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Anderson Quest: Killing Vampires and Werewolves and Leprechauns (Hellsing/Bloodborne)

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[X] "Woman, I am a man of three things: God, virtue, and disobeying my masters when it suits me! And if I just let you sit here I'd be none of the three!"
-[X] "I don't know what you're trying to protect me from but I can tell you I can kill whatever it is."
--[X] "If you're going to tell me that whatever it is is 'beyond my understanding,' I met someone like that called Amygdala, and I killed him and used his body for spare parts."
---[X] "There was also that Ebrietas lass, but I didn't kill her. She's much nicer than the squid fuck I chopped up."
----[X] "Right, knew I forgot something! She's helping us get in and out of this crazy place. Like I said, a very nice...whatever she is."
 
LostDeviljho said:
Four years later, Tucker was faced with a State Alchemist exam, wherein if he failed to produce something suitably impressive he would have his State Alchemist license revoked and lose his cushy government funding.
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I still don't see how doing the same thing he did last time would pass the exam. Like, what does it accomplish, if that's enough to pass? Is it to make sure there are no State Alchemists with Alzheimers?


Evaunit02mark1 said:
All I know is they aren't getting there, and by extension we aren't getting there, unless she lets us, or we kill her.
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Well, we could also try moving all of the fish people to the waking world. It's not the safest place at the moment, but it's probably less dangerous than staying in the NIghtmare. At least there the asshole hunters don't respawn. Hmm. I wonder whether Rom would mind some company in the lake. It would depend on the people of totally-not-Innsmouth being sane-ish, but that one guy at the beginning was capable of speech, so they might just be fish people defending their home and the corpse of their god. Which would be pretty reasonable of them. Could be worth a try at some point.


Also, no matter what else we do here, we should do something about the patients. Some of them were mostly coherent, and Ebrietas might be able to help them. Or at least ease their suffering. Either way, nearly anywhere is a safer place for them to be than here in the Nightmare. We should mention it to Maria first though, so that she doesn't suddenly find half the people she feels super guilty about missing.
 
My best guess is that the Fishing Hamlet is basically an endless cyclical hell - its occupants are like ghosts, forced to live out the death of all they held dear over, and over, and over again. Forever.

They're always ringing the bells to warn their kin of the oncoming horde of Hunters, always weeping before their dead goddess and praying for salvation that will never come.
 
GardenerBriareus said:
My best guess is that the Fishing Hamlet is basically an endless cyclical hell - its occupants are like ghosts, forced to live out the death of all they held dear over, and over, and over again. Forever.

They're always ringing the bells to warn their kin of the oncoming horde of Hunters, always weeping before their dead goddess and praying for salvation that will never come.
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That's quite likely, yeah. Still worth bringing up Ebrietas to Maria and asking if she might be able to help with those "mistakes" she mentions. And if they truly are beyond help, then they at least deserve an end to their suffering.
 
Part of me thinks that the updates take so long because we are so derailing and dissecting plot of Bloodborne that the QM has to literally just take some time to think things through, how to make it make sense
 
[X] Continue talking:
-[X] Speaking of saving maidens, you might be able to help out some of the patients she mentioned. The one you met earlier seemed like a nice enough guy, if a bit topheavy.
--[X] Well, when you say "you" you mean a friend you'd met. And when you say "a friend you'd met" you mean a young Great One.
-[X] Besides, even if they can't be helped, wouldn't they be safer out of the Nightmare? At least there they wouldn't have to deal with any insane hunters...or at least, not as many of them.
--[X] It's not like they'd be the only people you're trying trying to cure of the eldritch gribblies either, so it's really no trouble.

Made my own vote because bragging about killing a Great One and looting it's corpse seems like a bad choice at the moment. I rather doubt it would go over well with Maria. Going with this for now, because those poor bastards in the research hall deserve better. Also, if we manage to do this, she might be willing to tell us about the fishing village and Kos, which seems to be what we're aiming for. Gotta get Ebrietas a friend her own age, after all.
 
Quick question why are you guys worrying about the fish people? They live in the most remote section of the Hunter's Nightmare and are protected by Maria, and the only way to reach her is with the elevator. I worry more about the patients than the fish. We should probably keep the nightmare open for now and try to bring help to them instead of trying to force all of them into the waking world.
 
I feel I should point out that the patients in the clocktower referrence Maria as a "Lady" and she is an estranged noble of Cainhurst. It MIGHT be speculation, but if I recall correctly Maria disagreed with Annalise's desire to bear a child of blood and the general Cainhurst blood-hunting method, so she led the first task force (led by Logarius) to Cainhurst and laid waste to it. Those that remain in the castle in yharnam are mostly ghosts, while those not killed or lucky enough to escape the yharnam inquisition were captured and used by the church as experimental patients, as shown in the tower labs.
It may be THAT that Maria felt so vile about that she cast away Rakuyo, rather than the death of the mother Kos. Kos's death and the fishmen village's fate is said to be the fault of the college of Byrgenwerth, not the hunters specifically. The curse the fishmen laid upon their tormentors was to the fiends that commited the atrocities (Byrgenwerth)
"and their children to...
and their children, forever, true."
Granted, Gehrman may well be one of the original college students involved in the atrocities and Maria may have been his apprentice at the time (her Rakuyo is at the bottom of the well in the fishmen village), but the fact is that the fishmen cursed Byrgenwerth first and foremost.
 
ChildishChimera said:
Quick question why are you guys worrying about the fish people? They live in the most remote section of the Hunter's Nightmare and are protected by Maria, and the only way to reach her is with the elevator. I worry more about the patients than the fish. We should probably keep the nightmare open for now and try to bring help to them instead of trying to force all of them into the waking world.
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My concern here is that the Nightmare is basically the Underworld from Exalted: those patients? They're dead. Between that, the decades of isolation, and the mental/spiritual damage from the Church's experimentation, all that's left is a pale shadow of the original person, to the point where they lack the mental coherence to really engage in any therapeutic efforts (even assuming Insight can be "treated").

Also, remember how Simon tried to put the flayed people in the Blood River out of their misery, and they just respawned? All the people we've taken out of the Nightmare were immigrants, so we don't actually know if "natives" like the patients can be safely pulled back into the living world.
 
[X] Continue talking:
-[X] Speaking of saving maidens, you might be able to help out some of the patients she mentioned. The one you met earlier seemed like a nice enough guy, if a bit topheavy.
--[X] Well, when you say "you" you mean a friend you'd met. And when you say "a friend you'd met" you mean a young Great One.
-[X] Besides, even if they can't be helped, wouldn't they be safer out of the Nightmare? At least there they wouldn't have to deal with any insane hunters...or at least, not as many of them.
--[X] It's not like they'd be the only people you're trying trying to cure of the eldritch gribblies either, so it's really no trouble.
 
It's a little late, but in response to the discussion about Shao Tucker and his chimera.


It's a terrible day for rain.
 
Garden Briareus raises a good point. The Patients in the Research Hall have long since died in the waking world; given that Maria has a slit throat, she may not have a material body to return to the Waking World with.

However, there is a way she can venture out from the Nightmare and aid Anderson in Righteous Smiting....

[X] "I'll tell Gehrman what ye said, lass. But yer question makes me wonder...what price did you pay to earn this Nightmare?"

[X] "If it's penance you're after here, that's all fine and dandy...but the Church never stopped experimenting after ye left. I saw their work first hand after purging their damned Choir....they were using children."

[X] "The School of Mensis is still huddled in their wee village resort, hiding behind their blasphemous Great Ones. I aim to burn them out, put an end to the use of Old Blood forever. If me and my posse are gonna pull that off without heartbreak..."

[X] Give Lady Maria your Small Resonant Bell, so you can use the Old Hunter Bell to Summon her for Jolly Cooperation Confederation.

[X] "...we could use your strength. It's a damn sight better penance than holing up in a mangy clocktower, no?"
 
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I sure hope the FMA derail is done and fucking dead now.

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Thagguy might be joking, but yeah I really don't think Maria even wants to be saved right now. Much better to just leave her an option to help if she actually wants to.

Bragging about killing Great ones would only get a raised eyebrow from her.

Making promises about undoing the patients' tranformations inside the Nightmare is overselling Ebrietas' abilities. She might be a Great One and a good girl, but her abilities are still far from their peak. Remember that she can't even reverse Vicar Amelia's tranformation right now.
 
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