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Author Topic: Life Begins At Death - Epilogue: We Live And Live Again  (Read 564786 times)

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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1890 on: December 19, 2012, 12:13:03 pm »

Use all that chanting calmness to HIT THAT POET IN THE EGO! IT SEEMS TO BE HIS WEAKNESS!
((no. I'm just trying to get rid of the poet-thing.))
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I would ask why fire can burn two men to death without getting hot enough to burn a book, but then I read "INEXTINGUISHABLE RUNNING KAMIKAZE RADIOACTIVE FLAMING ZOMBIE" and realized that logic, reason, and physics are all occupied with crying in the corner right now.

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« Reply #1891 on: December 19, 2012, 12:51:04 pm »

Suspended and quadriplegic...

Mike tries to possess the body of the falling Ekim! She tries to leave her body!

[Will roll: 2]

Hm, it seems that leaving her body voluntarily does not come as easily to her as she might have supposed! Ekim quickly plummets out of sight as Mike strains to concentrate on her current task!


Inside the mind of John "Maps" Johnson...

Maps tries to remember what it was he was doing!

[Memory roll: ?]

Was he just going for one of those introspective trips? Those are quite popular these days. It would explain how he feels oddly bodiless at the moment! Yeah, that's probably it.

Boy, Maps is glad he solved that problem. That's what introspective journeys are for, right? Solving problems?
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« Reply #1892 on: December 19, 2012, 01:00:58 pm »

((insert flashing lightbulb eureka moment))
Inform the poet how stupid he is - challenge him to FIND THE EXACT VALUE OF PI!
Proceed to mercilessly taunt him about his ignorance when he fails
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I would ask why fire can burn two men to death without getting hot enough to burn a book, but then I read "INEXTINGUISHABLE RUNNING KAMIKAZE RADIOACTIVE FLAMING ZOMBIE" and realized that logic, reason, and physics are all occupied with crying in the corner right now.

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« Reply #1893 on: December 19, 2012, 02:09:37 pm »

In the mind of a disturbed individual...

Maps tries to remember who this poet fellow he's so peeved about might be!

[Memory roll: ?]

Doesn't ring a bell, to tell the truth.

~HAVING FUN?~

~Who are you?~

~OH, I'M THE PRESTIDIGITATOR. YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW ME, EVEN THOUGH YOU CURRENTLY OCCUPY A DISTINCT PORTION OF MY MIND. I WAS THINKING OF GIVING YOU MY BODY WHEN I'M DONE WITH IT.~
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« Reply #1894 on: December 19, 2012, 03:13:39 pm »

Root around the memories in this portion of the mind.
((pretty please can there be stuff saying he's James in there...))
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I would ask why fire can burn two men to death without getting hot enough to burn a book, but then I read "INEXTINGUISHABLE RUNNING KAMIKAZE RADIOACTIVE FLAMING ZOMBIE" and realized that logic, reason, and physics are all occupied with crying in the corner right now.

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« Reply #1895 on: December 19, 2012, 03:18:54 pm »

Mike will just continue falling, and aim her head UP, so she doesn't split her skull like he did last time, it's not like she can feel any pain in her lower body anyway.
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they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the raving confessions of a mass murdering cannibal from a recipe to bake a pie.
Knowing Belgium, everyone will vote for themselves out of mistrust for anyone else, and some kind of weird direct democracy coalition will need to be formed from 11 million or so individuals.

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« Reply #1896 on: December 19, 2012, 03:38:59 pm »

Just walk away and look for a blacksmith.
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« Reply #1897 on: December 19, 2012, 04:08:48 pm »

Inside the bloody head of a bloody lunatic...

Maps searches through a few of the recesses of his memory! Maybe there's something cool in here!

[Search roll: 6]

He finds a room filled with filing cabinets! Compared to the rest of his memories, which only date back a day, these seem to date back to, well, the day of his birth! Awesome!

Too bad all of it's blocked off by a giant steel door marked "ENTRY PROHIBITED BY DECREE OF JOHN "MAPS" JOHNSON ON THE GROUNDS OF CONTAINING IRRELEVANT AND INCORRECT DATA". The door is locked, and there is no keyhole in sight! In fact, you could just as well call this door a wall, considering that there doesn't seem to be a way of opening it!


In a grey void...

Mike chooses to continue falling, relaxing her telekinetic grip on herself!

She falls and falls, remembering to aim her head up! After about an hour of falling, she lands on something!

[Fall damage roll: 4-1]

It's Ekim! He's dead from an overdose of ceramic to the body. Makes for a nice landing pillow, though! Mike doesn't feel a thing! Her pelvis might be totally shattered, but she feels totally okay!

Well, except for the fact that she is now on an endless ceramic surface and covered in bear gore. Those are definitely not okay!


In a town of some kind...

Vincent discreetly leaves the scene of the grisly bit of manslaughter and heads for the blacksmith!

He enters along with his metal companion and finds a tall, very thin and pale, though still soot-covered individual! Judging by his clothes and the tools in his hands, he must be the blacksmith! He definitely doesn't look the part physically, though!
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« Reply #1898 on: December 19, 2012, 04:10:37 pm »

Mike will look around for anything of significance.
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they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the raving confessions of a mass murdering cannibal from a recipe to bake a pie.
Knowing Belgium, everyone will vote for themselves out of mistrust for anyone else, and some kind of weird direct democracy coalition will need to be formed from 11 million or so individuals.

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« Reply #1899 on: December 19, 2012, 04:20:13 pm »

Vincent discreetly leaves the scene of the grisly bit of manslaughter and heads for the blacksmith!

I see what you did there.

Had to acknowledge pun. I'll return to lurking now.
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« Reply #1900 on: December 19, 2012, 04:52:25 pm »

Sod this! I am a LIVING BOULDER OF SNAIL MUSCLE! WALLS MEAN NOTHING. DOORS MEAN NOTHING. RAMMING SPEEEEEEEEEED!
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I would ask why fire can burn two men to death without getting hot enough to burn a book, but then I read "INEXTINGUISHABLE RUNNING KAMIKAZE RADIOACTIVE FLAMING ZOMBIE" and realized that logic, reason, and physics are all occupied with crying in the corner right now.

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« Reply #1901 on: December 19, 2012, 05:55:06 pm »

Greet the blacksmith and ask if they have any rapiers.
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« Reply #1902 on: December 20, 2012, 02:18:02 am »

On an endless ceramic plain...

Mike, despite being unable to move anything but her head, tries to scope out the plain around!

[Perception roll: ?]

She sees odd canyon-like depressions off in the distance, stretching off into the distance! That's certainly interesting!


Next to a seemingly insurmountable mental block...

Maps realizes that he didn't get as far as he has in life to be stopped by a petty door! He rolls back a bit, then tries to ram into the steel door!

[Ramming roll: 4]

He gets up to a decent speed and smacks into the steel door!

[Maps vs. Steel Door: 4 vs. 1+2]

The door loosens from the frame visibly, displaced by Maps' mighty charge! Again, again!

[Ramming roll: 3]

Feeling more confident in his weight than before, Maps doesn't try quite so hard this time! He still rams into the steel door, but it lacks a certain... barbaric force that the previous charge had!

[Maps vs. Steel Door: 4-1 vs. 5+1]

As such, it fails to displace the door in any way! In fact, it kind of hurts! Again!

[Ramming roll: 3]

He rams in the exact same manner once again, not one to learn from his mistakes!

[Maps vs. Steel Door: 3-1 vs. 2+1]

Predictably, it doesn't work. Maybe Maps should change his strategy?

[Ramming roll: 4]

He tries to ram harder this time!

[Maps vs. Steel Door: 6 vs. 3+1]

And it works! The door slides backwards a bit, with one corner popping out of the frame!

[Ramming roll: 2]

Maps pauses to compliment himself on a job well done!


In the Town of Eviscerated Urchins...

Vincent tries to ask the blacksmith if they have any rapiers!

[Nonverbal communication roll: 5]

Through a lot of pantomimed swashbuckling, he manages to express that a rapier is indeed what he wants!

[Blacksmith attention roll: 4+1]

The blacksmith watches intently for a bit, then nods!

[Blacksmith exotic sword roll: 5]

He produces three masterfully-crafted, deadly-looking rapiers from a cabinet nearby!

[Blacksmith nonverbal communication roll: 1]

He then makes various gestures detailing impolite and awful things he's done with Vincent's mother lately!
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« Reply #1903 on: December 20, 2012, 03:35:57 am »

hit the door with a force bolt not its sufficiently weakened.
Then look through memories.
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I would ask why fire can burn two men to death without getting hot enough to burn a book, but then I read "INEXTINGUISHABLE RUNNING KAMIKAZE RADIOACTIVE FLAMING ZOMBIE" and realized that logic, reason, and physics are all occupied with crying in the corner right now.

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« Reply #1904 on: December 20, 2012, 04:06:03 am »

Next to a sufficiently resilient mental block...

Maps, realizing that sheer muscle might not be the best way to take down a steel door, tries to use his force crossbow the finish the door off!

[Maps vs. Door: 4+1 vs. 2]

The door is heavily dented enough to fall right out of the frame! It now looks like an unusually thick soup bowl on the ground! Maps passes through the now-open doorway and goes on to search his memories for something funny and/or useful!

[Memory search roll: 4]

Okay, so, according to the files here, his name used to be James Lanthorn, he served a certain Bernie von Glautzenheiser, he was gifted with incredible misfortune and he seems to have encountered a female version of himself at some point in his adventures. Plus a rampaging dentist stole his teeth. And he managed to rally a peasant revolution through practicing his speaking. And he was sliced into bits by a six-armed scalpel-wielding chimp.

[Belief roll: 2]

Yeah, right. That totally happened and is not just the invention of a diseased mind. Yeah.
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