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TrashQM ID:5Nd1tkiB Sun 27 Aug 2023 01:49:39 No.5747139 View View Report

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No longer pleased with yourself in the slightest, you get everything back to readiness before once again deepening your breaths without dislodging the salt under your tongue. When you are as ready as you are going to get, you start the pour, initializing the cast the moment that the working material - which you hope isn't Grass Tonic - hits your right pointer finger as its tip presses through the keyhole and into the keyway of the lock. As expected, you lose all feeling in your finger - and the unpleasant taste of salt in your mouth is replaced with the even more unpleasant taste of warm salt getting warmer every second. Still, compared to the strain from Salt-Remediation or Salt-Mitigation, this cast.is feather-bed gentle. In fact, with all of the misery your body is buried under at the moment, you don't even feel the strain or the Draw of the cast ... which isn't always a good thing. However, Cold-Touch has a limited duration to the cast - just twenty seconds - which acts as a safety against the reaction Drawing too deeply. That doesn't mean that if the reaction gets away from you that there can't be problems, or if you target yourself with the cast you can't be hurt, but at least death, infirmity and whole-body disfigurement are off the table.

Now that's a right jolly thought.

You turn your attention to angling the pour into the keyway - which is also much easier done with this bottle than the tankard or the bucket that you used in the Perch - while shifting your position slightly to make sure that you stay dry. In the irregular light of the candle stub, it isn't too easy to see what is happening in the keyway, especially considering that your pointer finger is obscuring most of it. It so happens that you actually feel the frozen water pressing against your finger before you can see it, but as soon as you do, you tip the bottle a hair more aggressively, and cautiously back your finger out while still remaining contact with the ever-growing but as of yet unseen stub of ice. Once you can see the ice and it has finally breached both the keyway and the keyhole, you bring your thumb up to the bottom of the stub and you turn it as if it was a perfectly normal key. You have enough water left to keep pouring as you turn, to account for any weaknesses, hairline cracks or abscesses that might have been made - though your 'key' gives you no trouble on that front. Before you even realize it, the lock clicks open, and you throttle down and snuff out the spell. In an instant, all of the frozen water melts ... but it is at this moment that you realize that Strange-Staining - which you are not suppressing - has not activated. You stare directly at the puddle of water in front of the chest, then at the water all over the front of it.

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TrashQM ID:Sh2n9YQs Sat 27 May 2023 07:34:45 No.5673945 View View Report

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>>5673862
DC 18 isn't really that low when you think about it. The probability for three 1d100 dice coming up 18 or higher is only 57 %.

>>5673868
See, two out of three!

Now, it is a little late for me, so instead of running the next test, I thought I'd do something different. First, I'd leave a vote on if anons wanted to use an auto-pass or a re-roll here ...

> Please choose ONE of the following:
> Use auto-pass
> Use re-roll
> Accept roll

And then, I'd share the definitive list of the Mutants, Constructs and Sub-Constructs that Chlotsuintha has at least enough knowledge of to attempt on the Life-Loom. Key word being attempt. Some of them have already been referenced in the Quest

The Creeping Peeper, 0th Degree Sub-Construct - A living, (glacially and imprecisely) movable security camera. Can adhere itself to most surfaces and walls. Must be integrated into an Assembly. Has a lifespan of one week to one fortnight.
The Cat's Eye, 0th Degree Sub-Construct - A living set of night-vision goggles, built around a cat or pseudo-cat eye. Must be integrated into an Assembly. Has a lifespan of one week to one month. Only requires pairing with The Embrace to be a full Assembly.
The Conduit, 0th Degree Sub-Construct - Living wires, used to connect Sub-Constructs together into an Assembly at distance. Length of one inch to one yard. Lifespan of four months, may start to noticeably degrade at two or three.
The Relay, 0th Degree Sub-Construct - Living bridges between living wires, allows Sub-Constructs to be connected at greater distances. Lifespan of half of a year. Used in lieu of The Knitters for connections of The Conduit.
The Tiny Twitcher, 0th Degree Sub-Construct - A living on-off switch. May be actuated by hand or by the Assembly's Conductor (operator) as part of a process. Not strong enough to physically move much of anything. Lifespan of half of a year.
The Embrace, 0th Degree Sub-Construct - A living, face mounted, control for an Assembly. Required for a Conductor to interface with an Assembly. Difficult to see and breathe around. Issues with phantom touches and sound during use, Lifespan of two to four months.
The Knitters, 0th Degree Sub-Construct - Living bridges between Sub-Constructs. Allows for Constructs and Sub-Construct to be strung together into an Assembly. Typically required, but there are exceptions. Lifespan of half of a year.
The Second-Skin, 0th Degree Construct - A living, self-compressing bandage that continually cleans wounds that it is placed over. If injured, may dangerously constrict. For best results, use skin or pseudo-skin of intended recipient. Lifespan of one fortnight.
The Wet Humors of Succoring Sips, 0th Degree Mutant - Wet Humors (water-borne bacteria) that have been altered to purify the water that they are in. Even if done properly, will produce some Strangeness in the Wet Humor and in the water.

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TrashQM ID:nTRmNtBN Mon 29 Aug 2022 06:36:30 No.5387309 View View Report

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After going back and forth on it for a moment or two, you decide to throw on the Hooded Red Riding Cloak. Obviously, a bright red cloak is not well suited for sneaking, and the combination of a hooded cloak over an apron looks … odd, to say the least, but in the end, you figure that it is more important to make sure that the Wand of Head Knocking is hidden as well as it possibly can be while still socketed and at the ready. You go through everything in your head several more times, trying to see if you have forgotten or overlooked anything, but when nothing comes up, you pack the cart back up, hiding the talents – as well as the men’s clothing – underneath all of the sundries. You leave the footlocker untouched. After all, if someone is able to defeat the lock on the door, and assuming that the lock on the locker is the same, what protection will the chest provide? All you would have done is made it easier to rob you by putting everything of value into one place.

Obviously though, you are far from comfortable about leaving all of this money unattended in a place like this. Not to mention that you are burning through time here. As ready as you are ever going to get, you leave the room, making sure that you have the key, and that the door is locked behind you. You begin to retrace your steps to the counter, figuring that you could ask that bletted lecher for some water to wash up with – that you would actually use with Cold-Touch to pick the lock. But as you draw closer to the counter, you get another idea. Obviously, as the man running this public house, he has to have either a master set of all of duplicates for all of the keys, or a skeleton key that opens all of the doors. What if you were to go to him, and say that you had accidentally locked your key into your room? He would have to fetch it and unlock your door for you – which means that you would see where the key or keys are. Then all you would need to do is pickpocket them off of him, use them instead of Cold-Touch and then return them to him.

Obviously, that is a tall order. But you are no whobody to sneakthievery. You spent years picking pockets before you and father came to Outremer. Sure, you might be a little rusty – but consider the alternative. If you use Cold-Touch, your eyes are going to positively glowing for at least a couple of minutes. Not to mention, that Cold-Touch dumps Strangeness into the water that is used as the working material for the spell – and you cannot count on having enough time or privacy to Mitigate or Remediate that Strangeness away. So then, what happens if the men that made the prints are in some way or another able to see the Strangeness, and they come back and find that there is a bunch of Strangeness pouring out from inside the lock of their door? Obviously, they are going to know that someone has been investigating them – with magic.

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TrashQM ID:n9O5+Gqi Sat 16 Jul 2022 15:58:58 No.5340830 View View Report

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The doppelganger then rose up, its slack face obscured by that fleshy respirator construct gripping your double’s mouth, the dozen mouths of the respirator all on the ends of dangling, red, raw projections, all of them wheezing away, bouncing into each other as the doppelganger moved. You went to say something, to explain their mistake, but before you could get the words out, one of the mouths of the respirator somehow managed to find yours, and the cold, clammy meat-made lips of the construct clamped down on yours, in an angry aggressive kiss. You could actually taste the thing in the dream – cold flesh, stale blood, and more than a hint of the slimy decay you get with meat gone bad.

When you tried to pull it off, your double and your wife grabbed your arms, and held you up by the shoulders. In spite of the obstruction, you tried to speak anyway, but found that you couldn’t make any noise at all. As Arbogast and his wife readied their pistols, you tried one last time to explain their mistake, but when you turned to your wife, and saw her, staring past you, at your doppelganger, lovingly, with her true, blank eyes gleaming in the moonlight, you ended up trying to scream instead.

That was when you woke up.

Right now, you should be ecstatic, content – or at the very least, not ready to tear your hair out in frustration. Currently, you are in a cave, high in the Abeona Montes, on what might be the most comfortable bed roll in existence, underneath a bearskin, next to your completely naked wife. On an licentious impulse, you pull that bearskin off of her to get a good look at her. Her body is finally starting to show signs of her pregnancy – a slight swell in her otherwise toned stomach. If matrimony was not enough to keep her, then surely, a child would bind her to you forever.

And if all of this was not wonderful enough, the whole reason you are up in the Abeonas is that today is the day that you are going to learn how to fly. Your whole life, you have been dreaming of flying to the point that when you were younger, you would climb to precarious heights, in a bid to recapture some of that wonder in the waking world. A lifetime worth of dreams are going to be realized for you today, but at the moment, all you can think of is a lousy one-off nightmare … and your wife’s eyes.

You do you best to put all of this from you mind. For the past week, you have been learning the fundamentals of one particular School of Flight. Today, you will be putting those fundamentals into practice.

> Please choose ONE of the following:
> You have been learning how to levitate and fly with Glyphs
> You have been learning how to levitate and fly with Projection
> You have been learning how to operate flying constructs

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TrashQM ID:y83BI9xQ Mon 04 Jul 2022 03:40:15 No.5327550 View View Report

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You have a day and half left before you need to leave the Mount, if you are going to keep to father’s deadline. And looking at this, purely from a scheduling perspective, you simply don’t think that there is going to be enough time to move everything out of the city, and investigate Aldoin’s house, and do all of the work to get the Glyphs on this gull in a readable state. But … that house and this bird are the only two semi-tangible leads you have to find your father with. You give up on them now, then unless he manages to track you down, then you can basically give up on every seeing him again. How long … how long would it take for him to start to fade from your memory, like mother has?

Emotions welling up in your breast, you angrily clench your fists, squeezing until your fingernails dig into your palms, almost to the point of drawing blood. The pain hones your focus, and before you know it you are heading back to the handcart for more salt. You are going to do this. You are going to break the Glyph, and you are going to Mitigate the bird to death. Then … well, heading back to the Midden to work on this, then doubling back into the city to pick up the dresses, and the boots and visit the Liveries … that does not seem like a good use of your time, does it? Hmm. Okay, well, if you managed to get all of the Strangeness out of the gull, and not make a mess with the actual Mitigation, then there should be no real harm in keeping the body of the bird with you in the bottom of the cart while you finish your shopping here. It should still be in a workable condition for … another two days, maybe? You were able to rebuild a day-old cadaver with a live piglet, so reverting a scar on a seabird with another seabird two days later does not seem like it should be impossible. That said, you would not let it go any longer than that – at least, not without some sort of saltless perseveration.

Resolved to action, you run your hands through the sea salt once more, then you pull out and unfold your pin-stiletto and return to the where the gull lies cringing on the bed of salt. Even though you are no delicate debutante, seeing a living thing suffering like this is … upsetting. Especially considering that its suffering might have been inflicted by your father’s hand. That said, you still hope that this was his doing.

The process for breaking a Scarification Glyph is very straightforward – in fact, it does not even require magic. You just need a knife capable of cutting all the way through the scar tissue to stop the Glyph from drawing from the bearer, and some inert material, like salt or lead to dissipate whatever magic is present in the remains of the Glyph. You don’t even actually need the inert material – it is just there to provide added protection to the bearer and whoever is doing the breaking. Of course, when you are dealing with more involved and consequentially more powerful Glyphs, that protection is important.

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TrashQM ID:mwXQWYqI Sat 16 Apr 2022 21:08:05 No.5232242 View View Report

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“Especially … there was this time, back before I was made whole – er, when I was a Half-Brother, a Cleanser, that I was convinced that my luck had run out, that I had become seriously, dangerously Strange. Enough to warrant curative custody in an Asylum. I … I was scared. So scared, in fact, that I basically hid from the Hunt’s Dosimetrists, in the hopes that when they did scan me, I would come up clean enough that I could get away with just being Mitigated. Just Mitigation!”

“But when I finally did end up getting looked at, I was almost completely clean. Clean enough that they just had kept me under observation, to let me sleep it off. I could not understand it – I was certain that I had been dosed big and dosed hard. But I was not going to tell them that I thought that I needed to be sent away, or Mitigated. I guess I just … figured that I was mistaken. It was pretty easy to talk myself out of it – after, all I wanted to be wrong. Not to mention, that there was no one else with me, when I got exposed, so there was no one to compare to. And over the course of the next couple of days, when no symptoms of a dangerous dose of Strangeness manifested, I took that to be proof positive that I had been mistaken. Still, the whole thing always rubbed me the wrong way – I guess I knew that I had been Strange, even if I was not when I finally got tested. It is funny, I suppose … but it seems like latent magic ability is a very useful thing for man of the Inquisition to have huh?

“To be sure. But you have more than just latent magical ability. I didn’t know for sure until the first time we touched – it was the first time that you came here, as I was seeing you out of the sitting room – but since then, I am certain of it. You might have a harder time of it, seeing as you are getting into it so late, but you should be able to cast your own spells.”

Are you serious?”

“Yes.”

You would just let that sink in for a moment, but then you realize you are still on the fraying balustrade. You swing your feet out and get clear of the paint before slowly lowering yourself down on to the landing. As you get your feet underneath you, it occurs to just what this means.

“Can you fly? Do you have a spell for that?”

Once again, she looks confused and taken aback. Clearly, you are throwing her for a loop with all of these odd, unexpected questions. This question though, this question has teeth. While there is already an implicit understanding here that she is a Witch, the leap from there to admitting out loud – to an Inquisitor, no less – that you can cast spells must be hard to take, especially as you have to indicate that you still do not care, that you want her anyways. Your fiancé does not say anything – she just gives this trembling nod, her thin lips pursed tight to the point that they have practically disappeared.

But she nods yes. And that is all that matters.

“Can you teach me?”

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