Supplies at hand:
One half of a two-way radio set in its holster
Large duffel bag containing:
-3 Molotov cocktails wrapped in towel
-2 LED traffic batons (lights, not weapons)
-4 Matchbooks

Supplies in a 1951 International Shortbox pickup (with over 3/4 tank of gas, full gas can, spare tire) parked outside the library:
-Tiny amount of disinfectant, several bandaids, several oversized bandaids
-2 LED traffic batons
-1 bloodstained tactical (not bulletproof) vest
-1 pair of thick cut resistant gloves
-Seatbelt cutter/window puncher
-2 packs of cigarettes
-Garden hose
-Variety of spice bottles
-Jug of water
-Small amount of cooking staples
-3 boxes various home canned foods
-3 shovels
-Cane
-Carpetbag suitcase
-2 Mechanics' Coveralls
-Boots
-Basic toolkit
-Pickup bed tarp

Supplies outside a barrier surrounding the library:
Glock-20 10mm pistol (9 rounds remaining in magazine) [only basic proficiency in its use]
Break action .38 caliber sporting rifle (10 rounds)
Set of large kitchen knives
Large, unusual knife

Current situation in the library:

Everything inside the building is completely black and white. You've left the section with the enormously long rows of books, progressing to another area. This one doesn't seem very well laid out. It's almost like a labyrinth of books.

You're attempting to navigate your way through the twisting rows of books toward the location the index's filing card says the book "Building Your Own Spidermech: a Beginner's Guide" is at when one of the books catches your eye. Unlike most writing, you can actually read this one.

GET REAL POWER, THE QUICK AND PAINFUL WAY. You stop and look at the bright gold on black text for a moment--text that stands out even more for having color at all--and then the words change. OH I KNOW YOU CAN SEE ME PAUL. The words change again. AND I WANT YOU TO READ ME.

>>7098661
Pick it up. Attempt to burn.

>>7098661

Ignore the book that's trying to get me to read it, grab the spidermech book and read it as I follow the right wall of the labyrinthine library.

>>7098661

Check with Alicia to see if she sees what we see. Also, hold off on reading the book. Lord only knows what kind of Lovecraftian horrors it holds between its pages.

Read it, twice.

>>7098707
this, but take the needy book with us to read it in a safe environment.

also, fuck Alicia at some point in the near future

>>7098876
>fuck Alicia at some point in the near future
This.

Examine this crazy book closer.

>>7098754
>>7098707
>>7098698
>>7098860
>>7098876
You pick up the book, and as you hold it up for Alicia to verify it changes again. KEEP GOING PAUL, JUST LOOK INSIDE. and ask Alicia if she sees the message on it as well. "Huh? It's a blank black book. You see something on it?"

The book rests in your hands as you continue into the labyrinth of books. You feel conflicted as what to do with it--read it, burn it, read it twice, toss it aside...

The Spidermech book is nowhere in sight, you're still looking for it's location.

Read book.

Clearly Reading it is the best option, no harm ever came from reading mysterious sentient nightmare books.

>>7099163

I know, right?

Open the book, tear out a page and eat it.

You're torn between examining it closer and casting it aside. COME ON PAUL. JUST ONE QUICK PEEK. As you go deeper into the labyrinth, another loud crash echoes from behind you. The sound is louder, closer than before. Then it repeats, louder still.

Ahead of you, Alicia gives out a startled gasp, and points at a dessicated body on the ground in front of you. The corpse is clutching a book.

>>7099125

Ignore the plotpoint...I mean sentient book for now and continue searching the library. Wait until we are outside to even consider opening it. With our luck, we would be shown the path to ultimate power, be driven temporarily insane, and start screaming as the forbidden knowledge starts searing into our brain. Then the librarian would be on our ass. Gentlemen, I like our ass.

Examine corpse and the book it is holding closer, in particular, a visible cause of death.

>>7099325

Um...anyone else for making a swift exit? And ditching our talking book?

Examine corpses book to see if it is nicer than ours, which it cant be because our is awesome. Our...precious....

>>7099349

I second this. Have Alicia stand guard, though. The crashing sound was getting closer. Also, say the following to the book (under our breath, no need to worry Alicia about our sanity): " Seems like this guy got very involved with his book. What guarantee do I have that you won't do the same to me?"

>>7099423

What are you talking about? Our book clearly loves us.

Yes, our book would never harm us, we love the book, the book is All...

>>7099325
Find out what book it is. If it is the Spidermech book, take it and FUCKING RUN, if not, just FUCKING RUN!

>>7099413
>>7099451
>>7099464

Great... we seem to be taking SAN damage just by holding this damned book.

>>7099499
Of course, I mean the corpse's book. Ignore our lovecraftian horror book for now.

YOU KNOW WHAT, FUCK THIS BOOK! I READ HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS! I AM NOT LETTING SOME EVIL WIZARDS SHIT FUCK THIS SITUATION EVEN MORE THAN IT ALREADY IS!

Toss the book into a pile of other books. Light a molotov, and burn the shit out of it. Probably setting the entire library ablaze in the process.

Also, say a witty line while doing it. "You're just burning up the best seller's list." OR SOMETHING!

>>7099521
Hey, how about let's NOT piss off the Libraribot even more than it already is.

>>7099557
Libraribot schmischmaribot.

>>7099423
>>7099413
>>7099349
"Seems like this guy got very involved with his book. What guarantee do I have that you won't do the same to me?" you mutter under your breath. The book replies, short phrases flashing after each other along the spine.
YOU SAW ALREADY HOW. I DID NOT LIE TO YOU. ABOUT THE MEANS. IT WILL BE PAINFUL. BUT YOU WILL BECOME. EXCEEDINGLY POWERFUL.

The body is dry and stiff, and a cursory examination gives no visible sign of death. You pry the book out of its hands. "Instantaneous Travel Method, 1N84X2."

>>7099598
That book is the equivilant to the Scroll of Icarian Flight. Fuck it. Let's get out of here.

Also, I don't think Our Book means PHYSICAL pain. I think it wants us to kill Alicia. She might be real, making it real murder. We don't need power that badly... yet...

Don't read the book but... keep it... keep it close...

I am for Excessive Power, but I dont like pain...

Perhaps trying to ask our current book some questions about this power it is offering.

Also, can Alicia read the title of the dead guys book? She couldn't read our book, could they be different?

>>7099598

What? When did we see how?

Mutter to book: "When did we see this? Are you talking about the Librarian or the tattoo magic? Or something else?"

Also, grab the book. It sounds like it could be useful. Or at least a entertaining thing to have read to us.

>>7099653
That's a good point. Can WE suddenly read the teleportation book's title, or did Alicia tell us?

>>7099635

Hmmm, you may have a point about the dead guy's book. He did die SOMEHOW. Still think we should grab it, though.

>>7099653
>>7099681
Alicia read it to you without waiting to be asked.

>>7099656
"When did we see this? Are you talking about the Librarian or the tattoo magic? Or something else?"
NO PAUL, NONE OF THESE. I MEAN THAT YOU HAVE. SEEN HOW FROM THE START. I AM FRANK ABOUT THE. NEGATIVE ASPECTS INVOLVED.

>>7099598

Check the dried up dead guy for a wallet/identification while we are here. It might help if we know how long he has been there. We might get lucky. He might have been a researcher with a map or something of the library. Also, we could loot some money off him. As it seems like money has some use in this world, it wouldn't hurt to have some more.

We really should deal with this shit once we're outside. That crashing is getting louder and closer and it's probably a killer death robot here to fuck us up.

>>7099776

I agree, let's take our book and the dead guys book and press onward.

Apparently the first step in building a spidermech is TO READ ME PAUL. I WILL GIVE YOU A. SPIDERMECH AND CANDY. IF YOU READ ME DAMNIT.

Why are we assuming that reading the book will give us the power, rather than telling us HOW to get the power?

>>7099773
>>7099776
Check dead guy for id and money then get the hell out of here first, with the talking book and dead guy's book in hand.

>>7099824

Cause demon books are cool like that.

>>7099742

Hmm... Well, time for the old thinking cap. What have we seen since the beginning...

- God-bastard that trapped us here (doubtful we would be given the key to freedom so quickly, or without cost)
-Hospital ward floaters (book lets us become one of those?)
- Unseen bugs of death (doubtful)
- Creepy old man on a diner (we already have a girl, no need to become a lecherous old man)
- Electrical monster (awesome, but doubtful)
- Generic brand Xenomorph chestburster (nope)
- Evil clouds of doom (no help)

...Yeah, I got nothing here. To book "You lost me"

>>7099857

I forgot to list the lady in the puddle and the anti-weapon field. Drat.

>>7099797
>>7099849

These both seem like good ideas at the moment. We either need to keep moving, or make a hasty retreat.

>>7099857
He's going to give us one of his powers, for a price.

Loot dead guy, take books both mundane and bossy, move away from the random shelf implosions.

You hand the dead man's book to Alicia. Rifling through his pockets, you don't find any identification. He has a small amount of money, which you take. He also has what looks like a coin, with the middle removed and with carvings around the edge.

"Let's hurry and find that Spidermech book, then get out of here."
"Paul. I just realized, we've been talking this whole time."

>>7099857
"You lost me."
IT IS NOT DIFFICULT. I NOTICED YOU APPROACH. ME ON THE SHELF AND. I PRESENTED THE. OFFER COMPLETE WITH. THE WARNING OF THE. PAIN INCLUDED RATHER. THAN DECEIVE YOU.

>>7099857
>God-bastard that trapped us here (doubtful we would be given the key to freedom so quickly, or without cost)
OH GOD

TIME PARADOX

>>7099975
The crashes are happening more frequently now. They are definitely getting closer.

>>7099975
>I PRESENTED THE. OFFER COMPLETE WITH. THE WARNING OF THE. PAIN INCLUDED RATHER. THAN DECEIVE YOU.
"No, what would I transform into? What would I become?"

>>7099991

FUCK. Well, time to make like a tree and get the flying fuck out of this building.

>>7099991
WELL LET'S SIDESTEP THE FUCK OUT OF HERE AND KEEP ABSOLUTELY SILENT!

Let's get the fuck out of here.

Also
>>"Paul. I just realized, we've been talking this whole time."
Alicia is on to something, perhaps the monster thing is drawn to our voices (being a library and all) give the motion for us to be quiet for good measure.

Heeey why dont we stfu, motion to Alicia to me quiet then run the fuck away as there seems to be artillery homing in on us because we keep talking.

>>7100018
>>7100035
>>7100037

Fucking hivemind.

>>7099991

As much as I would love a personal Tachikoma, I believe now would be the time to flee. While we are still alive and all. Also, be very, very quiet in our retreat.

>>7100005

Excellent question. We will have to ask it when we are outside. If we live that long.

>>7099991
Lets wait and see what it is.

It might be bringing us candy and delicious treats!

Run away! We must protect the Precious!

>>7100057

Oh SAN damage! You say the darnedest things.

>>7100005
Anon, stop talking to the book!
It's drawing the whatever-it-is' attention!

>>7100005
Ask it this question, then STFU.

If we like what it tells us, we might be able to fight these things on even, or even higher ground.

You pantomime as best as possible to Alicia that the plan has changed, and that now it's time to get outside. She looks a little confused but nods.

The next crash is close enough to make out distinctions. It sounds like something tearing down an entire row of books, from the direction you came. The edge or entrance of the labyrinth, perhaps? You can't be exactly sure.

>>7100005
"No, what would I transform into? What would I become?"
YOU WOULD BECOME. POWERFUL.

>>7100123
>YOU WOULD BECOME. POWERFUL.
Facepalm, then GTFO.

HAUL ASS AND GTFO!

>>7100097


This is a survival horror game. Pretty much everything is death incarnate to us. I highly doubt the book will be able to provide an answer that is doable in the precious few seconds we have before whatever we pissed off finally catches up with us.

>>7100123
Let's hold off on any decisions regarding Our Book untill our danger hand weighs in on the subject. If we get the fuck out of here right now we might actually have time for that to happen before we die. Fuck the spidermech book, we have fucked around in here for too long.

>>7100123
>It sounds like something tearing down an entire row of books, from the direction you came.
Perhaps if we can hide, we can go through the path it leaves when it passes and escape?

Prolly a bad idea, but still.

Whatever is smashing the books is definately not dangerous our hand would warn us! We should go say 'Hello!'

>>7100175
Hmmm, would playing dead be a good option now?

Do we have a description for this monster yet? I'm imagining a tarrasque just ramming through bookcases listening for our voices.

>>7100198
...

......Actually, that's a good point.

>>7100175
Just circlestrafe it amirite?

>>7100226
CIRCLESTRAFE!

CIRCLESTRAFE YOUR WAY TO VICK-TOHRR-AYY!

>>7100213

But the hand works randomly.

>>7100213
Shut up, SAN damage! Danger sense is clearly just OFF. It doesn't have shit to say about this book which will very obviously harm us.

>>7100213
Or maybe OP just forgot?

Take a good look around our surroundings, are there any good hiding spots at the moment? If not, just try to be as quiet as possible, while trying to get as farther away from the source of the crashing sounds.

>>7100213
Maybe it really IS bringing candy.

Maybe its the Ultimate Candygram?

Grab a book and THROW it! Preferably in such a manner that it causes other books to fall of the shelves.

As far away as possible, while moving SILENTLY in the other direction.

>>7100277
Good idea. Get rid of that smelly plot point.

Current ideas include trying to:
Hide until it leaves
Hide until it passes and exit behind it
Haul ass into labyrinth
Make a loud noise as far as possible from yourself, exit into labyrinth
Play dead
Walk up to it

>>7100206
As far as you know, you haven't seen it yet.

>>7100250
Forget something that could kill, maim, or drive Paul insane? Not likely.

>>7100277
Do this thing, but protect our Precious at all costs. Also keep an eye on the female, she was clearly lying about being able to read the book! Shes scheming to steal our Love! We will watch the traitorous wench we will. yesssss

>>7100277
Distraction is always good.

>>7100305
This is NOT lotr and we are NOT a hobbit.

>>7100302
Throw book
Make noise
Haul ass
Fuck girl
Eat pizza
Sell bike

>>7100329
Sell book
Throw noise
Make ass
Haul girl
Fuck pizza
Eat bike

i'll stop gollum trolling if you stop with oldfuckingmeme

>>7100302

Does the danger sense work 100% of the time on all possibilities? (Even random bursts of death unrelated to Paul personally.

>>7100302
Make loud noise as far away from us as possible, and then hide until it passes and haul ass for the exit.

Ask the book if it knows about the bookshelf-destroying sounds!
Also, ask it what kind of pain.

P.S. I am against destroying or leaving behind the Plot Book.

>>7100329
Eat book
Make girl
Haul noise
Fuck pizza
Eat bike
Sell ass

You take a random book off the shelf and hurl it as hard as you can down the corridor. You head down the other direction, deeper into the labyrinth, as quietly and quickly as possible. Once you lose this thing, you should be able to make your way back to the entrance safely. Or that's the plan.

Turning a bend, you step out into an open, generally trashed room. Pic related.

>>7100367
The ability is randomly on or off. Paul isn't entirely sure yet whether it would be something targeting him personally or general danger that could harm anyone including himself; his best guess would be the latter. Please clarify your question, if my answer wasn't addressing what you wanted.

>>7100418
>Turning a bend, you step out into an open, generally trashed room.
HIDE.

>>7099742

"Morpheus, you sonofabitching godlike bastard, you having a fun time watching this? Did you possess this book? And what would I have to do for the power in this book dammit?"

ALSO: I'm BAAAACK.

>>7100509
NO.

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

There's something after us, and it finds us by the sound of our voiiiice...

>>7100418
Take this time to look through the instantaneous travel book, just in case.

>>7100546
Have Alicia look through it.

She's just a figment of our imagination. She's expendable.

>>7100569
I concur.
On all delicious points.

>>7100531

FFFF- didn't see that until now. Damned quick updating thread. ALRIGHT, when we get outside, THEN we ask this. Verbatim. Blasted bored Morpheus jerking our chain. . .

>>7100573
Speaking of delicious things, we should go see what delicious candies that monster thing has to share with us.

>>7100592
>>7100573
>>7100569
>>7100546


SHUT UP, SAN DAMAGE!

HIDEHIDEHIDEHIDEHIDEHIDEHIDEHIDEHIDE!

>>7100605
Hey, I was only the one suggesting the brilliant idea to get the candy.

The whole bookreading thing is a terrible idea we should definitely NOT follow up on while hiding from the nice Ultimate Candygram monster who brings us CANDY and MLOIYVEN AND ALS AND ALS AND ALS

>>7100418
Any good hiding spots here?

The two of you duck into a narrow alcove and get as far back into it as you can. You're at least 5 feet back from the rest of the room. Echoes are still coming out of the door you entered.

You motion to Alicia to look through "Instantaneous Travel Method, 1N84X2." She opens it, and for a moment you both can see what looks like dark rippling water contained just underneath the surface of both pages.

Then the water starts gushing out of the book in a deluge, impossibly fast and forcefully. Alicia tries to close the book, but the sudden weight causes it to fall out of her hands. The level of the water rises from the floor at a rate you can't believe. You rush out of the alcove and into the main room, and--no. The doorway you came in is shut. The water has already risen to your mid-calf.

>>7100668

It murders large bookcases, so I'd suggest not hiding near any bookcases... or at all.

After all, SAN Damage will increase our Mythos Knowledge.

>>7100712
Look under the water. See where it goes.

>>7100712

Oh, shit.

The book in our hand saying anything? Ask in your mind if it can read your thoughts- if applicable, ask if it can save you without screwing us over. As an act of good faith. We'll be more inclined to listen to it and read it if it saves our bacon- not to mention we can't read it if we don't survive.

>>7100712

Attempt not to panic. Check and see if we see our drowning female acquaintance from before. Hell, maybe she can tell us how NOT to get stuck in the water. Barring that, look for the nearest exit.

>>7100712

Books float! Grab it and shut it.

>>7100747
The book says nothing, nor does it respond when you try thinking at it.

>>7100712
Shit. Any visible windows or breakable outlet?

>>7100734
This.

Perhaps the water IS the instantaneous travel method?

>>7100766

Really want to break something while we're being hunted by something that hits like an artillery blast and tracks by sound?

>>7100762

Any obvious exits? If not, we might need to make some noise. With luck, the beastie that is after us will make one for us. Course, then we have to deal with it.

>>7100783
>make some noise
Well, we could always finish that conversation with the book.

"Do you know anything about the thing thats chasing us? And about the water?"

You look for where the book might be floating now. Because... books float. So why isn't this one bobbing on the surface somewhere? It must be somewhere underneath the surface of this dark and murky water. You start feeling underneath the surface, and motion for Alicia to do the same.

The only window in the room is the glass ceiling (pic was mostly related, it isn't broken though. If I could have found an exact pic, I would have used it.). The labyrinth exit was shut by a large wooden door--the surge of water must have knocked away whatever was holding it open.

"Do you know anything about the thing that's chasing us? And about the water?"
KNOWLEDGE IS NOT FREE, PAUL.

"No, I don't know what that thing is. And the water? For all I know that book is a travel method for the water to get to here." Alicia responds quietly back, thinking you were addressing her.

>>7100850
>KNOWLEDGE IS NOT FREE, PAUL.
You're an ass, you know that?

>>7100850
>"For all I know that book is a travel method for the water to get to here."
Wait...if the water can come through one way, we can go through the other!

Lay the book down and JUMP INSIDE!

>>7100869
T-t-this!

>>7100850

How fast is the water rising? Also, do we have anything on us that can break the glass in the ceiling? If the answer is impossibly fast and we find, lets say a piece of wood floating by, I vote we let the water fill the place up and crack open the dome to get out. Hopefully there are stairs leading down from the roof.

>>7100869
HOLD YOUR BREATH! IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GONNA HAVE TA JUUUUUUMP!

>>7100869

Umm...lady trapped in the puddle anyone? There is no guarantee that there will be an exit on the other side. Also, the force of the water flowing out of the book should make such an action basically impossible. But then again, this is a dreamworld.

>>7100899
Or we could make a commotion to get bookshelf smasher to crack open the door when the water level's high enough...

>>7100850

Ask the book: "And do I have to pay in PAIN? What is a book going to do with nerve ending excitations?"

Also: Pain is temporary, power... is less temporary.
So our two options are probably wait untill we swim up to the ceiling window, break it... and not die from falling.
Or... pay the book in PAIN for a way to leave.

"Maybe we can go through it, then!" you respond to Alicia. You just need to find the book, and it's getting harder by the moment. Where to look first? Or maybe you should try to get that thing to smash open the door for you?

>>7100899
The water is above your knees and rising fast.

Alright, screw that blue font book. We're gonna ask for its power, it's gonna electrify us, and trollface because we're almost swimming in water.

Go underwater. Scope things out. See if you can find the book for rapid exits. Remember, the corpse was dry. He didn't die like this.

>>7100920
...thus blasting it with water! Brilliant!

>>7100920
>>7100964

Why are we so certain that noise attracts the... whatever it is?

>>7100944
Perhaps the other portal-book is lying on the bottom of a river somewhere?

>>7100943

Knock on the wooden door.

>>7100924
>>"And do I have to pay in PAIN? What is a book going to do with nerve ending excitations?"
I DID NOT CLAIM YOU. WOULD PAY IN PAIN. THE OFFER REMAINS. UNACCEPTED MY PAGES. UNREAD.

>>7101067

"You're not going anywhere, it would seem. And I am inclinded to accept your offer, I would simply like to know a little more about it-- what material benefit do *you* get out of this arrangement?"

>>7101067

Accept the offer!
For the glory of Cthulhu.

>>7101067
Fuck it. Lets read the damned book.

Tell Alicia we're going to do something potentially very stupid, and open the damned thing.

Still waiting for consensus on where to search for book--you'll likely have only one shot before the water level makes it too unlikely. If another action is desired, such as knocking on the door, then state so. Currently there seems to be one person advocating each option.

>>7101089
ALL OF THIS CAN. BE FOUND WITHIN. MY PAGES.

>>7101117
Knocking on the door loud enough would attract that shelf disheveling monster.

>>7101117

Well, the portal book is expelling water with rather significant pressure--
We could look for the center of rippples/currents.
It also fell out of her hand, so it is either pressed to the floor where she had been holding it... or flew off into a corner.

However! If it had been propelled to a corner, the force of moving through water spine first should have been enough to shut the book.

So-- look for ripples near where alice had first opened the book, and outward in the spine-facing direction. (Away from her face at the time.)

>>7101149

Edit: Alicia Hughes*

>>7101149

Edit 2: For a book pressed to the floor in the spine-facing direction.

>>7101067
>THE OFFER REMAINS. UNACCEPTED MY PAGES. UNREAD.
Let's fix that, shall we?

>>7101198
>>7101111

Keep in mind there will be no going back one we open the book. Right now we still have options. Hold off on reading the book. If it looks like we are doomed anyway, I say go for it.

To the book:
"How long will it take to complete my...ascention?"

Read the god damned book!

>>7101117

I guess look for the book while we can.

>>7101149

Seems like a good idea, if we can find the book. Shutting it will certainly buy us time, but I don't know if we will have the strength to really maneuver it at all.
When that fails, I vote pounding on the door to see if we can't get a quick exit via the library beast express.

>>7101225
The book must be read.

Besides, our random rifles will probably not be glorius enough to WIN.

>>7101266
>I vote pounding on the door to see if we can't get a quick exit and some delicious treats via the candygram express.

>>7101284
>>7101261
>>7101248
>>7101198
>>7101111
>>7101094
So we're agreed on this course of action?

>>7101327

No, but it looks like I may be in the minority. Also, I reserve the right to say "I KNEW IT!" when the book screws us over. Hell, maybe we will get lucky and it will just result in our death. We could be unlucky and become a horrible and twisted abomination that laughs in the face of the man we once were.

>>7101382

All fun results. *licks his wet lips*

>>7101382
What actually happens: The book spews out more water.

"Alicia, I'm going to do something potentially very stupid."

You open the book. Instead of any words, there is a picture of a face inside. It looks at you and grins savagely, then flies out toward your face before you can react, pushing past your eyes even faster than you can blink. You hear a voice other than your own throbbing inside your head.

I AM WITH YOU NOW. FILL YOUR CUP TO THE BRIM AND OVERFLOWING WITH POWER. ONLY ASK AND YOU SHALL HAVE IT, AS MUCH AS YOU DESIRE.

See? I told you nothing bad would happen.

>>7101451
Okay, lets kick some fucking ass.

...So NOW can you tell me aboot this water and the monster?

>>7101451
BLAST OPEN THE DOOR WITH EYE LASERS
MAKE SOME NOISE
FIND THAT MONSTER
MAKE IT OUR BITCH

>>7101451

To book spirit thing: "What is the catch? You know, besides sharing my mind with the spirit formerly possessing a book? Will there be excruciating remunerations for every time I draweth my cup from the well o' power?"

>>7101480
THE WATER WILL TAKE YOU TO THE DESTINATION GIVEN.

THE ABOMINATION WHICH PURSUED YOU, WHILE EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL IS WITHIN YOUR POWER TO DESTROY IF YOU DRAW UPON THE FULL AMOUNT OF POWER.

"What is the catch? You know, besides sharing my mind with the spirit formerly possessing a book? Will there be excruciating remunerations for every time I draweth my cup from the well o' power?"

>>7101581
>WHILE EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL IS WITHIN YOUR POWER TO DESTROY IF YOU DRAW UPON THE FULL AMOUNT OF POWER.
Hrm. That might be a bad thing, considering that it may very well hurt like crap to kill.

I say we go through the water.

>>7101581
>THE WATER WILL TAKE YOU TO THE DESTINATION GIVEN.
"Can you suggest somewhere safe? Somewhere that may aid me in my goals (Namely getting out of here)?"

>>7101597

Water seems to be the safer bet at the moment. We only know right now the price of power is PAIN. This is vague enough that I don't want to use the maximum amount of power until we know exactly how the PAIN will be delivered. I have the feeling that the max will probably either kills us from the shock or make us comatose (at best). Either is not a good time.

Ask Alicia if anythings different about us.

>>7101618
YOU CANNOT PROVIDE A DESTINATION NOW. IT WAS GIVEN BY THE BOOK. 1N84X2 IS WHERE IT WILL TAKE YOU.

TO LEAVE THIS LAND? THAT WILL PROVE TO BE DIFFICULT. THE HELLGATE IS ONE POSSIBILITY.
You see a picture in your head.

>>7101647
"Paul, are you alright? You were clutching your eyes there, what happened?"

"Alicia, is there... anything different about me?"

The book begins disintegrating in your hands.

"I don't think so..."

All aboard the watery railroad!

>>7101700
>>7101597
>>7101627

You begin treading water as the water gets higher and higher. Alicia remains next to you, proving to be a very decent swimmer. The rising water level you toward the ceiling, finally pressing you against the glass. And then there is no air left in the room, and you and Alicia are banging against the glass ceiling as your lungs begin to burn.

FILL YOUR CUP WITH POWER. I AM A WELLSPRING, LET ME PROVIDE ALL THE MIGHT YOU DESIRE AND MORE. IT WILL GET YOU AWAY FROM HERE.

>>7101665

Open a hole in the wall with THE POWER, just to test it out. (And let the water out.)

bump

>>7101833
I'm going to wait a bit until people come back. Site being down kind of killed the momentum there.

>>7101847

Indeed, posting has been... rather difficult.
Are you going to make a new thread, or continue this one?

>>7101875
This one still has about 50 posts until autosage. By that point I'll probably be ready to call it a night. So, no new thread, as usual.

>>7101894
>>7101875
>>7101847
That said, archiving and calling it a night is looking like a likely option at this rate too.

>>7101934

*crys at the low turnout Friday night*
Saturday had more glory.

>>7101965
Nothing says I can't run tomorrow night as well.

>>7101948
>>7101742
Is that two people for asking for the full amount of power, then using it to breach the wall? I want to be certain here.

>>7101971

Lets just do the minimum required to bust through the wall for now. Also, be ready to run away as soon as e do. The beast is waiting...

>>7101971

No, just enough power to make an opening small enough to let the water out.
Slowly enough not to kill everyone, and leave them safely on the bottom of the room.

>>7101998

The beast hasn't shown up yet. We can probably land safely and walk out.
Perhaps the POWER DEMON can tell us where to find a book on Runes, like the one on Alicia's back.

Make a small hole with THE POWER to lower the water level.

Taste a little of the water to determine if it's salt or not. Spit out after tasting.

>>7102076
Concur.

>>7102130
But full power might kill us or kill Alicia!

>>7102130

Full powering the wall down would likely result in... have you seen river rapids? Yes. That. Everyone dies.

>>7102152
>>7102141
Oh, alright. A small hole it is then. Also, test whether it's salty like someone said earlier.

So... thread = dead?

Anyone archived this yet?
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Dreamscape
Not on suptg yet.

>>7102364
Well I didn't.

Did somebody?

>>7102557
>>7102364
>>7102363

Well, it finally happened while running, I nodded off. My apologies.

To make it up to you, I'll do my damnest to run some more tonight, usual time.

Before I go, answering a couple questions.

>>7102170
The water is brackish.

>>7102022
I think someone else mentioned landing safely. I'm not sure how you're thinking about landing; you're in a chamber that's filling up with water, and you're floating at the top of it.

>>7102004
>>7101998
Will start it off with a post responding to this request for the demon.

>>7102670
>>Will start it off with a post responding to this request for the demon.
>>demon

Wait, WHAT?

>>7102762
You wanted full power? It might have nuked the place. You should remember that we are currently drowning and need to do something.

>>7102762

Didn't mean to let that slip, but I thought it was somewhat evident anyways. Well, someone figured that it was a demon earlier, even if several people thought it was just some spirit. You get a freebie confirmation because I was tired.

>>7102782
Nah, the power goes to you. It won't do the job itself, it will give you the tools to get the job done.

I can actively find means to kill you, or give you enough rope to hang yourselves with, or have appropriate results for unwise actions without just being a dick about it. So, no "lol he nukes the place." That said, I don't have any qualms about PC death (and I thought I might be able to provide when people thought the smart action was to walk out and approach the big thing pursuing you).

>>7102861
Damn, now we'll have to be careful next time.

>>7102861
I'm still wondering what pains the demon will give me in exchange for his powers.
Thanks for this session again, OP!

>>7102878
I think I mentioned my willingness to kill Paul before. Even if it means ending the quest, I don't mind. But people tended to be more survival-minded in earlier threads too. Best actions to avoid danger contain, in the following order:

Common Sense--Obviously.

Cunning/Creativity--Since I do my best to anti-railroad, there's no punishing ways to accomplish something that aren't the obvious one. Something really crafty will also get a bonus to succeed, like awesome/rule of cool.

Attention to Detail--I tend to notice when small things not done would cause a problem for the overall plan. Without being a dick about it and requiring every little thing to be said--"Herp derp, you didn't say you started the car before flooring the gas pedal" for instance--I'll make sure that those things come back to bite you.)

Planning--Goes kind of in hand with Attention to Detail.

Awesome/Rule of Cool--If something is appropriately awesome in any game I run it gets a bonus.


I realize I'm probably revealing more info than I should on account of waking back up and still being tired, so I'll stop with this.

>>7102992
Are you sure you want to find out?

You're welcome, thanks for playing. Thanks for being entertaining to GM for, /tg/. Like I said, tonight usual time I should be good to go again. It'll make up for me not being able to run next weekend.

>>7103062
>>I think I mentioned my willingness to kill Paul before. Even if it means ending the quest, I don't mind.

D:

>>7103159
Wouldn't be a good survival-horror game otherwise, bro.