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Integrity, how are we feeling? INTEGRITY: I don't know. What do you mean you don't know? I thought that was the whole point of you. INTEGRITY: It is, sort of. So how am I feeling? INTEGRITY: I'm your ability to assess how you feel. You don't know. That's why I'm asking you. INTEGRITY...

Wits, what's happening here? WITS: What? Oh, I don't know why you're asking me. I'm not the one who senses things, I'm the one that reacts to things. Alright, what you could you react to in here? WITS: I don't know, they haven't happened yet. I guess if that sorcerer tried to cast a spell on...

Presence, how are we doing socially? PRESENCE: I won't lie, it's not ideal. Everyone thinks you're weird. Isn't that accurate? PRESENCE: You want people to think you're cool, right? You just don't know how to cultivate a mystique. You should say less embarrassing things. SAGACITY: You mean...

Well, for two reasons. Firstly, while gods and other immortal beings are not perfect sources of information and will often give self-serving accounts, they will all know this story in broad strokes. Anyone who thinks to ask a god (or a demon) about world history will know this, so it's probably...

Sagacity, what should I know? SAGACITY: Well, first, you should know that in the Time Before, the gods rose up and made war on the makers of the world. Is that relevant? SAGACITY: No, not really, I just think we should always begin lore recaps this way. Alright, what else is going on...

Sure, feel free. I'm playing the limit pretty loose, I won't count it if it's not helpful.

Manipulation, what lies should we be keeping track of? MANIPULATION: Oh, loads. Alright. Maybe we can run through them? MANIPULATION: Are you specifically interested in the lies you are telling other people, rather than yourself? What do you think, Integrity? INTEGRITY: Definitely other...

You'll have to ask Presence. Yes, it was just a little more subtle in the previous drawing.

Thanks for waiting, it's been a tough few months. I could have continued but I wouldn't have been happy with it, so I opted to wait instead. Hopefully we can now proceed. In celebration of this new beginning, I redrew Vesper.

"Did you really name your scribes Such and Soforth?" Wait, who? AWARENESS: The scribes. What scribes? SAGACITY: The demon scribes. They are a species of demon called aalu. You lost me. Whose scribes are we talking about? PRESENCE: The Bane of Kadj. The guy you are talking to...

"I don't know what that's for." INTEGRITY: What did I just say? MANIPULATION: Wait, we can still salvage this. We just need to give him a convincingly knowing look. That way we can convince him we were just being coy. You do your best attempt at a knowing look. It's difficult, because you're...

While just clicking a random button does lead to my desired outcome of bad decisionmaking, I would also like people to read the story, maybe? Please read the update before voting, even if you really want to be first. You are on the honor system.

"Remove your mask." His eyes are hidden behind the gleaming metal, but you can tell he is giving you a long stare. Then he looks to the side, behind his workbench. He draws a long dagger. CRAFT: Single-edge, curved for slicing, silvered, impractically ornamented. Expensive. WITS: Very...

A few bullet points in no particular order. The Bane of Kadj is the legion's extremely antisocial sorcerer. He wears a lead-jade mask that hypnotizes people who ask him questions seemingly for no other reason than that questions annoy him. Absolutely nobody we have encountered so far has...

WITS: No, wait- "What did you want to talk to me about?" The mask gleams with its dull leaden radiance. You examine it closely. THE BANE OF KADJ: "Oh, a few things. First I wanted to have Such here examine your sword. Please give it to him." You do so. The small demon grasps the blade in his...