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we are beginning a new part today!

several days have passed since you got back to the mansion

everyone's skills are restored

i will permit anyone who wants to to spend 1 point of credit rating for 2 points of stability

felicity has points of psychoanalysis that she can use if the need ever arises as well

how much credit rating do I have?
wait my sheet is literally right here
I have 3
I'll spend 1 of them.

haaaiii

Yes hello.

So can I spend 3 points for 6 stability?

you sure could moneybags

I will let you spend two points for four stability at the most.

Oh, I should have made 4 for 8 my initial offer in that case.
Anyway, I'll spend 2 for 4!

If I recall Psychoanalysis can only be spent for others, not oneself, right.

Two tomes skimmed.
Thomas will eventually become the greatest explosions of all time.

Also has Eddie regained consciousness in the days since returning.

Does he wake up at night and become an owlbear

>>77410
That's right.
>>77412
He has not!
>>77413
No!
>>77408
Roger!

Just to make sure I have everyone's current stability right now, can you tell me what you guys have listed for your current stability?

I had 2, so +2 is 4

alright got that one right

4 total now that I've spent to regain.

We're equally stable!

Uh, would you have kept how many decrements I've taken.

I only have one point listed for you, Tilde.

>>77420
Which is BULLSHIT because you read every book we find and talk to weird fish and I don't do any of those things.

Don't worry I have a whopping 2 cthulu mythos points.
You have none of those.

>>77422
Like one point lost?

Okay then I would have nine.
Started with nine-plus-one.

Oh haha yeah one point lost

Felicity seems pretty okay to me

Or well one-plus-nine.
Potato potahto.

Alright, good 2 go

>>77423
Thomas was more crazy to begin with so some of the weird shit that's happened has more of an impact on Vane than him.

Have four people really just left a cup of tea to sit for the better most of a week.

well sicily obviously wouldn't put it away

and vv obviously wouldn't

Thomas is busy refueling his bag of explosions.

speaking of which i'm gonna let you bring a few explosives this time so less preparedness shenanigans remind me before the team goes on another adventure

Ah, so my long lost dream comes to fruition.
I think I tried to suggest that once.

How many should I say I have at minimum before I'd need to preparedness for those extra pockets?

depends on what you want to bring
but i'm also going to let you bring 2 vials of chemicals that you don't need to decide on until you use them in exchange for a chemistry point before you leave

Ah yes, the wildcards.
Thomas would definitely do that so I will too.
I'll even go ahead and take it down.

He goes full nerd and gets a fanny pack he stuffs with the stuff he really needs.

also since we've lost two players since the start and i've been feeling kind of bad about it, i'll let you guys swap around 5 points in your skills
you can take points from anything you have and put them elsewhere

no adding to stability, health, or sanity, though

since this is kind of short notice i'll give you guys until next session to decide on changes but you can make them now if you want too

>>77443
The fanny packs are inside the pocket inside the bag

Just to clarify, that's "swap 5 points" from your current skillset?

yes
not adding new points

Yeah it really is kind of short notice.
I'll try and think it through for next week.

Yeah I was definitely making sure those weren't extra points.

>>77444
That's good, because I have to think about it.

haaaaiii
i didn't think about it until now
fish suggested it and i thought it was a very fair idea

and if you guys want to discuss it among yourselves to cover areas where you feel you're lacking in skills, that's fine too

although the skills should make sense for the characters obviously
so for example an autist like thomas can't learn flattery

time to shove 5 explosion points into magic wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

>>77455
wow rude

no magic either

yet

zoku zoku

I'll be sure to figure out something proper.

being a rich person, vv might have contacts that could get them to wyoming
being a journalist, felicity might, too

and there's also kinzo and battler as thomas mentioned

But she's a filthy englishwoman!

VV has money, that can get you anywhere.

her daddy's an ambassador or something too

Are the notes illegible because they're poorly written or because they're in a personalized code

because they're not important wwwwwwwww

That works for me!

>Master Hoover
Well that is kind of intimidating.

One hell of a vacuum

hoover is really intimidating

he legit has 100 points in geology

How horrifying

he will rock you

For what purpoise.

>>77500
see >>77499
He'll just magic up some ROCKS TO SMASH US WITH

>>77497
But he can only spend them one at a time?

Geology is an investigative ability, he can spend as many as I permit him to

GEOMANCY

freemasons*?

Are they not interchangeable? I could have sworn I'd seen them used to describe the same thing.

Not that I don't know that stonemasons are a pre-existing trade.

freemasons are just freemasons

trust me, my family is full of freemasons!
my stepgrandfather was a master freemason three times and my great grandfather was a freemason shriner!

Is Vane going to need particular convincing or investigation around the mansion first or is she going to fold as soon as there's a majority interest in going.

good question

you're inside so i can't even be like
>the wind blows

>>77512
It would be metagaming for me to tell you.

i can just utilize a drive to make you go if i have to

Even in inanity Tony can't roll for beans.

I managed to roll well last session at least!

>>77519
It's annoying when your players don't cooperate, isn't it?
I know how you feel.

I'm hoping that lack of cooperating is for in-character purposes.

That was kind of a passive-aggressive comment
are you mad at me or something?

>>77525
You read my tone wrong. I'm not mad.

Teasing aside, if we can't convince VV to do something we're kind of stuck.

I found his planner, what more do you want from me?

To consent to going to find him, preferably.

Unless youw ant to just roleplay hanging out at the mansion tonight.

I know I'm good at making stuff happen with my group but I wonder if Kirara's prepared for such a thing.

Of course she's going to tag along.

>>77530
Fruitcake.

>>77533
She stomped on Thomas' foot when he tried to get her attention!

She was just being tsundere.

Does that mean there's dere in Thomas' future?

>>77535
Wasn't that what you were going for, asking about therapy?

>>77539
Ah.

Wait I thought there was some insane private airstrip on Archibald's property.
One of those "well it's ridiculous but he's kind of ridiculous so whatever."

That is probably what "local" means

That's the local airstrip, yeah

As a reminder Kirara, I already spent that Chemistry for those wildcards.

haaaaiiii

Still need to know what // oh you're addressing it right now

let's say you can spend 2 explosives for 2 small explosives and a large explosive or four small explosives

What would a smoke screen one cost or count as?
Or should that be reserved for the wildcards?

smoke is small

It would probably make the most sense to have to make that decision now, lore-wise huh

That thought has actually been on my mind too for the past couple minutes.
Talking about the airplane made --and looking at the distance to Wyoming from the Northeastern States (where I roughly presume Archibald's mansion to be) made me wonder how exactly they got there without a plane.

archibald's mansion is in Massachusetts
so yeah

I bet Samuel just flew another plane.

Yeah the spare plane Archibald keeps in his garage.

He's got like seven

MA to WY is going to take a long time in a prop plane.

Yeah I was considering that too.
Did propeller planes even make regular trips like that back in the 1930s?

yeah, there were even some commercial airlines in the 30s

big multi-prop airplanes are a little faster. They can fly higher too.

Is jumping on a plane with a bag full of explosives really a good idea?
Maybe we should make ToN ride in a different plane.

Are you really going to test your luck on every inane roll now Tony.

Inane rolls are the best kind.

I'm going to regret spending that 6.

He's going to use up all his good rolls.

Oh fuck wait I forgot about Sicily.
;_;

don't worry, i didn't

I meant to swing by her before getting down to the plane but it slipped my mind at the right time.

>>77582
Oh that works then.

she's on the plane with you, don't worry!

What about her?

you guys did leave an unconscious guy all alone in a large mansion though

Granted it's a special kind of unconsciousness.
Unless we want to have him equipped as a permanent accessory on Thomas there's not much we can do about him.

surely he won't wake up and ruin the place and go on a rampage.

If he's still kicking he must not need food or water though.

What stat benefit does Eddie confer

Being that close to a madman surely would only help in your ability to delve into the Eldritch.

Eldritch
Eddie
Eddiritch

I lost a stability to him and he moved out of his place and can't pay me rent
so he's dead to me

You did ride him though, so he's got some use I guess.

>>77586
you can live a few days without food and water!

>>77593
This is true, but hopefully he'd have shown some form of, uh,
hunger? dehydration?

Does he even use the bathroom in this state?

Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answers to.

of course he uses the bathroom
or
well
goes to the bathroom

gross.

btw there's no airstrip in lander irl

All the more impressive for Kinzo's piloting skills.
He can fly anywhere, even places that don't exist!

There probably aren't eldritch indians or whatever in lander irl either.

Well, I wouldn't say that.
I met the head of the Shoshone business council there and he may have been eldritch.

I remember Kirara's adventures with a skinwalker from his trip back then too.

We're going to run into Curtis again and it's going to be horrible.

Oh wait fuck Skinwalkers.
Fuck.

skinwalkers are not that dangerous!
you only get cursed with terrible luck mostly

oh that sounds lovely
Good thing I don't have a clue what those are

you guys get such good exercise with this job

get swole

leg swole for running from things that want us dead

CARDIO WON'T MAKE YOU SWOLE REEEEE

It'll make you healthy
probably

you're gonna lose your gains man

I find it funny that they're just called Battler and Kinzo now.
They were unnamed before tonight.

haha yeah
but you called them that and i figured it's easier than just leaving them unnamed

if you play your cards right battler might join as an npc companion too

Thomas is ridiculously autistic.
Why this.

>>77636
>>77636
>>77636

>>77635
Will he be as busted as Charlotte

i don't know man what do you think battler will do if he sees magic

Deny it for four parts and then become a wizard

this is part 4 so

oh shit

Oh wow is Thomas gonna get shafted from being the party's first legitimate wizard.

time will tell

He hasn't denied magic even once, though.

Maybe he was busy with his own struggles while we were off chasing books and vagrants.

What percentage of the 1000 people are cowboys

probably like 40% of the men

>a library

Yeah, I think a small town in the turn of the twentieth century may not have much public infrastructure like that.

oh no

Every time I begin to think of a good way to flag someone down or start a conversation I can usually expect Thomas to do some terrifying attempt at breaking the ice.

Why wouldn't a small town have a library?

it's 1930 in a town of 1000 people in the least populous state in the union in one of the most dangerous parts of the state

>Most dangerous part of the State
Kirara please.

what

Are you telling me it's not -it's a coincidence we get sent to the most dangerous part of the State for this quest.

it's got cowboys and indians
how could it not be dangerous

That comes out a little awkward when you read it back but I guess that's fine since it's Thomas.

Spurs that jingle jangle jingle

Would Felicity happen to still have that paper signed by Dan Eagleman on hand.

sure

Convenience!

Crusty.
Such a word laden with lovely imagery.

Also what time of day is it.

around 4pm

this is probably my favorite part of the whole story
part 4 i mean
wyoming arc

it was originally going to be the first arc

Go figure you'd save the best for part four.

pauses and stops

I changed my mind about what I wanted to do gosh

I was honestly worried for a minute that we were actually dealing with cowboy vampires or something.
Which is why I changed my mind.

cowboy vampires

sounds really gay

I think I may have been a cowboy vampire in space with PAN once.

luckily it's not cowboy vampires

Remember Kirara if I'm ever doing something you feel needs a point spent I'd appreciate a reminder!
It's easy to forget stuff.

>>77781
sounds SUPER gay

>>77787
I mean Kirara did write it so

I don't think you were cowboys.

do you guys want to stop or extend at 1:00

I would like to sleep personally.

I'm fine with going on, but I bet the others will want to stop.

I'll feel bad if I'm the only one but it would probably be a good idea.

How you feelin' tilds

I was thinking of checking out the Bloody Mary contact before the session ended.
It'll probably run us a little bit over time though.

I can't imagine that would take a super long time, unless Kirara says otherwise.

it will probably take some time

Sounds like it would be like Thomas trying to talk to Sicily huh

you guys didn't even notice that sicily vanished

No I noticed.
But she's a grown woman she can do what she wants.

I mean, she just wandered off.
It's not my place to tell her what she can and can't do
Plus why would she even listen to Thomas

Besides this rough and ragged town is probably more comfortable for her than most of us.

>>77821
It's not the night yet! Vampires are only active at night! There's no way she'd get drained in the middle of the afternoon!

what if she gets drained

I don't see that happening.

She chose to board the plane herself so it can't be helped.

she was actually just sleeping there
she did some work on the plane using her mechanics stuff for battler and kinzo and then she took a nap there

I'm under the impression Tilde showed her to a room at some point but I guess that works.

Well yeah but she's under no obligation to sleep in it.

>>77820
Are you sure it's a vampire?

No I'm certain it's not.
If anything I think I have a vague recollection of what it might be.
As in I don't remember the name or most details but the symptoms of its victims are familiar in some long-forgotten memory of mine.

yeah this one isn't another obscure native legend

But yeah if it's gonna take some time to deal with Bloody Mary, then we should let Tony sleep.

It is a sort of nice, direct objective to kick off another session though.

at the pace you guys usually go it'd probably take a while

We've been a bit sleepy headed tonight.
It seems like it usually takes us awhile to heat up on a new mission, though.

I only woke up like twenty minutes before the session too, and I'm always at my slowest after waking up.

That's only natural.

>>77842
Wow you're like JAn

well i'm sure you guys will warm up by the time you meet singing bear

But yes, it's also hard to get rolling in a fresh situation like this.
We had similar struggles with the stuck in the back of a truck because there wasn't really a clear objective to work off of.
I think having something to do right at the start can help us gain momentum and slip easier into the game.

Is Bloody Mary a cutie

I am most certainly sleepy headed today since I had to wake up early and work.

you guys have a tendency to do the obvious objectives and stuff last so it's hard to plan for it sometimes haha

I wanted to look for documents!
They have no documents.
Filthy illiterates!

no books
no documents

Who needs documents when all you need is COLD, HARD STEEL.

>>77852
>>77852
>>77852

explosion

Also it's probably also pretty likely a decent amount of the population of Lander IS actually illiterate, isn't it.

Yeah.
It's an oil mining town basically.

What a terrifying prospect.

wow

Yeah, there's going to probably be some prospectors
Unless that was your joke
And I just made it again
I should sleep

They should at least keep some records!

>>77861
is she going to punch that microphone
x

>>77860
Oh it wasn't even an intentional joke, hah hah.
I'm just legitimately terrified of having to deal with an illiterate environment.

it's the wild west!
>>77863
just wait until you end up on the res

>>77864
dokkan

>>77863
You're terrified?
I have eight (8) library use!

Oh I don't mean that in game terms.
Personally, I think a n environment where no one can read would be terrifying.

holy shit why do you have so much library power
I have 4 points of it with 2 investment because I'm science man
>>77869
oh of course

she's a rich fuck that reads book and rides horses all day

Though lately it's become one that reads tomes and rides owlmen all day.

no tomes for her yet! haha

I'm willing to bet that VV will never read a tome.
She's seen what happens to Thomas, even if no one saw the tentacles.

>>77872
I can't afford to read tomes. I have been struggling to keep stability the whole game.

Don't worry, you'll read a tome eventually, I think.

Aw yeah it'll be great
I can just have Thomas sit down with VV and we'll have story time

if you survive

Thomas is the strongest when it comes to handling this kind of thing.

probably

we'll see!
the combat is going to get stepped up from here on out

you might even start losing sanity

I never truly had any to begin with
!

there's a minimum of two boss battles in part 4
a maximum of 4
i'm not going to go so easy on you!

We tend to be pretty good at cheesing the bosses though.

I have no fighting skills!

one of these bosses is pretty big
going to be hard to cheese

it's going to be really fun for me

>no books to read
>lots of enemies to have to fight

not lots of enemies
unless you make a bunch of enemies

there are ways to beat the bosses without fighting them too

Explosion!
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