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session:26 [2025/12/21 21:50] – [Trivia] quirkysession:26 [2025/12/22 05:11] (current) – quirky
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 They follow the lake bank up to a stream, and follow the stream upwards to the place where they found [[thing:the glove]], fought [[npc:Victor Vituska]] and [[npc:Zach Shpak]] was frozen. Except that the jeep is broken down, rusted and covered in vegetation, and the only signs of the battle are the tree that Vituska almost shredded, now fallen to the ground, with a mere stump remaining. They follow the lake bank up to a stream, and follow the stream upwards to the place where they found [[thing:the glove]], fought [[npc:Victor Vituska]] and [[npc:Zach Shpak]] was frozen. Except that the jeep is broken down, rusted and covered in vegetation, and the only signs of the battle are the tree that Vituska almost shredded, now fallen to the ground, with a mere stump remaining.
  
-They follow the path where the pursued [[npc:Maal]] towards the Deep Zone, until they reach the place where the first gravity anomalies start, and Riung notices that there are many of them as they go deeper and deeper.+They follow the path where they pursued [[npc:Maal]] towards the Deep Zone, until they reach the place where the first gravity anomalies start, and Riung notices that there are many of them as they go deeper and deeper.
  
 They reach the border of the Deep Zone, and there Derek stops to wait, to be their help in case something happens. And from there, they go into the area originally blasted by the Bomb. They reach the border of the Deep Zone, and there Derek stops to wait, to be their help in case something happens. And from there, they go into the area originally blasted by the Bomb.
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 Maelle and Gaia decide that they have now a probably intact Koteglia Mechanism that they can take, and try to convince Claire (still disgusted by the worm situation) to unfreeze the tank, and Riung (still reeling from whatever the mind connected to that thing was) to help them disarm the mechanism. Both Claire and Riung accept, and Maelle goes into the very dark and cramped tank to disengage the safeties and take the core. Maelle and Gaia decide that they have now a probably intact Koteglia Mechanism that they can take, and try to convince Claire (still disgusted by the worm situation) to unfreeze the tank, and Riung (still reeling from whatever the mind connected to that thing was) to help them disarm the mechanism. Both Claire and Riung accept, and Maelle goes into the very dark and cramped tank to disengage the safeties and take the core.
  
-They manages it, but while they're celebrating, the Puppeteer appears behind them, faking worry for what Riung has done, and what will her handlers think.+They manage it, but while they're celebrating, the Puppeteer appears behind them, faking worry for what Riung has done, and what will her handlers think.
  
 Gaia and Maelle explode in anger, and the Puppeteer brushes most of it off, but draws the line at Maelle shouting at his face. He then holds them in the air and threatens, and is only stopped by Riung getting in the way and saying she accepts whatever he wants. Gaia and Maelle explode in anger, and the Puppeteer brushes most of it off, but draws the line at Maelle shouting at his face. He then holds them in the air and threatens, and is only stopped by Riung getting in the way and saying she accepts whatever he wants.
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   * **Riung**: I am very good at doing that.   * **Riung**: I am very good at doing that.
  
-  * **Ferret**: Uh, Claire, Gaia… and… I don't think I need to explain this to maelle: you understand that the vacation thing is bullshit, no?+  * **Ferret**: Uh, Claire, Gaia… and… I don't think I need to explain this to Maelle: you understand that the vacation thing is bullshit, no?
  
   * //You can see a couple of wererabbit corpses they shot recently. They put them in a row to photograph them, like Ferret did so many sessions ago. That brings up memories.//   * //You can see a couple of wererabbit corpses they shot recently. They put them in a row to photograph them, like Ferret did so many sessions ago. That brings up memories.//
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   * **Gaia**: Yeah when it's not cold its warm   * **Gaia**: Yeah when it's not cold its warm
   * **Maelle**: (dies inside)   * **Maelle**: (dies inside)
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 +  * **Gaia**: Can you freeze metal?
 +  * **Riung**: Metal is already frozen. but you can melt it if you heat it enough.
 +  * **Maelle**: ..Its.... Already frozen Gaia...
 +  * **Gaia**: But its not cold?
  
   * **Riung**: Are there any particular stories tied to this one path?   * **Riung**: Are there any particular stories tied to this one path?
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   * **Claire**: They were very lost        * **Claire**: They were very lost     
   * **Maelle** By the time we got to any shelter we were in Nuskom and had a gunfight with some Rigasian soldiers…   * **Maelle** By the time we got to any shelter we were in Nuskom and had a gunfight with some Rigasian soldiers…
-  * **Gaia**: Actually do you think we will ever meet her again? I hope we do! She was cool+  * **Gaia**: Actually do you think we will ever meet her again?
  
   * **Maelle**: Hope is better than nothing anyhow. It brought countries up from disaster in the past.   * **Maelle**: Hope is better than nothing anyhow. It brought countries up from disaster in the past.
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   * **Riung**: A sad fact about being so connected to the subtle machine is that I'm always seeing corpses. I try to not get used to tragedy. I have known many who are just numb to it, and they are not… well.   * **Riung**: A sad fact about being so connected to the subtle machine is that I'm always seeing corpses. I try to not get used to tragedy. I have known many who are just numb to it, and they are not… well.
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 +  * **Maelle**: °We already know its made of Sludge, we could maybe see what the hell its about a bit more from this…°
 +  * **Gaia**: °Are you hiding your thoughts from Claire? Riung can hear us anyway. Say hi, Riung.°
 +  * **Riung**: Hi.
 +  * **Maelle**: °Fuck.°
 +  * **Claire**: Hm?
  
   * **Gaia**: I checked on my zone bones recently, and they were not fine. Whatever is happening right now reminds me of how bones are supposed to work, did any of you bring a bone here?   * **Gaia**: I checked on my zone bones recently, and they were not fine. Whatever is happening right now reminds me of how bones are supposed to work, did any of you bring a bone here?
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   * **Puppeteer**: I only need a little favor from our keeper, and it will be like I was not here today. What do you say, Riung?   * **Puppeteer**: I only need a little favor from our keeper, and it will be like I was not here today. What do you say, Riung?
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 +  * **Puppeteer**: No one is supposed to know about the Clockmaker.
 +  * **Claire**: What's the Clockmaker?
 +  * **Gaia**: Did he make the thing where Iorena stores her alcohol?
 +  * **Maelle**: So that's the name then? Clockmaker? That's what the //Hyuní//'s name is?
 +  * **Puppeteer**: Don't you hear it? Screaming to be let out like the biggest screamiest child fallen in a well? It has been there since the Breaking. Umichoo's biggest shame.
 ======Trivia====== ======Trivia======
  
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 We thought that the players hated [[npc:Victor Vituska]], but that hate is nothing compared to the //loathing// they seem to feel for the Puppeteer. We thought that the players hated [[npc:Victor Vituska]], but that hate is nothing compared to the //loathing// they seem to feel for the Puppeteer.
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 +[[thing:The Clockmaker]] wants out.
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