Thread #60780

i have to wake up at 5am in the morning so no extended session tonight
gomen

also i want to mention that you guys can always ask if you can use a skill for something if you want to
especially your investigative skills
i feel like we've mostly been only using them when i offer, but you guys should feel welcome to explore using those if and when you want to
even if it seems like a long-shot, feel free to ask


another thing i want to mention is that i kind of rushed things last time so i could escape due to my headache
if tilde wants to retroactively position his hands so that he can escape the handcuffs later using a locksmith spend, i'll allow that

ic thread >>60805 →

redhead maids top tier
prove me wrong
you can't

Present.

make sure you read >>60782

I did.
It's just difficult to remember that a skill can be used for a situation unless prompted.

you don't necessarily have to remember
you can just be like "oh, that sounds like it'd be useful here"
if it doesn't work, i might give you an alternative option so you can do what you wanted

do you want to spend the point of lockpicking, tilde?

Would I be able to feign the cuffs still being locked to the public?

The cuffs would be locked, but you would have positioned your hands in such a way that you can force your way out of them due to the extra looseness of them.

hello rika you're on time tonight

>>60826
I see.
All right, I'll spend the point.

>>60845
If you want to, yeah.
You're in the back of a pickup truck right now that's headed somewhere mysterious!

So pretty much we can try and overwhelm Night-Seer at this point.

BUT THERE GOES THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE BECAUSE OF THOMAS.

don't worry, this is a truck from the 30s, it's pretty loud

Had Kirara punished me for banter I would have been really sad.

NIGHT-SEER TURNS TO THE TEAM
"THEY AWAKEN" HE SHRIEKS
HE PULLS OUT HIS TOMAHAWK AND BEGINS TO SCALP THEM ALIVE

BAD END

I will say that you definitely write taking inspiration from your daily life, Kirara.

yeah, last time i got tied up and thrown into the back of a truck, i almost got scalped

i'm assuming felicity has freed herself from the handcuffs?

Oh yeah I guess I would have had to have done that, eh.
Are the cuffs set in a way that it's possible to put them back on oneself.

oh yeah for sure
you just push the little clasp around, it goes 360 degrees
so you can just put them back around your hands loosely if you want

nice to see that everyone is so attentive tonight

Felicity told me to hush so I hushed

someone has yet to even react to their situation!

And their name is

i can't think of who it might be

I mean do we want to overpower Night-Seer?

>>60868
i'm here.
I'm tied up and waiting, though!

You did it

Night Seer sold us for CHEAP CHANGE AND BOOZE I BET

>>60877
vv never really struck me as the kind of person that would wake up in this kind of situation and calmly wait without reacting at all


you guys should probably >>60876 come up with a plan

Maybe the fear has set into her heart and she's actually panicking deep inside

>>60884
I dunno, what do you do when you wake up handcuffed in a pickup truck?
You can't really jump out because it would hurt.
I figure you just wait for someone else to do something because you're handcuffed.

I mean there's Night Seer and like 4 other jerks

i'm just saying it'd be nice if everyone did stuff

we're 20 minutes into the game and only two posts have been made with content

I doubt the other four are still in the truck.
A cab really only has room for three people, top.
I'd be surprised if there's even three in there.

>>60892
I'm really not sure what to do in this situation, though!
I'm sure VV is feeling the same level of confusion.
Tilde is the one not handcuffed, he should try to free us!

How heavy are the handcuffs, Kirara?

I don't have any relevant skills either, unless the handcuffs are made out of books.

Handcuffs are pretty light.

Thomas could try to explode everyone :⁾

You can't memeface anymore
Dammit Kiraar.
No what
Samurai
I blamed Kirara when it's Samurai's fault

Could I effectively club someone over the head with the butt of the pistol?

:)
It works fine for me
or maybe
:^)
nope it works for me

WHAT

>>60906
Yeah.
If you want to use handcuffs as a weapon, you can also put them around your wrists and use them to strangle someone.

This is a closed back ...whatever you call the back of a truck, right?
Like it's not open to the outside in any way.

It's a pickup truck so the top section is open.

It wouldn't be too hard to kick or push someone out.

Yup.

Could I spend Athletics to boost a roll to shove Night-Seer out of the truck?

It's a shame we have no idea why they're working together.
Considering their elder seemed to hate outsiders in general.

>>60919
Sure, but you might want to bolster with stealth, otherwise the weight shifting in the truck when you get up might alert him.
Technically, though, anyone can push him out, even handcuffed.

Okay.

I think the best people for Stealth are Vane and Felicity anyway.
What's the difficulty?

The last time thomas tried anything remotely athletic he rolled 2 1's in a row

My athletics are all gone thanks to the scuffle with that one guy.

I believe VV has 2 athletics left

Kirara what would I need to roll to avoid detection, four?

In my notes I have 2 fleeing left, but I'll certainly take the 2 athletics if you're offering.

These are all the spends I have recorded.
VV used -4 stability, -2 athletics, -4 Fleeing, -1 assess honesty,

-2 first aid, -3 shadowing
Felicity -2 preparedness, -1 bargain, -1 sense danger, -1

stability, -2 shadowing, -2 conceal, -1 Streetwise, -1 lockpicking
Thomas -7 stability, +1 cthulhu mythos, -2 preparedness

oh that formatted weirdly

>>60930
yeah, four

Okay, stealth roll.
#d6 (4) + 1

>>60934
you're actually missing quite a few things I've spent.

All right, can I shove him off with just that or should I roll for some-
Okeydokes.

yeah, that's enough
>>60937
what am i missing?

my current general things I have down that I've spent are
-4 Preparedness
-3 athletics
-2 explosions
-1 fleeing

alright i updated my list
arigato

i'm sure i miss stuff occasionally
i sort of just get a general list of it for reference

I'll gladly take all of those points back as payment for you missing them!

I had no idea that Felicity was a ginger

She's more of a dirty blonde.

Though come to think of it, he may have had the keys to the other handcuffs.
Hm.

OH FUCK REARVIEW MIRRORS I FORGOT THEY EXIST

>>60955
early cars didn't really have them and it's dark anyways hahaha

Just shoot the driver, everything will work out for the best.

Doubt.

Can the cuffs be forced Kirara or are the other two stuck locked up.

It's pretty hard to force them but luckily, Thomas has some chemicals in his bag that might be able to corrode through the chain connecting them.
Maybe he can help you find them with his chemistry skills.

Is there anything I can roll to get out of them?
I have small girl hands if that helps.

Unfortunately not but thomas' chems should get you free in a jiffy

Please take // ah, I misread.

you can spend 1 chemistry to describe the chemical to felicity so she can find it

You got it boss.

shoot the driver
everything will work out

haha why do you want to kill the driver so badly

If floop were here he'd kill the driver.

Do you want to be Floop?

Just jumping out of the truck as it is would probably be safer than shooting the driver.

That's true.

Besides, it's late at night in the middle of a swamp.
The truck probably isn't moving that fast.

You'll totally get injured if you jump out of a moving truck.

If you're worried about getting hurt, I'm sure you can get the driver to stop somehow.

You'll totally get injured if you kill the driver and they drive haphazardly and crash

Seduce the driver, it's the only way

>>60996
>>60996
>>60996

It's a beaten path, in the middle of a swamp, late at night, in a car from the 1930s.
It's not going to be moving very fast.

Yes if you wanted to be boring about it you could probably just threaten the driver and make him stop.

If you really want to kill the driver, you could do so after he stops, too.

Felicity doesn't want to kill the driver!

I'm sure VV can do it without Felicity's help if she really wants to.

Felicity holds all the cards and all the bullets!
I considered trying to stomp his head through the glass with my last two points of athletics though.

VV sure is getting crazy.

I still think trying to drop out of the truck is the safest way of escape.
It's not going to be moving fast.

VV what's your stability at because you're acting crazier than I am

And Thomas was already a mad scientist.

>>61013
It's probably smarter to take control of the truck though.
Being on foot in the swamp in the middle of the night isn't really a safe option.

Hoot hoot motherfuckers

Can't wait to get boned by a wendigo
That'll be swell

>>61015
Before he was just a chuuni, now he's actually starting to be insane.

>>61017
wendigos aren't in FLORIDA YOU DUMB

>>61021
Owl suggested it!

so where are you guys going to go once you get out of the truck

Could any of us even navigate back to the airboat.

>>61032
I'll be stealing this.

We should go back around and show those MEAN NATIVES what for

We're taking the truck.
Roaming around the swamp with killer owl things is not smart.

>>61034
ToN has astronomy at least.

Does the truck have one of those little openable windows on the back window?

Yeah, you can open it.

Go figure.
Guess Thomas and Vane have some nice accessories now.

COOL BRACELETs

What sort of first aid would this need.

Skull fixing tier

a hospital wwwwwwwww

Would we need to spend a point of First Aid to assess his condition?

nah even a layman could probably look at him and say he needs a hospital or he'll probably die

wow vv is evil

She caught the floop virus

It's not evil.
He tried to kidnap us!

Remember that one guy that tried to actually kill us
VV wouldn't have tried to kill them

idk one top /// time a fake cop showed her a gun and she threw hot coffee in his face

>>61106
Which one? Popper?
I liked him, it's a shame he died.

>The unconscious man looks like maybe he won't die after that 6.

>"Oh, this fellow is really dying.

She's tricking him.
To take the dude elsewhere

At least, that's how I'm seeing it.
Unless Rika is just missing information again

It's always hard to tell with her.

i think vv is just manipulating him haha

don't forget that the stikini was pissed about curtis and curtis is apparently at that camp

[x] grab curtis
[x] throw him at the stikini
???
profit

i'd like to see you try that

Granted that's probably the one whose organs were ruined.

Who was Curtis, again?

You guys don't know yet!

It sounds like he's working with Chansky in some way though.

That's correct.

Oh yeah, the bird screamed his name that one time.

And Curtis demanded that Night-Seer come along with you guys.

wow you colonists

She's a bit behind on the times.
There haven't been English colonists in the area since the 1700s.

The children of colonists are still colonists.

Doesn't that make everyone a colonist though?
Britain was colonized by the Anglo-Saxons, the Scandinavians, and the Romans, if that's the case.

Wow, is VV saying that these native americans might have an affinity for this casino?

VV wouldn't know that since she's not from around here.

You could always stop the truck when you can see the encampment and walk from there.

Yesh.
Yeah, even.

Those guys we didn't shoot will be a bit of a liability, though.
They'll alert the camp.

you could knock the one dude out before you go, or gag him or something

Do we have any serviceable handcuffs left?

The one pair we had is already on the conscious guy.

Can we get them off his hands and onto his legs?

I don't think so.

But you could break his legs if you wanted to.

[sleepiness intensifies]

i'm going to have to do all of tomorrow on 3 hours of sleep, you can handle another hour of gametime!

Do we have rope or anything?

We could just intimidate him.
If he runs off, Victoria relinquishes her promise of care for his friend.

>>61213
you could take a tire off of the truck and shove him into it

>>61212
if you say so boss

I guess we could tell him that he needs to take his buddy to the hospital and let him go in the truck.
but then we lose the truck
but we technically do the right thing.

Maybe you can steal another truck from the camp after that.

>>61220
Are you fine with doing the right thing?

VV has always done the right thing.
There's nothing wrong with extorting a little info while you do it.

the only way to remove those handcuffs from him is to destroy them so you can't keep them

Aw, okay.
I'll accept it, but it feels weird that I was able to get them off myself only once.
>>61233
Yeah but there's no reason to leave them on him.

He can drive with handcuffs, it's fine.

>>61231
You can remove handcuffs from yourself by positioning your hands in a certain way when they're put onto you. It makes them looser so you can force your hands out of them.
This guy didn't do that.

I see, all right.
Well I'll just retroactively change it so that they're off him and destroyed.

Fucking RIP.

No way, I totally stabilized his friend.

he lost a lot of blood
and then was thrown in the back of a truck
in the damp, bacteria-infested swamp

I placed him lightly into the back of the truck.
daijoubu

I'm sure he was thrown in gingerly!

What is it with you and red-heads tonight

>>61244
Hah hah.
Would it have been a different course of action if he'd been kept in the cab?

he was doomed from the beginning ;_;

oh fuck we ate the guards

Would we need to be sneaking if we were to enter the camp, Kirara?

Nah.

Are we assuming the other two are following me or are they off doing other things.

I got your bkac

Are there any signs of people at all in the camp?

No signs of guards, but I'd imagine there's people sleeping in the tents.

A fair assumption.

Aw sheet

fucking thomas

I will never not roll badly during cthulu.
I will always crit Olivia twice with my monsters.

You two and your FUCKING FOURS

Is it just his face that stepped out of the flames, or all of him?

haha it's all of him

basically

Aren't you glad he's okay, Rika?

you're so smug what are you doing being so smug

I had a feeling we'd be seeing him again.

The only thing burning in the room is Thomas' heart of passion

boss fight boss fight boss fight boss fight

none of us can fight

EXPLOSION!!!

Can you shoot ghosts

he's not a ghost!

But he's dead he has to be a ghost!

What are the rules on rolling for things like preparedness
can you keep doing it

Well even if he's not a ghost he's still pretty fine stepping out of the fire and throwing fireballs.

>>61407
i'll let you roll it once but if you fail you've got to wait a little bit

>1 preparedness point left
whew

Pft.

It's gotten to the point where I can't even be mad anymore really

Did I need to roll for shooting.

>>61418
Yeah.
>>61416
i'm going to take pity on you and let you spend two chemistry points to find that bomb anyway

That's extremely generous of you

Popper is anime now?!

worse

wow

Should I have rolled explosions for that at all? Because it seemed to go well.

probably but it's fine that's on me haha

I would have bolstered it with like 4 explosive points haha

>ton actually exploded something

And it wasn't you!

Oh just in case Kirara, thanks for the freebie, but >>61416 wasn't me trying to sound sad or upset, I was actually laughing pretty hard.

i just felt bad because you've been trying to blow something up for months

>months
holy shit you're right

Kawaisou

that seemed way less ridiculous in my head

Woah, the States have had an Indian vice president?

yeah! charles curtis was hoover's VP

You'll have to handle this boss fight Tilde I'm literally out of options.

(I'm pretty sure we aren't going to handle this fellow like we did Popper)

VP Curtis was a member of the Kaw tribe.
He was actually responsible for quite a bit of good legislation that helped secure rights for natives.

It's 1am now
I wish we could go farther but I have to wake up in 4 hours
So let's stop here and Curtis will answer next week

All right, take it easy.

Poor Popper, dead again.

Time for sleep.

If Popper didn't throw them at me I'd like to have learned his fireball skills

I never said Popper died this time.
Just that he can't be put back together.

Thanks for playing.
You guys got farther than I expected. I'm glad you got to see Curtis! I've been waiting for you guys to see him forever.

Thanks for letting me explode a guy

Had I botched the toss I have no idea what would've happened

Taking the truck was a good idea.

it sure was