>>1128357
Theres a lot to consider man, an a ton of important stuff, but piorities.

Thank her.
Tell her shes got a cool look and she is rocking that choker.
Shes cute!

Balzhemund 2026/07/08(Wed)19:50 No. 1129127 ID: c15a60
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>>1128369
No, Doto doesn't think that. We're bros! Bros for life don't pull that stuff with each other.

"Doto, why didn't you tell me any of this?"

Doto shuffles his feet and looks down at them, at his tablet, I never seen him look so nervous. "It-it wasn't supposed to be a big thing."

"But it was happening."

Doto chirps and pecks at his fingers. "I-I. I live a block away from Tokka. O-keeeeee?"

"What?"

"Her family shops where mine does! Her brother was my second during my Taking of the Watch! That's like huge for us!"

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Balzhemund 2026/07/08(Wed)19:53 No. 1129128 ID: c15a60
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>>1128373
Good point, sounds like Doto's been pretending this wasn't a thing, and Soro'i knows more.

"Hey, Soro, you called em eggheads before. You know what's up?"

"Oh, remember I'm here?" she grins. "Nah, I pullin yer craw, yeah. Home and Hatch dey call 'emselves, you know who dey are cause dey got an egg inna nest fer a patch." she scoffs. "Cuz ye know. Keepin' da egg of da homeworld clean wit no cracks n' stuff."

>>1128381
>>1128390
"So...what. This a power play? Getting students angry at me?"

"I dunno. Maybe?" she shrugs.

>>1128388
He could, but more likely he doesn't. Dad calls regularly, but usually to tell me when he's coming home or someplace that's dangerous. This would be the first time he missed something. God, this is the worst thing I could be showing your guys huh? You think this is some sort of underground movement happening?

Balzhemund 2026/07/08(Wed)19:54 No. 1129129 ID: c15a60
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>>1128390
"Well, thanks anyway Soro'i. Cute makeup by the way."

"What?"

"What?"

"Hey, not everyday I see a goth Marnyarni."

"Cute huh?"

she seems cool, you should hang out

D, B - Show them you mean b~u~s~i~n~e~s~s

Being a [D]ragon is serious [B]usiness
D,b

>>1129082
Primary: D: The Dragon Bra and Panties.

Secondary: C: The Oddly Nostalgic Outfit.

primary: D
Secondary: C

E, C

>>1128760
Huh, the thing was creating an illusion? Do the clone-bits look the same as before?
Let's go retrieve Mary.

(1/2) kpwlt 2026/07/08(Wed)15:30 No. 1129119 ID: 127310
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>Really? That's not the outfit I thought she'd be wearing after all these months.

Oh? Sam was not aware she should already have an idea of Mary's outfit.

>Huh, the thing was creating an illusion?

Sam isn’t sure. She didn’t notice any illusion, but then again, what good is an illusion you can notice?

>Do the clone-bits look the same as before?

They appear to be unchanged.

>Slowly approach as a group.
>Let's go retrieve Mary.

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(2/2) kpwlt 2026/07/08(Wed)15:30 No. 1129120 ID: 127310
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A black-clad figure zips out of a nearby tree. The same one as before.

MARY: “It’s them.”

???: “Apologies. Just a precaution.”

The masked person grabs Sam by the face and looks deeply into her eyes. She kicks them off of her, and they promptly do the same to Uberto and the rest.

UBERTO: ”Hey! At least tell us who you are if you’re going to come in here and start examining us.”

They step back and seem to consider for a moment.

MILLER: “I work for the Ministry of Memetic Philosophy. Please, call me Miller. Some well doubles of you came here earlier, hence the inspection.”

SIMONE: “Mary’s mentioned you before. It’s nice to finally meet you.”

MILLER: “A shame we couldn’t meet in kinder times. Your mentor has been cursed, and the only person I know of who can undo it is the person who cursed her.”

Miller looks at Sam again, as if expecting her to say or do something. Or, perhaps they feel compelled to look at her for some subconscious reason.

>>1129120
"That woland lady"... so I'm guessing Hella is the flaming figure after all? Her ability to teleport in and out of the Well seems pretty handy. Wish we could do that, then we could go confront her.

Ask Miller what's with the mask. (so that's what was behind the censor bar)

Could we do something to lure the perpetrator to us, rather than attempt to track down someone so ellusivea? What was Mary doing when she was accosted?

Silence 2026/07/08(Wed)11:53 No. 1129116 ID: 6d1406
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Things start to get fuzzy, you can feel yourself slipping...

Silence 2026/07/08(Wed)12:00 No. 1129117 ID: 6d1406
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You awaken, back in the Infirmary at the Old Spaceport, you feel as if it has been no time whatsoever, you're in shock for certain.

Oh good, you're awake, you've been out for under an hour now!

You can hear Nora clearly, and yet she too feels somewhat distant.

Are you okay? Must have been something quite shocking locked up in your memories.

You don't know what to say, what to do, you don't even know what happened. Where do you go from here?

Plan is unchanged, I guess.
Want it or not, we're under contract with KW now, and we'll see this contract through. Anything less would cost us our credibility.

"Don't worry Juniper, you won't forget any of this, this is an important day today. The start of your new life." -Disco

Fuck you Disco.

>>1129117
Ask what could have caused the memory loss. You now know it wasn't from the injuries that took your eye.

1. Everyone get sex toys and lets us see them in use. I don't know how that will be explain as more and more opponents start using them but I am here for it.

2. Put them in the second half, let's them suffer a little bit more. They earned every bit of it.

3. Placements: 1) Lady Buttania 2) Pound Cake 3) Burrow Buster 4) Whipsalot 5) Wax Pornetic 6) Rope Bunny

4. I liked Kunoichi Bunny, it was a shame that she was only used for the tutorial fucking. She looks too cool for that. Whipsalot and Wax Pornetic. These two were fun to interact with. I disliked Mint, Burrow Buster, and Lady Buttania. One was made to be hated, the second was too boring and finally one didn't do much.

5. A little bit, but that is the fun in it.

6. More porn, more weird scenarios and more enemies.

everyone uses them but it's random who has porn or normal weapons
seeing them is fine
rope, lady, whip, burrow, pound, wax
liked skull bunny, bunny breaker, and burrow. i enjoy side characters and tsunderes... mint felt underwhelming
nah not too far
more blood

Absurdity DeVoid 2026/07/08(Wed)04:37 No. 1129100 ID: 1a4dbf
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Thank you all for answering my questions. I have enough data to see what you liked in the current chapter and what you want for the new one.

* Your answer to the first question is that you all want everyone to have porn weapons, but I will add one additional request to it, that it is random who has porn or normal weapons.

* Your answers to the second question show that the majority of you want to see the defeated enforcers make an appearance. But I also see your wish to see new faces, and don't worry, there will be new opponents to fight in the second half.

* Your answers to the third question, putting all the numbers into a count, this is what your answers are.
Lady Buttania has 4 points.
Pound Cake has 12 points.
Rope Bunny has 13 points.
Burrow Buster has 11 points.
Whipsalot has 10 points.
And Wax Pornetic has 14 points.
I counted their placements as the point numbers, so the top three are Pound Cake, Rope Bunny, and Wax Pornetic. This was an interesting thing to see what you liked and what you didn't.

* Your answers to the fourth question, Wax Pornetic, left an impression on you. So did Whipsalot. In the lesser aspect, Rope Bunny, Kunoichi Bunny, Skull Bunny, Bunny Breaker, and Burrow Buster. I will take that into account.

* Your answers to the fifth you think that I didn't go too far. Well, that is reasuring to hear.

* Your answers to the final question are more blood, more weird scenarios, and more enemies. I will try to fulfill that to the best of my ability.

With all the answers, let's end this part of the story by giving me a suggestion of what you want me to draw for this quest, and it can be anything. So give me your final suggestions.

I saw what you made in the discussion thread, the whole crossover scenario. So this is my quest and this is if Miasma gives their permission. I would like to see the alternative ending to the fight between the bunny and the bird but this time bird being the defeated one.

draw lady and wax having a tea party

>>1128999
That thing is taller than Tanna.

>>1129000

So? And how many bipedal lizardlike species of roughly that bone structure ARE there, especially when considering possible individual outliers in size?

>>1128959
That feller is spooky and scary.
Hey.
I recognise him
Is he the guy who loaned you the harmonica?
Slinky.
He wants it back.

Ok, ok.
Putting my whimsy away.
Its possible theyre one of the original denizens remains.
Definitely a heavy set creature in life by the wide feet, long balancing tail and spread of the foot talons when it jumps.
Its caught in a loop of trying something that isnt working.
Suggests a command given and it having minimal autonomy.

All the same, we have info for the team
Get to the foot of the rope and we'll carry a message to come down quietly as theres one hostile skelamajig.

>>1128924
An unnecessary but interesting foray into the lore of our world: History has led us to broadly reject the idea of magic, but that has not stopped magical thinking. While we had once thought the world was magical, we were able to create detailed theories describing nearly every single mechanism and predict how systems would develop further and further forward. Anything that can be theorized about and predicted, we call science. We call everything else magic. The ways of science have become so advanced, in fact, that it is widely believed that everything can be explained by it in one way or another, though we may not know it yet.

Thus, the existence of magic is more of a philosophical question than a physical one. This leads to a big complication when it comes to the idea of a "soul", though. The word "consciousness" has come to replace the word "soul" in scientific discussions, but it hasn't replaced the idea. Fundamentally, the issue is that consciousness is pretty much impossible for us to define. We can describe aspects of our own conscious experience, but we can't actually observe consciousness in other people. A crucial step in the scientific method (The set of rules we follow to 'make' science) is observation, and since we can't make observations, we can't really apply science to consciousness. (There is debate about this, but the fact that there is debate at all is an indication of the issue)

The belief in an afterlife comes from a time before modern science, but it nonetheless stays relevant because of the questions science can't currently answer.

Also, it should be noted that the information you receive about our world comes from a tiny self-selected slice of the population, so you aren&#

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>>1129060

Fox here. This one isn't urgent. So... Souls. In some parts of existence, as far as the locals are concerned, there is no empirically observable gods, no empirically observable souls, no empirically observable magic, no empirically observable afterlife, no observable aspects of reality with an inherent moral agenda at all. In those places, sometimes the word 'soul' even gets used to describe the body parts made of matter! In that part of things, there is a deterministic, matter-based reality, based on reductionist principles with bottom-up causation processes causing emergent phenomena. And this can actually make, over sufficiently large timescales, based on the concrete, unchangeable mathematical laws of physics, the following things: life, life with a basic level of awareness, and life with full intelligence and self awareness and the capacity to grow.

This guy's gonna steal credit. A smart kid would stay close and keep an eye on him.

Insist! Insist! Do not relent!

This fool will doom the whole world with his disdain. You have to show him the lake right now!

...Yeah this might be the reason the mender tradition went extinct.
Warn the other villagers about the black goop. Ask around; maybe you accidentally opened an oil pipeline the Constellation secretly installed.

Fine, you're just gonna have to lure him over there yourself.

Snatch his walking stick, and run as fast as you can to the lake.

>>1129105
Oooh, I love this idea!

Honestly she has a resentment towards you. You two are far away from the day of robbing people in the forest where you had to relayed on one another. Now you have your own castle, lots of subjects and a reputation. She outgrown you and the only reason why she didn't ditch you is because you two are connected by the contract that you made. So at least you got that on your side and as long as she doesn't find a way to destroy it she will not be able to get rid of you.

Absurdity DeVoid 2026/07/07(Tue)20:38 No. 1129069 ID: 988c77
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Tell the guards to look up.

B) As the guards are aware of the defences of the room of their leader.

C) Try to distract the guards away from the unknown person.

D) Other suggestions.

retrieve rat. get ready for mystery figure to drop on guards, but don't warn them.

someone couldn't leave well enough alone... Is that chef seriously petty enough to interfere with us? If so, he's not smart enough to know I'm in a pretty good position to ruin his plans a little if he ruins ours.
I played nice and left his affairs alone, but if he's going to do this and think he's gonna get away scott free without consequences as he, an outside force, tries to interfere with this world, then we'll just have to play a bit dirty and interfere with his affairs too. Feels like he's breaking some rules here meddling with things, so alls fair if I breaks some rules too to make him regret this, right? That said...

psst, Maya, you can hear me, right? I didn't want to have to do this, but depending on how things go here, may you send a message to Triumphant, and/or Dervan for me later please? I'll let you know what the message is later if it comes to it, but hopefully won't have to come to it...

Since we already can't trust that chef, and he's interfering with our psychic link, it seems like he's trying to manipulate things in his favor that will hurt us here. We are going to have to find a way to contact bobbie, and find out what is going on in here, or impede this meeting in some way... that shadowy figure is our best bet.

C. Just simply talking to them is fine enough distraction I think. But then again, maybe spy rat can help by "accidentally" slipping out of Maya's hand, and running towards the guard to startle him or something? It will keep the guard's eyes down on the rat, and not up on the ceiling, y'know?

> that is why I believed it would have been better if you had followed her inside instead of staying out with me.

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B) Ask them if the room of their fucking master is being protected by fucking ghosts or fucking interdimensional beings! Fuck! This is getting fucking ridiculous!

...ah, but we didn't get confirmation of what glamours they're using. *Is* the one at the harbor pretending to be Kol?

Toxoglossa 2026/07/08(Wed)02:08 No. 1129091 ID: d10be1
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“They’re going after Cecil? Spite me!” Kol groans, “Casey, we gotta split up to go after them! You check the harbor, I’ll go after the other one!”

“Kol, Cecil lives halfway up the Point!” Casey shakes her head and continues, “What, are you gonna run up a sheer cliff face? I can fly there in half the time! You check the harbor, instead.”

“Won’t it cause trouble if people see us with our own doppelgängers?”

“Not as much as if they get to Cecil or Gabe first!”

She goes to leave, her fur already glowing as she starts to transform. Casey pauses and points a finger at Gaybe and orders, “You! Stay here and don’t cause any trouble! Caleb will bend you into a pretzel if you step out of line, got it?”

Kol sighs as he dashes downstairs after his partner. “Running up the cliff face? Hmm, I wonder…”

Toxoglossa 2026/07/08(Wed)02:08 No. 1129092 ID: d10be1
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Casey stops in the street as the angelic transformation takes hold. Wings spin themselves out of light, and her body starts to float as her mass is converted to raw mana. Aiming herself skyward, the mouse kicks off the ground in a spiral and climbs until she has a vantage point of the whole city.

Spotting the cluster of expensive real estate that makes up Cecil’s neighborhood, Casey narrows her eyes and soars in that direction on glowing wings.

She so pretty.

Okay but really, you should just gate there, any question of who the real Gabe is should at least be immediately resolved, and you'll get there even faster than Casey.

At least Cecil is aware that you're back and also that people are absolutely gunning for you, hopefully he won't get taken in so easily...

>>1129096
Can't gate without Gabe.

>>1129092
See anything else from up there? Hmm, I wonder if there's anything near Cecil's estate that we can use for misdirection, since Casey will definitely be spotted by fey while in flight.

>>1128485
...You got through it. I'm glad that you're feeling better, Maya. And you said you were getting better at handling it; that's a good sign! Not for our sake, I'll never blame you for your problems, but if it's getting easier to deal with, that means you'll get a handle on it sooner or later. And we'll always be here to help if you need us.

While the cute bunny is treating your injuries, would you like to... talk about things? Anything you want to get off your chest? Something we can do to help you feel better? Whatever it is, don't be afraid to ask.

It's going to be okay, Maya. Take things one step at a time. It's okay if you ask for boundaries from Swiss or anyone if you need them!! He seems to genuinely want to help you, but if you get scared or worried about stuff it's okay to say you're scared, too. I think he'll understand that at least.

Probably let him know about your hand first also... That one might be the most important wound to attend to at the moment.

Maybe you could ask him to walk through what he's doing, like the first aid stuff, might ease your mind if you ask him to explain it while he's doing it, instead of assuming the worst and running with it until you have a panic attack.

Tehehe, you should kiss himmmmm

I mean he's being so nice and kind, and it's a good way to show thanks to a nice boy! Im sure he'd appreciate his efforts being appreciated even if your words don't work so good right now, it's a good compromise especially after breaking his bathroom mirror <3

YOU SHOULD KISS HIM

It's a good way to start this new friendship! First impressions matter the most y'know and he's still being so nice even after you tried to stab him! Im sure you can still make it even better with a big kiss! He's so cute too tehehe! He's so dumb he'll basically do whatever you want at this point without even questioning it tehehe!!

KISS HIM KISS HIM KISS HIM KISS HIM KISS HIM KISS HIM KISS HIM KISS HIM KISS HIM KISS HIM KISS HIM KISS HIM KISS HIM KISS HIM KISS HIM

>>1128987
He may not be as hot and brave as Jayden but he is soft and smells good and disarmingly naive and decivable could have him do anything innocently, but he can also overpower us completely and hold us down pressing against us with a clueless smile

4-{0.85} Stingpie 2026/07/07(Tue)02:55 No. 1129056 ID: 35d66b
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HRK wanders into the radio station.

4-{1} Stingpie 2026/07/07(Tue)02:55 No. 1129057 ID: 35d66b
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Woman: "hello and welcome to the city public radio station... what can i do for you."

What can she do for you?

You need to get in the studio. Tell her you're the guest for the next show and you're running late.

Tell her you're here for the audition.
And be suave
I mean ssssssuave

>>1129061
Yesssss
Sssplendid

Pick the rabbit up and protect her from Dotti’s nibbles. She wont see your clothes from up close and she’ll shield them from others’ views.

>>1129026
Aw shit.
This is like the fox, chicken grain and boat puzzle.
But its fox rabbit, clothes and nudity.
...
..
Ok, its not really like that but you can still think logically.
Put rabbit out.
Or dotti out.

The important part is the door between them.
Then tell dotti to focus.
Get the illusions back.

Push dotti out. Dotti can be responsible for the laundry

Man, I missed that silly Lucha Liebre so much.

Push yourself out, shove Ginerva in. That way she can, um, mediate the fight. Yeah.

Spontaneous desire to wrestle the rabbit!

B 2026/07/02(Thu)21:11 No. 1128877 ID: 35d66b
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Entering in, you find the place deserted. The aisles of chairs are empty, and the screen shows nothing but-

B 2026/07/02(Thu)21:13 No. 1128879 ID: 35d66b
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"Hellooooo!"
A male voice spills out from the projection booth.
"I have proof now! Betty is a FUCKING LIAR! Right here!"
How should you respond to that?

Let's see it then

Roll it!

How do I know you're not Betty?

1 good for business

1 yes but itll cost you twice next time. today was a promotional special

Yessssssss more nighty special!

>>1129008
Mmmnh.
Its such a good promotion.
And! Its only important the nightie is on when the delivery is made.
Some easily sheddable outer clothes and you could pull that off with minimal risk.

Also, cute cute nighty.
Very daring.

Wait! This is a nun who pretends to be in favour of censorship, but is secretly sus.

If people like that can thrive in this church, it will become more and more nonesensical and harmful over time.
In 50 years it will be full of angry nuns lashing out at anything lewd other than themselves, young priests chocking themselves with their censor wands for fun, and gay fuschia bandit goats!

2) I'm sorry, but true happiness comes from things money can't buy: summoning a goddess just to tattletale on a naughty nun.

Got a window or peephole to see who it is?

>>1128916
I keep forgetting about the hand and remembering only band practice and donuts and stale cereal

There are house rules?

Anyway

inspect those photos on the mirror

>>1128916
Careful
Dont wanna give yourself raccoon eyes.

Answer tha door.
Orrrr
Climb outta the window and oeak at who it is first.

Tio 2026/07/05(Sun)04:18 No. 1128970 ID: 1de1ba
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Smell Brandubh near the entrance, seems he waited.
"There's the young courtier! Tell me, Edrachin - has she yet fallen to her knees, aghast, struck dumb by your roguish charms?"
"I- I was there to thank her!"
"Ah, 'course - that's what you smell like. Gratuity."
"Wait what?" Sniff at myself.
He keels over chittering.
"Oh, piss off!"
"Wrong liqui-"
"Whisht it, you bockety cod!"
"Yeah I'm cod, aaaaall the lasses wanna swallow some a' me!"
"Don't men eat cod too?"
Nearly falls laughing.

"Anyways, git, can we head to the docks?"
"Pfhaha - sure, sure, though it's the right opposite direction. Gonna take a bit."
Leave the shrineforest, start walking along the river.

"Why the docks?"
"The druid, she seemed a bit startled. Kept mentioning a 'gilded ship', something about it being bad luck."
"Well, wouldn't worry too much, she smells easy to spook. Probably just the ship granda and all the others caught, been the talk since they came in."
"What?"
"How d- oh, right, Fog had you under right after that, didn't it? He can tell it himself, if he's awake."

Through the town, smells start getting a bit overwhelming, so many people, feelings, things.

Tio 2026/07/05(Sun)04:19 No. 1128971 ID: 1de1ba
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Scents change passing from the town center into the iascull orchards. Wet, heavy, lush, organic.
We walk along the dikes, large, sturdy trees holding together the banks on the rushing river. Past each side grow dense rows of still firm, yet rather sagging-branched trees wrapped in waxy vines, surrounded by ferns, themselves encircled in canals packed with cattails and algae, bridged by narrow wooden rails, fish darting between reeds and insects buzzing about. Surely farmers go about its maintenance, but through such dense foliage they are barely seen.

In the distance, faint rumbling. Slowly approach the sound, crashing water, suddenly -

Tio 2026/07/05(Sun)04:19 No. 1128972 ID: 1de1ba
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...
It is... vast. Blue. Beautiful. The breeze, the scent:

Home.

"Beauty, isn't it? Never get tired of this."

...


"...how do we get down?"
"The stairs." _Smirk._ "Pulleys're off, broke yesterday."

Out of my fascination, I see some others bustling about a building on the cliff's edge. Repairing, complaining.

"Oh that reminds me, I have to repair the roof for mom good luck with that Tio bye say hi to granda for me!"
"Wh- AGAIN?" And he's off.

Closer look at the edge.
Long way down.
Seaside cliffs to the left and right, a small few skerries and islets scattered along.
Ships docked at the wharf below, at its end a strange one of black material, segments shining deep brown and yellow.

...seems I'll have a while to think. Anything before/while/instead of heading down? Try to recall something?

>>1128969
The problem isn't that she's above your challenge rating, it's that she's a racist nutjob. Ah, well.

>>1128972
You might want to consider building some guard-rails. Nothing fancy, just stick some rusted weapons in the ground and tie a few ropes across each pommel.

Recall if the stairs are safe, or if it's better to wait for the pullies to be repaired.

Go left. Looks like a symbol for comms.

Go center

hmmm left

Right. I think it leads to the armory, and if they freak out, you want to keep the away from guns. (For their own safety, of course!)

Go left.

>>1128824
>I would like to close the doors and avoid more boarders joining the current mess.
>rolled 6, 6, 16
Two more rounds for boarders to swim through, then Cricket can get that hatch sealed on the third - IF you're willing to spend 2xp to lock in training on "Nightcraft Hangar Bay Ops & Maintenance" (or something roughly equivalent).

rolled 16, 17, 8, 11, 19, 20, 4, 3, 7, 1, 4, 17, 9, 9, 12, 9, 19, 18, 11, 12 = 226

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>>1128410
>Paprika, that was almost us when we landed in the castle!
"You mean after we got tossed up into the sky together? The innkeeper said it was kind of a long shot that we survived..."

>And, hehe, I agreed to be paid in statues back in the City of Needles!
"Ok, you lost me. What's that have to do with anything?"

>...I could just disappear in here.
>Would you dance with me under this sea of pseudo-stars?
Despite being caught more than a little off-guard by the request and everything else that's happening, Paprika manages to come back with a dreamy "Oh Nat...I thought you'd never ask." Dancing in such an awkward space with an invisible partner presents an interesting challenge, but Paprika is a consummate professional. She carefully lifts and guides Nat around any obstacles and ends with a mostly-graceful tumble that leaves the two lying on the floor together. "So uh...have you always been able to go invisible like that?"

>>1128645
>Oh dear.
>>1128649

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rolled 14, 17, 1, 19, 20, 4, 8, 1, 2, 17, 17, 7, 2, 8, 4, 20, 2, 4, 8, 10 = 185

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Reiko groans off-comms. "Whyyy..."

So: Either the 'immigrants' can't hear her or they don't speak Trade, their challenge rating is higher than anything the team can take, Branu might get angry if Reiko throws them out into space, or might get angrier if she doesn't...
Cricket has gone missing, while Natalina (who ironically hasn't gone missing because she's invisible) and Paprika are too busy doing the hanky panky and turning their psychological issues around.

And now all her favorite snacks are soggy.
Wonderful.

Reiko (still linked) directs the ship AI to 'jiggle' the iced-up doors with a combination of pseudo-physics designed to crush multi-form polymorphic crystalline structures, especially since the surrounding 'liquid water' is highly oxygenated somehow. If she can get control back to the doors, maybe she could try out a Binary code by having the door open-and-shut at specific intervals to communicate at a distance. Or just lock the doors, blast off, and call this expedition a bust.

>>1128856
Definitely accepting this proposal, hopefully with reikos help they can get the doors closed off.

rolled 14, 3, 5, 9, 5, 20, 8, 2, 1, 8, 10, 20, 3, 1, 11, 7, 7, 7, 13, 19 = 173

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>"Ok, you lost me. What's that have to do with anything?"
(Before calming down via dance) "I thought I was being clever, but I made a deal with something ancient that doesn't think like we do. What if frozen copies are easier, hehe, or faster than working stone? I'm sure she didn't ask to be killed a thousand-countless times over and over," Natalina waves a hand at the outside, "but that's what ha-ha-happened! "

>"So uh...have you always been able to go invisible like that?"
The arkus gives her girlfriend a funny look. "That was metaphor. I know numenera can make things ambiguous at times, but you're looking right at me."

>"Nat, I'm not gonna let you go out there all alone. Is it really that urgent?"
"I think we may have accidentally triggered a crusade. We're a lot more likely to change minds if we step in before the violence starts."

The arkus checks her cyphers. If the problem is her heading off [i]alone[i/]... She can't normally take anyone else with her when she shreds the walls of world, but the things she carries or wears make it across just fine. Maybe she could carry a shrunken Paprika with her? Or... perhaps if they attached the hiding alarm nodule to the sensor tusk, Paprika could attack to force it insubstantial and they could both fall out? Although that might be a problem if the tusk is currently being used as a weight-bearing landing strut. Or Natalina could exit through the wall, and Paprika could go the long way, through the molten metal? (Though opening the door might damage the sensor tusk, and even if Paprika's heat-proof, shoving through all tha

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>>1128886
Animal videos! Building a birdhouse is interesting, but you might get too absorbed into it when you're just trying to pass time. The spooky ghost video looks like a clue to something we shouldn't worry about at the moment. Cute animals are always fun.

But also set a timer first if you've got one. That way you can be sure you won't be late.

the ghost video will either be AI slop which might be good for a laugh, a shitpost which could be good for a laugh, or maybe someone saw your robber. If the video isn't to long maybe give it a peek and we'll let you know if it's the same guy that we saw last night or not. Then maybe the bird house video if for no other reason then to give yourself something to think about throughout the day that won't give you stress.

Ghost videos feel like they will help the most with the current mystery.

I am not trying to force you to do anything that you are not comfortable doing. But on the other hand I believe that having someone to talk with other then us might be beneficial to you psychological well-being. You talk differently to your family and to your friends. I just want to see you happy and not worried all the time, you deserve better than what you are getting right now.

animal videos. You deserve to chill with cute aminals and not concern ourselves about the robber.

>>1128785
Whatever's easier for you!

>>1128786
yeah no preference

more smaller updates so I don't forget what is happening between them!

>>1128785
Happy however it comes.

>>1128793
Reasonable. It lets us chatter at the crew while they work too, which might make writing dialogue during the updates easier.