00:12:26 ER: posted again.
syv Devastator
00:14:19 syv: Okay, paying attention again
00:26:23 syv: "Darlenegant" looks like someone tried to make a pun on "elegant" by mixing it with Darlene, but failed miserably.
00:35:42 ER: hey, do we want to watch anime tonight?
00:36:30 syv: You too can try out Re:Zero if you want.
00:36:41 syv: I think I'll be trying to take a nap soon.
00:36:46 syv: Tomorrow will likely be long.
00:39:41 ER: I'll see if
Dev has input before letting Ariane out of the room
00:51:02 syv: I'm going to sleep soon, anyway.
00:51:20 Piecewise: who naps, ya dang cat
00:51:42 Piecewise: Just go to bed at 9pm and wake up at 4am like a normal person
00:51:56 syv: People who are stressed out of their mind that if they're not around to talk a friend down, they're going to jump off a twenty story building.
00:53:03 Piecewise: I suggest you get that friend some professional help
00:54:01 syv: At this point that seems a bit dumb. It's literally the first thing *everyone* says, including me, months ago. -.-
01:00:07 ER: i dunno man might be the right call~
01:01:21 Piecewise: I mean, what else can someone say?
01:01:32 Piecewise: "Have you tried handcuffing them to a bed?"
01:02:31 Piecewise: I mean good for you for trying to help
01:02:46 Piecewise: But I ain't got much I can respond to that with
01:03:26 syv: Just gets a little tiring hearing the same thing repeatedly. And I'm already tired.
01:04:09 Piecewise: Well, I hope it works out and that you don't have to be the one handling it much longer. Since it is exhausting to have to try and keep dragging someone back out of their personal problems
01:07:48 syv: It's looking like it'll be the government's problem within the next few days, so yes, not much longer. Hopefully.
02:06:40 ER: post something in Ariane's pls :o
02:09:28 Devastator: I'm okay with exiting, just want to be cautious.
02:24:22 Devastator: I just said that before recieiving your last one, because I realized I forgot to do so after sending it.
02:36:11 ER: do you want to ask who you are?
02:36:44 Devastator: only if we aren't Ariane.
02:36:56 Devastator: I was assumign that we were.
02:37:25 ER: Then the only information you want is if your name is Ariane?
02:38:17 Devastator: we're dreaming, so I can't trust anything we see or hear here. Our memories are trustworthy, but what we see here isn't.
02:38:28 Devastator: I wouldn't mind more information, but it's only comparative.
02:38:35 Devastator: what our memories are is trustworthy.
02:38:56 Devastator: sure, if we aren't Ariane, then answer who we are.
02:39:42 ER: Now, can I ask why you say you're dreaming?
02:41:13 Devastator: Because I'm going to believe such until there's a physical injury, most likely.
02:45:41 Devastator: because false awakenings are a thing..
02:58:54 Devastator: writing extinction for a minute.
02:59:51 ER: do they cause a quake or do they just explode into rocks?
03:08:43 Devastator: not sure if to bolt down the hallway or to touch the figure and bolt down the hallway. Or to try and leap over it.
03:09:16 ER: You can get to the door on your right without having to get past them
03:09:26 Devastator: does Ariane feel particularly capable?
03:09:37 Devastator: she is cold and just got out of water.
03:10:03 ER: but she is quite capable in general
03:10:28 Devastator: so she's sleepy, eh? Missed that.
03:10:39 ER: I don't think I mentioned it
03:10:40 Devastator: posted, but it's just a question.
03:23:42 Devastator: can't help but feel I'm being cowardly.
03:25:10 Devastator: It's not unreasonable, but the unrealness of the area might mean more boldness.
03:36:02 Devastator: wonder if this is the figure's cell.
03:37:38 Devastator: is the figurine us?
03:38:58 ER: Well, that could describe you. Ariane didn't describe it that way mentally.
03:39:29 ER: Feel free to apply more scrutiny in the actual "thread"
03:39:59 Devastator: just haven't seen tail, but know MC is catgirl.
03:40:00 ER: Ariane thinks fast, so asking backgruond questions and such is a free action
03:40:14 Devastator: she does have one, right?
03:42:13 ER: Again, I'll encourage you to ask questions in PM, so that I can answer them in writing-mode and have them in the thread where they can be found. :P
03:42:28 Devastator: Yeah, just thinking.
03:42:51 Devastator: I'm writing, "examine the figurine and see if it's us" already.
03:47:55 Devastator: there's no normal way to ask 'do I have a tail' that doesn't seem like a stupid question when written down.
03:49:24 Devastator: unless you're pulling a 'trence turns into something' kind of thing.
03:50:40 Devastator: I think I've gone a bit mad from running a game where I have a character completely oblivious to turning into something from moment to moment.
03:51:26 ER: Well, I can say that Ariane could tell you exactly what she is, if you'd ask.
03:51:41 ER: Think I'll wait for
syv at this junction.
03:52:00 Devastator: should have worked in an 'examine self' line in there.
03:52:11 Devastator: can you add that to the examine figurine bit there?
03:53:22 ER: oh yeah, I also mentioned "tapeta lucida"
03:54:13 Devastator: so good darkvision but not supernaturally good darkvision, and cat ears.
03:54:17 ER: thank the gods for wikipedia
03:57:08 ER: do you like the save room theme? :P
03:58:20 Devastator: hope just sitting down is saving.
03:58:43 ER: I'm just asking if you like the music
03:59:51 Devastator: Just didn't listen to it. Have a video in the background already.
04:02:30 Devastator: I'll have to ask you next time to DwR something. You've always got music ready.
04:04:38 ER: not as many with lyrics, sadly
04:04:50 ER: and even fewer with optimistic lyrics ;p
04:06:06 Devastator: not even one about a rampaging wolf?
04:10:48 ER: "rip it up, tear it down! This is what it's like to be free!"
04:12:01 Devastator: that does sound useful.
04:12:37 ER: It seems it's just out of sight
04:12:37 ER: The ones with answers always get their way
04:12:37 ER: But I think they should know
04:12:37 ER: That I'm coming for them now
04:13:03 Devastator: yeah, definately good.
04:20:33 Devastator: Hope I'm not being a completely idiot.
04:21:22 ER: there are some options here, which is why I'll see what
syv wants to do.
04:21:46 Devastator: right now leaning towards touching the guy, after asking like a couple questions.
04:21:50 Devastator: such as 'where am I.'
04:23:14 Devastator: and 'where are my clothes'
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04:55:43 ER: Did a few rounds of Ariane's with
Dev, but at this junction I'm waiting for you because there's lots of things you could do.
04:56:27 Devastator: was thinking of asking some basic questions and then just touching the robed wizard.
04:56:42 Devastator: it'll probably disintegrate, because that's what robed wizards do..
04:57:47 ER: also, played some DnD today
04:58:41 ER: but he doesn't want to hurt people, see
04:59:26 ER: (and isn't necessarilly smart enough to know when extending forgiveness is a bad idea)
04:59:49 syv: Haven't checked catgirl game yet, but will in a min.
05:00:11 ER: very minmaxed ability scores, even though I rolled them rather than pointbuying
05:00:14 syv: Kinda just suddenly popped awake. I accidentally set my alarm 12 hours off, because it's a stupid design.
05:00:24 ER: he's got... 5 Intelligence and 6 dexterity
05:00:48 ER: but great strength constritution and charisma
05:01:02 Devastator: congrats, you have a character who can actually use half-plate. ;-p
05:01:25 ER: hmm, I think half-plate is medium armor in 5e?
05:01:43 ER: for now he has chain because that's the heavy armor paladins can start with
05:01:55 Devastator: it's the +0 max dex bonus armour in 3 and 3.5e
05:02:20 Devastator: which no PC ever wears because full plate has +1 max and 1 point more AC. Just costs more.
05:02:29 ER: he really wants something with no dex to AC, so heavy only
05:03:45 ER: in 5e, light is armor value + dex, medium is armor value + dex (to a max of +2) and heavy is just the armor value
05:03:59 ER: so Dorn really, really wants to always be wearing heavy armor
05:04:26 syv: Do you still have flatfooted and touch AC?
05:04:37 syv: Former is armor only, latter is dex only.
05:04:55 Devastator: it'd be +12 or something in 1st ed. ;-p
05:05:05 Devastator: (IE, two levels below zero.)
05:05:22 syv: So reading over catgirlgame, I agree quite well with
Dev.
05:05:29 syv: I'd like to add to hurry, though.
05:05:49 Devastator: ahh, I wanted to rest like a single minute. Hurrying is fine.
05:07:23 syv: Also, I suggest going back into the starting room instead of running past. We did a full circle around it, I think, and could walk that whole area.
05:07:39 Devastator: I think we did already.
05:07:42 Devastator: it had us check the full wall.
05:07:48 Devastator: do a lap after finding the door.
05:07:58 Devastator: unless there's another exit from the well, or something in the ceiling..
05:08:04 syv: So we can lure Mr. Glowstick into the water if he's dumb and always beelines, or just get distance on him if he follows the edge/
05:08:26 Devastator: I'm fine with talking in that room, it'd let us bypass.
05:08:32 Devastator: but lets see what the questions say first.
05:08:55 Devastator: also, I don't think we can push him. Pushing while naked probably involves touching.
05:09:03 Devastator: unless we get him with the chair or something.
05:19:14 ER: Ariane's dump stat is strength, btw~
05:20:12 Devastator: dump as in 10 or dump as in 4?
05:21:15 Devastator: figurine goes in tail.
05:21:38 ER: I'm fairly certain that cat tails aren't prehensile
05:23:13 Devastator: well, yes, but we're just holding it. She is good at dex, presumably..
05:24:58 Devastator: or we could forget the chair.
05:36:34 ER: I guess
syv is busy for a moment
05:43:08 ER: Should I go with this or wait for
syv?
05:47:54 Devastator: I'll be here a while.
06:05:42 Devastator: okay, I'll break down.
06:05:47 Devastator: and go for the touch.
06:08:43 Devastator: did I reply-to-all that?
06:11:19 ER: ...I feel a little guilty to go through with things like that without
syv
06:12:14 Devastator: can reload if it fails utterly. ;-p
06:16:59 Devastator: cly we need a tail upgrade to get the prehensile one. ;-p
06:18:10 ER: sorry, those are only available prenatally
06:18:38 ER: you could have a kid with a monkey tail if you wanted to pay a wizard a bunch of money for a gimmick-child, though
06:19:02 Devastator: is that what happened to her?
06:21:00 ER: yeah, she's a catgirl because some rich people paid a wizard to have a catgirl daughter.
06:21:25 syv: Should've put statuette in mouth.
06:21:40 Devastator: Eh, we still have it.
06:21:46 ER: see, even I didn't think of that
06:21:49 Devastator: so we touching the wizard?
06:23:20 Devastator: I much prefer our odds from a position where the wizard can't grab us.
06:25:15 syv: The wizard seems to want to touch.
06:25:39 syv: If he's blind, that means nobody has seen us naked!
06:26:44 Devastator: ok, lets keep moving then.
06:26:51 Devastator: hopefully we'll find a place to nap or something.
06:27:19 syv: Shiiit, we should've grabbed the lantern.
06:28:38 ER: or taken a woodcarving knife, or looked in the wardrobe. ;P
06:40:22 syv: Yeah, this one's straightforward.
06:46:49 syv: Mine says to speak in case there's another no-touchy.
06:47:05 syv: Would rather they respond *before* we're in the darkness and stumbling about.
06:47:31 Devastator: I think a touchy one would glow.
06:48:02 ER: assuming there's only touchy ones to worry about.
06:48:10 syv: Maybe they can close their eyes.
06:48:23 ER: surely not their mouths, though
06:50:21 Devastator: so be quiet then,
syv?
06:52:43 ER: aww, that would have been a fun time to roll a 9. but a lucky time to roll a 13.
06:54:16 syv: We have door. Door is valuable tool if something dangerous is in there.
06:55:38 Devastator: ..I'm not seeing a decision here.
06:55:42 Devastator: pick up whatever shot at us?
06:56:59 ER: decide amongst yourselves, my freinds! :D
06:57:49 syv: If there was a trap there, good chance there's something worth protecting.
06:58:01 syv: ...Uh, also kneel down and feel the floor before entering.
06:58:32 syv: Figure out how the trap works, and make sure there's not somehow a reset, or a second trap.
06:58:51 ER: oh, you did enter the room with that dodge-hop
06:58:57 syv: We are underground, so might be dealing with dwarves. Dwarves would totally put another trap right--oh.
07:00:54 Devastator: lets crawl our way through now. Maybe get a stick?
07:02:05 Devastator: we need that damn lantern.
07:02:09 Devastator: so lets take two more jumps and get it.
07:12:50 Devastator: do we get xp for overcoming the trap?
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08:42:50 syv: Sent a mindless +1 since
Dev's action is really quite reasonable there.
08:43:26 syv: Though I'm not sure what the picking up the corners is about. Checking for danger of some kind? Trying to spring any trap?
08:43:46 Devastator: It's to see if the crates themselves are trapped.
08:43:50 Devastator: which seems unlikely.
08:43:58 Devastator: plus it might jostle loose a trap on the contents.
08:45:02 ER: time for Ariane to step in a mouse trap, feeling around blindly in absolute darkness
08:46:36 Devastator: but nah, that ax trap seems like the big one. Wonder if this is just the guy's storeroom or a link into the whole dungeon.
08:57:16 syv: Damn imperium is trying to seduce our women with bishies.
08:57:51 syv: I still haven't made
Dev play that.
08:58:18 syv: What was it... human feet, hands, ears, eyes?
09:00:10 ER: well, your special cats character is a girl who is a cat
09:00:43 Devastator: think we should go get lantern and clothing now?
09:00:45 syv: Ohh, it was human vocal cords, not human eyes.
09:00:48 ER: though I guess they don't have a word for "girl"
09:01:01 Devastator: Yeah cats would have a word for girl..
09:02:28 syv: A cloth sack is some kind of covering, at the least.
09:02:42 Devastator: you wan tot jump back and get that lantern?
09:03:01 Devastator: we probably really should touch the wizard anyway.
09:03:24 syv: Wood-carving tools were what Egan was referring to with that knife mention.
09:03:50 Devastator: lets take the sack, the squishy thing, the metal disk, and if we can carry it, a pickaxe next to the door. We can pick them up on the way out.
09:03:57 syv: Not sure if wood-carving knives are okay for stabbing, or if that's just standard knife, but either way it's enough to fashion a sack into clothing.
09:04:17 ER: it's better than nothing TM
09:04:43 syv: ...Sack might be better used for an inventory buff than clothes.
09:05:15 syv: We didn't check the dresser.
09:05:29 syv: I still don't want to touch the wizard. He said he needed us.
09:06:05 syv: I'm not against asking him more, though.
09:06:16 Devastator: I don't think he can answer questions at this point.
09:06:25 Devastator: probably turned into a monster because we didn't touch him.
09:06:33 Devastator: or mindless or something.
09:06:36 ER: it sure is a good thing that having decent equipment would give you a +1 here, because you don't have good equipment
09:07:13 ER: it just means that she's more badass theoretically, in a better situation!~
09:10:38 syv:
Dev, are you against taking manacles?
09:10:53 Devastator: manacles are really heavy.
09:10:55 syv: They could rattle, but we already have lots of stuff in there.
09:11:35 Devastator: what would we use them for, anyway?
09:12:10 ER: You could use them to drown yourself in the pit
09:12:43 Devastator: that might do something. ;-p
09:13:08 Devastator: yeah, figurine is good.
09:20:04 Devastator: "emphasizing the truly wonderfully absurd nature of this setup, the shells and their charges, had to be moved to the gun from the magazines by means of a small looped railway system, complete with siding, that was built directly on the deck of the monitor."
09:22:09 Devastator: WW1 british coastal monitor. They had some stray large warship guns, and put them on pretty small ships with shallow drafts for use as coastal bombardment guns.
09:22:12 syv:
ER, is the voice the same as the man's?
09:23:31 syv: Okay, so probably not a degrading transformation. But probably also not a possession by a singular mind.
09:23:40 syv: Odd that there's a dog speaking.
09:24:07 Devastator: "What's with the water? I have no intention of drowning."
09:24:13 Devastator: and then we just jump anyway.
09:24:33 syv: The fact that it wants specifically to *have* Ariane implies something about the touch only working once.
09:25:01 syv: This also doesn't sound very selfless.
09:25:42 syv: We don't know what the waters are, but at this point it isn't demanding we give it something, so I'll take it.
09:26:02 Devastator: yeah, it might not be all bad, but it probably isn't good.
09:26:05 syv: I agree, ask and then jump away.
09:26:20 Devastator: can you post that? I'll basically +1 is.
09:28:21 syv: ...The dog might be able to smell us.
09:28:23 Devastator: just 'jump past the dog'
09:28:51 syv: Mm, okay on the direction of the jump.
09:29:04 syv: I do want to see how it responds to the wizard, thougu.
09:29:14 Devastator: how what responds to the wizard?
09:29:17 Devastator: I think it's the same thing.
09:29:27 Devastator: the dog is the wizard. Or at least the same body.
09:29:56 syv: The voice was different. Could be due to the shapechange, but if so, I want to know for sure.
09:30:44 syv: Also, they speak differently.
09:31:06 syv: The dog is clear and precise, aggressive with its words.
09:31:16 syv: The human was mumbling and weak.
09:31:38 syv: The dog is demanding to *have* Ariane, while the wizard was just asking for her touch, and wanting to be healed.
09:31:44 Devastator: yeah, we might have killed the human by not touching it.
09:31:49 syv: It's possible it's trying a different tactic.
09:32:52 Devastator: we're unarmed except for the ax blade, and we can't touch are target.
09:32:53 syv: Just re-entering the room and slamming the door on it might be effective.
09:33:06 ER: you don't have the axe blade
09:33:23 syv: Update said we got the pick.
09:35:03 Devastator: no answer to the question?
09:35:12 Devastator: nah, I think we stick with the plan.
09:35:14 Devastator: but just flee later.
09:35:29 ER: when Ariane speaks it's in the post
09:37:11 syv: What direction did the dog come from?
09:37:23 syv: Wizard direction, or from deeper in the fort?
09:37:48 ER: from where you came from, so wizard direction, also water direction and lantern direction
09:37:56 ER: the other way leads to unknown
09:38:07 syv: Okay, so probably *is* the wizard. Nvm on that.
09:38:51 syv: (
Devastator) nah, I think we stick with the plan.
09:38:51 syv: I don't like this. I don't want to try to pass the dog, and I don't want to be cornered by it.
09:39:03 syv: I say, either flee, or fight.
09:39:07 Devastator: well, we can't run anywhere without light.
09:39:12 syv: Don't try to evade in a four foot wide corridor.
09:39:14 Devastator: otherwise we'll get stuck in a dead end.
09:39:28 Devastator: if you have to fight, I"ll support it, but I'm still strongly in favor of leaping.
09:40:11 syv: Going on stats, we have agility.
09:40:18 syv: Going on fight, we have plan.
09:40:32 syv: Evade needs another successful evade, though.
09:40:44 syv: If a fight kills it, we don't need to fight a second time.
09:40:49 ER: plan is +2 for something I think's tactically sound
09:40:50 Devastator: Yes, but fight is harder.
09:41:10 Devastator: we can't touch the target.
09:41:25 syv: And we have a weapon and favorable terrain.
09:41:32 Devastator: Sure then, lets fight.
09:42:01 syv: If you want to debate more, I'm open to it.
09:42:07 ER: (I do kinda want to answer that question, I only didn;t because
syv's conditional came before asking it)
09:42:45 syv: Ask the first question, not the second version I posted.
09:43:26 Devastator: well, plan involves touching the wizard.
09:43:30 Devastator: eh, we'll see what that does.
09:43:58 syv: I don't think hitting with a weapon would count as touching.
09:44:18 syv: Maybe we could hurriedly empty the sack, and then use it as a crappy thick oversizee glove?
09:45:41 Devastator: "Shoulder slam once the dog begins entering."
09:46:02 syv: Yes, I wasn't specific enough.
09:46:18 syv: Ahh, I said "it" in the first line.
09:46:28 syv: Yeah, wasn't nearly specific enough.
09:51:39 Devastator: waters might be the human form.
09:51:49 Devastator: but yeah, I'll support those orders.
09:52:56 syv: If it heals/transforms/is immortal, manacles might be useful there~
09:53:04 syv: Though difficult to apply without touching.
09:54:07 Devastator: since we aren't wet, it isn't a dog anymore. ;-p
09:55:55 ER ponders if this would be a good idea
09:56:47 syv: Yeah, doors are pretty good blunt force objects.
09:57:02 syv: Would be less ideal if the critter knew it was coming
09:57:37 syv: But if it's unprepared, it'll either take most of the force on its head, which is damaging, or it'll get pinned between the door and frame.
09:58:22 ER: nah, the door worked quite well
09:58:39 ER: I've just got my own stoopid conundrum
09:59:08 syv: Whether the "hit dog" part is part of the same action, and benefits from the same roll?
09:59:24 syv: Or background plot and how it'll be revealed/progress?
10:09:04 Devastator: probably it for me.
10:09:08 Devastator: I'll be back later.
10:16:34 syv: Should I post more actions, or pause for now? This seems like a suitable pause point.
10:16:58 ER: You can poke around the room without
dev, if you like
10:17:39 ER: If you want to offer yourself to a watery death, I might have to get
dev in here to sign off on that
10:18:05 syv: I think he can agree with "obtain clothes".
10:18:19 syv: Much as I may like naked catgirls, Ariane deserves better.
10:18:28 Devastator: plus that might level up.
10:18:44 ER: you gotta pick your nakedness battles
10:18:53 Devastator: There is a possible downside.
10:19:07 Devastator: if the water was watching for us, and a creep, the clothing might be less than ideal.
10:19:52 syv: Yes, remain naked on the off chance that we can use seductive wiles against an eldritch horror.
10:20:32 ER: I'm not sure if it would care
10:21:06 ER: things are damnably transcendant, as the Ancestor might say
10:38:47 syv: I think I'm out for now, as well.
10:38:55 syv: Thanks for this, it's very fun.
10:45:31 ER: Do you like the hidden rolls style?
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10:48:56 syv: Nah. I always prefer rolls to be shown to some degree.
10:49:18 er: Glad to do it by PMs, both because I feel it raises the quality of suggestions and because I worry it's too tortureporn for public? <_<
10:49:38 syv: This hasn't seemed tortureporny at all.
10:49:52 syv: But we haven't even seen blood.
10:51:51 er: Benefit of being the swift one, I suppose.
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ER rolled 1d4: 2 <Total: 2>
22:42:32 GameServ:
ER rolled 1d4: 2 <Total: 2>
22:54:43 GameServ:
ER rolled 1d4: 4 <Total: 4>
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23:24:26 Topic set by syv [Tuesday 29 September 2020, 08:56:47]
23:57:33 ER: I must admit, I'm getting bored of octobergame at this point!
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