Kaktus 2024/09/14(Sat)16:28 No. 1097400 ID: 681cb5
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>Hand off a copy of Vex's viral analysis as show of both good faith and interest in her colony's problems.
Vul: “…I will forward this to the medical personal on the colony, though I am unsure how much they will actually be able decipher from it.”
>Explain the accelerated pregnancy process as well as the rapid growth into adults.
Vul: “Ah, I did suspect something like that.”
Zento: “You did?”
Vul: “Indeed. After all, the hybrid I saw was an adult.” she walks down the stairs from her throne, passing you, “So unless your kind aging process is massively accelerated, it was a given that there was something else.”
Zento: “And for our exchange?” as her finely carved ass passes you, you opt to follow her, “Do you wish for some accelerated growth as well?”
Vul: “No.” the gargoyle answers bluntly, “Neither the pregnancy nor the rapid growth afterwards is needed. No need to rush these things.” A though passes her eyes, “Though, I will understand if the females you provide me with wishes for an accelerated pregnancy, so they may return to duty instead of staying here.”
Zento: “Understood.”
>Finding ten volunteers shouldn't be too hard.
Vul: “Oh, you think they will be eager to join in a paid orgy, hmm?” looking over her shoulder, she gives you a sultry look, “Maybe you wish to join yourself?”
Zento: “The thought have crossed my mind, yes.” you say with a smirk, “Of course, discussing logistics can wait until after we’ve signed the contract, no? After all, we don’t want this contract to fall through because of a bad signature, hmm?”
Vul: “Now now, no need to rush, Captain.” you can hear her chuckle as she turns away from you and continue walking, “We ha

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Kaktus 2024/09/14(Sat)16:28 No. 1097401 ID: 681cb5
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>...wait, if we've powered down the ship, do we still have our prisoner contained and the drones cared for?
We only powered down non-vital systems, not everything. Besides, if that tree lady would wake up, she’s still stuck in what is pretty much a metal cage. Metal doesn’t really need power, does it?
>That's what we detected in the scans, isn't it? Why did it disappear though? We need to do research.
We definitely need more information, and while our own experiments on the crew is a start, we will require some harder to get data as well.
>Did *all* of our alien crewmates get fertility treatments?
Of course not! Twin suns, you’re pretty sure none of them did in the first place!


>Could it be? Could they be trying to exterminate all life other than themselves because they are also biologically doomed?
Vul: “…wait, why would they be biologically doomed?”
Zento: “I am not… sure where I got that from.” you sheepishly rub the back of your head, “And it is more likely a form of population control, now that I think about it. To make sure that nobody can gain the numbers needed to attempt to overthrow the IOD.”
Vul: “Seeing as there are other species that want to commit genocide on everyone that isn’t them, I wouldn’t be surprise the IOD wants to do it as well.” she starts tapping the screen again, “Here, let me show you a map of the sector. Well, it’s more of a flowchart on how all the hyper way connection between zones of influence.”

An image filled with text and lines show up in front of you. You do recognize a surprisingly many of the words, even though you’re unsure what they mean.

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>>1097401
How to fight them? Well, with territory that big, guerrilla tactics can work pretty well. Striking at their logistics network will weaken them, as well as their communications. If we can find some kind of critical weakness in their ship designs that'd be pretty important.

We can't really fight them at all without a fleet strong enough to win medium engagements reliably. We can currently handle small engagements, but those are just scouts. Any half-decent escort fleet protecting a point of interest or VIP is going to ruin us as we are.

Alright, more information could be needed here-- what forces compromise the bulk of IOD space power? If we can find some way to make a large IOD faction switch sides, then that could turn the tide.

Currently we should be keeping to the free zone and growing our fleet. Once we have ships that aren't being actively looked for we can try to make inroads with the peoples under IOD influence. Spreading our reproductive tech as well as what we learn about the infertility virus would both lessen IOD control as well as build goodwill for us.
Trying to take on the IOD face on seems like suicide, given how harshly they've put down the last rebellion.

Long-term? Do what the last rebellion did (finding out how and why they failed goes without saying), and form a new alliance of any world, of any race, within these stars willing to join us in our fight for freedom. The plan is to start making deals with people with influence, intelligence, or resources to both give aid to your cause, and ultimately establish a inter-planetary network to coordinate the rebellion. This is best done under the radar, before any declaration of war. Indeed, it could win us one before it starts.

For now, it's fulfilling the terms of THIS deal. You can sweeten it by assigning your best men and women on it.

After that, your best course of action is actually to Ralome Tauzaka clan territory. Vul can arrange a diplomatic envoy for you to guard. It's risky to venture into low influence territory this early, but I have a hunch there should be a family meeting sooner than later. With their association with you going public soon, you'd better make sure everyone's on the same page. Best case, they're all for it. Worst case, they plan to save face by sending Tizli's and Tozlan's exile, and that's not ideal but it's manageable.

Establishing yourself among the free zone is sound, but you don't know the Plumi very well and your key to the Free Ports went out the airlock. Diplomacy in the latter seems like it would require bigger guns from us, now if it didn't always (it was probably always).

>Yet he... feels far away from here, away from the cottage.

hmmm... ask kid carter if there is a place far from here that he likes to visit when he feels depressed or needs to think. Whatever kid carter answers is probably where adult carter went, and we can will ourself over to him.

I think before we leave to find Carter, we should also ask if kid Carter actually saw adult Carter, or if he was invisible to him. He didn't seem to have as big of a response to adult carter than he had with us. Something tells me he only see's you, but can't see Carter.

We can also probably ask kid Carter from his perspective what we look like to him. If to us, he looks like a silhouette like kid Marlene did, then perhaps we look different to him too.

>>1097269
Call out for Adult Carter, if he doesn't respond, you might want to start looking for him.
>>1097324
Seconding this, right before you search you might need to take his child-self along too just to be sure.

>>1097324
On second thought, Carter said he did remember seeing us, so we would probably be recognizable to him. Still, I wanna know what kid carter sees in our appearance to see if there is anything different about how he see's us, and how we see ourselves.

Being two people at once would be very unsettling. This might just be too weird for Carter and he needs some space. Imagine if he were talking to a younger version of you, and you started remembering talking to someone when you were young.

So that's why Carter thought you were an angel! You have only one set of horns of course, but it's an easy mistake to make. You might tell him he's very lucky to have Kadath as a friend. You've never even met an angel before!

Call it a hunch, but I got a feeling Kadath here might be the one in charge. Might be worth trying to track them down.

Grimothy 2024/09/12(Thu)12:05 No. 1097313 ID: 0d1c28
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Grimothy goes after Rodrick to aid Konda, but Rodrick deflects his attack send the rifle clattering to the ground

Rodrick goes in for a strike against Grimothy but he backs out of they just in time to avoid a flame strike from Konda, specialized to be more effective against non-living matter it scorches through Rodrick's sickle. and gives him a slight burn.

Rodrick: "Yeouch!"

Konda: "I'm not done yet!"

Rhonda moves in to attack Grimothy, but can't land a blow.

Corrathyn retreats, Carlene retreats

Round four

Enemies and allies will take turns acting
Select a single character to act and explain what they do

-CT01 Grimothy
-CT02 Konda
-PH01 Corrathyn
-PS01 Carlene

Konda! Strike Rodrick again and try to take out his other weapon!

Konda, get Roderick!

Grimothy, counterattack Rhonda! Again!

Konda can probably knock Rodrick down with a leg sweep and trip him up.

Chocomaca 2024/09/01(Sun)10:47 No. 1096774 ID: 0b30aa
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The Super Star Empress contacts me through instruments of the ship.

"Shadow, we have located the Spektre agent, it's in the sewers near an information hub platform. Who would have guessed?"

"I cancelled the council and I'm using my normal approach to this problem. Should I eliminate the main surrectionist to make their effort collapse?"

"You should have taken the chance to appease the mass of center lords in unstable times, who knows what they feel anguish to do now as a discertained mass of antennae and mouthpieces?"

"I will eliminate the mastermind and the scheme will void out and the insurrection will be dismantled."

"You could take a ground battleship to shadow the skies then, make the insurrectionists shake in the presence of their superiors."

Hmm a ground battle ship is good for back up if things go wrong...

Still let's assemble a retune. The faster we deal with the agent the better.

Chocomaca 2024/09/11(Wed)11:43 No. 1097266 ID: d90a7a
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"Empress of the Shadow, we've located three possible locations of the surrectionist main agitator, but he is himself turned off all the implants and tracking mediums and is according to personal surveillance possibly wearing a multi-invisibility cloak that makes his optronic tracking with remote drones impossible as well.
#the Yacht that's run by the personnel and a small retune,
#the Palace where his family is located and
#the meeting of the other agitators."

And then the Retinue.

Three Xenomorphs and some of my personal body guard the Black Cloaks. Should we descent into a direct ambush in the meeting with the surrectionist leader or should we beam into his personal Yacht, or his personal palace?

Surprising him on his yacht seems most advantageous.

Yeah we should get his yacht. it would deprive him of a escape craft if nothing else.

that's gotta be a costume and someone is pranking you...

but then again, a demonic raven did speak to you so...

>>1096953

magpie

>>1096938
Support i must support this art also it makes sense

Hey that looks like Mari Lwyd, you'd best rap back or be destroyed.

Sorry, hooded homie, I sure don't wanna fight,
but if it's all the same to you, I'm gonna keep the light.

Yea, watch all of these in order. You MUST have context!

The numbers... are they iterations? Like, each time the colonists alter the past, they choose if they want to preserve their memories from the previous iteration of the timeline or if they want the next iteration to take their place.

Either you @#$%ed up, or you were forced to @#$% up.
Decisions like these... you can't half-ass them, and you can't minimize the number of people making such a choice. Maybe the colonists would have created a hellish dystopia of the ancient world - created literal Hell by repeatedly torturing the same exact people to death, over and over, to pander their egos. Or maybe you were deceived, brainwashed into thinking the colonists were all insane and had to be murdered. A few saboteurs will never be enough to fully inform themselves.

The question is, how pressured were you to trust yourselves? Because this is a dumb decision - too dumb. It's possible you were wired this way by an outside force. Serenity-100 would have the perfect motivation to excessively screw you over - kill all the other colonists, and he'd obtain a monopoly on supertech and could finally play god with the world.

just say that the message didn't really tell you anything new, it just hurt to hear it coming from your own mouth, as it were.

Lets watch another, they can't all be heartbreaking confessions, right?

I second the motion that you play another record and that you don't talk about this yet.
We don't know what else is on these records but at least the language barrier might help with them not getting too much possibly disturbing information out of it before you want to show your whole bloodstained hand here. :/

Also, this might be the only time to see them for yourself if Shyama decides that you shouldn't have access to them once the others tell them about this.
PS: I am not sure yet how the timeline with the bodyswap works out, so think about the voice in that record: was that your intonation, your typical choice of words or does it feel like that might have been another person in the body that you inhabit right now? (The text color matches but it doesn't really match up with the way you pictured yourself in your dreams)

PPS: Also, maybe tell Maya a bit about how the projection works technically, I have the feeling that she may appreciate that :3

>>1097212
We can't have context, we need to watch them totally out of order. Pick 5!

Presses Start

Remove the typo in the game files or the AI will be dumb

>>1096989
Add typos to the game files to prevent the AI uprising

Add Silly Comments in the game's code that no one will see until people break open the game thirty years later.

You know those 5g cell phone transmitters. Ride around in a pickup truck with sledgehammers, maybe five six guys. Bring a ladder and rope.

Once all those are down maybe something a little bigger to take down the cell phone towers themselves.

>>1096852
Do A Flip!

Double check; I'm assuming these things are pretty expensive. You can get complacent once you have a few runs under your belt. :P

Don't forget to form a deep bond with your Voidslave in order to work together perfectly while piloting.

Pat your Voidslave in the head to get started. In other words, pat yourself in the head.

It's not jumping, it's falling... with style.

So do we know where we're going to land?

10/11 Hop 2024/09/06(Fri)20:27 No. 1097092 ID: 3f89df
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"Not great, Posini has been most definitely stalking me. Lately, I saw him four times yesterday, and last night he tried to stab me and sliced a little of my neck; thankfully, he didn't brush any of the arteries."
Wilabo's ears lower. "Oh, I heard about that; it happened in the casino, right? Posini got angry that you won the poker game and attempted to slice you for it. Are you hurt?"
I rub my neck, where a dull pain still exists. "A little bit; my Magic has been helping in the healing process, but it still stings from time to time."
"That's good, I haven't really seen posini at all, just when we all entred this school, and from even today, I don't know what he's really like, but from what I heard he's dangerous."
Iceli chimes in
"Do you think he's a serial killer? Or one of those other badguys? You the one who strips his victims bare after killing them, takes out their organs, and uses them for his potions? He does wear an mask all the time."
"Maybe, maybe or! Maybe he takes off their skin cleans their skulls, and then use them as a mask, his mask seemed very, bone-like, and his name would be the Bone-Wearer."
*Cough* They look right over to me; it seems they got their attention again.
"Iceli and Wialbo, me and Alex were wondering if you wanted to go the gym with us?"
Iceli stomps her feet in excitement. "Sure! I haven't really gone to the Gym that much, but I'm always ready to try new things!"
Wilabo hesitates a bit "I

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11/11 Hop 2024/09/06(Fri)20:27 No. 1097093 ID: 3f89df
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"So Wilabo, how's it been living with Iceli?"
"Oh, it's been good, I've learned a lot more about her, that's for sure."
Iceli adds on:
"And we've been doing some other things as well besides anime, like games! Such as-"
Wilabo immediately begins fluttering her arms back and forth in front of Iceli's mouth, her face blush red. "Oh Uhmm Iceli! All that stuff's too dull, and they don't want to hear about it. Let's talk about ummm.... The magical rankings! Yeah!"
I think letting my imagination run wild was Wilabo's first mistake; her second mistake was being Wilabo, I think I get a decent idea of what those two are doing, and as much as I want to press them on it, I think allowing you to give suggestions on what should I say to tease her.

What should I ask Wilabo or Iceli during our walk, Beans? Having more information on them would be suitable for getting a good scope on them, both friendly and for any future plans.

Eh, give her a break, as funny as teasing is, i think its time we got serious. Talking about the magical ranking is a good stepping stone. Talk about any concerns you might have on your ranking, and how its partly why you want to go to the gym, to train your magical abilities with your physical strength together and come up with some good combinations.

From there, you can talk about what kinds of magical abilities everyone has, and agree to keep each others' a secret within this friend group. Tell them you'd like to know so that we can come up with some fun training exercises and regimes based off of what abilities everyone has

Ask wilabou how she'd feel about having a hypothetical bundle of spirits shoved inside of her that could give her protips and also opinions and thoughts and watch anime with her.

y'know, purely hypothetically, as if that was something magicli could do to a random person.

you could even ask iceli too

>>1097198
And Alex too... you know, just so he doesnt get left out. Dude can also use some of our advice now and then... (dont say that part out loud)

>>1097020
Sure then. Let's go.

this sounds like AHN models are also a once per sector thing, if there were many agreement would not be so easy

yeah, let's go see what she's excited about

>>1097020
"oh i am not that sort of busy right now, to not help you my door is always open to help anyone"
"i been wondering some idle thoughts like who made the first robot? and why not just make more of the same parts and wait with assembly until everything is there, or like why does lust and love exist? what are emotions realy? what exact part causes it? why feel? i think therefor i A.M such things"

>Hold hands

but i dont know how to spoiler

> but i dont know how to spoiler
go to the rules tab at the top of the page, click it, go to the FAQ tab and it tells you how to do a bunch of stuff from spoilers to dice rolls, to more

well, with your shirt all torn up you need to find somewhere where you'd blend in. Head towards the strip club where no one will give you a second glance while you try and find something to cover yourself up with. Hell maybe you'll get lucky and be able to nab some of the striper's clothes when they toss their clothes to the side.

Does anyone still get physical newspapers in your neighborhood? That would be an easy fix for your shirt problem.

wear your shirt backwards! the perfect crime! will cover up your breasts (but inconveniently reveal your crotch since the backside was drafty, probably revealing your butt)

And yeah maybe look for some newspaper, but also remember that you left a key somewhere in the yard. Hopefully mr or ms angry squirrel you just pissed off isn't there waiting for you later, wherever it is... not that you remember right now!

Maintenece: Shirt backwards, get a newspaper. Also, think you can use the morning dew on the grass as liquid to stick some leaves on your private parts?

What do: got a trampoline? If not, steal borrow one from a neighbor, and drag it under the open window. Then, bounce bounce bounce higher and higher until you can reach and climb in the window. Dont worry, its totally not because we wanna see your breasts bounce or anything

god of ENF, Plz make worm derklord bounce so high, that she overshoots how high she bounces, ends up in the sky, and fall into a moving pickup truck full of pillows that will drive her farther from her home

>>1097078
Lick leaf.
Slap on nipple.
Bam!
Instant shame free existance.

That was a particularly nasty squirrel.
Remember where he is though.
Four would be all youd need to fashion an emergency furkini.
If you could find acorns, youd be able to do it without skinning them.
Just negotiate and hire them to hang on to the relevant areas until youre home free.

3/4 Grey 2024/09/05(Thu)19:04 No. 1097008 ID: 3f89df
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"Everyone deserves second chance-"
"Look what they've done to you; he says, putting his hand on my bandaged face; remember what they did to my father, what happened to Bardeibor, even at our recent trip to Viera's temple, you were sexually assaulted by them when I was in a meeting."
"It's fine Crocodile-"
"NO IT'S NOT, GREY. I'm sick of you dismissing yourself from what happens so as not to ruffle any feathers of the ones higher up the food chain."
He breathes and exhales. "If GoldScale doesn't get his money, we will lose everything, our land, our home, our pepole, nothing, he'll mark us as traitors, and we'll be run out where the insectoids will devour us, and yet you wish to throw away, our plans and for what?"
At first, my mind was blank, but then I remembered the message you told me, Muni, a way to explain my reasoning.
"Where laying the foundations for a new future, the way we've done before will just reveal itself to tragedy again and again; the way we've done is the same as GoldScale uses to oppress us; if we followed his way, we'd be repeating the cycle, however with what we lose in political bargaining, we make up for it with a special ingredient; Hope with that hope we've purchased their loyalty, and they'll produce more then if they where miserable, slaving away doing mindless tasks."
There's a great silence in the room while Crocodile turns his head to the ground. I hoped that I had finally made sense to him, yet in a moment, he looked up to me and tackled me, pinning me to the wall.

4/4 Grey 2024/09/05(Thu)19:04 No. 1097009 ID: 3f89df
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"So is this is what it's all about? you know. I've trusted you , put you in charge of running the logistics of Bloodeia, and allowed you to sleep in my bed, sleep with me. Even though our relationship is frowned upon due to your status, yet you turn around and say that you are creating a libertarian populist uprising? All it took was for me to give you a tiny bit of power, and you immediately disregarded my word, my land

I'm dumbfounded, I trusted Crocodile; enough so with this information, Even though he works as hard as a labourer and doesn't seem to care much about his status, I was naive to think that uprooting the system in which his power originates wouldn't bug him, and now I'm here, pinned to the wall; my worst nightmares of our relationship come true across the cloudy skies of today; Even though we are far away from the capital, he still owns the right to execute, imprison, or do whatever he wishes with me, due to our class differences; I'm shaking, even war was less scary than this, maybe it was because it wasn't committed from someone I looked up too and love, Muni my mind is blank, and I need to say, something; anything, what should I do? What should I say?

Like I said, you can do better than that idiot.
He has a solid argument... but it's powered by discrimination, mechanized with delusion, and built upon a foundation of privilege: the trifecta of most human tyrants.

This ties back to GoldScale, and Crocodile's servitude towards that dick. Even though you both hate that loan shark of a kobold tyrant, and for good reason, his foremost thoughts are of appeasing GoldScale rather than rebelling against him. Crocodile hasn't realized that by freeing our slaves, we have a new path to take should the colony be unsalvageable; just follow them. If we earn their trust then some will show us their ways and the methods they would attempt to use to escape slavery. Crocodile is so afraid of GoldScale's authority that he projects those fears onto the paranoia of you usurping his own.

Well, guess what, ya motherkiller: We're the Viceroys here. If Crocodile is dead-set in his authority-worshipping ways, then you need to find a way to force him to recognize us.

But for now, start with this:
"You are the one who lifted me up. And you did it because you were high - and alone.
If we are to survive, we can not do it alone. If we make all the colonists our slaves, Goldscale will grant them freedom - in exchange for their lies. They would claim our colony never existed, that we used them to mine some fictional gold vein in territory that allegedly belongs to GoldScale or other such atrocities, especially any we actually inflict on slaves, and then we would still lose everything."

...Also I am very sad to hear that you were sexually assaulted how soon can we arrest the prick who did that?

What is he talking about? What uprising? They are still slaves for the time being, Crocodile is still just as much in charge. And if or when they earn their freedom they would either leave or continue to work under you.

You were just trying to give the workers the motivation they will need in these trying times. If Crocodile didn't want you to make decisions he should have been clear he wanted a mindless servant. Though that would change your relationship to a much colder one. No one can love a user.

>>1097009
You were looking to the future, grey mother.

Repeat the same system, recieve the same result.
Goldscale will never relinquish ownership of a profitable tribute giver.
Should we reach our tributes with spare resources, he will not kindly congratulate us with a warm smile.
He will squeeze harder.
You are not seen as people, nor subjects.
You are to be farmed.
We all know what happens to the muffalo that no longer gives wool or milk...

You seek to break that cycle.
Not just for them outside, but for you all too.
They may not be readily visible but you two are bound in chains.
To continue as you are, as goldscale expects you to, is to wait patiently at the butchers block.

As to the humans, i dont trust them completely either grey mother, but these here i dont think you can view as just any human.
They are outsiders.
Cast away by their own and removed from the positions that make other humans so untrustworthy.
You may see a difference in them robbed as they are of the authority of the throngnofbhumanity at their back...

Does he worship his friends?
I'm worried he might worship his friends and treat their 'advice' as gospel.
In the late stages, God is his friend. Who he worships.

>>1096586
Are you really sure hes a good guy underneath or is that something you started telling yourself more and more as the years went on?
What was the last thing he did that reminded you that you love him?
Maybe...
Maybe its just been a crazy night.
Maybe hes a good guy like you say but youll need a drilling team to dig deep enough through the compacted asshole layer and fossilised totalfuckingdickheadium to reach the good right now.

Give yourself space from him and any sharp objects that might just end up planted in his forehead.

There are thousand, dare I say a million better ways to adress the issue, and we likely should do it at a much less pressing time, especially with the police on the way.

But publicly emasculating your big meanie husband might still teach him a lasting lesson is way funnier.
KICK HIM IN THE UNDERBELLY!

You have a counterpoint about saving his wood. Without you, you'd be going back to a cold house with no way to stay warm. Actually, will you be returning to a warm house? Having run off to town, there's nothing stopping the harvesters from harvesting your wood again.

But you can totally make a loud, emasculating joke about this. "Yeah? Well, if I hadn't spent all that time looking for it, I wouldn't think you had any wood at all!"

This isn't about me George. You have a problem. I need you to help me fix it, so we can get past this and maybe survive the night. Just think about it! We can talk later.

>>1094907 Legit question here. Who said this was the archduke's orders? Figuring that out gives us a lead. What's wrong with investigating? Either it's legit and we get lauded for Opsec or it's fake and we uncover enemies.

I agree that trying to see the Arch-Duke ASAP is a good idea to check that he actually gave that edict.

N'Thar 2024/08/30(Fri)12:35 No. 1096705 ID: 0d1c28
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N'Thar is pretty sure both himself and Laret have partaken of wine.
could this decree have some connection to the song?
he needs to know more'Who said this was the archduke's orders? did he tell you in person? did you see him?'

Niole flushes 'welll no, Niffle told us '

Of course! N'Thar remembers, he had tasked Niffle with delivering the paper to the Duke.
did Midas really relay this order through Niffle?
'didn't that strike you as odd? since when is the archduke in a condition to give orders?'

I ssupposse ssince now?Niole guesses

Niole apparently knows nothing.
Does N'thar go in to see Archduke Midas? or is something else that needs to be done first?

Looks like Niffle's fiddling with people's brains.

I wonder if it's connected to Niffle specifically or if the rat's weakened everybody's will. We could try giving a few orders to the snakes ourselves, see if they budge.

~~And I'm always up for a chance to strip Lylene~~

I think he should go and see Midas while asking someone else to find Niffle so they can be questioned about what's going on.

rolled 99 = 99

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Rolling for luck:
1-5: Horde Collective gets screwed over, +3 Panic and +1 Suspicion
6-60: Horde Collective takes unnecessary casualties obeying your commands, +2 Panic and +2 Suspicion, 138th Legion retired from duty and replaced with new legion
61-95: Horde Collective generally gets things under control but still thinks your orders were weird, +1 Suspicion
96-100: Horde Collective scores total victory, -1 Suspicion

I don't believe it.
I had the 138th march in a circle across the fortress ground floor, and the Coalition still lost.

My generals are already praising the 'feint' - apparently the insane move distracted enough of the ballistae operators that the 93rd were able to swoop in with minimal casualties.

The Horde Collective has regained the morale it needed, and it's all my fault.

On the plus side, capturing those idiot captains means I can personally grill them for info and remove their incompetent asses from the fight.

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The battle's over. Now that I look upon this... 'fort', all I see is an incumbent ruin that should have been demolished a long time ago. I'm no engineer, but something is wrong with the enchantments on the stone; I think the base bricks are shaking.

Some random lizardfolk walks up to me.

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Well considering how useful it would be to the coalition if retaken option 1 would leave them with massive maintenance issues while option 3 would leave them with nothing. Option 2 though would leave them all they need to get things going with ease. Especially since the ease of the win makes light defenses seem fine. Who would expect them to hit again so soon following such a serious blow?

Perhaps it's time to reconsider the direction of your approach, for you have been given an unique opportunity here:

Usually, people who want to "change the System after reaching a position of power" are changed by the System long before they reach any useful rank. But you jumped directly to the top, you're still yourself!

So instead of sabotaging the Horde Collective, you could change it instead. Slowly turn the Collective into the Coalition, since you bypassed the System's main defense, you are in a unique position to influence it.

(1/1) kome 2024/09/01(Sun)23:40 No. 1096820 ID: eb0a9c
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>>1095361
Hm... when I think about it, the first and third options seem looney. They're going to want that base immediately- wait. Immediately.
Me: "Get the mine running. I want the first shipment deployed by tomorrow."
Jup: "What?!But sir, we only have fifty qualified miners-"
Me: "I don't think you understand. Take the 138th legion and shove pickaxes into their hands. Actually, you know what? Give them the explosives you were going to use in option 3."
Jup: "But they- y- I can't-"
I stare her down.
Me: "Just do it."
I make a huge speech in front of the 138th legion, talk about tempering their success with gold, and promote Joh on the spot to Mine Foreman. He seems to be- okay leaving now ew ew ew
I'll need some time to find a way to contact the Coalition, but maybe the 138th will manage to blow themselves up as I intended.

>>1095385
I wish I could do that, but the Mad Gods would smite me. Still, the fact that they haven't intervened with the possession of their overlord for a whole day means they probably don't care. If I put on a show getting their little toy soldiers killed, they might even let me leave at the end of it.
Tibberloch: "By the way, the God of Couriers will be meeting you at 6."
Me: "Have the maids order catering from - WAIT WHAT?!"

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Well, in a way, My.a instantiated all of them. Might have even been on purpose.

She's going in the block!

I want to say Conduit is too much to deal with right now, and should be kept suspended until the mission is over and you can get her a body. But how long will that be? It would be so tempting to leave her there, just until things get a little less hectic. And then she stays trapped indefinitely because there's always a new problem to deal with.

So cheaper proxy body, let her prove her ability while showing her you can be trusted.

>>1095133 I forgot to clarify, this is a vote for the proxy.

>>1095116
Put her in the block, suspended.
Anything that buys time and allows for later imprisonment to review options in a better situation.

>>1096079
Tap it with something hard like a small rock.
Place a mycellum against the ehell as you do so and see what you can feel with the vibration.

My turn. Handy 2024/08/27(Tue)20:04 No. 1096588 ID: 2b99c2
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>>1096148
>>1096083

You find a stone and wrap a psuedopod around it, using it to tap on the monolith. It rings with a curious reverbation, and in response dark psuedopods emerge from the seam in its material. Three of them, rising up, with fractal branches near the ends that terminate in dark, blunt claws.
It warbles sounds at you, and there's a pause.

The warbles grow more urgent, more sharp, before it slows to a stop.

Oh. Of course. This is, after all, my containment. The box is just... a box, it couldn't hold me. But there's no one here to talk to but Y O U. The little thing you pilot can't even hear me properly. But Y O U can. Only three of you? That's it? Sure, I was put here because no one will bother with it, but... That's a little sad.

It's doing nothing. You should move back home and return to marshaling ideas.

Tell you what, let's make a deal. I can't open this like this. If you're more interested in seeing what I can do, just... uh, give me a little more.

Only three h a n d s won't do me any good... By the way, good to meet Y O U. No names here... Well, no names that matter for Y O U, but I'm Handy. It's a pleasure.

>Explore past the holes.
>Return home.
[color=red]>Examine the holes.[/red]
>Something else?

Well there's certainly something in this shell, yet if you can't open it then time to head home.

Might as well check out those holes while you're out here though. Just a quick look.

Well, let's examine the holes before we go home.

>>1096588
Holes
So many good things.
Passage somewhere else, buried treasure, well... biomatter, defenses,
Check those holes

Evel'yee: 'Accidentally' open up your shirt and feign terror (Seduce)
Tanna:Intimidate, grab the nearest brazier.
"You will not rape her! I will roast you alive first!"
Mina: Cast Fireball, do the actual roasting while everyone else is distracted.

OK it's not the end of the world. Butterfly made a mistake, but Evel'ee is holding together, for now. Bakoth is an asshole, but we'll do our best to keep him from getting to you.

1. you don't want to remember. You don't need your memories right now. You can worry about them later.

2. Darkness can be a friend. Any threats of exposing you are empty, because you have friends and you will have friends that care about who you are, not what you are. Do not doubt their compassion!

3. There is no razor's edge, there is nothing to question. Kick Roderick's ass, keep Bakoth at a safe distance, get the box. You know what to do.

4. Bakoth can put thoughts in your head, but he is not you. You can trust yourself, you know who you are, and neither we nor him, nor any lost memories can make you do what you don't want to do.

5. The Butterfly might be a threat, but that's not Mina's fault, and Bakoth can't see the future. Right now the only threats are Roderick, and Bakoth making rash, ignorant decisions.

Is that grease flammable? Fireball it if so.

To my understanding, unaugmented Grease isn't flammable; there's a higher circle version of it called Incendiary Slime which is, and there's a few ways to push more oomph in the Grease spell to make it flammable. Unless a more efficient flammable version of it was discovered since I've been in this form, maybe?

I've forgot about the chakram! Throw it at him so while there is some distance between you and Roderick.

Injecting cute boy thoughts into Ceri's head
D, C

A and D! either order would certainly lighten things up :V.

D, A Brave of him to be hanging out without pants and a huge guitar. is he secretly packing serious penis behind it to cover up :3c

D! He's hot, fire is hot, it's like poetry!

D, C. Wow I bet that guy's singing is HOT stuff right? Maybe the rest of him is too underneath his pantslessness and guitar

B, most of the twins cards seem to be built around getting more cards on the field, and they don’t have any character stronger than the kraken, so the odds a character would have an effect that would save them seems low. A trap wouldn’t be able to be used this turn, so spell seems like the best choice here.

>>1092722
agreed on this

Enid & Franklin Vs. Charisse END Art By Poltergeist Ethanoic Acid 2024/08/25(Sun)18:54 No. 1096479 ID: ab55d7
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Charisse’s Field:
Eggplant-Kraken [3000/2500]

Franklin & Enid’s Field:
Lillian, The Olympian (A) [3000/3000]

Enid draws.

She and Franklin stare down at their card. It was a simple Spell, but not one that could get them out of their current predicament alone.

[ Team Captain Selections, Spell-Card: “Declare a level between 1 and 4, and then reveal your deck. Your opponent selects any character of the declared level from it, and special summons them to their side of the field, and if they do, you may do the same.” ]

“Is this good right now?” He asks. Enid doesn’t answer, clearly too deep in thought. Patiently, he awaits her conclusion.

Seconds later, she snaps her fingers. “We need to call Character on ‘No Peeking…’!”

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Enid & Franklin Vs. Charisse END Art By TheENFman 2024/08/25(Sun)18:55 No. 1096480 ID: ab55d7
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“I think I see where this is going,” Charisse says. “Next, you’re gonna combine him and Lillian to get his adult version, which is either strong enough to beat my kraken or has an effect to get rid of it. Am I right?”

“No,” Franklin bluntly answers. “...That’s not what we’re doing, right?”

“Middle-school is all we need,” Enid says. “Rodney’s effect lets us boost the attack of another character by 1000 Attack Points! And we’ll be doing that to Lillian!”

“Ah, so that’s how we die,” Charisse mutters. “Hey, isn’t she immune to card effects?”

“Only our opponent’s effects,” Enid clarifies. “Clive was able to equip himself to her, right?

Rodney pats Lillian on the back. “Hey, I believe in you!”

Lillian smirks, flexing as her already toned body seems to increase in muscle mass. “Thanks. I won’t let you down.”

[ Lillian: 4000 ATK 3000 DEF ]

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Enid & Franklin Vs. Charisse END Art By Tippler 2024/08/25(Sun)18:56 No. 1096483 ID: ab55d7
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The start of Charisse’s turn has everyone sitting on the edge of their seats. Enid and Franklin are especially tense.

Charisse doesn’t draw, instead looking up at her opponents and throwing them a friendly smile. “You’ve got all your cards on the table, so why don’t I do the same?”

“Huh?”

In a shocking move, Charisse flips her hand around, revealing it to everyone.

Eggplant-Kraken (Level 10 Character Card, 3500 ATK 2500 DEF)
Kiwi-Molebeast (Level 5 Character Card, 1800 ATK 1400 DEF)
Holly-Headsplitter: (Level 7 Character Card 2600 ATK 2000 DEF)

“Because I have no Characters on my field, PLANTIMALS Theme Song gives me an extra Normal Summon for this turn. Right now though, I don’t have a play”

“Even with a hand filled with Characters, you don’t have any you can summon without a tribute.” Enid says.

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