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[Putnam]

SURPRISE SUNDAY UPDATE (because I thought last friday was actually a saturday whoops)

Pray to Hestur by saying his (her?) name thrice, then equip Eternal Shame.

You pray to Hestur. As usual, he doesn't answer.

You cannot equip eternal shame because eternal shame is an abstract concept that you've (abstractly) compartmentalized into (an abstract representation of) your inventory!

But now you're reminded of it. You throw it away. Abstractly. Heart is an awesome power.

>Go to the nearest tavern/temple/busyplace and talk to people, get a feel for the local problems, if there's any travelling soldiers to recruit, things like that.

You're already in the tavern! That's where well-traveled people tend to hang out. As for recruitment and local problems...

> Esxac is too weak to join you... So maybe you should find someone nearby who is strong enough. The "near" death experiences you've had might mean you need the extra firepower.

You're used to what you now know as heart powers. There's a lot of perfectly eligible soldiers now, but you want to make sure they're going to get along with the group. You don't want to break anyone's heart! Well, unintentionally.

Your band is still too large! That's a disappointment.

You get some better armor and weapons for your companions and ask the local mayor about troubles. He seems impressed at you, which is nice. You ask about beasts, he tells you about a bronze colossus.  That doesn't sound like a bad idea. It's big, but it's only one creature, and your sword can cut bronze like a hot knife through grub sauce.

Apparently the largest town of the region, Masterbook, has been taken over by bandits. Wow, that really needs to be taken care of. Maybe you could get an insurrection force going.

There's a bandit camp immediately to the east. Oooh. Harlin says that you could use that to test the extent of your powers. Unfortunately, the local bandits are notoriously friendly while in camp and killing them will be seen as the act of one who is unhinged.

What do you do?

INVENTORY:

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Some inconsequential clothes
Some consequential armor
Opossum leather waterskin (full)
Llama wool backpack
  Prepared gray langur lung [4]
  Armor grist [1]
  Weapon Grist [1]
  Stray Asparagus
  Honey Badger meat [5]
  Hemp plant fiber bag
    Asparagus [28]
Unbreakable Katana

SKILLS:

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  Butcher: 0.120
  Alchemist: 1.7166666
  Bladekind: 5.576
  Armor: 0.576
  Throwing: 0.540
  Sneaking: 0.008
  Swimming: 2.0257
  Tracking: 2.633333
  Observer: 4.308888
  Reading: 1.0
  Fighting: 2.0457
  Archery: 0.54
  Fistkind: 3.385
  Dodging: 0.768
  Experience points: 50

PARTY:

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  Glafli Unnask, Stress-filled and thoughtful.
  Excitement seekers:
   Herido Ebbeir, Curious and singleminded.
   Harlin Sjalda, Polite supergenius.

JOURNAL CONTENTS:

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You've heard rumors that The Abysses of Wilt, a group of bandits, is harassing Mostring, about a half-days travel to the west.
The Mint Shanks is harassing Lockskunks.
There's a troll (of the underground cyan-blooded big n' dumb sort, not the gray-skinned sort) a half-days travel to the west. False.
You've taken care of a bandit.
You've killed 3 night creatures. One of them killed you.
You've killed a bunny. It nearly killed you, ok???
The Sovereign Slayer is in the Shaft of Mining, far to the west.
The titan Ared the Pine of Flowers is in Skunkgrottoes, very far to the west.
There are bandits in Masterbook.
There's a bronze colossus to the east.
You are some sort of Hearty Person and your companions have Life and Rage. Nobody else seems to have these. You are confused by this, as is Harlin. The most likely explanation is that you three were destined to be together and wander and do random crap. Harlin is confused by this, as it doesn't seem to indicate much.

APPEARANCE:

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Very sparse, dry black hair in double braids; narrow ears with large lobes; short, upturned nose with convex bone bridge; broad head; thin lips; short, thin horns, at a very acute angle to the ground. All previous injuries, including missing teeth, have been healed. Brown blood.

[Graknorke]

Just how friendly are the bandits? I mean, using psychic powers nobody knows about isn't too outwardly aggressive, and I doubt they'd notice.

[Putnam]

The main problem is what the game does and does not recognize. It recognizes that killing poor, sweet, innocent, precious murdering highwaymen in their hidey-holes is aggressive, unhinged behavior.

Then again, I've been summarily ignoring the game for pretty much everything involving actual dialogue, so I'm not sure if that matters.

[Sergarr]

>bronze colossus
>doesn't sound like a bad idea

WELP

time to go colossus huntin'

Victory or Death! (it'll probably be death, haha)

[Graknorke]

Well to be fair, going to a camp and slaughtering everybody is aggressive and unhinged behaviour.
Okay other than that starting an insurrection sounds like fun. I've never actually carried one through before so this should be interesting. Also being a revolutionary is kind of mandatory for people with special powers.

EDIT: Ninjad... somehow?

[Sergarr]

Being a revolutionary is practically mandatory of the troll with brown blood.

But I'd suggest we buff our combat ability to at least legendary+5 level with swordkind and dodging, so that we can effortlessly slaughter the king's royal guards.

[Putnam]

Being a revolutionary is practically mandatory of the troll with brown blood.

But I'd suggest we buff our combat ability to at least legendary+5 level with swordkind and dodging, so that we can effortlessly slaughter the king's royal guards.

You ask Harlin about the emperor.

DIALOGLOG:

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HARLIN: Oh, the Emperor? He lives in Mostring, which you may recall was taken over by bandits.
GLAFLI: Uh, yeah, an insurrection might be too easy for me.
HARLIN: He managed to fight 3 night creatures and a minotaur without dying, mind.
GLAFLI: Pff. How do you know all this?
HARLIN: I've heard rumors.
GLAFLI: And you remember all of them?
HARLIN: Yes.

Besides that, an insurrection isn't really something you're interested in... at all. The humans have a bandit problem in their largest town, you never even considered revolution.

Well to be fair, going to a camp and slaughtering everybody is aggressive and unhinged behaviour.
Okay other than that starting an insurrection sounds like fun. I've never actually carried one through before so this should be interesting. Also being a revolutionary is kind of mandatory for people with special powers.

If it turns out that you're supposed to start an insurrection with your powers, you'd be so... well, actually, it would be about the same as if it were any other sort of weird destiny.

DIALOGLOG:

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GLAFLI: Any progress on figuring out what our powers are about?
HERIDO: I've been thinking about it a lot, but I can't say that I have any idea whatsoever.
HARLIN: I have a lot of ideas, each equally unlikely. We know nothing. Don't worry about it too much.

time to go colossus huntin'

You reach the lair of the colossus without difficulty. Wow that thing is big. You start combat immediately.

COMBATLOG:

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You draw the unbreakable katana with your Left hand.
You slash The Bronze Colossus in the left upper arm with your unbreakable katana and the severed part sails off in an arc!
The Bronze Colossus misses You!
You slash The Bronze Colossus in the head with your unbreakable katana and the severed part sails off in an arc!
Bronze Colossus has been struck down.

DIALOGLOG:

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HARLIN: Glafli, do you know what you've just done?
GLAFLI: I decapitated a bronze statue 6 times my height.
HARLIN: Cube it. 216 times your size. That's gigantic. You were right about it being an easy foe for you, but I didn't expect us to actually fight it. There's implications behind you killing that colossus.
GLAFLI: Oh, what would those be?
HARLIN: That colossus killed 61 people. Their lives are now considered avenged by you. When people learn--and they will--you will be thought of as the greatest warrior alive.
GLAFLI: Awesome! Making Hestur proud!
HARLIN: ...I don't remember that you worship Hestur. I'll have to consider the repercussions of that.
GLAFLI: ?
HARLIN: Nevermind. Glafli, have you heard of Oshot Selenokol?
GLAFLI: Oh. Oh, no.
HARLIN: People will expect great things of you. You killed a bronze colossus. They will expect you to kill the greatest threat to the world, no?
GLAFLI: I can't... do that! He's not like a bronze colossus, just because he's not as big doesn't mean he's not as dangerous!
GLAFLI: The colossus was stupid! The slayer can teleport, he can parry my every shot, he's smart. You can't expect me to...
HARLIN: I don't, because I saw you doing the deed. But they will.
GLAFLI: Shit. I hope you're wrong.
HARLIN: So do I. If you die again, that's it for you.

What do you do?

[Graknorke]

How about not going to fight the slayer right now, or really in the immediate future at all.

Also maybe finally we get to do some looting?

[cyberTripping]

>Try to get a trophy from this kill. Somehow.

[Sergarr]

Go kill those night creatures. On the way, try to find a shitty sord to train our swordkind skills.

[Putnam]

How about not going to fight the slayer right now, or really in the immediate future at all.

Also maybe finally we get to do some looting?

YES OKAY YES THAT'S GOOD

Looting. Okay. There's a bronze statue here. Wow this thing is heavy. It's called... "Abbeyabbey the Abbey Abbey Abbey-Abbery of Abbey"? You think the universe might be making fun of someone.

There's a couple boonbucks over there. Score.

You also try to pick up the Colossus' head to bring it back. Wow that thing is bigger than you. Which is to say, way too heavy.

>Try to get a trophy from this kill. Somehow.

Bronze statue, fuck yeah.

Go kill those night creatures. On the way, try to find a shitty sord to train our swordkind skills.

Which night creatures?

You head to the nearest tavern to rest and ask around. The mayor calls you a legend. Here we go.

Thankfully, he doesn't seem to treat you that differently. He tells you about his husband and yadda yadda all that stuff he'd say normally. This is nice. You ask about anyone well traveled and he leads you to a dersite in the back room. You guess every tavern has a back room dersite waiting for travelers? The dersite says yeah, that's about right. Name's Sinur. Pleased to meet you, there's a cyclops to the southwest, a vile hag mate just east of here, a freak bridegroom of shadow to the west, a vile troll (night creature, not you're kind) to the southwest, a  forest titan to the northwest, and a hill titan that's killed 60 far to the northwest.

Wow, uh, thanks, you say. That's quite a dump of info there. No problem, she says, just doing her duty as the well-traveled wise dersite in the back room. You ask how she feels about her duty. She says it's not perfect, but it's good enough. Why fret about it?* The Moist Tongues is a fine enough place to be.

The Moist Tongues, you ask? Yeah, Sinur says, trolls are weird.

You head into town to go to bed and sell off that awfully heavy statue. You find out that you have to go to another town to sell it off. Joy.

You got a big dump of info just now and you've got nothing to do with it. What do you do with it?

INVENTORY:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Some inconsequential clothes
Some consequential armor
Opossum leather waterskin (full)
Llama wool backpack
  Prepared gray langur lung [4]
  Armor grist [1]
  Weapon Grist [1]
  Stray Asparagus
  Honey Badger meat [5]
  Hemp plant fiber bag
    Asparagus [28]
Unbreakable Katana

SKILLS:

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  Butcher: 0.120
  Alchemist: 1.7166666
  Bladekind: 5.605
  Armor: 0.576
  Throwing: 0.540
  Sneaking: 0.032
  Swimming: 2.072857
  Tracking: 5.608
  Observer: 4.31111
  Reading: 1.0
  Fighting: 2.09142857
  Archery: 0.54
  Fistkind: 3.385
  Dodging: 0.774
  Experience points: 200

PARTY:

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  Glafli Unnask, Stress-filled and thoughtful.
  Excitement seekers:
   Herido Ebbeir, Curious and singleminded.
   Harlin Sjalda, Polite supergenius.

JOURNAL CONTENTS:

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You've heard rumors that The Abysses of Wilt, a group of bandits, is harassing Mostring, about a half-days travel to the west.
The Mint Shanks is harassing Lockskunks.
There's a troll (of the underground cyan-blooded big n' dumb sort, not the gray-skinned sort) a half-days travel to the west. False.
You've taken care of a bandit.
You've killed 3 night creatures. One of them killed you.
You've killed a bunny. It nearly killed you, ok???
The Sovereign Slayer is in the Shaft of Mining, far to the west. Pls no.
The titan Ared the Pine of Flowers is in Skunkgrottoes, very far to the west.
There are bandits in Masterbook.
There's a bronze colossus to the east. Dead. Destroyed? Deactivated.
There's a hill titan in The Natural Glade far to the northwest. It's killed almost as many as the colossus.
You have a heavy-ass statue on you that you need to drop off somewhere.
You are some sort of Hearty Person and your companions have Life and Rage. Nobody else seems to have these. You are confused by this, as is Harlin. The most likely explanation is that you three were destined to be together and wander and do random crap. Harlin is confused by this, as it doesn't seem to indicate much.

APPEARANCE:

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Very sparse, dry black hair in double braids; narrow ears with large lobes; short, upturned nose with convex bone bridge; broad head; thin lips; short, thin horns, at a very acute angle to the ground. All previous injuries, including missing teeth, have been healed. Brown blood.

*author's note: direct quote from the game

[Untrustedlife]

Go tomb raiding, why you ask, because its contraty to your nsture and would be fun for you as a player. (oh yeah, and you might get cut to pieces by a sword trap, its fun)


and because you might get cool loot.

[Sergarr]

Go kill those night creatures. On the way, try to find a shitty sord to train our swordkind skills.

Which night creatures?

AAAAAAAALL OF THEM.

Make them pay with their blood for their evildoings!

[Putnam]

Go tomb raiding, why you ask, because its contraty to your nsture and would be fun for you as a player. (oh yeah, and you might get cut to pieces by a sword trap, its fun)


and because you might get cool loot.

You don't even know where a tomb is! Besides, you've heard about curses. Brutal, those are.

Which night creatures?

AAAAAAAALL OF THEM.

Make them pay with their blood for their evildoings!

Yeah, night creature hunting seems a good enough profession. Damn things are like vermin.

In fact, when you head into town to sell your crap, one attacks you.

It's a long, difficult fight. Damn things are slippery. Harlin gets dangerously close to bleeding to death, but she manages to heal after the night creature dies. Herido loses his right hand, and is unconscious from the pain. You try to see if you can wake him up. You can't. Harlin tries, too, and finds that she can, but he falls right back in. You try to alleviate the pain and fail. Harlin tries and finds that she can't really do that without healing him to full--which she can't do, since she just did that to herself.

He eventually gets up and follows you. You managed to sell off the statue for 6600 units. Probably way less than it's worth, but it's not like you have much use for money to begin with.

Herido tells you about a night creature hovel very nearby. You decide to go there immediately.

You think you know where your friends' near-death experience came from.

Unfortunately, nothing was there but an unfortunate bandit, whom Herido noticed and quickly took care of.

You are standing in the fortress of Masterbook. There's a lot of adventure to be had here, with dark fortresses to the west, huge amounts of night creature nearby, and no less than 35 groups claiming the place for themselves.

What do you do?

INVENTORY:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Some inconsequential clothes
Some consequential armor
Opossum leather waterskin (full)
Llama wool backpack
  Prepared gray langur lung [4]
  Armor grist [1]
  Weapon Grist [1]
  Stray Asparagus
  Honey Badger meat [5]
  Hemp plant fiber bag
    Asparagus [28]
Unbreakable Katana

SKILLS:

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  Butcher: 0.120
  Alchemist: 1.7166666
  Bladekind: 5.727
  Armor: 0.720
  Throwing: 0.540
  Sneaking: 0.18
  Swimming: 2.072857
  Tracking: 6.6209
  Observer: 4.413
  Reading: 1.0
  Fighting: 2.29571429
  Archery: 0.54
  Fistkind: 3.3925
  Dodging: 0.804
  Experience points: 220

PARTY:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

  Glafli Unnask, Stress-filled and thoughtful.
  Excitement seekers:
   Herido Ebbeir, Curious and singleminded.
   Harlin Sjalda, Polite supergenius.

JOURNAL CONTENTS:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You've heard rumors that The Abysses of Wilt, a group of bandits, is harassing Mostring, about a half-days travel to the west.
The Mint Shanks is harassing Lockskunks.
There's a troll (of the underground cyan-blooded big n' dumb sort, not the gray-skinned sort) a half-days travel to the west. False.
You've taken care of a few bandits.
You've killed 4 night creatures. One of them killed you.
You've killed a bunny. It nearly killed you, ok???
The Sovereign Slayer is in the Shaft of Mining, far to the west. Ehhheh.
The titan Ared the Pine of Flowers is in Skunkgrottoes, very far to the west.
There are bandits in Masterbook. Or maybe there aren't? They're certainly nearby. They haven't taken over, though.
There's a bronze colossus to the east. Dead. Destroyed? Deactivated?
There's a hill titan in The Natural Glade far to the northwest. It's killed almost as many as the colossus.
You are some sort of Heart Person and your companions have Life and Rage. Nobody else seems to have these. You are confused by this, as is Harlin. The most likely explanation is that you three were destined to be together and wander and do random crap. Harlin is confused by this, as it doesn't seem to indicate much.

APPEARANCE:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Very sparse, dry black hair in double braids; narrow ears with large lobes; short, upturned nose with convex bone bridge; broad head; thin lips; short, thin horns, at a very acute angle to the ground. All previous injuries, including missing teeth, have been healed. Brown blood.

[Graknorke]

(you totally missed the opportunity to put "singlehanded" into Herido's party entry)

See if we can't buy some equipment with that money, armour could do with being padded out.
And it's underlings that live in dark fortresses right? If so that might be a good way to go to get geared up via grist, since as it turns out animalistic monsters don't have much in the way of property.