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One who cannot live in society is either a Beast or a God. The night has its price. Only in society, in this city, do you become conscious of your humanity. There is wealth and industry, commerce and philanthropy, Intellect, Art, Beauty and Sin all melting into murmurs before the thunder and tumult of the crowd.

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The crowd is immortal and empty. The crowd and its appetites will outlive even you. The night separates being and becoming. It is the emptiness, the hollow space within that gives a vessel its worth and its hunger. The inhabitants of this city have raised so many altars of force and power into the Great Dark Sky, heaped mountains of glass and steel to altitudes of sheer exaltation, without a single line of dissent.

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The idolatry of the city has created pleasure without sacrifice, and the trail of the serpent crawls over them all. The spires and towers of the city are spun from dimensions of hierarchy and vanity. They do not really exist, but they partition the faceless crowd. When a mirror is blemished it will not show a face. When there is sin in a mortal, the mortal cannot behold God. These monuments are but a handful of sand cast in rebellion against the Flood, the Infinite, the pathless labyrinth of eternity.

There is a riot outside the tower but inside you hear nothing at all.

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(distant faraway voices)

(...)
I be stealin' I be robbin' I be lootin'
shoutout mah apes
I don wanna wife you
but chu can suck me up!
when ma gonna see u?
we aint gon' fight, our guns gon' fight
if I tote it chu know I shoot it
I'mah gonna prove it

(...)
Vain are the pleasaunces on earth supplied;
Swept into wrecks anon by Time's ungentle tide.

(a trembling female voice)
...just walked in without asking and I did not know what to do, I could not stop it - this is my first day and it is too much and can you please put down the phone and help... please...?

(a male voice)
so listen... are you listening? No this is not about how Titanic is actually about vampires. It really is! Titanic is about a vampire! But this film I saw is really good...! It is about a taxi driver - are you lookin' at me? Are you listening? The driver is carrying this passenger, right... they see these two dogs or wolves I think or something, one after the other, crossing the road in the night. They stare at them, right in the eyes! This is the most important scene of the film...! This is what it is all about...

(if you know the film, write in to unlock an item)
>write in what you think the film is

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(You are completely naked and alone)
(You currently possess no belongings)

The rippling water mists with the scent of burning incense and slight edge of chlorine, drifting over odourless mineral sanitisers. There is a dull, somnolent ache of luxury, of need. Through the refracted arcs of light in the pool you can sense the vague, tepid heat of souls echoing through the languorous glow.

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There is an amount of money scattered around the hydrotherapy chamber, wrapped in clear plastic. Some of it floats sodden in the water like an offering. Money makes you do things you don't really want to do. It seems like a relic of a different age, a different era that is utterly meaningless to you. There is either a lot of money here, or not quite enough. You think you would need a large bag to carry it all.

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>Submerge yourself in the pool, relax and let your thoughts drift

>Call out loudly: Where are my clothes? This is completely unacceptable! I demand dry underpants immediately! And vegan herbal remedies and a slow pressure deep tissue massage and rejuvenating thalassotherapy! But the underpants first!

>Wade deeper into the gently steaming pool, through the buoyant plastic packets of money and submerged bundles of cash, and investigate the dark shape floating at the far side

>Get out of the pool. Try to find a shower or changing room and some clothes for yourself: (search area for items)

Rolled 13 (1d78)

>>5121867

Rolled 25 (1d78)

>>5121867
Cyberpunk this time?

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>>5121883
>Rolled 13 (1d78)
13 XIII: DEATH

(wow, this qst ended fast)

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>>5121885
>Rolled 25 (1d78)
25 ACE of PENTACLES

>>5121888
Pretend that roll never happened and go on

Rolled 54 (1d78)

>>5121867
lets go

>>5121878
>>Wade deeper into the gently steaming pool, through the buoyant plastic packets of money and submerged bundles of cash, and investigate the dark shape floating at the far side

>>5121867

Rolled 14 (1d78)

>>5121918

>>5121873
Titanic 2000 or Graveyard Shift? I dunno.

>>5121878
>Wade deeper into the gently steaming pool, through the buoyant plastic packets of money and submerged bundles of cash, and investigate the dark shape floating at the far side

>>5121888
You're not serious are you? The Death tarot doesn't usually signify anything to do with actual physical death.

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>>5121897
Rolled 54 (1d78)
54 EIGHT of WANDS

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>>5121920
Rolled 14 (1d78)
14 XIV: TEMPERANCE

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>>5121883
>>5121888
>>5121900
>>5121936
You wade through the money pool towards the dark limbless shape. The bundles of cash and floating currency jostle against you, clutch at you like outstretched hands. It makes you think of death. A film about an assassin being driven around a city by a taxi driver. Did he meet his mother?

You realise what you find unsettling about this money pool. It does not feel right. This is not what money looks like to you. There are some who believe in a post-scarcity society, the intersection of technology and capital, transmuting liquidity into pure metaphor. Money is about abundance. The symbols of money - gold, diamonds, cash, bling, swag, drip - they are manifestations of feudal scarcity. Most cannot conceive what wealth even is. Money is invisible but people eat and sleep and die in its shadow. The future is nothing. Borrow time, buy and sell reality itself.

The dark shape is almost torso sized, bloated but wrinkled, drowned and floating lifelessly in the water.

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Suspicious Underpants, (XXXL size)
You are uncertain if these are male or female. There is a label inside with the crossed out words:
1. disguise face
2. meet MAGUS
3. ????
4. PROFIT


> Take underpants, wear them like a normal person

> No-one can see your face until you find out what is going on. You must wear the underpants on your head like a mask, even if you remain naked.

> If you remain completely naked, it will be like you own this place. Leave the underpants alone.

>>5121985
Oh, Collateral, I haven't actually seen it.

>>5121993
> No-one can see your face until you find out what is going on. You must wear the underpants on your head like a mask, even if you remain naked.

We don't know when we'll find other clothing, and I am not putting this on our junk only to put it over our head when we want to disguise our face from this "Magus".

>>5121993
>If you remain completely naked, it will be like you own this place. Leave the underpants alone.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DKX-2pa-UE

(The distant echoing male voice from before sounds like a security guard. His voice is muffled as if he is turned away and addressing someone else impatiently. The security guard continues: )

Now hold on over there, young lady, I will get to you in just a sec - that's right! It is such a cool film! Do you remember that scene where he takes down two assailants with five shots in less than 1.5 seconds? Pretty cool right?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oEFPcljAXgs

(You have very slightly improved your handguns skill)
(Overall your ability is still terrible)
(You fire guns by wildly aiming and emptying the entire magazine. Every gun is like a single-shot weapon to you)

(Your current status: untrained, naked, indecisively holding oversized underpants)

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These underpants do not look like they belong to you. You hesitate for a moment before putting them on you head as an ingenious makeshift disguise.

From the other side of the pool you can reach the following items:

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>HK USP
.45 ACP variant (12/12)
Short Range, Concealed, Loud, Quickdraw, Reduced Recoil, Double-tap, Mozambique Drill, Compact
Polymer frame semi-automatic with mechanical recoil reduction spring assembly. Five shots against two targets in less than 1.5 seconds. The modular design of this weapon permits customisation.

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>phone
Without a phone you cannot really even speak, feel or think. Without a phone your thoughts are your own, and no-one can follow you, or so you believe. This phone is vibrating violently by the poolside, as if someone is trying to reach you.

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>wallet (?)
The inside of this wallet is turned away from you currently.

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>spa bathrobe
Cashmere and paisley silk. It is really soft and warm. There is a logo and address inside: Alsephina Hotel, T1 Sky Tower International Finance Centre, Etemenanki Plaza. The voluminous folds and length of this luxurious bathrobe could be used to hide a lot of items.

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>spa slippers
Disappointingly these slippers look rather ordinary. In some cultures throwing shoes at an opponent is a very grave insult indeed, even as an act of protest.

Is there more or are can we choose to pick up some items now?

>>5122099
You can inspect and take as many items as you want (examining more items will take longer)

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Lil Guro, aka Bishop, Bish09, Bish09ine
Likes: violence, ultraviolence, guns, drill rap, countin' ma guap, (secretly: anime, bishonen)
Dislikes: law enforcement, capitalism, snitches, mumblecore rap, anime, weeaboos

(The male security guard voice seems to have suddenly grown very serious...)

Alright you there, you - get away from our reception lady - what are you doing?! - look, there's two ways you can leave these premises:
on your feet or on your back -

(There is another voice now...)

She get down and gobble, gobble 'cuz mahmoneyup
You thought we was gonna knuckle?
When you see me, what chu talkin' 'bout?
Yeah u got some money, but u still ugly
Slide over, do the ka-cha, grrrtt, ra-ta-ta-ta
Ah send shots off ya dome, pull up outside ya home...yeah, ayy...

>>5122073
Find a mirror first and see what or who we are

>>5122179
>Stay Silent

Take in this order.
>wallet (or is it an id?)
>spa bathrobe
>HK USP45

>The phone is useless now, we ain't fixing that phone any time soon, toss it in the pool.

>leave and walk towards the mirror in the red room

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>>5122148
>Find a mirror first and see what or who we are

You can see showers and a changing room ahead, but the lighting seems unnaturally harsh and red to you. There could be a mirror there... but wait, there is a smartphone here. The reflective black sheen of its surface could serve as a mirror.

As you reach for the phone, it stops vibrating. There is a sullenly blinking LED on its black surface, a pulsing accusation.

The screen on the phone cracks when you touch it.

>Call out loudly to the far away unseen security guard: let him in, he is with me

>Use the phone frantically to search fr fr, no cap, finna, etc, call out loudly: errr... respect mah conglomerate... brought da cannon 2 da jam, scum gang mah only f a m...?

(examine items:)

>phone (screen cracked)
>wallet (or is it an id?)
>spa bathrobe
>spa slippers
>HK USP45

>leave and walk towards the mirror in the red room

(for some reason 4chan autochanges "f a m" to senpai lol I have been trolled)

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>>5122186
(the phone is still useable, but the screen is cracked. When you try and tilt it to see your reflection, there is just a chromatic smear on the black glass)

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>Strange ID
There are some strange glyphs on this wallet, it appears to be a security identification or clearance of some kind.

It looks a bit cheap, like a toy.

You stare at the peculiar typography, completely perplexed. What do these hieroglyphs mean? You feel like you have seen this logo somewhere before, but they must have changed it recently.

Certified Internal Auditor?
Customer Interaction Agent?
Consumer Institute Of Aesthetics?
Council Of International Archaeology?
Charity Investment Association?
Commission Of Internal Affairs?
Cryptographic Information Alliance?
(...?)
Citizen's Insane Asylum?

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>>5122186
>Stay Silent
(You hear some punching, grunting and struggling yelps in the distance, as if someone is being wrestled violently to the floor. The drill rapper voice has adopted a different tone)

This is police brutality...! Ow! Argh! When I become a famous drill rapper the world will hear about this...! I just need to deliver this gun-shaped package... which is not a gun, it is just gun-shaped... as agreed to whoever has ordered it in there... argh! This is not a trick! Ow, ow, argh!

You are wearing: Spa Bathrobe

You possess:
Suspicious Underpants, (XXXL size)
Strange ID
HK USP (.45 ACP 12/12)

>Throw useable but cracked screen smartphone into the pool

>Scroll through the smartphone, see what you can find

>Look into the mirror in the Red Room

>Call out loudly to the far away unseen security guard: let him in, he is with me

>Continue to stay silent

>>5122257

>Look into the mirror in the Red Room

>Call out loudly to the far away unseen security guard: let him in, he is with me

>>5122257
>>Scroll through the smartphone, see what you can find
>>Look into the mirror in the Red Room

Sleeping now, make good choices anons.

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>>5122266
>>5122282
>Look into the mirror in the Red Room
>Scroll through the smartphone, see what you can find
>Call out loudly to the far away unseen security guard: let him in, he is with me

The dim glow of the smartphone shows a lot of missed calls and notifications. The phone opens onto a slanted photo of a hotel or skyscraper vertical floorplan taken from the side of an elevator lobby. There are 78 marked floors and you notice the numbering of the levels is erratic and strange. For instance, the first floor is actually the top floor of the tower. Perhaps you can find which room you booked somewhere on this phone, and finally get some appropriate clothes?

(battery initial level 54%, >>5121897 )
(searching on this old phone will rapidly consume the battery)
(battery remaining: 44%)

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You are not sure why the lighting in this spa changing room is very red. Is it like in nightclubs where the restrooms are illuminated to prevent illicit activity, deter addicts from finding veins and overdosing in the toilets? Or is that blue lighting?

There are clothes scattered everywhere here, as if someone had ransacked the place searching for something. You can see the reflection of various shoes and items scattered everywhere.

When you gaze into the mirror of the Red Room, there is a moment of recursion. The reflective surface warps, resembles the hall of mirrors effect, like when you enter an elevator lift with parallel mirrored sides and an infinite longitudinal sequence of self propagates on either side. The mirror cracks and cascades sharp slivers of glass upon the red floor.

You can sense red on the floor outside too. Something has changed - the talking has stopped now, but there is still some grunting, pummelling. If the security guard is still out there he has not heard you.

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>Shout very very loudly: Alright that is enough! Just let him go! Let him in!

>Oh look, you have this cool gun.( >>5122076 ) Why not run out of the spa and try it out?
(roll 1d3)
1 Cowering Reception Attendant ( >>5122067 )
2 Riot Gear Security Guard ( >>5121979 )
3 Lil Guro, Drill Rapper ( >>5122139 )
( >>5121883 )
( >>5121888 )

>Continue swiping and browsing on the phone, searching for information (will deplete battery to 34%)

>You should look for some shoes in the scattered heaps of clothes. The splintered mirror shards are sharp and you might cut yourself.
>Corporate shoes
>Casual shoes

>>5122363
>>You should look for some shoes in the scattered heaps of clothes. The splintered mirror shards are sharp and you might cut yourself.
>>Corporate shoes

>Turn the gun on ourself. Mirror world means we can't get hurt right?

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Rolled 2 (1d3)

1 Cowering Reception Attendant ( >>5122067 # )
2 Riot Gear Security Guard ( >>5121979 # )
3 Lil Guro, Drill Rapper ( >>5122139 # )

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(The sounds of punching and struggling have stopped. You can hear a heavy scraping sound as if a body is being dragged slowly against the floor of the corridor outside)

Frustratingly, none of the clothes here fit you.

You can see the following shoes:

>Formal Black Brogues
>Black Heels
>Strange Postmodern Footwear

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>>5122510
>Turn the gun on ourself. Mirror world means we can't get hurt right?

You raise the handgun to your head and fire wildly.

(HK USP .45 ACP 0/12)
(You are deafened)
(You are weakened)
(Your handgun skill has slightly improved. You managed to hit a static, nearby target: your own head. Your skill with pistols remains poor, but you think you might manage aiming now, without emptying the entire magazine.)

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Formal Black Brogues

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Black Heels

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Strange Postmodern Footwear

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There is a ringing white noise reverberating in your skull. Was the gun loaded with blanks? You feel dazed and shaken. The side of your head feels burning hot, wet, cavitated. Rivulets trickling down your cheeks and neck. Is it sweat or blood? In the sauna heat of the spa it is hard to tell - everything in this room is illuminated red. You are gripped by a feverish hunger.

You are still pondering this when you see there is a security guard in full riot gear standing before you aghast. He must have heard the gunshots and rushed in. You cannot see his face but he is gesturing at you in panic and fear. You have been deafened by twelve gunshots to the head and have no idea what he is saying, but this guard is jabbing frantically at you and perhaps the spent handgun with its locked-back slide. The security guard is armed with an extendable, telescoping baton.

In your mind, you begin to walk Through A Red Forest...

>Kill the guard
>kILL tHE GUaRD
>KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL KILL KILL
>Try to push past this security guard and flee towards the exit corridor

Rolled 2 (1d3)

>>5122563
Wear
1. >Formal Black Brogues
2. >Black Heels
3. >Strange Postmodern Footwear

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>>5122691
You are:
Hungry, Weakened, Deafened from 12 gunshots to the head (blanks?)

You appear to be:
Female Corporate Bathrobe Gun Maniac
You are untrained with firearms
Your combat skill has improved but is still poor.
You can aim a handgun.

You are wearing:
Spa Bathrobe
Black Heels (Corporate, Formal)

You possess:
Suspicious Underpants, (XXXL size)
Strange ID
Empty HK USP (.45 ACP 0/12)
Damaged Phone (cracked screen, battery remaining: 44%)

You remember an Ancient Rite:
Through A Red Forest
You think it has something to do with:
>>5121883
>>5121888

>Walk Through A Red Forest
>Kill the guard (he has seen your face...?)
>Try to push past the riot gear security guard, and flee to the corridor exit behind him
>(something else...?)

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Riot Baton
Close Range, Swift, Knockdown, Parry, Intimidate
Compact, Concealable (when retracted)
Weak: Thrust
Friction lock collapsible impact weapon constructed from telescoping cylindrical tubes of hardened steel, and an anti-slip ergonomic handle to aid weapon retention. Expands and locks from inertia with a forceful swing, but there is an inherent risk of the baton closing inadvertently from prodding or thrusts. Shock-resistant design can be used to break windows, to apply bludgeoning force to nerve clusters in the limbs to impair movement or induce pain compliance. Also useful in times of economic shock.

>>5122680
>KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL KILL KILL

>>5123003
>Walk Through A Red Forest

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You are drifting Through A Red Forest. For some reason your feet are bare, but you are still wearing a robe. There are flowers blossoming and trailing red petals where your footsteps would be. You can see red dew drops glistening upon the veined fronds of ferns, the delicate vascular paths traced upon the succulent throats of quivering plants and branches, as they sway and tremble in a silent wind.

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There is a fugitive figure robed in red that resembles you, weaving gracefully in between the trees. A beautiful, dancing maiden. You want to reach out to the Dancer, call out to her, chase her, embrace her... but in a fleeting instant she has disappeared.

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>>5121888
13 XIII: DEATH has returned to the tarot

>>5121979
54 EIGHT of WANDS has returned to the tarot

You have lost traits:
Hungry, Weakened, Deafened

You have gained traits:
Invigorated
Corrupted (I)

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You are not in a red forest. There is still the smell of chlorine and incense around you, and a small smear of gangly ribbons and gristle upon the floor of the hydrotherapy changing room. The Riot Baton lies entangled in the red mess, and beckons invitingly.

>Take the Riot Baton (stained)
( >>5123090 )

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The phone in the pocket of your robe is growing very warm, as if the battery is heating up. When you reach to check the phone you notice the remaining charge has dropped to 34%. But... you literally just swiped it once and looked at a photo of the hotel and its vertical floorplan?! You did not even go online or download anything, you have not even sent or received anything?? Perhaps the phone battery has overheated from lying in this spa for too long?

You open the phone browser to check to see if there are any active downloads etc. There are so many open tabs here.

Firstly there is a thread on teddit.net/r/rpg from a user named KospelTheBestDMEver451 which reads:

Guys! Guys!! I have just invented the most original thing ever!!! No-one has ever thought of this!!! No-one!! Basically, it is like a dungeon crawl in a Wizard Tower... except, the Wizard is already dead, and you start off in the treasure room! All the treasure is there! But how do you carry it out of the dungeon?! All the Wizard minions have gone berserk! Maybe they are rioting or something, I don't know. My characters have so much emotional depth! This is so original!!

The thread is over 24hrs old. There are 0 replies.

>Reply to this lame thread: (can write-in a username)
>Attempt to troll this KospelTheBestDMEver451 For some mysterious reason, trolling does not reduce the battery charge on this broken phone at all. (write-in trolling, or can just go with generic low-effort comments.)
>Compliment KospelTheBestDMEver451, you think his dungeon scenario is pretty good. (Battery charge -10%, to 24% remaining. You must write-in a username)

>Scroll through more of the phone browser tabs and try and find some actual useful information (Battery charge -10%, to 24% remaining)

>You have a feeling that the longer you use this phone, the more likely it is someone will get a lock on your identity and location. Check the settings on the phone and enable the most strict privacy options. Maybe put the phone into airplane mode. That will work, right?

>Throw the phone into the pool

>Ignore the phone for the time being, and exit the hydrotherapy spa

>(something else?)

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(other things you can try: )

>Install a tarot app on the phone (Battery charge -20%, to 14% remaining)

>Open the calendar/scheduling assistant on the phone, create a to-do list to review objectives (Battery charge -10%, to 24% remaining)

>Look up some... stimulating pictures / videos / gifs / webms. This is what the internet is mainly for, right? (You will spend a long time doing this, though it will probably feel quite like it only lasted a brief amount of time. Battery charge will go to 4%)


(some melee combat rules)
>>5123090
The Riot Baton is aligned to WANDS
you are currently untrained in melee combat

You can only succeed on a 1d78 roll that draws WANDS with this weapon, ie 14/78 = 18% probability.

You can burn a major arcana to add any major drawn to your success likelihood
ie boost your success to (22+14)/78 = 46% probability. (This is effectively a spell, it will vary depending on the situation)
Currently the only major arcana you possess is
14 XIV: TEMPERANCE
>>5121920
>>5121981
You may want to save this card for another situation. If only you had some means to draw more tarot cards...?

A fail will incur a complication... you may not necessarily miss in your attack, but there will be a consequence...

>>5123206
>>Reply to this lame thread: (bathrobewaif6969)
>>Attempt to troll this KospelTheBestDMEver451 For some mysterious reason, trolling does not reduce the battery charge on this broken phone at all. (sooooooooooo originaaal, logistics and dragons, try again retard, how'd we get there in the first place without dealing with the minions? wut emotional depth? ur just another spastic wannabe dm)

>You have a feeling that the longer you use this phone, the more likely it is someone will get a lock on your identity and location. Check the settings on the phone and enable the most strict privacy options. Maybe put the phone into airplane mode. That will work, right?

>>5123240
>Open the calendar/scheduling assistant on the phone, create a to-do list to review objectives (Battery charge -10%, to 24% remaining)
>Install a tarot app on the phone (Battery charge -20%, to 14% remaining)

These next in that order.

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After hitting submit on the thread you observe a strange phenomenon. The remaining battery charge on this phone has increased?! It was actually 54%, even after you sent your trolling message? You wipe the begrimed phone screen with your fingers a little - it is covered in oily fingerprints and grit everywhere. 54% battery charge remaining? You must have misread the display.

There is an almost immediate enraged response from KospelTheBestEverDM451:

When I find out who you are bathrobewaif6969 I am going to yank off that bathrobe and I am bringing my +15 greatsword which is in no way a wooden log that is just shaped like a foam sword from LARP and I am going to hit you and hurt you and... (insert Navy SEAL copypasta gorilla/guerilla warfare etc.)

You are very satisfied that you have provoked a response from this turboautist. But you are suddenly seized with a panic realisation... you sent that message before checking the privacy settings... frantically you swipe through the phone menus attempting to hide traces of any incriminating information. You have a feeling that you will still be detectable. The menus and toggle buttons just provide an illusion of security, privacy and control. But any attempt at gathering telemetry on your behaviour and identity may be slowed or delayed slightly. A single action is unlikely to provoke an immediate response, but over time a psychological profile based upon selectors and accumulated metadata will form, and after a certain threshold is crossed...

You force yourself not to think about this, to succumb to paranoia and worry. You have to be careful how you use this phone. That is all you can do.

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initial phone battery charge: 54%

-10% calendar/scheduling assistant
+5% from corporate high heel shoes bonus, doing corporate things
-20% install tarot app

battery remaining: 29%

The calendar helps you compose your thoughts. This feels like a familiar routine to you, though the uncomfortable high heeled shoes are starting to bite into your ankles and toes a little.

(decide from the following list what your priorities are. You can choose as many as you like, but the very first option will be the most immediate and important thing to do. You can also write-in if you have any other ideas)

>Find a mask to hide your face (very hard, or very easy?)
>Find better clothes
>Find a bag to take all the money in the pool with you (but do you even need money?)
>Find a gun / ranged weapon
>Find a sword / melee weapon
>Find tools / utility items. (Maybe cups, coins...?)

>Find magic (to some extent you have already achieved this, so long as your phone battery remains charged and the tarot app remains installed. There might be a more permanent and controlled solution however...)

>Find someone in the hotel who can explain what is going on
>Scroll through the phone contacts: is there someone you can call to explain this? (battery charge -20%)
>Scroll through the remaining phone browser tabs (battery charge -10%)

>Find your hotel room (hard)
>Find MAGUS (very difficult, or very easy?)
>Investigate the riot outside (easy)
>Get out of the tower (extremely difficult but possible with your current knowledge)
>You think you are immortal. Find a way to end it (nearly impossible, requires a huge leap of imagination with your current knowledge)

>>5123330
>Find a "wand", a suitable substitute for a sword, a cup, and take some money, especially coins, or look on our fingers for a ring. (like from an engineering degree ring or a wedding ring)
>Find a bag to take all the money in the pool with you (of course we need money, we are a corporate suit and this is our loot from the wizard's tower, duh.)
>Find a mask to hide your face (a +7 helm of anonymity to protect our identity, anything will do)

>Scroll through the remaining phone browser tabs (battery charge -10%)

>Find MAGUS (very difficult, or very easy?)

Maybe he'll have a key to the front door in his pocket, he's dead, so confronting him shouldn't be a problem.

>Get out of the tower (extremely difficult but possible with your current knowledge)

We are the Oneironaut aren't we? We have to escape but we cannot die.

>>5122209
We work for Urthekau-Sylabari for some reason?

>>5123330
>Find a bag to take all the money in the pool with you (but do you even need money?)
>Find a gun / ranged weapon
>Find tools / utility items. (Maybe cups, coins...?)

>Scroll through the remaining phone browser tabs (battery charge -10%)

>Investigate the riot outside (easy)

The magus should be on the top floor, floor 1. Make sure to wear the underwear on our head before seeing him.

>>5123349
I'm pretty sure investigating the riots just makes us run into the magus's monsters. We should find the info and stuff we need in the tower before finding our way out.

>>5123367
Okay I can agree with that. Then let’s find our room first before meeting the “magus”

>>5123374
I think he is dead.

Do you have any clue on where our room might be?

Alternatively we are like Highborn from Invultua and we need to either go to the Tower floor to kill ourselves with True Death, or corrupt ourselves with magick/excessive porn, or escape into another world somehow. Assuming the similarities to Souvarine's older quests hold true.

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On the thread where you successfully baited and trolled KospelTheBestEverDM451, you can see another reply has appeared. The user has adopted an extremely cringeworthy bishonen anime avatar of an effeminate male private academy student and part-time pretty boy-detective. The avatar has massive eyes and a tiny triangular pointed nose. You shudder involuntarily as you read the post by user Bish09 ( >>5122139 ):

Kospel I cannot make it tonight... I was just practising some of my rap flow completely innocently and I got attacked by riot police. They just attacked me, I wasn't doing anything. I fought off this guy, no - like five, no, eight guys - I mean in real life - and then there were all these gunshots and screaming and tentacle noises and stuff, I had to get away. It was a bit like a drill rap video. I am stuck here at some security barricade now though. The dungeon sounds ok I guess. Can some of the wizard minions be handsome men? Like, anime?

KospelTheBestEverDM451 replies:

No! This is my magical realm! All the evil wizard minions are girls! In bikinis! Bikini armour girls! No bishonen, no handsome men, absolutely no anime!

(You have discovered: Lil Guro likes ttrpgs)

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>>5123348
>>5123357
The word MAGUS suddenly makes sense to you. Isn't there a MAGUS Capital Trust, that owns the Alsephina Endowment? MAGUS owns this tower... Their offices must be situated on the top floor. All you have to do is take an elevator to the top floor, and you can meet MAGUS...

As if on cue there is an autoplaying spam video that appears in the browser. The video is regurgitating old news and you skip through it.

+Tickers: M AG US Newswire tags: marketmovers scandal corporate governance activism ESG M&A restructuring Nastrond100 tech high volatility high short interest+ ...surged in aftermarket trading yesterday after reclusive founder and CEO... spectacularly announced early retirement at the Alsephina Hotel Nastrond100 Tech Conference, surprising market analysts and clearing the way for a divestment of its lossmaking subsidiaries Axiom Galdra and Urthekau Sylabari...

Billionaires interested in space tourism, life extension, anti-ageing longevity research, A2AD drones, embodied cognition, metaverse surveillance across virtual worlds, vertical aeroponic cultivation, neuroinformatics, advanced metamaterials, genomic sequencing and precision medicine, robotic telesurgery... These billionaires believe in accelerating the technosingularity, converging humans and machines, maybe even creating a Turing-complete Workable Artificial Intelligence For Users (WAIFU)... Didn't the mysterious billionaire founder of MAGUS obtain their wealth from some programming language? ORBIS-3? Intelligent code completion, that democratised programming for the masses. The MAGUS gave it away for free. Why are they rioting outside?

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>>5123343
>>5123349
>Find a bag to take all the money in the pool
>Find MAGUS (very difficult, or very easy?)
>Investigate the riot outside (easy)
>Get out of the tower (extremely difficult but possible with your current knowledge)

>Find a wand
(QM: I assume you take the Riot Baton, from what remains of the security guard)
>>5123090

A plan is beginning to form in your mind. You race up the stairs from the hydrotherapy spa, towards the elevator corridor. You notice the hotel and skyscraper tower seems mostly deserted - perhaps there is some lockdown with guests confined to their rooms as the guards are dealing with the riot and protests outside. You pass the corridor where Lil Guro the Drill Rapper and the now deceased security guard struggled earlier. There is no sign of the receptionist / female attendant voice you heard previously.

There is a gun-shaped package strewn upon the floor. But as Lil Guro tried to explain - it does not appear to be an actual gun.

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>Take the Strange Machine
You are not sure what this device does, but the point is sharp enough to draw blood. It does not appear to be a weapon. There is an inscription engraved inside: In der Strafkolonie

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You have almost reached the elevator corridor when you hear voices. It sounds like more security guards, three of them...

(Intelligent Sounding Guard)

So the hydrotherapy spa is completely soundproofed, you could fire a gun in there and no-one would hear! It is supposed to help with relaxation or something, sensory deprivation, red light therapy new age magic nonsense. But this tower is so insulated you cannot even hear the demonstrations outside. On the internet they are claiming they have 100,000 protestors but they always exaggerate the numbers. It is probably a few thousand - but the eye struggles to count crowds. You know it is harder with smaller groups. You can contain, bottleneck and kettle a crowd, but a small group that infiltrates, attacks and disperses... that would be difficult to handle. Have you ever tried chasing after protestors in riot armour?

(Brutal Guard, who replies with the sound of a firearm being racked)

No need to chase them. We have guns.

(There is a third high-pitched voice. This Squeaky Guard sounds very excited)

Hey - we are near to the spa right here! I was speaking with this guy earlier who had an interesting theory about Titanic being about vampires here. It makes sense! Think about it! Most of the time people claim that vampires are metaphors for gothic wandering heroes, desire, separation, social stratification family trauma fear of strangers etc. But the metaphor can work in reverse! What if some films are metaphors for vampires! Think about it! Titanic is about an old woman who is a young woman about to commit suicide, but she feeds off the life of a young man, eventually lets him drown in the freezing Sea, thereby reinvigorating herself to live an unnaturally long life! Like a vampire!

The Brutal Guard replies simply:

That is the most retarded thing I have ever heard.

The Squeaky Guard does not appear to be discouraged. He is rapidly heading in your direction.

We should go check on him! His conversations are really interesting!

>You think you are immortal. Walk out and kill all of these guards

>You were fortunate last time - you had Death on your side, and walked Through The Red Forest. You are not sure if the arcana you possess ( 14 XIV: TEMPERANCE, >>5121981 ) can do much in this situation. You should try and hide?
>Hide in the elevator
>Retreat and hide in the spa

>Perhaps this ( >>5122209 ) Strange Identification can help you circumvent the situation? Confidently brandish it and step out in your bathrobe and heels. (Bonus: write-in and select one of the occupations or write your own...)

>You have a feeling that with your current incomplete outfit even the Strange ID will not be enough. You have an ominous feeling about what might happen if these guards see your face... put on the Suspicious Underpants perhaps?

>Stay exactly where you are and do nothing. Maybe fate will intervene. (Burn your major arcana, 14 XIV: TEMPERANCE to resolve this situation in your favour)

>>5123502
I'm guessing this is an injectable version of the skin scribe spell. Fitting for the whole "we are in a simulation and are literally injecting code into ourselves" thing.

>>5123503
>Perhaps this ( >>5122209 ) Strange Identification can help you circumvent the situation? Confidently brandish it and step out in your bathrobe and heels. (Bonus: write-in and select one of the occupations or write your own...)

>"Urthekau-Sylabari Certified Internal Auditor, I'm here to perform a first-party audit and make sure our practices are up to date with your latest standards."

>Act casual and shitpost on >>5123493 "He's lying, he took one look at the receptionist and got too scared to talk to a girl, but honestly, his NEETdom is nothing compared to your pathetic neckbeard mouthbreathing kospel."

>>5123503
>"Also, I second that being the most retarded thing I've ever heard, Titanic is not about vampires."

>>5123503
We’re a woman in a bath robe and those 3 idiots are dumb horny men. Do the thing you know works in the porn movies until they let us past!

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>>5123527
>>5123529

(You recognise the Strange Device as:
Tattoo Machine.

There seems to be something more to it however...

You remember the spell: Skin Scribe
Through an agony of effort, etch your thoughts into the skin of another known to you, at any distance. You may also receive the thoughts of another upon your own flesh. Through a dangerous and debilitatingly greater exertion of effort over a longer period of time, this spell can injure, though it is unlikely to discomfort a battle-hardened opponent.

You look at the phone in your hand. Has technology made this spell useless?)

>>5123527
(Somehow in this upcoming tense confrontation with three riot guards you managed to quickly compose even more eloquent and belletristic trolling. Kospel is trying to dox you and Bish09 will remember this later. You notice that your phone battery charge has strangely increased from 29% to 39%.)

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>>5123527
>>5123529
>>5123597

It seems to be working. Maybe it is your vulnerable, womanly figure in the luxurious spa bathrobe. It could be the high heels. But somehow a cheap plastic identification card with unconvincing bureaucratic insignia and logos appears to have utterly convinced The Squeaky Guard, despite your bizarre bathrobe and heels attire. He nods enthusiastically and waves you onwards.

(The Security Guards have seen your face)

The Brutal Guard is a bit more sceptical - he is however staring at your seductive high-heeled shoes, which are fairly expensive. ( >>5122588 ) And agreeing with his earlier Titanic comments has placated this security guard and put him in a good mood. He nods at you slowly - he seems to be concluding that you must have headed off into the spa to relax briefly, and that you have just emerged to change. He says:

You should stay in your room, Ma'am. We had some reports there are some intruders around - from the protests outside that have broken in. We are checking the situation now.

The Brutal Guard and the Squeaky Guard with the high-pitched voice disappear together down the stairs into the hydrotherapy spa, descending cheerfully to check on their (now-deceased) colleague.

The remaining Intelligent Guard is now standing before you alone. He is attired in riot gear and carries a USP chambered in .45 ACP ( >>5122076 )

You have a feeling that his gun is most definitely not loaded with blank ammunition.

The Intelligent Guard is looking at you with rapidly increasing suspicion:

You are an internal auditor? Which floor are you from? I have not seen you here before. Don't you guys only come down here fiscal quarter end? Which division did you say you were from? And what is that object in your pocket there...? (He is looking at the bulging pocket where you are carrying your own, empty handgun)

>1/ Burn Major Arcana 14 XIV: TEMPERANCE ( >>5121981 ) Perhaps fate will intervene?

>2/ Whip out the concealed Riot Baton and try and knock him out (the guard will be surprised. You can probably get a few hits in. Pray that the baton impact hits somewhere sensitive, not protected by his riot armour. Commence fight, roll 1d78, total success if you roll WANDS=18%probability. You can use this in combination with option 1/ above and try and improve your chances, succeed on WANDS or major arcana = 46% probability.)

>3/ Just run away. The elevator is right there. Maybe see if it really is quite difficult for a security guard in full riot armour to run after and catch up with you?

>4/ Write in and try and persuade this guard further. (You feel like this might be nearly impossible)

>5/ Something else?

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(Important QM clarification:
If you choose to burn Major Arcana 14 XIV: TEMPERANCE, you must declare it now, before any hostile action. Once combat begins it is unlikely that magic or fate will favour you)

>>5123625
>"Oh, I'm from the 35th floor, we have to do another emergency audit to comply with the Parabus Associations new guidelines for best industry practices and - oh, this?"
>Reach with both hands into our pocket and push the slide forward and lift the slide lock so the slide is locked forward so the gun looks like it is loaded. Draw the gun and point it at his head.
>"Don't move, if you move or shout I'll blow your fucking brains out and use your blood as lube for my next shlicking session. Drop your gun and baton, do it slowly, kick them over to them. Then strip all your gear off and put it in a pile and step away"
>If he makes any hostile motion despite us point a gun at him run away crying "I'm sorry, I'm just trying to find my room, I'm having a really bad day *insertlongbabblingmonologueofawomanhavingareallybadday*" Then run into the elevator and mash the button for the top floor.

>>5123625
Oh, but if he does comply, then pick up the actually loaded gun so that we are armed and pick up any of the gear that can fit into our pockets and put them in our pockets, including any handcuffs, magazines, the baton, keys, etc. Kick the rest of the gear into the elevator and tell the guard to scram in the opposite direction of his guard buddies.

Alternative Plan:
Seductively get closer to him while undoing the bathrobe. When we are close enough, let the robes slip as we pull out the baton. While he is still too shocked and distracted with the display smack him until he is unconscious and take his stuff

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>>5123665
>>5123667
>>5123736

(QM: I will allow the intent of these write-ins, but it will cost you the Invigorated trait and XIV: TEMPERANCE. As you did not roll, I will only give you some of what you want...)

(You have lost trait: Invigorated. You will begin to tire, weaken and hunger)

(XIV: TEMPERANCE has returned to the tarot)

(Three security guards have seen your face)

(Your combat skill is improving. You are about average now. You think you can easily overwhelm any civilian who has never fought before, and even match trained guards if they are on their own and isolated. You are not sure you could overcome heavily armed opponents, fanatics, multiple guards or a single battle-hardened opponent however)

(Your skill with handguns is improving. You can manage an isoceles stance and perhaps a tactical reload)

You are thinking about drawing your handgun with the intent of intimidating this security guard. He is on his own and already suspicious of you. This guard is very well trained and he draws his pistol and raises it before you can react. Yet when you step forward into the light and he can see you clearly outside of the unnatural red illumination and shadows from the hydrotherapy spa stairway the guard pauses, as if paralysed. He is petrified with fear. Then he starts shaking, trembling. He drops his loaded pistol and flees. He does not scream, but he runs as fast as he can away from you.

You are a little bewildered. You did not really do anything? Is there something about your face that frightened him?

Faraway from the hydrotherapy pool you can hear the echoing voices of the guards below:

This- what is this?! This is meant to be a 17-star I mean 7-star hotel! This pool is completely clogged! This is disgusting! Is that meat and hair I see? It must be rats! Some rats have died in this pool! We should get maintenance to fix this...
(You can hear the voice of the Brutal Guard)

Not sure rats have incisors of that size.
Those teeth look human to me.

You think of Temperance, the image of a woman beside a pool transferring water from one hand to another. It is not a rite of violence, but of manipulation, adjustment. He may no longer be able to tell you any interesting lore about vampires, Titanic or other films, but at least the dead guard's remains can clog a hydrotherapy pool. It appears Fate intervened after all.

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HK USP45
.45 ACP Tactical Variant (12/12)
Short Range, Concealed, Loud, Quickdraw, Reduced Recoil, Double-tap, Mozambique Drill, Compact, Flashlight, Threaded Barrel
Polymer frame semi-automatic with mechanical recoil reduction spring assembly. Five shots against two targets in less than 1.5 seconds. The modular design of this weapon permits customisation.

(basically the same as >>5122076 )
(It has a flashlight attached, because tactical lol. You could attach a suppressor if you find one. If you insist on dual-wielding, transferring the bullets between two magazines 2x 6/12 and carrying two handguns like Max Payne or a John Woo film or Nicolas Cage in Face/Off I cannot stop you, but I think it would be cooler with two different guns)

>Dual wield two USP45 and juggle some bullets around in magazines: you must become Max Payne (Maxine Payne?) or the femme fatale in Max Payne who got shot Mona Sax or whatever she was called. The QM will just have to permit this.

>Just take this upgraded USP45 like a normal Tom Clancy tacticool fanatic and discard the old one

>>5123767
>Keep both guns but don't dual wield. Rack the slide of the .45 caliber one and insert a single bullet into the chamber of the other USP and lock the slide forward. That way if we are disarmed we can draw the other gun to use.

>>5123767
>>5123769
(Also apologies the image of the tactical USP is a 9mm one but I could not find a good angle picture for a .45 ACP with a flashlight. Just imagine they are both .45ACP)

>>5123767
>Just take this upgraded USP45 like a normal Tom Clancy tacticool fanatic and discard the old one
Dual wielding is dumb and we can find something more useful on the other hand.

Sleeping now, make good choices anons.

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>>5123769
>>5123779

(I will let you keep both guns for the time being, but in a bathrobe you can only carry two weapons. Even a spare, unloaded gun might be useful...)

Whilst the remaining two guards are distracted and dealing with the spa pool, you run towards the elevator. You thought it was so simple... just press the button to the top floor... but it seems like you have not visited these skyscrapers before. Perhaps you were not as wealthy and privileged as you imagined? Wealth follows a Pareto distribution. It is scale invariant. The 1% may spurn the 99%, but the 1% amongst the 1%, the ultra HNWIs, can make even the rich feel inferior, by the arithmetic of envy and hedonic adaptation.

This tower is segregated into sections. The floors have eccentric numberings, you think you might be on the 25th floor ( >>5121890 , 25 ACE of PENTACLES ) but the buttons stop before 22.

You know in some buildings the top floor is accessed via an exclusive, entirely separate private elevator that stops only on that level. For other buildings there are levels with no buttons at all and the lifts are computer allocated only via the entrance reception desk for security.

>You should visit the reception floor at the very bottom of this tower (US first floor, UK ground floor etc). Perhaps they could tell you which room you originally booked? You could also investigate the riot outside.

>Your bathrobe disguise barely deceived the currently distracted security guards on this floor. You should find some more appropriate clothes before attempting to talk to the reception desk.

>You should search this floor for more weapons/tools/information instead. Perhaps the different groups of floors have different purposes?

>Completely ignore the tower for the time being. The dead film guard now clogging the spa pool kept talking about vampires. Is there someone you could contact who knows something about them? (check phone contacts)

>>5123854
>You should search this floor for more weapons/tools/information instead. Perhaps the different groups of floors have different purposes?

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The phone in your pocket is beginning to feel warm again, as if the battery is overheating. You check it quickly and notice there is this update to the thread from KospelTheBestDMEver451:

I give up. Ok I admit it, I am not a very good hacker. I searched everywhere for this bathrobewaif6969 and I could not find anything. I even posted details of your phone metadata and screenshots of your conversations across the internet on the most obscure boards and hacker forums so everyone could see. I got zero replies. No one cares. I have no friends. Why can't people on the internet be nice? Please stop trolling me! Tell me what you want! I have lots of useful knowledge! I know everything about rpgs, how to defeat any monster... Please... Anything to stop the trolling...!

(>Write-in a request for Kospel: your earlier comments have driven Kospel to a state of desperation and despair. You could use this as a favour to ask him for information later)

Bish09 appears to have forgotten the purpose of this rpg thread. He is now liveblogging his frustration at the protest:

I am stuck here, what the hell - the police came and beat some people up. But everything has calmed down. There is some charity or social worker woman from the Paribus Foundation going around talking to everyone. But you know what - she is making it worse! It is a stalemate. Obviously the guards are not letting people into the building. The demonstrators have occupied the plaza, and the guards will not let anyone leave. I am stuck here! I don't think they can arrest everyone, there are just too many... maybe I can find some way back into the building. I heard from the demonstrators there is some secret entrance and exit that the guards have overlooked. But I don't even know what we are protesting about. There are some weird slogans on these placards, down with capitalism, kill the vampires, eat the rich, save the dolphins / trees / children, make love not war, the MAGUS did not kill himself, men can be women too... I am not sure I agree with all of this. Maybe half of it? What are we even protesting about? When I become a famous drill rapper I will write a diss song about all this...

( >>5123623 phone battery charge drops from 39% to 24%. What the hell...? The battery is just completely random...?! This is so unfair...)

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You are scrolling through these posts when you notice two bizarrely attired women approaching from this corridor. You are fairly confident they are not occupants from within this building, and you remember that the security guards were searching this floor earlier. You instinctively nickname the intruder with a purple sidecut Danger Hair and the other as Slob Girl. You notice they have tattoos.

Danger Hair is gawking a little at the lavish corporate interior:

There is so much stuff here... I heard there is a fashion show, a tech conference, an art gallery, some archaeological artifact museum exhibition... this tower literally has everything! These billionaires have everything! This must be what it is like to be ultra rich... you just experience all this stuff, and never even pay for anything... nobody even asks you for money when you belong, everything just happens for free... this is incredible...

The Slob Woman attempts to hush Danger Hair:

Sshhh! Have you forgotten there are riot guards patrolling everywhere? Keep your voice down! Sshhh! And we cannot let them find out about the secret entrance! Now see if there is any stuff we can grab, and let us quickly move on!

Danger Hair giggles a little:

Oh I think I can wrestle any man down. I am pretty strong. But I hope I do not encounter that strange movie producer. You know, the one who makes all the goth music and horror films. They say he prowls hotel corridors in a bathrobe preying on beautiful actresses, young women... this would never happen in real life! It is not like there is some actual creepy film producer in real life that would go around for years undetected molesting women! But I heard he got really into horror films and stuff. He performed some demonic ritual and filmed it - he believes he cannot die now... He has to sacrifice people to stay immortal, and film them...

Slob Girl is really scared -

Sshhhh! Don't say it! Don't say his name! I saw this horror film! If you say his name loud enough, he appears and tortures and mutilates and kills everyone! Let's just get out of here!

>Umm... this secret entrance / exit... er... where is it exactly?

>Er... nice...tattoos? Do you know anything about this tattoo machine... ( >>5123502 )

>Er... down with capitalism, um, kill all the vampires etc. Could I maybe follow you around and see where you are going? (try and persuade Danger Hair and Slob Girl to join your party. They can direct you to locations eg the fashion show, tech conference, art gallery, archaeology museum etc)

>Would you like this free gun to defend yourself from undead horror film producers who molest women? (trade them your spare USP45 - perhaps they might have an item in return? Bonus: write-in if you provide them with some spare ammunition out of your .45 ACP 12/12 magazine, they may trust you even more)

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Slob Girl

>>5124403
>Er... nice...tattoos? Do you know anything about this tattoo machine... ( >>5123502 )
>Would you like this free gun to defend yourself from undead horror film producers who molest women? (trade them your spare USP45

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Your phone battery is overheating again. The anime avatar of Bisho09 / Lil Guro the drill rapper is frantically posting:

Kospel? Kospel - you autist, what did you do... Where did you post all those details about bathrobewaif6969, I hope it was not on some degenerate anonymous site filled with cartel beheading / face peeling videos or tentacle anime that I do not watch or know or think about. I have just seen the strangest thing... Some guard came running out in complete panic, he was unarmed he did not have a gun... he ran out of the building and was undoing his helmet and babbling to the Paribus Foundation charity lady, something about a bathrobe person-thing with a gun... He was really frightened, he kept shouting about its face and its robes... Then there were these like tattooed goth cosplay people at the protest. They got really interested in this, whatever the guard was shouting about. They got up and approached the Paribus Charity Lady. The goth leader is a woman and they are having a bit of an argument right now, it seems like the Goths want to be let inside. But the guards are going to let them in! They look like terrorists, maniacs! They have all these axes and blowtorches or a flamethrower and some really weird guns, like old ones. I think like there are these twins with swords and someone else has a tank cannon or something. It must be fake! I really hope they are cosplayers. They look pretty angry...! And the other demonstrators are angry too, they do not understand why some Goths get to go in and they do not. It was just calm a moment ago. The crowd might start a riot again! What did you do Kospel?! You are to blame for this! I am going to put you in my next drill rap diss track!

( >>5124402 phone battery drops from 24% to 14%. )

Catching up.

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(It is almost like the QM is conveying some message about what RPG dungeon delving adventuring parties are like these days, with the characters being offered. Needless to say neither Danger Hair nor Slob Girl will criticise your face or slightly psychotic fashion outfit of bathrobe plus high heels. They will ONLY accept the following in terms of trade:)

>spare USP + 6 bullets + expensive high heels

>Riot Baton + expensive high heels

>your luxurious, expensive bathrobe (they will not mind nakedness, the protest/demonstration/festival has brought out all sorts of people, it is like Burning Man out there)

You notice Danger Hair is carrying a Flare Gun - intriguingly, it seems quite antiquated.

If you trade any of these options above, you can persuade them to (choose ONE:)

>accompany you (Danger Hair and Slob Girl will join your party, and direct you to various locations. They may annoy you. They may reveal the location of the secret unguarded passage.)

>give you a flare gun

>explain what the tattoo machine does

(other stuff you can try, if you are feeling very brave...)

>you don't need information. You are immortal.
Shoot both Danger Hair and Slob Girl and take their stuff

>Knock them unconscious with the Riot Baton

>Try and threaten them with a gun or baton etc

>Ask Kospel about the tattoo machine

>Ask Kospel about vampires

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Signal Pistol
Concealable, Loud, Incendiary, Weak: Armour
VZ30 flare gun, a weapon of the old world. Unusual rotating breech block can fire a variety of different rounds. Can be used to signal an attack, distract or burn unarmoured opponents. If you fire it, expect a lot of attention.

>>5124518
>your luxurious, expensive bathrobe (they will not mind nakedness, the protest/demonstration/festival has brought out all sorts of people, it is like Burning Man out there)

>accompany you (Danger Hair and Slob Girl will join your party, and direct you to various locations. They may annoy you. They may reveal the location of the secret unguarded passage.)

>Ask Kospel where to find a bag and where our room is

>>5123867
Ah, probably not the best choice to search a pentacle floor for weapons or tools, but info maybe.

>Write-in a request for Kospel: "Tell me everything you know about MAGUS and Alsephina Hotel."

>>5124518
>your luxurious, expensive bathrobe (they will not mind nakedness, the protest/demonstration/festival has brought out all sorts of people, it is like Burning Man out there)

>accompany you (Danger Hair and Slob Girl will join your party, and direct you to various locations. They may annoy you. They may reveal the location of the secret unguarded passage.)

>Ask Kospel about vampires

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>Ask Kospel where to find a bag and where our room is

KospelTheBestDMEver451 replies:

Noooo! Please, stop trolling me! Noooo! I have been trying to dox you bathrobewaif6969 and you ask me where your room is? I have no idea where it is?! If I knew I would have sent like SWAT teams to your location like they do on the livestreams with the gamers but your trolling is far too advanced! Noooo! Leave me alone!

(>>5124516 Phone battery increases to 19%)

>Ask Kospel about vampires

KospelTheBestDMEver451 replies:

Ha! I am an expert on this! I know everything! So easy! Did you know, I once fought this vampire singlehandedly in a dungeon...! And I survived! And there was this other strange person, who I think was also maybe a vampire, but I sort of hit my head a bit on a rock and got a bit wet or something after I do not remember. But vampires are really tough. If you shoot and slash and burn them a lot, a LOT, they will actually die. But the problem is - they will be fighting back. It is like - imagine you had to fight someone who had a chainsaw but you only had like a needle or a tattoo gun ha ha ha. The needle would eventually kill them pathetically slowly but you probably would get torn apart first by the chainsaw. And also when vampires die they go to some strange place like a red forest or whatever I am not sure.

But the best way to end a vampire is to kill them with an old weapon. A weapon that is of the same era as when they were born, or older than when they were made. Like a really ancient sword or axe or spear or something. But this is why it is difficult. You need to research their origin. If you fought a vampire with the wrong era weapon, it might hurt them a bit, but then they would just tear you apart! It would be horrible!

You could also try destroying their sanctuary. This does not actually kill them, but it makes them mortal. The sanctuary could be anything though. It could be like an amulet or trinket or anything at all. If you destroy this they cannot go to the red forest or whatever and you can just end them normally. See, I know so much stuff! I am so amazing!

>Write-in a request for Kospel: Tell me everything you know about MAGUS and Alsephina Hotel.

(There is no response to this. You have a feeling you have just doxxed yourself)

(You are being hunted)

Phone battery charge: 0%

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(Danger Hair and Slob Girl have joined your party.
They accept you because you look strange.
If you do corporate things or wear corporate clothes, Danger Hair and Slob Girl will begin to dislike you.)

Well, you will just have to remain naked now. You feel a bit disappointed to part with the Bathrobe. It feels so soft and warm and comfortable. Robes fit you really well. When you wear this robe, you almost feel a bit like a wizard.

As you are undressing, Danger Hair suddenly stops you. She is gazing earnestly at you, staring deeply into your eyes and face:

You are so, so brave. So brave. I really respect your life choices. It is so hard! People are so prejudiced! A lot of my friends are going through the same thing. Whenever I see separate bathrooms I remember how cruel people can be. The world is so cruel! It starts from such an early age too, the indoctrination and oppression. This is literally the worst and most cruel thing in the entire world. Someday we will overthrow this tran-I mean tyranny! Not the other word! You are such a strong, independent person!

There is a very long, awkward silence...

And the long silence continues...

(QM: You can keep the bathrobe. Without its pockets, how will you carry anything?)

Slob Girl has noticed your high heels. She shakes her head a little:

Those are so corporate. Unfashionable. You should get rid of them, just throw them away.

>Throw away the expensive high heels. They may be seductive but they are cramping your toes and arching your feet uncomfortably.

>Keep wearing the expensive high heels. Maybe if you can find a complete corporate outfit, this could help you at the reception desk on the bottom floor?

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Ahead of you there is a wide concourse, that overlooks several of the floors below in the tower. You can see the vertiginous drop of levels above and below you.

Danger Hair mentions:

You know it is strange. This billionaire MAGUS or whoever built this tower 13 years ago. It was the tallest skyscraper at the time - so it must have had more than 163 floors. But there are only 78 levels marked? And the numbering is chaotic. We already know one passage, but are there many more secret hidden floors? What would the MAGUS be doing there?

Slob Girl replies nervously:

Dungeons. Torture dungeons! Maybe the MAGUS is the... no! I am not saying his name! It is so scary!

You can see two men ahead on the concourse. They appear to be arguing fiercely and gesticulating violently at each other.

One is a very Handsome Executive, he looks like a financier or investment manager of some sort.

The other man looks literally like the opposite. He has a sordid wolfish look, like a begrimed ageing rockstar, a goth, or ghoul. Eventually the Handsome Executive gets up, shaking his head in disagreement and disgust. The Handsome Executive departs and leaves the Ghoulish Man alone. His back is turned to you, and he has not seen or heard any of you approach.

Slob Girl squeals in terror:

That-that must be him! King Ghoul! He directs all those horror films! Argh! We have to get away! He is going to torture and kill us all!

(Slob Girl and Danger Hair are too terrified to help you at the moment)

>This is the perfect opportunity for a stealth attack. If only you were like a bald-headed assassin, with a barcode on your head and some piano wire... but wait, you have some large suspicious underpants. Approach King Ghoul from behind, pull the underpants over his head, maybe beat him over the face for molesting women and making disturbing horror films

>Just shoot him

>King Ghoul makes horror films... maybe he knows something about vampires? Or even the MAGUS? Ask King Ghoul all these questions etc

>Maybe just avoid this situation. Try and follow the Handsome Executive (leave Danger Hair and Slob Girl behind for the moment, in this area alone with King Ghoul)

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King Ghoul, aka The King

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Robert Alle, The Handsome Executive

>>5124582
Good, more fodder to interrogate. Also nice to know the vampire mechanics, I guess that is why the paintings were important in Galerne.

>Throw away the expensive high heels. They may be seductive but they are cramping your toes and arching your feet uncomfortably.

We have allies, some moderate skill in firearms and a gun, for now we probably won't need to blend in for the mid-game, we'll just shoot anyone who disagrees with us.

Also, I guess we are intersex or trans? I sort of guessed that based on the post-modern shoe option.

>>5124592
>This is the perfect opportunity for a stealth attack. If only you were like a bald-headed assassin, with a barcode on your head and some piano wire... but wait, you have some large suspicious underpants. Approach King Ghoul from behind, pull the underpants over his head, maybe beat him over the face for molesting women and making disturbing horror films

wolololo! yolo!

>>5124584
>>Throw away the expensive high heels. They may be seductive but they are cramping your toes and arching your feet uncomfortably.

>>5124592
>>This is the perfect opportunity for a stealth attack. If only you were like a bald-headed assassin, with a barcode on your head and some piano wire... but wait, you have some large suspicious underpants. Approach King Ghoul from behind, pull the underpants over his head, maybe beat him over the face for molesting women and making disturbing horror films

Dammit anon. Why did you ask that the question and get us doxxed?

>>5124632
I mean, there is no reason that we know of that Kospel would think us wanting to know about MAGUS or the hotel would mean that we are in there, unless he knows we are an amnesiac or whatever we are.

Nor am I worried about being SWATed, we are surrounded by riot cops, leftist(?) protesters, vampires and ghouls and who knows what. Honestly, Kospel showing up himself could be a blessing.

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(in an unknown location)

911, what's your emergency?

Yes er I am Kospel-I mean, er, hmmm, er... Koebel... yes, Koebel, lets go with that, that is not the name at all of a dungeonmaster who got himself into trouble or cancelled - yes, I am, er, DM Koebel, and er, there is this insane woman(?) in a bathrobe, at the Alsephina Hotel, she is obssessed with vampires, I think she is armed and very dangerous...

You are beginning to suspect that this wizard tower is actually filled with traps (QM: lol, traps) and even if they are not of the fall into a pit of spikes variety, some of these social traps can also impale you, or be difficult to escape from.

(you have lost: expensive high heeled shoes. Danger Hair squeals a little when you throw them over the edge into the floors below. Slob Girl is pleased)

However you were clever enough to throw away the heels. Not only would they gradually annoy your companions over time but they would definitely give you away when trying to sneak up on this perverted King Ghoul. You are approaching him silently, underpants garrotte at the ready... creeping forward ever so silently...

King Ghoul has his back turned 180 degrees to you. There is no possible way for him to see you approach, no shadow, no reflection, no sound, surely nothing. And yet, in a voice that sounds like a handful of dust thrown into an open grave, the King speaks:

I know what you are. I don't serve you no more. There is no need for it. Life kills you in the end.

(You have lost the chance for a surprise attack)
(You are not within melee distance)

King Ghoul turns to face you. There is a sound like a crying baby thrown into the jaws of a howling wolf. A braying croaked scream. You realise he is laughing. It ends in a nicotine wracked cough.

When he recovers, King Ghoul speaks:

It's not magic. I smelt the incense on your skin. So this is what it is like now, is it? You've come to end me, with your friends?

(King Ghoul does not appear to be carrying any weapons)

>Don't let him finish - gun King Ghoul down with the USP45. You have seen this film before, he is about to transform into something horrible...
>Tell Danger Hair to shoot King Ghoul with her flare gun
>Tel Danger Hair and Slob Girl to flee

>Hear King Ghoul out - does he have something to tell you?

>Bluff/try and flatter him: I really like your films! Especially all the horror and violence and torture ones! Could you tell me how you make those vampire films of yours? They are so realistic! Amazing!

>That Handsome Executive is getting pretty far away now. Maybe completely ignore this conversation and just walk off to chase after him, and leave King Ghoul alone with the terrified Danger Hair and Slob Girl.

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>Something else...? If you know who the Magus is, maybe that would help...?
>King Ghoul is the Magus
>You literally only glimpsed him a few moments ago, but the Handsome Executive is the Magus
>That Squeaky-Voiced Guard interested in the Titanic vampire film theory is the Magus
>Lil Guro the Drill Rapper aka Bish09 is the Magus
>Kospel is the Magus
>I have no idea, Danger Hair is the Magus?
>Slob Girl?
>The Magus is dead
>The Magus doesn't exist, it is some sort of metaphor for capitalism? (If you say this, Slob Girl will be really happy)
>someone/something else...?

>>5124727
We ARE the MAGUS

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>>5124732
You have gained trait: The Betrayer
This trait can never be lost

It is in the oldest book. The one that betrayed for money. Dead by their own hand as the sun rose over the field of blood bought with silver.

There was another betrayal. Whose sacrifice was greater? The one in agony, worshipped and blessed forever, or the Betrayer who brought it about, who followed the plan, but whose name was cursed forever after? The Betrayer died for their sins too. And there were some who remembered, who worshipped the Betrayer instead. The True Faith and the Greatest Sacrifice. On another world, they could forget the symbols that forever reminded them of the curse, silver, sunlight, but perhaps not blood...?

The light on this floor, the Ace Of Pentacles, is turning strangely red again. You feel a sharp pang of hunger - you haven't eaten anything for a long time...

>King Ghoul knows what you are. Push him over the edge of this floor. It serves him right anyway.

>Shoot King Ghoul in the head

>wait, King Ghoul - does he direct or produce these films? Is that importa- KILL HIM

>KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL KILL KILL

>You realise you are truly cursed. Leap over the overhang of this floor yourself.

>>5124770
>KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL KILL KILL

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You are not walking Through A Red Forest. There is a desolate wilderness of red sand, endless parched red dunes and barren red rock. You thirst, but there is no water, no sustenance here. Nothing is enough.

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There is a monstrous shape looming in the blinding whirlwind of red flecks. You must fight it if you want to maintain control.

(Your phone charge is 0%.)
(You cannot access the Tarot.)

>Hit it with the Riot Baton?? (roll 1d3)
>Shoot it with the gun?? (roll 2d3)
>Surrender and let the shape embrace you (roll 3d3)

>Something else?

Rolled 2, 2 = 4 (2d3)

>>5124855
Yeah, yeah, no blood.

Probably would've been easier to push him off and drink from someone else and confront him when we are stronger.

>Shoot it with the gun?? (roll 2d3)

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.45ACP 10/12
In the red whirlwind amidst the parched dunes, the gun makes no sound. You can hear screaming. You remember what Kospel said about ancient weapons. Will it be enough?

>Keep firing (roll 2d3 again)
>Maybe try a melee weapon? Lash out with the Riot Baton (roll 1d3)
>Surrender and let the shape embrace you (roll 3d3)

>Something is very wrong. You have to break out of this... but what to do? (write-in)

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1 Danger Hair
2 Slob Girl
3 King Ghoul

Rolled 3, 1 = 4 (2d3)

>>5124879
>Keep firing (roll 2d3 again)

Rolled 3, 3 = 6 (2d3)

>>5124879
>Keep firing (roll 2d3 again)
If we are Judas, then who was Jesus?

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Ammunition remaining
.45 ACP 6/12

Danger Hair hit once :
Wounded, shock, panic

Slob Girl hit twice :
(USP45 weapon trait: double-tap)
Mortally wounded, unconscious, dying

King Ghoul hitx3 :
(USP45 weapon trait: Mozambique Drill)
Executed
Dead

You have gained traits:
Invigorated
Corrupted (II)

Your handgun skill is formidable. You use a Weaver stance and instinctively fire 2-round double-tap bursts to execute targets. You are still outmatched by highly trained guards, fanatics, psychotic criminals or battle-hardened military operators, supernatural foes or just a very large crowd of ordinary assailants, suppressing fire etc.

>Take the flare gun / signal pistol from Danger Hair ( >>5124522 ) She is in shock and cannot stop you

>Search Slob Girl for items (maybe she has a phone...?)

>Feed them all to the Red Lord Of Ruin (execute all survivors)

(If you choose to flee, you must do so immediately. You cannot take the flare gun/signal pistol, search or loot etc)

Everyone in your vicinity heard those gunshots. You are already being hunted. Flee this area and head for:

>Back to the hydrotherapy spa (maybe some of those guards could provide you with more ammunition...?)

>The elevator

Try to find on your own:

>The Fashion Show
>The Tech Conference
>The Art Gallery
>The Archaeological Exhibition

>The fastest way down is to leap off the side of this floor. You are The Magus and you built this Tower. You will survive The Fall. (lose trait: invigorated)

>>5124958
>Feed them all to the Red Lord Of Ruin (execute all survivors)
>Search Slob Girl for items (maybe she has a phone...?) Get our clothes back or if she has better clothes with more pockets then take those.
>Take the flare gun / signal pistol from Danger Hair ( >>5124522 ) She is in shock and cannot stop you

In that order.

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Rolled 1 (1d3)

Slob Girl's Phone:
1 phone shattered by bullets
2 phone damaged
3 phone intact

>>5125004
I mean, we are killing danger girl as well, so lets see if she has a phone as well.

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>Feed them all to the Red Lord Of Ruin (execute all survivors)
(Danger Hair: executed, dead)
(Slob Girl: executed, dead)

.45 ACP 4/12
Corrupted (III)
You have ascended to: Red Ruin Acolyte

The Orationists are hunting you. They will execute you on sight.
The Vourukasha are hunting you. They will attempt to capture and interrogate you.
Some pathetic human guards are hunting you (or is it the other way round?) You should feed them to the Red Lord.
Some goths(?) are looking for you. Maybe they want to cosplay?

The Red Lord grants you:

Bullet Witch (ordinary weapons)
Gift: mundane weapons have infinite magazines. You will never run out of ammunition
Curse: you cannot ever tactical reload, even in between battles. You have to fully empty a gun before reloading. The magazine is locked in place. This could lead to you having to reload at the very start of a gunfight, and at inopportune moments.

>accept the Red Lord's Gift
>decline the Red Lord's Gift (He will not be pleased. This will incur a consequence)

You have gained:
Signal Pistol/Flare Gun 1/1
>>5124522
This is a relic of the old world. It will hurt supernatural foes, so long as they are unarmoured. It counts as a pistol, so your combat training skills apply, and you are familiar with its operation. Upgrading your handgun skill becomes more difficult from this threshold onwards...

Since you responded correctly with the identity of the Magus, if you can guess which floor the following events are held, you may choose to bypass security and go there directly. Some should be more obvious than others.

You can consult >>5121867 to guess which floor the following events are held:

>The Fashion Show
>The Tech Conference
>The Art Gallery
>The Archaeological Exhibition

alternatively:

>The fastest way down is to leap off the side of this floor. You are The Magus and you built this Tower. You will survive The Fall. (lose trait: invigorated)

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>>5125029
You are thinking about searching Danger Hair for a phone. From the corner of your eye you can see a short girl looking at you, with a puzzled expression on her face...

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And then another girl appears...

(You have no magic)

>Flee, now (where to?)

>Face these opponents with your Riot Baton (roll 1d78, hit on WANDS)

>Shoot both of them with the HK USP 4/12 shots remaining (roll 2d78, hit on WANDS)

>Shoot at one of them with the Flare Gun (roll 1d78, hit on WANDS)

>Something else?

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Rolled 56, 26 = 82 (2d78)

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>>5125059
(nothing happens)

>>5125057
>>Flee, now (where to?)
>The Art Gallery
Ace of Wands

"Later, girls!"

Rolled 42, 6 = 48 (2d78)

>>5125036
>accept the Red Lord's Gift

>Flee to floor 56

>Fire blindly at both of them

Agree with emptying the magazine by firing blindly so we can go into the next fight with a full mag

>>5125057
Eh, actually, sure, lets go with that floor >>5125069

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>>5125073
42 FIVE of WANDS is a hit. You have grazed: Sword Twins. You have a feeling that this mundane handgun you found from a guard will not hurt them very much though.

06 VI: The LOVERS you have no magic. If you burnt major arcana this would have led to an awesome Bayonetta effects lol given that these girls are twins, and the imagery of that card.

>>5125077
It is a clever idea, but sadly that is not how the curse of the Red Lord works (he is named after Ruin for a reason...)
HK USP .45 ACP 2/12. It looks like you will have to reload in the middle of the next fight.

You are racing towards the Ace Of Wands, floor 26, hoping it is the Art Gallery. You can hear the echoing of chants and rioting outside. Something has stirred up the crowd... you thought your tower was insulated from them, but they are breaking through the barricades, trying to force their way in...

Your memories are slowly returning to you. You see the image of King Ghoul splayed out, arms outstretched like bloodied wings upon the concourse floor. It did not feel right... was he really to blame? King Ghoul had been arguing with that Handsome Executive, what was that about? You remember Lil Guro / Bish09 mentioning the cosplaying goths. ( >>5124516
). Goths like horror films, right? If you had listened to King Ghoul more, sent him down to speak with them... or if you had told Danger Hair and Slob Girl to flee first, listened to King Ghoul...

This is the Betrayer's Curse, you tell yourself. It is Fate. Always when you find a sense of self, begin to grow close to others, find companionship... it is torn away from you. Did you do it? Or is this what the curse always does? The Betrayer sacrificed everything for Heaven - see how he was rewarded, how his name is spat upon, or even how he is forgotten, whilst another steals all the love, all the honour, all of the victory. If you had your way, you would break into Heaven, and make them pay.

But the protesters are breaking in now, into the tower, your Tower. You cannot remember the exact implications of this, but you have a feeling it is not good.

(Decide your priorities now. You can choose as many as you want, but I will take the first option as the highest priority)

>You need more information, memories etc
(risk: low)

>You need a sword / melee weapon
(risk: low)
>You need a better gun / ranged weapon
(risk: medium)

>You need a magic weapon, either a sword or gun that can kill supernatural opponents
(risk: high)

>You need a phone, installing a tarot app etc.
(risk: medium)

>You need tools, utility items, clothes etc
(risk: low)

>You need to permanently recover your magic
(risk: dangerous, but possible)

>You want to end your immortality
(risk: trivial, you need not do anything at all)

>You want to overthrow Heaven, become a god
(unfortunately, not quite possible yet at this stage)

>You want to escape the Tower
(risk: both trivial, and very dangerous???)

>>5125138

>You need more information, memories etc
>You need a phone, installing a tarot app etc.
>You need a better gun / ranged weapon
>You need a magic weapon, either a sword or gun that can kill supernatural opponents
>You need tools, utility items, clothes etc

Can this list of priorities change later?

>>5125138
I missed one:
>You want to stop the riot outside
(very, very difficult, but just about possible)

>if you think you know what might happen with this, write in...

>>5125138
Normally I'd say information, but our previous iterations clearly got nowhere, so I'm not sure retreading old ground will do any good. Or it could give us critical information to complete some plan multiple memory wipes in the making, I dunno.

This is just our priority list at the moment right, not permanently?

>You need a magic weapon, either a sword or gun that can kill supernatural opponents

>You need to permanently recover your magic

>You need more information, memories etc

>You need tools, utility items, clothes etc

>You want to escape the Tower

>You want to overthrow Heaven, become a god

>>5125154
I don't know what might happen with it, but I can imagine that we can achieve it either with a phone and some placating messages to the right people or some exchanged favours, or with some calming magick, or finally, with a automatic weapon with a high mag capacity and a lead finger.

>>5125155
A phone for the Tarot, trolling Kospel and communicating with other people is absolutely necessary.

>>5125148
Gonna switch the top 2 priorities. Find a phone first then information.

>>5125162
Hmm, sure, I'd switch permanently recovering our magic and getting info on my list, then I'd put finding a phone above finding info, again on my list.

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>You need more information, memories etc
>You need to permanently recover your magic

You are recalling your powers as the Magus. You can resemble nearly any role or occupation with the right clothes and right items, male, female, corporate, casual - at least, indistinguishable to the eyes of most ordinary people. This Tower is your Sanctuary. If the riot breaks in, and reaches the top floor... You cannot fight the crowd. The crowd will outlive you. ( >>5121870 )

(once the riot breaks in, I will roll to advance the crowds of protestors up the levels of the Tower with each choice. The exact pace at which they advance will depend on some as yet unrevealed choices ahead - currently it is likely to be fairly slow, but it could become very rapid. There are already some significant hostile elements to you present in the building hunting for you etc. They are not allied to the protestors, but that might change...)

You look at the Tattoo Machine in your hand, and recall the ancient rite: Skin Scribe. With this rite, in combination with any tattooist skilled in art, you could etch the magic back into you, permanently... but no tattooists reside in the corporate surroundings of this Tower. You would need to leave your Sanctuary and meet with someone elsewhere... perhaps this could even confuse those hunting for you currently? But if you leave the Tower and the riot breaks in, how will you get past them...?

(QM: I will let you consider your priorities for the time being, and resume tomorrow...!)

>>5125183
We'll need the secret entrance/exit, or a disguise. Mug someone or find a rioter to befriend/interrogate. The break-in is still in its earliest stages, now is the time to get the magic back in us.

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You possess traits:
Betrayer
Invigorated
Corrupted (III): Red Ruin Acolyte
Bullet Witch Gift (ordinary guns)
Bullet Witch Curse (ordinary guns)

and you have remembered the hidden trait:

Thousand Faces Of The Betrayer
- deceive ordinary people by assuming any role or identity, male, female, corporate, casual etc. simply by wearing appropriate items. Bizarre behaviour, violence, unusual questions may dispel this illusion. Those with witch-sight will see through it (though they may have to suspect you enough to use it on you first)
(you feel you have other hidden traits, as the Magus... perhaps you already guessed what they are?)

The Orationists are hunting you. They will execute you on sight.
The Vourukasha are hunting you. They will attempt to capture and interrogate you. The one(?) you grazed is pretty angry, though. ( >>5125056 , >>5125057 )
Some pathetic human guards are hunting you (or is it the other way round?) You should feed them to the Red Lord.
Some goths(?) are looking for you. Maybe they want to cosplay?

Your Sanctuary 78/78 (?) floors is intact.
The protest outside is trying to break in.
Location: Alsephina Hotel, T1 Sky Tower International Finance Centre, Etemenanki Plaza

You are wearing:
Luxurious Bathrobe / Red Acolyte Robes
( >>5122085 )
- you realise you are anointed in blood. None of it is your own.

(you threw away your shoes >>5124723 )

You possess:
Skin Scribe ( >>5123623 )
Tattoo Machine ( >>5123502 )
Riot Baton ( >>5123090 )
- aligned to WANDS
HK USP .45 ACP 0/12 ( >>5122076 )
HK USP .45 ACP 2/12, with flashlight ( >>5123767 )
Signal Pistol / Flare Gun (1/1) ( >>5124522 )
- This weapon will burn supernatural enemies
- your Bullet Witch infinite ammunition trait does not apply to it
Damaged Phone ( >>5122079 )
- battery remaining: 0%
- cracked screen
Strange ID ( >>5122209 )
Suspicious Underpants ( >>5121993 )

(QM note: it is optional, but I would recommend you discard some weapons. Technically the tattoo needle is weapon-sized so you are carrying 5 weapons, I feel like this is a bit too much even for the magic bathrobe / wizard / cultist robes)

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>>5125069
>The Art Gallery
(QM: unfortunately, 26 ACE of WANDS is incorrect)

Your face is burning with shame. You are a powerful wizard! You built this entire tower! And here you are, fleeing from two small angry girls. They may actually be vengeful ghosts with swords. You executed two innocent though slightly annoying companions, who were trying to help you. And though you do not fully remember it, you feel you killed someone, betrayed an old friend, whose guilt was not his own.

You reproach yourself, curse yourself again and again - you made this Sanctuary and you cannot remember where you put everything? Of course, the events are really important: they must all be held on Major Arcana floors. Why did you not remember this before? Why did you take away your own magic, your own memories? Try to make yourself mortal again? Is it the Betrayer's Curse? But killing is so easy...

You are beginning to panic, when you realise you are approaching a dead end. This is not the Art Gallery... where was it? You can feel the vengeful ghosts of the two girls creeping towards you, twin swords glinting, waiting to be quenched in your blood...

Hope is not lost. At least you were wise enough to choose floor 26, the Ace Of Wands. Wands are aligned to fire, sorcery, guns. There is a wireless recharging station ahead...
(QM: this can slowly recharge your phone)

You see a nervous, tearful ginger-haired girl ahead - she has not seen you. It is the Tearful Ginger Haired Reception Attendant, from the hydrotherapy spa earlier. ( >>5122067 ) She is near the wireless charging position, on her phone and sobbing -

... and I should never have taken this stupid corporate job... I thought this skyscraper was so beautiful and glamorous but it is not for people like us, just billionaires and rich people - on my first day I got no training or help and this weird man also burst in with some gun-shaped object and I did not understand what he was saying but he made obscene gestures at me, and there is a riot outside now and I am stuck in here, and where have the security gone? And what can I do and...

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(you cannot recharge your phone without approaching the Reception Girl)

>You make a mental note to execute the Head of HR at this hotel for their inadequate recruitment, training and personnel onboarding programme later. But for now, shout: I am the Magus, the God-CEO of this Tower! Give me your phone, you pathetic underling! Or you are fired!

>Oh look, the Red Lord gives when he takes away. Actually fire her, by firing your handguns into her (QM: this is how the Bullet Witch gift/curse works, it reloads both handguns, there is no roll) execute this Receptionist and just take her phone.

>Just ignore the Ginger Attendant Girl for the moment. Search the surroundings, is there anything useful here?

>The Vengeful Sword Twins are hunting you. If you stop they will catch up with you. Flee this area, go somewhere else (where to?)

>Ask the reception girl pathetically: please...could you help me? ...help me... please...?

>>5125729
>>You make a mental note to execute the Head of HR at this hotel for their inadequate recruitment, training and personnel onboarding programme later. But for now, shout: I am the Magus, the God-CEO of this Tower! Give me your phone, you pathetic underling! Or you are fired!

>>5125747
And ask her which floor to find
>The Fashion Show
>The Tech Conference
>The Art Gallery
>The Archaeological Exhibition
>Our room

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As you loudly shout and try and intimidate this tearful and sobbing (former?) employee, your mind is suddenly drawn to the old rpg forum thread, and what the autist Kospel and Lil Guro with his disturbing anime avatars as Bish09 might make of this situation. They are probably playing some completely not plagiarised or copyrighted or pirated game like Magus: The Ascension right now, because vampires and masquerades are a bit cringeworthy and died out two decades ago. Why is it that in all rpgs, the option is always to intimidate? Do you intimidate people on a daily, or hourly basis? You wonder if in real life, people often try to play the victim. The psychology of learned helplessness. Perhaps you could try being weak and pathetic - feigning injury, or distress. Hiding your true power. Maybe by playing the victim, pretending to be weaker than you are, you can entice others into sympathy, lure them into giving you what they want...

Is this evil? Is this what the Betrayer is like, what the Betrayer wants?

(As the Magus you do not speak with the voice of a mortal. Used correctly, your actions, words and even thoughts can unmake reality. >>5121985 )

( The Orationist Seer has detected suspicious activity in this area - she is investigating. You are not entirely certain what this faction is like... you generally tried to avoid their attentions in the past. But you have a feeling the Orationists have some power over speech and thought.

If you loudly announce your abilities and status, the magic of the Orationists may detect you. )

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The Ginger Receptionist ( >>5122067 ) looks up at your ranting that has interrupted her phone conversation. Perhaps if you were wearing some corporate attire, you might still be able to command her with some authority, and fear. Her quick glance up at you from her phone catches only a strange lunatic wearing a dirty bathrobe, and she does not bother to ponder over the suspiciously drying brown-red stains and your bulging pockets that may or may not be filled with concealed guns and batons.

The Ginger Receptionist has been crying for so long, she cannot even burst into tears, there is nothing left. Instead something in her snaps and she screams at you back:

You! You are not the CEO, you are just a lunatic! In a bathrobe! I have had it with people abusing me in this stupid corporate place! And you can take this rubbish old business phone! I am going to join the protest, I quit!

(The former Ginger-Haired Receptionist is going to join the riot. She maliciously throws the phone down at the floor in front of you, stamps her foot and leaves)

>Well she has fired herself. Maybe you should fire her formally... it is a free reload. (Execute the Ginger Haired Receptionist before she gets out of this corridor. You will reload both handguns with the Bullet Witch trait to .45 ACP 12/12)

>Take the corporate business phone she maliciously threw at the floor in front of you. It is pretty broken but useable. Then leave this area as fast as possible.

>Recharge your phone at the wireless charging station... how long does this take again? (Roll 1d100)

>You have fallen into another social trap. You should leave this area right now, before both the Orationists and the Sword Twins discover you.

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(QM: I will always consider write-ins with relevant weapons and items etc. You could for instance try some of the following

>Shoot the receptionist with the flare gun (QM: look I am not going to stop you...)
>Try and knock her out with the less-lethal Riot Baton... maybe improve your melee training?
>Something else, or will any violence just make the situation worse...?)

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>5125781
>>Take the corporate business phone she maliciously threw at the floor in front of you. It is pretty broken but useable.
>Recharge your phone at the wireless charging station... how long does this take again? (Roll 1d100)

>>5125786
>>Try and knock her out with the less-lethal Riot Baton... maybe improve your melee training?

Knock her out first of course

>>5125896
Actually there's no need to recharge. We can do everything from her phone.

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Rolled 2 (1d30)

(QM: rolling for battery charge remaining on Damaged Business Phone: Cracked Screen, 1d30 + 30)

Your melee skill with blunt weapons aligned to WANDS has slightly improved.

Overall, your melee ability is still poor.

Ginger-Haired Former Reception Girl >>5122067 Unconscious, Bruised, Wounded, Broken Glasses
The Reception Girl intends to join the Riot. If she wakes, or if she is discovered and helped to recover by a third party, the hordes of protesters will be enraged

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(???)

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(nothing happens)

>>5125917
Execute her with gun before we leave. But check on the phone first

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(You have gained: Broken Corporate Phone)
(battery remaining: 32%)

It seems Fate Herself is passing judgement on your actions. You have not been discovered yet, but this Receptionist's stupid corporate phone only has 32% battery remaining - after you install the tarot app (-20% charge), you will only get one chance...(12% charge left).

In videogames, knocking people out appears instantaneous. Unfortunately, with your melee training, it takes a long time. There is the relentless crunch and swing against the bones of her skull. You think you break some of her teeth, her jaw or cheekbone. She is screaming and flailing but mercifully, in the end she falls silent.

This is the Evil of Heaven - the Betrayer's Curse. You cannot believe it is your own doing. You are not evil. You are just trying to live, to survive.

You are raising the handgun to shoot the Receptionist dead, to end this gruesome affair...

There is a shuffling noise approaching you, the rustle of refuse bags and waste. There is a repulsive stench, beyond that of the merely unwashed, of carrion, decay, decomposition. It is approaching you slowly, and you can hear the rustle of what sounds like chains, metal...

This is it, you realise. The Orationists or those Sword Twins have arrived. You are finally going to be judged for your actions, your horrible crimes and Sin... It is over...

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The stench is coming from what appears to be a heavily armed man. He is carrying a lot, a LOT, of guns. He would appear quite menacing, except... he is wearing underpants on his head. When he sees you, this insane Underpants Cultist mutters -

Hmmm, it is not wearing the underpants... it should be careful...

The Underpants Cultist raises his assault rifle to fire at you. He adjusts his underpants mask obscuring his vision to get a better aim, to shoot at your head - but suddenly he sees your face...

There is a dramatic transformation. The Insane Underpants Cultist falls to his knees. He is trying to kiss your feet, trying to offer you his weapons, pleading, beseeching, blabbering -

It is you, My Lord! We have waited so long! You finally walk amongst us! I will help you, serve you, die for you, do anything, My Lord! All to honour Him! But we must get you to a safe place - I know people. There is a dealer, he-I am not entirely sure he can be trusted, but he is close by. Perhaps you have heard of him? Yargai? He deals in everything. He is not one of us, but he sells and deals to everyone. I can take you to him! And you must take this! Take everything! I must serve you, oh Great Lord! We all must serve you!

(The Underpants Cultist offers you the following:)

Colt 1911 .45 ACP 7/7
Draco, ie AKS-74U 7.62x39mm 30/30

>Why is this cultist offering you a handgun with fewer bullets? He must really be an idiot as well as insane. Ask for a more modern variant of the 1911, like a double-stacked Para-Ordnance with 14/14 rounds in the magazine
>Ask for an 8/8 .45ACP magazine variant 1911
>If you think you understand this Underpants Gun fanatic and his insane reasoning, write-in. You have a phone, you can search if you want

>Follow the Underpants Cultist to meet the Dealer, Yargai

>Ask the Underpants Cultist about why he is wearing underpants on his head (you have a terrible feeling that no matter what you do or choose, he is going to tell you about underpants)

>Execute this underpants lunatic. He will actually help you do this, very enthusiastically.

>Maybe just avoid this strange underpants fanatic. He smells... really bad. Really, really bad. Try and find your way alone? (The Underpants Cultist may follow you around imploringly, however)

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Draco
AKS-74U
Short Range, Loud, Supressing Fire, Blindfire, Inaccurate, High Recoil, Compact, Mobile
Not technically the 7.62x39mm semi-auto pistol variant manufactured by Cugir and imported by Century Arms - a best seller of 2016-17.
Don’t make me spray with the Draco / Shooters they pull up, you shoot when I say so

(QM: ok I could not find a good angle photo of an actual draco like in the drill rap videos, but for game mechanics purposes, this counts as an assault rifle not a pistol. You are not familiar or trained with this class of weapons yet, but your general combat abilities still apply)

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On your phone, there is an autoplaying pop-up video...

(Unknown newscaster) We turn now to a broadcast amidst the riots and outbreak of looting and violence at the Alsephina Tower, where Robert Alle, charity CEO of the Paribus Foundation gives his response to the situation...

(live broadcast)

(Unseen reporter) There are unconfirmed reports that Harvey Leer, the notorious horror film director also known as King Ghoul, King Leer, has been found shot dead with two unidentified women. Mr Alle, do you have a comment on this situation? Weren't the two of you very close friends in the past?

(Robert Alle, CEO Paribus Foundation) Harvey Leer was a very good friend of mine. He gave a lot of charitable donations to Paribus, he really made a difference to our work supporting disadvantaged children, equal opportunities, animal welfare and protecting the environment. Whilst I financed and produced some of his films in a private capacity, I do not in any way agree with their content, the treatment of religion, women and minorities depicted in them, nor would I defend the controversial statements and offensive language that Harvey Leer adopted in his past interviews. I believe that some of it was a persona, a stage persona he adopted to create a certain image and publicity for himself. We needed people like him to reach out to those less fortunate, to those that society has forgotten. In many ways, these riots are a cry for help. We should listen. It is what Harvey would have done. My thoughts and sympathy are with his family in this difficult time, as they navigate this tragic loss.

>This was the Handsome Executive ( >>5124595 ) you saw earlier, arguing with King Ghoul. Something about him feels strange? What a strange name he has, Robert Alle? Rob Alle? Is it worth investigating? (Accept mission: investigate the Paribus Foundation)

>Why investigate. He looks like a worthy sacrifice to the Red Lord Of Ruin. (Accept mission: Assassinate Robert Alle, Paribus CEO)

>This is a distraction. You killed King Ghoul, it is done. Immortals like yourself do not need to meddle with these affairs... You need to focus on getting your magic back as quickly as possible, training your melee and combat skills, getting weapons and items etc

Catching up.

>>5125958
Eh, fuck the cult of .45
>Why is this cultist offering you a handgun with fewer bullets? He must really be an idiot as well as insane. Ask for a more modern variant of the 1911, like a double-stacked Para-Ordnance with 14/14 rounds in the magazine

>Follow the Underpants Cultist to meet the Dealer, Yargai

>Execute the receptionist before we leave with our nearly empty handgun. Reload and exchange both our old USP's for the new handgun he gives us unless he gives us the 1911 with only 8 rounds.

>Why investigate. He looks like a worthy sacrifice to the Red Lord Of Ruin. (Accept mission: Assassinate Robert Alle, Paribus CEO)

Commit to the gifts of the red lord, our skills are blessedly good, at least at range and the gifts are powerful, focus on them. We can go for a hybrid magic/skilled/corruption build with the emphasis being on corruption and skills with weapons. Magick will have to come from our phones unless we find a convenient way to get our full magic back while pursuing our main goals.

>>5125958
Actually, I want to add this as well.

>Take the receptionist's suit jacket off and wear it over our bathroom, use it to store our items.
>Take her shoes as well.

>>5125958
>>Why is this cultist offering you a handgun with fewer bullets? He must really be an idiot as well as insane. Ask for a more modern variant of the 1911, like a double-stacked Para-Ordnance with 14/14 rounds in the magazine
>Follow the Underpants Cultist to meet the Dealer, Yargai
>Execute receptionist, double tap

>>5125985
>>This was the Handsome Executive ( >>5124595 # ) you saw earlier, arguing with King Ghoul. Something about him feels strange? What a strange name he has, Robert Alle? Rob Alle? Is it worth investigating? (Accept mission: investigate the Paribus Foundation)

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QM: just an option with the disguises and inventory. As the Magus you anointed the bathrobe in the blood of innocents(?), so you may choose which version of the item you want:

>Ordinary Bathrobe (realism mode)
It remains an ordinary bathrobe, with only a few pockets, and subject to inventory, encumbrance etc. Perhaps you intend to discard it later when a better outfit comes along. If you choose this option, you must list which items you want to discard now.

>Red Acolyte Robes (unlimited mode)
You are tired of videogames with inventory capacity, where you become encumbered and slowed when carrying too much stuff. You want to carry everything! And you secretly think it might be funny to try and complete this quest as an insane cultist wearing only the starting clothing option.
Trait: The Dead Land Forgets
Gift: you can carry infinite items. Every disguise, every weapon. Access any item that you touched or which was presented to you, similar to the vast battlefield in the Dead Land from the Barbarian qst playthrough in Galerne
Curse: the QM will never show you your inventory. No summaries, nothing. You have to scan the text yourself. If at an important moment in time, you forget you are carrying something... it is on you.

>>5126078
>>Ordinary Bathrobe (realism mode)
Not only that but we will walk around BARE and NAKED as the time we woke up

If we get a new gun from the underpants cultist then dump the two HK USP or let him carry it for us.

>>5126078
>Red Acolyte Robes (unlimited mode)

The fun mode, plus we are a fucking magus, it makes sense.

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Rolled 2 (1d2)

QM: I will roll for it

1 Ordinary Bathrobe (realism mode)
>>5126086

2 Red Acolyte Robes (unlimited mode)
>>5126094

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You have gained trait:
The Dead Land Forgets

Gift: you can carry infinite items. Every disguise, every weapon. Access any item that you touched or which was presented to you, similar to the vast battlefield in the Dead Land from the Barbarian qst playthrough in Galerne

Curse: the QM will never show you your inventory. No summaries, nothing. You have to scan the text yourself. If at an important moment in time, you forget you are carrying something... it is on you.

(You are beginning to realise how you came to forget the locations of all the events and rooms in this skyscraper / wizard tower, even though you built it.)

(The Red Lord Of Ruin may try to trick you by forgetting items at certain moments.)

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Modern Colt 1911
Para Ordnance P14-45
.45 ACP 14/14
Short Range, Concealed, Loud, Quickdraw, Compact
Use in combat to gain traits:
Double-tap, Mozambique Drill

Modernised derivative variant of a 1911, double-stacked high capacity magazine within a widened polymer grip frame.

(QM: the picture is actually a single-stacked Kimber II. Just use imagination, imagine it is a widened 14-round version lol)

>>5126107
Damn it. I guessed who the Magus is correctly and this is what I get.

>>5126113
Just think of all the guns we can carry!

>>5126116
RETVRN TO NATVRE
Plus killing everyone as a naked and crazed lunatic is way funnier.

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>>5124901
The Insane Underpants Fanatic is swaying, as if entering a hypnotic trance. You find you generally have to take very shallow breaths in his presence, because he smells really really bad. Foul and unpleasant. Suddenly the Cultist snaps out of it. He is really happy:

You must understand, these underpants - they are not a disguise. No, no - nothing so crude and simple as that! They are an important religious symbol! They help us remember the Great Injustice! Even if it makes us look a bit like terrorists with dirty rags on our heads - that is a price we are willing to pay.

You see there were these two people once. We call them the Torturer and The Betrayer. Now the Torturer, everyone knows him, we forgot his symbol but we think it was some way of executing people or something. You know he is evil, because his followers venerate this symbol of torture, and go around torturing unbelievers! Now there is the Betrayer, he did a really good thing, he followed Heaven's Edict and betrayed this evil Torturer. How noble, how honourable! Would you not do the same? But what was the reward for our noble Betrayer? What happened to Him? Do followers chant His praises, raise cathedrals in His Name? No! And this is the Great Injustice!

You are almost daring yourself to ask and remind the Cultist to explain the underpants. You are holding your breath (the smell is unbearable) and waiting for the explanation...

Oh yes, the underpants! Well that is very simple. You see all the depictions of the Evil Torturer show him hanging in a strange position, and wearing only underpants around his waist but with a crown of sorts on his head. So we who follow the Betrayer choose to do the opposite, to wear our underpants instead on our head, to symbolise that we know! We know about the Great Injustice, how the Torturer and Heaven betrayed the Betrayer! It all makes sense!

(You think if you keep interacting with this psychotic individual, you will eventually go insane yourself.)

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(You know the location of the weapons dealer Yargai.)

(You are wearing: Bloodstained Receptionist Outfit. Ordinary people think you are a receptionist. Those with witchsight will not be deceived, but they have to suspect you first)

Suddenly the Insane Underpants Cultist becomes very alert. He visibly tenses, and raises his assault rifle.

You did not tell me you were in danger, My Lord... There are evil traitors about! But do not fear! I will protect you! In the name of the Betrayer, and all that is noble, holy and good, in the name of Underpants! Underpants! Underpaaannntsssss!

(The suicidal Insane Underpants Cultist runs off, firing his assault rifle wildly in all directions. You think he may distract your pursuers for a while).

>Go to the weapons dealer Yargai. Maybe he can help you find a magic weapon, or locate a tattooist outside of the tower?

>Investigate the Handsome Executive Robert Alle, CEO of the Paribus Foundation

>Assassinate Robert Alle, Paribus CEO


choose ONE (12% battery on your looted receptionist phone remaining, after installing the tarot app)

>attempt to recover magic (each player can roll once, 1d78, battery -10% to 2%)

>check the rpg forum where Kospel and Lil Guro / Bish09 were posting (battery -10% to 2%)

>something else (write in?)

>>5126148
>Go to the weapons dealer Yargai. Maybe he can help you find a magic weapon, or locate a tattooist outside of the tower?

At least get a magic weapon first, Robert Alle may be magical and some of the people hunting us certainly are.

>check the rpg forum where Kospel and Lil Guro / Bish09 were posting (battery -10% to 2%)

Go for information, no point risking the recovery of our magic to random chance.

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>>5126029
Given the written in option of taking the receptionist outfit, I will also permit this:

>Go to the bottom reception floor of the tower, use your receptionist disguise to discover the location of where the events are held
>The Fashion Show
>The Tech Conference
>The Art Gallery
>The Archaeological Exhibition

and also this (it is a risk, you know I am going to roll for something...)

>use the time bought and the distraction of your devoted follower, the Underpants Cultist, to continue to charge your phone (roll 1d100)

>>5126165
>>Go to the bottom reception floor of the tower, use your receptionist disguise to discover the location of where the events are held

>>5126165
Weapons first, with plans to...
>Go to the bottom reception floor of the tower, use your receptionist disguise to discover the location of where the events are held
>The Fashion Show

For appropriate clothes with which to disguise ourselves in to go out and get our magic in or to wage a guerilla campaign against the various factions, maybe playing them against each other.

But head to Yargai first.

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(The Sword Twins are distracted by the Underpants Cultist)

(The Orationist Seer is still suspicious, and investigating the area)

>>5126158
You eagerly navigate to teddit.net/r/rpg and discover to your dismay that the thread created by KospelTheBestDMEver451 has been deleted. There is no trace of it. But perhaps there are archives, cached proxy pages... you click over to the username list and see the following messages, from quite a long while ago:

User KospelTheBestDMEver451 has been banned by: purpleHair_RPGAdmin
Reason: doxxing
Ban duration: permanent

User Bish09 has been banned by: gingerGirlBoss_RPGAdmin
Reason: offensive language, misogyny, racism
Ban duration: permanent

You are dismayed by this. It is almost like Fate is taking revenge at you from beyond the grave. But you realise - you have the Receptionist's phone. There is actually no need for you to visit the actual reception, and make the long elevator trip back and forth. She must have had an itinerary or schedule with event locations, guest lists? And you are rewarded with:

The Fashion Show
02 II: The HIGH PRIESTESS

The Tech Conference
07 VII: The CHARIOT

The Art Gallery
06 VI: The LOVERS

The Archaeological Exhibition
12 XII: The HANGED MAN

You can see now it was a good idea to have taken this phone. The Underpants Cultist told you he last saw the weapons dealer Yargai at the Tech Conference - probably examining drones, surveillance and other technologies - but the receptionist's itinerary shows you Yargai is now due to visit the Art Gallery. You remember the cultist told you Yargai deals in everything, trades with everyone. You will find him there.

(The Receptionist Phone allows you to locate any important person visiting your tower who is registered on the itinerary and schedule of events. The floors of your tower are mostly segregated. However, if large scale chaos breaks out within a tower floor - fire evacuation, extreme violence etc, bomb threats, this guest location ability will be lost)

Receptionist Phone battery remaining: 2%
Damaged, Cracked Screen (thrown at floor)

(Depending on your choices, the next section could lead to a very divergent series of outcomes. You have a feeling there could be significant danger. If there are any last minute preparations you need to make before visiting Yargai, write-in now)

(QM: I want to confirm this action, because it got interrupted and side-tracked amidst all the underpants pictures I uploaded lol)

>Execute the unconscious Ginger-Haired Receptionist
(this action reloads all weapons to full ammunition, via your Bullet Witch Trait)

>Leave the Receptionist alone, and head to the Art Gallery to visit Yargai

>write-in if there are any preparations you need to make

Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>5126302
Recharge battery then execute receptionist before we leave

>>5126302
Supporting >>5126325

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Rolled 23, 76, 7 = 106 (3d78)

(???)

>>5126302
Actually, charge both our phones at the same time if we can.

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07 VII: The CHARIOT

The Orationists know your current location. They are rushing to it now.

The Orationists will execute you on sight, with no warning whatsoever.

>>5126325
(QM: do you want to use the tarot app, reduce your phone charge -10% to try and replenish your magic? Each player can roll 1d78 once)

Rolled 22 (1d78)

>>5126349
Sure.

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>5126349
And here is a roll for our original phone to charge some if you are willing to take that last minute addition.

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>>5126346
(unfortunately there is only one wireless charging station here. Well remembered though! The Red Lord will try even harder to trick you in the future...

(Is there an action you could take, that might severely limit the ability of the Orationists to track you?)

>>5126359
Throw away our original phone, smash it.

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Receptionist Phone, damaged, cracked screen
2% + 34% -10% = 26%

X Original Phone Destroyed X
>>5126367
(You have smashed the original phone)
(QM: It will not help you right now, but I will just rule this as impeding the Orationist Seer in the future - she will roll 1d78)

Rolled 55 (1d78)

>>5126349

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>>5126356
22 0: The FOOL
You have recovered your magic.

You have gained the spell:
Fool's Masquerade
Render a target into a helpless, babbling fool permanently. With your current ability, you cannot control what the target will do, but in general they will seek to humiliate themselves in a nonviolent but very public manner.

Alternatively, you may use this major arcana to burn in combat. It will allow you to hit on a roll of any major arcana, in addition to the weapon's minor arcana alignment. Boosting the attack this way makes it magical, and able to hurt supernatural foes.

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As you are the Magus, in your current situation, I will also allow this:

Fool's Masquerade (variant: cast on self)
Combine this spell with an appropriate item and cast on self (doing so destroys it permanently)
When cast on self, behave like an idiot to reduce suspicion and make an opponent believe you are in fact harmless. The item chosen will be destroyed permanently.

If you are ready, confirm the following:

>Head to The Art Gallery (06 VI: The LOVERS) and meet with the Weapons Dealer, Yargai

>write-in any other preparations (the Orationists are moving to your last known location now...)

>>5126421
>Head to The Art Gallery (06 VI: The LOVERS) and meet with the Weapons Dealer, Yargai

>>5126421
>Head to The Art Gallery (06 VI: The LOVERS) and meet with the Weapons Dealer, Yargai

>>5126421
Do we even have money to pay Yargai with? I know both of us voted to get a bag to take the money with us >>5123343 >>5123349 >>5123330 but in your next post we didn't do that despite us both voting for it. Or can we just conjure up money due to our reality warping?