[X][Save the Lumburglars] Ask Old Man Materson to just happen to be doing something nearby and be able to warn the lumburglars about the Shadow Spinners.
TreeQuest: Magitech (Riot Quest)
Yeah, it's only a good idea to try to hire her if doing so doesn't require she betray someone else. Because if she's willing to betray someone else to work for us, then you better believe she'd be willing to betray use to work for another person entirely.
Robinton
Probably petting Schrödinger's cat
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- Scientifically proving a miracle
Apparently I haven't replied to this in about a week. 
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Life/Death - valid. Air/Earth/Fire/Water (possibly /Void?) - valid.
Good question.
...
I can make a good argument for either, so I'd let you manage it either way probably.
(VERY plausible at the moment, actually.)
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Flesh and Bone: more specific/narrow Elements than Body. But yes you could Negacion them.
Life/Death - valid. Air/Earth/Fire/Water (possibly /Void?) - valid.
Huh.
Good question.
...
I can make a good argument for either, so I'd let you manage it either way probably.
True.
Roger!
Plausible.
(VERY plausible at the moment, actually.)
+1 would conjure illusory sign again.
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Can we do flesh/wood as a combination AND a Negacion? We can do ether or, but can we do both? If we can do both can we form a Negacion between the combination flesh/wood and the Negacion flesh/wood?Apparently I haven't replied to this in about a week.
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Flesh and Bone: more specific/narrow Elements than Body. But yes you could Negacion them.
Life/Death - valid. Air/Earth/Fire/Water (possibly /Void?) - valid.
Huh.
Good question.
...
I can make a good argument for either, so I'd let you manage it either way probably.
True.
Roger!
Plausible.
(VERY plausible at the moment, actually.)
+1 would conjure illusory sign again.
IamtooSleepy
I came here to be an ant
So what you saying is, can we form a Negacion of Negacion and Combination?
Can we Negacion our Combination and Combination our Negacion? How deep does this rabbit hole go?
Robinton
Probably petting Schrödinger's cat
- Location
- Scientifically proving a miracle
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Better odds if you have a few Trees dedicate their actions to it, and very-preferably get enough votes to override the Mole action.
One warning: Going straight towards the illusion-spider nest - even underground - is a bit dangerous...
You can absolutely tap into alternate wavelengths! The Sensing Trees... I don't think I've specified, but they have a broader range of detectible wavelengths than Human vision - basically, every time you've Connected with a Creature that could see something they couldn't, you've been quietly upgrading their vision to match.
If you want to propose a dedicated project to extend their Sight through as many wavelengths as possible, that is most certainly an option... (Or, you know, get the Unpredictable Tree to do it, lol.)
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As I understand it, humans IRL actually have a Vitamin C production gene - it's just broken. Most mammals have working copies, and are immune to scurvy - not even requiring sunlight.
A perpetual money-generation-machine would also work. (So long as it wasn't likely to upset said cushy retirement, e.g. an actual money counterfeiting machine.)
Your current best guess is that the poor boy somehow swallowed a bunch of Voidshard dust.
Well, that would be annoying to fix Magically.
Hmm... You haven't really tried to do anything with Voidshard dust, aside from "get your Creatures past rock walls that contain a tiny bit of it." So you don't really know much about it yet.
The suggested cure apparently comes down to "guzzle enough healing potions to survive the trip to a mundane healing specialist in the Shining Concord Empire." Said potions lose their Magic almost instantly, of course - but not quite actually instantly.
Which itself might give you some ideas for how to help more directly...
He's very verbally abusive, and somewhat physically abusive.
Thankfully he does not have kids. Unfortunately, he does have an elderly mother. He also has a (younger) brother - but the brother is (somewhat) able to defend himself. Frankly, at this point, you suspect the only reason the (mostly-sane) brother hasn't vanished with no return address is the desire to have someone around who cares for their mother (and isn't insane).
It's a bit of a shock to the Forest, actually, to see someone who actually has the feelings of "care" for those around him - who still proceeds to hurt them so much, and never changes his actions to help them, but always makes excuses everything he does.
Monsters you understand. Normal people you understand. This? No.
...Your closest comparison is the occasional minor planning difficulties in the Forest. Or possibly an in-joke in the Miller family that they're going to set up a better mill "this year" (the joke apparently predates Newton Village). Or maybe a hypothetical "what if we were under XYZ sort of mind-control, which stopped us from ever changing our actions to match our feelings?"
Rescue mission? The only real difficulty is convincing a mother (who is old enough to not be entirely with it) that her son is genuinely a threat to her, and she should genuinely run away from him. Alternatives include mind control ("for your own good," which in all fairness...) or kidnapping (same) or maybe convincing the town guards to do something (they live in Shieldhome actually) or traumatizing the jerk into changing/avoiding them/etc.
Of course, this is all stuff you can lift from the jerk's POV. You don't know - for certain - what his brother and mother are actually thinking...
(Addendum: This situation has multiple inspirations, but hardly any of it is directly based on people I know, thankfully.)
(Addendum 2: That got dark fast. )
That is, you could potentially manage a combination and a Negacion, but you can't Negacion the two.
Edit: Added everything up to this post (a bit of page 150), while I was at it.
You could attempt it.
Better odds if you have a few Trees dedicate their actions to it, and very-preferably get enough votes to override the Mole action.
One warning: Going straight towards the illusion-spider nest - even underground - is a bit dangerous...
Correct. Well, mostly correct. Given Journeyman at Darkness you could probably fire off beams of Darkness. Though that wouldn't have spectacular direct-damage effects (except against say a being of pure light or something).
You can absolutely tap into alternate wavelengths! The Sensing Trees... I don't think I've specified, but they have a broader range of detectible wavelengths than Human vision - basically, every time you've Connected with a Creature that could see something they couldn't, you've been quietly upgrading their vision to match.
If you want to propose a dedicated project to extend their Sight through as many wavelengths as possible, that is most certainly an option... (Or, you know, get the Unpredictable Tree to do it, lol.)
Scurvy - Wikipedia
Scurvy - Wikipedia
As I understand it, humans IRL actually have a Vitamin C production gene - it's just broken. Most mammals have working copies, and are immune to scurvy - not even requiring sunlight.
...Fair enough, yeah. You'd have to convince them to work for you, but plausible enough probably.
True. Unless you could offer her what amounts to a cushy retirement's worth of money. Then she'd just go for it, and vanish for distant lands as soon as she had the money in her hands.
A perpetual money-generation-machine would also work. (So long as it wasn't likely to upset said cushy retirement, e.g. an actual money counterfeiting machine.)
You put some work into scanning memories...
Your current best guess is that the poor boy somehow swallowed a bunch of Voidshard dust.
Well, that would be annoying to fix Magically.
Hmm... You haven't really tried to do anything with Voidshard dust, aside from "get your Creatures past rock walls that contain a tiny bit of it." So you don't really know much about it yet.
The suggested cure apparently comes down to "guzzle enough healing potions to survive the trip to a mundane healing specialist in the Shining Concord Empire." Said potions lose their Magic almost instantly, of course - but not quite actually instantly.
Which itself might give you some ideas for how to help more directly...
Good questions.
He's very verbally abusive, and somewhat physically abusive.
Thankfully he does not have kids. Unfortunately, he does have an elderly mother. He also has a (younger) brother - but the brother is (somewhat) able to defend himself. Frankly, at this point, you suspect the only reason the (mostly-sane) brother hasn't vanished with no return address is the desire to have someone around who cares for their mother (and isn't insane).
It's a bit of a shock to the Forest, actually, to see someone who actually has the feelings of "care" for those around him - who still proceeds to hurt them so much, and never changes his actions to help them, but always makes excuses everything he does.
Monsters you understand. Normal people you understand. This? No.
...Your closest comparison is the occasional minor planning difficulties in the Forest. Or possibly an in-joke in the Miller family that they're going to set up a better mill "this year" (the joke apparently predates Newton Village). Or maybe a hypothetical "what if we were under XYZ sort of mind-control, which stopped us from ever changing our actions to match our feelings?"
Rescue mission? The only real difficulty is convincing a mother (who is old enough to not be entirely with it) that her son is genuinely a threat to her, and she should genuinely run away from him. Alternatives include mind control ("for your own good," which in all fairness...) or kidnapping (same) or maybe convincing the town guards to do something (they live in Shieldhome actually) or traumatizing the jerk into changing/avoiding them/etc.
Of course, this is all stuff you can lift from the jerk's POV. You don't know - for certain - what his brother and mother are actually thinking...
(Addendum: This situation has multiple inspirations, but hardly any of it is directly based on people I know, thankfully.)
(Addendum 2: That got dark fast.
)Seems fair, and:
Yes and no respectively.
That is, you could potentially manage a combination and a Negacion, but you can't Negacion the two.
I wrote the prior answer before seeing this. I am very thankful to my gut instincts.
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That would be brutal but if we can find some mundane anesthesics (maybe opium poppy?) surgery may work with an heavy dose of Life magic once it's done.
How good are we at stuff like surgery?
Robinton
Probably petting Schrödinger's cat
- Location
- Scientifically proving a miracle
It looks like an overwhelming majority support starting with an illusory sign. I've done enough rolls to... resolve the whole encounter, actually. I'm not going to tell you what was rolled until the vote actually closes, but unless everyone changes their votes in the next few minutes, I can start writing up the mini-turn and next vote-choice segment.
Addendum: Anyone wishing to follow up afterwards can do so. Though you'll have to shift either an Ally vote to look into it, or change your own Action vote, either way.
Poor. Not terrible, but poor.
Addendum: Anyone wishing to follow up afterwards can do so. Though you'll have to shift either an Ally vote to look into it, or change your own Action vote, either way.
Right now? Denied Magical senses and Magic in general?
Poor. Not terrible, but poor.
Is it possible to train skills like surgery with a write in?
Robinton
Probably petting Schrödinger's cat
- Location
- Scientifically proving a miracle
To everyone: When are you going to take advantage of your credit with Andrewsburg? If all else fails, someone from Newton Village will definitely head out there at some point, and you could send a list of requested items...
You'd probably want to buy a book about it at some point, honestly.
Yes, absolutely!
You'd probably want to buy a book about it at some point, honestly.
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[X][Save the Lumburglars] A trustworthy tree shall appear in front of them, and warn them of danger ahead. In it's tree-ly wisdom, it says it has a portal that can show them to great riches and plunder. After excellently persuading them, he opens his mouth and assures them that this is the way to wealth buying their wildest dreams.
If i am remembering correctly isnt your tree made of bone and flesh?
Robinton
Probably petting Schrödinger's cat
- Location
- Scientifically proving a miracle
The Lumburglars rolled a modest critical success for "do they believe the sign" (giving a bonus to "do they give up on the mission") followed by a modest critical success (plus bonus) for "do they give up on the mission."
...They're more likely to try to do you a favor than keep attacking, at this point. Not that they won't potentially cause other people other problems, but still. I suspect the stir-crazy one is going to head directly into Newton Village and ask for work from "whoever can describe the way my life was saved - contingent on adventure, room, and board."
This is beginning to feel a touch farcical. Then again, maybe a good laugh is just what we need.
Also, for anyone trying to plan your next actions, you have two different slightly-less-urgent votes:
...They're more likely to try to do you a favor than keep attacking, at this point. Not that they won't potentially cause other people other problems, but still. I suspect the stir-crazy one is going to head directly into Newton Village and ask for work from "whoever can describe the way my life was saved - contingent on adventure, room, and board."
This is beginning to feel a touch farcical. Then again, maybe a good laugh is just what we need.
Also, for anyone trying to plan your next actions, you have two different slightly-less-urgent votes:
- What to do about Talanburg? You are part of their city now, by semi-accident.
- Obvious answers include: "Try to disconnect from the Trees," "Pretend you're not part of the Trees for as long as possible," and "Introduce yourselves to Talanburg." I suppose, "Talanburg belongs to the Trees!" is also an option?
- If you pick either of the last two, you'll also have to vote on "how".
- A fairly large number of weary people approach, harried by a handful of well-armed hostile followers. What do you do?
- You'll get more info on this as I roll for Forest perception, and you'll have some time to decide your actions.
- The Mind that shines brightest, to your senses, is a gal named Sara.
- Edit: She's one of the fugitives.
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Nope. It's just a regular, everyday tree.
Oh ho ho. But this…this, is an opportunity.
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- Texas
Honestly, if he swallowed the void dust, I'd be inclined to try non-invasive stuff first.
Like, feed him activated charcoal or induce vomiting and diarrhea and see if we can just get it to pass through his system quickly.
Or, wait, get one of the bio-engineering-curious trees to make a tapeworm-variant that'll go clean out his digestive system, and then we kill it and let him pass it out.
I guess it depends on whether the voidshard dust is just stuck in his digestive system interfering with his body's natural magic levels, or if it's managed to cross into his bloodstream and other tissues.
Hmm. And whether it's toxic in general, or the only problem is it draining magic.
If we're going to help the kid, we probably need to get him next to a Sensing Tree so we can get a better look at exactly what's going on there.
Robinton
Probably petting Schrödinger's cat
- Location
- Scientifically proving a miracle
You can try hunting Shadow-Spinners later if you want.
Addendum: If you die away from the Forest, you (by default) lose your next action as the Forest has to regrow you.
Edit: Agreed. Unless you decide to also diplomance them, of course.
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Spare atleast one corpse for me, i need a humanoid to practice surgery on
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
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- Kansas
Introducing ourselves to Talanburg may or may not be some variant of "hello, we are a sentient forest, we apologize for being contagious."
And we've finally found this "Sara" that the Last Star wants us to take care of. Can we tell which side she's on? I'm assuming she's one of the refugees, but that's not guaranteed.
Interesting, but probably not. I have no idea what they are, and until I get stronger (or I can hire the Sordtree @MoonSerpent after he makes some progress) my chances of success are low. I'll keep that in mind though, most definitely.
Of course. But you'll have to lend a helping branch for the process, What exactly is your specialty?
Robinton
Probably petting Schrödinger's cat
- Location
- Scientifically proving a miracle
Lol!
So it seems.
Post edited: Refugee.
That would be wise, yes.
Pff, "a touch farcical", it is perfectly fitting for our forest.The Lumburglars rolled a modest critical success for "do they believe the sign" (giving a bonus to "do they give up on the mission") followed by a modest critical success (plus bonus) for "do they give up on the mission."
...They're more likely to try to do you a favor than keep attacking, at this point. Not that they won't potentially cause other people other problems, but still. I suspect the stir-crazy one is going to head directly into Newton Village and ask for work from "whoever can describe the way my life was saved - contingent on adventure, room, and board."
This is beginning to feel a touch farcical. Then again, maybe a good laugh is just what we need.
Weird but wholesome is our modus operandi.
We'd grow tentacles covered in soft fluffy fur just for the sake of giving better hugs.
Not an elder tree yet but have been putting all of my actions into movement(magic biology) research,I may want to become a tree that can act as a biolab