"Yes, well, AC units do tend to go out. That's more of a warranty policy than insurance, though. We don't offer those. Anyway, should I wait here for her? Do you know where she went?
... do you know where Albany is?"
Ask. Ignore special effects.
Probably best you wait, yeah. If you went out to, like, look for her, odds are you'd miss each other. That's, like, really annoying when it happens, you know what he means.
[Alien Geographies: 4]
As for Albany... uh... sounds kinda familiar, actually. Is it, uh, near anything else?
"No! Not what I meant! Please return to your previous altitude! SHit Shit Shit PROTECT ME, MOON."
There is no problem that magic can cause that yet more magic cannot fix.
MOON
[Word: 4]
A blemish spreads along the surface of the sun-beast, growing and spreading slowly, creating a miniature eclipse as it reaches full size, plunging the surrounding area into partial shadow and granting it a reprieve from the heat even as the solar creature floats closer, seeking to touch its creator. You suppose you've bought yourself some much-needed time.
"Hey girl, did you hear that? I heard it. It said Hunger, and that was what made me do ... well, whatever it was that I did when I ate the stoat back at the ritual circle. Coupled with what the well told me ... whoever did that to me is up there!"
Jack looks up at the top of the well for a moment and promptly reconsiders jumping up there; that sunlight guy must really be going enthusiastically over the stoats.
"Well, good luck to whoever it is up there - I'm certainly not going up into the scorching sun.
...
That blacksmith better survive. Also the majordomo. I've got business with the both of them and it wouldn't be very nice to have it spoiled."
Jack turns again to the minder kid.
"Sorry for the rambling. How do the basics go, if you don't mind explaining? Judging by the current apocalypse going on up there we might be down here a while."
If I notice her falling, catch her. Might as well be polite.
Yeah, those are "words", she explains. Bad news from what she knows. Best stay away from them.
As for the basics of minding, that's not something she'd particularly care to teach you at the moment, as even if the apocalypse is happening right outside, there are plainly better uses of one's time. It's like trying to teach someone trigonometry from the ground up - an awful lot of work for the little benefit it would provide. She could teach you the basic aptitude requirements for fun, she supposes. Those are pretty easy. It starts a little bit like this-
[Gentleman's Catch: 1]
Your careful listening is interrupted when Ms. Minett suddenly lands on top of you. Her considerable hotness succeeds in setting your world on fire in record time.
[Touch of Flame: 2]
In fact, you experience something of a hard time as you begin to feel the heat. It is a very distracting sensation that persists even after she rolls off you in an attempt to put out your shared flames.
oh my god what is happening
it wasn't supposed to be like this
I crawl into the well.
[A Safe Descent: 3]
You grab onto the chain as you frantically drop into the well, sliding halfway along it before your hands give out and you lose your grip, dropping down atop the naked Mr. Daniels, who catches fire perhaps a little less readily than you did, but catches fire nevertheless. He proves to be of shockingly little help.
[Touch of Flame: 2]
You wonder how it is that you're still burning. Is there anything combustible even left on you?
"Oh. Hi. Nice to meet you. I don't remember being here before, though. And... ah, I heard you take connections as a payment, but I find myself wondering what this connection truly is. I cannot do trade properly if I don't know what I'm selling."
To find out what a connection is you must spend one connection. The purchase would also entail the fulfillment of one desire, which can also be a question.
Fire, unlike bleeding, continues to give you wounds unless put out. A fire can be put out by rolling a 3-6 on a Touch of Flame roll (though a 3 still gives you a wound), getting assistance from a non-burning individual (no roll is required) or by successfully using the environment to your advantage.
Eric Codeburn, COMPUTISTICS SPECIALIST
- Wounds: 1
- Body Count: 41
- Floral Nightgown (worn, burnt)
- A Word: SUN
- A Word: MOON
- Anglefork Castle: Minister of Moronic Affairs
- The Impromptu Prophecy: Child of the Sun and Moon
- Adherents of the Great House: Enemy of Memory
- Well and Truly Narked Upon: 1
- Friends in Low Places: a Successful Transaction
- Subordinate Shining Stone (2 tons, emotional)
- Army of the New State: 528 Stoatmen
- Army of the New State: Dread Dawn
- The Good Doctor: the Solitary Candidate
- A Splendid View: the Tower of the Mind
Leif Erikson, Miner
- Wounds: 2
- Reappropriated, Clean Skirt
- 1 gp
- Anglefork Castle: A Free Man
- The Box: an Amicable Parting
- Tower of the Mind: Number Two
- Induced Lucidity: An Example Realm
- The Prison Stone
- Elongated Affairs: A Noble Task
- Elongated Affairs: The Numbers of the Stoat
- The Voracious Dark: A Modest Proposal
Eileen Minett, Vinyl Collector
- Wounds: 3
- A Word: HUNGER
- A Weapon: Explosive Cysts
- Rat Pantheon: Disliked
- Traces of Mischief: Mouthful of Blackness
- The New Queen: ?
- Origins: Witness to Dissolution
- Tower of the Mind: There's Something To Remember
- Gross Incandescence: Charred to the Bone
- Touch of Flame: Still Burning
- Inscribed Brick ('Water')
- The Voracious Dark: Two Connections Given
- Body Count: 1
- Never In: the Obvious Candidates
Jack Daniels, Karate Man
- Wounds: 2
- Touch of Flame: Flammability Rewarded
- Voluntarily Naked
- Uncoupled: Strength
- The Winding Path of Inspiration: the Sword of Destiny
- The Winding Path of Inspiration: Something Priceless?
- The Winding Path of Inspiration: Something Purple?
- The Winding Path of Inspiration: A Profane Megalith
- Tower of the Mind: Many Questions, Many Questions Indeed!
- Doomstones: ?
- A Place In History: Emergent Abomination
- Anglefork Castle: the Great Serpent
- 2 rats, crushed
- 1 rat, strangled
- 1 rat, live
- Gross Incandescence: Unilluminated
- Travels In The Fourth Dimension: Sunday ± 2 Days
- The Impromptu Prophecy: ?
- The Voracious Dark: Two Connections Given
- Body Count: 2
Thomas Minstep, Insurance Agent
- Anglefork Castle: Deluded Resident
- Traces of Mischief: Sandy Groin
- Gross Incandescence: Partly Illuminated
- Tight Leather Pants
- Travels In The Fourth Dimension: Friday, July 23rd, 409 S.D.
- The Majordomo: Happy to Help
- The Queen's Guard: Okayed by the Queen
- The New Queen: Spearheading the Inquiry
- Tower of the Mind: a Referral
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