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Your inventory:

+2 Jenny of the lamp tokens
200 gold
+1 on next 2d6 roll

Rolled 4, 1 = 5 (2d6)

>>1425539
>>1425658
>2D6

Did we forget something from our earlier fight? We were supposed to take that mirage mirror?

>>1425888
Yup, you got it!

I'll keep your +1 for the next 2d6 roll since you figured it out without the roll.

>>1425910
Oh, neat. I'm a bit surprised I got it so quickly.

>>1425658
>+1 on next 2d6 roll
Will this be automatically used on the next 2d6 roll, or can we choose to save it for later and declare it when we want the bonus?

>>1425954
It will be used on your next 2D6, but don't be afraid to use it because you will get more in the future for doing other stuff.

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<If you're feeling stuck here are some options.

>>1426124
Oh. I figured there was going to be another panel or prompt once we realized the hint.

So we have almost nothing to fight the monsters, neat.
I'd say we go to the nearest settlement and buy some stuff like a mirror to counter the mirage mirror, and some knife to fend off the monsters or other stuff.

>>1426151

"The nearest settlement to where you are in an odd one, I'm afraid" says the narrator.

"For it is one made up entirely, out of cacti."

Desperate and parched, grains of fine sand coating your lips and rising like puffs of smoke with every step, you come to the settlement of the Sage Cactuses.

(Art might be in separate posts for a bit because its easier to type on ye ol' keyboard.)

>>1426197
Ah, right. Makes sense.

>>1426197
>you come to the settlement of the Sage Cactuses.
>Sage Cactuses.
>>1426203
Wasn't expecting that.
Go greet the Sage Cactuses and introduce ourselves as a weary traveler.

>>1426210
"Oh weary traveller, we are well aware of your exploits. Great one, who defeated the desert hauntress.."

More cacti sprout pop out of the ground at your arrival.

"If you wish to drink, I do know that there is a vending machine around here somewhere... but if you wish for KNOWLEDGE, now there, there we can help you."

"You see, you may ask us any one question and have it be answered honestly. Any question at all, however, only the first question will be answered without a trade."

"Butbutbut!" says a little cactus, "Our trades are FAIR!"

"Oh yes, ever so fair and beautiful, you like young girl with the heart of a most based anon."

>>1426240
*you like = like you. (Drawing makes your typing brain go a little fuzzy perhaps.)

Just a note, you can post after any post I make. No prompt needed.

If I have to take more than one post to say something or draw it out I'll let you know at the end with a (cont) or something, otherwise I don't mind at all.

Sometimes you'll see me do a string of drawings, that's usually because no one is around.

You're always free to post and play.

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"I'll just pet your cat while you think."

>>1426240
>"If you wish to drink, I do know that there is a vending machine around here somewhere
>a vending machine
>A vending machine out in the desert.
>>1426197
Well that's convenient. Ask for where the nearest place to buy goods like water, a map, and weapons is. I'd like to go straight to the vending machine, but a vending machine isn't going to help us get a weapon.

>>1426253
Heh. Perhaps.

>>1426311
Right, thanks for the info.

>>1426336
>Tell cactus to wait for a second
>Get Mirage Mirror
>Get back to him on the vending machine and then ask how to see around mirages

Nice to see this terrible quest running again

>>1426473
Don't we still have to beat the monster for the Mirage Mirror, though?

>>1426382
>>1426473

Roll D100 to see whose question Judah asks the sage cactus.

>>1426479
You do have some attacks even without a weapon (like magic missile) you're fairly capable of fighting although it is a smart idea that you had to check out what was around and ask about weapons anyway.

Sorry for late reply I thought the thread died again.

Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>1426528
>D100

>Sorry for late reply I thought the thread died again.
Thread's always dead, QM. We're just Halping you constantly resurrect it.

>>1426565
Tohoho +love for adding humor to the thread

If >>1426473 doesn't roll in the next min or two I'm going to roll for what they asked just to keep things moving.

Rolled 81 (1d100)

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You ask the Sage Cactus how to see around mirages.

"Well.. there are more ways than one. You could search out an 'Eye of Seeing through ____.' You could buy something useful from Jenny of the Lamp, or you could wrest the mirage mirror from the tar tumblers."

All right, it is once again late and I must go get ready for bed.

Tomorrow, if no one is around to play I will play the game by myself for a while so at least you get something to enjoy reading and seeing the next time you come on.

And who knows maybe someone else will jump on if they see the board moving.

Night, Night!

>>1426336
>>1426686
Did the cat get used to the Sage Cactus's prickly limbs?

Ask them for >>1426382.

>>1426756
Night.

Fuck the cactus

>>1426686
Fuck, missed it again.
Anyway, seconding >>1426857

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>>1426857
>Did the cat get used to the Sage Cactus's prickly limbs?

"Not quite."

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>>1426857
>Ask them for >>1426382.

"And what will you be trading for the answer to that question?

It is a simple question so I would take $25 gold, an item of it's equivalence, or any true information that has the same value - knowledge for knowledge is the way of the sage cactuses."

>>1427797
Will you be trading any information we give you to other people?

>>1427795
Ah, that explains quite a bit.

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>>1427803
Will you be trading any information we give you to other people?

>>1427807
>>1427797
Well, I suppose that's how you folks earn your keep, then. Should've known it was too good to be true.

From the looks of it, you folks observed us fight the desert hauntress because the fight was nearby. Are you aware that we were sent by our King to to defeat the pillaging Profiteer?

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>>1427836
"That sounds to me like a question... what will you trade for the answer to this question?"

>>1427844
Nothing, it was information parsed like a question because >>1427797 dictates that you'll simply give the answer to my original question when I give you enough information.

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>>1427854
"Ah, I see! Is that then the information you wish to trade? Y/N" (Sent by the King to defeat the Profiteer.)

>>1427861
Yeah, that seems comparable to what we're requesting.

>>1427861
>halp.png
I think this is a sign.

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>>1427868
Sage Cactus goes deep into a trance to channel his deep reservoir of facts and tidbits.

"Then here is the answer to your question. There is a trading cactus just outside of the Profiteers Palace, that you would have otherwise just mistaken for a normal cactus.
He will give you the best price for weapons.

You also possess Jenny of the Lamp, who is a wish granting merchant genie, you can wish for anything from her and she will sell it to you for whatever it is worth.

And lastly, you can pluck some needles from anyone in this settlement and use them as throwing darts but please, be gentle." He bats his eyelashes bashfully.

"Since your information was worth more than mine, have a Cactus Token. You can use it to get a discount with any cactuses you come across."

>>1427872
Oh, neat. Thanks Sage Cactus!

>>1427872
>you can pluck some needles from anyone in this settlement and use them as throwing darts
So can I help pluck the cat from your stuck arm, and then pluck off any of the needles that were stuck in the cat?

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>>1427879
"Certainly."

Using your slender girl-hands you are careful not to (further) injure fluffers as you pull him off the cactus.

You acquire 'needles'. Consider yourself as having a limited supply but for the sake of simplicity I won't put an exact number on them.

We'll assume you plucked a good amount from the settlement.

What do you do now?

>Look for the mirror and hashasheen
>Go somewhere else
>Do something else. (Like rub Jenny, talk to
more cactuses, or etc.)
>Write in

>>1427884
>We'll assume you plucked a good amount from the settlement.
That's good.

Continue on our quest to get the Mirage Mirror. The needles should be enough to fight them off with.

>>1427884
>>1427887
Oh wait. Ask the cactus if we can cut off the normal cactuses for cactus juice, or if they have something against that.

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>>1427888
As you wander out of the Sage Cactus settlement you pass a vending machine on the way out.

"Why didn't I notice that before?"

It will take you very little time to get back to where you fought Nicki Miraj.

Some background information:

You've already fought hashasheen tumblers before without any weapons and you did fine, so your character knows they are a weaker creature - but as you may have guessed, the mirror could maybe give them an edge.

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>>1427890
"You would WHAT!??"

Might be best not to do it in front of them - though a clever idea.

>>1427895
Hey, just wanted to check if the normal cactuses were just from the same genus of plants or if normal cactuses can grow into Sage Cactuses or something.

>>1427893
>As you wander out of the Sage Cactus settlement you pass a vending machine on the way out.
Great. Buy some water from that sweet vending machine.

>>1427893
>the mirror could maybe give them an edge.
At least we have some extra weapons now to use against them.

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>>1427904
You hear kerplunk, clink, clunk, k-splunk! As a bottle tumbles through the vending machine.

You now have Bottled Sand!

You have $175 left in your olde timey purse.

>>1427909
Wut. Is this sand from a spring?

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>>1427911
Someone has been watching you from above a nearby mound.

Also this is your updated inventory:

+2 Jenny of the lamp tokens
175 gold
+1 on next 2d6 roll
+1 Cactus Token
Quiver of Cactus Needles
Jenny of the Lamp's Lamp
Bottled Sand
Puffers the cat

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Available spells:
Magacks Missiles.

>>1427911
Maybe Healthy Springs is just the name of the company... or maybe something else.

>>1427915
Ominous.

>>1427927
So that's just marketing? What a shame.
Open the Bottled Sand to see what happens.

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>>1427930
The sand is remarkably white. Much whiter than the sand surrounding you in the desert. Otherwise nothing seems to be out of the ordinary.

Peculiar

>>1427947
>Much whiter than the sand surrounding you in the desert.
They literally imported sand here? Impressive.
Close the bottled sand, maybe we'll find a use for that white sand.

>>1427915
Did we as the character notice this, or was this for the audience only?

>>1427958

You 'felt' it, and when you looked up that's what you saw.

>>1427962
Huh, how quaint.
>>1427915
Go up to the nearby mound. Is that a giraffe?

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>>1427971
As you crest the hill you see a blue..something. It's... a nose? And ears.. and. Oh my gosh it's a sock puppy!

>>1427976
That's great. Who's behind the sock puppy?

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>>1427979
His name is Gary.

Sockpuppy has now learned 'Shield me Gary!'

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It seems sock puppy had been watching you from above with interest.

Uh-oh..

>>1427990
Let it happen, I want to see what happens. Is it sufficiently doglike for Puffers?

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>>1428004
"Grrrrr ooowoww!!!"

Sockpuppy picks up Puffers with his mouth and starts to shake him like a rag doll.

>>1428008
Hm... I guess it is. Remove Puffers from Sockpuppy.
>>1427985
>>1428008
What's with the ventriloquism?

>>1428016
Sockpuppy seems to be playing tug of war with you.

(Cont)

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(Forgot drawing)

(Cont)

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(Cont one more drawing coming!)

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You've made Sockpuppy extremely happy.

You have gained Sockpuppy as your companion.

(Gary only gives you blank silence when you ask about ventriloquism.)

>>1428035
Do we get Gary as well, or just Sockpuppy?
Anyway, let's head back to where we fought Nicki Minaj, keeping an eye out for anything unusual on the way.

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>>1428042

(You get Gary but sort of as a side character, he doesn't really show up except to use him as a shield or for other sock puppy moves.)

You continue on your quest to get the Mirage Mirror, as originally intended.

You walk through the desert and the wind picks up. You start making it back to where you came from before reaching the settlement. A little further and you are back to the area where you had fought Nicky Miraj.

Looking off into the distance, you spot the tarball.

"He seems to be alone," you mutter to yourself.

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>>1428042
(There is nothing more that is unusual along the way that you can see.)

>>1428066
Sneak to get the magic carpet we lost, then use it to smack the Mirage Mirror out of the monster's grasp.

>>1428074
The flying camel that you had burned out. (That's what the ashes are on the side of that drawing.)

If you weren't here for that - the 'camel' was a flying cigarette. The little tar hashasheen burned it down to almost nothing with the mirror, and it shortly burned out afterward. So now you're on foot.

You have magic missle as a standard attack, you have melee, sock puppy now, and cactus throwing needles. And of course, your imagination - you can always write something in.

>>1428078
Take cover behind one of the cactuses, throw some throwing needles at the hashasheen to distract it. While it's distracted, throw a magic missile to fire the sword out of its grasp while the sock puppy goes after the mirage mirror.

>>1428083
Roll 2d6 +1

>>1428083
>>1428078
In this case, we're distracting the hashasheen to go after the sword so the sock puppy can sneak up on the hashasheen and go after the mirror.

Rolled 3, 5 + 1 = 9 (2d6 + 1)

>>1428083
>>1428086
>>1428085

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>>1428089
Okay!

Phase one... you sneak behind a cactus and throw needs, right at the hashasheen tumbler.

(Cont)

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Those needles really seem to hurt!

(Cont)

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Now, you've got its attention.
(con

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Magic missle, FIRED!

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The magic missile soars towards its target!

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KA-BOOM!!

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You have obtained Mirage Mirror.

Things did not go perfectly and Sockpuppy lost some HP during the blast.

You are now in play again.

>>1428173
Finish off the Hashasheen Tumbler with the Mirage Mirror.

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>>1428176
You continue to blast the Hashasheen Tumbler until he is clear and out of sight!

Acheivement unlocked: Tar Free

>>1428184
Sweet, achievements.
Thanks for the session, I'll be off now.

>>1428190
All right, thanks for playing Anon!

Appreciate it and see ya!

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I'll end the session here then and come back later.

Updated Inventory:

+2 Jenny of the lamp tokens
175 gold
+1 Cactus Token
Quiver of Cactus Needles
Jenny of the Lamp's Lamp
Bottled Sand
Puffers the cat
Mirage Mirror

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Available spells and Moves:

Magacks Missiles.
Shield Me Gary! (SockPuppy)

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Companions:

Sockpuppy

>>1428199
While we're in the area, lets have a looksie at the scene of the destroyed pyramid. What were they up to?

>>1429739

Curiosity strikes Judah as she casts her gaze to where the pyramids once were.

"Mm, while we're here let's have a looksie at that place one more time. What were they up to?"

Taking a detour, after a long walk you find the location where you flew away and escaped the pyramid's destruction.

"Well, they certain seem to be up to something."

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>>1429739

>>1430141
*Certainly

>>1430144
Take a closer look, but be prepared to run for it if things go south.

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>>1430425
It looks like the little robots are collecting screws and throwing them into a gigantic pile in a sort of quarry that they dug into the ground.

>>1430455
Attempt communication with a robot and ask them why they're doing what they're doing.

>>1430484
As you approach, some robots keep working as though you aren't there, while others scatter, crouching on fingertips and feet, dancing around you and puffers, and keeping a wide circle away from Sockpuppy.

Until one of the scattered robots runs back towards you, seems to pause to look at you, then jumps on your head. After which two or three more robots jump on your body.

The one on top your head is picking through your hair like a monkey looking for lice.

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>>1430484

Okay, no one is around to play right now so I'll have to leave it hanging here.

I'll be back either tomorrow evening or Sunday.

Robots are fine and all, but we still have to get that profiteer! If we are forced to take a few robots with us the so be it.

>>1433773
I'm going to try and start the game at 8:30EST (little less than an hour form now.)

Game continued here:

>>1434423