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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 5: The Path of Dreams
« Reply #4170 on: April 20, 2013, 01:30:44 am »

Someone killing someone? No. I do the killing. If anyone kills anyone, I'll kill them AND their victim for getting killed!
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 5: The Path of Dreams
« Reply #4171 on: April 20, 2013, 02:10:58 am »

"How can one decide what one doesn't even know?" Morton could only counter in exasperation. 

"How in the worlds would I know that boiling the willow bark would do that? I thought it was suppose to ease pain, not cause decay, I probably wouldn't even of noticed if I put it on myself! You have it on your teeth and mouth, yet there I see nothing. I used the good water, boiled it right and made sure to not over boil or under boil it, and used willow bark. How in the hells could boiled willow bark even do such a thing? Niklas was there, I did nothing else, everyone else can confirm that I indubitably went straight to you afterwards." He rattled off the steps, the indignant anger still flaring in him.

"Why don't you explain to me why I would ever want Master Gary dead? If he died, I'd die! You, sir, would die! Kevin would die, as would Niklas! What purpose would I have in a dreadful mass murder-suicide? I don't hate living, on the contrary I've been dead once and don't quite plan on being again any time soon, that's why I'm ecstatic at any chance of Master Gary living. I've been thankful every day when Master Gary brought me back from the dead, why would I want to go back? Trusting strangers is better than doing nothing at all, which we have been doing, and Master Gary has assuredly not been in glowing health as of such. We'd at least be doing something." Morton sighed at the end, running out of steam.

[I can only imagine the amusement Artiste must be getting from this.]
Scott pauses again. "Was it you who collected the bark? Could you identify what you put in the water as willow?"

Again redacted. Se below.
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 5: The Path of Dreams
« Reply #4172 on: April 20, 2013, 02:30:07 am »

"Was it... Me? No, I was boiling the water as to get ready for the bark. Kevin told me he would get it, to aid me in my endeavor to serve. I'm quite positive what I put in the water was willow. It looked like willow to me, and gave off a medicine like smell when I boiled it." Morton contemplated on such, before quickly adding, heading off anything Scott would say. "But I don't see why Kevin would want to do this truly dreadful thing to Master Gary, it just raises the same issue! Why by all that is tea would he? Kevin never seemed like that type, he always wanted to make people laugh... What kind of bark even eats away at the skin like that when boiled? I know it was bark, I handled it myself, but while I wouldn't call myself an 'expert in botanical and horticultural pursuits,' I don't think there is bark that would have such horrifying effects so quickly."

[Running Bets on Cause: Mushrooms, Artiste, Fate]

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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 5: The Path of Dreams
« Reply #4173 on: April 20, 2013, 02:33:20 am »

((I'm betting that I rolled a 1 for searching. ))
((Also, the virulent perk will probably have amusing effects on the mages ))
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 5: The Path of Dreams
« Reply #4174 on: April 20, 2013, 02:38:52 am »

[Undoubtedly, can't wait to see. I'm sure I either rolled a six, or a one for the tea. I won't know for sure unless someone drops dead because of it, but I'm pretty sure it was a six, which prompts me to consider Morton now the Apostle of the Tea Leaf. If we do find that tree, one of us should stash some of its bark, due to its rather horrible nature that seems to not affect the already dead which would be invaluable no doubt as a weapon.]

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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 5: The Path of Dreams
« Reply #4175 on: April 20, 2013, 03:30:01 am »

On the second floor of the Yaleson house...

Morton, seeing how he's being assaulted on the thinnest of pretexts, doesn't stand for this kind of treatment! As well as anyone can stand up to this kind of treatment while being bashed into a wall, that is.

"What-" *thwack* "-was handed willow-" *crash* "-boiled it-"" *thwack* "-gave it to you-" *thwack* "-no idea-" *crick* "-oh dear-" *crack* "-please, stop!"

He tries to shove Master Scott off him! After all, even the most loyal butler shouldn't take open abuse lying down!

"Please restrain yourself sir! I did nothing of the sort, why would I, and for what purpose?! These travelers just said they could fix Master Gary!"

[Morton vs. Scott: 2 vs. 4-1]

He tries and he tries, but to no avail! Scott has clamped down tight on his throat! He does seem to pause in his brutal violence for a bit. It's replaced with unsubstantiated reproach!

"YOU DIDN'T TASTE IT FIRST?! Even if you were an expert in botanical and horticultural pursuits, one ought to check their ingredients before having them handed to your master."

Scott points at Erin.

"If this man-"

There is a slight chuckling on the mages' part.

"Shut it, Bernie!"

"-fails in his voluntary task, I will end you. For now, I shall cripple you."

[Grapple: Scott vs. Morton: 3 vs. 5]

Scott tries to force Morton into an arm lock, but the movement on his part to accomplish this gives Morton the opportunity he was waiting for, allowing him to shove Scott away with both of his free arms! Scott stumbles back and slumps up against a wall, slightly off-balance. Morton, now free, makes a stuttering reply!

"Y-you're insane, s-sir! I-I-I've tried to help you, and t-this is how you repay me? I understand y-you're under stress and bereaved b-by your Husband's illness, but I won't stand for this! I've obviously m-misjudged your character, if this is how you shall treat me I'd rather t-throw my lot with the road!"

The mages cheer!

"Yeah! You tell him, butler man!"

"Should we take 'em now?"

"Nah, wait for it. I want to see what happens."

Niklas can't help but add his own two barbarian units of currency to the household feud.

"You should come with me, butler. I am going to shatter the world ... stage with my cooking!"

He, being a great multitasker, then decides that he probably needs to find that special protective suitcase he got for his knives from a passing mage. He fetches it from the closet and stashes his razor sharp utensils within. He is back in no time at all to watch the proceedings and hear Morton's reply.

"Sounds more pleasant than procrastinating around here to have my legs and arms shattered, Chief Niklas." he comments to the zombie chief, before retorting once again to the once-master, stutter replaced with the pent-up, righteous anger only a man who has served others and pushed down all those times could feel burning inside him. "I was even fine with you hitting my head against the floor! I knew you were angry with what happened, I understand that you are in a tough place and scared, but even with me telling you that your husband could be fixed from all of this you only insisted on violence instead of your husband! Do you even care about his health? He was ill with horrible sickness and you wanted to give him a-a pain reliever instead of searching for an actual doctor who could help, and now that one is on our doorstep you ignore such offers in favor of petty anger? I was coming up to give you some tea, but I see now you don't deserve it, don't deserve it at all."

There is a collective gasp from the mages! Well, except the black-robed woman. She just remains unimpressed-looking. Scott, meanwhile, recovers from his unstable state. Well, his physically unstable state. He is still plenty unstable mentally.

"Please, explain to me how I am to take a situation where our butler, you, instead of doing his duty has decided to assassinate his master with a paste that corrupts the flesh! He then tells me 'Oh, don't mind that, here is a complete and total stranger you should trust with your husbands life!'"

"How can one decide what one doesn't even know?"

"How in the worlds would I know that boiling the willow bark would do that? I thought it was suppose to ease pain, not cause decay, I probably wouldn't even of noticed if I put it on myself! You have it on your teeth and mouth, yet there I see nothing. I used the good water, boiled it right and made sure to not over boil or under boil it, and used willow bark. How in the hells could boiled willow bark even do such a thing? Niklas was there, I did nothing else, everyone else can confirm that I indubitably went straight to you afterwards."

"Why don't you explain to me why I would ever want Master Gary dead? If he died, I'd die! You, sir, would die! Kevin would die, as would Niklas! What purpose would I have in a dreadful mass murder-suicide? I don't hate living, on the contrary I've been dead once and don't quite plan on being again any time soon, that's why I'm ecstatic at any chance of Master Gary living. I've been thankful every day when Master Gary brought me back from the dead, why would I want to go back? Trusting strangers is better than doing nothing at all, which we have been doing, and Master Gary has assuredly not been in glowing health as of such. We'd at least be doing something."

Morton sighs after he's done. Some days, it just seems like this is a madhouse of some kind.

"Someone killing someone? No. I do the killing. If anyone kills anyone, I'll kill them AND their victim for getting killed!"

And Niklas isn't really helping matters, to be honest. However, Scott seems to be calming down.

"Was it you who collected the bark? Could you identify what you put in the water as willow?"

"Was it... me? No, I was boiling the water as to get ready for the bark. Kevin told me he would get it, to aid me in my endeavor to serve. I'm quite positive what I put in the water was willow. It looked like willow to me, and gave off a medicine like smell when I boiled it. But I don't see why Kevin would want to do this truly dreadful thing to Master Gary, it just raises the same issue! Why by all that is tea would he? Kevin never seemed like that type, he always wanted to make people laugh... What kind of bark even eats away at the skin like that when boiled? I know it was bark, I handled it myself, but while I wouldn't call myself an 'expert in botanical and horticultural pursuits,' I don't think there is bark that would have such horrifying effects so quickly."

He looks over at... wait, where has Kevin gone? Oh well.

"Alright, I suppose you ladies have come to an agreement or something. Let's get to it, then!"

Erin strolls up to Gary, closes her eyes and extends her hands above him.

[Erin magic roll: 2]

And nothing at all happens.

"Bad form there, Erin! It's all in the posture!"

"I just thought it'd look more impressive this way, ya know? Well, guess I'll do this the boring way, then."

She loosens up, limbers up a bit, then makes a rapid movement of her hands!

[Erin magic roll: 1+1]

Still nothing, though.

"You're embarrassing yourself, man! Get yourself together!"

"Oh, gods, will you quit that already!" she yells, impatiently waving her arms at the infirm man.

[Erin magic roll: 1]

Suddenly, there is a burst of white light that envelops Gary! When it dissipates, the infirm necromancer is gone! Disappeared into thin air!

"What did you do, Erin?"

"I most certainly did not just disintegrate him into the very tiniest component particles, no sir, and I will debate endlessly with anyone who says otherwise until the issue is sufficiently muddled and confused!"

The undead look on in surprise and slight horror. Bernie carefully looks at them.

"Wait a minute, wouldn't these guys be falling over in horrible agony if that were the case? Something isn't right here."


Out in the woods...

Mark, meanwhile, continues his fungal odyssey as he tries to persistently remove the mushroom while trying to move in the direction of the house.

[Fungus removal roll: 3]

Yeah, it's not coming off that way, that much is certain. Mark runs back to the house, only to find the jester on the first floor making a shushing motion at him. It looks like there's some sort of commotion upstairs.
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« Reply #4176 on: April 20, 2013, 03:36:38 am »

Scott blanches (as much as a zombie can), he looks at Erin wildly.
"Where.Is.My.HUSBAND!?"
"Morton! Send out a party to comb the surrounding area! He must be found!"



[Really bad rolls there...]



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« Reply #4177 on: April 20, 2013, 04:05:18 am »

Bah. Mages. Didn't the demon already soulbind us to him? If he dies, we die. I don't see a demon dying easily. Now, I'm going to become the greatest chef. Goodbye.

Niklas, carrying his suitcase full of knives, walks out of the house and tries to remember what he can about the general area.
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« Reply #4178 on: April 20, 2013, 04:27:11 am »

Kevin, noticing that Niklas is leaving, follows him outside, as he appears to be the only person that isn't an enslaved mage, freaking out about dissapearing husbands or a tree.
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« Reply #4179 on: April 20, 2013, 06:31:07 am »

On the second floor of the Yaleson house...

Scott attempts to blanch, but then he realizes that his blood doesn't actually circulate. A shame. Well, he still has questions nevertheless. Like this one, for instance.

"Where. Is. My. HUSBAND!?" he asks, staring wildly at the magical woman who he quite accurately believes to be at the root of this.

"I dunno. I just do the magic, you know, I... wait a second."

She looks intently at the bed for a moment, then lifts up the sheet and stretches it out before herself.

"Okay, so I've got good news and bad news. Good news, your husband is still here!"

She flips the sheet around, revealing a terrifyingly lifelike embroidered ornament in the shape of the tortured face of Gary on it.

"Bad news, he is now a bedsheet."

Bernie and the Artiste nod and begin to clap slowly, both of them grinning widely.

"Fantastic work there, Erin! I dare say he is the perfect image of health now!"

"Or he would be if somebody washed him."

"Well, yes, but I'm sure Mr. Scott doesn't need us to do that. Do you, Mr. Scott?"

Scott looks at them dumbfounded.

"Well, I think our work here is done. Here you go, Mr. Yaleson. Your husband'll need some laundering and rest, then he should be good as new!"

She places Gary into his husband's arms, nodding at a job well done.

"And now that that bit of household drama is over with, let's get down to business."

Niklas shakes his head at the proceedings in the room.

"Bah. Mages. Didn't the demon already soulbind us to him? If he dies, we die. I don't see a demon dying easily. Now, I'm going to become the greatest chef. Goodbye."

"Lovely though your ambitions may be, you'll have to wait a bit. First you help me under incredible duress and little other options, then I consider helping you at some undefined point in the future."

He clears his throat, the shouts "EVERYONE! TO ME!"

This exclamation is loud enough for all to hear, even Kevin, regrettably enough. All four bound undead and the four bound mages gather around the Artiste, who then speaks.

"Alright then! First order of business, round out our little band of misfits. Primo..."

He snaps his fingers at Scott, who is overcome with the feeling of a coup performed by his stomach to overthrow his lungs happening inside him. He drops to his knees, clutching Gary close to himself.

"And secundo!"

He snaps at Morton, who is filled with intense regret and nausea that takes him back to the time when he tried to drink that tea made out of leaves sold by that weirdo mage that lived down the street. Boy, was that not a good idea.

"And now for your official orders! Undead squad, I order you to never harm or incapacitate each other, any of my other minions or myself! I also order you to never deliberately destroy yourselves! Thirdly, I order you all to go to Shriekpot and get us all a ship. It is integral to the master plan, so you know it's for your own good. The rest of us, the ones actually needing sleep, food and water, will remain here and have our way with this house, making it less of a filthy and diseased hellhole and more of a nice place for living people to be in. So then, any questions from you lot?"
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« Reply #4180 on: April 20, 2013, 07:44:49 am »

"Will you give my husband back his human form? He is a fellow necromancy you know, a profound one actually. Also, will you be more polite about my house? And what type of ship do you desire, and how many crew do you think is necessary?"
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« Reply #4181 on: April 20, 2013, 08:27:15 am »

kick open the door still trying to scrape the mushroom off and get some help
(I'm ;eaveing on a holiday tomorrow for 10 days just to let you know so Ill auto getting the mushroom off and helping work on the house once the mushroom is off)
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« Reply #4182 on: April 20, 2013, 08:32:33 am »

Sigmund felt, well, a bit more comfortable, he was used to follow orders to save his own life, after all. But now, he actually was the most able one in this situation.

He took the initiative spoke to the rest of the undead in the room:
-As I am the undead who can pass as an ordinary human here, I will do the intel. You should acquire weapons for yourselves in case we need to take a ship by force. Now, I'm heading to the dock to see which kind of boats are there.

Also, look for a bag so that I can carry my knife. If I don't find one, just head to docks.

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« Reply #4183 on: April 20, 2013, 09:46:12 am »

In the Yaleson house...

Scott appears to have reached some kind of psychological event horizon, as he immediately becomes calm and collected. He asks some things of the mages.

"Will you give my husband back his human form? He is a fellow necromancer, you know, a profound one, actually."

The Artiste shakes his head.

"No can do, minion. We've already got 2 necromancers, having a third one would be just plain ridiculous. This way, we don't have to feed him, he can't talk a whole lot and we don't have to find things for him to do to stave off the ever-present pangs of uselessness."

"Not to mention that he can't see, hear, touch, smell or otherwise sense anything in that state. I'm pretty sure he can think, though. The soul is still bound to the sheet, after all. And turning him back is a bit harder than you think. When you morph something, you gotta know what it is down to details. Because of that, you can usually make inanimate objects and very, very simple pseudo-life with morphing magic. As in, creatures that only have, like, one overriding instinct and no real intelligence. So, you see, I can make a bedsheet out of a dude, but I can't make a dude out of a bedsheet. Pretty awful, that."

Ah.

"Also, will you be more polite about my house? And what type of ship do you desire, and how many crew do you think is necessary?"

"No, since it really is too terrible to lie about, something not too big, and depends on the ship you get. In that order, if you couldn't tell."

Double ah.

Meanwhile, Mark kicks open a nearby door. For what reason, it is possible that not even he knows. He tries to figure out a way to way to remove the mushroom from his hand.

[Fungus removal roll: 1]

He notices some of the tea lying around on the stairs. Maybe the fungus hates that? He pours a cup of it all over his hand.

Unfortunately, the fungus seems to have enjoyed it for some reason! It begins to grow rapidly, quickly covering his entire arm as new mushrooms sprout on it. His entire left arm is now covered in mushrooms, sadly enough. It's pretty difficult to move now.

Sigmund, having listened very attentively indeed, makes his plans very clear.

"As I am the undead who can pass as an ordinary human here, I will do the intel. You should acquire weapons for yourselves in case we need to take a ship by force. Now, I'm heading to the dock to see which kind of boats are there."

"Go get 'em, then."

And he does! Except for trying to get a bag first. He fetches a sturdy bag and deposits his knife in it, then runs along on his way, getting out onto the road and off to Shriekpot!

He reaches the town in about half an hour of running. Shriekpot actually looks rather nice, to be frank. It's a peninsular town with a very wide harbor that surrounds the town from three sides, making it quite a popular port for ships on the way to somewhere or other. After a cursory look at the ships available (made somewhat more difficult by the fact that he gets lost in the town several times on the way), Sigmund sees many ships. Small ships, medium ships, large ships, cargo ships, mail runners, a warship or two, patrol boats and many other sorts of ship. There's even one ship covered in gleaming metal that seems to hover slightly above the water. That one's a bit weird.
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Re: Life Begins At Death - Chapter 5: The Path of Dreams
« Reply #4184 on: April 20, 2013, 09:48:33 am »

Kevin, still of the opinion that Niklas is likely the most trustworthy of his comrades-by-soulbinding, waits for his action and follows him. It appeared that the tought of adventure was slowly starting to appeal to him. *insert hobbit reference here*

((I'm pretty sure that tea was a 6 roll now. Also, that hover-ship probably goes to the Land of Dreams, or whatever the place that killed Mike was called. Altough this raises the question of how it got out of there in the first place. I recommend not taking that one.))
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