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Anonymous ID:RIInxY/i Sun 03 Dec 2023 03:19:58 No.5852053 View View Report

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Well ... in your dire straits, in these circumstances, with any and all sureties in short supply, there is quite simply nothing else for it - you are going to have to 'make the freight' with assumptions and prayer. However ... if you get closer, you will be able to see enough of the Construct through the smoke to figure out if wafting is going to be safe or not. That thought gins up something akin to courage, and almost before you even know it, you are softly padding your way down the final stretch to the fireplace. As you make you way, you offer up two silent prayers - one for your health, the other for the health of the bits of the Construct you have not yet managed to kill - and you cannot also avoid noticing that the light from your eyes is not illuminating your way as well as it was earlier. The difference is marginal enough that you are not immediately sure if it is the light from your eyes beginning to abate already, or it is a matter of the smoke thickening - but once you notice how the smell of smoke, and underneath it, more gristly redolences have sharpened, you tentatively decide that it is the latter. It is small solace, and any sense of relief is expelled rapidly when your footwrapped feet find the edge of the hearth before your eyes do. But even as you wince and cringe, your mind is all a-lather. Judging from how the Nine-Dozen was positioned, you should be more than close enough at this point to reach down and touch the Construct - if that is what you decide to do here - but from where you stand you cannot see anything of interest yet. The smoke, augmented by darkness and shadow, is simply too thick - quite thick, thick enough that it has since passed from the territory of 'annoyance', crossing the border into 'hindrance'. Having stopped moving though, you find that you can just barely make out a faint sizzling sound.

Now seeing that no finger will be place on any scale from this closer viewpoint, you take a deep, hopefully fortifying breath - and then lurch in towards the chimney and start making exaggerated, rapid movements, trying to waft the smoke up the chimney. Between the limited light and the obscuring nature of smoke and shadow, it is very hard to judge your progress ... but after a half-dozen seconds without anything to show for it, you conclude that you are not doing anything - and in a bolt of understanding, it occurs to just why this is. It must be blocked - by even more Construct! It had occurred to you as a possibility, to be sure - though the thought of a four-story Construct, no, of two four story Constructs seemed ... just so incredible that you discounted the idea - not to mention, the thought of this being the last of the Construct was obviously an appealing notion, considering just how much you intended to do tonight out on the Mount. Still, what might otherwise have been an overbitter draught is assuaged by the prospect of more opportunities to learn from father ...

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TrashQM ID:p4HPEaMP Sat 28 Oct 2023 04:18:06 No.5809530 View View Report

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Beyond that, you can see nor feel anything that you were warned about in your alchemical training; no unexpected tenderness or numbness, no signs of rash or wrinkling - nothing. Well ... good, that is good. Because if you are going to try to see whatever is underneath that Membrane, you are going to be getting more of this stuff on your hands. Presumably a lot more.

Standing underneath the sconce, still contemplating your hands, it belatedly occurs to you that this might have been another one of those paranoia-surges. Of course, concern was warranted - you had an unknown, potentially Mysterious discharge on your hands for ... the better part of ten minutes, thereabouts? But the level of concern, that feels suspect now. There is nothing to do about it now though, and cognizant that you are being kept by the keeper here, you turn back to the fireplace and the Construct sitting half out of it. The absolute last thing you want to do is damage the Membrane in any way ... but you have seen precious little of the Nine-Dozen; just the lumps and the Governor. To tell it true, your notes on the Nodule are really notes on the Membrane - and that simply must change, if you want to have any real hope of safely recreating something like this on your own. And for that to change, you are going to have to accept the risks and unwrap it. Well aware that you are plowing a planted field, you quickly kneel down on the polished stone of the hearth floor, setting the linen between you and the Construct. Back in the figurative saddle, you resolve yourself to pushing neither your luck nor the integrity of the Membrane. If you are to come across any resistance while you are pulling the Membrane, you will stop and find a new 'hem' to pull on instead. To be sure, you might end up barely uncovering anything - but right now, you just want to make some appreciable progress. There is one last point though - the discharge. While you are no longer in a state of panic over it, you aren't keen on exposing yourself to any more of it than you already have ... just on the off-chance, of course. You consider wrapping your hands -

Damn it all! Your footwraps! You could have wiped your hands on your footwraps. How ... no, don't beat yourself up. Just, keep in mind that you clearly aren't thinking very well at the moment. Now, your hands. You could wrap your hands in the linen - or in the footwraps, for that matter - but you worry that the deftness of your fingers and the sureness of your grip will be undermined by the fabric. Under the circumstances, you will presumably be better off using your bare hands for the work, and wiping them periodical on the linen. So as you contemplate the Construct - and if you have anything else in your possession that might assist in this work - you unfold the sheet to get to a clean portion. You still haven't come up with anything when the Construct has an unusually violent series of undulations.

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TrashQM ID:ikkWmvAa Mon 25 Sep 2023 23:10:20 No.5773687 View View Report

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But before you get yourself too worked up, you catch yourself. As mad as you are, a lifetime of climbing experience is shouting at you to calm down, immediately. You nearly just fell off of this fraying beam. Right now, the only things that you should be concerned with are maintaining your balance and finding those irregular patches in the Strange-Staining. You take a shuddering deep breath, wincing away the still-present but notably milder effects of the ranged remediation, then with great care and deliberation, you tilt your head and roll your neck and shoulders back while keeping everything else ramrod-straight, to avoid contact with the potential communicable patches of the Strangeness on the wall. Once your head is in a more suitable position to search the wall, you start to sweep your eyes back and forth, suppressing and unsuppressing the Strange-Staining Glyph as you go. Your arm is throbbing and aching – definitely more to do with holding the 'stick than the ranged-remediation cast - but you grind your teeth and keep it as steady as you can manage.

You had thought that you would have had an easier time of it, once you were up close to the wall on the beam, but it seems that you are so close now, that everything looks different. Still, you if you are where you think you are, relative to the stairs, then there should be one of the irregular patches right in – Oh! There, right there! Well off to your left – it seems that you didn't manage to get as far on the beam as you had thought. You try to get a good look at the patch but it is far off enough that you are side-eyeing it. Obviously, turning your head to get a better look at it from this position would be … ill-advised. Your sense of balance has been honed by climbing, but you have never considered yourself to be particularly flexible – and you are worried that turning your head will either press something up against the wall, or prove the undoing of your safe center.

Instead, you are going to have to make your way over. With a loose footwrap and enough swag to open your own Hinterlander Bank. You bring your head, then your neck and finally your shoulders back in line with the rest of you. Then with great caution and care, you steadily creep your right foot as close to your left as you dare. Experimentally, you flex your left foot, trying to tell just how much of the footwrap has come undone. Compared to the wrap on the right, it certainly feels loose, but you get the sense that it is quite a ways away from falling off. You consider trying to shake it loose, or closing the distance between your feet, and use right to pull the wrap off … but as quick as those ideas come you, you dismiss them. Shaking is the absolute last thing you need to do right now, and you would be at risk of tripping yourself if you were to try to get it off. No, if you are going to keep moving – and you are going to have to – it must be 'as is'.

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