May 15 19:07:02 <gumbal1> Danielle arrives.
May 15 19:07:12 <Hankolijo> Leonard enters the motorpool, his gear ready for action.
May 15 19:07:40 <teslatornado> Ade wanders in from wherever he was.
May 15 19:08:19 * TheRaven (nodnol.fo.rewot|nevar.a#nodnol.fo.rewot|nevar.a) has joined
May 15 19:08:22 <Nemi> Katherine Voss shows up. Her rib's almost healed! Which means her lazy days are almost over. She's thrown a coat over her t-shirt, shorts, and kneesocks combo, with added boots. The coat is open enough to reveal the words on the t-shirt: "ALL THIS AND SURVIVAL TOO". She's got a hefty duffel bag with her.
May 15 19:08:52 <Nemi> One might say it looks ridiculous. She'd say 'avant-garde'.
May 15 19:09:05 <TheRaven> Will shows up with his usual loadout.
May 15 19:09:21 <Soulless> Gwen is there, looking a bit confused.
May 15 19:09:29 <Soulless> She has in her hands a manilla folder.
May 15 19:09:37 <Soulless> She offers it.
May 15 19:09:51 <Nemi> "Oh, Miss Raverat. They made you our dossier-carrier, huh. Someone with more hands than me take that, please?"
May 15 19:10:05 <teslatornado> "… Miss Raverat?" Ade looks at her curiously. "I didn't expect you to be delivering our briefing." He reaches out and takes the folder.
May 15 19:10:12 <Soulless> "A man came by and handed it to me."
May 15 19:10:14 <gumbal1> Danielle takes one.
May 15 19:10:27 <Nemi> "That's .. odd."
May 15 19:10:33 <Soulless> "He told me to come here and hand it out. I will be returning to my shift now." She has a sucker in her mouth.
May 15 19:10:33 <teslatornado> Ade looks through the folder for the telltale blue pen.
May 15 19:10:40 <Soulless> Yep, it's a letter in blue pen.
May 15 19:10:56 <Nemi> "Take care, miss Raverat."
May 15 19:11:03 <Soulless> Written in neat blue ink. The manilla folder also has suckers for everyone!
May 15 19:11:06 <Hankolijo> Leonard remains quiet and walks up next to Ade, examining the folder as well.
May 15 19:11:08 <teslatornado> "Oh, hello, Kind Man," Ade intones as hr reads the letter.
May 15 19:11:09 <Soulless> They're all red suckets.
May 15 19:11:16 <Soulless> *suckers
May 15 19:11:32 <gumbal1> "Odd. I don't usually get offered candy before a mission."
May 15 19:11:39 <Soulless> The letter details an old logging camp that's suddenly started up again without notice.
May 15 19:11:41 <teslatornado> He gently places one of the suckers in his mouth.
May 15 19:11:54 <Soulless> The sucker is sweet! Very sweet. It's quite tasty.
May 15 19:12:00 <Hankolijo> "I wouldn't personally trust that candy."
May 15 19:12:04 <teslatornado> "Miss Raverat is a caretaker first and foremost. Quite thoughtful of her."
May 15 19:12:05 <TheRaven> Will looks over the briefing.
May 15 19:12:14 <teslatornado> Ade reads das letter.
May 15 19:12:30 <Soulless> Anyone that's tried to explore it hasn't come back, unfortunately, or had suffered from horrific burns with no words to explain their experiences.
May 15 19:12:41 <Soulless> There's a map and a car to drive there, as it's within driving distance.
May 15 19:12:55 <TheRaven> "That doesn't sound good."
May 15 19:13:10 <Soulless> There is signed near the bottom, P.S. Sugar is tastier when you don't know where its from.
May 15 19:13:28 <teslatornado> "Depends on what you think of as 'good.'" Ade reads the PS and rolls his eyes.
May 15 19:13:29 <Hankolijo> "Does anything ever sound good in these briefings?"
May 15 19:13:39 <teslatornado> "Well, I'm in for a ride."
May 15 19:13:42 <Nemi> "Not really a candy type, but I suppose I'll hold on to this." She'll take the offered sucker and stuff it in her pocket. If it was choco, she'd be more interested. "So. Hideously burned folks as our survivors, delightfully mysterious and cryptic warnings.."
May 15 19:14:12 <gumbal1> Danielle pockets the sucker.
May 15 19:14:33 <Hankolijo> Leonard reluctantly takes one of the suckers and puts it in his jacket's pocket.
May 15 19:14:35 <Soulless> Of to note about the sucker: there's no red-associated flavor, like strawberry or cherry.
May 15 19:14:38 <Soulless> It's just sweet.
May 15 19:14:53 <TheRaven> Will's not touching that shit.
May 15 19:15:00 <Soulless> There are also photographs of the logging building.
May 15 19:15:03 <teslatornado> Ade enjoys the sucker. Flavor is relative to him. He folds himself into the back of the car.
May 15 19:15:10 <Soulless> Y'all free to head on out.
May 15 19:15:16 <Hankolijo> Leonard gets in the car.
May 15 19:16:06 <TheRaven> Will hops in the car.
May 15 19:16:09 <gumbal1> Danielle gets in the car. "Did any of you ever get offered candy before a mission?"
May 15 19:16:38 <teslatornado> "Voss did, once."
May 15 19:16:46 <Soulless> anyone driving?
May 15 19:16:51 <gumbal1> Danielle.
May 15 19:16:56 <Soulless> Also, did anyone czare to take a closer examination of the sucker?
May 15 19:17:05 <Soulless> Regardless, vroom vroom! And they're off.
May 15 19:17:05 <gumbal1> Danielle merely pocketed it.
May 15 19:17:08 <teslatornado> "She annihilated a French Foreign Legionnaire with a novelty lollipop."
May 15 19:17:19 <gumbal1> Danielle's driving is pretty good. "Sounds fun."
May 15 19:17:20 <teslatornado> Ade took a close look before eating.
May 15 19:17:23 <Nemi> Voss climbs on into the car. Shotgun, if possible. She's not super interested in lookin' at the lolipop. The big ol' duffel bag's sitting across her lap.
May 15 19:17:32 <Soulless> They swiftly headout to backwater country.
May 15 19:17:34 <Hankolijo> "…You two are just full of stories, aren't you?"
May 15 19:17:35 <TheRaven> "This is only about the fourth mission I've been on. And given how things usually go here, those are probably poisonous or something."
May 15 19:17:48 <Nemi> "Stories come from doing. I like doing. Ergo, I get stories."
May 15 19:18:04 <Hankolijo> "Makes sense."
May 15 19:18:10 <Soulless> Swiftly swiftly. It's quite a boring ride, actually.
May 15 19:18:17 <teslatornado> "And why mine are comparatively dull."
May 15 19:18:35 <Nemi> "He's rather good at describing what all I did, at least."
May 15 19:19:02 <teslatornado> "An endless and near-perfect memory has its advantages."
May 15 19:19:07 <Hankolijo> "All good characters need their narrators."
May 15 19:19:37 <Soulless> Danielle, you're about to hit some bumpy potholes.
May 15 19:19:50 <gumbal1> *safe swerve*
May 15 19:19:54 <teslatornado> Ade considers his previous examination of the lollipop.
May 15 19:20:03 <Soulless> Roll me percep, Ade
May 15 19:20:12 <Nemi> "Ha." Voss is resting her arms on the giant duffel bag and the duffelbag across her lap still. It makes some ominously heavy sounds as it shifts.
May 15 19:20:20 <Soulless> Danielle, you swerve safely!
May 15 19:20:22 <teslatornado> 4df+4 (Perc) fuuuu
May 15 19:20:22 <Glacon> teslatornado: (Perc) fuuuu: 1 (4df+4=-, -, 0, -)
May 15 19:20:27 <teslatornado> (Knew it)
May 15 19:20:33 <Soulless> Y'all are up in deep in the forst now. Trees around.
May 15 19:21:07 <Soulless> Ade remembers that there was a letter on the lollipop!
May 15 19:21:12 <Soulless> But he doesn't quite remember what the letter was.
May 15 19:21:31 <teslatornado> 4df+6 (MDef) to remember?
May 15 19:21:31 <Glacon> teslatornado: (MDef) to remember?: 5 (4df+6=0, +, -, -)
May 15 19:21:40 <Soulless> It was the letter 'F'.
May 15 19:21:54 <Nemi> Voss hums a cheerful tune.
May 15 19:21:58 <Soulless> Danielle makes it to an old, relatively abandoned logging town.
May 15 19:22:32 <Soulless> Across on a cleared hill, the lumber processing facility operates. Its machines above churn, despite having no lumber. Odd.
May 15 19:22:35 <teslatornado> "Hm." Ade turns to Voss. "Can i see your sucker, please? Never wuote me on that without context, by the by."
May 15 19:22:46 <gumbal1> Danielle looks for a good parking spot.
May 15 19:23:09 <Nemi> "Pfft. One second, sure." Still in the moving vehicle, she moves the bag a tad, fishes in her coat's pocket, retrieves the lolipop and passes it to Ade.
May 15 19:23:23 <Soulless> There's a parking spot right by might have once been a convenience store or some kind of restaurant near the lumber mill. For workers on lunch breaks.
May 15 19:23:25 <Hankolijo> Leonard looks out the window. Any signs of anything alive?
May 15 19:23:28 <TheRaven> Will laughs.
May 15 19:23:35 <Soulless> There are trees, skunks, birds, deer.
May 15 19:23:41 <teslatornado> Ade looks for a letter on Voss' candy.
May 15 19:23:45 <Soulless> It's an F!
May 15 19:23:46 <gumbal1> Danielle parks there, and gets out.
May 15 19:24:06 <Hankolijo> Leonard also gets out. "Wildlife seems to be doing fine around here."
May 15 19:24:13 <Soulless> A very elegant looking F.
May 15 19:24:47 <Soulless> Those getting out, roll me a Perception.
May 15 19:24:50 <teslatornado> "Ah! It's also lettered." Ade looks at the others in the car. "Would everyone please check their suckers for a letter?"
May 15 19:24:54 <TheRaven> Will exits the car. Man, this looks kinda like home.
May 15 19:25:01 <Nemi> Voss also climbs out of the car. She takes a moment to place the duffel back in the shotgun seat, zips it open, and starts pulling out gear. Plate carrier, check. She trades her coat for that. Webbing and storage. Check. Pack, check. Shotgun and revolver, check.
May 15 19:25:02 <Hankolijo> 4df+3 Damn it.
May 15 19:25:03 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Damn it.: 4 (4df+3=+, -, +, 0)
May 15 19:25:09 <teslatornado> 4df+4 (Perc) gettin outta the car
May 15 19:25:09 <Nemi> 4df+4 casual gander
May 15 19:25:09 <Glacon> teslatornado: (Perc) gettin outta the car: 6 (4df+4=-, +, +, +)
May 15 19:25:09 <Glacon> Nemi: casual gander: 5 (4df+4=+, 0, 0, 0)
May 15 19:25:15 <gumbal1> 4df+4 hegh
May 15 19:25:15 <Glacon> gumbal1: hegh: 2 (4df+4=-, -, -, +)
May 15 19:25:40 <TheRaven> 4df+3 percep (unless the specialty skill would count, but probably not)
May 15 19:25:40 <Glacon> TheRaven: percep (unless the specialty skill would count, but probably not): 2 (4df+3=-, 0, -, +)
May 15 19:26:00 <Soulless> Everyone picks up a kind of pungent smell. Roll me academics to pick it up. Ade detects some movement coming from the old convenience store, like shifting shadows.
May 15 19:26:10 <Soulless> *roll me academics to identify
May 15 19:26:16 <gumbal1> 4df+3 (ACAD) wha
May 15 19:26:16 <Glacon> gumbal1: (ACAD) wha: 5 (4df+3=0, 0, +, +)
May 15 19:26:22 <Nemi> 4df+4 Sniffin' something out of place..
May 15 19:26:22 <Glacon> Nemi: Sniffin' something out of place..: 7 (4df+4=+, +, 0, +)
May 15 19:26:26 <Hankolijo> 4df+2 Academicano
May 15 19:26:27 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Academicano: 1 (4df+2=+, -, -, 0)
May 15 19:26:37 <teslatornado> 4df+4 I need to put points in this
May 15 19:26:38 <Glacon> teslatornado: I need to put points in this: 7 (4df+4=+, 0, +, +)
May 15 19:26:43 <TheRaven> 4df lol no points
May 15 19:26:43 <Glacon> TheRaven: lol no points: 1 (4df=+, +, -, 0)
May 15 19:26:57 <teslatornado> "Movement in the shadows by the convenience store." Ade points.
May 15 19:27:07 <Soulless> Danielle, Voss, Ade: It's sugar, raw sugar getting processed. It's unmistakeable, the burning odor.
May 15 19:27:28 <gumbal1> Danielle looks to the convenience store. "Anyone else smell burning sugar?"
May 15 19:27:33 <Hankolijo> Leonard checks the shadows. "Do we approach?"
May 15 19:27:37 <teslatornado> Ade sniffs. His nose crinkles. "Yes. Quite pungent."
May 15 19:27:49 <TheRaven> "Knew I smelled something."
May 15 19:27:57 <teslatornado> "I'd assume that's the source of our mysterious burns."
May 15 19:28:10 <Soulless> Ade and Voss can in particular detect its sugarcane.
May 15 19:28:25 <Nemi> "Sugarcane, specifically. That's not something you get around here." She furrows her brow as she slides a few shells into the chamber and tube magazine of her choice weapon.
May 15 19:28:39 <gumbal1> "No reason not to."
May 15 19:28:52 <Hankolijo> Leonard takes his rifle off his back.
May 15 19:29:11 <teslatornado> "Never thought I'd have to smell sugar cane again in my life…" Ade sighs.
May 15 19:29:14 <Soulless> What's Psi-7 to do now?
May 15 19:29:17 <Nemi> "Usually you're processing that down in the tropics." She racks the shotgun and shoulders it, moving carefully forward toward the movement by the old store. Or where Ade points to, anyway.
May 15 19:29:38 <TheRaven> Will unslings his BAR and starts scanning the area.
May 15 19:29:40 <gumbal1> "I say we split up. Some of us go to the store, the others investigate the lumber mills."
May 15 19:29:44 <Hankolijo> Leonard follows, weapon at the ready.
May 15 19:29:49 <TheRaven> "Never split up."
May 15 19:30:13 <Soulless> Does Voss enter the store?
May 15 19:30:14 <Nemi> "Did any of you bring radios? Can split if we keep in contact. I got a few handhelds in my pack here."
May 15 19:30:30 <gumbal1> "We'll cover ground faster if we split up. Potentially even spot an ambush."
May 15 19:30:52 <Hankolijo> "I have my radio."
May 15 19:31:05 <gumbal1> Was the team issued radios?
May 15 19:31:20 <Nemi> Voss shall do so once the radio or not business is settled! First thing, of course, checking the storefront for openings to peek through, potential ingress/egress points beyond the front door.. On entrance quick scan of the room, checking corners and all.
May 15 19:31:38 <Soulless> Yeah, let's say there were radios in the car, with a little 'you may need this' in that neat blue ink.
May 15 19:31:39 <TheRaven> "Does give us a flanking opportunity, true. Just make sure to stay in formation, and don't start shooting without knowing your target."
May 15 19:31:45 <Soulless> Voss roll me percep.
May 15 19:32:00 <teslatornado> Ade follows Voss.
May 15 19:32:03 <Soulless> Ade, just Ade, roll me mdef
May 15 19:32:19 <gumbal1> Danielle follows Ade and Voss.
May 15 19:32:23 <teslatornado> 4df+6 (Mdef) add 3 if Brought Low applies
May 15 19:32:24 <Glacon> teslatornado: (Mdef) add 3 if Brought Low applies: 9 (4df+6=0, +, +, +)
May 15 19:32:39 <Hankolijo> "I suppose we'll have to check the sawmills." He says to Will.
May 15 19:32:43 <Nemi> 4df+4 (+4 if appropriate for her in scanning paranoia mode)
May 15 19:32:43 <Glacon> Nemi: (+4 if appropriate for her in scanning paranoia mode): 5 (4df+4=0, +, -, +)
May 15 19:32:54 <Hankolijo> lumber mills*
May 15 19:33:04 <Soulless> 4df+6 hm
May 15 19:33:05 <Glacon> Soulless: hm: 7 (4df+6=0, +, -, +)
May 15 19:33:07 <gumbal1> 4df+4 (PERC) Danielle examines the the storefront for anything of interest
May 15 19:33:07 <Glacon> gumbal1: (PERC) Danielle examines the the storefront for anything of interest: 4 (4df+4=0, 0, 0, 0)
May 15 19:33:33 <Soulless> Ade, you hear, almost faintly, the sound of a machete hitting sugarcane. But it's gone.
May 15 19:33:40 <Hankolijo> Leonard starts heading to the mills. #Tooltime ?
May 15 19:33:43 <Soulless> Maybe it was just a memory.
May 15 19:33:50 <Soulless> Those heading to the mills, go to tooltime.
May 15 19:33:57 <teslatornado> Ade blinks. "… Voss. Did you hear a machete on cane just now?"
May 15 19:34:04 <Nemi> "Negative."
May 15 19:34:24 <TheRaven> "You guys take the store, I'm gonna go with Leonard and check the mills."
May 15 19:34:32 <Soulless> Voss and Danielle don't notice anything. every so often, out of the corner of one's eye, a shadow shifts around.
May 15 19:34:56 <teslatornado> "Be wary, then." Ade rests his chin on the head of his staff. "I believe something, somewhere, is exploiting my past as a field hand."
May 15 19:35:24 <Nemi> "Seems clear.. Shadows shifting, might be nothing, stay aware." Shotgun in ready position, she'll sweep and clear the store as best as possible.
May 15 19:36:14 <teslatornado> "Mm." Ade shifts his shirt cuffs, readying his derringer for ejection."
May 15 19:37:21 <Soulless> As Voss enters… wow! It's shiny and beautiful!
May 15 19:37:51 <Soulless> A large candy store opens up before you, with open boxes of sweets and candies.
May 15 19:38:07 <gumbal1> "…"
May 15 19:38:20 <Soulless> The tiles below are shiny and white, the ceiling is bright, and sweets of all kinds lay before you in various complex decorative stands.
May 15 19:38:27 <Nemi> "Holy.. This is /not/ what I expected."
May 15 19:38:39 <teslatornado> Ade follows Voss, his face flat. "/Well then/."
May 15 19:38:44 <gumbal1> "I…find that we usually don't find what we expect."
May 15 19:38:50 <gumbal1> "Even so…"
May 15 19:39:01 <Soulless> Jawbreakers the size of small children, lollipops on plastic trees, a display table of chocolate ganache truffles and chocolate fountains.
May 15 19:39:08 <teslatornado> "Yes, this is quite unprecedented."
May 15 19:39:23 <teslatornado> Ade goes to check the goods for that script F.
May 15 19:39:41 <Soulless> F is everywhere!
May 15 19:39:44 <Nemi> "I was expecting more people immersed in boiling sugarcane syrup, but hey.." Voss' eyes linger on the ganache truffles, but she breaks her gaze in order to sweep the store properly. Just ensuring there's no mobile contacts, so on.
May 15 19:40:05 <Soulless> Painted on many of the candies and lollipops and signs are "The Factory!" in pretty letters.
May 15 19:40:11 <gumbal1> (Press F to pay respects)
May 15 19:40:22 <teslatornado> 4df+4 (Ac) The Factory?
May 15 19:40:22 <Glacon> teslatornado: (Ac) The Factory?: 6 (4df+4=+, 0, +, 0)
May 15 19:40:26 <Soulless> "Hello! Welcome to The Factory candy store! You're our first customers!" A young male's voice rings out.
May 15 19:40:43 <gumbal1> Danielle turns to the young voice.
May 15 19:40:46 <Soulless> Ade: Too soon to tell, but…. maybe? Perhaps… The store is bigger on the inside. It's anomalous for sure.
May 15 19:41:08 <Soulless> The young male is dressed in a very crisp, pale blue outfit. He offers y'all a tray of various confectionaries. "Have some of our welcome basket!"
May 15 19:41:20 <teslatornado> Ade looks at the guy discerningly.
May 15 19:41:22 <gumbal1> "…no thanks. I don't partake."
May 15 19:41:39 <Soulless> The guy smiles at Ade.
May 15 19:41:54 <Soulless> It's a different man, but a familiar smile.
May 15 19:42:08 <Nemi> Voss has.. more or less /stopped/ when the young man appeared. She turns away from him to watch the flanks. Paranoid, missy.
May 15 19:42:26 <teslatornado> "You've changed your face," Ade comments idly. "I don't like it."
May 15 19:42:38 <Soulless> Before Voss's eyes, various workers suddenly appear, peddling around. They organize the candies, add more, clean the displays.
May 15 19:42:56 <Soulless> All dressed the same. Only the welcoming man has a light to him- the others smile, but there's nothing to it.
May 15 19:43:29 <Soulless> The welcoming man just smiles. "I don't know what you mean good sir! Please have some of our welcoming treats! Buy one get one free for our opening day only!"
May 15 19:43:47 <Soulless> He is more insistent with Danielle. "Try one! Just one!"
May 15 19:44:09 <Nemi> Voss hisses to the others, "Other mobiles appeared. Seem absent."
May 15 19:44:26 <gumbal1> "May I take one for later? I just ate."
May 15 19:44:37 <Soulless> "Of course! Here, we have welcome baskets for all of you!"
May 15 19:44:56 <Soulless> He hands them all rather elaborate baskets in plastic wrap, filled with sweets.
May 15 19:44:59 <teslatornado> Ade nods once, slowly. He moves one hand slowly to his jacket pocket and produces a billfold.
May 15 19:45:14 <Soulless> "All courtesy of your friends at The Factory!"
May 15 19:45:32 <Soulless> "Feel free to browse at your heart's content!"
May 15 19:45:43 <teslatornado> ~I sincerely hope this is the same Factory I'm thinking of.~
May 15 19:45:48 <gumbal1> Danielle takes a welcome basket. "Thank you…"
May 15 19:45:49 <Soulless> What does Ade do with the billfold?
May 15 19:46:17 <teslatornado> He doesnt do anything, yet. Just holds it. It's a metal clip with folded currency.
May 15 19:46:31 <teslatornado> He goes about and reads the labels.
May 15 19:46:38 <Soulless> Nothing happens, for now.
May 15 19:46:48 <Nemi> Voss.. blinks. Tucks the basket under an arm as a temporary thing. This isn't the time to eat. She's still turning this way and that, wary of all the movements going on.
May 15 19:46:49 <Soulless> The labels are all reasonably priced candies, in fact, they are positively steals.
May 15 19:47:05 <Soulless> There's no dangers here, oddly. It's just a candy store!
May 15 19:47:14 <teslatornado> No strange or out-of-the-ordinary candies?
May 15 19:48:00 <Soulless> There's some that supposedly have unusual labels, in the back. Living chocolate animals, spinning lollipops, sugar insects that sing.
May 15 19:48:22 <teslatornado> Ade takes a closer look at those.
May 15 19:48:32 <teslatornado> 4df+4 (Perc)
May 15 19:48:32 <Glacon> teslatornado: (Perc): 2 (4df+4=-, 0, 0, -)
May 15 19:48:38 <Soulless> They're also priced at steals! All labeled 'from your friends at The Factory'.
May 15 19:49:01 <teslatornado> 4df+4 (Ac) what do i know about animate confectioneries
May 15 19:49:01 <Glacon> teslatornado: (Ac) what do i know about animate confectioneries: 5 (4df+4=+, -, 0, +)
May 15 19:49:15 <Soulless> They're all certainly anomalous!
May 15 19:49:29 <Soulless> The Factory isn't known to make confections.
May 15 19:49:36 <Soulless> But… it's the Factory's label, somehow.
May 15 19:49:58 <gumbal1> Danielle looks around some more. Maybe these are safe, and she can get someone a gift.
May 15 19:50:04 <Nemi> Voss will take a moment to peer into the basket without opening it entirely. What's all in there? She's holding on to the shotgun by the pump's grip, thus keeping it secure under an arm with no fingers anywhere near the trigger.
May 15 19:50:40 <Soulless> It's all non-anomalous sugary and choclatey goodness, with a little card that reads 'From your friends at The Factory! P.S. This card is also edible!'
May 15 19:50:56 <Soulless> Danielle, everything here is shiny and pretty and /clean/.
May 15 19:52:06 <gumbal1> Hm, this looks good. That also looks good. Oh, she'd like that, that's perfect for him…
May 15 19:52:25 <gumbal1> Danielle ends up with approximatly $15 worth of assorted candies.
May 15 19:52:40 <gumbal1> *$8
May 15 19:52:41 <Nemi> "Huh. Well. Thank you much, I suppose.." Voss is still too MISSION MINDED to lower her guard or to buy for herself. People vanished here and some returned back burned. That's some serious mystery stuff.
May 15 19:52:52 <Soulless> Danielle gets 16$ worth of candies!
May 15 19:53:30 <Soulless> The man at the counter smiles at her, an almost pitying and kind smile as he swaps the money and gives her the change. She gets a nice little bag to carry it all in.
May 15 19:53:56 <Soulless> "So will you all return home now, and tell your friends all about us?"
May 15 19:54:08 <gumbal1> "Thank you. I will." Danielle retuns to Ade.
May 15 19:54:27 <Soulless> Danielle also sees the living chocolate animals, and sugar-bugs that sing.
May 15 19:54:33 <gumbal1> "I believe I've retrieved enough for this mission to be considered a success in at least one fashion."
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May 15 19:54:55 <Soulless> Little chocolate mice and little chocolate frogs. Sugar-butterflies flap their wings.
May 15 19:55:01 * TeslaTornado (moc.rr.ser.ynts.0E9906B9-CRInys|tibbiM#moc.rr.ser.ynts.0E9906B9-CRInys|tibbiM) has joined
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May 15 19:55:24 <Nemi> "Yeah. .. Sure." She seems .. bemused. She'll step on outside again with the lil' gift basket under her arm and spend a moment to click on her radio. She's trying to get in contact with the Mill team!
May 15 19:56:30 <Soulless> There is a crackle.
May 15 19:56:45 <Soulless> Voss can hear them shuffling about, probably.
May 15 19:57:13 <TeslaTornado> TeslaTornado Ade goes to retrieve one of the animate chocolates. 19:56 TeslaTornado ~This is abnormal. Very abnormal. I certainly hope that the Factory isn't attempting to branch out, because if they are, this could be troublesome.~
May 15 19:57:43 <Nemi> She'll try to transmit to the others, assuming the outside is the same as it was and there's no spooky ghosts. « Voss here. Shop is a well-appointed candy store, contents apparently from the Factory. Staff seem a little off, space too large on the inside, but no immediate hostilities. Status? »
May 15 19:58:53 <Soulless> Ade picks up an animate chocolate squirrel!
May 15 19:59:00 <Soulless> It curls up in your hands.
May 15 19:59:03 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (PERC) What makes you tick, little squirrel
May 15 19:59:04 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (PERC) What makes you tick, little squirrel: 6 (4df+4=0, +, +, 0)
May 15 19:59:31 <gumbal1> "I suggest you buy one of those as well. I only bought the inanimate candy."
May 15 19:59:35 <Soulless> There doesn't seem to be anything that Ade can see. It's an animated chocolate squirrel! Across its tail has 'by your friends at The Factory!' on it.
May 15 19:59:38 * nulljellyfish has quit (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity)
May 15 19:59:47 <Soulless> Hankolijo> «Roger that. Seems like there's some sort of factory set up over here. Super hot. About to head into the facility now.»
May 15 19:59:47 <Soulless> <TheRaven> «Looks like one of the buildings is converted to some kind of sugar plant. Dark and hot as hell. Weird hallucination effects when we opened the door.»
May 15 19:59:55 <Soulless> This crackles over Voss's radio.
May 15 20:00:04 <Nemi> « Understood. Stay safe in there. Voss out. »
May 15 20:00:09 <Soulless> The man at the counter perks up at the sound.
May 15 20:00:26 <Soulless> "Say, are your friends at our factory? That won't do, it's dangerous out there."
May 15 20:00:28 <TeslaTornado> Ade is right near that dude. He follows the perking-up motion but otherwise makes no comment.
May 15 20:00:46 <Nemi> She glances back. "Do tell?"
May 15 20:00:52 <Soulless> "Could you tell them to come on back, and have some of our welcome baskets?" He smiles.
May 15 20:01:18 <gumbal1> "I could, but I don't know if they'll listen."
May 15 20:01:34 <Soulless> "It's dangerous. don't you know Factories are dangerous?"
May 15 20:02:02 <Soulless> "Please tell them to come on back and recieve their complimentary welcome baskets! Then you can all go home after your purchases. It's quite late."
May 15 20:02:32 <gumbal1> "I know well enough." Danielle flips on her radio. «Anomalous entity wants to warn you about the dangers of the factory you're in. They also want to give you a welcome basket.»
May 15 20:02:44 <Nemi> Voss shall attempt to exit the store. As she does, she'll call over a shoulder, "Of course they are. That's the /point/."
May 15 20:03:24 <TeslaTornado> Ade makes a bulk purchase of something around $150 worth of candies both mundane and animate.
May 15 20:03:26 <Soulless> Voss is free to leave with ehr candies.
May 15 20:03:39 <TeslaTornado> Dolla dolla bills.
May 15 20:03:49 <gumbal1> «Do what you need to do.»
May 15 20:03:56 <Soulless> Ade gets 300$ worth of candies! Ade gets plenty of boxes, pretty and silk and ribboned, to carry his sweets with.
May 15 20:03:58 <gumbal1> Danielle flips off her radio and heads out.
May 15 20:04:11 <Soulless> <Hankolijo> «Understood. Should we head back, or are we okay to keep going?»
May 15 20:04:11 <Soulless> <TheRaven> «Forget the basket, but this place is looking pretty dangerous.»
May 15 20:04:26 <Soulless> The man smiles to Ade, his gentle one.
May 15 20:04:32 <Soulless> Danielle is free to leave.
May 15 20:04:40 <gumbal1> Danielle leaves.
May 15 20:04:49 <Soulless> "Take care! Come back soon to your friends at The Factory!"
May 15 20:05:09 <TeslaTornado> Ade looks discerningly at the man.
May 15 20:05:12 <TeslaTornado> "Mm."
May 15 20:05:20 <TeslaTornado> He follows the others.
May 15 20:05:23 <Soulless> The man just smiles, winks.
May 15 20:05:47 <gumbal1> Once outside, Danielle turns to the Dynamic Duo. "Should we go help them? We might endanger ourselves more than necessary."
May 15 20:05:52 <Soulless> Ade is also allowed to leave!
May 15 20:05:58 <TeslaTornado> Ade exits.
May 15 20:06:22 <Soulless> From the outside, it's a decrepit abandoned store. The windows are broken in, revealing nothing but dust inside.
May 15 20:06:33 <Soulless> Shadows shift within.
May 15 20:06:40 <TeslaTornado> "I believe that place is attempting to induce vivid hallucinations of my past as a field slave in a sugar plantation." Ade looks back into the store, at its decrepit facade and shifting shadows.
May 15 20:06:52 <TeslaTornado> "I'd rather not go, but will if necessary."
May 15 20:06:58 <Nemi> "So. Delapidated on the outside, fantastic on the inside. Hnh." She looks to Danielle, then after a moment passes her basket to Dani to free a hand or a flashlight. She'll step over to one of the broken windows and shine her light on in.
May 15 20:07:57 <Soulless> Voss, it's all dust when you shine your light in from the outside.
May 15 20:08:04 <Soulless> Dust and broken shelves.
May 15 20:08:07 <gumbal1> Danielle looks at her candy. Is it still candy?
May 15 20:08:10 <Soulless> Occasionally a shadow flits out of the way.
May 15 20:08:14 <Soulless> Danielle, it's still candy!
May 15 20:08:24 <Soulless> Beautiful and gorgeous and luxurious.
May 15 20:08:54 <TeslaTornado> Ever curious, Ade walks to the window. He plucks a stone from the ground and tosses it through the shattered window of the store.
May 15 20:09:19 <Soulless> The stone clacks on the floor of the abandoned store.
May 15 20:09:40 <TeslaTornado> Blink. Blink. Ade turns to Voss. "Spot me."
May 15 20:09:49 <TeslaTornado> And then he attempts to clamber through the broken window.
May 15 20:10:36 <Nemi> Voss nods. She keeps a careful watch on Ade as he attempts ingress!
May 15 20:10:37 <gumbal1> Danielle observes Ade's antics.
May 15 20:11:08 <Soulless> Ade falls into a pile of candy!
May 15 20:11:16 <Soulless> He also disappears from sight outside.
May 15 20:11:45 <Soulless> The smiling man watches Ade. "Welcome back so soon! I suggest using the doors next time!"
May 15 20:12:02 <Nemi> "And he's gone."
May 15 20:12:05 <TeslaTornado> "Yes. The store's facade windows are broken from outside."
May 15 20:12:18 <Nemi> Voss really doesn't sound too worried.
May 15 20:12:18 <TeslaTornado> "Do I need to make another purchase in order to leave unmolested?"
May 15 20:12:53 <Soulless> "No!"
May 15 20:12:56 <Soulless> "Why would you?"
May 15 20:12:59 <Soulless> He laughs.
May 15 20:13:22 <gumbal1> "Should we wait? He seems like the most capable person here."
May 15 20:13:28 <Soulless> "We're not holding you by the leash here. Feel free to come and go as you wish! Our helpful workers will clean up after you. Though if you're certainly wishing for some food, feel free to buy more!"
May 15 20:13:49 <TeslaTornado> "Covering my bases," Ade says, clambering out of the candy pile. "No, I ate before I came. Not much of a sweet tooth, I'm afraid. These are for my associates."
May 15 20:13:59 <TeslaTornado> "Something of an early Christmas present. I'm going to assume these never expire."
May 15 20:14:00 <gumbal1> "Come to think of it, I haven't met a task force member more competent than him, aside from agent Tande."
May 15 20:14:10 <Soulless> "Oh, of course they don't!"
May 15 20:14:22 <Nemi> Voss nods to Danielle. "Thinking we'll want to hit the factory proper once he's back from wherever he is.. Yeah? Not familiar."
May 15 20:14:40 <TeslaTornado> "Excellent!" Ade smiles slightly, despite the slightly unpleasant scowl. "Might I be allowed to ask how you maintain their freshness?"
May 15 20:14:50 <gumbal1> "She's a robot that shoots lightning, I believe."
May 15 20:14:55 <Soulless> "Trade secret!"
May 15 20:14:59 <TeslaTornado> "Not via natural means. I've heard of the Factory, though I never would've guessed they'd diversify in such a manner as… This."
May 15 20:14:59 <Soulless> He smiles and winks.
May 15 20:15:29 <Nemi> "Huh. You've got some weird things on your task forces, agent Levine."
May 15 20:15:30 <Soulless> "Oh, it's all natural we assure you. Nothing but the best gets past our quality assurance people."
May 15 20:15:36 <gumbal1> "We do."
May 15 20:16:02 <TeslaTornado> "Natural by whose definition, though?"
May 15 20:16:15 <TeslaTornado> "It varies from person to person, planet to planet."
May 15 20:16:35 <Soulless> The man smiles. "We source naturally."
May 15 20:16:46 <Soulless> "However, the exact process remains a trade secret!"
May 15 20:17:07 <TeslaTornado> "If I were to inspect the processing plant I would, presumably, acquire that trade secret."
May 15 20:17:13 <TeslaTornado> "In a purely hypothetical situation, of course."
May 15 20:17:17 <Soulless> "Oh, please don't! It's dangerous."
May 15 20:17:31 <Soulless> "In a purely hypothetical situation, maybe a few!"
May 15 20:17:37 <Soulless> "Maybe not! We have guards."
May 15 20:17:43 <Soulless> <Hankolijo> «The factory seems a bit dangerous. Definitely anomalous to hell. Awaiting your arrival before heading in proper.»
May 15 20:17:48 <Soulless> This crackles through your radios.
May 15 20:17:53 <TeslaTornado> Ade isn't carrying a radio at the moment!
May 15 20:18:04 <Soulless> "These guards keep citizens shafe!"
May 15 20:18:05 <Soulless> *safe
May 15 20:18:24 <Soulless> "Now, how about you head home with your friends? Tell all your friends about us!"
May 15 20:18:33 <TeslaTornado> "Mm… Hmm."
May 15 20:18:34 <Nemi> « Understood. Okonjo disappeared inside, waiting on him. Got some spatial anomalies here. »
May 15 20:19:04 <TeslaTornado> "And if I were to say that I wished to inspect your facilities, that I may engage in bulk trading with your immediate superiors?"
May 15 20:19:21 <TeslaTornado> "I believe that a financial partnership would be advantageous to both parties, in this case."
May 15 20:19:24 <Soulless> "I'd have to talk to my superiors about that!"
May 15 20:19:31 <TeslaTornado> "Would you mind terribly?"
May 15 20:19:36 <Soulless> "Please come back another day once I have properly contacted them!"
May 15 20:20:29 <Soulless> "We'll let you know when we are ready to discuss business with you, at the Factory!" Smile.
May 15 20:20:35 <Soulless> <TheRaven> «Disappeared? Shit, doesn't sound good.»
May 15 20:20:43 <TeslaTornado> 4df+6 (PRS + Silver Tongue) "Oh, but you see, I'm about to leave on a rather important trip, and I may not be able to engage in negotiations at any time in the foreseeable future, and I believe that not entering into negotiations would be detrimental to both myself and your organization. Would you please be so kind as to call them posthaste?"
May 15 20:20:44 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (PRS + Silver Tongue) "Oh, but you see, I'm about to leave on a rather important trip, and I may not be able to engage in negotiations at any time in the foreseeable future, and I believe that not entering into negotiations would be detrimental to both myself and your organization. Would you please be so kind as to call them posthaste?": 5 (4df+6=0, 0, 0, -)
May 15 20:20:47 <TeslaTornado> (FUCKER)
May 15 20:21:06 <Soulless> 4df+6 ??
May 15 20:21:07 <Glacon> Soulless: ??: 8 (4df+6=+, 0, 0, +)
May 15 20:21:16 <Soulless> "That's alright! We will come to you!"
May 15 20:21:26 <Soulless> He smiles again.
May 15 20:21:35 <Nemi> « He does that sometimes. He'll be back or I'll /know/ if something's up. » Voss is so unconcerned! Now, she'll move on over toward the sawmill's door and wait there in case anything comes /out/.
May 15 20:21:41 <TeslaTornado> Ade sighs, pinches the bridge of his nose. "Fine. Don't expect an immediate response from me, though."
May 15 20:21:50 <TeslaTornado> "Best of luck in your ventures."
May 15 20:21:58 <TeslaTornado> Ade exits the store.
May 15 20:22:01 <Soulless> "Oh, no worries! We'll make sure you will respond!"
May 15 20:22:08 <Soulless> "We look forward to your business!"
May 15 20:22:22 <Soulless> Ade is free to exit.
May 15 20:22:32 <TeslaTornado> He exits.
May 15 20:22:48 <Soulless> He walks into Voss and Danielle!
May 15 20:22:52 <Nemi> Voss waves to Ade once he exits. « And there he is. What's your position inside the facility? »
May 15 20:23:13 <TeslaTornado> "Bloody hardnosed bastards refused to deal with me." Ade sighs, straightens his cuffs.
May 15 20:23:45 <Soulless> Hankolijo> «We're in front of an entrance by it. Second one we've opened. leads to the same place.»
May 15 20:24:14 <Nemi> "Shame, that. Those ganache truffles looked mighty good." Voss nods and proceeds to the FACTORY side proper! Or the sawmill. Scary hot place.
May 15 20:24:22 <Nemi> « En-route. »
May 15 20:24:47 <TeslaTornado> "I was told they'd be in touch," Ade says simply, following Voss and Not Voss off to the mill.
May 15 20:25:11 <Soulless> Voss and Ade (presumably Danielle) meet with them at the entrance! Leonard is looking into a steamy doorway.
May 15 20:25:39 <TeslaTornado> Ade raises a handkerchief to his nose.
May 15 20:25:46 <TeslaTornado> Tries to keep himself from gagging on the smell.
May 15 20:25:59 <Hankolijo> Leonard looks back at them. "This here catwalk appears endless or at least close to it."
May 15 20:26:27 <Nemi> This is the kind of time that Voss is happy to not be wearing all too much. Hot hot hot. She looks briefly disgusted. "What're they doing to the syrup in here? Ech.. Have you tried the catwalk?"
May 15 20:26:42 <Soulless> Ade, Voss, Danielle, roll MDEF.
May 15 20:27:02 <gumbal1> 4df+4 wha
May 15 20:27:02 <TeslaTornado> 4df+6 (MDEF) You know the drill
May 15 20:27:02 <Glacon> gumbal1: wha: 3 (4df+4=0, 0, -, 0)
May 15 20:27:02 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (MDEF) You know the drill: 9 (4df+6=0, +, +, +)
May 15 20:27:05 <TheRaven> "Didn't want to get too far in."
May 15 20:27:26 <Nemi> 4df+4 (+4 if Elite applies)
May 15 20:27:27 <Glacon> Nemi: (+4 if Elite applies): 2 (4df+4=-, -, 0, 0)
May 15 20:27:33 <Soulless> 4df+6 hrr
May 15 20:27:33 <Glacon> Soulless: hrr: 6 (4df+6=+, 0, -, 0)
May 15 20:27:34 <Nemi> Oh noooo.
May 15 20:28:53 <Soulless> Danielle and Voss, you're picking up clothing after your Dominican owners. The woman of the house is heavily pregnant, which fills you with pride. You have seen her grow, and now you will be helping her grow her precious little ones. It feels almost as if you are watching your own daughter. (con't)
May 15 20:29:44 <Soulless> You look outside after picking up the clothes, the smell of sugar and sea hits you. Workers outside are working, and beyond that you see a river where old Haitian women clean. All of them are missing their fingers. You come back to yourselves.
May 15 20:30:11 <Soulless> *are missing some of their fingers
May 15 20:31:01 <Soulless> What'll y'all do? The hallway awaits.
May 15 20:31:07 <Hankolijo> "Ade, you have that shadow ability. Any chance you could jump to the end of this catwalk?"
May 15 20:31:20 <Nemi> Voss shakes her head out a bit. "Hallucinations. House slaves, maids, on sugar plantation. Felt like early nineteenth century, Hispaniola, maybe?"
May 15 20:31:39 <TeslaTornado> Ade ties the handkerchief off around his face. He looks to Leonard. "Fairly likely. Provided the catwalk is wide enough and I don't drop into the pits below."
May 15 20:31:54 <TeslaTornado> To Voss: "Louisiana. Most likely."
May 15 20:32:13 <Nemi> "Definitely felt more like Hispaniola. Owners were Dominican. Some of the older slave women were Haitian."
May 15 20:32:21 <TheRaven> "We've been getting the same shit. Creepy stuff."
May 15 20:32:22 <TeslaTornado> Ade nods.
May 15 20:32:33 <TeslaTornado> "Shall I attempt to cross?"
May 15 20:32:51 <Soulless> Ade, of course, the smell and heat is uncomfortably familiar.
May 15 20:32:59 <Hankolijo> "You can try."
May 15 20:33:00 <Nemi> "Go for it." Hm. Recollections of the source of the sugar trade. Fun.
May 15 20:33:01 <Soulless> As is the dread.
May 15 20:33:34 * ProcyonLotor is now known as ProcyonDinner
May 15 20:33:37 <TeslaTornado> It is. Ade frowns. Dread. He hasn't known that in a while. Condensation forms beads on his face like sweat.
May 15 20:33:44 <TeslaTornado> 4df+3 (HWWIS) He attempts to cross.
May 15 20:33:45 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (HWWIS) He attempts to cross.: 3 (4df+3=-, -, +, +)
May 15 20:34:16 <gumbal1> "…"
May 15 20:34:49 <Soulless> He crosses- and to an open room, massive, piles of cut cane on one side. They push them through rollers, so fast, you know at that pace people'
May 15 20:35:43 <Soulless> People's hands get nipped- fingers lost. They, the workers, there is too much steam to see properly. Some have tails? Ears atop their heads? The juice of sugarcane is red- red with those nipped fingers and limbs. The hallway, where is it?
May 15 20:35:46 <Soulless> You see no hallway.
May 15 20:36:09 <Soulless> Just a large room.
May 15 20:36:39 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (PERC) Ade takes a closer look at the workers.
May 15 20:36:39 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (PERC) Ade takes a closer look at the workers.: 2 (4df+4=+, -, -, -)
May 15 20:36:42 <TeslaTornado> (THANK)
May 15 20:36:51 <Nemi> Voss opts to head down on foot to the apparently endless catwalk. "Going in. Keep your radios on."
May 15 20:37:30 <Hankolijo> Leonard nods. "Right behind you. Someone has to stay posted outside, though."
May 15 20:37:51 <Soulless> Ade, you see animal tails, claws. Ears. Their backs are to you, feeding the cane at that desperate pace. You know what happens if they don't.
May 15 20:38:01 <TeslaTornado> He does.
May 15 20:38:02 <TheRaven> "I'm armed, I'll keep the door secure."
May 15 20:38:06 <Soulless> The steam is too thick to see elsewise.
May 15 20:38:18 <TeslaTornado> He's no savior, no messiah of the plantation. He looks about for egress. No need to tarry here.
May 15 20:38:24 <Soulless> Voss, the catwalk shudders underneath you. It lurches- roll Agi!
May 15 20:38:31 <Nemi> "Understood- gak!"
May 15 20:38:54 <gumbal1> Danielle follows.
May 15 20:38:59 <Nemi> She tries to grab a rail, anything that she can use to hang on, if one-handed! It's not all too daring, but..
May 15 20:39:00 <Nemi> 4df+4
May 15 20:39:01 <Glacon> Nemi: 3 (4df+4=-, -, +, 0)
May 15 20:39:10 <Soulless> She stumbles, and runs into the back of Ade.
May 15 20:39:21 <Soulless> She sees this, but unless she's been on a plantation, this is all new to her.
May 15 20:39:29 <Hankolijo> Leonard follows along.
May 15 20:39:48 <Soulless> Those following also are lurched, the catwalk seems to break beneath you, roll AGI!
May 15 20:39:55 <TeslaTornado> Ade turns. He's still got his hat, still has his kerchief bound about the lower half of his face. "Voss."
May 15 20:39:59 <Soulless> Will, looking outside, they just disappear.
May 15 20:40:04 <TeslaTornado> "Do you remember that Thing We Don't Talk About?"
May 15 20:40:12 <Hankolijo> 4df+3 rip
May 15 20:40:13 <Glacon> Hankolijo: rip: 2 (4df+3=+, 0, -, -)
May 15 20:40:38 <Nemi> Voss picks herself back up. "Ade." She takes a moment to peer around at the heavy steam, the animal-part'd workers at the frenzied pace.. "No."
May 15 20:40:40 <gumbal1> Or tries to.
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May 15 20:41:28 <TheRaven> Will stays by the door, watching the area.
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May 15 20:41:35 <Soulless> Leonard trips, strumbles into the pile of cane. The leaves are sharp- familiarily sharp. -.5 phealth.
May 15 20:41:40 <Soulless> gumbal1: Roll agi!
May 15 20:42:00 <Soulless> Will sees nothing so far, but your friends are gone, to the searing heat.
May 15 20:42:15 <gumbal1> 4df+4 oof
May 15 20:42:16 <Glacon> gumbal1: oof: 4 (4df+4=+, 0, -, 0)
May 15 20:42:17 <Hankolijo> "/Fuck/." He looks up. Is he presented the same scene?
May 15 20:42:18 <TeslaTornado> The steam dampens Ade's suit, the thin fabric of his kerchief, dapples the brim of his hat.
May 15 20:42:21 <Soulless> Yep!
May 15 20:42:52 <Soulless> Danielle manages to avoid runing into anyone or anything! She also comes across the scene and lands neatly beside Leonard, who is just a short ways away from Ade and Voss.
May 15 20:42:57 <TeslaTornado> "Whenever someone asks me where I came from, what's happened to me, why I am what I am. Cruel, vicious, apathetic."
May 15 20:43:00 <Soulless> Will come to #tooltime
May 15 20:43:29 <TeslaTornado> "Aside from a basic inability to process human thought patterns."
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May 15 20:43:48 <Nemi> "Bloody hell it's /rank/ in here." Voss takes a moment to roll down her kneesocks so as to free some of the ridiculous amounts of sweat and hot water from her legs. ".. Ah. /That/ one."
May 15 20:43:49 <Soulless> From Danielle and Leonard's view, they can see the shapes of animal-people picking up and passing on the cane to those feeding the rolling pressing machines.
May 15 20:44:01 <TeslaTornado> "Yes."
May 15 20:44:03 <TeslaTornado> "That one."
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May 15 20:44:15 <Soulless> Soulless> From Danielle and Leonard's view, they can see the shapes of animal-people picking up and passing on the cane to those feeding the rolling pressing machines.
May 15 20:44:42 <TeslaTornado> Ade's eyes are flat. Dull. Farther from human than they've been in a long, long time.
May 15 20:44:43 <Hankolijo> Leonard takes a step forwards and considers taking his jacket off. He waits for the two to finish yapping.
May 15 20:44:51 <Nemi> "Right. Visibility is low. Move carefully, they need some means to move workers in and out of here. Gonna see if I can get Cassidy on vox."
May 15 20:45:02 <TeslaTornado> "Make it happen."
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May 15 20:45:37 <Hankolijo> Leonard nods.
May 15 20:46:09 <Nemi> She clicks on the TRANSMIT button on her radio and holds it to her mouth. Hopefully the steam hasn't fouled it. « Cassidy, this is Voss. We're in a sugarcane processing room along with multiple anomalous persons. » She'll actually take a closer look at one of the animal-persons as she's trying to call Will!
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May 15 20:46:22 <TeslaTornado> "Levine, Stryker, stay close to Voss. Don't get separated. This place is a mangle that feeds on flesh and violence and the mistakes of the foolish and inattentive."
May 15 20:47:03 <gumbal1> Danielle nods.
May 15 20:47:04 <Soulless> Roll me percep to look at the animalpeople.
May 15 20:47:36 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (PERC) To observe
May 15 20:47:37 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (PERC) To observe: 3 (4df+4=0, -, -, +)
May 15 20:47:40 <Hankolijo> Leonard nods again. He stays close, moving as little as he can.
May 15 20:47:41 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (ACAD) To identify
May 15 20:47:41 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (ACAD) To identify: 3 (4df+4=0, -, 0, 0)
May 15 20:47:43 <Nemi> 4df+8 Lookin' close at some weird details.
May 15 20:47:43 <Glacon> Nemi: Lookin' close at some weird details.: 10 (4df+8=+, +, -, +)
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May 15 20:48:29 <Soulless> Knowing what they are, or how they are, is beyond Ade. Maybe he's too far away, mentally. Too many memories, brought to the surface like fish to air.
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May 15 20:49:24 <Soulless> Voss can see them. They are people, but modified. Changed. Mostly dark-skinned or tan. Stitched on tails, stitched on ears. Of those who have hands, they have metal embedded into them, and their eyes are bleeding, for buttons have been stitched into their faces.
May 15 20:49:56 <Soulless> Many of them have collars that have spikes on the inside, digging into their necks. Many more have shining dirt eater masks, over their mouths and noses.
May 15 20:50:31 <Nemi> « Correction. Enslaved persons, badly mutilated. »
May 15 20:50:53 <TeslaTornado> Ade waits for the process of identification to be finished.
May 15 20:51:08 <Soulless> Some seem not-fully there. There is occasional yelling, screaming in pain, but its hard to tell from where- though easy to tell from what.
May 15 20:51:33 <Soulless> <TheRaven> «Just had something come out of the steam and try to cut me up, didn't connect. Any idea what's going on?»
May 15 20:52:20 <Nemi> Makes sense. This sort of mutilation and mindless drudgework would break anyone. Voss starts creeping on forward, into the hot steam. « Negative. Likely where this Factory gets materials for its confections. » She's looking for a door or accessway or something.
May 15 20:52:20 * ProcyonDinner is now known as ProcyonLotor
May 15 20:52:46 <TeslaTornado> Ade creeps after her.
May 15 20:52:49 <Soulless> Roll stealth.
May 15 20:53:05 <Soulless> Leonard too, assuming he follows.
May 15 20:53:09 <Hankolijo> Leonard, naturally, sticks close.
May 15 20:53:11 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (SNK)
May 15 20:53:11 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (SNK): 6 (4df+4=+, 0, 0, +)
May 15 20:53:18 <Hankolijo> 4df+3 Sneeki Breeki
May 15 20:53:18 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Sneeki Breeki: 4 (4df+3=+, 0, +, -)
May 15 20:54:06 <gumbal1> 4df+8 (BVVQ+SNK) SNEAK
May 15 20:54:06 <Glacon> gumbal1: (BVVQ+SNK) SNEAK: 8 (4df+8=+, 0, -, 0)
May 15 20:54:27 <Nemi> 4df+6 stealth! I'm pretty good at that!
May 15 20:54:27 <Glacon> Nemi: stealth! I'm pretty good at that!: 6 (4df+6=0, 0, -, +)
May 15 20:54:47 <Soulless> 4df+6 fssshhh
May 15 20:54:49 <Glacon> Soulless: fssshhh: 4 (4df+6=-, -, -, +)
May 15 20:56:03 <Soulless> You all go without detection for now, and reach one of the walls. Someone is leaning against the wall, clinging to a stump of an arm. Slowly, the steam congeals, and others help attach them a new arm. One of them is crying, reaching up to the high ceiling, as if pleading for something. They pass this, and reach a doorway. Another long hall.
May 15 20:56:24 <Soulless> There are whispers in creyole.
May 15 20:56:43 <gumbal1> "Macabre."
May 15 20:56:48 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (Ac) It's been a long while, but maybe I remember.
May 15 20:56:49 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (Ac) It's been a long while, but maybe I remember.: 2 (4df+4=0, 0, -, -)
May 15 20:56:55 <TeslaTornado> (Fuck you.)
May 15 20:57:11 <Nemi> Voss nods, remaining silent. She'll quietly open the doorway, look both ways, and then step out.
May 15 20:58:13 <Hankolijo> Leonard gives the pleading individual a look. How do the other slaves react?
May 15 20:58:41 <Soulless> You pick up some words. Prayers for mercy. Whispers, asking when its over. Soft sobbing, mourning. Pesi. Pesi. Pesi.
May 15 20:58:46 <Soulless> Parsely. Parsely?
May 15 20:58:54 <Soulless> Yes, whispers of parsely.
May 15 20:59:29 <Soulless> Someone shrieks 'perejil!'.
May 15 20:59:35 <TeslaTornado> Ade continues after Voss. No point in waiting.
May 15 20:59:40 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (ACAD) Perejil? Wat?
May 15 20:59:40 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (ACAD) Perejil? Wat?: 2 (4df+4=0, -, 0, -)
May 15 20:59:43 <Soulless> Voss steps out. The hallway creaks.
May 15 20:59:45 <Hankolijo> Leonard follows.
May 15 21:00:06 <gumbal1> Danielle follows Voss.
May 15 21:00:11 <Soulless> There's a door on the other side, but there's nothing at the bottom, and nothing to your sides, except whispers. Whispers of 'pesi' or 'perejil'.
May 15 21:00:36 <Soulless> Perejil is parsely in spanish.
May 15 21:00:48 <Soulless> Much of it is whispered in the haitian accent.
May 15 21:01:51 <Soulless> Guys, everyone roll me pdef.
May 15 21:01:56 <gumbal1> 4df+4
May 15 21:01:57 <Glacon> gumbal1: 2 (4df+4=-, -, +, -)
May 15 21:01:59 <Nemi> "Parsely.." Voss murmurs to herself. ".. something something.. burden?" Her Spanish isn't that great, mostly going off cognates into French. Nonetheless, she creeps on toward the door— oh
May 15 21:02:01 <Hankolijo> 4df+4 Dang
May 15 21:02:01 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Dang: 4 (4df+4=0, 0, 0, 0)
May 15 21:02:13 <Nemi> 4df+8 I have armour! Maybe!
May 15 21:02:14 <Glacon> Nemi: I have armour! Maybe!: 8 (4df+8=0, -, +, 0)
May 15 21:02:35 <TeslaTornado> Ade understands Spanish!
May 15 21:02:51 <TeslaTornado> 4df+2 (PDEF) Add 3 from Fooled if he's being attacked
May 15 21:02:52 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (PDEF) Add 3 from Fooled if he's being attacked: 2 (4df+2=-, -, +, +)
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May 15 21:04:22 <Soulless> 4df+6 hiss ossh
May 15 21:04:23 <Glacon> Soulless: hiss ossh: 7 (4df+6=+, 0, 0, 0)
May 15 21:05:57 <Soulless> A vat of steaming sugar is suddenly dumped over your heads! Ade, Danielle, -2, Leonard -1. It burns, but you all manage to get out of the way of most of it.
May 15 21:06:05 <Soulless> The door on the other side has a WARNING sign.
May 15 21:06:26 <gumbal1> Danielle hisses in pain, as does her skin, presumably.
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May 15 21:06:53 <Soulless> The whispers are louder. Creyole, broken spanish. Whisper whisper, everywhere in this dark hallway of nothing.
May 15 21:06:58 <Hankolijo> "Damn it!" Leonard grunts.
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May 15 21:07:43 <Nemi> Voss, moving on ahead, only gets burning sugar on her plate carrier, in spatters. She still jumps and hops to try to get stray spatters off her arms and legs. "Bleeding fuck..! You three, how bad?"
May 15 21:08:02 <Hankolijo> "I'll live."
May 15 21:08:18 <TeslaTornado> "Can't die."
May 15 21:09:07 <Soulless> Voss and the gang reaches the door.
May 15 21:09:10 <Nemi> She continues shaking her left leg a bit, hissing irritably. "Fuck me.." She'll go and move on up to the door as fast as possible. A pause to read the warning!
May 15 21:09:55 <Soulless> As they do, they feel hands pawing at their clothes, but can't see them. Hands, pulling gently, pinching earrs and stroking hair. Many of these hands are missing fingers.
May 15 21:10:24 <TeslaTornado> Ade ignores these sensations.
May 15 21:10:43 <Nemi> Voss holds her breath at the contacts, but otherwise.. Warning, read, door, open. Nowhere to go but forward, further into the mouth of the machine.
May 15 21:10:55 <Hankolijo> Leonard is displeased, but carries on. They aren't seemingly harming him, after all.
May 15 21:11:29 <gumbal1> Danielle tries to ignore the feelings.
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May 15 21:12:07 <Nemi> « Team sustained injuries from .. boiling sugar. Auditory and tactile sensations suggesting remnant slaves. Moving further in. »
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May 15 21:13:16 <Soulless> They open, and the room bursts, dissolves. They're in a room of vats. The juice- red from blood, pours in. They are transferred to vats, up high, where people churn the vats by hand.
May 15 21:13:56 <Soulless> Voss runs into a person of caramel skin but the same edits. They turn, and shriek something in spanish.
May 15 21:14:07 <TeslaTornado> Ade listens and translates.
May 15 21:14:21 <Soulless> 'There are outsiders here, kill them'.
May 15 21:14:30 <Hankolijo> Leonard doesn't speak Spanish.
May 15 21:14:38 <TeslaTornado> "Defensive perimeter. Move and shoot. Leave none standing."
May 15 21:14:50 <TeslaTornado> "Voss, take the vanguard, Stryker, ear guard."
May 15 21:14:51 <TeslaTornado> rear*
May 15 21:14:57 <TeslaTornado> "Levine and I will stay to the center."
May 15 21:15:05 <Nemi> Voss knows French and Italian! That's.. sort of like Spanish! She can definitely recognize 'Matarle', though. So when the person shrieks, the mouth is met by the butt of her shotgun, at force.
May 15 21:15:08 <Hankolijo> Leonard nods and gets in the back, rifle raised.
May 15 21:15:10 <gumbal1> Danielle nods.
May 15 21:15:11 <Soulless> The steam is thickest here. Many of the people at the vats flinch, clutch their heads, leap down.
May 15 21:15:29 <Soulless> They bark in creyole, shriek. Ade can hear a few beg, 'let them live'.
May 15 21:15:58 <Soulless> Voss roll melee!
May 15 21:16:04 <TeslaTornado> '{If you touch me, you will all die.}'
May 15 21:16:09 <Soulless> Y'all got the first move.
May 15 21:16:25 <Nemi> 4df+4 I don't think this place has dental insurance, does it?
May 15 21:16:26 <Glacon> Nemi: I don't think this place has dental insurance, does it?: 6 (4df+4=+, 0, 0, +)
May 15 21:16:47 <Hankolijo> 4df+9 (RNG+CV) Leonard picks a target and fires.
May 15 21:16:48 <gumbal1> 4df+4 (MELEE) Punch the nearest hostile thing.'
May 15 21:16:48 <Glacon> Hankolijo: (RNG+CV) Leonard picks a target and fires.: 8 (4df+9=-, 0, 0, 0)
May 15 21:16:48 <Glacon> gumbal1: (MELEE) Punch the nearest hostile thing.': 3 (4df+4=+, -, 0, -)
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May 15 21:17:22 <TeslaTornado> Ade readies to parry and counter-attack with his staff.
May 15 21:17:24 <Soulless> 4df+7
May 15 21:17:24 <Glacon> Soulless: 8 (4df+7=0, +, 0, 0)
May 15 21:17:41 <Soulless> 4df+6
May 15 21:17:42 <Glacon> Soulless: 8 (4df+6=+, 0, +, 0)
May 15 21:18:02 <Soulless> All your attacks miss.
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May 15 21:18:05 <Soulless> 1d4
May 15 21:18:06 <Glacon> Soulless: 4 (1d4=4)
May 15 21:18:07 <Soulless> 1d4
May 15 21:18:08 <Glacon> Soulless: 3 (1d4=3)
May 15 21:18:20 <Nemi> "Bloody well hopinh— hrah!" Whifff. "The steam didn't ruin my ammo!"
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May 15 21:18:47 <Soulless> Actually naw, y'all roll me PDEF. There are a total of 5 of these animal-people, plus the boss.
May 15 21:19:02 <Hankolijo> 4df+4 Fuck.
May 15 21:19:03 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Fuck.: 5 (4df+4=+, 0, +, -)
May 15 21:19:09 <Nemi> Missed a shotgun butt. Bad position to be in. Also bad: Having mostly bare arms and legs. And (unwilling) hostiles already in melee. With metal claws.
May 15 21:19:19 <Nemi> 4df+8 Hit like a tank, roll like a tank..
May 15 21:19:19 <Glacon> Nemi: Hit like a tank, roll like a tank..: 9 (4df+8=0, +, +, -)
May 15 21:19:29 <gumbal1> 4df+4 oof
May 15 21:19:30 <Glacon> gumbal1: oof: 2 (4df+4=-, 0, -, 0)
May 15 21:19:40 <TeslaTornado> 4df+5 (PDEF + I Won't Be Fooled) Tougher than I look!
May 15 21:19:41 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (PDEF + I Won't Be Fooled) Tougher than I look!: 7 (4df+5=0, +, +, 0)
May 15 21:20:35 <Soulless> 4df+6 scratchy
May 15 21:20:36 <Glacon> Soulless: scratchy: 8 (4df+6=+, -, +, +)
May 15 21:21:46 <Soulless> Danielle is badly scrached on the top of her head. -2. Leonard and Ade have scratches about their chests, -1. They hiss and whisper, creyole and broken spanish.
May 15 21:22:22 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (MLE) Ade counterstrikes.
May 15 21:22:22 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (MLE) Ade counterstrikes.: 3 (4df+4=-, -, 0, +)
May 15 21:22:25 <TeslaTornado> (FUCK)
May 15 21:22:27 <Nemi> This isn't a horrible place to be in. Voss managed to hold on to her shotgun, keeping it perpendicular between her and her adversary. Cue a forceful push into the upper chest with the heavy metal object to unbalance the unfortunate slave, followed by a vicious kick to the kneecap.
May 15 21:22:34 <Soulless> A woman asks Ade: 'My lovely Jacques, how did you get here? Run away- my love, you lived, please run'
May 15 21:22:56 <Nemi> 4df+8 [melee + Born Elite ]
May 15 21:22:56 <Glacon> Nemi: [melee + Born Elite ]: 5 (4df+8=-, 0, -, -)
May 15 21:23:00 <TeslaTornado> 'I am not Jacques. None of us are Jacques.'
May 15 21:23:02 <Hankolijo> 4df+9 Shoot these bastards!
May 15 21:23:03 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Shoot these bastards!: 10 (4df+9=0, 0, +, 0)
May 15 21:23:04 <Nemi> Oh nooo.
May 15 21:23:23 <Soulless> 'You have his eyes, you have his face, my Jacques, please run'
May 15 21:23:35 <gumbal1> 4df+4 (MELEE) Danielle tries to shove the nearest one away. Forcibly.
May 15 21:23:35 <Glacon> gumbal1: (MELEE) Danielle tries to shove the nearest one away. Forcibly.: 5 (4df+4=+, 0, 0, 0)
May 15 21:23:37 <TeslaTornado> 'We are being attacked. We cannot run.'
May 15 21:23:43 <Soulless> 4df+6 wow glacon are dicks
May 15 21:23:44 <Glacon> Soulless: wow glacon are dicks: 3 (4df+6=0, -, -, -)
May 15 21:23:54 <TeslaTornado> 'They fall on us from all sides.'
May 15 21:24:23 <Soulless> Y'all shoot a couple of these animalpeople. Their limbs, their flesh, the wounds release hot burning steam into the air.
May 15 21:24:38 <Soulless> 'This is hell, Jaques, we are sinners, this is surely hell, the girl is the Devil'
May 15 21:24:49 <Soulless> She is then shot in the face by Danielle.
May 15 21:24:59 <gumbal1> Danielle cannot shoot.
May 15 21:25:15 <gumbal1> Danielle can shove, punch, slap, kick, bite, but not shoot.
May 15 21:25:19 <Nemi> Voss is aware that slaveowners would often dehumanize their slaves, treating them as animals rather than people. Grafting animal parts to their bodies, though? … This is a bit extreme.
May 15 21:25:38 <TeslaTornado> 'Girl?'
May 15 21:25:40 <Soulless> Err,sorruy, Danielle shoves her away.
May 15 21:26:50 <Nemi> "How does blood even have enough sugar to extract into .. grah!"
May 15 21:27:09 <Soulless> The woman clutches her head, shrieks and babbles incoherently, pleading perejil again and again.
May 15 21:27:09 <TeslaTornado> "It's not the blood from the sugar."
May 15 21:27:19 <TeslaTornado> "The blood is from the slaves."
May 15 21:27:20 <Soulless> roll pdef or agi everyone.
May 15 21:27:31 <TeslaTornado> 4df+5 (PDEF + Fooled) Not much of a choice here
May 15 21:27:31 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (PDEF + Fooled) Not much of a choice here: 6 (4df+5=0, +, +, -)
May 15 21:27:35 <Soulless> TheRaven> «One out here is attacking me, are they hostile inside too?»
May 15 21:27:50 <Hankolijo> 4df+4 (PDef) Will probably get screwed over greatly.
May 15 21:27:50 <Glacon> Hankolijo: (PDef) Will probably get screwed over greatly.: 3 (4df+4=-, 0, 0, 0)
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May 15 21:27:55 <Nemi> 4df+8 tank!
May 15 21:27:56 <Glacon> Nemi: tank!: 6 (4df+8=-, +, -, -)
May 15 21:28:04 <Nemi> Voss is not very tanky!
May 15 21:28:16 <Nemi> "There sure is a bloody lot of it in these great stonking vats!"
May 15 21:28:30 <TeslaTornado> "There're a bloody lot of slaves."
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May 15 21:28:42 <Soulless> Roll agi or pdef, gumbal1
May 15 21:29:18 <gumbal1> 4df+4 whoop
May 15 21:29:19 <Glacon> gumbal1: whoop: 3 (4df+4=-, +, 0, -)
May 15 21:29:37 <Soulless> 4df+6 womp
May 15 21:29:39 <Glacon> Soulless: womp: 5 (4df+6=-, 0, -, +)
May 15 21:29:56 <Soulless> Leonard and Danielle are scrached, -1 each. Y'all turn.
May 15 21:30:24 <TeslaTornado> Ade moves into a position to remove Danielle from the conflict.
May 15 21:30:42 <gumbal1> Danielle winces and falls back.
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May 15 21:31:13 <Nemi> Voss continues wrestling with her adversary, using the shotgun as.. a means to block and parry with. Finally, she'll attempt to push her foe back, get some space, shoulder the shotgun, and fire into the upper centre body mass.
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May 15 21:31:17 <Soulless> Ade, a man shouts, 'that girl of sugared hair', someone else hisses, 'she made her pact with the devil'. 'we should be dead'.
May 15 21:31:40 <TeslaTornado> 'Then kill her!'
May 15 21:31:46 <Soulless> Voss, no need to roll ranged. You succeed, and it blows up into steam.
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May 15 21:31:59 <Nemi> Is Voss' French enough to understand the Creole, or are they speaking in Spanish?
May 15 21:32:17 <TeslaTornado> 'Surely you outnumber her, and no fate could be worse than what you've endured here.'
May 15 21:32:21 <Soulless> Creole is pretty different from French, so maybe 1-2 words. Let's go with girl, sugar.
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May 15 21:32:40 <Hankolijo> 4df+9 Leonard fires at the head of whoever just attacked him.
May 15 21:32:40 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Leonard fires at the head of whoever just attacked him.: 11 (4df+9=0, 0, +, +)
May 15 21:33:00 <Soulless> The pieces of the boss lay on the floor. Slowly, the steam congeals back to the shape of a person, but it's a very slow process.
May 15 21:33:17 <Nemi> Steam up close is not a fun thing, even if you've pushed your target well away. Hot steam makes her step back even as she' working the pump action to bring another shell into the chamber. "You can't /kill/ them! Disable and move!"
May 15 21:33:22 <gumbal1> 4df+5 (SNEAK) While Ade is protecting her, she makes for whatever hiding spot she can get
May 15 21:33:22 <Glacon> gumbal1: (SNEAK) While Ade is protecting her, she makes for whatever hiding spot she can get: 7 (4df+5=0, +, +, 0)
May 15 21:33:26 <Nemi> "Something something sugar girl!"
May 15 21:33:40 <Soulless> Leonard shoots and kills someone! They too burse into steam, leaving their animal bits and metal on the floor. Steam begins to coaslece around thiese pieces as well.
May 15 21:34:08 <Soulless> They don't respond to Ade's shouting, but keep whispering about the girl, the devil, the pact.
May 15 21:34:17 <Soulless> 1d4
May 15 21:34:18 <Glacon> Soulless: 2 (1d4=2)
May 15 21:34:20 <Nemi> Voss will try to press on into the room. "Move with me! Disengage and move!" If any more hostiles intercede she's aiming to blast out kneecaps.
May 15 21:34:31 <TeslaTornado> Ade goes on after Voss.
May 15 21:34:40 <Soulless> Ade, roll MDEF. Everyone else, agi or pdef.
May 15 21:34:44 <Hankolijo> Leonard follows, staying in the back like he's supposed to.
May 15 21:34:48 <Soulless> Except for Danielle… who hid.
May 15 21:34:53 <Soulless> So Leonard and Voss, PDEF.
May 15 21:34:56 <Soulless> (or agi)
May 15 21:35:04 <Nemi> 4df+8 Agi! Voss is really not interested in taking /more/ hot steam or raking claws to her bare skin.
May 15 21:35:04 <Glacon> Nemi: Agi! Voss is really not interested in taking /more/ hot steam or raking claws to her bare skin.: 10 (4df+8=+, 0, 0, +)
May 15 21:35:10 <Hankolijo> 4df+4 GLACON PLS
May 15 21:35:11 <Glacon> Hankolijo: GLACON PLS: 5 (4df+4=+, 0, -, +)
May 15 21:35:14 <TeslaTornado> 4df+9 (MDEF + Fooled) Fuck it I'm adding Fooled because he's already been a slave once
May 15 21:35:14 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (MDEF + Fooled) Fuck it I'm adding Fooled because he's already been a slave once: 10 (4df+9=-, +, 0, +)
May 15 21:35:22 <Nemi> It seems that Katherine Voss is, in fact, a ninja.
May 15 21:36:11 <Soulless> 4df+6 fshhh
May 15 21:36:11 <Glacon> Soulless: fshhh: 6 (4df+6=+, +, -, -)
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May 15 21:36:22 <Soulless> 4df+6 fshaa
May 15 21:36:22 <Glacon> Soulless: fshaa: 5 (4df+6=+, -, 0, -)
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May 15 21:37:20 <Soulless> Leonard and Voss manage to dodge racking gourges. Ade gets another vision in the steam, of waking up to a girl. She's smiling at you, in her eyes you see somethign larger and darker. She has pigtails, and her hair is white as sugar. She is speaking in English. "Welcome to fun!"
May 15 21:37:39 <Soulless> The girl hugs you in that vision, you are scared- you should be dead- you should be dead.
May 15 21:37:44 <Soulless> You are back to yourself.
May 15 21:38:00 <TeslaTornado> Should be dead.
May 15 21:38:01 <TeslaTornado> But not dead.
May 15 21:38:04 <TeslaTornado> Never dead.
May 15 21:38:06 <TeslaTornado> "Never dying."
May 15 21:38:13 <TeslaTornado> "I'll kill that sonofabitch and drag her to hell myself."
May 15 21:39:01 <TeslaTornado> The kerchief bound around Ade's face is soaked, the brim of his hat drips intermittently and his clothing glistens with a thin layer of blood-sheened water.
May 15 21:39:16 <TeslaTornado> He grips more tightly to the walking stick and keeps on after Voss.
May 15 21:39:22 <Soulless> The landscape becomes more familiar to all of you- as if you've been here a long, long time. The steam seeps in, familiar. Strange. You know to your left is the generators, whatever runs this place. To the right is more work.
May 15 21:39:42 <Soulless> A field, somehow. It leads outside, but not quite outside, you know as if it has been carved into you.
May 15 21:39:48 <Soulless> your move.
May 15 21:40:22 <Nemi> "Generators. Move it. Let's take this down. Atmosphere's starting to affect me— follow me." She'll head on LEFTWARD, swiftly swiftly.
May 15 21:40:29 <TeslaTornado> Ade goes leftward.
May 15 21:40:32 <Hankolijo> Leonard follows.
May 15 21:42:33 <Nemi> « Cassidy, if you can hear us, starting to get.. familiar. Factory's knowing us, I think. Going to Generators, hopefully we can shut this down. »
May 15 21:42:45 <gumbal1> Danielle follows, assuming all threats have been eliminated. She follows far enough behind to stop if some bad shit goes down.
May 15 21:42:49 <TeslaTornado> Ade walks along, calmly. Calmly.
May 15 21:42:57 <TeslaTornado> "Miss Voss."
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May 15 21:43:29 <TeslaTornado> "If you find the child with sugar-white hair, bring her to me. Hurt her, but don't kill her."
May 15 21:43:37 <Soulless> There is another long hallway there, more whispers. They're familiar to you, now. You recognize them- like fragments of memories dripping into your skulls, slowly. A grandmother. A child. A father. A lover. They're all related to you- somehow, and you are also all their relatives at once- somehow.
May 15 21:43:44 <TeslaTornado> "I want to see the suffering in her eyes as I pull the still-beating heart from her chest."
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May 15 21:43:52 <TeslaTornado> "And crush it in my bare hands."
May 15 21:44:32 <Nemi> Voss is doing the whole tactical movement thing. "Mister Okonjo." Shotgun's shouldered, fresh shell in the chamber, and remarkably stoic for someone with multiple molten sugar burns on her extremities and an extra-long steam bath. Everything's dripping and not pleasantly. "Got it. Starting to meld.."
May 15 21:44:49 <Soulless> Fragments of memories bleed in- the taste of yams, worn hands from holding machetes, whispers at night away from the masters.
May 15 21:44:54 <TeslaTornado> "As am I."
May 15 21:44:55 <Soulless> <TheRaven> «Need any assistance? This one's freaking me the fuck out.»
May 15 21:45:28 <Soulless> Another doorway, this time to light.
May 15 21:45:52 <Soulless> You can't see past it- but you head soft giggling. Someone is calling, "Mister Sitter, come say my name, like you used to!"
May 15 21:46:17 <Soulless> Danielle makes it through, they don't follow you out here.
May 15 21:46:19 <Soulless> they're… scared.
May 15 21:46:24 <Hankolijo> "…Who the hell's that?"
May 15 21:46:31 <TeslaTornado> Ade squints.
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May 15 21:46:52 <Nemi> « We've been through multiple hazardous rooms already. No logical progression. If it Knows you, maybe you can find us.. » Voss steps on to the shiny doorway to try to see through, even step through.
May 15 21:47:02 <Soulless> A breath of wonderfully cool air breathes to you.
May 15 21:47:05 <Soulless> through the door.
May 15 21:47:16 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (PERC) Ade tries to smell the air.
May 15 21:47:17 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (PERC) Ade tries to smell the air.: 3 (4df+4=-, 0, 0, 0)
May 15 21:47:30 <TeslaTornado> That rag is doing nothing for his olfactory processing.
May 15 21:47:32 <Soulless> It smells fresh- no sugar. No sugar?
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May 15 21:47:38 <Soulless> No sugar.
May 15 21:47:44 <TeslaTornado> "No sugar."
May 15 21:47:44 <Hankolijo> Leonard follows through and inspects the room.
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May 15 21:48:20 <TeslaTornado> Ade goes through.
May 15 21:48:37 <Nemi> "No sugar.." Voss was first through, as usual! Pointman is always the one with the shotgun and armour, for some reason.
May 15 21:48:48 <Soulless> The room through is clean.
May 15 21:49:08 <Soulless> The room is deliciously clean.
May 15 21:49:42 <Soulless> It's white, just like the shop, with boxes of sweets. Inside, you see a girl, maybe 7 years old, with white pigtails that shine like sugar.
May 15 21:50:12 <TeslaTornado> Ade looks at Voss, at Leonard. He drums his fingers on the leather-bound head of his stick.
May 15 21:50:12 <Soulless> She's hugging a darker man, held to a massive machine- a generator of sorts- through wires in his flesh. He bleeds a thick, black blood.
May 15 21:50:25 <Hankolijo> Leonard takes aim at her but doesn't shoot just yet. He glances at Ade.
May 15 21:50:27 <Nemi> That is a /wonderful/ change after all the oppressive heat, the boiling sugar, the whispers and the scent of burning sugar. She's breathing hard, and turns to look at Ade.
May 15 21:50:38 <Soulless> "Mister Sitter! Mister Sitter! I made all this for us, let's play, like you used to! Horsey!"
May 15 21:50:44 <TeslaTornado> He gives a gentle shake of the head. No.
May 15 21:50:49 <Soulless> She sits on his lap, and he stares emptily at you.
May 15 21:51:05 <TeslaTornado> Ade looks at the man on the generator.
May 15 21:51:05 <Hankolijo> Leonard nods and waits.
May 15 21:51:22 <Nemi> Voss nods to Ade and turns to the Sitter. She lowers the barrel of her shotgun, if but for a moment.
May 15 21:51:29 <TeslaTornado> He tugs the kerchief away from the lower half of his face.
May 15 21:51:34 <Soulless> The man's… alive. He's breathing, but he's blank.
May 15 21:51:46 <Hankolijo> Leonard lowers his rifle.
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May 15 21:51:50 <Soulless> The girl smiles up at the man, a desperate, strained smile.
May 15 21:52:03 <Soulless> "Mister Sitter! Please say my name again, pat me, on the head like you used to."
May 15 21:52:08 <TeslaTornado> Ade walks forward, slowly, gesturing to the others to keep his flank.
May 15 21:52:08 <Soulless> She doesn't seem to notice you all.
May 15 21:52:42 <Hankolijo> Leonard keeps to Ade's left.
May 15 21:52:58 <Soulless> Around you, empty wires click, writhe as if alive, against the walls, all attached to the generator.
May 15 21:53:07 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (Ac) Have I seen this sort of generator before
May 15 21:53:07 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (Ac) Have I seen this sort of generator before: 3 (4df+4=+, 0, -, -)
May 15 21:53:11 <TeslaTornado> (FUCK)
May 15 21:53:32 <Hankolijo> 4df+2 Has Leonard? Worth a shot.
May 15 21:53:32 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Has Leonard? Worth a shot.: 3 (4df+2=+, +, 0, -)
May 15 21:53:36 <Soulless> Ade doesn't recognize it- except to know no such technology should exist yet.
May 15 21:53:43 <Nemi> "That must be why there's all the candy. Reflection of her, something.." Voss carefully pads forward. She's just a little jumpy- each click makes her attention snap this way and that.
May 15 21:53:44 <Soulless> Leonard too, recognizes this.
May 15 21:53:54 <Soulless> As Voss speaks, the girl suddenly turns.
May 15 21:53:56 <Soulless> "Hi!"
May 15 21:54:04 <TeslaTornado> Ade stares at the child.
May 15 21:54:10 <Soulless> "I'm Josie."
May 15 21:54:19 <TeslaTornado> "Do you know what hell you've wrought upon this world, child."
May 15 21:54:37 <Nemi> "And where'd they get sugar.. Hispaniola.." She turns to peer at the child, and despite looking quite the mess. "Hi, Josie. I daresay you have done some bad things."
May 15 21:54:47 <Soulless> "No! I'm a good, christian girl. Mr. Sitter said that to me."
May 15 21:55:20 <Hankolijo> Leonard lets the other two talk, keeping his gun ready.
May 15 21:55:24 <Nemi> "This is Mister Sitter, then? He doesn't seem all too talkative."
May 15 21:55:52 <TeslaTornado> 4df+2 (Mind Is A Tool) Ade attempts to figure out a course of action. Namely one that involves a very, very painful death for this child and safe conduct free of the processing plant for the team.
May 15 21:55:52 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (Mind Is A Tool) Ade attempts to figure out a course of action. Namely one that involves a very, very painful death for this child and safe conduct free of the processing plant for the team.: 0 (4df+2=-, +, -, -)
May 15 21:56:47 <Soulless> "I made this place for us to play, because Mr. Sitter was going away- A man of wires came to me in my sleep. Said he could may him stay, we can play. He say."
May 15 21:57:09 <Soulless> Ade don't get anything.
May 15 21:57:16 <Soulless> The girl stands up from the man's lap.
May 15 21:57:30 <Nemi> "Mister Sitter doesn't seem to be home. The man of wires lied to you, Josie."
May 15 21:58:10 <Soulless> A distinctly darker voice echoes through her mouth. "I'm sorry, but your friends at the Factory don't permit you anymore, to leave."
May 15 21:58:23 <Soulless> She giggles, grabs a wire from the walls.
May 15 21:58:39 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (MLE) Ohohohoho no u dont
May 15 21:58:40 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (MLE) Ohohohoho no u dont: 0 (4df+4=-, -, -, -)
May 15 21:58:43 <TeslaTornado> (FUCK YOU.)
May 15 21:58:48 <TeslaTornado> (FUCK YOU.)
May 15 21:58:54 <Hankolijo> Leonard aims again. He tosses a look at Ade. ~Now?~
May 15 21:58:57 <Soulless> Ade, you trip.
May 15 21:58:59 <Soulless> 1d4
May 15 21:59:00 <Glacon> Soulless: 3 (1d4=3)
May 15 21:59:14 <Soulless> Voss, roll agi or pdef.
May 15 21:59:23 <Nemi> Voss levels the shotgun and shoots for Josie's knees. Once this is resolved, anyway.
May 15 21:59:32 <TeslaTornado> Ade thumps to the ground.
May 15 21:59:44 <Soulless> This is not Ade's day./
May 15 22:00:02 <Nemi> 4df+8 She attempts to cartwheel away! Because water, and sparking wires, and her being soaked, make for a not fun time. She would rather not join Mister Sitter in the Factory's generator.
May 15 22:00:02 <Glacon> Nemi: She attempts to cartwheel away! Because water, and sparking wires, and her being soaked, make for a not fun time. She would rather not join Mister Sitter in the Factory's generator.: 9 (4df+8=0, 0, 0, +)
May 15 22:00:07 <TeslaTornado> 4df+1 (RNG) There's a soft *zup* and the click of metal as a derringer is deposited in Ade's hand. He points in the direction of the child and attempts to shoot.
May 15 22:00:08 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (RNG) There's a soft *zup* and the click of metal as a derringer is deposited in Ade's hand. He points in the direction of the child and attempts to shoot.: 3 (4df+1=+, +, -, +)
May 15 22:00:08 <Hankolijo> 4df+9 Bang! Leonard gets the idea and goes for the kneecaps as well.
May 15 22:00:09 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Bang! Leonard gets the idea and goes for the kneecaps as well.: 11 (4df+9=-, +, +, +)
May 15 22:00:33 <Soulless> 4df+8 def
May 15 22:00:33 <Glacon> Soulless: def: 7 (4df+8=0, +, -, -)
May 15 22:00:42 <Soulless> 4df+7 clicking wires
May 15 22:00:43 <Glacon> Soulless: clicking wires: 7 (4df+7=-, +, +, -)
May 15 22:01:19 <Soulless> (Pause a sec)
May 15 22:01:22 <Soulless> (I gotta fuck Will)
May 15 22:01:34 <Nemi> [ o bb
May 15 22:08:37 <Soulless> The girl misses Voss, dodges Ade, and is struck by Leonard in the shoulder. A black, and ugly sludge drips from her wounds. She holds her shoulder, then smiles, not her own- the Factory is here to protect its assets. Unpause.
May 15 22:08:48 <Soulless> Will steps in behind you, into the white room.
May 15 22:09:15 <TheRaven> "Fucking…girl's gotta die."
May 15 22:09:23 <TeslaTornado> Ade turns and swings his walking stick in a wide arc, aiming for the girl. No more games.
May 15 22:09:28 <TheRaven> He swings his BAR up and rips a burst in her direction.
May 15 22:09:29 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (MLE) Only pain.
May 15 22:09:29 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (MLE) Only pain.: 1 (4df+4=-, -, -, 0)
May 15 22:09:35 <TeslaTornado> (FUCKING FUCKER.)
May 15 22:09:38 <TeslaTornado> (THAT'S THREE CRITS.)
May 15 22:09:39 <TeslaTornado> (FUCK YOU.)
May 15 22:09:43 <TheRaven> 4df+8 ass-kicking time
May 15 22:09:43 <Glacon> TheRaven: ass-kicking time: 6 (4df+8=-, 0, 0, -)
May 15 22:10:09 <Hankolijo> 4df+9 "I think it's time we /do/ kill her."
May 15 22:10:10 <Glacon> Hankolijo: "I think it's time we /do/ kill her.": 8 (4df+9=-, -, +, 0)
May 15 22:11:20 <Soulless> Voss gonna make a move?
May 15 22:11:22 <Nemi> Voss aims and fires a load of buckshot for Josie, centre-mass.
May 15 22:11:29 <Nemi> 4df+8 Who dares wins.
May 15 22:11:30 <Glacon> Nemi: Who dares wins.: 7 (4df+8=0, -, 0, 0)
May 15 22:11:35 <Soulless> 4df+8 pdef
May 15 22:11:36 <Glacon> Soulless: pdef: 9 (4df+8=-, +, +, 0)
May 15 22:11:49 <Hankolijo> (DAMN YOU.)
May 15 22:11:59 <Soulless> She nimbly steps aside. Giggles, laughs, a dark ichor spilliing from her lips.
May 15 22:12:05 <Soulless> 1d4
May 15 22:12:05 <Glacon> Soulless: 3 (1d4=3)
May 15 22:12:13 <Soulless> 1d4 naw
May 15 22:12:14 <Glacon> Soulless: naw: 1 (1d4=1)
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May 15 22:12:23 <Soulless> Leonard. Agi or PDEF.
May 15 22:12:48 <Nemi> Voss neatly racks the shotgun, dispensing the used shell and chambering a new one. She's not aiming for Josie, now. She's aiming for Mister Sitter, that empty shell. Specifically for his head.
May 15 22:12:50 <Hankolijo> 4df+4 (PDEF) Deader than a really dead thing.
May 15 22:12:51 <Glacon> Hankolijo: (PDEF) Deader than a really dead thing.: 6 (4df+4=0, 0, +, +)
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May 15 22:13:27 <Soulless> 4df+7 clicking wires
May 15 22:13:27 <Glacon> Soulless: clicking wires: 7 (4df+7=-, +, +, -)
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May 15 22:13:44 <Soulless> Leonard, MDEF.
May 15 22:14:12 <TeslaTornado> Ade hears guns go off and stays out of the line of fire.
May 15 22:14:15 <Hankolijo> 4df+3 (+3 if willpower helps)
May 15 22:14:15 <Glacon> Hankolijo: (+3 if willpower helps): 6 (4df+3=+, 0, +, +)
May 15 22:14:30 <Soulless> 4df+5 hurr
May 15 22:14:30 <Glacon> Soulless: hurr: 6 (4df+5=+, 0, 0, 0)
May 15 22:15:23 <Nemi> 4df+8 i am the best at shooting unmoving catatonic men i am the pride of the royal army (ranged+Born Elite)
May 15 22:15:23 <Glacon> Nemi: i am the best at shooting unmoving catatonic men i am the pride of the royal army (ranged+Born Elite): 10 (4df+8=+, +, 0, 0)
May 15 22:15:38 <Soulless> Leonard, oh god, oh god it hurts. It feels like steam is searing through your body through the wires- and with the steam, lives of people from birth to death. How many times have you died? How many times have you lived? How many times have you suffered? It's enough to overwhelm, almost. You pull through, but the memories don't stop. -1 body.
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May 15 22:16:24 <TheRaven> 4df+8 assuming it's our turn again, Will hammers off another burst
May 15 22:16:24 <Glacon> TheRaven: assuming it's our turn again, Will hammers off another burst: 11 (4df+8=+, +, +, 0)
May 15 22:16:50 <Soulless> Nemi successfuly shoots this guy in the skull! Boom baby. Black ichor splatters onto you- gross.
May 15 22:17:08 <Hankolijo> Leonard grunts, raises his rifle again and fires at the girl again.
May 15 22:17:12 <Hankolijo> 4df+9 Bangaroony
May 15 22:17:13 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Bangaroony: 10 (4df+9=+, -, +, 0)
May 15 22:17:37 <Soulless> However, wipe it, and the guy is there, just with a hole in his skull. He rolls his head back, at you. Blank, broken, overwhelmed.
May 15 22:17:56 <Soulless> 4df+8 nya
May 15 22:17:57 <Glacon> Soulless: nya: 9 (4df+8=-, +, +, 0)
May 15 22:18:27 <Soulless> The guns hit! Oh, they hurt. They hurt quite badly. She is little, and laughs as if it tickles, or it's a game. But she's bleeding.
May 15 22:18:36 <Soulless> 1d4
May 15 22:18:42 <Glacon> Soulless: 4 (1d4=4)
May 15 22:18:51 <Soulless> Will, PDEF or AGI.
May 15 22:18:51 <Nemi> Black. Why black. Is it the black of long-necrotic blood, the black of tar, the black of pitch or oil..? Either way, it's all over her bare arms. Huh. While the others fight Josie.. Voss is fairly sure that the Generator itself is the real key. Any logical way to quickly cut the connections? Or is Sitter too well integrated into the Machine?
May 15 22:19:32 <Soulless> Sitter's entire back is pelted with wires. A porcupine of machinery. Roll engineering.
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May 15 22:20:10 <TheRaven> 4df+5 pdef
May 15 22:20:11 <Glacon> TheRaven: pdef: 6 (4df+5=+, +, 0, -)
May 15 22:20:15 <Nemi> 4df+4 I can't fix a car, but I'm pretty good at figuring out Weird Stuff™
May 15 22:20:15 <Glacon> Nemi: I can't fix a car, but I'm pretty good at figuring out Weird Stuff™: 2 (4df+4=0, -, -, 0)
May 15 22:20:23 <Nemi> Except when not.
May 15 22:21:34 <Soulless> 4df+7 clicking wires
May 15 22:21:36 <Glacon> Soulless: clicking wires: 6 (4df+7=0, -, +, -)
May 15 22:22:00 <Hankolijo> Leonard glances at Voss. "Maybe you can pry that guy off of the generator somehow?"
May 15 22:22:13 <Soulless> You narrowly miss a wire Will. Voss- you don't really know this- you can tell it's some sci-fi shit? Maybe some of the wires are vital?
May 15 22:22:46 <Soulless> Y'all turn now.
May 15 22:23:04 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (MLE) Ade goes to strike the child with the staff again. Obviously his 4 melee means it isn't going to connect, but whatever.
May 15 22:23:04 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (MLE) Ade goes to strike the child with the staff again. Obviously his 4 melee means it isn't going to connect, but whatever.: 7 (4df+4=0, +, +, +)
May 15 22:23:11 <TheRaven> 4df+8 keep shooting at the creepy little girl
May 15 22:23:12 <Glacon> TheRaven: keep shooting at the creepy little girl: 7 (4df+8=0, -, -, +)
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May 15 22:23:32 <Hankolijo> 4df+9 Leonard aims for the arm she's holding the wire in.
May 15 22:23:32 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Leonard aims for the arm she's holding the wire in.: 11 (4df+9=+, +, 0, 0)
May 15 22:23:46 <Soulless> Leonard, let me clarify.
May 15 22:23:51 <Soulless> She embedded a wire /into you/.
May 15 22:23:55 <Soulless> She picked up another one.
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May 15 22:24:08 <Soulless> The memories are still flowing into you.
May 15 22:24:10 <Nemi> She ejects the spent shell, racks in another, then releases her trigger-hand to trade for her entrenching tool. By which one means a nasty folding mostly-metal shovel-like appliance with sharpened edges, useful for making fortifications, trimming sticks into spikes, and on occasion splitting skulls. Voss is going whole hog to the most important-looking wires, hoping that the rubberized
May 15 22:24:10 <Nemi> grip is enough insulation for the current to decide she's harder to travel through than Sitter.
May 15 22:24:33 <Hankolijo> Should he roll MDef or something?
May 15 22:24:58 <Soulless> On the girl's turn, gimme a moment
May 15 22:25:20 <Soulless> Waiting for Voss to roll melee.
May 15 22:25:23 <Soulless> Voss, melee!
May 15 22:25:26 <Nemi> 4df+8 oop!
May 15 22:25:26 <Glacon> Nemi: oop!: 7 (4df+8=-, +, -, 0)
May 15 22:25:35 <Soulless> 4df+8 defense
May 15 22:25:36 <Glacon> Soulless: defense: 8 (4df+8=0, +, 0, -)
May 15 22:25:41 <Soulless> 4df+5 I'm a wire
May 15 22:25:42 <Glacon> Soulless: I'm a wire: 3 (4df+5=-, -, +, -)
May 15 22:26:51 <Soulless> Voss hits a wire, and it bursts out in steam- and shrieking, a most unbearable, girly shrieking coming from Josie. She is stuck by Leonard, one arm useless. She grabs it with another arm.
May 15 22:26:52 <Soulless> 1d4
May 15 22:26:53 <Glacon> Soulless: 1 (1d4=1)
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May 15 22:27:08 <Soulless> Ade, roll agi or PDEF again. Leonard, roll MDEF.
May 15 22:27:13 <TeslaTornado> 4df+5 (PDEF + Fooled) Hue.
May 15 22:27:15 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (PDEF + Fooled) Hue.: 7 (4df+5=0, +, 0, +)
May 15 22:27:28 <Soulless> 4df+7 Wires clicking
May 15 22:27:29 <Glacon> Soulless: Wires clicking: 7 (4df+7=+, -, 0, 0)
May 15 22:27:37 <Soulless> Ade narrowly dodges again. Leonard roll MDEF.
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May 15 22:28:11 <Hankolijo> 4df+6 (Tagging Heroism, if that's quite alright with you.)
May 15 22:28:11 <Glacon> Hankolijo: (Tagging Heroism, if that's quite alright with you.): 8 (4df+6=0, 0, +, +)
May 15 22:28:27 <Soulless> 4df+5 cchatter
May 15 22:28:28 <Glacon> Soulless: cchatter: 5 (4df+5=-, 0, 0, +)
May 15 22:28:53 <Soulless> Leonard, it hurts, but yo'll be alright. It eats at your vision. It's so easy to drown in it, but you're still here. Somehow. You're holding on.
May 15 22:28:56 <Soulless> Everyone's turn.
May 15 22:29:13 <TheRaven> 4df+8 Will reloads and keeps shooting at the creepy girl
May 15 22:29:13 <Glacon> TheRaven: Will reloads and keeps shooting at the creepy girl: 6 (4df+8=0, -, 0, -)
May 15 22:29:16 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (MLE) Ade is still trying to kill this small girl with a stick.
May 15 22:29:17 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (MLE) Ade is still trying to kill this small girl with a stick.: 3 (4df+4=+, -, -, 0)
May 15 22:29:20 <TeslaTornado> (FUCK.)
May 15 22:29:24 <Hankolijo> 4df+9 Other arm! "SHOOT HER ARM!"
May 15 22:29:25 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Other arm! "SHOOT HER ARM!": 9 (4df+9=+, +, -, -)
May 15 22:30:02 <Nemi> Voss continues chopping at the wires hooking Sitter into The Machine. Hey, if it's making Josie scream… given that all the gunshots really aren't..
May 15 22:30:20 <Soulless> Voss roll melee again.
May 15 22:31:17 <Nemi> 4df+8 entrenching into your LIFELINE
May 15 22:31:17 <Glacon> Nemi: entrenching into your LIFELINE: 8 (4df+8=+, +, -, -)
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May 15 22:32:28 <Soulless> 4df+5 !!!
May 15 22:32:29 <Glacon> Soulless: !!!: 4 (4df+5=-, -, +, 0)
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May 15 22:32:45 <Soulless> 4df+8 girl is possessed i swer
May 15 22:32:46 <Glacon> Soulless: girl is possessed i swer: 6 (4df+8=-, 0, -, 0)
May 15 22:33:10 <Soulless> She is shot, and Voss breaks. The walls begin to melt.
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May 15 22:33:41 <Soulless> The girl stumbles, falls. She tries to drag herself to Sitter.
May 15 22:33:41 <Nemi> "Machine's dying! Time to go! NOW!" She'll sprint for the door, dragging anyone who is slow to react with.
May 15 22:33:51 <TeslaTornado> Ade steps on the girl's back.
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May 15 22:34:04 <Hankolijo> Leonard turns and rushes towards the exit.
May 15 22:34:05 <Soulless> "Mr. Sitter, Mr. Sitter…. Mr Sitter, please… one more… hold me… I'm scared.."
May 15 22:34:14 <TeslaTornado> "YOU SHOULD BE SCARED, CHILD."
May 15 22:34:22 <TheRaven> Will hauls ass.
May 15 22:34:22 <Soulless> The man looks at her, cold, unseeing, away.
May 15 22:34:25 <TeslaTornado> The voice comes from the walls and the space around Ade.
May 15 22:34:48 <Nemi> "Ade! Stop fucking around for appearances!"
May 15 22:35:05 <Hankolijo> He tosses a look back at Ade. He continues running. If he knows one thing about that guy, then it's that he can move fast and take a lot of abuse.
May 15 22:35:06 <TeslaTornado> 4df+4 (MLE) Ade brings the staff down on the back of Josie's head. Several times.
May 15 22:35:07 <Glacon> TeslaTornado: (MLE) Ade brings the staff down on the back of Josie's head. Several times.: 2 (4df+4=0, -, 0, -)
May 15 22:35:43 <Soulless> The pipes are bursting, they squeal, they shriek. The voices are shouting- and you are all part enough to feel it, what they're saying. Freedom. Freedom. Freedom. A land blissfully, blissfully bitter awaits them all.
May 15 22:36:20 <Soulless> Ade, you bash the girl's skull in. Her brain matter clicks to your walking stick- you remember this being used on someone else once, in the same way.
May 15 22:36:35 <TeslaTornado> Ade grins. It's a sickeningly satisfied grin.
May 15 22:36:40 <TeslaTornado> And he's away.
May 15 22:37:02 <Nemi> ".. heh. Best thing I've done all year. Let's hope all these lost souls find their just reward, hm?"
May 15 22:37:26 <TheRaven> "Christ, I'm gonna be having nightmares about this."
May 15 22:37:41 <TeslaTornado> His form flickers intermittently as he runs; limbs contracting and expanding wildly, his face warping, the grin stretching around the full perimeter of his head, one eye bulging grotesquely.
May 15 22:37:57 <Soulless> Sitter watches you leave. If you turn back, he has learned to weep. The factory melts around you, hands push you forward- out- away- to the land of the living, for the alive, for new sunrises and loves and children-
May 15 22:38:09 <TeslaTornado> The tears in his skin and flesh are a yawning maw into an empty black abyss.
May 15 22:38:11 <Nemi> "Ade! Stop falling apart on me, we're not out yet—-"
May 15 22:38:45 <TeslaTornado> And all the fires of Hell dance and flicker behind his eyes.
May 15 22:38:53 <Soulless> Go and taste the yams, go and love your families, go and have your wines and drinks, your teas, taste and love the world and experience while you can- all these well wishes push you out, into the cold outside the Factory.
May 15 22:39:28 <Hankolijo> Leonard has a bit of a smirk on him again. Helping save hundreds of lost souls from an eternity of enslavement has managed to up his mood a bit again.
May 15 22:39:44 <Soulless> The lumber mill is silent, and the stars are bright. Below you sits a small box of pencil sharpeners. 'From your friends at the Factory!'.
May 15 22:40:00 <TheRaven> "…what the /fuck/ was that?"
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May 15 22:40:21 <Soulless> Ade recognizes these- they're Factory items, later to be identified as SCP-133.
May 15 22:40:34 <TeslaTornado> Ade's a bit… Not himself right now.
May 15 22:40:50 <TeslaTornado> His head, split to the back of his neck by his jaw, tilts backward, his nose and eyes toward the starry night.
May 15 22:40:53 <Soulless> redact- not pencils, they're a box of waxy material.
May 15 22:40:57 <Soulless> Waxy-paper material.
May 15 22:41:00 <Nemi> Voss stumbles on out with as much grace as she can and falls to a crouch, steam-sodden clothes and skin hissing in the crisp evening air. Her knee scrapes against the dirt and she breathes slowly and carefully. "Pull yourself together, Ade."
May 15 22:41:20 <TeslaTornado> A sickening noise, equal parts gurgle and cackle, oozes up from the hole in his neck.
May 15 22:41:24 <Hankolijo> Leonard takes a deep breath. "That was a job well done, if I do sau so mysel-" He notices Ade. "…"
May 15 22:41:31 <TeslaTornado> The air around him vibrates notably.
May 15 22:41:36 <TheRaven> Will's clothes have claw marks, he's got a burnt bite wound on one shoulder, and he's steamed more than the average clam, but he's alive.
May 15 22:41:49 <Hankolijo> Leonard checks his injuries. Is the wire still embedded in him?
May 15 22:42:08 <Soulless> No, but there's a nice hole where the wire used to be.
May 15 22:42:23 <Nemi> Voss turns her head to look past the warping Ade toward the lumber mill. She pushes herself to standing and, shouldering her shotgun, moves on up to peer to the door. Hopefully just dust and cobwebs.
May 15 22:42:44 <Nemi> "He does that. Don't worry too much, ha. Ha."
May 15 22:42:52 <Soulless> There's no more steam, and it's just dust and cobwebs, and the faint dripping of ichor somewhere inside.
May 15 22:43:10 <TheRaven> "Look, after all that shit, he's barely even on the scale of creepy fuckery."
May 15 22:43:20 <Nemi> "Fuck /me/ that was something. Ade, still have my lolipop?"
May 15 22:43:40 <TeslaTornado> The stem of the lollipop protrudes from his jacket pocket.
May 15 22:44:06 <Hankolijo> ~Yeah, guess I'm going to have to visit medical.~ Leonard thinks for a moment, then takes his lollipop out from his pocket and places it in his mouth.
May 15 22:44:32 <Soulless> The lollipop is very very red, but has no red-associated flavoring.
May 15 22:44:40 <Nemi> She'll turn away from the dusty lumber mill and pull it out. If it still looks good, well. She'll open it up and put it in her mouth. Even knowing where it came from doesn't bother her when she's in need of something sweet. ".. gonna doublecheck the store."
May 15 22:44:54 <Soulless> It's just sweet- sweet sugary, red goodness. Possibly unbleached, and the red is blood.
May 15 22:45:12 <Nemi> So, with stem from her mouth and swishing from side to side, Voss walks on over to the delapidated storefront and sticks her head in.
May 15 22:45:38 <Hankolijo> Leonard just heads straight for the car.
May 15 22:45:52 <Soulless> Nothing, just emptiness. But there's- there's a stack of those pale blue clothes.
May 15 22:45:54 <TeslaTornado> The eight foot tall, twisted simulacra of Ade's human body remains where it was standing when it exited the plant.
May 15 22:46:18 <Soulless> Neatly folded, as if carefully left there on the floor. That smiling cashier's clothes.
May 15 22:46:45 <Nemi> Voss carefully retrieves a pair of gloves, sodden as they might be, and pulls them on. She approaches the clothing and aims to pick it up, look it over. General inspection.
May 15 22:46:49 <TheRaven> "We just…helped them, right?"
May 15 22:47:55 <Hankolijo> Leonard waits by the car, leaning against its side. ~We really could have used a medic on this mission.~
May 15 22:49:16 <Soulless> The clothes look normal!
May 15 22:49:19 <Soulless> Odd, very odd.
May 15 22:50:04 <Soulless> Leonard, the car is fresh- it doesn't smell like sugar.
May 15 22:50:07 <TheRaven> Will safes his BAR (don't want to be riding around bumpy back roads with a loaded open-bolt gun) and sits on the hood of the car. "Fuck."
May 15 22:50:25 <Nemi> If nothing comes on out of the cashier's uniform, she's retrieving a secure case from her pack and stuffing them in there. Who knows what it might evince? But it belonged to something anomalous, so she's not gonna just leave it. Soon after, she exits the store and walks toward Ade, case under an arm and shotgun slung over a shoulder. She looks like shit but carries herself well. "Hey,
May 15 22:50:25 <Nemi> fuckhead. Pull yourself together. Or are you gonna just meet us back home later?"
May 15 22:50:47 <Soulless> The little box of SCP-133 is still there.
May 15 22:51:06 <Soulless> It's probably something Voss and Ade have come across before in their acquisitions work.
May 15 22:51:25 <TeslaTornado> The quasi-hinged head moves downward with a sickening ribbon of popping noises - presumably the shattering of the remaining vertebrae in Ade's neck.
May 15 22:51:43 <TeslaTornado> The upper portion tilts back and the air vibrates. I'LL RETURN LATER.
May 15 22:52:03 <Nemi> ".. he-llo, portable holes. Factory, you're certainly something." She'll retrieve that lil' box too. A little overloaded. "A'ight. I'll see you then."
May 15 22:52:06 <TeslaTornado> His empty hand, grown too large for its limb, pushes the box toward Voss. THESE MAY BE OF USE.
May 15 22:52:17 <Hankolijo> Leonard unloads his Garand and puts it in the back of the car, waiting for Voss.
May 15 22:52:57 <Nemi> And she turns away from the unraveling Ade, places the lil' box atop the secure case, and walks off. She makes a wave over her shoulder. Back to the car, time to drop her gear into the duffel, move the recovered items… Say, the candy people bought still there?
May 15 22:54:06 <Soulless> Yep!
May 15 22:54:19 <Soulless> The candy is still there, sweet, glistening, beautiful.
May 15 22:54:28 <Soulless> All the boxes Ade bought too, it's all there.
May 15 22:54:39 <Hankolijo> Leonard gets in the car and closes his eyes.
May 15 22:54:47 * TheRaven has quit (Quit: Sail away where no ball and chain can keep us from the roarin' waves, together undivided but forever we'll be free!)
May 15 22:54:48 <Nemi> "I'll drive. You guys look like you need to take it easy. Steam burns are bloody /nasty/." She'll dump her stuff, and sodden and rather miserable looking except for that faint smile of a job well done, Voss hops into the driver's seat, starts the engine..
May 15 22:54:51 <Nemi> And rolls on off.
May 15 22:55:07 <Soulless> You're on home!
May 15 19:34:45 <Hankolijo> Leonard is heading to the mills!
May 15 19:34:56 <Soulless> the Mill churns and churns on wood that doesn't exist.
May 15 19:35:01 <Soulless> The smell is stronger.
May 15 19:35:23 <Hankolijo> 4df+3 Trying to deduce where it's coming from, exactly.
May 15 19:35:23 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Trying to deduce where it's coming from, exactly.: 2 (4df+3=-, 0, 0, 0)
May 15 19:35:28 <TheRaven> Will is with Leonard, since Voss pretty much has the other group covered for fighty.
May 15 19:36:36 <Soulless> Leonard can't tell.
May 15 19:36:39 <Soulless> It's stifling.
May 15 19:36:43 <Hankolijo> "Can you tell where that smell is coming from?"
May 15 19:37:13 <TheRaven> 4df+3 might as well try
May 15 19:37:14 <Glacon> TheRaven: might as well try: 2 (4df+3=0, -, +, -)
May 15 19:37:28 <TheRaven> "Nope."
May 15 19:38:38 <Hankolijo> Leonard nods and heads onward, into the facility.
May 15 19:39:11 <TheRaven> Will follows, watching closely for anything odd.
May 15 19:39:12 <Soulless> There is a rickety door.
May 15 19:39:33 <Soulless> A relatively new sign, newer than the rest of the rusted building, reads: FACTORY PERSONNEL ONLY, ALL OTHERS KEEP OUT
May 15 19:40:58 <Hankolijo> "Factory? Wonder what they're making in there." Leonard gestures for Will to cover him, opening the door, rifle at the ready.
May 15 19:41:17 <Soulless> The door is locked.
May 15 19:41:25 <Soulless> In fact, roll me PDEF Leonard.
May 15 19:41:36 <Hankolijo> 4df+4 Butts
May 15 19:41:36 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Butts: 4 (4df+4=-, +, +, -)
May 15 19:43:48 <Hankolijo> (Soul?)
May 15 19:43:57 <Soulless> 4df+4 sizzle
May 15 19:43:58 <Glacon> Soulless: sizzle: 5 (4df+4=0, -, +, +)
May 15 19:44:05 <Soulless> Hot hot hot!
May 15 19:44:19 <Soulless> That is not only locked, but the door is unbearably hot! -.5 Body.
May 15 19:44:48 <Hankolijo> Leonard retracts his hand. "Son of a… Don't touch the door."
May 15 19:45:24 <TheRaven> "Guess we know where the burns were coming from. Try to break it down, maybe?"
May 15 19:46:04 <Hankolijo> Leonard nods. "We can try. Don't let it touch your skin, though."
May 15 19:47:21 <Hankolijo> 4df+4 (Str) Leonard attempts to kick down the door!
May 15 19:47:21 <Glacon> Hankolijo: (Str) Leonard attempts to kick down the door!: 6 (4df+4=+, +, +, -)
May 15 19:48:06 <Soulless> The doot is broken down.
May 15 19:48:16 <Soulless> A horrible heat hits you, fuming, choking.
May 15 19:48:24 <TheRaven> "Ugh, christ."
May 15 19:48:38 <Hankolijo> Leonard takes a step back. "God damn!"
May 15 19:48:49 <Soulless> Roll me MDEF, both of ye.
May 15 19:49:21 <Hankolijo> 4df+3 (+3 if somehow willpower based.)
May 15 19:49:22 <Glacon> Hankolijo: (+3 if somehow willpower based.): 2 (4df+3=0, 0, 0, -)
May 15 19:50:26 <TheRaven> 4df+4
May 15 19:50:27 <Glacon> TheRaven: 3 (4df+4=-, +, -, 0)
May 15 19:51:06 <Soulless> 4df+6 Fizzle Quip.
May 15 19:51:08 <Glacon> Soulless: Fizzle Quip.: 5 (4df+6=+, -, 0, -)
May 15 19:52:15 <Soulless> Leonard and Will both hear it, the sound of a machete hitting cane. Someone to the left of you shouts in a language from a neighbouring tribe that isn't your native tongue. Look down, your dark hands have been worn of all their marks, worn from holding blades and harvesting the cane.
May 15 19:52:35 <Soulless> The vision lasts a moment.
May 15 19:53:22 <TheRaven> "What the hell…"
May 15 19:53:26 <Hankolijo> "…Did you see that as well, or am I going crazy?"
May 15 19:54:23 <Hankolijo> Leonard looks into the 'Factory'.
May 15 19:54:36 <TheRaven> "Yeah, I think I did."
May 15 19:55:05 <Soulless> Leonard, it's dark, dark and steaming.
May 15 19:55:24 <Soulless> It's familiar to you, somehow. Familiar like remembering a hopeless, hopeless reality.
May 15 19:55:35 <Hankolijo> He produces his flashlight and flicks it on!
May 15 19:55:48 <Soulless> There's a long, creaking hallway.
May 15 19:56:03 <Soulless> It seems like it's above some kind of pit.
May 15 19:56:24 <Soulless> Your radios crackle as Voss turns her radio on.
May 15 19:56:29 <Hankolijo> Can he see what's at the bottom of the pit?
May 15 19:56:52 <Soulless> Not at this angle.
May 15 19:57:15 <TheRaven> "Hang on, think the others are trying to get us on the radios."
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May 15 19:57:25 <Hankolijo> Leonard nods and stops.
May 15 19:58:30 <Soulless> « Voss here. Shop is a well-appointed candy store, contents apparently from the Factory. Staff seem a little off, space too large on the inside, but no immediate hostilities. Status? »
May 15 19:58:40 <Soulless> This crackles from y'all radios.
May 15 19:59:20 <Hankolijo> «Roger that. Seems like there's some sort of factory set up over here. Super hot. About to head into the facility now.»
May 15 19:59:43 <TheRaven> «Looks like one of the buildings is converted to some kind of sugar plant. Dark and hot as hell. Weird hallucination effects when we opened the door.»
May 15 20:01:01 <Soulless> « Understood. Stay safe in there. Voss out. »
May 15 20:01:32 <Hankolijo> "Let's get going, then. Got a flashlight on you?" He tests the floor of the hallway before stepping forward. Is it safe and stable?
May 15 20:01:51 <TheRaven> "Nope, you?"
May 15 20:02:19 <Soulless> The hallway creaks. It's not really a hallway, you realize. It's a catwalk.
May 15 20:02:44 <Soulless> There is a lot of steam, so much that it's hard to look down, and it's scary to.
May 15 20:02:58 <Soulless> «Anomalous entity wants to warn you about the dangers of the factory you're in. They also want to give you a welcome basket.»
May 15 20:03:04 <Soulless> Danielle crackles on your radios!
May 15 20:03:08 <Hankolijo> There's one in his hand. "Yeah." Leonard takes a careful step forward, his rifle and flashlight pointed forward.
May 15 20:03:25 <Hankolijo> «Understood. Should we head back, or are we okay to keep going?»
May 15 20:03:26 <TheRaven> «Forget the basket, but this place is looking pretty dangerous.»
May 15 20:04:07 <Soulless> «Do what you need to do.» from Danielle.
May 15 20:04:52 <TheRaven> "I'm thinking head back and clear this place from the outside if we can. Remember all the burns in the briefing?"
May 15 20:04:54 <Hankolijo> Leonard nods to himself and starts going down the catwalk, paying as much attention to the sound below his feet as he can. Last thing he wants to do now is plummet to his doom.
May 15 20:04:57 <Hankolijo> Redact.
May 15 20:05:13 <Hankolijo> Leonard nods. "Sounds like a plan."
May 15 20:06:10 <Hankolijo> he heads back out and examines the building. Any other entrances?
May 15 20:06:14 <TheRaven> Will backs out through the door.
May 15 20:07:06 <Soulless> There are a few!
May 15 20:07:12 <Soulless> They're all old, and have the warning signs.
May 15 20:07:30 <Hankolijo> Leonard moves over to the next entrance. Is it exactly the same as the last one?
May 15 20:08:33 <Soulless> Oddly, yes! It's very hot.
May 15 20:08:44 <Hankolijo> 4df+4 Kick 'em down
May 15 20:08:44 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Kick 'em down: 2 (4df+4=0, -, 0, -)
May 15 20:08:52 <Soulless> The door opens easily and- the same hallway greets you?
May 15 20:09:00 <Soulless> The same steam, too.
May 15 20:09:03 <Soulless> Roll me MDEF.
May 15 20:09:12 <Hankolijo> 4df+3 Gotta be shitting me.
May 15 20:09:12 <Glacon> Hankolijo: Gotta be shitting me.: 6 (4df+3=0, +, +, +)
May 15 20:09:15 <TheRaven> 4df+4 not again
May 15 20:09:16 <Glacon> TheRaven: not again: 2 (4df+4=-, 0, 0, -)
May 15 20:09:29 <Soulless> 4df+5 fsst
May 15 20:09:30 <Glacon> Soulless: fsst: 6 (4df+5=0, +, +, -)
May 15 20:10:36 <Soulless> Leonard doesn't get anything, but Will gets someone shouting in French to your ears. You don't understand- you couldn't understand. He shoves some kind of mask on you, to keep you from eating the dirt. To keep you from killing yourself.
May 15 20:10:53 <Soulless> Then you're back to yourself.
May 15 20:11:34 <Hankolijo> "Huh. Nothing this time."
May 15 20:11:41 <TheRaven> "Ugh, I did."
May 15 20:12:00 <Hankolijo> "Oh. What was it this time? Same deal?"
May 15 20:12:55 <TheRaven> "Same thing, slave or something."
May 15 20:14:10 <Hankolijo> Leonard nods. "All the entrances lead to the same catwalk, I assume. Got any other ideas, or should we just head in?"
May 15 20:15:13 <TheRaven> "Thinking we should get the rest, don't like the idea of going in blind like this."
May 15 20:15:26 <Hankolijo> Leonard nods and turns on his radio.
May 15 20:16:07 <Hankolijo> «The factory seems a bit dangerous. Definitely anomalous to hell. Awaiting your arrival before heading in proper.»
May 15 20:18:38 <Soulless> <Nemi> « Understood. Okonjo disappeared inside, waiting on him. Got some spatial anomalies here. »
May 15 20:19:23 <Hankolijo> Leonard shines his flashlight into the room. Can he see the other wall, if there is one?
May 15 20:19:44 <TheRaven> «Disappeared? Shit, doesn't sound good.»
May 15 20:20:50 <Soulless> Leonard..nothing.
May 15 20:20:57 <Soulless> It's just a seemingly endless hallway.
May 15 20:21:44 <Hankolijo> "Either this here hallway is really, /really/ long, or there is simply no end to it." Leonard notes.
May 15 20:21:45 <Soulless> <Nemi> « He does that sometimes. He'll be back or I'll /know/ if something's up. »
May 15 20:22:42 <TheRaven> "This is looking like some weird shit."
May 15 20:23:02 <Soulless> « And there he is. What's your position inside the facility? »
May 15 20:23:03 <Soulless> From Voss
May 15 20:23:14 <Hankolijo> "Weird shit might as well be normal shit if I've learned anything in my time working here."
May 15 20:23:38 <Hankolijo> «We're in front of an entrance by it. Second one we've opened. leads to the same place.»
May 15 20:23:41 <Soulless> The steam of burning sugar is horrible.
May 15 20:24:04 <Soulless> The more you smell it, the more you want to be away.
May 15 20:24:43 <Soulless> Voss starts to show up nearby. Head to #homeimprovement
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May 15 20:44:43 <Soulless> Will, roll me agi.
May 15 20:44:59 <TheRaven> 4df+2 craaaaap
May 15 20:44:59 <Glacon> TheRaven: craaaaap: 3 (4df+2=+, +, -, 0)
May 15 20:45:19 <Soulless> 4df+3 hiss
May 15 20:45:20 <Glacon> Soulless: hiss: 5 (4df+3=+, +, +, -)
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May 15 20:46:18 <Soulless> The steam suddenly lurches, coalesces into a person, with a squirrel's tail and ears. You can see the shining of a dirt eater's mask on their face, collarswith sharp nails pricking inwards. They claw at you with metal embedded in their hands.
May 15 20:46:38 <Soulless> You can see instead of eyes, they have stitched buttons, and bleed. -1 body as you are scrached on the shoulder.
May 15 20:46:48 <Soulless> « Cassidy, this is Voss. We're in a sugarcane processing room along with multiple anomalous persons. »
May 15 20:47:45 <Soulless> (nevermind the -1 body, roll me pdef)
May 15 20:48:01 <TheRaven> 4df+5
May 15 20:48:01 <Glacon> TheRaven: 5 (4df+5=0, -, 0, +)
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May 15 20:50:16 <Soulless> It hits somewhere, and just cuts his clothes.
May 15 20:50:37 <Soulless> Nemi> « Correction. Enslaved persons, badly mutilated. »
May 15 20:51:21 <TheRaven> «Just had something come out of the steam and try to cut me up, didn't connect. Any idea what's going on?»
May 15 20:52:12 <Soulless> The human person seems not fully there- their skin wisps into the air like steam. They growl, and shout in creyole.
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May 15 20:52:27 <Soulless> « Negative. Likely where this Factory gets materials for its confections. »
May 15 20:53:56 <TheRaven> "I'm not here to hurt you." He tries to look as nonthreatening as he can…which is probably not very.
May 15 20:54:14 <Soulless> It shouts again in creyole, and swipes at him again.
May 15 20:54:20 <Soulless> 4df+3 hiss
May 15 20:54:21 <Glacon> Soulless: hiss: 1 (4df+3=-, -, -, +)
May 15 20:55:35 <TheRaven> 4df+5 can't actually fail this
May 15 20:55:36 <Glacon> TheRaven: can't actually fail this: 3 (4df+5=-, +, -, -)
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May 15 20:56:31 <Soulless> It misses!
May 15 20:56:53 <Soulless> It chatters, grabs its collar, scratches at it, and clutches its head.
May 15 20:57:09 <TheRaven> "Wait…you want help getting that off?"
May 15 21:01:04 <Soulless> It hisses, steam from its mouth.
May 15 21:01:07 <Soulless> It lashes at you.
May 15 21:01:11 <Soulless> 4df+3 hiss
May 15 21:01:12 <Glacon> Soulless: hiss: 6 (4df+3=+, 0, +, +)
May 15 21:02:02 <TheRaven> 4df+5 this may hurt
May 15 21:02:03 <Glacon> TheRaven: this may hurt: 4 (4df+5=0, -, -, +)
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May 15 21:06:13 <Soulless> It misses again!
May 15 21:06:19 <Soulless> It shrieks, a human screech.
May 15 21:06:28 <Soulless> Hisses again in creyole at you.
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May 15 21:07:14 <TheRaven> "Stop, goddammit! We're not here to hurt you."
May 15 21:08:12 <Soulless> It shrieks, and sobbs, hugging itself.
May 15 21:08:33 <Soulless> There is the sound of a whip's lash, and it leaps to Will. Roll MDEF.
May 15 21:09:14 <TheRaven> 4df+4 crap
May 15 21:09:14 <Glacon> TheRaven: crap: 5 (4df+4=0, 0, +, 0)
May 15 21:10:04 <Soulless> 4df+6 Screech
May 15 21:10:04 <Glacon> Soulless: Screech: 7 (4df+6=+, +, 0, -)
May 15 21:11:52 <Soulless> Will, you are begging for life, desperately screaming parsley in a language you aren't fluent in. The world goes dark, and you awake in steam. You are in pain, you don't know where you are. A girl with hair as white as sugar in pigtails smiles to you. "Welcome to the Factory! Come, help us make candy!" Behind her, a man is attached to a generator by wires. He looks on at you, helplessly, empty.
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May 15 21:12:04 <Soulless> -1 mental health.
May 15 21:12:16 <Soulless> You are slammed down, and come back to the monster-person on top of you, holding you down.
May 15 21:12:21 <Soulless> Nemi> « Team sustained injuries from .. boiling sugar. Auditory and tactile sensations suggesting remnant slaves. Moving further in. »
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May 15 21:13:13 <TheRaven> He reaches for the straps holding its mask on.
May 15 21:14:10 <Soulless> It doesn't resist.
May 15 21:14:25 <TheRaven> If possible, he takes the mask off.
May 15 21:16:30 <Soulless> The mask is removed. Thhere's no skin underneath.
May 15 21:16:36 <Soulless> There's just bone.
May 15 21:16:54 <Soulless> White, white bone.
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May 15 21:17:47 <TheRaven> "Fucking hell…"
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May 15 21:19:00 <Soulless> It tries to bite yor shoulder!
May 15 21:19:03 <Soulless> Roll me pdef.
May 15 21:19:13 <TheRaven> 4df+5 this was a bad idea
May 15 21:19:14 <Glacon> TheRaven: this was a bad idea: 4 (4df+5=0, -, 0, 0)
May 15 21:19:28 <Soulless> 4df+4 bite
May 15 21:19:29 <Glacon> Soulless: bite: 6 (4df+4=+, +, -, +)
May 15 21:19:53 <Soulless> It bites into your shoulder- hard. It's lucky- or unlucky- that its teeth are hot enough to cauterize any bleeding.
May 15 21:21:25 <TheRaven> "Goddammit!"
May 15 21:21:38 <TheRaven> 4df+5 melee to knock it off
May 15 21:21:39 <Glacon> TheRaven: melee to knock it off: 6 (4df+5=0, +, 0, 0)
May 15 21:25:04 <Soulless> 4df+5 pffh
May 15 21:25:05 <Glacon> Soulless: pffh: 5 (4df+5=0, 0, 0, 0)
May 15 21:25:08 <Soulless> It is knocked off!
May 15 21:25:20 <Soulless> It shrieks and wails in creyole. It hisses pesi at you, again and again.
May 15 21:25:31 <TheRaven> "Stop, stop!"
May 15 21:26:08 <Soulless> It doesn't know that word.
May 15 21:26:21 <Soulless> It shrieks.
May 15 21:26:51 <TheRaven> «One out here is attacking me, are they hostile inside too?»
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May 15 21:35:09 <Soulless> No response to you apparently.
May 15 21:35:14 <Soulless> It's bad in there, presumably.
May 15 21:35:32 <Soulless> This one sits, clutches its head, sobs. Leaps at you again. MDEf.
May 15 21:36:00 <TheRaven> 4df+4 dammit, nonviolence is not working well
May 15 21:36:01 <Glacon> TheRaven: dammit, nonviolence is not working well: 4 (4df+4=0, +, 0, -)
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May 15 21:37:54 <Soulless> 4df+5 fssh
May 15 21:37:55 <Glacon> Soulless: fssh: 4 (4df+5=0, -, -, +)
May 15 21:40:19 <Soulless> You see a vision of the girl. She's hugging the man attached to the generators.
May 15 21:40:36 <Soulless> "Mister Sitter, Mister Sitter! Call my name, like you used to! Like you used to! Let's eat sweets!"
May 15 21:40:46 <Soulless> you're scared of this girl- you don't know why. You're yourself again.
May 15 21:41:19 <Soulless> The creature is by you, sobbing, scratching at itself.
May 15 21:41:37 <Soulless> It reaches to you, touches your shoulder lightly, turns back and hugs itself.
May 15 21:42:18 <TheRaven> "We're not here to hurt you, just stop fighting."
May 15 21:42:40 <Soulless> <Nemi> « Cassidy, if you can hear us, starting to get.. familiar. Factory's knowing us, I think. Going to Generators, hopefully we can shut this down. »
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May 15 21:43:05 <Soulless> It whimpers, and scratches itself deeply, leaving wounds- the blood evaporates.
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May 15 21:44:45 <TheRaven> «Need any assistance? This one's freaking me the fuck out.»
May 15 21:45:14 <Soulless> It reaches to you again as if it wants to attack, but it reels back, clutches its head.
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May 15 21:47:10 <Soulless> <Nemi> « We've been through multiple hazardous rooms already. No logical progression. If it Knows you, maybe you can find us.. »
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May 15 21:47:27 <TheRaven> "Can you bring me to the others?"
May 15 21:47:54 <Soulless> It chitters at you, extends its shaking, bleeding hand, then points inside.
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May 15 21:48:05 <Soulless> Pesi. /Pesi/.
May 15 21:48:27 <Soulless> It whispers in your mind, with ferocity- with determination. Defiance despite all things. /Pesi/. Fuck your Perejil.
May 15 21:49:20 <TheRaven> "I don't know what you're saying!
May 15 21:49:22 <TheRaven> "
May 15 21:51:02 <Soulless> It points to the door again.
May 15 21:51:18 <Soulless> It turns, steps inside.
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May 15 21:52:55 <TheRaven> ~Fuck it.~ He follows, BAR in hand.
May 15 21:55:01 <Soulless> Roll me agi!
May 15 21:56:58 <Soulless> TheRaven?
May 15 21:57:13 <TheRaven> 4df+2 sorry, was reading something
May 15 21:57:13 <Glacon> TheRaven: sorry, was reading something: 2 (4df+2=+, -, +, -)
May 15 21:59:22 <Soulless> Now, roll me MDEF.
May 15 21:59:47 <TheRaven> 4df+4 welp
May 15 21:59:47 <Glacon> TheRaven: welp: 0 (4df+4=-, -, -, -)
May 15 22:00:05 <Soulless> (ooh man)
May 15 22:01:06 <Soulless> 4df+4 one last goMay 15 22:01:07 <Glacon> Soulless: one last go\: 4 (4df+4=+, +, -, -)
May 15 22:02:35 <Soulless> Will, it's overwhelming to step inside. It's dark, scary dark. Memories bleed into you like an IV drip, no, like a river, and then a flood. In one moment, you are an old woman, in another, you are on a boat unsure and afraid for your life.
May 15 22:03:11 <Soulless> In another, you are set to work endlessly in a horrible factory of sugar, and every time you die, it is no less painful, but you come back in the steam. You are in hell. This is hell.
May 15 22:04:06 <Soulless> One moment, you are free from the parseley massacre. A man says he will record your horrors, but he leaves within two days- and half the village has not been seen. You sit in a fire, and wait for years there for your long-lost lover.
May 15 22:05:24 <Soulless> All these and more, in the steam, all connected to this girl, who wakes you all up and sets you to work- again and again, endlessly. Some beg perejil, because to say it right means they will not kill you- but on many other lips you say pesi, defiantly embracing it as you have done all your life.
May 15 22:06:06 <Soulless> You step out of the steam, into a clean white room, that girl is there, holding that broken puppet of a previous caretaker, the word pesi on your lips and lifetimes gouged into your mind. -2 mental health.
May 15 22:06:18 <Soulless> #homeimprovement