[Fortuna]: Luck depends on no one....right? (4/3)

>Crew: Give Latta a quick recap and consider the next course of action, probably need to go look for our ship.

>Save.

You save the game.

[Sorry guys, I believe we got a little caught up in trying to do everything perfectly.]

It is ok student. Wanting to delete one's mistakes is not a concept I am unfamiliar with, I just wish to make sure you do not go down harmful paths.

[You did talk about Fortuna, and I had a question. I had assumed that Fortuna did not have a lot of choice over what she did. What's her deal?]

You should avoid saying her name out loud so much, many believe she is all hearing. I mean she has to be, how else would she curse the billions of people who have attempted to go to fortuna and died trying?





She is highly imposing. She has control over what she does, but she always decides what happens with a roll. The few times I was able to see her she was......scary. It's not the way she looked, but the way she presented herself. There was an air of uncertainty about her. If you accidentally walked too close to her she would grab you. Sometimes she would do nothing, sometimes she would hand you a gift.




But one time, a minor god of the sea walked up to her. I don't know what she was thinking, I guess one of her friends told her Fortuna gives out free gifts, and Fortuna grabbed her and crushed her core in seconds. No emotion from Fortuna, she just did it. Everyone was so stunned. She just dropped the body like it was a piece of garbage. One of the gods tried to argue, but they promptly went silent the moment Fortuna turned her head in their direction.




I remember once Nike decided it would be funny to run up to Fortuna after I informed her of what she was and what not to do. Nike must have rolled a one, because I remember when Fortuna took the spear she had and lunged it at Nike, and she did something I've never seen her do before. She froze in terror! I couldn't let Nike die, so I went in the middle of it, took the spear and snapped it in half. I then proceeded to to the reasonable thing....




AND THEN SWUNG AROUND WITH THE BLUNT END OF THE WEAPON, AND SLAMMED NIKE IN THE FACE! HOW DARE SHE THINKS IT'S OK TO THROW ONE'S LIFE AWAY FOR A JOKE! She never approched Fortuna again after that. Fortuna, she is emotionless until the moment she does something. That's when you see a quick flash of happyness, anger, sadness, anything, and that's what's so scary about her co-player! You never know what she's thinking of.

[Why is Fortuna on that planet?]

The event known as the tragedy of Fortuna. Some say the tragedy never ended, and that the irresistible distress signal coming from her ship is all apart of it.




It has to be! She could have turned off that distress signal anytime she wanted to, and she clearly is making sure no one comes to help her. Is it possible she is angry? Maybe she just realized she could better play the god role she always wanted to when the "Nikes" come running up to her in the literally ship loads? It is a puzzle, some say she's actually in distress but only someone who is lucky enough to get to Fortuna could ever help her, but between you and me? It's the former.





Let us stop talking about her right now. Like I said, the more you talk about her, the more she notices you. It might be possible that uttering her name or thinking about her is how she finds out who shall have their fates personally rolled by her.

[Alright, lets talk about something else. Athena, you can have control of Spips, but only under a condition: we have to have an agreement that you are not to try to overpower us with regards to your suspicion over fortuna using Blu's crew as an adversary.

Our reasoning is that if Blu's crew is done away with, Fortuna will just summon a different end-game threat that's probably more in line with our previous crew's fortuna encounter, and it'd be easier to deal with a threat that's emotionally sympathetic to us and which we could still neutralize with a charisma check if it comes to a confrontation.]

Hmmmmmm deal! I'll take Spips, and I'll stop suggest we weaken the Blu crew before we get to Fortuna. I still believe we shouldn't kill them, but whittle them down so that when it is shown they are the boss their stats and health will be a nice cozy low, but! A team game is made of compromises and this is one of them. I suppose if you trust them, then I must trust your trust in them, as I'm sure you will have to trust me on certain things later on.




I say we allow the 10 minute I told you so rule though. If Blu's crew isn't the final boss, you get to tell me you told me so, if they are, I get to tell you I told you so. We can even make a bet on this if you want.

[Oh! Athena, we spoke about drawing one another a short while ago I think? Well, even if not, I ended up drawing you and Helios! consider it a gift for being wonderful patrons. I'll go ahead and put it in a box so that we can give it to you directly instead of randomly throwing a drawing at our crew.]

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What a good picture co-player, you got my good side! Look how great and imposing I look! Your art art is wonderful, you should think about doing such battle portraits as a profession. If only you were here, there are many generals I could direct your way. I still need to finish my picture.




Thank you for the picture student, it will look good on the fridge. You do seem to have a wide array of art styles.





If you think he's lying, he's not! He will not only do it, but put it in one of those tacky little frames and show it to others! Did you know he only owns a fridge to put pictures on it? What robot needs a fridge?

[Mind sharing a log of just what went down on your end while we were separated?]

That would take up a long time co-player, we have to get to our ship, to that party, and then off this planet! None of it was very important.




The quick version of it is that Athena took a lot of pictures of lamps, and then after dinner with malfunctioning robots Latta killed one of them.




THERE WAS AN UNUSUAL NUMBER OF LAMPS IN THE AREA, I HAD TO TAKE PICTURES! If something is unusual I have to take a picture of it. In this case it was lamps. Also that death was ACCIDENTAL! How was Latta suppose to know the self destruct button was on the palm of its hand? Who puts the SELF DESTRUCT BUTTON ON THE HAND ONE SHAKES HANDS WITH?