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You approach the cluster of three men and a baby. You'd seen some of them in the fighting, and even if you think you would have been fine, one did come to help you out, and it would be gracious to thank him. "Hello," you say at a polite distance. "Do you mind if I join you?" "Not at all!" the...

"Teleport out of the way/phase insubstantial when something is about to wreck your shit" requires something that can assess the status of your shit, evaluate present circumstances, and conclude whether wrecking is imminent. This generally means "a thinking mind" which generally entails "daemons"...

1670099 Voting closed, writing has begun. You may have noticed that she had a similar kind of thought back in the first story post. Well, in fairness, there were several hours. Maria Francisca spent them sleeping, but other people might have had different priorities. Also, one of them is in...

I need to go work on my own damn quest, so I am going to try to ignore the thread as much as possible for the next few hours, but here is my understanding of the armor plans in play from the last two and a half months of discussion, along with some qualitative assessments of protection vs...

I don't think anyone's voting for the sake of Numbers Go Up or disregarding the narrative; it's just that people have very different desires for what they want the narrative to be and see Mathilde in different ways. Some people want Mathilde the adventurer, constantly going out to new places...

Sure. Searching "ithilmar" from Boney should get you more, but here is the main stuff. And then people started asking about runing and enchanting it but then we're solidly in speculation land.

Boney confirmed that Vlag has trophies from the War of the Ancients kicking around and we could cash in our Transcendent Boon for a suit of ithilmar. As one of the main partisans for the armor, here was my argument for it: I like the notion of getting the Best Thing Possible so we don't have...

Oh, huh, now that you point it out, you're totally correct. I seem to have left the necromancer out. What a silly oversight. ...he's not in the room, now that you think to look. Two voting options have been added: [] Call public attention to the fact that the black-clad man is missing. [] You...

After a moment of hesitation, you sprint outward, away from the Hellgate, to help establish a perimeter. The lesser demons might be individually weak, but there's a small army of them teeming in every direction, against fewer than twenty spirit mage defenders that you can see and sense -- at...

You can just... vote for both. *adds nickel to jar*

Vote for the farther-behind options, or Save the boon until we choose our next project, and hope there's a rally. And yet we keep on getting into straight-up fights. Picking our job after K8P and Truth vs Faith. Inexhaustible Flame means that the engine of the Gyrocarriage doesn't need fuel...

Thread consensus. Get a load of this guy. (It's a hotly contested vote, the third largest in the quest's history. Here is my post discussing the three frontrunners, and also you should look through the recent Apocrypha threadmarks.)

[X] Plan: Show us the Magic Approval: [X] Plan New Contact, New Huatl

The following has been added to the Rules Compendium threadmark: ----- Combat resolution in Hellgate Hotel, like in many quests, takes a middle path between pure mechanics and pure narrative fiat. More specifically: the capabilities of every combatant in the system are rendered as a set of...