind person in GameIndustri, or would she flip between that and a cold blooded, unyielding killer, split personality style?

The former better tell bad puns anytime skeletons are brought up.

>>42994556
Undertale, dang it, autocorrect is the worst.

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>>42994496

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>>42994496
Metal gear tan?

>>42994594
>>42994581
I meant the series, not the actual mech

I MEANT THE SERIES, NOT THE ACTUAL MECH

>Nep launching moe cuteness? That's not what it was designed for! NOOOOOoOoOoOooooooo......

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>>42994637
>She mentioned something interesting. Vert is pursuing new research. She claims that what she's doing in Leanbox is the missing piece. An imouto to surpass Nepgear

>>42994658

>The S3 Plan: The Sugoi Sister Simulation. A series of events orchestrated to produce an imouto on par with Nepnep. And you played your part to perfection!

I'm pretty sure I could keep this up all day.

>>42991330
So, MGS-tan when? After all, MGS started with Metal Gear in 1987. She only made it big with Solid in 1998.

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>>42991330
Neptune!

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>>42994749
>Free will is a myth. Religion is a joke. We are all pawns, controlled by something greater: Memes

>>42994749
>Little Sisters, Little Sisters never change.
>Little Sisters have changed.
>No longer do they listen to and admire their Bis Sis, now they strike out on their own.
>Little Sisters get their own Little Sisters, breeding a Sister Economy that sustains itself.
>Little Sisters have changed.

>>42994981
>Free will is a myth. Religion is a joke. We are all pawns, controlled by something greater: Moe
FTFY

>>42994981
>Boss, that's an anime kouhai. One burst from it's cuteness can rip your heart in two. Avoid eye contact and act gruff, that should enable you to stay dwarfy around cutesy personifications.

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>>42991362
And here I thought you were referring to Gust for a brief moment.

RIP in pieces

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>>42994927
MGS is actually one of the series that appears in the Noire spinoff. Pic related. She even has two different attacks involving a cardboard box.

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>>42996628
Wait, if she is Metal gear, than who the fuck is her?

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>>42996747
She's just Konami in general. Her name literally means 'Company K'.

Anyway, Lid is from a spinoff while K-sha is from a mainline game.

>>42996847
#FuckK-sha

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>>42995408
>It's like one of my Japanese animes

[X] Vert

I want to see how she reacted to what the Red Ring did.