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Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh ID:u9XG12Bt Tue 03 Dec 2024 10:16:57 No.6151714 View View Report

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This? Your wife embraced you, which you understood to be a typical display of close affection, and the warm glow was there, but only at the fringes. Only as radiation off your pulsing-hot core, which (as your wife nestled up to you) flared and emitted chemical-type fumes. These fumes tugged your attention outward and downward. They caused you to tighten your grip. If you were not as aware as you were, it was doubtless you would've been consumed by sensation. Instead, you were consumed by fear and repulsion, and you tore away suddenly.

"Martin?" your wife said, innocent of her role in things.

You looked at her for a moment, then you looked at the half-full glass on a coaster on the piano. You reached for it and swallowed it down and wiped it away and left the piano, the crowd, and your wife.

-

You did not wake up. In the second scene, it was some time after that. You don't know how you got there, only that you were there, in a darkened room with an unlit fireplace and an empty mantelpiece. A sword had been there.

Your old friend Henry was in the room with you. He was standing in the dark. His eyes shone from the sliver of light from the door. "Agent," he greeted you.

"Figment," you snapped back. "If we're playing that game. You know nothing of me."

"I know more than most people, Martin. I'd say more than everybody. You haven't told Clara, have you?"

More games. You closed your eyes. "You tipped your hand, figment. I will not be led. You and I know very well that I am not—"

"Not him?"

"Yes," you said impatiently.

"Then where did he go, agent? Who will provide for his family? Who will look after his darling Charlie? It can only be you, Martin. You have a responsibility."

"I have nothing of the sort. I am <span class="mu-i">encouraged</span> to destroy her if no headway is made. This—" You pointed at him and at you. "—this is fiction. I am unconscious. You are no more the real Henry than I am the real—"

"I am rather less the real Henry," said your old friend, and twirled one of his knives. "You are too clever by half, agent. You're caught in your own web, aren't you? The more you struggle, the more it sticks. You love her."

"I can't," you said.

The knife flipped and flipped around. He was good with it.

"I mean biologically."

"You are not often biological. You are more often a figment. A ghost. Didn't you love her while you lived?"

"Be quiet!" you snarled.

Henry lifted his head, casting the light from his eyes. "Rudeness toward a friend, Martin? That's not like you."

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Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh ID:Kq51h8kf Sat 02 Dec 2023 07:47:09 No.5851088 View View Report

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>LAST TIME ON DROWNED QUEST REDUX

You cure Earl's injured shoulder via injecting him with emergency 50% solution, which turns him into a huge nonverbal man-beast. Henry, a bit unnerved, drags you aside and asks you about getting overtaken by the red stuff-- apparently you did Wayne in pretty good. You dither about telling him, but do so after he promises to be "straight" with you in return. And he does: he tells you that he finds your level of Wyrm involvement (up to and including catching its direct attention) to be implausible for a complete novice. You admit that you can't remember 3 years of your life, so maybe you were involved back then, considering that the Wind Court has you wanted for "aberration" and desertion.

Henry buys it, and in exchange tells you about the cult's teachings-- that the end of the world has been in motion for 200 years, and he believes that it's due to finish up very, very soon. Then he asks about your father. At a loss for an explanation, you summon Richard, who has a weird tense stand-off with Henry. Henry, shaken, leaves and returns with the loot from Wayne. You take most of it, including a gold mask identical to the Gold-Masked Person's, and Henry tells you that Richard isn't your father. You tell him that duh, you knew that, and at his insistence you leave and take monster-Earl with you.

After a quick jaunt back to camp, you leave Earl in the Fen and find Madrigal and Branwen. Branwen, unfazed by Earl's current state, takes him back to her home; you exchange a few words with Madrigal, then inadvertently make her emotional by reminding her of her fake snake general store. She storms off.

You go find Gil, who's excited to discover that you're not dead, and drag him with you to speak with Eloise. You dodge her questions about the disastrous attempted-rescue and distract her with news of Ellery and Headspace. You ask her for help locating potential employees to possess. Then you grill her about the prospective apocalypse. She refuses to answer directly, but tells you obliquely about an unpublicized skientific finding: that the strings of the universe have been tensing up ever since the Flood, and one wrong move could snap them all, presumably causing the end of reality. Eloise doesn't seem too happy about this.

You leave to speak to Monty about housing. Monty politely refuses to give Gil his own tent, but sends him outside with paperwork. Then he asks you who you murdered.

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Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh ID:tYcBUOmA Tue 25 Jul 2023 10:18:01 No.5720233 View View Report

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You don't know whether to believe that. You think you'd probably feel better not believing it. "Oh."

"There's no need to be afraid of it," Henry says. "Make the most of the time you have, kiddo. That's what I tell everybody. That's all you can do. Walk the Road. Are you feeling okay?"

"I don't know," you say truthfully.

"Take a minute to digest it. You know, kiddo, your father isn't here right now, but I'm confident in saying he'd agree with me. He did a much better job of making the most of things than I did. I'm only catching up now." Henry taps his fingers at his waist. He looks, to your eyes, a little sad. "How is he, by the by? ...I know it's been some time for you, too, so I don't mean to... er, you've spoken to him more recently than I have, is what I meant. Was he well?"

You feel worse.

>[1] Lie and say he was well. Thanks.
>[2] Inform Henry that your father is dead. Not only is it technically true, you think, but it should also shut down questions about him forever. It'll also make Henry sad, which could be considered a bonus?
>[3] Inform Henry that you don't remember.
>[4] Richard! Richard! You need Richard, stat. You have no idea what he wants you to say/not say anymore, or how he'd phrase things, or anything— no way you're charging into this thicket alone. Richard will actually show up if you vote for this. I won't veto it. Pinky promise.
>[5] Write-in.

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