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naptime

waitingu waitingu

you can't wait

Oh so it was Chicago Man who killed Frustrated-kun.
That wasn't particularly explicit.

that was totally explicit
the man in the cloak killed frustrated-kun and then was revealed to be chicago

I mean it could have just been some random spear falling from the sky.
At no point was it clear if Chicago Man was responsible for it.

Javelin of Faith

>>158710
are you for real

I made that connection but I'm sharper than most people so that's not really a good point of reference.

Yes I am for real.

>>158716
Uh huh.
Sure.

Yes.
Sharper.

i feel like this is pretty obviously a connection between the two things

I kind of see it as ambiguous.
But I can get it.

>>158721
It's a dreamworld.
Like it would be an obvious connection in the material world; spears don't magically appear and fall from the sky for no reason there.
But in a dreamworld? There isn't the same grounding in faith.

Like I legitimately thought this was just a place where spears sometimes fall from the sky

Seems like I am the only person who really got it.
I guess that's to be expected though.

Shoganai na

>>158733
Because you're the only one disconnected enough from reality to see connections that aren't actually there?
Yeah seems about right.

What even is reality at this point

Whoo hoo investigating!
I like investigating.

>>158791
We can talk about reality 'till the cows come home.

>VV is thinking so hard about tommy guns that it's affecting her mental state

I had a feeling that would be the result.
But that's okay.
It's not the bullets that are important.

you have a new melee weapon

>>158809
for intimidation?

What's important is that I was right and the NPC was wrong.

That's so Rika

I need about 5 minutes real quick to get my laundry out of the dryer
gomen

VV was consumed by the darkness

Adachi Squarepants

maybe you guys should split up :⁾

No one else in the group ever has any strong feelings on where they want to go or what they want to do though.
So it ends up with everyone just going about in the same direction.

Pen and paper games work like horror movies.
You don't split up unless you absolutely have to.

There was one time PAN left the rest of the party alone for five minutes and they almost died.

i would actually cry if you split up because it would be so much more work for me

I dunno I've watch pen -watched and read pen and paper games where people have split up and went about fine.
But yeah I was kinda wondering about Kirara's sanity when he suggested that.

Not only does it cause problems for the game master, it's a good way to die since things are generally tuned for three of us to deal with and not one of us.
Which makes sense, one person isn't really equipped to deal with wizards and tentacle monsters and whatnot, you know?

yeah, someone probably would have died

>>158949
when you guys split up for a little bit a while back at the arapaho camp i thought i was gonna die

Yeah also when parties split up it's usually parties that are more than five or so people.
So y'know, more like making mini-parties than everyone going solo.

>>158953
I was wholly conscious that I was probably putting you in a more difficult situation~.
Kinda wanted to see how you'd handle it.

Either way, my general experience is that splitting up is very risky.
I am averse to risk so I am averse to splitting up.

What Felicity doesn't know is that that was a difficulty 7 roll

I can't roll a seven on a D6!

y-yeah that was the joke...

you can if you spend sense danger actually

I mean my total score will be seven or higher but that doesn't mean I can roll a seven.

fair enough

Fuck.

THIS is why I wanted a sneaky way in.

At least you know there isn't any danger.

Yeah
No danger

Well this is about what was expected.

That was also about what was expected.

Also what do.
Bluff, force, or ???

IF the doors are locked because of the secretary then we might need to chat up this weirdo even if we really don't want to

It was worth a shot, it was a magical gun after all.

>>159024
Yeah but what should the story be.
It's not like we've got an appointment.

I don't really want to talk to it.

Why don't we ask who we could have an appointment to meet with
That would give us information on who all is in city hall that's important
If a name we know happens to pop up, shazam shazoom.

But yeah >>159034

>>159034
The doors are locked, which --
Or well, "refused //failed to open"
So either they're locked and we need a key, or there's magic fuckery about. So we need to do something.
Presumably with it.

Your characters can probably tell that it's more likely to be magic than a lock

Is it more likely to be magic than a lock?

Let's just bash the doors and see what happens.

Be my guest

You're the one with the axe.

>>159042
Probably.

Is it probably magic and not a lock or probably likely that it's magic and not a lock.

The later.
latter too

Rika if you want to try and smash the door in and probably fail this is probably the best chance.

Even though for the record I don't think it's gonna end well.

I wanted to find one of my axe meme images but couldn't find it.

You axecidentally came un-prepared.

Oh gosh that was beautiful.

The roll, not my pun.
The pun is entirely intentionally terrible.

You could always sneak attack and cut her head off while she's distracted with Felicity if you really want to brute force it

I was thinking that was a possibility too.

I don't really understand, did the floor collapse? Did I fall?

No, you just hit the door so hard that you made the ground break a bit anime style

Yeah the wording there was a bit obfuscating.

Also all we have now is just an axeblade-wide--

Oh, like is the -was the door just immaterial for the axe?

No, the axe went through the door. Subsequently, the part of the axe that went into the door came out, through the ground.

>>159074
The door was pierced
And then the part that went through it came up, out of the ground
like portals

Is there something I can spend or roll to see if there's--

EGGCELLENT MY TIME HAS COME.
I have six points of Evidence Collection and they've been doing fuck all this whole time.

spending forensics or evidence collection might help

you can spend 1 point for small find or 3 points for big find

Rika did Victoria have either of those skills at all.

rika has no technical abilities at all but thomas has 4 evidence collection

I'm admittedly busy talking but I could look out of the corners of my eyes

If it was a library I'd be awesome at it.

Nah it's fine.
I'll spend the three here; we can have Thomas do the grunt work elsewhere.
Besides I've also got a lot of Conceal for Felicity and that might come in handy for the fact that we might need to grab something from under their eye.

i don't even know how he could have answered that question

Kirara I'm spending three Evidence Collection to look for, well, evidence.

You'll find a book that FEELS very important though it's too thick to read right now
the cover has a smiley face on it
it's in the office somewhere, you can pick it up whenever you want before you leave
(just decide where it is)

Will I need to CONCEAL it to get it out of there safely?

not unless thomas fails to distract the arcitect

Meanwhiel I accidentally close my browser.

the fuck is that

like the thing you pull the metal balls apart and have them knock each other around and the momentum is mostly preserved and it's supposed to be relaxing.

A Newton's cradle.

is that supposed to be for stress
it's a toy isn't it?

ToN shrugs and says that that's all he can remember about it.
Wait.

>>159172
Some people might find the way the balls bounce to be relaxing.
I think it's neat but not something that would keep my attention for an extended period of time.

i was worried tilde wouldn't get the book before rika made this guy too mad with logic errors

bullied him too much

The last time an important guy in a story ran into a logic error he just sort of become an empty husk, not the hulk.

I should have had Felicity step in after she got the book.

Architects totally destroy.
Reworking city districts definitely involves unmaking what was previously there some times.

He needed to be called out.
He is a usless person.
You don't deserve a fancy office if you do nothing!

!check revolver ammo

VV is going to stubborn bullets into existence?

maybe if you try while using a stability roll you'll have a chance

Stupid gun, I like having stability.

You've got a perfectly good axe on hand.

hot damn

She's literally crazy enough to make it work.

>when your gun is so stingy it won't even shoot without eating away at your sanity even though you created it

I think the bigger concern may have been a lack of ammo...

More importantly, I'm super sad now because I'm officially not the first wizard.

I created the gun without thinking about the need for ammo so it makes sense that it would just shoot.

Maybe if it was Victoria's dream.

Sure.

>>159273
She's asleep, isn't she?
Maybe.
She's maybe asleep, isn't she?

I'unno.

Well it makes sense to me that a magical gun created by someone who wasn't considering the need for bullets at the time she created it wouldn't need bullets.

>>159282
It's a dream though, isn't it?
Things work differently in dreams!

I'll give you a spoiler and say you're not asleep

>>159280
Is it a dream?
Can you be dreaming like this together if you're not even asleep?

You can travel through someone else's dream together.
Like the dream police.

What even is dreaming.

We're in the lobby now, right?

I think we're all standing at the door between the lobby and the architect's room.

Yeah but we're on the lobby side, right?

I guess Kirara would have the say there.
I said I opened the door but didn't say anything about walking through it.

I thought you were inside the office, near the door.

Also I've got a growing distracting headache right now so I'm sorry if I'm a bit diminutive.

Kirara I asked earlier but how many shots do I personally have left?

4 I believe

>>159319
Time for playtime is over now so you can get on your way and rest

That's good to know
I'll probably shoot that thing
LATER

>>159329
I was kind of hoping to get out of the city hall at least before the session ended, but such is life, I guess.
S'not like I can rest anyway since we've got two full days worth of anime to start watching tonight.

I was sleepy like 3 hours ago but I caught my second wind!

>>159331
if only VV hadn't needlessly freaked out the architect

There's nothing needless about it.

that will have serious consequences

Considering one of them was able to tell we shot up one, I wouldn't put it past all of them being up and antsy now.

We're going to have to fight literally all of them somehow

but Chicago will rain down heavenly spears and then scoop up Felicity in his arms

It wasn't foreseeable that he would freak out just because I pointed out that there's no need for an architect if everyone is the architect!

You totally had an opportunity to stop!

>>159341
he was getting very upset

>>159342
I was trying to help him rethink his career.
I didn't know he was going to hulk out.

He probably doesn't actually have a career, he's a weird being that popped into existence.

He only was there because you called him there
Everyone was the architect
so everyone became the Architect

He still shouldn't have hulked out!
I was just pointing a contradiction out to him!

Well it was a mistake on VV's part!

I had a pretty strong hunch that was going to happen once he started getting a little mad.
I should have had Felicity step in and pull the two of them away from him.
Even though Victoria would have probably kept needling him with questions the whole way out.

I think it was his mistake.
He shouldn't have said that it was everyone who was teh architect.

It's okay though, I know how I can fix it.

Do you really think you can fix it?

Anything can be fixed!

I wonder if Vernon's dead yet

Falsity.

Was he dying-
I guess he wasn't eating while comatose.

There wasn't much to do about that.

he was left unconscious in the house yeah

hmm
Who was he again?

Eddie Vernon, Sicily's godfather who's a worthless shitty artist only good for turning into a giant owl.

We need our shape shifting party member

>>159364
rika in charge of memory

He did a good job of surviving last time despite our attempts to negligently kill him.

>>159374
I remember him, I had just forgotten his name.

Well hopefully he'll be alive when you get back

More importantly, hopefully he's not a crazy murderous giant owl or some other kind of transformation when we get back.

It wasn't really foreseeable that we'd be drugged and dumped in some random dream.

Really?
Considering all the Native American culture we're immersed in throughout the campaign I'm surprised it took this long.

Why didn't you take care of him before we left, then?

VV is the one with caretaking skills.

That's true, but that was a carefully crafted statement to point out that Tilde didn't see this unforseeable event coming either.
We would have tended to him if it had been a foreseeable thing!

>>159387
Because I know it but Felicity doesn't.

You have to remember I'm exceedingly stubborn over not bleeding meta-knowledge and character action together.