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TrashQM ID:1e26BQjN Thu 11 Apr 2024 19:59:34 No.5975373 View View Report

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No sooner than you think that, there is a quick and thin shriek that shatters the rhythmic beat of your feet on the pavers, along with a flurry of activity on the roof-line of a nearby building. As you are wound tight to damned near breaking, your first thought is Mitigator and you drown in a searing, full-body panic - but once you see that it is just a sea-bird, roused from a fitful slumber you actually sob for the relief of it. Your second thought is that it must be one of the Glyphed Gulls, and much of the panic that was wiped away suffuses you once more ... until you manage to get a good look at it, and you can see that it's span is nowhere near that of a Hooked Gull - and it is behaving normally, unlike the bird you came across earlier, whose body you still have stuffed into the recesses of your poor hand-cart. The picture of health, you watch the bird take flight, then flap and wheel amongst the chimneys for a few moments, until you realize that you are standing stock still. Just as you turn your head to resume your two-legged canter, the bird comes down and lands on the open throat of another chimney.

And you are transfixed to the spot as all of your hair stands on end.

You couldn't figure out how your father would have gotten those Constructs into the chimneys and set them up without being made; after all, judging by the turn out at his funeral, Aldoin's house must have been filled to bursting with the bereaved. The proof was there that he had though; from what you saw, no one in the house had received enough exposure at a high enough degree to cause pain or induce illness - everyone was more or less functional at the funeral, there was nothing worse than some signs of cognitive decay in Aldoin's namesake, his grandson. It would be the Remediation-at-range that did it, that drove them out to call upon some house of healing. But beyond just being large and presumably heavy, these Constructs also moved - and weren't particularly quiet about it either. They simply couldn't be overlooked, you would have to be blind and deaf to miss them - yet somehow they were. The flower or the seed, which came first? The Constructs were what ran everyone off - and kept them away - but everyone needed to be out of the house for the Constructs to be deployed in the first place. Clearly, there was a fault in your reasoning somewhere, and you had assumed that you just underestimated your father, that he has some craft or subterfuge, some Mystery that was unknown to you that allowed him to secret two massive Constructs past at least a dozen and a half witnesses, and keep them secret long enough for them to affect them.

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TrashQM ID:oF3bbUSm Mon 17 Jul 2023 11:57:07 No.5714609 View View Report

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Okay, this is … not good, certainly, but no matter what happens, you can just walk away right? There was nothing on the hand-cart beside – oh, Pattern's Perdition, the corpse of the Glyphed Gull! Not to mention the Strange Incendiary. Did – no, no he couldn't have found them. If he did, then he wouldn't be … so inclined. So it must have been that just grabbed the two them, swaddled as they were, and hauled them upstairs without realizing what exactly he was carrying.

So he does have something to … fraying Hell, why, why now? More than that, why you?

No, there is no time for that – right now, you need to figure out the way forward. Right. For starters, you have the Wand of Head Knocking, and assuming that he doesn't see you use it … wait, even if he doesn't realize that he has been knocked unconscious by Mysterious means, he is still going to be able to deduce that you knocked him unconscious. That … that could cause trouble for you, considering that there is a bounty out on you. And while you get the sense that most were on the look-out for a contrary-dressing pirate, if an assault is reported here by someone matching your description, then surely, someone would put two and two together. And that could seriously complicate you moving house.

You didn't think it was possible, but with that realization, your stomach drops even further. So … where exactly does that leave you? Abandoning the Strange Incendiary and the corpse of the Glyphed Gull is not an option … which leaves either taking it by force and accepting the potential complications that might arise – assuming you manage to get him knocked out properly, which isn't even guaranteed – or somehow convincing him to reconsider. Which under other circumstances you probably wouldn't even bother with … but if you were somehow able to beg or threaten your way out of this, then it would save you a lot of … unpleasantness.

While neither seem particularly strong bets, you'd guess that begging is less likely to work than threatening. However, if you were to start with begging, then switching to threatening … well, as pathetic as that might be, it would be less pathetic than starting with threats and then switching to begging.

“Please young Master, I … I have been promised to -”

You trail off. While the young Master might be wearing a bemused face, there is an angry hunger peering out through his eyes. Your mouth hangs open, trembling along with the rest of you, and all of a sudden you feel as if you are on the verge of tears – which is dangerous, considering that you have Hide-Eyes active at the moment. You don't know how, but somehow you just get the sense that begging isn't going to get you out of this. If anything … it might make him more interested in … 'getting you upstairs'.

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TrashQM ID:kwokPbyd Tue 02 Aug 2022 22:32:13 No.5360468 View View Report

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The Graverobber's Daughter resumes! Actually, the thread has been up for a while now, but I forgot to make the posting here. Anyway, at the moment, Chlotsuintha is has run into trouble with a gull that she is performing back alley surgery on - figuratively and physically, as she is actually performing surgery in a back alley. A slight mistake has rendered her intended plan to mercy-kill the Gull with a Mitigation spell less likely to leave the Glyph intact for Reversal on her Life-Loom and study at a later date, and slightly more likely to blow up in her face. She must either accept the additional risks and dangers of a Mitigation, or attempt to Reverse the damage while the bird is still alive, giving her a second chance to properly deactivate the Glyph, as simply allowing the bird to perish as is will release dangerous amounts of Strangeness.

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TrashQM ID:n9O5+Gqi Tue 02 Aug 2022 03:32:19 No.5359785 View View Report

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<span class="mu-i">Almost exactly sixteen years later, in quiet back alley on one of the Lower Terraces:</span>

Your name is Chlotsuintha, and you just bungled the seemingly simple Glyph breaking you were attempting. It is understandable, of course – you are using just a regular knife, hunched over in an alley, on an uncooperative and ailing subject, a Hook Gull that is (relatively speaking) smothered in Scarification Glyphs. That is not to say that this failure is not frustrating. This bird is probably one of the flock of seabirds that you saw on the house across the street from the South Burying Ground – the same house that the Inquisition actually recovered magical equipment from. But more than that, there is also a chance that the Witch responsible for Scrivening this bird is your father, and that if you learn more about the Glyphs on the bird, you might be able to deduce what he was doing with the poor creature, and from there, if your luck runs white as driven snow, maybe you could glean some sort of clue as to where he has gone. The odds of that … to call them long would be an understatement, a criminal understatement, but if you don’t try, you risk his trail going cold. Forever.

Which is why you are so frustrated at the moment – practically to the point of tears. If you have fouled things up as badly as you think you did, you have just rendered the Scarification Glyphs more susceptible to being damaged or even destroyed by Mitigation. On top of that, even if the Mitigation goes perfectly, your mistake here is going to make your work Reversing the Scarification Glyph into an operational state harder. And it was not going to be easy in the first place. But before you slip completely into panic and self-flagellation, you force yourself to take a shaky-but-deep breath and consider your options. It doesn’t take long at all, as you only really have two of them. You can just roll with the punches as best you can, accepting that Mitigation is going to be more difficult – not to mention at least marginally more dangerous – and less like to leave behind a Scarification Glyph that you could Reverse into working order on the Life-Loom. Or … you could drop everything, head back to the Midden and get this bird on the Life-Loom to Reverse your bungled attempt at breaking the Glyph. That would also be difficult, especially because the only thing you have to use as working material at the moment is whatever is left of the piglet and the sow … but in the end it would be easier than safely Mitigating and then Reversing a dead bird at some later date. Of course, it is not guaranteed that the bird is going to survive all the way back to the Midden, and if it dies, then you are going to have to deal with all of the Strangeness that is going to be pouring off of the corpse before you do anything else. Not to mention you were hoping to do a little more shopping today, which you simply would not have the time for if you went ahead with trying to save the bird.

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TrashQM ID:n9O5+Gqi Tue 02 Aug 2022 03:29:48 No.5359780 View View Report

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<span class="mu-i">Almost exactly sixteen years later, in quiet back alley on one of the Lower Terraces </span>

Your name is Chlotsuintha, and you just bungled the seemingly simple Glyph breaking you were attempting. It is understandable, of course – you are using just a regular knife, hunched over in an alley, on an uncooperative and ailing subject, a Hook Gull that is (relatively speaking) smothered in Scarification Glyphs. That is not to say that this failure is not frustrating. This bird is probably one of the flock of seabirds that you saw on the house across the street from the South Burying Ground – the same house that the Inquisition actually recovered magical equipment from. But more than that, there is also a chance that the Witch responsible for Scrivening this bird is your father, and that if you learn more about the Glyphs on the bird, you might be able to deduce what he was doing with the poor creature, and from there, if your luck runs white as driven snow, maybe you could glean some sort of clue as to where he has gone. The odds of that … to call them long would be an understatement, a criminal understatement, but if you don’t try, you risk his trail going cold. Forever.

Which is why you are so frustrated at the moment – practically to the point of tears. If you have fouled things up as badly as you think you did, you have just rendered the Scarification Glyphs more susceptible to being damaged or even destroyed by Mitigation. On top of that, even if the Mitigation goes perfectly, your mistake here is going to make your work Reversing the Scarification Glyph into an operational state harder. And it was not going to be easy in the first place. But before you slip completely into panic and self-flagellation, you force yourself to take a deep breath and consider your options. It doesn’t take long at all, as you only really have two of them. You can just roll with the punches as best you can, accepting that Mitigation is going to be more difficult – not to mention at least marginally more dangerous – and less like to leave behind a Scarification Glyph that you could Reverse into working order on the Life-Loom. Or … you could drop everything, head back to the Midden and get this bird on the Life-Loom to Reverse your bungled attempt at breaking the Glyph. That would also be difficult, especially because the only thing you have to use as working material at the moment is whatever is left of the piglet and the sow … but in the end it would be easier than safely Mitigating and then Reversing a dead bird at some later date. Of course, it is not guaranteed that the bird is going to survive all the way back to the Midden, and if it dies, then you are going to have to deal with all of the Strangeness that is going to be pouring off of the corpse before you do anything else. Not to mention you were hoping to do a little more shopping today, which you simply would not have the time for if you went ahead with trying to save the bird.

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