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[Harry Baldman]

((You're going full Halesley.))

((I just wonder how the talky wizard guy fits into the nascent Unified Potato Theory.))

[Hawk132]

((I'm sure D would be happy to paint a smiley face on your helmet.))

((Facial expressions aside, that would make Saevus even more terrifying to the ordinary man, I think. Imagine a soldier frozen in terror as a giant clad in armor effortlessly crushes and maims his brothers in arms and friends before the figure moves in to kill him as well. The last thing he sees? A smiley face covered in blood.))

What's this about tapping into the Staging Area? Sounds mighty interesting. Do it.

[Toaster]

Hmm.

"Hey Zero, how do the Move, Stop, and Reconfigure buttons work?  I can't get them to do anything."

[Coolrune206]

Walk to the area on the hill which I'm trying to get to.

[Lenglon]

((dialogue edit complete))

[Parisbre56]

Staging Area

Hmm.

"Hey Zero, how do the Move, Stop, and Reconfigure buttons work?  I can't get them to do anything."

<When depressed the buttons allow electricity to flow through them. A circuit creates a signal that reaches the core unit, where it is interpreted. Their respective functions are activated if the environmental and internal parameters are correct.>
<They are currently operating within acceptable parameters as intended.>

((I'm sure D would be happy to paint a smiley face on your helmet.))

((Facial expressions aside, that would make Saevus even more terrifying to the ordinary man, I think. Imagine a soldier frozen in terror as a giant clad in armor effortlessly crushes and maims his brothers in arms and friends before the figure moves in to kill him as well. The last thing he sees? A smiley face covered in blood.))

What's this about tapping into the Staging Area? Sounds mighty interesting. Do it.

((Heeeeeere's Johnny!))

You wish you were more powerful. The air around you distorts and becomes brighter. And now you suddenly are, the runes on you glowing more vibrantly, changing colour more quickly. You feel like you're 200 years old again.

Campaign

"No, He is under my protection. I won't put him at risk for my gain."
I sigh
"The problem is, you've made yourself quite clear. You think I'm a monster, and intend to use me for your own benefit as best you can, and you'll try to destroy or enslave me if given half a chance. You even said that it's what any good man would do. By your own words, you aren't trustworthy."
"and I believe you."
"I think we'd both benefit if you cast the divination you desire, but if I give you permission to try it, that isn't what you'll do. instead, you'll attack me with whatever spell you think has the best chance of disabling or killing me, and then perform your experiments on my body. If this is how your people treat all nonhumans, then I see why they're all are hostile to you."
"Why should I trust you, xenophobic mage of unknown capability?"
I tilt my head to my right side and meet him eye to eye, watching for him to look away, my next words calm and quiet.
"Why should I trust someone who judges people by what they are, instead of whom they are?"
I pause for a moment, still staring at him.
"Go ahead and ask your questions."

"So this is how it is? I treat you well, I try to forget what you did to us and what you are, I give you food and water and offer you shelter, I share with you secrets few know and all you have to offer me are useless answers, mistrust and insults? This is how you repay me for my hospitality?"
He doesn't look happy. The flame inside the lantern starts wobbling slightly.
"All right then. I have a question for you."
He gets up from his seat, puts his hands on the table and leans forward, staring at you aggressively.
"What kind of fair compensation can you offer? What do you have to offer that would make up for what I have given you? What can you do... What...
What in the Void is going on out there?"
Kassiver's attention shifts to somewhere behind you. A moment later, he starts walking around the table.
"Stay here. We are not finished." he orders you as he starts walking away.

Campaign, Ike!

Continue to listen.

But also begin to recontextualize the events of the past, present and future in the light of potato. It is an involved process, naturally.

_{"You said something about me?"
"No."
"Hey, I'm trying to be good here man. But if you're going to be like that then let us go at it, right here right now!"
"That's not what I-"
"I try to talk to you, nothing."
"Look, all I want is a quiet shift and I really don't-"
"Well maybe I don't want a quiet shift. You've been nothing but boring. I want something to happen."}
There's a soft sound that quickly alternates between loud and quiet, something like the vibration from a particularly loud bus somewhere very far away reaching you, barely audible.
_{*quiet*
"I just want you to know, I blame you for that."}

((I have no idea what an involved process is. Or know much about your past other than that you are from a forest that has a university. And I'm pretty sure you can't predict the future. I can try to recontextualize your missions. Let's see...))

Well, you suppose some of your enemies were treacherous, like potatoes hiding underground. And one of them literally tried to peel you with its scythe-hands. One of your companions is a couch potato, literally in a way. Could perhaps everyone that you have met be considered to have the traits of a potato? How could your current companion resemble a potato, you wonder.

You have persevered like a potato. And you listen like a potato listens to the ground and the air and the sun to change and grow, to act at the best possible moment. Potatoes have no ears though, they do not listen as well as you can... or do they? Perhaps they listen to the entire world, every vibration reaching them through the ground. Perhaps they listen at a different level, a mystic level.

OOC
Have you ever read You are a Necromancer? If not, go read it here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=96692.0
Monk started updating it again. Yay!

[Lenglon]

I get up and walk with him.
"At no point have I deceived you, you are the one that proposed our current agreement and discussion. If you dislike those terms, then you shouldn't have made them. My words are the natural extension of your own, and you have also offered offense. The scales are balanced, I do not owe you compensation."
"As I said, it is your turn to ask, and mine to answer. ask your questions."if he objects to me following him, then I simply walk out the tent ahead of him and ask the guards outside:
"Um, excuse me, what's going on out here?"

[Xantalos]

((Who else was on this campaign mission? I've kinda forgotten.))

[Harry Baldman]

(("Involved" means it requires an investment of resources, time and attention, and thus not possible to do quickly. And Ike's forest doesn't have a college, I will add.))

Campaign, Ike!

Listen, hey, listen!

If talky wizard allows Irine to walk with him to his no doubt impending doom, slink after them in a humble, nigh-invisible slavelike fashion.

((Who else was on this campaign mission? I've kinda forgotten.))

((Ike, Irine, Zechariah, Nikolai, Alan and... Theri, yeah.))

[Andres]

((What's going on? Is Mission 3 still happening? Can I start a character? I only read the first and second posts.))

[Hawk132]

((What's going on? Is Mission 3 still happening? Can I start a character? I only read the first and second posts.))

((Mission 3 is over. Well, the survival one. Campaign is still going on. There's a tournament right now. And yeah, Paris said that new players are welcome.))

[akkudakku]

Spoiler: High speed, low drag. (click to show/hide)

Slow down the opponent closest to the goal. RUN towards the goal.

[Hawk132]

"Aye, 'tis quite an enjoyable feeling."

How about a proper warning shot this time. I mean, it does look like he stopping playing around with this menacing poking implement of his, but maybe he didn't notice the first one.

[Parisbre56]

Second chance round

Bryan, Tournament
"A shame if I were to be killed by this event instead of a contestant."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Keep moving forward. just try to get my brain to cope with the pain so its easier to do other stuff.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Moving forward it is.

Looking at your right, you notice another one of those transport planes, however it doesn't appear to be swooping down for a drop. A second later, you see the problem, as it is hit by a stream of tracer rounds from somewhere behind it, causing part of it to explode into flaming fragments. Looks like some of them are going to fall close to you and Rune.

Walk to the area on the hill which I'm trying to get to.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You walk. Because hey, running as a short-legged heavily-armoured reptile is hard. Plus, better to let the others to fight each other and kill them when they're tired and/or distracted.

Spoiler: High speed, low drag. (click to show/hide)

Slow down the opponent closest to the goal. RUN towards the goal.

Spoiler: Bound forward! (click to show/hide)

Unfortunately, you cannot currently see the opponent closest to the goal. Could slow the second closest, but I'm going to assume you want to focus on running.

You reach the top of the hill, where the friendly troops are in the process of assaulting your objective: a large and slightly circular concrete fortification. It is tiered, with a higher level in its centre surrounding a pillar with what looks like communication equipment. The troops around you are having a hard time taking the fortification. Not many are brave (or stupid) enough to rush the defending soldiers. It is a dangerous endeavour, as the corpses laying between the two sides show. Instead, they try to kill the attackers or flush them out with grenades. Some of them have managed to get through, turning the fight into a close range melee, where guns are used to bash and stab people almost as much as they are used to fire bullets at them.

You can see a faint green glow coming from the west side of the fortification.

Spoiler: Keep on trucking (click to show/hide)

 Get to the wall and try to get over it. Maybe wait until soldiers are attacking as a distraction to get over the wall. Or go through a door if there is an unguarded entrance. Once inside, get as near the center as I can without being spotted. If attacked at any point or spotted inside and threatened with attack, activate and begin charging.

Spoiler: Like a bus! (click to show/hide)

You jump out of cover and charge at the enemy position, screaming vague obscenities as you do so. You try to approach a lightly defended position, but finding one is not easy.

As is to be expected, you are targeted by one of the enemy machine-gunners almost immediately. As you see the barrel of his gun turning to face you, you jump forward and down. There is the rattle of gunfire. You feel like something just burned through your skull your skull.

You open your eyes. It takes you a moment to realize that you are still alive. You don't know what happened, but you are alive, and you can move, so as soon as you comprehend that, you get up and keep moving forward, trying your best to ignore the blood going in your eyes and the smell of burnt flesh and hair.

The machinegunner is hit by one of the soldiers behind you, eliminating the threat, at least temporarily. You can hear more people following your charge from behind you. You don't know if the others are motivated by your bravery or if they are simply taking advantage of the distraction you are providing, but their support helps get you the rest of the way there without getting shot at again.

It looks like inside the fortification there is a small artillery emplacement in a depression on the ground, some kind of hole. You can only see its tip rising out of it. But you don't care that much about it. The moment you are over the wall, you reach inside you and push the metaphorical button.

Blades of bone explode out of your chest. The soldiers around, both friendly and enemy you look at you with surprise, then a mix of fear and disgust, some of them falling down while others start running away. You look down. Your guts starts spilling out, leaking a strange goo. Your legs star dissolving. You are melting.

Tick tock.

Everyone
There is a faint green haze coming from the top of the hill, as if aerosolized glowstick fluid is seeping from somewhere on it.

<The objective is being captured.>

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

OOC
Got to go, I'll do the others later.

[akkudakku]

Spoiler: Double time! (click to show/hide)

Grab a rifle from one of the dead. Pick a group of enemy soldiers that are in the way to the objective and slow them down.

"Move it guys! Storm that group!"

Join the assault on said group, get into the fortress.