Mystery Box

Suggestions: Go... somewhere? Just figure it out en route.Show

Don't be stupid. We're going wherever we're headed. Run a little faster please, we've only got a few minutes to get to wherever we end up

Haul ass to Wallace's house, mostly by accident

>Escort Wallace home and also maybe beg to let him let us lay low for just until the alarms stop

Go to Big bill gaymoods haunt

Go to the grocery store.

Despite your Intermittant Dizziness, you manage to keep your footing as you hurry through the door, and down the Apartment Stairwell, all the while pulling Wallace behind.

[2x1] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]Look, I seriously can't go... wherever you're taking me right now? I need to go home.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]You already mentioned, Wallace. That's why I'm bringing you there.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]But I live there? And don't really need you to bring me there?[/box][/2x1]

[2x1] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Well, I'm also going to need a place to lie low for a while.

Your house sounds like a good place to do that.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]But you... you can't just invite yourself into someone's house? I don't even know your name!

Besides, you're a thief, you said so yourself! Why would I let a thief into my house?[/box][/2x1]

[2x1] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/flannery/box.png border=16]Because I'm escorting you home, obviously. Duh.

You'll owe me for the favor, and I'll lie low at your house as repayment. The Dumpster Merchant said that's how you do things around here.[/box][/2x1]

[2x1] [|] [box=https://solifuge.github.io/mysterybox/text/walter/box.png border=16]I... but...

...dumpster...

...what?[/box][/2x1]

With that, you step out the front of the Apartment Complex and back into the light of Late Afternoon. The PIGGS' Sirens pierce through the air, not far behind... but thankfully, nothing Police-Like seems to be on this side of the building. Wasting no time, you lead The Guy Who Actually Knows Where You're Going into the nearest alley, cut across to another road, and embark on a journey through the unfamiliar streets of Bigg City...

[box=#808080 width=full border=2]New Project: Journey Into the Unknown (Insight):
• Progress (Very Easy): 0/1
• Goal: Find... Walter's Home?

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When you travel toward an unexplored or unfamiliar destination, test your Insight to find your way, and gain Progress. When your Progress is full, you've arrived. More difficult-to-reach destinations require more Progress.

• Triumph (20 or more): You've reached your destination, without further trouble.
• Success (16 to 19): Gain 2 Progress, and encounter some danger or obstacle.
• Compromise (11 to 15): Gain 1 Progress, and encounter some danger or obstacle.
• Failure (10 or less): Encounter some danger or obstacle.

Spend 1 Progress to detour, and pick one of the following:
• Find your way back safely.
• Find supplies or information.
• Find aid or shelter.[/box]

You honestly don't know where you're going, or how exactly you expect to find your way to A House You've Never Seen Before, let alone while Magically Disoriented and in Unfamiliar Territory. Your Adventuring Companion offers no help either; he limply follows along, in the confused stupor of A Man Who Can't Even Anymore.

Perhaps he's stuck processing the recent turn his life has taken, in a state of Catatonic Silence?

Nevertheless, Flannery leads Walter homeward, guided by instinct and dumb luck...Show

1+9 (Fate) +3 (Insight) -1 (Dizzy) = 12 (Compromise)

[box=#808080 width=full border=2]Compromised Journey Into the Unknown

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• Gain 1 Progress, and encounter some danger or obstacle.
• Progress (Very Easy): 1/1
• Goal Reached: Find... Walter's Home?[/box]

After several minutes of hurried travel, you arrive at... well, it's certainly Somewhere?

Wherever it is, there's a sign out front, with a Very Fancy Lad on it. It looks rather like a Bodega or Grocery Store of some kind? You suppose it could also be William's Home, but homes don't typically have mascots and logos...

Out front, you notice three green gelatinous creatures. They radiate with Adorable Yet Violent Intent, though they don't seem to have noticed your presence. Your Semi-Catatonic Companion seems to have noticed them as well. His body adopts the stance of someone Preparing For a Fight, though he still has enough sense about him to look to you for confirmation.

Better act fast! What do you do?
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Character Info: FlanneryShow

[box=#808080 width=full border=2]Name: Ms. Flannery "Over-Easy" Bootz III

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Pawn Status:
• Grazes: 0/4
• Wounds: 0/6
• Disoriented (Dizzy -1): Bouts of lightheadedness come and go, affecting your focus and coordination.
• Experience: Lost your cool, and failed to swindle money out of Cam the Dumpster Merchant.
• Experience: Failed to magically copy a door to make a barricade, instead opening a hole where there wasn't one.

Class: Copycatburglar
• Skill: Lucky Break
• Grace +2
• Presence +1
• Insight +1

Relic: Orb of Faulty Replication
• Skill: Doppelmancy
• Insight +2
• Presence +1
• Logic +1[/box]

[box=#808080 width=full border=2]Inventory:

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Equipped:
• Blue-Collar Cloak (Evade +2): The stout denim shroud of the Working Class.
• Boots of Stomping (Jump +1, Stomp +1): These boots lend a boost, whether you're going up or coming down.
• Cat's Ear Hood (Listen +1, Charm +1): With this on your head, you hear more acutely, and look cute too.
• Replica Courier Bag (Container, Disguise +2): From your "Day Job" as a "Mail Courier". Opening a real Courier Bag is illegal, so law-abiding folk shouldn't snoop inside.
• Steel Scalemail (Armor +2): Flexible body armor made out of little metal plates.
• Steel Clawntlet (Hand-to-Hand, Climb +1, Lethal +1): A glove ending in retractable knife-sized claws.

In Replica Courier Bag:
• C-Rations (x8) (Edible?): A large tin of "Pretty Kitty Salmon and Rice Medley." Has... restorative properties?
• Cardboard Camo (Container, Restrictive, Disguise +2, Clumsy -2): A cardboard box with eye-shaped peepholes. Ideal for impersonating a container, though it makes some activities quite difficult.
• Extraneous Egress (<UNDEFINED>): A normal door.[/box]

[box=#808080 width=full border=2]Lucky Break (Grace):

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When you find yourself in a bind or out of options, you can always look to sheer dumb luck to see you through.

• Triumph (20 or more): You not only get out of the situation, but take something good with you, or leave behind something bad.
• Success (16-19): However improbable, something solves your problem for you, with no strings attached.
• Compromise (11-15): Fate gets you out of trouble, but you leave something good behind, or take something bad with you.
• Failure (10 or less): Luck just isn't with you right now, and your troubles take a turn for the worse.[/box]

[box=#808080 width=full border=2]Doppelmancy (Insight):

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You have the power to copy virtually anything. Trouble is, they're bad copies. Pick a nearby object or being, and say a rhyming Incantation to copy it. The copy generally looks and acts like the real thing. The copy lasts until it's damaged, for as long as you concentrate on it. Take -1 to all actions, for each existing copy.

• Triumph (20 or more): The copy is either indistinguishable from the original, or permanent and real despite 1 Minor Flaw.
• Success (16-19): It's a pretty good copy, but has 1 Major Flaw, or 2 Minor Flaws.
• Compromise (11-15): Your copy has some issues; namely 2 Major Flaws, or 3 Minor Flaws.
• Failure (10 or less): Something has gone wrong with your copy. Very, very wrong.

For each Flaw, the copy you create...
• ...isn't quite normal. It may be the wrong size, color, smell, weight, or have wildly different physical properties.
• ...isn't quite real. It may be insubstantial when touched, shimmer like a mirage, or vanish at inopportune times.
• ...isn't quite the same. Something about the way it works and behaves is worse, opposite, or just plain wrong.[/box]