Magical Girl Flesh Horror~!
- Thread starter TheMaskedReader
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JayTar
Idea briefcase
Good point. That said just being fast and sneaky doesn't seem like enough for our scout. Does it really need fast? We only have one location left for the streets. Maybe invisible and sneaky instead?
With only one biomass though we have to choose between thrifty and nutritionist. Hmm, maybe some keyword that encompasses what we want from both? We want to use our money the best we can, but need to optimize on multiple objectives, not just money.
[x] Plan: Multitasking and shopping with extra stealth.
-[x] Recycle Scavenger from Super-spy
-[x] Add Smart Shopper to Super-spy
-[x] Create an asset: Scout
--[x] Keywords: Invisible, Sneaky
-[x] Use Scout to explore the remaining parts of the street outside
-[x] Use Super-spy to go and buy food for Martin in the grocery store
-[x] Continue exploring with Tunneler.
Hows that? Less human nutrition knowledge, but we should be able to figure out the best intersection of "cheap" and "healthy" with our super shopping skills!
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[x] Plan: Multitasking and shopping with extra stealth.
Aside from the plan, I thought up an asset we can use for rat-friends, mainly for them to chow down on and gain smarts and power.
Asset: Mascot Maker
Keywords: Empowering, Edible, Refresh, Enticing, Uplift
Aside from the plan, I thought up an asset we can use for rat-friends, mainly for them to chow down on and gain smarts and power.
Asset: Mascot Maker
Keywords: Empowering, Edible, Refresh, Enticing, Uplift
thewhiteraven22
(Unverified Worm Fanatic)
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[x] Plan: Multitasking and shopping with extra stealth.
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[x] Plan: Multitasking and shopping with extra stealth.
Can work, changing vote.
[x] Plan: Multitasking and shopping with extra stealth.
You know, it's funny that this quest as a stable and calm voting environment like that, we propose plans and iterate on them and all agree by the end. Quite pleasant, hope it at least stay close to this for a long time.
Hmmm, let's see, the asset work, but I'd prefer a rat speaker first, discuss with them to make sure we can gain their loyalty you know.
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Iris-Iven-Ibis
Interested-Idiot-Immortal
- Location
- You know
[x] Plan: Multitasking and shopping with extra stealth.
[x] Plan: Multitasking and shopping with extra stealth.
This guy gets it.
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Understandable keyword is a go? (though i'm not sure what keyword would allow us to understand them)
Vote closed
- Location
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Pronouns
- She/Her
thewhiteraven22
(Unverified Worm Fanatic)
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Oooh, good idea! I wonder about the differences between one asset with it VS putting it on our core?
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Hive Mind, Split, and Relay on an Asset while having Broadcast on our core could enable a wider range of communication if we end up hitting a limit.
Edit: Gotta admit, a good amount of my enjoyment of this quest comes from Scarlet, but just as much comes from coming up with interesting Keyword combos.
Edit: Gotta admit, a good amount of my enjoyment of this quest comes from Scarlet, but just as much comes from coming up with interesting Keyword combos.
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JayTar
Idea briefcase
Eh, I would rather upgrade our core then use relays. Relays are a vulnerability and an extra complication.
Long Range would be the simplest, or we could try something like Ansible if we want to get creative.
Maybe relays could be helpful if we find something that blocks our communications? Of if we need to make a long chain of them for really long range action.
Long Range would be the simplest, or we could try something like Ansible if we want to get creative.
Maybe relays could be helpful if we find something that blocks our communications? Of if we need to make a long chain of them for really long range action.
Not entirely sure we won't need relays at some points though, I would not be surprised if only upgrading our core would quickly lead to diminishing returns and us being forced to use way too much biomass to continue doing it by too little increments. At this point, it's far from impossible than one relay would be able to project our entire range again, meaning that it would be more interesting to use them.
We'll have to test, for them moment we don't even know our range, it's too soon to really discuss this with so little data.
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- They/Them
I was rereading and had a thought, should we warn Martin about the poster since it's main goal seems to just be making things worse for the things around it? From what I can tell the effect shouldn't get a hold on him immediately but it might exacerbate his sleeplessness.
Definitely should keep an eye on it and think on how to approach the subject.
As such we should make a new asset, name it *an eye*, and keep it on poster watching duty!
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Make sure it's got the Recording eye! You never know what sneaky things a poster can do while we're not looking!As such we should make a new asset, name it *an eye*, and keep it on poster watching duty!
In fact, let's make it out of nothing but the recording eye! That way we won't use precious biomass on it!
Act One - Part Six: Need A Hand?
- Location
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Pronouns
- She/Her
With the day over, you take some time to think. You need to help Martin. You know that. So, you wipe away the extra mouths you put on Super Spy for work, and you think really hard about what you can do. As you do, you roll up a little ball of flesh out of yourself and start playing with it. You idly pick at its skin and peel it open, layer by layer. You're not even paying attention to it, just doing it idly, even as you peel and peel away at yourself.
So, you need to get him food and clothes and stuff. You'll go to Jeremy's General Groceries - Hopefully not the same Jeremy! Is Jeremy a popular name? You don't know. If it is, you'll laugh and leave the store immediately. So, you're going to be…thrifty! You're going to be a smart shopper and stay within your means, even if it itches at you that food isn't free - That Martin, who clearly isn't in a good state of mind, is having to scrounge on the street because of that fact. But you don't blame this theoretical Jeremy for that - Even if it is that Jeremy. Jeremy didn't personally issue the credits you're using, and Jeremy certainly didn't create the sort of evil you've been seeing and hearing about. You can't come to a judgment quite yet on whether money is evil - After all, someone you're fairly sure isn't evil has given you some.
You pause. You have been peeling at the flesh for quite some time, shaping it into all sorts of things and then peeling those away too, and yet you are still there. You cannot see the you that is there, but not in the way that the unknowable you was unseeable. It is simply…vanished. You tilt an eye-stalk in its direction, and you walk across yourself, and while you can feel and hear it, you simply cannot see it! Huh, you must've peeled away its visibility while you weren't thinking about it! Well, no sense in wasting it - It'll go exploring while Super Spy heads to the grocery store.
As you start to walk outside, you keep digging underground, moving carefully around the den of rats. You don't want to disturb them! Then, you find…something interesting. Deep beneath the foundations of the buildings, a row of uneven gaps and different mass detected on your radar, surrounded by organic matter. Wood. You peek into one, viewing it - It is wood! Long-rotted, though. You see what's inside of it. Bones, with barely a scrap of flesh left on them. You think this place has been here for a long time. You worm your way through and around, examining the bones and wood. You can't really tell what's intentional placement and what's the result of spending who-knows-how-long underground. If only bones could talk! You bet they'd have a lot to say. (You've discovered the Forgotten Cemetery!)
You keep digging around in it, even as you arrive at the general grocery. You steel yourself, looking up at the deceptively unintimidating storefront, before bravely opening the door. You wince as a slight jingle rings through the air, courtesy of an attached bell. The store is dominated by a countertop, behind which and on top of seems to sit the largest amount of food you've ever seen. You can smell it through the cans and see it glistening behind windows. It is tempting. So, so tempting. You hastily shut off many of Super Spy's more…visceral senses before you can be drawn too deeply into contemplation of the cornucopia that lies in front of you, especially as the attention of the being manning the store is drawn to you. Well, you say being, but it might be more appropriate to say part of a being. This is because there appear to be about twenty hands swarming about the store like spiders, all of which appear to be detached from any sort of body. You pause, trying to identify which one to pay attention to, and hear a sharp tapping from the counter. Your attention drawn by this, you see one hand tapping on a sign.
"THE HANDS ARE NOT LIVING EMPLOYEES - PLEASE STATE DESIRED ITEMS CLEARLY AND LOUDLY, OR ELSE THEY WILL NOT REGISTER THEM. IF YOU REQUIRE A HUMAN AFFILIATE, PLEASE STATE SO."
Wow. This is really clever! You should definitely do something like this…but, wait, isn't this what you do? How does this not provoke the response that Sabrina warned you about? You look at the hands more closely. No…No, this isn't like anything you do. It's not evil or anything, but…You think the best way to describe it is that they're…mechanical, rather than biological. They don't move like living things do. You described them as spiders initially, but they don't move like spiders - They crawl and lift and haul in ways that make them almost more ant-like, in your opinion. There's a central controller, somewhere - And not in the way you are, where it's actively transmitting impulses and thoughts and feelings, but more like a library of commands and definitions that they then enact in pre-determined ways. Is this a necro-mechanism, like you saw in the paper? It's…strange! Huh. Well, you start ordering food, determining nutritional value and creating cost-benefit analyses more passively, taking your time to think about it…even as you slide and drift through the street, invisible and unnoticed.
You have, after over a week, finished exploring the street. You know it, and its back alleys, the tiny courtyard that hosts Laurel's and local bakeries, the general store at its core. As your invisible self slithers through the world, you feel possibilities flowering in front of you. The District opens itself to you, a native-born child, the sun shining down on you in glorious acknowledgment. (You have found the End of the Street! New locations unlocked!)
To the north, you hear a great clanging of bells - A beacon, a signal, and a call all in one. You can hear its echo, now, coursing through your veins even at your home - Choruses of voices raise themselves and yells emanate with great fervor - A hymn of belief. (You have found Faith's Home!)
To the west, you hear the clatter of hooves and the roar of engines, a glorious cacophony of steel and flesh intermingling, even as bags rustle and hawkers call out their wares. It is, in its own way, a symphony of commerce and trade. (You have found the Back Alley Market!)
To the east, you hear footsteps and clatter, the whistling and clanking of machinery as it churns, smoke rising above the rooftops. In this, too, there is a song, ringing out, one of unity and hardship. (You have found the Workshops!)
To the south, you hear silence - The sort of silence a place running on a tight schedule has, you think, where nobody dares be out of place. The song that emanates from here is more of a hum, a silent whisper of giggling tunes and tiny joys, secreted away. (You have found The Caroline Snapps School and Trade Academy!)
More awaits you, beyond Your Street - Your Home. (The Street Outside has merged with Your Home to create the fully explored area of Your Street! A new option has become available to you in Biomass Options…)
As you walk home, a bag loaded with food dispensed by the hands at Jeremy's, you smile to yourself, planning out how you'll share this with Martin…and maybe a little for yourself. (Gain 1 Biomass). Even if you couldn't get him any clothing - It seems they don't sell that there, because the hands didn't respond at all when you tried. You've got a lot to think about…but when you see how Martin lights up when he sees the bounty you've brought home, it leaves your mind. It's going to be a fun night!
So, you need to get him food and clothes and stuff. You'll go to Jeremy's General Groceries - Hopefully not the same Jeremy! Is Jeremy a popular name? You don't know. If it is, you'll laugh and leave the store immediately. So, you're going to be…thrifty! You're going to be a smart shopper and stay within your means, even if it itches at you that food isn't free - That Martin, who clearly isn't in a good state of mind, is having to scrounge on the street because of that fact. But you don't blame this theoretical Jeremy for that - Even if it is that Jeremy. Jeremy didn't personally issue the credits you're using, and Jeremy certainly didn't create the sort of evil you've been seeing and hearing about. You can't come to a judgment quite yet on whether money is evil - After all, someone you're fairly sure isn't evil has given you some.
You pause. You have been peeling at the flesh for quite some time, shaping it into all sorts of things and then peeling those away too, and yet you are still there. You cannot see the you that is there, but not in the way that the unknowable you was unseeable. It is simply…vanished. You tilt an eye-stalk in its direction, and you walk across yourself, and while you can feel and hear it, you simply cannot see it! Huh, you must've peeled away its visibility while you weren't thinking about it! Well, no sense in wasting it - It'll go exploring while Super Spy heads to the grocery store.
Creation Report!
Name: Scout
Keywords: Invisible, Sneaky
Description: You pick up a ball and start peeling. Skin. Muscle. Nerve. Vein. What is beneath all that? You. You cannot be seen, anymore - There is nothing there to see. But you are there, regardless. You have no legs or arms because you have nothing that can be seen, you simply move quietly and invisibly.
Name: Scout
Keywords: Invisible, Sneaky
Description: You pick up a ball and start peeling. Skin. Muscle. Nerve. Vein. What is beneath all that? You. You cannot be seen, anymore - There is nothing there to see. But you are there, regardless. You have no legs or arms because you have nothing that can be seen, you simply move quietly and invisibly.
As you start to walk outside, you keep digging underground, moving carefully around the den of rats. You don't want to disturb them! Then, you find…something interesting. Deep beneath the foundations of the buildings, a row of uneven gaps and different mass detected on your radar, surrounded by organic matter. Wood. You peek into one, viewing it - It is wood! Long-rotted, though. You see what's inside of it. Bones, with barely a scrap of flesh left on them. You think this place has been here for a long time. You worm your way through and around, examining the bones and wood. You can't really tell what's intentional placement and what's the result of spending who-knows-how-long underground. If only bones could talk! You bet they'd have a lot to say. (You've discovered the Forgotten Cemetery!)
You keep digging around in it, even as you arrive at the general grocery. You steel yourself, looking up at the deceptively unintimidating storefront, before bravely opening the door. You wince as a slight jingle rings through the air, courtesy of an attached bell. The store is dominated by a countertop, behind which and on top of seems to sit the largest amount of food you've ever seen. You can smell it through the cans and see it glistening behind windows. It is tempting. So, so tempting. You hastily shut off many of Super Spy's more…visceral senses before you can be drawn too deeply into contemplation of the cornucopia that lies in front of you, especially as the attention of the being manning the store is drawn to you. Well, you say being, but it might be more appropriate to say part of a being. This is because there appear to be about twenty hands swarming about the store like spiders, all of which appear to be detached from any sort of body. You pause, trying to identify which one to pay attention to, and hear a sharp tapping from the counter. Your attention drawn by this, you see one hand tapping on a sign.
"THE HANDS ARE NOT LIVING EMPLOYEES - PLEASE STATE DESIRED ITEMS CLEARLY AND LOUDLY, OR ELSE THEY WILL NOT REGISTER THEM. IF YOU REQUIRE A HUMAN AFFILIATE, PLEASE STATE SO."
Wow. This is really clever! You should definitely do something like this…but, wait, isn't this what you do? How does this not provoke the response that Sabrina warned you about? You look at the hands more closely. No…No, this isn't like anything you do. It's not evil or anything, but…You think the best way to describe it is that they're…mechanical, rather than biological. They don't move like living things do. You described them as spiders initially, but they don't move like spiders - They crawl and lift and haul in ways that make them almost more ant-like, in your opinion. There's a central controller, somewhere - And not in the way you are, where it's actively transmitting impulses and thoughts and feelings, but more like a library of commands and definitions that they then enact in pre-determined ways. Is this a necro-mechanism, like you saw in the paper? It's…strange! Huh. Well, you start ordering food, determining nutritional value and creating cost-benefit analyses more passively, taking your time to think about it…even as you slide and drift through the street, invisible and unnoticed.
You have, after over a week, finished exploring the street. You know it, and its back alleys, the tiny courtyard that hosts Laurel's and local bakeries, the general store at its core. As your invisible self slithers through the world, you feel possibilities flowering in front of you. The District opens itself to you, a native-born child, the sun shining down on you in glorious acknowledgment. (You have found the End of the Street! New locations unlocked!)
To the north, you hear a great clanging of bells - A beacon, a signal, and a call all in one. You can hear its echo, now, coursing through your veins even at your home - Choruses of voices raise themselves and yells emanate with great fervor - A hymn of belief. (You have found Faith's Home!)
To the west, you hear the clatter of hooves and the roar of engines, a glorious cacophony of steel and flesh intermingling, even as bags rustle and hawkers call out their wares. It is, in its own way, a symphony of commerce and trade. (You have found the Back Alley Market!)
To the east, you hear footsteps and clatter, the whistling and clanking of machinery as it churns, smoke rising above the rooftops. In this, too, there is a song, ringing out, one of unity and hardship. (You have found the Workshops!)
To the south, you hear silence - The sort of silence a place running on a tight schedule has, you think, where nobody dares be out of place. The song that emanates from here is more of a hum, a silent whisper of giggling tunes and tiny joys, secreted away. (You have found The Caroline Snapps School and Trade Academy!)
More awaits you, beyond Your Street - Your Home. (The Street Outside has merged with Your Home to create the fully explored area of Your Street! A new option has become available to you in Biomass Options…)
As you walk home, a bag loaded with food dispensed by the hands at Jeremy's, you smile to yourself, planning out how you'll share this with Martin…and maybe a little for yourself. (Gain 1 Biomass). Even if you couldn't get him any clothing - It seems they don't sell that there, because the hands didn't respond at all when you tried. You've got a lot to think about…but when you see how Martin lights up when he sees the bounty you've brought home, it leaves your mind. It's going to be a fun night!
It is April 2nd, 1923. You have no current passive gains. Your current goals are to help the man living with you, to investigate Herman's Theater of the Soul, and to close the Poster Portal (Time Limit: Ten Years). Your current Available Biomass is 2.
Your Current Assets Are (Bolded words are Biomass):
1x Super Spy (Smart Shopper, False Humanoid, Shield, Poison, Disguise)
1x Tunneler (Ground-Penetrating Radar, Tunnel Boring, Productive, Lithotroph)
1x Scout (Invisible, Sneaky)
Your Current Resources Are:
N/A
Your fully explored areas:
Your Street!
(Sub-Areas of Interest: Jeremy's General Groceries, Your Building, Martin's Apartment, Laurel's Boxing, Sabrina's Apartment, Roy's Office, Apartment Buildings, The Street)
You know of the following unexplored areas:
The Rooftops
(Sub-Areas: ???)
The Underground
(Sub-Areas: Basements, The Sewer, Den of Rats, Forgotten Cemetery, ???, ???, ???)
Faith's Home
(Sub-Areas: ???, ???, ???, ???, ???, ???)
Back-Alley Market
(Sub-Areas: ???, ???, ???, ???)
The Workshops
(Sub-Areas: ???, ???, ???, ???, ???, ???, ???)
The Caroline Snapps School and Trade Academy
(Sub-Areas: ???, ???, ???, ???, ???)
Your Current Assets Are (Bolded words are Biomass):
1x Super Spy (Smart Shopper, False Humanoid, Shield, Poison, Disguise)
1x Tunneler (Ground-Penetrating Radar, Tunnel Boring, Productive, Lithotroph)
1x Scout (Invisible, Sneaky)
Your Current Resources Are:
N/A
Your fully explored areas:
Your Street!
(Sub-Areas of Interest: Jeremy's General Groceries, Your Building, Martin's Apartment, Laurel's Boxing, Sabrina's Apartment, Roy's Office, Apartment Buildings, The Street)
You know of the following unexplored areas:
The Rooftops
(Sub-Areas: ???)
The Underground
(Sub-Areas: Basements, The Sewer, Den of Rats, Forgotten Cemetery, ???, ???, ???)
Faith's Home
(Sub-Areas: ???, ???, ???, ???, ???, ???)
Back-Alley Market
(Sub-Areas: ???, ???, ???, ???)
The Workshops
(Sub-Areas: ???, ???, ???, ???, ???, ???, ???)
The Caroline Snapps School and Trade Academy
(Sub-Areas: ???, ???, ???, ???, ???)
Asset Situations
Explore [Sub-Area] with [Asset]
Explore a newly discovered location or sub-area! Make sure to specify which asset is exploring - This will have an impact on what may or may not be discovered! Feel free to include write-in instructions if you so desire.
Patrol [Fully Explored Area] with [Asset]
Sometimes, you need to play defense - Or simply linger in an area you've been before! This means patrolling that area and finding out what's changed about it, or if it's going to change in the future. This will do any jobs that are in the area as well.
Visit Carl's Parlor of Dice and Cards
Frederick was such a nice young man, you feel at least a little obligated to visit! Sure, you don't have any money, but you're sure you can talk your way into it, to at least watch or something. And maybe you'll even see Frederick again!
Note: Visiting here will unlock a new Location. You can assume this of most 'visit' actions.
Note: Visiting here will unlock a new Location. You can assume this of most 'visit' actions.
Visit Herman's Theater of the Soul
You're visiting this place with Sabrina to investigate it! So that you can shut it down, because it probably seems to be evil!
Deal With The Poster
You need to deal with the Poster, and there's only one way to find out how - Experimentation. Throw something at the poster and see what happens. Note: This may cause damage to whatever assets you throw at the Poster.
Biomass Options
Create an Asset.
Create an asset and pick as many keywords as you'd like for them, so long as you have the Biomass!
Recycle An Asset
Recyle an asset or parts of an asset. Make sure to specify which asset and/or which keywords. Important Note: This can be done in the same 'turn' in which you create a new asset with the biomass from the old asset!
Modify Yourself
You currently have the Immutable Keywords of Magical Biohorror, Broadcaster, Immobile, and Idealist. You have the normal keywords of Cute, Pactmaker, Split, Perceptive, Likeable, Refresh, and Recorder. You may add keywords to this, which will not be immutable and can be recycled and changed as you wish!
Spread Yourself
Choose a sub-area of interest in a fully explored location and you may spread your core flesh there for 1 Biomass and with the permission of the inhabitants (if any)! This will have a number of benefits, such as applying Core Keywords to the sub-area in question, if applicable, the passive accumulation of biomass from allies in the sub-area if possible (negating the need for even a patrol action), and other, area-specific bonuses and benefits, both to yourself and to inhabitants. This will be necessary to unlock future Biomass options.
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- They/Them
In RTS terms, I believe this means we finally unlocked tapping into resource nodes! Also immediate idea once we finish exploring the underground and talk to the rats is put ourself there to better help them!