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Author Topic: Life Begins At Death - Epilogue: We Live And Live Again  (Read 564824 times)

Harry Baldman

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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1935 on: December 21, 2012, 02:02:51 pm »

On a wooden surface of some kind...

Mike goes looking for some nutrients to lick from unclean surfaces!

[Search roll: 2]

Damn her nearsightedness! She can't find the puddle of spilled milk anymore! Neither can she find any other source of food!

[Exploration roll: 6]

She flies and she flies, but only after about an hour of doing so does she finally luck out: a passing surface of wool smacks into her mid-flight!

[Grip roll: 3]

She rolls down until she reaches a comfortable area of burlap! She finds that much easier to hold onto and stays in the air!

The air gets noticeably colder in just a second! She seems to have been taken outside!

Oh crap. She's cold-blooded.

[Hypothermia roll: 6]

Fortunately, the cold isn't so bad due to the massive amounts of heat coming from the burlap surface!
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1936 on: December 21, 2012, 02:04:55 pm »

Mike will look around some more and try to find what is carrying her outside, and if she can possess it.
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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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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1937 on: December 21, 2012, 03:19:49 pm »

Loot everything of value and search for a wheeled vehicle of some sort.
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1938 on: December 21, 2012, 03:35:17 pm »

On a moving platform of burlap...

Mike tries to investigate the thing that's carrying her!

[Investigation roll: ?]

Call her crazy, but something warm, covered in burlap and moving smells of the living to her! And if it lives, she can take over it!


Inside a blacksmith's shop...

Vincent, highly satisfied at the manslaughter spree he might be on to here, enters loot-mode!

[Looting roll: 1]

He looks around the entire store and deems the stock to be unworthy of his masterful skeletal hands! He sets fire to it to cement this point!

[Fire roll: 6]

It immediately dies down, but something seems to have activated in the process! Something nasty!

[Repercussions roll: 3]

A loud blaring that could only originate from a magical fire alarm rings through the store, possibly through the village as well!

[Fire response roll: 3]

Nobody's arrived yet, so Vincent has time to make a leisurely escape! How fortunate! He looks for a wheeled vehicle of some kind!

[Search roll: 2]

There are exactly zero wagons and zero carriages in the village! Damn it all!
« Last Edit: December 21, 2012, 03:50:27 pm by Harry Baldman »
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1939 on: December 21, 2012, 04:45:48 pm »

And what work would that be?
What he considers to be important is probably useless.
Taunt him!
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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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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1940 on: December 21, 2012, 05:13:19 pm »

Inside the Throne Room of the Mind...

James tries to ask what sort of work the Artiste is doing!

He gets no answer. That Artiste sure can be a prick sometimes!

[Mockery roll: 5]

"I'd like you to know that you are an awful prick with terrible taste and no artistic talent! Also, what you're doing is probably useless! And the Demon of Darkness knows more about style than you, anyway!"

[Artiste reaction roll: 4]

~YOU KNOW, THAT LAST REMARK WAS REALLY MEAN AND HURTFUL. I RATHER LIKE IT. STEALING THAT, BY THE WAY.~
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« Reply #1941 on: December 21, 2012, 10:18:35 pm »

Timothy sighed, then rushed over to peer at his injured companions in concern. He wasn't about to risk them any more harm just to stop some nasty old scarycrow from escaping, after all. These ones, if a bit useless, were far nicer.
Alright, alrights," He said in a far kinder, more sympathetic voice, "Youse be gettin' into da wagon, we's gets you doctor. No needs to worry abouts them nasty peoples."

>Instruct Jim and Fred to enter the wagon and make themselves as comfortable as possible.
Aid them telepathically only if they really cannot do it under their own power.


"Uh, any ideas where Tom is got to...?"

>If Tom is still nowhere to be seen after a quick glance around, have Jim and Fred cover their ears as I shout his name!
He can't have gotten far.

>Shout for six minutes tops, if he still hasn't shown up, we'll have to leave and come back for him later.

>Whether I have two injured scarycrows or three, I shall (pushing the wagon with my mind if needs be) head in the direction of Bob's place with all speed, but keep an eye out for any towns or farms or other places which might have a doctor/scarecrow repairperson! Check on the others every so often, make sure they're alright.

Did I pack tea and biscuits? If so, share them around.
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1942 on: December 22, 2012, 04:53:26 am »

On the road to Castle Wossname...

Timothy sighs and floats over to Fred, who is definitely in very bad shape!

[Fred recovery roll: 2]

"Damn it, it just keeps hurting more! I couldn't get up if I tried!"

"Alright, alrights. Youse be gettin' into da wagon, we's gets you doctor. No needs to worry abouts them nasty peoples."

Timothy motions for Jim to come over and help with Fred!

[Jim fear roll: 6]

Jim rushes over and grabs Fred! He tries to throw him into the wheelbarrow, feeling that there's no time to waste!

[Throwing roll: 6]

His throw is dead-on, and Fred lands right in the wooden wheelbarrow!

[Wheelbarrow structural integrity roll: 6]

It holds fast, being made out of sturdy and extremely hard wood!

[Fred endurance roll: 3]

Judging by Fred's current face, that was not an entirely pleasant experience! Okay, now for Tom!

"Uh, any ideas where Tom is got to...?"

Jim shrugs and Fred is clearly too insensible to provide a meaningful answer! Timothy instructs them to cover their ear-holes, and they immediately do so!

[Shouting roll: 6]

Timothy emits a supernatural howl of skull-exploding proportions!

"TOOOOOMM! WHEERE BEEEE YOUUUSE?"

[Spooky Howling roll: 3]

Timothy feels a vague shiver come from the forest, as though all the animals in it felt rather uneasy!

[Response roll: 1]

He feels a horrible screech come from the forest as a reply! It is accompanied by equally horrible screaming and the sound of tearing cloth and flying straw! Uh oh.

Better find the tea and biscuits. Fast.

[Search roll: 2]

Timothy is pretty confident that he doesn't have any in his pockets and that the wheelbarrow was empty when they stole it.

They are in great danger indeed!
« Last Edit: December 22, 2012, 05:17:00 am by Harry Baldman »
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1943 on: December 22, 2012, 05:30:29 am »

((Oh god, the mental image of the situation Tim is in right now is incredibly hilarious. A ghost, two animate scarecrows in a wheelbarrow and a third one being ripped to pieces in the forest.))

Mike will try to find an opening in the burlap so he can see what this living creature is!
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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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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1944 on: December 22, 2012, 06:13:05 am »

On a burlap-covered lifeform...

Mike searches for an opening of some kind in the vast burlap wastes of the creature!

[Search roll: 6]

And she does indeed find one! It leads to an all-encompassing layer of woolen cloth! Damn this creature, how dare it wear two layers of cloth in winter!
« Last Edit: December 22, 2012, 06:26:10 am by Harry Baldman »
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1945 on: December 22, 2012, 06:18:54 am »

Mike will try to find yet another opening!
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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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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1946 on: December 22, 2012, 07:21:27 am »

Search mind for the artiste
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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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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1947 on: December 22, 2012, 09:05:00 am »

On a burlap-and-wool covered lifeform...

Mike searches the lifeform for some other opening she could look through!

[Search roll: 4]

She flies around and looks until she finds a patch of uncovered flesh! It looks rather tan and slightly hairy!

[? roll: 1]

Suddenly, a shadow appears over Mike! Looks like it's getting bigger!

[Mike dodge roll: 4]

Mike manages to barely fly out of the way as a large wool-covered slab hits the area that she used to be on! That could have ended badly!

[Pursuit roll: 6]

There is a brief silence!

[Mike perception roll: ?]

Something is coming for Mike! She doesn't know how, she doesn't know from which direction, but she knows it's something!

[Mike dodge roll: 5]

She enters a circular movement pattern full of various evasive maneuvers as the slabs of wool pass her again and again! She can't keep this up for long, she thinks!


Inside the mind of James Lanthorn...

James searches for the Artiste!

[Search roll: 4]

After wandering through the several departments that house his pent-up frustration, he comes upon the Motor Control Center! Everything here seems to be moving!

[Perception roll: ?]

No Artiste in sight, however. That's weird.
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1948 on: December 22, 2012, 09:14:15 am »

Mike will telekinetically break the hand!

((Let's hope that telekinesis does not scale with size))
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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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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 3: Stealing Better Minions!
« Reply #1949 on: December 22, 2012, 09:43:03 am »

Hide and search for any vehicle that is serviceable.
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