>>2065715
Tribute Dominions 3: The Awakening for the gate stone.

>>2065741
Ah, I forgot to mention.

>Tributes: 0/4.

Those in the OP were the last tributes for the day. You just have 2 Emus left for the day. Apologies.

>>2065752
Do we know how to use the apple of Eden? Also what are we wearing now?

>>2065715

>A withered heart

FUUUCK. Pick it up. If nothing happens after a moment, consult with the Skull Mentor.

>>2065769
An excellent question. You have no idea how the apple works. You only know that you have it.

You are wearing street clothes right now, a T-shirt and jeans. Unfortunately the snazzy new wardrobe you spent time picking out was lost with your mansion when the Watcher attacked.

>>2065787
Should have asked for the arrow desu.

>>2065789
Go buy a Ray-Ben glasses and a trenchcoat.

>>2065792

I couldn't confirm that the arrow appeared in the game.

>>2065792
You take a brief shopping trip to buy some nice shades and a black trenchcoat. For some reason putting on the trenchcoat gives you an unexplained urge to buy a fedora as well, but you resist.

New Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/BUeTPuAr

>>2065811
Oh well, get the fedora as well. Wear the carnal armor under our trenchcoat.

>>2065818
You give in to your neckbeardy urges and buy a fedora as well.

>>2065787
The Mentor examines the heart after nothing happens for a while.

"There is a great power lying dormant within the heart... it seems to be reacting to your power naturally. Keep it close and it should awaken within a few days."

>>2065811

Horadric cube the following:

Longfall boots + Quick boots
Novafire cape + Jetpack
Omni-tool + Super Phone + universal charger
Mushroom + Maxim Tomato
Spectre grad pistol + Disintegration gun

Have Skull Mentor begin studying apple of eden.

>>2065846
>>2065850

Scratch having the mentor study the apple, ask for help contacting masakado's shadow.

>>2065850
The Tool, Phone, and Charger meld together to give you something that looks similar to a PipBoy3000, but combines the functions of the Omni-Tool and Superphone. Apparently the charger supplies the extra power.

The Mushroom and Tomato give you a pure red mushroom with an M on it.

>>2065860
"I know of some summoning spells or scrying spells I could attempt to teach you, but it would take some time."

Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>2065850

We don't have the charger as I pointed out earlier, we must search for a new fortress.

Rolling for odds of remembering thralls and passing that on to bird with our burner number.

>>2065881

Are we talking days, or hours?

If its days, we may have a good reason to wait out for our heart to activate.

Unless someone thinks they have a good emulation to hasten up our education?

>>2065884

Yup. Definite bird brain, scratch that but I need location listings.

And once more our omni was confiscated unless we're getting a Mulligan

>>2065884

What you said that we didn't have the omni-tool. Which we do.

More importantly, the bird isn't going to be able to recognize thralls, and will completely ruin our ability to contact them if it fucks up.

>>2065888

No it wasn't, our omni tool was never confiscated.

>>2065890

You need to go reread last thread then. Omni was lost to raid

Just use our shaper charge to make the bird smarter then.
We need to get our shit back and plug whatever outed us, at least out of vengeance

>>2065895
>>2060130
>You no longer have the treasure tributed to you from Fable, Bahamut Lagoon, or really anything that just gave you a pile of gold and such. You managed to grab your cash and the diamonds, though.

>You lost your disc on Fusion research, Alex's Treatise on Mental Fortitude, Isador's Bolt Pistol, Torbjorn's Sentry Gun,Night Vision Goggles, Metro Universal Charger, Rune Factory Platinum Hammer, FFT Blaster, Lancer Assault Rifle, the Infant Dragon Familiar Corpse, the Grey Warden Tribute Chest and Poultices, the High Frequency Blade, Engraved Artisan Full Plate Armor, and the damaged Advanced Power Armor.

We didn't lose the omnitool though we did lose the charger. Wondering how we managed to merge our charger to our other stuff if that's the case.

>>2065895
The Charger was lost, not the Omni, so instead of the Pipboy like device you get an Omni with the superphone's programs in it.

>>2065895
>>2060195 <--from this post

>You lost your disc on Fusion research, Alex's Treatise on Mental Fortitude, Isador's Bolt Pistol, Torbjorn's Sentry Gun,Night Vision Goggles, Metro Universal Charger, Rune Factory Platinum Hammer, FFT Blaster, Lancer Assault Rifle, the Infant Dragon Familiar Corpse, the Grey Warden Tribute Chest and Poultices, the High Frequency Blade, Engraved Artisan Full Plate Armor, and the damaged Advanced Power Armor.

Omni tool isn't on that list, we did not lose it, you need to reread last thread.

>>2065846
So do we know how to use the Neuralyzer? If not start learning how to use it.

>>2065905

OK I can live with that. Will shaping the bird further enable to know who's who? He has bird eyes so maybe he can see our "aura" coming off the thralls?

We have a lot of shit to do and need a place to do it.

My bad, second time today: no charger have omni.

>>2065896

WE can't recognize thralls, how the fuck is the bird going to, even with our shaping? Also, there is no point in finding out who outed us anyway, because they are either an enemy we already have, or the mafia don. If it is the don, he has already done all the damage he could have done.

>>2065905
What about the other fusions?

Also, time to learn scry/summon?

>>2065906

K. Stfu I acknowledged my mistake

>>2065919

How the fuck do you know? We changed them into slaves and didn't so much as get a glimpse of a face, badge number, blood type or nothing huh

>>2065933

> We changed them into slaves and didn't so much as get a glimpse of a face, badge number, blood type or nothing huh

Pretty much, yeah. Do you not remember how much of a rush we were in to get as many people as possible under our sway?

Most of that (including the face because flying) would be useless for a bird to recognize anyway.

>>2065916
You have a basic idea how to use it. You hit the button, point it towards the people you want to brainfry. You know there's a timer aspect, so you might have to do a little monkeying around before you nail down the finer details.

>>2065917
You can Shape the bird further, but there's no guarantee if you can give it such an advanced ability at this stage.

>>2065919
The other fusions had no effect.

Do you want to learn a scrying spell that might track the demon or something that might summon it? The first is a bit simpler, it'll take a week. The second is more complex, week and a half.

>>2065945
Ok play with Neuralyzer first while wearing our sunglasses then.

>>2065945
Hack the cops and check the news.

>>2065941

You make my face hurt with your negativity.

>>2065945

Well need the shadow to handle snitch ass mobsters and probably some other shit.

Wait...where is our security footage? I doubt the police killed our security system superphone that shit and see who we touched, blur or no blur

>>2065945

Go for the summoning training.

You guys want to emulate and make this faster, or do you want to do this one legit? I'm all for emulating this shit.

>>2065953
I'm going to need to know more than "hack the cops".

>>2065952
You decide to experimentally fire the Neuralyzer, putting on your Ray-Bans, pointing the thing at a wall, and hitting the button. There's a bright flash and...

You decide to experimentally fire the Neuralyzer, putting on your Ray-Bans, pointing the thing at a wall, and hitting the button. There's a bright flash and...

You decide to experimentally fire the Neuralyzer, putting on your Ray-Bans, pointing the thing at a wall, and hitting the button. There's a bright flash and...

"Alex, what the hell are you doing?" you hear as you get violently shook. You blink groggily, disoriented and weak. It's night now. The other Alex, the Knight is now in front of you, his hands on your shoulders, shaking you. The Neuralyzer falls from your hand.

"Where the hell did you come from?" you mutters, blinking. "I was just about to test out this Neuralyzer I got..."

"What are you talking about? You've been staring at the wall, turning that thing on and on and on since I got here!" Alex exclaims.

"That can't be, I've got my Ray-Bans on..." you say. Alex gives you a look.

"Are they Ray-Ban sunglasses made by an alien race under sanction of the MIB to protect against harmful electronic neural impulses?" he asks.

"...no, I got them from the America Vision in the mall," you say. "...anyway, what are you doing here?"

"I came to check up on you when you didn't answer your phone for the fifth time I rang, with all that's happening I thought something was up. Guess I was right," Alex nods. You blink again, noticing something behind him.

"What the hell is that? Why'd you spraypaint my motel room?" you shout, anger coloring your voice. Alex shrugs.

"Don't look at me man, that was here when I got here."

On the wall behind Alex is spray-painted the following message:
"GAMER, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" A list of names is spray painted on the rest of the wall.

>>2065971
Look at the names

>>2065971

Okay. Totally creepy

>1: How did he find us?
>2: Do we not be a normie and engage security locks
>3: Wtf

>4: Motherfucking bird how longs he REALLY been in here?

Our security is bullshit

>>2065978
You don't recognize any of the names.

>>2065983
Ask the other Alex if he knows it.

>>2065971

The Quester, I guess? He is the only one who wouldn't take advantage of our weakness who I can think of.

If its the quester, they may be names of gifted, or otherwise, our thralls.

Rub our head, and ask Alex what is up otherwise.

>>2065988

....wow. Dude how did he know where we were? Is this not clicking guys/girls?

>>2065988
"You got me man, I thought you would know them."

>>2066007
"Apparently there was some sort of huge incident at a warehouse on the city edge. I went to check it out, but I guess I was too late. Everything was being packed up and there were signs of struggle everywhere, but nothing going on otherwise." He frowns. "I had to beat a hasty retreat, though. There were some dudes in tactical get up that were definitely not normal cops prowling around the place. I have no idea how they managed it, but I think two of them saw me despite being invisible. I got the hell out of there when they started doing all these crazy hand signals to each other."

>>2066014

Probably a similar way to how he tracked the Watcher before. Some sort of scry effect.

>>2065971
Ask Alex if he can summon a demon, now that I think of it.

>>2066026
"I can..." Alex blinks. "Why on Earth would I want to, though? There's plenty of stuff to summon that WON'T try to steal my soul."

>>2066026


Lol. But he burned up his scrys to find the watcher? If he luckily got another fine, but who knows how much day was lost.

He shouldn't know where we are

>>2066025

You know I am normally against giving out information, but it looks like Alex is going to figure out eventually anyway.

Give Alex the story of what happened with the warehouse. Leave out that we enthralled some of the officers, and that they got gunned down by our sentry gun.

>>2066030

"I summoned a relatively more friendly one, but it wasn't bound to me, so it immediately left the area. I can hold it now, but I need to make contact so I can contract him."

"As for souls, I got a Soul of Quelaag that will probably interest him more than either of our souls"

>>2066032
"Btw, how did you find me? I though you used up your scry."

>>2066037
>>2066030

Make certain we learn how the demon summoning program works before we have Alex summon Masakado's Shadow.

>>2065971
Google the list of names see what comes up

>>2066025
Two guys were able to see you while invisible? This must be the work of another gifted.

>>2066034
Confirm?

>>2066037
"I'll need to review my spells to find one that can summon a specific demon... Probably have to dig up a White Wolf sheet, maybe Mage or Demon would have something like that. It'll be tricky to find something that's not a waste," Alex says, rubbing his chin.

"Also, how did you find me? I thought you used up your scry?" you ask. Alex grins.

"I used up that specific scry. I don't have too much that can scry on someone who I've never met, never seen, and don't even have a good physical description of... but someone I've met and know the name of? I've got a thing or two for that," Alex wags a finger, speaking like a professor. "You see, scrying is all about how much you already know about the target. The more you know, the easier it is. You come to me telling me to scry on this guy that sent other guys to attack you? Really hard. I want to check in on my buddy? Not so hard."

"You sound like the magic skull," you groan. Alex's eyes shine.

"That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me!"

>>2066059
You use your OmniTool to google the names. All police officers.

"I hope not," Alex winces at your suggestion. "We've got our hands full with the Watcher right now."

Sounds like the quester alright.

>>2066075

>Confirm?

I mean, we already told him that we were raided, right?

>"I hope not," Alex winces at your suggestion. "We've got our hands full with the Watcher right now."

"I mean, there was that task force durango, maybe the government is working on countermeasures?"

Get the skull mentor started on studying the Apple.

>>2066087
I think its the priest, it was mentioned that he was being led. Led by the government maybe?

>>2066087
"I guess? But how would they manage that?"

>>2066034
"Ah geez man, I wish you would've told me, I would've tried to swipe some of the stuff they were packing up at the site. Oh well. It's just stuff, at least no one got hurt, right?"

>>2066114

"I had some dangerous stuff there, so its not impossible."

"More importantly, it kind of seemed to me like they were being a little overly cloak and dagger with the whole thing. I'm pretty sure it didn't even make the news. I'm worried that the alphabet soup organizations may be involved."

>>2066129
"I'm just surprised they didn't get in on this sooner with shit like Harmont."

>Quest Paused.

The usual time tomorrow. Thanks for playing!

>>2066132
Who knows what they are up to next. Well do let me know, if you manage to find a way to contact a specific demon without being it being a waste. It's getting late, I will need to rest my eyes after my recent misadventure.

>>2066075
Try contacting one of the cops. I am sure at least one of them is dumb enough to put up his contact info on Facebook of something.

Contact only when Alex leaves.

>>2066132

Once Alex leaves, state aloud "Gee, it sure would be convenient if I could meet with the Quester right about now."

>>2065971
>GAMER, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!
I can't help but imagine the Quester sitting behind us with some anti-mind-control buff active just watching us with an ever growing look of mixed rage, confusion, and disbelief. Like watching a trainwreck, but it is YOUR train that you paid good money for being wrecked, and also that train isn't even supposed to be on this side of the country at the moment. Just a mixture of anger and wtf until out of desperation he angrily scrawls a message on the wall behind us hoping we eventually come to our senses or pass out from exhaustion long enough to turn around and read it.

>>2066170
"Roger that," Alex nods, taking his leave.

You manage to find a few of the cops on Facebook. What exactly do you want to ask them?

>>2066176
>>2067809

So did my attempt to summon the Quester fail?

Ask one of the cops to get on a cam chat client. Once we have him there, ask him to slap himself in the face exactly 37 times.

>>2067809
ask if he remembers us and then if he proves to be one of our thralls then ask him everything about why our place got targeted and who is in charge.

>>2067830
if someone sees him do that, lots of questions are gonna be raised, christ.

>>2067830
Unfortunately yes, your attempt failed.

You manage to set up a meeting between yourself and one of the cops. When the feed goes live, his face immediately takes on an expression of awe and reverence.

"Master..." he whispers.

"That's me," you say. "Hey slap yourself in the face thirty seven times."

"Thy will be done," the policeman whispers, slapping his face again, again, and again...with increasing force each time. The bruises appear shortly, then swell, one of the final slaps actually breaking the puffy skin and bleeding. When the thirty seventh slap is done, the cop looks into the camera with an overjoyed smile made grotesque by his damaged face. "Did I do well, master?"

>>2067830
Mite extreme.

>>2067842
This seems about right.

>>2067853
Ouch, yeah, bit extreme. Should make sure he's alone, then inquiry as per >>2067842

>>2067853

"Yes you did well"

"How went my previous instructions?"

>>2067853
Yes. So where are you now? At work or at home? Give me your phone number.

>>2067842
>>2067864

I wanted to be sure that we were talking to one of ours, and not somebody pretending to be one of ours.

>>2067872
understandable but try and be more carefull, we've gotten fucked over for thoughtless actions before like raining diamonds out of nowhere and summoning tanks with our name on them.

>>2067842
"Of course I remember you, master! You are the master, the one whom the world belongs to..." he whispers in awe. "The department was instructed to investigate the warehouse by the chief himself, acting in coordination with Task Force Durango. At first it was just a routine check, we sent Jenkins and Hockstead to knock around and try to contact the owner. No one was around..." the cop squirms a little. "...the chief gave us a direct order to breach the warehouse and investigate. Some sort of gun spun up and tore Jenkins and Hockstead apart when they busted down the door. Before they died, they radioed it in. SWAT came in, paired with some of the Durango boys. They took the defenses apart. Rest of us stormed in, found some crazy hunchback, took him into custody. We started to catalog and move everything. Then..." his eyes shine fervently. "...then you appeared and showed us the way, mighty lord..."

>>2067868
"I'm at home with my wife and kids..." the man's eyes suddenly shine with a new thought. "Shall I bring them to you master? You can take them into your service as well, show them the light and the way..."

>>2067887
So you know where our stuff is kept? Where did you take the hunchback in custody?

>>2067896
Nah. You will carry on with your lives like before until I have need of you but you will notify me when you uncover any new info related to the gifted or task force Durango. Get the rest of the "enlightened" to contact me when possible.
*Gives burner phone number*

>>2067896

"I'm afraid that I must forbid you from bringing your family into my presence."

"In fact, none but those that I showed the way to that day may know of our meeting."

"Pray tell, the instructions I gave all of you that day, how have they gone? Have you managed to stymie the investigation?"

>>2067914
>You will carry on with your lives like before until I have need of you but you will notify me when you uncover any new info related to the gifted or task force Durango. Get the rest of the "enlightened" to contact me when possible.
And this message is to be carried to the others as well. Avoid detection and never give each other or me away.

>>2067887
ask for more information on durango.
Names and location.
Check with him that all our items are checked in.
See if anything has been kept or looted by durango or the police force.
Ask if he has a way to discredit or have the police chief fired for breaking into our home, shits illegal yo.

>>2067896

Chief's on the take.

"The hunchback must be released as soon as possible, there were also two cats that are very dear to me. I need them returned as well."

"Actually you go retrieve the cats"

We still need to find a hideout when time allows

>>2067986
Wouldn't this make it obvious that he is a sleeper agent. Let them stay there for a while till we find a way to bust them out.

>>2067914
"Durango took your things and your minion, my lord. We do not know where they took them."

>>2067917
The cop winces, as if expecting a blow. "No... no, I am sorry, they have put us all on leave after Reynolds was caught tampering with his camera footage. I think we all might be under investigation ourselves."

>>2067928
"Of course, my lord."

>>2067933
"It will take time, but I can rally my new brothers and expose the chief to the media, claim he's using Durango as a front to extort money."

He looks down.

"I know nothing of Durango itself, save that their director is a tall, thin man with black hair and he is never without his advisor, a young woman that must be fresh out of the academy."

>>2067995

Igor or the cats?

I doubt they put our cats in a cell that probably in a shelter. I don't see why that'd raise a red flag.

Igor can "escape" while they transport him also no red flag

>>2067998
Nevermind do not so anything that would further expose yourself and make you even more suspicious. Do you have the chief's home address? I may pay him a friendly home visit myself.

>>2067998
ask about the advisory.
describe supergirl to him, see if they match.
Ask him to try and tie him to the don as well while we're at it if he can do it without any holes in the idea.

ask if he knows where they're staying, hotels or whatever.

Also, yeah the springing igor and cats thing is stupid, even if durango didn't have them in custody.

>>2067998

Well that answers that. Fucking mobster's

"Hmm. You might be on leave but I'm sure there's someone you trust wholeheartedly in your department right? Here is something you can answer: where is Guilliani being held? Did he post bail?"

>>2067995

Have him get contact information to us for the other that we have enlightened, and then to go back to his normal life until we have need of him again.

Also, have him fix up his face as best he can, and come up with an excuse for in case anyone asks about it.

>>2068038
Where did you get mobsters from that post? Far as I can tell, they aren't mentioned anywhere.

>>2068127

The Chief broke the rules for:

>A) He was paid to by the mobster's who had been tailing us awhile and would know about the warehouse

>B) He was mystically told to by Durango for no apparent reason whatsoever just to be a rebel...

I'm going with A)

>>2068027
"Yes, master, I can get that information for you. Call me again in a half hour."

>>2068033
"She wore no spandex, just a business suit... but that does sound like her otherwise, yes. I don't know where they are staying."

>>2068038
"Guiliani? The former mayor of New York? Master, I am sorry, I do not understand..."

>>2068127
"I will do so, my lord."

>>2068179

"No wiseass, the mobster with the restaurant slash human trafficking operation. Slap yourself again"

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>2068179
Should have killed Supergirl when we had the chance.

Experiment with the scouter while we wait for half hour.

>>2068179

"Please excuse, I meant Giusetelli."

>>2068204
>>2068179

Veto this, his face is already messed up enough.

>>2068179
The don thats recently been arrested.

>>2068205
oh man, if only someone had suggested doing that at the time or rolled a 95 to gun her down.

>>2068213

Get the fuck over it, that 95 wouldn't even have been used, he would have asked for new dice to be rolled if we decided to blast away at her.

I'm pissed that the wish granting sphere got blown up before I could suggest shaping something to make an additional wish, but you don't see me bitching about it every single day.

>>2068284
You know what?
you're right, i should stop bitching.
I intentionally stabbed the sphere with the sword out of pettiness for not killing her, shits been repaid.

>>2068209
"Oh, I see. Giusetelli is being held in the county jail for the time being. He has been denied bail. It's a well known secret that Durango has been interrogating him."

>>2068311

K let's try to get that shadow back and kill those bastards. Are we on the move yet?

Check all the news when possible

>>2068311
I see, I will call you back in half hour time.

>>2068347
Did you decide on a destination?

>>2068360
In a half hour, he gets you the chief's address.

>>2068427
Just get a hotel in a small town not too far away, we want to be able to monitor the situation. If our hearthstone is still linked to the warehouse, have a thrall keep tabs on it and tell us when it's no longer being monitored.

>>2068427

Hey guys, remember that bird? Now might be a good time to put it to use.

Have the bird scout the address, with special instructions to report back immediately if he sees flying girl.

Also, does the skull have anything to say about the Apple yet?

>>2068427
Don't leave till we get rid of the spraypaint.

>>2068474
How will you remove it?

>>2068468
The bird notes nothing unusual, but the skull reports the Apple appears to be nonmagical.

>>2068455
It takes the rest of the day to drive out and get a different hotel room. You estimate you were in your motel room neuralyzing yourself for at least 6 hours.

>Day 35 ends
>Day 36 begins.

When you wake up, "Meet me in the crater" is spray painted on the ceiling.

>>2068427
>>2068474

Hey guys, crazy idea. What if we stay in the hotel room until the saint's heart activates? Probably get a fucking stand, and even if we don't, whatever we get is guaranteed to be awesome.

>>2068520
Nah, it'll activate eventually.

>>2068519
Ugh, he must have remote spray paint abilities. That, or he just likes making life hard.

Don't want to fly anywhere. Let's drive to Harmont.

>>2068519

>"Meet me in the crater" is spray painted on the ceiling.

Huh, maybe my attempt to summon him wasn't as much of a failure as I thought?

Look up how to remove spray paint on google, and do whatever it says to do.

Also, start getting things together to go meet the Quester over in Harmont.

do we have the skull or is it still with alex?
asking him if he could teach us a teleport spell would be nifty

>>2068519
Go to a hardware store and ask for some paint stripper/remover and some new paint and brushed.

Also tribute this >>2065741

>>2068550
Probably would take a few days at least.

>>2068519

Tribute Kirby Super Star (I think that is the one we haven't tributed yet) and ask for a Copy Essence Deluxe of the ability "Copy".

>>2068519
I also want to say we add Metal Fatigue to games that we have conquered.

It is a giant robot/war RTS taking place with alien technology and recombinable giant robots created using a basis of Hedoth alien technology. The three characters are three brothers that eventually rise up and become extremely powerful leaders in three corporate micronations because they are known for their extreme combat prowess. Basically beating the game means you made them the leader of one of the biggest economic powerhouses in the galaxy and helped them get ahold of ancient alien weapons tech. Also it did not have a population cap that I remember and the Combots can run almost indefinitely off their own power source and are light enough they dont break through the ground with their steps due to space age design. Energy and materials are harvested from lava pits too and it would not be unusual to field a group of 5-20 combots for a single map at a single time, not counting casualties.

Basically what I am saying is, we take this as a game in our catalogue of possible tributes and then when the time comes we have someone with nearly unlimited resources that owes us a free giant robot that would put our Madcat to shame, also would probably get the implants to pilot it too for free so no training. Only negative side, the combots are usually piloted in teams of 3 but can be piloted by a single pilot with some sill, also only takes a short amount of time to train a pilot squad so it cant be too tough to learn.

Just for the love of God do not tribute this monstrosity for no reason because depending on the brother they may very well load it up with Hedoth weapon tech, which means most things short of the REALLY op Gundams will get a hole melted in them or a limb ripped off depending on the weapons. I would take this option over a Gundam game because the likelihood of one of the Gundam pilots dropping us their super-gundam is almost zero, but Combots can be mass produced, it would be like a CEO gifting you a really nice car for putting him on top.Guaranteed giant robo or atleast a tank or squad of autonomous fighter jets if not all 3.

>>2068649
Oh, also to shore up one hole in my proposal, Combots (the previously stated recombinable giant robots) do not run directly off the lava/energy grid, they and other vehicles can continue operations long after all energy sources are lost. In the case of purely Ancient Hedoth combots this can mean they stay automated and active for thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years at a time without a recharge.

>>2068649

You DO realize that we can ask for whatever we want from our tributes now, right? The only thing that can stop us from getting whatever the fuck we want is QM fiat.

>>2068550
It's still with you.

>>2068552
It takes a while, but you manage to remove the paint.

>>2068573
>>2065741
>Kirby Super Star tributed.
>Dominions 3 tributed.

Deluxe Copy Essence gained.
Gate Stone gained.

>>2068664
Cool, ask the skull mentor about it functions and how to use the gate stone. Shouldn't take too long since non-mages were able to use it as well.

Do guys want to bring Alex as well?

>>2068663
Oh...oh my....
You do realize then that if we pop Metal Fatigue, we dont just have a single mobile suit pilot giving us his single suit.

We can ask for an entire squadron of top of the line combots since it would not be unreasonable to ask for 5-20 for an engagement and like I said mass produced. Just a matter of how to deploy them. I am not saying it is the ultimate choice, but it is a good utility choice to keep in mind in case The Watcher pulls a Kaiju out of his ass.

"Haha now you face Godzilla!"

>Squadron of Rimtech death bots deploy laser swords/Hedoth Claws/Anti-future-tank ballistic missle arms/missile legs/missiletorsos/kinetic shields/Hedoth Pulse Arm weaponry
>Godzilla reduced to paste and Combots walk around making angry robot noises
Also sidenote, Combots are surprisingly good at avoiding collateral building damage, so just tossing that in there (although that was more a limit of game tech at the time).

>>2068683

Do not take Alex to the crater. Let's hear from the Quester alone. Not only did the Quester not seem particularly eager to meet with multiple people last time, but he also may share things we don't particularly want shared.

>>2068664

Touch the Deluxe Copy Essence.

>>2068683
Might as well bring Alex, extra muscle can't hurt and we dont want him being vulnerable to Watcher while we are away.

Also double check with skull-mentor to see if he can tell if Alex is possessed.

I just have a bad feeling Watcher might try to go for him if he couldn't us, but I feel like the Knight would be a more resistant target.

>>2068683
fuck no!

>>2068664
Also, like I said even though I want to add Metal Fatigue to the list of games we have conquered, dont want to tribute yet.

If we don't have space for it on our list of 300 already beaten games it is going to be a bitch to get because the free version has no cutscenes thusly no emotional attachment to the brothers struggles and because of how bad the marketing was it is almost impossible to get a physical copy.

>>2068683
The Skull Mentor is able to teach you how to use the stone in short order.

>>2068697
Roll a d100.

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>2068715

Oh fuck, now I'm worried. What could go wrong with a deluxe copy essence?

>>2068519

If we're by ourselves

>Tribute tier 4: T2: The Arcade Game. Definitely aim for our own Arnie, as T800s love nothing more then fucking cops up

>>2068725
Apparently nothing. You absorb the essence and gain the ability to copy an ability from an enemy you target. It's important to note that the ability will be completely random, you can't pick what you end up with.

>>2068757

Excellent. For some practice, try copying our Charizard, then dropping whatever we copied to go back into the Copy ability.

>>2068687
Tribute Men in Black: The Game.

Ask for their special sunglasses that protects against harmful neural impulses.

>>2068782
You breathe out a stream of flame. It's pretty cool.

>>2068740
You're not exactly sure what happened, but when you tribute this, a deactivated, damaged T-800 collapses in front of you. Odd.

>Tributes: 0/4

>>2068793
Typoed, this goes off too.

>Gained REAL MiB Sunglasses.

>>2068795
Can we repair it using our omnitool?

>>2068795
I hate to keep pestering but has there been a yes on
>Add Metal Fatigue to list of games we have beaten?
Figure it might give us a chance against a Shrike too if it comes down to it. Although I am not familiar with Shrike in depth.

>>2068795

Lovely.

>Emulate. Hmm. Dr. Wily? A resistance researcher, holy shit there's like a million ways to do this.

Hold on this a minute, need to ask a RL person something. But keep it qued.

>>2068809
If you had advanced knowledge of robotics, maybe.

>>2068859

I knew that'd be the answer I got.

>Emulate Dr. Light from Mega Man, proceed to fix and reprogram T800

I already like where this going

>>2068859

Now, just so I fully understand, we ARE able to switch out whatever we have copied to back into the ability "copy" right?

>>2068918
You knew enough to reprogram it too, awwww...

It takes the entire day and several trips to several stores, but you manage to repair the robot and have a loyal T-800 minion by the end of things.

>Lose 100,000 dollars for parts.
>Gain T-800.
You have one Emulation left. Use it or go to bed?

>>2068927
Yes.

>>2068931

Emulate Assassin's Creed III, use that to learn how to control and use the Apple. Write/type things about controlling it and how to operate its functions down while we are still in emulation so that we can peruse the notes later.

>>2068931

>Emulate. Well hell something for a new spell. Flare, Ultima, Holy?

>>2068948
You do this... but even after following the notes' instructions the apple doesn't work as intended. It's strange, but it seems like something is missing.

>>2068948

Actually I'll go with this

>>2068986
Must be because our humans don't have that alien slave gene.

>>2068986

Go to bed, I think I know how to fulfill what is missing.

>>2068986
give the Borderlands shield and the blaster rifle to Arnie and tell him to protect us then go to sleep.

>>2068931
We have time to shape?
we need to start churning out intelligent and loyal people to eventually crew our future mobile base.

>>2069066
Not tonight, unfortunately.

>>2069059
You sleep in your motel with a half torn up Arnold clone standing guard.

When you dream, you see the Quester, alone, sitting in a chair in a dark room. He looks nervously from side to side.

"OK, so Smiley keeps us all from messing with each other's dreams if you couldn't tell. Too long to explain why, why, why. Gotta go fast. Can't stay hidden long. Meet me in the crater, OK? World's still weak there, I can slip through. Smiley doesn't like me anymore. Can't just go wherever I please. Just one thing real fast. Anything you dream, it's something he's letting happen, unless it's someone like me sneaking in or breaking through or... oh. Oh shit! Crater! Cratertime! Gotta go!"

The room is gone in an instant, replaced by a soft blue glow. You see the strange amulet you got from tributing Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.

"My master bids us speak, human. The thing outside is watching here. No more words lest it be in person."

Then you wake up.

>Day 36 ends.
>Day 37 begins.

>>2069109
Yeah, i forgot what the strange amulet does, ask the skull about it.

>>2069109

Ok, time to go to Harmont. Go go go now.

>>2068347
>news
Completely forgot this one.

You watch the news over breakfast. Things get extremely strange when the anchors begin an outright brawl with the talk show slated to appear after them... then even stranger as the news crews from other channels break into the studio and attack, live. The camera feed is only cut when security reaches the cameraman.

Going to a less volatile network, it seems the happenings in Harmont and North Korea have been completely eclipsed by news of the spreading Green Death. International travel and trade has slowed to a crawl as most countries are now either closing their borders or imposing strict controls. With everything that's been happening with you, you haven't noticed, but FEMA has opened camps across the country and is trying to shepherd infected persons there to control the outbreak. Nearly every major city now has a CDC quarantine center running there, with ambulances an increasingly common sight in the streets. The outbreak has reached epidemic status.

Doomsday cults are beginning to pop up across not only the nation, but the world. The most notable of these is the Cult of Kek, a growing group that claims the Green Death is the touch of the ancient Egyptian god associated with primordial chaos. They claim the frog god is returning to swallow the world whole, and there is nothing left to do but laugh as it burns and chant his name.

Ordinarily this would be laughed off were it not for one very concerning statistic.

Members of the Cult of Kek do not seem to contract the disease.

>>2069137

Also, someone explain what the gate stone does. If it can get us to Harmont crater, use it.

>>2069113
You dangle the amulet in front of the skull.

"Ah, well familiar am I with this sort of work. A shade is bound to this amulet in much the same way my spirit is bound to my skull. I suspect it's listening to us even now, waiting for you to address it before it reveals itself."

>Quest paused<
And that's it for that. Quest will resume Wednesday. There might be a sporadic post or two tomorrow though.

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>>2069143
Pic explains it better

>>2069109
Use the Gate stone to Astral travel to Harmont crater. Bring Arnie with us.

>>2068310
>intentionally taking away a wish because your a petty bitch
Fuck you

>>2069160

Yes it is a very convenient item to have. I have a couple of points I will address tomorrow in anticipation of resumption.

Our very own T800. Couldn't we shape life to give it its human appearance?

>>2068740
Holy cow. T2: The Arcade Game is best Terminator timeline.
Spends most of the game destroying Skynet's forces, then destroys Skynet, then goes back and joins the raid to destroy Cyberdyne and can do enough damage to actually stop their research. Also fight a thousand more people, who knew Cyberdyne had researcher commandos.. and I'm not sure why the steel mill has hostile welder mask commandos rappelling in, but ok. Judging from how the cops all continue to twitch and hold at their legs once defeated, that T-800 is the master of shooting hundreds of dudes in the leg without hitting a major artery. Science assassins and welder strike force guys don't seem to get as kind of treatment though.
I'm not sure if it was made clear what the basic weapon was, but the regenerating "gunpower" was great for not running out of ammo for it.

>>2069223
Medigel would probably do wonders for the organic portions, though we might want to look into a means to gain more medical knowledge in general what with shaping and plagues and whatnot.

>>2069201
Also equip the bubble artifact, don't want to die from radiation there.

>>2069655

Don't worry too much. Refresh clears radiation poisoning.

>>2069139

So guys, when are we planning to cure the green death? Quarantine tribute apparently didn't do shit, so we should probably get back to the original plan of shaping a single celled organism that eats whatever causes the green death.

>>2068795
How did the stream of flame compare to our flametongue spell?

>>2069698
Yeah but Refresh can use up Mana, Bubble recovers radiation poisoning faster than it can be inflicted in almost all situations save for teabagging a live reactor core. So it will just make our lives easier and give us more options in case of combat.

Remember anon, our actions have consequences in this quest, walking into an ambush whether Quester is setting it up or someone is watching him, after using all our mana to prevent rad poisoning when we have an artifact that makes us immune to it simply by keeping it in our pocket is a pretty bad decision.

Remember this is a QM that literally just twirled his moustache dastardly at us and said "Oh good you remembered to reprogram the terminator before bringing it back online after spending so much to repair it." Just assume that your actions will be carried out as written with no assumptions, so if we forget to Refresh ourselves after a few hours or in some areas closer to the crater, minutes, we could die or be irrepperably damaged by radiation poisoning.

>>2069698
Your spell is better if for no other reason than it gets boosted by your magic items and the breath does not.

>>2069724
I didn't TWIRL my mustache... I TWISTED it! All the difference in the world!

>>2068832
Yes, I added it.

>>2069937

What would have happened if we had crit failed the deluxe copy essence roll?

When you say what ability we copy is random, does that mean if we copy the same person multiple times, we could get a different ability each time?

>>2069914

You could've just fondled it, and not cursed our rolls ever more.

>>2069223

A few "cool" points to our T800 acquisition

>Allows for use of ALL civilian vehicles, aircraft. Fuck yeah
>Can hack (I'm assuming from research) any and all encrypted devices/research/technology of our day and age (Oh my kingdom for our Sentry), could POTENTIALLY hack Task Force Durango.
>Can accomplish medial tasks while we tend to more important things
>Is far more resistant to electrical discharge (movie)
>Expert in infiltration, espionage
>Its a Terminator

Everybody might piss their pants but I'd suggest giving him the Digital Inventory and an outload of weapons.

BTW: Apparently all T800 models feature 2 to 3 auxiliary power reserves.

Actually when we're back on please take 30 minutes of our day and have the T800 look at our tech stuff (space guns, any high technology). I bet it can repair our BL shield.

>I've never believed we might make it to a hundred days til yesterday.

More in a bit

>>2070429

>cont.

>T800s can create/fix modify modern weapons

But enough about him.

>The Green Death has to go as apparently humanity is to stupid to save itself and needs our help.

My suggestion would be a tier 4 tribute to another Quarantine. With express purpose of shaping life so that when we exhaled the "cure" (carbon dioxide floats to the atmosphere) hits the jet stream/prevailing winds and we beat it in a day or two WORLDWIDE. Because if I can breathe some 2000 year old ancestors air that's feasible too.

>A warning you will not heed

I highly doubt most anybody besides my autistic ass checks the pastebin. Well that's just fucking lazy of you.

>Games Tributes 142
>GAME LIST 222/300

That's 78 games left to emu/tribe before a 100 days divided by 4 per day. What I'm saying is tribute games already on the list (tier 4 it) and don't add another game til day 50.

>Have the feds seized our online accounts?
>No mention of BFGing down a building?

Still a bit more to come

>>2070536

Its actually divided by 6 a day, our emulations permanently tap games too.

I check the pastebin fairly often so I at least know what tools we have available to us at any given moment, but I cannot find any reference to a "warning [we] will not heed".

What exactly are you planning to ask for from the other quarantine game? If it isn't a miracle cure, I don't know how it is supposed to help.

If it IS a miracle cure, then what I suggest is asking for it, then tributing pandemic 1/plague inc. and asking for ITS miracle cure and then shaping a single celled organism that secretes both miracle cures (or a single combined super miracle cure) and can live in most environments in the body without causing harm. And of course, it would need to be highly communicable. Maybe Emulate a couple of games with medical knowledge so we have a better idea of what we are doing.

>>2070536

>A treatise on shaping life/allies:

I suppose the obvious question here is: why the fuck did nobody think to shape our own phsycality/strength to levels on par with wielding the Flak Cannon? If it weren't for the Green Death I'd ask why we don't have more minions.

>Speaking of which

These thralled cops are only so valuable since their under the microscope

>Which leads me to believe

I can't really speak for the sly devil of an OP but I'd like to think he meant for us to have a small army by now just by increasing our tribs per day. Some of this shit needs to be equipped by other people/things otherwise its worthless. We are only one man after all.

>And in conclusion

The T800 is the technology side of our coin, so what's the magic side? My suggestion is to go into the wild someplace nice and alone-like and shape life us up a golem. This shouldn't take up to much time and infused with magic and given some items could really be helpful. Many games feature a golem being turned into a human so with shape life and the egg it should be easy mood.

>I wholeheartedly believe Alex is going to become a liability sooner then later. But that's just me
>I'm just going say we need a static location and few days down time after our return to harmont (are we really doing this?)

>That Dirty Bird

Throughout literary history, birds have done some shit, 'kay. What can our bird do? Well he might not be all that without a couple more shapings but what can he do:
-Carry small to midsized objects (like Thermal Detonators)
-Can fly
-Is smart enough to follow simple commands "When you fly over X you push Y button and drop it"
-Able to equip smaller to mid items(?)
-Scouting, reporting back with reconnaissance
-Intelligence gathering (some miniature digi cams whatnot)

>!Harmont Was Staged!

>>2070663

>why the fuck did nobody think to shape our own phsycality/strength to levels on par with wielding the Flak Cannon?

Because shapers can't shape themselves, that is what the geneforge is for.

>>I wholeheartedly believe Alex is going to become a liability sooner then later. But that's just me

Finally! Another sane man.

>after our return to harmont (are we really doing this?)

Yes, absolutely. The Quester has not only proven to be non-hostile, but he also is in possession of extremely valuable meta-knowledge that we have no other way of learning until it is too late.

So where are we gonna build our base? We could go to some remote and inaccessible place like the North pole or Antarctica or maybe even underwater and set up shop there.

>>2071207
A mobile ship seems best.
Something advanced that can stay cloaked from modern tech.
If we get something huge then we need to start cranking out people with our shaping to crew it before we actually summon it.

>>2071406
If that's the case tributing EVE Online for one of its Covert Ops Ships or Black Ops ships if you want someting bigger would be perfect.

>>2070367
You'd have turned into Kirby.

Same ability, it's determined the first time you copy.

>>2070429
Both on the internet and in real life I am renowned for my bizarre dice luck. There was never a chance your rolls would not be cursed in this quest.

Frankly, you'll be lucky if it doesn't carry to whatever else you're rolling in.

>>2071730

>You'd have turned into Kirby.
>The same Kirby that wrecks cosmic star horrors every other day because they stole his cake.

I said crit fail, not crit success

>>2071778
I suppose I should've said Kirby without his abilities, you would've turned into a short pink blob.

>>2069201
We going with this, then?

>>2073753

I'm all for it, at least.

>>2073753

Well yeah that's what a gate stone is for. It also makes other anons "omfglolroflcopters" dreams of spaces hits come true.

So what'll it be when that trib comes up

-Star Trek?
-Star Wars?
-Something else?

Might be other gifted with spacecraft so I guess now the cock fight of better canon/awesome begins

>>2074020

I personally envision us flying the Halberd.

>>2074020

Of course, if we want spacecraft, there is little better for that than the Super Robot Wars series.

>>2073892
You appear in the Harmont crater, your Bubble artifact in place and securely sucking away most of the radiation you're taking. Even then you know enough to know that you probably can't stay too long... the nuclear blast was still very recent, after all.

"Well that took way less time than I thought it would," the Quester says. Nothing heralded his arrival, no flash of light or burst of smoke... just one minute he's there in front of you where he was not before. He spreads his hands and walks around you. "Not sure where to start, no, no, no. Have only a little time, even here. I guess the big question is, ah, a good place to begin?"

In an instant he's grabbing your shoulders, a manic look in the eyes that peer through that unruly mop of blond hair.

"GAMER, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"

>>2074093

"You'll have to be more specific. You didn't give me much to go on in our last conversation, so I have been working on empowering myself and taking down someone who wants me dead."

"Is this related to the Cult of Kek? I know they are worshipping some old god of chaos. Are you saying that I'm creating too much chaos?"

>>2074093
Take a step back from the quester.
"Please elaborate on your question."

>>2074093

"My mind has been taken over by a gaggle of semi-autistic retards who control my every action, what's it to you?"

Guess there's nothing to do but wait for the "swordfight" now.

>>2074020
We will need some piloting skills and a trained crew of we are to go that route.

>>2074093

Copy the Quester when we have a moment.

"You don't mind, do you?"

>>2074136

Producing a crew isn't a problem the unknown factors are. By all means produce something awesome and hope another gifted didn't think of it first/better.

The crap about spaceshit will be our downfall. Ie: wtf if I think a ship from Star Trek Online can take anything you can possibly think of? Then what?

Just pointing it out...

>>2074155

What if the Weeb pulls our Elder God Demonbane against us?

>>2074159
That reminds me

Are VNs video games?

>>2074110
"You know, everyone keeps underestimating you, and then you go and figure something out like that, yes yes YES!." the Quester nods, releasing you and stepping back. "The chaos, man, the chaos... I mean, I'm no fan of the status quo, but look at the shit the Leaf did with his attempts to 'improve' things. And that's someone that wasn't trying to fuck up, when you stop occupying the Watcher's attention and he starts going for his plans in earnest? Wow. Not everything you've done... but some things... some things...."

"You know, you seem an awful lot more coherent not," you note, placidly. The Quester shakes his head.

"Lucidity is chasing a butterfly that you'll crush if you grab it too hard for me," he whispers.

"And there we go again," you note.

"I fucked up real real nice myself too you know, oh yes, yes, but the only one that paid the price was me," the Quester nods vigorously. "The Smiling Man was honest amd lying at the same time."

"How so?" you ask. The Quester fidgets nervously.

"He wants to be amused, yes, true, true. Wants to see what we'll do, yes yes, true, true. But he knows, knows too well what happens when you just... just give power like this to ordinary people who are dominated by a passion. Or... Or maybe he doesn't know, but wants to find out and doesn't care? No.... No, he must know..."

>>2074110
"Yes, yes, good, good, take down the Watcher. Take him down before he takes everything down. Where the Smiling Man an actual man, they would be fast friends, I think."

The Quester nods vigorously. "Shun the god of frogs, shun him, shun him. Whether it is actually the old frog himself or just some thing from Outside wearing his face, who cares? The world is his fly. A spider and a frog crave the same thing."

>>2074128
The Quester gives you a very weird look when you say this.

>>2074161
You could always try tributing one to find out.

>>2074137
The Quester vanishes when you try, reappearing to the side of your Copy beam. He does not look amused.

"I do... I do, I do, I do. Now at least. Maybe... maybe later, I'll let you. If I think you need to. Maybe."

>>2074159

And what if he pulls the entire fleet from Gall Earth Eternal Story on us? There's a lot if factors with this kind of thing.

>>2074168
Is the priest behind the god of kek? Also what's up the the news recently, the news I been watching has been getting weirder and weirder.

>>2074164

"I couldn't help but notice you gave me a look there? Got a lot of voices you've never heard telling you something too? Just can we be lucid with each other? What about 100 days? What about two?.

>>2074168

"In that case, since we've answered your question to the best of our ability, what do you need to tell us? I can only assume that if Smiles is displeased with you, it must have something to do with stopping whatever he has planned."

>>2074185

The news is fucked til the Green Death is done! Mass hysteria and all, I probably couldn't get the local weather. Disturbing.

>>2074170

Easy, we roboenza.

>>2074020
Well, if we're looking for something likely to net a spacecraft, I might suggest Star Trek: Starship Creator, the whole thing whole centered on building Federation starships, cramming as much as you could into them, crewing them, and sending them off on missions to test their effectiveness.

>>2074049
Also a fair choice, though the actual Super Robots might be a better choice there. That's a series to keep in our back pocket for an oh-shit moment, or to grab something to study and/or integrate into a larger project.

>>2074164
Alright, yeah, I'm a bit chaotic, but I'd rather not destroy the world or even most of the people on it.
Gotta get some of this shit cleaned up and rather not see Smiley slip a knife into our backs if we start making things too orderly.
I mean, as long as we keep from being too dull, we should be able to get away with saving the world a bit, right?

>>2074185
"Yes... and no? The priest... heh... The Priest, the Priest, he tried too much too fast... Like me, the only one that paid the price was himself. He's gone and here at the same time."

>>2074185
"You HAVE been paying attention!" the Quester's eyes gleam. "Reality... reality getting holes poked into it. What do you think happens everytime you tribute or emulate? You... You take your soul and poke it through this world to another and TAKE, and when you TAKE, you leave that hole behind and move on, and what happens to the hole? It just... stays there, letting who knows what in." the Quester shudders. "I asked the Leaf if he ever read 'The Mist'. For you... You've played Half-Life, right? Well... no, no, no, no, similar, but not QUITE. THINGS can come through, but also... energies? Currents? Impulses that mold and shape things here into things from elsewhere, or don't you remember the Watcher's magic trick with the hotel? There was a building there before, but where did it go?" The Quester shudders. "And... and there are others that haven't smelt our scent but might. Fingers, dancing. Slow time walkers. More, too... too many more."

>>2074214

Fuck all that. Think of "gaming alternatives to our advantage in a given situation." That's fucking brutal

>>2074222

"Is there a way to close the holes we are leaving behind? Do we need to use our power to FIND a way?"

"Are these holes that are left behind related to why the Cult isn't contracting the Green Death?"

"Would it be possible to try to attract the attention of something else, something that might be an enemy of The Smiling Man?"

>>2074222
Ok, so let's avoid tributing things from worlds that super fucked up. No Silent Hill, tell the Knight to avoid Ravenloft and shit.
But what can we do to keep the holes from being an issue.. better yet, how do we close up holes caused by someone else that are making things worse?
You said the barrier is weak here, should we send something back through to balance things, or is this more like anything going across makes the hole worse?

..Shit, that how our powers get stronger through use. We keep weakening the barrier centered on us, so it is easier to draw more powerful forces across..
And you and the Priest drew so much centered on yourselves that it some sort of backlash damaged you in some way, or in the Priest's case something else moved into him?

>>2074222

Tight-roping it

"Whoa. So you're saying every time I tribute my soul disipatates? I totally don't believe that as my heart was mostly there through all of every game I played"


This coming here is a giant mistake unless he gives/tells us something badass. Back to lurking, for now


BTW: your shitty dice rolls won't effect me as my own rolls are equally as shitty and will be forever.

>Strange;

My IP will not stay consistent. I could effectively rig votes. I'm better then that though.

>>2074196
The Quester closes one eye and opens the other, and when he speaks, it's perfectly clear and lucid, with none of his usual strange inflections. "You really shouldn't be hearing those yet, you know. Rather, shouldn't be aware of them. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe it's a lot less than a hundred days."

Then the moment passes.

"ONE HUNDREEED, ONE HUNDREEEEED... One hundred days until so many holes are poked than just about ANYTHING could walk through! One hundred... I don't know what happens, I just know that's when I can't READ anymore!"

>>2074204
"Aheh..." the Quester grins nervously. "I... used my ability... in a way he didn't foresee. And was not amused by.

>>2074221
"I didn't... didn't think of that, no, no..." the Quester pauses and considers. Then he looks up. "But SOME of the stuff you've been doing... The demons... the shadow... The COMP, the DDS acts as a gateway, puts up a bridge, and some people are good at NOTICING that, good at FINDING that... Observation terminals... and you brought one of them HERE!" the Quester begins biting his fingernails. "The Priest did something similar and paid with everything for it... Dragging Masakado's Shadow, now YHVH's gaze falls here, and who knows what else?"

He bites harder. "And souls, man, what did you do!? You... You touched on the power to rewrite reality and you used it to twist souls? That's messed up man! Like, on multiple levels, I gave you those numbers so you could see what you did. The cop offering his family to you, that didn't creep you out at all? I sorta figured you just didn't know what you'd done..."

>>2074263

>He bites harder. "And souls, man, what did you do!? You... You touched on the power to rewrite reality and you used it to twist souls? That's messed up man! Like, on multiple levels, I gave you those numbers so you could see what you did. The cop offering his family to you, that didn't creep you out at all? I sorta figured you just didn't know what you'd done..."

"I did it in a panic. I was expecting to only shift their loyalty, not to entirely change their whole self."

"I am aware after seeing that officer of what I did, but I can't take it back and as of now, I am trying to make the best of a bad situation."

>>2074242
"The Priest summoned something stronger, so much stronger than he was... Now he's little more than clothes, a coat, a hat, shoes that was once a man."

>>2074253
"No, no, no, your soul is still there... though..." the Quester peers oddly at you. "...it's still there, but CHANGING..."

>>2074274
"Can't take it back, of course you can take it back, you've got to have a soul power of some kind in that magic bag of yours," the Quester frowns, crossing his arms. "I can buy the panic thing, though..." he looks from side to side. "...not a single Gifted hasn't done some really terrible thing in a panic after they got their powers, you know. But the consequences vary."

>>2074234
The Quester considers this.
"I don't know... there must be a way to close them if you can open them right? I don't know yet, but I'm looking, looking, have to keep looking..."

He blinks.

"No, the frog god eats the disease before it can touch his pets. They get to... see the show before they go too."

"An enemy of the Smiling Man... Yes, that might work, but how-"

The Quester's form immediately begins to get wavy.

"Oh shit, that got his attention! He's hedging me out, be fast!"

>>2074263

"Dude the cops are ...entirely enthralled to me, unfortunately. What good are six to ten useless cops? They're under a microscopic type of investigation by their own brothers and sisters. What? Are you some tweeked out weirdo too who I can't trust? I need allies...."

>>2074263
What is The smiling man and why does he mess with our dreams?

>>2074300
Alright, we need a cure for those police officers because what we did to them was fucked up.

After that we need to find Smiley's greatest enemy: The Frowning Man.

>>2074317
>>2074300

>>2074300

"What did you do with your power that angered The Smiling Man?"

Emulate Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix video game, more specifically emulate dumbledore.

Tribute Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Video game, ask for the Elder Wand.

"Let me preserve your memories"

>>2074274
This. Messed up situation. Arguably better than killing them to get through, but yeah, the results are a bit scary.

>>2074300
Refresh the Quester. He's had some good insights, hate to see him get strung up now.

>>2074329
If he wouldn't go for Copy, I don't think he'd go for that, and I'd rather see him to survive than fight with him over that.

>>2074329
Don't do the tribute or emulation. Quester wouldn't want it for sure.

>>2074339

If you have a way to save him, I'm all for that. Though I doubt refresh will get us anywhere.

>>2074309
>>2074320
These replies are cancelling each other out.

>>2074317
"Dreams are... connected to him somehow. He's a Thing from Outside. Reality's a game to him."

>>2074329
The Quester grins. "I emulated HIM."

Then the Quester's form explodes into static before you can even get off your tribute. The smile appears shortly afterward, that sharp grin in darkness.

"That's enough out of that one for now, I think. You just go on doing what you're doing. Things are going to turn out like this sooner or later anyway, I'm just giving you and a few others the chance to play around and have fun. You should know, after all. Single-player is nice and all, but sometimes you just want to have that HUMAN element. Forget that mop-head and just go and enjoy yourself. And remember..."

The smile is unable to help grinning broader.

"Do what thou wilt."

Then it's gone.

>>2074350
oshit

tribute the hourglass from prince of Persia and go back in time to redo that conversation

>>2074350
>"That's enough out of that one for now, I think.
Guess he will find a way to come back later.

Gate stone back to our room and give the our skull a new task.

"Find a way to close the holes in reality."

Take out the amulet and ask the shade what can it do?

Umm In our bellief something... you know what fuck the social drama. We aren't giving this asshole a date, time, a FCK you.

"Clearly this has burdened you in a negative capacity. Ok my souls SLIGHTLY tainted if at all, and im sure I can deal with it. Or something. "

>>2074350

Go back to our new hotel room. Send our bird off to the police chief's residence with a message that is for the flying girl. The message should ask for a meeting with just her, with a specified location and time.

Inform her once again in the message that we are not responsible for Harmont, but that we don't care if she believes us, because there is bigger shit going down than that, and we need her help to stop it..

Inform her that we are bringing another gifted along, and that she is encouraged to bring other gifted along, except for the Watcher.

Request that she send an answer back with the bird, but inform her that if the bird comes back with no answer or the bird doesn't return, we will have our answer anyway.

>>2074357

Supporting.

We can do >>2074376 after we try rewinding the conversation.

>>2074357
You know, that's a useful item to have in general. I can support having that.

Though in this event, it appears that the Quester survived and may have some more insights into the Smiling Man when we meet again, so I'd lean against undoing that.

>>2074366
this

>>2074376
Fuck no

>>2074396

I'm sorry, did you think we were going to defeat The Smiling Man all on our own? The being from outside reality that gave us powers in the first place? Not to mention that the powers he gave us are actively fucking reality up the asshole. If you did, you are a fool and need to stop posting in these threads immediately.

Or did you think that the Comic Book tributer who decided to work with the police wouldn't even give a thought to putting aside grudges to save humanity? Also foolish, but not so foolish as to need to stop posting.

>>2074357
>>2074382
>Game Tributed: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.

The imposing form of the Hourglass of Time appears before you. What do you do?

>Tributes: 3/4

>>2074329

Like you aren't a greedy dick

>Herr's (no typo) my own take on things, I got back last night direct from Dusseldorf. Im just here to hustle cock. Nice work for the in firmed

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>>2074408
Sorry i dont like your stupid ideas.

>>2074414

If you want to make baseless accusations about people, it helps if what you are saying makes enough sense for others to understand it.

>>2074421

That's OK, I don't like your nonexistent ones.

>>2074410
Well, the conversation shouldn't be redone since the quester isn't dead. Shrink it and bring it back with us. Talk to the skull about the holes and have him take a look at our inventory for anything that can close it. Talk to the amulet as well. Ask it what it can do.

>>2074408
>>2074421
I would say that I agree we need to start forming more alliances. At the rate things are going, anyone we don't get on out side is going to end up an enemy, and "greater good" should play well with heroic types.

However, I would say we should go about it in a more subtle manner. Find a way to contact her direct to make our case.

>>2074428
We might want to expend a Refresh if we want to do that in the crater.

Oh hey, ask the T-800 if it detects anything unusual, or if it detected anything of note during our interactions with the Quester and Smiley.

>>2074428
You shrink down the Hourglass and take it with you. If the Quester is still out there, you can afford to bide your time.

>>2074441
"No organisms other than yourself detected while you were in the crater. You did make continued vocalizations as if you were talking to someone, but I had assumed you were practicing what you would say. No one approached during our stay."

>>2074366
You return to your hotel room and relate the situation to your Mentor. His eyes shine.

"A worthy challenge, but it will take some time. Magic has a long and storied history of bending reality. Repairing it should be well within its purview, albeit one that requires much power."

You take out the amulet and gaze at the sapphire in silver.

"Come out. I know you're there. It's time to talk."

A smoky dark shadow emerges from the amulet, vaguely humanoid with two white slits for eyes. It says nothing.

"What can you do?" you ask.

"...teach," the shade whispers. "You fight with a ghost, do you not? I offer the wisdom of the Lich King. I offer the secrets of necromancy. This is is reward to you for your service."

>>2074376
Currently this is winning. Proceeding unless someone else has an objection.

>>2074432
We got the knight.
If anything we need to let him know first before trying to do shit with other pwer users.

>>2074432
Good idea, we could get a throwaway phone and give it to the police chief. Tell him to give it to supergirl. We can call Supergirl though that phone from a public payphone and try to sell her on the idea on working together for the greater good. If she doesn't want to, we can just drop the idea with no loss. If she does, great. We can try and coordinate to work together.

>>2074465
It too risky for me. i have to veto this.

>>2074470
Bill defeated. What now?

>>2074357
I suggested that last time but nobody agreed.
We should get the dagger too

>>2074465
>Currently this is winning. Proceeding unless someone else has an objection.
I'd object to this route.

>>2074470
My concern is that the Chief will alert Durango as well. While I think she might agree to our greater good story, I would not trust a government task force with unknown connections.
I like the burner phone idea, a flying girl that fights crime can't be that hard to fight long enough to have a phone dropped at her.

>>2074465
>"...teach," the shade whispers. "You fight with a ghost, do you not? I offer the wisdom of the Lich King. I offer the secrets of necromancy. This is is reward to you for your service."
Well that's a hand grenade. Great resource, but use with care.
Inquire about warding against and/or entrapping hostile spirits.

>>2074502
"Of course... but dealing with the incorporeal is advanced knowledge. However, in time, with my guidance, you will be able to command the very souls of the living, trap them, eat them, even persist beyond the limits of your mortal shell. If you wish, we can focus on that instead of the more... material uses of the art."

>>2074497
Will you tribute The Two Thrones for it?

>>2074465

Alright guys, I think I know how to get the Apple working.

We tribute Assassin's Creed Origins, and ask for the corpse of Bayek. We then proceed to use copy on the corpse. If we fail to copy the corpse, or our copy does not allow us to operate the apple, proceed to raise Bayek from the dead. Of course, we'd need to store and preserve Bayek's corpse if we couldn't copy it right away, at least until we learned to raise it.

>>2074491
Derp, look at shrink ray and see if the shrink can be reversed.

>>2074518
do it

>>2074522
Do you want to fiddle with the shrink ray? I'm gonna need a d100 roll if you do.

>>2074465
>"...teach," the shade whispers. "You fight with a ghost, do you not?"

I am may be asking a stupid question but what ghost is he talking about?

>>2074534

Game Tributed: Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones.

There's no need to be clever about it. The Dagger of Time is in your hand, now.

Tributes: 2/4.

>Gained Dagger of Time.

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>2074538

>>2074521
>>2074522

Wow fucking derp. We have a badass t800 and you are asking for bumpkiss.

>Please after this waste of time umm. Fuck off. Ill have something soon. Weak is this anon

>>2074547
You don't figure out how to reverse the shrinking, but you don't break anything either.

>>2074565
Ask the t800 if he know how to use the shrink ray and how reverse the shrink.

>>2074552

Fuck off, we just learned that we are tearing reality apart at the seams with our powers, and you are surprised that we aren't immediately jumping at the bit to use them again?

Also,

>Trying to utilize a fucking Apple of Eden
>Bupkis

Pick one and only one.

>>2074539
He is talking about the Watcher.

>>2074565
ask necro teacher to teach us to be immune to possession

>>2074521
This feels like it could go disastrously.
Let's hold off on that path for the moment.

>>2074518
Make that a nuclear hand grenade.
I'm not in favor of eating and trapping living souls, but I can see the usefulness of being able to work with the immaterial.
While Blizzard has gone to a bit of trouble to paint necromancy as something that can be used positively, I don't think raising an army of the dead will endear us to.. huh, actually, it might. Even if the Knight is probably Alliance, he might be accepting of Blizzard brand necromancy. Still shouldn't go full shambling army, that won't play well.

I feel like I'm thinking about things like this is a PR campaign.
..Which honestly is a good way to think. We aren't the cleanest cut or the most wholesome, but we'd rather be on the good side of those types because our opponents are chaos cultists, frog gods, a horror movie menagerie, and a mad overgod person.

"i believe we would like to hear more about the immaterial, but what would you have to offer in the field of material uses? and also, does the wisdom of the Lich King include more than necromantic knowledge?"

>>2074545
Try going back by five seconds

>>2074601
You know, this could really help us get more out of our practice with powers and spells.
We can practice and intermittently rewind after a taxing activity to perfect our technique and form.
Also help our practice with rewinding on the fly. This is a major life saver and one we should master.

>>2074592
"There are ways... warding rites, spells, rituals... Are you ready to begin your tutelage?"

>>2074595
"The raising of the dead to your service is the most well known, but there are far more interesting uses as well. The grafting of dead to living, and living to dead tissue. The creation of deadly plagues and toxins. The bolstering and withering of living flesh. Even certain runes that can enhance unliving metal and stone."

>>2074601
Nothing happens. You notice the sand in the dagger's handle is empty. You'll need to refill it to use the dagger.

>>2074619
fuck yeah, lets get started.

>>2074619
Yeah, start learning.

>>2074571
This is viable

There's more for dockfag down the line. But since he likes blowing sailors who am I to judge. I can leave a note:

Dear fuckface,

Your breathe smelles like rotten circus cock? (Is that clown stank I smell) or maybe. You know what fuck you.

>>2074619
Bring the Skull Mentor in on this to help us evaluate and perfect. It is a practiced teacher, after all.

But yes, building up our defenses are a major priority.
Also:
>The bolstering and withering of living flesh. Even certain runes that can enhance unliving metal and stone.
Bolstering our flesh and enhancing metal and stone sound nice too.

>The creation of deadly plagues and toxins.
Anything regarding controlling or eliminating deadly plagues?

>>2074619

>The grafting of dead to living, and living to dead tissue.

Oh God, now I want to try implanting the corpse heart. I won't, but I really want to.

Give the Shade these as our priorities for learning.

1. Explain that the Watcher has escaped us multiple times by becoming a ghost when he dies, and can later resurrect himself. We need a way to put him down permanently.

2. Is it possible to build a "plague" that is only deadly to a specific other plague (green death?). If it is, then that will be our secondary priority after dealing with the watcher.

>>2074619
We should wait to make the sands normal size then

>>2074628
>>2074631
The spectral tutor is a harsh teacher as he goes on for a full six hours, drilling you in the basics of necromancy before you have enough and tell him that's enough for now. At the very least you need to eat. The ghostly teacher seems unmoved by this fleshy need, but obeys since he has no way to make you continue. Stripped of all history or context, the spirit is training you in the pure mechanics of necromancy and how casting it is different from other magic. With the help of your egg, you are making progress, but it's still going to be slow going. You're trying to cram what takes apprentices years to learn into the span of a few days. Still, between the egg, the fact you already know how to cast some magic, and what appears to be an inborn talent, you are making great strides. The shade estimates it will take another day before you know enough basics to learn spells.
>After the initial crash course, you can spend a full day to learn a necromancy spell from the Shade. Other avenues of learning will become available in time.

You still have 8 hours left in your day.

>>2074650

Call Alex. Let's hash out a plan together of stating our case to the flying girl.

>>2074643
The Shade blinks. "I... suppose the knowledge of how to create plagues could help you destroy them as well, but why would you want to do that?"

>>2074648
"Dealing with troublesome ghosts is simple enough. Do you want to enslave him, devour him, or destroy him? A plague that fights other plagues? It is possible... You would have to be advanced in the necromantic arts to learn it, though."

>>2074650

Omg no that's so gay. Necromancy is high level queer/add reaming stuff and just no.

>Vetoing here and now necro faggoting. No.

>This roll will prove the gayness of it

>>2074667

Let's try for two

>>2074667
>>2074674
Nice roll faggo

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>2074667

.....just give me the life.

>>2074662

"I want to destroy him"

Cast refresh on ourself if we haven't already.
Spend the rest of the day learning from the Shade. Use 8 of our Mag incense while we are at it.

>>2074675

Now what fagboy? 96 bitchass.

>>2074662
I'm leaning toward destroy. Enslave could backfire later is control loosens, as seen with Sylvanas.
Feel free to tempt me with devour, what are we talking here?

>>2074681
Let's work with the Skull Mentor to study and gain a strong understanding of the underpinnings of what the Shade teaches.

>>2074694

I think we should let the skull mentor focus on fixing reality for the moment. At least until we can get flying girl working with us.

>>2074694
this
we can stop just before we finish or implement and use it in negotionat

>>2074694
"Well you'd devour the essence of the spirit, destroying it and empowering you. There are a number of ways to accomplish this, ranging from a simple consumption of its basic life force to the complete assimilation of its soul into your own."

Unfortunately that's all for tonight.

Thanks for playing!