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You roll your shoulders, touch your toes, and do some simple exercises in an attempt to shake some of the leadeness out of your arms and legs. You always get like this after rapidly expending large amounts of vys. Your joints ache, your neck is stiff, a migraine is gnawing away at the back of your head. Your master had once said 'That just means you need to cast more spells.' but since casting more spells typically leads to unconsciousness, you're not sure if he meant that seriously or if he was just joking.

After your satisfied that you can move without limping, you nod to your companions, and Captain Darzi. “Alright, I think it's been about an hour between all the looting and fighting. Lets check on that heavy we tied up.” Chryssa, Prof, and Fulvia nod. The Captain however clears her throat gently to get everyone's attention. “Are you really sure that's necessary? I mean, what do you hope to learn from consorting with bandits?”

You rub your chin contemplatively. “Well, I want to verify that the prisoners I sold to the Shahzadi gave me-” The Captain holds up her hands to stop you. “Wait, the Shahzadi bought slaves from an Aghtak? I find it highly unlikely that the Shahzadi would so readily flaunt the Law of her Father by conducting business with an aghtaki.” You wave a hand dismissively. “I had just saved her life, and besides she seemed fairly weak willed. That isn't the point though. The point is the bandit told me there were sixteen men in this ruin. We've killed or incapacitated twelve so far. I want to make sure he told the truth. I also want to ask him just where this... uh” You wave a hand in the air exasperatedly, searching for the name. Fortunately, the Captain provides it for you. “Baldev.” You snap your fingers. “Yes, him. I want to find out where Baldev's quarters are, since that's likely where most of the treasure will be found.”
(1/2)

You begin to march onward, towards the emptied storage room where you'd left the bound and paralyzed bandit. Along the way, you start to notice those glowing Rhynian lanterns. They hang freely from the walls from iron hooks, and their casing is made of some sort of thick glass. You can't really see much inside, the light inside is very intense but the light doesn't seem to be cast very far. They're obviously magical in some way, and they're not attached to any sort of power source you can see. Maybe you could try draining them of vys?

>Take a closer look at the lanterns, turn on the magic sight your armor provides.
>Just cast the Leech spell, you don't want to waste too much time on it.
>Tampering with ancient artifacts might not be a great idea.
>Write-in

Finally! Go easy on substances Soma.

>>31761517
Go easy on the spice.

>>31761458
>Take a closer look at the lanterns, turn on the magic sight your armor provides.

>>31761458
>>Take a closer look at the lanterns, turn on the magic sight your armor provides.
I don't want to get fucked by magic lanterns.
Also i want to gather and sell them if possible. A lantern that never goes out would worth a fortune.

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>>31761517
>>31761543
I can only try.

>>31761435
you have the most interesting life

>Take a closer look.
Writin'

>>31761443
>>31761458
Loot the armor and weapons off of every bandit we take out.

Seriously heavy armor is valuebale

>>31761458
>>Take a closer look at the lanterns, turn on the magic sight your armor provides.

and >>31761664

>>31761664
THIS

We agreed on it at the end of last thread.

Not to mention that guy who beat the shit out of profectus could possibly have an enchanted item on him

>>31761577
Also usefull and something we may want to keep with us.

Just one

You pull one of the lanterns off of its hooks, holding it up close. It seems like it cast horribly bright light, to the point that you don't dare hold it too close to your face, but only for a few feet. It's not warm to the touch, in fact it's rather cold. As you hold it by the handle it seems to throb and pulse almost like a living thing, though that's surely impossible. You've read ancient text that discussed giving sentience to constructs, and you can only assume Fulvia is a successful example of this, but whether or not that makes them truly alive is debatable and why anyone would do that to a lantern is absolutely beyond you.

You channel water magic into that strange control gauntlet on the left forearm of your Centurion Armor. Immediately, your vision goes blue and the walls, floors, and ceiling vanish. You see the bright points of light that are your companions, Fulvia's generator practically glowing like the sun. Chryssa is also notably brighter than the first time you saw her through this filter. She's grown more powerful. Profectus has a bit of spark to him, he has the talent no doubt, but he's practically a husk. Completely devoid of vys, or nearly so. Captain Darzi is fairly average as far as Samja go, though she's still more magically powerful than Profectus.

Taking a look at the lantern, you see it sucking in the ambient vys like a sponge, but it's not truly the lantern. It's something trapped inside the lantern. Some kind of gem, you think. Or perhaps a stone of some sort. The vys it absorbed is almost immediately expended, for what you're not sure, but the light is really just a side-effect of the process.

>Smash the lantern so you can get at whatever it is actually powering this thing.
>Just drain the lantern, the glass is probably more for your protection than the artifact's.
>Write-in

You'll loot the bandits you've killed on your way back through the building, before you either leave or decide to dive into the deepest pits of the mine in order to find Baldev and whatever goodies might lie down below.

>>31761919
>>Smash the lantern so you can get at whatever it is actually powering this thing.
There are more lanterns right?

>>31761919
>Just drain the lantern, the glass is probably more for your protection than the artifact's.

Bright light means a lot of energy let's not have it blow in our face

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Sup guys im back
and this time with 5% more pictures

>>31761955
We ain't leaving. Baldev will die.

>>31761919
>>Smash the lantern so you can get at whatever it is actually powering this thing.

>Smash the thing
Writin'

And yes, there are more lanterns.

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>>31761975
Actually make that 75% less because I dont remember any of the pictures I've use

>>31761919
>>Just drain the lantern, the glass is probably more for your protection than the artifact's.

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You hoist the lantern overhead and then spike it into the ground. It cracks rather spectacularly, sending glass scattering across the floor and a blinding light blooming in the hallway. You suppose the ice you used to encase and crack the lanterns outside must of suppressed the resulting small explosion.

However, as impressive as the smashed lantern looks it's even more impressive through the lens of your vys-infused sight. Spirals of energy whirl out in every direction, rays of vys shooting every which way. They pass through you and your companions, but none of you seem harmed. Perhaps a slight contamination of your vys, but nothing to worry about. When the light dims and the motes of energy that spewed forth have all dissipated, you don't see any evidence of a stone or a gem in the wreckage of the lantern. Just shards of glass and the metal frame.

>Well damn, get another lantern and try draining that.
>Get another lantern, try to find a way to open it without smashing.
>Leave the lanterns alone for now.
>Write-in

>>31762268
>Get another lantern, try to find a way to open it without smashing.

Well, now I'm curious.

>>31762268
>>Leave the lanterns alone for now.

>>31761435
fuck yeah Banished Quest

>>31761458
>>Take a closer look at the lanterns, turn on the magic sight your armor provides.

>>31762268
>Get another lantern, try to find a way to open it without smashing.
For science.

>>31761919
>Smash the lantern so you can get at whatever it is actually powering this thing.

>>31762268
>Get another lantern, try to find a way to open it without smashing.

SCIEEEEEEENNNNNNCCCCCCEE

>>31762268
>>Well damn, get another lantern and try draining that.
>>Get another lantern, try to find a way to open it without smashing.

>>31762268
>>Well damn, get another lantern and try draining that.

>>31762268
>>Well damn, get another lantern and try draining that.
let's drain then open.

Should prevent the explosion

>>31762290
>>31762380
>>31762458
>>31762459
>SCIENCE!

>>31762502
>>31762475
>Drain another.

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>>31762114

>>31762290
>>31762380
>>31762380
>>31762458
>>31762502
>>31762475
How about both?
We can do 3 things
1.try opening it with out smashing it.
2.draining it and trying to open it
3.Just drain it

>>31762268
>>Get another lantern, try to find a way to open it without smashing.
Fuck Baldie, this lanterns could be much more useful and valuable.

>>31762576
I say we steal those lanterns before we leave.

>>31762546
Hey soma can we experiment with our armour after we are done and ask the 3 questions we been meaning to ask Fulvia.(can she learn more magic, can she improve her mastery, and can she teach us her magic), after we finish lotting?

>>31762268
>>Get another lantern, try to find a way to open it without smashing.

>>31762604
All of them

>>31762645
sure, speaking of which Our pet monster probably has a nice cluttered house right one, we should try communicating with him more.the cloak makes up for being insane and taking the spices.

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>>31762573

>>31762633
>can she learn more magic, can she improve her mastery, and can she teach us her magic
No, no, and no.

>>31762633
Didn't she said she can't learn more magic because she's limited to the body she's in(can only do fire/metal or something). I remember something about finding other magic core to grant her that element.

>>31762685
Oh when did he answer these?

>>31762268

>Leave the lanterns alone for now.

We can figure this out later.

>>31762633
She can learn more by us going in a programming it into her

same with mastery

no she can't teach us.

And let's channel Earth Magic into our amor

>>31762689
Huh, i might have missed a thread or after quest Q&A, mind telling me which thread you remember that from?

>>31762677
>implying we're out of the frying pan
>implying we're not slowly being dropped into the fire

>>31762694
Was around the test to become Master Water Vatis I think

>>31762694
>>31762685
We have to go into her core and program new magic into her

>>31762721
honestly the cloak makes up the death mask fiasco, hell maybe even the spice speeding up our crazies.

>>31762747
>>31762713
Well then, here is hoping we can find another working ruin.
>>31762739
I think i remember that section a bit, anyway i guess i'm gonna reread those parts once this thread is done.

>>31762789
We can program anytime by just touching her gem and channeling Vys into it.

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>>31762679

>>31762833
so does that mean if we try, we can teach her to have water mastery as well?

>>31762721
We're doing fine

>>31762857
There's probably some lost in the exchange.

Like one level lower or some shit.

But I don't think it's going to be all that easy, programing will probably be a thread in itself.

>>31762748
to be honost the death mask didnt turn out as bad as it could have.

The spice on the other hand.....

The only way i see that being mad up is if we find a way to slow down our crazies. because im assuming an unspoken goal for us is to learn all the magic there is.

You grab another lantern off the wall, turning it over in your hands and looking for some kind of latch that you could unfasten or hatch you could open. The entire thing seems sealed rather tightly, nothing screws off or pops out. No shiny red buttons to press. You note that your companions are looking on curiously, though they haven't asked anything of you yet. You're not sure what's stranger, that you stopped in the middle of the hallway to break lanterns, or that your companions don't question it at all.

Eventually you try channeling a little vys into it, and you feel it practically rip the energy from your body. You manage to cut off the transfer before losing too much, but it was still rather unpleasant. It makes you wonder whether or not leeching the lantern would be a good idea, if it would turn into some kind of battle of wills or something.
>Vys Pool: (5/26)

>Try to drain the lantern, maybe you'll be able to break it safely then.
>Leave the lantern alone for now, it seems dangerous.
>Stea-I mean... loot all of the lanterns, you can sell these for a fortune!
>Write-in

Sorry about the delay, got a phone call.

So who's up for going into this "shaft" the bandits are so scared of?

Gonna have some crazy loot. Plus with our cloak we can actually carry it all.

>>31762268
Hey, these lanterns are like Welkynd stones from Oblivion! I loved these things! I played a pure mage once, with a mod to turn the spell-casting animation to a finger gun motion, and went around as a crazed finger-gun man who killed people by pointing at them weird.

>>31762937
>Try to drain the lantern, maybe you'll be able to break it safely then.

>>31762937
>>Try to drain the lantern, maybe you'll be able to break it safely then
Let the battle commence.

>>31762910
wich is why so many of us want to learn metal.

Rolled 6, 8, 8 = 22

>>31762937
>>Try to drain the lantern, maybe you'll be able to break it safely then.
>>Stea-I mean... loot all of the lanterns, you can sell these for a fortune!

>>31762937
>Leave the lantern alone for now, it seems dangerous.
Don't steal them, you don't know if Ricky will freak out if you pour light into his world. Try to make contact with him before doing that.

>>31762937
>>Try to drain the lantern, maybe you'll be able to break it safely then
This'll be fun

>>31762937
>>Try to drain the lantern, maybe you'll be able to break it safely then.
>>Stea-I mean... loot all of the lanterns, you can sell these for a fortune!

>>31762937
>>Write-in
Say we take a few for research later. maybe ten or something, u know leave one take one interval
Also ask why they dont seem surprised that we are stopping
Dont think leaching them would be a good idea at this stage.

>>31763013
You really are a buzz kill huh?

We take risks, deal with it

>Drain the lantern
ROOOOLL 3d10! Flat! DC 18!

Rolled 6, 3, 6 = 15

>>31763058

>>31763039
We're taking them all.

All.

But first let's investigate this one

Rolled 3, 2, 6 = 11

>>31763058

Rolled 5, 3, 2 = 10

>>31763058

Rolled 5, 4, 10 = 19

>>31763058
Dice don't fail me now!

Rolled 2, 6, 1 = 9

>>31763058

>>31762937
>Write-in

Ask Fulvia for advice

Rolled 3, 2, 7 = 12

>>31763058

>>31762937
>>Stea-I mean... loot all of the lanterns, you can sell these for a fortune!

>>31763007
Are u referring to the learn all magic there is part or the slow the crazy part? Cause if its the second one i dont know how that would work.

>>31762955
Id be but im going to vote we rest before we do such a thing

>>31763090
>>31763089
>>31763077
oh god this is bad, can we drain Vys from Fulvia?

>>31762937
Drain it

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>>31763058
>tfw we get knocked out by a lantern

>>31763077
>>31763088
>>31763089
>>31763090
>>31763093
>>31763095
>>31763101
Welp let's deplete even more our vys reserve for science.

>>31763114
>Are u referring to the learn all magic there is part or the slow the crazy part?
no Metal has been said agian and agian to stop and hinder the effects of the craizies.

Can we spend vys?

>>31763077
>>31763089
>>31763090
>15, 11, 10 vs DC 18
>Severe Failure!

Reminder: Your vys pool is at 5/26, and this lantern may further drain vys.

>Spend 3 vys to make it a Regular Failure?
>Y
>N

>>31763145
>>31763155
I say we try to drain our robot generator, but we should warn her first.
>>31763168
Y

>>31763168
Y

>>31763077
>>31763089
>>31763090

>>31763095
>>31763101

yea we are dead. Been fun

>>31763088
Hate to be a buzz kill on that topic, but how will our companions see?

>>31763168
Y

>>31763168
Y

Else we might get drain ourselves

>>31763168
>>N

>>31763168
Can we touch The robot and drain her while we try to fight off this lamp?

>>31763158
Ahh missed that part, thanks

>>31763168
>Y

>>31763187
I assume we'll be taking them on our way out, as stated in >>31761955

>>31763163
5/26
Before a guy who may be boss material. Let's just hope Chryssa can fuck him up because I doubt we would be able to do shit. Or use one bullet of the gun we got.

Can we save all this for later so we can interrogate and find the other bandits?

>>31763168
Y

We're going to drain that bandit

>>31763207
>>31763182
We could just drain the vys we've been storing in the Shockwave sword.

>Y
Seems the consensus. Writin'

>>31763248
We haven’t been

>>31763248
You haven't started doing that yet, though you will start doing it after you finish up this ruin, or next time you meditate/sleep.

You cast leech on the lantern in your hand, and almost immediately it kicks back. Drained as you are, you really can't manage to do anything but hold your ground. You end up just pouring vys into the spell in an attempt to turn momentum in your favor, but it laps up the energy happily. You end up just cutting off the spell, dropping the lantern, and taking a few steps back just to spare yourself the embarrassment of passing out because of an inanimate object.
>Vys Pool: (1/26) You feel moments away from unconsciousness, as if a stiff breeze would knock you out.

You glare at the lantern on the floor, which you note now glows much more strongly than it was before. Enough that the entire hallway seems just a tad brighter. Chryssa ask cautiously. “Are you okay? You look nauseous.” To which you respond with a dismissive wave. You try to take a few steps forward, but you end up stumbling and nearly fall. Fortunately Profectus catches you. Chrys drapes one of your arms over her shoulders, while Profectus takes the other. The two of them practically have to carry you towards the store room.

The Captain is the first one to ask. “What by Surya's accursed name just happened? One minute he was fine, the next he's barely cognizant.” You take a deep breath, and muster yourself to respond. “Experiment went poorly, backfired. Drained my reserves.”

>Just get to the guard, maybe if you conserve your energy you'll be able to actually interrogate him.
>You can have someone else interrogate the guard, make sure every last one of these lanterns is stuffed in your cloak.
>Write-in

>>31763286
Could we meditate with the sword in our hands and instead of bringing the Vys into us we just channel it into the sword.

We could theoretically put 100+ vys into it.

>>31763452
>>Just get to the guard, maybe if you conserve your energy you'll be able to actually interrogate him
We'll get the lanterns on the way back

>>31763452
>You can have someone else interrogate the guard, make sure every last one of these lanterns is stuffed in your cloak.
We didn't insult that man at the very beginning to stop being a jew now

>>31763452
>You can have someone else interrogate the guard, make sure every last one of these lanterns is stuffed in your cloak.

>>31763452
>>Just get to the guard, maybe if you conserve your energy you'll be able to actually interrogate him.
Leave the lamps alone, please for the love of Ricky.

>>31763452
>>Just get to the guard, maybe if you conserve your energy you'll be able to actually interrogate him.
We can get the lanterns on the way out

>>31763452
Interrogate and Leech that guard

Rolled 3, 3, 2 = 8

>>31763458
Oh god

>>31763512
>please for the love of Rick
?

>>31763452
>>You can have someone else interrogate the guard, make sure every last one of these lanterns is stuffed in your cloak.

>>31763452
>>Just get to the guard, maybe if you conserve your energy you'll be able to actually interrogate him.

>>31763535
Ricky is the thing in the cloak

>>31763512
We're taking those lanterns whether you like it or not.

But I still support going to the guard first

>>31763560
I know, but why even mention him, when we stuck worse inside it, hell out cloak has leaching powers as well.

>>31763458
This

>>31763452
Get to the guard, if we let our allies do it we can't leech him

>>31763458
You could meditate and use yourself as a conduit to transfer vys into the sword, but running that much vys through a person might have negative health effects. Plus, it would take a lot of time. It takes several hours just to fill your reserves after all.

>>31763557
>>31763522
>>31763512
>>31763494
>>31763595
>Conserve energy

>>31763495
>>31763508
>>31763550
>>31763557
>Delicious loot

Writin'

>>You can have someone else interrogate the guard, make sure every last one of these lanterns is stuffed in your cloak.

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>>31763579

>>31763452
>>Just get to the guard, maybe if you conserve your energy you'll be able to actually interrogate him.
The lanterns aren't going anywhere

>>31763620
we could see inside the clao, so there is light inside it anon.

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>>31763639
You could see Ricky, but that was because Ricky's upper half was made of some sort of semi-ethereal glowing material.

>>31763665
so there is still light inside.i wonder if the room is flesh covered

We should see what happens when we channel Earth magic into our armor.

So

Water gives us magic sight

Fire gives us a constant stream Flamethrower (I assume it gives us a discount on Vys and amps up the power)

Earth????

Metal????

>>31763620
why is this one missing the red eyes?

>>31763697
>(I assume it gives us a discount on Vys and amps up the power)
also has a long rang, and you forgot naurte, and i wonder if you can do metamagics/effects on the armour as well.(

>>31763605
That's still like 25 vys in a few hours.

Imagine how strong that thing will be with 25 Vys.

Nukes

>>31763685
We didn't see any limits to it, it may not even have walls.

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>>31763703

Ricky might like some light in there.

When you reach the rusty iron store room door, you motion for your companions to stop. You could hear the bandit calling for help through the iron door, but judging by how muffled it was you doubted you needed to worry about him hearing what you said. “Put me down, I can walk.”

Chrys and Profectus share a glance, but they do as you say. You have to steady yourself against the wall for a moment, but eventually manage to draw yourself up and stand on your own two feet unassisted. “Alright, I think I'll manage. Open the door.” Chryssa does as you'd ordered, and the door opens with a sharp, echoing whine. You march confidently inside to find the captured bandit curled up on the floor, looking at you fearfully. “I will tell you nothing, you-you camel fuckers! Don't touch me!”

He struggles as you approach, and you wonder absentmindedly how you should go about this. Typically in the past you've tried the silver tongued and fairly kind approach, but you are a little pressed for time here. You can only keep up the facade for so long.

>Play Bad Cop: Tell him if he doesn't answer your questions you'll toss him into the mine shaft and let the monsters pick at him.
>Play Good Cop: Tell him you're really just here for the treasure and if he answers your questions you'll let him go.
>Write-in

>>31763788
We could stick our head in there then bring a lamp in and see what he does.

My current worry is if he bites our head off...
I wounder... whats the limit on food that he eats.. different kinds ect...

>>31763841
>>Play Bad Cop: Tell him if he doesn't answer your questions you'll toss him into the mine shaft and let the monsters pick at him.
we don't have time to fuck around.

>>31763841
>Play Bad Cop: Tell him if he doesn't answer your questions you'll toss him into the mine shaft and let the monsters pick at him.

>>31763841
>>Play Bad Cop: Tell him if he doesn't answer your questions you'll toss him into the mine shaft and let the monsters pick at him
Leech when we're done

>>31763841
>Play Bad Cop: Tell him if he doesn't answer your questions you'll toss him into the mine shaft and let the monsters pick at him.
Last person who called us a camel fucker got his ass handed to him.

>>31763841
>Write-in

Let the captain and chryssa play with him while we rest

>>31763841
>Play Bad Cop: Tell him if he doesn't answer your questions you'll toss him into the mine shaft and let the monsters pick at him.
Have Ricky play even badder cop. punch the guys head inside the cloack. He's bound to tell everything

>>31763841
>Play Bad Cop: Tell him if he doesn't answer your questions you'll toss him into the mine shaft and let the monsters pick at him.

Leech a little if he doesn't seem to buy it

>>31763846
He won't attack us.

>>31763841
>>Play Bad Cop: Tell him if he doesn't answer your questions you'll toss him into the mine shaft and let the monsters pick at him.

could go with the whole. we kill you its painless, the monsters kill you its very very painfull, your choice

>>31763841
>Play Bad Cop: Tell him if he doesn't answer your questions you'll toss him into the mine shaft and let the monsters pick at him.

>>31763880
Second

>>31763841
>Write-in
Talk about how much vys you used fighting all of his friends, talk about how fun it will be drain it out of him until hes nothing but a husk

>>31763880
>Give him a glimpse inside the cloak.
Oh god, I really like this. Can we do this?

>>31763880
I like it, lets do this Guys

Rolled 9, 3, 4 = 16

>>31763876
u wot m8

>>31763880
I like your idea.

>>31763884
Why wouldnt he attack us? I know he was nice the first time we visited him. But im assuming that you do something to anger him he will eventually get feed up with us.

>>31763905
We're doing that anyway

>>31763880
That'll give him nightmares for weeks.

>>31763880
I'm Sheppard I'm a Spectre.
I'm not talking shit!

>>31763944
So lets give him a broche and have him speak to us.

>>31763952
not really, were plaining on killing him anyway.

Seems like
>Shove his head in the cloak
Is pretty popular

Tippity tap tap typin'.

>>31763880
Fuck it lets do this.

Let's not try to figure out the whole Ricky thing right now.

We're drained and it's gonna be a bitch trying to communicate with him

>>31763962
That may work, im not sure if he could hear us with that and vice versa.

Ive been meaning to ask what if we tried a different medium on trying to speak with him like water or something but the broche might work

>>31763841
>>Play Bad Cop: Tell him if he doesn't answer your questions you'll toss him into the mine shaft and let the monsters pick at him.

>>31763992
Lets reverse our cloak and have Fulvia throw fire spells at us, since it seems my draining her of vyss idea didn't catch on, lets use the cloaks draining feature than.

>>31764032
I'm fairly sure the cloak doesn't give us the vys it drains.

>>31764018
>SKREEEEEESKREEESKREEES
>No Ricky, I don't have anymore chicken atm. Can you wait until we reach the next town?
>SKREE-SKREEESKRRREEE! SKREEE.
>Okay, extra fried chicken for the eldricht horror from the cloak dimension when we reach town

>>31764058
same, plus hows that different then us draining her if it does?

>>31764073
>SKRREEEE SKREESKREE SKREEEECH
>Yeessss Ricky, I know you like your potatoes with extra gravy.

>>31762845
>> 31763931
I meant play as a euphemism for torture ever been totured by a she hulk and a previously totured guard?

>>31764073
I want to say our ears wont feel like there bleeding at least but i think we may go insane faster

>>31764058
>>31764077
Its does, we experimented with it and noted that we gained the vys that gets absorbed.

>>31763986
27:29
>>31763961
26:25
>>31763930
25:14
>>31763901
24:12

Seriously? You're gonna samefag this hard?

>>31764125
when did we do that? was it at the academy or something?

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>>31762845

>>31764125
No it doesn't. It just absorbs excess vys.

>>31764160
yup, a bit after we got the cloak.

You crouch down next to him, a kind smile on your face while you go about unfastening the straps of his helmet and removing it gently, setting it aside. He's caught off guard, and he's mostly stopped struggling for the moment. “You know, I've had a very rough day. I'm quite tuckered out, really.” He stares at you with a mix of confusion, fear, and apprehension. “So I'm not going to interrogate you or rough you up or anything like that. I'm going to introduce you to a friend of mine, and if you don't answer some of my questions, that friend of mine will pick your corpse clean to the bone and that will be the end of it.”

He struggles fiercely when you grab the back of his head and start pushing him towards your cloak, it's mainly difficult because you have to do it one handed, the other keeping your cloak open. Fortunately aid comes in the form of two glowing, almost transparent tentacles. They slide out noiselessly, wrapping their way around the bandit's throat. His screams are cut off as the tentacles contract, and pull him head first into the abyss. He's submerged in that void up to his shoulders, and almost immediately he starts struggling desperately. Eventually his kicking and flailing subsides, and you think he might be unconscious, but then it starts up again.

You decide it's probably wise to pull him out before Ricky actually kills him, so you reach in and grab him by the collar. His armor is slick, and warm. You feel something slither its way over your hand and very nearly let go, but only a moment later he's pushed out of your cloak.
(1/2)

>>31764154
I'm calling for a numbered vote after this.

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>>31764154

The first thing you notice as he falls back is that his nose is missing, there's just a bloody hole where it used to be. His throat is also pretty badly bruised, and your hand is just covered in blood from when you grabbed his armor, which is also coated. He isn't screaming, rather he's just gasping for air and sobbing quietly. After he's composed himself somewhat he mutters out. “A-alright... alright I'll... answer whatever questions you've got.”

What will you ask the bandit?
>Write-in
>Nothing else

Already on The List:
># of Bandits
>Where Baldev's office is
>Where Baldev is.
>What's in the mine shaft.

>>31764233
Implying that isn't the easiest thing ever to fake.

>>31764247
>># of Bandits
>>Where Baldev's office is
>>Where Baldev is.
>>What's in the mine shaft.
all of this, also whats our companions response

at least that answers my question of what rickys limit of eating is.

>>31764125
>Next, you try a simple fire spell on the cloak to see what happens. A burst of flame shoots from your hand, only to wink out of existence as it gets close to the surface of the cloak. You try some water magic, and once more as the water cascades towards the inner surface of the cloak it winks out of existence. You get the feeling it converts spells into raw vys and then sucks the raw vys into the void.

Step it up.

>>31764247
holy shit I'm the guy who came up with the shove the head inside the cloak, but I didn't think it'd be that brutal.
Good shit how you put the interrogation though.

>>31764285
>sucks the raw vys into the void.
Huh, i wonder if we can take that vys.

>>31764305
im slightly worried of what the limit of abuse we can put this cloack through is.

>>31764305
Let's not try to leech the vys that is sustaining ricky

>>31764330
I get the feeling that like, at midnight on the full moon we'll get sucked into the cloak and have to spend an hour evading Ricky or something. This large of a boon must have a pretty high cost.

>>31764330
i think it self repairs with Vyss.

>>31764334
I feel like ricky's response would be worse than the lamps.

>>31764349
Nah, the cost is being crazy.

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Seems like nobody has any questions other than what we've already gone over. Writin'

>>31764349
Damn, that's a good idea Anon. Please tell me more.

>>31764349
If that happens with it i vote we feed him anything we kill, if we have to buy him a camel to eat or something.

u know looking back at the last bit i tiped it looks like we would make ricky a little god.

>>31764425
No.

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>>31764425
Not once did I think Ricky didn't come with some form of baggage

I wanna know our friends reactions.

When are they gonna ask what's up with the cloak?

>>31764621
now he does thanks to you.

>>31764425
After being done interrogating ask the gang if you can drain them a bit to heal the guy. Make sure he knows he got lucky this time and he better clean up his act, cause if we ever meet again and he's a bandit he'll go straight into the cloak.

>>31764644
>Go home and be a family man!

>>31764644
>After being done interrogating ask the gang if you can drain them a bit to heal the guy. Make sure he knows he got lucky this time and he better clean up his act, cause if we ever meet again and he's a bandit he'll go straight into the cloak.
we are gonna kill him anon.

>>31764644
why?
Hes a criminal that tried to kill us, plus he knows what we look like.

>>31764631
They'd either flip their shit hard. Or they'd go "goes with being in the team".

>>31764644
No. We're draining and killing this guy.

He personaly tried to kill us after he was surrounded

>>31764637
Uhhhhhhhhhh

See>>31764349

>>31764644
Haha, nope. This guy is magic lunch for us and maybe real lunch for Ricky.

>>31764699
I seriously doubt he'll think he has the stones to go against us a second time after that stunt.

>>31764644
No.

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>>31764184
Ricky on his period

>>31764752
If anything Mikhael will be the first priority target when he attacks us again.

>>31764741
My mistake i thought you were the same person.

“How many bandits were left in this facility after that raiding party left?” His eyes go slightly wide, but he answers quickly. “S-sixteen. Sixteen, counting Baldev. We've got rotating patrols though, that guard the mountain paths and watch for caravans. They shouldn't return for a few more hours yet though.” You nod your head, it seems that bandit had told you was only a half truth.

“Where is Baldev, and more importantly, where are Baldev's quarters?” He looks apprehensive, but when you spread out your cloak he practically chokes on the words trying to answer. “Baldev is down in the mineshaft with our three best fighters, trying to fight his way to the vault key. Baldev's quarters are adjoined to the barracks, but you can only get in if you have the key.” You reach into your cloak, and the man flinches, but you simply pull out the necklace you found on the corpse of the enemy vatis. “A key like this?” He stares at it for a moment, before nodding.
(1/2)

>>31764752
So?

He tried to kill us, is a bandit, and we have a samjan guard captain with us

“What's in that mineshaft that everyone is so afraid of?” He swallows a lump in his throat, and then answers. “W-well, I'm not really sure. I wasn't part of the original band, I signed on later.” You hold up a hand to stop him. “I didn't ask for your life's story, I asked about the mineshaft.” He laughs uneasily and then nods. “R-right, well, uh. I've heard there are all sorts of horrible monstrosities down there, form the older guys. Monsters made of strips of skin, giant constructs that will rip a man's head off, they say that the descendents of some of the miners still live down there, and they've gone insane. A-also, that if you listen at the top of the mineshaft, you can sometimes hear a woman screaming. Nobody has ever been able to find her down there though.”

>”Thank you, you've been most helpful.” Then drain him of Vys.
>Leave his fate in the hands of Captain Darzi, she was the one held captive after all.
>Let him go, maybe don't heal him because you're exhausted but he doesn't deserve to die.
>Just stuff him in the cloak and get moving, you're wasting time.
>Write-in

>>31764823
>>”Thank you, you've been most helpful.” Then drain him of Vys.
>>Leave his fate in the hands of Captain Darzi, she was the one held captive after all.

>>31764823
>>Leave his fate in the hands of Captain Darzi, she was the one held captive after all.

>>31764823
Ask Darzi if she wants something from him, then

>”Thank you, you've been most helpful.” Then drain him of Vys.

>>31764823
>>Leave his fate in the hands of Captain Darzi, she was the one held captive after all.
We can stuff him in the cloak later.
Time for meditation

>>31764823
>”Thank you, you've been most helpful.” Then drain him of Vys.
>Leave his fate in the hands of Captain Darzi, she was the one held captive after all.
If she doesn't want to deal with him.
Inside the cloak he goes.

>>31764823
>”Thank you, you've been most helpful.” Then drain him of Vys

>>31764823
>”Thank you, you've been most helpful.” Then drain him of Vys.
We need the vys

>Thank him and drain him.
>Let Captain Darzi decide his ultimate fate.
Writin'

>>31764823
Drain him and feed him to Ricky

>>31764823
>”Thank you, you've been most helpful.” Then drain him of Vys.

>>Just stuff him in the cloak and get moving, you're wasting time.
>>Write-in

U know we never got a description of what our co-adventures thought of what we did.

Also, early warning. I've got about an hour left before I need to call the thread. Maybe 3 post, maybe 4 if I slam these things out.

I won't stick around for Q&A, but I'll probably be back tonight to answer questions asked in the interim. I'd like to use this same thread tomorrow, so I'd appreciate a bump in the morning, but if it dies I'll just start a new one.

>>31764823
Drain then feed him to Ricky

>>31764938
>The fuck Mik?

>>31764823
>Ask him if there's a way to call back Baldev so we can set up and ambush or something
>”Thank you, you've been most helpful.” Then drain him of Vys.

Let's see if we can get some advantages for that fight here.

>>31764993
True but, I want to know the varying decrees of the fuck?

>>31765058
>Prof
The fuck Mik, I didn't know your cloak gets hungry

>Chryssa
I hope that's not going to become a habit

>Fulvia
Effectiveness of interrogation method 100%. Logged for future reference.

>Darzi
I'm not even surprised by this shit anymore

>>31765127
probably, u know kinda sad that Darzi wouldnt be surprised by this

>>31765058
They're probably gonna confront us on what the fuck that cloak is after that little show.

>>31765058
Prof is scarred shitless of us. That and the spice duel? no way he'll go against us.
Chrissa know that she can break us like a twig, but she'd have one shot at it and if she fail...
Fulvia either is scared of us or think that we should be the new ruller of the restored empire she wanted to make after she got out of the cave.

>>31764823
>A-also, that if you listen at the top of the mineshaft, you can sometimes hear a woman screaming. Nobody has ever been able to find her down there though.

Most likely an insane/rouge A.I remember fulvia was crying when we found her

>>31765163
SSSisssster!
get a 2nd AI or try to merge the two of 'em?

>>31765195
>get a 2nd AI
Might be cool
>or try to merge the two of 'em?
Fuck no

“Thank you, Brother. You've been most helpful.” You pat him on the shoulder in a comradely fashion and just as he's starting to look hopeful about his future you activate a drain spell. For a moment, your vision swims and you think you might feint. Then you feel a simply delightful surge of energy. You're really starting to enjoy this draining thing. Perhaps a bit too much, but you're sure it's not a big deal. It's only been one day, maybe a day and a half, and you won't have many opportunities like this for a long while.
>Vys Pool: (7/26) You're still exhausted, but at least you're not about to pass out.

The bandit isn't dead, merely unconscious. You stand up and stretch some of stiffness out of your joints. You turn to face your companions and are greeted by varying stages of shock and horror. On the one end, there's Chryssa. She stares at you completely impassive, doesn't seem in the least bit disturbed by any of the goings on. In fact, she might be impressed in a vague sort of way. It's always hard to tell with her.

Then there's Fulvia. She looks unsettled, but not really offended or horrified. You figure that, as the administrative AI of a Rhynian Research Facility, she probably saw plenty of horrible, disgusting things in her time. Especially considering what you've seen of Rhynian Experiments. Seriously, they seemed to lack any sort of moral compass.

Finally, there are Profectus and Captain Darzi. Profectus is openly horrified, not something you'd expect really all things considered. Then again he looks pretty young, and he's not much of a vatis. Probably shockingly sane all things considered, despite the stone arm. He shakes his head slightly, and ask. “Gods above, what is inside that cloak, Mik? Why are you wearing that thing? Aren't you worried it will drag you in and kill you at any moment?” Captain Darzi is obviously trying to keep her cool, but she isn't quite managing. She's fidgeting and nervous, obviously extremely unsettled.
(1/2)

“Don't worry about it, Prof. Ricky-” Prof groans. “For the love of- tell me you didn't name it.” You wag a finger a him admonishingly. “It's rude to interrupt, Prof. Yes, I named him Ricky. Mainly because it's a pun on 'Voidy' in Samjan. As I was saying, Ricky and I have an understanding. I consider him a dear friend, even though I can't understand him.”

You turn your attention to Captain Darzi, bowing low and elaborately. “Now then, Captain. I leave the bandit's ultimate fate in your hands. You were the one captured and tortured after all.” She steels herself, and nods. She doesn't quite seem to trust herself to speak yet. After a moment of contemplation, she draws her sword and approaches the bandit. She raises the weapon high, and then with one heavy swing the bandit's head is severed.
>Go find Baldev's office.
>Go investigate the mineshaft.
>Write-in

>>31765261
>Go find Baldev's office.
Steal those torches on the way.

>>31765261
>>Go find Baldev's office.
Also feed the corpse to Ricky

>>31765261
>Go find Baldev's office.

>>31765310
pls no. Let's not get him used to a human flesh diet.

>>31765261
>>Go find Baldev's office.
add in that we give a chicked to ricky every once and a while, honestly didnt expect him to eat the guys noise. Just to scare him.

>>31765261
>Go find Baldev's office.

>Write-In
Use either earth or ice magic to lock him in his office then meditate and rest before the fight

>>31765261
Feed the body to Ricky

>>31765327
>human flesh diet.
lets, as long as its not samanji

>>31765290
This

>Baldev's Office
Writin'

>>31765373
Point out that the person that we are debating to feed to him is a samanji i believe.

>>31765339
He's not there, he's in the mineshaft trying to gain access to the vault with 3 other guys.

>>31765401
Feed the body, steal the Lanterns, and loot the bodies like you said we would.

Random thoughts for the masses
So if we fed ricky enough food would more rickys span?

Could we use rickys arms as a hidden dagger stab at a guy we are fighting?

Could ricky leave the clock to wander if he wanted to?

>>31765422
He's in the mineshaft trying to get the key to his office so he can access the vault so he can bug out with the loot.

Since there seems to be some contention, I'll do a brief Final Destination vote to decide while I write.

Vote
>1
To Feed the body to Ricky.

Vote
>2
To leave the body alone.

You will be looting the body and stealing the lanterns.

Remember,

>>QUOTE
#

>>31765508
2

>>31765508
2

>>31765508
2

>>31765508
1

>>31765508
2

>>31765508
2

Lets not, we don't want a skull and human bones dropping from our cloak while we talk to someone.

>>31765508
>>2

>>31765508
2

Calling the vote. Seems pretty unanimous for 2.

>>31765422
>>31765508
Oh well im still in favor of trapping him so we can get a chance to rest. Cause I know this cage match is going to go somewhat bad and everybody is going to spend the most vys on damm near every roll.

Also we should spar more Git Gud so when we don't have to use magic we get more bonuses with our spear and sword
One more thing we should ask chryssa if she could start sparring with profectus

I swear i wasn't th only one to want to feed him to ricky.

>>31765708
Profectus and Chryssa need to work on their magic.

>>31765708
We could train in Marsala Ve some more.

>>31765708
We can have someone guard the door until we go in there or he comes out.

>>31765708
Agreed. Hopefully we can start on some training regime after this and on the way to the temple, spend a with days/weeks to get some lvl in stuff.

>>31765708
We need to get better with our spear.

We just had an awesome one commisioned with spell amplification too.

Spells are stronger when cast through it so we should be casing more spells through it.

>>31765821
We still got a fuck ton of reading and meditating to do.

Gotta learn those effects and metamagics.

>>31765835
We would need to use a weapon metamagic effect and fuck me I can't remeber the name anyways there hasn't been much mention from anyone about using it which we really should have in the earlier fights I read in the archives

>>31765835
We could ask Darzi to train us in Marsala Ve.

You look at the corpse briefly, wondering if perhaps you should feed the corpse to Ricky. You feel like that's just a little too insane for you at this juncture, and frankly you're a little disturbed that the thought even occurred to you. No, no you're not going to feed a sentient being's corpse to a monster. Certainly not if you don't even need to hide the body. This place is basically abandoned after all.

You do loot the body though, You strip him of his armor, but leave him the dignity of his underclothes. The armor isn't just the best you've ever seen but it's composed of thick, overlapping iron plates. You'd say it's probably more protective than your Centurion Armor, but not nearly as good overall. You stuff it into your cloak, since even just the raw materials would be valuable to a blacksmith.

His weapon was shattered in the fighting, but it wasn't that great anyway. A cheaply made axe, with a shoddy wooden handle and an iron head. He doesn't seem to have anything enchanted on him, though you do find a small coin purse and a amulet composed of a piece of polished jade wrapped in twine. Probably a reminder of his home. You pocket it all.

As you walk through the halls, you take any lanterns you see. Captain Darzi absentmindedly comments. “I'll be shocked if it turns out you were banished for something besides thievery.” You laugh, and reply with a carefree shrug. “It's how I make my money, looting ancient ruins. Not like anybody else is using them.” Profectus nods in agreement. “Yeah, nothing wrong with a little looting. All of this will end up getting sold anyway, so we're putting ancient artifacts into the hands of the people. We should be given a medal.”
(1/2)

>>31765860
Of course I just hope we dont rely on Vys to save our ass everytime especially becuase it keeps us standing and is our magic source I rather take a minor wound that we could heal for like 1 vys than spending 3 to prevent it

All told, you end up snagging about twenty magic lanterns, four suits of heavy lamellar armor, and fifty five silver before finally reaching the barracks. You don't immediately see anything of note, two long rows of bunk beds, a few chest here and there for personal effects, then as you journey along the wall feeling for any indentations you find one, at the very end of the barracks. Small, just a little bit larger than a coin. Perfect for the key you took from the vatis.

>Open Baldev's Chambers, in which he does not currently reside.
>Loot the room first.
>Write-in

(Character Sheet has been updated with wealth and loot.)

>>31765968
>>Loot the room first.

Rolled 2, 1, 4 = 7

>>31765968
>Loot the room first
Loot that shit

>>31765968
>>Loot the room first.

ca$h money

>>31765968
>Loot the room first.

>>31765968
>Loot the room first.
Gotta get that loot.

Alright folks! Afraid I need to call it here for the night. Kind of a nice little cliffhanger, I guess. About to open the vault where most of the phat loot resides.

I'll continue on Monday after my classes end. Probably around... 1300 4chan time. I'd appreciate it if people would bump the thread irregularly, every few hours, but considering we're only 17 post from autosage I doubt this thread will survive the night.

Questions, comments, concerns. Ask them here and I'll get to them later.

>>31765968
>Write-in

Use our armors magic vision scan the room first then

aldo I vote we scan baldev from a distance to see if he's a vatis
also also I just remembered oir armor has a hazmat function poison gases in combat as well as sneaking is something we should look into
Also also also we should learn some alchemy we're going to be traveling alot who needs what rare ass healing herbs, potions, and poison we could make

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Banished%20Quest
Thread is archived here.

>>31765968
>>Loot the room first.

>>31766058
Thank you for a ever good quest thread. So are we planning to do a full quest tommorrow or just a q&a?

>We interrogate a bandit, do some looting, and the thread ends a bit early.
Shoulda added: Ricky is the baddest of bad cops.

Ricky is fucking awesome, though I only have one limitation: DO NOT FEED HIM HUMAN (Or Samjan) FLESH. DON'T MAKE HIM ACQUIRE A TASTE FOR IT. Small stuff like what we just did is fine, but huge chunks? Hell naw.

So should we go delving into the mineshaft?

Anyone else feel that loot the barracks was a trap option?

>>31770860
no, fuck that. We're low on vys and we've been through a long "dungeon delve" already.
If we really want to, we should do it on the easy back after we go to the water temple and become a grandmaster.
Speaking of the temple, we could convince the captain to join our party if only to go to the temple till we become a grandmaster telling her that we will be able to heal her numerous scars. And who knows, maybe by then she'll want to join us permanently?

>>31769332
But what if we need to quickly hide a body?
We should put a disposal bag/bin into our cloak so that Ricky doesn't randomly throw bunch of bones out of it when we feed him and instead puts them into the bin, then we can empty it at our leisure.

>>31774997
If I remember, Ricky knows what we want when we want it. Maybe he snacked on the guy's nose in order to make him talk because we wanted answers NOW and where in no mood for bullshit.
Before sending in more corpse we need to have a meeting of the minds and make it clear that feeding on humans is forbidden unless we need to play bad cop even badder cop.

>>31775599
oh my, look at my dubs.

Come back to us, Soma.
i will let this die anyways so that you will not have a short thread because this went over bump limit in a minute of its start.