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Beep, boop! Just posting to signal the last call for any turns that people wish to enter before the update. I am going to start writing it up soon and it'll be finished within a few days, unless anyone else wishes to post their turn. I don't want to have anyone left out, so please do get your turn in. Thanks!

Have a great day,
Artemis.

CHAPTER FOUR, INTERMISSION TWO: THE COMPENDIUM OF THE MEDIUM

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So, instead of having some huge page that inevitably gets buried beneath the pile of updates and turns, how about we have a united document instead that serves the purpose?

I think yes.
Here is the Compendium of the Sixth Book of the Medium.
This document will be constantly updated to provide new information about some of the terms, inventory updates, story progress, and more that goes through the Medium. I will let you know by posting here if the document gets a major update, though some of the smaller changes like inventory updates will always be there per every turn.

So yeah. Go ahead and take a look! I'm sure you'll like it. I will also be putting this link in the original post.
Due to the time it took to get this out, I'll wait longer than usual (heh, as if that's even possible now) to write up the update. During that time, you'll be able to put your turns in.
For Coolrune, your Golem statistics will be fleshed out after the next update. I still have a few things to finish with the golem HP mechanic. After that, your golems' health and all that will be updated with your turn.
For everyone else and your health/inventory, your status will be included at the end and at the beginning of every update from now on. Hopefully. This is the first time I'll be putting that it, but since I now have an organized sheet for referencing, hopefully this will be much easier to include.

For easy reference:
Here is the link to the update prior to this Intermission.
I am exhausted right now, but I will also be including links to every turn both in the OP and maybe in the Compendium too.

As always, I hope you all have a wonderful week. I hope to see your turns soon!
Thank you,
Artemis.

It's not about being harsh. I like your characters, I don't want to kill them. It's about actions and consequences.

If there is no danger, if everything ends up well no matter what you do, then there is little point in having choice in the first place. You wouldn't be controlling characters, you'd be controlling actors and instead of interacting with the world you'd be improvising lines and actions for the plot.

I may bend things to your favour sometimes, plus the game mechanics do favour PCs over NPCs in certain circumstances, but I have to do things a certain way, I want to do things a certain way. So if the dice say you die, you die. End of the line.

On the other hand, that also means there is little limit to what you can do. So if your first action after arriving was murdering River and then using the teleporter to go live free in this world, not caring one bit about your quest, then if you rolled well, you could do it and there would be nothing I could do about that.

Right, and I'm not trying to say that we should have survived through all of the stupid decisions. A consequence is a consequence, of course. Maybe it was just my terrible reading comprehension, but I felt like I was interpreting things wrong throughout the whole thing. Like the size of the room or the hallway, for example, and the actual danger of the rock slabs. I didn't think we had any serious danger other than the parasites and the portal, so that's what I focused on. Perhaps that is a product of my misunderstandings, but I still feel like it could have turned out a lot better if we had a map or something of that sort.

((Woah, woah. DAF. Lenglon, chill you dudes. :O This is a time wherein we reflect on the feelings--as if our characters are still feeling that; though there is no note of further awareness post-blast. Herein I say we have faith in Ike until the very end. Hopefully he has empathy for us, despite me knowing his player is a nice dude.))

((Mhm, I agree. Let's just watch what happens for now.))

I am hoping that that... that didn't really happen. that Irine will wake up sometime in the next couple turns, battered and burned, but alive.

I am angry, because I don't think that's going to happen. That everything was for naught. that even with her specilized defenses against exactly this type of death, in her most defensive possible posture and form, weren't enough. That there was nothing she could do. that her fate... that all of our fates, were sealed the moment I stopped River from sacrificing himself.

That it's all my fault.

I want to pm Paris, to beg and bargain for Irine's survival, or... or something... I don't even know really.

I know that anything I could say, could do, could ask for... I shouldn't do it. The GM is the GM, I shouldn't go about trying to fight against or undermine his authority. There is nothing productive I can say or do right now, all I can do is lash out... and I want to avoid doing that.

so...

yeah.

I can't afford to react right now.

To be honest, I'm about the same way. I mean, that was my character of all characters, the one that was my primary person. But I'm sure that the GM isn't going to be so harsh. I mean, come on, we weren't even out of the gate yet before we all "died." There has to be something else going on here.

Just trust that it'll turn out well, because I also have to put that trust into the game. Let's wait and see for now.

((Well, that's wonderful. We all died before we even began.))

"Are you dead?

She freezes in place and looks straight at you, her mouth slightly agape. After a few moments of disbelief at your question, she comments, "I... wasn't expecting that. Um, well.."

"I don't know, to be honest. I could be very much dead, or I could be alive. Maybe someplace in-between." She tries to open her mouth to say a few more words, but nothing comes out. Instead, she pauses to think about her words and then looks to her right, out to the town near the volcano. "I hope I'm not dead, y'know. There's... there's some things I did in the past that, um... I-I need to make up for some things. Maybe this is my.. my purgatory." You can feel a stillness in the air, as if this entire spirit world is holding its breath, waiting to see what happens next.