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Author Topic: The Way of Exile [A Procedurally Generated Surreal RTD] 4/4  (Read 8291 times)

NJW2000

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Re: The Way of Exile [A Procedurally Generated Surreal RTD] 4/4
« Reply #90 on: December 16, 2015, 05:39:31 pm »

Oh, I totally want to get in on this. Add me to the waiting list, please.

I'll make my character depending on who's left when/if it's my turn to join.
Sure.

Grab a jar(s) and seal it (and some of the ambient air) and some samples of the infection (seal them in some other jars). I may want to study this later. Head North.
I guess you can have some jars from the lepers, they won't be using them.

Hobble north.

Walking round the curve of the the lake along the shoreline, skirting the edges of shipwrecks to avoid any watchers from the place Orn went, you reach the giant cloud of dust, smog and mist, nothing visible on either side as the opaque wall looms up. You realise you have lost Christina. A look back reveals a figure pacing towards the buildings, again met by two more indistinguishable figures.

  You step in. Little can be seen in any direction as a combination of smog, mist and fog blackets the marshy land here, small streams running through the muddy peat and moss. Setting off North, you begin to approach a vaguely distinguishable hill in the distance, before being approached almost at once by a figure in regal yet archaic clothing covered completely in mud.

  "Ho, strangers! Do you support Harold Hrothulf as king of this noble marsh? He is a true gentle, and a man of great nobility, no matter what others might say!"

He waits for you to reply, but looks as if he half-expects you to keep on walking and ignore him.

  "He means no harm," whispers the voice in Sam's ear, apparently trying to make up for its lack of comment earlier. He picked it up in the Dune Tunnel, a tiny invertebrate that promised, in exchange for a bit of sightseeing and a fine diet of earwax, to sniff out betrayl, secrets and guilt in the minds of others, and tell Sam about it.

  "There's somthing malevolent in the trees near that hill. Very simple, but it's planning something nasty, all it can do, it seems."

  "Well do you pledge your support, to any extent that you might wish to give, to Harold Hrothulf?"

 The muddy figure looks at you, now a little dispiritedly. A dog barks somewhere off in the marsh, and several others join in. Another figure approaches, also covered in mud, calling from a long way off, "Edwin Cyneric for the one true King of the marsh! He has the bloodline, the mudline and the strength of character!"

All that is visible is the hill, with trees near the base, past inummerable ditches, depressions and gullies of mud, mist and rainwater. You're already soaked and a little dirty, just from the atmosphere in the cloud. There are trees near the base. You could go round, or out any side of the fog, or straight to the hill. But you can't see much from here. Do you listen to the somewhat eccentric person, or press on?
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Re: The Way of Exile [A Procedurally Generated Surreal RTD] 4/4
« Reply #91 on: December 16, 2015, 08:34:40 pm »

"Thank you, [insert the name of the cockroach here]."

"If you bring all of the candidates together and allow them to explain why we should vote for them, we will vote. Otherwise, we will move on."
« Last Edit: December 16, 2015, 08:37:58 pm by ATHATH »
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Re: The Way of Exile [A Procedurally Generated Surreal RTD] 4/4
« Reply #92 on: December 16, 2015, 09:09:01 pm »

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a tiny invertebrate that promised, in exchange for a bit of sightseeing and a fine diet of earwax, to sniff out betrayl, secrets and guilt in the minds of others, and tell Sam about it.

((In other words, an empathic babel fish?))

"Why should we care about ther squabbles? Waste of our time."

Vote to press on.
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« Reply #93 on: December 17, 2015, 03:48:47 pm »

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a tiny invertebrate that promised, in exchange for a bit of sightseeing and a fine diet of earwax, to sniff out betrayl, secrets and guilt in the minds of others, and tell Sam about it.

((In other words, an empathic babel fish?))

"Why should we care about ther squabbles? Waste of our time."

Vote to press on.
"They may be significant. This election may affect the nearby area for years to come. We should learn more about it before we judge it."
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*slow clap* Well ATHATH congratulations. You managed to give the MC a mental breakdown before we even finished the first arc.
I didn't even read it first, I just saw it was ATHATH and noped it. Now that I read it x3 to noping

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« Reply #94 on: December 17, 2015, 06:15:50 pm »

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a tiny invertebrate that promised, in exchange for a bit of sightseeing and a fine diet of earwax, to sniff out betrayl, secrets and guilt in the minds of others, and tell Sam about it.

((In other words, an empathic babel fish?))

"Why should we care about ther squabbles? Waste of our time."

Vote to press on.
Nope, not a Babel fish, it just senses betrayl, guilt, etc, and can read these. It can also smell nasty intentions generally, but more vaguely. I guess an incomplete Babel fish?

I'd probably put you at a standstill with a split vote, at this point, though it doesn't matter really right now.


"Thank you, [insert the name of the cockroach here]."

"If you bring all of the candidates together and allow them to explain why we should vote for them, we will vote. Otherwise, we will move on."
(Aren't you going to name it yourself?)

The figure immediately breaks off, looks shocked and starts talking again even faster.

"Harold Hrothulf would never agree to meet with idiots like Simeon Cyneheard! You know, that man catches ferrets and tames them! The very idea!"

By this point, the second figure has arrived, covered head to toe in mud, sloshing loudly about.

"Cyneheard, while not embodying the qualities of a leader present in the noble Edwin, is a fine man, and would make a fine underling for Cyneric! How dare you suggest otherwise? But it's quite true that neither would be seen dead with the fool Alfred Aethelwine."

"Cyneric? The man's an idiot! He's nearly as bad as Wilbur Oswine!"

A third figure, this one seemingly composed almost entirely of fog, dirt, mist, mud and water, approaches.

"Alfred Aethelwine for the true king of the marsh! Let all who say otherwise be outed as simpletons!"

The squabbling redoubles.

"It's clear you're not going to get a sensible answer out of that lot," comes the voice in Sam's ear.


  Then a leopard breaks out of the dirty water about you, sending clods of sticky earth flying as it erupts. Muscled and graceful, the huge cat snarls as it seemingly appears from the ground. The greyed out pattern of black on brown disguises it perfectly against the fog and earth, seemingly a ripple through the air until it springs at you.

  Mia and Sam notice it almost as soon as it touches the surface of the water, a screamed warning in Sam's ear setting him spinning desperately, as the beast flies foward, its teeth pulled back in a grimace. Kahn, however, is facing in completely the wrong direction, the leopard going striaght for his back.

  The muddy figures jump in front of it heroically, slowing the creature down slightly as it stretches towards a hapless Kahn in midair and smashes into them, then dissolving into showers of earth and water, delaying it just long enough for Kahn to duck away. They did look pretty muddy, and the puddles at the feet of the leopard seem to be trying to grab it. It tosses its head nonchalantly, apparently unfazed by the defeat, and springs back and away into the water and fog, suddenly undetectable again. Its growls can be heard as it circles, however, and the two pools of very dirty water struggle to form themselves into bodies again, swearing all the while.

((Right, actions will be in combat time, almost bullet time, but you can still use objects, abilities, whatever in this period, just no real dialogue or long tasks. Also, would you rather I show the rolls or not? Just wondered.))
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Re: The Way of Exile [A Procedurally Generated Surreal RTD] 4/4
« Reply #95 on: December 17, 2015, 08:58:54 pm »

"Lion? Or Tiger? No, Leopard, definitely. Probably quite warm pelt."
Predict where it will strike next, and shiv it with the knife that it would make sense for me to have.
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« Reply #96 on: December 18, 2015, 02:52:50 am »

Brandish my cloth menacingly, and be ready to towel whip the leopard if he comes close.
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« Reply #97 on: December 18, 2015, 06:28:38 pm »

"You fellows are immortal? I must investigate this later."

Project a feeling of "Stop" through the orb at the tiger.

What was the one thing that I could get the orb to do, again?
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« Reply #98 on: December 18, 2015, 07:05:54 pm »

"You fellows are immortal? I must investigate this later."

Project a feeling of "Stop" through the orb at the tiger.

What was the one thing that I could get the orb to do, again?
Glow in the dark. The spinning spheres also keep time fairly well.

The spheres in the orb stop suddenly, then jerk back into their constant pattern of movement again. The entire party suddenly experiences a shock, ripples of muddy water several feet high looping out in all directions. The two swamp men complain loudly as their legs are shifted several metres away from their torsos.


"Lion? Or Tiger? No, Leopard, definitely. Probably quite warm pelt."
Predict where it will strike next, and shiv it with the knife that it would make sense for me to have.
Yeah, I guess I'll leave a bit of quantum uncertainty to some extent in the items of exiles, realising they had a bit of a raw deal.

Loot roll: 6. You got the knife.


Brandish my cloth menacingly, and be ready to towel whip the leopard if he comes close.
You get out handfuls of flax and wave them about. Are you keeping that artifact the elders gave you on your wrist or in your bag, by the way? Or somewhere else? Hint hint



Mia, stilling rocking from the impact, gestures roughly at the leopard's location, as it charges out of the water, somewhat slowed by the minature tsunami breaking across its legs. One of the swamp men falls over impotently, the other trips over him and catches the creature in the head with a chestful of mud, momentarily disorienting it. Kahn frops most of his flax and scrounges for more on the ground, while Mia stabs the leopard in the flank, tearing through the muscle. Sam manages to get a desultory kick at the beast as it goes for his throat, and the two collide, tumbling over and over.

A sharp whack on the nose with the orb completely halts the leopard's bite, but Sam is left lying on the ground alongside it, as the two pools of mud surge over the temporarily stunned but by no means defeated cat.
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« Reply #99 on: December 18, 2015, 07:17:51 pm »

Perform invasive science on the felid.
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« Reply #100 on: December 19, 2015, 10:44:01 am »

"That... Actually worked!"

Continue to bash the tiger. I shall investigate the orb more later.
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« Reply #101 on: December 19, 2015, 01:16:22 pm »

((The bangle? Let's say I'm wearing it on my wrist.))

Scrounge around in my beard for something sharp to defend myself with.
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« Reply #102 on: December 19, 2015, 06:50:21 pm »

"That... Actually worked!"

Continue to bash the tiger. I shall investigate the orb more later.
((The bangle? Let's say I'm wearing it on my wrist.))

Scrounge around in my beard for something sharp to defend myself with.
Perform invasive science on the felid.
Loot roll:5. Okay, preferably that's enough quantum wavelengths of gear being collapsed by rolls now, but you don't have many weapons.

Against all odds, Kahn actually finds a razorblade left over from careless shaving in his beard, and throws it at the leopard's chest, a fine spray of blood misting the air with each subsequent breath, though it rolls over onto Sam regardless. Mia jumps towards the animal with the knife, only grazing the haunch, while Sam manages to get his hands around its jaws, desperately holding them open inches from his sweating face. One muddy pool mostly coats the leopard and whines, the other reforms into a more manlike form and thrashes the beast about the head with fistfuls of water, making it hack up blood as liquid flows down into its already punctured lung.
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« Reply #103 on: December 19, 2015, 07:03:46 pm »

Butcher! Make a new coat to wear on top of my coat!
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« Reply #104 on: December 19, 2015, 08:49:06 pm »

"Not yet... There is still more to discover!"

Shove the leopard off of my chest and bash its head in.
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*slow clap* Well ATHATH congratulations. You managed to give the MC a mental breakdown before we even finished the first arc.
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