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I may have overfaced myself by offering this many options, I'm doing my best to keep it interesting and varied. Will continue later.
Mare Internum: An Exalted Quest
- Thread starter Crumplepunch
- Start date
- Pronouns
- They/Them
This is incredible and I'm loving every post.
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- He/Him
If you're out of ideas, don't hesitate to let the scene end early. Plenty else going on.
But everything so far has been fun to read, and off-topic digressions you nevertheless click on and read fully are part and parcel of the DE experience.
But everything so far has been fun to read, and off-topic digressions you nevertheless click on and read fully are part and parcel of the DE experience.
- Location
- Poland
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Look if it was a single-player game I was playing I'd pick every option too and love every moment of it.
For A Better World 119
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"What about the abdominal cavity?"
JADES: "What about it? Everything's gone."
He gestures to the emaciated expanse of the lower torso, shrivelled muscles clinging to the spine.
JADES: "Stomach, intestines, kidneys, gall bladder, etcetera. Think they put them in canopic jars for their dark spells or somesuch?"
THE BANE OF KADJ: "More likely they removed them for hygiene reasons."
MEI: "Hygiene? On a zombie?"
"Offal spoils the meat. Like field dressing a game animal."
THE BANE OF KADJ: "My thoughts exactly. Part of the overall strategy of long term preservation."
MONK: "Please, I know this is an unusual circumstance, but can we show a little respect for the dead?"
JADES: "It's a bit late for that, brother. What's next?"
[ ] Head.
[ ] Upper Torso.
[ ] Arms
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- Location
- United States of America
[X] Upper Torso.
Let's keep moving up.
Let's keep moving up.
For A Better World 120
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"Let's look at the upper torso."
JADES: "Good thing you split it in half, otherwise this ribcage would be hell to open up."
He carefully rolls the upper half of the body onto its side. You can see the neat crosss-section of dried-out lung tissue and the oxidizing surface of the sheared metal around the ribs and spine.
JADES: "Metal's all buckled here, the ribs are misaligned. Back's broken, I think, but it's hard to tell from here."
"Yeah, I punched him pretty hard."
AWARENESS: Some kind of flaking detritus around the spine, embedded in the lung.
"What's this, here?"
JADES: "Not sure. Looks like charcoal. Think it could be important?"
"Hm."
[ ] Let's take a closer look at the ribs.
[ ] I want to look at these lungs.
[ ] Can you dig up and find the heart?
[ ] Let's look somewhere else.
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For A Better World 121
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"I want to look at these lungs."
Jades cuts an incision into the lung tissue so you can get a better look at it.
JADES: "Nothing to see, I would say. Alveoli are collapsed, but it's impossible to say whether it was premortem asphyxiation or a result of the drying process. Strange about this charcoal debris. How did something like that get in the lungs?"
"Dispersed during the cut. Not sure from where, yet."
JADES: "Looks like he smoked a pipe."
MEI: "That's not what killed him. Get on with it."
[ ] Let's take a closer look at the ribs.
[ ] Can you dig up and find the heart?
[ ] Let's look somewhere else.
- Location
- Nova Scotia
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Can you dig up and find the heart?
For A Better World 122
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"Can you dig up and find the heart?"
JADES: "Thirty one years of medicine and she asks me if I can find the heart."
He cuts away more of the lung tissue to reveal the heart. Or rather, a pile of flaking black fragments that tumble out of the pericardial cavity onto the surgical table.
JADES: "Well, perhaps I can't. What is that, a lump of coal?"
CRAFT: DIFFICULT
CHECK SUCCESS
CRAFT: The material is too waxy and shiny to be coal or charcoal, full of dark grey stiriations in the black. Definitely carbon based though, with sulfur impurities.
"You were closer the first time. It's jet, fossilized wood. And this part looks like a perfectly formed pulmonary vein. Either they replaced his heart with a jet replica or transformed it with magic. I must have crushed it when I deformed the ribs, hence the fragments."
THE BANE OF KADJ: "Very interesting. Jet is a material that resonates strongly with necromancy, even more so than iron. This may be the part of the process that binds the hungry ghost."
MEI: "Did destroying the heart stop him?"
"No, but he seemed to be preparing for a suicide attack after that. Perhaps breaking the heart weakened the bindings and he didn't have much time left."
MEI: "That's something, at least. What else do you see?"
[ ] Let's take a closer look at the ribs.
[ ] Let's look somewhere else.
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FunkyEntropy
Occasionally insightful, possibly grumpy
- Location
- Los Angeles
[x] Let's take a closer look at the ribs.
Dammit, seconds late.
Dammit, seconds late.
For A Better World 123
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- ?
"Let's take a closer look at the ribs."
JADES: "As you like."
As with the lungs, your cut reveals a cross-section of the ribs, neatly sheared metal and dry bone.
"More armor, just like the spine. Heavier here. Maybe they were trying to design it to protect the heart?"
THE BANE OF KADJ: "I suspect the armor is also part of the binding. An iron cage around the bones."
"More of those contact points as well."
MEI: "Makes sense. Don't like that."
JADES: "What next?"
[ ] Arms
[ ] Head
- Pronouns
- Ze/Hir
[X] Arms
For A Better World 124
- Location
- ?
"Let's check over the arms."
As it is split from shoulder to hip, each of the corpse's arms are attached to one of the halves. The right one bears a deep incision on its elbow where you tried to strike it.
JADES: "Strange fingers, looks like."
You check the hands. The fingers elongated into bony talons shortly before the ghost was dispatched for good, and the mutations remain on the corpse.
"Mhm. Strange stuctures on the forearms, too."
There are odd whorls under the skin, like the leathery muscles of the corpse have been displaced by something moving inside the arm.
JADES: "What first?"
[ ] Check the talons.
[ ] Check the elbow wound.
[ ] Check the forearm interior.
[ ] Let's look at the head instead.
- Location
- Spain
Mr Bane knows quite a bit of necromancy, uh.
So, now that I'm caught up, very cool quest! Disco good much. Dinner scene was really funny.
Also, this was the final push to make me try out Disco Elysium, and I started out by immediately failing my first white check. With a 97% chance of success...
I'm blaming this on Vesper having stolen my luck >.>
Also, this was the final push to make me try out Disco Elysium, and I started out by immediately failing my first white check. With a 97% chance of success...
I'm blaming this on Vesper having stolen my luck >.>