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...suppose we don't technically need Ellemerr, what with her character being dead, and all. So Amadi's dead.

...into space and is just sort of drifting now. Largely catatonic, not really dead or alive. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. You up there. Stop shouting "Whee". I'm trying to sleep.

The walls are getting: smoother, muscular, and now they are throbbing (earlier, it seemed like they were moving subtly, but now they're ...eathing, digesting, normal body function has stopped. It doesn't hurt. But you don't seem to be decomposing, or being digested by this . He still has scar

This is the song of songs, a story of stories. These are the chapters, or what little of them what has yet come to light. [[Holes]] is also related, as are various [[:Category:Dreams|dreams]].

...dek): Since I can't put icons on my drawings, the robot is now on fire. If you'd prefer a more faerie-coloured fire, go ahead and suggest one. '''''Ganelon''' (Radek): Wow, you three.

A dead dragon and bits of zombie are all over the floor, and something Dawn maaaay have puked up. It's pretty gr Gold and gems are stuck to the floor all around. Literally stuck. It's all a bit sticky.

...et eaten by their research. Bits of ceiling fall down, and rooms collapse, are sealed off, or fill with bright light. It is terribly annoying. ...same direction. One is crushed right before its eyes, and the others, too, are lost, one after the other, leaving only our mouse remaining.

other-Amadi: “The cat is dead.” [this is not true] There is no beach. Now we are in a room. The cat is not there. other-Amadi has changed clothes: summery t

Consider the planet. Eventually something will happen, and we're all dead, all civilisation gone, all sentient life eradicated. It's the end of the w ...r own path, and being, indeed, very much alive and not ended at all, thank you very much. Not the end of the world at all. Just a bit of a setback, really

Oh, you're awake. That'll make you live, you know.

...d. You are not welcome here, and your grandfather cannot intervene to save you a second time. Your presence is a reminder that I should not have been merc ...ve done in your reign been merciful, my Lord? I think that is the question you should ask.

There are things here. Other things. Lost things. Things she can't quite see or make The Gravedigger... no, Hieron Maranthana, is dead. But there's still something here. Something that hasn't been caught, just

...hadow Amadi have a -2 to defenses until the end of Gravy's next turn. They are also both marked by Gravy. Ganelon: Those -2 to defenses are actually save-ends. That was a mistake on my part.

: ''You dream of Death, and Rebirth. ...untains, maintained in parts, fallen to ruins in others. You know it well. You traverse its halls without thought, climb its stairs without issue.

...quest, I added 'bits of Radek's beard' to your inventory (since you'd said you'd pick them up). Feel free to remove them or whatever if that's wrong. Or you could fall through the floor and stick the beard on with all the gunk in th

...n jump really far, and he really, really annoys you. You want him gone, so you're going to get him gone. Jump and kick him to the sky. Let the gods in the ...e, but the stars are so far. You don't think they quite grasp how far they are.

Radek, Rhu, and the Gravedigger are underground, at a secret entrance, past a door, standing before yet another ...you know, there might be an easier way in to the address on the stone than cree

Amadi is dead. I don't have enough time to jury rig something like that when she's ''already dead''.

...ting under a tree nearby, having recently fallen out. Two remaining guards are also nearby. The dog that was previously present has run off at this point. There are body parts all over the ground, as well as some more really stinky bodies l

"You gonna get that?" Tessa mumbled through a wad of sheets. "Dean," Dave's voice was telling him. "You need to come into the station."

You can't drink with gills. That's like drinking with alveoli. It doesn't make ...f course it would. The Hazz knows lots of things, has a thing for knowing, you know, knowing things. Lots of things. But not here. Here it's not so much a

[03:57:57] Wen: what do you mean? [03:58:52] Wen: aren't you supposed to decide this?

Frezak (GM): So you say. Ganelon: Well, his character's dead.

The hole awaits. Are you all ready? You're supposed to be guarding that, not marking it.

And you went after him. But you know he's there.

The buildings are fairly uninteresting, but the city's lamps appear to be somewhat advanced - Hello! Do you know where we are?

It smells like a dead end. Difficult to say. Since. You know. He's not here.

...on of gods, who likely consider themselves to be incredibly important, and are widely worshipped on [[Cerris]], vaguely referenced in [[Ord]], and have va ...say, more 'negative' gods in what they wish to invoke. Of the Twelve, all are Originals (of the 'Original Family' supposedly born of the creation of the

Gaurav: Bunnies are easy to defeat. I believe that have very weak digestive systems. Ellemerr: You know nothing, Gaurav.

And you? Hi. How are you?

Gaurav: Bunnies are easy to defeat. I believe that have very weak digestive systems. Ellemerr: You know nothing, Gaurav.

Don't be silly, Radek. You're going to die at the hands of your second-greatest invention. ...nk, situated up on a bit of a rise in the middle of the clearing. Overhead are branches, lots and lots of branches, though from here most of them aren't r

Pigeons are flapping disorientedly about the shop, some going through the walls and flo You should come back inside before you do that.

Ellemerr: *pokes a dead rat* Gaurav: Why a dead rat?

The Gravedigger, Rhu, and Greibel are asleep. Radek is at a table, working on various tinkering, not all there, d ...for you, but when you embrace the Earth it falls away and is gone, and you are even more alone with your black and empty sky.

...Doughtery''': ''(Gaurav)'' Token idiot religious zealot. Worships a god of dead ends. * '''Greibel''' ''(Bear Soup Guy/Rob)'': Stoner druid. Sees things that are there.

HELLO EXCUSE ME BUT ARE YOU IMPORTANT? Hello! Sorry. We heard that you were a philosopher, and Hazz'ridan said you might be important.

Radek: Gravy, /where/ did you just come from? Rhu: Didn't he come up the stairs behind you?

...armhouse. Except for Rhu, he's inside. And Dave is probably in a tree, but you can't actually see her anymore. And Amadi isn't accounted for either. What Are you?

...armhouse. Except for Rhu, he's inside. And Dave is probably in a tree, but you can't actually see her anymore. And Amadi isn't accounted for either. What Are you?

But they are secondary. ...ing detail, you either make a collage of stolen images on the map layer or you find a proper program to draw in.

So you all beat a stone guy up. Ellemerr: My pockets are better.

Ganelon: Well you got my attention. ...cause as it turned out, Greibel was probably going the wrong direction. If you want to believe a 15.

...st of the unconscious party out around it. It's no longer hovering. Things are oddly normal and quiet. Dry leaves and grass cover the dusty ground. Remains of an old campfire are nearby, with some odds and ends lying around it.

Good enough - you can speak. I wish to understand your circumstances. Why were you turned to stone? ...And then stored in a box?

You know he's not actually Jamaican, right? What does it matter what we are, for what we seem to be?

The Gravedigger and Rhu are sitting around, waiting. Radek is tinkering with something or other. Greibe ...ology, you'll probably find the most likely devices or resources to inform you of what's going on.

Radek, can you ask them if stuff drops out of the sky? Given how fast those drop, you'd need some seriously awesome detector thing.

...stunning or whatever, if you're into vistas and architecture and crap, and you're starting to notice more colours amidst the golden hues - shades of blue Apheori (GM): Except for Amadi and Greibel. You two see a whole lot of other colours too, and some weird shapes of building

I doubt it's going to rain cake. More likely turn you inside out and leave you in a sun. Are you sure?

...stunning or whatever, if you're into vistas and architecture and crap, and you're starting to notice more colours amidst the golden hues - shades of blue Apheori (GM): Except for Amadi and Greibel. You two see a whole lot of other colours too, and some weird shapes of building

So you found a wizard's tower? How did you know it belonged to a wizard? Aside from a narrow band of dead soil around the base of the tower, the forest is grown almost right up agai

...ound the car. A few villagers are nearby chatting and watching, and others are going about their business. D'you know what, maybe if we pitch tent in their village square they'll get the m

Apheori (GM): So y'all are in a roofless farmhouse or some such. Radek just demagicked a thingy and le Frezak (GM): So what are we about to enter this town /for/ ?

Well, you're still there. That's progress, I guess. ...e out a pretty exciting story, but I'll be glad to tell you another one if you'll...

The Gravedigger, Greibel, and Rhu are all asleep. Radek is working at a table, notes and tablet in front of him, ...but they move to block your path. Don't they understand you need to hurry, you need to get down there, there's not a lot of time...?

"Did you just fall out of this tree?" Someone asked behind her. "Of course not," she said, turning. "Whyever would you think such a silly thing?" It was a child of some kind. Human? The distinct

Dawn, if I have to puzzle you back together I'll kill you! I don't like that kind of patience games! ...ng out of the ground and pipes and stuff, a bunch of guards arguing over a dead body (a teenage girl who looks to have been shot a few times), and an old l

Ellemerr: What if Gaurav does too and you're left with nobody to maim? Ganelon: Wait, how do you know that?

...artifact, something about mutant birds, and a project about talking to the dead. ...to find out how Greibel got here. By... killing him and casting Speak With Dead, possibly. Unless Ghost-Greibel is also stoned.

Apheori (GM): Okay, guys. The three of you are standing before a door. Apheori (GM): What do you do?

Hazz'ridan: Good, you're here. Begin. Gaurav: Are we still in the plaza with the people?

What are you, american? Why do you keep borking all your grammars like an american?

...): So Radek was talking to the wizardly adventurer, Rhu was being whatever you call it at Dawn, Gravy and Amadi were eating, and Greibel probably buggered ...know. How do you even measure "success" when the fates of entire universes are at stake?

Apheori (GM): Is Gan dead? Frezak (GM): Since fruit are people.

Hazz'ridan: Good, you're here. Begin. Gaurav: Are we still in the plaza with the people?

5:09PM Gaurav: Bless you. You know what, it doesn't even matter.

...d. So much that needs to be added. Because it's all just ''words'', before you add in the ''truth'' of them... the feeling. The experience. ...ring void. There is something about them, something important. The feeling you get in a dream...

...potentials, along with several priest mages. All four of the idiot brigade are involved, but not together - the guys in one group as potentials, Coraline ...o die, as she'd sort of expected. Does ask her what she thinks the options are.

...to proceed, and sometimes you choose wrong. Sometimes the turn chooses for you. Sometimes the turn chooses wrong. # ''The worlds are circular. You may repeat yourself.

Do you think she'll be back? If there's one thing you can almost guarantee about these two, it's that they'll always be back.

''You want the answer? You want the end? There is no answer; there is no end. There is only now. In ev The stars are wrong.

...wn. ''(rolled 25 perception)'' All he picks out against the glowing clouds are some dragons and an airship, so he watches the dragons hopefully. Apheori (GM): You don't have time to reinvestigate, however, because there's a loud cracking

...eding rescue, he is going to stand way back and as still as possible. Can you switch the background map back on? ...have all the aspects of creation at your disposal, free to use in any way you can think of.

..., Greibel is noticing something weird in the sky, Rhu is hungry, and y'all are standing in a street. Uh oh. Did you just kill someone?

Okay, so Rhu and Hazz are all happy... There are chocolate buttons right next to me. o_O

Apheori (GM): Are Gan and Gaurav here, or is it telling the truth? ...h of shadow-yous. The look a bit like silhouettes. You can insight them if you want.

Ganelon: There you go. How do you do it without the buttons?

...on or evening or something. You have someone to meet tomorrow, but for now you're just... what, waiting? Getting drunk? Daring Greibel to smoke random thi And Rhu... you're still in a horrible nightmare world.

Ganelon: There you go. How do you do it without the buttons?

You rolled a 20! Apheori (GM): Can you change wwho you're talking to with the dropdown menu?

Apheori (GM): Okay, so you're all here and I'm still sober enough to type. ...ool, there's a nice breeze, and unless you hate trees, the leaves overhead are quite nice as well.

Apheori (GM): Okay, so you're all here and I'm still sober enough to type. ...ool, there's a nice breeze, and unless you hate trees, the leaves overhead are quite nice as well.

...ime. It's nigh time, some of you are still in the car, some out. And y'all are tired. Ganelon: But they probably don't think you and I are demons anymore, at least.

...uishy going splat on the pavement. Random globs and hunks and bits of bone are scattered around the mess. Hey Gravy, you ever bury globs?

...seems to have noticed. Then Dave called Gravy inside, leaving the rest of you on the street outside... Beyond you may or may not be able to see a ruined vaguely meaty courtyard, Dave sittin

...(GM): YOU ALL ARE IN A VACANT LOT. RHU DISAPPEARED, GRAVY DUG A HOLE, AND YOU FOUND A CONE. Apheori (GM): You don't like winged cats?

...seems to have noticed. Then Dave called Gravy inside, leaving the rest of you on the street outside... Beyond you may or may not be able to see a ruined vaguely meaty courtyard, Dave sittin

Well, it will, but not if you start touching yourself. Bear Soup Guy: Perversions are stories, right?

Well, it will, but not if you start touching yourself. Bear Soup Guy: Perversions are stories, right?

== Part 3: Query dead ends == ''In practice, there is only so far you can go, so much you can do, so much you can say.

...rom the blue hair and the shovel you carry with you pretty much everywhere you go. ...ould not be pursuaded to desist. It is your shovel, and it is important to you.

You're not going anywhere until we've fixed... all this. You want to fix ''this''?! I think you've got your head turned around. Here, I can fix that.

Apheori (GM): Right. You were in that presentation room, the walls were sometimes groaning... By... killing him and casting Speak With Dead, possibly.

Apheori (GM): So what, you all were going to the hole again or something? ...Gravy probably expect the car to run out of battery at some point. Maybe. You could roll a thingy to try to tell what's powering it, because it could las

'' And yet the bullet you're running from is almost never the one that hits you. ...raction. In time, they may demolish nations. Catch them as they start, and you may miss the true design.

Apheori (GM): You said stuff and it put it off the screen instead of scrolling down to it. >. Because all maps are better with Kobolds.

Apheori (GM): So to recap, y'all are standing in a dungeon, outside an unlocked cell containing a stoned philoso You hare recently received a pair of rocks for some reason, and a message sayin

Ganelon: Of all people to know what we're doing, you should be the one. Ganelon: Then Frezak has likely failed in his duty to instruct you.

Now, alas, they are merely molar peas Apheori (GM): If you did run after Dave, I would be seriously disappointed.

...y and dead. Some exist in wilderness, in solitude under the open sky. Some are clear, others not so much. A lifetime spent without purpose. A purgatory aw ''And then you see the caged bird fly.

Apheori (GM): You had like a gallon. Gaurav: Did you make as many bombs as you possibly could, or did you make a reasonable amount and leave the rest?

There is more going on in Cairns than meets the eye, though, although you could probably say that about any place on the continent, if not in the wor And some unlucky few are about to get a closer look at exactly what goes on beneath the surface...

Ellemerr: Unless you find the Magic Keyword... yes. Dead, but fine.

but I guess you could technically call a girl born out of wedlock a bastard. Apheori (GM): You're doing that already.

Ellemerr: Unless you find the Magic Keyword... yes. Dead, but fine.

Apheori (GM): You want it back? You buried it.

...earby window is shattered, with glass all over the floor, and the curtains are blowing a bit in the breeze. You've looked better.

What, would you ''rather'' be finished? So... what are we doin' here?

...eally look, and listen, and get a lizard up your nose. Only from there can you properly move on into something properly weird. ...ent. Maybe some aren't different at all, just to mix things up. Maybe some are total barbarians and turn out to have gone way overboard with the drug melo

Apheori (GM): ARE YOU HERE GAN? ...ted you all to come here and get answers from the mad Dreamers, but so far you've got nothing except possibly a headache.

Apheori (GM): ARE YOU HERE GAN? ...ted you all to come here and get answers from the mad Dreamers, but so far you've got nothing except possibly a headache.

...y relieved, exhausted, practically ready to collapse. The two traitors (?) are taken into custody. Jon Jon actually tries to object - Desther's confessed ...oo much confusion. It's like 4am. Now that it's all basically over, people are exhausted. Has anyone really even slept since they'd left?

Bear Soup Guy: Cats are evil Are we missing Gaarav?

Bear Soup Guy: Cats are evil Are we missing Gaarav?

The guy gave her a weird look. "How nice for you," he said. Go as you always have, and you will see what you need to see.

Woah, these are weird bugs. Gravy, Rhu, and Radek find themselves in a space of utter blackness, except you can all sort of see each other.

Woah, these are weird bugs. Gravy, Rhu, and Radek find themselves in a space of utter blackness, except you can all sort of see each other.

...of Voice. Coraline is in blue, light and summery. They are the same. They are nothing alike. Together, they form something else entirely, but not. She is # ''The story is always told from perspective. Translations are built in, even gestures.

Now do you see it? The blueish things are the... rift.

There are four of you. You all wind up separate.

...happened. This is not how it happened. There is complexity, finesse. There are twists and bounds. ...s of logic, no mental gymnastics. It is simply how it is. It is the answer you sought all along.

* days longer than earth; minutes are still around the same length, bit shorter ** Unspoken are generally not ever spoken of, are beggars, thieves, homeless, mentally unstable folks, etc; can become citize

...ef>Including worshipping them at all, in the case of one deity.</ref> they are honoured with a favourable afterlife, or they disappear. As a general rule, "I already told you, I haven't got any stories!" Coraline yelled back irritably. This wasn't st

...(aliens) for ''reasons'', and is a good chunk of why so many of the aliens are humanoid (or elven?), because they actually started out as humans/elves or ...group so much as just random people who think the UW/Magi, in particular, are dumb, and do their own thing. Gnerally includes any gangs/other unlawful fa

...than the humming air, handsaws twanging, cats purring too many to hear. Do you have a problem with silence? # ''The story is always told from perspective. Translations are built in, even gestures.

There are also two other men, a GUARDIAN and a deathdealer, TIMMS, who appear to be i Can I help you?