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The Plague
It's a multiple stages disease where a patient can relapse and progress to the next stage even if he was treated. There is an appropriate level of treatment for each stage and different type of contamination that you learned. You are researching a cure with the help of an Alchemist and investigating occult magic to fight the infection too. The first solution require smuggling merchandise out of the Harbor, the second freeing someone from the Inquisition.
https://pastebin.com/Zu47npJ6

Organ Harvester
Someone has assaulted Demihumans, cut their ears, tail, removed non-vital organs, which resulted in some deaths. The rumours spread that elixir were made out of these harvest since Demihumans are immunized. This is very damaging to Mr. Goodhealth an Apothecary affiliated with the mermaid whose shop has been attacked. You traced back the source to a certain Noble.

Rescuing Susanna
After saving the two children of Dottore Paul, the head director of the Academy who warned about the Plague but was murdered by the Inquisition, she was captured herself. Thankfully you send the children to a safe place but you have to find a way to break the Divine Magic spell restraining her in the Church.

Cultist Attack
Someone claiming to be from the Cult of Charon suicide bombed himself at ration distribution. The Witch told you she had nothing to do with it and wish to apprehend the culprits to save her young apprentices from the backlash.

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Today : 1PM, 4th Day before the Calendes, Month of Charon
Reception at the Embassy : 2nd Day before the Calendes, Month of Charon

Locations
https://pastebin.com/tLLeFY9E
>Alchemist
https://pastebin.com/96RvSMWr
>Apothecary
https://pastebin.com/EadX3csU
>Blacksmith
https://pastebin.com/8JEGkTxd
>Weaponsmith
https://pastebin.com/cbLg0hQC
>Tailor
https://pastebin.com/8JWwCQwK

Inventory&Stats
https://pastebin.com/vppFmxtd

Knowledge (6/14 books)
>alchemy recipes
https://pastebin.com/uRyT0CVH
>ingredients
https://hostpic.xyz/images/2020/05/05/ingredients.jpg>Book of Genesis
https://pastebin.com/EQVtHZJj
>Current of the Aether
https://pastebin.com/jC4DbpaM
>Hohenheim's book
https://pastebin.com/DwkyAigp
>The mechanical boy
https://pastebin.com/3zyX33kC
>Book of Odyssey
https://pastebin.com/Ar0uZ6ev
>Hammer of the Witches
https://pastebin.com/wgWFSXFj
*books unlock special interactions, provide recipes and way to build magical devices

Characters
https://hostpic.xyz/images/2020/05/09/sheet-minor.jpg
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>>4264770

>fire at the other who snatched the crossbow (Mental) (-5 because of the distance +10 thanks to accuracy artefact -10 being charged at) (1 shot before reloading)


>shout "Sunshine, stop the gondolas"

Current stats:
Physical 50
Mental 45
Social 55

>>4264792
roll a 1d100, must be under 45 (45 -5 because of the distance +10 thanks to accuracy artefact -10 being charged at +5 thanks to outfit)

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>4264884

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>rolled 32, success
bullet vs bolt

Despite the speed boat closing on you with their halberd rised, you chose to entrust your fate to the mermaid and fire at the punk trying to shot you down with a crossbow. Your second pistol discharge with another cloud of smoke and the bullet hits right into the punk's shoulder. He falls with the crossbow still unloaded.

The familiar humming of the mermaid fills the air and causes the steam gondolas' drivers to go mad, even more than before. They hurl at each other, drooling with distorted faces and change their course to joust at each other. They collide under the bridge with an explosion of steam.

There are no visibility but you hear now more than one voice near the house, also the copyist tied to a tree is begging for his life.

>pass through the cloud of smoke
>recharge your pistols (Mental) (-5 because reloading two pistols)
>write-in (write-in are always available but I may or may not choose them)

-1 paper cartridges

Inventory:
https://pastebin.com/vppFmxtd

>>4264954
>pass through the cloud of smoke

dark souls vibes

>>4264954
>recharge your pistols (Mental) (-5 because reloading two pistols)

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>4265103
>>4265125
tie breaker unless another player shows within 10 minutes

>>4265103
>>4265125
roll a 1d100, must be under 45 (45 -5 because reloading two pistols +5 thanks to outfit)

Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>4265137

>>4265149
Whoops.

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>>4265149
>rolled 93, total failure
your finger are now pickles

Under the stress of the assault and because you tried to reload two pistols at the same time in a stylized way, you teared off the paper too early and spread the gunpowder all over. The round lead bullet rolls on the pavement an passes through the fog which is now revealing the scene beyond the bridge.

"Kill that bastardo!"

Two women are trying to aim with the crossbow after successfully reloading it and the last standing punk has taken the copyist hostage with a knife under his throat, licking the cheek of the noble in anticipation of his kill.

>negotiate and end the fight here (Social) (-20 just to start negotiations)
>avoid the bolt (Physical) (+10 thanks to the speed potion -30 because it's still a bolt)
>flight like a coward (Physical) (+10 thanks to the speed potion)

You can also ask your mermaid ally for some help but you will reveal her presence

>ask for her help
>it's too risky

>>4265190
>negotiate and end the fight here (Social) (-20 just to start negotiations)

>>4265242
roll a 1d100, must be under 45 (55 +5 thanks to outfit +5 thanks to dagger -20 just to start negotiations)

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>4265248

Rolled 38 (1d100)

>>4265248

>>4265290
>>4265294
>rolled 38, success
parley

"Wait! Let's talk this out first."

As the fogs completely dissipates, the two women can now perfectly aim at you with the crossbow. Since you didn't appear too menacing they didn't blindly fire the bolt at you. Their friend is moaning in pain with a bleeding shoulder at their feet and the other punk still has the copyist in hostage. Sunshine, the mermaid is hiding just under them thanks to the dock. She lets out her soothing voice to attenuate their aggressivity.

All Social rolls with -50 to +50 modifiers, +5 bonus from the mermaid
>the explosion is going to attract the Militia, just leave, write-in [BLUFF]
>maybe you can deduce something from the situation, write-in [OBSERVE]
>you have two pistols and they don't know if they are loaded or not, write-in [INTIMIDATE]
>I just want a book from this house, I don't care about any loot, write-in [BARTER]
>ladies, you are better with me than your dying friend and this finocchio, put the crossbow down, write-in [CHARM]

>>4265312
>you have two pistols and they don't know if they are loaded or not, write-in [INTIMIDATE]
Your friend is bleeding off, and I got two loaded guns, now I don't care what business you had with that copyist but I need him. Back off now and everyone gets to see another day, or else.. Militia should be just around the corner too

>>4265343
I will count this as [INTIMIDATE]+[BLUDD]+[BARTER] and add up all modifiers (good or bad) unless you focus on one thing only, 10 minutes to change

>>4265343
roll a 1d100, must be under 50 (55 +5 bonus from the mermaid +5 thanks to outfit +5 thanks to dagger -50 [BLUFF] -20 [BARTER] +50 [INTIMIDATE])

resuming at 5PM EDT and taking best of 3, unless crit of course

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>4265368

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>4265368

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>4265312

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>>4265388
>>4265428
>>4265432
>rolled 7, success
way of the pacifist

"Your friend is bleeding off, and I got two loaded guns" you show your two weapons menacingly "now I don't care what business you had with that copyist but I need him. Back off now and everyone gets to see another day, or else..."

THe two women look at each other, loosening their grip on the crossbow, not ready to die like the leader of this pack. But as you mentioned the copyist, the one with a knife under his throat got quite agitated.

"Militia should be just around the corner too." you end

And with that they burst out laughing.

"Ah ah ah. As if!" the last standing thug shouts "Do you think we can operate in the Noble District without their blessing?"
"What do you mean their blessing?"
"This fool conspired against the Doge, we were set free from the Citadel with a list of conspirators. He doesn't know it, but he is already dead."

You didn't anticipate that. At least you stopped the fighting and the women are no longer aiming at you with the crossbow. A stream of blood is starting to appear near the blade on the copyist neck. For them, killing this man is a given if they don't want to go back to jail. Looting the villa was just an extra. You can just let them do their business and scavenge for the book or attempt to save him.

>convince the women to kill him and save the copyist (Social)
>throw a flick knife at the hostage-taker (Mental) (-10 to aim at him)
>steal a gondola for them to escape the Militia controlled area (Mental)
>let them kill him, you just came her for the book
>write-in (write-in are always available but I may or may not choose them)

>>4266062

>convince the women to kill him and save the copyist (Social)

I assume this should say convince them NOT to kill him

>>4266062
>>convince the women to kill him and save the copyist (Social)
Sure. May not even work, but we shouldn't lose the upper hand here.
If we throw a flick knife at the thug, it may agitate the women, and it may click that we did not just shoot him with our supposedly loaded guns.

>>4266135
There's no typo, for once. You want them to kill the hostage-taker and save the copyst

>>4266135
>>4266137
roll a 1d100, must ne under 65 (55 +5 thanks to outfit +5 thanks to dagger)

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>4266147

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>4266147

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>>4266148
>>4266163
>rolled 57, success
manipulator

Since you perfectly conveyed your feeling and understood the situation with your smooth talking, you decided to get new allies and convince the women to kill the last standing thug.

"Kill him you" you just shout

It's enough for one of them to slightly rise the crossbow at the thug, getting him scared and throwing the hostage on them. The tip of the bolt tears open a bit of skin on his belly.

"You dirty baldracca" he insults her "I will cut your face and fed it to the fishes."

He is now tossing his knife and taking back his heavy mace for a last charge at you. He knows his situation is desperate, whether he dies by your hands, the Militia's or the women. However, you pistols are empty.

>throw the flick knives (Mental)
>reload one pistol (Mental) (-10 being charged at)
>dodge the mace (Physical) (+10 thanks to speed potion)

>>4266186
>>dodge the mace (Physical) (+10 thanks to speed potion)

>>4266190
roll a 1d100, must be under 55 (50 +5 thanks to outfit)

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>4266204
Holy fucking shit that -20 hits hard.
Wouldn't it be under 65 however? Outfit and the speed potion.

>>4266204
correction
>under 55 (50 +5 thanks to outfit)
*under 65 (50 +5 thanks to outfit +10 thanks to speed potion)

Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>4266186

>>4266210
>>4266234
>rolled 56, success

Waiting for the right opportunity, you let him approach you to dodge at the last moment. The pace of his steps, the momentum of his mace, you can see everything, it's clear as day that he is going to swirl the mace horizontally with a step forward. A leap backward once he started the movement and getting to his dead angle once the mace is finishing its course. He is at your mercy.

>kill him with your dagger
>kick him in the canal

>>4266245
>>kill him with your dagger
canal=no loot

>>4266246
Your dagger reaches deep between his ribs, coating your gloves in blood. The stinging pain makes him lose the mace and falls only one second later, motionless. This time, you stopped a murderer and a criminal released to do the dirty work of the Militia. It was a fair fight and you won.

"Please don't kill us" the women beg "We just want to go back to the Redlight District."

They rise their hands, letting the crossbow on the ground. The copyist is bleeding but the wound is superficial. He is still in shock. The other thug, however, is going to die soon from his shoulder injury.

"T-Thank you stranger. Y-Yo-You are not going to let these women get away, right? T-They burned my precious collection!"

The mermaid sits over the dock, rising a metal pole from the clean azure water of the Noble District canal. It's the halberd from the speed boat.

"You used women as a distraction" she complains "I hope you don't intend to kill them now."

-5 when using Sunshine's skill as support, can no longer provide debuff

Loot (pick one)
>crossbow
>mace
>halberd
>none

Loot the corpses
>yes
>no

Fate of the thugs
>women
>bleeding thug

Use ranged weapon
+1 Sol's alignment
-1 Charon's alignment

Loyal combat
+10 Sol's alignment
-10 Charon's alignment

Assault a place
+5 Sol's alignment
-5 Charon's alignment

[BARTER]
+5 Sol's alignment
-5 Charon's alignment

[INTIMIDATE]
+5 Sol's alignment
-5 Charon's alignment

[BLUFF]
+5 Charon's alignment
-5 Sol's alignment

>>4266283
>halberd

>yes

>I don't care about them

>>4266283
>mace
>yes
>Leave them. Tell copyist killing them won't bring back his collection.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>4266343
>halberd
>>4266359
>mace

>>4266359
we have a sledgehammer don't we? let's get something different that can pierce armor

>>4266382
The sledgehammer is all but useless since it gives us -30 to rolls. Halberd will probably do the same since it's big and impossible to conceal.

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>>4266343
>>4266359
+1 spiked mace
loaded, -10 modifier on certain actions

The bleeding thug's body spasm while blood is pouring out of the wound. He tries to rise his arm to grab your ankle, maybe to ask for mercy or a desperate attempt against you. You shake off his grip, producing much pain in his shoulder and completely tearing off the limb. His cries are weak like an old man's, he dies under your boot.

This doesn't affect you, the man was ready to end your life a moment ago. As well for the girls, despite their crying, you let them proceed with an uneasy step into the Noble District after looting the corpses.

What do you want to take?
>1 bag (you can carry more potions and items without being loaded/overloaded)
>1 hunting knife (+5 damage)
>2 gold coins
>2 dry sausage (2 meals) (proteins)
>1 taleggio cheese (2 meals) (proteins)

"I'm sorry for your collection, signore" you say to the copyist "But killing them won't bring it back.
"Look at you playing heroes now!" he points at the dead thug in his pool of blood you just looted
"I came here for one precise reason. Do you have the copy of 'Hammer of the Witches'?"
"Oh really? Is La Landa finally going to pay? I keep my sensible work in a safe. He paid a small fortune just to have a copy of a few pages."

You retrieved the book, which could provide you with a lead on how to break the Tartarus chains. After flipping though the pages, you realize there are three main chapters. It would take half an hour to read each. In order to free Susanna, you will have ti read several books until you find a relevant one. A good thing this one is now accessible outside your small window of opportunity at the Sacristy during the mass.

+1 [BOOK] Hammer of the Witches
https://pastebin.com/wgWFSXFj

What do then?
>steal a gondola (Mental)
>enter Don Giovanni's mansion for the Mystical Stone Parachute or more
>investigate the Organ Harvester at La Landa's villa

>>4266460
>1 bag (you can carry more potions and items with out being loaded/overloaded)
>2 gold coins
>2 dry sausage (2 meals) (proteins)
>1 hunting knife (+5 damage)

>steal a gondola (Mental)

>>4266496
roll a 1d100, must be under 50 (45 +5 thanks to outfit)

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>4266517

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>4266517

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>>4266524
>>4266532
>rolled 37, success
winners don't lose

Once again, you find yourself in the tourist agency. Here, you take the last gondola of their commerce, finding the dangling corpse of the business owner who hanged himself. You promised to bring him back the one you 'borrowed' from him, didn't keep your promise and stole two more gondolas from him. Hiding your shame and discomfort to Sunshine, you unload everything you looted near the copyist house.

The boat fits nicely in one of the outfall leading to the tunnels of Don Giovanni's territory. You can leave it here with your stuff just like in the Arsenal. You have been desperate to find the same convenient hideout in your own district to store the gondolas you stole but your don't want to be associated with Lady Barielle. And maybe because of that peckish attitude, you drove someone to suicide.

What do next?
>enter Don Giovanni's mansion for the Mystical Stone Parachute or more
>investigate the Organ Harvester at La Landa's villa

Should you leave the halberd in the hidehout with the gondola?
>yes
>no

>>4266564
>investigate the Organ Harvester at La Landa's villa
Wait, did we also pick up the halberd? If we did, then yes, but if you mean the mace then take it with us. Might be useful if we wander into a certain heavily armed zealous warrior.

>>4266564
correction
>halberd
*mace

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>>4266591
It's here. The peaceful family you disturbed during their diner by breaking the arm of the father with a soul-linked doll. You are not sure if you should feel remorse about that, at that time you though he was related to the Organ Harvester and after leaving without really investigating, convinced yourself that a cheating father deserved at least that.

However, now you know for certain that his papernote and address book were used to contact Demihumans courtesan from the Redlight District. Accomplice or a tool, guilty or victim, you should consider each while entering his house. The children, a boy and a girl are playing in the backyard in the pale light of winter.

Hauling the spiked mace on your shoulder, you consider your options and the support Sunshine may or may note provide
>enter the villa discreetly (more options)
>knock on the villa's door and directly talk to them (more options)

>>4266639
Brain the kids

>knock on the villa's door and directly talk to them (more options)
Guess we try to convince them we're from the militia or something. Or maybe not considering the doge seems to be going full Sulla on his enemies.

>>4266639
>>enter the villa discreetly (more options)
Leave the mace behind. Cumbersome. Opposite of discrete. We've done this once. We can do it again.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>4266692
>>4266707

>>4266692
>>4266707
You leave the mace in a hiding spot, it's not the tunnel hidebout but it should be fine for the next few minutes. Preparing the soul-linked doll, you are going to do a repeat of last time except that... you don't feel anything. The dark embrace of Charon has left you after such heroic deeds.

Current Divine Magic Status:
-7 Charon's alignment
-4 Sol's alignment

It doesn't matter, this is just narrowing your options.

How to get in?
>use your grappling hook to access the second floor balcony through a window (Physical)
>access the first floor through a front window away from the backyard (Mental)
>try to open the main door and progress stealthily in the house (Mental) (-10 lockpicking)
>ask the mermaid to distract the children while accessing a window from the backyard
>write-in (write-in are always available but I may or may not choose them)

How to support the person who introduce himself?
>fire a round of your pistol while a window is being broken to cover the noise
>knock at the door and leave immediately to make sure someone is in the living room
>toss your mass on the first/second floor through a window
>write-in (write-in are always available but I may or may not choose them)

>>4266740
>write-in (write-in are always available but I may or may not choose them)
Knock

>>4266755
since this is going against the previous vote, I'm forced to ignore this unless it's a diversion

>>4266740
>use your grappling hook to access the second floor balcony through a window (Physical)

>knock at the door and leave immediately to make sure someone is in the living room

>>4266740
>>4266765
ah crap you rite, I was wondering why we were bothering to sneak in

>use your grappling hook to access the second floor balcony through a window (Physical)

>knock at the door and leave immediately to make sure someone is in the living room

>>4266788
>>4266789
roll a 1d100 for batman impersonation, must be under 55 (50 +5 thanks to outfit)

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>4266801

Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>4266801

>>4266817
>>4266842
>rolled 29, success
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuyAdaMCmYk

Knocking deviously on the doorstep as if you were a little boy, you throw simultaneously the grappling hook on the balcony. It gets stuck on the first try and you start climbing. You kick in the door are covered by the sound of someone coming down the stairs from the second floor.

Tossing your large body over the railway you catch your breath, then remember that the rope is still dangling and pull it just in time before the door opens. It's La Landa's wife who answered your knocking. In front of you, the window gives access to the stairs and she will probably come back. You have three escape choices.

>a room on the left
>a room on the right
>jumping from the balcony when she closes the door (back to square one)

>>4266867
>a room on the left

>>4266867
[î]resuming at 8PM EDT[/i]

>>4266867


>a room on the left

>>4266867
>a room on the left

>>4266935
>>4267031
>>4267385
Without a second of hesitation you enter the room on the left and find yourself in front of La Landa. The arm encased in plaster, bedridden and in pain. He noticed you but can only groans pathetically in pain. Also, his wife is already climbing the stairs.

>"The cat maid cafe send its regards"
>"I know you are the Organ Harvester"
>"Don't make a sound or I kill your whole family"
>write-in (write-in are always available but I may or may not choose them)

>>4268509
>"I know you are the Organ Harvester"

>>4268509
>>"The cat maid cafe send its regards"
No way he's the Organ Harvester. Definitely associated with. But not him. Say this. Gauge his reaction.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4268515
>>4268522

>>4268515
>>4268522
"I know you are the Organ Harvester" you throw

Terrified, his hand extended on the nightstand to try grabbing something in a drawer. You get it before him, it's a pistol. The man was prepared to defend himself, but why if he is not the Organ Harvester? He is considering you as a threat and now tries to justify himself.

"It's not me! Not me." he mumbles with the pain

>"Tell your wife to get back downstairs."
>"I know, I'm trying to find him too."
>"Don't lie, I know you are related to him."

>>4268581
>"Then who?"

>>4268588
"Then who?" you try, still holding the pistol
"Not me, not me, not me!"

He keeps repeating, as if begging for his life until his wife enters the room and let out a scream. The courageous housewife tries to snatch the pistol from you but she is quickly overpowered. La Landa extends his shaking hand to her.

"The... Children..." he tells her

On these words she rushes back down the stairs, probably getting their children in safety, far from the home invader that you are.

>go after her to reassure her of your intention
>continue with La Landa

>>4268636
>continue with La Landa

>>4268636
>continue with La Landa
inb4 it's the wife

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>>4268653
>>4268678
"Then who?" you continue

A tears forms on the corner of his closed eyes. After breaking his arm, probably causing an infection because of the unnatural nature of the wound making it impossible to detect; stealing his gondola, forbidding him to go to the Hospital; getting his money, prevented him to resort to a doctor and finally invading his house, you get to the point.

"Someone stole my address book. I'm just a man with a kink for Demihumans."
"Who stole it?"
"As if I knew. Even my wife does not know. Everybody thinks I am disgusted by theù Demihumans."

Now you remember him, it's the noble who encountered on your way to Don Giovanni's party.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4136452/#p4167379
How hypocritical. He and his wife advocate for Demihumans rights, wears disguise to appropriate their culture but call people getting to close to them as "furries" while the man is actually a degenerate himself.

"One day someone broke into my safe. It was not a professional, he spends the whole night silently drilling several holes until the mechanism broke. And he didn't steal any gold from my safe, just the adress book."
Wow, you have to be pretty strong for that."
"Only our housemaid knew about my kink. I will tell you her address, please leave, I'm already ruined there is nothing to steal from me."

He indicates you an apartment in the Workers District not far from your home.
>believe him
>doubt

Should you leave now for Don Giovanni's house?
>leave
>one more thing before leaving (maybe you feel sorry or something...)

>>4268712
>believe him
>throw him the coins that we looted and leave

>>4268712
>>believe him
>>leave
no gold was stolen. just the book. we need that gold more than he does.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>4268720
>>4268733
tie breaker unless another vote before I write the update

you did steal gold from him
>>4248170

>>4268712
>believe him
>leave

keep the gold, he's a noble he got more

>>4268757
he is a ship owner, he is ruined

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>>4268720
>>4268733
>>4268757
You leave, passing through a deserted living room, the wife did not even closed the door or took her coat. She just rushed to her children. It's not your problem anymore, whether La Landa dies from the infection or his wife gets assaulter in the street. Sunshine welcomes you back, she knows how important it is to catch the Organ Harvester for her mistress and won't judge your methods.

As soon as you knock at Don Giovanni's mansion, the powerful arm of Sebastien grabs you by the collar and lift you above the ground. He looks very angry. You broke into the neighbour house again, despite his warnings.

"I don't think you have your place in this neighbourhood, signore Barbatti."

>call Sunshine for help
>call Don Giovanni for help
>call Raphaella for help
>tell him what you were doing
>fight him (more options)

>>4268767
>tell him what you were doing

>>4268783
"I was investigating the Organ Harvester, La Landa is related to him."
"Hmmm..." he releases you "is that so?... Signore La Landa does not strike me as a murderer though."
"The victims are related to him, he was a secret furry with an address book."
"Even so, it was not a reason to break into his house and make his wife and children flee. I should go after them since you did not."

Where should you go now?
>Don Giovanni
>Raphaella and Bernardo
>just take a Mystical Stone Parachute and leave for your next destination

>>4268812
>Raphaella and Bernardo
Maybe Raphaella can help us out for the abbey?

>>4268849
Support.

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>>4268849
>>4268853
>>4268849
>>4268853
You didn't find them in their room and looked for them in the huge deserted mansion alone. At first worried because Don Giovanni mentioned Militia searching house, you breathe in relief seeing the two lovers baking cake in the kitchen. Bernardo waves at you with his flour coated hand and Raphaella, the racoon girl in maid outfit blushes, shamed to be seen like that. A strange behaviour for someone who can murder another cold-blooded. When she turns back you notice a white mark on her dress in the shape of a hand.

Despite the girl being a Demihuman and thus unable to enter the Abbey, she might be of some help in the district of said Abbey. You wanted someone to carry the artefact around to distract the knight of the Inquisition. >>4243589 >>4243750

Do you want Raphaella to come with you now that Bernardo is fully healed?
>yes, one more mouth to feed is nothing
>no, if she can't access the Abbey it's useless

Ask something to Bernardo if you want (pick up to two)
>about feeding half a healing potion to a pregnant woman who lost a limb and your plan to cut and regrew it or in general about healing potion
>about the Organ Harvester, write-in
>about the monkeys or the Demihumans for his plan, write-in
>what he thinks about the Gallileof's plan

Where should you go now?
>just take a Mystical Stone Parachute and leave for your next destination

>>4268893
>yes, one more mouth to feed is nothing

>about feeding half a healing potion to a pregnant woman who lost a limb and your plan to cut and regrew it or in general about healing potion
>what he thinks about the Gallileof's plan

I want to ask Raphaella about the pig mask if possible
>just take a Mystical Stone Parachute and leave for your next destination

>>4268931
"What did you..." he slaps his face "Sorry, but didn't someone told you that it was better to amputate her arm?"
"M-Maybe..." you excuse yourself
"If you want to regrow a limb or restore bone damage, you need at least a large healing potion. Half will partially regrow the limb into a premature state. All the nutrients she had were drained to finalize the process so of course she had a miscarriage."
"I didn't know..."
"It's all right. Since healing potion started to appear and replaced healing miracle, people speculated wildly on their properties but even a bathtub of healing potion cannot restore muscle memories."
"What does that mean?"
"If someone stays more than a week without a limb he won't be able to use the newly regrew one. That's why we still have blind persons among the nobles."

This new information terrifies you regarding the fate of Arthur. He spends almost a week with two fingers on one hand. Also, Valentina can get her arm back but will never regain her adult dexterity. You did this. The remorse weight down on you so you pass to your next question.

"What do you think about the Gallileof's plan?"
"Anything to stop the disease is welcome but it will probably consume your time and resources. I don't know if their plans will succeed, Igor and Grichka are two of bodies but one of mind. With Igor gone, it's..."
"I should rescue Grichka while I still can."
"He is an astronomer and researched the Cult of Charon, I think he looked everywhere for that book you hold in your hand. Maybe it will give you an insight on what they wanted to do."

+1 Mystical Stone Parachute

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>>4268970
At 4PM, after asking your questions and waiting for Raphaella to change, you get to the Blacksmith to retrieve the heretical machine of the Gallileof. Using the gondola to carry all your loot and conceal the spiked mace with Raphaella on board and Sunshine swimming at your side, you even used some part of the drowned tunnels to avoid the Militia.

Children are drooling in front of the Blacksmith shop at the beautiful armors. You don't blame them, a helmet would make a fine addition to your outfit to replace the one you lost. Fast clanking noises are approaching the door and the Dwarf burst out of his shop, fully armored and the coral harpoon in his hand.

"GET OUT YOU LITTLE RATS!"

Everyone but you escape the wrath of the young Dwarf, he gestures you to come in. Reluctantly, you steps inside. There are even more weapons than the one you brought but still unavailable to purchase since he has no licence.

"Don't look. These are mine. MINE. You sold me the harpoon, now its mine."

You first thought it was a simple compulsive hoarding, but this collection of even the tiniest blades found in the garbage looks like the typical Dwarf King Syndrom. Usually, they just gather as much gold as they can, then defend it tooth and nails but this is out of proportion and directed at weapons.

During your journey there you can ask Sunshine or Raphaella something (pick one because gondola)
>[Sunshine] something specific about her powers (buff, debuff?)
>[Sunshine] Lady Barielle's powers (even stronger buff, something else?)
>[Sunshine] the Old One, Poseidon
>[Sunshine] excuse yourself about scaring an innocent woman
>[Raphaella] the Pig mask
>[Raphaella] how is it going with Bernardo?
>[Raphaella] accessing the Church still impossible for her?

>>4268973
>>[Sunshine] excuse yourself about scaring an innocent woman
Just happened. We need Sunshine to trust us if she is helping us assault the Abbey.
We should ask about the Pig's mask later. It's not exactly pressing currently, but still is useful information.

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>>4268973
Buy
>custom order
>buy something, see pic (all 1 gold coin)

Sell (Social)
>5 Flick Knives
>1 dagger +5 parry +5 Social
>spiked mace

Ask (pick 2)
>"why do you need so much weapons?"
>something about him, write-in
>the Gallileof machine
>the Dwarven revolution "coming"
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4195533/#p4222574

>>4268985
>"why do you need so much weapons?"

>the Dwarven revolution "coming"

>>4268973
>[Sunshine] excuse yourself about scaring an innocent woman
Sorry you had to see that, a few months ago I was as harmless as a gnome, now? I can't even look at myself anymore, I better stop the plague before I start to like it

>>4268985
>Buy gambeson

>"why do you need so much weapons?"
>something about him, write-in
>the Gallileof machine

>>4269070
No wait, not gambeson, buy the militia helmet

>>4268985
Buy the Crusader Helmet.
>the Gallileof Machine

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>4269072
>>4269096

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>>4268981
>>4269047
>>4269067
>>4269096
During your trip, you apologized to Sunshine and explained about your investigation.
"Hmpf..." she turns her head "It's not like I care about Humans anyway."
"I wish it turned out different." you stop your oars "I just wanted to stop the Organ Harvester."
"Good for Lady Barielle, but don't treat women badly." she rises from the water and lean on the edge of the gondola
"Sorry you had to see that, a few months ago I was as harmless as a gnome, now? I can't even look at myself anymore, I better stop the plague before I start to like it."

Again you lost yourself in her eyes, beautiful golden irises like her hairs. She looks worried, feeling the pain in your heart. There is a long silent exchange between you two, who can best understand the sadness of a sailor than a mermaid?

"Ahem" Raphaella interrupts you, embarrassed

(Optionnal)About Sunshine
>What do you think about her?

relationship status restored with Sunshine

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>>4269156
You want to ask several things to the Dwarf, but the more pressing matters should come first before wearing out his patience. Nobody wants to anger a Dwarf.

"Why do you need so much weapons?" you ask
"It's happening, I tell ye." he proudly thrusts the coral harpoon "I received the manifesto."
"And what does it tell?"
"I... I don't know... But it must be instruction to prepare for the happening! We are going to slaughter the Ingonhide and reclaim vengeance for the lives lost at the Dwarven Fortress! And their systematic destruction of our religion! Torresack will lead us."
"How can you be so sure if you don't know what the manifesto says?"
"It's crypted. I need the Codex of the Militia in their main Dovecote, but it must be a call to arm!"
"You can still sell me armor, right?"
"Aye. Not the plates since I'm wearing them, but everything else. Unless you bring me more special weapons. I need them!"

Unsure about what to do with this new requests, you switch to the reason you came here for and ask for more details about the Gallileof machine.

"I think you have something belonging to the Gallileof."
"Aye. A fine mechanical orrery but it's..."
"It's what?"
"The sun is not the center of the world, I don't want to Inquisition or zealots to find it here."
"Why would they want an inaccurate machine?"
"You know the source of power of Divine Magic come from the believers' faith. Since we abandoned Vulcan for money we became slave of the bankers. I hope the same will not happen to you if you spread that the sun is not the center of the universe."
"I will take it then and with an helmet too."

+1 crusader helmet
+ heretical mechanical orrery
-1 gold coin

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>>4269158
Before leaving you notice a new poster from the daily journal of Alphonse, the Ratfolk.


La Stampa Public 'dition Diciannov'simo : Fir'k''p'r

Th' Church of Sol will c'l'brat' th' coming of a n'w Fir'k''p'r tomorrow at noon.

This pr'stigious position, b'stow'd upon th' most skill'd v'stals, allow th'm to str'ngth'n th'ir link to th' Holy Fir' of Sol. Th' candidat' is said to hav' achi'v'd th' thr'shold of thr'' miracl's p'r day und'r th' t'aching of th' Grand Inquisitor.

'v'rybody in th' City is 'cstatic about this n'ws, but our journal, as you know it is not v'ry w'll v'rs'd in r'ligious matt'rs. W' will b' cov'ring th' 'v'nt tomorrow and r'port you about th' ritual.

M'anwhil', th' authoriti's hav' d'cid'd to clos' th' C'm'tary wh'r' cultists gath'ring w'r' rumour'd to tak' plac'. Th' s'arch for th'ir hid'out has only just start'd.


The only thing left to do is bringing the Mystical Stone Parachute on top of the Clocktower, then you can focus on saving Susanna. However, you can't do both today if you want to get to the Abbey before 5PM and use the small window of opportunity during the mass. Your gondola is very loaded though. Maybe you shouldn't have spend so much time at Don Giovanni's mansion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG6N3HEvsQw

It's 3PM, what do?
>to the Abbey and proceed with the rescue plan
>to the Clocktower to store the Mystical Stone Parachute and save Susanna tomorrow
>to your house and save Susanna tomorrow

resuming at 5PM EDT

New Knowledge added Books 7/14 : Dwarven Codex/Manifesto
https://pastebin.com/1ix6ZHY4

you can also get to La Landa housemaid's house to pursue the investigation on the Organ Harvester

>>4269159
>to the Abbey and proceed with the rescue plan
Is there not enough time to get back home for the potions? Or the other thief girl?

>>4269156
(Optionnal)About Sunshine
>What do you think about her?
For a demi human she seems nice, beautiful and charming, she respects Lady Barielle, is it because she is justanoble or is it something else? I wonder how it is too live on an underwater city

>>4269562
no a second to lose, you can read the Hammer of the Witches on the way while Raphaella rows for you though or send her to your house to get someone/something to bring after the mass

>>4269630
send her home with the bag and get 1 poppy elixir 1 speed potions, 2 ignored potions, 1 defense potion and the rest of the 8 paper cartridges and tell her to get Melie.

Can we also tell her to give Arthur one of the medium potions? It sucks that he still is missing his fingers

>>4269662
>Can we also tell her to give Arthur one of the medium potions?
Supporting your write-in on the gear, but we can't give Arthur a medium healing potion. Bernardo mentioned you need a large healing potion for lost limbs/appendages, even if fingers seem less of a big deal than a hand/arm, I don't think it's worth risking another situation like the arm. Maybe 1.5 medium healing potions would work? I don't have any idea how large the large healing potion is, compared to the others.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>4269662
>>4270106
give Arthur a small healing potion
yes/no

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You decide to send Raphaella home and bring you back 1 defense potion and the rest of the 8 paper cartridges and tell her to get Melie. Without the racoon-girl to row for you, it's impossible to read the book during the trip to the Abbey and you will have to read one more book at the Sacristy to find a mention of the Tartarus Chains or abduct a servant.

>send Raphaella home and row to the Abbey
>don't send her home and have her row to the Abbey while you can read

If you choose to keep her so you can read Hammer of the Witches, what do you do during the journey to the Abbey (pick up to 4)
>read Dark Miracle
>read Trial by Fire
>read Cursed Stones
>plan something (change clothes, drink potion, ask Sunshine/Raphaella a personnal question)

One you arrive at the Abbey, you wanted someone to run around with an artefact or something heretical to attract the knight attention (pick as many as you want)
>accuracy artefact
>bargain artefact
>2 Soul-linked Dolls

What do you bring with you to the Abbey? (everything not taken from the list will be left on the boat)
-1 hunting knife (+5 damage)
-1 spiked mace
-2 flintlock pistol
-5 Paper cartridges
-4 Flick Knives
-Accuracy Artifact
-Bargaining Artifact
-Grappling hook
-1 Mystical Stone Parachute
-1 dagger +5 parry +5 Social
-50 Mystical Stones as fuel
-1 crusader helmet
-heretical mechanical orrery

>>4270260
>keep Raph

>read all, ask her how she and Bernando are doing these days

>bargain artifact and dolls

>>4270106
I mean an entire large potion for three fingers?

>>4270260
>send Raphaella home and row to the Abbey
We need the rest of the potions to pull this off smooth

>>2 Soul-linked Dolls I feel like they are going to be more attractive for the knight since its actual magic

What do you bring with you to the Abbey? (everything not taken from the list will be left on the boat)
-1 hunting knife (+5 damage)
-1 spiked mace
-2 flintlock pistol
-5 Paper cartridges
-4 Flick Knives
-Accuracy Artifact
-Grappling hook
-1 dagger +5 parry +5 Social
-1 crusader helmet

>>4270363
>-1 spiked mace
>-Accuracy Artifact
Supporting this, but drop off the mace as well. It's cumbersome. Don't want to be overloaded with something useful that we do not want to drop in favor of abbey loot. The Accuracy Artifact will act like a homing beacon for the Champion if he decides the dolls were simply a diversion. A useful tool, but it will only burn us in the long run here.

>>4270378
>Supporting this, but drop off the mace as well
drop off the mace and Accuracy Artifact as well****

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4270363
>>4270378
drop/don't drop mace and Accuracy Artifact

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>>4270331
>>4270363
>>4270378
Raphaella rushes to your home to carry your orders. If nothing bad happens to her, she will be able to bring you your potions and the thief just after the mass ends. However, only Melie can enter the Abbey because Demihumans are still persecuted. Not wanting to attract to much attention at the checkpoints, you leave the spiked mace and the artefacts on the gondola with Sunshine.

"I'm sorry" she says "I can't come with you up there."
"Do not worry, I will bring you back Grichka." you answer
"It's not only him I'm worried about." she whispers

The line of believers stretches from the Abbey to the North Slums, a long silent procession in the last hours of daylight seeking guidance. And guidance they should receive, the mass is about to start as you hear the vestal starting to sing. You don't have time to abduct or talk to one of them since you came just in time.

Also, you wanted to use the artefacts or the dolls as decoy. Maybe you can pay a street urchin from the slums to run around with them or just throw them over some roof.
>throw this item on a roof, write-in (soul-linked dolls, artefacts)
>tell one kid to run around with this item bargaining with this, write-in (soul-linked dolls, artefacts) (gold coin, dry sausage, tuxedo, dices) (Social)
>tell one kid to run around with this item paying with the Fishmen's fin, write-in (soul-linked dolls, artefacts)

Do you want to sneak up to the Sacristy directly for Susanna or attempt to rescue the Gallileof first? (all Mental rolls sneak options)
>Sacristy (Susanna)
>Jails through the Dispensary, Kitchen then Refectory (Grichka Gallileof)
>Dispensary, try to abduct a Vestal

Do you wish to drink one of your potions now?
>1 investigation potion
>1 ignored potions

>>4270407
>throw this item on a roof, write-in (soul-linked dolls, artefacts)
bribing someone will mean they give the inquisitor a description of us when he catches them

>Sacristy (Susanna)
probably will need one of her heals for the Gallileof

>1 ignored potions

>>4270407
why did we even picked up the mace then

>give the stuff to Sunshine, let her swim around around the area for a bit

>Jails through the dispensary, kitchen athen refectory.
Let's free him first and dump in the gondola, we can knock him out with the poppy elixir if he resist

>Ignored potion

>>4270474
>dump in the gondola
Just to be clear, you have to climb down the stairs, passing through the two checkpoints, that's why planning the escape was so improtant and Don Giovanni suggested using the device. You planned to fight you way out. >>4243589 >>4243750

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4270469
>>4270474
I don't want to roll for this, can you argue your decision? I will wait 30 minutes for until using this tie breaker.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>throw
>Sunshine

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>>4270469
>>4270474
You drink the ignored potion after giving the artefact and dolls, but and do not feel really different. People are just less likely to stare you with your weird helmet and this huge bagpack carrying the Mystical Stone Parachute. Then, some of them bump into you. It happens more than once, so it can't be a coincidence. Each looks completely surprised when they realize they walked into you, as if they swore there was nobody there.

Finally, after ascending the steps toward the Church, avoiding the two checkpoints you are able to enter the Sacristy. The mass starts with the Vestals chanting and the staff of the Grand Inquisitor can already be heard. You are left alone, here... with Sister Susanna.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GodPP6LimY

Chained to a massive oak throne by a glowing rope, a woman is cloaked in the grey robe of the Firekeeper with bandages on her eyes and blood streaming from her ears. She extends gently her hand in your direction, as if probing through the darkness. She didn't react immediately when you opened the door.

Even when you touch her, she does not react despite a simple contact usually breaking the effect of the ignored potion. Her head has a slight delay when following your motion. She doesn't hear you, doesn't see you, doesn't feel you.

"Is anyone here?" she asks "Please... Please kill me."

How could this be? You could not be late. The Firekeeper ceremony was to be held tomorrow.

The mass start and you can enter the Sacristy without anyone paying attention to you. This is how it feels to be ignored. Can a healing potion cure this? >>4268970 Your blood is boiling after witnessing what the Church did to such a kind person. She put herself in danger to save Amicia and Hugo, you delayed her rescue until she turned out like this.

A flame suddenly appears in her palm and tears of blood streams from behind her bandage, she removes it to let you see carved eyes with a small blue flame continuously burning inside her eye socket.

"Please, if you are friendly blow out the flame. The Inquisitor will come back in an hour. The spell should be in this three books."

(Optionnal) How can you reassure Sister Susanna?
>blow out the flame
>something else, write-in

You have one hour to find a reference to the Tartarus Chains in the three books, half an hour by chapter, which one do you read first?
https://pastebin.com/EQVtHZJj
>Book of Genesis : Creation
(>Book of Genesis : The Deities) (already read)
>Book of Genesis : The Living
https://pastebin.com/Ar0uZ6ev
>Book of Odyssey : Clash of the Titans
>Book of Odyssey : Remus and Romulus
>Book of Odyssey : The Age of Conquest
https://pastebin.com/wgWFSXFj
>Hammer of the Witches : Dark Miracle
>Hammer of the Witches : Trial by Fire
>Hammer of the Witches : Cursed Stones

Alternatively, you can waste time for something else
>write-in (write-in are always available but I may or may not choose them)
>leave

>>4270596
>blow out the flame
>Hammer of the Witches : Trial by Fire
Seems relevant.

>>4270596
>>something else, write-in
Mention Amicia and Hugo some how. Let her know we aided them, and are now here for her.
We do not know the repercussions for blowing out the flame. If we must, ask about the results of blowing it out.
>Book of Odyssey : Clash of the Titans
Doesn't this detail something about titans and tartarus? This must be the book it's in, yeah?
Trial by Fire also looks on topic, but I'm voting for Clash of the Titans instead.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4270633
>>4270639
10 minutes before using tie breaker

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>>4270633
>>4270639
You kneel, gently enveloping her frail hand with your strong butcher's finger and putting and blow out the fire. She lets out the tiniest moan, feeling the exquisite coldness of your breath. Probably her first interaction in a week. She flashes a timid smile. Whatever you say, she can't hear you, there is nothing to communicate with her, she is lost in the night.

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>>4270671
Persephone was the daughter of Ceres and granddaughter of Sol. As Persephone grew, so did her beauty. When Charon, the god of the Underworld, saw her, he immediately fell in love with her and decided to abduct her. One sunny day the young Persephone was gathering flowers in a field, accompanied by her close friends, the Ocean Nymphs. The carefree Persephone moved away from her companions in search of the most beautiful flower. When she reached out to pluck a wondrous narcissus, Earth yawned open and Charon appeared in his black gondola and snatched her away to the Underworld while she was in tears. Ceres was looking in vain for his daughter day and night. The land and crops of the earth began to wither. After a while, Sol, looking at everything from the sky, felt disappointed about the harvest and found out where Persephone was. Ceres demanded that Persephone be returned, or else she would not let the earth blossom again. Sol sent the Messenger and neutral God, Mercury, to Charon with the command to release Persephone. Before returning her to Mercury, Charon forced Persephone to practice the Dark Arts. Charon knew that if someone made a contract with him, they became a Witch and their Soul belonged to the Underworld after their death. Persephone was shortly after reunited with her father. However, Ceres could sense the smell of Charon on her. So, infuriated with his granddaughter treason, he set her to the stake for seven days and seven nights, using the Tartarus chains he subdued the Titans with and his grandparents freed the Titans from. She burned and expiated her fault until the fire no longer hurt, prove of her innocence. Blind, deaf and unable to feel or smell, she could only find comfort in the gentle fire of Sol. Persephone became Bona Dea, the good goddess and the first Firekeeper, giving back healing miracles but unable to heal her own injuries.

There, you learned that the Tartarus Chains were used by Sol to defeat the Titans and that his grandparents freed the Titans from them. You either want to reverse chant this spell or find the spell to free someone from them.

+10 Sol's alignment
-10 Charon's alignment

You have half an hour to find a reference to the Tartarus Chains in the three books, half an hour by chapter, which one do you read first?
https://pastebin.com/EQVtHZJj
>Book of Genesis : Creation
(>Book of Genesis : The Deities) (already read)
>Book of Genesis : The Living
https://pastebin.com/Ar0uZ6ev
>Book of Odyssey : Clash of the Titans
>Book of Odyssey : Remus and Romulus
>Book of Odyssey : The Age of Conquest
https://pastebin.com/wgWFSXFj
>Hammer of the Witches : Dark Miracle
(>Hammer of the Witches : Trial by Fire) (already read)
>Hammer of the Witches : Cursed Stones

Alternatively
>drink an investigation potion to deduce the right answer from what you learned without rolling
>write-in (write-in are always available but I may or may not choose them)
>leave

>>4270677
>drink an investigation potion to deduce the right answer from what you learned without rolling
Hm. Maybe it was the clash of the the titans we needed. Though at least we know what's happening to Susanna now.

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>>4270689
-1 investigation potion

The liquid in the phial spins the gears in your head, so much information is resurfacing from your memory. You've learned that the Tartarus Chain can be used to enslave someone like the Lizardman of Franz so it's acting on someone will as well as physically subduing him/her. This spell is a Divine Magic used by Sol probably in Clash of the Titans and his grandparents, so they must be Saturn and Terra from the Book of Genesis in the only chapter mentioning gods you didn't already read, Creation. If you want to free someone from them, you can either reverse chant Sol's spell or directly chant Saturn's and Terra's chant.

The mass is halfway through as you hear the Grand Inquisitor starting his preach, only half an hour left. Which chapter do you want to read?
>Book of Genesis : Creation, freedom chant, can be sung directly
>Book of Odyssey : Clash of the Titans, subduing chant, must be reverse sung

Alternatively
>write-in (write-in are always available but I may or may not choose them)
>leave

>>4270727
>Book of Odyssey : Clash of the Titans, subduing chant, must be reverse sung

>>4270727
>>Book of Odyssey : Clash of the Titans, subduing chant, must be reverse sung

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>>4270735
>>4270757
Since the Old Gods were no more, Sol feared for evil the Titans might spread on Earth. And so he decided to slaughter the immortal by battling them until they were no more than dust. To accomplish these great feat, he first captured them in the Tartarus from where his grandfather and grandmother freed them. Sol bound the light into an unbreakable rope and vowed to keep all evil chained.


Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
Never a foot too far, even.


The chain spread across the land, over the seas, in the sky, extending in the four corners of the world. It reached every Titans he wished to capture and held bound them to the Tartarus, creating mountains in their trail. There he will battle them for twelve months without rest until the immortal creatures turn to dust.

He defeated Typhon, father of the Harpies by bringing a rain of fire. He split Chimera into its different animal parts to restore order. He fought Prometheus with his own fire in an epic duel. Cerberus was tamed and offered to his brother Charon. He wrestled with the Minotaur, continuously using healing magic on him. Medusa's head was used to turn Hydra into stones. He ate all of Behemonth and the Leviathan to regain strength. And finally, he mounted Pegasus to slay the Dragon.

The mass is coming to and end, you have to act quickly, there is also no guarantee of what will happens once they realize Susanna is gone. Maybe you won't be able to help Grichka Gallileof. You came prepared to fight your way out though and the Solar Knight is still not coming. Since you have the Mystical Stone Parachute with you, there is also the possibility to jump from the spear of the Cathedral but since you are so heavy, you will only be able to carry Susanna with it down to the gondola or close to the Abbey.

+10 Sol's alignment
-10 Charon's alignment

Go with the reverse chanting, but how... (All Social roll options, +24 thanks to Sol's alignement, cost -10)
>invert the words
>invert the sentences
>write-in

Alternatively
>write-in (write-in are always available but I may or may not choose them)
>leave

>>4270759
>>invert the sentences
faster option. if we get through it and it doesn't work, we can get to trying the inverted words more quickly than we could have otherwise.

>>4270677
>drink an investigation potion to deduce the right answer from what you learned without rolling

We probably only have 30 minutes at this point before the inquisitor returns so I don't like our odds with out it.

>>4270768
Support.

>>4270784
>drink an investigation potion to deduce the right answer

>>4270768
>>4270784
>>4270794
>>4270796
You choose to invert the order of the sentences and go with :

"Never a foot too far, even.
Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live."

roll a 1d100, must be under 91 (55 +5 thanks to outfit +26 thanks to Sol's alignment + 5 thanks to dagger)

Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>4270797

>>4270759
>invert the sentences

The sentences are palindromes so only the order matters. Very nice.

Never, a foot too far even
Evil is a, name of a foeman as I live

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>4270797

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>>4270799
>>4270809
>rolled 51, success
nearly wasted roll
favour granted
-10 Sol's alignment

You chant the two sentences in the opposite order and... nothing happens! It must be something else. The banging of the Grand Inquisitor's staff so getting closer now, reverberating tremors in the stones under your feet. Susanna feels this and gets scared, her breath shortens in anticipations of what is about to come. You can't possibly let her out like this, not after coming this far, but you didn't want to face the Solar Knight and the Great Inquisitor is even more powerful!

Then, maybe it's thanks to the investigation potion or a sudden bolt of inspiration, but you realize it's a palindrome. The letters can be inverted without changing anything. So, maybe if you just chant it normally it will work...

"Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
Never a foot too far, even."

The rope glows even brighter, the flash is so intense that even the blind Susanna can somehow feel it and try to cover her face. The chains broke. Tension momentarily leave your body as the realization of what you achieved came to you. A simple butcher and former sailor, you, outsmarted the Church of Sol. Is this how the heroes in the legend felt after defeating monsters?

There is no time to lose, though and Susanna is not protected by an ignored potion!
>grab Susanna and get on the roof through the stairs of the Sacristy
>escape through the main door and merge with the believers hiding her grey robe with one of your tuxedo
>leave without her

>>4270824
>grab Susanna and get on the roof through the stairs of the Sacristy

>>4270824
>escape through the main door and merge with the believers hiding her grey robe with one of your tuxedo
Hm. I wonder if we can perhaps smuggle her out and go back for the Galileof.

>leave without her Sure, just go through the effort to free her but don't actually rescue her

>>4270824
>>grab Susanna and get on the roof through the stairs of the Sacristy

>>4270824
>>grab Susanna and get on the roof through the stairs of the Sacristy

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>>4270828
>>4270834
>>4270839
>>4270850
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY

As the organ roar for the end of the mass, you quickly pull the injured vestal up to steal her away from the Inquisition. She trips a little and falls on you with a faint moan. Her frail body feels so light, you didn't even flinch. Did they even feed her? These barbarians, if they know how to heal someone then of course, injury and famine does not mean anything to them. You tighten your grip around her fingers and she allows herself to gently caress your torso.

"Thank you, kind stranger. I am now in your care."

She can't hear, see or feel anything, only heat detection guides her in the darkness and you are her light. You both climb in the spiral staircase, hearing the door exploding behind you with flame licking your boots. If you were quicker you could have grabbed some books but all things considered, you saved Susanna one day before the seven days mentioned in the Trial by Fire.

On the roof, the tiles breaks under your steps. Down there, you can spot Raphaella near the gondola and Melie rushing up the stairs to the Church. She probably thinks she can still reach you in time.

use the Mystical Stone Parachute to land on
>the gondola (Mental) (-10 to aim, -5 due to the wind)
>just outside the Abbey but still in consecrated land (Mental) (-5 due to the wind)
>just equip Susanna with the device and push her toward the other side of the canal on the Factory District (no roll)
>write-in (write-in are always available but I may or may not choose them)

It's 6PM
Weather Conditions
Cold
Slightly Windy
Slightly Clouded Sky

>>4270881
>just outside the Abbey but still in consecrated land (Mental) (-5 due to the wind)
sorry gallileof, I had a feeling we were never going to rescue him

>>4270897
supporting thisthis, but what's stopping us from heading back? we still have the ignored potion going on, and can just have Raphaella get Susanna out of here.

>>4270897
>>4270916
roll 1d100, must be under 45 (45 +5 thanks to outfit -5 due to the wind)

Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>4270922

>>4270881
>the gondola (Mental) (-10 to aim, -5 due to the wind)

Even if we fail we should be closer to escape

>>4270923
heh

>>4270923
you are lucky I don't count 1-5 and 96-100 as crits, there is still room for a 100 though

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>4270922

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>4270931
If those were your crit ranges might as well use a d20.

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>4270922

>>4270957
Ah, I've done it again.

>>4270957
>>4270959
heh. was wondering if you were still around.

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>>4270923
>>4270932
>>4270935
>>4270957
>rolled 3, crit success

Starting the device, you feel the heat on your back as the Mystical Stones burns away. Susanna locates easily the device in her darkness thanks to the heat. Naturally, as she expected this to happen and you repeated the move all your life, you lift Susanna and princess carry her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8TZbze72Bc

"An Angel! It's an angel carrying the Firekeeper! Don't shoot." Everyone exclaim

The Pyromancers of the Abbey hold back their fireballs, letting you land near the dock where Raphaella gets everyone on board. From the distance, you spot Melie who rushed on top of the stairs waiting for you, she stares back at the gondola with all the potions in her pockets, perplexed one eyebrow raised, but soon gives you a thumb up. Good job.

"Ah... This cold air soothing the burning fire of the stake... We are outside, aren't we?"

What do?
>get home to put Susanna in safety and maybe treat her condition ASAP
>you still have the ignored potion effect, maybe you can distance yourself from them

About Melie, what should you sign her
>stay where you are
>get home

What do you want to communicate with Susanna and how?
>squeeze her fingers the same way you did
>something else, write-in

>>4270991
>get home to put Susanna in safety and maybe treat her condition ASAP

>get home

>Trace the names Amelia and Hugo on her palm

>>4270996
Just a reminder that Alfonso can read but don't know how to write
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4229753/#p4238776
You will have to roll for this. Also, Susanna does not "feel" anything but temperature variation.

>>4270998
oof

uh

I guess still give it a shot
she should be able to track the movements of our finger anyway since the human body is warmer than air.

>>4270996
Support.

>>4270988
Still got it!

>>4271001
>>4271006
roll a 1d100, must be under 50 (45 +5 thanks to outfit)

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>4271008

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>4271008

>>4271037
redemption

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>4271008

>>4271037
Nice

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>>4271030
>>4271037
>>4271051
>rolled2, crit success
litteraly litterate

You wave at Melie since everybody can still sea you after accomplishing something so heroic, one finger raised in the air swirling in a "turn back" loop get as a response an "ok" sign. Raphaella push the oar into the Grand Canal and the gondola get lost in the Factory District. Charon, the god of the Underworld abducted Persephone for the second time, how romantic but also terribly heretical.

Susanna dips her finger in the water she longed for when burning at the stake. There are many questions in your mind, what else can she do with that flame? Can she give healing miracles? Why can't she heal herself? Will a large healing potion do? Just a medium? Doubts are assaulting your mind, driving you crazy.

Two simple words appears through the fog of your worries as Parotti's house is revealed behind a corner of a street : Hugo and Amicia. If you can at least tell her the children are fine... You are not an intellectual, you can read and do basic maths for your small shop but that's all.

How do you even make the first syllable of "Hugo"? It's not the same as in "you"... "go" as in "to go" will be perfect for the second though. What about Amicia? You are pretty confident you can separate into "A" "mi" and "cia" but can only come up with "miss A".

Someone who recognized a palindrome should be able to do write two names, right? You give it a shot anyway and write with a trail of water on her hand "A MISS A" and "U GO" She smiles, embarrassed to not understand why her arm is so gently and warmly held like this then gasp in surprise when she understands.

"Oh!... Praise Sol, Amicia... Hugo... They sent you? Are they alright. Please let me feel your warmth once again if they are, stranger."

You do so. Tears fall down on her cheeks, and she hugs you, so tightly it's indecent, but how else can she feels someone?

"Thank you stranger. Thank you. I shall devote myself to your cause then. As a vestal I could grant two healing miracles per day and if I... if I stay like that three and also this." she lights a fire in her palm.

That was unexpected... Does she really want to stay like that to help you?
(Optionnal) About Sister Susanna
>A vestal is fine, you will restore her senses
>A Firekeeper is better, she will stay like that
>What do you think of her?

>>4271057
You get home at 7PM, after Arthur and Mario came back with their pay of 2 cans of meat and a serving of bean in total. Luigi also worked at the Refinery but for himself and does not want to share his ration but with his wife. However, they both need vitamins since they were infected by Stage Three. Your stomach is full thanks to today's free meal.

People who were never infected and don't need a full meal
Melie
Arthur
Susanna
Raphaella

People who were infected and need proteins, vitamins and warmth
Mario
Luigi
Valentina
You (already fulfilled)

House Inventory
1 Iceburst Stone (4 hours of heating)
2 dry sausage (2 meals) (proteins)
4 cans of meat (8 meals) (proteins)
1 serving of exotic beans (vitamins)
2 apples (2 meals)

Luigi and Valentina are sharing together a can of meat only, do you want to give them the serving of exotic beans?
>yes, give it to them
>no

Should Arthur, Melie or Raphaella only eat an apple to save on meat? (pick up to two)
>Melie
>Arthur
>Raphaella

Do you want Susanna to treat Arhuts injury or Valentina? (pick up to three)
>Arthur's fingers
>Valentina's arm (need to be cut off and regrown but will not restore her dexterity) (more options)

Finally, do you want to make one expedition during the night using the effect of the ignored potion?
>yes here (La Landa's housemaid near your house to investigate the Organ Harvester, ...), write-in
>no, home activity, write-in (Valentina's arm, crafting paper cartridges, crafting sugar, reading Hammer of the Witches, talking to someone)

>>4271057
>A vestal is fine, you will restore her senses
>What do you think of her?
Poor woman

>yes, give it to them

>Melie
>Arthur

>Arthur's fingers
>Valentina's arm (need to be cut off and regrown but will not restore her dexterity) (more options)
she will have to relearn to use it again

>no, home activity, write-in (Valentina's arm, reading Hammer of the Witches, talking to someone)

>>4271067
Sounds good.

>>4271067
Support, but I'd like to investigate the maid and the organ harvester.

>>4271091
If we still have time after the arm, then I'll support that. Maybe we'll even have time to make the Midnight Mass as well. Should get something to balance the san loss out. Though, we did do good today.
I'd like to visit the magic school during the day some time. Help out Lady Cremosa with that issue with the Inquisition.

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>>4271067
>>4271073
>>4271091
You toss on apple to Melie and Arthur. The boy misses the catch with his two fingered hand and has to crawl under the piano to find it back. Afraid of the mistake you made, are about to apologize when Melie interrupts you by taunting her twin brother.

"What's going on Arthur?" she giggles "You lost your hand?"
"Melie that..." he looks pained "That's the best burn you can do?"
"S-Shut up, you are the brain of the team."
"And that's why I need arms to support me." he tosses his apple at her "clean it for me, sis."

Unlike Amicia and Hugo these two are very supportive of each other. Guess that growing without a silver spoon in your mouth teach you some about solidarity and resilience. You grab Arthur by his wrist, and bring him to Susanna, he seems to understand what will happen.

Susanna hold his hand, interweaving their fingers, which makes the boy blushes furiously under the whistling and name-calling of his sister. The Church servant nods and start to cast one of three miracles per day.

"Yes... Yes of course. Poor boy, don't work in factories." she starts to sermon him "Among my orphans many came home like that."
"Uh thank you..." he answers without being heard

Without pain, unclenching as naturally as possible his finds back all his fingers, giving the middle to his sister who clapped and threw him back his apple. This time he caught it without fail.

"You are a man of words, Alfonso. I thought... I thought maybe if we stayed here and did what you want we could at least get protection."
"I'm a man of few words but I keep them."
"I thought..." he starts to hold back his tears "Maybe if I didn't say anything about my fingers, Melie wouldn't have to..."
"Bene... No needs for words, boy." you pat his back, pushing him to his sister

-2 apples

Now it's the turn for Valentina. How are you going to do it?
>sledghammer, one strike and heal
>dagger to cut muscles and tendons and break the bone yourself, then heal
>use poppy elixir for the pain

All roll options with -50 to +50 modifiers (Social) (-10 current relationship, more modifiers depending previous choices)
>"You want to work and get resource independently from me, then we have to", write-in [DIPLOMACY]
>"You don't have to decide, I will.", write-in [INTIMIDATE]
>"She is a Firekeeper, you can't refuse a miracle healing from a Firekeeper, right?", write-in [PERSUADE]
>"I will get you on the Elven Frigate, no matter the cost", write-in [BARTER]
>"Valentina, I..." , write-in [CHARM]

Also, do you want to use the Iceburst Stone for the cooking?
>yes, use 1 hour of heating
>no, use Susanna pyromancy
>no, burn the piano

About your home activity
>Hammer of the Witches: Dark Miracle (half an hour)
>Hammer of the Witches: Cursed Stones (half an hour)
>crafting paper cartridges (-1 dose of gunpowder +5 paper cartridges -1h of heating) (Mental) (1 hour)
>making sugar (-2 cluster of dates, +2 small bag of sugar) (1 hour)
>talking to someone, write-in

>>4271111
>>use poppy elixir for the pain
>>dagger to cut away the arm, hammer the bones if necessary.
>"She is a Firekeeper, you can't refuse a miracle healing from a Firekeeper, right?", write-in [PERSUADE]
Valentina has been shown to be religious before. This should be a big thing for her.
>yes, use 1 hour of heating
we don't know what her pyromancy entails. we don't want the change to her to be permanent. this may advance it, or lock things in. also would be best to not overexert her.
>Hammer of the Witches: Dark Miracle (half an hour)

>>4271111
>Use poppy
>use the knife to cut separate the muscle from the bone
We are butcher are we not?

>"You want to work and get resource independently from me, then we have to", write-in [DIPLOMACY]

>yes, use 1 hour of heating

>Hammer of the Witches: Dark Miracle (half an hour)
>Hammer of the Witches: Cursed Stones (half an hour)
>making sugar (-2 cluster of dates, +2 small bag of sugar) (1 hour)
While we crush let's do some small talk
>talking to someone, how are you doing Mario?

>>4271111
>dagger to cut muscles and tendons and break the bone yourself, then heal
>use poppy elixir for the pain
Though they're probably not in the state of mind to accept anything, we should probably ask if they want to regrow Valentina's arm.

If she accepts, go with
>"She is a Firekeeper, you can't refuse a miracle healing from a Firekeeper, right?", write-in [PERSUADE]
We already know she's very superstitious.

>yes, use 1 hour of heating
We don't know how to revert Susanna to a normal person, using here firekeeper abilities might keep her that way.

Nice digits

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>>4271111
Impressive quads, nice work , keep it up

>>4271132
Support I switch to the firekeeper argument, tell her that we brought her to heal her arm, just for her

>>4271128
>>4271129
>>4271132
roll 1d100, must be under 95 (55 +5 thanks to dagger +5 thanks to outfit +50 [PERSUADE] -10 because of relationship)

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>4271140

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>4271140

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>>4271142
>>4271143
>rolled 70, success
it shouldn't be that easy

-2 cans of meat
1 Iceburst Stone (3 hours of heating)

You approach Valentina and Luigi, the atmosphere is tense but you notice that Valentina had all her attention on Susanna. She is a very pious woman and despite the presence of Raphaella around the same hearth, she wanted to engage conversation with her. Maybe to confess, maybe to find some support. After all, she might as well believe this is a punishment inflicted on her for welcoming a Demihuman in her house.

You failed to catch the terrorist in time and she lost her arm in the explosion, then you fed her half a healing potion, causing her limb to partially regrew in a translucent baby-sized unfinished form which driven her and her husband to madness. After all this, you decided against the Hospital and get her back to your house because you thought it was a bad idea to cut her arm. However, because her new arm draining her nutrient, she went into miscarriage and lost her unborn child in a camp because you brought a infected to her house.

She has all the reason in the world to hate you. She is probably the person you hurt the most.

"Valentina, we need to cut your arm and heal it back to its original form."
"Die!" she throws an empty can at your face that you barely avoid

There was a real killing intent in that throw. You never thought women could pack up so much hatred, as a sailor you never shared the house of a one of them for more than a month. All things considered, someone weaker than you, can quickly build up resentment because of their helplessness.

"Are you going to cut my arm?" she screams "You?! As if that was not enough? Don't you want to cut my husband to sleep with the beast over there while you're at it?"
"What?" Luigi exclaims "Valentina, you don't have all your head, please calm down."
"And you! You miserable husband, you let that man wreck our home and our marriage in front of Sol? Say something!"

You recognize the same fire in her eyes as in the Grand Inquisitor. These are the people keeping the fire, the source of all Divine Magic, as the Dwarf told you, the believers, the zealots. Susanna feels vibration in the air and extends her hand.

"Is someone angry." she asks "Please calm down. I recognize the warmth of a hearth, there is no need to quarrel around the fire."
"Look." you explain Valentina "This is a Firekeeper, she will heal you soon after. You can't refuse a miracle healing, right?"
"I... I believe her, b-bu-but not you!"

She stuttered but not that cut embarrassed stutters Sunshine makes, it was impotent rage wearing out her nerves, meanwhile Luigi watched with dead fish eyes, like a hollow husk of his former self.

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>>4271152
Everyone gives a hand, except Luigi who can't bear such atrocities. Now you are even going to deprive him of the honour of saving his own wife. Susanna understood quickly what happened and is ready by your side. Melie and Arthur hold her feet, Raphaella and Mario her arms and you... sharpening the hunting knife against the dagger as a real pro butcher gets ready to cut the meat.

-1 poppy elixir

She gulped down the elixir and forced herself to look away from the tourniquet as you quickly cut her muscles and tendons, only showing mild discomfort. Then it came to the bone. You know how to break an articulation or weaker bones at the middle but she has to be amputated between the elbow and shoulder.

What did you use for the tourniquet to stop the bleeding
>tuxedo
>mask

You bend her arm in an unnatural position until the bone creaks and Valentina gets more agitated, biting her lips. She lets out an intense scream during long minutes of trial and errors until you decide to use your foot as leverage on her shoulder. She gives you one heinous and horrified look before falling unconscious. There is nothing more painful than bone injury. Susanna quickly do her miracle and her arm his restored back to normal. For her dexterity, you will have to wait for her to wake up.

Alignment update
>assaulting a palce
+5 Sol's alignment
-5 Charon's alignment

>fighting for freedom
+1 Sol's alignment
-1 Charon's alignment

After removing your gloves, you spend on hour crushing the cluster of dates into sugar, talking to Mario.

"How are you doing Mario?" you ask
I think I don't need alcohol anymore... but maybe the City needs it more than me."
"What do you mean?"
"When I was at the Plague aisle at the Hospital they didn't have any disinfectant. You wanted to mass produce alcohol gel right?"
"Oh that, I had... higher priorities." youe eyes fall on the bowl of sugar
"Are we really saving people, Alfonso? I need purpose in my life. I never imagined working everyday at a factory to survive, but things are like that."

>renew your promise to become adventurer with him in the New World
>you will bring him with you tomorrow

-2 cluster of dates
+2 small bag of sugar

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Hammer of the Withces:Dark Miracles

Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, the land suffering greatly from Wyverns attacks. Every day, peasant would show up at the king’s court asking for the royal knights to be dispatched. However, the young inexperienced king feared that the centaurs slaves his knights were mounting, would escape in the forest. Then, a leech presented itself at the royal court.
"Speak, dead creature" the king spoke "before I send you back beyond the Styx"
"Fear not, king of the Humans" the lich respectfully bowed "for I am a king of the Underworld and as it is true I show no interest in the living, I might be able to help you, from king to king."
And thus, using a Dark Miracle, the Lich King reclaimed the souls of all the Wyverns in the Kingdom.

A few years after the Wyverns died, the forest became a place for all savages creatures to thrive. An new land to conquer. But with conquest came war and the fateful day of the centaur rebellion approached since they had now a place to live outside the stables. The merchants complained every day at the king’s court for a war against the centaurs. Yet, the king, wise and thoughtful as an adult, did not want to spill blood and spread war and remembered about the Lich King.
"Friend" he asked "Will you help me subjugate the centaurs? For your Dark Miracle is the most human solution."
"Your majesty, if this what you want." the Lich kneeled “Then, this, as king you can command."
And thus, all centaurs of the kingdom disappeared in a single night, their souls now belonging to the Lich King.

The Kingdom prospered, exploiting new land, and the population grew. But as the population grew, so did the need for food. Since the centaurs disappeared, the bird population exploded and the harvest were badly impacted. The old king, full of love and compassion now with white hairs and wrinkles, remembered about his oldest ally.
"Lich King, sovereign beyond the Styx over the dead, will you help the living again?"
"To serve until your death is my purpose." he swore
And thus, all the bird across the land fell from the sky, never again their singing will announce the spring.

Disease spread across the Kingdom. Sages told the King that with the natural predators of so many insects gone, it was to be expected. However, the king grew senile and weak and only had one word to his mouth, referring to the Lich as his own king. Nobody had the courage to tell him that a disease is not something you can kill. On his death bed he talked one last time with him.
"O my king" he spoke "will you grant that poor soul one last wish?"
"Your will is my command." he renewed his oath “The enemies of the Humans will perish."
And thus, every living creatures of the Kingdom, except Humans died. Shortly after, the king woke up beyond the Styx among all the creatures he asked to be gone. As king, he expected to be treated as equal, with the same dignity he received the Lich.
"You are one my subject now." the Lich said.

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>>4271155
After reading the chapter that was also available at the Gallileof office, you understand how Charon Divine Magic can be used to fight a disease, at least you think... But how the mechanical orrery related to this? The Dwarf told you it coult weaken the Sol's Divine Magic but can it reinforces Charon's one?

(Optionnal) nonRP tolerated
>what will the non-heliocentrist mechanical orery be used for?
>how can Charon Divine Magic be used to fight a disease?


Hammer of the Withces:Cursed Stones

Once Sol slaughtered the Titans after a twelve months battle, without rest and without shedding blood, the remains of the immortal were scattered in the world. Still alive, but tore to pieces, they imbued their surrounding with magic, creating the Mystical Stones. Glowing when wet and levitating when heated, they react to both Charon and Sol, and should be considered heretical. If a Titan part is found inside these, it contains the primordial power from Uranus, before the god were divided. These are the artefact and as a sign of respect to the gods, they should be discarded. The sweat from Sol crystallized into Iceburst Stones, still condensing an immense amount of power, they should be treated with immense respect and not used in Arcane Magic.

The story detail each of the Titans and the scarcity of their artefact corresponding to each god of the Pantheon.
Rolling table added for the Refinery or everywhere you will find artefacts (Academy, Reffinery if you go yourself, ...)

It's 9PM and you will either go to sleep or let the thieves handle tonight's watch in one hour when you hear a scream from the neighbourhood. Could it be the La Landa's housemaid? It's in the same direction as indicated by the noble.

What do? (pick one)
>get out fast (Physical)
>sneak there (no roll with ignored potion)
>bring someone and run normally (Mario, Melie, Arthur, Raphaella, Susanna)

>>4271154
>mask
>you can with me tomorrow, maybe find something better to do

>the disease comes from something else not human... Demi humans?
>the machine will strengthen miracle or a ritual, it will let you kill bacteria or viruses

>>4271161
>bring Mario with us

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ATTENTION PLAYERS
I want to make an important change to the roll mechanism.

-Roll will be best of 3 over a defined time interval unless specified otherwise.
-If there are less than 3 rolls, I may extend the time limit or keep the reduced number of rolls. You will only be warned about time extension.
-1-5 and 96-100 will be considered crits taking priority above everything else
-crits happening after the time limit will be only considered if good crits

(non optionnal) What do you think about this?

slow pace until 2PM EDT

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>>4271155
>leech
*lich
I want to kms, curse you autocorrect.
Get struck by Sol's lightning and die.

>>4271154
>mask

>you will bring him with you tomorrow
I'd forgotten about the alcohol production for the hospital. Maybe we can try and find a solution for that with Mario?

>sneak there (no roll with ignored potion)

>>4271181
Seems good depending on how long the time limit is 20 minutes or so would be good, I think. Will crit successes override crit fails, or will it only be if they're under the limit, e.g 2 would override a 97, but a 3 would not override a 98?

>>4271154
>>mask
>you will bring him with you tomorrow
>>4271158
>>what will the non-heliocentrist mechanical orery be used for?
If the orrery is non heliocentric, then Sol is not the supreme celestial being may weaken him? Charon was implied to be a black hole, so could that possibly be the focal point in the Orrery? could it be used to set up some kind of complex, star related ritual for counteracting something major?
>>how can Charon Divine Magic be used to fight a disease?
Seemingly in that passage we read in Dark Mircales, Charon Divine Magic can kill living things, by removing their souls. Could it possibly be used to wipe out infected cells immediately? Could the plague itself be from a curse, and we can counteract it if we use the right spell to dispel it.
>>4271161
>>get out fast (Physical)
I realize we told Mario that we'd bring him with us, but this could be something huge. If the maid is being attacked, the trail will go cold. She'd be fucked. Maybe we could even find the Organ Harvester on the scene. We need to hurry.
>>4271181
>(non optionnal) What do you think about this?
Seems good, Alde. I dig the new system. Roll wait times are a big factor. The quest can get pretty dead at times, so we'd be completely fucked if the first roll was high and no one else was around to give it a shot. 20 minutes for a roll seems fine if it has been under three. Maybe longer roll time threshholds for very pivotal, dangerous fails.

>>4271220
>>4271227
Ok, 20 minutes rolls if there are at least 2 players who voted recently and good crits override everything

Rolled 2 (1d3)

>>4271177
>>4271220
>>4271227

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>>4271177
>>4271220
>>4271227
-2 mask
-1 pair of gloves

You chose to go there alone, trying to not make a sound to use effect of the ignored potion to its full extent. Since you removed the gloves and mask to eat and feed Susanna, you had to use new ones, also you just carried what you already had on you including the spiked mace since you are ignored anyway.

The building where the housemaid live has an inner courtyard where two Elves are guarding a form on the pavement covered by a blanket in a pool of blood. A balcony on the last floor is broken, she must have fell from her apartment... and the housemaid lived on the last floor. This time, the Organ Harvester has killed. But how? You were the only one knowing about the existence of La Landa address book beside the Harvester and the housemaid. Who could have told him to kill her before you speak to her?

(Optionnal)Who told the Organ Harvester you were coming?
>someone, write-in

While you probably can't learn much from her apartment since he should have cleared it, a more urgent matter appeared. More Elves are swiping through the apartment, conducting arrests of "suspects" and infected alike. If you want to enter the building either to fight them or investigate the corpse/apartment, you will have to pass the Elven Commandos and since they are so close to each other in the narrow hallway of the building you have no choice but to fight them or climb the facade.

>use the grappling hook to get on the rooftop
>kill the first one (no roll thanks to ignored potion) and decide how you are going to kill the second (more options)
>use the sugar you just made to bribe them and tell you are a resident
>there is nothing you can do here

>there is nothing you can do here

>who told you were coming
The butler or Don Giovanni

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>>4271431
Resigned of your helplessness, you turn back just a little ashamed. The screams of the residential building rings in your ears even when you go to sleep. This time it is a pleasant dream. You fly across the sky, carrying Susanna and land in La Landa's house smiling at each other and holding hand. It's a happy couple scene, despite the blood and gore on the ground. You don't hear either the children crying over the dead body of the noble or Valentina tearing off her arm to beat her husband. No, you are above all this, even the scream outside, you are a real hero.

Physical 60 (+10)
Mental 45
Social 50 (-5)

The room is packed with so many people, even for the apartment of the famous Parotti. So you wake up facing Susanna, maybe she is asleep. You allow yourself to stare at the smooth facial features of the vestal, since she can't see you anyway.

"My champion" she whispers

Despite her bandages covering burnt eyes, she smiles at you making you turn around against Raphaella's face. She is gently snorting and her ears twitch at your sudden movement, this oriental beauty is also stunning with her almond eyes and little nose. N-No, you have Lisa, already and you shared a special moment with Sunshine already!

*THUD*

You hear something hitting the window of the apartment, it's today La Stampa edition directly delivered to you.

La Stampa Public Edition Ventesimo : Shortage of Healing potion

As the news of an incoming shortage of healing potion is coming to the City, the Inquisition, the Militia and the Elven Commando are going to further freedom to movement. People are told to self quarantine and ration will be delivered every day depending on the number of persons alive inside. Voluntary community work is still needed and people with essential job can still walk outside.

Last night the Firekeeper was abducted by someone. The witness described him at first as an angel carrying him from the Church to the ground, but they were horrified when she boarded a gondola. This sad detail reminded them about the infamous Bona Dead tale, the first Firekeeper who was abducted by Charon. As sign of repentance, Grichka Gallileof immolated himself.

The last good news of the week is that we find back an 'E' typestamp. As we are also approaching the Heart of Winter, there is an even worse news. The previous week death toll is 19,000.

+++Hospital overcrowded
+++Mass contamination of the terrorist attack victims
+++Shortage of masks and gloves
+++Shortage of disinfectant
+++Secret of symptoms retardant elixirs
++Hidden modifier
+Hidden modifier
++Hidden modifier
+Corrupted Corpse Retrievers
++Slums guerilla
+++Sewer people died
+++bridge checkpoint
+++Access to the Abbey through a makeshift bridge
++Elven Commandos
++Militia
++Inquisition
People alive : 178,800/200,000
Militiamen : 975/1,000
Elven Commandos : 98/200
Inquisition : 797/800

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>>4271694
What should you do? (pick a reasonable amount)
>prepare for the reception at the Elven Embassy
>assault the Harbor to get the monkeys for the cure and/or shipments
>confront Don Giovanni/his butler about La Landa's housemaid death
>investigate the cultist attack
>get back to Sunshine
>find a large healing potion for Susanna

What should you do if you have the time? (pick according to where you are going)
> [SHOP] (alchemist, apothecary, blacksmith, weaponsmith, tailor)
>sewing machines for the Tailor
(carry heavy machinery for the Tailor from the Industrial District to his shop)
>alcohol production
(find potatoes, and plant them in dirt where they should receive 72 cumulated hours of light (clear sky) to yield 4)
>loot the Academy
(alchemical typestamps, weather forecast, potions, artefact, books, balloon, other savants researches and belongings)
>clear your honour from the rumour you used the canon on a residential district
(investigate near the Arsenal where you hit, ask the old man)
>alchemical industry
(find Hohenheim book in the Redlight District in a exotic brothel near the Pearl of the Ocean)
>Dwarven revolution
(get the codex from the Militia Dovecote in the Citadel to decipher the Dwarven Manifesto)
>indoor activity
(craft paper cartridges using 1 hours of fuel from the Iceburst Stone)
>write-in (write-in are always available but I may or may not choose them)
https://pastebin.com/2Jchkvqg

Send someone to work for resources? (Mario, Melie, Athur, Raphaella) (only one mask left, you already have one on you)
>Corpse Retrieval (Iceburst Stone, vitamins, proteins)
>Mystical Stones Refinery (proteins, bonus vitamins)
>Tailor's bodyguard (masks and gloves)

Weather
Heavily clouded sky
Severe Cold

Today : 6PM, 3rd Day before the Calendes, Month of Charon
Reception at the Embassy : Tomorrow
Re-election of the Doge : Day Preceding the Calendes, Month of Charon

Previous Threads :
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=The%20Quarantine%20of%20a%20Harbor%20City
Previous Quests :
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=The%20Fall%20of%20a%20Dwarven%20Fortress

>>4271696
>find a large healing potion for Susanna
>prepare for the reception at the Elven Embassy

>what about getting those monkeys for Bernando and curing the plague

>>4271694
damn, I would expected the numbers to be way way worse.. the militia is still standing.

>prepare for the reception at the Elven Embassy
>find a large healing potion for Susanna
>assault the Harbor to get the monkeys for the cure and/or shipments
>confront Don Giovanni/his butler about La Landa's housemaid death
>get back to Sunshine Lady Cremosa has a new opponent

>Mystical Stones Refinery (proteins, bonus vitamins)
Arthur and Melie.

Arthur and Raphaella could roll with us. We can chat with Raphaella about the butler and giovanni.. She had to heard or see something unusual.. I want to tell her everything we know and our suspicions.

I want to make sure that we have a small meeting with everyone to discuss the harbor and the elven embassy. The cure is just around the corner.

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>>4271816
>>4272031
The main priority is of course to find a large healing potion for Susanna before noon, a challenge considering the news about healing potion shortage. You might have to run back and forth several places or at worst bring Susanna to the Warzone, disguised to receive a miracle healing. And on top of that, you will have to confront the self-quarantine order.

Your speed potion is still active, so back and forth trip to the Alchemist shop will bring you back here at 8AM on normal pace and to the Warzone street seller at 10AM, respectively 7AM and 8AM if you run. Also, the bridge checkpoint will need a bribe of one gold coin to pass a healing potion unless Susanna comes with you.

What do you decide?
>to the bridge running, alone (Physical)
>to the bridge with Susanna
>to the bridge without Susanna

The reception at the Elven Embassy might be your chance to rescue Da Costa or Corym, so the last chance to secure an additional route to for the cure. First, you need a costume, like the tuxedo but it has no social bonuses. Then, you need a bribe, of course and a gondola. Alternatively, you can visit Don Giovanni since he also wanted to attend or maybe you go with Lisa or Lady Barielle but you won't be able to bring anyone else.

How to get there?
>go with Lady Cremosa, Lady Barielle, Giovanni
>use sugar as bribe, find a gondola, bring someone, write-in (Melie, Arthur, Raphaella, Susanna)

Your costume
>tuxedo
>buy one at the Tailor

Finally, you will have to get another device or collect 50 Mystical Stones to refuel, get on the Clocktower, fall on the Eastern Jonque and ram the ship in the West part of the City. This means you will face exotic animals and the Dead Zone.

How do you equip?
>Currently on you
1 bag (you can carry more potions and items with out being loaded/overloaded)
2 gold coins
2 dry sausage (2 meals) (proteins)
1 hunting knife (+5 damage)
2 flintlock pistol
5 Paper cartridges
4 Flick Knives
Assassin Outfit (+5 Physical, +5 Mental and +5 Social) (Wearing)
Saten's clients hair box
Grappling hook
1 dagger +5 parry +5 Social
3 dices
1 pair of Fishmen's fin
1 crusader helmet
2 small bags of sugar
1 mask (wearing)
1 pair of gloves (wearing)
>Home Inventory
1 spiked mace
1 tuxedo
Wool Tunic ruined and stained with blood, doest protect you from cold
Tuxedo stained with blood and pus
heretical mechanical orrery
1 sledgehammer
3 medium healing potions
2 speed potions
2 ignored potions
1 defence potion
1 Iceburst Stone (8 hours)
1 quinquina elixir
1 pair of magic lenses (need improvement)
2 Device (Mystical Stone Parachute)
1 sample of the giant tree (rotten)
Instant Harvest Potion
8 Paper cartridges
1 Iceburst Stone (3 hours of heating)
1 dose of gunpowder
Sailor Raincoat (protect your from blood and rain, no need to wash)
4 gloves
1 masks
2 cans of meat
Hammer of the Witches
2 pouches of chamomille

Only one additional person can go outside
>shred the tuxedo (+5 masks)
>just send one person or have Susanna comes with you

>>4272189
>to the bridge running, alone (Physical)

>go with Lady Barielle

>tuxedo
>just send one person

>>4272189
>to the bridge running, alone (Physical)
>go with Lady Cremosa
Or should we go with mermaid.. I don't know if she is gonna care since we never solved the organ situation.

>buy one at the Tailor
He owes us one
>shred tuxedo

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4272214
>>4272256
no shred/shred
10 minutes before using tie breaker

>>4272256
We've done a lot of stuff with Cremosa already, I want to give the mermaid a shot. I'm sure she has wants and needs outside of just the organ harvester focus.