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[Corai]

[All I'm saying is, don't make a Villain Sue, either. We've already got one.]

-Me, Thari, or Clockwork Hugo?-

[wierd]

Well, thari can come back like the ghost of mexican food if somebody breaks her sealing circle... Imhotep from the mummy style.... but IIRC, she was reincarnated as a fluffy wambler? She might be chillin in the dining hall, with the fluffballs.

I think our godmode sue is the mysterious evil figure pulling the strings....

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I am fairly certain that even if you manage to get an optional way back, my character will not care.  Fifteen years stuck away will do that to you.

[WillowLuman]

[Yes, there was an intervention that made her reincarnate as a fluffy wambler on a tiny tropical island somewhere far from anything, never to be mentioned again. Ever. Hopefully.

Clockwork me is who I was referring to, though.]

[wierd]

Actually, I had a really clever way to deal with him.

He's not explicitly dead, since he's you.. in a manner of speaking.

Eric's "embassy table" is still technically functional, just nobody sane would be willing to use it. To use it, you have to still be alive, and ask for intercession on death.

Clockwork you can't cross over for the same reasons a necromancer can't. Not complete.  Also, not completely dead. You are still alive.

If you ask for assylum in the table, clockwork should get popped inside.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Clockwork was separated from the regular Hugo's mind, and that means they are two separate entities.  Clockwork only needs to link with someone if he is coming into any other dimension.

And Hugo shouldn't need to ask for the table, because DF dragons are immortal.

[Gizogin]

[Strictly speaking, DF dragons are also flightless.  Then again, there are obviously a number of differences between the DF we know and the DF this takes place in.]

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

The dragons are modded with [FLIER].  I think that was established during the attack on the Olifex.

Hey Hugo, find any plot threads involving the dragon civ?

[wierd]

The idea was to catch-22 catch the disembodied clockwork inside the table. Dragon hugo won't ever die of old age, only disease and violence, like weird and eric.

Clockwork is literally a time seperated instance of hugo, created by means of the temporal engine exposing him to all space and time. Cockwork hugo is insane. The part of him that came to be from that knowledge. Good hugo is the part that refused the knowledge, and repressed it. They are two halves of the same mind.  The division you made between them to prevent the apocolypse is a bit like the division weird and eric have, with bits of their souls sitting in collateral. Hugo sponges off other people, because he didn't have something else to replace the missing part. That missing part isn't in legal custody, but still technically him, at least legally. Hugo has power of attourney, so to speak. . He can "reposess".

[WillowLuman]

Eh, sort of. Both me and him were complete UNTIL the split. Since it was more of a temporal space-wedgie and less of a mental split, it's more like I wasn't a complete wave-form anymore after the split. Two of me was a paradox; a meta-paradox as well, because I sustained my own existence and made it a self-sustaining paradox. After the split, though, the pattern of my existence wasn't quite strong enough to avoid being sucked down the drain as the paradox resolved itself. In time, I might regain the ability to live without a host, but for now I must bond my soul to someone else's so that their unconscious mind affirms my existence. This binding, since it connects our souls, does have mental effects, though.

In story, though, we all probably think that with yesterday's incident (remember, both the cyber crisis and that "siege" happened only yesterday!) we killed him off for good. In actuality, CW is already a strong wave-form because he consumed several eldricht abominations and exists in an almost god-like way within his little pocket dimension. He could only exist outside through a host, though, and only because the event of the actual splitting provided a small opening. Corai actually once nearly killed him for good, it's just that he mortally wounded CW near a bunch of canabalizable parts. After that, though, he absorbed the abominations and then shit hit the fan.

[WillowLuman]

Anyway...

The dwarf sputtered. "Ah... no... we were talking about... about... Ack, damnit! Yes, ye caught me talkin' behind yer back. What of it?"

[Mrhappyface]

Mrhappyface sat with his remaining 5 acolytes in the large room beneath his furnaces. Each held a bin containing 20 of the Armok-cursed mugs.
"You know what to do, my followers. Spread these throughout the fortress. Soon it will truly become an offering to him."
The acolytes bowed and left to do their deed. Another figure came into the room, the mechanic Gizogin.
"You called?" he asked.
"Oh yes. Turns out I never needed this after all." Mrhappyface motioned to the incomplete form of his humanoid warmachine.

[wierd]

Wierd laughed. Harmless gossip was always fun to interrupt.

"Oh, no, Do go on... I was wondering if you were gonna mention that I was a mousefart away from melting Corai where he stood or not, and if you were gonna comment on the quality of my food. I'm always interested in making people happy with my work."

"Your food?" asked the second dwarf.

"Of course!" said wierd. "I cooked it myself. Beef tips and noodles with mushroom sauce, strawberry shortcake, and cream of mushroom soup, though I dont think the guards knew the soup was even there. I brought some helmet wine too. I thought it would tie in well with the beeftips. Its a shame the breadrolls werent ready yet."

"Is he always like this?" asked the second dwarf, of the first.

"No. Sometimes he's really frightening. I thought for sure the dead would walk when he saw that kobold corai yesterday.

"You're....... Adil... Right?" wierd asked. "Were you the one with the hammer, or the axe? I can't remember... I'm terrible with names; I can tell you 50 different ways to kill somebody with a biscuit, but I'll be damned if I can remember somebody's name after only the first time...  I dont get out of my work-area much..."

"Hoy! We kinda figured that part out already!" laughed the second dwarf.

The second dwarf looked at the shad biscuit he was eating with sudden reservation, and gently put it down. Wierd laughed.

"That's not the reason you came in here is it?" he asked, unsettled for the second time in as few minutes.

"Sadly, No. I'm Looking for Roead, that loudmouthed, cantankerous mummy. Have you seen him?"

[Corai]

-I think my hammerdwarf was called Regeth. If your gonna use him.-

[WillowLuman]

"Well, no, I ain't. But the cap'n did. Said he left 'im to guard some old ruin. I'll tell ye, I saw that pruny skiver drink ol' Dunil under the table the o'r day. Must've been try'n tae embalm 'imself more or something."