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TrashQM ID:RIInxY/i Thu 07 Dec 2023 06:22:01 No.5857447 View View Report

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With your wafting having uncovered the entirety of the Logic Organ once more, you fish out your knife, open it up and then resolve yourself to the work at hand Kneeling down, you get a good look at join between skull and spine - and after giving yourself a second to think it over, you start your cut as close to the skull while still removing the burnt and occasionally burning bits. The blade bites in readily to cartilage, nerve and Conduit – no doubt the chip in the blade helps in this regard. So it is for the first inch or so, you make excellent progress. The going gets a little tougher as you draw near to the halfway point – and when all your hairs start to stand on end, you bolt away, putting as much distance between you and the hearth as possible. Your back is turned for the actual discharge, but after a crack piercing enough to have been gun-fire, you turn abruptly around just in time to see embers or sparks falling free from your cutting area. More than that, there is steam or white smoke mixing in with the darker plumes issuing forth from the skull with what looks to be renewed vigor.

Keen to be done with this, you return to your work with as much caution and speed that can co-exist. The portion of the blade that was buried in the Conduit during the discharge looks to be glowing, but the handle is merely warm – and you find that the heat of the blade makes the remaining work go all the faster. Almost before you realize it, the blade lurches downward as you pass through the remainder.

The 'pruning' is done, with you and the rest of the Construct seemingly no worse for the wear. Even better, none of the Strangeness is being released by the now severed boar's head – proof positive that everything 'downstream' of the short had already died. And even setting aside the lack of the Strangeness, the end result is unexpectedly clean – there is no blood, no drippings of 'working fluids', nothing of the sort. Why, if it wasn't for the danger involved, this whole endeavor would have been as simple as cutting one of those sausages you absconded with from the basement.

There is, however, one complication – the 'prunings'. What do you do with a head that is so Strange, so uncanny that it could pass as that of an Ogre? There aren't Mitigation Glyphs on the head – nor any on the Logic Organ for that matter – but even if there were, as they would have been separated from the Logic Organ, they wouldn't 'fire' unless you activated them.

> Please choose ONE of the following:
> You will deliberately Estrange and then Salt-Mitigate the head to ashes
> You will leave the head behind, hoping that whatever will Mitigate the Logic Organ destroys the head as well..
> You will take the head with you to leave next to the Nine-Dozen, where the process of Mitigation should take care of the head as well.
> You will take the head with you, keeping it as a subject of study or potential working material for your own Weaving on the Life-Loom.

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TrashQM ID:n9O5+Gqi Thu 04 Aug 2022 18:27:48 No.5362075 View View Report

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>Mitigation I

>Critical Success: DC 99 and higher. The Mitigation goes as smoothly as possible under the circumstances as the Strangeness is completely purged from the bird, and the process gives several hints as to how the Glyphs worked. Surprisingly, there was no real damage done, so bird survived as well, though it will need medical attention soon if you want to keep it alive to make your work on the Life-Loom easier (4/6).
>Complete Success: DC 55 and higher. The Mitigation could have gone better, but under the circumstances you will take it gladly. The Strangeness is cleansed from the Gull, and the process has given you a hint as to how the Glyphs worked. Shockingly, there was only superficial damage done by the cast, so the bird survived as well, though you are going to have tender immediate medical attention if you want to keep the beast alive to make your work on the Life-Loom easier (5/6).
>Partial Success. DC 45 and higher. While some Strangeness remains in the Gull, it will not be a serious impediment to your work on the Life-Loom. As expected, there was some damage done to the corpse, so Gull did not survive Mitigation, though at least the bird did not seem to suffer, and the Glyphs are still intact (save for where your broke them).
>Partial Failure: DC 44 and lower. Some Strangeness remains in the Gull, enough that it is going to further complicate your work on the Life-Loom. As expected, the Gull did not survive Mitigation, and some damage has been done to the Glyphs, which might complicate your work on the Life-Loom as well. At least the bird did not suffer ... for too long
>Complete Failure: DC 24 and lower. Enough Strangeness remains in the Gull to keep the corpse unworkable. Of course, the Gull did not survive the Mitigation, and enough damage was done to the Glyphs that your work on the Life-Loom is going to be complicated further. However, you were able to prevent the release of the Strangeness.
>Catastrophic Failure: DC 4 and lower: You were not able to remove enough Strangeness from the body of the bird to work on the corpse with the Life-Loom, but the bird has been ruined by the Mitigation. Even if you were able to Mitigate away the Strangeness, the current condition of the bird is beyond your current ability to Reverse on the Life-Loom ... unless you were willing to try something dangerous, like entering into Strange Fever while using the Loom. You also not able to completely prevent the release of the Strangeness when the bird did finally die.
>Critical-Catastrophic Failure: DC 2 and lower. The bird detonates just like a ‘peter-pomegranate, injuring you - especially your hands - in the process. There is nothing but shards of blackened bone and splatters of now-rancid meat left of the bird. Even if you risked entering into Strange Fever while using the Loom, you would not be able to Reverse all of this damage. Additionally, the death of the Gull releases dangerous amounts of Strangeness into the alley.

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TrashQM ID:mwXQWYqI Sat 16 Apr 2022 21:41:55 No.5232307 View View Report

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The first is the … you are not even sure what you would call it, but it looks as if it is a catwalk, suspended from the ceiling, but made just for pipes. The second is that while that the floor in the room you were just in had spots where the floor looked as if it might be sagging, in this room, there are spots where the floor looks as if it might not be sagging. It is an absolute mess. You can clearly make out where the supports are – and are not – based off of the height of the floor. And those are the best portions of the floor. There are swaths where it looks like there are not any supports underneath anymore, and the floor slopes into these little depressions, and there are even portions where the floor is just gone. You are not sure if it was removed, or it fell away after whatever exactly happened here tonight, but either way, this looks to have all the makings of genuine deathtrap. You would have to be crazy to trust that floor – just as crazy as you would have to be to spend any serious time in the room with the sludge.

But perhaps you do not need to trust the floor. You turn your attention back to the pipes suspended from the ceiling. Getting up on those pipes would be trivial … if you were not bone tired and loaded down with swag. Still, you should be able to get up there without too much trouble, even encumbered as you are at the moment. The real question is once you get up there, is that contraption going to be able to hold your weight?

Mulling it over, you feel pretty sure that it should be able to. Clearly, this portion of the Refinery was being repaired or something. It looks like everything that was unsound was removed – so it stands to reason that the pipes up there should be able to bear your weight.

Figuring that you have spent too much time not making any progress, you make a split-second decision. Crossing this room on the overhead pipes has to be safer than trying to climb along the walls of the room with the sludge. Of course, just because this option is safer, it does not necessarily follow that this is safe. The hallway into Bottling looked solid enough, even with the ceiling on fire, and look how that ended up. The relatively light wooden frames around the vents were enough to break the floor underneath you. These pipes look like they are cast iron – thick cast iron. If those pipes were to fall, then you would bet good money that they would punch clean through to the harbor. But on the other hand, if they are so heavy, then it stands to reason that their supports must be really strong as well, right?

That thought makes you marginally more comfortable about attempting this – which is going to have to be comfortable enough. Before you start your climb, however, you need to check to make sure that there is enough lifting oil left in the depression on the top of the oil jug.

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