[S] Everything: Go Wrong

[19:35] <Lyra_Bel> "Hey, Alex!"  She shouts.  "You here!?"
[19:35] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Oh yeah"
[19:35] <Alexander_Pyrite> Thank god these lizards were being awkward
[19:35] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Whats up?"
[19:36] <Lyra_Bel> Lyra stands up from the 4D Projector.  "I, uh..."  She sighs.  "I think I screwed up."
[19:36] <Alexander_Pyrite> "How so?"
[19:36] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh, y'know.  Made a deal to forfeit my soul to a malevolent proto-deity."
[19:36] <Alexander_Pyrite> "You did what now"
[19:37] <Alexander_Pyrite> "im going to need some elaboration"
[19:37] <Lyra_Bel> "Long story.  Y'know there's all that stuff going on in Derse?"
[19:37] <Alexander_Pyrite> "torture yeah"
[19:38] <Lyra_Bel> "Nickolai kinda sorta had a way to fix it, so I asked his mask for help."
[19:38] <Lyra_Bel> "And apparently now I'm doomed to become its thrall forever because I was too vague about the repayment terms."
[19:38] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Oh thats unfortunate"
[19:38] <Alexander_Pyrite> "did it make you murder poeple?"
[19:38] <Lyra_Bel> "Not yet.  I'm on that path, though."
[19:38] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Any way i could help"
[19:39]  * Lyra_Bel laughs.  "Slit my throat?  I don't even know if that'd help.  Faerzen seemed pretty opposed to that as an option."
[19:39] <Alexander_Pyrite> "well for one thing im not slitting your throat"
[19:40] <Lyra_Bel> "Right.  Bash my skull in with a shield, then?"
[19:40] <Alexander_Pyrite> "You missed the point. I'm not killing you.""
[19:41] <Lyra_Bel> "I figured.  Dunno what other options there are, though."
[19:41] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I guess i could attempt to smash the mask"
[19:41] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Or whatever created the mask"
[19:41] <Alexander_Pyrite> "and gave it power"
[19:42] <Lyra_Bel> "Nickolai's got it, on my game master's planet."
[19:42] <ATtheorytime[Huelicopter]> < Alex, roll me a perception check >
[19:42] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((oh great))
[19:42] <Alexander_Pyrite> roll 1d20
[19:42] <`DICE> Alexander_Pyrite rolled 1d20 [ 1d20=9 ]{9}
[19:42] <Lyra_Bel> "My other body's there.  I was planning to give her a piece of my mind, but that didn't QUITE work out."
[19:43] <ATtheorytime[Huelicopter]> Something seems... off about Lyra's person, but you can't put your finger on it
[19:43] <ATtheorytime[Huelicopter]> Nothing too important, just... unusual.
[19:43] <Alexander_Pyrite> "are you talking about your other body"
[19:43] <Alexander_Pyrite> "this is weird"
[19:44] <Alexander_Pyrite> "are you two people?"
[19:44] <Lyra_Bel> "I don't even know anymore.  One here, one on Derse, and the one on the cliff planet."
[19:44] <Lyra_Bel> "Cliff one is now in a swamp place that's my GM's planet."
[19:45] <Alexander_Pyrite> "So maybe it owuld be best to just go full extermination on their asses"
[19:45] <Lyra_Bel> "On whose?  Derse?"
[19:46] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Your other yous"
[19:46] <Lyra_Bel> "Heh.  Kill the one that made the deal, eh?"
[19:46] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Why not?"
[19:46] <Alexander_Pyrite> "They would come back probably anyway"
[19:47] <Lyra_Bel> "Probably, yeah."
[19:48] <Lyra_Bel> "Which means we gotta start getting through the gates again to catch up to it."
[19:49] <Lyra_Bel> "Assuming killing the body even works.  It might be imprinted on my mind itself."
[19:49] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Great"
[19:49] <Lyra_Bel> "Considering I've got these."  Lyra flexes the wings.
[19:49] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Oh shit when did you get those"
[19:49] <Lyra_Bel> "'Bout five minutes ago, when I made a really poor decision."
[19:49] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Does it involve sentient masks?"
[19:50] <Lyra_Bel> "Eeyup."
[19:50] <Lyra_Bel> "I kinda blew it."
[19:50] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Alright im never wearing anything on my head"
[19:50] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Ever"
[19:50] <Lyra_Bel> "Good call."
[19:51] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh, speaking of.  Regent now has full autonomous control over the other body."
[19:51] <Alexander_Pyrite> "God dammit"
[19:51] <Alexander_Pyrite> "sounds like some extermination is in order"
[19:51] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I have a knife if you want to help"
[19:52] <Lyra_Bel> "Heh.  Wouldn't mind.  I had this whole ton of stuff in the other one, but I guess that's gone now."
[19:52] <Alexander_Pyrite> "couldnt we just loot the body?"
[19:52] <Lyra_Bel> "Not while it's still alive we can't."
[19:52] <Lyra_Bel> "Assuming Regent and the Abyss even let it die."
[19:53] <Alexander_Pyrite> "The /Abyss/
[19:53] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((imagine thats italic))
[19:53] <Alexander_Pyrite> "what is that"
[19:53] <Lyra_Bel> "The mask.  It asked for a name, just like everything else in this game."
[19:53] <Alexander_Pyrite> "my shield never did"
[19:54] <Alexander_Pyrite> "We just sorta... called him bro"
[19:54] <Lyra_Bel> "Ask."
[19:54] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Ask my shield?"
[19:55] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah.  Ask the shield, the voice in your head, whatever you think of it as."
[19:55] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Uh alright"
[19:55]  * Alexander_Pyrite grabs my shield.
[19:56] <Alexander_Pyrite> "So uh... Shield"
[19:56] <Bro-Sheild> *mumble mumble*
[19:56] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Do you want a name"
[19:56] <Bro-Sheild> "Huh?"
[19:57] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Do you want a name Brofessor?"
[19:57] <Bro-Sheild> "Sorry Bro, I was brostracted in my thoughts there for a minute"
[19:57] <Alexander_Pyrite> "No problem bro"
[19:57] <Bro-Sheild> "Why would I need a name? Just call me the Brofessor"
[19:57]  * Lyra_Bel tries to hide a smirk.
[19:58] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Alright."
[19:58] <Alexander_Pyrite> roll 1d20 to notice smirk
[19:58] <`DICE> Alexander_Pyrite rolled 1d20 to notice smirk [ 1d20=16 ]{16}
[19:58] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I see this smirk"
[19:58] <Bro-Sheild> "Bro"
[19:58] <Bro-Sheild> "She totally likes you"
[19:59] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Shut up dude"
[19:59] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I can handle this"
[19:59] <Lyra_Bel> "It's contagious, I know."
[19:59] <Bro-Sheild> "Aight Bro, just call on me if you need a wingbro to help a bro out."
[19:59] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Alright will do into my inventory"
[20:00]  * Alexander_Pyrite captchalouges
[20:00] <Bro-Sheild> "Broooooooooo" you hear as you captchalogue the sheild
[20:00] <Alexander_Pyrite> "He's delightful"
[20:00] <Lyra_Bel> "That's a word."
[20:01] <Alexander_Pyrite> "what do you mean?"
[20:01] <Lyra_Bel> "It's not a word I'd *use*, but it's a word alright."
[20:02] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Ah i see"
[20:02] <Alexander_Pyrite> "So i dont really know what that told us"
[20:04] <Lyra_Bel> "It told us his name, or the one he prefers to use."
[20:05] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Alright I guess that is helpful"
[20:05] <Alexander_Pyrite> "So what now?"
[20:05] <Lyra_Bel> "Which means if we're using Faerzen's time-duplicates theory, it's either before mine or way after his."
[20:06] <Alexander_Pyrite> "What exactly is that theory?"
[20:07] <Lyra_Bel> "Basically they're all the same Reggie, just at different points in time."
[20:08] <Lyra_Bel> "His one introduced itself using the name I made up for mine.  That's pretty much the only evidence we have."
[20:08] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Oh great, that means shield is going to try to possess me at some point?"
[20:08] <Lyra_Bel> "... Not that great of a theory, all things considered."
[20:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah, probably, if you let it."
[20:09] <Alexander_Pyrite> "well I'll plan on using my other shield then once i upgrade it"
[20:09] <Alexander_Pyrite> "So where to now"
[20:10] <Lyra_Bel> "I don't know.  I guess we head up to the gate and get started on my suicide-slash-homicide?"
[20:11] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Makes sense"
[20:11] <Alexander_Pyrite> "but if you havent noticed"
[20:11] <Alexander_Pyrite> "its really far up there"
[20:11] <Lyra_Bel> "I've got wings now.  Remember?"
[20:12] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Can you carry me?"
[20:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Let's find out."
[20:12] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I have this steel armor on as well"
[20:12]  * Lyra_Bel tries to lift Alex into the air
[20:12] <Bro-Sheild> < Roll athletics please >
[20:13] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20
[20:13] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20 [ 1d20=7 ]{7}
[20:13] <Bro-Sheild> Lyra wobbily rises into the air, unused to her new wings
[20:14] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Shit this sint going to go well"
[20:14] <Lyra_Bel> "Okay yeah there's pretty much no way I can hold you like this."
[20:14] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Put me down and let me take off my armor"
[20:14] <Lyra_Bel> "Screw it, I'll just draw a ladder."
[20:14]  * Lyra_Bel walks outside and draws a ladder leading to the gate
[20:14] <Bro-Sheild> <What kind of ladder?>
[20:16] <Lyra_Bel> ((Stepladder))
[20:16] <Bro-Sheild> Roll me a CON check
[20:16] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20+4
[20:16] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20+4 [ 1d20=14 ]{18}
[20:19] <Bro-Sheild> The ladder is successfully created
[20:19] <Lyra_Bel> "Not everything has to be a federal issue, as it turns out.  Ladders work."
[20:19] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Badass"
[20:19] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Ladies first though"
[20:20] <Bro-Sheild> It does seem a bit wobbly due to the extreme height of it though
[20:20] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Yeah ladies first"
[20:20] <Bro-Sheild> Nothing too serious, but be careful
[20:20]  * Lyra_Bel draws an anchor to hold it in place
[20:21] <Lyra_Bel> A big rock to press against it and stop it from wobbling, to be precise
[20:21] <Bro-Sheild> Another CON check
[20:21] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20+4
[20:21] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20+4 [ 1d20=2 ]{6}
[20:22] <Bro-Sheild> Lyra feeling a tingling in her throat and has a coughing fit
[20:22] <Lyra_Bel> "Aww crumbs," she mutters after her throat clears.
[20:22] <Lyra_Bel> "Probably dying again."
[20:22] <Bro-Sheild> Alex, roll me a perception check
[20:23] <Alexander_Pyrite> roll 1d20
[20:23] <`DICE> Alexander_Pyrite rolled 1d20 [ 1d20=19 ]{19}
[20:23] <Alexander_Pyrite> ha
[20:24] <Bro-Sheild> Lyra is bleeding heavily from her nose and her eyes are red and puffy. She is shuddering a bit, as if holding a large weight
[20:25] <Bro-Sheild> Lyra, you feel weak as if a great weight were pressing on you
[20:25] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Jesus fuck lyra what the hell"
[20:25] <Alexander_Pyrite> "are you ok?"
[20:25] <Lyra_Bel> "I'm fine.  Bit of a headache, s'nothing."
[20:26] <Lyra_Bel> "I'll be fine once I can drop this stuff."
[20:26] <Alexander_Pyrite> "youre bleeding everywhere"
[20:27] <Lyra_Bel> "No I'm-"
[20:27] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20-1
[20:27] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20-1 [ 1d20=15 ]{14}
[20:27] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh shoot I am.  Lovely."
[20:27] <Alexander_Pyrite> "here"
[20:27]  * Alexander_Pyrite gets out my old clothes
[20:27]  * Alexander_Pyrite wipes up her blood
[20:28] <Lyra_Bel> "I'm fine.  Just get through the gate so I don't have to keep holding this stuff."
[20:28] <Alexander_Pyrite> "alright, ill try to lighten the load a bit"
[20:29] <Bro-Sheild> Lyra starts blinking rapidly as her eyes dry out
[20:29]  * Alexander_Pyrite captchalouges my armor and tries to change really fast into the somewhat bloody shirt
[20:29]  * Lyra_Bel closes her eyes and presses a hand to them.  "Just go."
[20:30] <Alexander_Pyrite> what should i roll to run up there?
[20:30] <Bro-Sheild> Run? It is a ladder
[20:30] <Alexander_Pyrite> well climb
[20:31] <Alexander_Pyrite> what do i roll
[20:31] <Bro-Sheild> Acrobatics if you want to move fast enough that balance is a serious concern
[20:31] <Alexander_Pyrite> i do
[20:31] <Alexander_Pyrite> roll 1d20+2
[20:31] <`DICE> Alexander_Pyrite rolled 1d20+2 [ 1d20=11 ]{13}
[20:31] <Bro-Sheild> Alex proceeds up the ladder, taking a good two minutes to solidly climb the 100+ feet of steps
[20:32] <Bro-Sheild> Panting heavily he reaches the gate
[20:32] <Bro-Sheild> Lyra is dry retching a bit at this point
[20:32]  * Alexander_Pyrite jumps into the gate
[20:32] <Lyra_Bel> I dismiss my hold over the stone anchor
[20:33] <Bro-Sheild> The anchor dissipates and Lyra's headache is reduced drastically
[20:34] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh thank-"
[20:34]  * Lyra_Bel drops the ladder as well
[20:35] <Bro-Sheild> Lyra is now back to normal, and collapses to the ground as her vision turns black and her brain tells her body to rest
[20:36] <Lyra_Bel> Can I make a Constitution roll to stay conscious long enough to get through the gate?
[20:36] <Bro-Sheild> How so? You dismissed the ladder?
[20:36] <Lyra_Bel> I still have wings
[20:38] <Bro-Sheild> Alright, roll me a Con to stay awake and then an athletics to fly
[20:38] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20+4
[20:38] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20+4 [ 1d20=6 ]{10}
[20:38] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20
[20:38] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20 [ 1d20=2 ]{2}
[20:39] <Bro-Sheild> Lyra fights off the sleep only to have her new wings fail on her as she attempts to take off. She really should practice with these things sometime
[20:39] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh f-for the love of..."
[20:39] <Bro-Sheild> Lyra slowly succumbs to the darkness
[20:39] <Bro-Sheild> And wakes up eye to eye with a weapons rack
[20:40] <Lyra_Bel> "Awwwwww crumbs."
[20:41] <Lyra_Bel> Lyra uses her Emerald Shades to pester Alex
[20:41] <Regent> "You alright? I hate it when you disappear like that"
[20:42] <Lyra_Bel> "I hate this game."
[20:43] <Regent> Alex, how much health do you have?
[20:45] <Alexander_Pyrite> lemme check
[20:45] <Alexander_Pyrite> 32 i think
[20:45] <Lyra_Bel> ((Oh shoot))
[20:45] <Regent> Well, you are in for a bad time
[20:45] <Alexander_Pyrite> 29 at the moment
[20:45] <Alexander_Pyrite> cuz i got shot
[20:45] <Regent> Roll 5d10 fall damage
[20:45] <`DICE> Regent rolled 5d10 fall damage [ 5d10=31 ]{31}
[20:46] <Alexander_Pyrite> fuck
[20:46] <Alexander_Pyrite> did i regenerate health after my confrontation?
[20:46] <Alexander_Pyrite> after lyra shot me
[20:46] <Alexander_Pyrite> it was a while ago
[20:47] <Regent> No, I'm afraid not
[20:47] <Alexander_Pyrite> but D:
[20:47] <Regent> Roll me some death saves (1d20+CON)
[20:47] <Alexander_Pyrite> roll 1d20+3
[20:47] <`DICE> Alexander_Pyrite rolled 1d20+3 [ 1d20=4 ]{7}
[20:47] <Lyra_Bel> O.O
[20:47] <Alexander_Pyrite> god dammit
[20:47] <Lyra_Bel> ((Come on Kek...))
[20:47] <Regent> 1 failure
[20:48] <Alexander_Pyrite> roll 1d20+3
[20:48] <`DICE> Alexander_Pyrite rolled 1d20+3 [ 1d20=17 ]{20}
[20:48] <Regent> 2 successes
[20:48] <Alexander_Pyrite> roll 1d20+3
[20:48] <`DICE> Alexander_Pyrite rolled 1d20+3 [ 1d20=4 ]{7}
[20:48] <Regent> 2 failures
[20:48] <Alexander_Pyrite> roll 1d20+3
[20:48] <`DICE> Alexander_Pyrite rolled 1d20+3 [ 1d20=20 ]{23}
[20:48] <Regent> Well you stabilized
[20:48] <Alexander_Pyrite> yesss
[20:48] <Regent> You are at 0 HP and unconcious
[20:49] <Regent> Lyra does have a bit of trouble contact Alex
[20:49] <Alexander_Pyrite> ok
[20:49] <Regent> And then remembers how the gates work
[20:49] <Lyra_Bel> "Aww shoot..."
[20:49] <Lyra_Bel> "Reggie, is there a way to go around the chain backwards?"
[20:50] <Lyra_Bel> "I think I might have just killed Alex."
[20:50] <Regent> "Not directly backwards"
[20:50] <Lyra_Bel> "Crumbs.  How about to Ashland?"
[20:51] <Regent> "Lyra, you really need to start thinking these things through more"
[20:51] <Lyra_Bel> "Shut up, you."
[20:51] <Regent> "If there are the gates I don't know where they are"
[20:51] <Regent> "Probably up further than the first one was"
[20:52] <Lyra_Bel> "Fine.  My GM can wait, I guess.  Time to go catch up to Nickolai."
[20:52] <Lyra_Bel> snuffshotMartyr [SM] began pestering unmotivatedMeatshield [UM]
[20:52] <Lyra_Bel> SM: What're the chances you're alive right now?
[20:52] <Alexander_Pyrite> no response
[20:52] <Regent> "You aren't mad at me?"
[20:53] <Lyra_Bel> "Reg, I've gotten pretty used to stuff going this way."
[20:53]  * Lyra_Bel heads outside and tries flying towards the gate
[20:53] <Regent> "I can remember you mentioning to Alex how you needed to kill this body because I 'possessed' it."
[20:53] <Lyra_Bel> "That was other-me.  How can you even know what that one was saying?"
[20:54] <Regent> "I can read your memories sometimes"
[20:54] <Regent> "Not for the big stuff"
[20:54] <Lyra_Bel> ((Another Athletics roll to fly, I assume?))
[20:54] <Regent> "Mostly just short term"
[20:55] <Regent> < yup >
[20:55] <Lyra_Bel> "Lovely.  No way THAT can bite me in the butt."
[20:55] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20
[20:55] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20 [ 1d20=4 ]{4}
[20:56] <Regent> You manage to get off the ground a bit and awkwardly flap-hop outside
[20:56] <Regent> Yeah, no way you are getting major height yet
[20:57] <Lyra_Bel> I keep trying
[20:57] <Regent> You really just need some time to warm the muscles up, time you really don't have
[20:57] <Lyra_Bel> I draw another ladder and climb it
[20:57] <Lyra_Bel> This time without bothering to stabilize
[20:58] <Regent> "Lyra, please stop."
[20:58] <Regent> "You are pushing yourself too hard."
[20:58] <Lyra_Bel> "Don't tell me what to do."
[20:58] <Regent> "Will hurting yourself like this save your friend?"
[20:58] <Lyra_Bel> "YES!"
[20:58] <Regent> < Roll CON >
[20:58] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20+4
[20:58] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20+4 [ 1d20=12 ]{16}
[20:58] <Regent> "..."
[20:59] <Regent> Lyra barely pants a little as she makes the ladder
[20:59] <Regent> "Lyra, I can't stop you. I hold no power over you."
[21:00] <Lyra_Bel> "Sure you can.  Overshadow me again."
[21:00] <Lyra_Bel> She climbs it as fast as humanely possible
[21:00] <Regent> "But please, just slow down"
[21:00] <Regent> < Roll Acrobatics >
[21:00] <Lyra_Bel> "Not while he's bleeding out."
[21:00] <Regent> "You will die trying to save him."
[21:00] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20+1
[21:00] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20+1 [ 1d20=15 ]{16}
[21:01] <Regent> Lyra barely manages to stay atop the ladder as her foot slips but she keeps on going
[21:06] <Regent> This person has a modern house which I forget the description of in a shifting sea of red and blue magnetic platforms repelling and attracting each other
[21:06] <Regent> Roll Athletics
[21:06] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20
[21:06] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20 [ 1d20=9 ]{9}
[21:06] <Regent> Roll 1d10 fall damage
[21:06] <`DICE> Regent rolled 1d10 fall damage [ 1d10=1 ]{1}
[21:07] <Regent> Lyra sprains her ankle as she lands funny on it as her wings give out the last few feet
[21:07] <Lyra_Bel> Back up!  Another ladder, another ascension
[21:08] <Regent> Roll CON with -2
[21:08] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20+2
[21:08] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20+2 [ 1d20=12 ]{14}
[21:08] <Regent> Lyra pants as she makes the next ladder, shuddering a bit as her vision blurs for a moment
[21:09] <Lyra_Bel> Doesn't matter.  Through the gate, dismiss the ladder
[21:09] <Regent> "Lyra. Please, slow down."
[21:10] <Regent> < Roll to climb the ladder fast? >
[21:10] <Lyra_Bel> "Why?"
[21:10] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20+1
[21:10] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20+1 [ 1d20=4 ]{5}
[21:10] <Regent> Lyra slips off the ladder and catches herself by one hand
[21:11] <Regent> "I don't want you to die and leave me all alone again..."
[21:11] <Regent> "Please."
[21:11] <Lyra_Bel> "Alex's got an alternate you.  Wanna meet it?"
[21:11] <Regent> "Breaking yourself won't save him"
[21:11] <Lyra_Bel> Lyra tries to use her wings to maneuver herself back onto the ladder.
[21:11] <Regent> Roll Athletics
][21:11] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20
[21:11] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20 [ 1d20=9 ]{9}
[21:12] <Regent> Lyra's fingers slip and her grip becomes looser
[21:13] <Regent> "..."
[21:13] <Lyra_Bel> She tries again
[21:13] <Regent> roll again
[21:13] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20
[21:13] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20 [ 1d20=1 ]{1}
[21:13] <Regent> Lyra falls down and lands hard on the ground
[21:13] <Regent> Roll 1d10+5
[21:13] <`DICE> Regent rolled 1d10+5 [ 1d10=6 ]{11}
[21:14] <Regent> 11 damage
[21:14] <Lyra_Bel> Back up
[21:14] <Regent> Current Health
[21:14] <Lyra_Bel> 35
[21:14] <Regent> "Please Lyra, just... please"
[21:15] <Regent> Roll me another CON check at -3
[21:15] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20+1
[21:15] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20+1 [ 1d20=15 ]{16}
[21:15] <Lyra_Bel> "I can't break.  Sabath won't let me."
[21:15] <Regent> "You can break others."
[21:15] <Regent> "You can break me."
[21:15] <Lyra_Bel> "I thought I wasn't supposed to trust you?"
[21:16] <Regent> "I was manipulating you to not go on the bed"
[21:16] <Regent> "We both know that"
[21:17] <Regent> Lyra climbs up the ladder again, out of breath, heaving, and exhausted
[21:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Because you're afraid of being all alone."
[21:17] <Lyra_Bel> Through the gate.
[21:17] <Regent> "Yes"
[21:18] <Lyra_Bel> "Well good news on that count, then.  Eventually, Faerzen finds you."
[21:18] <Regent> "Please, let me leave you"
[21:19] <Regent> "let me find some other body to inhabit"
[21:19] <Lyra_Bel> "You can leave once we're done.  Back on cliff-land with Kek."
[21:20] <Regent> Roll athletics with a -2
[21:20] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20-2
[21:20] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20-2 [ 1d20=9 ]{7}
[21:20] <Regent> Lyra falls through the sky above a castle in a rolling grassy plain. In the distance you can see massive buildings and mountains
[21:21] <Regent> Roll 3d10 fall damage
[21:21] <`DICE> Regent rolled 3d10 fall damage [ 3d10=21 ]{21}
[21:21] <Lyra_Bel> 14 HP left
[21:22] <Regent> is Reggie...
[21:22] <Regent> Crying?
[21:22] <Lyra_Bel> "This isn't working."
[21:22] <Lyra_Bel> "New plan."
[21:22] <Lyra_Bel> Lyra draws a parachute
[21:22] <Regent> *sobbing*
[21:23] <Lyra_Bel> And then another ladder
[21:23] <Regent> Lyra makes a presumably safe parachute
[21:23] <Regent> Roll 1d20 Con (-4)
[21:23] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20
[21:23] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20 [ 1d20=15 ]{15}
[21:24] <Regent> Lyra's knees tremble as she wobbles to the ground, gritting her teeth she gets back up
[21:24] <Lyra_Bel> "Come on.  Let me have this."
[21:24] <Lyra_Bel> Up the ladder, slower this time.
[21:25] <Regent> "Go and die on your own, see if I care if you kill yourself."
[21:25] <Regent> < Roll me another CON check >
[21:25] <Lyra_Bel> "Not talking to you, Regent."
[21:26] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20+4
[21:26] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20+4 [ 1d20=2 ]{6}
[21:26] <Regent> The Ladder and parachute crumble as Lyra starts climbing
[21:27] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh for the love of-!"
[21:27] <Regent> "You really don't care about me trying to stop you, do you?"
[21:27] <Lyra_Bel> She drops the ladder to put all her energy into the parachute, then tries flying up
[21:27] <Regent> "Did you ever care about what I said?"
[21:28] <Regent> Reggie asks in a monotone voice
[21:28] <Lyra_Bel> "You'll be forced to spend an eternity alone?"
[21:28] <Regent> Lyra stumbles to the ground
[21:28] <Regent> Her body can't take any more punishment
[21:28] <Lyra_Bel> "Come on!"
[21:29] <Regent> Her wings screaming in pain she tries again
[21:29] <Regent> She doesn't get more then a few feet off the ground
[21:29] <Regent> Lyra lies there. Panting.
[21:29] <Regent> "I didn't realize..."
[21:30] <Regent> "...how sociopathic you truly were"
[21:30] <Lyra_Bel> "Call that the Abyss, I guess."
[21:30] <Regent> "The Abyss hasn't done anything to you yet."
[21:31] <Lyra_Bel> "Then call it Sabath."
[21:31] <Regent> "You were like this before you came here, weren't you?"
[21:31] <Lyra_Bel> "Or call it whatever it is, that makes it so that any time I try to do ANYTHING, I screw it up!"
[21:31] <Regent> "It is because you just don't think things through"
[21:32] <Regent> "If you ever paused to think then you could make better choices"
[21:32] <Regent> "but you don't"
[21:32] <Lyra_Bel> "Thinking wouldn't help."
[21:32] <Lyra_Bel> "Nothing works anyway.  If it looks like it would, it's a trap."
[21:32] <Lyra_Bel> "That's how this stupid game works."
[21:33] <Regent> "Lyra"
[21:33] <Regent> "..."
[21:33] <Regent> "Nevermind"
[21:33] <Lyra_Bel> "What have I DONE?"
[21:33] <Lyra_Bel> "What have I actually accomplished?"
[21:33] <Regent> "Hey Lyra"
[21:34] <Regent> "What if I told you"
[21:34] <Regent> "I don't care about your problems"
[21:34] <Lyra_Bel> "That isn't news to me, Regent."
[21:35] <Lyra_Bel> "But you care about what happens to your host."
[21:35] <Regent> "No."
[21:35] <Regent> "You can die for all I care"
[21:35] <Regent> "I'd rather be alone than with you"
[21:36] <Lyra_Bel> "Good, because that's definitely the path we're on."
[21:36] <Regent> No response
[21:36] <Lyra_Bel> Lyra tries to struggle to her feet again
[21:36] <Regent> Lyra manages to do so, breathing heavily from even the slightest effort
[21:37] <Regent> "Stop it."
[21:37] <Lyra_Bel> "Why?  I thought you didn't care?"
[21:37] <Regent> "I don't want more people to die because of me."
[21:37] <Regent> "So at the very least"
[21:37] <Regent> "If you want to be a prick who goes and dies of over exertion"
[21:38] <Regent> "Then tell me I did all I could to stop you"
[21:39] <Lyra_Bel> "You did all that could be expected, short of excercising your ability to control me."
[21:39] <Lyra_Bel> "There.  Guilt assuaged?"
[21:39] <Regent> "I can only make you do things that you want to do."
[21:39] <Regent> "And yes"
[21:40] <Regent> "I'm not satisfied though"
[21:40] <Regent> "You need to rest Lyra"
[21:40] <Lyra_Bel> "Not if he could be dying."
[21:40] <Regent> "Lyra"
[21:40] <Lyra_Bel> "What?"
[21:40] <Regent> "You wouldn't reach him in time"
[21:41] <Regent> "The fall would cause him to bleed out in a minute or two at most"
[21:41] <Regent> "You've already spent at least five times that forcing yourself through these gates"
[21:42] <Lyra_Bel> "I can't just-"
[21:42] <Lyra_Bel> "What am I supposed to do, then!?"
[21:56] <Regent> "Not this."
[21:57] <Lyra_Bel> "Tell me!"
[21:58] <Regent> "Just don't do this. You can go to your friend or his corpse but don't risk yourself over something you can't change"
[21:59] <Lyra_Bel> "So far, I've done everything either wrong, or as a panicked reaction to some inexplicable phenomenon."
[21:59] <Lyra_Bel> "That means my options consist of getting to Alex, or something else coming out from the blue to screw me further over."
[22:00] <Regent> "Lyra, you want to know why you've done everything wrong?"
[22:00] <Regent> "You don't think about the consequences of your actions"
[22:00] <Lyra_Bel> "That's because whenever I think I've got a plan, something stupid happens and I end up dying or getting tortured."
[22:01] <Regent> "You just hurt yourself or others with your stupid rash decisions and have nobody but yourself to blame"
[22:01] <Regent> "Why did the Black Queen stab you and treat you like a dog?"
[22:02] <Regent> "Because you got in her way and she clearly forewarned you"
[22:02] <Regent> "Your fault for tempting her"
[22:02] <Lyra_Bel> "I thought I was on her side!"
[22:02] <Lyra_Bel> "Up until the threats started, I was totally ready to go to war on Prospit."
[22:02] <Lyra_Bel> "But knowing my mission was too close to a plan, so that couldn't happen anymore."
[22:03] <Regent> "Oh please, you act is if she didn't threaten to hurt you before you made your stupid remarks."
[22:03] <Regent> "Or when you were talking to the Mask"
[22:03] <Regent> "You just jumped right in all willy nilly agreeing to its terms."
[22:03] <Lyra_Bel> "There were no terms."
[22:03] <Regent> "Never stopped to think for a second."
[22:03] <Regent> "Just did."
[22:04] <Regent> "That is all you do."
[22:04] <Lyra_Bel> "Because nothing else would have worked!"
[22:04] <Regent> "Bullshit."
[22:04] <Regent> "You fucking threw yourself into that dungeon where you almost froze and you blame your server for it"
[22:05] <Lyra_Bel> "Did I have another option?"
[22:05] <Lyra_Bel> "Please, tell me where else I could have gone."
[22:06] <Lyra_Bel> "Live off bat guts and horsemeat?"
[22:06] <Regent> "You didn't stop to think about it, did you. You didn't ask the ponies, you didn't double check, you just followed an imp and a noise blindly until you froze to near death."
[22:06] <Lyra_Bel> "Because nobody told me they could talk!"
[22:06] <Regent> "I'm done with you. Shape up or get me the hell out."
[22:06] <Lyra_Bel> "Why the heck would I assume a freaking pony could talk!?"
[22:07] <Regent> "You didn't ask. You just FUCKING ASSUMED AGAIN."
[22:07] <Lyra_Bel> "So basic facts of life are in question now, huh?"
[22:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Does gravity exist for Sabath?  Or am I just being held down because I don't know to try and float away?"
[22:08] <Regent> "You should've known not to take things for granted when your planet died and you were saved by this game."
[22:08] <Lyra_Bel> "My planet didn't die.  *I* died."
[22:08] <Lyra_Bel> "There's a difference."
[22:09] <Regent> "You fucking-"
[22:09] <Regent> "AUGH."
[22:09] <Lyra_Bel> "If I'm so wrong about everything, then TELL ME!"
[22:09] <Lyra_Bel> "Tell me everything.  We CLEARLY aren't going anywhere!"
[22:10] <Regent> "You never died you idiot! Quit acting like a melodramatic baby and accept the facts!"
[22:10] <Lyra_Bel> "Then tell me the facts!"
[22:11] <Regent> "Your planet died! Earth? All fucking dead!"
[22:11] <Regent> "Everybody except for you, and the rest of these kids!"
[22:11] <Regent> "All of the rest of them? Dead."
[22:11] <Lyra_Bel> "Then how's Alex alive?"
[22:11] <Lyra_Bel> "How did the earth last another hundred years after dying, huh?"
[22:11] <Lyra_Bel> "Or in the Middle Ages, or feudal Japan?  That's four apocalypses."
[22:12] <Regent> "Nobody else was stupid enough to get hung up on this. You on the other hand just aren't willing to accept that this game doesn't MAKE FUCKING SENSE."
[22:12] <Regent> "WHEN HAS IT EVER MADE SENSE!?"
[22:12] <Lyra_Bel> "..."
[22:13] <Regent> "YOU SEE NOW?!"
[22:13] <Regent> "I HAVE TO LIVE THROUGH THIS HELL FOREVER"
[22:13] <Lyra_Bel> "I'm trying to figure that out.  To figure out the internal logic so that I CAN make informed decisions instead of guessing stupidly."
[22:13] <Regent> "There is no 'internal logic'"
[22:14] <Regent> "Kek will tell you what you are supposed to know"
[22:14] <Regent> "Now just get me away from you. I don't want your sick mind to contaminate me"
[22:14] <Lyra_Bel> Lyra captchalogues Regent
[22:14] <Lyra_Bel> "There, done.  No more awareness."
[22:15] <Regent> Regent isn't captchalogued
[22:15] <Regent> "Quit trying to wish your problems away"
[22:15] <Lyra_Bel> "I never did that."
[22:15] <Regent> "You never did that?"
[22:16] <Lyra_Bel> "I tried to wish *yours* away."
[22:16] <Lyra_Bel> "Okay?  Put you in a Sylladex so you don't need to stay aware."
[22:16] <Regent> "All you do is create shitty situations for yourself, refuse to accept your part in them, and then wish them to disappear"
[22:16] <Regent> "Like it is so easy"
[22:16] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah, and then they get worse."
[22:17] <Lyra_Bel> "I kinda figured that part out myself."
[22:17] <Regent> "Lyra, you are psychologically a sociopath"
[22:17] <Regent> "Yes?"
[22:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Probably."
[22:17] <Regent> "No, answer me. Yes or no?"
[22:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Can't get much worse, why not throw some mental defects in there as well?"
[22:18] <Regent> "Yes, or no?"
[22:18] <Lyra_Bel> "I'm trying, okay!"
[22:18] <Regent> "Are you?"
[22:19] <Lyra_Bel> "You think I'd put myself through this if I thought there was a better way?"
[22:19] <Regent> "You can't just try to kill your emotions to make yourself not feel bad. It doesn't work."
[22:20] <Regent> "I ask you again"
[22:20] <Regent> "Are you a sociopath?"
[22:22] <Lyra_Bel> "Queen said that was the point.  Break me so I'm willing to do whatever it takes to win the game."
[22:22] <Lyra_Bel> "To save this mess of a universe."
[22:23] <Regent> "I asked you a question"
[22:23] <Regent> "Yes or No?"
[22:24] <Lyra_Bel> "Y'know, Alex mentioned playing character roles in this game."
[22:24] <Lyra_Bel> "I think I just figured out mine."
[22:25] <Regent> "Hey, Lyra"
[22:25] <Regent> "I know you can be an uncooperative piece of trash"
[22:25] <Regent> "But this is ridiculous
[22:26] <Regent> "YES. OR. NO?"
[22:26] <Lyra_Bel> "Okay, fine!  Fine, I give up!  I'm a sociopath, and Alex is dead, and there's no way to win Sabath, and the mask is gonna make me kill everything.  No more running, no more hiding.  Get it over with.  Pick a cliff and walk me off, because I'm not exactly opposed to it anymore."
[22:26] <Lyra_Bel> "My role is the victim.  Everything that can go wrong, will.  Kill me already, get it over with."
[22:27] <Lyra_Bel> "Fighting back is what made everything so bad in the first place."
[22:27] <Lyra_Bel> "I should have just gritted my teeth and sucked it up."
[22:27] <Lyra_Bel> "Happy?"
[22:27] <Regent> "Yes"
[22:27] <Regent> "Now go talk to Faerzen"
[22:27] <Lyra_Bel> "No."
[22:27] <Regent> "You need psychological help"
[22:27] <Regent> "I can make you do this"
[22:28] <Lyra_Bel> "I'll deal with the mental issues myself."
[22:28] <Regent> "Pfft."
[22:28] <Lyra_Bel> "Trying to improve myself failed every other time I tried."
[22:28] <Regent> "You know, that is what I told myself after the first 200 years"
[22:28] <Regent> "I'll fix it myself"
[22:28] <Regent> "I'll get better myself"
[22:29] <Regent> "When I was screaming curled up in a ball on the ground, 'I don't need anybody else'"
[22:29] <Regent> "You can't cure yourself of a mental illness"
[22:29] <Regent> "Nobody can."
[22:29] <Lyra_Bel> "And as the team's resident sufferer, I'm sure I'll deserve whatever horrible fate failing to do so will produce."
[22:30] <Regent> "I will make you do this"
[22:30] <Regent> "I don't want to."
[22:30] <Regent> "But I will"
[22:30] <Lyra_Bel> "I'm not going to cure it myself, I'm going to endure it myself."
[22:30] <Regent> "No, you aren't"
[22:30] <Lyra_Bel> "That's my job."
[22:31] <Regent> "Man, I wish you could see the inside of your brain as clearly as I can"
[22:31] <Lyra_Bel> "The only times I've ever managed to avoid making things worse was when I couldn't fight back."
[22:31] <Lyra_Bel> "So I'm done fighting back."
[22:31] <Regent> "Alright. Works for me."
[22:31] <Regent> "Makes it easier for me to control you."
[22:31] <Lyra_Bel> "Go nuts."
[22:32]  * Lyra_Bel lies back on the grass.
[22:32] <Regent> "You are an awfully trusting person Lyra."
[22:32] <Lyra_Bel> "No.  I just don't care anymore."
[22:32] <Regent> "Alright, let's talk to Faerzen."
[22:32] <Lyra_Bel> "Have fun with that."
[22:33]  * Lyregent sits up
[22:33]  * Lyregent yawns
[22:33] <Lyregent> "Fuck you overworked yourself! That is gonna ache like hell tomorrow!"
[22:33]  * Lyregent winces
[22:34] <Lyra_Bel> "I'm sure you'll manage."
[22:34] <Lyregent> "You have fun watching from that backseat, I won't do anything you don't want me to do ;)"
[22:35] <Lyregent> [SM] has begun pestering [UM]
[22:35] <Lyregent> Hello Alexander!
[22:35] <Lyregent> I know you are unconscious at the time you are receiving this
[22:36] <Lyregent> But when you do wake up I just want you to know that I always really appreciated you and cared for you as a friend... Maybe even more than a friend...
[22:36] <Lyregent> I'm sorry about getting you hurt
[22:37] <Lyregent> I really wasn't thinking clearly
[22:37] <Lyregent> I never did understand the concept really
[22:38] <Lyregent> To me, all I focused on was shoving my emotions out of my mind and then I chose to just act on impulses
[22:38] <Lyregent> It really hurt me in the long run, but I don't understand the long term psychological effects of it yet.
[22:39] <Lyregent> I just want to curl up in a ball and cry sometimes. I stranded myself in a strange land trying to make my way back to you.
[22:39] <Lyregent> Please, the next time you see me, just...
[22:40] <Lyregent> Give me a massive hug
[22:40] <Lyregent> Don't question it, don't let me talk
[22:40] <Lyra_Bel> "No."
[22:40] <Lyra_Bel> "Don't."
[22:40] <Lyregent> Just run up to me and give me a hug
[22:40] <Lyra_Bel> "There are boundaries, Regent."
[22:40] <Lyregent> "You need this."
[22:40] <Lyregent> "You won't admit it but you need this from somebody"
[22:40] <Lyra_Bel> "I d-!  Fine.  Fine, whatever."
[22:40] <Lyra_Bel> "I don't care."
[22:41] <Lyra_Bel> Roll 1d20+5 for Bluff
[22:41] <`DICE> Lyra_Bel rolled 1d20+5 for Bluff [ 1d20=8 ]{13}
[22:41] <Lyregent> "I'm not trying to encourage your romance"
[22:41] <Lyregent> "You need some sign of comfort and care from somebody else"
[22:41] <Lyra_Bel> "That's not what that was about."
[22:41] <Lyregent> "What was it about then?"
[22:42] <Lyra_Bel> "I just don't like getting touched."
[22:42] <Lyra_Bel> "Didn't, I guess I should say."
[22:42] <Lyra_Bel> "Doesn't matter now."
[22:43] <Lyregent> "Well Lyra, maybe you never had the chance to be touched in a positive way"
[22:43] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((wonk))
[22:43] <Lyregent> "Now, let's talk to Faerzen and get some actual help."
[22:43] <Lyregent> "Or I don't know"
[22:44] <Lyregent> "Personally, I'm inclined to want to drag you through the mud a bit more and destroy your cutter-esque front you've established for yourself"
[22:44] <Lyra_Bel> "... Fine.  I'll do what you want."
[22:45] <Lyregent> "Hmm? What was that?"
[22:45] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((holy shit wonk))
[22:45] <Lyra_Bel> "I said I'll do what you want."
[22:45] <Lyra_Bel> "Can't hide behind apathy, if that's what I want."
[22:46] <Lyregent> "Hmm... I don't know... You'll probably go all suicidal again on me"
[22:46] <Lyra_Bel> "D'you want me to?"
[22:46] <Lyregent> "Lyra, I want you to just try and set this shit aside and be a kid again"
[22:47] <Lyra_Bel> "Then I will.  Simple as that."
[22:47] <Lyra_Bel> "Just tell me how.  Apparently I'm a sociopath."
[22:48] <Lyregent> "Now, I'm going to go talk to Faerzen with you, you can sit in the background so you don't do anything abrupt when we make you cry and panic"
[22:48] <Lyra_Bel> "Sure."
[22:49] <Lyra_Bel> "So we gotta keep on looping through the planets anyway, huh?"
[22:50] <Lyregent> "What do you mean?"
[22:50] <Lyregent> "We are right outside of Faerzen's place"
[22:50] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh.  Huh."
[22:50] <Lyra_Bel> "Faerzen was Tarane's player, right?"
[22:50] <Lyregent> "I flew us here with some actually well drawn wings while I was chatting with Alex"
[22:51] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh.."
[22:51] <Lyregent> "And yes, I believe that that is right according to your memories"
[22:51] <Lyra_Bel> "Three away, then."
[22:51] <Lyra_Bel> "I got halfway."
[22:51]  * Lyregent does an elegant loop-de-loop and lands on Faerzen's front porch
[22:51]  * Lyregent giggles
[22:52] <Lyregent> "Oh, you've no idea how fascinating a girl's giggle can be compared to a guy's dull laughter"
[22:52] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh, is that the direction this is going?"
[22:52] <Lyregent> "Hm?"
[22:52]  * Lyregent rings doorbell
[22:53] <Lyregent> "I don't follow."
[22:53] <Lyra_Bel> "I mean, I can't say I didn't expect you to eventually hit that point once you managed to possess me, but I thought I'd care more."
[22:53] <Lyregent> "Lyra please."
[22:53] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh, sorry, no.  Not allowed to not care."
[22:54] <Lyregent> "Not with a loaner body ;)"