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2012-11-29 01:07 6134824 LK Renne Quest (renneText.png 700x700 20kB)
<In which ponies and dogs rise from the depths To catch up, the previous sessions are located here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28501521/GeneralArchive/RenneQuest/RenneArchive.html >

1 min later 6134870 LK (s28_01.gif 700x700 14kB)
You try to grasp the dagger with your telekinesis, but you hear a snap and a sizzling noise. There is a flash, and the buzzing headache starts to get a little stronger.

2 min later 6134897 LK (s28_02.gif 700x700 77kB)
You stand back, and ask for Saffron to set you down. You tell her you're going to try and force yourself into the spirit plane. You concentrate, and you can feel the sweat pouring down your face, stinging your eyes. You cough a few times before you catch your breath, though you remain winded. When you look up, the glow is almost blinding.

15 min later 6135256 Anonymous
>>6134897 Didn't we have some plan about turning it like a key? With a gif and shit?

19 min later 6135361 Anonymous
Levitate the other dagger up to it for comparison

36 min later 6135720 Anonymous
>>6135256 I don't know if we ever reached a decision about that. But I think it's our only plan right now.

38 min later 6135745 LK (s28_03.png 700x700 17kB)
>>6135361 You pull the dagger out of your bag and unwrap it, levitating it up next to the other. You can barely see due to the light, but it looks to be the same. You can hear a faint sizzling noise and see smoke coming from the other dagger.

39 min later 6135796 Anonymous
>>6135745 Detached dagger doesn't seem to like placed dagger. Look around the room, are there any murals or somesuch in the walls? Maybe something to give us a clue as to the daggers' true natures?

44 min later 6135891 Anonymous
>>6135796 i think it's that field that's burning it let's... not stick our hooves in it

46 min later 6135919 Anonymous
>>6135891 But our hooves are cold and that would warm them up. Don't you want warm hooves? I want warm hooves.

48 min later 6135970 Anonymous
>>6135919 Aren't you cold? Renne? Touch the dagger. Renne. Aren't you cold?

52 min later 6136057 Anonymous
>>6135970 DP pls go

53 min later 6136076 Anonymous
>>6135970 NO I'M NOT! I'VE GOT A SCARF OOOOOOON!

55 min later 6136127 Anonymous
>>6135796 Looks similar to me, just that the door dagger is in a sheathe

57 min later 6136178 Anonymous
>>6136057 I kind of miss having a mysterious disembodied being giving us advice. Even if he turned out to be a cunt. You're a cunt, DP.

58 min later 6136203 LK (s28_04.png 700x700 18kB)
>>6135796 >>6135919 If there were any murals, they're gone now. The walls are covered, from floor to ceiling, with deep gouges and scratches. And come to think of it, you are a bit cold. You suppress a cough. "Are you okay, Renne?"

1 hours later 6136319 Anonymous
>>6136203 Nestle between Saffron's ample buttcheeks to regain body warmth.

1 hours later 6136397 Anonymous
So, use the dagger as a key? Y/N? Also, anyone else having trouble posting in the sub?

1 hours later 6136453 Anonymous
We should be talking somewhere else. >>6136203 Drop out of the spirit realm.

1 hours later 6136504 Anonymous
>>6136397 how large is the thread over there? may need to make a new speculation general

1 hours later 6136522 Anonymous
>>6136397 It may have been autolocked.

1 hours later 6136596 Anonymous
>>6136522 So someone make a new thread and tell us when it has been made, but do not link it.

1 hours later 6136715 Anonymous
It's made.

1 hours later 6136845 Anonymous
>>6136596 You realise DP can read the sub if he wants right?

1 hours later 6136866 Anonymous
>>6136203 Put on a brave face for Saffron and tell her you're alright.

1 hours later 6136897 Anonymous
>>6136845 DP can read this if he wants. After that LK confirmed, for the sake on this not getting pants-on-head retarded, that talking in the thread is 'safe'. You people are being silly.

1 hours later 6136919 Anonymous
>>6136897 Forgot a comma. Also by 'after that' I mean 'after that whole fiasco with everyone freaking out and running to the sub to have a panic party, people being 'purposefully distracting' etc.

1 hours later 6137093 Anonymous
Guys. Guys, we need to choose a course of action.

1 hours later 6137201 LK (s28_05.png 700x700 19kB)
>>6136866 You assure Saffron that you are fine. Just... just a bit cold. You ask her what she thinks you should do. "I really don't know, Renne. Can you see anything with the dagger... wherever you are right now?"

1 hours later 6137246 Anonymous
>>6137201 Look around for any way out of this room.

1 hours later 6137291 Anonymous
>>6137201 What is wrong with out face? Are we...peeling?

1 hours later 6137303 Anonymous
>>6137201 holy shit we look horrible I don't think "fine" is a term we can use anymore

1 hours later 6137636 LK (s28_06.png 700x700 8kB)
>>6137246 You look towards where you came in. The field blocking the door that Baldwin put up is now gone, and you can see into the room beyond, but just barely at this distance.

1 hours later 6137669 Anonymous
>>6137201 Goddamn, we need a vacation. >>6137636 Have a looky then. Float a torch in first if we have one available.

1 hours later 6137680 Anonymous
>>6137636 I really think that the dagger in the throne is too obvious to possibly be safe. Let's stick our head through the door and see what we can see.

1 hours later 6137709 Anonymous
>>6137669 I agree. Perhaps Apploosa. You know. Miles away from any body of water larger than a rain puddle.

2 hours later 6137799 Anonymous
Please do not post in the new Renne thread. Not even to comment.

2 hours later 6137820 Anonymous
>>6137799 why?

2 hours later 6137888 Anonymous
>>6137820 Because it's to be archived properly, with original posts only.

2 hours later 6137913 Anonymous
>>6137888 Oh, I thought it had something to do with the actual quest. Okay no problem Also tumblr update >I can still give advice if you would like. >Unite the armor.

2 hours later 6137937 Anonymous
>>6137913 Wait, is he trying to trick us into uniting the armour? Or double trick us into NOT uniting the armour?

2 hours later 6137984 Anonymous
>>6137937 >I will take what I can get. >You… or the bitch would have been a prized possession, indeed. >Shame you did not force her to wear the rest. i think he's just being blunt now he probably wants it all

2 hours later 6138049 Anonymous
>>6137913 Can I get a link to the tumblr?

2 hours later 6138146 Anonymous
>>6137984 >>6137937 Yeah, you know... Never really been comfortable taking DP's advice. Sure as fuck not interested in doing so now that he's asking us to cut bits off just so he can have a full set. That brick colored motherfucker can take a long walk off a very short pier.

2 hours later 6138262 Soup
My vote is for putting in the dagger and turning it like that one animated suggestion.

2 hours later 6138386 LK (s28_07.png 700x700 20kB)
>>6137669 >>6137680 You take a short walk down the hallway and float the torch into the room. You can feel the temple shift under your hooves. It begins to tilt slowly towards the east, then levels out again and tilts to the west, each time accompanied by a giant rumbling and shaking sound. Tiny pebbles and dust fall from the walls and ceiling. From what you can tell, the room looks about as normal as can be for the interior of an enormous mobile temple.

2 hours later 6138639 Anonymous
>>6138386 Let's head back to the original entrance.

2 hours later 6138659 Anonymous
>>6138386 Are we still in the spirit realm? GO back to the normal realm if we are.

2 hours later 6138720 Anonymous
>>6138639 we need to find out what the dagger is for

2 hours later 6138769 Soup
>>6138386 >>6138639 We have a clear puzzle to be solved, a solution suggested, and a time bomb ticking on our body. The time we spend avoiding this is just more time for the corruption to spread. Being cautious considering what we have been through is reasonable, but we have to progress one way or another. The rotating lock puzzle had to be solved to get into this temple in the first place, and this one is going to have to be solved sooner or later. I hope it's sooner because we don't have all the time in the world. >>6138659 We spent a ton of our energy and probably hastened our corruption to GET here.

2 hours later 6138852 Anonymous
>>6138769 Aren't we spending more energy maintaining this?

2 hours later 6138918 Soup
>>6138852 Probably. All the more reason to put in the dagger while we can see what's going on.

2 hours later 6139039 Anonymous
Let's tie something to the dagger so we can easily yank it back out if something goes wrong and our magic fails.

2 hours later 6139096 Anonymous
>>6138918 The lich was guarding the daggers. He was guarding this room. He was guarding this throne. If you really want to stick that dagger in, go for it.

2 hours later 6139118 Anonymous
>>6139039 weren't we going to tell Saffron how to turn it?

2 hours later 6139415 LK (s28_08.png 700x700 24kB)
You head back inside, next to Saffron. You tell her that you would like to try one more thing with the dagger. You have her follow you to the back of the throne again. Saffron eyes up the multitude of spikes coming from the throne, worriedly. "Do you see something?" You cough a few times before telling her what you see. It's a glowing orb of magic surrounding the dagger, what you suspect was searing the other dagger when you held it close. There is a line from the orb to the small slot in the center of the throne, with a jagged design just before the slot.

3 hours later 6139509 Soup
>>6139096 Well, DP-in-Chronicle's-body went through the roof of this room, and is now presumably in the spire room which is right next to the entrance. D'you wanna risk running into him on the way there? The only other thing I can think of would be to see if anything changed in the Mind, but that also sounds risky. This whole place is under DP's control now, I think.

3 hours later 6139631 Anonymous
>>6139509 >This whole place is under DP's control now, I think. what if the whole place IS DP?

3 hours later 6139678 Anonymous
Man, I'm trying my damnedest to come up with a good, topical 'DP' joke, but I got nothin'.

3 hours later 6139686 Anonymous
>>6139631 Consider that it look like it's moving under his control, that's not so doubtful.

3 hours later 6139762 Anonymous
>>6139415 Insert the dagger slowly, I guess. Do we all agree on this?

3 hours later 6139792 Anonymous
>>6139762 no have Saffron do the dagger we're wasting too much energy staying in spiritville

3 hours later 6139900 Anonymous (The slow blade penetrates the shield.jpg 300x184 8kB)
>>6139762

3 hours later 6140151 Anonymous
why ded pls come back to life

3 hours later 6140173 Soup
>>6140151 Waiting for update. We pretty much know what we want to do.

3 hours later 6140424 LK (s28_09.png 700x700 11kB)
You pull the dagger out, and slowly place it into the slot. You can feel Saffron's grip on your saddlebag tighten. There is no noise from the dagger sliding into the slot, but you can hear a sizzle of magic. The glow of the jagged line flares, and a ring lights up around the dagger. You find it hard to keep yourself from coughing, and you feel a chill creeping over you.

3 hours later 6140508 Anonymous
>>6140424 2spooky. Hold onto Saffron for dear life in hopes of staving off the awful feeling with the power of l iking someone a lot

3 hours later 6140612 Anonymous
>>6140424 >You find it hard to keep yourself from coughing, and you feel a chill creeping over you. We might as well get this over with. I stopped understanding what we were doing a month or two ago.

3 hours later 6140730 Soup (1353052992806[1].gif 700x700 121kB)
So we're going with this, yes? Only one way to find out if it'll work. We need to get out of this spirit realm, it's clearly bad for us.

3 hours later 6140919 Anonymous
>>6138049 http://awujabvojnavwaowqau.tumblr.com/ pass:tnxa

3 hours later 6140945 Anonymous
>>6140730 I'm up for it. What's the worst that could happen?

3 hours later 6140949 Anonymous
>>6140424 Can Saffron see it now? If so, drop out and do this from the normal world.

3 hours later 6140984 Anonymous
>>6140949 I think we could see the hole even pre-spirit, and if it's just a matter of twisting it around, we shouldn't need to see the lines right now. Might as well kill the Night(mare) Vision unless we want to add to our wicked henna face tattoo.

4 hours later 6141311 Anonymous
>>6140984 i think we need to stay here to see how to turn it i don't want to fuck it up

4 hours later 6141341 Soup
>>6141311 I think this is a good idea. Just to see if there's any visual indication of whether or not we did it right.

4 hours later 6141498 Anonymous (s28_10.png 700x700 23kB)
>>6140730 >>6140949 >>6141341 You ask Saffron if she can see anything, any glowing lines around the dagger. She shakes her head. You nod and turn towards the dagger. Grasping it with your telekinesis, you begin to turn the dagger to the left. A perfectly-cut stone disc turns with, and you can hear the sizzling of magic, watching the glowing line as it sparks and disappears as you turn the dagger.

4 hours later 6141506 Anonymous
A'ight cool. We can do pony minstrel shows after we don't have any normal face left, so it's not all bad.

4 hours later 6141528 LK
>>6141498 < >refresh >lose trip Okay.>

4 hours later 6141541 Anonymous
>>6141498 Well that's clearly removed the first kink in the line, so proceed with >>6140730 I guess.

4 hours later 6141560 Anonymous
>>6141498 "Woah woah woah stopstopstopstopstop. Now the other way. Slow. " <etc, etc, till we work the kinks out>

4 hours later 6141620 Anonymous
>>6141560 We're doing it ourselves with TK at the moment.

4 hours later 6141657 Anonymous
>>6141620 well stop! have Saffron do it i want to not die by corruption any time soon

4 hours later 6141703 Anonymous
>>6141620 Oh. Derp. Ignore me.

4 hours later 6141939 LK (s28_11.png 700x700 23kB)
>>6141560 >>6141657 You ask Saffron for her help, and she excitedly grabs the dagger from you. Right, you tell her. Right some-stop stop! Okay now left. Slowly! After coaching her through, there is a loud sizzling noise and a pop with a bright spark, leaving you with blurry vision and a ringing in your ears. When it clears, you can see the orb of magic no longer there, as well as the glowing lines fading away to nothing.

4 hours later 6142038 Anonymous
>>6141939 Once they HAVE faded away to nothing, extract dagger

4 hours later 6142040 Soup
>>6141939 Alright! We did it! Now we can... get that other dagger, I guess?

4 hours later 6142057 Anonymous
>>6142038 I bet it's stuck.

4 hours later 6142124 Anonymous
>>6142038 one for Saffron, one for us daggergirls

4 hours later 6142203 Anonymous
>>6142124 Once we get out we'll have to hit the make-your-own-t-shirts shop next door to the scarf emporium and get a pair with that on it.

4 hours later 6142288 Anonymous
>>6142203 >I survived the horrifying undersea temple of madness and all I got was permanent mental scarring and this stupid T-shirt

4 hours later 6142319 Anonymous
>>6141939 Exit spirit realm first

4 hours later 6142381 Anonymous
>>6142288 >turn shirt over >'... and wolverine healing powers but with crazy evil black shit. And a dagger.' >'DAGGERGIRLS' >[picture of Renne and Saffron back to back holding daggers making a winking kissy-face at the camera]

5 hours later 6142417 Anonymous
Was going through log 5 recently, and spotted something I didn't think we picked up on. From the first time we examined the fire door: >The etching on the center of the door looks like a pole with 4 pegs in it, or something similar.

5 hours later 6142479 Anonymous
>>6142417 Sounds like those big fuck-off pillars with the spokes.

5 hours later 6142522 Anonymous
>>6142479 I was thinking specifically that giant pole through the top four levels that we had to turn to open the door.

5 hours later 6142596 Anonymous
>>6142522 Hm. Possibly. Well, keep it in mind as we press on. Dunno if it's useful at this point, but any info helps.

5 hours later 6142657 LK (s28_12.png 700x700 23kB)
You release your grip on the spirit world, and the cold of the room comes rushing back to you with such speed that it leaves you out of breath. You wheeze a few times, but not you can breathe without feeling like you're going to hack out one of your lungs. You use your telekinesis on the daggers, each popping out with a tiny click. Saffron plucks the key-dagger out of the air, and you examine the guarded one more closely. Again, visually, you notice no difference. The dagger itself feels heavy, however, laden with a presence that swirls and churns inside of the dagger itself.

5 hours later 6142706 Anonymous
Fuck. Yes. Daggergirls. It's happening. Now let's go stab that wanna-be soda pop mascot.

5 hours later 6142738 Anonymous
>>6142657 Any connections on the second dagger? Please don't tell me we dropped out of spiritmode at exactly the wrong time.

5 hours later 6142863 Anonymous
>>6142657 Now what? Do we follow in Baldwin's hoofsteps?

5 hours later 6142883 Soup
>>6142738 Something might happen if we touch it physically.

5 hours later 6143397 LK (s28_13.png 700x700 21kB)
>>6142738 You hold the dagger up and concentrate. There is something there, but it's so turbulent that you aren't sure you can hold onto it thoroughly like you have all the previous connections.

5 hours later 6143460 Anonymous
Jesus fuck. Add 'concealer' to the list of stuff to get on the post-adventure celebratory shopping trip that we will most definitely get to have because we aren't going to die horribly.

5 hours later 6143536 Anonymous (Map notes.png 1552x4046 417kB)
Annotated map, I'm late, I'm late

5 hours later 6143565 Anonymous (Map clean.png 1552x3495 242kB)
Clean map, for a very important date

5 hours later 6144038 Anonymous
>>6143397 WELP Do we go back into the spirit world?

6 hours later 6144094 Anonymous
>>6144038 I really don't know. How far away from the breaking point?

6 hours later 6144117 Anonymous
>>6144038 it's going to be hard to hold onto i don't think it's worth it

6 hours later 6144122 Anonymous
>>6144094 That's the million-dollar question, isn't it?

6 hours later 6144255 Anonymous
I feel the dagger is really important I don't know what to do ;_;

6 hours later 6144256 Anonymous
[LK, can I get a confirmation of whether that "It's safe to post in the thread now" from last week was just for after the quest end image was posted, or if it's "safe" during quest as well now?]

6 hours later 6144370 LK
>>6144256 <That was meant for that thread, at the time, since the session had ended. Do what you guys want, and whatever is easiest or least confusing for you. I understand not wanting to post in two different places, but I just rolled with the events like you guys did and that's how it ended up. Whichever works for you guys, this is your quest after all!>

6 hours later 6144416 Anonymous
Let's not try to connect with it. We're too tired to try it, and it really seems like we wouldn't manage to do it with this one anyway. Our priority now should be reaching wherever it is that DP escaped to. We should check the rest of the rooms in this floor at least to see if something changed when this place went full mech. And when we really don't find anything else to do, THEN we can start talking about happy times stabbing ourselves and becoming liches.

6 hours later 6144435 Anonymous
>>6143397 >Turbulent Before we stop, is there any pattern to the turbulence? A regular thudding or something?

6 hours later 6144501 Anonymous
>>6144370 Thankyou. I've posted an idea I had up over in the first speculation thread, since it's working fine for me.

6 hours later 6144667 Anonymous
wait what is the temple even doing? is there any way we can see that?

6 hours later 6144699 Anonymous
>>6144667 >get to where we can see >it's already destroying townsville

6 hours later 6144760 Anonymous
>>6144667 All we know at the moment is that it's going for a walk. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28501521/GeneralArchive/RenneQuest/htmlfiles/Log26/mlp_5753448.html >>6138386 > It begins to tilt slowly towards the east, then levels out again and tilts to the west, each time accompanied by a giant rumbling and shaking sound. And by the sounds of it it's still walking around. If it ever stops tilting back and forth, then we start worrying.

6 hours later 6144785 Anonymous
>>6144699 I wonder if that giant panel in the floor of the mind might be a viewscreen.

6 hours later 6145205 LK (s28_14.png 700x700 22kB)
>>6144667 You can still feel the temple moving, but there is no way to determine where it is going. The stone gigas moves west, slowly trudging along. It rises and falls beneath the surface, taking long strides along the ocean floor.

6 hours later 6145482 Soup (Dagger Girls.png 686x1000 28kB)
I've still got a feeling physical contact with the new dagger might trigger something, so let's wrap it if we're going to carry it. I wouldn't be surprised if something changed in the Mind, the place seems like it would be the central control chamber for this thing.

7 hours later 6145645 Anonymous
>>6145205 >The stone gigas moves west Log 1: >You are on a cruise ship, headed east from Equestria Ok, so it's headed for Equestria rather than the Diamond Dog mainland. Good to know.

7 hours later 6145782 Anonymous
>>6145205 I'm still confused about why it has four arms if it's a DD creation. >Four arms, two legs, two wings >>6144435 Doesn't match up with the heartbeat we've been hearing from the temple or anything?

7 hours later 6145797 Anonymous
>>6145782 That's eight limbs total, anon.

7 hours later 6145844 Anonymous
>>6145482 Yeah, I'm certain there must be something fancy going on in there. Question'd be whether we want to check in on the spire room on the way up, since I *think* that'd be the room above this one, and DP went up into the ceiling with Chronicle's corpse. Also that picture is incredibly silly and I love it. >>6145797 That was why I pointed it out. Still seems odd that they'd just slap on two extra limbs, even if it does make 8, but eh. Not like IRL religions haven't done it.

7 hours later 6145863 Anonymous
>>6145844 >Chronicles corpse Damn, I really am writing him off as dead early, aren't I? I've got to stop doing that. There's still the tiniest smidgen of hope, since last time speech came from him it was as a plural.

7 hours later 6145966 LK (s28_15.png 700x700 14kB)
>>6145782 You listen closely to the dagger, or as closely as you possibly can. The feeling inside is wild and churning, but does not feel like it is connected to the temple itself. The temple is slow, steady, and constant like the tide. The dagger is a flame flickering about.

7 hours later 6146051 Anonymous (1b5d5db9a7d22fad2fcbf045baac54cbf1b9f1a5.png 304x270 139kB)
>>6145966 >You listen closely to the dagger, or as closely as you possibly can. TELL ME YOUR SECRETS, DAGGER

7 hours later 6146085 Anonymous
>>6145966 Poke one of the blackened parts of ourself with it.

7 hours later 6146089 Anonymous
>>6145966 Well I can't think of anything else to be done with this right now. Wrap them seperately, taking note of which is which, and store.

7 hours later 6146123 Anonymous
>>6146085 >poke selves >we are become lich no anon not yet

7 hours later 6146148 Anonymous
>>6146123 It's better than my other idea. Sensuously licking it.

7 hours later 6146205 Anonymous
>>6146148 Maybe keep your ideas to yourself for now, then.

7 hours later 6146323 Anonymous
>>6145966 Hold it next to the other dagger see if there's a reaction.

8 hours later 6146536 LK (s28_16.png 700x700 23kB)
>>6146089 >>6146323 You hold the dagger up to Saffron, and she cautiously holds the inert one next to it. After a a few moments of waiting, she pulls it back, no reaction coming from either dagger. You tell her to keep the inert one on her, while you stow the active one. You wrap it in a bit of cloth before putting it in your bag. "Daggergirls." You look up, confused. She has a smile on her face. She points to your bag, and then hers. "We match!" For the first time in a long while, you sincerely smile as well.

8 hours later 6146563 LK (renne.png 700x700 12kB)
Boop. Sorry for the cut now, but it's been slowing for a while. Thanks guys! >>6145482 This is fucking adorable, thank you! I especially like the little wobbly stool part.

8 hours later 6146605 Soup
>>6146536 D'aw. That really did make me smile. >>6146563 Good night!

8 hours later 6146684 Anonymous
>>6146563 Yo LK. Since mootles axed sound embedding, do you still plan on uploading atmosphere music on elsewhere?

8 hours later 6146686 Anonymous
>>6146536 >get misty-eyed >look at Renne's corruption >get sad again fuck

8 hours later 6146708 LK
>>6146684 I'll either put it on Dropbox, or just link the youtube video as that's where I get 95% of my stuff. 4chanx and MootChanx have youtube embedding, right?

11 hours later 6148706 Anonymous
Bump

14 hours later 6150256 Anonymous
bump before bed

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