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Author Topic: SPACETIME YOGAQUEST - Turn 3.7 - update 16th Feb  (Read 27609 times)

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Re: SPACETIME YOGAQUEST - Turn 3.4
« Reply #165 on: December 16, 2016, 07:35:21 am »

Go back inside the dojo.
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Re: SPACETIME YOGAQUEST - Turn 3.4
« Reply #166 on: December 17, 2016, 01:48:07 pm »

Hohoho. I’m so bad at this GMing thing nowadays. Imagine if I only washed up every 2 weeks.

((I think the waiting is part of the fun, actually.))

"Uh, like..."

Jarvis' innocence is very much tested. On one hand, smoking is bad. On the other hand this man is a yoga master, surely he'd be an expert on good health.

"... well, maybe like... whoa, wait!"

Something occurs to poor Jarvis as he thinks. That voice. His mass of ideas crystallizes into a strangely coherent thought.

"Wait, I know you! You're from Shining Time Station! You're Mr. Conductor!"

Suddenly recognize the master. Point impertinently.
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Re: SPACETIME YOGAQUEST - Turn 3.4
« Reply #167 on: December 18, 2016, 04:18:19 pm »

((Yeah, Baldman's right. It makes it amazing when there is an update. And with this quality, it's well worth the wait.))
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Re: SPACETIME YOGAQUEST - Turn 3.4
« Reply #168 on: December 18, 2016, 04:23:23 pm »

"Okay. So, what kind of meesey ritual would we need to complete? Would it be...patriotic?"

Gentle pat the dead meese's corpse as a show of affection. Close it's eyelids if it still has some, otherwise just throw a crisp salute to a valiant meese, taken before its time.
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Re: SPACETIME YOGAQUEST - Turn 3.4
« Reply #169 on: December 18, 2016, 09:54:42 pm »

"Wait, so you collected meese to ritually sacrifice?"

Edith sort of shuffles around nervously. This doesn't feel as good guy ish as she was hoping. Not that much had.

Tentatively, she shuffles over to a meese and begins gently petting it.

"H-hey there, nice meese. You... you want me to help you collect sacrifices...?"

Prod meese for... information? A sign? Reassurance that this is a good idea?
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Re: SPACETIME YOGAQUEST - Turn 3.4
« Reply #170 on: December 23, 2016, 04:10:31 pm »


THE QUEST FOR BROMEDES… HERE – AND ELSEWHERE


Turn 3.6

Go back inside the dojo.

In America, Fisk goes back inside the dojo. [6] Like, really hard. He sits down on a bench against the wall, and half, for some reason, expects something totally bad to happen, but it doesn’t. In fact the ominous sense of something totally bad not actually happening begins to freak him out slightly. His friends are nowhere to be seen – he is alone except for sensei’s dead body, which is a bit creepy, and a glowing cupboard. Which is kind of creepy too, if you think about it.

He begins to think that perhaps, if he stays sitting in the dojo for long enough, either something totally bad will happen, or he’ll reach a higher level of yogic enlightenment. Or something?



Meanwhile, back on the steppe… the tundric steppe…

"Uh, like..."

"Er yeah? You wanna smoke some moss?"

"... well, maybe like... whoa, wait!"

Suddenly recognize the master. Point impertinently.

"Wait, I know you! You're from Shining Time Station! You're Mr. Conductor!"

"Er. What? I was the Narrator in Thomas the Tank Engine, dude."


"No really! Shining Time Station! You're Mr. Conductor!!"

Ringo turns a bit red in the cheek area.

"Dude, I was in Thomas the Fucking Tank Engine, okay? The only thing I ever conducted was the world-class rhythm section of the internationally famous pop-yoga pioneers the Beatles. Yeah? Stop fucking pointing, man. It's a sign of disrespect in some cultures, okay? And don't fucking ask me about Shining Time Station again."

"Errr... Okay. So, Mr Narrator sir, what kind of meesey ritual would we need to complete? Would it be...patriotic?"

”Well, you’d help the meese on their patriotic warquest, so, like, yeah, pretty patriotic, dude. What’s more patriotic than war? And riding into battle on ferocious warmeeses? And then, like, ritual sacrifice?”

"Wait, so you collected meese to ritually sacrifice?"

”What? Are you talking to me, or the meese? I didn’t collect any meese, man. Well, except those I collected with the natural magnetism of my charm, you know. But no.”

Ringo Starr takes another drag, exhaling great big dirty grey clouds of smoke.

”You sure you don’t want some? It’s just, like, traditional moss? Good for the sinuses, yeah? And the yoga. Anyway – I can see you, sort of shuffling around nervously there, young woman. Don’t worry, dude! It’s, like, a sign of respect in the meese culture to get sacrificed, you see? One tribe of meese fights another tribe of meese, some of the old and sick and defeated meeses get captured, and then like the victorious meese tribe just totally brutally sacrifices them with their hooves, dude – like, crushed meese blood everywh-“

He stares at the meeses all of a sudden, and then takes another much slower drag without taking his eyes off them.

Prod meese for... information? A sign? Reassurance that this is a good idea?

Apparently getting no further information out of the dazed former Beatle, Edith instead tries to communicate with a meese via the medium of prodding.

"H-hey there, nice meese. You... you want me to help you collect sacrifices...?"

[3] ”Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”

She wonders if perhaps she needs a specialised prodding stick. Or, like, a Meese-American dictionary. Yeah.

Gentle pat the dead meese's corpse as a show of affection. Close it's eyelids if it still has some, otherwise just throw a crisp salute to a valiant meese, taken before its time.

[4] Richard gently pats the dead meese and closes its eyes, straightens back up, and then looks down for a moment or two - as long as he feels gets across his respect for the patriotic warrior culture he has just discovered. Just as he begins to fiddle with his thumbs slightly uncomfortably, a pungent cloud blows across him as Ringo Starr exhales, a look of ecstatic terror on his face.

"Fuck, man. Like, dudes, these meeses are fucking animals, dudes. We can't be enablers of their vicious ritual sacrificing, yeah? Let’s topple this awful meese regime, man – are you with me? if you fight with me for freedom, I’ll totally take you to the portals myself. Yeah – like, on my fungal sled, dudes! It's you or me, man - I mean, them... or, like, me? Like, you help the meese fight the meese, or you can help me, fight the meese... to save the meese - for freedom! And, like, decency. And an end to senseless meese violence, man. What do you say?"


Ringo takes another long puff and looks at the four yogakas.





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Re: SPACETIME YOGAQUEST - Turn 3.4
« Reply #171 on: December 24, 2016, 01:19:07 pm »

"Whoa. That's, like... a powerful message, sir. I'm with you, Mr. Cond- uh, Mr. Narrator!"

I'd follow Mr. Conductor to the ends of the earth.
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Re: SPACETIME YOGAQUEST - Turn 3.4
« Reply #172 on: December 25, 2016, 06:52:26 am »

Edith looked a little uncertain.

"Um, wouldn't, um, liberating them from, um, sacrificing each other look an awful lot like raiding them to sacrifice? I mean, for the whole attacking them thing. I guess we wouldn't sacrifice them if we won?"

She paled a little.

"...w-would they sacrifice us if they won?"

Edith is leaning towards respecting their bloodthirsty culture of heathen atrocities.
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Re: SPACETIME YOGAQUEST - Turn 3.4
« Reply #173 on: December 25, 2016, 06:58:17 am »

"I don't know, mister conductor man. It seems awfully unpatriotic for us outsiders to decide how these meeses should wage their wars. It's like, their land and their culture, man. Who are you to say how they should do things on their own turf?"

Richard is leaning towards respecting the meeses culture, because it seems to be the patriotic thing to do.
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Re: SPACETIME YOGAQUEST - Turn 3.4
« Reply #174 on: December 25, 2016, 11:37:46 am »

Begin mopping up sensei's blood. Hope for the best.
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SPACETIME YOGAQUEST - Turn 3.7
« Reply #175 on: February 16, 2017, 06:39:55 am »


THE QUEST FOR BROMEDES… HERE, THERE…


Turn 3.7

”…So,” summarises Ringo Starr, unless anyone’s forgotten in the last six weeks and doesn’t want to re-read the last turn because I’ve done it for you, ”Let’s totally go and crush this meese tyranny for their own good! Yeah!”

"Whoa. That's, like... a powerful message, sir," agrees Jarvis, "I'm with you, Mr. Cond- uh, Mr. Narrator!"

Richard, however, is less sure!

"I don't know, mister conductor man. It seems awfully unpatriotic for us outsiders to decide how these meeses should wage their wars. It's like, their land and their culture, man. Who are you to say how they should do things on their own turf?"

"Um, wouldn't, um, liberating them from, um, sacrificing each other look an awful lot like raiding them to sacrifice? I mean, for the whole attacking them thing," ums Edith, before having a thought, "I guess we wouldn't sacrifice them if we won?"

”Er. Well. I didn’t, um, having any specific like, plans for after winning? Or something?”

"...w-would they sacrifice us if they won?"

”Absolutely. They’re barbarians, dude!”

”Um?"

”Er?"

"Uhuh."



And so it was that, democracy getting the better of Jarvis’s bloodthirsty liberationy urges, the three Yogakas find themselves, some several moments later, riding into glorious battle on the backs of a herd of meese. Not for liberation from tyranny, but for patriotism and sacrifice! The meese are swift- and sure-footed, and pad silently through the tundric snow, in and out of the trees, over shallow rising hills and across frozen streams, here and there with a satisfying crunch. It’s possible that one or two of the students drift off to sleep at some point, as the miles seem to float by as if in a dream. A dream where you’re not really sure what you’re doing, or why, and you cling tightly to the battle-ready sharpened antlers of a bloodthirsty meese, with red in his eyes and cold burning anger in his heart and teeth and whiteness all around.

But the hours do pass, real hours, with real cold fingers, except for Edith who has been partnered up with a lovely female meese with lovely soft meese hair for her to grip. She likes to think perhaps the meese is called Janis, and she’s just about nearly built up the courage to ask Janis if she’s called Janis when the herd comes to a sliding stop on the snow.

”Moooooooooooo!” cries a meese at the front of the herd, and slowly the meeses carrying Richard and Jarvis and Edith bustle their way to the head of the herd. There is some soft and subtle mooing, and a meese gently nuzzles its nose into Jarvis’s neck, wetly and warmly.

”Mooo.”

The herd and the Yogakas have stopped at a small pass between some low rocky hills on the tundra. It’s obvious that they must pass through, but the sad face of the meese nuzzling Jarvis seems to make it clear that they aren’t very keen on doing so.

”Do you think it’s because it’s… a bit quiet?"

”Too quiet?"

"It’s like that film, dudes."

”Or it could be something else?"

"Uh."

The children must help the meese vanquish the rival meese in order to travel through time, but they are reluctant to traverse this small rocky mountain pass. Whatever will they do next?!



Begin mopping up sensei's blood. Hope for the best.

[1] Meanwhile, Fisk is still in the dojo with Sensei’s body, and Sensei’s copious quantities of blood. He’s a nice cleanly boy, at heart, so he looks about for a mop, and finds one in a cupboard, next to a glowing time travel portal. He starts mopping up the blood when suddenly there’s a loud knock on the door.

”Open up! It’s the police! We’ve had reports of a disturbance here. Open up or we’re going to bust down the door, fellas!”

Fisk is so surprised he turns quicker than his blood soaked feet can support him, and he slips over. He slips a couple of times more as he gets back up. First he looks at the door across the room, and then he looks up and down himself. He is covered in Sensei’s blood. Clothes, hands, shoes. Everywhere.

”We know you’re in there! Right, get the doorbuster, Jerry.”







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Re: SPACETIME YOGAQUEST - Turn 3.7 - update 16th Feb
« Reply #176 on: February 16, 2017, 07:33:35 am »

"Aw Jeez, what the heck."
 Get up and jump through that time travel portal.
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« Reply #177 on: February 16, 2017, 10:16:03 am »

"Well uh, like... I guess we can, uh, think on this a while?"

Or to be exact, we can meditate! Consider the pass and what evil may lurk within. Obtain precious Yogic insight.
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« Reply #178 on: February 16, 2017, 03:28:49 pm »

"Oh, I know how to handle this!"

Burrow like an adorable, pretty typically blind mole through the snow, thereby scouting ahead without any vengeful meese noticing me!


((Grats on your relative health))
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« Reply #179 on: February 16, 2017, 08:39:27 pm »

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Er. So, like, my healthy new year has been going fairly well?
((That's good to hear. Read. You know what I mean.))

Richard puts his arm around the nearest meese.

"Like, I get it man. That mountain pass looks pretty scary. But you know what, I don't think you're scared of the mountain pass. I think we're all getting the heeby jeebies from what the pass represents. It's the gateway into enemy land, the gateway to battle. And that's way scary dude. But, you should, like, think why we're doing this. For your freedom, your duty, for your meesy brothers and sisters back home."

He pats the meese affectionately.

"But most of all for yourself, man. For yourself"

Converse with the meese, just loud enough so all of them can hear. After saying the above, hum a little tune to keep our patriotic spirits up.
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