The new journey of the new version of JohnA1nut begins here, GMed by Tadeusz.  :)

In reply to Tadeusz (msg # 1):

Borrowing the Tesla electric car from your neighbour who was sick, and needed 'chicken soup, gatorade, and lots of Kleenex', and had begged you to go to the store with a twenty and a set of car keys pressed into your hand before he staggered back across the room to collapse on the couch of his apartment in a pool of misery was not the worst way to pass the afternoon.  It was interesting driving the electric car, and so you were enjoying yourself until the semi truck driver to your left on th3e thru town interstate (quickest way to get across town) dozed, and wandered into your lane.

His heavy semi without shuddering picked up your tiny car, and tossed it at the concrete divider. There was a crunch. Last thing you remember is looking down forty feet to the top of the roof of a house next to the interstate.

=======================

You smell mud and manure, and hear the lurid cries of loud birds, and feel heavy sweat on your skin as you lay on your back.  And then a foot kicks you in the ribs, and s torrent of abuse from a young voice shouts down at you in some foreign language.

You're not sure what he's saying, but it definitely ain't polite.

OOC) I just moved into my new home in Illinois. I know no neighbors, I sit around the house 90% of the time. So we're going to change this opening just a tad(eusz). Just roll with me on it, okay?

I am sitting at home, getting online with my piece of junk computer that I got at Wal-Mart. I live in a trailer, so I'm not at all surprised that a bolt of lightning just hit the outside. I have just been electrocuted, sprayed with a gold liquid and pass out. I am sitting in my lazy chair. The 45 automatic, 2 extra mags and a belt and holster sitting on a shelf within arms reach of me.



So for a moment I dream of driving a Tesla. Then I wake up, go to the bathroom, and lay back down in the lazy chair.



I scriff sense on the 45 in front of me. I look out and grab it, cock the hammer and blast this mouthy prick. Nine in the magazine. He gets at least 3.

Looking around at the landscape (What is around me?) I walk the distance across from my chair to the gun cabinet and grab what's in there. Or I look at it for a minute. Yeah, I sit there and look at it for a minute. (Remove from character sheet the Glock 9mm and mags. I have yet to fire that weapon and I would avoid taking it into combat if possible. Same reason I left the AR-15 at home. Yes, I have an AR-15 that I've not yet fired.)

So I'm looking at the guns. I grab up the Ruger 9mm. It's in a holster on a belt with a total of five magazines. (75 rounds) and a Kabar knife. I look at it for a moment.

Then it hits me. I must have partied a little too hard last night. I'm having one of those awesome dreams where it's so vivid. This is gonna be a fun night!!!!! I wonder if The Terminator is gonna show up?

Then I put the 9mm and gun belt on, complaining about the fact that the dream body is just as weak and painful as the real one. Oh well, that happens too.

Which shotgun to grab? I'd rather have the Mossberg, but it doesn't have a sling. The double barrel has a sling and side shell holder. Eight rounds of three inch magnum 00 buck shot on the sling, six more on the stock. And two in the barrels. Yeah. I'm taking the double barrel.

(Seriously, I have dreams like this.)

I wonder for a moment why the Glock and the AR-15 aren't in this dream. Oh well, they're over rated.

I've got a belt that holds 56 rounds of 00 buckshot. It's a bandolier. I put that on over my shoulder. Then I realize how heavy it is on this 43 year old body. Put it back down. Fourteen spares are enough. Besides, it's a dream. I can always come back and get more.

I pull back the hammers on the double barrel and hold it to my shoulder. I survey the landscape through the sights on the gun. What's around me? Maybe a velociraptor or a couple of mutant spiders? What's this dream about?

(Yes, I have dreams like this.)

I look for the mouthy kid. Is he still here? Usually the bodies disappear in the dreams, but not always.

So what's going on now?

(Doing Therapy)
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Had one of those hyper-realistic dreams last night. I think Tadeusz might have been in it. But anyway, we were being overrun by T-800s and all you could see were the two glowing red eyes as they advanced. Most of the Resistance had AR-15s. I was looking for an M1 Garand. Eight rounds of 30-06 might actually damage that thing.

But Anyway......

(Doing Therapy)

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Something strange about that dream though. There's a weapon I know of only as "That sweet 20 shot .308." And in the dream, I said that. I told somebody, probably Tadeusz that I was looking for one of "those sweet 20 shot .308s."

Dunno, felt like sharing. No harm in that right?

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 5):

OOC: OK to both.

You whip open your eyes, and see an Oriental looking kid, and you're laying on a sort dry dirt path between thatched wooden huts.

You whip the weapon up, and (GE Roll) you take one shot, and hit him, and he ducks, and you miss, and he gets hit on your third shot very solidly.  He goes down, but he's not dead yet.

He's dropped a pair of baskets full of luscious, if strange looking fruit, and a staff for over his shoulders.

You load up, and you see a Han woman pop out of a hut, and stare in horror.  And then across the street, another Han man in a tunic and shorts and no shoes comes out, and he points his finger at you from fifty feet away, and says something very arrogantly.  You look down, and the kid is not dead yet.  In fact, he's not bleeding quite as much as you expect.

I say something gross and rather inappropriate for WorldWalker. She doesn't look like she can understand me, so oh well!



To the guy "You tell em big guy!!!!" And fire one of the barrels on the double barrel at him. The shot is 15 00 buckshot balls. GE roll on if I hit him. If I miss, I fire the second barrel.

"Dreaming's always fun!!!" I say as I pick up the loaded Mossberg, rack a round into the chamber and look around for more. Again, 3 inch 00 buck, 15 pellets.

Right now I'm just standing here holding the shotgun, waiting for anything to come out.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 7):

She can understand your tone however, but ducks back into her hut yelling.

You hit the guy in his right leg, and tear up his shorts a bit, and get some red blood.  Then he gets up.  And his fists start to glow yellow as do his eyes while he flexes his impressive muscles and breathes deeply.

He shouts something that you're fairly sure translates to 'You die now, foreigner.'

"Fee fi foe fum. What beanstalk did you fall from?"

So I've fired at this guy twice with the double barrel. Tore up his shorts a bit. When I purchased the weapons and ammo, I was anticipating using them to defend my home. Not to attack a random Chinese fellow on the street. No, wait. He's a Terminator. This is a dream, remember? Which all comes to the fact that shotguns might be perfect for home defense, they're not so great as a long-range weapon.

So I pick up the Mossberg, rack a round into the chamber, and stand there like Kyle Reese holding it at my hip.



"Bring it on you son of a motherless camel!!!!"

I'm certain this guy is a Terminator. So I'm hoping the dream gods allow the shotgun to be loaded with something more powerful than 00 buckshot. However, I am rather knowledgeable of the anatomy of a T-800. Shotguns aren't all that effective because they're aiming at center mass. While this will knock the T-800 around and keep him away from you, he will ultimately shrug it off. If you want to inflict damage, aim for the joints. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes (clap clap!!!)

But seriously, eyes, elbows, knees. Might not destroy him, but he's not coming after you anymore.

So wait for the Terminator to attack me. Fire at his knees when he gets close enough.

(Doing Therapy)

He's only five feet tall.  So no giant.

And suddenly, he's running at  you, bits of mud flying back up from under his heels, as he bolts at  you faster than a man can run.

You fire.

You're not sure you hit, but he throws forward his hands, and yellow light flares off them and intercepts the bullet.  He grins, and slows to a stop, and then he breathes in again, and his hands which had lost their yellow glow begin to glimmer again.

Yup, this is definitely a dream. I'm gonna try to fly away. Am I wearing the jetpack? No, I don't think so. Okay, pray.

"God, lift me up upon the most high."

Pray to be able to fly. Sure. Works in the dreams.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 11):

You feel as if dark spirits intercepted your cry, and staggering exhaustion hits you so that you can barely stand.  (OOC: botch.).

He steps forward, hits you in the thigh with a kick that feels like he hit you with a wooden baseball bat, and as you crumple, you see the yellow glowing fist going toward your face.

You wake with your hands and wrists tied with poor but thick rope in a hut.  And an old woman with many wrinkles is putting this foul smelling, dark green paste on your face.

Over the next couple days, you find that your jaw was broken, but its healing fast, very fast.  The nasty paste does something along with taking the pain away.  They have taken your guns and shoes.

This is a dream, so I'm going to be thinking about healing myself. Making myself better.

OOC) Psionic healing is the result I would expect.

Yeah, this is a nightmare. Musta had some bad stuff last night...

Hate being tied up.

OOC) Been having nightmares about that lately too.....

Try to talk to Wrinkles here. What does she say? Can I understand her?

If, between their efforts and my own, I heal myself back to 100%, I'm gonna be thinking really hard about burning this place down. Starting with the ropes.

OOC) Expectation, psionic pyrokinesis.

What happens now boss?

(Doing Therapy)
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In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 13):

Nothing happens with either of your attempts at psi today.

As to language, you get her name, Ia, and your name to her, and about four other words (your choice).  It is a very difficult language to learn with tones and complexities you're not used too.

She also smacks you more than a few times, even if not in the face.  And she's a lot stronger than the old stringbean she looks like.  And the chilling thing is she's amused when you are hurt.  Whatever reason she's healing and feeding you rice and mushrooms and bits of fish for, its not empathy or kindness.

NUTS!!!! It's one of THOSE dreams!!!!!

I'm going to be talking to her a lot. The fact that she doesn't understand me just makes it that much more fun. She won't understand my insults and idle threats.

So I'm just tied up Misery style, waiting for this crazy lady to decide what to do with me..... Nice....



OOC) Yeah, that's Super Samantha's favorite interrogation tactic. She's got a Chaos katana which is magically sharp and can magically heal. She cuts people up to within an inch of their life, heals them, then does it again. Over and over. Until they tell her what she wants to know.

OOC) Had a nightmare not too long ago about what if Magehammer got caught for all of his crimes in The Multiverse..... It kinda imagined like this, actually.

So I'm just tied up being fed? Squirm. Try to loosen the ropes. Flex and release over and over. Maybe it will help undo them. It's not like I've got anything better to do....

Think about my anger towards Wrinkles. Focus it. Pyrokinetic powers used to cook her...

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 15):

She is actually healing you more than hurting you.  The pain is temporary, but not deep damage.  The healing is deep damage.

You keep trying to get free.  You almost get something, but it fades with pyrokinesis.  You try again an hour later, and nothing.

And then you're able to get free.

Skill 1@2 Escape Knots.

Where's the scriff senses to my stuff? If it's still together, I made a battle pack, the Ruger 9mm loaded and 4 spare 15 round magazines on a belt with a Kabar knife. A gun, knife, and 75 bullets. Was trying to put together something like that for the 45 and 357 as well.

That's the thing for which I am looking. My stuff.

Stay here and pretend to be tied until Wrinkles goes to sleep. Then look for my guns.

A fat lot of good they're gonna do me, it seems.... Still, better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun an not have it...

When I find my stuff, put on the 9mm battle pack and grab up a shotgun. Leave this place.

Check and see if I'm wearing my jetpack. (Sometimes in dreams, I'll just spontaneously be wearing a jetpack.)

If not, try psionic flight again. It's a dream!!!!!

OOC) Question, you've just been dropped into a survival situation where you don't know what's going to lie ahead. Is it time to kill rabbits or zombies? You can carry either a double barrel 12 gauge or a Marlin eighteen shot 22 rifle?

Answer me please!!!!

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 17):

You slip through the night, and find in a small shed your equipment.  Your hand gun is jammed by a bullet put in by someone who did not know what they were doing.

You slip out to the edge of the village, and still no jetpack, but you almost feel like you lift before you don't.  You slip into the plush jungle around the village, and soon enough you're hearing the cries of beasts that start at the level of a lion roaring and go up from there.  None are immediately near you, but its clear the jungle is not safe.

OOC: Rabbits.

So I find my clothes too?

So, assuming it's weather permissive, I'm gonna put on clean underwear, clean pajama pants, clean socks, clean tee shirt, clean bib overalls, purple hoodie sweatshirt, army jacket.

9mm on the hip. 75 in mags, one in the pipe. 76 total bullets. And a Kabar knife.
I improvise a sling for the Marlin 22 and load it. Eighteen rounds of 22. And I've got 600 more rounds in plastic boxes.

Pick up a bag and load it with some of the dehydrated food and water bottles. Some lighters, fire starters. Maybe a change of clothes. Gotta leave most of it here. Oh well. Head to the woods.

Where's my jetpack? Why can't I fly? This dream SUCKS!!!!!

(Doing Therapy)

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Planning to come back for more eventually, but I'm certain that's all I can carry for right now.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 20):

You spot an opossum stalking you between the trees.  He's a good fifty pounds.  And strangely, you can feel his intentions which is to kill and eat you.

Speak to him. Try to telepathy to him. It's a dream. He'll understand me. Make it clear that I don't want any trouble from him. I don't want to kill him. (Yet.) Live and let live. Leave me alone and I won't bother you either.

Be ready to grab my 9mm if he moves too aggressively. But try to make it clear that I don't want anything from him.

OOC) One time when I was dumpster diving I had a raccoon jump out of a dumpster at me. I shined my flashlight in at him, his glowing eyes looked at me for a second, then he jumped at me. I ducked in time and he ran off into the night. That was a fun night!!!

IC) So I've got three days worth of food and more tools and education than Wildman Bill Moreland ever dreamed of. If he can do it, so can I.

When I'm away from the other people, or at least I think I am, try to set up a shelter for the night. Get a basecamp established. Build a firepit, look for game trails. Maybe look for a cave. I've read books and watched a lot of videos on YouTube about wilderness survival. Let's see if I can put any of that to practice!!!!

OOC) I recommend reading the story of Wildman Bill Moreland. (It might have been Mooreland, now that I think about it.) He got sick of society and walked into the woods wearing jeans, a tee shirt and shoes, carrying a wallet and not much else and he lived there for many years. Really interesting story.

(Doing Therapy)
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In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 22):

You get the feeling back like he really does want to eat you.  And then he takes two fast steps, and turns into a spinning ball of Opossum Doom that rolls like Sonic right at you.

Boom.
Clear miss.
Boom.
Minor side hit, doesn't really bother him.
Boom.
Another minor hit.

+@1 to gunfighting.

You dive to the left hitting the soft ground hard, and he rolls right over your ankle, missing you, smashing into a tree hard enough to shake it.  He uncurls, and turns your way, and he's still in Let's have a Johnny Cake mode...

+@1 to dodge in melee.

So I've fired three times? Keep firing until I empty the magazine. So 13 more times. (15 in the mag, 1 in the pipe)

If thirteen more bullets fired doesn't change the situation; if he's still alive and trying eat me, let him. It's a dream. Big deal. Maybe reload and fire again at him from inside his stomach.

Darn!!! I was looking forward to teaching myself real wilderness survival!!!

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 24):

You open fire, and before it rolls back up, you put one in its face.  Incredibly, the Giant Oppossum is still coming, so you put two more in its chest, and are about to go for four, when it falls over.  And evaporates.

It leaves behind a marble that glows faint orange, and a chunk of cooked meat.

+@1 to shooting.

You're panting a bit, and your heart flutters, but then it calms down.

OOC) Good. He was starting to think this might not be a dream after all.

Speaking to myself: "Good, I was starting to think this might not be a dream after all."

Examine the marble and the meat. How much meat is it? Is it how much you'd expect from a 50 pound opossum or is it just enough for a meal? What does the marble feel like? What happens if I toss it?



Well, you did forget to bring your heart medicine....

So, after I dispatch the opossum, head into the woods. Try to find a place to set up a camp.

Live off the land... Hopefully I'll run into Magehammer out here....

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 26):

Its just enough meat for a meal.  The marble, when you pick it up, is warm.  And then words appear in front of your vision.

Do you wish to utilize the Beast Core or store it or other?  Y/N/?/?

You toss it in the air, and it acts like a crystal marble, and goes up and comes down for you to catch it easily enough.

You do find a small clearing a few yards from a creek.

Eat the meat. Did I happen to see what the opossum was munching on before it attacked me? Magehammer probably told you that a good rule of thumb for identifying wild, edible plants is if you see a rabbit eating it, you probably can too. Then you have a nice salad whilst you eat the rabbit.

This is a true rule of thumb of wilderness survival. If you see an animal eating it, you can probably eat it too.

I do know of a few ways to test for edibility. Rub some on your skin and wait. Does it burn? Itch? Otherwise feel uncomfortable? Probably not safe to eat.

If it doesn't, put some in your mouth. A tiny bit. Does it burn? Itch? Otherwise feel uncomfortable? If so, spit it out. If not, try eating a larger amount. If you still don't feel sick, cross your fingers and dig in.



"Uh, I'll wait for later."

Wonder what that means.....



Put it in my overalls pocket.



Cool!!! Try to build a lean-to shelter. It's a long pole leaning against a tree with some sticks and branches applied to make it watertight. Watched some videos on YouTube about it right before I versed..... had this dream.

When night falls, go and get the rest of my gear.

Tomorrow, see if I can remember my survival skills.

(Doing Therapy)
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Speaking of survival skills. Glantri was an Eagle scout and had actually applied some of the wilderness survival skills. I've read some books and seen some videos and I (As Magehammer) had the nerve to tell him was wrong about some things.

Glantri, if you happen to be reading, sorry bout that!!! I'd still like to run you. Magehammer won't be seen.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 28):

You find lettuce, and test it, and eat it, and its fine.  The Opossum tastes surprisingly good.

You make a nice hut.

+@1 to hutmaking.

OOC) I'm not making a hut. I'm making a shelter. Get on YouTube and look up Greg Ovens Bushcraft and Zachary Fowler. These two guys did a 30 day survival challenge in the Canadian Rockies. As I recall, they were armed only with a slingshot and a fishing pole to acquire meat. Greg Ovens is really good on edible plants. (Did I bring my fishing stuff? It's nothing really. Just some string, weights and hooks. I don't even have a pole.) I watched that video right before I versed out. It's kind of a refresher course in survival.

And it should be 1@2 shelter building, as I've never built a shelter before.

IC) If I've got my fishing hooks and whatnot, set up a trot line in the stream. It's just a bunch of baited hooks on a line, strung out into the water. The best way to acquire meat is to do as little work as possible.

Under the cover of darkness, sneak back to that other place and get my stuff, little by little. I ran with 600 rounds of 22. Used strictly for hunting, that could last for a year or more. But I've got at least 4,000 rounds of it. And shotguns too.

I hope everything isn't as hard to kill as that opossum was......

Did I happen to see anything silver which could be taken? A coin perhaps? I've read that a way to tell if mushrooms are safe to eat is to put a silver coin in the pan when you cook them. If the coin turns black, they're poisonous.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER: I am not an expert on wilderness survival. I just play one online. If you follow my tips and get killed, I take no responsibility!!!

Anyway, on with the game!!!!

(Doing Therapy)
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In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 31):

OOc;  I tried the thing with a silver penny and some random mushrooms, and I'm pretty sure I'll be fine.  Urk. Gasp. Augh.

Sure, you have your fishing line.


Shelter it is.

You bring back your stuff, and then go check on the line.  Its cut, and out in the creek you see a sunfish, w hich ordinarily might be a handspan, but is now a forearm long, lift itself half out of the water, and spit one of your hooks at you.  It misses, but then it starts to glow bright yellow....

I can't imagine I'd be walking around without my Marlin 22 in hand, so I kneel down and take aim at the sunfish. I've 18 rounds in the weapon, keep firing until the situation changes. Let's hope it's not as difficult to take down as the opossum.

If I get another one of those marbles, I might use one to see what it does.

Anyway, on with the game.... dream I'm having.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 33):

Indeed. I'd be having a white knuckle grip on my gun at that point.

You fire, and fire, and fire....

Hit, miss, good hit near the eye, and double check, fire again, and hit, and its floating sideways where it drifts to the edge of the stream and vanishes leaving behind a tiny golden fishing hook, and a smaller marble.

+@1 to shooting as this is a  new use due to being a water borne opponent.  It was not as armored or as tough as the possum, but still three 22 bullets is respectable for a fish.

So I went and got all of my stuff? I've got the 22 in hand, the double barrel slung over my shoulder and one of the three pistols on my hip. The 9mm, 45 or the 357. I'd be comfortable carrying any one of them as a sidearm and would probably switch up on occasion. So I'll let you know which one I'm using at that moment. (OOC) In this game, the only difference is how many shots they hold, but my character doesn't know that.)

I would hunt game primarily with the 22. Eighteen in the mag, plastic box of 100 rounds in my pocket. The shotgun is the double barrel 12. It has a sling and the Mossberg doesn't. It's double barrel 12, and has eight rounds of 00 buckshot on the sling, and six more in a holder on the stock. The shotgun and pistols are more for the two legged animals I may encounter....

I sit down on the ground a lot.



Still no jetpack?????

Run a trot line with the golden hook. Don't even bait it. Just run the hook out there.

Try to use the smaller marble. What does it do to me?



OOC) In Jaws, the gun Brody uses to blow up the air tank and kill the shark was an M1 Garand. 30-06. Like the one your character just got. Brody fired five times at the shark's head before he hit the tank. I'm just wondering if that would have killed the shark? A 30-06 is nothing to sneeze at. They hunt elephants with that cartridge. Five 30-06 rounds to the face might well have killed the shark. Too bad MythBusters is off the air....

You might mock me for using a Marlin 22. I can hunt small game with it, and if the situation should arrise, you can do a pile a damage with eighteen 22 bullets!!!

(Doing Therapy)

Yes, you got all your stuff.

You sit down with the smaller marble.  And say 'yes'.

"Contestant has chosen to activate Tiny Class Energy Beast Core." It glows brighter, and t hen with a feeling of warmth sinks into your hand, and dissolves.  You feel warmth run through your veins, and then go away.  But you feel slightly better now, as if you'd had a coffee or something.

You put out the golden hook.

You toss it out, and suddenly there is a ferocious yank.  A four foot long alligator with glowing green eyes, and the golden hook stuck in his mouth has exploded out of the bottom of the shallow creek where he was buried except for his eyes.

You feel an almost crushing intention to kill you smash into your mind.

OOC: Bad GE roll.  The effect of the golden hook is that its very hard for them to unhook themselves.  Does not mean anything else.  Also, this does not look like what oyu'd expect to be gator country, but...

Can I pull the gator safely onto the shore? Gators may have incredible force to their bite, but the muscles that open the jaws are incredibly weak by comparison. A human can (and have) held their jaws together in their bare hands.

See if I can get this boy up onto land where I can sit on his back and hold his mouth shut. Then I expect a point blank 9mm to the base of the skull oughta put him down.

OOC) That's in survival manuals. "Don't overlook reptiles like alligators or lizards as a food source." At this rate, I don't know what to expect.

Soooo... see if I can pull him to shore. Then sit on his back and shoot him in the head.

(Doing Therapy)

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With the referee's permission, I'd like to modify my gear some.

Put back the two weeks of food bucket and two weeks of water. I'm probably severely overweight, but I'll put that back in favor of my tool bag. That's two hatchets, a crowbar, wood saw, hacksaw, couple hundred yards of cordage,  various cutters, screwdrivers and pliers, etc. A cooking pot and two mess kits also. Please Mr. Referee!!!!

Yeah, with your say so, I'd like to do that. Tools are more valuable than food out here. It's the whole Give a man a fish vs Teach a man to fish.

I like to fancy myself a survivalist, let's see if I can actually do it....

Anyway, on with the game!!!

(Doing Therapy)
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In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 38):

You and he slide about, but you don't quite get him out of the water.  His eyes glow green and he coughs, very loudly, but it doesn't seem to do anything.  His eyes dim, and then begin shining again.

His scales look really tough. You're not sure a 9MM is going to do anything to his skull.

As to transferring out stuff, lets go with a GE roll. 16 or less on 4d6 is  20, so no.

He's only 4 feet long. Not that big. I weigh almost 350 pounds. I shouldn't have a problem holding this little guy down.



I'm never sure it's gonna do anything. Shoot him anyway.



OOC) I would have let you do it...

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 40):

Indeed. You should be able to toss the gator about, but he's very active, and much stronger than he should be, and he seems to get more effect from his claws dragging about in teh mud than he should.

Its definitely not normal.  But then his eyes are literally glowing green so...

BOOM. A shot glances off his snout, knocking a scale free, splashing water.  Another bullet misses as he suddenly jerks the other way, and mud splashes back, and covers your hand, and possibly up the barrel of your gun.

(OOC: Botch).

He tries to yank himself free, but instead he flips himself on his back.

(OOC: Botch on his part.)

You're up to your knees covered in mud, and nearly drenched in water.

Drop the gun and pull my Kabar knife. It's on this toolbelt. Stab him in the belly. The belly is soft and stab-able.

What does his insides look like?

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 42):

You stab, and the blade makes an inch deep point.  Another stab, and this one goes in as you think it should.  He tries to rake you with his claws, but flops helplessly around instead.  You miss, and scratch him, and stab him good, and he scratches your forearm, and then he dies.

And there is a patch of hide, dried to leather, and a marble twice the size of the possum marble, and it glows green.  You're gasping for breath and bleeding, and your feet slide out from under you, and you plunk down with your shoes in the creek.

No meat??? No food? No delicious, life sustaining gator meat??? What a rip off!!!!!!

I take that marble in my hands and rear back to throw it..... Then, nah. Let's see what this dream does.

Use that marble. What does it do?

(Doing Therapy)
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In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 44):

Contestant has chosen to activate Minor class Energy core.  You have 1 Energy banked, and now gain 10 Energy.  Ten Energy is sufficient to purchase the opening of the Energy Manipulation Table, or the Physical Modification Table, or the Skill Gain Table.

The marble dissolves and warmth rushes all through you, leaving you feeling as if you had just gotten a very good night's sleep.

Knew I was dreaming.... Never doubted it for a second....

I say out loud "What is what is what?"

I'm asking this, whatever it is, to kindly explain itself.

OOC) Seriously, tell me everything.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 46):

GE Roll.

Occupants of this planet are contestants in the Reality Defiance Game, hosted by Ares, god of war.  You may with sufficient work, and luck, and bravery ascent to godhood. Choose your table now.

Can I open more than one? Can I open and close one and try another?

If so or if not, start with Physical modification.

Can I make myself smarter, faster or stronger?

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 48):

First one is Ten. Second is 20. Third is 40. They may not be closed.

Physical Modification Table:

Reflex Nerve Speed Increase:: 10
Strength increase by 10%: 10
Perception increase 20/20 vision: 10
Durability increase by 5%: 10
Recovery increase by twenty seconds: 10

It does not go into more detail than that despite questions.

In reply to Tadeusz (msg # 49):

Second post. You do feel energy drain from you as the table opens.  Now you have 1 energy according to a stat.  And all of what you'd like to gain cost ten.....hmmmmmmm.

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 48):



I do have another crystal....

What happens if I activate that?

So this is like Rennon's shoppe from that video game.... (In the game, if you spend too much in the shoppe, you have to fight Rennon for your soul. He's not that hard.)




This is the one in which I am most interested...

But what happens with the other crystal?

(Doing Therapy)
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 01:05, Sun 21 Mar 2021.

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 51):

You had it in your pocket.  You absorb it. It feels nice.

You absorb a Small Energy Core.  You gain 5 Energy.  You now have 6 Energy.

So, a Tiny gives you 1, a Small gives you 5, and a Minor gives you 10.

But you still don't have enough to buy anything.

How much do I need to buy something?

Start looking for ways to get that much.

(Doing Therapy)

Small energy core would put you up to 11.  You could then buy something.

So you start hunting.

You go for fifteen minutes, and spot a Praying Mantis that is a foot long, and is eating an overly large squirrel that is dead.  Its turned away from you.

Those things are armored. Its gonna be like a crab...

It's eating so it's not going to pay me any attention. (Note, predators don't (usually) hunt when they're not hungry. If it's eating, it's not going to pay me any nevermind.)

Just walk right up on him and stick my double barrel up to his eye. He has no idea what it is. What happens when you shoot a preying mantis in the eye with a 00 buckshot 12 gauge round?

What do I get?

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 55):

It does look armored.

Let's check your theory with a GE roll.  9 on 4d6. Woohoo.

It doesn't even twitch, and you evaporate much of its skull.  It falls down, and dissapears, and then the squirrel does as well.

2 Small Energy Cores.
1 Paper Page of 'Manual of Praying Mantis Kung Fu' with diagram.
1 Piece of Rotted Squirrel Meat.

How much energy cores now?

Use the paper to start a fire.

Try to catch a fish with the rotted squirrel meat.

But how much energy cores?

(Doing Therapy)

Pull up that menu. I've 10 more energy than before. What can I get?

As for the eel, just tie it off to a tree and let him wear himself out. Check back on him in a couple hours. See if he's worn himself out any.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 59):

Physical Modification Table:

Reflex Nerve Speed Increase:: 10
Strength increase by 10%: 10
Perception increase 20/20 vision: 10
Durability increase by 5%: 10
Recovery increase by twenty seconds: 10

The eel is exhausted when you get back to him.

Eh no wonder these people are so tough... That kid took three 45s point blank.

Pausing to reflect.



Not enough information.



Preferred, but we'll see. Do nothing at the moment.



Confirmed by a doctor just a few days ago, I've still got 20/13 eyesight. 20/20 would be a downgrade.



Maybe. But we'll see.



More information.



See what we get when we put a round of 00 buckshot into the eel.

OOC) I've got 15 rounds of slugs, but personally I think slugs are cheating. It's a SHOT gun, ya know??? If I wanted to shoot a single projectile, I'd shoot a rifle. But anyway....

OOC) Ever heard of a Punt gun? It's almost single-handedly responsible for the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon. Huge shotgun. Fired up to a pound of shot and could kill 100 birds at once.

(Doing Therapy)

the menu changes to 20/10 vision.

You get no more info.

BOOM. Eel is dead. You get a small energy core, and ten inches of uncovered copper wire.

So snare wire and another core. What can I get now?

If nothing new, I'll take the strength increase.

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 63):

Pain flares through you, and  you feel all your muscles twitch as one.  It knocks you flat on your back.  And then its over.  You're drenches in sweat, and you can see a small increase in 'ripness' in your arms.  Getting back to your feet is just a bit easier.

The PhMod Table now reads:

Physical Modification Table:

Reflex Nerve Speed Increase:: 10
Strength increase by 10%: 20
Perception increase 20/10 vision: 10
Durability increase by 5%: 10
Recovery increase by twenty seconds: 10

Now GE roll for getting killed from heart...your heart flutters, and thunders a bit, and you start wondering...but then it calms down.  You're OK.

OOC: as you probably had 2@1 Str or thereabouts, you gain @2 to your str.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:03, Sat 03 Apr 2021.

More like 1@4 strength. Remember 2@1 is a bodybuilder. Did I look like a bodybuilder to you?

All I know for sure is I'm hungry. These animals don't leave me much meat to eat. Makes me wonder how the indigs survive here....

Look for food!!!

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 65):

OOC: You looked strong.

You hear a distant roar that sounds like it came from the throat of a T Rex or something, and a killing intent flows through the woods, and nearly drives you to your knees.  You'd been stalking a bunny, but bunny did a dissappearing act as soon as it felt that pressure.

So you're left with lettuce to eat.

OOC) Nah, that's fat. Not muscle. Makes for an intimidating physique, but ultimately dead weight.



Bart Simpson voice: "Oh my ears!!!!"



Is lettuce the only plant I've been able to identify? It's not calorically dense. Did you know that if you ate nothing but celery, you'd actually starve to death faster than if you ate nothing at all? It takes more energy to digest celery than you ultimately get back from it.

Take some of that copper wire and see if I can figure out how to make a snare trap. I've never done it before, not really sure I remember what I read in the book. (Hey, Glantri. If you're reading, how about a hand huh?)

Snare trap?

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 67):

Well, then you're 1@5 Str now.

Question: GE roll...12....you've identiified three plants.  One is a minty plant, another is a dark green and kinda bitter, and another is lettuce.

You try....botch, and  you jab  yourself in the finger with the wire, drawing a tiny bit of blood.  Finally, you get something, and about ten minutes pass, and bunny comes back, and snap, and bunny is dead.

You get a tiny energy core, and a chunk of cooked rabbit sufficient for a decent snack.

And the copper wire seems to be very hard to slip free of, like the golden hook.

1@2 Snare Trap Making

One snare, one trot line. What do I catch?

Try to spy on the indigs. See if any look particularly weak or vulnerable.

If it's been 2 weeks, then all of the food I brought is gone. Should have brought a tool bag.....

Anyway....

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 69):

On the trot line you catch another sunfish.  But its alive.

On the snare, you catch a ....you're not sure what since the body is gone, but there was a huge amount of struggle, and broken leaves over a fiffteen foot wide area, but now there is a venom sac and a Major energy core.

You can see the indigs as they get up out of bed in the early dawn, and there is some hollering that you have escaped.

Pull it in. Hang it up to dry. What's left when it's dead?



Sounds good to me!!! Just wish I had a crossbow. Venom sac might make poison arrows.

But a major energy core? What's that do?



Get back to camp.

OOC) I don't know if you noticed this when I stayed with you, but I don't sleep eight hours straight. Not in years. I sleep for 2 hours, get up, bathroom, back to sleep, for an hour, bathroom, back to sleep. I'm actually in one of those wake ups right now. Point is that it's going to be a little more difficult to catch me off guard at night.

(Doing Therapy)

As soon as the sunfish sees  you it starts glowing brightly yellow as if it were waiting for you.

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Do you absorb the Major energy core?

===============

Not saying you're surprised.  I'm thinking you're hiding in the edge of the woods looking out at the village as the sun rises.

"Okay pal. You can just sit there and glow."

Leave him to wear himself out.

===========




Yeah, what does it do?
===============



Just saying it would be more difficult to catch me sleeping.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 73):

As you walk away, you see a bright yellow flash that explodes out from the fish.  It hits you, and you feel sudden, painful heat all across your back.  You have sunburns all across any exposed skin on your back.

It gave you 20 energy that you can spend.

"OWWW!!!"

I hate sunburns!!!



On what? Can I save it up?

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 75):

The fish tries to flashbulb you again, but you're out of range.  Later you come back, and its dead although some of the plants nearby look a bit burnt.

As to energy...yes, you can save it, and check the tables and so forth already posted for what you can do.

Save it. See what comes up next. What happens at 50 energy?

Dead fish? No energy cores? Still no jetpack? Eat the fish.

How does the other trap look?

Trap and trot line are always running.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 77):

Minor energy core gets you ten more energy.  You also get a chunk of dried fish to eat.

You have 36 energy.

Caught a mouse. You kill it, and get a 1 energy, and a bit of cheese.

Cheese is actually poisonous to mice in large amounts.

What can I get for 36 energy?

OOC) Why aren't you playing your game anymore? I'm not sure I ever really understood that.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 79):

You can check on the PHMod Table, or buy the opening of another table.  Prices already mentioned, but its either ten or twenty.

I'll check on my game soon.

What's reflex nerve speed increase? What attribute is that?

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 81):

You don't know, and the table is not that informative.  Think of it like that game show where you decide if you want what's behind door number one or door number two.

If you have a new world....without any versers but moi, I could try it.

Try it.



Why no other versers?

(Doing Therapy)

Two Posts

What you just ran through in your last three worlds was a reversal of the story I tried to run for Krillis. He first met Super Samantha, then eight year old Samantha, and finally first verse out Samantha.

I wasn't sure if you would help the first verse out Samantha, based on how you treated Carly Rae. So I didn't try to run it backwards.

But what it means for you now is that you have a verser lady at your beck and call who has the maximum physical abilities that a human being can possess, (2@10 across the board) and she's a master of every martial art and melee weapon she is physically capable of wielding. She can also change her appearance at will to appear to be any age from 8 to 888 years old.

You want to learn to fight? Talk to Samantha. And she's your loyal ally.

What's wrong with that?

(Doing Therapy)
This message was last edited by the player at 19:40, Sun 18 Apr 2021.

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 84):

I do not want it.

Fair enough.

So back to our game or what?

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 86):

You twitch all over for a second, and then you're steady. Results seem to be that you feel as if maybe you're slightly faster in thought, and in movement. Its almost undetectable, but you feel as if maybe you're slightly sharper mentally.

OOC) Ya know what? I was talking with MJ Young the other day. He said something like "I present the world I worked hard to make. If you don't like it, you can take it or leave it." At the moment I thought it was very inflexible of him to say that. But I'm suddenly thinking he might have a bit of a point. I worked hard to write a three world storyline involving those characters. I wanted to play it out with you. If you don't like that, take it or leave it. Apparently you would leave it. Well, if you're going to try to dictate what kind of world I create, then I ask for the same.

I'd like a female superverser brought into this scenario who can teach me how to live off the land and explain all this to me and keep me company. Let's see if you can run it.

IC) As for the game, yeah, great. What's next?

(Doing Therapy)
This message was last edited by the player at 15:55, Mon 26 Apr 2021.

Two Posts

Yeah, let's pick your game back up. Right where you left it. You've just prayed to separate Slider and the Demigod of Chaos. I shouldn't have even tried to stop you from doing that. That was bad refereeing. So yes. Let's do it.

Either that, or you can let me tell you how to run your games.

(Doing Therapy)
This message was last edited by the player at 15:58, Mon 26 Apr 2021.

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 89):

Probably the key fact in our relationship is that its Eric's way or the highway.  I trust me.

Since I trust me, and its my way or the highway, I'm able to put up with some stuff others might not because in the end, it is my way or the highway.  I don't say 'hmm, let's compromise with John a whole lot'.  Its more 'here's the line, and anything up to that line is acceptable, but one inch over, and nope.'

You wanted to bring up why I don't play your game anymore.  Instead of shutting that down, I was willing to talk to you because I know my limits and am willing to enforce them.

You can justly say 'not fair', but its about me protecting myself.  I am not interested in going over this a lot because I know you'd be up for talking about it for six weeks, but I won't, so I won't do it.  That is another example of my limits.

Its why I don't get mad at you like some folks do.  No need to get mad.  Either I'm in charge, or I'm not doing it.  Is this harsh? Yes.  But its the way it has to be.

Ah, but see, you're NOT in charge when I am running the game. That's where you're messing up. You seem to think you're still in charge there.

I'm willing to run your world the way you wrote it. Are you not willing to run my world the way I wrote it? I was just making the demand of a superverser to show you how unrealistic I thought you were being.

So do you want to run yours or what? It's both or nothing.

Don't make your choice rashly. We're the last two Multiverser players. The game dies with us.

(Doing Therapy)
This message was last edited by the player at 02:23, Tue 27 Apr 2021.

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 91):

 Choice was already made years ago, shortly after I met you online.  I'm not changing, John, and you can't bully or nag me into it, because I simply won't go along with that game.

Now, you can either accept the way things have always been, or try to force me to change them.

Keep in mind, John. I KNOW from recent experience you will try to abuse me.  I, on the other hand, with power, will treat you kindly.

One of the key facts in our relationship as friends has been I'm less invested than you.  I care, but not as much.

Now, we have discussed this enough.  I won't be discussing it further.

Either you want to play or you don't. I'll miss it, but as I said, it's both or nothing.

What makes you think I'd be less than fair? Sometimes bad things happening IS being fair.

In a nutshell, that's the answer to the question "Why does God allow bad things to happen to people?" Because it would not be fair not to.

You don't want to play, you don't want to play. I can't force you.

But if you ever change your mind, you will always have an open seat at my table.

PEACE!!!!

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 93):

Have a good time John.  And there are probably plenty of other GMs on RPOL you can play games with.  Bye.  I do hope that one day soon you submit to the Christ as the clock ticks ever onward.  But I have enjoyed our gaming, so thanks for that, my friend.

Sometime next week, I'm gonna be going through Memphis Tennessee. Road trip. Hopefully gonna end up at the Alamo in Texas. Anyway, would you want to meet in Memphis? Gonna go see Graceland. What do you think?

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 95):

I'm back. If  you want to continue playing in my game, you may.