>>417365
"Watch out!"

This time it's Hiss who pulls you to safety, reaching down and grabbing you by the shoulders and pulling you up atop the wall with her just in time to avoid a tidal wave of pigment that crashes against the wall.
And then it rises once more, a wall of liquid red that completely surrounds the mansion and the gardens from all sides.

"Get ready to fight!," Hiss hollers. "It is upon us!"

"Quickly!," another voice rings out. It's Aqua, pushing a makeshift cart with her good hand and accompanied by one of the hollow alchemists. You can't remember his name.
The cart is filled with bottles.
"Everyone take a potion. Take it now!"

The wall of red parts and you can see spirits emerging through it like deep-sea monsters and behind them, a sea of hands.

>Stay by Hiss' side.

>Help defend other parts of the perimeter.

>Take to the sky and seek out the Gatekeeper himself.

>Help Aqua distribute the brews to everyone.

>Other

>>417373
>Help defend other parts of the perimeter.
Just until the brews are distributed

>>417373
>Take to the sky and seek out the Gatekeeper himself.
Aggie is gonna start using more and more mental energy just to exist so the sooner we fight him the better.

>>417373
>Take to the sky and seek out the Gatekeeper himself.

>>417373
>Take to the sky and seek out the Gatekeeper himself.
Always a slow start after a hiatus

>>417373
>Take to the sky and seek out the Gatekeeper himself.

We are the distraction! Also, Aggie can help us out quite a bit more if we get her into the Dreaming, no? Maybe we can even get other spirits to help us to stop the Gatekeeper (who has betrayed the creator, and devoured other spirits).

Also, can't we do some crazy brewing shenanigans there as well?

>>417553
Nah Art doesn't work in the dreaming at all. And the gatekeeper is in the real world now, not the dreaming.

>Take to the sky and seek out the Gatekeeper himself.

There’s no use dallying, just staying back to defend might be safer but it won’t get anything done. And with that in mind, you muster Aggie’s power and leap into the air. You rise above the tides, cresting them just in time before they close over your head. For a brief moment, you hang suspended over the compound, everything mapped out beneath your feet.

Orange scrambles out of the way as a hand larger than he is fumbles blindly for him, Aqua pulling him to the side as one of Hiss’ risen dead chops the hand in half.

Aashenpreet emerging from the ruined mansion and plainly not sure what to make of herself. She isn’t a fighter. A five-legged skeleton clothed in a swarm of frozen leaves swoops down upon her and you are far too distant to help her.

Oster pushes her out of the way, his sword clashing uselessly with the spirit’s fangs as it falls upon him instead. His hand goes to the Spiritslayer bottle hanging from his belt and then he is obscured from view.

Everyone is doing their best just to stay alive. It’s up to you to make sure that their efforts aren’t in vain! Aggie’s wings burst into being around you as you turn towards the pillar of handprints in the distance. You’ve been brewing for this moment, your pack is fully stocked and it’s finally t-

Something grabs onto your foot and pulls you down. Oh shit1 Aggie lashes out but the frozen lance shatters uselessly against a coat of thick black scales.

“Moron! You think you’re gonna leave me behind?”
It’s Hiss, having somehow leapt up here and latched herself onto you. She’s clinging to a frozen boot, your one good leg.
“I’ve got to give that spirit arsehole a piece of my mind!”


>Drop her back down. This is too dangerous! Someone has to live.

>Try to convince her to let go.

>”I was wondering when you were going to show up.”

>Nobble.

>Thank her for coming.

>Do as she says.

>Other

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Sorry about the delay on that post by the way, I'm still shaking off a significant amount of rust.
Have this Aashenpreet fanart someone did yesterday as compensation.

>>417584
>Thank her for coming.
Ask if she'd be willing to supply us with some souls to power Aggie up.

>>417584
>>Thank her for coming.
>Do as she says.

>>417596
Nice. I wonder what happened to our drawfag?

>>417584
>”I was wondering when you were going to show up.”
When's the last time we actually fought side by side? We're always off doing different things during most battles

>>417584
>Thank her for coming.

>>417584
>”I was wondering when you were going to show up.”

> Lift her up to a more comfortable position and kiss her.

>Thank her for coming.

You do your best to reach down without destabilizing Aggie and grab hold of Hiss’ hand, pulling her up. She grabs hold of your shoulders and you barely dip in the air. Aggie can handle the extra weight.
“You’re a lot colder than I remember you,” Hiss says as she wraps an arm around your shoulders.

Oh right. Aggie. You’d almost forgotten that she’d affect Hiss too at this proximity.
“Is that going to be a problem?”

She snorts and leans into you.
“It’d have to be a lot colder than this.”

She feels almost warm by comparison and for the briefest of moments, you almost want to just stop here. To savor this time while you can. To do something, anything else rather than to throw the both of you into what is almost certain death.
“Thanks for coming, Hiss. It means a lot to me.”

“What, did you think I was actually going to let you do this on your own?”

“Maybe? I mean, this is seriously dangerous. We might never com-”

She kisses you. She tastes like venom and old blood and new death and it feels just like coming home.
“We’re not going to lose. I’m here. Do you really think I’m going to let you die without my permission?”

You smile in spite of yourself. You can’t help it.
“Of course. I nearly forgot.”

“See to it that that never happens again. Now…”
The arm around your shoulder lifts for just a second, Hiss pointing to the Gatekeeper’s manifestation.
“I’d appreciate it if we stopped standing around.”

“As you command, your Majesty.”

You make sure she’s holding on tight and then away you go, Aggie carrying the two of you towards the maelstrom. The ground is but a blur beneath you, eyes opening in the stained ground to track your approach as you draw ever closer to the writhing column that towers over Taldenral.

-Cennen.-

“Yes, Aggie?”
Hiss looks askance at you but doesn’t say anything.

-The Gatekeeper is ready for us. We should slow our approach.-


>Alright. That’ll give you time to think something up.

>Come to a dead halt instead. Maybe you can make the Gatekeeper come to you.

>No point in wavering now. Keep going.

>In that case, we’ll just have to go even faster!

>Ask Hiss her opinion.

>Other

>>417712

>Alright. That’ll give you time to think something up.

>>417712
>Alright. That’ll give you time to think something up.

>>417712
>Alright. That’ll give you time to think something up.
>Ask Hiss her opinion.

>>417712
>Alright. That’ll give you time to think something up.
>Ask Hiss her opinion.

>Alright. That’ll give you time to think something up.
>Ask Hiss her opinion.

"What do you think, Hiss?"

"Eh? Why are we slowing down?"

"We can't just rush in. I think he's expecting us to do that."

"Hm. You know what I'd do then?"

"What?"

"Go even faster! It won't expect that."


>Do as she says.

>See if you can stay a distance away and lob potions instead.

>Give Hiss a potion and send her in ahead of you.

>See if you can get high enough to bomb the manifestation from above.

>Approach low enough that you're practically on the ground.

>Other

>>417824
>Do as she says.
ask her to give aggie some souls to fuel the speed. if she won't drink another stimulant brew. my biggest priority for the start of the fight is getting that spirit poison and a haywire brew started and I think the gatekeeper would block any brews we threw from far away.

>>417824
>See if you can get high enough to bomb the manifestation from above.
We should avoid the ground since it's covered in his weird fluid. And get some souls for real, I don't wanna lose the mental energy contest between us and the gatekeeper.

>>417824
>See if you can get high enough to bomb the manifestation from above.

>>417824
>>See if you can stay a distance away and lob potions instead.

>And he'd expect you to do just that. He reckons you, but ahs little for me.

>See if you can get high enough to bomb the manifestation from above.

"No thanks Hiss. But I have a better idea."
You don't give her time to respond, hurtling yourself upwards further and further into the mottled sky.
You'll have to make sure you don't accidentally run into the Gate.

You climb higher and higher until you're above the Gatekeeper's manifestation, the vaguely humanoid pillar of smeared handprints. Stick-thin arms wobble through the air incoherently as further handprints spread from in the vague outline of wings.

'Alright," Hiss manages to say. "This might be a better idea. You keep us in the air, I'll handle the rest."
She's grabbed a Spiritslayer from her pack and is ready to throw it.

>Keep yourself steady for her.

>Keep flying, making it harder for her to throw but harder to be hit by any counter-attacks.

>Execute evasive maneuvers.

>Other

>>417909
>Keep flying, making it harder for her to throw but harder to be hit by any counter-attacks.
She should be using something with spirit poison desu

>>417909
>>Keep flying, making it harder for her to throw but harder to be hit by any counter-attacks.

>>417909
>Keep yourself steady for her.
We should land a few throws before it gets on the air

>>417909
>Keep yourself steady for her.
I really think we're gonna need the extra mental energy that some souls would give us guys. I don't want Cennens soul to be eaten

Rolled 2 (1d6)

Looks like there's a tie between keep flying and hold steady. Evens the former, odds the latter.

Rolled 94 (1d100)

Rolling for something.

>>417981
what the fug

>>417981
fuck we gona get sniped

>>417981
Please tell me that was hiss' accuracy roll

>Keep flying, making it harder for her to throw but harder to be hit by any counter-attacks.

The manifestation inclines its handprint-head towards you and you don't slow down, flying both of you right towards the top of it.

"You're not helping, damn it!"
Hiss nearly drops the bottle.

"I know you can do it, Hiss!"
And you realise it as you speak, you're not just saying that to encourage her. You genuinely believe it.

Hiss' grip on your shoulder becomes painful but you keep flying on, racing right over the top of the Gatekeeper!
She throws and Aggie shields your eyes just in time as the bottle smashes straight into the hand that had been serving as the thing's head. There's a white-hot burst and a titanic spray of red as Hiss essentially decapitates the monstrosity.

The column beneath you wobbles, the top of it torn off and exposing the hollow centre within it. The eye of the storm.

"Cennen!"
-Above!-

Aggie and Hiss sound off at the exact same time and you realize that you've gotten just a little too close to the Gate. Red hands descend from the Gate, whatever fragment of the Gatekeeper still in the Dream reaching out to swat you from the air!

Hiss climbs atop you, standing on your back with her arms outstretched. She takes the first hand head-on as it attempts to crush you, grabbing it with both arms just inches above you and slowly pushing it back.
The Gatekeeper's hand strains against Hiss, a brief battle of strength against strength. And then it bursts, Hiss ripping it apart.
"Is that all you got?"

-No.-

Eight more hands lunge down from the Gate.

>Fly up to meet them.

>Take evasive action.

>Fly into the now-opened column for protection.

>Use Aggie to stop them.

>Throw a potion!

>Other

>>418021
>Fly into the now-opened column for protection.
Hit the main body with the haywire brew and a spirit poison too from the inside

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>>418021
>Take evasive action.

>>418021
>>418030
This

>>418021
>>418030
works

>Fly into the now-opened column for protection.

With a mental signal, Aggie stops flying altogether and you begin to drop. The hands from the Gate clutch at nothing but air as you and Hiss hurtle downwards, aimed directly for the belly of the beast.

You grab a Haywire brew as you drop, handing Hiss a Spirit Poison at the same time. The air is rushing past you to fast to speak so in the end, all you can do is hold on.

The handprints near the top wriggle as you drop towards them, sprouting arms as they burst into abrupt third dimension. Arms zigzag out and begin to cover the opening, all trying to stop you!

"Hold on!," Hiss yells as she rummages through your pack for something else.

She throws an Extra Improved Spiritslayer Flask ahead of you.

Not even Aggie can shield your eyes properly this time and you nearly go blind for a crucial moment as you drop down.

You see streaks of red and black.

The explosion blooms around you as you fall right through it.

Something warm and sticky.

The air howls/

And then your vision clears and a hand is coming right at you! Aggie sparks back into life and throws you to the side.

>Roll a 1d100 to dodge. Best of the first 3.

Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>418089

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>418089

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>418089
Fuck, grab on to Hiss with vines so we're not separated upon impact

>79

Your mind grows cold as the hand passes just above you and you tumble out of control, the world spinning around you as you roll through the air.
Someone's grabbed hold of you and you can't get them off!

And then you hit the ground and for the briefest moment, everything goes white.

You steady yourself a moment later, pain only warded off by the potions coursing through your system.
Where are you? What happened?

You're lying atop a slab of broken masonry, a ruined heap that used to be somebody's home. Hiss is beside you, bent over you protectively. She's bathed head to toe in red pigment.

"You're alive," she mutters. "Good."
She's quieter than usual.

"Is something wrong, Hiss?"

She smiles.
"No. Everything is fine."
She pries a piece of scale-shrapnel from her shoulder and for a moment, everything comes into focus. That isn't just pigment covering her. There's Spiritslayer shrapnel all over her body, poking holes through even her scales. She shielded you from the blast as you fell through it.
"I'm alright," she says. "I'm just happy you're alive."

You look past her and see nothing but red, handprints overlapping each other so fast that they've become a solid wall of colour. And not just behind her but around as well. You're surrounded in every direction.

The two of you are in the very eye of the storm.


>Welp. Time to starting throwing potions.

>Hiss can't fight like this. Her safety takes priority.

>Take back to the air.

>Use Potion (Specify)

>Other

>>418150
>Welp. Time to starting throwing potions.
>Hiss can't fight like this. Her safety takes priority.

>>418150
>Hiss can't fight like this. Her safety takes priority.
pls get a shitload of souls from hiss so we can use aggie to get out of this

>>418150
Wait is Aggie not protecting our body anymore?

>>418150
>Hiss can't fight like this. Her safety takes priority.
Get Hiss into our pack in snake form so we can shield her with aggie. Ask her to fuel aggie with souls from inside.

>>418169
Aggie blocking Spiritslayer shards would not have gone well for either of you.

>>418178
Right but we got hurt by our rough landing

>>418150
>Take back to the air.
Asess how badly is she wounded. If she's not in imminent danger we should carry on

>Hiss can't fight like this. Her safety takes priority.

You down another stimulant and your mind clears, Aggie’s grip on your soul growing weaker as she feeds off the stimulated energy. Hiss is laughing, a slow and tired sound.
“Alright Cennen, I think this is what they call a target-rich environment.”

There are pockmarks all over her body. Blood’s still flowing.
“Hiss…”

“What? Come on, we need to get to work before he turns himself inside out.”

“You’re hurt.”

“It’s not a big deal,” she says defensively.

“I can’t leave you like this, your safety takes priority.”
You reach out to touch her but she slaps your hand away.

“Ignore this,” she commands you. “Do your duty and fight alongside your Queen.”
She throws the Spirit Poison bottle she’d grabbed earlier and the entire world shakes as the many hands of the Gatekeeper begin to tear through his own body, desperately trying to reach the two of you from the outside.

-Stop!-

“Should have thought about that before coming here, moron! You take a body, you have to play by its rules! Cennen, give me another brew before he figures something out.”

“No, this is too dangerous and I-”

She slaps you across the face, Aggie’s ice manifesting to protect you from harm. She can’t touch you.
“I command you to forget about me and fight! Now reload me!”
She nearly trips over her own feet, slick with blood.

>Roll a 1d100 to resist her command. Best of the first 3. 80+ needed.

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>418232

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>418232

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>418232

>>418244
>>418245
Dang. I guess it's been too long since Cennen had to resist Hiss' Queen skill.

>>418252
I'm getting kinda salty about the getting souls from hiss plan being ignored repeatedly

Fuck. Sorry guys, the tank's run empty. Or more accurately it was empty a few months ago. No gas left. I can't get excited about any of this anymore and it's been showing for weeks. I feel like the soul of my work is gone and it's been very noticeable.
That's why I've been flopping around with nothing but half-threads lately.

I should have ended all this with taking Taldenral instead of trying to tie up loose ends. I'm sorry guys. This might be the end of the whole Quest.

>>418321
Come on ouro you can't just end it like this

>>418321
Ouro we're nearing the end. While I agree this spirit fight was wholly unnecessary, we can finish this. Your work has been good, on par with your usual work. Don't let winter depression and burn out cause you to end this prematurely.

>>418321
...fuck. kind of a slap in the face after participating in literally every thread for over a year

Yeah, it's not very fair to you guys. Fuck it. Let's keep going, we'll just have to accelerate things a little.

>67

You find yourself handing Hiss the Poison before you even notice. It's been a long time since you've tried to go up against one of her direct commands like this.

"This isn't right."

Hiss places a finger across your lips. It tastes like blood.
"What happened to believing in me? Just because this looks impossible doesn't mean it actually is!"

You take a step back. And then another. Something's different. Even the slight chill is gone, your mind warm and free.
"What did you do?"

"I gave that spirit abomination of yours a few hundred souls. I trust that should be enough to lighten your burden?"

-YES-

Aggie's monotone comes through loud and clear, the pain of existence more than staved off.
And with that rush of power, the Gatekeeper rips himself open and hundreds of limbs rush towards you.

Hiss uncorks the Spirit Poison and douses herself in it, coating herself in the clear and somewhat viscous liquid.
"Just have my back, moron."

Well, you guess there's no point holding anything back now.

>Use Aggie to throw all the potions.

>Charge in right beside her.

>Detonate the entire backpack.

>Nobble Hiss.

>Other

>>418351
>>418321
Can't say I didn't see it comming. Whatever you decide I'd like to thank you for the efort you've poured into this. Been following the quest since the early threads and I loved every bit of it. Seriously m8 it's been a blast.

>>418369
>Charge in right beside her.
I'd really rather avoid hitting hiss with any more shrapnel
Also thanks for not giving up on the quest, sorry you're not enjoying it anymore

>>418369
>>Use Aggie to throw all the potions.

>>418375
Good timing. But I've resolved to at least limp over the finish line. All you fellows deserve at least that much.

>>418369
>Use Aggie to throw all the potions.

>>418369
>Charge in right beside her.

>>418381
much appreciated man

I'm really glad the Aash picture was done in time, my drawfriend's flake powers rival your own

Rolled 3 (1d6)

Now I really regret even mentioning that whole sorry business because it makes me look like I was fishing for compliments or something. Or being reliant on the assurances of my players or whatever. But you guys coming out and saying all that really did make me reconsider it and help find my drive. So please forgive that moment of weakness on my part.

Looks like a tie between long-ranged support and going in right beside her. Evens former, odds latter.

>>418408
This is seriously the only quest I care about. We rely on you to tell the story, there's nothing wrong with you relying on us every once in a while.

>>418408
Nigga, I've enjoyed every step of the way. Every painful mistake, every regret as we tried to do the right thing and traded away bits of our morality. Slowly seeing Hiss grow less evil in the classical sense of selfishness, and having to face up to our own growing moral greyness.

Have you seen Black Lagoon? Cennen reminds a lot of Rock. A guy who believed he would always be good, and was in a sense better than those around him, who had to choose between his morals and those he cared about.

You should be fucking proud of how you handled Cennen and Hiss' journey over the course of this quest. Of writing believable characters that had to face actual consequences to their actions, not just in how they affected the world but how the world and their choices affected them and let them grow as individuals.

It's sad that you no longer feel connected enough to them, but it's understandable. It's been a long, long quest. And you've written a world so immersive that there isn't ever really an "end" but just a point where the story stops.

I don't think anybody could ask a writer to do more than what you've done, and for you to do it as a GM with an autistic and random player base is nothing short of phenomenal.

>Charge in right beside her.

Ice forms around you as Aggie musters your defence and you take off with a spirit-enhanced leap, catching up with Hiss and passing her in a single fluid motion.
"Hey!"
She catches back up to you a moment later.
"What do you think you're doing? Shouldn't you be tossing bottles or whatever?"

"I seem to recall somebody lamenting that I never spent any time by her side in these battles."

Hiss' face softens.
"Aww, that's sw-"

A massive hand smashes her into the ground, only for her to rise a second later, holding the offending limb above her head.
"We were having a moment, damn it!"

The hand bubbles beneath her touch, Hiss still drenched in the Spirit Poison. But before it can dissolve entirely, Hiss leaps atop it and runs down its length towards the rest of the Gatekeeper.
She's laughing like a maniac as she is lost from view in an incoherent tangle of limbs, burning through one after the other.

"Come on Aggie, time to put those souls to use."

You take back to the air, your wooden arm growing outward into another spear. A hand lunges for you and you turn to face, Aggie coating your spear in ice as you impale the hand before it can even touch you. The empowered homonculus is in your every movement and you've never felt so light. You've never felt so strong.
Is this how Hiss feels all the time?

Another Improved Spiritslayer flask helps clear the way and you catch sight of Hiss in the maelstrom, the snake leaping forward with both blood and pigment streaming around her.
A hand catches her before she can advance too far but it only stops her for a moment before she just pushes and continues onward, dragging the hand before her like a shield. Three more hands brace the first in a vain attempt to slow her. Five more. Seven more.

And then you lose sight of her again as an eye opens in the air before you and from its iris, six new crimson hands spring forth. They all latch onto you before you can stop them but only for a moment as the air around you explodes in ice.

"Are you okay, Aggie?"

-For the first and only time in my life, I am powerful. You can trust me to protect you Cennen.-

"Thanks."

You descend towards the wriggling knot of hands, intent on saving Hiss from being buried alive.
You stab one with your spear and throw it aside, using it as a shield against the strike of another. You push a hand away and then it's all rendered moot as Hiss decides to bust free by herself.

Hands explode outwards as Hiss skyrockets in size, burning souls by the dozen as her Worldbreaker Coils escalate her to over a hundred feet tall in the blink of an eye.

You don't quite get out of the way in time either and while Hiss wasn't quite able to catch you, a different part of her was.
You're trapped! Aggie knocks you from side to side but to no avail.
-I can't break free!-

Hiss reaches down and picks you out of her shirt.
"Getting a bit ahead of yourself, are we?"
She's loud enough to nearly blow your eardrums.
1/2

>>418471
>Hiss reaches down and picks you out of her shirt.
Kek I hope the anon who pleaded for this to happen is here right now

>>418471
She drops you on her shoulder as she swats away another arm.
"I can't hold this for very long but I think I can take it bigger. Bigger than all of this!"
She seems entirely unaware that she is deafening you.

"But I'm going to need your little spirit friend."

-What?-

>Let her take Aggie.

>Why?

>No! If she plans on using Aggie and her advanced size to wrestle the entire Gatekeeper, Aggie would likely die.

>Suggest a different method (Specify)

>Nobble.

>Other

>>418480
Where is this thing's halo?

>>418480
>>Let her take Aggie.

>>418477
Right here

>>418484
It's the Gate.

>>418480
>>Why?

>>418490
Can hiss destroy it like how she would a normal halo?

>>418480
>>Let her take Aggie.

Aggie wants to die doing her duty, this is her best chance.

Don't forget to tell her that we're sorry we're such a shit dad, and we'll do better for or future homonculi children.

>>418487
>>418502
This could let Naja out fyi.

>>418509
I'm willing to take that risk.

>>418480
>Let her take Aggie.

>>418509
Also, maybe we can squirt Naja out into the Dreaming and she can go fight God or something and leave us alone.

Honestly I kind of feel bad for her. Clone problems, where she's dragged into being with all the memories and attachments from Hiss' life and none of it wants her back.

>>418480
>Suggest a different method (Specify)
She attacks the gatekeeper while we destroy the gate with Aggie.

>>418523
backing this.

>>418480
>>418523
I'll change my vote to this to break the tie.

>Let her take Aggie.

"Why?"

Your voice barely reaches her.
"What? Speak up!"
You clutch your ears and Hiss finally seems to realise what she's doing to you.

Good thing this brand connection still works. Good work on not losing your other arm. Now, I'm fucking sick of fighting nothing but projections. I'm going to wrestle this whole damn manifestation to the ground but problem is, that's a real spirit. So let me take Aggie, alright?

"Is this okay with you, Aggie?"
Doing something like this is almost certain to kill the homunculus after all.

-I have long made my peace with this fact.-

You give Hiss the nod and she picks you back up from her shoulder, still fighting off arms with her other hand. Instead of putting you anywhere else, she simply holds you in front of her face.

Hurry up and meet my eyes Cennen! I need to eat the homunculus out of you!

"I'm trying!"
You look directly at her eyes, giant glistening pools of soft brown and white. But she's not looking at yours. Or at least, she's trying. But all she's managing is to look cross-eyed.
"Maybe go a bit smaller so you can see them properly?"

"I can't do that," Hiss whines, forgetting your poor ears in the process. "The moment I go back down, we get swamped in arms again!"

"Ow. Okay. I have a different idea. You handle the 'keeper, me and Aggie will attack the Gate! That's the halo! I think."

Hiss looks a little disappointed but in the end simply shrugs.
"We can give that a try."
You wince and she looks appropriately chagrined.

Hold on!

You grab hold of her collar as she starts to move, throwing herself at the wall of the red cyclone entrapping the both of you. Hundreds of hands rise to stop her but she tears through them with ease, ripping them apart and stomping them beneath her boots as she grabs hold of the Gatekeeper's self-inflected wound and charges through.

A wall of red rushes up to meet you and it is all you can do to keep clinging to her collar. Aggie manifests all around you, warding off several dozen attacks as Hiss breaks free.

And then you're out, back into the clear air. You can see Taldenral beneath you and to the side, the vast pillar of painted handprints that you had just ripped your way out of.

It's long and its tall and its vast, the Gatekeeper's manifestation towering over Hiss in much the same way she towers over you.

-Do you really think that such a pitiful increase would help you now that you have given up your last sanctuary?-
The Gatekeeper's spindly limbs reach out for you....

...and Hiss destroys all her souls at once.

You do your best to hold onto her rapidly growing collar, the individual threads becoming not only large enough to hold onto but almost as big as you! You look out below but you can't even see Taldenral now, there's too much...Hiss in the way.

Hiss is still standing before the Gatekeeper but he barely comes up to her chest now. The Gate swirls just above her head.
1/2

>>418604
She has to be at least 1500 feet tall.

Hiss extracts you from her collar with ease, balancing you on the tip of her finger. Or at least you think it's the tip. It's scaled platform wide enough to hold at least a dozen of you.
But it's getting smaller.

Hiss burned everything to get here and she's already beginning to diminish. You can't afford to waste anymore time.

Without saying a word, Hiss simply reaches up and deposits you and Aggie right below the Gate.
And then the Gatekeeper breaks apart and rushes her and she is obscured from your sight in a storm of red.

"Hiss!"
As if she'd hear you anyway.


>You need to go back and help her! She's only growing weaker, after all.

>It's time to attack the Gate itself. Use Aggie to directly grab it.

>It's time to attack the Gate itself with alchemy.

>Go through the Gate, it'll be easier to destroy it from the other side.

>Other

>>418629
>It's time to attack the Gate itself with alchemy.
>Have Aggie throw everything at it en masse. The spirit can't defend it all.

>>418523
Ignore the prompt listed in the update, this is the course of action that I went with.

>>418629
>It's time to attack the Gate itself with alchemy.
Dispel that shit. If that fails use the rest of our haywire brews on the halo directly to limit the energy flow through it.

>>418629
>>Use Aggies Homonculus powers to summon spiders into the spirits halo.

>>418629
>It's time to attack the Gate itself with alchemy.
Anything else wold not be fitting

>>418629
>It's time to attack the Gate itself with alchemy.
Try to dispel it first, if that fails use haywire brews and then
>It's time to attack the Gate itself. Use Aggie to directly grab it.

>>418664
Fuck that,

> Use ALL the brews

>>418668
I'm not sure if any others actually do anything to halos. I'm actually not even sure the haywire brews will but it seems like they should since they deal with mental energy.

>It's time to attack the Gate itself with alchemy.

You can't afford to waste any of the time that Hiss has bought for you! Aggie rushes you through the air towards the portal and you uncork your final Dispel Elixir.
Below you, you can see Hiss fight free of the Gatekeeper's grasp and start striking back. But alas, her attacks can only disperse the smaller spirit, not actually destroy it. He's a particulate monster, made of too many hands and arms and eyes to be destroyed by a single blow.

The Dream fills the sky above you and you count the seconds as Aggie speeds you towards the edge of the portal. It needs to be the edge, the halo itself. Otherwise the Gate itself will just swallow it up harmlessly.

3...

Your wooden arm lengthens and extends, becoming springy and brimming with energy.

2...

The edge of the horizon is fast approaching, the battle between Hiss and the Gatekeeper's manifestation crushing Taldenral beneath them.

1...

A cluster of arms suddenly emerge around the Gate's edge and you curse. Of course! He'd left part of himself still back in the Dream!

But it's too late now. You throw the bottle.

>Roll 1d100 to throw. Best of first 3.

Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>418698

Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>418698
come on

Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>418698
welcome to die, courtesy of dice.

Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>418698

dice gods fuckin hate us tonight

Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>418701
>>418703
>>418704
FUCK

>>418704
We're going to have to go kamikaze on the gate and we'll be trapped on the dreaming for 1000 years

Rolled 85 (1d100)

let's get all these shit rolls out of our system

>55

Your throw would have been accurate. It would have hit the edge exactly. The Elixir would have burst and the Gate would have been struck, the very halo of the Gatekeeper itself undone.
But there are countless hands protruding from the Dream, braces of assimilated spirits ready to defend their collective master. They reach for the Elixir in the air and you know its hopeless. They're going to stop it. There's nothing you can do.

Could Aggie grow a bunch of limbs and empty out your pack in a quick barrage to clear the way? Possibly. But the explosions from such would almost certainly destroy the Elixir itself.
There's nothing that can be done.

And then time seems to slow to a halt.

-Cennen. I have come to understand that every moment of life for something like me is itself a blessing. Thank you for each and every one of them.-

>...

Rolled 772 (1d1000)

>>418731

>>418734
nice roll aggie

>>418734
haha I just noticed that this is actually ouro

>>418734

The hands stop as something fierce and powerful and impossibly cold releases itself from you, an invisible shockwave of power that strikes the limbs and only them.
Each outstretched arm stops and freezes solid and decays in an instant, releasing not red but only blue light.

For a moment, even the harsh light of the Dream is drowned out and the only thing to grace the sky is an impossible aurora.
Aggie has undone herself and in that instant of nonexistence, every stolen soul given to her has been destroyed for a single moment of power.

The soundless explosion buffets you forward, crimson hands dissolving all around you as you fly past the world of the Dream just in time to see your thrown Elixir finally strike home.

It breaks apart and the Gate begins to dissolve. Below you, the manifestation that Hiss is still wrestling with begins to waver and fall apart.

"Thanks Aggie."

-Stop that!-

And then a hundred more limbs sprout from the Dream and as you watch dumbfounded, hold the halo open. It's still falling apart but much slower now, pure Dream essence rushing forth in waves to slow its decay.
What? Shouldn't he be dead?

-Remember that I only sent part of myself into your world, mortal. That of me that still lives within the Dream has no need for halos. And that part of me can hold it steady long enough for me to kill both of you!-

There's nothing holding you in the air anymore. You begin to fall.

>Use the Caster to propel yourself back at the halo.

>Pray for Hiss to catch you.

>Who cares about falling? Keep attacking the halo.

>Surrender.

>Other

>>418770
>Use the Caster to propel yourself back at the halo.
Bonus points if we hit a spirit and get our bane back. Aggie was best abomination of alchemy.

>>418770
>>Who cares about falling? Keep attacking the halo.

>>418779
This

>>418770
>Genuflect
>Who cares about falling? Keep attacking the halo.

>>418770
Do we have any other brews that can actually attack the halo?

>>418786
Not specifically but you had a ton of brews that can attack the arms holding it open.

>>418770
>Use the Caster to propel yourself back at the halo.
>Who cares about falling? Keep attacking the halo.
If we're currently being launched past the halo we need to stop that inertia if we want to really unload brews at it

>>418794
Is there a spirit breaker in the caster and are we in the right range to get most of the hands? I understand this is risky by blasting us back towards the ground (hopefully Hiss can catch us in this case)

>>418804
I think we're falling from it.

>>418770
>Who cares about falling? Keep attacking the halo.
>"Give it up already you old cunt"

>>418821
Otherwise I'm still for just chucking potions for simplicity sake. No need to over complicate things now

>Who cares about falling? Keep attacking the halo.
>Use the Caster to propel yourself back at the halo.

You didn't create Aggie purely so that she could be born to die, no matter what she said. You made her with the hope of being able to come up with a way that she could keep on living with all your other children.
And because of that, you refuse to believe that her death was in vain. The halo is dying, the Gatekeeper is just being slow about it.

So it might be up to you to finish the job. But can you really fight through all of that on your own.

Beneath you, a large part of the Gatekeeper's manifestation splatters itself across the landscape as Hiss smashes her fist through it. And above you, the entire Gate wavers and warps and grows just a little bit weaker. The hands holding it open visibly strain.

"Hah!," Hiss exclaims at a volume probably loud enough to deafen the entire city. What's left of it anyway.
"Give it up already, you old cunt! All I have to do is keep whacking your body around and your halos gonna need more and more power. Power that you don't have left!"
She looks up at you and then straight through you. She can't see you right now, you're practically a mote of dust to her. Hiss managing to catch you would be an adventure in itself.

But that's fine. You don't plan on being caught. Because you're still planning on killing that damn Gate. Your previous hesitation is gone, erased by the reminder that it isn't just you fighting it, it's both of you attacking together from different angles. And against the two of you, who really stands a chance?

You unsling your Caster and fire the loaded Snakebreaker straight down, the force of the shot immediately propelling you right back towards the Gate!
Your wooden arm grows around the Caster as you ascend, roots and branches growing to support it even as roots grow into your pack. New potions are instantly picked up by your vines and carried from one branch to another to be slotted into the Caster even as another vine is already winding it up.

You fire an Extra Improved Spiritslayer at the clusters still holding the halo open. The Caster is loaded again moments later and you fire again. And again. And again. And again.

And then, as you finally fall out of range, Hiss finally sees where you are. But she doesn't try to catch you. She simply stands up beneath you. You've wound up sitting atop her head and from there, even as she still fights the Gatekeeper himself, you are well within range to pound the Gate over and over again.

Each shot rips and tears through several arms at once and the psychic screams of the Gatekeeper can be heard with each one.

The Gate wavers and shrinks in stops and starts, growing smaller with each shot. Growing smaller with each fist Hiss launches into the manifestation's body, each strike louder than thunder.

-Enough! When will either of you learn that this is futile?-

Hiss laughs, loud enough to almost cause you physical pain.
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>>418857
>Your wooden arm grows around the Caster
kek another unintentional parallel to berserk

>>418857
Just so you know, this thread has been totally badass. Especially the last several updates.

>>418857
"Maybe when you've learned not to be drippy old cunnnnnnnnnnnargh!"

Her earthshaking cry is cut off as the manifestation wavers and falls apart...and then swarms over her as it did in the start of the fight. But this is different, the Gatekeeper is coming apart.

For just a brief moment, it ceases to be the Gatekeeper entirely, the particulate mass of hands and arms and eyes becoming instead a disparate swarm of hundreds of spirits. And as they strike Hiss and crawl across her body, they quiver and change back into hands. In addition, the red pigment that Hiss is coated in springs back to life, thousands of hands gripping Hiss all over!

But of course, even though each hand is larger than a person, to Hiss it was more or less as walking into a large swarm of gnats. Extremely unpleasant, for sure, but nothing actually capable of hindering her.
She simply strides forward, leaving immense footprints in Taldenral itself as the swarm bounces off her scaled skin. Sure, a few hands manage to get into her many wounds but aside from that they might as well have been doing nothing.

"This is a bit improper, isn't it?"
And of course, Hiss isn't taking it seriously.
"We haven't even held hands and you're already going so fast!"

And then every single part of the Gatekeeper coating her dissolves and reforms into a single long arm that's large enough to cram itself into her 50-foot mouth.

"Mmrm! Hrmpmmm!"

Hiss starts to spasm, destroying the Gatekeeper as best you can. The halo is melting. What the fuck is the Gatekeeper doing? As far as you can tell, he's just made it easier for Hiss to destroy him.

-I didn't want to do this! I knew that to attempt this would be to risk total destruction. But you and your mortal leave me no choice! I have come for you Serpent Queen, not for your oversized shell but for your SOUL-

Ah fuck. By reaching into her mouth like that he can bypass her Scale Art, including her anti-magic one.

-Did you think I didn't notice you burning every soul you possessed? Now you are without them to protect you, without them to stop me from simply reaching in and grasping your innermost being!-

And then the long arm still forcing its way down Hiss' throat freezes. Did Hiss do something?

And then you see it, a long tendril of black creeping its way back down the immense crimson arm like some kind of corrupted vein. And it's quickly joined by more and more.

The arm retracts in visible panic but its too late, the entire limb has been stained black. As it falls, the corruption races outwards and snares every other part of the Gatekeeper.
Red hands become black, pigment stains become creeping pits of pitch-black venom, crimson eyes shut forever.

-No!-

"Oh shut up."
It's a new voice, not unlike Hiss' own.

The Gate above you explodes as the every piece of the Gatekeeper is dragged down, something having seized him by a metaphysical thread and pulling with irresistible might.
And then all is black.

>>418921
aw fuck. I was not expecting this. well at least it saved us the trouble of making her a soul and body ourselves.

>>418938
We should apologize for failing to do that

>>418947
I think it's fair, she should know how busy we were. Not to mention that we never stopped trying to get better at making bodies. I doubt she would want to be something like Hom. It's a fair enough excuse anyway, wanting to make a body worthy of her yadda yadda.

>>418921
When you next open your eyes, the world has changed. The sky is dark, a faint silvery-black that spreads from horizon to horizon. And yet you can see a curvature to it, as if all of Taldenral had suddenly become enclosed in some kind of dome.

And Taldenral itself has changed. Cobblestones have become basalt and obsidian, once humble streets have become huge and sprawling. It flips around and eats itself, parts of city simply floating in the air as it is all slowly remade into a spiky nest of black spires.

And amidst it all sits Hiss, still towering over every building despite sitting down. You're still on her head and as far as you can tell, she seems to have woken up at the same time you have.

"Well, well."
A most familiar voice. So much like Hiss and yet so much not.
"Well well well well well well well."

Naja suddenly oozes into being next to you atop Hiss' head. She's the exact same as the last time you saw her but she seems to be a little more...solid. You can't explain it.

"Naja?"

"Oh consort, always so good at stating the obvious! Now...when I said I wanted a way out this isn't quite what I had in mind."

"Oi!"
Hiss's voice shakes the earth and you see her hand come up, ready to grab both of you.

Naja simply shakes her masked head.
"Too loud. Cennen, you don't mind if I turn her down, do you?"

You and Naja are suddenly standing in the streets of the altered Taldenral and Hiss has completely vanished. Or so you think, until you hear a high-pitched and almost inaudible screeching from the top of your head.
You pick up Hiss, the Serpent Queen less than inch tall and looking extremely bad-tempered about it.

"I barely did anything," Naja says, sounding extremely proud of herself. "Just reached into her Art and messed with the direction it was going."

"Put her back."

Naja pretends to think about it.
"No."

"Can you do it as a favour? ...A favour to your loyal consort?"

Hiss looks extremely annoyed from down on top of your fingertip but you can't hear her objections.

Naja simply chuckles once more.
"Oh Cennen, don't you remember us moving past that? And besides, I'm very annoyed with you. What happened to making my body?"

"It-"

"I already know the answer anyway. So here's how its going to go Cennen. I'm going to do nasty things to you and Hiss and everyone else because, my excellently polite exterior or not, I am extremely pissed off."

"W-"

"No. Actually, you could just think of me having replaced the Gatekeeper as your ultimate cosmic enemy! Only you can't fight me. Or do anything really."

You don't believe her. That curvature you saw earlier...this might be her Dreaming but its limited. It only covers this city. She's nowhere near as omnipotent as she would have you believe. She's bluffing.

'Still," Naja says. "Maybe if you come over and kiss my boots and swear your soul to mine for all eternity, I might be able to get over how much of a boor you've become and forgive you. It's your choice."
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>>418956
Besides, she's got one even better than that now!

And she can go off and be God or whatever.

Besides, Hiss is down with polygamy. So she should be too!

Seriously though, we're probably fucked.

Ouro, just so you know. I'm personally okay with BAD END.

>>418957
>Do as she says.

>Do as she says with the stipulation that Hiss can be returned to normal and allowed to exist unmolested.

>Refuse.

>Unload an Extra Improved Spiritslayer right in her face.

>Pet god.

>Other

>>418965
Wait does our Art still work here? It's her dreaming but technically it's still in the real world right?

>>418965
>Pet god.

I dunno man, fuck it

>>418967
Yes

>>418965
>>Pet god.
>you see I really was trying to work on that, was working on perfecting the Homonculi as a stepping stone Once I could stabilize them with their bodies, I could make a new body for you easily enough. I just got sidetracked by the whole war thing, which would have fucked it up anyways. I was really, really close........ Then you had to be a bitch about it.
>Unload an Extra Improved Spiritslayer right in her face.

>>418965
>Pet god
Because i cant think of anything eles to do

>>418965
>Unload an Extra Improved Spiritslayer right in her face.
Petting is a shit idea

>>418970
>>418975
We can hurt her with the brew, we just need her guard down.

>>418965
>Refuse.
>>418972
This minus the petting and the potion

>>418965
>Unload an Extra Improved Spiritslayer right in her face.
Actually just rapidfire as many of them as possible. We already belong to the real Hiss.

>>418978
>>418979
Dont think fighting god is a god idea
Besides are we really willing to aggro Naja after everything we been through
Id like to settle this last thing peacefully

>>418965

>Nobble

The only real answer I see here. But seriously,

> Pet god

THEN

> Nobble

>>418985
>>418990

Same, I'm down for this at least.

>>418965
>>Pet god.
Eh sure

>letting the cause of the apocalypse take over our city without a fight
>doing lewd things to her in front of hiss
great ideas guys.

>>418965
> Pet god

While saying >>418972

Minus the potion.

Mention you and Hiss' newfound polygamy perhaps. Also that you have found a way to strike back at the creator through the source of magic.

Hopefully she'll go for it and I dunno about that after

>>418998
It's a dickstraction tactic.

>>418998
She's gonna fuck a pile of snakes anyway, I think she can put up with this for a moment, also I don't find petting THAT lewd. I always considered it like booping a snek's snoozle it's just something you do. I wanted more petting Hiss in snek form desu.

>>419002
Haha I forgot about that. Got me again, Jap Moot.

>>419000
I like this plan
Changing from >>418995

>>419002
petting is definitely implied lewdness in this situation

>>418993
Can't nobble her, she's not a snake


>>419000
She's going to try and kill Hiss anon. That's non negotiable. She has to die.

Calling it for refusing, possibly with shooting.

>>419000
Dude she's literally created to destroy the source of magic. She's the one who told us all about it. You're being retarded.

>>419002
>. I wanted more petting Hiss in snek form desu.

So glad you came late to the quest.

>>419002
Pet is basically code for groping/ finger fucking you illiterate moron.

>>419015
Because I like pet snakes and I don't want to constantly fuck one in human form? And do you mean this thread because I've been here since like 15 faggo

>>419010
>>418970
>>418975
>>418993
>>418995
>>419000
for petting & refusal

Vs

>>418978
>>418989

For shooting & refusal.

>>419019
So we fingered Aash'd cloaca when we pet her on that ship many threads ago? Are you the illiterate one?

>>419020
> Desu

>>419022
Petting someone in human form is inherently lewd anon

>>419023
It's a word filter
>>419005

>>419022
That was the one time we didn't do it lewdly. Every other time it's been lewd. Or did you forget all the times we petted Hiss underneath her shirt or in her pants?

>>419021
>ouro finally regains the drive to finish the quest
>players go full retard at the end
this is true suffering

>>419031
"Muh harem" which is ironic since Naja wants to kill Hiss and won't stop for anything.

>>419026

Yep, filters regular cancer into recognizable brandable 4chan cancer.

I'm calling you cancer.

You take a step closer to her, feeling the weight of the Caster still embedded into your grotesque wooden arm. It's loaded.

You kneel before her, Hiss' tiny shouts growing almost loud enough to be audible. Why can't she talk to you through your brand?
"You have to understand Naja, I was really trying. The homunculi were just the stepping stones to your body and yes, I did get distracted by the war but can you really blame me?"

"Yes actually, I totally can blame you. Some mortal war is nowhere near as important as I am. I don't know if you've noticed but I'm kind of a big deal."

You stand up, noting her to be the same size as you for once. Good. That'll make this easier. You reach out with your Caster-arm and...

gently pat her on the head.
"Huh?"
She might be masked but she sounds genuinely confused.
"What are you doing?"

"I know you felt bad. I know it must have looked like I abandoned you. I'm sorry. But I don't belong to you. And I'm not going to serve you either."

Naja stops for a moment.
"Wow, Cennen. I had no idea that you could be this fucking retarded. I'm giving you a second chance here, one more than you honestly deserve! Even now, even as I have all the control here."

"You don't have all the control," you blurt out.

"Oh? Is that what you think? Well what are you going to do, big guy?"

>Shoot her in the face.

>Turn around the walk away.

>True Pet.

>Use Potion (Specify)

>Pray

>Other

>>419034
Jesus dude, I just want to try and dick her into a semblance of reasonableness.

Yeah, she's pissed right now, but maybe we can sex her into being less pissed. It actually does work sometimes.

>>419036
Oh no are you triggered when people don't spell out to be honest? I'm sorry it's such a common phrase and people on tumblr tend to use an acronym and that makes it bad. Next time I'll be sure not to offend your weak disposition.

>>419037
>Shoot her in the face.
>>419039
this is what petfags actually believe

>>419037
>True Pet???
>Turn around the walk away.
The answer to all our problems
just walk way

>>419037
> Call over Hom and Eva. Tell them that you're introducing Hiss' sister Auntie Naja.

> "If you thought I couldn't be this retarded, you must not know me very well at all. Doing honestly retarded things and hoping it works out is pretty much how I get through life. It's worked out *look around* well, it's worked well enough so far I guess.

Fuck it. Let's just bully her into normality.

>>419037
>Shoot her in the face.
Repeatedly.

>>419039
Dude, not when she's built her whole existance on making Hiss's end. Not happening.

>>419037
>True Pet
Then once she loses concentration
>Shoot her in the goddamn face

>>419037
>Pray

To the Creator! Dude has to be around here SOMEWHERE.

>>419037
>>419046
I'm going to support this. She thinks we're retarded? We'll show her.

Literally introduce her as auntie Naja. Take this up to a whole new level.

>>419043
Ok im not sure what these other retards are thinking but i am 75% sure that shooting her will only lead to more problems.
Like her getting super pissed off and using her god powers to fuck us over, and we just leave without anyone else dieing or getting hurt.

>>419037
>Turn 360° and walk away.

>>419046
lol what? hom and eva are nowhere near us. your plan is literally retarded.

>>419043
Nice shit posting.

>>419053
It is kind of our thing. Besides, she won't hurt us too much at first.

>>419057
uh

>>419052
He does not give a shit. As long as Naja kills the art heart he's happy. He has no reason to help us.

>>419046
>>419053
>Durr hurr hurr being a flaming retard won't get me or Hiss killed.
Besides the fact they aren't around, she has no reason to let us live and every reason to want both Cennen and Hiss dead.
Haremfags fuck off

>>419054
She's going to kill us or Hiss or both on principle. She's not going to let us walk away especially if she's coherent she can warp space.

>>419064
moonwalk

>>419061
Samefag with the ID reset please

>>419037
> Just walk away, road warrior, walk away.

> Tell her that if you were going to just do what powerful sexy women told you to all the time you never would be in these situations in the first place.

>Invite her to come with you.

>>419064
>>419071

Who could kill us after seeing those sick moves? Honestly I'm more for diplomacy without boning but I suck at it.

>>419074
Are you forgetting that she really wants is to die, can warp space and time while coherent, and isn't a mindless fuckslut like you seem to think she is?

>>419044
>>419057
>>419074
You seriously think she would let us get away? Even if she did, you really want to leave an entire city's worth of people here with her? We have to fight. You're not taking this seriously enough.

>>419073
> Nobody ever works late

Wow guys. Glad I caught the end with a bunch of shit posting. It's nostalgic.

>>419076
She has her entire existance predicated on killing Hiss. That is her entire being. It'd be like trying to talk Saran into being a good guy. Futile.

>>419082
Satan*

>>419076
Where is all this talk of boning coming from anyway.
I mean really do we have to fight or fuck our way out of every problem we have. Cant we talk it out.

>>419080
You may be right, but good damnit anon i have to try.

>>419082
She already made several offers to just let Hiss go. She's more obsessed with getting Us than with killing Hiss.

Uh okay, looks like the leading vote is to walk away. Writan'

>Inb4 Ouro just kills us for being a retard

>>419084
Petting is absolutely always sexual.

Although seriously the true pet probably absolutely is sexual.

>>419088
Well, more like "Ignore her threats and just continue to treat her aggressively nicely"

My vote at least.

>>419088
It was 3v3 for shooting vs walking away and one of the walk away votes was a joke.

>>419090
I would be willing to accept this, just because you're turning these last votes into a shitfest.

Please stop. If anything, Ouro will probably just kill us to end your shitposting.

>>419085
No she isn't she was more obsessed with not dying. She's out now and we already burned the Waifu bridge by not being her consort. You are a haremfagging retard who's about to get us killed.


>>419093
Hope you're okay with Hiss and or Cennen dying anon.

>>419094
THIS

>>419095
> people are calling me a retard for being a retard

>This quest should just die then

Grow up you child.

Rolled 1 (1d6)

Okay, tiebreaker. Evens for walking, odds for shooting. Sorry about that.

>>419102
thank you based dice gods

>>419094
Shoot
>>419043
>>419047
>>419049

Talk
>>419044
>>419053

Walk
>>419046
>>419057

Talk and walk
>>419074

3 votes to not shoot, 2 votes talk & walk and 1 combined vote.

Also >>419076 and >>419084 were two "walk" votes previously who clarified their desire to talk it out.

So essentially, at worst we're giving her the first hit.

>>419106
>So essentially, at worst we're giving her the first hit.


Literally all she needs to kill us, bring us back, then kill us again.

>>419106
For the sake of fuck it let's just go. I didn't want to shoot her but this is getting heavy, the dice gods speaketh.

>>419104
>>419106
>>419113
Relax my bros
the dice god have already chosen our fate
lets go with it and not cause any more trouble for Ouro ok

>Shoot her in the face.

"You might think I'm retarded but-"

She places a gloved finger across your lips, her mask tilted to face something behind you. When she speaks, her voice sounds disgusted.
"What the hell are you thinking? What's wrong with you?"

"What?"

"Explain this! >>419039 "

You don't understand a single word she just said as she utters something truly incomprehensible.

So you just shoot her in the face with an Extra Improved Spiritslayer Flask instead.

>roll 1d100 to hit. Best of the first 3.

>>419102
>>419106
Not really even close to a tie? If only I shitpost lies instead of actually counting, we could have avoided this.

>>419102
> Where we're you when Anon shit post the end of SnakeCatcher quest into a mis-vote.

Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>419116

Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>419116
Thank you retard anon, your post turned into a pretty good distraction

Rolled 1 (1d1)

>>419116
Oh, you don't mind if I join in do you? Oops.

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>419116

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>419116
Whatever. Let's just get this over with.

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>419116
fucking dice gods. What the fuck.

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>419116
Forgive this roll. And the rolling in general is why I thought shoot or walk we'd have a chance to get by either way.

>rolling to hit a point blank shot
why

>>419116
Hahaha, oh god, this is funny.

>>419122
>>419123
>>419125

Great plan, shoot faggots. This is your karma.

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>have to go to work in 1 hour
>wake up and see this

>>419131
Naja is bullshit

>>419124
See?

>>419133
And your heart post would have gotten us killed anyways idiot. She was pissed at your blatant haremshit post.

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>>419122
>>419123
>>419125
And now we return to our 24 hour "Get fucked you stupid morons" marathon

>>419131
You faggots haven't even figured out that she can read our posts.

Well, that's because she's a goddess. That's why we should have tried, I don't know, treating her nicely.

Like I said earlier, I can feel bad for the position she has been in this whole time.

Not bad enough to betray Hiss. But still pretty shitty. It would have been nice if we could have calmed her down with Petting or words.

But no. You wanted to shoot God in the face.

Hey, remember when we tried to Gank Tanni by turning into a Dragon? That went well. This is like, a million times worse.

>>419133
If we rolled like this for walk away we'd have been stabbed in the back. It's all up to the dice gods ultimately. No need to blame other voters for a bad outcome, because I've found that all options can turn out equally bad if the dice gods feel like it.

>>419145
> Implying we would have had to roll for Walk Away.

Maybe she'll feel bad for us that we are apparently insane.

>>419143
The problem is she'd have killed us and Hiss anyways, and you blatant "I want to fuck her so she'll love me post" was going to get us killed anyways you cancerous peice of shit.

Rolled 9193028 (1d10000000)

Don't mind me boys, just rolling for an action I'll be doing soon. I figure if we're both using dice it'll be fair right?

Oh, that's a nice score. Do you think you can beat that?

>>419151
Why wouldn't we have to roll for walking away from somebody that currently wants to kill us? Diplomacy as well, fail that and things can turn out worse than before.

>>419151
>Implying she'd not have just killed us. Maybe you should fuck off you asspained haremfag.

>>419143
Oh god. It's Joker Quest all of a sudden.

>>419143
You wanted to fuck her into submission.Then you wanted to call her Auntie Naja and "bully" her like that was a solution. You legitimately thought that was the best course of action. You are that retarded. I want you to think about that for a bit.

>>419153
Najaaaaaaa. I'm still having fun Ouro, especially with the meta posts.

>>419153
dat fucking roll holy shit

>>419153
That actually is a pretty nice score.

Not as nice as the last one, but breddy gud.

>>419153
What the fug

>>419161
Yep, before I realized she was reading our minds.

And I just wanted to bang her into a good mood. You've never done that before in a relationship? Hell, we've done that before in the quest itself.

Besides, YOU wanted to shoot her in the face. Clearly you're the worse voice in Cennens head.

Damn son, I just wanted everyone to get along.

Maybe not fight localized God.

Naja lifts her hand and bats the shot out of the air, deflecting the shrapnel and the explosion into oblivion.
"That was a bit dangerous of you. You could have ruffled my hair. Look, as you might have guessed, I'm far from omnipotent. My Dreaming is very small right now. But while you're inside it, you're playing my game. And you're rolling my dice, so to speak. Metaphysically."

You have no idea what she's talking about.
"And yet you can't make me kneel. You have to ask."

Naja sighs.
"To be honest Cennen, you seem like you're in a lot of turmoil. Or maybe you're always like that? I don't know what answer disgusts me more. Now that I have a whole city to play with, you've stopped seeming so cool. So why don't you and Hiss and everyone else you ever know and loved go fuck off somewhere else in my eternal and infinite magical realm until I'm ready to talk to you?"

She waves a hand across you, as if scrubbing you from existence.

>Roll a 1d100 to resist. As long as all of the 3 roles are above 10, you resist.

Rolled 7507141 (1d10000000)

>>419153
rolling for divine intervention.

Rolled 23 (1d100)

Rolled 1 (1d1)

>>419177
Oh whoops, I dropped my dice.

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>419177
Inb4 Naja Nat 1s again

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>419177
>>419179
MAKING ME NERVOUS

>>419183
SO ARE YOU GOD DAMN

Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>419177
Naja why are you so mean?

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>419179
>>419182
>>419183
>>419186
naja confirmed for dice god

>>419181
But it's a 1 out of 1 which is 100%, or an "impossible to fail">>419181

>>419186
>>419179
>>419182
>>419183
Jesus christ what is going on?

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>>419185
> MFW I saw that 1

Delicious awful timestamps and bad random number generator.

>>419192
Have you never played with /tg/ dice? Clearly they followed us here.