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IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT.

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The GM
GM, 149 posts
Sun 31 May 2020
at 13:27
  • msg #217

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Duke:
The Duke eyes the land in all its unnatural glory. He would never admit it but a place this serene was scary for the creature made out of pure violence. There was a strange feline creature drinking at the pond its head almost fully in the water, It made him think of a little Aesop and he was just about to ask the Lady if she though he could go and pet it when one of the jellyflies hovers over the clearly unaware creature to end it. The Duke utters a disconcerted NO!! and starts to leap out of the ride when the water seems to bulge as the jellyfly grabs onto the feline.

Even before The Duke has completed the movement of leaping out and landing on the floor a massive hybrid of Crocodile and Hippo the size of a small van bursts from the water. The feline seemingly the tongue of the creature. As its massive yaws slam close around the yellyfly the beast retreats back into the water the only proof of the violent disturbance some bubbles rising to the surface by the second The Dukes Boots hit the ground.

"That is a bad place."

He exclaims with something of disbelief in his voice.


(Hippodiles described: The Duke gets 1 xp.

Proceed, y'all. You may:
--Continue to follow the water uphill/upstream
--Attempt to fight a hippodile and/or jellyfly
--Anything else you want

I will say, though, I consider this experiment to be a success... may try something similar again soonish)
The Lady
player, 53 posts
Lost Goddess of Luck
3 Exp Point; 0 Attention
Wed 3 Jun 2020
at 00:02
  • msg #218

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Lady climbed down beside The Duke, and put a gentle hand upon his massive forearm,
"No, I don't think so.  I think it is just ... different.
And there is nothing wrong or 'bad' about different, is there, my friend?  After all, are we each not different?"

She eyed the verdant strip of land about them curiously.
Was this a place were sentient life might flourish ... she thought so.

There was plantlike, just as the beings they sought were.  And what better place for it to live and ... hide.
There was water: all plantlife likes water, right.  And food ... plenty of food for a race of beings (carnivorous or otherwise).

They could go on, for sure.  But this seemed like as good a place as any to make camp for the night: with all those resources at their disposal.   And maybe, just maybe, they would be seen here by any plant folk in the area: and staying the night would give those an opportunity to make contact on their own terms.

"Lets have the night here?  We can gather some wood for a fire, and forage something to eat ... then sleep in the walker where it should be safe", she suggested to her large and powerful friend.
The Duke
player, 80 posts
Mad
Wed 3 Jun 2020
at 07:40
  • msg #219

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Duke grumbles a sound of disgruntled approval. Most likely just because the Duke had no better idea on his own. When he steps onto the grass he starts to speak his tone of voice not entirely his own.

"This land cherishes the lady luck. A long forgotten thing that wants to connect with the land for it like her is of a time long past."

And then as if he had not said a word points at one of the jellyflies.

"Think we can eat those?"

ooc: The Lady has been prophetised. On a roll made she can ask me if this is what the Duke talked about. If yes, roll another dice and choose which two you want to use.  If no it can be used later.

Using it in this place has the biggest chance of a yes.

And a success again. I never gain xp with rolls like this.
The Lady
player, 55 posts
Lost Goddess of Luck
3 Exp Point; 0 Attention
Tue 9 Jun 2020
at 04:59
  • msg #220

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Lady looked kindly at her gentle but murderous giant, and patted his arm.

Something had come through there that was not him, and she was intrigued ... but she wanted some time to consider what he'd said, and perhaps, what it meant.

With a somewhat maternal smile, she invited him to "Go find out!"
She was pretty sure, from previous incidents, that not even the hippodile would stand a chance if it tried to ear him ... and some fresh meat to cook up tonight for them both would be nice, eh!

She was inclined, though, to wander off into the nearby bushland, and find some fallen, dead wood to use for a fire, for said cooking.
And to use that time for the aforementioned considering.


Tonight, she'd decided, they would camp here.
They could, hopefully, get a fire started, and cook up some dinner.    Then bed down inside the walker, for protection from anything (including pesty insects) that might be out and about in this new, strange environment.
The Duke
player, 82 posts
Mad
Tue 9 Jun 2020
at 08:25
  • msg #221

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Duke grins and like a child let out into the play garden on the first nice spring day bumbles onto the field and goes to hunt them a jellyfly
The GM
GM, 152 posts
Tue 9 Jun 2020
at 15:25
  • msg #222

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Duke:
The Duke grins and like a child let out into the play garden on the first nice spring day bumbles onto the field and goes to hunt them a jellyfly


(Hmmm... The Duke, roll
--Forceful if you try to attack a jellyfly
--Agile if you try to herd one away from the flock first
--Insightful if you try to use strategy
--Charming if you try to lure one away from the flock
etc.)
The Duke
player, 84 posts
Mad
Sun 21 Jun 2020
at 21:17
  • msg #223

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Duke Blunders into the field and actually starts skipping and singing an awfully off tune song as he skips past the flock of Jellyflies trying to present himself as a nice tasty morsel to the beasts to lure one off. At one point he even gets so confident to drop his pants and moon the poor things with his hairy behind and what happens then......

Snake Eyed Charm!!

23:14, Today: The Duke rolled 2 using 2d6 with rolls of 1,1.  Charming. Plaing bait.
The GM
GM, 154 posts
Mon 22 Jun 2020
at 14:08
  • msg #224

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Duke:
The Duke Blunders into the field and actually starts skipping and singing an awfully off tune song as he skips past the flock of Jellyflies trying to present himself as a nice tasty morsel to the beasts to lure one off. At one point he even gets so confident to drop his pants and moon the poor things with his hairy behind and what happens then......

Snake Eyed Charm!!

23:14, Today: The Duke rolled 2 using 2d6 with rolls of 1,1.  Charming. Plaing bait.


Not one, but two jellyflies flap over and take interest in The Duke.

(09:07, Today: The GM rolled 5 using 2d3 ((2,3)).)

Ow. They not only move faster than one would expect, they hurt a little more than one would expect.
The Duke
player, 85 posts
Mad
Mon 22 Jun 2020
at 19:25
  • msg #225

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Duke howls in anger as the beasts hurt him (how much?) and its only a moment for him to retaliate in kind grabbing the things by their stingers and slamming them into each other with excessive violence.

ooc: Its opposite day. From snake eyes to double 6.

21:23, Today: The Duke rolled 14 using 2d6+2 with rolls of 6,6.  Grabbing the Jellyflies.
The GM
GM, 155 posts
Tue 23 Jun 2020
at 14:55
  • msg #226

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

</quote>
The Duke howls in anger as the beasts hurt him (how much?)


(Pfffffff. Mea culpa for being unclear. 5 points of damage.)


 </quote>and its only a moment for him to retaliate in kind grabbing the things by their stingers and slamming them into each other with excessive violence.

ooc: Its opposite day. From snake eyes to double 6.

21:23, Today: The Duke rolled 14 using 2d6+2 with rolls of 6,6.  Grabbing the Jellyflies.</quote>

The two jellyflies are destroyed.

The other jellyflies-- all the other animals-- move a bit farther from The Duke. Their primitive brains have learned a new fear this day.
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:55, Tue 23 June 2020.
The Lady
player, 58 posts
Lost Goddess of Luck
3 Exp Point; 0 Attention
Wed 24 Jun 2020
at 08:15
  • msg #227

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

As The Duke procured dinner, The Lady went about acquiring means to prepare the feast ... namely dry wood from the nearby foliage.

She watched the creature known as ‘The Duke’ as she did so, curious over this strange mortal.
A simpleton ... but with greater depth, she guessed, than most would understand.
And ... touched!   Maybe by some form of divinity, as well as mental instability: perhaps one caused by the other.  Perhaps each feed by the other.
The Duke
player, 86 posts
Mad
Wed 24 Jun 2020
at 09:13
  • msg #228

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Jellyflies greatly hurt the poor Duke and when he has proven himself the new apex predator of this patch he finds a nice tree and leans against it as he inspects the painfull stings that cover his body. When The Lady joins him with the wood to make a fire he sighs unhappy.

"Bad beasties hurt me good. Look at this. I hope they taste good or i will be really sad."

He shows her where one of those tentacles has dug into his arm up till the bone a piece of it still in the wound.
The Lady
player, 59 posts
Lost Goddess of Luck
3 Exp Point; 0 Attention
Sat 27 Jun 2020
at 03:39
  • msg #229

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Lady put the wood down, and attentively looked at the big guy’s wounds.
Soothingly, she said, “That does look painful”,  gently touching an unharmed part of his arm.
“Lets go back to the Walker,” which was, of course, still outside the floral tract, “and we’ll find out”.

Reclaiming the wood, she wandered off back to the vehicle; making sure to look back and provide any words of encouragement her murder machine needed.
Again, she found herself thinking on the vulnerable and complex being inside that large, simple-minded being.
The Duke
player, 88 posts
Mad
Sat 27 Jun 2020
at 08:37
  • msg #230

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The duke shakes his head.

"The Lady wants to camp. The Duke was planning to set up the tent for her. Don't want to make the Lady sad she wants to be lucky."

He wil follow her when she insists though but clearly doesn't want to spoil her camping trip.
The Lady
player, 60 posts
Lost Goddess of Luck
3 Exp Point; 0 Attention
Wed 1 Jul 2020
at 05:10
  • msg #231

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

With aid from The Duke, The Lady set up a fireplace just outside the walker ... within view of the nature strip, but not among it (lets say several minutes walk away).

They would do their best to get a dinner cooked; a combination of the Jellyflies and whatever they could compliment with from The Duke's amazing food box.

If The Lady could find any medical (or even simply soothing') equipment in said box ... such as an icepack ... she'd make sure it went on some of The Dukes ooowies.

"We shall sleep in the Walker tonight, for safety.  Anything that comes near us will have a harder time getting into he vehicle", she said.   She wondered if it had a locking system that they could use.
"Then tomorrow, we shall follow this green trail up over yonder hill, and see how far it stretches".

"Where is Foers?"
The Duke
player, 89 posts
Mad
Wed 1 Jul 2020
at 08:31
  • msg #232

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Duke was more then happy to roast the Jellyflies over an exaggerated big bonfire that would be visible for anything with eyes in a large radius. One for immediate food and the other would go into the cooler to supplement the rations already 'secured'. Even the Dukes stomach had a maximum capacity. And while eating the beast and a bag of cold peas on the biggest cut in his arm the Lady drops the bomb and the Duke looks up at her in surprise. Nobody believed in Foers so why did she ask about him when he was clearly pointing at the Lady telling him not to kill her as she was a friend. He points next to her leg.

"There. He is telling me i can not kill you cause you are a friend."
The Lady
player, 61 posts
Lost Goddess of Luck
3 Exp Point; 0 Attention
Thu 2 Jul 2020
at 11:05
  • msg #233

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

Now, to clarify: Foers is ... an imaginary friend? or a real, holdable Teddy Bear?
Can The Lady see him?

The Lady glanced down at where The Duke gestures beside her leg.  She gave a warm smile, as she returned her attention to The Duke.
“He is a good friend to you.
Tell me, how and when did you two meet?”

The fire crackled happily nearby, as the two ate dinner, and warmed themselves in its light.
The Duke
player, 91 posts
Mad
Sat 4 Jul 2020
at 08:36
  • msg #234

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Duke shrugs.

"Foers came with me into the world. When the Duke was so was Foers. We both broke through the wall and then where in the Ziggurat but i was not allowed to kill the people screaming and yelling at me. At first i thought up smart ways to get rid of em anyhow but Foers now knows when i want to do bad stuff even before i do."
The Lady
player, 63 posts
Lost Goddess of Luck
3 Exp Point; 0 Attention
Sat 4 Jul 2020
at 09:47
  • msg #235

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

"I see", The Lady replied, with a frown.
She wondered if, really, the man needed such external control.  Maybe he did.

"He is a good friend to you", she reasserted.  Then, "I know that you don't attack everyone ... just people who try to hurt you, and your friends.

Do you have any other friends?"
The Duke
player, 93 posts
Mad
Tue 7 Jul 2020
at 08:00
  • msg #236

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Duke shakes his head.

"Only Foers is always there. Everyone else avoids me. But even Foers only tells me who i can not kill and not much else. He likes to listen to me though. "

Th violent brute gives a sad smile as he starts pitching the tent.

"Foers says everyone in the  ziggurat is my friend."

It was clear the Duke didn't really know what he had to do with this conversation and that he might have been really lonely before he was 'volunteered' to leave.
The Lady
player, 64 posts
Lost Goddess of Luck
3 Exp Point; 0 Attention
Thu 9 Jul 2020
at 00:42
  • msg #237

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Lady smiled, warmly, but as much to herself as to her big companion.
She felt sorry for him.

When he began pitching his tent, she didn't try to stop him.   She was going to sleep in the vehicle ... for safety as much as anything else.  But she was pretty sure that little out here was going to harm the big guy.

The earth out here, several mixtures walk from he verdant stretch yonder, as all stone and crag, so she used a stick to disperse the hot coals from the fire so they could cool quickly, but wasn't concerned that anything nearby would catch fire.

When The Duke was ready for bed, she wandered over, and put a gentle hand on his arm, to stay him.
She checked his wounds, and replaced the (now not-so) frozen peas back into the food cooler.

"Good Night", she said to the giant, before wandering off to make herself comfortable in the Walker.
The Duke
player, 94 posts
Mad
Thu 9 Jul 2020
at 06:10
  • msg #238

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Duke smiles at the Ladies administrations and waits for her to get into the vehicle before retreating to his tent. The Duke didn't worry about any potential threats and just went to sleep hoping a good nights rest would fix the hurting arm.
The Duke
player, 96 posts
Mad
Fri 10 Jul 2020
at 19:36
  • msg #239

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

In the morning the Lady wakes to the Duke having made a small campfire over which he is roasting the second jellyfly. From the size of the fire you think everything in a wide radius will know they where there but at least the roast was smelling nice.
The Lady
player, 66 posts
Lost Goddess of Luck
3 Exp Point; 0 Attention
Sun 12 Jul 2020
at 00:02
  • msg #240

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Lady smiled, as she joined The Duke for the breakfast he'd prepared.
She chastised herself for her surprise that he'd been competent enough to build a fire, and prepare a meal ... he gave the impression of being such a simply being, but in truth (as she was learning) he was as competent and capable as anyone else.

"Good morning, I hope you slept well", she bid him.  "This smells lovely".

Then, not wanting to mother him, in the way she'd been expecting to have to days ago, she asked, "Will you be accompanying me into he verdant stretch today?  to look for plant folk".  Rather than simply expect him to follow, she was now inviting him to join her.
The Duke
player, 98 posts
Mad
Sun 12 Jul 2020
at 07:55
  • msg #241

Re: IN-GAME THREAD: LEAVING THE ZIGGURAT

The Duke nods at her question tearing some of the food with his hands and presenting it on a 'plate' made from the wings of the beasts.

"Sure we can explore here. If these things live here who knows what else bumbles about."
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