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title: alex
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title: alex
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created: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:04:34 -0700
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created: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:04:34 -0700
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updated: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:04:40 -0700
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updated: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:43:42 -0700
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public: yes
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public: yes
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### Alex
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### Alex
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- Player: sinatra
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- Player: sinatra
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- XP: 1
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- XP: 1
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- Skills: Do Anything 1, Investigation 2, Illusions 2
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- Skills: Do Anything 1, Investigation 2, Illusions 2, Sneaking 2
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- Equipment:
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title: 00046
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created: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:36:07 -0700
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updated: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:36:10 -0700
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syndicated: yes
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public: yes
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### 00046 {#00046}
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> Ah so I suppose those Toques were being honest then, there was a
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> Ginnarak crystal, and I guess they were going to give it to us.. oh
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> well, nothing good in life comes easy.
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>
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> Alex cranks the dial on the sunspoke, grabs the hemogoblin from the
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> basket, and jumps out of the balloon and onto the deck of the ship.
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> He rushes over to the nearest pile of bundled rope and barrels and
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> stows his new hemo friend. "Just stay hidden little guy, let me
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> take care of these pirates first."
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>
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> Alex grabs the dagger from his side as he makes his way towards the
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> side of the ship, first thing first, best to cut the mooring lines
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> and zip lines. The static clawing sensation appears at the back of
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> Alex's mind, but he attempts to ignore it. There's too much that
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> needs to be done too quickly, and he's all too aware of the danger
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> he's put himself in. "What would Corraidhin do.." Alex thinks to
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> himself, "perhaps a spell?".
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>
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> ```lua
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>
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>
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> After preparing the spell Alex makes his way towards the guard rail
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> ready to cut the mooring and zip lines, spell at the ready should
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> an enemy appear.
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You crank the dial to 11. The sunspoke squeals in delight and burns
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like a tiny star. You grab the hemogoblin, who chirrups and clings
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tightly to you, and leap from the balloon onto the deck of the
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airship.
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You think you can hear---barely audible---the sunspoke singing a song
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of homecoming as the hot air balloon continues to rise unpiloted up
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toward the sun.
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hemogoblin friend safely inside the center of a large coil of rope.
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put.
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sufficient Spell of Yeeting.
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6 = Great Success! Level Up!
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When you draw the dagger, the world develops a faint static
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background noise which is easy enough to ignore at the moment given
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the state of things. You dash forward and start sawing at the thick
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mooring lines. The dagger's ruby hilt flashes in the sunlight as you
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work, and in your mind's eye you see a bright red wine, and a drop of
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blood red ink flowing from the nib of a fountain pen.
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You shake the images from your head just as you finish sawing through
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the rope. A Cyberplasm who was shimmying back up the rope from the
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hotel to the ship yelps as the line goes slack and swings back into
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the side of the cliff. The pirate rebounds from the impact, bounces
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off the mountainside a few times, and falls from view as it
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disappears through the clouds below.
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The ship drifts lazily, rising slightly, and despite your best
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sneaking around, the remaining Cyberplasms on board cannot help but
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notice that the ship is no longer tethered. You successfully hide
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behind a barrel as three cyber ghost pirates come rushing over to the
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ship railing and lean over, looking below at where there are no
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longer any ropes attaching the ship to the hotel.
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across the deck toward the Cyberplasms, no doubt curious about what
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they're looking at over the side of the ship.
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> untraceable disappearance just yet." Inky deadpans, then smiles.
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> "We have much to discuss, but later. I do need a guide … to your
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> hotelier. Presumably I will find them by following the racket and
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> trail of ruined decor, but maybe you know of a quicker route?"
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Bread smiles at the threat of being untraceably disappeared, mostly
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confident that they are on the inside of a private little joke and
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that they are presently in no actual danger from Inky. They grip
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their hammer a little tighter nonetheless.
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Confidence slips their trowels into their apron. "Yes, this way!"
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numbers. Bits of paper and ash fall like snow.
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entrance. They open the door a crack, and as you look through you are
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just in time to see the ship captain with their cybernetic leg, arm
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canon, and eye. Now that the crew have cleared the way for them, they
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of the hall, his back turned to the pirate. He wears a fine suit and
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arms. He throws a panicked glance over his shoulder at the slowly
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small explosion at his feet. He skids to a stop and looks back at the
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pirate, who is lowering their arm canon.
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"The crystal," the captain demands in a voice part ghostly moan, part
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mechanical drone. "Hand it over, hotelier." It steps closer. "Mother
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be permitted to stand in our way."
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arm and climbs out onto the mooring line, returning to the ship with
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its plunder. It howls as the line suddenly goes slack, flinging the
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<li><a href="#00043" id="toc-00043">00043</a></li>
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<li><a href="#00043" id="toc-00043">00043</a></li>
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<li><a href="#00044" id="toc-00044">00044</a></li>
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<li><a href="#00044" id="toc-00044">00044</a></li>
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<li><a href="#00045" id="toc-00045">00045</a></li>
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<li><a href="#00045" id="toc-00045">00045</a></li>
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<li><a href="#bestiary" id="toc-bestiary">Bestiary</a></li>
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<li><a href="#geography" id="toc-geography">Geography</a></li>
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<h2 id="stats">Stats</h2>
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<p>Total length: 43487 words / 185 minute read. (Mind you, that’s the
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<p>Total length: 44522 words / 190 minute read. (Mind you, that’s the
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length of this entire page, including all the extra bits and bobs. Not
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just the story.)</p>
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<p>There have been 159 messages posted over 162 days since the first
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post on July 13, 2022 for a daily post rate of .98.</p>
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<h2 id="about">About</h2>
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<p>This is a game that me and the kids in the basement are playing over
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<p>This is a game that me and the kids in the basement are playing over
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<p>Alex cranks the dial on the sunspoke, grabs the hemogoblin from the
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basket, and jumps out of the balloon and onto the deck of the ship. He
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rushes over to the nearest pile of bundled rope and barrels and stows
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his new hemo friend. “Just stay hidden little guy, let me take care of
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these pirates first.”</p>
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<p>Alex grabs the dagger from his side as he makes his way towards the
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side of the ship, first thing first, best to cut the mooring lines and
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zip lines. The static clawing sensation appears at the back of Alex’s
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mind, but he attempts to ignore it. There’s too much that needs to be
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done too quickly, and he’s all too aware of the danger he’s put himself
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in. “What would Corraidhin do..” Alex thinks to himself, “perhaps a
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spell?”.</p>
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<span id="cb26-3"><a href="#cb26-3" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> <span class="fu">setmetatable</span><span class="op">(</span>obj<span class="op">,</span> self<span class="op">)</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb26-4"><a href="#cb26-4" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span><span class="cn">__</span>index <span class="op">=</span> self</span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb26-5"><a href="#cb26-5" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span>x <span class="op">=</span> <span class="dv">0</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb26-6"><a href="#cb26-6" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span>y <span class="op">=</span> <span class="dv">0</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb26-7"><a href="#cb26-7" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span>speed <span class="op">=</span> <span class="dv">0</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb26-8"><a href="#cb26-8" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> reutrn obj</span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb26-9"><a href="#cb26-9" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="kw">end</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb26-10"><a href="#cb26-10" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb26-11"><a href="#cb26-11" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="kw">function</span> target<span class="op">:</span>yeet<span class="op">()</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb26-12"><a href="#cb26-12" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span>x <span class="op">=</span> <span class="dv">100</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb26-13"><a href="#cb26-13" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span>y <span class="op">=</span> <span class="dv">100</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb26-14"><a href="#cb26-14" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span>speed <span class="op">=</span> <span class="dv">50</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb26-15"><a href="#cb26-15" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> <span class="cf">return</span> self</span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb26-16"><a href="#cb26-16" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="kw">end</span></span></code></pre></div>
|
||||||
|
<p>After preparing the spell Alex makes his way towards the guard rail
|
||||||
|
ready to cut the mooring and zip lines, spell at the ready should an
|
||||||
|
enemy appear.</p>
|
||||||
|
</blockquote>
|
||||||
|
<p>You crank the dial to 11. The sunspoke squeals in delight and burns
|
||||||
|
like a tiny star. You grab the hemogoblin, who chirrups and clings
|
||||||
|
tightly to you, and leap from the balloon onto the deck of the
|
||||||
|
airship.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>You think you can hear—barely audible—the sunspoke singing a song of
|
||||||
|
homecoming as the hot air balloon continues to rise unpiloted up toward
|
||||||
|
the sun.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>You rush over to cover behind a barrel, and deposit your new
|
||||||
|
hemogoblin friend safely inside the center of a large coil of rope. It
|
||||||
|
looks up at you quizzically, but nods when you tell it to stay put.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>You invoke the powers of the moon and prepare a quick but (hopefully)
|
||||||
|
sufficient Spell of Yeeting.</p>
|
||||||
|
<!--
|
||||||
|
Alex rolls Do Anything 1 to cut the lines and avoid detection
|
||||||
|
6 = Great Success! Level Up!
|
||||||
|
//-->
|
||||||
|
<p>When you draw the dagger, the world develops a faint static
|
||||||
|
background noise which is easy enough to ignore at the moment given the
|
||||||
|
state of things. You dash forward and start sawing at the thick mooring
|
||||||
|
lines. The dagger’s ruby hilt flashes in the sunlight as you work, and
|
||||||
|
in your mind’s eye you see a bright red wine, and a drop of blood red
|
||||||
|
ink flowing from the nib of a fountain pen.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>You shake the images from your head just as you finish sawing through
|
||||||
|
the rope. A Cyberplasm who was shimmying back up the rope from the hotel
|
||||||
|
to the ship yelps as the line goes slack and swings back into the side
|
||||||
|
of the cliff. The pirate rebounds from the impact, bounces off the
|
||||||
|
mountainside a few times, and falls from view as it disappears through
|
||||||
|
the clouds below.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>The ship drifts lazily, rising slightly, and despite your best
|
||||||
|
sneaking around, the remaining Cyberplasms on board cannot help but
|
||||||
|
notice that the ship is no longer tethered. You successfully hide behind
|
||||||
|
a barrel as three cyber ghost pirates come rushing over to the ship
|
||||||
|
railing and lean over, looking below at where there are no longer any
|
||||||
|
ropes attaching the ship to the hotel.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>Out of the corner of your eye, you can see the hemogoblin toddling
|
||||||
|
across the deck toward the Cyberplasms, no doubt curious about what
|
||||||
|
they’re looking at over the side of the ship.</p>
|
||||||
|
<blockquote>
|
||||||
|
<p>“Indeed, Bread, it’s me. You have not yet escaped your fate of
|
||||||
|
untraceable disappearance just yet.” Inky deadpans, then smiles. “We
|
||||||
|
have much to discuss, but later. I do need a guide … to your hotelier.
|
||||||
|
Presumably I will find them by following the racket and trail of ruined
|
||||||
|
decor, but maybe you know of a quicker route?”</p>
|
||||||
|
</blockquote>
|
||||||
|
<p>Bread smiles at the threat of being untraceably disappeared, mostly
|
||||||
|
confident that they are on the inside of a private little joke and that
|
||||||
|
they are presently in no actual danger from Inky. They grip their hammer
|
||||||
|
a little tighter nonetheless.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>Confidence slips their trowels into their apron. “Yes, this way!”</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>They hurry down the hall. You know you’re going the right way because
|
||||||
|
tattered, torn, charred books litter the ground in increasing numbers.
|
||||||
|
Bits of paper and ash fall like snow.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>Confidence guides you away from the entrance to the library’s Great
|
||||||
|
Hall, and takes you instead to a smaller, more discreet staff entrance.
|
||||||
|
They open the door a crack, and as you look through you are just in time
|
||||||
|
to see the ship captain with their cybernetic leg, arm canon, and eye.
|
||||||
|
Now that the crew have cleared the way for them, they stroll across the
|
||||||
|
library over piles of fallen, damaged books.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>A thin bald man with a neatly trimmed mustache is on the other side
|
||||||
|
of the hall, his back turned to the pirate. He wears a fine suit and has
|
||||||
|
just finished unlocking a glass display case. He retrieves a
|
||||||
|
multifaceted blue and gold stone and hugs it to his chest with both
|
||||||
|
arms. He throws a panicked glance over his shoulder at the slowly
|
||||||
|
approaching pirate, and turns to run away. His retreat is halted by a
|
||||||
|
small explosion at his feet. He skids to a stop and looks back at the
|
||||||
|
pirate, who is lowering their arm canon.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>“The crystal,” the captain demands in a voice part ghostly moan, part
|
||||||
|
mechanical drone. “Hand it over, hotelier.” It steps closer. “Mother has
|
||||||
|
promised us new bodies if we deliver the quintessence. You won’t be
|
||||||
|
permitted to stand in our way.”</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>One pirate near the breach tucks a couple volumes of manhwa under its
|
||||||
|
arm and climbs out onto the mooring line, returning to the ship with its
|
||||||
|
plunder. It howls as the line suddenly goes slack, flinging the pirate
|
||||||
|
and its comics into the mountainside, and then out into space.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>Sunlight pours into the library from outside as the shadow of the
|
||||||
|
airship shifts as it starts to drift, suddenly unmoored.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>WHAT DO YOU DO</p>
|
||||||
|
<p><a
|
||||||
|
href="https://framalistes.org/sympa/arc/tildepals/2022-12/msg00231.html">www</a></p>
|
||||||
<h2 id="bestiary">Bestiary</h2>
|
<h2 id="bestiary">Bestiary</h2>
|
||||||
<p>Some of the creatures who inhabit the world of Basmentaria</p>
|
<p>Some of the creatures who inhabit the world of Basmentaria</p>
|
||||||
<dt>
|
<dt>
|
||||||
|
|
469
www/rss.xml
469
www/rss.xml
|
@ -5,6 +5,260 @@
|
||||||
<title>BASEMENT QWEST</title>
|
<title>BASEMENT QWEST</title>
|
||||||
<link>https://tilde.town/~dozens/quest/rss.xml</link>
|
<link>https://tilde.town/~dozens/quest/rss.xml</link>
|
||||||
<description>Friends having ADVENTURES! Huzzah!</description>
|
<description>Friends having ADVENTURES! Huzzah!</description>
|
||||||
|
<item>
|
||||||
|
<title>43</title>
|
||||||
|
<author>dozens@tilde.team (dozens)</author>
|
||||||
|
<guid isPermaLink="false">43 - Mon, 19 Dec 2022 08:03:20
|
||||||
|
-0700</guid>
|
||||||
|
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 08:03:25 -0700</pubDate>
|
||||||
|
<description>
|
||||||
|
<![CDATA[
|
||||||
|
<h3 id="00043">00043</h3>
|
||||||
|
<blockquote>
|
||||||
|
<p>Pirates?! Again?! Alex groans, unfortunately he’s run into
|
||||||
|
this crew of dastardly mostly cybernetic punks in the past.
|
||||||
|
Nasty group back home, always kept the precinct busy. Not
|
||||||
|
necessarily with the detective work, it was always a little
|
||||||
|
obvious when they showed up. They have a flair for the
|
||||||
|
dramatic.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>Alex shouts to Inky & Jarrod “Come on, we need to get
|
||||||
|
in one of those balloons and fast!” he then darts off in the
|
||||||
|
direction of the nearest abandoned balloon in the market
|
||||||
|
place, not looking to see if his companions had followed
|
||||||
|
him.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p><em>internally</em> I know these guys have pulled off
|
||||||
|
smaller heists, they could just be attacking the hotel to
|
||||||
|
plunder riches from its guests. They don’t seem the likes of a
|
||||||
|
retrieval team.. Then again, that Blavin fellow has multiple
|
||||||
|
teams working for him, and he doesn’t seem all too picky about
|
||||||
|
how they get the job done, it wouldn’t be surprising if he’d
|
||||||
|
hired some brigands hoping they’d get the gems faster.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>Alex conjures up another bug, a stag beetle this time, and
|
||||||
|
casts it away at the pirate ship. It’ll probably take some
|
||||||
|
time to catch up, but once it does we’ll be able to keep an
|
||||||
|
eye on the pirate’s ship and general actions, at least within
|
||||||
|
line of sight of the bug.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>As Alex reaches the balloon he grabs the ruby hilted dagger
|
||||||
|
and cuts the mooring lines keeping it down, and jumps into the
|
||||||
|
basket preparing for take off.</p>
|
||||||
|
</blockquote>
|
||||||
|
<p>You spot a balloon that has already been knocked half loose
|
||||||
|
of its mooring by the pirate attack. The basket is listing to
|
||||||
|
the side and tugging at the one remaining rope tying it down
|
||||||
|
Its owner scurries around in circles trying to secure it.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>The vertical panels of the balloon are all different
|
||||||
|
colors, creating a brilliant rainbow pattern. The large woven
|
||||||
|
basket is large enough for maybe three people.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>You leap inside, swinging the ruby hilted dagger at the
|
||||||
|
remaining mooring line. The balloon owner cries out in dismay.
|
||||||
|
The basket shifts beneath your feet as the balloon tugs it
|
||||||
|
skyward.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>In the burner, a small sunspoke—a minor fire elemental—is
|
||||||
|
merrily burning away, producing a modest flame that is hot
|
||||||
|
enough to lift the balloon slowly above the market into the
|
||||||
|
sky. There is a knob valve on the side of the burner to allow
|
||||||
|
more oxygen to flow in, thereby feeding the sunspoke and
|
||||||
|
encouraging it to burn more intensely and raise the balloon
|
||||||
|
higher and faster. The valve is currently only about one third
|
||||||
|
open.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>A pile of blankets in one corner of the basket—and that
|
||||||
|
area of the basket itself—is covered in blood. Somebody
|
||||||
|
injured in the pirate attack must have temporarily climbed
|
||||||
|
into the basket looking for cover? As you’re about to look
|
||||||
|
away, something large-ish (small for a human, large for an
|
||||||
|
animal) under the blankets shifts and moves.</p>
|
||||||
|
<blockquote>
|
||||||
|
<p>Inky stares after Alex’s sprinting figure before shrugging
|
||||||
|
and stepping towards one of the stalls selling sandwiches
|
||||||
|
bowled over by one of the large boulders. They place some
|
||||||
|
loose change on the stall’s wooden sign that had tipped over
|
||||||
|
on the ground and pocket one of the sandwiches displayed
|
||||||
|
inside an open chest oven. Next, they pick up several of the
|
||||||
|
scented candles scattered on the ground by the crash, throwing
|
||||||
|
some coins in the direction of the disoriented vendor before
|
||||||
|
continuing at a leisurely pace up the steps to the hotel,
|
||||||
|
taking in the balloonship and surrounding scenery. The members
|
||||||
|
of their merry party arriving first can hold their own as well
|
||||||
|
as the fort of a hotel.</p>
|
||||||
|
</blockquote>
|
||||||
|
<p>You do a little leisurely shopping as the vendors and other
|
||||||
|
shoppers put out fires and tend to the injured. With a couple
|
||||||
|
scented candles and a sandwich safely in your pocket, you
|
||||||
|
start to climb the cloud steps, enjoying the scenery as you
|
||||||
|
go. Bread and Confidence have quite a bit of a head start on
|
||||||
|
you, and are nowhere to be seen. As the stairway winds around
|
||||||
|
the mountainside, the market and its bustle recede from view,
|
||||||
|
and soon you are quite isolated and alone.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>The majesty of creation is humbling here: the endless,
|
||||||
|
roiling ocean of cloud; the towering mountain of rock. It’s as
|
||||||
|
though this was the creator’s playground when they were still
|
||||||
|
trying to figure out scale. Before they quite got it right for
|
||||||
|
human-sized creatures.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>About halfway up your climb, it starts raining sheets of
|
||||||
|
paper. You snatch one and read it. Some heroic fantasy about
|
||||||
|
slaying demons and facing great peril. You grab another. A
|
||||||
|
bodice-ripping romance. Another. A gourmand’s food tour of
|
||||||
|
Basmentaria, eating their way from coast to coast. A murder
|
||||||
|
mystery whodunnit. An aetherwael handler’s guide to
|
||||||
|
interplanetary travel. How to grow your own fortified
|
||||||
|
pumpkins. On the Care and Maintenance of Fortles. The Rise and
|
||||||
|
Fall and Rise of Palace Runesocesius. Within a minute, you
|
||||||
|
have fists full of an entire library’s worth of snippets and
|
||||||
|
passages.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>~</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>It looks as though Alex will approach the hotel by balloon
|
||||||
|
from the non-pirate side. And Inky’s approach by stair will
|
||||||
|
deposit them at the hotel entrance, roughly
|
||||||
|
pirate-adjacent.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>WHAT DO YOU DO</p>
|
||||||
|
<p><a
|
||||||
|
href="https://framalistes.org/sympa/arc/tildepals/2022-12/msg00217.html">www</a></p>
|
||||||
|
]]>
|
||||||
|
</description>
|
||||||
|
</item>
|
||||||
|
<item>
|
||||||
|
<title>46</title>
|
||||||
|
<author>dozens@tilde.team (dozens)</author>
|
||||||
|
<guid isPermaLink="false">46 - Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:36:07
|
||||||
|
-0700</guid>
|
||||||
|
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:36:10 -0700</pubDate>
|
||||||
|
<description>
|
||||||
|
<![CDATA[
|
||||||
|
<h3 id="00046">00046</h3>
|
||||||
|
<blockquote>
|
||||||
|
<p>Ah so I suppose those Toques were being honest then, there
|
||||||
|
was a Ginnarak crystal, and I guess they were going to give it
|
||||||
|
to us.. oh well, nothing good in life comes easy.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>Alex cranks the dial on the sunspoke, grabs the hemogoblin
|
||||||
|
from the basket, and jumps out of the balloon and onto the
|
||||||
|
deck of the ship. He rushes over to the nearest pile of
|
||||||
|
bundled rope and barrels and stows his new hemo friend. “Just
|
||||||
|
stay hidden little guy, let me take care of these pirates
|
||||||
|
first.”</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>Alex grabs the dagger from his side as he makes his way
|
||||||
|
towards the side of the ship, first thing first, best to cut
|
||||||
|
the mooring lines and zip lines. The static clawing sensation
|
||||||
|
appears at the back of Alex’s mind, but he attempts to ignore
|
||||||
|
it. There’s too much that needs to be done too quickly, and
|
||||||
|
he’s all too aware of the danger he’s put himself in. “What
|
||||||
|
would Corraidhin do..” Alex thinks to himself, “perhaps a
|
||||||
|
spell?”.</p>
|
||||||
|
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb1"><pre
|
||||||
|
class="sourceCode lua"><code class="sourceCode lua"><span id="cb1-1"><a href="#cb1-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="kw">function</span> target<span class="op">:</span>new<span class="op">(</span>obj<span class="op">,</span> tbl<span class="op">)</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb1-2"><a href="#cb1-2" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> obj <span class="op">=</span> obj <span class="kw">or</span> <span class="op">{}</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb1-3"><a href="#cb1-3" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> <span class="fu">setmetatable</span><span class="op">(</span>obj<span class="op">,</span> self<span class="op">)</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb1-4"><a href="#cb1-4" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span><span class="cn">__</span>index <span class="op">=</span> self</span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb1-5"><a href="#cb1-5" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span>x <span class="op">=</span> <span class="dv">0</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb1-6"><a href="#cb1-6" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span>y <span class="op">=</span> <span class="dv">0</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb1-7"><a href="#cb1-7" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span>speed <span class="op">=</span> <span class="dv">0</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb1-8"><a href="#cb1-8" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> reutrn obj</span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb1-9"><a href="#cb1-9" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="kw">end</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb1-10"><a href="#cb1-10" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb1-11"><a href="#cb1-11" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="kw">function</span> target<span class="op">:</span>yeet<span class="op">()</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb1-12"><a href="#cb1-12" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span>x <span class="op">=</span> <span class="dv">100</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb1-13"><a href="#cb1-13" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span>y <span class="op">=</span> <span class="dv">100</span></span>
|
||||||
|
<span id="cb1-14"><a href="#cb1-14" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> self<span class="op">.</span>speed <span class="op">=</span> <span class="dv">50</span></span>
|
||||||
|
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<p>You crank the dial to 11. The sunspoke squeals in delight
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and burns like a tiny star. You grab the hemogoblin, who
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chirrups and clings tightly to you, and leap from the balloon
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onto the deck of the airship.</p>
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a song of homecoming as the hot air balloon continues to rise
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unpiloted up toward the sun.</p>
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new hemogoblin friend safely inside the center of a large coil
|
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of rope. It looks up at you quizzically, but nods when you
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tell it to stay put.</p>
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<p>When you draw the dagger, the world develops a faint static
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background noise which is easy enough to ignore at the moment
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given the state of things. You dash forward and start sawing
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at the thick mooring lines. The dagger’s ruby hilt flashes in
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the sunlight as you work, and in your mind’s eye you see a
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bright red wine, and a drop of blood red ink flowing from the
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nib of a fountain pen.</p>
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sawing through the rope. A Cyberplasm who was shimmying back
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up the rope from the hotel to the ship yelps as the line goes
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slack and swings back into the side of the cliff. The pirate
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rebounds from the impact, bounces off the mountainside a few
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times, and falls from view as it disappears through the clouds
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below.</p>
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<p>The ship drifts lazily, rising slightly, and despite your
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best sneaking around, the remaining Cyberplasms on board
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cannot help but notice that the ship is no longer tethered.
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pirates come rushing over to the ship railing and lean over,
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looking below at where there are no longer any ropes attaching
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the ship to the hotel.</p>
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<p>Out of the corner of your eye, you can see the hemogoblin
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toddling across the deck toward the Cyberplasms, no doubt
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curious about what they’re looking at over the side of the
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ship.</p>
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<p>“Indeed, Bread, it’s me. You have not yet escaped your fate
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of untraceable disappearance just yet.” Inky deadpans, then
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… to your hotelier. Presumably I will find them by following
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the racket and trail of ruined decor, but maybe you know of a
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disappeared, mostly confident that they are on the inside of a
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private little joke and that they are presently in no actual
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danger from Inky. They grip their hammer a little tighter
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nonetheless.</p>
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way!”</p>
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<p>They hurry down the hall. You know you’re going the right
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way because tattered, torn, charred books litter the ground in
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increasing numbers. Bits of paper and ash fall like snow.</p>
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<p>Confidence guides you away from the entrance to the
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library’s Great Hall, and takes you instead to a smaller, more
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discreet staff entrance. They open the door a crack, and as
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you look through you are just in time to see the ship captain
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with their cybernetic leg, arm canon, and eye. Now that the
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crew have cleared the way for them, they stroll across the
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library over piles of fallen, damaged books.</p>
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<p>A thin bald man with a neatly trimmed mustache is on the
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other side of the hall, his back turned to the pirate. He
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wears a fine suit and has just finished unlocking a glass
|
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display case. He retrieves a multifaceted blue and gold stone
|
||||||
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and hugs it to his chest with both arms. He throws a panicked
|
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glance over his shoulder at the slowly approaching pirate, and
|
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|
turns to run away. His retreat is halted by a small explosion
|
||||||
|
at his feet. He skids to a stop and looks back at the pirate,
|
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|
who is lowering their arm canon.</p>
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<p>“The crystal,” the captain demands in a voice part ghostly
|
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|
moan, part mechanical drone. “Hand it over, hotelier.” It
|
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|
steps closer. “Mother has promised us new bodies if we deliver
|
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the quintessence. You won’t be permitted to stand in our
|
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way.”</p>
|
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|
<p>One pirate near the breach tucks a couple volumes of manhwa
|
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under its arm and climbs out onto the mooring line, returning
|
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to the ship with its plunder. It howls as the line suddenly
|
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goes slack, flinging the pirate and its comics into the
|
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mountainside, and then out into space.</p>
|
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<p>Sunlight pours into the library from outside as the shadow
|
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of the airship shifts as it starts to drift, suddenly
|
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unmoored.</p>
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<p>WHAT DO YOU DO</p>
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<p><a
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href="https://framalistes.org/sympa/arc/tildepals/2022-12/msg00231.html">www</a></p>
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<p>As Alex spots the sunspoke valve he grabs it and cranks it
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up to the 2/3 mark. “Sorry little friend, we’re going to need
|
|
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a little bit more juice”. The baloon lurches upwards as air
|
|
||||||
rushes in feeding the sunspoke, causing it to burn more
|
|
||||||
intensely. After setting the sunspoke ablaze and shouting back
|
|
||||||
to the balloon’s owner Alex takes account of his surroundings.
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It’s during this time he spots the bloodied, moving blankets.
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|
||||||
They seem to writhe, as though something beneath them is
|
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||||||
injured.</p>
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<p>Gripping the dagger firmly in one hand Alex grabs the
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|
||||||
blankets from the corner of the balloon basket revealing
|
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||||||
whatever lay beneath.</p>
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<p>The sunspoke stretches its little arms and wriggles its
|
|
||||||
little fingers. It sighs happily, luxuriating in the extra
|
|
||||||
fuel. It burns twice as bright, shooting a hot jet of bright
|
|
||||||
yellow flame up into the parachute. The sunspoke starts to
|
|
||||||
glow a molten red, and you start to rise faster.</p>
|
|
||||||
<p>As you rise up over the peak, you can finally spot the
|
|
||||||
Runesocesius. The grand hotel is draped over the top of the
|
|
||||||
mountain, clinging to it like a dragon resting on its
|
|
||||||
hoard.</p>
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|
||||||
<p>The “cyberplasms” as Confidence called them have docked to
|
|
||||||
the side of a tower on the other side of the peak from you.
|
|
||||||
They have shot a large hole in the side of the tower, and you
|
|
||||||
can see them now starting to zipline into the building. A
|
|
||||||
thick plume of black smoke billows out of the side of the
|
|
||||||
tower, carrying pages and pages of loose paper into the air
|
|
||||||
with it. They rain down like snow. The tower must house an
|
|
||||||
extensive library.</p>
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|
||||||
<p>You cautiously pull back a corner of the bloody blankets,
|
|
||||||
jeweled dagger raised and ready to strike. You reveal a small
|
|
||||||
bloody furry blob. You see two big round eyes, a short-snouted
|
|
||||||
face, and enormous pointed ears. It quickly looks away from
|
|
||||||
you, chirps pathetically, and trembles as it cowers in place.
|
|
||||||
You have found a frightened hemogoblin stowaway!</p>
|
|
||||||
<p>WHAT DO YOU DO</p>
|
|
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<p><a
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href="https://framalistes.org/sympa/arc/tildepals/2022-12/msg00219.html">www</a></p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 08:03:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<h3 id="00043">00043</h3>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Pirates?! Again?! Alex groans, unfortunately he’s run into
|
|
||||||
this crew of dastardly mostly cybernetic punks in the past.
|
|
||||||
Nasty group back home, always kept the precinct busy. Not
|
|
||||||
necessarily with the detective work, it was always a little
|
|
||||||
obvious when they showed up. They have a flair for the
|
|
||||||
dramatic.</p>
|
|
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<p>Alex shouts to Inky & Jarrod “Come on, we need to get
|
|
||||||
in one of those balloons and fast!” he then darts off in the
|
|
||||||
direction of the nearest abandoned balloon in the market
|
|
||||||
place, not looking to see if his companions had followed
|
|
||||||
him.</p>
|
|
||||||
<p><em>internally</em> I know these guys have pulled off
|
|
||||||
smaller heists, they could just be attacking the hotel to
|
|
||||||
plunder riches from its guests. They don’t seem the likes of a
|
|
||||||
retrieval team.. Then again, that Blavin fellow has multiple
|
|
||||||
teams working for him, and he doesn’t seem all too picky about
|
|
||||||
how they get the job done, it wouldn’t be surprising if he’d
|
|
||||||
hired some brigands hoping they’d get the gems faster.</p>
|
|
||||||
<p>Alex conjures up another bug, a stag beetle this time, and
|
|
||||||
casts it away at the pirate ship. It’ll probably take some
|
|
||||||
time to catch up, but once it does we’ll be able to keep an
|
|
||||||
eye on the pirate’s ship and general actions, at least within
|
|
||||||
line of sight of the bug.</p>
|
|
||||||
<p>As Alex reaches the balloon he grabs the ruby hilted dagger
|
|
||||||
and cuts the mooring lines keeping it down, and jumps into the
|
|
||||||
basket preparing for take off.</p>
|
|
||||||
</blockquote>
|
|
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<p>You spot a balloon that has already been knocked half loose
|
|
||||||
of its mooring by the pirate attack. The basket is listing to
|
|
||||||
the side and tugging at the one remaining rope tying it down
|
|
||||||
Its owner scurries around in circles trying to secure it.</p>
|
|
||||||
<p>The vertical panels of the balloon are all different
|
|
||||||
colors, creating a brilliant rainbow pattern. The large woven
|
|
||||||
basket is large enough for maybe three people.</p>
|
|
||||||
<p>You leap inside, swinging the ruby hilted dagger at the
|
|
||||||
remaining mooring line. The balloon owner cries out in dismay.
|
|
||||||
The basket shifts beneath your feet as the balloon tugs it
|
|
||||||
skyward.</p>
|
|
||||||
<p>In the burner, a small sunspoke—a minor fire elemental—is
|
|
||||||
merrily burning away, producing a modest flame that is hot
|
|
||||||
enough to lift the balloon slowly above the market into the
|
|
||||||
sky. There is a knob valve on the side of the burner to allow
|
|
||||||
more oxygen to flow in, thereby feeding the sunspoke and
|
|
||||||
encouraging it to burn more intensely and raise the balloon
|
|
||||||
higher and faster. The valve is currently only about one third
|
|
||||||
open.</p>
|
|
||||||
<p>A pile of blankets in one corner of the basket—and that
|
|
||||||
area of the basket itself—is covered in blood. Somebody
|
|
||||||
injured in the pirate attack must have temporarily climbed
|
|
||||||
into the basket looking for cover? As you’re about to look
|
|
||||||
away, something large-ish (small for a human, large for an
|
|
||||||
animal) under the blankets shifts and moves.</p>
|
|
||||||
<blockquote>
|
|
||||||
<p>Inky stares after Alex’s sprinting figure before shrugging
|
|
||||||
and stepping towards one of the stalls selling sandwiches
|
|
||||||
bowled over by one of the large boulders. They place some
|
|
||||||
loose change on the stall’s wooden sign that had tipped over
|
|
||||||
on the ground and pocket one of the sandwiches displayed
|
|
||||||
inside an open chest oven. Next, they pick up several of the
|
|
||||||
scented candles scattered on the ground by the crash, throwing
|
|
||||||
some coins in the direction of the disoriented vendor before
|
|
||||||
continuing at a leisurely pace up the steps to the hotel,
|
|
||||||
taking in the balloonship and surrounding scenery. The members
|
|
||||||
of their merry party arriving first can hold their own as well
|
|
||||||
as the fort of a hotel.</p>
|
|
||||||
</blockquote>
|
|
||||||
<p>You do a little leisurely shopping as the vendors and other
|
|
||||||
shoppers put out fires and tend to the injured. With a couple
|
|
||||||
scented candles and a sandwich safely in your pocket, you
|
|
||||||
start to climb the cloud steps, enjoying the scenery as you
|
|
||||||
go. Bread and Confidence have quite a bit of a head start on
|
|
||||||
you, and are nowhere to be seen. As the stairway winds around
|
|
||||||
the mountainside, the market and its bustle recede from view,
|
|
||||||
and soon you are quite isolated and alone.</p>
|
|
||||||
<p>The majesty of creation is humbling here: the endless,
|
|
||||||
roiling ocean of cloud; the towering mountain of rock. It’s as
|
|
||||||
though this was the creator’s playground when they were still
|
|
||||||
trying to figure out scale. Before they quite got it right for
|
|
||||||
human-sized creatures.</p>
|
|
||||||
<p>About halfway up your climb, it starts raining sheets of
|
|
||||||
paper. You snatch one and read it. Some heroic fantasy about
|
|
||||||
slaying demons and facing great peril. You grab another. A
|
|
||||||
bodice-ripping romance. Another. A gourmand’s food tour of
|
|
||||||
Basmentaria, eating their way from coast to coast. A murder
|
|
||||||
mystery whodunnit. An aetherwael handler’s guide to
|
|
||||||
interplanetary travel. How to grow your own fortified
|
|
||||||
pumpkins. On the Care and Maintenance of Fortles. The Rise and
|
|
||||||
Fall and Rise of Palace Runesocesius. Within a minute, you
|
|
||||||
have fists full of an entire library’s worth of snippets and
|
|
||||||
passages.</p>
|
|
||||||
<p>~</p>
|
|
||||||
<p>It looks as though Alex will approach the hotel by balloon
|
|
||||||
from the non-pirate side. And Inky’s approach by stair will
|
|
||||||
deposit them at the hotel entrance, roughly
|
|
||||||
pirate-adjacent.</p>
|
|
||||||
<p>WHAT DO YOU DO</p>
|
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<p><a
|
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<blockquote>
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|
<p>As Alex spots the sunspoke valve he grabs it and cranks it
|
||||||
|
up to the 2/3 mark. “Sorry little friend, we’re going to need
|
||||||
|
a little bit more juice”. The baloon lurches upwards as air
|
||||||
|
rushes in feeding the sunspoke, causing it to burn more
|
||||||
|
intensely. After setting the sunspoke ablaze and shouting back
|
||||||
|
to the balloon’s owner Alex takes account of his surroundings.
|
||||||
|
It’s during this time he spots the bloodied, moving blankets.
|
||||||
|
They seem to writhe, as though something beneath them is
|
||||||
|
injured.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>Gripping the dagger firmly in one hand Alex grabs the
|
||||||
|
blankets from the corner of the balloon basket revealing
|
||||||
|
whatever lay beneath.</p>
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
<p>The sunspoke stretches its little arms and wriggles its
|
||||||
|
little fingers. It sighs happily, luxuriating in the extra
|
||||||
|
fuel. It burns twice as bright, shooting a hot jet of bright
|
||||||
|
yellow flame up into the parachute. The sunspoke starts to
|
||||||
|
glow a molten red, and you start to rise faster.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>As you rise up over the peak, you can finally spot the
|
||||||
|
Runesocesius. The grand hotel is draped over the top of the
|
||||||
|
mountain, clinging to it like a dragon resting on its
|
||||||
|
hoard.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>The “cyberplasms” as Confidence called them have docked to
|
||||||
|
the side of a tower on the other side of the peak from you.
|
||||||
|
They have shot a large hole in the side of the tower, and you
|
||||||
|
can see them now starting to zipline into the building. A
|
||||||
|
thick plume of black smoke billows out of the side of the
|
||||||
|
tower, carrying pages and pages of loose paper into the air
|
||||||
|
with it. They rain down like snow. The tower must house an
|
||||||
|
extensive library.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>You cautiously pull back a corner of the bloody blankets,
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<p>Ah so I suppose those Toques were being honest then, there was a
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his new hemo friend. “Just stay hidden little guy, let me take care of
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|
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|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
tightly to you, and leap from the balloon onto the deck of the
|
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airship.</p>
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
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|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
||||||
|
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|
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|
<p>When you draw the dagger, the world develops a faint static
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
in your mind’s eye you see a bright red wine, and a drop of blood red
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
the rope. A Cyberplasm who was shimmying back up the rope from the hotel
|
||||||
|
to the ship yelps as the line goes slack and swings back into the side
|
||||||
|
of the cliff. The pirate rebounds from the impact, bounces off the
|
||||||
|
mountainside a few times, and falls from view as it disappears through
|
||||||
|
the clouds below.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>The ship drifts lazily, rising slightly, and despite your best
|
||||||
|
sneaking around, the remaining Cyberplasms on board cannot help but
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
railing and lean over, looking below at where there are no longer any
|
||||||
|
ropes attaching the ship to the hotel.</p>
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
<p>“Indeed, Bread, it’s me. You have not yet escaped your fate of
|
||||||
|
untraceable disappearance just yet.” Inky deadpans, then smiles. “We
|
||||||
|
have much to discuss, but later. I do need a guide … to your hotelier.
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
decor, but maybe you know of a quicker route?”</p>
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
<p>Bread smiles at the threat of being untraceably disappeared, mostly
|
||||||
|
confident that they are on the inside of a private little joke and that
|
||||||
|
they are presently in no actual danger from Inky. They grip their hammer
|
||||||
|
a little tighter nonetheless.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>Confidence slips their trowels into their apron. “Yes, this way!”</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>They hurry down the hall. You know you’re going the right way because
|
||||||
|
tattered, torn, charred books litter the ground in increasing numbers.
|
||||||
|
Bits of paper and ash fall like snow.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>Confidence guides you away from the entrance to the library’s Great
|
||||||
|
Hall, and takes you instead to a smaller, more discreet staff entrance.
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
to see the ship captain with their cybernetic leg, arm canon, and eye.
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
library over piles of fallen, damaged books.</p>
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
of the hall, his back turned to the pirate. He wears a fine suit and has
|
||||||
|
just finished unlocking a glass display case. He retrieves a
|
||||||
|
multifaceted blue and gold stone and hugs it to his chest with both
|
||||||
|
arms. He throws a panicked glance over his shoulder at the slowly
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
small explosion at his feet. He skids to a stop and looks back at the
|
||||||
|
pirate, who is lowering their arm canon.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>“The crystal,” the captain demands in a voice part ghostly moan, part
|
||||||
|
mechanical drone. “Hand it over, hotelier.” It steps closer. “Mother has
|
||||||
|
promised us new bodies if we deliver the quintessence. You won’t be
|
||||||
|
permitted to stand in our way.”</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>One pirate near the breach tucks a couple volumes of manhwa under its
|
||||||
|
arm and climbs out onto the mooring line, returning to the ship with its
|
||||||
|
plunder. It howls as the line suddenly goes slack, flinging the pirate
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
<p>Sunlight pours into the library from outside as the shadow of the
|
||||||
|
airship shifts as it starts to drift, suddenly unmoored.</p>
|
||||||
|
<p>WHAT DO YOU DO</p>
|
||||||
|
<p><a
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
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|
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|
||||||
<p>Some of the creatures who inhabit the world of Basmentaria</p>
|
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