PA8(Scattered on the wind)Ranu: Cats, machines, & curiosity

[23:04] <~Kroked> BGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvCT-MzPm1A
[23:11] <~Kroked> You find yourself a on a Fringe world in Unoccuied spece, the farthest any Nation has ever explored, and considered by most people to be the edge of the universe. it's uninhabited, at least by sentient life, but it's breathable, and full of nature
[23:12] <~Kroked> not only that, but it seems there used to be a population here at some point, as there are numerous ruins, all taken over by nature
[23:14] <~Kroked> You've been bumming around here for oh... about a month now lot's of places to explore, you recently discovered a small little shrine like ruin which had been sealed up
[23:15] <~Kroked> You enter it now and find it's a bit different than you've been used to. like all the ruins, nature has seeped in, growing all over
[23:16] <~Kroked> and for all intents and purpouses the architecture's not really any different
[23:16] <~Kroked> but it /feels/ different
[23:16] <~Kroked> something's not quite the same as the other ruins
[23:16] <Ranu> "Aw, man...this place is wicked...hopefully not literally."
[23:16] * Ranu coughs
[23:16] <Ranu> "Welp, let's see what's what, I guess."
[23:17] * Ranu tries to salvage some wood to make a torch
[23:18] <~Kroked> it's all over, you find some laying in a heap near the door
[23:18] <~Kroked> roll notice
[23:19] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +11
[23:19] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 37
[23:19] <~Kroked> nothing seems out of the ordinary, you take some wood from the pile
[23:19] * Ranu lights it on fire with the flint
[23:20] <~Kroked> you do so
[23:20] <Ranu> "...oh, crap. I probably should've checked this for markings or something before I lit it up."
[23:21] * Ranu briefly scans the wood for anything suspicious or non-woody, like markings or letters.
[23:21] <~Kroked> you turn back to the wood... and it's standing up on 4 legs
[23:21] <~Kroked> what
[23:21] <~Kroked> it's shape is reminicent of some kind of wild cat
[23:21] * Ranu draws her claws and steps back slowly
[23:22] <~Kroked> it's also missing part of its tail
[23:22] <~Kroked> it doesn;t look happy
[23:22] * Ranu gently offers the tail to the woodcatthing
[23:22] <Ranu> "Hehe...sorry, kitty...just needed a torch...didn't mean to take your tail..."
[23:23] <~Kroked> it hisses at you... with a kinda rattling wood noise
[23:23] <~Kroked> the intent is pretty obvious though
[23:23] <~Kroked> BGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcxKe1_dyM0
[23:23] <~Kroked> roll initiative
[23:26] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +33
[23:26] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 125
[23:26] <Ranu> Open
[23:26] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +158
[23:26] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 216
[23:27] <~Kroked> your move
[23:29] * Ranu begins accumulating Ki and Zeon
[23:30] * Ranu engages TOTAL DEFENSE MODO
[23:31] <~Kroked> you do so!
[23:32] <~Kroked> it releases some kind of gass
[23:32] <~Kroked> roll VR
[23:32] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +55
[23:32] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 145
[23:32] * Ranu coughs
[23:32] <Ranu> Open
[23:32] <~Kroked> no need
[23:32] <Ranu> k
[23:34] <~Kroked> you feel some kind of poison enter your body, but fight it off. The cat than suddenly leaps at you and attempts to wrap itself around you!
[23:34] <~Kroked> roll defense
[23:35] <Ranu> (( I forget what the Total Defense bonus is ))
[23:36] <~Kroked> +30
[23:37] * Ranu whips one of her claws at the ground and hooks something, yanking herself out of the way.
[23:37] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +140
[23:37] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 201
[23:39] <~Kroked> you tug yourself away rapidly
[23:39] <~Kroked> roll initiative
[23:39] <~Kroked> you also notice now, that the thing is covered in flowers
[23:40] <~Kroked> or well, on its spine
[23:40] <~Kroked> it's spine is covered in flowers
[23:42] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +33
[23:42] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 42
[23:43] <~Kroked> The Plant animal... thing, leaps at you!
[23:43] <~Kroked> roll defense
[23:43] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +110
[23:43] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 131
[23:43] * Ranu whips back
[23:43] * Ranu whips back to her original position *
[23:47] <~Kroked> you try, but it gets your legs a little, scratching em up good with it's thorns
[23:47] <~Kroked> roll initiative
[23:48] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +33
[23:48] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 88
[23:48] * Ranu groans
[23:48] <Ranu> "Why, you little prick...that's it."
[23:48] <~Kroked> it leaps at you again
[23:49] <~Kroked> roll defense
[23:49] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +110
[23:49] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 183
[23:50] * Ranu whips herself up to the ceiling
[23:50] <~Kroked> you zoom up like spiderman, out of the way, you can counter at +5
[23:51] <Ranu> Unless making faces counts as a counterattack, I decline.
[23:51] <~Kroked> roll initiative
[23:51] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +33
[23:51] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 46
[23:52] <~Kroked> the thing is SO SUPRISED you flew up to the ceiling it hesitates a moment, long enough for you to get first action
[23:53] * Ranu continues making faces at it
[23:53] <Ranu> "Nyeh."
[23:54] <~Kroked> it attempts to jump up and get you
[23:55] * Ranu swings to the other side of the room instead
[23:55] <Ranu> (( Dodge or Acrobatics? ))
[23:55] <~Kroked> acrobatics
[23:55] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +13
[23:55] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 80
[23:57] <~Kroked> ...
[23:57] <~Kroked> roll an agi check
[23:57] <Ranu> Rolling over or Under
[23:57] <~Kroked> exxet rules
[23:58] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 10 +9
[23:58] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 12
[23:58] <~Kroked> you deftly zoom away
[23:59] <~Kroked> you may abandon combat at this point if you wish
[00:00] <Ranu> Nah, I wanna know what this thing is and why it's in these ruins.
[00:00] <Ranu> Occult? Animals? Plants?
[00:00] <~Kroked> occult
[00:00] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +38
[00:00] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 42
[00:01] <~Kroked> yeah you know what it is
[00:02] <~Kroked> it's a Cath Fildais, basically, it's some branches occupied by the spirit of a dead animal. basically, animal died by an old tree, tree took it in and formed it from it's roots
[00:03] <Ranu> "Well, aren't you adorable! I guess I'd be pissed too if somebody took my scarf or something."
[00:04] <~Kroked> it hisses at you
[00:05] <Ranu> "Yeah? Well, here's your tail."
[00:05] * Ranu sets the tail on the ground and steps back
[00:06] <Ranu> "You leave me be, I'll leave you be."
[00:06] <Ranu> "Deal?"
[00:06] <~Kroked> it grabs the tail and reattaches it and seems to give you the stink eye
[00:06] <~Kroked> it than goes and curls back up
[00:06] <Ranu> "Hmmm...Here ya go."
[00:07] * Ranu pulls off her scarf and gently dangles it in front of the cat
[00:07] <Ranu> "Sorry 'bout that. Really. Tell ya what...you can have this to play with or something."
[00:07] <Ranu> "Or use it as fertilizer or whatever tree cats do."
[00:08] <~Kroked> the the thing perks up and seems to follow its movements carefully
[00:08] <~Kroked> it takes an experimental bat at it
[00:09] <Ranu> "Want it?"
[00:09] <~Kroked> It grabs at it
[00:10] * Ranu lets it have it
[00:10] * Ranu walks off into the ruins
[00:10] <Ranu> "Ta-ta!"
[00:10] <~Kroked> it ignores you and plays with its new toy
[00:10] <Ranu> "Have fun with the new toy! Just don't shred it in case you get cold or something!"
[00:11] * Ranu mutters to herself
[00:11] <Ranu> "Well...that's all well and good, but now I don't have a torch."
[00:11] <Ranu> "Plus, if there's one of those things here, there could be dozens."
[00:12] <Ranu> "Eh, I'm sure I'll manage."
[00:12] * Ranu stops accumulating Ki and Zeon
[00:13] <~Kroked> you head in, it's dim, but light shines through cracks here and there, giving you so so visibility
[00:13] <~Kroked> you take a look around through the halls and rooms of the ruins. all in all, it's rather normal, there are machines here and there, all long since stopped being functional
[00:14] <~Kroked> BGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAb7p3A7SVI
[00:15] <~Kroked> you spend a couple hours wandering, and spot a couple more plant cats, all of which leave you alone. You're about ready to decide this place is dull and uninteresting until you come across a large sealed door in the deepest part of the ruin
[00:16] <~Kroked> the door itself is decorated with lots and lots of sworls, most of which have long since faded
[00:17] * Ranu squeals
[00:17] <Ranu> "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeethisissocool!"
[00:17] * Ranu presses her face to the door
[00:18] <~Kroked> it's a door alright
[00:18] <Ranu> "What secrets do you contain? Why even stop at what you are hiding? You've probably been passage for eons, and now you stand as the only thing between me and...whatever is on the other side!"
[00:19] <Ranu> "Truly a door this great must be hiding something monumentous! A treasure trove, an ancient artifact, or maybe it'll just be a bathroom! Wouldn't be the first time, but I'm still so excited!"
[00:20] * Ranu twirls in place for a bit, but stops to cough
[00:20] * Ranu coughs for a bit
[00:20] <Ranu> "Oh, geez...I need to stop overdoing it."
[00:21] <Ranu> "Alright, door. Let's see whatchu got behind you."
[00:21] * Ranu attempts to open the door
[00:21] * Ranu stops herself
[00:21] <Ranu> "Oh, wait, wouldn't want it to turn out like that one time. Took the doctors 3 days to pull out all of those needles."
[00:22] * Ranu checks for traps
[00:22] <~Kroked> roll trap lore
[00:22] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +13
[00:22] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 84
[00:23] <~Kroked> no traps as far as you can tell
[00:26] * Ranu tries to open the door
[00:27] <~Kroked> roll an str check
[00:27] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 10 +9
[00:27] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 15
[00:27] * Ranu grunts with effort
[00:32] <~Kroked> it's tough, the things been shut for lord knows how long, but you slowly open it, revealing a shadowed room. it's hard to make out what's inside,a s there is absolutly no light
[00:33] <Ranu> "I regret not having a torch now."
[00:36] <~Kroked> BGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdZP93aWtB4
[00:37] <Ranu> "I guess there's no avoiding it..."
[00:37] * Ranu casts Create Light I without an Ofuda
[00:39] <~Kroked> the room lights up
[00:40] * Ranu peeks into the room
[00:41] <~Kroked> it... round, like an orb, made by a bunch of pnaels with little... what LOOK like lightbulbs of somekind, inserted, all in prisitine condition, with a small pathway to a Platform with somekind of interface
[00:43] <Ranu> "Oh...my...various gods..."
[00:43] * Ranu investigates
[00:44] <~Kroked> you head up the platform, the little interface on the platform's screen is black, but it doesn't seem like it's actually harmed or anything, not from the outside at least
[00:45] <~Kroked> there is a keyboard with strange laetters, but mostly numbers
[00:45] <~Kroked> there is also a big green button
[00:45] * Ranu stares intently at the green button
[00:46] <Ranu> "We meet again, great big button."
[00:46] <Ranu> "You call to me like siren's song...but like that bitch I shall also do my best to ignore yoh who am I kidding I already pressed it."
[00:46] * Ranu did indeed already press it mid-rant
[00:47] <~Kroked> the screen lights up, and the entire room hums, all of the lights dimly brightening, lighting up the room
[00:47] <~Kroked> the screen is full of a bunch of strange characters you cant make out
[00:48] <~Kroked> there seems to be a spot for inputing something though
[00:48] <Ranu> "SUCCESS!"
[00:48] <Ranu> "...now how the hell do I read this?"
[00:51] <Ranu> "Well, it's asking for an input, and as bait-able as I can be...I'm not stupid enough to start pressing random keys on the keyboard."
[00:51] <Ranu> "Alright, where's the off switch on this thing. Don't want to kill whatever power source it's using while I figure out how it works."
[00:51] <~Kroked> there are no other buttons
[00:52] * Ranu presses the green button again
[00:53] <~Kroked> everything shuts down
[00:54] <~Kroked> ...and than immeditaly starts up again
[00:54] * Ranu frowns
[00:55] <Ranu> "Fine. If you break before I figure out your words, then so be it!"
[00:55] * Ranu walks out of the room and looks for similar markings
[00:56] <~Kroked> you check around the rest of the ruin, you notice it on other machines and such, and on some of the walls
[00:56] <~Kroked> probably the language this ancient civilization used
[00:56] * Ranu tries to figure out the meanings.
[00:57] <~Kroked> roll histoy
[00:59] <Ranu> $roll 1 d 100 +25
[01:00] <&JapanBot> Ranu rolled 63
[01:01] <~Kroked> you can't really make much of it out, not really your forte
[01:02] * Ranu goes back to hang out with scarfcat while thinking about it.
[01:02] <~Kroked> it's still glowing and humming
[01:02] <~Kroked> (er))
[01:03] <~Kroked> ((misread))
[01:03] <~Kroked> the cat kinda glares at you and goes back to sleeping on the scarf
[01:05] <Ranu> (( This is it. This is Ranu's entire story. A cat and a scarf. ))
[01:06] <~Kroked> ((marvel at it's glory))
[01:06] <~Kroked> you spend some time thinking
[01:07] <~Kroked> after about an hour, it occurs to you that some of the buttons had multiple symbols, menu functions maybe
[01:07] <~Kroked> there were also 2 symbols that resembled up and down arrows
[01:08] <Ranu> "Hey, cat. Want to go on an adventure?"
[01:08] <~Kroked> it gives what must it's attempt and weow, and gets up and stretches, the scarf in its mouth
[01:09] * Ranu walks back to the lightbulb room
[01:09] <Ranu> "Help me figure this crap out. It is your home, after all."
[01:10] <~Kroked> the cat follows, as if bored
[01:15] * Ranu coughs
[01:15] <Ranu> "C'mon...help me out here. What's this thing for?"
[01:15] <~Kroked> the room as as you left it before. the cat walks up to the panel and kinda looks at it
[01:15] <~Kroked> ...
[01:16] <~Kroked> it than attempts to hop intop of it
[01:16] <~Kroked> *ontop
[01:16] <~Kroked> it mashes a bunch of buttons
[01:16] <Ranu> "Heyheyheyhey! Curiosity killed the cat!"
[01:16] <~Kroked> the room begins to humm louder
[01:16] * Ranu picks up the cat and gets the hell out.
[01:17] <~Kroked> the door slams shut
[01:17] <Ranu> "...You've killed us. It was a trap and you killed us."
[01:17] <~Kroked> the cat does apreciate being picked up
[01:17] <~Kroked> the room grows brighter , and there is sudden flash
[01:19] <~Kroked> you are suddenly on a dirt road somewhere, holding a cat made of thorns a little ways a way, you see a Woman in a Magenta dress/suit combo holding a rapier and pointing it at what appears to a bea 10 foot tall blue knight in armor holding a huge sword and shield. behind the woman is another, in a white dress with white roses in her hair
[01:20] <~Kroked> the first woman is radiant, her hair seems to glow almost, and floats slightly, as much a sit can, with how short it is. Rose petals seem to float around her
[01:20] <Ranu> "Oh my got, I'm so sorry, kitty."
[01:20] <Ranu> "I don't think we're anywhere near your home, though."
[01:21] <~Kroked> the cat kinda just... looks at you, and wriggles out of your arms
[01:25] <~Kroked> it it takes its scarf and just kinda... sits down
[01:25] <~Kroked> meanwhile, in the distance the giant knight is attacking the woman,
[01:26] * Ranu draws her claws and begins accumulating Ki and Zeon
[01:27] <Ranu> "You stay here. I'll get you home."
[01:27] * Ranu walks towards the fight
[01:27] <~Kroked> you do so
[01:27] <~Kroked> end session
[01:27] <~Kroked> take 15 exp