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RE: Mystery Box - Myeth - 04-11-2019

Y'all are mean!! We can still talk to the lil blobbies. Having murderous intent doesn't mean they'll go through with it >:0

RE: Mystery Box - ☆ C.H.W.O.K.A ☆ - 04-11-2019

seconding myeth, there is absolutely no reason for violence here. we can't just go around ascribing violent intent to any animals we see in the city and even if they are that's a job for animal control not whatever, vigilante justice?

RE: Mystery Box - Kaynato - 04-11-2019

Pet the slimes!

RE: Mystery Box - Reecer6 - 04-11-2019

>Slimes know nothing but death. There is no reasoning with them.
>You GOTTA stomp these guys!

RE: Mystery Box - Thalia V1 - 04-11-2019

DO N O T STOMP THE CATBLOBS

RE: Mystery Box - Numbers - 04-11-2019

Don't stomp the slimes. Unless they try to [OSMOSIS]. Then kick them.

(04-11-2019, 05:53 AM)Ten11 Wrote: »Also out of curiosity what do you think would happen if you tried using Doppelmancy on the Orb of Faulty Replication itself?

An Orb of Real Rotten Replication would happen. That, or an Orb of Completely Craptastic Replication.

RE: Mystery Box - Smurfton - 04-11-2019

We have C-rations, these are fellow Cats. Give 3x C-rations to Cats.

RE: Mystery Box - Thalia V1 - 04-11-2019

(04-11-2019, 07:54 PM)Numbers Wrote: »
(04-11-2019, 05:53 AM)Ten11 Wrote: »Also out of curiosity what do you think would happen if you tried using Doppelmancy on the Orb of Faulty Replication itself?

An Orb of Real Rotten Replication would happen. That, or an Orb of Completely Craptastic Replication.

Or, if it were a really major flaw it could end up as the exact opposite of itself and become a Cube Of Okay Replication. At least, I think so.

Also don’t give our C-rations to the cats, we don’t know if they are friendly or hostile and also it may be hard to gain more.

RE: Mystery Box - FlanDab - 04-11-2019

>Diplomance them into submission.

RE: Mystery Box - Schazer - 04-11-2019

Doppelmance a Benny Battle Bud to draw their fire, then go in for a sneak attack:

Quote:Gaymoods, Queervibes
P.I.G.G.S nor mice will break my stride,
Up, down, side to side
Benny take a hit while I strike on the sly


RE: Mystery Box - Ubersketch - 04-11-2019

Create a friendly copy of the slimes. They are probably simple enough that you could create one.

It's Diplomousy Time at the Mystery Box - Sunspider - 04-18-2019

(04-11-2019, 02:58 AM)a52 Wrote: »knock wallace out with a quick strike to the back of the head, to shield his innocent brain from the horrible violence about to occur

[Image: consider.gif]

Attack Wallace? But why would you do that to your Adventuring Companion? Even if it's to spare his innocence, you're pretty sure knocking him out would not only damage His Noggin, but also damage Whatever Fledgeling Scraps of Trust he has in you. Which is something you already decided you'd avoid doing.

Sweet, naive pushover that he is, you can't imagine a situation where his innocent and ineffectual ways would be a reason You Actually Need to Hurt Walter.

Suggestions: Consider whether or not to bribe the creatures with food.Show

At first you thought they may be Fellow Felines, though on further inspection of their tails and ears, you wonder if maybe they're Some Manner of Mice? Identifying them is complicated by the fact that they also seem to be large blobs of Acrid-Smelling Green Jelly.

Whatever these Mousy Jelly Creatures are, you briefly consider Feeding Them some of your C-Rations. Maybe they're just out looking for food, and you could settle this Without a Fight? It's possible, but... well, you're also partial to your food. Even if this is the Price of Peace, you're too Internally Conflicted to part with them just yet.

[2x1][Image: mad.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Okay, this looks bad, but they haven't seen us... and that means we have surprise on our side.

I can take the Slimerat on the left. If you can handle the right one, then we'll have the numbers advantage. Sound good?[/box][/2x1]

As you hesitate, however, the Aforementioned Pushover seems to be taking his own initiative. Surprising! He whispers conspiratorially to you as he equips his Cold-Iron Crowbar, so as not to spoil a Potential Ambush.

Of course, you don't have any intention of doing that either.

Suggestions: Stop, don't fight them! Surely you can talk this out?Show

At first glance, these creatures might seem to steadily emanate Near-Palpable Waves of Blind Malice... but is it really fair to just assume they'd resort to violence? Let alone preempt that with Violence of Your Own? You think not. In fact, you're sure that Nobody Needs to Get Hurt here, and you're not afraid to say it.

[2x1][Image: hood.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Actually no. I'm not going to fight them.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: nervous_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]W-what? You're seriously not gonna help me fight these things?[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood_judge.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Of course not. Frankly, we both shouldn't be fighting them.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]I mean, we could just hide and wait for them to leave, but Slimerats are pretty weak Creeps. We could handle them if we work together.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Actually, I think we should handle this diplomatically. We can talk this out, without anyone getting hurt.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: frustrated.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Ha ha, very funny. Reasoning with Creeps. Right.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood_judge.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Come on, Walton. They're probably just as scared of us as we are of them.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]You're actually serious right now...[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]I've always been serious.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: vacant_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Look, I don't really know you, but I get the sense that the only thing "always serious" about you is the trouble you make.

If you really don't want to fight them, why don't we do the sensible thing and just run away, and...[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood_judge.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Nope. I already said we're gonna use diplomacy here, and come to an agreement.[/box][/2x1]

[Image: diplomacy.png]

[2x1][Image: away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]An agreement? I've barely talked with you, and you're already one of the most difficult people I've ever met. I don't know if you're even capable of agreeing with someone. And yet, you're apparently the diplomatic genius who's gonna make peace with the Creeps?[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood_smile.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Yeah! I like the sound of your plan. I'm sure we can work things out with these Slimerats or whatever.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: miffed_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Did you forget that monsters like these have been making huge parts of the city unsafe? That all you can do is either fight them off, or run away and hope someone else takes care of them? Or else?

I mean, I wish it wasn't like this too, but that's just what we have to do to get by. So...[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood_judge.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Sheesh. I hope you don't do that to every person you meet on the street, Wilbert.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: mad_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]But these aren't people! What part of them being Creeps do you not get?[/box][/2x1]

Wow, that's some Ugly Language right there. You obviously aren't making any headway in convincing this guy, so perhaps it'd be better to shift your energies elsewhere. Maybe it's time to start focusing on Making Peace With the Slimerats?

You try to figure out how best to engage them in diplomacy...Show

The Slimerat Trio must have heard you two Arguing About Agreeing, and decided to take the initiative and surprise attack you instead!

As you regain your footing, acidic ooze sizzles against your cloak, hood, and Steel Scalemail. Thankfully, your body itself was only Grazed Non-Seriously by the attack... but standing around and taking another hit like that would certainly deal you a Life-Threatening Wound.

[2x1][Image: nervous_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Woah, a-are you okay?[/box][/2x1]

What do you do?
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Character Info: FlanneryShow

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RE: Mystery Box - Numbers - 04-18-2019

"you twat"
Slam them over the head with the door.
If you Can't Really Do That, run up and give them a 'Literally, Cease to Exist' kick to the fave.

RE: Mystery Box - ☆ C.H.W.O.K.A ☆ - 04-18-2019

we can't just take back all we said about not fighting once we've been attacked

RE: Mystery Box - kilozombie - 04-18-2019

Hoist Wallace up on your back and begin kiting the blobs while diplomancing them. (That's diplomancy, not diplomacy, mind.) You don't want him attacking or getting attacked, so you'll be his locomotion.

RE: Mystery Box - Whimbrel - 04-18-2019

Puff up and hiss. Intimidate them away by looking bigger than you actually are!

RE: Mystery Box - Reyweld - 04-18-2019

>CLAW MURDER SLIMES CLAW MURDER SLIMES

RE: Mystery Box - Reecer6 - 04-18-2019

>are you ready to die for your cause

RE: Mystery Box - FlanDab - 04-18-2019

>How dare they?! Uncouth semisolid brutes! We must operate in a language they can understand. The language of VIOLENCE. PUNCH those impolite flans with fists of discussion!

RE: Mystery Box - Kaynato - 04-18-2019

Blink slowly. This is a universal whisker language.

RE: Mystery Box - ☆ C.H.W.O.K.A ☆ - 04-18-2019

combat is boring

RE: Mystery Box - Smurfton - 04-18-2019

You're a cat, you hunt rat.
Scratch them up.

RE: Mystery Box - Arcanuse - 04-18-2019

>Don't keep standing around, all staying in place does is make you an easy target.
>Crack open some catfood for the slimes. Or just, give them the whole can; since they seem acidic enough.

RE: Mystery Box - Myeth - 04-18-2019

Heyheyheyhey HEY!
Thats not nice at all! Give the ratties a very stern and disappointed gaze. That basically counts as psychological warfare, right?

Negotiations heat up, and sacrifices are made in the Mystery Box - Sunspider - 04-22-2019

(04-18-2019, 04:24 PM)Arcanuse Wrote: »>Don't keep standing around, all staying in place does is make you an easy target.

[2x1][Image: hood_squint.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Is that the best you can do?[/box][/2x1]

[Image: recoil.png]

Seeing you largely unphased by a direct hit, The Creep Trio seem to be hesitating for a moment. Your friend, however, looks Pretty Concerned about the attack. Keeping Your Wits About You so as not to let yourself be surprise-attacked again, you take a moment to offer Your Nervous Companion a reassuring look.

[2x1][Image: hood_smile.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]I'm fine. Don't worry about it.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: nervous_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Y-you sure? That looked like a pretty nasty hit...[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Just trust me. I've got armor and whatever. It didn't get me.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: concern_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Okay, but... d'you see what I mean? We can't reason with Creeps. They're not like people, or even animals... the only thing they want is to hurt us.

...so will you help me fight them, or do we run?[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]...[/box][/2x1]

Suggestions: Stick to your non-violent gunsShow

[2x1][Image: hood.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]We don't have much time to argue, but I won't take back everything I said just because they tried to hurt me. I still want to try not fighting them.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: doubt_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]I appreciate the stubborn optimism, but you're right. We don't have time to argue, including arguing with them. We need to act![/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood_frown.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]It's wrong to kill, if there's another way.

(It's also pretty boring. And cliché.)[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Hey, being dead is probably a lot more boring than this. And I'm not really a violent person, but... I'm not a fan of getting hurt either.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood_judge.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]So what, you wouldn't stand up for your principles, just because you might get hurt?[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: skeptical_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]What good are principles, if sticking to them gets you killed?

We can't just sit here and let these guys do this to us. We have to stand up for ourselves![/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Actually, you know what Woolsey? I totally agree.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Then we're fighting?[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]...sorta. Follow my lead.

But first, I wanna say... seeing how you let people treat you when your life's not being threatened, and you're just collecting cat food from rude apartment jerks or whatever? You should probably take your own advice on standing up for yourself, my guy.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: anxious_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Hey, that's... but that's different! I... but I'm... that's...[/box][/2x1]

Once again, your retort seems to have Stunned Your Ally a Bit. Hopefully this will finally buy you a chance to sell him on Your Plan, here...

[Image: threat.png]

...but as if sensing the moment's opportunity, The Remaining Slimerats find their courage and raise their Gelatinous Claws. They're angling for another surprise attack, but this time it isn't against you. They're targeting Your Friend!

(04-18-2019, 01:37 AM)kilozombie Wrote: »You don't want him attacking or getting attacked, so you'll be his locomotion.

[2x1][Image: hood_shock.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Walter, watch out![/box][/2x1]

Act of Grace: Pull Walter aside, to shield him from harmShow

The Acidic Ooze burns in your Leg Wound, but you grit your teeth and stand firm between the Approaching Creeps and Walter. In the moments that follow, you feel his arms tense under your grip, as he starts to realize the Danger He Was Just Spared From. His confidence seems pretty shaken, and you see his hold on the Cold Iron Crowbar loosen.

(04-18-2019, 01:59 AM)Reyweld Wrote: »>CLAW MURDER SLIMES CLAW MURDER SLIMES

[2x1][Image: hood_quizzical.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Anyway, believe me. At this point, I definitely would like to smash these things' gross slimy behinds with you...[/box][/2x1]

Suggestions: Don't actually give up on a non-violent solution just yet.Show

[2x1][Image: hood_judge.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]...but, even if I believe you, and these really are just malicious idiot monsters, killing 'em is still my Plan B.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: nervous_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Then w-we're finally running?[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood_miffed.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]There's more than one way to stand up for yourself. Just because I don't want to kill 'em doesn't mean I'm giving up the fight...[/box][/2x1]

Act of Presence: Intimidate, negotiate with, and generally Diplomance the Slimerat SquadShow

Even if these critter Don't Know Words, you're gonna do your best to help them understand how much better off they'll be for Not Fighting You. Such is the Language-Transcending Magic of Diplomancy. Which... is Actually Not Magic At All. Rather, it's a fun Word You Just Made Up, for negotiating with words, body language, bribery, or like... Whatever Works?

With your back safely to the wall of the Grocery Store That Might Be Walter's Home, your disposition Thoroughly Miffed by the searing pain in your leg, and your face already twisted into a bit of an Angry Grimace, you probably look pretty intimidating. You decide to lean into this. You square your shoulders, puff up to look bigger, and flash the lethal blades of your Steel Clawntlets for added effect.

[Image: intimidate.png]

[2x1][Image: hood_miffed.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Alright, listen up snotballs. I normally wouldn't have had any beef with you, except you roughed up my clothes a bit, and startled my friend here. Apparently you thought you were being smart when you tried to sneak attack us, but lemme just tell you how profoundly stupid that plan was.

I'm Flannery Bootz, and I've stomped things bigger and tougher and more made of metal than you without even thinking. I haven't even been in town for an hour, but I'm already in trouble with the cops for wrecking the place. And you might be proud of your pudgy claws, but mine are big and sharp enough to mince Jelly Babies like you into Fruit Leather.

Plus I'm good at rhymes, and magic as hell.[/box][/2x1]

The Slimerats don't reply, or show any definite sign they understand you... but for the moment they seem to at least be caught up in your monologue. Meanwhile, Your Quiet Friend is still kind of in shock, which probably Isn't Helping Your Credibility. You flash him a look that says "What are you doing? Stop looking like a scared little wallflower, and give 'em some menace!" He seems to get the gist of your Nonverbal Direction, and does his best to look tough beside you. Even though his His Jaw is Quivering A Bit.

[2x1][Image: hood_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]As for my friend Wesley here, you probaly already heard how ready he is to knock some heads in. He's got an enchanted heirloom crowbar or whatever that ripped a door clean off a wall, and straight-up Unexisted the entire room behind it. And that door was magic as hell too, so if magic is what's keeping you mousy amoebas together, I'd hate to see what happens when some Cold Iron un-magics you. Right Wesley?[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: mad.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Y-yeah.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood_judge.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]But hey, I don't see why we have to be enemies, and waste time and energy fighting. You already got two cheap shots on me, and a fat lot of good that did you. We're regular Merchants of Menace, but we're not without mercy either... so how about you stop trying to pick a fight you can't win? Heck, we'll even leave you with a little token of goodwill.

...won't we, Wesley?[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: miffed.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Yeah![/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: skeptical_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16](...wait, what token of goodwill?)[/box][/2x1]

[2x1][Image: hood_away.png] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16](Just take a C-Ration and throw it to 'em, alright?)[/box][/2x1]

You reach into your Courier Bag, and produce 1 of the 8 sealed C-Rations from your Inventory. Wesley takes it, pops the lid open, and looks to you for confirmation. It hurts, to think that some stupid Creeps would know the taste of this food before you... but sacrifices must be made. If such is The Price of Peace? So be it.

You give the go ahead, and Your Ally tosses the opened can near the Slimerats. It crunches into the pavement, bouncing and wobbling a short distance past the trio, and spilling globs of Savory Peach-Colored Fish Pudding as it goes.

[Image: can.png]

The Pangs of Jealousy sting your heart every bit as badly as your Wounded Lower Leg... but your cavalcade of Scary Cop, Other Cop antics, your Fearless Demeanor, or maybe just the sacrificial tin of "Pretty Kitty" Brand Salmon and Rice Medley seem to have stunned your Would-Be Enemies into a moment of Confused and Total Inaction. Whatever the reason, you've bought yourself a brief Opportunity to Finish This, Unopposed.

But how do you finish this? And what do you do after?
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Character Info: FlanneryShow