>>18352199

She edges her way past you, finding the process difficult in the small confines of the doorway, and out onto the balcony behind, looking over the deserted streets with a soft, almost vacant stare; blurring the panorama of evidence before her into a hazy mass of facts to tear into.

“I found a survivor,” You offer, reaching into your bag of holding, “Not a dwarf either- human and an illusionist, injur-”

“Samal?!” She whirled back, slapping the barely retrieved book out of your hand and thumbing through it, “...History of the Hold. What’s this?”

“Something he was guarding. Whole stacks of them they took from the library-” You inform, now half-jogging along with her, bounding down the steps to the lower floor, “Do you even know where you’re going?”

“The Hall Kitchen,” She replies, “Book stinks of the soot from the bakeries in it. He’s injured?”

“Yes, poison keeping him bleeding- not too bad a cut but he’ll be-“

“-I can cure it. What else did you find? I see oozes, cave trolls, hobgoblins-”

“Whoa, wait! Hold it!” You shout, hopping out infront to bar her way, “Slow down here, where’s all the cave trolls and hobgoblins coming from?”

She moves to sidestep but you block again, her hands twitching up as if wanting to move you out of the way, but refusing to carry on through with the action. Instead she sighs and thumbs behind her, motioning for you to keep up with her.

>>18352212

“Trolls from the claw-marks on the cages we just went past and the bite indents on the Dwarven armour- probably also what’s doing that screeching over by the...lower halls? Hobgoblins from this,” She sweeps down to pick up a shattered slice of metal from a heap of dwarvern armour, “A shard from a broken hobgoblin blade of central-western design- likely broken off within a dwarf and since revealed by digestion. Whereabouts did you get into the kitchen?”

“It’s a few minutes away, through some house,” You add, now struggling to keep ahead on the rapid pace she’d set for you, “So, the hobgoblins hit the place and brought in a clean-up crew?”

“Yes and no. All the books were like this?” She gestures.

“What do you mean ‘yes and-‘ oh and yes, pretty much all. Apparently the library was assailed by a...’crystal-thing’, and this illusionist- Samal? Well he was attacked by black-clad women with poison blades.”

“Hmm. Not much to go on there from the description...but not Hobgoblins. More mercenaries.”

“’More’? This your ‘no’ part?”

“Yes. Hobgoblins didn’t hit the place themselves. If they were here for their interests they’d take slaves. The clean-up crew was to hide over something else we don’t know about, and more than any of that- Hobgoblins aren’t native to the continent- they have their own country past the south-western mountain ranges over a thousand miles away from us.”

>>18352223

You almost groan.

“So we still don’t know who paid for or arranged the assault.”

“No. Or what they were after...beyond maybe these,” She gestures with the volume as you shift your way through the wrecked house and push out the other side of the door, “And if they still wanted these and knew some where missing, then-...”

She tugs gently on the back of your armour, stilling your progress ahead.

“...Then there’s probably still some here, looking. Did you...did you see anything odd down these tunnels?” She adds with a whisper, the doorway groaning to shut behind you.

“Not really. But I’d bugged the tunnel anyway as I went, so I’d have known if anyone’d have killed them to pass down it...unless they saw me do it and could stealth around, but that kind of stealth would be...” You ponder, as the light from the door clamps together, leaving you in near complete darkness.

But darkness enough to see the looming, milky eyes of a black-furred Kardan appear next to your partner.

“’Ey, no gettin’ stuff past you two, eh?” He smiles, then raises his voice, “GNOR, KEEP ON THE ICE, EVERYONE ELSE...WELL OUR COMPANY’S RETURNED, LADS!”

No refreshing? Try without subject and without tripcode.

>>18352238

With no time to yell, you dive into Baha before the huge foe manages to bring his flail to bear, rolling along half-smashed ground before being shunted up and off your feet by a shaken Baha, already in the midst of fumbling in her pockets for her potions and flasks.

“Just keep down!” You mutter before finishing a hasty cast of one of your more strategic spells, a windless blast of fog gusting into the area to smother everyone in a thick, sightless mist.

At least, sightless for most. You, however, have a certain talent for seeing through clouds...and in the dark. Not that a little more light wouldn’t go amiss.

“SHIELDS UP LADS, THIS ‘ERE SORCEROR MEANS BUSINESS.” You see who you take to be their leader squint, now raking his flail around infront of him like a blind man’s cane, slowly making his way toward your position.

Aiming toward him you concentrate, unleashing an arc of lightning toward and straight through the furred bugbear, blazing his hair alight and making hums of confusion turn into screams of pain- a couple others behind him also being fried in the arc...but then it caught against a massive tower shield and earthed harmlessly, failing to illuminate all the way through. Over half a dozen you saw, maybe more...with magic defences. And that was your only lightning spell (to be Blue for a day...).

>>18352238
Whats a Kardan?

>>18352266

Using the reprieve and looking down to your side, you move to grab Baha (who had the good sense to stay silent) and trek a few feet away so as not to hold you down in a single position, but she squirms out of you gasp and gets the gist herself, keeping to the wall and blindly sidling over. Fine. Suit herself.

“Nrrgh...” The leader groaned, surprising you with his resilience, having fallen to one knee while the other two had simply died, a cloying smell of ozone and burnt fleshing steaming from him, “L-Looks like ‘e can see fine too! So even it!”

Even it?

At once, you see even more, dozens more, emerge out of the shadows, stalking and braying, searching for you...even one right next to you. Even one moving THROUGH you. Illusions. Minor images they were throwing up, gliding through the fog to try and catch you out and conceal their true numbers. Whoever these guys are, they were well trained, that way for sure...and in the background, you could still hear the one called Gnor, smashing away at the ice while his fellows advanced toward you. This wasn’t going to be as easy as you’d hoped if it carries on like this...

So, we did some damage - but not enough. And cold spell might disrupt the fog cloud, no? Sword swinging time! Our enemies are blind anyway.

>>18352301
Type of Bugbear.

If they've got defenses against direct magical attack, there's no reason we can't do some more indirect stuff. Illusions, to compound the confusion that the fog creates, maybe? Sound based, probably.

Apply poison to glaive, poke the bandits.

>>18352304

Maybe we can try a more aggressive type of cloud? Maybe of the "kill" variation. The mage will be safe behind the ice and we and our companion can hold our prepare ourselves for it, meanwhile the bugbears will be oblivious to the danger thanks to our previous spell.

rolled 45 = 45

Cold spells, we have those, right? Make sure to get the ones behind us, especially since I think Baha is moving forward. (Less worry of collateral damage.)
Let's attempt to further wound-but-not-kill the leader, and proceed forwards. We need to stop Gnor.

>>18352384
We dont have any agressive cloud, we are 5 lvl caster at max. And "fog cloud" is racial ability,

Plan:
Fog cloud blocks their sight, but bugbears have decently sensitive noses and ears.
Ghost sound or other sound based illusion will help conceal where we are.
Summoning an ooze mephit (which has a stinking cloud ability) will hinder their scent ability.
A glaive is a reach weapon, which we can use to poke at them from concealment within the fog.
We also have some paralyzing poison, for taking at least a few of them alive for questioning.

>>18352309
We can still use cold spells without disrupting the fog, they just appear to have some defenses against offensive magic so we don't know if it would just be a waste of a spell or not.

Also, join us at #dragonquest - we try to come up with the plan, and WG is getting frustrated.

>>18352565
Why do we need an IRC when there are so few people following the quest? It was only created for voting. If you're going to do all the talking in IRC we might as well not have the thread at all. I know we're not bumping anyway at the moment but normally the more people post in the thread the more we're on the front page and might get some new people stumbling onto the thread.

>>18352663
Because the thread autosages anyway. We are not getting bumped.

>>18352663
Rapid response and clarification, usually.

On the other hand, the thread does work too. Let's make Baha invisible, then use some powerful evocation to deal with our bugbear friends.

Also, all we did on IRC so far is discussing Fallout NV, and trying to figure out where exactly the door to the tunnel is. So far that is what we figured -

Ok.So, WG said that we CAN revert, but there is not enough space to turn around. We got most of that group, but some are just wounded, and it sounds like there are more hobgoblins to the left side of the picture.
My suggestion - dont try to screw with illuzions, oozes, mephits - just go and make holes in the leader guy. Then, if illuzions do not end, blast all we can see with ice, poke with spear.

>>18352752

But we've already used quite a few ice spells so I'm unsure how many more we can dish out.

rolled 48 = 48

>>18352762
Yep, dont seem like we have much magic left.
Poke enemies with pointy stick.

>>18352784
Hm, how much poking with the pointy stick can I get for 48?

>>18352810

3 More than 45.

So, do we risk using magic on few wounded hobgoblins, if we dont know how many are there to the left of us left?

rolled 58 = 58

So, cast small sound illuzion behind the known group of bugbears, then go ahead and poke em til they die.

****

Frowning, you wait a few more seconds for Baha to sidle into a sheltered crevice before beginning your attack anew, pacing around the edge of the smouldering leader, trying to get around his back as the more solid, decidedly real block of troops continues its slow, shielded advance into the fog, forming a formation and keeping their blades out to the sides in an effort to hit-out at anything solid they might touch.

Not willing to wait for them to get to their leader, you crack off a simple sound illusion, averting the leader’s attention just long enough to spring forward unaccosted, thrusting the glaive forward and puncturing through his armour to the flesh beneath. He roars and sputters up some blood...then grips the shaft of your blade with both hands, dropping his flail by the side.

“Nrrg...il-illusions, mates. Dun’ be fooled,” He mumbles through blood bubbles, “S’stabber too- get over here nnooOW!”

And with as much wrench as was left in him he launches backwards toward his own shield-wall, forcing you to let go of the haft or go crashing into them along with him. For his trouble he sustains a minor brow-beating before they feel out who he is and absorb him back into the middle of their fold, a couple who were holding their weapons out turning in, a plethora of curses and cursed orders pulling the unit back out of the fog they were hiding in.

>>18353182

Opportunity leaving, you roll backwards to get as many in your scope as possible- illusion and otherwise, then unleash another blast of ice, shearing through the illusions and, to your satisfaction, catching a couple of actual Kardan’s that had mixed with them, blasting them away, but not with enough force to take them out of the fight forever. Much to your chagrin the frontal shield-wall of the main Bugbear force- now clearly six plus the leader, held firm under the onslaught, and you grit your teeth in anger- you needed to get around the sides, but they’d have backtracked out of the fog before then. Annoyingly well organized, and just a bit too luc-

“-I’M THROUGH, BOSS!” You hear another voice yell just a bit further up the tunnel, along with a last, mighty smash, “An’ it’s books like ‘e wanted! An’ a- OW! BLOODY SPRITE!!”

To your side you see Baha perk up and start hurriedly pressing herself toward the voices while keeping to the wall, a side-step just the right side of urgent to still be quiet...but with no way of being unseen once they all reach the boundary outside the fog cloud.

“’Ang on lad, our hands’re full ‘ere!” Sounded a faintly rejuvenated leader from the centre of the well-drilled bulge before calling out to the near-comatose pair you’d blasted past them, “Renke! Polg! Yer not dead yet, go ‘elp ‘im out an’ gather all the books ye can together!!”

The two slowly started moving to their feet, and with them you saw your last chance to change the course of this battle. You needed to break that formation, you needed to kill or stop that Gnor before he crushed your Mephit to crystal, and you needed to do it now!

****

Damn it, they are much better than I expect them to be!
No other way out. Revert, breathe at them till there is nothing but ice left.

>>18353238
And Baha might not be able to see our dragon form. Maybe. Hopefully.

>>18353238
Yeah, if they're through the wall then Baha's friend doesn't have much time left. We need to finish this quickly, and we should hopefully be able to persuade Baha to keep our secret. She'll be good at covering up dragon tracks too. As long as none of them get away, it should be ok.

>>18353253
hit her on the back of the head to knock her out (if we can do it gently enough), later explain you didnt know what hit her.
Then revert and blast em with cold.
We COULD use paralyzing cloud instead, but giving their capabilities, I am afraid they will succeed saving throws as well.

Guys, they're STILL behind those shields, and the Gnor guy is behind a wall, and more important than ANY of that- BAHA IS AHEAD OF US NOW.

Exactly what do you think is going to happen by turning into a dragon and breathing ice down a goddamn tunnel?!

>>18353309
We will knock Baha out/down.
The guys behind the shields will be damaged. Its not lighting, its cold, cold goes around.
We will take on the guy in the kitchen later, in human form.

>>18353309
We could tell her "get behind me"

>>18353335

Because getting a little chilly at the sides is going to kill them. And the cone of cold worked SO WELL.

>>18353355
A dragon charging into their formation out of nowhere when they're disoriented is going to fuck them up badly.

>>18353351
She doesnt know where behind is, she cant hear anything, and often fog change sounds.
>>18353355
>Because getting a little chilly at the sides is going to kill them.
10d8, nigga! Thats not "little chilly".
Besides, we didnt cast cone of cold - because we dont have cone of cold as a spellcaster, max some "improved ray of frost"
Or yeah, we micht just charge ahead.

>reverting and charging in the tight tunnel
That reminds me of something...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy6t4s3ItQ4&t=9m53s

rolled 7 = 7

Gaseous form; float forward through them, re-materialize in the kitchen, where we can hold the door against them.

At that point, ideally Baha will realize she should get in with us, so we can hold the room, and then we can throw whatever evocation we have left around without fear of collateral.

rolled 3 = 3

I vote for changing to normal form, breathing, then charging if anyone is still alive.
Gods of the dice are on my side.

>7
>3
Yep. /tg/ dice. We are SO fucked...

rolled 16 = 16

>>18353508
seconding.

>>18353535
STOP ROLLING
You will doom us all!

rolled 65 = 65

>>18353550
NO!

>>18353564
Now if only we could use that one...

>>18353586
Thats a forth roll. I dont think even WG is so mercefull.

I'm not sure whether I want an update, or want to keep the ignorance and savor the illusion of hope.

>>18353783
WG said he will go to have a snack.
Lets hope he will be mercifull when his belly will be full.

I vote for reverting and breath weapon. Our companion can't see but she will be very suspicious of us after this. We also can lie and say we can cast poly morph spells to deflect suspicion.

our spell casting capability is small and we have lost our halberd. Also this seems to be very important enough to risk our cover at least.

****

...No choice. You’d hoped to play the part of Victor a bit longer than this, but...desperate times. You just felt the mephit shatter inside your head.

“Baha. BAHA!” You yell, stopping her in her tracks, “Come here and get behind me.”

“But-“

“DO IT.”

Notably suspicious the Kardan’s used the spare seconds of assumed reprieve to quickly break and reform their formation further back down the tunnel, well out of the fog-cloud, almost pressing again the door as Baha stumbled toward and behind, fear and tentative anger on her clouded face.

“I’m here, but what good does that do?! They’re going to kill him!”

“No,” You intone, moving forward, “They’re not.”

To the Kardan’s, nothing much seemed apparent at first, just loud, cracking sounds...and the keening cry of the girl they’d seen you come in with. Then they the low, growling breaths, and they fancied that- just for a moment- they saw something in the mist. Glowing. Glowering.

The captain needn’t have bothered squinting, its presence became all too clear with the grinding, blue-tinted blast of sheer cold that crushed his shieldbearers into him and blew apart the fog before them- and the two fellows either side of him.

“OH HELLS, E’S THE DRAGON!!! KEEP THE SHIELDS UP!!” The captain almost shrieked, heaving a dropped one up himself, “GNOR!! GNOR YOU BASTARD, GET OUT OF HERE!!”

“But what about the books?” You hear a very busy sounding Bugbear call out from the other room behind him.

“FORGET- AAAH!!”

You unleash another blast and advance forward, keeping it on for longer this time, crawling through the now-cramped tunnel as best you’re able toward them, blocking them off from the one uncovered doorway. No easy exit for them.

>>18354114

“F-FORGET THE RUDDY BOOKS!!” The captain, screams behind his shield, bracing it with his entire body, “TAKE WHATEVER YOU CAN, BUT GET BACK!! TELL ‘EM THE DRAGON WAS HERE AND ‘E’S ONTO US!!”

Then, much to your rage-just as you pause for breath and a second before you’re in biting distance-

“I can do better than that, boss!” You see the Bugbear shout, darting out from the doorway festooned with bags of holding to leap straight over his huddled group of half-dead, nearly frozen comrades, “Y’can tell ‘im yerself!”

The was a flash from the gem about his waist...and then nothing. Vanished. All of them in the huddle, with just the four shattered and charred corpses around you any sign they were ever here. And your glaive. Morphing as you moved you leap into the open doorway and look around.

Gone. All the books. He must’ve stuffed them frantically into the bags as fast as he could. A well trained team, hiding out here, just waiting for the way to be shown to them...or for some idiot like you to come along and find it for them. And of *course* they’d be well trained...this place was a death trap.

Rubbing your face, in agitation and barely contained anger, you try and slide it to the side as you notice the illusionist laying motionless in his chair, untouched. You run over and grab him, checking him over...

>>18354114

...Yes! SOMETHING!

“BAHA, COME ON! He’s still alive!” You shout out, getting him out of the chair and onto the ground, pulling at his robes to prepare him.

No response.

“BAHA!” You try again, resorting to simply tearing the fabric apart...then look up to the doorway expectantly.

Still nothing.

“...Baha?”

You stand and make your way to the doorway, staring out at the woman collapsed on her knees in the middle of the tunnel, staring straight ahead, unable to se you in the pitch-black conditions surrounding you...but knowing you can. And can see her expression...or the lack of one, rather, despite the tears. And see her lips move as she asks her question.

“...So what’s your REAL name, ‘Victor’? Unless you want to come up with some other lie to cover this?”

...Ah shit.

>E’S THE DRAGON!!
>TELL ‘EM THE DRAGON WAS HERE
"The dragon", not "a dragon". They knew we were coming to investigate the town somehow? Or maybe they're mistaking us for another silver (Our sister? Our father?).

Well, time to come up with a real name for our guy.
And a name to tell Baha.
The two probably shouldn't have anything in common.

>>18354185
If she knows that our father has a deal to protect the town then revealing who we actually are could get her to trust us and maybe keep it secret. If she doesn't know of the deal then she'll probably think it's part of the conspiracy if we mention it and never trust us again.

>>18354165
Victor will still do.

The thing is, she has no real reason to doubt us. Sure, we may not be precisely who we said we were, but we're at least marginally competent, and are obviously on her side / not working with the bugbears.

If we happen to prefer the use of a pseudonym, well, that's how it goes. We don't have to give her a real name; whether or not she thinks 'victor' is our real name, it works as one.

Incidentally, we seem to be getting totally outplayed by whoever these people are.

And we STILL have no idea what the fuck is going on here.

Victor works fine. We arent as paranoid as Old Az, so Victor still works, it will be our permanent nickname.

"Actually, my real name IS Victor. And "other lies"? I might not told you everything I knew, true. But I never lied to you."

>>18354285
Oh come on, what kind of dragon is called "Victor"? I'm fine with continuing to use it but she's not going to buy that it's our real name.

Tell her that our real name would be unnecessarily cumbersome, and calling us Victor is just more convenient. Also, we've never lied to her. We just didn't mention certain things. And besides, we can explain this all more fully when we're not in hostile territory.

rolled 47 = 47

What do we have to explain? We're still a mercenary sorcerer that was hired as her guard. We're still here, we're still on the clock, and yeah, we're a bit ashamed to have been played so flawlessly by bugbears, and we're upset to have had to use one of our more awesome spells so early (and to so little effect!), but we're still the same as ever.


Now hurry up and come over hear. Wizard needs healing potion badly.

Guys, we need a name. A name beyond just "Victor."

Not that we'll be telling it to Baha, of course, but we need it for future reference.

>>18354387
Maybe our dragon does not like his dragon name.
Victor works fine now.

>>18354410
Even if he doesn't like his dragon name, even if it never gets used, he should still have one.

we should explain that yes we are in fact a dragon. The only deception we have done is by using an alternate identity because we prefer privacy. Also we confused as heck on what the hob goblins said and maybe another dragon is somehow involved. dark vision does not convey color and hobgoblins would not know the intricacy between colors.

To sum it all up we are a dragon that has been hired out to act as your body guard. State that we don't like to casually flaunt this and that this was a dire enough circumstance that we were forced to reveal our self. We hope that you would understand and finally ask her to keep our secrete and if she can't because of her superior to at least it only know to a small group of people.

We have been discussing how to name our dragon for the last 20 minutes. So far no consensus. I mean, Syrovane? Thats not a name Silver Dragon would call its child!

>>18354441
> Also we confused as heck on what the hob goblins said and maybe another dragon is somehow involved

No. More likely they're working with the same people who summoned all of the out-of-place monsters that attacked the adventurers heading to the orc camp. They saw us trash the orc camp in dragon form, so they know that there is a dragon meddling with things in the region. So when we showed up and reverted, they figured it was the same dragon again.

I'm kind of annoyed that everyone and their dog seems to be running circles around us. We've been a bit of a butt monkey since we first showed up in Umbaya.

rolled 63 = 63

I still maintain we should not admit to being a dragon. She has no evidence we are anything other than what we say we are, aside from the hobgoblins comment. (And it is a fairly reasonable mistake on their part.)

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/18352199/
Archived.

****

You sigh, half-shaking you head and entirely not in the mood for this kind of little ‘truth or dare’ show. Honestly, what is the problem here? You were here, this was your job, you protected her, you were here until the end...so what if Victor was not your real name? It wasn’t like she had a right to know anyway, and there were more important things to take care of, so...

“Nevermind that, your friend-“

“-Or is that all you’re good for, lying? Lying. Lying little liar who can’t tell me his name, who’s too important to tell me his name or what his intentions are or anything else so he just walks around here happily lying to me just like how everyone lies to me and in the dark so I don’t see his lying face to tell that he’s lying but I’m a ranger now so I can’t hear it in his lying voice-“

“-I, ah, look, I never lied over my name, its j-”

“-Don’t lie TO *ME!!*” She shrieks in a tone so piercing you’re surprised the ice around you doesn’t crack, “DON’T LIE! DON’T LIE!! NOT TO ME!! NEVER TO ME!!”

The half-full vial of healing potion she’d been gripping in her hand shatters, the glass crushing and cutting between her fingers just as the salve tries to heal them up.

You begin to realize that you have just wandered into a very, very, personal minefield here.

She sucks in another breath, trying to calm her shudders, “...Just don’t...don’t lie okay? Please don’t lie. You’re my partner, right? They don’t lie. They SHOULDN’T lie. If you’re close. So tell me your name. Tell me.”

****

There are few things to do
1. help the mage
2. explaine to the ranger what happened
3. see if we can discover anything else in the hold - there were some trolls and "dressed in black" women, also some strange crystal
4. go outside and try to find someone who might know anything about the book we still have.

>>18354615
The touching thing, the lying thing...
She has issues.

>>18354615
Oh wow, this lady be CRAZY. First she rashes to troll-infested tower, then she rashed to save her magefriend, only to forget about him when we accidentaly lied.
I dont think I want a person like this to know our name and nature.

Too bad the thread started to autosage from page one.
No worry, WG, your writing is preserved for future generations.

Let us very calmly remind her that her boyfriend is dying over here, and she needs to bring the healing salve the hell over before it entirely dissipates.

We can discuss this later. First, we need to get out of here; evidently we were followed and spied upon before. They could be doing so now. We would rather not deliver our name to them.

Oh, and she seriously should calm down. Even if it is the case, we had no idea lying was such a touchy issue for her.

>>18354638

Issues? She is off the fucking rail! And I like that in a woman. Introduce ourselves fully to her but tell her we prefer if she call us Victor for casual madders and then proceed to change back to human form and help her dying friend.

also out of game we never named our char so we need to come up with a name.

i think a funny nick name would be nameless one

Damn it, girl, my name IS Victor.
Now, listen closely what I am going to say. You dont like me? Allright. You dont trust me? I can live with that. But here, in the next room is the man who is bleeding to death, the man YOU said you can help. I have exhausted all my magic and all my resources, I have risked my life just to get you here so you can heal him. And what do you do? You sit on your ass and refuse to move until I humor you with some fake name and fake story. Now, either you are going to go in there and help him, or I will go in myself and try to carry him all the way to the city. He will, most likely, not survive, but if thats the best I can do to try to save life - I will do that.

rolled 32 = 32

>>18354678
Nonononono! Why give her that?

>>18354678
We are already in human form.

Now, I don't think we should tell her our actual name.

But for our actual name, how does Viltremenmirth sound? It got posted in IRC.

>>18354712
How about Viktremenmirth? You can call me Victor.

>>18354723
Sounds good.

the name Visktorix. was also purposed in the IRC chat.

>>18354771
Sounds like Victorinox

>>18354771
-ix is female ending in Draconian.

>>18354881

rolled 67 = 67

>>18354894
I don't know what that's from, but I find myself mildly amused.

>>18354941
Looks like some kind of Gundam

>>18354941
Zeta Gundam. The main character is a boy named Kamille. In the first episode, another character comments that Kamille is a girl's name, leading to Kamille running over and punching the dude in the face. This kicks off a complex chain of events that leads to Kamille becoming the pilot of the latest Gundam, and eventually alters the course of the war and indeed the entire setting.

All because a guy commented that Camille is a girl's name.

The pictured scene takes place some time later, by which point he's sort of come to terms with his name. Also, he totally wants to fuck that girl's brains out, so he's less inclined to punch her in the face anyway.

>>18354975
Ah, so Turn A is not the only Gundam to play with genders.

You entertain, briefly, telling her your actual name; Vikremenmirth. A notion that is very easily dismissed, given her very apparent instability- bad enough your enemies know that you exist, but there might be spies around...and you could hardly trust someone like the girl infront of you to be able to keep it a secret.

No, you decide, the best course of action here would be to try and calm her down. Reason with her. Afterall, her acquaintance, whoever he is, is still dying in the room beyond.

“Listen...” You begin as tactfully as you can, “My name- my HUMAN name, that IS Victor. Now-“

“-Nnn.” She stops you, holding a hand up.

Baha shivers, then doubles over, clutching her head before springing taught, muscles tearing themselves apart through the effort to hold something in, figers clawing to strangle air, to strangle YOU.

“Nnn. Nmmn. NmmkkpppmmkkNNNNNN!!!”

Then, it’s like something in her just...snaps. In a single sweeping action, she brings her right hand down from her head, slicing open that side of her face from the glass embedded in it. And she looks up at you, squints to see as best she can, nose bleeding from the pressure inside her head. Her focus seems unearthly, unnatural, her pupils pinpricks even in the darkness surrounding you both. She hasn't so much gotten a hold of herself, you feel, but had surpassed the need.

“Do not-“ She points, voice harder and clearer than you ever heard it, “Do not ever talk to me again. Do not ever come near me. Do not even speak to apologise, as if you ever would.”

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She holds up the stone she’d kept in contact with the Gnome between the two of you and tosses it over.

“I’ve told him. I’m not going to debate with him over it. It’s done. You can go now. I don’t care.”

And with that, she walks past you to heal her friend, nonchalantly spitting out a piece of a tooth she’d cracked from clenching them so hard.

Faintly, you hear a sickeningly familiar voice in your head, sounding positively delighted.

‘Hey Vic, I just heard! Seems you got her to come of her shell afterall! Way to go champ, I knew you could do it!’

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That'll be it for the thread today! Hopefully it won't slide off the edge before people've decided what they're going to do next? Hang around for the library check-out...or maybe just come home. Now'd be a good time to think about what else you'd like to do when you get back to town, too!

Next thread'll be at the same time, Friday, 2300GMT, and I hope t'see you there! PEACE.

Yep. Now I am not even sure what WG is trying to do.

This town seems like a lost cause.

We come to maybe help out, and all we get are ambushes, scheming, insults, and a whole lot of crazy.

>>18355108
That what adventure is all about.
We stay and investigate.
Oh, and our name IS Victor. Honestly. Well, at least part of it, but its 100% truth.

Ok, so what do we have.
Ranger and mage are in no ability to talk. I guess we can see to them to safely reach the city/go to wasteland, whatever they want.
From the clues we have dwarf book and gnome who knows more than he shows.
Also, do we risk going deeper in the hold? Seems like the books was the only thing enemies were interested in, and without ranger we cant pick up any clues.

yea really tempted to leave but our good nature will want us to get to the bottom of this.

tempted to burn our current identity and do undercover investigation. however would set us back so we should stick with our current identity.

rolled 30 = 30

Goddamn, this bitch be crazy. Perhaps she is not aware that complete honesty is not very common even among people who know each other much better than we do.

Fuck it. She may be willing to leave the wizard to die. We are not going to. We can do some annoyed fencing with the damn gnome, and meanwhile, we shall try to save/heal/rescue her dying boyfriend. Then we follow her, and do our best to keep her safe whatever she may do. We are still employed and on the clock, whatever she happens to want. (She is not footing the bill, after all.)

>>18355130
Personally, I think we should leave. We've overstayed our welcome. Every time we try to help, we get nothing but insults. They don't want us here, fine. We've discharged our obligation to our grand sire check on the town and make sure that it still exists. It does. Let's go somewhere that isn't quite so crazy.

>>18355150
No, she is saving him now. I am just concirned if she can leave this place with him ok.

>>18355155
Not crazy - boring.
Besides, the town is not OK. We checked it? Yeah, its fucked up. What do we do? We fix it.

>>18355161
The TOWN is fine. The people in it aren't, but honestly fuck them.

For the next thread, some ideas that were thrown around to avoid the autosage issue:
Try to start with a different image, it might be something to do with the board thinking you're spamming because of all the previous threads starting with the same image.
Try to not have a subject line or a tripcode in the first post. Some combination of those might be causing the issue.

I honestly don't know if any of that makes any sense, but it probably won't hurt to try.