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>>36728051
Oh, right, and on top of everything shit that’s happened to you thus far, your little act of locking yourself in with a prisoner turned out be a horrid mistake. You DID break Myrra’s arms and legs, and were hoping to take her back for questioning (i.e. “why the fuck are you trying to murder the Blue Bomber and working with a giant fly nemesis”), but surprise surprise, magic-users are all nasty cheating bitches who can spit in the face of reality. So you’re no longer locked in with a prisoner, you’re locked in a fortress with a necromancer who’s capable of leveling said fortress with the power of her mind.

So it’s just the four of you in here, stuck in a strange standoff. In the challenger’s corner, there’s Moru, the catgirl Monster Hunter who wields a mean incendiary lance and dodges like the beast she is; Rokko, the Blue Bomber who has seen better days, but whose arm cannon is still second to none; and then there’s you, a dwarf who desperately needs more dwarves around her to be anything resembling a useful fighting force.

(Cont.)

>>36728063
You’re all facing off against Myrra, the Master of Magic who apparently wants to murder you all and has the means to do so. “I have dominion over all spells, dwarf. I'm not just /any/ adventurer,” she’d told you just a few seconds before. “If you want to keep me imprisoned, you'll have to work for it.”

On one hand, her reinforcements outside have no way to get in. On the other hand, you’re all stuck in an enclosed space against someone who can barf out fireballs and lightning bolts and Armok knows what else, now that she’s apparently swapped out to death magic.

If it comes down to a fight, this will only end in blood and tears.

[ ] [ATTACK] Hit her fast, hit her hard. She can’t cast spells if she’s too busy fending off your fists from her face.
[ ] [COUNTER] Wait for Myrra to make the first move, and catch her when she’s between spells.
[ ] [STALL] Okay, seriously, why was she even attacking Rokko in the first place? What could an adventurer like her possibly have to gain?
[ ] [NEGOTIATE] This doesn’t have to end in a fight. Myrra’s hurt, and Rokko’s hurt; it’s in everyone’s interests to not fuck each other up even worse.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>36728078
>[ ] [STALL] Okay, seriously, why was she even attacking Rokko in the first place? What could an adventurer like her possibly have to gain?
Come looking for us Estelle, please.

Super please.

>>36728078
>[ ] [ATTACK] Hit her fast, hit her hard. She can’t cast spells if she’s too busy fending off your fists from her face.
I would go with stall, but she had said adventurers weren't ruthless enough, so...

>>36728078
>[X] [ATTACK] Hit her fast, hit her hard. She can’t cast spells if her jaw is broke and she's got no teeth.

Can I get some support in trying to straight-out kill her? No pansy-footing around, straight up homicidal, fist-through-brain permadeath.

>>36728078
>[x] [NEGOTIATE] This doesn’t have to end in a fight. Myrra’s hurt, and Rokko’s hurt; it’s in everyone’s interests to not fuck each other up even worse.
Just makes sense.

>>36728078
>[x] [WRITE-IN]
Quick, you need to construct some shackles and define a prison around them.

>>36728078
>[NEGOTISTALL]

>>36728078
>[ ] [ATTACK] Hit her fast, hit her hard. She can’t cast spells if she’s too busy fending off your fists from her face.

>>36728178
ask and ye shall receive
we should straight up kill her

>>36728278
Ambitious anon! Boss Bawss spirit.

>>36728278

That sounds dwarfish, whats the worst that could happen?

>>36728178
>>36728297

Permadeath does not work for a Master of Magic. If they have a wizards tower, which gives them lots of mana, they respawn there in a few turns, depending on mana and power.

>>36728334
>Permadeath does not work for a Master of Magic.
I am well aware of how death works in MoM.
This is meta knowledge, and if we did know it, it would just be MORE of a reason to kill her.

>>36728178
I'm not against trying or anything, but I don't have very high hopes for her or our Nemesis, we killed him last time too I believe.

>>36728334
Well, at least they're far away from us, and won't mock us not being ruthless enough next time we meet.

Plus, with her gone we could tunnel our way out to escape.

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>>36728360
>and won't mock us not being ruthless enough next time we meet.
they always make that mistake

>>36728360
You shouldn't take enemies taunts so seriously anon.

>>36728436
not him, but the issue the taunt, its the whole "taken captive, shown mercy, still tries to murder us" fuck that bitch.

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Right, [X] [ATTACK] squeaks out a win, so:

>Urist Twelfthbay charges forward!
ROLL d20! (dice+1d20 in the email field)
Taking the best of three!
DC: 16
+2 bonus from Gauntlets!

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>36728461

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>36728461
Don't fail me now!

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>36728448
I'm not against fucking her over or anything, but it's not exactly surprising that she didn't just give up after being captured, not like we would if we had an ace up our sleeve

>>36728461
Dice

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>36728461
eh

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>36728461

Did someone die?

>>36729454
Blorp's slow, but worth it.

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>>36728078
>[X] [ATTACK!]
>17 (+2)!

You'd given Myrra time to make her little self-introduction. You'd given her time to build up a whole boatload of death magic (although to be fair, you had no fucking clue what cues to look for, and you still don't- she didn't exactly go "bibbity bobbity FUCK YOUR SHIT").

So the instant the dark-haired spellcaster snaps her hand up, you cross the distance and bash her across the face. It's a good solid hit, and it's absolutely satisfying to feel the jolt traveling up your arm and to see her head snap to the side.

It's... markedly less satisfying when the magic she'd been charging up is knocked out of her hand and turns an entire section of the ceiling into a rotting, pulpy mess of deathy snow. It's even LESS satisfying when Myrra simply turns back to stare at you with cold eyes; there's a dark bruise on her cheek, but not much else.

There's a moment of silence as you stare each other down, like you're both trying to predict who's going to go where; a part of your mind notices that the draconians outside are scrabbling at your snow fort's walls, attacking it like it's just another enemy. If they're counting on breaking their way through, they're going to be real fucking disappointed-

And then Myrra makes the first move. You hiss and duck as she whips out another roiling death-magic fireball (deathball?), and you hear Moru yelp as she scrambles out of the way. See, this shit right here is why you absolutely detest necromancers! Even when you've got 'em tangled up in melee, they've got nothing but creepy-ass shit up their sleeves!

(Cont.)

>>36729488
And not the slowest QM by any measure.

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>>36729516
"I am /not/ a necromancer," Myrra snaps back. You can't help but notice that the emotionless calm she displayed at the start has gradually given way to a sort of annoyed irritation. "Domains and realms mean nothing to me." You can't move in time to stop her muttered incantation; even as you belt her across the face again, the snow and dirt beneath your feet seem to lose solidity, and you glance down to see your ironshod feet sinking into /mud/.

"Life. Nature. Sorcery." Myrra isn't at all impeded by the mud; there's something almost delicate in the way the slender spellcaster is floating, like even the ground itself is unwilling to dirty her shoes. "Chaos. Death. And the Arcane. All of those are arghible."

The first of Rokko's arm cannon pellets slams into the wall around Myrra, although a shot or two end up hitting her in the gut, cutting her speech off and causing her to double over; the second group of shots pounds the Master of Magic into the wall, pinning her there like a flier to a corkboard.

Belatedly, you realize that Moru and Rokko couldn't take shots at her when you'd been mixing it up in melee. Now that Myrra's floating, though, the grim-faced adventurers brace themselves and start laying down a salvo of supressive fire, stopping her from casting a single damn spell.

You think they've got this covered. 'Cause you doubt you'll be able to step into that without getting your head blown off.

[ ] [ATTACK] Go in there and punch Myrra anyway. You got faith in your friends, and besides, you need to take this bitch down as fast as you can.
[ ] [RECON] Take a moment to glance outside and check up on the draconians and the giant flies. Make sure they haven't found a weakness in the fort.
[ ] [CALL] You won't get another chance like this- fire off a quick call or text to Estelle, and let her know that you could definitely use some backup, drama be damned.
[ ] [BUILD] D'you know what's great? Chains. Chains made of fucking snow.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>36729559
>[x] [BUILD] D'you know what's great? Chains. Chains made of fucking snow.

>>36729559
>[ ] [RECON] Take a moment to glance outside and check up on the draconians and the giant flies. Make sure they haven't found a weakness in the fort.
[ ] [CALL] You won't get another chance like this- fire off a quick call or text to Estelle, and let her know that you could definitely use some backup, drama be damned.

>>36729559
>[x] [CALL] You won't get another chance like this- fire off a quick call or text to Estelle, and let her know that you could definitely use some backup, drama be damned.

>>36729559
>[ ] [CALL] You won't get another chance like this- fire off a quick call or text to Estelle, and let her know that you could definitely use some backup, drama be damned.
>[ ] [BUILD] D'you know what's great? Chains. Chains made of fucking snow.
If we could do both of this that would just be great.

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>36729559
>[ ] [CALL] You won't get another chance like this- fire off a quick call or text to Estelle, and let her know that you could definitely use some backup, drama be damned.
Help

>>36729559
>[X] [CALL] You won't get another chance like this- fire off a quick call or text to Estelle, and let her know that you could definitely use some backup, drama be damned.
>[X] [WRITE-IN] You know what's better than chains you can't get to her and might not impede her spellcasting at all? Especially when surrounded by enemies? An escape tunnel.

>>36729559
>[x] [BUILD] D'you know what's great? Chains. Chains made of fucking snow.

>>36729559
>[ ] [BUILD] D'you know what's great? Chains. Chains made of fucking snow.
Does DF have a recipe for a gag? A bit? Anything to stop her from chanting and casting all the goddamn time.
You can't have a proper prisoner if they just explode shit anyway.

>>36729559

>[X] [BUILD] D'you know what's great? Chains. Chains made of fucking snow.

You gon' get the shit crafted out of you, Master of--

Isn't Master a dude title? Is she a tranny? I mean, even if it's technically the name of her game, shouldn't she at least call her title out all proper-like?

>>36729559
>[X] [CALL] You won't get another chance like this- fire off a quick call or text to Estelle, and let her know that you could definitely use some backup, drama be damned.

>>36729559
>[ ] [ATTACK] Go in there and punch Myrra anyway. You got faith in your friends, and besides, you need to take this bitch down as fast as you can.

>>36729559
>[ ] [BUILD] D'you know what's great? Chains. Chains made of fucking snow.
Tge Master of Magic can't Cast if you chain her hands. And feet. And mouth. And everything else.

>>36729559
>[ ] [CALL] You won't get another chance like this- fire off a quick call or text to Estelle, and let her know that you could definitely use some backup, drama be damned.
not just us, mentioned that moru needs help too

>>36729631
No.

Hell some of the default wizards in Master of Magic are female.

>>36728051
FINALLLLYYYYYY I got was on all day yesterday saw no thread.

>>36729559
>[ ] [BUILD] D'you know what's great? Chains. Chains made of fucking snow.
Fuck yeah!

>>36729686

No, but I mean, Master is an exclusively dude title, right? So shouldn't she be the Mistress of Magic? The Sorceress, the Witch, there's a washlist of titles not already reserved for guys.

Goddamnit, my inner grammar nazi finds this unacceptable.

>>36729631
>Isn't Master a dude title?
sorta. it can be used as gender neutral, or it can be a dude's title.

>>36729733
>So shouldn't she be the Mistress of Magic?
the game is called "master of magic".
This is like how we are "Dwarf fortress" instead of "Dwarfette fortress"

>>36729631
Pretty sure 'master' can be used as a gender neutral term! Sure, 'mistress' is definitely a thing that could be used, but... you know, the power of the game title callback and all that.

>>36729687
Sorry! I tend to post thread cancellations and/or pushbacks on Twitter.


Also, [X] [CALL] and [X] [BUILD] are close enough to tied that I'ma gonna have Urist do both, so writing!

>>36729733
>Master is an exclusively dude title, right?
The word "master" as in owner or head of house is a male title. "Master" as in mastering a skill, which this is a case of, is a gender neutral title.

>>36729516
Blorp I have an important question

Who's more moe, Myrra or Urist?

>>36729803
this. it is context sensitive on whether it is gender neutral or not
english is crazy like that

>>36729758
Dwarf is gender neutral.

>>36729758
>Dwarfette fortress
can we? can we please?

>>36729805
>>36729817
>>36729803
let save this for after he finishes, then once the story is done we can debate its contents till we 404

>>36729838
Sure, the day you start calling all human females as humanettes.

>>36729838
Only if you want to spend a whole thread of Urist being incredibly pissed off

I'm down for it

>>36729861
but she is so cute when she is angry

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>>36729805

>>36729838
>The adventurette sighed.
>"You don't even know that?" the cocky Wizardette asked with a smirk.
>"Hey now, we don't all read those fancy books of yours, and you know," the bardette countered, "maybe if you spent less time face buried in them you'd notice we're already here.
That way lies suffering, anon.

>>36729969
the redette licked her lips in anticipation
the bluette felt herself up
the rainbowette blushed and said "too lewd"
the bloodette drooled in lust

>>36729880
that is a really cute girl in that pic

>>36729559
>[X] [CALL!]
>[X] [BUILD!]

... y'know, as the personification of Dwarf Fortress, you've (technically) got a long, glorious history as an adventurer- and the memories. Oh, the memories. Of dwarven adventurers rampaging through the countryside, cackling as they overcome insurmountable odds and learn how to fill their waterskins without falling into shallow pools of water and drowning. Of human adventurers taking three steps into the wilderness, filled with hopes and dreams for the future, and immediately getting an arm kicked off by a horse. Of elven adventurers communing with the wilds, sleeping out under the stars and getting face-raped by a pack of raging boogeymen.

And that's why being an adventurer kind of fucking sucks, so you're trying to get everything you need to establish a Gamindustri fortress as soon as dwarvenly possible. At least when you're behind walls thick enough to turn away megabeasts, you can pick and choose WHICH horrible life-threatening dangers you'll expose yourself to.

Anyway, what you're trying to say is, Moru and Rokko have this shit covered for now, so you abandon what little dignity you had and drop down to all fours, making your way to the wall. The mud slows you down and makes a filthy mess of your armor, but you ignore it and get to scooping up more snow. There’s… really not a whole lot left- you were in a hurry when you slapped together this fort, so you just sort of scraped it all from where you’d been sitting.

You frown and puff your cheeks out. Eh, fuck it, you’ll make do with what you’ve fucking got.

For a moment, you almost forget where you are; your hands work quickly, fashioning the loose snow into something more solid and workable, and your mind races, torn between building a snow forge or some sort of snow workshop that can crank out ropes-

(Cont.)

>>36730818
And in the midst of all that, you squeal in mortal terror as a ray of eldritch energy churns the mud a foot to your left and forcibly reminds you that you’re in the middle of a goddamn warzone. Almost without thinking, you snap open your phone and dial big sis Estelle’s number, and after a few seconds of tense waiting, it’s a relief when she finally- doesn’t pick up.

She doesn’t pick up!? Fucking hell, this is no time for her to be grappling with the darkness within her heart or the sadness in her past or some other crock of horseshit! You growl and fire off a quick text. If Estelle’s not moved to sheer terror by “SOS LIL SIS IN SNOWFEILSD GETTIGN MURDRED W MAGIC MORUS HERE TOO ALSO ROKKO WE GON DIE,” then you don’t know /what/ will get her skinny ass over here and you’re all fucked anyway.

… like the possibility that Estelle isn’t even looking at her phone, or that she’s having a bloody row with Ain, or- jeez, you might’ve been fucked from the get-go, huh?

Your hands work with the speed born from pants-shitting terror, and it’s a few seconds later that you finish your… probably not legit Snow Rope. It doesn’t even have quality tokens or anything, and it probably isn’t nearly as durable as your usual arts and crafts, but you’ll have to pray that it’s enough to keep Myrra locked down long enough for everyone to not die.

(Cont.)

>>36730844
Sneaking a quick glance up confirms that thought- floating above the muddy ground, her cloak and clothes burned and singed in a thousand places, Myrra’s battered and bruised, but she doesn’t seem at all worried by the amount of punishment she’s soaked up. She’s still casting spells left and right- which is fucked up, because you’d always thought that magic came at some sort of cost. Moru’s untouched thus far, but she’s definitely flagging- it can’t be easy to scamper around on this sorta bullshit terrain, and you can see the catgirl’s chest heaving as she gasps for breath. As for Rokko…

Rokko’s not doing so good. She’s not nearly fast enough to deal with this sort of thing, and the Blue Bomber always struck you as sort of flimsy, even in her futuristic robot armor. More of her outer shell is blackened and melted than before, there’s ruined wiring poking up every which way out of her wounds, and even her helmet is all askew. But she’s as unflappable as Myrra- you think, as a fireball very nearly takes her arm off at the shoulder and turns the joint into a ruined, sparking mess.

(Cont.)

>>36730871
But Rokko doesn't even flinch. She doesn't even so much as change her expression, her dead, empty eyes still focused on the target in front of her. Hell, it’s not her cannon arm, so she just lets it hang limp and keeps on slogging, firing at the Master of Magic, and the two of them- a medieval fantasy magic-slinger and an artificial humanoid from an inconceivable future- just keep trading shots, inscrutable bolts of mystic bullshit meeting crackling plasma energy things halfway.

… you stare for a moment before looking down at the snow rope clutched in your hands. Suddenly, in the face of this fight, a simple rope seems a little inadequate.

[ ] [CORRAL] Get in there, wrassle Myrra to the ground again, and hogtie her. If you move fast enough, you’ll be fine! Simple, right? … right??
[ ] [DIG] D’you know what’s great? Escape tunnels. Because none of you are going to last very long, and you’re going to need a way out soon enough.
[ ] [CROSSBOW] Ranged weaponry is fucking overpowered, so you may as well contribute what you can. Maybe you’ll get lucky and get a headshot!
[ ] [RECON] Look out the window and check up on the draconians and the giant fly monsters. What if they’ve found a way to get in?
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

>>36730890
>[ ] [CORRAL] Get in there, wrassle Myrra to the ground again, and hogtie her. If you move fast enough, you’ll be fine! Simple, right? … right??

Geek the mage!

>>36730890
>[X] [CORRAL] Get in there, wrassle Myrra to the ground again, and hogtie her. If you move fast enough, you’ll be fine! Simple, right? … right??

Hey, she's flying about right? Maybe we can sneak up behind her?

As much as I love the escape tunnel plan, we've wasted what time we had left, I'm afraid. Can't stay out of this fight much longer and expect Rokko to live.

>>36730890
>[X] [CORRAL] Get in there, wrassle Myrra to the ground again, and hogtie her. If you move fast enough, you’ll be fine! Simple, right? … right??
Maybe punch her some too, just for good measure.

She can't cast spells as well with horribly broken limbs!

>>36730890
>[ ] [CORRAL] Get in there, wrassle Myrra to the ground again, and hogtie her. If you move fast enough, you’ll be fine! Simple, right? … right??
Fuck it, it'll buy us like a second right?
actually can we have Moru tie her up and we start digging a way out?

>>36730890
[ ] [CROSSBOW] Ranged weaponry is fucking overpowered, so you may as well contribute what you can. Maybe you’ll get lucky and get a headshot!

Honestly, getting into the middle of that would be a fucking death sentance, so might as well follow Rokko's lead and blast them from a distance.

>>36730890
>[ ] [CROSSBOW] Ranged weaponry is fucking overpowered, so you may as well contribute what you can. Maybe you’ll get lucky and get a headshot!

>>36730890
>[ ] [CROSSBOW] Ranged weaponry is fucking overpowered, so you may as well contribute what you can. Maybe you’ll get lucky and get a headshot!

I want to get Urist a medieval version of the noisy cricket, just to see her fly backwards comically whenever she uses it.

>>36730844
>You frown and puff your cheeks out.
>Almost without thinking, you snap open your phone and dial big sis Estelle’s number
Urist is the most moe.

How terrible.

>>36730890
>[ ] [CORRAL] Get in there, wrassle Myrra to the ground again, and hogtie her. If you move fast enough, you’ll be fine! Simple, right? … right??

So when do we meet shining force-kun and her legion of machine gun wielding skeletons?

I wonder if anyone in Lowee has noticed the huge builder fight going on outside, I mean I'm pretty sure we aren't too far from the city

>>36730818
>....
>And that's why being an adventurer kind of fucking sucks
I laughed

>>36730890
>[X] [CORRAL] Get in there, wrassle Myrra to the ground again, and hogtie her. If you move fast enough, you’ll be fine! Simple, right? … right??

>>36730890
>[ ] [CORRAL] Get in there, wrassle Myrra to the ground again, and hogtie her. If you move fast enough, you’ll be fine! Simple, right? … right??

>>36731052
>shining force-kun and her legion of machine gun wielding skeletons

... goddamn, I really want to track this game down now.

>>36731080
I dunno, if I was a weak little rookie adventurer and saw a flock of miniature dragon-men and swarm of flies attacking a snow fort, I'd probably nope right the hell on out of there!


ALSO, [X] [CORRAL] wins by a landslide, so-

>Urist Twelfthbay weaves to avoid getting shot!
>Urist Twelfthbay tries to grapple!

ROLL d20! (dice+1d20 in the email field)
Taking the best TWO out of SIX!
Highest Roll - Dodging - DC: 16
Second Highest Roll - Grappling - DC: 17 (+2 for Wrestling)

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>36731240
I got this.

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>36731240
I got this.

>>36731190
Buy a copy of sonic ultimate genesis collection on ebay or play it on a emulator
The character design is SO good

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>36731240
Oh my, this is difficult.

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>36731240
I have dice.

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>36731240
We're all going to die.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>36731240
Don't fail us now!

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>>36731250
You don't got this at all!

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>36731240

Rolled 15 (1d20)

Honk

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>36731240

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>36731250
Oh god I hope this wasn't me. Rolling to redeem.

>>36731277
>>36731280
Called it.

>>36731280
ITS ALL OGRE

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>>36731280

>>36731277
>>36731246
A barely passed dodge, but a failed grapple.

Magic is gay.

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>>36731246
>>36731277
>>36731280
It's... happening?

Writing!

>>36731347
We... don't use critfails, right?

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>>36731932

Are we going to die?

>>36731932
Not as such!

I think.

It'll shake things up, at least.

>>36731932
It'll make things either fun or FUN!, I'm not sure yet

>>36731998
sometimes you have fun
sometimes the fun has you

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>>36732362
pic related

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>>36732362

>>36730890
>>36731246
>>36731277
>[X] [CORRAL!]
>Dodge Check - 16 - Passed!
>Grapple Check - 14+2 - Missed by 1!
>1

With a scowl, you snap the snow rope tightly between your hands; feeling its tension restores a bit of your confidence. You crafted this out of goddamn /snow/ with nothing but your goddamn /hands/. It's more than good enough for your purpose, and you're going to truss Myrra up like a hog for the slaughter.

You take a deep breath and, before your brain can catch up to your body, hurtle into the fray! Except the harsh reality isn’t nearly as dramatic; you’re just slogging through the mud at a slightly more determined pace. But either luck or sheer bullheaded stubbornness is with you today (or Moru and Rokko are better shots than they give you credit for), because you remain mercifully unshredded by the gunlance's monstrous shells or the arm cannon's grapeshot.

Myrra’s spells are another matter entirely; she notices you coming and sends a few spells hurtling your way- you duck and roll under a fireball, not caring how damn muddy you end up (although a part of you shrieks because your braids are going to be a BITCH to clean). She narrows her eyes and snaps off another spell, but you don’t give her time to capitalize on that, because you’re launching yourself into the air with all the grace of a mildly distressed hippo.

(Cont.)

>>36732649
It’s a textbook leap. It’s a goddamn BEAUTIFUL leap, and one that takes you right up to Myrra’s level, since she’s not floating very high up due to the ceiling. And what follows is a nearly perfect grapple, with arms pinning the victim to the grappler’s chest and a leghold on the victim’s own limbs, preventing movement and retaliation.

Really, the only thing stopping it from being a PERFECT grapple is the fact that /Myrra/ is the one who grappled /you/, her noodly arms catching your equally noodly body with ease and keeping you suspended in midair. You’d probably start crying out of shame if you weren’t so /pissed/, spitting curses into Myrra’s big dumb blank face and wriggling as you try to escape. The Master of Magic doesn’t bother responding, and she simply looks past you.

“Kill them.”

You look back over your shoulder just in time to see the result of that spell Myrra cast earlier as Moru, her eyes glowing purple, swivels her gunlance and blasts Rokko to smithereens in a thundering explosion.

(Cont.)

>>36732676
… that’s what it /sounds/ like, anyway. But when the smoke clears, you realize that Rokko wasn’t blasted into countless pieces- just two. Her upper half and her lower half, a smoking ruin replacing her midsection. Even now, the Blue Bomber is expressionless, although her wildly flickering eyes betray her horrified confusion as they track Moru, then Myrra, and then Moru again.

You’d never realized how /expressive/ the catgirl was until this spell stripped her of all emotion. Moru stares at Rokko for a moment, assessing her threat level, before turning back to face you and Myrra and reloading her gunlance. What the hell did Myrra /do/?

“Possession.” Myrra looks down her nose at you from about three inches away; thankfully, she’s not gloating. She looks more like she’s reciting from a textbook’s hands-on example. “The target unit will fight for the wizard like any of her other units. Death would normally follow, but-” she keeps talking over your screamed curse to do the physically impossible to herself “- Gamindustri’s failsafes would not allow such a thing.”

You can’t help but stare at her. Then, you can’t help but laugh as her words trigger a memory of your last time in the Lowee Snowfields, and you actually laugh so hard that it brings tears to your eyes. You can’t even /hear/ the gunlance’s spent shells squelching into the mud. Myrra’s thin eyebrows furrow at you. She probably thinks you’ve snapped. Hell, maybe you have. “What is so funny?”

(Cont.)

>>36732710
You savor the moment. Every passing second of this fucking ridiculous moment is a wonder to behold and you drink it all in. You laugh even as Myrra’s irritation grows, you laugh as, behind you, Moru braces herself against the ground and points her gunlance at you, and… then you stop laughing when you realize that Estelle’s going to arrive to a bunch of fucking corpses in a snow fort and it’ll probably break her goddamn heart.

So you tell Myrra that Moru has absolutely no concept of friendly fire whatsoever.

The look on the Master of Magic’s face is priceless. Especially when her head snaps back up and gets an eyeful of the barrel of Moru’s gunlance, pointed at the both of you. And she doesn’t even get to the ‘S’ in ‘STOP’ before you’re both caught in a fiery personalized apocalypse that hits you like a freight train and then keeps right on going, knocking you from Myrra’s grasp and sending you into a freefall before you hit the ground. Your brain barely has time to register anything but pain before you bounce two more times before slamming back-first into a wall, and then your brain decides it’s had enough of this shit and bugs out and everything goes black and-

(Cont.)

>>36732728
.

..

…

You’re dragged back into the land of the reluctantly living by the fact that absolutely everything hurts. Except for your legs. That’s probably good, your bleary brain murmurs at you. That totally means your legs are behaving and don’t want to burden your poor pain receptors with any more annoying pain.

How considerate. You like your legs. They’re nice.

A faint scraping sound tickles your eardrums, so you open your eyes and try to focus on the source of the noise, but the world won’t stop spinning and there’s something wet and warm going into your eyes. Through a red haze, you glimpse a small, misshapen hunchback dragging some cloaked beat-up looking spell-y girl by the hair. Toward a pit.

You approve. Pits really are great.

[ ] [STOP] Try to stop the shape from dragging the other shape away. Moving’s hard, though. So are shapes.
[ ] [NAH] None of your business. It’s cool. You won’t judge. Some people like dumping things into pits a lot.
[ ] [WAKE] Try to focus. Your brain is a dumb sunnovabitch. Just because it gets its own skull doesn’t make it your boss.
[ ] [SPEAK] Negotiatminumbing is good. Let’s all talk it out. Maybe they’re friends! You like friends.
[ ] [BUILD] You must build more mechanisms! You don't have enough mechanisms! For SCIENCE!

>>36732750
>[ ] [BUILD] You must build more mechanisms! You don't have enough mechanisms! For SCIENCE!

MORE NEFARIOUS MECHANISM

>>36732750
>[ ] [WAKE] Try to focus. Your brain is a dumb sunnovabitch. Just because it gets its own skull doesn’t make it your boss.

>>36732750
[ ] [WAKE] Try to focus. Your brain is a dumb sunnovabitch. Just because it gets its own skull doesn’t make it your boss.
C'mon Urist,that's a long enough break for you.

>>36732750
>[ ] [WAKE] Try to focus. Your brain is a dumb sunnovabitch. Just because it gets its own skull doesn’t make it your boss.
[ ] [STOP] Try to stop the shape from dragging the other shape away. Moving’s hard, though. So are shapes.
Anyone remember what it's like to have room to breath?

>>36732750
>[ ] [WAKE] Try to focus. Your brain is a dumb sunnovabitch. Just because it gets its own skull doesn’t make it your boss.

>>36732750
>[x] [BUILD] You must build more mechanisms! You don't have enough mechanisms! For SCIENCE!

>>36732750
>[ ] [NAH] None of your business. It’s cool. You won’t judge. Some people like dumping things into pits a lot.

>>36732806
I don't think that's something Urist ever learned

>>36732750
>[X] [BUILD] You must build more mechanisms! You don't have enough mechanisms! For SCIENCE!

Mechanisms are good. Maybe some sweet robolegs? For Rokko, because our legs are definitely not gone, no sir.

>>36732750
>[BUILD]
Urist has entered a strange mood!

>>36732750
>[X] [BUILD] You must build more mechanisms! You don't have enough mechanisms! For SCIENCE!

>>36732900
. . .Waaaaait.
>>36732710
>“Possession.”
>Moru has been possessed!

Didn't Estelle say party members work under the leader's rule when in a group? Does that mean if we happened to have the right materials on hand, we could turn Moru's possession to our advantage?

Break out the DFHack!

>>36732750
>[ ] [WAKE] Try to focus. Your brain is a dumb sunnovabitch. Just because it gets its own skull doesn’t make it your boss

>>36732990
hahahaha I think we might be in some armok underworld hell right at the moment with our legs blown clean off and the self proclaimed master of magic about to get dumped into a pit of JUSTICE! or she will be saved and we recruit her dead ass. eithere way I am not sure how we would use moru's possessions atm

>>36732750
>[X] [WAKE] Try to focus. Your brain is a dumb sunnovabitch. Just because it gets its own skull doesn’t make it your boss.

>>36732676
>Really, the only thing stopping it from being a PERFECT grapple is the fact that /Myrra/ is the one who grappled /you/
hahahahahahahaha

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Alright, sorry guys, but I'm gonna have to end the thread here due to flagging consciousness!

Next thread's gonna be on Monday, 12/15, at 7-ish pm EST! The one after that will have to be the next day, 12/16, and then it's basically crunch time and then the holiday season, so questing schedule's going to be stupidly irregular and shorter. I might just end up doing one or two side stories during the holiday season, since I won't have much time for much else.

As always, updates etc. to schedule will be at https://twitter.com/BlorpQuest, and questions can either go here and ask.fm/BlorpQuest. I hope you guys liked the thread, and thanks for participating- been getting some interesting write-ins these past few threads, I LOVE IT

>>36732750
>[ ] [SPEAK] Negotiatminumbing is good. Let’s all talk it out. Maybe they’re friends! You like friends.
its death, gotta be.

>>36733215
thanks for running

>>36733215
Thanks for the thread as always Blorp

By the way what won?

>>36733255
Seems like [X] [WAKE] won, so I'll be kicking off from there next time!

>>36733215
GODDAMNIT YOU BETTER BE THERE!!!! you cant just end it on a cliff hanger like this! atleast tell us if we got our legs blown off....

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>36733215
Night Blorp, thanks for running.

>>36733302
wouldn't estelle's crazy healing magic fix those?

>>36733302
Well, I can't NOT show up!

... is what I'd like to say, but I can't predict that sort of thing! If I made a promise like that and failed to show up, then I'd have no leg to stand on

>>36733302
It's a regular game of Deus Ex in here.

>>36733427
>then I'd have no leg to stand on
I see what you did there

>>36733422
Probably? Might need all the parts present to fix them though. What I wonder is if it would work on Rokko, bisected or not

>>36733215
It's possible if Urist dies she'll become a murderous ghost instead of doing... whatever it is other moes do when they die in this setting.

>>36733215
Thanks for running! I missed most of it, but it was fun.