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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat.

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Magnus
GM, 209 posts
Thu 12 Jul 2018
at 14:38
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

Warnerus

You feel something odd within youself. It feels like some sort of power source but you also know that you need it to live.
Mentat
GM, 136 posts
Fri 13 Jul 2018
at 02:05
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

Warnerus frowned. "Sir Warnerus Draco. I don't like this sound of 'first death.' Is this one of those ancient torture ruins I've heard about? I heard about one place that was originally designed for recreation...not that you would know about it from those trapped in it without the strength or will to escape. Some kind of twenty floor exhibition meant to simulate a journey to Sheol and back."

He took a breath, and tried to get his mental bearings. "So, what are the rules? I seem to have some kind of a time limit that I can likely burn down for great things."
Mew
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Mon 16 Jul 2018
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

I can't help but smile. "Is it sad, how funnily acurate that sounds even though I know better? From my understanding of our current location it is in fact, ancient and technically ruins. Frankly if someone tried to say torture had not happened here I would be compelled to punch them for lying. Because, Dracula's Castle. But first let me congratulate you on your new status, as an immortal. You gain eternal youth, and cosmic powers, at the slight cost of consistency with laws of the universe you happen to be in. In short you are a verser, which is effectively the protagonist of a rouge-like game, except loose the game part because most others you meet are not immortal and would like to keep living."
Mentat
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Mon 16 Jul 2018
at 05:06
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

"Dracula?" Warnerus shrugged, focusing on one question and ignoring the rest for now. "Never heard of her, although she sounds like a clingy hostess, and that we need to leave. I presume you have a plan for that?"
Mew
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Thu 19 Jul 2018
at 15:42
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

I giggle at the unexpected gender misidentification. "Vlad the Impaler or Count Van Dracul if I recall, is his proper name. But where I'm from he is mostly called by his other nick name of Dracula, I want to say it has something to do with a dragon. Here he is apparently a vampire. As for leaving, I have some work to do, E-Mentat and I, said that we would help with a ritual to change the orientation of the nexus' in the castle. I aim to finish what we started. Really though leaving is as simple as die-ing again, apparently every time we die we end up somewhere completely different. Then you'll have someone and something else to deal with." I point Law's Son in the general direction of the first Nexus. "I'm basicly headed that way. How are you at defending yourself anyways?"
Mentat
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Sun 22 Jul 2018
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

Warnerus looked down at the plasma rifle, and smirked. "Oh, this is just a decorative piece, I'm afraid. Worthless against real saurians."

"So, a ritual to deal with the girly named man who's apparently big on stabbing people with spears. Excuse me: vampire." He rolled his eyes. "Stars, he even sounds like a pushover. I assume that he is 'immune to weapons' and 'heals all wounds' or some such thing like that. And we need to do some kind of ritual to remove the magic, right?"

He pointed the auspex toward the direction that Mew pointed in, and trusted his tech.

11:53, Today: Mentat rolled 30 using 5d10, rerolling max with rolls of 7,9,8,5,1.  Int + TechUse to scan for distinctive energies in the direction of Nexus 1.


"Alright. We will follow these 'mystical energies' and begin the powering-down...ritual."

Magnus
GM, 221 posts
Fri 27 Jul 2018
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

Warnerus
You are getting all sorts of weird readings that indicate that chemical processes that shouldn't be occurring are occurring all over the place.  And there is odd energy signatures flowing through the area and converging into the Nexus in the direction Mew indicated.
Mentat
GM, 139 posts
Mon 30 Jul 2018
at 05:55
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

"Oh, for petty pity's sake." Warnerus put the scanner up. "A few new chem reactions it has never analyzed before and it assumes the impossible."

"The limits of tech: what is known. Doesn't always help when dealing with the unknown." He shrugged. "Sadly, my lady, you seem to know more than me right now. So, lead the way. Your instincts seem to at least lead to the right conclusion, if I had to hazard a guess, so anything that tries to kill us gets shot."

"You...do have guns here, right?"
Mew
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Wed 8 Aug 2018
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

I pull out my little hand gun. "I haven't tested to see if it works here. B-ut I'd be very surpised if it doesn't. It should be mentioned though that" I pause a moment so I use the right name. "Mentat mentioned that some planes will just say FU~CK YOU! to certain things. Like our guns or shenanigans of varying degrees." I look at his gun a moment. "If anyone ask tell them that is just a focus for some hocus pocus. I don't think anyone here is ready for lasers ... or whatever."

But does it laser?

I put my gun away as dual wielding is hard enough and I don't feel like being Zoro from One Piece. "Let's get a move on we need to get this done tonight."

And behind covitoed door No. 2 we have.....
Magnus
GM, 223 posts
Mon 20 Aug 2018
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

You open the door and find a vast shadowy library. It's too dark to see more that 20 feet into the gloom. But you have a feeling it is big with out seeing it.
Mentat
GM, 140 posts
Mon 20 Aug 2018
at 02:42
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

Wernerus glanced around the room, putting away his scanner. "Grinding trees into pulp, shaping that pulp, and then using ground rock shaped into a fast-drying fluid to draw words onto that shaped and dried pulp, again and again. Books."

He shook his head as he drew a light, and a small bit of rope. "Give me a computer, advance it, and I look forward to the day when no one really knows why anyone ever did this."

He checked his light, and this time he tied it to his rifle. "Physics are physics, ma'am, no matter where you are. It's all about trying to figure out why they line up the way they do. If your...what is that, an old fashioned kinetic firearm? Very nice - reliable, if you've got nothing better. Runs out of ammo too fast for my tastes, but some sportsmen use them when they want to make every shot count."

"The point is, if it isn't firing, it's because of something logical, not because 'the magic won't let you.' That thing should never fail, unless you fail it. Maintenance and practice are your friends." Warnerus was clearly not grasping this idea of things outside of science.

He stayed close to the wall as he moved his light across the gloom, trying to see threats or movement before it could get too close to him.
Mew
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Tue 18 Sep 2018
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

Burn it all! Then it won't be dark anymore! HAhahahahahahaha

No.


I sheath Law's Sun, pull out my phone and turn on the flashlight.

"You sound like you have more than a little distain for them. I'm not much of an avid reader myself, but I'm not going to apologies for the fact that not all cultures are as advanced as that. Besides it is still an improvement over the oral traditions, things don't get lost because the only loon who knew the story went senile, the whole language has to die first."

I look over at him with my own sense of cynicism, then smile curious as to how he will interpret my prior experiences.

Could be entertaining even if he just concludes that I'm a superstitus fool.

"I've seen some strange things, killed an imortal from the cival war, diffrent kind then us. And this sword," I gestures to Law's Son. "Used to be posessed by a ghost who was killled by said immortal. It doesn't really matter what you believe on the matter of the super-natural, it'll be a thing regardless. I do digress however is there a kind of oil I should avoid using for its maintenance, I can't imagine finding too much oil intended for the purpose all the time. And if it is going to backfire I should at least take an effort to make sure it isn't my fault."

Otherwhys I stay behind Wernerus.
Mentat
GM, 141 posts
Wed 19 Sep 2018
at 11:57
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

"Fair enough, ma'am. Still wasteful." Wernerus glanced at the cutlass. "So, it killed an immortal, which clearly wasn't due to dying from sword, from some kind of civil war, requires some kind of fuel or else it malfunctions, and had an AI? Sounds to me like my advice holds: maintain your gear, and practice constantly."

"Was it one of the good AIs or one of the ones that wouldn't shut up?" He scanned the room with his improvised flashlight. He wished he didn't require a means of seeing that gave away his position, but this lady had no night vision glasses.
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:58, Wed 19 Sept 2018.
Magnus
GM, 226 posts
Wed 19 Sep 2018
at 16:48
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

You two scan the surroundings and find a wrought iron spiral staircase up. Mew, You remember that the nexus is up from here
Mew
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Mon 24 Sep 2018
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

An Idea occurs to me as I stare up the stairs, "Siri, can you detect movement or maybe sound from above us?"
Mentat
GM, 142 posts
Thu 27 Sep 2018
at 13:48
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

Wernerus scanned his light up and down the spiral staircase. "If there is any hostile presence here, it is making sure it cannot be seen until we are too close, and it is alerted to us. On the stairs, we will be able to deal with an airborne attack easily enough."

He thought a bit, looking like he was trying to figure out how to phrase something. "But unless those stairs are laser-proof or bullet-proof, we are going to turn the stairs above and below us into gaps if a fight breaks out. If they ARE proof, then those stairs are going to turn into a nasty hand-to-hand trap."

"Either way, relax. It's not coming at us yet, and if there is anything here at all, it's waiting for us." Of course, he was wondering if her AI was a more powerful auspex than his own. He could detect movement, but whatever it was would probably be up their asses and detectable by other means if it was doing anything but waiting. If it was waiting, but it was an automaton, it might not be detectable at all.
Mew
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Mon 15 Oct 2018
at 19:36
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

forgot to check my keep dice so 18.

14:34, Today: Mew rolled 19 using 4d10, rerolling max with rolls of 4,9,1,5.  Wis+Intuition Scanning for enemies.
Magnus
GM, 229 posts
Sun 21 Oct 2018
at 03:41
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

Siri Replies
"I do not detect any movement up there. But I am detecting a potent energy up there. It is 'Unholy' or 'Dark'?... I'm not sure what that means in this context."

You head up the stairs with out incident. once at the top you scan around with your light sources. Your eyes are drawn to one particular book on the shelves. It appears to be covered in very odd leather.
Mentat
GM, 143 posts
Wed 31 Oct 2018
at 13:07
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

"Standout book." Warnerus glanced at the book, and then looked around him him, the light from him cutting the darkness like a sword. "Either its some kind of trap, or a secret passage that is poorly concealed. These are not mutually exclusive either."

He was debating whether he needed to be on point for this or not. Normally, he had servants or crew members who touched such things for him, and usually suffered whatever horrible fate they often carried with them. But it was just him, and a woman.

Machismo and the desire for self-preservation promptly went to war in his mind as he put a light on the book, trying to see if the book was attached to the shelf or not. He couldn't be seen being afraid for his life.
Magnus
GM, 231 posts
Wed 7 Nov 2018
at 14:32
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

It does not appear to be attached to the shelf but to is packed in there with quite a few books so you might not see the mechanism. How are you testing your idea?
Mew
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Tue 25 Dec 2018
at 17:20
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

I take a closer look at the book, being careful not to actually touch it. "Siri, is this the source of the Unholy reading you were getting?" I look to Warnerus "True, but we might proceed not to care, or more precisely.regardless of Siri's answer "Okay Siri, how far away is the Nexus?"

If it isn't the nexus =

"If this thing isn't the nexus and we don't feel it's going to fly off the shelf and attack us I say we continue on our mission." I move in the indicated direction looking for the necessary door or stairs.


If it turns out to be in our way.

"Well we may be about to find out if the fun and joy of setting off an obvious trap exist in real life." I attempt to move the books next to it to get a better look at the culprit book. Hopefully managing not to touch it.


If it is the nexus... I'll just make a responce post.
Mentat
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Fri 4 Jan 2019
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

"I've got a good idea." Warnerus points his rifle at the bookshelf. "You might want to step back. Only things like metal or danger will remain, or nothing will and we'll see what's behind it if anything."
Magnus
GM, 240 posts
Fri 4 Jan 2019
at 13:46
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

Siri responds
"We are currently in the Nexus. There is a major connection between The Nexus and That Book. That book is the major source of Unholy in the Area."
Mew
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Wed 21 Aug 2019
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

I pull down the books next to it still being careful not to touch it by taking the books directly next to it last. If it remains standing I'll try to look at the title. Hopefully it might give me an idea of how to warp its nature to something the ritual can use.
Magnus
GM, 544 posts
Thu 22 Aug 2019
at 15:02
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Mew and the Battle of 1999. Guest starring Mentat

Mew starts to head to the book and then the castle starts shaking like it is in a earthquake. The ceiling collapses and you both are violently squished and die.
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