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Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh ID:koQjHkwi Sun 22 Dec 2024 12:17:46 No.6162942 View View Report

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"Anthea! All that stuff," Gil cuts in, "and you didn't mention the generator one time! Or where you found it, or built it, or— do you have special expertise in the topic? Why don't you tell us?"

"..." Anthea snatches the sachet from Ellery's hand and inhales deeply. The smoke pales again. "Yes. Thanks for asking. Um, I originally got into spelunking from a psychoarcheological standpoint, thus the focus on ruined and abandoned manses, but this also involved a lot of research on subspace— um, there's a mode of thought that—"

"Charlotte," Ellery hisses, and jerks his head.

"—all unreal spaces, including manses, but also pocket dimensions, aux spaces, rifts, even the Edges, are in some metaphysical, semi-spatial sense interconnected, so that—"

Anthea is distracted. Gil is riveted. Ellery is maintaining the eye contact. You could stay and listen to a metaphysical lecture, or you could talk to Ellery. Rock and a hard place. But Ellery might have something interesting to say.

You sidle away. Gil sees you leave, but doesn't seem to register it. And what does it matter if you talk to Ellery? It's not illegal. It's not like he can blow himself up now.

Anyways, you're well away from everybody now. Ellery scans around, to make extra sure of this, then returns his attention to you. "So. Herald."

"Don't call me that," you say, and fiddle with your neckline.

"Why? It's you. Right from their mouths. They're not really dead, right?"

"Uh..." Management, right? "...I think the ones you killed are really dead. The others... I don't know. I don't think they're coming back soon, since they— they were all routed through the BrainWyrm. And I imploded it."

"You imploded it. You sure did." Ellery toys with one of the holes in his neck. "Heroic of you. I lived, by the way."

"Um... I figured."

"I lived because you decreed it. Herald. I am at your command. I'm not important enough not to be."

He's doing the evil leading question thing. You keep your mouth shut.

"That's why I can't kill myself any other way, see? You wouldn't like it. And if you don't like it, it can't happen. Your rules. Your story. Your script. I can't tell you what to do, and I can't do what I want to do. All I can do is beg like a fucking dog. Are we on the same page?"

You're not even in the same book. "Uh..."

"Okay. So here goes. When you wield your ultimate destined power, when you decide my fucking eternal fate, don't make me live. Kill me. If you can't do that, don't make me live like this. You can't possibly hate me enough to make me live like this, Charlotte. I don't want a body. I don't want a life. I want to be something else. I am begging. Do you understand me?"

You understand the words. You're not sure about the rest of it.

(Choices next.)

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Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh ID:gQBVQ5Xr Wed 02 Oct 2024 10:42:02 No.6115078 View View Report

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The grass rustles. It's been rustling the whole time. But now, where Jerry points, it parts— and keeps parting, further and further away, as if (to use a random example!) somebody invisible were sprinting away from you. You go for The Sword. Then you think better of it: you clap your sword hand over your eye. Everard Kurz has two good eyes, except when he's you. When he's you, and you're thinking about it, you can see the sparse flat lines of the manse— and an awkward bright tangle, half triangular, lined up exactly with the parting grass.

The nerve of the bastard!

>[1] Goddamn Ellery! First he hides all his stupid secrets, then he flips out on you for no reason, then he crashes *your* bombing plan?! You don't care what Casey wants to do with him— you just want to see the look on his face when he's caught. Pitch in.
>>[A] Everard can't plausibly do most of the things you can do— but you can't plausibly do some of what he can do, either. What Laws does he know, again? (Choose which Law to direct at Ellery: [SINK], [SEAL], or [ARM].)
>> A long time ago, you won a direct fight against Ellery. He acts all tough, like he can't get hurt, but that's just his dumb fake body— his strings are vulnerable, aren't they? And you can see them? Surely you can do something with them? (Wyrm's Dead Eye) [Roll.]
>>[C] Ellery isn't that special in the grand scheme of things. *You're* special. And if you say he can't escape, he can't: it's as simple as that. (Advanced Advanced Gaslighting.) [Roll.]
>>[D] Write-in.

>[2] You really do hate Real Ellery, and you're going to blow up Headspace in his face and laugh. Trouble is, you can't blow up Headspace in his face if Casey shreds him first, so you don't feel like stopping him. Purposefully do nothing.

>[3] As above, but you really, really don't want to see him caught right now. If he spends time annoying Casey, it's actually a win for you: he's not blowing up Headspace, and he's stopping Casey from tracking down Gil (or catching onto you). You need to make sure he gets out of here
>>[A] Using a specific method? (Write-in.) [Possible roll.]
>>[B} You'll figure something out. [Roll.]

>[4] Write-in.

I know! You were supposed to look at the note! Unfortunately, the structure of the update didn't work out that way, and I ran out of time to go back and rework. You have my sacred pledge as a QM that 1) you will get to see it soon and 2) you didn't lose any options or miss anything relevant by not seeing it immediately. On the bright side, here's me cashing in my promise to have you look at Ellery's strings IC. Only took 3 threads...?

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