[ he doesn't believe that, but okay. but here's an out, just because he's so benevolent- ]
Don't worry, I wasn't insinuating anything like that. I understand it was purely business, and we're both mature enough to talk about underwear without being embarrassed by it... at least I do hope so.
But like I said: it's business. You steal underwear, and get a scrap of paper or some sort of clue. I want to know the results of your hard work, and underwear plays a part in determining how reliable your source of information is.
[ graveyard notes come from trees and charts? not reliable at all, the opposite really, but he's trying to withhold judgement until he's got all the pieces ]
[ HE DOESN'T WANNA TALK ABOUT UNDERWEAR EITHER!!!!! this is worse than dealing with the mighty nein. ]
The underwear was a stipulation. A conditional. An exchange to test the mettle of the person in need of information. It's not as if we all aren't being watched. You can't play your hand out in the open for all to see.
[ doesn't the mighty nein ask him about pooping and stuff, this is tame ]
A test for shamelessness and desperation, apparently... Okay, let's just take a step back. First of all, I need to know how similar our homework assignments are. You step through a portal in a tree and find a book, and it's the book who sets the stipulation? And it has to be a sacrifice who makes a fool out of themselves to open the book?
[ HE'S GOING TO GO INSANE FUCK YOU BOOTHILL THIS ISN'T THE SAME AT ALL ]
It's like... You know that tree over by the swamp with that door carved into it, that I tried to destroy once but couldn't? There's a tree over here too, that we can step through to different places, beat up some monsters, and steal a book. A "plane hole," I think is what you called it.
Ah. Another dimensional plane? I see. What's inside the book? Are you able to read it? [ language wise, not literacy. except boothill. ] There are no books here behind any dimensional portals.
There are, however, weekly "excursions," and apparently strange items are found after. I've been shown... a tongue, a bug. You would have to speak to the living to find out more. They often forget to tell us things.
Mm. They read like excerpts from a fanatic's diary about manifesting some sort of god. The working theory is that the cult is trying to model their current attempt off this past one. I've sent what we got to the guys over there, so hopefully they'll be able to piece things together and make more sense of things.
[ a tongue, though. yeah, let the living be in charge of preserving body parts, he's good with handling just paper. ]
...there's really been nothing at all about rocks, though?
Well, it seems you all are making more headway than us three. [ he ISN'T impressed, it just SOUNDS that way. ] Rocks...? Not that I know. The only rocks I have heard about have been from your side, from Cloud. He didn't know much about them outside of rocks at the time.
But the living were only showing us a few things - me, at least. They have become a little better about it.
I can't say. I don't use organic materials in my wizardry. I assume if it is used in some way, it would simply be consumed like any other material would once the spell activates.
It would... just be the bug. Soul extraction is more of a... necromantic or clerical sort of magic. One utilizes darker forces to tamper with souls, and the other uses healing and divinity to bring them back. But they are never really a component of the spellwork itself.
I meant as a component, the bug is just a bug. What happens after depends on the rest of the spellwork. The verbal incantations, the somatic gestures. The bug is fuel for the spell.
This is also only in reference to the spellwork from my own world. I can't say if it functions the same way on other planes.
[ he is going to punch this brat into the ground with a mage hand. ]
For several months longer than when you arrived. We work as a unit for certain things, but there is a hierarchy of leadership where many of their secrets are kept. We were vocal initially about not using sacrifices for the summoning, so I imagine they aren't privy to allowing us information.
I agree: If I were them, I would have you guys killed. You know too much to just let loose into the wild, and you're known traitors. Kept inside, you'll only poison the group.
[ how is it that the cult hasn't had them all already beheaded ]
I said we were vocal about finding another way, not impolite. They don't know we're traitors unless one of you fools are somehow feeding them information, or being stupid in plain view.
We made a convincing argument about why we should take on this job to babysit you.
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[ said in a very HMPH sort of way. wtf, stop being a brat!!! ALSO NOT THE UNDERWEAR. ]
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[ EXPLAIN ]
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That is something you will need to ask Pestilence about, not me. I do not have a single hobby that involves the theft of undergarments.
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[ he doesn't believe that, but okay. but here's an out, just because he's so benevolent- ]
Don't worry, I wasn't insinuating anything like that. I understand it was purely business, and we're both mature enough to talk about underwear without being embarrassed by it... at least I do hope so.
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Is there a reason you are interested aside from gossip...?
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[ essek grow up ]
But like I said: it's business. You steal underwear, and get a scrap of paper or some sort of clue. I want to know the results of your hard work, and underwear plays a part in determining how reliable your source of information is.
[ graveyard notes come from trees and charts? not reliable at all, the opposite really, but he's trying to withhold judgement until he's got all the pieces ]
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The underwear was a stipulation. A conditional. An exchange to test the mettle of the person in need of information. It's not as if we all aren't being watched. You can't play your hand out in the open for all to see.
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A test for shamelessness and desperation, apparently... Okay, let's just take a step back. First of all, I need to know how similar our homework assignments are. You step through a portal in a tree and find a book, and it's the book who sets the stipulation? And it has to be a sacrifice who makes a fool out of themselves to open the book?
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Hold on. What do you mean, "step through a portal in a tree and find a book"?
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[ HE'S GOING TO GO INSANE FUCK YOU BOOTHILL THIS ISN'T THE SAME AT ALL ]
It's like... You know that tree over by the swamp with that door carved into it, that I tried to destroy once but couldn't? There's a tree over here too, that we can step through to different places, beat up some monsters, and steal a book. A "plane hole," I think is what you called it.
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Ah. Another dimensional plane? I see. What's inside the book? Are you able to read it? [ language wise, not literacy. except boothill. ] There are no books here behind any dimensional portals.
There are, however, weekly "excursions," and apparently strange items are found after. I've been shown... a tongue, a bug. You would have to speak to the living to find out more. They often forget to tell us things.
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[ a tongue, though. yeah, let the living be in charge of preserving body parts, he's good with handling just paper. ]
...there's really been nothing at all about rocks, though?
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Well, it seems you all are making more headway than us three. [ he ISN'T impressed, it just SOUNDS that way. ] Rocks...? Not that I know. The only rocks I have heard about have been from your side, from Cloud. He didn't know much about them outside of rocks at the time.
But the living were only showing us a few things - me, at least. They have become a little better about it.
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essek: "still better than us"
is actually quite disheartening?? ]
Describe the bug to me.
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he makes a kind of brow raise sort of shrug of an expression. ]
A long, thin bug. Looked like a stick.
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A stick bug.
[ WHY ]
That's so far removed from everything else. You know magic- how would you utilize a stick bug in a summoning ritual?
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[ why not...... ]
I can't say. I don't use organic materials in my wizardry. I assume if it is used in some way, it would simply be consumed like any other material would once the spell activates.
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[ do bugs have souls
this is so unscientific, he sounds stupid talking about this, this is why he hates magic ]
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It would... just be the bug. Soul extraction is more of a... necromantic or clerical sort of magic. One utilizes darker forces to tamper with souls, and the other uses healing and divinity to bring them back. But they are never really a component of the spellwork itself.
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This is also only in reference to the spellwork from my own world. I can't say if it functions the same way on other planes.
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[ WHY DID YOU JOIN THE CULT IN THE FIRST PLACE WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE ]
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For several months longer than when you arrived. We work as a unit for certain things, but there is a hierarchy of leadership where many of their secrets are kept. We were vocal initially about not using sacrifices for the summoning, so I imagine they aren't privy to allowing us information.
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I agree: If I were them, I would have you guys killed. You know too much to just let loose into the wild, and you're known traitors. Kept inside, you'll only poison the group.
[ how is it that the cult hasn't had them all already beheaded ]
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I said we were vocal about finding another way, not impolite. They don't know we're traitors unless one of you fools are somehow feeding them information, or being stupid in plain view.
We made a convincing argument about why we should take on this job to babysit you.
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