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languidLachesis (GM) So. The group of you have assembled in what remains of Mari's room. What do? Tethys we have rotocraft? languidLachesis (GM) Mari does. I don't know about you shitlord. ;D Tethys :o Erisio how many does it seat? Tethys my mom had one But your mom is DEAD Kolena Your mom didn't *have* one. She got *killed* by one. Tethys close enough Kolena Your dad was piloting it. Presumably it was the base's. Or his. Tethys well fuck if i know where my dad is dude languidLachesis (GM) I'm sorry for your sub-par upbringing tethys My dad's dead :D Tethys its okay, i dont believe in parents. Kolena "So....what do we do now that we're here?" Kolena's voice is quiet. "Fuck man... I don't even know." Erisio "Sh-Should we open the window? Go outside?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Just to make sure, the rotocopter is on the roof, yes? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Assess the situation, and then go outside. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Yes, Mari "Let us make haste then, time is money." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio Melnia walks over and opens the window <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Mari fixes her goggles in place. "Alright," she says briskly. "If we are all here, we should get going. Kolena, why don't you ride up front with me?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Oh, uh..." Kolena looks surprised at being addressed. "...okay." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari She goes to the window, sticking her head out to get a look. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Things are much as they were. Blossoming Cherry trees surround your bedroom. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys looks too. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena takes a moment to admire the scenery, captchalogging a fallen blossom as she does. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio Melnia steps to the side. "Shall we g-go?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Okay, it looks safe. Just a bunch of trees. Let's go, but be on your guard, we don't know what threats could be out there. |" Tethys opens the door and steps out. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio Melnia nods and follows <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Tethys, which door are you opening? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys The one that goes outside. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) What do you mean? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys I heard talk of it in the mumble. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Is that in character? Which one goes outside? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys To... open a door? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Most of Mari's room was decimated by a wrathful tub <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "That would be my closet, Tethys," Mari says with a sigh. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Wiggler, don't plunder. It's rude." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Oh. Uh, nice closet. |" Sorser grins. "I had no idea you were so infatuated with fashion, Miss Nagisa." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio Melnia sighs at the nonsense and climbs through the window to the outside "Ahahaha" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys turns a bit blue and goes out the window, hooks at the ready. Sorser follows, equipping his Robberclobber. Vyllen follows as well <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena follows out the window. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Mari carefully slips out the window after Kolena. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Oh, right, and I was told about an interesting process called 'Alchemy' by Lily, which would allow us to make cool stuff or something. But we should get a move on first. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Mari look back at the outside of her room, trying to get a good look at her baby atop the roof. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) your baby is still there, mari, Railgun and rocket launcher still shiny and new. "Impressive ride, Miss Howard, I must say." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Mari grins in relief. "Yes, it is." She scans the building for a ladder up. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) roll notice <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+1  +1 = 3 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena looks a little uncomfortable. Her last Rotocraft trip was not a fun one. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys grins. Her last Rotocraft trip was, indeed, a very fun one, and she is looking forward to the next one. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) You can't seem to find a ladder, but there is a conveniently placed tree you can climb. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Do We Know Where We Are Going? That Seems To Be A Thing That Would Be Helpful To Know Before Setting Out." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Maybe we should scout on foot first, and then if we find any trouble run the hell away and shoot the trouble with big rotocraft guns. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "No. We'll decide where to go in the air," Mari says calmly. walking up to the tree. She tries to hoist herself up. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) athletics <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 2 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) is anyone else going? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys yes <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena will. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) That's enough mari, you get to the roof easily athletics then <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys shrugs and grapples up. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+3 +3 = 2 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+1  +1 = 2 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF+4  +4 = 5 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) there you go   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio  Melnia looks up worryingly before hoisting herself up, trusting herself to not look down "I'll be down here, on lookout or something." Sorser is going to use "I've run the numbers" and calculate which branches to climb <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+4 +4 = 5 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Vyllen, we're all getting in the rotocraft now. Come on up. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "Get up here, idiot. You don't want to being wandering alone," Mari calls down from the roof to Vyllen. "Bluuuuugh." Vyllen oggles the tree. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2 +2 = 1 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Wiggler. Could You Not Use Your Chain Dealies To Give Them Something To Climb?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Vyllen manages to tree himself <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Climbing a tree is not a difficult matter. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena She looks down at the others. "It Is Possible That Our Remaining Teammates Are Not Quite So Athletic As You And I." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| We're all in the tree. It's fine. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Leaving the others be, Mari opens the rotocopter's door, slipping into the pilot's seat and putting on the headset. She is grinning ear to ear. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena There's not a ladder or something on the roof, is there? That could be lowered? He straightens his suit and tie with minimal heavy breathing, "Nothing too difficult." "Fuck, that, noise." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys gets situated in the Rotocraft, possibly going to stand by the opening if it's one of those helicopters that's always open and people can stand at the opening and totally look out and it's so cool. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Vyllen is still stuck in the tree, right? N...no? Am I?  Oh, I thought LL had said you had treed yourself. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys no, he peed himself, big difference Oh. Right, have a literally become tree, or did I make it up? we have spent 45 minutes climbing a tree <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) you are stuck halfway up the tree <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio Melnia offers a hand out to help Vyllen <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys I will shoot him with my grappling hook and pull him up. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) If you want to try and find a ladder on the roof, roll investigate. Tethys, roll strife <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+4  +4 = 4 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Vyllen, Tethys just fired at you without warning <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Pulling you up. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Wiggler! Next Time Perhaps You Might Consider Shooting The TREE." Sorser is going to look for a ladder after the fact, in case they need to get down again. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+4 +4 = 4 "Alright, an earlier warning would have been nice I GUESS!" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Sorser you find a ladder near the edge of the roof. "Or maybe I could have continued climbing, like a functioning troll  <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  Do I roll strife to retract it or is that already done   I don't even know " <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) it's done <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys kk   "| You were taking too long. Get in the craft, please. |" Sorser coughs and points to the ladder. "Just so you all are aware, there is the ladder. Right there. Seriously." He says as he climbs into the rotocraft. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "Would you all stop fooling around and get in?" Mari calls. She is fiddling with the controls impatiently. Vyllen is now craft. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio Melnia seats herself <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena sighs and situates herself in the shotgun seat as per Mari's earlier offer. She looks for the safety straps and begins adjusting them. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys grapples herself to the top of the opening so she won't fall out while on badass lookout duty. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">The top of the opening where the rotoblades are? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Mari begins to go through take-off procedure, strapping herself in and checking the lights. She studies the control panel, refamiliarizing herself with where everthing is. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">no just the top of the doorway <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "We all in?" she calls without looking back. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Wiggler! What are you doing? There is no way that's safe!" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Well it looks cool. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Mari, you ready for take off? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Get In A Seat And Strap Yourself In This Instant." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys sighs and takes a seat, strapping herself in. "| Fiiiiiiiiiine. |" Sorser is strapped in and kicks his feet back leisurely. "Let us ride, Miss Howard." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio Melnia is strapped in and has been since she sat down <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "Indeed." Mari starts the blades, humming for a moment in tune with them, before gently pulling back on the stick. Vyllen, as stated previously, is Craft. And by craft I mean he is safe and secure. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) The rotocraft takes off like a dream, nearly silent as it rises over the trees. Can I get a notice from everyone looking out the windows. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF  = 0 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 2 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+1  +1 = -2 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 3 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2 +2 = 2 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df = 0 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Tethys, Melnia, Sorser, you notice a parade of figures proceeding towards a central shrine. They're all wearing red. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio "U-um guys?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Hey, there's some action going on down there. A parade of some sort, and a shrine. |" Sorser looks at the parade and rolls his eyes. "Tacky." "| We should investigate. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Hmm. If This Is Like Any Other Video Game, We Can Probably Assume That Any Event Taking Place In A World The Players Go To Is Taking Place Largely For The Player's Benefit." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio "Or misfortune..." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "Hmm?" Mari breaks off her humming for a moment, noticing the figures in red. "Oh! Yes, let's follow them." She steers the craft after them, still staying high in the air. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio "Should we land and check it out?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Are there parachutes in the craft? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "True. But Misfortune That The Player Was Intended To Face." "I wonder... Do the not us people of the game have matrixbods too?" Kolena's still talking somewhat quietly, and having trouble making eye contact with people, but she's getting less terrified of speaking in front of them. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) as you guys approach the shrine, give me another notice <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF  = -2 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 5 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+1  +1 = -2 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df = -1 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2 +2 = 0 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 0 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Tethys, you notice a figure in a green Kimono darting between the buildings of the shrine. It appears to be a troll, who glances up at the helicopter before vanishing beneath the cover of the trees. "Rotocraft" sorry <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| There's someone down there! |" "| Like a ninja or something, in a green kimono. Looks like a troll. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "What, Like An NPC? Or A Refugee From The Base?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Are there any parachutes in this thing? We should investigate swiftly. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio "Are you sure? I don't see anything... these flowers are just so p-pink..." Sorser is playing solitaire on his lap. "I'm sorry, what now?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| I can't see them any more, they went into the trees. |" "All that sex rots your thinkpan." "| Shh. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio "Mari, should we land?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "I don't want you jumping out of my craft again," Mari says to Tethys. "Who knows what you might set on fire." Mari circles the shrine, trying to get a look. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Hey, I did a lot of good that day. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "'Set On Fire?'" Kolena gives Tethys a look like "What did you do THIS time?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Don't worry, it's old news now. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) There appear to be a few places you could land - the center of the main plaza, in a clearing outside the shrine, or on top of a bluff overlooking the scene. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| We should totally land right in the middle. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "I think we should take a look before blundering in," Mari says distractedly, turning the craft towards the bluff. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena nods at Mari's comment, giving Tethys a severe look. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys sticks her tongue out in return. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Carefully, Mari sets the craft down, leaning back in her seat afterwards, as if reluctant to leave. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) The craft settles gently into the grass, and the door opens automatically. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio Melnia exits, happy to get out <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys jumps out. Sorser climbs out and smoothes his clothing. Vyllen exits <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio She immediately picks up and captchalouges a few petals. so pink...  <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  Tethys looks towards the shrine, watching to see what's going on from this new vantage point. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2 +2 = 5 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena unstraps and gets out, stretching her legs as she follows the others. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) People seem to be heading for this shrine, which is decorated with round lanterns, and fluttering papers, all inscribed with prayers and seals of protection. You also note that people are carrying small boxes in their hands. Even the children. Though everyone moves in a slow, stilted manner, each motion identical to everyone else's  <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  "| Looks like they're all going to the shrine to pray, and inscribing stuff for protection. Dunno from what. And everyone seems to be carrying small boxes, too. Though they're... walking kind of weirdly, like a bunch of robots all connected by hivemind. |" ".. Interesting." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio "What an interesting culture, I wonder what they're praying for" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Mari finally unstraps herself, coming to look with Tethys. "Hmm. We might want to get ourselves some boxes if we do not wish to stick out too badly." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Well, from the look of the inscriptions, protection. |" "| Good idea. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) can i get another round of notice? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 3 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 4 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+1  +1 = 1 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df = 1 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2 +2 = 0 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF  = -1 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Tethys and Mari, you both see the figure in green standing on top of the roof of the main shrine, leaning against one of the carvings on the roof. They seem to be observing you, before vanishing in a puff of smoke. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Green ninja is back! Loo- Shit, they're gone. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio Did you mean Mary? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Are You Sure This Green Ninja Even Exists? Maybe Your Eyes Are Playing Tricks On You." Sorser raises an eyebrow. "Is the heat getting to you Miss Nagisa?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio "N-No, I saw it too... I think" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Oh? All Right Then." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| No, I definitely say them. They were looking at us. And then vanished in a puff of smoke. Just. Like. A ninja. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) No   It's Mari, and Melnia to prevent confusion <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio oh   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM)  oh   i did mean Melnia tho lol <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Watch out for ninjas people. We could get jumped at any moment. They probably have like, plus twenty stealth. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) not mari <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio oh oki <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) i got switched around with who got a high enough score Sorser rolls his eyes, his blackjack still readied just in case. "Do you think they have some bullshit game powers too, making them like... Super ninjas?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Probably. |" "| Let's get back in the rotocraft and get closer. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio "No no, we shouldn't get back into the thing, let's go d-down and investigate" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Uh, yeah, you wanna scale this bluff? Go ahead. |" "Yeah, let's investigate." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "Before we do anything, doers anyone happen to have any wood?" Mari asks, already looking around for a nearby tree. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "This Is Hardly A Daunting Bluff, Wiggler." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| I know, but some of us could barely climb a tree. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Not only is this bluff not daunting, but you can clearly see a walking path to take you into town. There are nearby trees <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| I'm thinking about the team here. |" "Walking is also an option." He points to the obvious path. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio "Sorser is right" "Let's... go?" Sorser gives an Aubry Plaza-esque look the the camera. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Yeah, well... |" Tethys coughs. "| Why do you need wood, Mari? |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "Look, if someone will cut down a tree, I will do my best to make a few boxes for us," Mari says exasperatedly. "If everyone else has them, so should we." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Hmm. Yes. That Makes Sense. When In Troll Rome, Do As The Troll Romans Do." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Does anyone have an axe? |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "I Did Not Think To Bring Mine." Her voice is deadpan, her face saying "Why would I have an axe?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Well, we can't just cut down a tree without an axe. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">I don't suppose our sprites followed us? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Unless these are really weak trees. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">DeanDad is here. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys dragonkicks a tree. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+4 +4 = 3 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Ah, okay. I was thinking maybe Glissamom could go all Goemon on it. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys I'd like to use a fate point for +2 to that. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio "Do we have to cut down the trees? Like... don't we have... or yeah. kick a tree. Just do it" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Using the aspect 'Don't Tell Me What To Do' because dont tell me trees cant be kicked down <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) haha <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys ill kick a tree i dont give a fuck <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) you can knock loose some branches <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Crafting A Box Without Tools Will Be Difficult Even If We Manage To Find Lumber, Though, Will It Not Mari?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys I'd like to kick the tree again. With enough kicks, it may eventually give in. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+4 +4 = 3 "Here's an idea. Perhaps they have some IN THE TOWN." he says and points to the path again. <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Could I try a life roll to use Lifey bullshit :o <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Yes....I Liked The Idea Of Having Our Disguises Prepared Before Entering, But I Believe That May Be Difficult With Our Current Equipment." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio Melnia will sigh and use rapport to get Tethys to see reason and STOP KICKING A TREE <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| YOU ARE MY BITCH, TREE. |" "| Yeah okay. I'm done. Let's just go into the shrine. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio "Ok good, let's go" Melnia heads down to the path <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena sighs. "I Apologize, Sometimes You Have To Just Let Her Get It Out Of Her System." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Tethys, as you yell, and continue to kick the tree, everyone else roll notice. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF  = 1 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2 +2 = -1 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+1  +1 = 2 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df = 0 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #A00'>Erisio <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 2 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Mari, Melnia, and Kolena You see a cluster of the red robed figures have stopped on the nearby road. They are watching Tethys with blank expressions. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys kicks the tree again. "| Hah! That was misdirection. Take that, tree! |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Perhaps It Is Time To Attempt Diplomacy?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) You quickly realize they are dolls, or mannequins, they're dead eyes only reflecting light off the black lacquer. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Well That Is Troubling." Are they moving? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Not at the moment. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "Hmm. Tethys, leave the tree be." Mari slowly leaves the others, approaching the figures to get a better look. "Do you understand me?" she calls to them. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) When you speak, Mari, all of their heads immediately turn to face you, directly. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Fiiiine. You win this time, tree, but I'll be back. |" She captchalogues a few branches and follows Mari. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Mari stops a few feet away. "Alright, you can clearly hear me. If you understand what I am saying, could you please nod?' she asks.  "That happened."   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  "| Woah, Mari, cool friends you've just made over here. They're a bit creepy. Maybe we should beat them up. |"  Sorser rolls his eyes at Tethys' suggestion. "Right, because you certainly proved your mettle against that tree."   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM)  The dolls nod in unison, except the smallest, who looks to be modeled after a small human girl of three or four. She opens her tiny mouth, and whispers something.   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari  Mari nods slowly. "Excellent." She comes a few steps closer, kneeling in front of the small doll. "Could you repeat what you said, please?" She asks in a low voice." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Mari, roll athletics in advance for this <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 4 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+1  +1 = 2 The small girl opens her mouth again, and you can see the tiny joints allowing her speech. She whispers, "Gisei." And pulls a hand out of her robe, attempting to stab you with metal-tipped fingers. Thankfully, you manage to avoid it. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| I said we should've beaten them up! That little cunt almost stabbed you! |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "I Take It These Are Not Friendly NPCs." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Mari scrambles backwards on her hands, pulling herself way as fast as possible. "Damn! Damn, damn, damn!" She gets back to the others as fast as possible. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Let's have a royal rumble, right here, right now! |" Sorser readies himself. "Wonderful... There goes our chance at civility" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Should We Fight? Or Flee?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys shoots the little girl doll with a hookshot. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "If We Fight Them and Win, We Might Be Able To Use Their Outfits To Disguise Ourselves For The Purposes of Infiltration." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">do roll strife? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">yeah <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+4  +4 = 4 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+3  +3 = 1 You manage to hit the side of her face, leaving a deep gouge in the wood she is crafted from. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Hah! They're made of wood! Fuck you, trees! |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #555500'>Meouet TC @ TA: You fools. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) if you guys want to go to combat rounds roll athletics <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+3  +3 = 3 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF+4  +4 = 5 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 0 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df = -1 TA @ TC: who is this? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+3  +3 = 1 (( sorry that should be TA @ TC: 777 who is 7his? 777  <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #555500'>Meouet  TC @ TA: Think before you act. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 5 kolena! You're up  TA @ TC: 777 while I apprecia7e your unwarren7ed advice we are in 7he middle of a si7ua7ion here 777 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena summons up her years of dance experience to try and prepare to leverage her DANCER'S GRACE in the next exchange with an enemy. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF+4 (Athletics) +4 = 5 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #555500'>Meouet TC @ TA: Maybe you should See your way out of it. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Then moves closer to the enemies. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Tethys <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys FLYING DRAGON KICK. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+4 +4 = 4 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+3  +3 = 5 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys And putting born bodyguard on Mari instead of zoning. TA @ TC: 777 if 7his is who I 7hink 7his is you should really work on your sarcas7ic barbs 7hey are unbecoming of a busybody like yourself 777 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) She manages to sidestep your kick easily, Tethys <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "The Dolls Are Quick, Tethys. Do Not Be Reckless." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #555500'>Meouet TC @ TA: Believe it or not, I'm actually trying to help. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| They are trees! Trees can be tamed with my feet! |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">What does Born Bodyguard do? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">i can counterattack if you get attacked <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "They Are Enemies We Do Not Yet Know The Capabilities Of. Goodness, What Did They Teach You In Bodyguard School?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| TO DRAGON KICK. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Okiku turns her head around on her neck, to an unnatural degree, regarding Tethys cooly. "Ichi." Roll Will, Tethys TA @ TC: 777 such a dras7ic change in demeanor from before. if you wish 7o be of assis7ance, being vague and hin7y is less 7han helpful you know."  <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 1     <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM)  You feel a growing sense of unease.   Mari   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  "| Whoa, you're one creepy little girl. |"  <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #555500'>Meouet  TC @ TA: Useless. You should try to See what you can. It may save your lives. Well, not yours. but you've made your bed.   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari  Still breathing heavily, Mari decaptoges her wrench but does not raise it, simply studying the small doll for a moment, trying to figure out how it works.   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM)  Roll investigate, Mari   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari  <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 0 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) You can't seem to puzzle it out just yet. Sorser Sorser recaptchalogs his PDA and turns to the dolls, doing his own study attempt. roll investigate <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+4 +4 = 4 You can tell that this child-doll is of much higher craftsmanship than the others, her joints nearly invisible. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena So the other dolls aren't engaged in combat? Only Okiku? "The smaller doll appears to be well-crafted. Almost too well-crafted... I suggest we focus on where its joints would normally be." Sorser is going to swing at the doll's arm if he still has an action left. "Are They Actually Alive, Or Is There A Craftsman Or Puppetmaster Involved? It Sounds Like This One Would Be Especially Precious To Their Owner If They Are But Objects." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) no, he doesn't   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  "| Damn, really wish I still had that molotov cocktail. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Kolena, it is your turn <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena attempts to nimbly maneuver behind the doll, to set up a FLANKING position around her. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF+4 (Athletics) +4 = 4 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) You manage to get behind the doll. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena I'll give my free invoke of FLANKING to Tethys. As I am keeping the doll distracted while Tethys makes her attack. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Tethys? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys will attack okiku with a kick again, aiming for the joints and using that flanking invoke. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+6 +6 = 9 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+3  +3 = 1 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Eat cleat, bitch. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Okiku raises the box before her, letting it take the hit. It bursts in a shower of splinters and blood, before your foot connects with her jaw, knocking it aside. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Oh my. Blood? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Blood. It's now stained the front of her robes, and is covering her hands and face, and the grass beneath her feet. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| What the fuck. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena What color is the blood? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Dark red. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Is That Your Blood, Tethys? Or Was This Thing Carrying A Box Full Of Blood For Some Reason?!" "No....That's Not Yours." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Yes, this red blood is mine. All mine. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Okiku moves her mouth, and her jaw swings and snaps back into place as she does so. "Ni." Tethys and Kolena, roll will. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">that invoke thing was a great idea. you should all load me up with invokes lmao <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2 +2 = 1 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF+2  +2 = 2 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+5  +5 = 4 Kolena, Tethys, you both can choose, take mental stress, or leave combat with Okiku. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Mental stress. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) ok you take 3 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Leave combat. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) ok kolena you'll have to roll will to reenter <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Ack! What The Hell!" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) as this doll is FUCKING CREEPY <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena falls back. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Mari? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "How interesting. What a cunningly made robot." Mari circles the small doll for a bit. "Or are you a cyborg?" she asks, looking at the all the blood and the remains of the box, trying to see what is inside, if anything. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Roll investigate <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 1 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) It looks like the remains of a frog Sorser Can Sorser use his Seer of Doom skills to find out what the hell is up with this thing? Roll Doom rolling doom with "I've Run the Numbers" <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+4 +4 = 6 Sorser decides to try Meouet's advice and tap into his DOOM powers. His eyes widen as visions begin to seep into his head, his eyes rolling back as he begins speaking in his normal, non-douchey voice. "Shut it up... Shut the doll up. It'll just get worse if we don't shut it up and shut it up soon." kolena <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "And how are we supposed to shut it up?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Kick the SHIT out of it's mouth! |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "I suppose that's worth a shot." Kolena attempts to use DECEIVE to perform a feint, making the doll think it will need to defend itself against her, without actually having to enter its square. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF+3 +3 = 5 <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">As in, creating an advantage called CLEVER FEINT <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) That counts as reentering combat with the doll roll a will <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF+2  +2 = 0 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) you try but can't overcome your fear of the doll. Tethys <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Kick the shit out of it's face. Going to invoke 'Second Generation Imperial Bodyguard' because I'm totally bodyguarding the shit out of my friends by fighting this thing. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+6 +6 = 7 Specifically, the jaw part of it's face. Not like the eyes. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+3  +3 = 1 Tethys, you knock the jaw loose again. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Wow. Those Were Both Powerful Kicks And Other Than The Jaw Being Lose, The Thing Seems None The Worse For Wear." "Perhaps We Have Bitten Off More Than We Can Chew." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Okiku opens her mouth, and the jaw rotates back into place. "San." Mari, Tethys, Sorser, Roll Will <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+5 +5 = 5 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 2 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df = 0 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+4  +4 = 2 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Goddamnit, stop doing that with your jaw! |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Okay, it's a mental stress attack. So, take the commensurate amount as you are terrified of the doll. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">pls guys advantages <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Yeah, I don't think we can brute force our way through this one, GA. =P <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">I imagine that either we're supposed to be running, or this is a puzzle boss. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DO    <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM)  Mari <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Shivering a bit, Mari tries to recall everything she has ever studied about automatons, trying to think of any vulnerability she might exploit. <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Lore roll? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Lore, then <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Invoking Aspiring Mad Scientist. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+5 +5 = 5 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) most automatons have a central control unit. Either somewhere inside them, or on their person. Especially one as complicated as this appears to be. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "Okay," she manages to get out. "I think there might be some sort of control unit for this machine. Try and focus your attention on anything which might seem important, instead of the jaw." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Sorser? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "And Yet....Its Creepy Voice Is The Most Dangerous Part Of It, Thus Far. It Seems To Have Not Employed Those Claws It Attacked You With Since It Attacked You." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "Perhaps what remains of the frog? Assuming that is what is in the other boxes, they must be important." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">how many dolls are there other than okiku? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Another question you might ask yourself is "Why aren't they assisting Okiku?" <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">It is likely significant. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">duh Sorser's eyes roll back forward as he grinds his teeth. "It's being controlled somehow..." he says tentatively drawing closer. He is going to go ahead and stomp the remains of the frog. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">There are 3 dolls other than Okiku. They seem frozen Roll strife Sorser! <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2 +2 = 0 You hop about madly, completely missing the frog bits on the ground. Sorser, give me a notice. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2 +2 = 1 As you look up, for a moment, you'd swear you see your mother in a pair of purple derse pajamas, watching you disapprovingly from amid the branches of the tree Tethys was kicking. A stray breeze moves the branches, and she's gone. Kolena? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Perhaps These Other Dolls Will Have The Same Control Mechanism? I Can Search Them." Kolena checks one of the frozen dolls and looks it over for a control mechanism, frisking it / searching it over and rolling INVESTIGATE. Would the GRACE advantage she gave herself earlier count if I say that she is using the speed and agility it grants her to investigate it especially quickly without sacrificing thoroughness? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Hang on, this computer is about to reset. I should be back in about 10 minutes. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Sure kolena why not ;)  <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena  <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF+1  +1 = 1     +2.   So 3 for my total effort.   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM)  You don't find anything on the outside of the one you manage to search on your turn.   Tethys   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  Can we self compel?   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM)  no   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  Tethys is so outta here, realizing it's futile. "| I'm gonna go get a tactical advantage, guys. |" She runs off to hide behind the tree from earlier, and leaves combat. "| Protect me, tree! |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Ok. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Wiggler Might Have The Right Idea. I Did Not Find A Control Mechanism On This One." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Okiku, realizing no one is in combat with her, kneels on the ground, and begins licking up the blood and wood chunks. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Well That Is Both Interesting And Horrifying." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Hey, guys, we should get in the rotocraft... And blow them to bits! |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "What Would Be The Point Of Destroying Them If They Are Not Chasing Us?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Oh. You have a point, I guess. |" Tethys comes back over. "| Hey, dollchick, are we cool now? |" "Y..yes let us not spend... any more time then necessary around these things if that is alright." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Okiku stands, reaching into her sleeve, and pulling out another box, which she clutches close to her chest. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Have the other puppets started moving? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Not yet <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Okay, I'll take that as a yes. Who are you? Why'd you try to stab Mari? Why did your box explode in blood? And, what's up with your frozen posse? |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) They seem to be waiting for something. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "I Am Curious As To Whether They Would Begin Moving If I Were To Take One Of Their Boxes For Further Study. But I Am Afraid This Would "Draw Aggro" As They Say In Video Games." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Maybe they don't speak English/Alternian. Does anyone know Japanese? |" "| Or Troll Japanese. Either would work, I guess. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Okiku sighs and turns her head away from Tethys, her hair flipping over her shoulder. "Kudaranai." She proceeds to the walking path, and the others follow. "I believe we were just insulted." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Tethys follows them, and pulls out her phone to use google/troogle translate. "| Hey! That's not very nice. |" "| I'm *talking* to you here. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Wiggler. Stop." "You Are Being Reckless Again." "We Have Survived A Conflict With An Enemy That Was Outside Our Weightclass. Do Not Provoke Another." "Miss Nagisa, maybe you should not insult the menacing wooden doll things. Maybe you should find another tree to pummel.  <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM)  She continues beneath a large, ornate set of torii gates, painted a brilliant red.   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  Tethys keeps following.   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena  "They Do Not Seem Hostile To Most Of Us If We Do Not Provoke Them."   "Perhaps It Is Safe To Simply Follow. Though It Might Be Wise For Mari To Take A Position Removed From The Dolls."  <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  "| So I'm just gonna follow you, if that's fine with you. |"  "| You should really invest in some guards outside these gates. The trees might siege your little town place. |"  He rolls his eyes "Wonderful, now she is planning fortifications for them. Do you know interior design as well?"  <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM)  Is everyone following, or just Tethys?   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena  Kolena is following, but she is keeping an eye out for any hostility.   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  Tethys is following and chatting at the doll.   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena  In fact, I'd like to roll Rapport to create an advantage of "KNOWS HOW TETHYS THINKS" to be prepared for damage control in a situation in which Tethys screws things up. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) sure Kolena. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF+2  +2 = 3 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys um, excuse you <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) have an advantage bb   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari  Mari is following as well, studying the way the doll moves intently. Sorser follows if only to ironically act as a diplomat <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) As you enter the plaza, you notice the dolls appear to move in groups of varying size, though each group has a doll that seems to be in 'control'. Okiku and her clutch approach the steps of the main shrine, which are covered in offerings. Roll notice. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 0 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2 +2 = 0 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF  = -2 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+1  +1 = 0 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">someone use a fp    <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">id do it but i ran out T_T <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">GJ BB    <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena  "A boss doll surrounded by several attendants in each case. Perhaps that is significant." "The boss doll is perhaps the only one with independent thought?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| And the only one that tries to stab maids of space. I hope she's not like, racist against space people. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "I Wonder If There Is A Puppetmaster Controlling The Boss Dolls As Well." LL, Kolena's knowledge of fairy tales might include fairy tales from the hidden Weeaboo tribe, or Japanese fairy tales for that matter. Could she make a Lore check for any memories of situations like this in them? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "Though I doubt we could have managed it, I do we wish could have incapacitated the doll," Mari says in a low voice. "I would dearly love to open one of these up an see how they tick." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "It Might Also Be Helpful To Have One Of Those Boxes To Study. They Are Clearly Important." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) The dolls place their offerings at the steps of the shrine, which appear to all be boxes. I'll give you all another chance at notice because i am a generous god. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+1  +1 = -2 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF  = -3 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2 +2 = -1 <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Jeez. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2  +2 = 3 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">The odds of three - - - 0's in a row is quite low, too. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">totally pulling the team here guys <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Maybe I should also roll Light to try to be a Lucky Charm for my team at some point. ^_^  <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM)  Amidst the boxes, you see a small pile, where someone has placed a delicate ceramic jar, a cluster of flowers, a single bright green moth, and three little mochi. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF+1 (Light)  +1 = 2 That's an attempt to place an advantage of LUCKY CHARM on Kolena for someone else to use at some point. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) ok   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  Tethys points. "| Hey, that's pretty. I want it. |" She captchalogues all of the things. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) You all get to enjoy the view of Tethys taking these offerings from the temple. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena invokes KNOWS HOW TETHYS THINKS to smack Tethys's hand before she can take them. "No!" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) roll strife with the bonuse Kolena bonus* <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| What? They're just dropping shit here. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">Well not if I have to Strife against Tethys I won't!    <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4dF+2  +2 = 1 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">i concede or whatever it is    <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM)  tethys roll athletics oh ok  You concede Kolena smacks you <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+1 +1 = -1 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Kolena, you're so mean. |" <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+2 +2 = 5 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "You Don't Just Walk Into Someone's Stronghold And Start Taking Things That Are Clearly Items Of Some Sort Of Reverence!" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Those little ice cream things look so tasty though. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Perhaps It Would Be Wisest To Leave Any Stealing That Needs To Be Done To The Party's Rogue?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Sorser, you feel a sudden weight drop in your stomach. Something horrible, that literally has a miasma of doom, is nearby. When you instinctively look up, in that direction, you see your mother, in a green kimono, watching you from the shadows behind the altar. You blink, and she's gone. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "...Not That I Am Any Master Burglar, But I At Least Have The Wisdom To Know When NOT To Steal." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| It's not stealing. They just dropped all of their crap here for anyone to take. |" Sorser winces in pain as he drops to his knee. He grimaces at the sight of his mother. "D...don't... touch the shit Thys... you fuckin' idiot..." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "This Is Some Sort Of Temple Or Shrine. It Is Almost Certain That These Are Some Sort Of Offering." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Fine, gosh. |" "| Maybe we should put offerings down, then. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Maybe. Perhaps We Should Ask One Of The Leader Dolls." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| When in Troll Rome, and such. |" "| Hey, dollchick that we fought, should we be putting stuff down too? |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena facepalms. Sorser facepalms <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| Why are you all facepalming? You just told me to ask the leader doll. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Mari carefully places her face in her hands, cradling it. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| I dunno her name, she didn't even say it. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Okiku ignores Tethys, walking over to Mari, and offering her hand. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena's on guard against Okiku attacking Mari again. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari Mari regards the hand for a moment. "Please do not try and stab me again." She takes it lightly. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Putting Born Bodyguard on Mari again, if that dispersed. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) She nods. "Aoyama wa matteimasu." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys Can I google that in character, to collect information? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) ahem: "Aoyama wo matteiru" my japanese has been corrected. If you can manage it, Tethys <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #7650C9'>Mari "Alright? I think." Mari sighs. "I don't suppose you speak anything other than what sounds like Japanese. Could you take me to someone who can speak as I do?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Okiku pulls Mari towards a pair of iron bound doors. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys googling is pretty difficult with these big man hands <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Sorser, take a free doom roll. <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+1 +1 = 2 I'll give you your result in a minute, Sorser who is following Mari/is mari going in? <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena Kolena will follow. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| She's waiting for some 'Aoyama', which is a blue mountain. Or a samurai. Or, a neighborhood. Trollapedia isn't quite sure. |" Sorser follows hesitantly, looking around the alter for signs of his mother again. Tethys follows too, tapping away at her phone. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "Perhaps I Should Have Brought Mother With me. Perhaps She Would Speak Japanese If She Is Part Samurai Now." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys "| You say perhaps a lot. |" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena "That Is Because I Do Not Immediately Assume The First Thought That Enters My Head Is The Correct One, Wiggler." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) Sorser, as you approach the door, you have a sick feeling that you shouldn't enter it. The other's can, but it's not safe for you."  others*   bluh   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #00557F'>Tethys  "| Well I do that because shut up. |"  "| Shoot first, ask questions later. |"  Sorser hesitates for a moment with a chill going down his spine. "I... I think I will... just stay out here. I will uh.. make sure NPCs do not attack the rotocoptor."  "| Okay, have fun standing out here doing nothing, loser. |"  He scowls, "Yes, try not to punch any more trees Miss Nagisa."   "| Hey, how do we know this game isn't just a clone of Minecraft? I totally could have been doing the right thing. |"  <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #0021CB'>Kolena  Kolena rolls her eyes.   Sorser rolls his eyes.   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM)  So, the group of you enter the doors, and the doors close behind you.   Sorser   You feel a sense of intense dread after you watch the doors close   He eyes the door with caution as he watches it close, a pit sinking in the bottom of his stomach. "Fuckin' creepy."   <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #555500'>Meouet  A cloud of smoke appears before you, a hand tightly grips your arm and twists it behind your back as you feel a blade press to your throat.   Someone is behind you.   "Woah woah!" he says raising his hands openly in non-agression "Sorser Piraya" the voice growls. It sounds slightly familiar. His eyes widen a bit, "Well... this is... quite a greeting..." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #ff557f'>Scarlet Meanwhile on the Ark... Scarlet watches on the projector. "Hehehehhehe." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #555500'>Meouet The blade, you recognize if you can look down a bit... is a large cleaver. It is being pressed more into your throat. A little more and it may break the skin. What do you do? Sorser is going to try and negotiate using Sliverbeast's Silvertongue. <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">rolling rapport with a +2 if that's alright Invoking I Will Not Be Swayed By Your Male Agenda for a +2 Defend. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #ff557f'>Scarlet <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">sure <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+4 +4 = 4 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #555500'>Meouet <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+6  +6 = 6 <div style='padding-top: 7px; padding-left: 75px; color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.6em; color: #ff557f'><div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #ff557f'>Scarlet Scarlet chuckles. "Rilset, darling, do you ship this like I do?" <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #808080'>Rilset "Dear, I ship whatever it is you ship," Rilset says, lying upon the floor and watching the screen. "Though I admit, other people's relationships matter little to me." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #ff557f'>Scarlet Scarlet nods and decides to ship it. /roll 4df+12 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+12 +12 = 9 can i get wills you too two* <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #555500'>Meouet [ http://i.imgur.com/kJ08CNV.png ] <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df+4 +4 = 2 <div style='border: 1px solid black; background-color: #fafafa; width: 400px; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;'> Rolling 4df = -4 <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #ff557f'>Scarlet HUEHUEHUEHUE <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #000000'>languidLachesis (GM) You both gain the aspect Shipped with Sorser/Meouet You can either take the appropriate amount of mental stress or develop feelings for each other. Sorser is taking blackrom feelings for Meouet all the way to the bank. "Ohhh... Miss Piraya... I had no idea you could wax so calignious for your semi-paradox offspring. You are filthily depraved and your powerful forearms do nothing to dissuade my feelings for you. I must contest the we become kismesis immediately, as is proper when one has a knife to their future lover's neck." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #555500'>Meouet Meouet coughs a little bit and the cleaver wavers. Would you like to take damage? A lovely green line to take home? Sorser takes the lover's mark willingly and gratefully. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #808080'>Rilset "Hmm. I find my interest in this ship growing, love," Rilset says, watching the screen intently. <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #555500'>Meouet "I've not come here to fulfill your sick fantasies. If I can find you here, remember that the Oracle could find you a thousand times easier." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #ff557f'>Scarlet Scarlet scratches Rilset's scalp affectionately. "It's quite nice." "After this, I would not dream of hiding from such a worthy advisary in the battlegrounds of black romance." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #555500'>Meouet "Or the Oracle could go after Lily." "You were warned. You CONSISTENTLY fail to use whatever wits have been left to you. Of all the things you could have attacked, you just sat there and let your teammate destroy the most important thing here." <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #ff557f'>Scarlet I think that's where we'll stop huehuehue <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #555500'>Meouet :> :<  <div style='font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt; padding-top: 7px; margin-left: -25px; color: #ff557f'>Scarlet  feel free to have downtime rps bb   tell lily i need alog ;)
 * <span style="border: 1px dashed #888888; padding: 4px; color: #888888; background-color: #dddddd; display: inline-block;">looks into the camera likes hes on the office*
 * free hand