>>46230400
You stumble groggily along the corridor and rub the sleep from your eyes. The mansion is in an uproar and everyone else besides you seems to have somewhere to be. People bustle past you and you watch as the place steadily empties.
It’s going to take a few hours to get moving but Hiss was serious when she woke you up. She’s moving everyone out. You suppose that’ll include you too.

Mobilizing an army isn’t something you can do lightly however. You still have plenty of time.


>Go see Hiss and help her however you can.

>You need to get your homunculi packed up and ready to leave.

>You need to see Aashenpreet.

>You need to brew.

>Find someone else (Specify)

>Other

>>46230411
>You need to see Aashenpreet.

>>46230411
>You need to see Aashenpreet.
>You need to get your homunculi packed up and ready to leave.

>>46230411
>You need to get your homunculi packed up and ready to leave.
>You need to see Aashenpreet.
Happy belated anniversary Ouro!

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As a side note, this isn't just an Easter thread. It's also a thread celebrating a full year of Snakecatcher! I hope you've all had as much fun playing this as I have had writing it!

>>46230411
>>You need to see Aashenpreet.
>You need to get your homunculi packed up and ready to leave.
>You need to brew.
replace every brew we've spent recently.

>>46230482
Maybe we could enlist our homunculi to get ready and brew a few things we need while we deal with Aash

>>46230411
>You need to brew.
Make that improved soulshape with the communion brew and thoughtbrew so we don't make aash an abomination child

>>46230478
Hard to believe it's been that long already. Thanks for running it, it's been my favorite since it started.

>You need to see Aashenpreet.
>You need to get your homunculi packed up and ready to leave.

As you hurry through the mansion you reflect briefly on how much things have changed. You aren't free to just wander anymore, you have responsibilities. Three big responsibilities. Your homunculi will need you and Aashenpreet...oh Aashenpreet. You can only hope that she's come to her senses now.

You pass Orange and don't even have time to greet them as they run full-tilt from place to place with an ever-growing stack of papers. Looks like he has his work cut out for him right now.

You weigh your options in your mind and decide to visit Aashenpreet first. Your homunculi do strange things when you're not around leaving Aashenpreet alone for too long genuinely worries you. Should you have wished for her not to harm herself?

She's still in your room where you left her and you breathe out a silent thanks as a result. She's lying in your bed, her eyes open but staring at nothing. She barely reacts as you walk in save to cringe a little bit further away from you.

"Hey Aash. We're going to have to get going now."

She lifts her head and you can see the faint and jagged scar on her throat.
"You can go. I'm going to stay here."
Her voice is empty of the hatred it bore yesterday but it's empty of everything else too. Flat and listless.

"Hiss is going to want everyone to move out, Aash. I'm sorry."

"She won't care about me. Just leave me behind."


>Leave her be.

>Pet snake. Platonically.

>Show her your sweet new homunculus.

>"I'm not going to leave you."

>Make a wish (Specify)

>"Stop whining already."

>Apologize again.

>"Have you thought about what I said?"

>Use Potion (Specify)

>Other

Should we make this new homunculus body before we leave? I think we'll have time but then we won't have much time for anything else. We can make other brews on the road but making a homunculus would be much harder

>>46230756
>Show her your sweet new homunculus.
>You need someone to look after your kids.

>>46230756
>Pet snake. Platonically.
>Show her your sweet new homunculus.
>"I'm not going to leave you."
I care about you. A lot.

>>46230756
>Show her your sweet new homunculus.
>"I'm not going to leave you."

>>46230756
>Pet snake. Platonically.
>Show her your sweet new homunculus.
>"I'm not going to leave you."
>"Have you thought about what I said?"

>>46230756
>Apologize again.
>"I'm not going to leave you."
>"Have you thought about what I said?"
>Show her your sweet new homunculus.

>>46230756
>>Show her your sweet new homunculus.
well if it isn't too much, perhaps something to remember cennen by will help her along

>Show her your sweet new homunculus.
>"I'm not going to leave you."

"She might not but I do. I care about you a lot."

She looks you in the eye. Her eyes are still red and slitted, lacking proper pupils or irises.
"You have a funny way of showing it."

Oof.
"I'm not going to leave you Aash."

"I'd be happier if you did."

"Come on, don't be like that. Here."
You pull the bottled homunculus soul out of your pack.
"I made this for you yesterday."

She stares at the bottle.
"What's this supposed to be? I'm not going to drink something just because you tell me to."

"No, it's not for drinking! It's-well, do you remember when you asked me to make a homunculus out of your blood? You wanted to know what it was like. Uh, here it is. I made it for you."

"It's a bottle."

"It doesn't have a body yet. I thought that you might want to help with that."

"It's just a bottle."

"What body do you want?"

"It's just another potion. I was foolish for ever expecting otherwise. I don't feel anything for this thing."

"It can help you if you'll let it. I just wanted you to feel better."

"Why did you really make this, Cennen? Did you think that just giving me this would make me feel better? Make me forget what you did to me? What you made me do? Is this your attempt at making up?"

"Yes! I mean, I just wanted you to f-"

"You're trying to manipulate me. You want me to feel touched and it'll be another tether to you. Another leash. Do what you want with it. I don't want it."

>Give the bottle to her.

>Return once it has a body.

>"This isn't you Aash."

>"What would make it up for you then?"

>"Fine." Leave.

>Make wish (Specify)

>Other

>>46231243
>"This isn't you Aash."
>Return once it has a body.

>>46231243
>"This isn't you Aash."
I'm just trying to cheer you up Aash. I don't want you to be like this forever and you don't either right?
>Start brewing the improved soulshape

>>46231243
>Give the bottle to her.
It's yours to do with as you will Aash. I made a promise to make it and I did. As for you being tethered to me I could not give a shit about it. I realize you hate me and likely always will. But I want you to calm down and find yourself before you leave, for your sake and the sake of everyone else.

>>46231363
she'll just smash the bottle desu

>>46231243
why don't we just let her keep it and then let her be by herself, clearly we our presence isn't improving her condition

>>46231243
>"What would make it up for you then?"
I just want to repair our friendship since you're pretty much my only friend. Is friendship really just manipulation to you?

>>46231243
>"What would make it up for you then?"
fuck this is depressing

>>46231500
We chose this.

Rolled 1 (1d6)

Do we really have a 3-way tie?

1-2 is telling her that this isn't her and then going to make a body.
3-4 is giving her the bottle.
5-6 is asking what would make it up for her.

>>46231619
I get the feeling we'll need all the favor with the dice gods we can get later

>>46231619
>3-way tie?
happy anniversary

>"This isn't you Aash."
>Return once it has a body.

"This isn't you Aash. I'm just trying to repair our friendship and I don't know how. Is friendship really just manipulation to you?"

That actually seems to offend her just a little. She actually reacts, even if it is just in a small way.
"Of course it isn't! But I just don't trust you anymore. I don't know if I'll ever trust you again."

At least she's being honest.
"I just thought that it might make things better. I guess it was foolish."

"It was foolish but not on your end. The whole idea was stupid in the first place. I should have never tried to be like a human. I saw this thing that I couldn't understand and- and I suppose that I thought it was beautiful. But I understand now. There's nothing beautiful about humanity."

"You don't mean that."

"You're weak and inferior by every measure. You don't just need to be ruled by snakes, you deserve to. You all deserve everything that comes to you. Weak-witted frail small things that don't even live through their first century."

"Now you're just trying to taunt me. Why?"

"Aren't you going to dispute me like last time? Or has the fact that you're literally working to put an order of snakes into power over your own country finally made itself known? Even you can't help but see us as your natural masters Cennen."
She's looking right at you as if daring you to make a wish. She doesn't even seem to care what you might do to her as a result. Her hands tremble just a little.
She desperately wants to hurt you with her words.

You turn away from her.
"I'm going to give this one a body."

>Brew it right here in front of her.

>Go find your homunculi and brew it with them.

>Brew it alone.

>Other

>>46231867
>Brew it right here in front of her.
make that improved soulshape first though

>>46231867
>Brew it right here in front of her.
Hopefully she will see our love of alchemy

>>46231867
>Brew it right here in front of her.

You realize if I wanted, I could have gone on a killing spree across snakehome, and no serpent here could have stopped me. Yes, you can scoff, but you remember my snake dispel and I have made things infinitely more horrible by accident. If power and destruction was the only measure of a human, I'd be the best. But it's isn't and I am not. Keep lashing out if you want Aash, no skin off my nose.

>>46231893
this

>>46231867
>>Brew it right here in front of her.
Well i wasn't really hoping to convince you that snakes shouldn't rule, more that the rule in quedesh is imperfect. Of course im a little ambivalent about snake rule, but thats another story.

>>46231980
>no serpent could have stopped me
HissIntensifies.gif

>>46232060
If Cennen went batshit, not even she could have. Lord help everyone if he used the Danger Flask.

>Brew it right here in front of her.

You decide it's best to ignore her. You don't know how honest she's being right now and her motivations for saying such things are clear. She's hurting and she's desperate to wound you in return. She wants you to get angry and become the Cennen she hates.

You get to work on your Soulshape, improving it from your time with Hom. It still takes a while however and when you're near the end you realize that you don't have any obvious ingredients to use as bodily components.


>Use your spare glassware.

>Use some of Aashenpreet's shed skin that's lying around the room.

>Use clothes.

>Use some of your books.

>Leave to find something better (Specify)

>Other

>>46232150
>Use your spare glassware.
probably ends up horrific but it could be cool

>>46232150
>Use some of Aashenpreet's shed skin that's lying around the room.
>Use clothes.

>>46232150
>Use some of Aashenpreet's shed skin that's lying around the room.
Maybe some of our blood too or something, idk. glass would be too fragile

>>46232150
>>Use some of Aashenpreet's shed skin that's lying around the room.
>Use clothes.

>>46232150
What else is in the room?

>>46232150
If there's some metal around put some in. Maybe some quedeshi coins?

So we are tossing a skin shedder in the mix just in case it is an abomination right?

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>>46232150

>>46232557
Yeah I'm assuming the brews come next

>>46232579
Good good. We may like things like Best Son, but I kinda doubt Aash would appreciate something like that.

>>46232676
Well with the improved soulshape it shouldn't be as freaky but we're still using some weird ingredients for the body

>Use some of Aashenpreet's shed skin that's lying around the room.
>Use clothes.

You gather up some of Aashenpreet's shed skin and get to work as she watches listlessly from the bed. You also pull together some of your old clothes that you had thrown out for getting covered in blood yesterday and, after a moment's deliberation, a few old Quedeshi shrikes. Those coins aren't doing you good anyway.
The cauldron isn't very big so this homunculus is going to come out uncommonly small but that doesn't bother you.

You need to show Aashenpreet that you're doing this for her so you get to work and you don't lose focus for nearly two hours as you mix the Soulshape just right.
Your arms start to tire and you can feel them shake but you don't stop. You've got to prove it to her.

Eventually you step back and watch as the cauldron bubbles over, the soggy mess of things in the middle slowly coalescing into...a snake?
A tiny little albino white snake, far paler than Aashenpreet ever had been. It's skin is patchy and strange, partly scales but also pieced together from blood-red cloth. Diaphanous cloaks of transparent skin and thin cloth shed out from it. It blinks, revealing its metallic coin-eyes. A third coin balances eternally atop its fragile head as its patchwork tongue tastes the air.

You stop for a moment. This wasn't the right order. You were supposed to put in the other potions first. The physical ones. He's not supposed to be born yet! He's premature.

You reach out to shove him back into the cauldron but a brown hand takes your arm and stops you.
"Aash?"
She's standing right beside you. How long was she here for?

She fishes out the half-finished homunculus from the cauldron and it curls around her arm, scraps of fabric and skin fluttering in a non-existent breeze.

"Are you alright Aashenpreet?"

"I'm fine," she croaks. The little homunculus pokes its head up and licks her injured neck.
"It knows me. It knows who I am."

1/2

>>46232702
Yeah I could see a guy made entirely of shed snake skin being sorta weird.

>>46232716
That is kinda adorable.

>>46232716
Wtf Ouro we wanted the brews

>>46232716
We didn't even put the soul in it yet right?

Ugh, sorry about this delay guys. I'm feeling really woozy and for some reason the words just aren't happening.

>>46232824
no worries, i'm just a little confused about why cennen fucked it up

I thought the new soulshape would let us specify the form with the thought brew and communion brew, what happened to that? Did Aash just put the soul in while we weren't looking? At least it still turned out fairly well.

>>46232932
Wait, that's what everyone meant when they kept saying Improved Soulshape? Fuck. I'm going to sleep.
Please tell me your brew recipes in-thread next time please.

>>46232973
>>46230615
I explained it in full earlier here and just said "improved soulshape" as shorthand after that. Sorry for the confusion. What did you think the improved soulshape was?

>>46232973
well night Ouro thanks for running.

>>46232973
aw come on it's no big deal ouro. get some sleep if you really need it though.

>>46232973
so... should I archive or no?

>>46232973
Ah well night I suppose.

>>46232973
Damn. Don't feel obligated to run threads if you're totally sleep deprived or sick Ouro.

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>>46232973

archived just in case

>>46234934
Just enough emotionlessness
And two lewd faces

>>46235069
one was poison spray though

Sorry about that guys, hadn't slept for way too long. I'll try to do a makeup thread tomorrow. Thanks for archiving and I hope you all have a good day.

>>46234934
Noice.

>>46234934
Great as always, drawfriend

>>46235102
But she has human thoughts now

>>46234934
Dear god thats cute. Something about the face reminds me of Carol from Symphogear.