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You feel as though you're falling forward, the vortex of color and sound forcefully pulling it further within its depths. It feels as though hands grip and tear at your very being, stripping you of flesh until naught but your very soul remains. Desperately, you try to turn back and crawl your way out. Back to the Shah's room and the reality you're familiar with. As you turn to face the way you came you're met with nothing but more of the same. The portal you stumbled into has closed. You're, for all intents and purposes, trapped here.

For how long that remains the case you're uncertain. The grasping claws which tore at your flesh moments ago now seem to push and pull and toss you about. You quickly lose track of which way is up, amidst the weightlessness of this realm you find yourself sensorily overwhelmed. Your very perception of the self seems to be breaking down as you're finally vomited out of the tunnel, and you believe it was indeed a tunnel, into the familiar, comforting blackness of the void. You attempt to hold your breath, but find it unnecessary. You can neither inhale nor exhale, nor do you feel the need to.

Curious, you glance down at yourself. You appear for all intents and purposes as a smear of formless shadow against the backdrop of the void, but pulling aside your cloak you find that your Master's robes hang loosely off of a skeletal frame, the variety of squishy bits you'd grown so attached to conspicuously absent. Your hands appear as desiccated things, flesh skin clinging to the bone desperately, reminiscent of a dried corpse one might find lost among the desert sands. Reaching up to run your fingers through your hair, you find only the smooth texture of your skull, interspersed with jagged seams.

You are a skeleton.
(1/2)

Perhaps it is merely due to your notable lack of sanity that this doesn't panic you as it likely would most. Rather, you're more curious as to how your cloak functions within the void itself, taking into consideration after all that it is a portal to the void. Frankly, you're surprised it hasn't torn a hole in reality and unleashed a thousand years of doom and torment. Curious, you attempt to stick a hand into the garment only to find yourself disappointed. Your cloak does not appear to function within the void itself, presumably to avoid violating some law of reality or another. Upon determining this, you instead turn your focus to just how it is you retain tactile feedback, sight, hearing, and movement when you lack skin, ears, eyes, or muscle.

A siren's call distracts you from your contemplation, drawing your attention to a rend in the endless black of the void. A valley which seems to cut its way through nothing, far below you. You can distantly see the gleam of a light, within the valley. The call urges you forward, into the strange rend in the void, towards the light, but you hesitate. This seems, in a word, sketchy.

>Proceed towards the light.
>Write-in

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>>35882305
It's halloween and that OP is too spooky. Oh no this is all too spooky, I can't handle it.. :( :( :(

>>35882334
>>Proceed towards the light.

>>35882317
>You are a skeleton.

Mik's looking hardcore

>>35882334
>Write-in
Try to contact the Rickster through the cloak. Maybe we can get a bro to help a bro out.

>>35882334
Walk in the opposite direction, the light can go fuck itself.

>>35882334
>Dance

>>35882334
Sing the song of our people
You know the one soma

>>35882334
>Proceed towards the light.

>>35882476
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6-ZGAGcJrk ?

>>35882334
>Try to sense our own Vys

>>35882334
Use your ribs as a xylophone to play a quick song

>>35882334
Poke our spine from inside our ribcage.

>>35882334
>>35882545
Backing this

>>35882334
>Study how your skeleton is put together

>>35882502
>>35882416
>To the light

>>35882440
>Fuck the light. You don't need no stinkin' light.

>>35882442
>DANCE!

>>35882439
>Try to contact Ricky.

>>35882530
>Try to sense your vys.

>>35882545
>>35882476
>>35882596
>PLAY THE SONG OF YOUR PEOPLE.

>>35882585
>>35882617
>Fuck about doin' skeleton things.

You'll start heading towards he light while doing a variety of things. Writin'

>Thread is up! We spoopy up in here.

Oh Soma.

>>35882617
That's a good idea anon, gotta get dat medical knowledge

>>35882631
Our sanity is fucked isn't it?
>Get turned into a skelliton
>Play music on your ribs while singing

>>35882305
Soma-senpai! Soma-senpai! What's wrong with the 1-in-4 statistic?

>>35882661
>mik replaces the oud with just ripping off his flesh and playing
Chrys is going to have a bad day

>>35882661
What else are you supposed to do when turned into a skeleton?

>>35882676
Go find 4 women that went to college, ask them if they were raped, I will bet you cold hard cash none of them were

>>35882676
Don't get a stats student started on "what's wrongs" anon.

>>35882676
Everything anon.

>>35882680
What do we do if our time as a skelleton makes us a gm at rib xylophoning?

>>35882742
Rip our bones out one by one and then heal/repair our body before making instruments from our bones?

>>35882767
Sure. And we'll keep our musical symphonies in an enchanted book make from our own frozen blood.
Pretty sure Chrys will take this as the head bludgeoning signal.

>>35882807
Not if we serenade her with our beautiful rendition of "spooky scary skeletons"

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>>35882676
A variety of things, my friend. A variety of things. Most damning in my mind is the response rate of the study.

To expound a bit, the study where the '1-in-4' statistic originated took a random sample of students from two college, both male and female, and sent them three emails informing them about and urging them to take the study. They offered a giftcard as a reward. Now, while the random sample was taken was indeed large enough to be representative of the student body, the response rate for the study was something like 50%, I don't remember exactly. Regardless, it's important to note that a response rate that low could indicate a heavy skew towards one result or another. This alone is enough to throw out the results of the study as inconclusive or not statistically significant.

In addition to this the questions asked were overly broad. Things like "Have you ever had sex while drunk and regretted it?". This, while perhaps some would argue constitutes rape, does not in the legal sense constitute rape. In addition, only something like a fourth of the women identified as rape victims self identified as rape victims and something like half the identified rape victims went on to later have sex with their attackers.

Finally, the sample size taken (that is to say, two universities) was too small to claim representation for the whole of US Academia. As most probably know, the statistic is usually presented unqualified. 1 in 4 women WILL BE raped in college. Not 1 in 4 women at these selected universities, and not 1 in 4 women MAY BE raped in college. But WILL BE. The language is what I really take issue with. It's just patently false.

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>>35882861

>>35882861
That could have been an update...
I completely agree though.

>>35882861
Now talk about the pay gap

>>35883311
shut the fuck up

>>35882861
Yo Soma you never updated Mik's vys pool when we got Apprentice in Earth Magic. We should have 34

>>35883335
Might wanna quote the thread for that one.

>>35883322
No u

>>35883311
Doesn't exist in the first world any more, women just tend to take lower paying jobs. Comparisons between folks of comparable positions will show equal payment across the genders.

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You begin to drift towards the distant mote of light, curious as to what it might represent. On the way you absentmindedly begin to hum an old tune you recall from the Mirta Divasa. Your peoples celebration of those spirits passed on to the next life or not yet passed into Pani's loving embrace. With a shock you realize that tomorrow, or perhaps even today, is Mirta Divasa. The streets will be draped with all manner of decoration and men and women will fill the streets to participate in public ceremony before retreating to their homes for quiet, family celebration. Tomorrow ought to be the annual commitment of the dead to Pani, asking her to guide wandering souls back into the fold of life. The third day would will be a time for the heads of households to retreat to the family tomb and attempt to contact any wayward ancestors, it will be their responsibility to settle the dead's affairs should any have yet to move on.

You find it curious that you can still hum despite lacking lungs, or any sort of organs. Although you suppose you haven't really checked. Curious, you pull up your robes as you drift through the empty void and shove your desiccated hand inside your chest cavity. As you expected, it's devoid of any sort of flesh or blood. Simply bone. It's somewhat unsettling being able to grap your own spinal column and twist it around. Vaguely uncomfortable as well. As if the tendons and cartilage aren't really meant to move in the ways you're making them.

(1/2)

>>35883373
Alright

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/34942644/

He gave the Apprentice here but our vys pool stayed at 30.

To pass the time, you attempt to discern your own vys. You can't really close your eyes, but as you will it to be so your vision fades out, and you slip easily into a trance. Oddly enough it's incredibly easy to remain focused on your trance while at the same time moving and performing other task. You can simply stop sensing the world around you seemingly at will, and you do so to afford yourself an easier task. Your vys reserves, you note, seem to have concentrated along your spine and at your joints. You'd presume that they're enabling you to move and act as you please.

As you approach the valley you begin to note just how... fleshy it appears to be. You can see vague entities perched amidst the various bridges which seem to have naturally grown across its breadth. The valley itself seems to stretch on for an eternity in either direction, and has no discernible bottom. You stop just above the valley, the endless, black plane of the void stretching out in either direction. You swing yourself to one side of the valley and peer down, only to see that the valley seems to be a one dimensional window into whatever lies beyond. There is not continuation of the valley below the apparent entrance.

Hesitantly, you slide through this window. You're a little wary of portals due to the various bad experiences you've had with them in the past, but unlike recent examples this one does not shut itself behind you as soon as you enter. However, you do feel yourself compelled to proceed yet further towards the light, a gentle, easily resistible urge. It strikes you at once that your presence is being requested by whatever entity it is ushering the siren's call.

>Take a moment to explore.
>No dilly dallying, keep approaching.
>Write-in

>>35883470
>>Take a moment to explore.

Hey, anyone wanna meet Ricky's parents? I wanna see if tasteful interior designing is hereditary.

>>35883465
Good catch, Anon. I'll update it.
That means you can now spend a maximum of 9 vys, rounding up from 8.5.

>>35883433

A good deal of our business/caseload comes from Equal Pay Act claims. It exists or all the cases would be disposed of in MSJs.

>>35883470
>Take a moment to explore.

>>35883470
>No dilly dallying, keep approaching.
I'm not sure how void time works but we still have to revive the Shah

>>35883470
>No dilly dallying, keep approaching.

I wanna see the spooky light up close.

>>35883470
>No dilly dallying, keep approaching.

>>35883470
>>Take a moment to explore.

>>35883470
>No dilly dallying, keep approaching.

>>35883470
>>Take a moment to explore.

>>35883522
Oh, and that also means you're at 31/34 vys, currently.

>>35883530
You mean you make your money by helping lazy, incompetent women get money they don't deserve and aren't current getting because they are lazy and incompetent, all the while using sexism as a mask/shield?

>>35883522
I think this means we could have passed a roll some time ago.
anyway
>>35883470
can we explore by looking around or sensing vys while moving towards the thing?

>>35883470
>No dilly dallying, keep approaching.

>>35883589
Yo soma, what boards would our party frequent, and troll?

>>35883470
>walking around while in a trance
Either being a skeleton in the void makes this really easy, or our insanity raised enough for us to tune out reality easily

>>35883660
He answered that on his ask a while back but I don't remember the specifics. Only that Mik would troll /lit/ using the trip MagicMik

>>35883589
I swear Soma, I have psychic powers or something. I often check your ask oage or twitter within a minute of you posting something, and wake up at like 3:45am like an hour after you start a thread.
it's kind of spooky tbh

>>35883602

No, because we would lose those cases and we do very careful screening to see which cases are viable and which cases aren't.

The legal standards for discrimination/civil right/gender pay cases get higher and higher every year. It's not like wage and hours cases where things are fairly straight forward.

So many cases get thrown out even before we get to the discovery stage that it's strictly unprofitable to pursue cases that don't have merit from the get-go.

>>35883660
>>35883679
and chrys would /fit/

and prof would /b/

>>35883661
>we learned battle meditation on our own by beinga skellington

>>35883660
I think I answered this once, long ago, in an ask.

Chrys would browse /k/, /out/, /diy/, and /fit/.
Darzi would browse /out/, /k/, /cgl/, /adv/, and /co/.
Prof would browse /b/, /tg/, /f/, and /d/. He'd troll and shitpost on all four.
SK would browse /g/, /f/, /b/, /k/, and maybe /lit/.
Mortia would browse /an/, /out/, /cgl/, /b/, and probably /lit/ and maybe /mu/.
Fulvia would browse /g/ and /k/, that's it.

>>35883584
>>35883577
>>35883530
>>35883510
>Explore!

>>35883542
>>35883573
>>35883575
>>35883579
>>35883630
>Quit fuckin' around.

Writin'

>>35883715
>soma is not trick or treating right now

>>35883770
I'm surprised no one goes on /pol/.

>>35883773
Don't worry. He'll get plenty of candy.
Heh heh heehe.

>>35883770
>Prof
>/d/
>Darzi and Mortia into /cgl/

Our party mang

>>35883803
That would be mik, he would also troll every one there by pretending to be a jew.

>>35883803
I bet Var Var would go on /pol/ ;_;

>>35883803
Shit, I knew I was forgetting a board.
SK, Mortia, and Fulvia are totally /pol/acks for different reasons. Profectus probably goes there only to shitpost.

>>35883770
Fulvia has the best taste
>tfw second girl

>>35883843
>Mor and Robitch ahillposting about the rebirth of Rhynia

>>35883843
what about mik?

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>>35883835
>pretending to be a jew.
Anon please i need these sides.

>>35883843
Why does SK go on /pol/? He doesn't seem that racist/antisemitic.

>>35883843
>Profectus probably goes there only to shitpost.
Where doesn't that fucker shit post than.

>>35883770
Who would there husbandos/waifus be?
Is darzi's hisao?

>>35883911
>He doesn't seem that racist/antisemitic
You never been on /pol/ for any length of time i see.

>>35883911
Shills for the JIDF

>>35883911
He was (is) an anti-government extremist who blew shit up for fun and profit.

>>35883888
/b/, /f/, /tg/, /lit/, and probably a handful of other boards with less regularity.

>>35883911
>implying /pol/ is just about hating niggers and kikes
He probably goes there to post about how awesome dorner is

>>35883926
Didn't Soma say that darzi was way below our league.

>>35883911
He was a political terrorist, I'm guessing he represents those faggy anarchist kids

>>35883962
Based on looks yeah, but us being noble means she's way below us.

>>35883962
Nah m8, she's way above our league now that we've healed her scaring.

>>35883962
above in terms of look

way below in terms of status.

>>35883602
Here's how the law works:

The employee has the initial burden of proof of showing that she was paid less than similarly situated male employees. The court scrutinizes the definition of "similarly situated" closely and often require identical supervisors, identical duties, and identical or superior work performance.

If they can't prove this in the complaint, the initial court filing, the case is dismissed and the employee is on the hook for the other side's attorney's fees, which can be several hundred dollars per hour.

If court says, "Yeah, looks like it could be legit", then the burden shifts to employer to show that either (1) she was paid equally or (2) she was a lazy, incompetent employee. Which is why companies document all the workplace reviews. If they can show some shitty workplace reviews and great reviews for the male employee, they basically win.

The employee's only chance is to show that this was pretext, i.e. made-up bullshit, but this very rarely works.

So the test itself makes it almost impossible to win frivolous lawsuits and actually penalizes them because the court's primary driving force is "judicial efficiency". The law, in practice, is more complex than political catchprases from either side of the aisle.

>>35883962
Yes, we nobility, nobility can have the hottest of peasant gypsie scum and still be way out of their league

>>35883962
She's a 9/10 Mik's a 7/10, so just based on looks she's out of his league

>>35883972
Thats what i said.
>>35883973
No she would still be below since she is a gypsy.

>>35883962
we're about a 7/10, Darzi is AT LEAST a 9/10.

>>35883997
>>35883992
where the 7/10 come from?
Also didn't Soma say since we lost our weight we became pretty good looking in our peoples eyes?

>>35883997
Who cares about looks?
Are you a pervert anon?
You disgust me.
Darzi needs real love without someone constantly ogling her

>>35884032
Like the rabbit and the chick with big tits?

>>35884032
Once we learn Animate we should craft Darzi a perfect husbando.

>>35884060
Yes anon, like the rabbit and the chick with big tits

>>35884115
>Implying SK is not her one true love.
>Implying she won't be our second wife or something.
>Implying she won't fancy some party member we've yet to meet.

>>35884137
Chrys and Darzi are best friends, they'll be cool with sharing, assuming we can seduce Darzi to the point of marriage

>>35884115
we already exist, anon
>>35884024
numbers come from his ask page
>>35884032
because if not based solely o looks then noble is deicdedly out of the league oof a gypsy

>>35884137
SK has Fulvia.

>>35884172
I'd be okay with that
Also okay wth flirting with Mormor a bit, could be fun

>>35884192
Speaking of which we still have her sisters to visit.

>>35884199
Yo Soma, how smooth an operator is Mik?
>ladykiller Mik playing around with hikkiNEET hipster with spaghetti all around
I imagina it'd be hilarious and adorable

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You drift towards the light listlessly, giving into the temptation of the call. As you get closer, it seems to become louder. It fills your thoughts, driving out consideration of any task save reaching that distant point. The entrance to the rift quickly fades above you until it's naught but a narrow crack in the sky above, the canyon seeming to widen the deeper your go until the walls are shrouded in thick mist and shadows.

Eventually your destination becomes distinguishable embedded as it is within the canyon wall. It's a large, stone doorway framed by stone statues to either side, each one solemnly looking down on the platform stretching only a short distance beyond the doorway's stone steps. Candles illuminate the area, making it appear blindingly bright in comparison to the absolute darkness surrounding it.

As you get closer still you're able to pick out the symbols carved onto the surface. The door itself is a large, round thing surrounded by two concentric circles of runes. The symbol at its center, intended to represent an eye formed from the crook of a staff, is an old religious figure you recall vaguely from a few old tomes within your master's library. If you recall correctly, it was used extensively by a sect of spirit worshipers who attempted to unify the various cults into one unified religion with a structured hierarchy of priest. Unfortunately, it was lost to history.

As your skeletal feet touch down on the platform you feel gravity assert itself. You very nearly collapse, but manage to avoid such a fate. The call cuts out, leaving you to wonder what it is you're supposed to do. Peering up towards the hairline crack representing the canyon's entrance far above, you're disinclined towards attempting to scale the canyon wall.

>Investigate the runes ringing the doorway, make note of them for possible later use.
>Try to fly again, you're not too hot on the idea of being trapped here for eternity.
>Write-in

>>35884293
>nvestigate the runes ringing the doorway, make note of them for possible later use.

>>35884293
>Investigate the runes ringing the doorway, make note of them for possible later use.

>>35884293
>Investigate the runes ringing the doorway, make note of them for possible later use.

>>35884293
>Investigate the runes ringing the doorway, make note of them for possible later use.
Yo soma check this out.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75aX9mlipiY

>>35884293
>Investigate the runes ringing the doorway, make note of them for possible later use.

>>35884293
>>Investigate the runes ringing the doorway, make note of them for possible later use.
>Try to fly again, you're not too hot on the idea of being trapped here for eternity.
Try to assert our will on reality, depending on how insane we are at this point this could work.
>Write-in
This could be another puzzle door like a the water temple, best to study it.

>>35884293
>>Investigate the runes ringing the doorway, make note of them for possible later use.

>>35884293
>investigate runes
sort of afraid and want to pussy out, but Som said this is a reward so there should be a way to do things right and get come out of this okay, maybe with a little extra
captchq:Front meatyin

>>35884293
>>Try to fly again, you're not too hot on the idea of being trapped here for eternity.
we can focus on this memory later on. come on guys.. just take a quick scan around the room. we basically have selective photographic memory.

>Investigate the runes.
Writin'. Roll me a 3d10+4 vs DC 22. I'm counting this an inscription roll to commit runes to memory. Great success may lend you hints as to their meaning.

Rolled 4, 4, 5 + 4 = 17 (3d10 + 4)

>>35884482

Rolled 4, 1, 2 + 4 = 11 (3d10 + 4)

>>35884482
Let's put that time spent in the library to good use.

>>35884482
lomfrv

Rolled 8, 2, 2 + 4 = 16 (3d10 + 4)

>>35884482

Rolled 7, 8, 5 + 4 = 24 (3d10 + 4)

>>35884482

Rolled 10, 6, 9 + 4 = 29 (3d10 + 4)

>>35884482
Memory Etch!

>>35884497
thanks for that roll
couldn't we jut meditate on this memory to recall them though?

>>35884506
>>35884507
y'all niggaz need to move faster

>>35884505
>>35884497
>>35884492
the fuck?

>>35884492
>>35884497
>>35884505
>17, 11, 16 vs DC 22
>Severe Failure!

You could spend 5 vys to make it a regular failure, but are incapable of making it a success.
>Spend
>Don't

>>35884529
Good rolls have to be typed out and given the proper love anon, you can't just rush these things.

>>35884556
Spend, why not.

>>35884556
>Don't

>>35884497
if only you hadnt rolled, we couldve had a reg sucess for 5 vys
do we want to spend 5 vys to make this a reg failure guys? what would a severe failure even mean?

Rolled 10, 1, 5 = 16 (3d10)

>>35884556
Uuuuuuuughhhhh
>spend

>>35884556
>Don't

>>35884556
spend
dont want to blow ourselves up next time we enchant something

>>35884586
We slam our head into the ruins thinking we will learn them through brute force

>>35884556
Don't
this is a roll towards remembering them.
We saw it. We will not remember it. But we can meditate on it.
A severe failure at remembering something shouldn't be to crazy..

>>35884556
Spend it, I don't want to lose San points

>>35884556
>spend
I guess a regular failure. Lets us have a really good look at them, but we just don't remember.

>>35884556
>Spend
>Write in
Let's meditate for a bit after the fact and contemplate their meaning and our general situation right now.

>>35884661
>>35884660
>>35884640
>>35884613
>>35884604
>>35884575
>Spend

>>35884581
>>35884607
>>35884634
>Don't

Writin'. That will put you at 26/34.

>>35884556
Can we lower the dc if we guess what the runes are for?

>>35884679
I'm surprised no one has wrote in a "Wake up" yet

>>35884556
>Write in
We could inscribe them onto our bones to make sure we don't forget them, the arm or hand would be a good start.

>>35884697
The spoopy must continue.

>>35884697
Why would you want to stop being a skellington?

>>35884684
They do nothing
They aren't runes, they are void text
They are the insane scribblings of the skellies who got stuck here before us
They are the runes for sealing a door
They are runes for illusion

>>35884684
Ehhhh. I'm gonna say no. I mean, guesses would be just as well served as avenues of investigation later, so why provide bonuses for them now?

Rolled 85 (1d199)

>>35884745
How about if I roll 100?

Rolled 1, 7, 1 = 9 (3d10)

>>35884745
So could we use our vys to carve the runes into our bones soma?

>>35884745
Because it's halloween and you lied to us last thread?

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>>35884782

>>35884784
I don't want to do that

>>35884798
Wait when did he lie?

>>35884784
No. Because you failed the roll. Had you past with a Regular or Great success then yes, you'd be able to.

>>35884798
How did I lie, Anon? I never said this wouldn't happen as far as I recall. You haven't been sucked back into Namek.

>>35884782
>>35884798
Anons, keep the jewing to IC. Let's just move along now.

>>35884745
If we play our Oud loud enough, will the people behind the door open it to tell us to stop?

>>35884849
We can't take things from the cloak, 'member?

We should probably get the fuck outta here so someone doesn't find us naked on the floor next to the dead shah.

>>35884863
Then let's make annoying noises very loudly, maybe bang on our ribs some

>>35884888
>uhhhh, a group of fifty jungle-samja, all jiggly and fat, leaped through the walls and attacked us!
>critfail

>>35884863
>not making an oud out of our own bones

>>35884863
Are we insane enough to try to make one out of our bones? no? Ah, well.

>>35884849
But void people like our oud playing remember?

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You approach the doorway, leaning in closely to inspect the runes. You spot the “Contain” rune almost immediately, and reach forward to trace the familiar shape with your finger. As the desiccated skin hanging off of your skeletal hand meets the stone of the doorway, the runes light begin to glow with some strange internal light. You back away as the glow spreads, and soon it's consumed the entire doorway save for the symbol at the center.

In a flash, the symbol illuminates. Unlike the rather inconspicuous blue glow of the runes, the symbol is a dark, somber red. The symbol itself begins to sink into the stone, eventually vanishing within. You hear something roll back, something heavy, and soon the doorway slides up, into the walls of the canyon. Revealed beyond is a vast hallway, at the end of which rest a vaulted passage which seems to lead to some sort of lit room, though the passage turns sharply and thus only affords you a view of the glow from within. You're left guessing as to what might be contained within.

You step forward hesitantly, peering into the deep gloom that fills the rest of the hall. Save for a narrow pathway between two rows of pillars the hall seems to be occupied by a darkness so thick it seems to have an almost physical presence. A solid barrier between you and the rest of the building. You make your way slowly inside, the echoes of your booted feet falling against the stone floor seem to echo unnaturally, filling the cavern as you wander almost unconsciously towards the light.

You pause at the vaulted passageway, hearing a deep rumbling from somewhere behind you. You spare a glance backwards to see a large stone cover sliding into place over the doorway, a large red stone in the shape of that symbol which sat at the center of the sealed doorway protruding from its back. As it settles in place, the stone thrust forward. You're left staring at a flat surface, the only indication of the door's presence the red symbol staring back at you.

>>35884888
I doubt that time in this place is relative to our reality.

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Left with little recourse save to continue forward, you make your way through the passage. It doesn't take long to make your way to the end of the hall. As you turn the corner, you find yourself staring into the milky white eyes of a large, three headed skeletal figure. Its arms are spread wide in welcome, hands facing the heavens. Smoke swirls from its three mouths, if you can really call them that. Each one is missing its lower jaw, and seems to vanish into the blackness of its robes, which strike you as vaguely religious.

Blood, or a substance very much like it, spills from the mouths of two ghoulish statues arranged to either side of the figure. It steams in the presumably frigid air of the chamber, as if still fresh. Water swirls up from two pools of deep red paste beneath the statue's mouths and the figure's hands. The figure seems to be using the water to wash its hands of blood, and once finished reduces it to vapor. For all intents and purposes, it seems to be reducing the blood into some sort of extract, for what purpose you can't quite be certain.

The figure seems to notice your hesitation at the sight of it, and a voice filters into your mind. It's utterly calm, and vaguely amused. {Fear not. Come forward, Servant, and receive my blessing.}

>Nah man that's cool, you'll chill back here.
>If it could just let you out that would be fantastic.
>Well, might as well see this through to the end. Step forward.
>Write-in

>>35885197
>Fuck it bro, I came this far
>RECEIVE BLESSING

I am not too drunk to decide this.

>>35885197
>Well, might as well see this through to the end. Step forward.

>>35885197
"What exactly is this blessing?"

>>35885197
Sit, chill, ask the undead wassup, what's with the blood an shit, what's this blessing, will we have free will and sanity afterwards

https://i.4cdn.org/f/Rapeman%20Forever.swf
Soma, will your sci-fi setting feature serial revenge-rapist who teach valuable life lessons with their penis?

>>35885197
>Begin a conversation.

>>35885197
>Well, might as well see this through to the end. Step forward.

>>35885197
"You're much more attractive than those stooges."

Rolled 1, 10, 5 + 4 = 20 (3d10 + 4)

>>35885197
>Well, might as well see this through to the end. Step forward.

>>35885197
uhhhhhhhh
not sure if hed be pissed once revive Kadir and took his blessing...

>>35885197
>>35885247
>>35885251
>>35885266
Let the slanderer speak

>>35885197
>Well, might as well see this through to the end. Step forward.

>>35885257
What? Where did you get this

>>35885197
>Ask him about this strange refining ritual he's doing.

>>35885197
>Well, might as well see this through to the end. Step forward

>>35885197
>>Well, might as well see this through to the end. Step forward.

>>35885336
>>35885333
>>35885302
>>35885282
>>35885280
>>35885236
>>35885234
>You might as well...

>>35885247
>>35885251
>>35885266
>>35885301
>>35885281
>Chat about shit n' stuff first.

Writin'.

>>35885325
Shit, missed a vote. Results stay the same though.

>>35885368
I hope that you will give us a bit of a chat before we accept this blessing.

>>35885197
>>35885368
OH LAWD HAVE MERCY, WE GETTIN BLESSED BY A DEMON

>>35885197
What a nice guy

>>35885422
I'm sure he's a very polite and candid fellow anon. No need to be rude.

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You step forward, though in a manner more akin to a man walking to his death than a faithful servant about to receive a blessing from their object of devotion. As you stride forward, you feel resistance. It's hard to explain, but it's like you've encountered a thin wall separating you from the spirit. You manage to tear through after a moment, and as you do so for a brief moment you feel a surge of panic. You feel as if you're drowning; your consciousness being overwhelmed by the presence of the spirit before you.

Fortunately, the spirit seems to recognize your discomfort and in a moment its presence dims, its form somehow reduced. You can't put your finger on what exactly it now lacks. As you step forward it reaches into the two pits of red paste, sifting through the gelatinous material for quite some time before withdrawing two separate items. In one hand, it clasp a circular disk of bronze embossed with the image of a face wrought in a knotwork style. In the other, it clasp a spear with a simple wooden haft and a blade made of some strange, bluish metal. You recognize them immediately as belonging to the Varistha, the tools with which he intended to banish the creatures of the void to whatever afterlife they're relegated to.

(1/2)

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{All things must pass from this world eventually, be they of the ethereal or of the material realm. It is my responsibility, nay, my privilege to process the remains of those who pass on within this realm and the refuse which is abandoned here.} It offers both items to you, its mental 'tone' suddenly somber. {A great warrior has left this world, or if he has not he will soon. I offer you his relics, but you may only leave this room with one. Payment for services rendered.}

>Take the shield.
>Take the spear.
>State that no reward is necessary.
>Write-in

>>35886028
take the shield, we mostly use Magix for offense anyway

>>35886028

>write in

What do you mean will be soon? Is it possible to save him?

>>35886028
>Take the spear.

>>35886028
>Take the shield.

>>35886028
We have plenty of offensive weapons that we never use like we should, and a shield is always very useful. Take the shield

>>35886028
>>Take the shield.

>>35886028
>>Take the shield.

>>35886028
>Take the shield.

>>35886028
>Take the shield
We use mostly magic to attack and we already have a bunch of weapons. Yeah I want the nifty spear but the shield just seems more useful in the long run

>>35886028
>>Take the shield.
Ask if the warrior was successful in his quest.

>>35886028
Now hang on a fucking second, what happens when someone discovers us in the possession of one of the Varisthas relics? Mighty fucking suspicious m8. Can we get some other boon? Ask him about runes?

>>35886132
Those would be perfectly valid write-in choices.

>>35886028
>Take the shield.

Ask him for pointers about the sanity relic - since so many people die over there to awful things maybe he's come across them in his freaky-ass realm.

>>35886145
Okay, yeah I'd prefer that. Maybe also ask about sanity restoring artifacts or similar lost knowledge? Something more valuable to us than another weapon.

>>35886132
Alright, I vote for this instead of
>>35886113
this

>ayy, I found this neat shield that just happens to look like the Varisthas

>>35886028
>>Take the shield.

>>35886132
I'll second asking of runes he knows.

>>35886132
Imma support this very reasonable option too.

>no votes to haggle
Ye be elves.

I'll host a brief final destination vote. Five minutes, you know how this works.

VOTE
1
To take the shield.

VOTE
2
To ask for some other boon, citing respect for the Varistha's memory.

>>35886259
2

>>35886259
1

>>35886259
2

>>35886259
2

>>35886259
2

>>35886259
2

>>35886028
>taking the shield
>when we never use one and our spear style seems to rely on two hands
Why? And invade you forgot, magic combat is essentially a waste of vys that we need to use on keeping our party alive.
When they die I blame shield fags

>>35886259
>2

>>35886259
2

>>35886282
>1

>>35886272
>>35886287
>>35886290
>>35886292
>>35886311
>>35886358
>2

>>35886259
1

Would it be unwise to ask him what happens if the guy we just killed suddenly comes back to life?

>>35886528
We did our job, until he puts it in our contract that we can't bring them back to life he can't do shit

>>35886528
Probably a bad idea

>>35886395
>>boon
grand mastery of water or enhance knowledge of enchanting.
giving us a bonus to inscribing and learning and finalizing.
like being an adept enchanter. akin to the vatis training when we meditate for elements.

>>35886682
Why don'tcha wait for tha post a'non?

>>35886682
We've already been warned about skipping ahead. Cheating our way to grandmastery is a straight up bad idea.

>>35886682
I think we can GM water on our own.

>>35886682
If we can I want a mundane boon, like photographic memory, or the eyes of a hawk, or complete control over our strength. All of thosr would be great as an enchanter, memorizing, seeing tiny details, and a steady hand, they also help us in regular things.

>>35886637
>In 2 days, 18 hours, 26 minutes, and 12 seconds you will kill the Shah WITHOUT BRINGING HIM BACK TO LIFE AFTERWARDS

>>35886743
This is a good idea

>>35886743
>steady hand
More than that man, we would have a machines precision

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>>35886753

>>35886698
you're right.
I'd recommend having extensive training in enchanting.
>>35886733
we can but not with out gaining some amount of insanity.
>>35886743
Photographic memory
We essentially have.
Everything else can be gaine via strengthen our body with vys.
Or as simple as putting on our haician armor. Which would provide all of those at no cost.

>>35886760
And look at how good chrys is with her not overly muscly body, complete control is great for better outputting your raw strength, less wasted energy.

You attempt to clear your throat, but find yourself incapable of such a task. Instead, you open your mouth to speak. As you will the words from your mouth, you instead find yourself transmitting the thoughts to the creature looming before you. {Pardon my asking-} Crap, what do you call this thing? {-O great Collector.} That'll have to do. It seems nonplussed at your attempts at flattery. {Might I receive another boon instead? Said great warrior intended to sacrifice himself to correct a mistake I made. Might I ask another boon instead?}

The figure rights itself, clenching its fist around the two artifacts. You hear the wooden haft of the spear snap loudly and the metal of the shield complain as it warps. It once more spreads its arms wide, and when it opens its clenched fist naught but dust falls into the pools of red paste. The blatant, senseless waste of such powerful and assuredly rare artifacts physically pains you. If you were still in possession of your lungs, you would almost assuredly be shocked breathless.

{Very well, though I warn you. I am limited in my methods of payment by powers greater than I. Should you wish, I may drag back the soul of a loved one from the realm beyond. However, I warn you they may not be as you remember them. Life after this one leaves a being markedly changed. I may also weave for you an enchantment into an item of your choosing, though the knowledge of an art so powerful is forbidden to mortals.} It pauses, and you shift uncomfortably where you stand. After what seems like an age the spirit continues. {Finally, I may reveal to you one secret, of your choosing, within limits.}

You're really forced to wonder what creature is more powerful than this one. When you stepped into the room you thought, for a brief moment, you were in the presence of a god. It puts every entity you've stood before so far to shame.

>Ask for a life. (Write-in)
>Ask for a secret. (Write-in)
>Ask for a object to be enchanted. (Write-in)

>>35886774
There's a reason we have to roll to memorize things, and we can only spend so much vys for the other things

>>35886797
>Ask for a secret. (Write-in)
The exact location of the insanity clearing object in the deep desert.

>>35886797
>Ask for a secret. (Write-in)
VOID SIGNS

>>35886797
If we can ask for life can we ask for death? I can't think of anyone I want ded but you know it's worth knowing if we could do that

>>35886838
This

>>35886797
>Ask for a secret. (Write-in)
The exact location of the insanity clearing object in the deep desert.

This is a pretty good idea >>35886838

>>35886838
Fucking this, for the love of god, please.

>>35886838
It would make things easier.

>>35886797
>ask for a secret (write in)
Exactly where to find the insanity clearing object

>>35886797
Obviously we should ask to have our skeleton enchanted to ward against the effects of possession.

>>35886810
Haician armor. Has a constant bonus to everything at no cost along with passively draining the vys from the environment into us.
Anything over that would be crazy awesome.

>Ask for a secret. (Write-in)
Exact location for the insanity clearing artifact.
Or better yet. The easiest way to clean ourselves from the entity and of our insanity.

>>35886890
>>35886871
>mfw people rephrase my question
I'm so flattered I have no face.

>>35886797
Can we just get a sanity-clearing enchant on something?

>>35886838
What if we just asked him to enchant something for us that was functionally the same as the insanity clearing doodad?

>>35886797
And that's what happens when we ask every entity we come across about enchanting instead of taking what they offer.

>life
no
>enchantment
we can do that to a limited extent
>>35886838
or we could, ya know, explore and find it. This guy could give us extremely powerful things.

>>35886797
>Ask for a secret. (Write-in)
Is this just asking for knowledge of any kind within its power? If so I wanna know the secret to making an AI. That's advanced ass shit and with it we could properly maintence fulvia of she goes wrong

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>>35886906
I gotcha bud.

>>35886908
>>35886913
That would be neato. But we'd still have the entity in our heads, IIRC the varistha said the artifact would clear that influence.

>>35886917
I doubt it's that easy, but I'd take it if he'll give it to us.

>Ask for the exact location of the mind-clearing artifact.
Wrrrrritin'.

>>35886838
Why would we waste a boon as big as this on something that is only gonna save us time, not give us anything not normally obtainable, why don't we ask for a insanity/entity remover of our very own?

>>35886838
Make sure we put something in about the path to the artifact itself.

>>35886969
>he gives us void coordinates

>>35886970
Because in the desert of TPK time is blood.

>>35886797
Can't we just ask him for straight insanity/entity removal?

>>35886969
wait, requesting vote on this.

>>35886970
why didn't you bring this up earlier..
sir...we could have goten something enchanted for this..

>>35886797
Ask for an object in our possession (like the oud) to be enchanted such that t clears insanity and purges foreign influences from minds (for the oud, the effects activate when the oud is played).

But not the location of the artifact. We have other places to explore.

>>35886969
could we change to this
>>35886970
>>35886988
>>35887002
>>35887003

please...

>>35886969
Fuck we should ha e asked him to enchant us a live updating map of the world. Shit woulda been so cash, especially if we could zoom

>>35887002
not him, but I mentioned it as well >>35886914

>>35887027
Damn that WOULD be sweet.

>>35887027
>mik and prof staring at women changing on their satellite map
Comedic

>>35886988
>>35887003
An artifact powerful enough to purge not only insanity, but all foreign and internal influence would be beyond this spirit's ken. Exactly why will make more sense upon discovering the artifact. However, an artifact which either

A.) Makes one more resistant to sanity loss
or
B.) Removes sanity slowly, over time

Would be reasonable request.

Now then I'll host a brief final destination vote, and depending on the result there may or may not be a second round of voting.

VOTE
1
To request the exact location of the sanity restoring artifact already in existence.

VOTE
2
To instead ask it to enchant an object of yours. (Either with one of the effects described above, or something else)

>>35887061
1

>>35887061
1

>>35887061
2

>>35887061
2

>>35887061
2

>>35887061
>B.) Removes sanity slowly
Why would we ever want that?

>>35887061
2

>>35887061
2

>>35887061
Well, I don't really care about the sanity, but about the Entity. Can the spirit do that?

>>35887095
No.

>>35887081
because.. if we don't do anything crazy. as a samjan we could live an extremely long life.
Instead of becoming insane as time goes on. We would lose sanity.

>>35887095
It says no in the post anon.

>>35887061
Could we do the satellite map thing?

>>35887061
2

>>35887061
2
I'm goin for what this anon said >>35887027
it sounds fuckin awesome
>>35887027

>>35887109
Losing sanity means going insane. You don't want to lose sanity.

>>35887065
>>35887073
>1

>>35887114
>>35887087
>>35887086
>>35887078
>>35887076
>>35887075
>2

>>35887111
Yes.

>>35887127
you're right. But I believe soma meant removes insanity over time.
or clearly we will choose the first option..lol

Alright! Last vote. This one isn't final destination.

>Ask the spirit to enchant an object to gradually restore your sanity.
>Ask the spirit to enchant an object to make you more resistant to sanity loss.
>Ask the spirit to enchant an item to reveal an map of the world which updates as you travel.

>>35887127
Shit, that's my fuck up.

>>35887167
>Ask the spirit to enchant an object to make you more resistant to sanity loss.

>>35887167
Oh, and write-in is totally an option which I forgot to include.

>>35887167
>Ask the spirit to enchant an item to reveal an map of the world which updates as you travel.

>>35887167
>Ask the spirit to enchant an object to gradually restore your sanity.

>>35887167
>Ask the spirit to enchant an object to gradually restore your sanity.

>>35887167
>Ask the spirit to enchant an object to gradually restore your sanity.

>>35887167
>Ask the spirit to enchant an object to gradually restore your sanity.
This won't be like heal 1 sanity every 10yrs would it?

>>35887167
>>Ask the spirit to enchant an object to gradually restore your sanity.

>>35887167
>Ask the spirit to enchant an item to reveal an map of the world which updates as you travel.
This will be useful as shit, too bad it probably won't zoom, nor will it have an interior mode

>>35887167
>>Ask the spirit to enchant an object to gradually restore your sanity.

>>35887200
More like... I don't know, 1 sanity per week of wear.

>>35887167
>Ask the spirit to enchant an object to gradually restore your sanity.

>>35887214
I sure hope its not cumbersome.

>>35887189
>>35887191
>>35887192
>>35887203
long term item. we still want it. That how optimistic we're about mik going into the deep desert dungeon and curing our self of the entity. and clearly our insanity back to 1.
>>35887200
fuck no..

>>35887167
>Ask the spirit to enchant an object to gradually restore your sanity

>>35887211
>>35887203
>>35887200
>>35887192
>>35887191
>>35887189
>>35887179
>>35887249
>Gradually restore sanity.

>>35887206
>>35887187
>Ye Olde Googol Maps.

Phew.
Writin'

>>35887236
it'll likely be on our oud or something. It will give us a reason to have it out more. we can wear it.
And practice more...

>>35887214
Can we ask if we will be getting more jobs/boons for jobs after this? Because I want more and more shit. Like that map, or maybe something like sk's sensors, but enchanted goggles.

>>35887258
Not that it changes anything but you counted my vote for insanity resistance as sanity restoration

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>>35887258
>Phew
Way to make us doubt our choices, Soma.
Dick.

>>35887258
soma I want to ask, because i am pretty sure there is no way to obtain them now..
when you get the chances.
let these bastards know of the effects the spear and sheild had on them?

>>35887287
I think it's more of an expression of tiredness after all the back & forth.

>>35887266
Ring that encourages muscle growth, staff like the dragon staff but for other elements, a heart to whisper secrets to us, a crown that gives buffs to persuasion, compass that points us to spirits. So many things

>>35887299
thats what you hope it is..

>>35887296
Well you sure sound childishly spiteful about not getting what you want. Instead of that you could have spent some time looking at the Varisthas' fight to glean the details and convince people that way, if its what you really wanted.

>Trek through the desert for 20 threads.
>Battle megabeast, lose two party members, get lost, almost die.
>Finally reach the temple.
>Fight our way to the room where the artifact is supposed to lie.
>The Princess is in another castle!
How pissed would you be?

>>35887302
>staff like the dragon staff but for other elements
water/fire staff...we would be gods...

>>35887319
Well ideally we'll be going for more info on it before going into the deep desert with only the vague hints we have now.
We already know some people who might have that kind of information after all.

>>35887315
i just really want to know.
Sanity > any weapon.
at the end of the day. varvar would have killed us for an artifact like the one we will be getting.
and likely every one else at the temple.
if it meant he could wear something to regain his sanity, and no give up more memories from his life.

And I mean come on. As a water Grand master. On top of being a samjan. He could cut off limbs, and make brand new limbs, with x2 more muscle if he studied anatomy any time in his 1000 years...

>>35887359
With a mess like that I just can't parse what you're trying to convey.
I agree with your second line very much though. Unless there's weapons which restore sanity by tearing out your own nightmares and infusing them into the souls of those you strike, of course.

>>35887302
Nah mate, we can do shit like that ourselves. We could possibly even learn the remove insanity rune from this. It's not worth itnto be an assassin for such "utility" items. The Varistha's stuff was reasonably powerful and thematicallx appropriate, I really like what Soma did, but what you're saying just seems cheap.

>>35887392
I'm honestly kind of disappointed we didn't take the shield. I mean. I don't know. I'm happy with what we're getting but I feel like we really missed out on something.

>>35887392
>not being cheap
Exploit everything if you are given the oppurtunity, besides half of those would be ruled out because void-Sama isn't all powerful

I hope our baby didn't get into trouble while we were gone.

>>35887416
I kinda agree with you there. I'm really glad our sanity isn't gonna keep going down but I really wonder what that shield did...

>>35887416
We totally did, but I feel the shield itself wouldn't have merged wll with our style anyway, from what I've seen in Varvar's fight, most we could get is the rune from it and use it as his gravestone or something.
>>35887423
I didn't mean cheap in the jew sense, I meant in the plot/story/mechanic sense.

>>35887444
Uh, no boon ever won't be cheap, it's literally a free shit card. Just because the shit it's giving us is from something recently relevant to the plot doesn't make it less cheap.

>>35887442
yup.


Guys we should really get down and git gud.
Start reading all of his books. and tomes and shit.
I am fine with doing a time skip on just reading everything for about a week with our pause.
him pissing eating and shitting a few times in the same room.
small time skip. Get most of our reading done.
Empty out all of our shit. ans have fulvia go through everything catalog it. And add it to our personal collection. while we need would be nice.
Having our party members read/ meditate 1-2 a week between reading would be a decent time skip. even if they all roll shit and only get one insight each..

>>35887503
I want the water temple to be the promised land that I always dreamed of.

>>35887494
You don't understand I think the impact of asking for shit is now ruined after this great dramatic reveal that he redistributes shit in the void and Varvar's items and fate. It was a great moment, and just asking for shit belittles it, I feel.

>>35887503
Yeah I want to make this happen.
we got a great success with executing our plan. so no one should suspect us should we fail.

and yeah tons of reading would be gud

>>35887503
I hate timeskips and love Soma's book and meditation descriptions. I want to play theough the git gud part, that's the whole point, not the result but the method.

>>35887526
im surprised the servant of death is this much shit.
>>35887503
yeah man. doing reading session would be cool.