<In which ponies and dogs rise from the depthsTo catch up, the previous sessions are located here:https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28501521/GeneralArchive/RenneQuest/RenneArchive.html >
You try to grasp the dagger with your telekinesis, but you hear a snap and a sizzling noise. There is a flash, and the buzzing headache starts to get a little stronger.
You stand back, and ask for Saffron to set you down. You tell her you're going to try and force yourself into the spirit plane. You concentrate, and you can feel the sweat pouring down your face, stinging your eyes. You cough a few times before you catch your breath, though you remain winded. When you look up, the glow is almost blinding.
>>6134897Didn't we have some plan about turning it like a key?With a gif and shit?
Levitate the other dagger up to it for comparison
>>6135256I don't know if we ever reached a decision about that.But I think it's our only plan right now.
>>6135361You pull the dagger out of your bag and unwrap it, levitating it up next to the other. You can barely see due to the light, but it looks to be the same. You can hear a faint sizzling noise and see smoke coming from the other dagger.
>>6135745Detached dagger doesn't seem to like placed dagger.Look around the room, are there any murals or somesuch in the walls? Maybe something to give us a clue as to the daggers' true natures?
>>6135796i think it's that field that's burning itlet's... not stick our hooves in it
>>6135891But our hooves are cold and that would warm them up. Don't you want warm hooves? I want warm hooves.
>>6135919Aren't you cold? Renne?Touch the dagger. Renne.Aren't you cold?
>>6135970DP pls go
>>6135970NO I'M NOT!I'VE GOT A SCARF OOOOOOON!
>>6135796Looks similar to me, just that the door dagger is in a sheathe
>>6136057I kind of miss having a mysterious disembodied being giving us advice.Even if he turned out to be a cunt.You're a cunt, DP.
>>6135796>>6135919If there were any murals, they're gone now. The walls are covered, from floor to ceiling, with deep gouges and scratches. And come to think of it, you are a bit cold. You suppress a cough."Are you okay, Renne?"
>>6136203Nestle between Saffron's ample buttcheeks to regain body warmth.
So, use the dagger as a key? Y/N?Also, anyone else having trouble posting in the sub?
We should be talking somewhere else.>>6136203Drop out of the spirit realm.
>>6136397 how large is the thread over there? may need to make a new speculation general
>>6136397It may have been autolocked.
>>6136522So someone make a new thread and tell us when it has been made, but do not link it.
It's made.
>>6136596You realise DP can read the sub if he wants right?
>>6136203Put on a brave face for Saffron and tell her you're alright.
>>6136845DP can read this if he wants. After that LK confirmed, for the sake on this not getting pants-on-head retarded, that talking in the thread is 'safe'.You people are being silly.
>>6136897Forgot a comma. Also by 'after that' I mean 'after that whole fiasco with everyone freaking out and running to the sub to have a panic party, people being 'purposefully distracting' etc.
Guys.Guys, we need to choose a course of action.
>>6136866You assure Saffron that you are fine. Just... just a bit cold. You ask her what she thinks you should do."I really don't know, Renne. Can you see anything with the dagger... wherever you are right now?"
>>6137201Look around for any way out of this room.
>>6137201What is wrong with out face?Are we...peeling?
>>6137201holy shit we look horribleI don't think "fine" is a term we can use anymore
>>6137246You look towards where you came in. The field blocking the door that Baldwin put up is now gone, and you can see into the room beyond, but just barely at this distance.
>>6137201Goddamn, we need a vacation.>>6137636Have a looky then. Float a torch in first if we have one available.
>>6137636I really think that the dagger in the throne is too obvious to possibly be safe. Let's stick our head through the door and see what we can see.
>>6137669I agree. Perhaps Apploosa.You know. Miles away from any body of water larger than a rain puddle.
Please do not post in the new Renne thread. Not even to comment.
>>6137799why?
>>6137820Because it's to be archived properly, with original posts only.
>>6137888Oh, I thought it had something to do with the actual quest. Okay no problemAlso tumblr update>I can still give advice if you would like.>Unite the armor.
>>6137913Wait, is he trying to trick us into uniting the armour? Or double trick us into NOT uniting the armour?
>>6137937>I will take what I can get.>You… or the bitch would have been a prized possession, indeed.>Shame you did not force her to wear the rest.i think he's just being blunt nowhe probably wants it all
>>6137913Can I get a link to the tumblr?
>>6137984>>6137937Yeah, you know... Never really been comfortable taking DP's advice. Sure as fuck not interested in doing so now that he's asking us to cut bits off just so he can have a full set.That brick colored motherfucker can take a long walk off a very short pier.
My vote is for putting in the dagger and turning it like that one animated suggestion.
>>6137669>>6137680You take a short walk down the hallway and float the torch into the room. You can feel the temple shift under your hooves. It begins to tilt slowly towards the east, then levels out again and tilts to the west, each time accompanied by a giant rumbling and shaking sound. Tiny pebbles and dust fall from the walls and ceiling.From what you can tell, the room looks about as normal as can be for the interior of an enormous mobile temple.
>>6138386Let's head back to the original entrance.
>>6138386Are we still in the spirit realm? GO back to the normal realm if we are.
>>6138639we need to find out what the dagger is for
>>6138386>>6138639We have a clear puzzle to be solved, a solution suggested, and a time bomb ticking on our body. The time we spend avoiding this is just more time for the corruption to spread. Being cautious considering what we have been through is reasonable, but we have to progress one way or another. The rotating lock puzzle had to be solved to get into this temple in the first place, and this one is going to have to be solved sooner or later. I hope it's sooner because we don't have all the time in the world.>>6138659We spent a ton of our energy and probably hastened our corruption to GET here.
>>6138769Aren't we spending more energy maintaining this?
>>6138852Probably. All the more reason to put in the dagger while we can see what's going on.
Let's tie something to the dagger so we can easily yank it back out if something goes wrong and our magic fails.
>>6138918The lich was guarding the daggers.He was guarding this room.He was guarding this throne.If you really want to stick that dagger in, go for it.
>>6139039weren't we going to tell Saffron how to turn it?
You head back inside, next to Saffron. You tell her that you would like to try one more thing with the dagger. You have her follow you to the back of the throne again. Saffron eyes up the multitude of spikes coming from the throne, worriedly."Do you see something?"You cough a few times before telling her what you see. It's a glowing orb of magic surrounding the dagger, what you suspect was searing the other dagger when you held it close. There is a line from the orb to the small slot in the center of the throne, with a jagged design just before the slot.
>>6139096Well, DP-in-Chronicle's-body went through the roof of this room, and is now presumably in the spire room which is right next to the entrance. D'you wanna risk running into him on the way there?The only other thing I can think of would be to see if anything changed in the Mind, but that also sounds risky. This whole place is under DP's control now, I think.
>>6139509>This whole place is under DP's control now, I think.what if the whole place IS DP?
Man, I'm trying my damnedest to come up with a good, topical 'DP' joke, but I got nothin'.
>>6139631Consider that it look like it's moving under his control, that's not so doubtful.
>>6139415Insert the dagger slowly, I guess.Do we all agree on this?
>>6139762nohave Saffron do the daggerwe're wasting too much energy staying in spiritville
>>6139762
why dedpls come back to life
>>6140151Waiting for update. We pretty much know what we want to do.
You pull the dagger out, and slowly place it into the slot. You can feel Saffron's grip on your saddlebag tighten. There is no noise from the dagger sliding into the slot, but you can hear a sizzle of magic. The glow of the jagged line flares, and a ring lights up around the dagger. You find it hard to keep yourself from coughing, and you feel a chill creeping over you.
>>61404242spooky. Hold onto Saffron for dear life in hopes of staving off the awful feeling with the power of liking someone a lot
>>6140424>You find it hard to keep yourself from coughing, and you feel a chill creeping over you.We might as well get this over with. I stopped understanding what we were doing a month or two ago.
So we're going with this, yes? Only one way to find out if it'll work.We need to get out of this spirit realm, it's clearly bad for us.
>>6138049http://awujabvojnavwaowqau.tumblr.com/pass:tnxa
>>6140730I'm up for it. What's the worst that could happen?
>>6140424Can Saffron see it now? If so, drop out and do this from the normal world.
>>6140949I think we could see the hole even pre-spirit, and if it's just a matter of twisting it around, we shouldn't need to see the lines right now.Might as well kill the Night(mare) Vision unless we want to add to our wicked henna face tattoo.
>>6140984i think we need to stay here to see how to turn iti don't want to fuck it up
>>6141311I think this is a good idea. Just to see if there's any visual indication of whether or not we did it right.
>>6140730>>6140949>>6141341You ask Saffron if she can see anything, any glowing lines around the dagger. She shakes her head. You nod and turn towards the dagger. Grasping it with your telekinesis, you begin to turn the dagger to the left. A perfectly-cut stone disc turns with, and you can hear the sizzling of magic, watching the glowing line as it sparks and disappears as you turn the dagger.
A'ight cool.We can do pony minstrel shows after we don't have any normal face left, so it's not all bad.
>>6141498<>refresh>lose tripOkay.>
>>6141498Well that's clearly removed the first kink in the line, so proceed with>>6140730I guess.
>>6141498"Woah woah woah stopstopstopstopstop.Now the other way. Slow. "<etc, etc, till we work the kinks out>
>>6141560We're doing it ourselves with TK at the moment.
>>6141620well stop!have Saffron do iti want to not die by corruption any time soon
>>6141620Oh.Derp. Ignore me.
>>6141560>>6141657You ask Saffron for her help, and she excitedly grabs the dagger from you. Right, you tell her. Right some-stop stop! Okay now left. Slowly!After coaching her through, there is a loud sizzling noise and a pop with a bright spark, leaving you with blurry vision and a ringing in your ears. When it clears, you can see the orb of magic no longer there, as well as the glowing lines fading away to nothing.
>>6141939Once they HAVE faded away to nothing, extract dagger
>>6141939Alright! We did it!Now we can... get that other dagger, I guess?
>>6142038I bet it's stuck.
>>6142038one for Saffron, one for usdaggergirls
>>6142124Once we get out we'll have to hit the make-your-own-t-shirts shop next door to the scarf emporium and get a pair with that on it.
>>6142203>I survived the horrifying undersea temple of madness and all I got was permanent mental scarring and this stupid T-shirt
>>6141939Exit spirit realm first
>>6142288>turn shirt over>'... and wolverine healing powers but with crazy evil black shit. And a dagger.'>'DAGGERGIRLS'>[picture of Renne and Saffron back to back holding daggers making a winking kissy-face at the camera]
Was going through log 5 recently, and spotted something I didn't think we picked up on.From the first time we examined the fire door:>The etching on the center of the door looks like a pole with 4 pegs in it, or something similar.
>>6142417Sounds like those big fuck-off pillars with the spokes.
>>6142479I was thinking specifically that giant pole through the top four levels that we had to turn to open the door.
>>6142522Hm. Possibly.Well, keep it in mind as we press on. Dunno if it's useful at this point, but any info helps.
You release your grip on the spirit world, and the cold of the room comes rushing back to you with such speed that it leaves you out of breath. You wheeze a few times, but not you can breathe without feeling like you're going to hack out one of your lungs. You use your telekinesis on the daggers, each popping out with a tiny click. Saffron plucks the key-dagger out of the air, and you examine the guarded one more closely. Again, visually, you notice no difference. The dagger itself feels heavy, however, laden with a presence that swirls and churns inside of the dagger itself.
Fuck. Yes.Daggergirls. It's happening.Now let's go stab that wanna-be soda pop mascot.
>>6142657Any connections on the second dagger?Please don't tell me we dropped out of spiritmode at exactly the wrong time.
>>6142657Now what? Do we follow in Baldwin's hoofsteps?
>>6142738Something might happen if we touch it physically.
>>6142738You hold the dagger up and concentrate. There is something there, but it's so turbulent that you aren't sure you can hold onto it thoroughly like you have all the previous connections.
Jesus fuck. Add 'concealer' to the list of stuff to get on the post-adventure celebratory shopping trip that we will most definitely get to have because we aren't going to die horribly.
Annotated map, I'm late, I'm late
Clean map, for a very important date
>>6143397WELPDo we go back into the spirit world?
>>6144038I really don't know.How far away from the breaking point?
>>6144038it's going to be hard to hold ontoi don't think it's worth it
>>6144094That's the million-dollar question, isn't it?
I feel the dagger is really importantI don't know what to do ;_;
[LK, can I get a confirmation of whether that "It's safe to post in the thread now" from last week was just for after the quest end image was posted, or if it's "safe" during quest as well now?]
>>6144256<That was meant for that thread, at the time, since the session had ended. Do what you guys want, and whatever is easiest or least confusing for you. I understand not wanting to post in two different places, but I just rolled with the events like you guys did and that's how it ended up. Whichever works for you guys, this is your quest after all!>
Let's not try to connect with it. We're too tired to try it, and it really seems like we wouldn't manage to do it with this one anyway.Our priority now should be reaching wherever it is that DP escaped to. We should check the rest of the rooms in this floor at least to see if something changed when this place went full mech.And when we really don't find anything else to do, THEN we can start talking about happy times stabbing ourselves and becoming liches.
>>6143397>TurbulentBefore we stop, is there any pattern to the turbulence? A regular thudding or something?
>>6144370Thankyou.I've posted an idea I had up over in the first speculation thread, since it's working fine for me.
waitwhat is the temple even doing?is there any way we can see that?
>>6144667>get to where we can see>it's already destroying townsville
>>6144667All we know at the moment is that it's going for a walk.http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28501521/GeneralArchive/RenneQuest/htmlfiles/Log26/mlp_5753448.html>>6138386> It begins to tilt slowly towards the east, then levels out again and tilts to the west, each time accompanied by a giant rumbling and shaking sound.And by the sounds of it it's still walking around. If it ever stops tilting back and forth, then we start worrying.
>>6144699I wonder if that giant panel in the floor of the mind might be a viewscreen.
>>6144667You can still feel the temple moving, but there is no way to determine where it is going.The stone gigas moves west, slowly trudging along. It rises and falls beneath the surface, taking long strides along the ocean floor.
I've still got a feeling physical contact with the new dagger might trigger something, so let's wrap it if we're going to carry it.I wouldn't be surprised if something changed in the Mind, the place seems like it would be the central control chamber for this thing.
>>6145205>The stone gigas moves westLog 1:>You are on a cruise ship, headed east from EquestriaOk, so it's headed for Equestria rather than the Diamond Dog mainland. Good to know.
>>6145205I'm still confused about why it has four arms if it's a DD creation.>Four arms, two legs, two wings>>6144435Doesn't match up with the heartbeat we've been hearing from the temple or anything?
>>6145782That's eight limbs total, anon.
>>6145482Yeah, I'm certain there must be something fancy going on in there. Question'd be whether we want to check in on the spire room on the way up, since I *think* that'd be the room above this one, and DP went up into the ceiling with Chronicle's corpse.Also that picture is incredibly silly and I love it.>>6145797That was why I pointed it out. Still seems odd that they'd just slap on two extra limbs, even if it does make 8, but eh. Not like IRL religions haven't done it.
>>6145844>Chronicles corpseDamn, I really am writing him off as dead early, aren't I? I've got to stop doing that. There's still the tiniest smidgen of hope, since last time speech came from him it was as a plural.
>>6145782You listen closely to the dagger, or as closely as you possibly can. The feeling inside is wild and churning, but does not feel like it is connected to the temple itself. The temple is slow, steady, and constant like the tide. The dagger is a flame flickering about.
>>6145966>You listen closely to the dagger, or as closely as you possibly can.TELL ME YOUR SECRETS, DAGGER
>>6145966Poke one of the blackened parts of ourself with it.
>>6145966Well I can't think of anything else to be done with this right now. Wrap them seperately, taking note of which is which, and store.
>>6146085>poke selves>we are become lichno anonnot yet
>>6146123It's better than my other idea.Sensuously licking it.
>>6146148Maybe keep your ideas to yourself for now, then.
>>6145966Hold it next to the other dagger see if there's a reaction.
>>6146089>>6146323You hold the dagger up to Saffron, and she cautiously holds the inert one next to it. After a a few moments of waiting, she pulls it back, no reaction coming from either dagger. You tell her to keep the inert one on her, while you stow the active one. You wrap it in a bit of cloth before putting it in your bag."Daggergirls."You look up, confused. She has a smile on her face. She points to your bag, and then hers."We match!"For the first time in a long while, you sincerely smile as well.
Boop. Sorry for the cut now, but it's been slowing for a while. Thanks guys!>>6145482This is fucking adorable, thank you! I especially like the little wobbly stool part.
>>6146536D'aw. That really did make me smile.>>6146563Good night!
>>6146563Yo LK.Since mootles axed sound embedding, do you still plan on uploading atmosphere music on elsewhere?
>>6146536>get misty-eyed>look at Renne's corruption>get sad againfuck
>>6146684I'll either put it on Dropbox, or just link the youtube video as that's where I get 95% of my stuff. 4chanx and MootChanx have youtube embedding, right?
Bump
bump before bed
Bump for the morning
Bumping before I head off.
last bump
Your smile fades as you realize the temple is still moving, remembering where you are. Saffron drapes her arm around you and pats you on the back."Hey. Scarves, remember? We can do this."You aren't sure if she's just trying to cheer you up, or if she's serious, but it works.
>>6160539We've checked everything in this room right?Guess we should head out and see what else has changed.
LK have you ever said what color the daggers are? I want to color >>6145482
>>6160834<Kabloomers. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28501521/GeneralArchive/RenneQuest/htmlfiles/Log27/mlp_5778069.html#p5780989Also I just noticed now that Renne's tail is missing.>
>>6160539Oh hey, I made it back in time to catch the start! Well, close enough anyway.I think checking the previously-water-filled entrance chamber is actually a good idea. Let's head there if we're exploring.>>6160834Thanks for all your coloring work, dude! I really appreciate it.
>>6160539We're gonna get out of the temple, and LK is gonna start chapter 2
>>6161085I agree. I get the feeling It might still be water filled. That part of the temple is maybe still under the sea.No reason not to check.
>>6160656You take a quick glance around the room, but find nothing else of note since every wall of the room has been horribly defaced. You take the short hallway to the entrance of the fire door. Despite the raucous noise of the temple moving the room feels oddly quiet, almost dead. The air seems hollow, when there had been something there the entire time before. You float your torch out into the room to find the floor covered in dried blood and tiny rubble that is falling from the walls and ceiling.
Do you think we just sucked all the ghosts out of the place into those knives?
>>6161540The daggers were obviously structural supports
>>6161667i think the daggers are Baldwin
>>6161540Not sure about that. It would have made more sense if Baldwin was protecting it because it housed the ghost prisoners, but they were able to stage a riot and pour in from outside the room and defeat him so I don't think they were trapped by it before. My guess is that it has something to do with DP's "heart," as someone suggested on the sub. We felt a similar sensation to the dagger when we were near his body.Either that, or part of Baldwin is in there.
>>6161234So let's head to the entrance.Make sure to pause outside the room before the spire room to see if we can hear or feel anything happening in there.
>>6160899 Thanks>>6161085 You're welcome
>>6161985Oh gosh this is great, thank you.
>>6161197>>6161866You head west, intent on checking out the entrance to the temple to figure out just what is going on. As you peek into the room, you begin to feel uneasy. There is a presence below you, and it is frantic. You hear a rhythmic thudding coming from the stairwell leading down.
>>6162244Is it getting closer to us? If so, hide. If not, maybe we should check it out.
>>6162244What does Saffron hear or feel?
>>6162524This is a great question.
>>6162524>>6162948You cautiously ask Saffron if she can hear or feel anything."Feel? No, not like you. But I hear something..."She looks on, her face twisting with a bit of worry."It's like a golem, but... erratic... I can't really hear it well over all this other noise..."
>>6163348Best guess is the lava drained when the temple started moving, and that golem we dumped in there is now moving around. I think we should check it out first. It might be useful to us.Also I just realized Renne was missing a tail. Feels retarded, man.
>>6163348Let's cautiously check out the floor below.
>>6163348>"It's like a golem, but... erratic...Fantastic, a golem abomination.Proceed with caution.
I wonder if golems have feelings or memories.Because if it remembers us dunking it back in the lava that might stir up some negative emotions.
>>6163348Send the torch in and see if it disappears suddenly ;3Torchy;_;
>>6163506Fixed that little black mark on the hand.Taking bets on how many more times this picture will get posted.
>>6163832Fug. Thank you. I really need to learn to pay attention.
You go downstairs, but remain in the stairwell. You send the torch out into the room. The feeling and the thudding noise are both getting stronger. There is a presence behind this one, but you cannot reach it yet.
>>6164297What do you guys think? Should we continue down or try to see if we can see anything from an upper level of the large spire chamber?
>>6164297We should re-light and set those torches back up
>>6164413this
>>6164402I like the idea of going to the spire first.
>>6164464Me too. We're on the top floor of it now but we should be able to see if the lava has drained or if the golem corpse is still in there.
>>6164598bet that's what's clanking around down there.
>>6164413>>6164455>>6164402You cautiously take a step into the room and ignite the first torch on the floor for some light. You look across the way to the top floor of the spire, but you get a wrenching feeling in your gut as a loud thud echoes from the stairwell in the center of the room. Saffron pulls you back, holding the half of a sword up in front of her.https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21938484/_RQ/_audio/28/audio01%20-%20The%20Temple%20of%20Algolagnia%20-%20The%20Drums%20Of%20Death.mp3
A large stone hand comes swinging from the darkness of the stairwell and slams in front of you. It tenses, and pulls its body up against the steps. The splattering noise that occurs as the contents move around makes you wretch, but above it all a voice appears clearly in your ears. The stone hand frantically scrapes against the floor."CONDUIT RENOUNCE YOUR CONNECTION TO GOD. THE RIGHT IS MINE ALONE. MINE!"
>>6165221Yep, thought s-OH MY DEAR SWEET BIPPY THAT THING'S FULL OF GIBLETS
>>6165221OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCKRun?
>>6165221JesusHow fast is it?We should probably not be anywhere near that thing
>>6165036>>6165221What the shit is that?
>>6165221How horrifying.Back up. Back the fuck up.
When we run screaming in terror, dont forget the torch
>>6165221>"Do not think that I am through with you."jesus fucking christ
Well. I'm sufficiently horrified.
>>6165221>>6165382Wait so that thing's full of..Oh
>>6165382This is a thing. Although it is a golem corpse. Maybe Chance is possessing a golem now?
>>6165537The golem we first found had no head and golems are hollowit was also right next to where Chance diedI think he's... "piloting" the golem for lack of a better word
>>6165537But how'd his gubbinz get in there?Whatever. Questions an answers for another time. Right now we've in serious fucking trouble and need to get the fuck out of here.
>>6165591Should we run to the room where we found the first gauntlet? Maybe it can't chase us there.
>>6165658I don't see why he couldn't. besides, that's a dead end, isn't it?
>>6165735Right, the chain is gone.Then whargo?
You frantically scrabble backwards and up the stairs, Saffron trailing behind you. The last thing you see is the golem lifting itself out of the stairwell and trying to stand. You stop for a brief moment at the top of the stairs, listening. You can hear it trudge towards the stairwell, slamming into a wall along the way. You tell Saffron that you think that thing might be Chance. She stands at guard, ready for anything, but she's shaking."How many times?! What if... what if WE die? Will that happen to US?!"
>>6165930>Saffron and Renne die>fuse together into one all powerful super entity.Could be fun.Let's not find out.
>>6165930Let's go up.
>>6165930Where to go where to go>>6166001Might as well
How the hell did Chance get his... stuff... INTO the golem? Holy crap.
>>6166116Pure, seething hatred. That shit's like poltergeist steroids.
>>6166001>>6166042to the temple entrance?
>>6166188Hes running on pure anger juice now.
>>6166290Yes, the entrance. Let's see if we can peek outside.>>6166290
>>6166290Anywhere we can go that ISN'T a dead end/wedging ourselves between Chance and DP?...Guess not.
>>6165221>CONDUIT RENOUNCE YOUR CONNECTION TO GODGuysI think DP might be more than just a diamond dog prisoner made to be an example
>>6166290... Sure, why not. Maybe we can grab the temple's uvula and make it barf up chance for us.
>>6166344So hes also athiest?
>>6166344Or Chance might be gullible.
>>6137669Vacation? I know just the cruise.
>>6166535
>>6166001>>6166290You tell her that you need to go up. Right now. Up and away from Chance. You sprint up the stairwell and are immediately hit with a chorus of a thousand voices, all looming above your head. You shake them off and run through the room you found Gaston in, and through the next, running for the temple entrance.
Alright, let's stop and try to pick out any voices we may have heard before. Go into ghost-sight mode despite us being completely mentally exhausted and jebus, no, keep running, Chance may not be too swift, but it's still a serious threat and we don't have time to screw around with angry ghosts that don't have stone mecha suits to help them kill us.
>>6166829>Go into ghost-sight mode despite us being completely mentally exhaustedAre you sure that's a good idea?
>>6166917I guess sarcasm doesn't translate too well. I was hoping the sudden 180 mid-sentence would have gotten that across. My bad.
>>6166949Oh, I misinterpreted your post, ignore me, sorry.
You rush, the sound of Chance's clumsy frenzy thudding in the distance behind you. As you run through the temple entrance, you stop.
>>6167073we paper cutouts now
Daylight.At any other point in your life, you would be ecstatic to see it. You only give it a fleeting glance before turning to look back into the temple, listening for the thudding of the golem.
>>6167145Maybe we can kick him off the cliff somehow.
>>6167145Are we still strong enough to do boss level telekinesis?Just pitching him off the edge would solve everything pretty neatly.
>>6167179Just be ready to pass out afterwards.
>>6167145We can see the outside, but something tells me what's ahead of us is just a really high drop into the sea.And I'm not sure if jumping out is the best idea.
what do we do guysi'm worried
>>6167427Shame we don't have wings, huh?
>>6167483Too soon, man.
>>6167483FUCK
>>6167468i dont know;-;
Well there is the point that we've already failed as the conduit; Remember Chronicle? He's currently merged with the god somewhere else in the temple. Of course, if we can just send him tumbling out the entrance accompanied by sad trombones, all the better. This is really just a distraction and a chance for injury, we've taken two of these things when they were at full strength: I doubt meat puppet should be any stronger than they were, it's just likely to deal us some new damage before it gets taken out to wear us down further.
>>6167468I'm going with >>6167179We can use this hole into our advantage.First things first, though: we should look down to see if it really is a drop into the sea.
>>6167668But we're so worn out alreadySpirit-mode had us coughing the entire timeCould we team up with Saffron?
>>6167668We reeeeeally need to stop forcing Renne to do so much. Saffron or even better both of them can work together like >>6167727 said
>>6167668I'd rather not get too close to the edge myself, and it really should be, unless I'm missing something.>>6145205The entrance is the mouth here.
>>6167668Pretty sure it's still the ocean, but if it's a drop down onto solid land, even better. We'd be high enough up shatter that fancy new rock body of his. Either way he'd be out of our hair.
>>6167145stay by that railing and see if we're over water still or not before chance gets here
>>6167946Better test the structural integrity of the railing.Coax Saffron over into leaning seductively against it.
>>6168080And then fall seductively to her death. Brilliant.
Went back to log 3 to see if I could work out what was going on with the mouth/entrance a little better, and remembered we never did work out what the deal was with those eight pillars that were around the skull. Might have just been that they were just offscreen, but they weren't there when the temple got going, either. Perhaps they were holding it in place and something we did removed them at some point?
>>6168106Best plan we have had so far!
You ask Saffron for help, making sure that you're secure when you peek over the railing. Between the gaps in the stone teeth, you can see nothing but water in the distance. You start to feel a little nauseous as the horizon tilts back and forth as the gigas wades through the water. You tell Saffron that you have an idea, to throw Chance down to the water below, but that you'll need her help. You can feel her grip tighten on your saddlebag."Anything, Renne. Just let me know how I can help."
>>6168363Slap Saffron's butt to bolster her morale.
>>6168418I don't know why that cracked me up so hard
>>6168418Do it please but don't kill her.
So do we want to take the stairs down to the lower part first and fight him there, or try to send him down them/over the railing first in the hope he'll literally spill his guts/be incapacitated somehow for easy tossing?
>>6168418This ain't football practice, anon.
>>6168363So who is gonna be the bait?Us? I'm presuming we lure Chance and have Saffron hide behind the door and shove him.
>>6168515He...It's only got one arm, should be that hard to grab it and drag it over the edge.
>>6168515Us seems a good choice to me. Plus we can distract him with>>6167664
>Chance gets shredded to tiny strips>tiny strips go into a suit of armorhttp://www.halopedia.org/Mgalekgolohit him in the back!
>>6168546>LK is a known halofagDO IT
You tell Saffron that you will be the bait. That you will lure Chance forward, towards the mouth of the skull, to allow her to ambush him. You tell her that with both of you working at once, you should be able to toss him over the edge. She doesn't like what she's hearing, but she agrees.
>>6168959Ask her what her objection is.
>>6169092The objection is, of course, us being bait.But I guess it's the best plan we have.
>>6168515I was just thinking, and y'know, can he even see Saffron?He has no eyes to look with; We know that Renne pops up on every spirit's radar in the near vicinity so can probably tell where she is at the least, but we oftentimes can't even see Saffron when we go into spiritmode.
>>6169153Better safe than sorry.
>>6169153Well she threw him to the gears so he knows OF her, but who knows whether he can see her as he is now.
>>6169153i think us not seeing her was just us not using enough power to go into spirit modeit's cake most of the time but we are just there in spiritbeing conscious at the same time seems to kill us though
So uh, remember that theory about the four of blue referring to whole 'nother templeborg? Yeah.
>>6169462...Fuck.
>>6169462Oh boy, we are going to go wake up his BFF Cthulhu.
>>6169462fffffffuckOn the bright side, this other temple thing is making think of parallels to Renne and Saffron
>>6169092You ask, but she cuts you off."I don't want to lose you. I... Just, please be careful, Renne."There is a rumbling noise behind her, from the doorway, and you can hear Chance careening into a wall in his frantic scramble to reach you. You promise her that you will be safe, before running off down the steps.
>>6169695>the other temple is a giant pony.>they hug.
>>6169703Well... If this doesn't work out, at least we'll chip a few of this thing's teeth...
>>6169723>Temple 1 raises Temple 2>they highfive>up high>down low>around the back>pound it
>>6169703>Running off down the stepsDrat, I had been thinking I'd wait until we'd knocked him down there then seeing if I could coax DP into roaring>Image file contains embedded archivefgsfdsOh, by the way LK, did you know there's a workaround for 4chan sounds, for now at least?[Audio03]
>>6169821(You'll probably need this version of the script for it to work, though)http://anlks.co.uk/4chnsounds.user.js
>>6169821>>6169842<I saw, thankya. I just don't think it would be worth it, as it could be stopped at any time. Also I have no idea how it would function with archiving, so I think it's best if I just stick to links. I had my fun with it while it lasted!>
>>6169821Y'know, it suddenly occurs to me that a much more sensible approach to the whole "Hide from DP" thing would have been to just use spoilers when we don't want to be able to listen in. I mean, he won't have a cursor to mouseover with, right? And if the thread is somehow being converted to something more contextually fitting on his end, spoilers ought to wind up as something that requires more effort to hear, at the very least.
Saffron runs to hide just before Chance lumbers through the doorway. You stand at the bottom of the stairs in plain view, not that it matters much. He begins his slow walk towards you, and you can hear his voice once more."From me. It was stolen from ME. Betrayed, by my own god. Have I not proven myself?"The golem's body stops, blood seeping from the joints and dripping onto the floor. You shudder as Chance's voice fills your head."HAVE I NOT PROVEN MYSELF?"Silence, and then the temple rumbles. From the depths, you hear it again, Chronicle's voice along with... something else. It sounds like laughter.
>>6170260Tell him he was tricked.DP tricked us all.
>>6170304This. Tell him we were betrayed too.
>>6170260Christ, hes not talking to us, hes talking to Chronicle.
>>6170340what?how do you figure?
>>6170388I assume he means DP, in Chronicle's body.
>>6170416Yeah, hes that...that.
>>6170260Tell him that we were betrayed too. It took Chronicle from us and is using him as its host.
>>6170304>>6170323>>6170454You speak out loud to the shambling container of giblets. You tell him that you were betrayed as well. Everyone was. You tell him that the temple has taken Chronicle as well. Chance pauses for a moment, as if to think."You. You possess that which I seek, and yet you still know nothing."Another step, this time more hurried, less steady."You WILL give me what is mine."
>>6170858>GIVE ME YOUR DAMN LOOT
>>6170858Stick with the plan. Ask him how he can possibly use it now that he is what he is.
>>6170858Ask him what he seeks while backing up.
>>6170858any time i think we are getting answer i only end up with more questionswe don't have time to ask, he's going to start smashing soon if we don't
>>6170858Demand to know what it is he wants
>>6170858>>6171008>>6171019Yeah, ask what he wants. If he just repeats himself again give him THA BOOT
>Push him off.>Grabs Renne before he falls off the edge.>Just like in EVERY movie.
>>6171121>Saffron gets a one arm grip on Renne's hoof>Chance holding onto her back legs, roaring in anger
remember that we told Saffron we want to work togetherlet's make the first move, thenpull him down with our telekinesis or something and then have Saffron chuck his ass
>>6170858Does he have both his arms functional? In>>6165221and>>6170260He's only using his right arm, but he's clearly got a left one in>>6170858Plus the suit of armour that I think he's using (The one that'd fallen through the wall on the second floor from the bottom) still had both his.
>>6171151>Saffron gets a one arm grip on Renne's hoof>it's her left>pops off>BAD END
>>6171175Maybe he only got enough guts to fill one arm?
So are we attacking or distracting still?
>>6171306Little from column A, little from column B. Gotta make sure he's in just the right position before Saffron gets all handsy with him.
>>6171296I guess we can't call him Gutsman then.
>>6171389I've heard SB crack better jokes.
You back up slowly, trying to get him closer to the edge while still keeping him busy. You ask him what he wants."The bronze on your back, and the gem within it."His movements become jerky, and he lurches forward erratically. Glancing quickly, you would say you are about 20 feet from the edge."Remove them, or I will do so myself."
Who wants to bet his anwer was "Go get that armour and then we'll talk"
>>6171640Tell him he's a blind fool.
>>6171670Well, at least we know DP probably can't just straight up murder us out of the blue if he's having to use a bag of guts like that.
>>6171691See, now THERE'S a good joke.
>>6171691Tell him hes a blind fool and then have Saf kick his shit in.We'll get at least 30 points for an epic one-liner.
>>6171695Or alternatively"This bag of guts keeps bothering me. Might as well set it doing something useful. They'll get rid of him for me, and who knows, perhaps he'll even manage to do something useful before they get rid of him.">>6171737Let's dodge to his left/our right, away from the arm that we know is good.Then let's ready a TK grab on Saffron. She's plenty strong enough to do the doss for us, but there's always the chance he'll manage to grab her in the process.
>>6171783>dossToss
>inb4 Chance knew all along that Saffron was there all along and he rips her arms off before throwing her into the ocean
>>6171783Have the dagger at the read incase we need to chisel part of the golem off.
>>6171809>all along twiceDerp
>>6171809>"I want those too!">He 'sees' the gems are the artifacts.
>>6171809I don't know, that'd be sneaky. Right now, Chance strikes me as a little more headstrong.
You stare at the abomination, waiting just a few more paces. Your horn flares, readying a telekinesis spell on Saffron. Just before dodging towards Chance's left arm, you state, flatly, that he is nothing but a blind fool. You move quickly, and Saffron leaps into the air, jamming her sword down into his right shoulder joint with a spray of sparks and blood. His right arm goes limp, like his left. He shakes his shoulders, shrugging Saffron off behind him.
>>6172126Great.Now he can flail at us uselessly and spout one liners.
>>6172126And blood!Now let's get this overgrown crash-test dummy off our goddamn mech.
He turns around to face you, finding himself in the position that you were in just moments prior. He stands, wobbling, unable to keep his balance as well now that he is down two arms. His rumbling voice fills your head once more."Who are you to say when you, yourself, are more blind than I?"
>>6172370get rid of this fuckerpunch+TK combo, straight in the chest
>>6172370We going to take that from a literal meat-puppet?We may be blind,But our eyes are open.
>>6172370"Why don't you explain WHY you want these things instead of always threatening us?"
>>6172370Tell him to explain himself
>>6172480>>6172499>wanting to talk to him when he spouts gibberishLet's just kill the bastardAGAINAnd hopefully he stays dead this time
>>6172370>>6172590Think we should retrieve the sword at least or should we just say fuck it at this point? Also that bit of bone or whatever that's sticking out is kinda weirding me out..
>>6172474
>>6172657TK it out?
>>6172689Topple him by TKing it backwards, and let his weigh pull him off of it.
>>6172793If I recall correctly last time we jammed her sword into a golem, we had to break it off halfway to get it back.I don't think that'd work.
>>6172793>>6172830>It doesn't work>Renne just wasted precious energy she doesn't have
>>6172830>Saffron has to use a dagger.
<cutscene>
>>6172968wat
>>6172968Yeah!
>>6173121wait, whatno, don't catch him!
Fuck you Dr Pepper.
>>6173121Son of a BITCH!
>>6173151Most likely, yes.
>>6173166
>>6173182What? They're dogs.What do you want from me?
>>6173151>>6173166Heh.
>>6173166>>6173151>>6173197I don't think crude humor is going to fix this bone we have to pick here.
Boop. I'm tired.
...Well, then. That takes care of that? Go team Renne?
oh.oh...alright!
>>6173346>>6173365>Dr. Pepper is American.
>>6173409>backlink previews on>roll back and forth over those two linksMarvelous
DP wasn't satisfied with just letting Chance drop into the sea. I bet he wanted us to do that.>>6173409two frame .gif of >>6173346 and >>6173365 pls
>>6173409I knew that would happen in the middle of drawing it. Fuck it, we'll do it live.
>>6173398Yeah, go us! We only had a little help... From, uh, the giant destroyer golem being piloted by the immensely powerful evil demigod... That we released... That's trying to kill us and probably everyone else too...>>6173420Flip-o-rama!
>>6173447>Soup remembers Captain UnderpantsMyFuckinNigga.
>>6173447>Flip-o-rama!I loved those books.
>>6173409>>6173425And it was doneCouldn't think of a witty filename
>>61734899/11I clapped anyways.
>>6173489>DP casually did this, celebrating the heroes deed.>Very slowly, to let them know how sarcastic he was.>Every time he moves the hand back they look at the dot of red slowly widen a little.>After that its just the same massive slam and shudder.
Thanks, LK
