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You lean in closer to the screen, studying the map for a moment. This structure is not terribly large. Besides the door you entered through, there is only one other exit and two main branches of the facility. Taking the left doorway would lead you to a stairwell, which would take you down several flights into a large room labeled 'Storage'. The storage room exits into a long hallway flanked on either side by a 'Viewing Chamber' on the left and 'Facility Cooling' on the right. It looks like a large bulkhead door would give you access to the central chamber and whatever lies within.

Taking the doorway on your right would lead you to another stairwell, this one significantly longer than the other. It would lead you down several levels as best you can tell, eventually ending in a large barracks. Navigating that room into the kitchen and then the armory would take you to the other exit, the one Baldev must have used to proceed further into the facility. There may also be some of those flying beast inside, since he didn't close the door behind him.

Your routes planned you exit to the main menu and shut down the computer. Once it's no longer powered, you transmit to Fulvia via the brooches. {Help me shove this in my cloak. It's vitally important.}. She complies without question, ducking under the desk to begin detaching various wires and cords. At first you try to help out, but the wires all end in multiple attachments and strange heads, plus there's just so many of them! You quickly find yourself relegated to the status of observer, trying to puzzle out what arcane purpose the wires might have served.
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It takes only a few minutes for Fulvia to start passing you things to shove into your cloak. It starts with the board of keys, followed shortly after by the monitor when she pushes it out of its small receptacle inside the counter. A bundle of neatly coiled wires follows next. Finally Fulvia pushes the black crate that seems to run the computer out from under the counter and you drape your cloak over it, allowing Ricky to pull it inside. You absentmindedly wonder if exposure to hard vacuum could damage any of the components, but you doubt it.

Once you've draped your cloak over your shoulders once more you transmit to Fulvia. {Tear open the doorway on the left, I'd like to explore this facility before we continue.} While she gathers vys for her spell, you address the rest of the party. {Baldev seems to have already escaped this facility deeper into the mine, so with that in mind we're going to explore and loot this place before moving on.} Chryssa speaks up as you finish. {Wouldn't it be better to pursue Baldev now and come back to this facility later? The trail we have is already cold, I do not think dawdling is wise.}

>Baldev is probably already dead anyway, you've got time.
>Chrys is right, you can loot this place (more) later.
>Write-in

>>32463065
Crap, forgot to update the little opening blurb.

Oh well.

>>32463092
>Baldev is probably already dead anyway, you've got time.

>>32463073
Look at all those ruins we could explore.
>>32463092
>Chrys is right, you can loot this place (more) later.

>>32463073
>Border Fort(?)
Why (?)

>>32463092
>Baldev is probably already dead anyway, you've got time.

Let's loot now just in case we piss off a dragon and have to flee.

>>32463092
>Baldev is probably already dead anyway, you've got time.

>>32463170
Probably got overgrown by the jungle or something.

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>>32463092
>Chrys is right, you can loot this place (more) later.
Considering that the right has dragons in the eay, i doubt we would be coming back up this way in a slow fashion.

>>32463073
You should include a You are here in the picture Soma.

>>32463170
Castellum Finis could mean several different things, because Finis is both the Nominative and Genitive form and Finis has four meanings.

So it could mean:
>Border Fort
>Fort of Death
>Fort of Purpose
>Fort of the End/The End Fort

>>32463234
Sounds like a fun place.

>>32463202
>>32463133
>Back to the hunt

>>32463171
>>32463178
>>32463130
>Gotta get dat loot

Writin'

>>32463276
Huh i didn't notice i voted wrong.

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>>32463073
Hey Soma maybe the map should have the territory name in slightly big letters like this, and maybe imaginary borders.

>>32463302
are you >>32463202 ? because that post was confusing.

>>32463374
Yeah that was me, after i posted i went back to another thread.

>>32463351
Is that stronghold?

>>32463691
Crusader Kings game of thrones mod.

{Baldev is probably already dead, and I doubt that the return trip will be a leisurely stroll through lava filled, monster infested caves. Lets loot the place now and get it over with.} She nods her head but doesn't respond, and only a moment later Fulvia discharges her spell. The doorway is ripped open, metal complaining loudly as it's shorn apart. On the other side is a short hallway ending in a spiral staircase.

You set off, leading the party down the steps. Unlike when you were exploring the ruins, this stairwell quickly opens up to allow you an expansive view of the store room. Much of it appears to have been ransacked, crates overturned and ripped open, some even smashed apart completely. A camp has been erected in one corner of the room, a small tent constructed from a tarp made of a strange blue material and a few wooden slats, probably pried off of the crates. Adjacent the tent are the remnants of a campfire long extinguished and you think you can spot some dried blood staining the floor beneath the tarp, though you're uncertain. If you had to guess this is probably where that Publius fellow tried to wait out whatever disaster wrought havoc on this facility.

It doesn't look like there are many crates left unopened, Publius has strewn their contents out all over the floor, probably in his search for food. You spot a few more of those blue tarps, a few rusted weapons, and various other bits and pieces of ancient junk. Nothing stands out to you as looking particularly valuable, but it might be worth it to sift through the place and look for a gem buried under all this junk.

>Investigate the campsite.
>Sift through looking for anything of value.
>Move on, go check out 'Facility Cooling'. Maybe Fulvia can get it working again.
>Move on, go check out the 'Viewing Chamber'. Maybe you'll catch a glimpse of what's inside the Central Chamber.
>Write-in

>>32463691
AGoT mod for CKII.

>>32463773
I'll check it out, seems pretty cool.

>>32463797
>>Investigate the campsite.
>>Sift through looking for anything of value.

>>32463797
>Sift through looking for anything of value.
>Move on, go check out the 'Viewing Chamber'. Maybe you'll catch a glimpse of what's inside the Central Chamber.

Let's not cool down the place, that might piss of the flying beasties.

>>32463797
>>Investigate the campsite.
>>Sift through looking for anything of value.

>>32463797
>>Investigate the campsite.

>>32463797
>>Investigate the campsite.
>>Sift through looking for anything of value.
We have a large group of people, also who i vote we do the cooling last.
>>32463862
I agree, but it can also weaken/slow them down, which i is why i want to do it last.

>>32463797
>>Investigate the campsite.
>>Sift through looking for anything of value.
duh

>>32463797
>Investigate the campsite.
>Sift through looking for anything of value.

>Investigate the Campsite
>Sift through for loot.
Writin'
You'll probably have your party search for loot while you check out the campsite.

>>32463948
No rolls for loot chance?

>>32463973
Nah, unless there is a chance to find big stuff I usually do loot rolls behind the scenes.

>>32463973
>>32463948
The best type of rolls.

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As you reach the bottom of the stairwell you transmit to your companions. {Fan out and look for anything valuable. I'm going to check out that campsite.} You pick your way through the clutter scattered across the floor towards the corner of the room where you saw the camp, while you companions set to work scavenging the rest of the room.

The campsite is simple, and obviously quite ancient judging from the layer of dust covering everything. You note that, besides your own, there are no footprints or animal tracks in the dust. You're probably the first one to disturb this site in a thousand years. The campfire next to the tent is a collection of ovoid metal balls stacked together to form a circle, in which the floor has been stained black by ash. You think they might be sling pellets, come to think of it. They're probably lead. Not particularly valuable, but still perfectly functional. Might be able to sell them off to the right buyer.

Ducking into the tent itself you're shocked by what you find inside. A skeletal figure, the bones yellowed and cracked with age, is sprawled out on the floor. Still clasped tightly in his hand is a pistol much like your own, though less ornate, but what really caught your eye is the armor he's wearing. It's Centurion armor, just like your own. Well, yours doesn't have a hole in the back of the helmet, but since the armor repairs itself that's hardly a problem. Adjacent the armored skeleton is a small slip of paper, faded ink still barely visible scrawled across it.

>Snatch that pistol and toss that sack of bones to the curb, you're rich(er)!
>Read the note first, you don't want to be cursed by the spirit of some angry Centurion.
>It would be best to just leave the site undisturbed, respect for the dead and all that.
>Write-in

>>32464394
>Read the note first, you don't want to be cursed by the spirit of some angry Centurion.

>>32464394
Fuck Yeah.

>>32464394
>>Read the note first, you don't want to be cursed by the spirit of some angry Centurion.

>>32464394
>>Read the note first, you don't want to be cursed by the spirit of some angry Centurion.
then loot that mofo

>>32464394
>>Read the note first, you don't want to be cursed by the spirit of some angry Centurion.

>>32464394
>>Read the note first, you don't want to be cursed by the spirit of some angry Centurion.

>>32464394
>Read the note first, you don't want to be cursed by the spirit of some angry Centurion.

>>32464394
>Read the note first, you don't want to be cursed by the spirit of some angry Centurion.

Damn son, this seems too good to be true.

Now's that gonna be a bitch to decide who gets upgraded to centurion, if Mik allow an upgrade at all.

>Read the note.
Writin'

>>32464530
Either sell it or give it to our Robot or the drunkard.

>>32464394
>>Read the note first, you don't want to be cursed by the spirit of some angry Centurion.
then
>Snatch that pistol and toss that sack of bones to the curb, you're rich(er)!

>>32464394
>>Snatch that pistol and toss that sack of bones to the curb, you're rich(er)!
LOOT
>Read the note later

>>32464552
>>32464530
Probably Profectus, since It's basically a super version of his current one.

We should also do it on the caveat that he only gets it if he agrees to knuckle down on his mediation.

>>32464530
I'm thinking Prof. Chryssa wants a nice mask to go with her gear and Fulvia doesn't really need armor like that. I guess if Darzi gets promoted to full time party member she could be a candidate, but Prof's arm and the armor magic amplifier could wreak havok.

>>32464627
Fuck giving her armour, when we just gave her some.

>>32464627
Darzi got a strong armor already. This one is going to prof as his share of the loot. Well, he could choose to take money but that would probably be less than the worth of the armor and you can not wear coins on you to stay alive so it would be a very stupid decision.

>>32464723
Yeah well you can't pay for hookers and wine with armors. #YOLO

I agree with you though

>>32464623
I like the idea of having priority on the armor if he serious the fuck up on the meditation front.
would make for a nice incencitive or something.

>>32464595

The wise thing to do is reading the note first.

>>32464746
you can if your good enough at bullshiting.

>>32464763
On the other hand there is a Centurion Armor and pistool, so... I am going to stick with looting first.

>>32464764
>Mik train Prof in the way of silver tongued devil.
>Prof goes to call the same heir that banished Mik a shit.
>Prof gets banished and branded.

>>32464798
>Prof gets ded
fixed it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_army_unit_types
So this gives us a hint on what other armour types Soma has in the rythian army rankings.

>>32464798
Prof is an elf. He wouldn't be branded he would executed .

>>32464837
Use a better link Anon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_legion
http://www.tribunesandtriumphs.org/roman-army/roman-army-ranks.htm

You eye the corpse for a few moment, half expecting it to leap up and start attacking you any minute now. This is too good to be true. There is no way you're just going to walk out of here with a second set of Centurion Armor with no hassles, right? Reaching out for the note you carefully pick up the ancient slip of paper. It feels as though it might crumple to dust in your hands at any moment, but that may just be your paranoia. The ink is barely legible, but you can make out most of it.

“I strike and strike down and nail down the tongue, the eyes, the wrath, the ire, the anger, the procrastination.” This passage is followed by a series of words you don't really understand. They're not in Rhynian, nor any other language you recognize. You're not even sure what alphabet it's using, you've never seen these symbols. It takes you a moment to realize the section after that is written backwards and not some similarly incomprehensible giberish. “May Invidiana, Lochos, Bes, Sterte, and Pleiomus strike down the one who disrespects my resting place.”

Huh, well crap. You have no way of knowing if this isn't just some country bumpkin's way of telling graverobbers like you to screw themselves. It might have no actual power... on the other hand you've seen some pretty strange things on your journey so far, a curse that actually works wouldn't be the strangest thing you've ever encountered.

>Consult Fulvia and Profectus, maybe they know more.
>Screw curses, what's the worst that could happen? Snatch this guy's armor and weapon.
>Write-in

>>32464899
>Consult Fulvia and Profectus, maybe they know more.

>>32464899
>Write-in
He said strike down the one who DISRESPECTS my resting place. Clearly we can loot the shit out of him if we're respectful about it.

>>32464899
>Consult Fulvia and Profectus, maybe they know more.
Obvious curse is obvious.

>>32464899
>>Screw curses, what's the worst that could happen? Snatch this guy's armor and weapon.
Write a short note and they are cursed for eternity? Such bullshit.

>>32464945
How do you respectfully loot the shit out of someone?

>>32464899
>Consult Fulvia and Profectus, maybe they know more.

we need to consider the pros and cons of this

>>32464945
Second, lets respect the shit out of the place.
>>32464952
Never know, could also be a guy trying to make sure his remains don't get fucked with.

>>32464945
>Clearly we can loot the shit out of him if we're respectful about it.
There is nothing respectful about looting.

>>32464899
>>Consult Fulvia and Profectus, maybe they know more.

>>32464945

THIS! Carefully remove the armor and pistol, lay the bones and whatever is left of him and a resting position and them make a grave with earth magic.

>>32464984
Shake his hand, offer him some refreshments then clock him over the head and rob him blind.

Respectful looting.

>>32465008
Yeah, strip him and bury him.

>Consult Fulvia and Profectus.
Writin'

>>32465018
We should try this just to get cursed.
I wanna see what curses are like Soma style.

Wherever I am, I must also loot.

>>32464899
>>Screw curses, what's the worst that could happen? Snatch this guy's armor and weapon.
duh

>>32464984
>>32464968
He doesn't need armor and weapons when he's dead.

Just say our thanks and we're sorry for his passing.

>>32465404
>>32465438
The curse mentions we'll die if we disturb his corpse.

>>32465503
False.

>“May Invidiana, Lochos, Bes, Sterte, and Pleiomus strike down the one who disrespects my resting place.”

This says "disrespect" you can come in a take something without being disrespectful. Especially considering he's been dead a thousand years and has no use for any of his stuff. Maybe if it was personal effects or something.

Also there's probably not a curse at all, it's just a dude saying fuck you to graverobbers.

>>32465565
Disrespect means disturbing his resting place. But I've got a better idea.

>>32465565
>we have seen spirits
>we have seen skulls that are the core of a demon bird
>we have been tasked by death to kill someone
>"nah hes probably just telling grave robbers to fuck off."

>>32465602
>tasked by death
Wrong

>>32465633
no u

>>32465602
>>32465598
Either way it's not gonna stop us from taking the shit.

That armor is more valuable than anything we own, except maybe our cloak and armor.

Also we should loot that armory for a manual for Centurion armor.

>>32465565
>Also there's probably not a curse at all

Still we just meet a fucking spirit. We should at least treat his remains well after taking his armor and say "thank you and may you rest in peace" before moving on.

>>32465642
We don't know its from Death, its just that people guess its from him.

>>32465653
Of course.

Maybe use Earth Magic to bury him and give him a tombstone.

>>32465651
We could have that guy we're hunting take the armor then kill him.

>>32465633

It was am angel/herald (I don't remember which word was use) as describe by rythian traditions. I think we should pay a little attention to what it said.

>>32465664
It was a messenger from the void, I don't care if it really is death, if he feels like it our cloak will absorb us and then we will suffocate while ricky screeches at us

>>32465651
I really really really really really want that manual.

>>32465688
That is dumb and dam near impossible.

>>32465651
>>32465704
Funny enough Centurion armour is mid level.

>>32465724
It's smarter than what the other guys have been suggesting.

>>32465697

What I meant to say was that it look like a angel/herald of death as describe by rythian traditions/legends.

You duck out of the tent, sitting down cross legged in front of it and holding the note in your hand. Would a curse really work if it's just written on a little slip of paper? Surely that's ridiculous, right? You need to scrawl it on a tablet of some sort and anoint that tablet in blood and there is a whole process and ritual to it. Then again you suppose the guy did shoot himself immediately after writing this, presumably. A sacrifice like that may carry some sort of significance. It would release his vys reserves into the surroundings as well.

You decide it would be best to contact your native Rhynians and ask them about it. {Profectus, Fulvia, what can you tell me about curses?} Profectus is the first to respond. {Why do you ask? This place isn't cursed, is it?} Fulvia replies shortly after. {Curses were often written on lead tablets, though any material would do. They typically featured invocations for the Gods to punish someone and often made use of the voces mysticae, -} You think that means 'voices of the secret rites', but you're not sure it properly translates. {-the language priest used to commune with the gods.}

Profectus butts in with. {Only the really expensive tablets used that priestly gibberish, and you usually only bought those if you wanted someone to die or to have bad luck or something. The run of the mill stuff was usually just written backwards or with the letters upside down or something. I always thought it was silly, personally. You'd find it written on tombstones and outside mausoleums right next to stuff like “Aurellius likes hookers” and “Do not shit here”.}
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>>32465752
What a proper burial sounds like a good idea.

Well, that's good to know though it doesn't really tell you whether the curses worked or not. {No, this place isn't cursed. I just found the corpse of a Centurion wearing his armor and carrying a pistol though, and next to his body was a note.} You recite it to the two of them, glossing over the portion that you assume is written in the voces mysticae. {I don't know, sounds like he probably had some sort of training as a priest if he could write that gibberish himself. I wouldn't mess with it, but you'll probably be fine.} Profectus remarks, though you hardly find that comforting. {While very short, it is a typical example of a Rhynian curse.} Fulvia concludes.

{Well, do curses ever work?} You ask, to which Fulvia responds. {The official stance of the empire was that curses were not a valid field of magic.} Profectus tacks on. {I don't know, you'd always hear from time to time about the odd sort who'd loot an old tomb and wind up rotting away the next day, or his dick would fall off, or he'd lose all his money. Most curses were just peddled by tricksters looking to make a quick profit, but you never know.}

>The note only says 'the one who disrespects my resting place', not 'the one who disturbs'. Ask them about Rhynian burial rites.
>The curse probably doesn't carry any actual power and you don't want to waste time. Shake the corpse out of his armor and toss it in the cloak.
>You're going to err on the side of caution and just not mess with anything having to do with this tent or this poor sot any further, put the note back and start searching the rest of the room.
>Write-in

>>32465746
It is top level. They don't produce anything better besides Custom armors for generals and shit.

>>32465752
Giving him a proper burial is the only decent idea.

>>32465746
Nah, it's high tier, it's just not the highest tier.

>>32465787
>The note only says 'the one who disrespects my resting place', not 'the one who disturbs'. Ask them about Rhynian burial rites.

>>32465804
>>32465793
I was going off of military rank, but also hoping we can try the other armour types.

>>32465787
>>>The note only says 'the one who disrespects my resting place', not 'the one who disturbs'. Ask them about Rhynian burial rites.
duh

>>32465787
>The note only says 'the one who disrespects my resting place', not 'the one who disturbs'. Ask them about Rhynian burial rites.

>>32465787
>The note only says 'the one who disrespects my resting place', not 'the one who disturbs'. Ask them about Rhynian burial rites.
We aint leaving that shit behind unless the ritual includes burning it.

>>32465832
It isn't a carbon copy. It's roughly based on it.

It has been called the best they made several times.

>>32465787
>>The note only says 'the one who disrespects my resting place', not 'the one who disturbs'. Ask them about Rhynian burial rites.

>>32465767
>“Do not shit here”.}
Somebody's read graffiti from Pompeii.

>>32465861
to the common man, but there are higher ranks since centurions weren't that high in the military ranking.

>>32465832

I can only think of Legate or General is their anything between Legate and Centurion?

>>32465804
>>32465793
Imperial Legate were the generals. Centurions were only low ranking commanding officers.

>>32465883
I'm talking about types of armor they produce.

Each rank didn't have their own armor.

Fulvia and Hayes and several others have all said that Centurion Armor is the best armor that the Rhynian Empire widely produced.

The only Rhynian stuff we'll find better than it is custom stuff made for top tier generals and shit.

>>32465929
>>32465918
This is not Rome.

Do not think that everything is the same.

Also do not assume that each tier has their own armor type.

>>32465929
Not in this setting dude, this isn't a carbon copy of the roman empire.

>>32465787
was the Centurion Armor the best armor that the Rhynian Empire widely produced, and what were the higher ranks above centurion and did they have their own armour?
We should know this since we went to a military school.

>Ask about burial rites.
Writin'

>>32465996
We actually should.

>>32465961
>>32465962
They speak fucking Latin.

>>32465996
This is true.

>>32466037
What does that have to do with anything? They could speak klingon in the Rhynian empire for all it matters and it wouldn't change a thing because it's a made up setting not a historical reproduction.

>>32466042
That's just because Soma can't into creativity.

>>32465961
>>32465962

My question still stands.

>>32465996
Centurions commanded a century, which ranged in size from a few hundred to several thousand men depending on the size of the legion. However, Centurion Armor was only given out to the Primus Pilus or First Spear, this was the Centurion in control of the first century of the first cohort and thus, the most senior centurion in the entire legion.

An Optio was essentially a Centurion's assistant, but Optio armor was given to the Centurions in charge of the other cohorts as well as the actual Optio of the Primus Pilus.

There were eight officers ranked above the Centurion. The Legionary Legate, Senior Tribune (who was often a senator), the Camp Prefect, and the five junior tribunes (often a senator's posse). None of these were expected to perform combat operations and so were not issued armor. Occasionally you'd find a Legate or a tribune that commandeered a suit of Centurion armor or you'd find that they custom ordered a suit of armor from an enchanter, but it was rare. Thus, Centurion Armor is the best -widely produced- armor the -Rhynians- made.

Centurion Armor was also granted to the Centurion it was made for after he retired or moved up in rank, so occasionally a Dux or Legate would have Centurion Armor from when they were a Centurion. It was also doled out to important non-combat personnel, which would be the case with this Publius fellow. His role monitoring the generator was important enough to merit the rank of Centurion and the armor that goes with it.

>>32466270
Thanks for the answer.

>>32466270
Thank you for clarifying.

Aaand I'm going to go eat dinner. Back momentarily.

>>32466270
Any special forces or is that spoilers?

>>32466332
Knowing the Rhynian Empire I'd be surprised if there wasn't.

{Well, the note only says 'disrespect' not 'disturb'. Is there some way I could respectfully loot him of his possessions and thus avoid the ire of your numerous gods? Burial rites I could observe or something?} Fulvia chimes in here. {It was customary for the body of a dead man to be stripped of whatever it was wearing and washed by the female family members of the deceased. After being washed it would be dressed in traditional funeral garb, a flowing silken robe for the wealthy or more commonly a simple cotton toga. Then the body was paraded through the streets from the family home to the site where it would be buried.}

You peek into the tent at the yellowed skeleton of the Centurion, thinking for a moment. {So... hmm... I mean, I guess I could strip this guy and have you, Chrys, and Darzi wash his bones with water. I would condense it from the air. Then we could... I don't know, dress him in this tarp the tent is made of. That ought to be good enough. Carry him aloft through the halls or something like that and have you erect a big elaborate tomb for him...} That ought to be good enough, it mimics the actual burial rite closely enough and Fulvia could probably make the tomb really fantastic. Just as you're about to contact Chrys and Darzi, Fulvia interrupts your thoughts. {I doubt either Chrys or Darzi will be terribly eager to rub water on a skeleton. I would recommend removing his armor, clothing him in the tarp, and then placing him within a tomb that I make. Perhaps conclude by saying a few words in respect of the dead.}

>Fulvia is the expert here, You'll prepare the corpse while she builds the tomb.
>No, you insist on going full bore. If Chrys and Darzi won't do it you'll just have to get Profectus to do it.
>Write-in

(Going to walk the dog in a second here, but wanted to get this post out first.)

>>32466892
>Fulvia is the expert here, You'll prepare the corpse while she builds the tomb.

>>32466892
>No, you insist on going full bore. If Chrys and Darzi won't do it you'll just have to get Profectus to do it.
This'll be fun.

>>32466892
>No, you insist on going full bore. If Chrys and Darzi won't do it you'll just have to get Profectus to do it.
I just like the mental image this makes, and also how it enforces how crazy we are.

>>32466892
>No, you insist on going full bore. If Chrys and Darzi won't do it you'll just have to get Profectus to do it.

>>32466908
Here changing my vote to this.
>>32466892
>No, you insist on going full bore. If Chrys and Darzi won't do it you'll just have to get Profectus to do it.

Can we make prof wear a makeshift dress?

>>32466892
>>No, you insist on going full bore. If Chrys and Darzi won't do it you'll just have to get Profectus to do it.

>>32466892
>>Fulvia is the expert here, You'll prepare the corpse while she builds the tomb.

>>32467000
Only if the girls say no, but i doubt the horned chick will.

>>32467030
>the horned chick
pls go

>>32467047
First time some one has told me this in this quest, when i have referred to her as that and similar forms the whole time.
I do know her name is Chryssa, but i don't feel like messing up her characters names so i use defining features instead.

>>32466892
>>No, you insist on going full bore. If Chrys and Darzi won't do it you'll just have to get Profectus to do it.

>>32466892
>>Fulvia is the expert here, You'll prepare the corpse while she builds the tomb.

Back.

>Insist on going full bore.
Writin'

Rolled 66

>>32466892
>No, you insist on going full bore. If Chrys and Darzi won't do it you'll just have to get Profectus to do it.

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>>32467333
Oh fun times.watching this guy play a moba was interesting.

>>32467532
A Moba?

Sorry this is somewhat of a foreign term to me.

>>32467608
Multiplayer online battle arena. DOTA, League of Legends and the like.

Apparently some people have come to look at the house, I've got to clear out until they leave. Sorry for the delay folks.

>>32467868
Did they give 24 hours notice at the minimum? If not tell them to get lost, you're a busy man and working!

Please I need to go to bed soon.

>>32467896
I needed to go to bed about 3 hours ago anon. Stop being such a wuss.

>>32467896
its like 1 pm at his place.its almost 10 for me though.

>>32467939
>>32467937
You wot m8.
Soma is a girl.
Jew call tail

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>>32467868
Well shit, will you be able to post, or will we have to wait an hour?

>>32468049
no he's not that was a fake trip last thread

>>32468080
Soma neither confirmed nor denied the claim.

I disagree with all claims. The Zions will solve this for you.

>>32468100
he denied it.

>>32382208
>>32382554

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>>32465787
wait. theres an armoury in this facility isnt there?
theres bound to be a bunch of good shit, including centurion armor.
lets just explore thea rmory first

>>32468350
After, since it's on our way out.

They were in and out of here quick. Thank god, weird ass family.

>>32467896
Our agent called like 10 minutes before they showed up.

Anyway, back to writing. Post is almost done.

>>32468408
>Our agent called like 10 minutes before they showed up.

Oh, I thought you were renting, not selling the place yourself, never mind then.

>>32467668
Ahh thank you for the explanation.

>>32468408
Upgrading or downgrading?

>>32468468
We're looking for a smaller house than the one we're in now with a larger lot and preferably a pool and hot tub. So upgrading, I guess.

>>32468544
Nice then.

{Look, if we're doing this we're going to do this properly. No shortcuts.} Fulvia hesitates before responding. {If you insist. I am obligated to do as you order.} Since Fulvia has agreed to it, you address the entire party next. {How goes the search for valuables?} Profectus responds first. {I found a pressure cooker, ought to add a little variety to our meals.} Chryssa is next. {I have found an instrument of some sort. It is difficult to describe, but it reminds me in many ways of a harp.} Well, that might be worth something. Darzi is next to announce her finds. {I found a collection of pipes and a bag of silver coins the size of my head.} Wow, that's quite a few coins. Last the announce her finds is Fulvia. {I believe I have discovered a shipment of medical supplies and surgical tools. Useful if a water vatis is not present.} Huh, you should probably get a pretty good price for those.

{Great work, everyone. Really. Now, I've made quite the find myself. A pistol and a suit of Centurion armor. Profectus and Fulvia already know this. The problem is... well, the skeleton wearing the armor and wielding the pistol sort of laid down a curse on the one who disrespects his resting place. We're going to need to put him to rest in a respectful manner if we want to avoid being cursed to die.} Darzi ask, an incredulous tone to her thoughts. {You actually believe in curses? My parents used to trick backwater villagers into thinking we'd curse them if they didn't give us free drinks.} You sigh, though due to your armor's seals it's inaudible. {It's better to be safe than sorry.}

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Chryssa interrupts before you can get sidetracked. {So what do these burial rites entail, exactly?} Right, back to the core of the issue. {I'm going to strip the skeleton of its armor and weapons, I need you, Fulvia, and Darzi to wash it with water, then-} Darzi cuts you off. {I'm not going to rub my hands all over some ancient skeleton just because you're paranoid.} Chryssa adds a moment later. {I agree with Darzi. While I may be swiftly approaching similar levels of insanity to your own I do not yet wish to play with corpses.}

Looks like Fulvia was right about those two. {Alright, if neither of you are willing to assist Fulvia it will fall to Profectus to help wash.} He cuts in immediately. {What? Why me? I'm not related to him and I'm not a woman. It wouldn't be anything close to the proper rite!} He really doesn't sound too happy about the idea. {Look, it's close enough. The point is the guy gets washed.} There is a long pause. {Alright, I'll wash the corpse. I'm getting my full cut out of this though, instead of half. Just in case this bastard is cursed I want to die rich.}

>Fine, Profectus gets a full cut of the loot so long as he helps Fulvia.
>He lost that bet fair and square, he's gonna take his half cut and be happy with it.
>Well geez, if he's gonna make such a fuss about it you'll just go with the version of the rites Fulvia suggested.
>Write-in

>>32468719
Tell him he can have the armor. We can sell the pistol for quite the profit and the armor was going to him anyway.

>>32468748
Nah lets say, he might get the armour if he helps instead.

>>32468748
second.
anyone else thinking were still going to get cursed for making a MALE wash the bones.
seems like something Soma would do

>>32468719
>remind him that you have brought his ass back to life multiple times
>tell him he owes you so much that the full cut wouldn't even put a dent in it
>tell him he should be glad you aren't making him dress up like a woman

>>32468748

This

>>32468719
We should remind Chryssa that she would benefit from getting Centurion armor.

>>32468748
yeah let's guilt trip him. something like "aww man here I am trying to get a nice suit of armor for you and you're giving me a hard time"

>>32468802
This
and this
>>32468748
Because we're a benevolent slave driver

>>32468778
Technically not a single woman is involved in washing this guy. It's just an asexual robot and a dude.

>>32468879
Prof is close enough substitute to make this work.

>>32468879
It depends on whether or not the curse recognizes sex or gender identified as.

>>32468879
Dress him up as a girl then.

>>32468879
Fucking hell, lets just do it our selves, i'm sure we can pull going drag off.

>>32468944
If Rhynian views mimic Roman views, they have no concept of gender. A person is either male or female determined by their sex.

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>>32468944

So it looks like you're going to guilt trip Profectus into doing it and tell him the armor is going to be his anyway.
>Writin'

>>32468974
Or actual biology instead of mental state

>>32469015
If you guilt him do it as a joke

>>32469047
>>32469015
Yes, more of teasing way then an actual guilt trip

>>32469156
>>32469015

Agreed. I don't want to give him too hard of a time about it.

>>32469195
>>32469156
>>32469047
Maybe we should say that he doesn't want us to do it since, we would go full blown crazy and act in character and dress as a chick and everything.

>>32469227
Oh god, Mik asking the girls if his dress makes his ass look fat and for make up tips would be great.

>>32469281
Funny enough i think we would have experience in this since our master was crazy.

>>32469312
I have a feeling those are repressed memories.

>>32469322
Our master dressed us up for "training" did he?

>>32469312
Right, right, I guess Prof should be glad HE isn't getting put in a pretty, pretty dress by a wide eyed Mik.

>>32469366
tea party with his camel, while wearing rash horrible inducing clothes covered in ants..

>>32468748
This

A quick question, QM and Players alike:

Why should I, someone who has only recently discovered the existence of this quest and have heard some pretty good reviews, begin an archive binge?

Mind you, I probably will not become a player myself, due to being busy with life. Because of this, what catches my attention in a quest is a beautifully written tale that I will remember, not the funny, quirkyness that other quests put on in order to simply entertain and be forgotten.

I am curious, yet not convinced: Do as you will with this information. I thank you for your attention, and I wish all of you good fortune.

>>32469433
Deann go and stay go.

>>32469433
The main character's motivation is Loot and Adventure. Also character interaction is nice and the descriptions well done
But why should you do a binge? Read the thread; if you like it read the archive

>>32469433
The writing isn't Hemingway quality or anything, but the story itself is interesting, the world fleshed out, and the characters well written. Do what you want with that.

First thread is a bit of a drag though, tons of typos. I think Soma was nervous.

>>32469433
Deaen leave.

>>32469433
Why don't you read the thread and make your own decision? If you need to be spoon fed info it's no loss to see you go.

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>>32469433

>>32469506
>>32469461
?

>>32469433
With that attitude we don't want you here

>>32469433
This isn't handholding general breh.

>>32469506
I hope it's not that retard. He actually pissed Program0 off. That's how much of a jackass he was.

>>32469567
wait when?
I stopped paying attention to the threads, since the trip fags took over, but i still read up on it sometimes.

>>32469433
>Why should I, someone who has only recently discovered the existence of this quest and have heard some pretty good reviews, begin an archive binge?
You shouldn't.

>Mind you, I probably will not become a player myself, due to being busy with life.
Good.

>>32469530
Came into A.I. Quest and demanded players explain everything about the quest to him. He refused to read the archives (there's even a wiki with summaries of everything) on those exact premises of "why should i waste my valueable time on this quest". Then proceeded to vote with no knowledge of the quest and when told to fuck off said that from then on he would go Anon and troll.

But my explanation doesn't do it justice. He made Fluff look like a completely normal human being.

>>32469593
A while back. Then he was banned by the mods and disappeared forever.

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>>32469632
>He made Fluff look like a completely normal human being.

How horrifying.

>>32469632
If you want to read up on it use the 4plebs link that is in the new AIQ OP. Unlike suptg it doesn't delete deleted posts.

>>32469632
Oh that jackass, i remember him telling him to piss off after he kept bitching even after admitting he is staying just to piss us off.
>>32469635
I didn't know he got banned.

>>32469632
>He made Fluff look like a completely normal human being.
That quite an accomplishment.

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You keep your tone lighthearted while launching into a tirade about {Come on, Profectus. Think of all the things I've done for you. I woke you up from that pod-} Chryssa cuts in. {We woke him up from that pod.} You continue, ignoring her. {-pulled you out of that whorehouse in Anthus, bought you that armor you're wearing and that sword you're wielding, saved your life after you nearly got yourself killed. I'm teaching you magic-} Profectus relents. {Fine! I'll do it, sheesh. You know if you weren't such a good friend you'd be a real dick, Mik.} You laugh, ducking into the tent to start stripping the body of its armor. {Relax, Profectus. I'm going to give you the armor anyways.}

{Why didn't you just tell me that in the first place? Shit, I would've put on a dress and danced around with the guy if it meant I got Centurion armor.} His tone is joking, though some small, sadistic part of you wants to make him do it anyway. Once you've removed the armor from the body you carefully extricate the gun from his hands and break down the tent. You stuff the armor and the gun into your cloak while Profectus and Fulvia pick their way across the room with Darzi and Chrys in tow.

Once they've arrived you create a large ice tub using water in the surroundings and fill it with water. {Do your best to be respectful about it, lest you suffer his curse.} You think Profectus shoots you a glare but it's hard to tell with his armor. Regardless they set to work and it doesn't take much more than dunking the body in water to wash off the detritus that had built up over a thousand years. It strikes you suddenly how weird this is.

Once the body is washed Fulvia swaddles it in the blue tarp in a manner vaguely reminiscent of the togas you've seen Aleamondians wearing. That done she announces to everyone. {Now he should be carried through the hallway while I erect a tomb in his honor.} Darzi, who you're fairly certain has been laughing more or less nonstop since the start of this whole endeavor, announces to the party. {Gods, you're really giving this guy the royal treatment. I can't believe a little note has got you this paranoid.} You shrug your shoulders. {You made a deal with a spirit to learn the meaning of life, curses seem completely reasonable in comparison.}

The party, sans Fulvia who's busy gathering her energy for a spell, clear a pathway from the campsite to the doorway and then you and Profectus carry the body out in as respectful a manner as you can manage without some sort of litter or cart. The hallway on the other side is bare and utilitarian, a marble floor with one door on either side and turning sharply to the left at the end. Once you sense that Fulvia has cast the spell you begin the procession from the end of the hallway back to the room.

The tomb she's erected is massive, it stretches from the floor to the ceiling and is ornamented twisting columns, carved reliefs, and two lion sculptures sitting in front of it. The tomb itself is metal, and has a statue of a faceless man adorned in Centurion armor sitting on top of the lid. Anyone ought to be honored to be laid to rest in a grave like that. Even you wouldn't mind, and your people are cremated at death.
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>>32469793
>though some small, sadistic part of you wants to make him do it anyway.
Looks like we are shaping up to be a good teacher.

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>>32469827
>{Gods, you're really giving this guy the royal treatment. I can't believe a little note has got you this paranoid.} You shrug your shoulders. {You made a deal with a spirit to learn the meaning of life, curses seem completely reasonable in comparison.}

You and Profectus carry the body up to the tomb and lay it to rest within. Then Fulvia lifts up the lid from where it had been resting on the floor and gently sets it in place before fusing it together with the rest of the tomb. With the body finally at rest, you feel you ought to be fairly safe from any sort of nasty curse the Centurion might have leveled at you, even if the rites themselves were not perfect.

>Great! Onwards to the Viewing Chamber.
>Nah, go check out the 'Facility Cooling' room instead.
>Screw all that, just go see about getting into the central chamber itself.
>You've wasted enough time here, head back up and set off for the exit.
>Write-in

>>32469903
>Great! Onwards to the Viewing Chamber.

>>32469903
>Great! Onwards to the Viewing Chamber.

>>32469903
>You've wasted enough time here, head back up and set off for the exit.

>>32469891
MGQ pls

>>32469903
>>Great! Onwards to the Viewing Chamber.

So...what would this quest's Theme Song be? I'm voting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiB98Wbsdlo

>>32469903
>>Nah, go check out the 'Facility Cooling' room instead.

>>32469903
>Great! Onwards to the Viewing Chamber.

After the viewing chamber do we go to the central chamber or the cooling room?

>>32469903
viewing works

>>32469903
>>Great! Onwards to the Viewing Chamber.

>>32469903
Ok Soma...was there a curse?

>>32469945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtjZOf0WmdE
My vote.

>>32469903
>>Great! Onwards to the Viewing Chamber.
duh

>>32470026
That would be telling.

>To the viewing chamber
Writin'

>>32470060
Oh, you...

>>32470033
Dude, I had to rolled for sanity loss after I watched the flowers bloom. I can feel my consciousness expanded.

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>>32470252
Here, this should help you be sane.

>>32470252
There was a flower in there?

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You clap your hands together. {Great! I think that ought to do it. Onwards to the viewing chamber.} Profectus chimes in. {Yup, sounds like a plan.} Chryssa simply comments. {We are a very odd group of people.} To which Darzi agrees. {Yes, yes you are.}

A course of action decided, you turn back towards the door. If you recall correctly, the viewing chamber was on the left if you were exiting the storage room, and the cooling room was on the right. The doors slide open as you approach and you stride out into the hallway. The door to the viewing chamber is roughly halfway down the hall, and is flanked on either side by lockers. Both of these are unfortunately empty. Much to your surprise there is no security, the door simply slides open when you approach. Maybe security is light once you're in the facility proper?

The sight you're greeted by on the other side of the viewing chamber is impressive, to say the least. A long window looks out into the central chamber, various tables and chairs arrayed around the room. There is even a bar on one wall, still stocked with bottles of various shapes and sizes though you doubt any of them are still good after a thousand years sitting untouched deep beneath the earth.

The central chamber is dominated by a massive column of stone and metal. At its center, where the column would usually meet, there is a strange device which crackles with energy, shooting lightning into the eight smaller towers surrounding it. At the base of the column, magma churns and roils. At the top, an odd sort of crystalline growth spreads out across the ceiling. This must be the generator you'd read about, still functioning after all these years.

(1/2)

>>32470060
Quest ending early to day?

After recovering from being temporarily awe struck, Profectus makes a bee line for the bar. Somehow you doubt the age of the liquors will have any effect on his desire to try them out, though you'd certainly hope he wouldn't get drunk while still stuck in the middle of a dungeon. Can he even drink with his armor sealed off like that?

>Tell him to cut it out, you don't want him stumbling around and getting you in trouble.
>Let him do whatever it is he's doing, ask Fulvia about the generator.
>Go join him, maybe some of those bottles are worth something.
>Go check out the cooling room.
>Head for the exit.

>>32470641
>Let him do whatever it is he's doing, ask Fulvia about the generator.

Tell him to have a bit of restraint, though.

>>32470641
>>Let him do whatever it is he's doing, ask Fulvia about the generator.
>>Go join him, maybe some of those bottles are worth something.

>>32470641
>>Let him do whatever it is he's doing, ask Fulvia about the generator.

>>32470641
>Let him do whatever it is he's doing, ask Fulvia about the generator.
>Go check out the cooling room.

>>32470641
>>Let him do whatever it is he's doing, ask Fulvia about the generator.
have him save some of the fancy looking ones.
Did we find any bullets with the gun?

>>32470620
Yeah. A shame too because I had a ton of stuff planned for this session we didn't manage to get to. Ah well, c'est la vie. I'll probably run tomorrow and on Sunday as well to make up for lost time..

I'll make one more post and then I need to go watch a movie with the family.

>>32470641
I wonder if we can steal that generator?

>>32470686
>Let him do whatever it is he's doing, ask Fulvia about the generator.

Just don't let him go overboard

>>32470641
>Let him do whatever it is he's doing, ask Fulvia about the generator.
Then

>Go check out the cooling room
So we don't need to stay in hear near the magma

>>32470641
>>Let him do whatever it is he's doing, ask Fulvia about the generator.

So why are people ignoring the central chamber?

>>32470776
Probably because they don't want to touch the lava or get electrocuted.

>>32470776
We do that last

>Let Prof do whatever, ask Fulvia about the generator.

>>32470641
let him go, threaten him to not go crazy, and to avoid any potentially expensive bottles

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>>32470735

What bonus did
>Abusing Metaphysics
give again? Don't remember it coming into use..

are you still here Soma?

You let Prof enjoy himself, you doubt he would go overboard and you have more important concerns. {So, what can you tell me about this? How's it work?} You transmit to Fulvia, who responds promptly. {While technical details concerning Geothermal Generators were kept classified, the theory behind it is fairly simple. It was essentially built upon the groundwork of a water generator, which work by using filters to extract vys from river water and then channeling this vys through wires to power machinery. While the amount of vys in water means dams must be massive to produce enough energy to have an impact, magma contains a much higher amount of vys. Thus generators built to filter energy from magma can be much smaller than dams built to harness energy from water.}

While Fulvia explains this to you, Profectus is popping open each bottle and sniffing it, sometimes dabbing a small amount onto his finger. He discards the vast majority of the bottles, eventually ending up with only six. All of them are filled with a dark liquid and the glass bottles are themselves fairly opaque. Profectus transmits to you. {These six are still good, the rest either turned to vinegar or got infested with bacteria and mold. Probably sell these for a fortune to the right buyer.}

Huh, you hadn't realized that Profectus actually knew anything about alcohol beyond how to drink it in vast quantities quickly. {Make sure it's sealed tight then and I'll toss it in the cloak. There isn't any air in there, so that should prevent it from spoiling.}

>Check out the cooling room next.
>Try to bust into the central chamber, there might be something else in there.
>Just leave after you collect the liquor. You're eager to get back on Baldev's trail.

(Kind of a lackluster way to end a thread, sorry about this folks.)

>>32471472
It taught you a method to make learning metamagic effects easier by weakening the barrier between your reality and the realm from which magic originates.

>>32471593
>Check out the cooling room next.

So...the question remains, what needed a Centurion AND a magma generator to hole up? The cooling room probably has tons of water, and it's where we'll want to retreat to or set up traps at if shit hits the fan.

>>32471593
>Try to bust into the central chamber, there might be something else in there.

>>32471593
>>Check out the cooling room next.

>>32471634
K. makes sense since it was expensive as fuck..
Whats the bonus for meta's +x?

>>32471593
>>Check out the cooling room next.

>>32471593
>Try to bust into the central chamber, there might be something else in there.
Cooling room is last.

>>32471593
>>Just leave after you collect the liquor. You're eager to get back on Baldev's trail.

>>32471723
Depends on how much you want to weaken the barrier, which will depend on how much Vys you want to spend.

>>32471593
Has anyone even verbalised a word this entire thread, or has all communication been through those artifacts?

>>32471816
Nope, all through the artifacts.

Alright, gonna watch a movie.

>>32471593
>>Check out the cooling room next.

>>32471944
Seems kind of pointless when everyone is in the same room.

>>32471977
The armors don't allow us to talk, they muffle speech.

>>32471977
considering everyone is in armor that has a helmet and everything in/should be enclosed due to the extreme heat. at least Prof's and Mik's is anyway.

>>32471977
Cause you know being in an underground cave that has flowing magma..tends to you know warrant such things. As well as being Miles under the earth. even if each floor was only 5 feet from each other 7000+ floors is a long way down.

>>32471944
Night Soma, thanks for running.

>>32463119
Eh, it happens.