Velcha: Enter

[11:19]  * PA launches the Client program on her computer
[11:20] <Strategist14> After a short loading screen, you see the worlds "Server connected!"
[11:20] <Strategist14> words*
[11:20] <Strategist14> On the server program, you get a look at Velcha's room on the monitor, with a toolbar running along the top of the screen
[11:21] <GB> STONE MAN
[11:21] <GB> I CAN SEE A ROOM
[11:22] <PA> *you type into Trollian* Okay, GB, you shou!d be connected. From what ! understand, you shou!d be ab!e to see one of the stone puppeteers as we!!. That wou!d be me.
[11:22] <PA> ((I can copy/paste a description of my house and/or a picture of me if you want))
[11:22] <GB> OMG YOU HAVE SKIN OF STONE
[11:22] <GB> THIS IS SO COOL
[11:23] <GB> (please)
[11:24] <PA> ((Velcha pictures: http://imgur.com/5u0ELtI http://imgur.com/fW4OU7d House description: https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGStuck_C3/comments/3p1y6x/session_1_pirates_and_cultists_and_cannibals_oh/cwfw2gk
[11:25] <PA> ((It's like a castle. Courtyard's heavily trapped and there are tunnels under it that are portioned off with mucus membranes I can walk through. There is a huge series of tunnels under the house.))
[11:25]  * GB pokes Velcha with mouse
[11:26] <Strategist14> It would seem that Velcha is not someone that you can pick up
[11:27] <PA> !'m g!ad you're !mpressed. P!ay around w!th the contro!s a b!t and try not to break anyth!ng.
[11:27] <PA> There'!! be some stuff you have to p!ace soon
[11:28]  * GB grabs the moldy couch and flings it aound a bit
[11:32] <Strategist14> The moldy couch gets flung around a bit
[11:33]  * PA watches the moldy couch get flung around a bit, having stood up from it abruptly. Hm. This must be what it's like for the others when you fling stuff around. This is bizarre.
[11:34] <GB> OMG THIS IS AMAZING
[11:34]  * GB relases couch in mid air
[11:34] <GB> *releases
[11:34] <Strategist14> The couch thumps back down to earth
[11:35] <PA> Hav!ng fun?
[11:36] <GB> Yes but one question
[11:37] <PA> Yes?
[11:37] <GB> Where are the stones?
[11:38] <PA> ...
[11:38] <PA> ! don't need to be near them for them to work for me.
[11:39] <GB> what do they do! :O
[11:40] <PA> That's someth!ng that every stone be!ng or worsh!pper needs to d!scover for themse!ves. [3 :) E]
[11:42] <GB> OMG CAN YOU TEACH ME
[11:42] <GB> WHAT DO I NEED TO DO
[11:42] <GB> PLEASE
[11:47] <PA> Maybe !ater? !t's rea!!y urgent we get a!! the stuff done r!ght now. ! understand my !!fe !s !n danger at the moment.
[11:49] <GB> Oh ok what do you want me to do?
[11:49]  * PA goes upstairs to her observation room to see whether she can see the meteor Daemus was describing
[11:50] <Strategist14> You can not
[11:50] <PA> There shou!d be a sma!! number of !tems you can dep!oy somewhere !nto my house. ! need you to p!ace them
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[11:51] <PA> ((Bruh))
[11:51] <Strategist14> ((Welp))
[11:53] <PA> ((I need to thank Daemus for the metagaming ability he granted me))
[11:53] <PA> ((Also I might have dug myself in a bit too deep with that stone lie
[11:53] <Strategist14> ((/me shrugs))
[11:54] <PA> ((BRB))
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[11:56] <GB> (last message?)
[11:56] <Strategist14> [11:50] <PA> There shou!d be a sma!! number of !tems you can dep!oy somewhere !nto my house. ! need you to p!ace them
[11:57] <GB> Which ones theres a couple of wierd machiney thingys along the toolbar thingy magigger
[11:58] <Strategist14> (( PA ))
[11:59] <PA> A!! the ones that you can p!ace you shou!d. ! can't te!! how far off the meteor !s, but that's no reason to d!!!y-da!!y.
[12:00] <GB> Okay stoney the stoner lets go!
[12:00]  * GB randomly places all the machines around the house randomly with extra randomness
[12:01]  * PA is at least 80% sure she's not a stoner, but decides not to comment with anything other than a scowl.
[12:02] <Strategist14> The machines are placed about randomly with extra randomness
[12:03] <PA> ((Where are?))
[12:03] <Strategist14> ((Randomly))
[12:03] <PA> ((That helps on my end :P ))
[12:03] <Strategist14> (( GB where?))
[12:04] <PA> ((LONK https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGStuck_C3/comments/3p1y6x/session_1_pirates_and_cultists_and_cannibals_oh/cwfw2gk
[12:08] <Strategist14> (( GB ))
[12:11] <GB> Its random
[12:11] <GB> and randomly distributed
[12:11] <PA> ((Dude.))
[12:11] <GB> yes?
[12:14] <PA> ((How am I supposed to work with this if you don't say where any of the things are))
[12:15] <GB> let the dm decide
[12:15] <GB> its random
[12:15] <GB> calm jeez
[12:15] <PA> ((But the DM was asking where you put them too man))
[12:16] <GB> let the dm decide
[12:17] <Strategist14> They're all outside, lined up neatly
[12:17] <Strategist14> Sometimes random works out
[12:17] <GB> (^booya m80)
[12:17] <PA> (Outside as in, the Courtyard?)
[12:18] <Strategist14> ((Sure))
[12:18] <PA> (Shit.)
[12:18] <PA> Yo, GB, ! fe!t the p!ace shake. Where'd you end up p!ac!ng the mach!nes?
[12:20] <GB> I dunno I kinda just tossed them about a bit
[12:20] <GB> the stones will decide their fate
[12:20] <GB> amirighte :D
[12:21]  * PA is really starting to feel this whole stones thing become a giant pain in her ass.
[12:21] <PA> Sure. Guess !'!! have to go f!nd where you put them then.
[12:22] <GB> :D
[12:22]  * PA uses the vantage point she's already in to look out over the trapped maze that is her courtyard to see whether the machines were placed outside.
[12:22] <Strategist14> Yup, they're in there alright
[12:23] <PA> ((So, the actual living part of her hive is like the keep of a castle, and currently she's at the top of that at the turret-y type part. The courtyard is a giant, trap-heavy maze that's walled in. So you know.))
[12:23] <Strategist14> ((So it's entirely enclosed?))
[12:24] <PA> ((There's a door that leads from the Keep to the maze courtyard, and there's a gated entrance.
[12:24] <Strategist14> The machines are right by the door, lined up neatly
[12:24]  * GB flings couch at the machines
[12:24] <GB> this game isnt very good
[12:24] <Strategist14> The totem lathe falls over under the couch's weight
[12:25]  * PA proceeds downstairs and out the door into the maze, right where the machines are. You're lucky this part of hte maze is untrapped.
[12:26] <PA> ((The couch was... on the second floor... And the machines are outside. Did you bust a hole in my wall?))
[12:26] <GB> ((aye))
[12:27] <GB> Graphics are pretty tight tho
[12:27]  * PA stops once she gets to her living area to find a giant hole in the wall
[12:27] <PA> WHAT D!D YOU JUST DO!?
[12:28] <GB> Jeez calm down its just a game
[12:28] <PA> YOU JUST THREW MY COUCH THROUGH MY WA!!
[12:28]  * PA bustles over to the hole to look through and inspect the damage
[12:29] <GB> Its... just a game...?
[12:30] <Strategist14> The wall has been thoroughly smashed through
[12:30] <Strategist14> Underneath, you can see the couch resting on top of one of the machines, which has fallen over
[12:31] <PA> GOG D!#*&@!T [3>.<E]
[12:31] <PA> ((So. That was very much shouted, not typed.))
[12:32]  * PA chucks a bomb out deep into her maze. The sound of a distant explosion seems to satiate her slightly.
[12:32] <GB> Man your character looks angry. Did I do something wrong?
[12:33] <PA> *typed* That character... !s very much me. You are man!pu!at!ng my env!ronment. And you just put a g!gant!c gap!ng ho!e !n the s!de of my house.
[12:34] <GB> heheheheheh good one
[12:34] <GB> seriously tho what are we doing
[12:34] <GB> like
[12:34] <GB> your obviously joking
[12:36] <PA> !'m comp!ete!y ser!ous. More ser!ous than you must be w!th a!! th!s stone b!abber. What do you want me to do to prove ! ex!st?
[12:36]  * PA proceeds down another flight of stairs and out into the doorway to the courtyard, where she examines the couch and the machine it's sitting on.
[12:36] <GB> Yes please
[12:38] <PA> Okay. !'m go!ng to use my "mag!c stone powers" or whatever the s#!t to put my f!#*!ng couch back where !t f&!*#k!ng be!ongs. Watch carefu!!y.
[12:39]  * PA uses Lift to pick up the moldy couch and slide it almost tenderly back through the hole in the second story of her Keep.
[12:39] <PA> ((How much PP does this cost me))
[12:39] <Strategist14> ((Lift reduces max PP, so...))
[12:39] <PA> ((That's only if you use it to permafloat yourself))
[12:40] <Strategist14> ((Let's say 20 PP))
[12:40] <PA> ((Well, that's almost all of it :P Are you saying that I'm equally heavy/heavier than my couch? :P))
[12:41] <GB> (that makes sense actually)
[12:41] <PA> ((22 PP --> 2 PP. You're gonna have to meditate later.))
[12:45] <Strategist14> ==>
[12:45]  * PA focuses intently. With great effort showing on her face, the couch lifts itself from the ground and hovers towards the hole in the wall. It's a bit shaky, but it makes its way back through the hole and sets itself back down approximately where it was before.
[12:46] <GB> OH COOL
[12:46] <GB> WHAT LEVEL DO YOU UNLOCK THAT AT?
[12:49] <PA> You don't un!ock that k!nd of th!ng. !'ve a!ways been te!ek!net!c.
[12:49] <GB> Oh so its your class?
[12:49] <GB> Idk I'm not huge on mmos
[12:51] <PA> Th!s !s rea! !!fe, GB. Not an MMO. A rea! !!fe game. Can you put that mach!Ne back the r!ght s!de up?
[12:51] <GB> Okie dokie crazy stone lady
[12:51]  * PA meanwhile goes to examine the one with the lid Daemus had been describing
[12:51]  * GB filps the machine
[12:53] <Strategist14> The lidded machine gets flipped
[12:54] <Strategist14> It lands on its top, then rolls off to the side
[12:54] <PA> ((Did the lid at least get knocked off?))
[12:54] <Strategist14> A coloured cylinder slides out of an opening on the top, along with a flashing sphere
[12:54] <Strategist14> ((Yes))
[12:55]  * PA grabs the cylinder into her sylladex and examines the flashing sphere. Was this the sprite thing Daemus had been describing earlier?
[12:55] <Strategist14> It would seem so
[12:57]  * PA uncaptchalogues her lusus, that horn-shelled acidic snail, pushes it out of the cage it was in, and shepherds it towards the sprite.
[12:58] <Strategist14> The kernel seems to sense this motion, and responds in kind
[12:58] <PA> *It's given you trouble lately, but it doesn't feel right to not use your lusus.*
[12:58] <Strategist14> Your lusus vanishes in a flash of light, leaving an imprinted sigil on the floating orb
[13:01] <PA> *cool. You go to the other machine, the one that some weird extraworldly voice had called a totem lathe, which is still on its side. Damn. It probably won't work like this*
[13:02] <PA> Hey, GB. Can you put th!s one r!ght s!de up?
[13:03] <PA> (( GB ))
[13:03] <GB> ()ssorry
[13:04]  * GB flips the other machine
[13:04] <Strategist14> The lathe is now rightside-up
[13:05] <GB> I did it
[13:05] <GB> :D
[13:05] <PA> Thank you!!!
[13:05]  * PA puts the cylinder in the lathe
[13:08] <Strategist14> The cylinder is now in the lathe
[13:08] <PA> Um... Hm.
[13:09]  * PA checks her log from her conversation with Daemus again
[13:09] <PA> Where'd you put the card, GB ?
[13:10]  * GB places card on roof
[13:10]  * PA looks around to see whether there's a spare captchalogue card lying around somewhere
[13:11] <Strategist14> You don't seem to have left any captcha cards lying around the courtyard
[13:13] <PA> You sigh and suppose you're gonna have to wander around again and see if you can find whatever bullshit this is
[13:13]  * PA wanders back inside the house and goes upstairs, all the way up to the top, looking for some kind of special captcha card
[13:14] <Strategist14>  Roll Perception
[13:14] <PA> roll 1d20-1 because Stammers likes making things difficult
[13:14] <`DM> PA rolled 1d20-1 because Stammers likes making things difficult [ 1d20=1 ]{0}
[13:14] <PA> fuck
[13:14] <PA> are you kidding
[13:14] <Strategist14> The card obviously doesn't exist
[13:15] <Strategist14> Daemus must be lying about that part
[13:15] <PA> What a shithead.
[13:16] <PA> You wander back downstairs and slide one of your own, blank cards into the machine to see if that'll do anything, because there's obviously a card slot and this machine MUST do SOMETHING.
[13:16] <Strategist14> The lathe spins the dowel around a bit, then stops
[13:17] <PA> You reclaim the card, the dowel, and kick the lathe.
[13:17] <Strategist14> Your foot clangs against the lathe
[13:18] <PA> You now instead proceed to the alchemiter and place the unmarked dowel on its podium thingy.
[13:21] <Strategist14> Nothing happens
[13:23] <PA> You scowl.
[13:23] <PA> Hey! GB ! You there!?
[13:23] <GB> HELLO
[13:24] <PA> HI
[13:25] <PA> D!d you put a card down somewhere? My source says there's supposed to be one but ! can't f!nd !t and apparent!y !t's supposed to be th!s spec!al one
[13:33] <PA> *you're still a little fiesty from the couch debacle earlier. Maybe you just missed it because your mind was clouded.*
[13:34] <PA> *You sit down and meditate.*
[13:35] <Strategist14> Your server seems to have stopped doing things
[13:35] <PA> *lucky you're not in a rush. It usually takes you next to no time at all to regenerate all of your PP. Either you don't have a lot or you're really good at meditating.*
[13:36] <Strategist14> After a while, you feel much better
[13:36] <PA> *Mind clear, although still a little grumbly about your useless server, you search the house again for the card.*
[13:37] <PA> roll 1d20-1 and don't fuck me over again dice
[13:37] <`DM> PA rolled 1d20-1 and don't fuck me over again dice [ 1d20=4 ]{3}
[13:37] <PA> :(
[13:37] <Strategist14> Well
[13:37] <Strategist14> It's not out here with you
[13:37] <PA> ((This is stupid.))
[13:37] <Strategist14> So you guess that narrows it down?
[13:39] <PA> *maybe it got put somewhere out in the middle of the maze. You don't particularly feel like disarming and rearming all of your traps so you just use Lift again - this time on yourself - and hover up, even above your Keep, looking down over the walls of the maze, trying to find the damn thing that probably exists.
[13:39] <PA> -20pp
[13:39] <Strategist14> Perception again
[13:40] <PA> roll 1d20-1
[13:40] <`DM> PA rolled 1d20-1 [ 1d20=5 ]{4}
[13:40] <PA> ((WHY))
[13:40] <Strategist14> Hard to tell.  But... maybe?
[13:40] <Strategist14> You can't see it in there
[13:40] <PA> ((I'M PROBABLY PRETTY MUCH ON TOP OF THE DAMN THING))
[13:40] <Strategist14> Hard to find such a small card in such a big maze
[13:41] <PA> *Shame your psionics don't have magic locatey powers.* (Am I basically just gonna have to keep rolling perception until I get something higher than five))
[13:41] <PA> ((Gonna take forever))
[13:41] <Strategist14> ((Or you could take 10))
[13:41] <PA> roll 10d20-1
[13:41] <`DM> PA rolled 10d20-1 [ 10d20=80 ]{79}
[13:41] <PA> roll 10#d20-1
[13:41] <`DM> PA rolled 10#d20-1 [ 1d20=6 ]{5}, [ 1d20=18 ]{17}, [ 1d20=12 ]{11}, [ 1d20=17 ]{16}, [ 1d20=7 ]{6}, [ 1d20=2 ]{1}, [ 1d20=15 ]{14}, [ 1d20=2 ]{1}, [ 1d20=10 ]{9}, [ 1d20=7 ]{6}
[13:41] <Strategist14> ((That's not quite what I meant))
[13:42] <PA> ((kek))
[13:42] <PA> ((don't be silly it's totally what you meant))
[13:43] <Strategist14> ((Yeah good point))
[13:45] <PA> ((So now what?))
[13:45] <Strategist14> ((Well you could always take 10))
[13:45] <Strategist14> ((Or I guess wait for Stammers again))
[13:45] <PA> *You guess your eyes really MUST have been fucked up by that snail goop. Hm.*
[13:46] <PA> ((10 minute break?))
[13:47] <Strategist14> ((Yes))
[13:47] <PA> ((Gotcha))
[13:48] <Strategist14> After ten minutes of methodical searching, you eventually locate the offending card on your roof
[13:49]  * PA is now thoroughly exasperated. She takes the card and flies down to the Lathe, where she re-inserts the totem and the new card.
[13:50] <Strategist14> The lathe spins, and carves the totem into a wavy shape
[13:51] <PA> As you take the totem, you check on SnailshellSprite and look at the sky to check for meteors. Maybe Daemus wasn't a total shithead.
[13:51] <Strategist14> No meteors visible yet
[13:51] <PA> That's good. Time to put the totem on the podium thing.
[13:53] <Strategist14> A coloured tome appears on the pedestal
[13:53] <PA> What color?
[13:53] <Strategist14> Your text colour
[13:54] <PA> ah. Makes sense
[13:54] <PA> You approach the tome slowly and look at its cover.
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[13:54] == PA has changed nick to Velcha
[13:54] <Strategist14> There is no label
[13:55] <Velcha> You take the book in your hands and open it.
[13:55] <Strategist14> Each page is made of clear crystal
[13:55] <Velcha> No words?
[13:55] <Strategist14> None
[13:56] <Velcha> You flip open to a random page halfway through the tome.
[13:56] <Strategist14> Also blank crystal
[13:56] <Velcha> You poke the page with your finger.
[13:56] <Strategist14> It feels like glass
[13:57] <Velcha> Hm. Did a pencil or something also spawn in with it?
[13:58] <Strategist14> Nothing
[13:58] <Strategist14> Make a perception check, please
[13:58] <Velcha> roll 1d20-1 to read the spooky book
[13:58] <`DM> Velcha rolled 1d20-1 to read the spooky book [ 1d20=11 ]{10}
[13:59] <Strategist14> A shadow seems to be forming around you
[13:59] <Velcha> It... definitely is a spooky book then. You try to rip a page out of the book.
[14:00] <Strategist14> Make a strength check
[14:00] <Velcha> roll 1d20
[14:00] <`DM> Velcha rolled 1d20 [ 1d20=3 ]{3}
[14:00] <Velcha> fuck
[14:00] <Strategist14> Nope, those pages are there to stay
[14:00] <Velcha> You attempt to walk out of the shadow with the book
[14:01] <Strategist14> Your entire courtyard seems to be under the effect
[14:01] <Velcha> So you go back inside.
[14:01] <Strategist14> You are now inside.  The shadow seems to have left you alone now
[14:02] <Velcha> You attempt to break one of the pages. It feels like glass, after all.
[14:02] <Strategist14> Strength check
[14:02] <Velcha> roll 1d20
[14:02] <`DM> Velcha rolled 1d20 [ 1d20=9 ]{9}
[14:02] <Velcha> come on dice
[14:02] <Strategist14> Nope, the page seems unharmed
[14:03] <Velcha> You... try to write on it with a writing apparatus?
[14:03] <Strategist14> Where do you get that?
[14:04] <Velcha> Damn. Saw right through my master plan.
[14:04] <Velcha> It's upstairs near Velcha's comic book collection.
[14:05] <Strategist14> You scribble on the page, but rather ineffectually
[14:06] <Velcha> Now rather annoyed, you take the book to the top floor where you usually do experiments and stuff as well as observe shit in your courtyard, and put a bomb under it.
[14:07] <Strategist14> There is now a bomb under the book
[14:07] <Velcha> You light the bomb.
[14:08] <Strategist14> The book is launched into the air
[14:08] <Velcha> You catch it and see whether the bomb did, well, anything.
[14:08] <Strategist14> The book is unharmed
[14:09] <Velcha> Bluh.
[14:09] <Velcha> Gotta be more imaginative than that, Velcha.
[14:09] <Strategist14> You hear a second explosion, this one some distance away from you
[14:09] <Velcha> Oh fuck. You look off in the distance to see what you can see
[14:10] <Strategist14> A smoking crater, a short distance away from your hive
[14:10] <Velcha> Fuck.
[14:10] <Velcha> You lift up the book and look THROUGH a page at the crater.
[14:10] <Strategist14> No difference
[14:11] <Velcha> You try to rip a page out again.
[14:11] <Velcha> Roll 1d20 for super uber strongness
[14:11] <`DM> Velcha rolled 1d20 for super uber strongness [ 1d20=15 ]{15}
[14:11] <Velcha> yay
[14:11] <Strategist14> The crystal breaks
[14:11] <Strategist14> The page is now out, its edge jagged
[14:12] <Velcha> Hm. That did nothing. You re-insert the page into a different part of the book and examine where it had been.
[14:13] <Strategist14> The book has another, matching jagged edge
[14:13] <Velcha> Being the same one I just ripped the page out of or no?
[14:13] <Strategist14> Yes
[14:14] <Velcha> Damn it.
[14:14] <Velcha> You poke the jagged edge.
[14:14] <Strategist14> Your finger is now pricked on the crystal
[14:20] <Velcha> You close the book back?
[14:20] <Velcha> ((Sorry Strat I suck))
[14:24] <Strategist14> The book is now closed
[14:27] <Strategist14> (( Velcha ))
[14:27] <Velcha> You go back downstairs and look out the door into the courtyard. Is the darkness still there?
[14:27] <Velcha> ((was thinking sorry))
[14:29] <Strategist14> The darkness is noticeable.  It's far from absolute, but there is definitely a shadow being cast over it
[14:30] <Velcha> You open the book and walk back out into the darkness, looking for what might be casting the shadows
[14:34] <Strategist14> There MAY be a giant rock in the sky above you
[14:34] <Strategist14> That would probably do it
[14:37] <Velcha> Yeahhh, that sounds about right. You pull out one of your Velcha-brand firebombs, and attempt to use it to set the book on fire. Of course, once you're far enough into the darkness to prevent your house being set on fire
[14:38] <Strategist14> The book seems to be rather nonflammable
[14:38] <Velcha> You look through the page again, this time putting it between you and the fiery light source. You are rather starting to worry about that rock.
[14:39] <Strategist14> Looking through the page doesn't seem to accomplish anything
[14:40] <Velcha> You attempt to smash the pages again.
[14:40] <Strategist14>  Roll
[14:40] <Strategist14> Str
[14:40] <Velcha> roll 1d20 for bibliocide
[14:40] <`DM> Velcha rolled 1d20 for bibliocide [ 1d20=20 ]{20}
[14:40] <Velcha> NAT 20 BITCH
[14:40] <Strategist14> You sink your fist through the page
[14:40] <Strategist14> And the next one
[14:40] <Strategist14> And the next one
[14:41] <Strategist14> In fact, you crush every last page in that book to dust
[14:41] <Velcha> ... Does it do anything
[14:41] <Strategist14> As your fist lands on the back cover
[14:41] <Strategist14> Your world disappears in a flash of light