Surprise mid-week update.

This is mostly for me to not have to do answers for every question and change the scene (and also to free your characters if you want to do another post before I do the full update on Sunday).

Oop, started a post but my brain shut down towards the last bit of it, so will finish tomorrow evening after work! Feel free to move us ahead if that was the plan though, I can play catch up and make a bigger post.

Oop, started a post but my brain shut down towards the last bit of it, so will finish tomorrow evening after work! Feel free to move us ahead if that was the plan though, I can play catch up and make a bigger post.

I'll update tomorrow then. I've been in a fog all week.

Okay, the actual update. If Emma wants to ask a question, I'll edit it in.

This time around, feel free to do whatever. If you want to go forwards, I'll update you as fast as possible (to mirror your character actually going forwards). Consider this a tutorial on exploration. A very, very brief tutorial.

@OwO Why can't our characters touch the carpet with theirbare skin??!!

@OwO Why can't our characters touch the carpet with theirbare skin??!!

It's gross theatre carpet that was designed with stain hiding patterns.

Characters can touch it if they want. They just have to live with the knowledge they touched something that is very much sticky.

apologies if my latest post made 0 fucking sense. utterly delirious rn, and only posting cus im too wired to sleep.

I'm going to delay my next post until next week. Personal reasons.

No worries!

I will be dropping a post in the next day or two, but obviously no rush.

Actual update post will be on Monday since I have recovered a bit.

Back from my personal sabbatical.

This introduces us to combat. Or an introduction to the combat scene if you wish to close the door and explore the stairs first (I won't hang people up on this since I skipped the last week; they lead to the upper balconies of the room ahead and the locked projector room).

Each character can take up to three actions. If you want a definition, consider an action being "something that could change the state of something else." Moving around and speaking are free as are things that wouldn't really alter the scene in meaningful ways.

If you extend yourself to do something beyond your limits/do things in absolute desperation, that takes two actions.

You don't have to take three actions. Any unused action means that you're better prepared to react to what the enemy is doing (as you're not overextending yourself).

If you're undetected, you can take one really good action (that would reveal you) for free and the supernatural won't be able to harm you for it. Alternatively, you can ignore this and just do 3 actions like normal, but the enemy will respond normally as well.

If everyone's undetected, you can just leave the encounter. Might be important in the future, might not be.

There's three enemy types. Elite, greater, and lesser. Elites have special properties (as written), greater entities are just strong bunguses, and lesser entities are mooks to balance the action economy. If you attack an elite or greater, you write an attempt (ex. you swing at them). If you attack a lesser, you can just straight up kill them in whatever way you want.

The implication was that Yasu was gonna hit up the stairs, ye. Is it an action to get into the projector room or naw?

The implication was that Yasu was gonna hit up the stairs, ye. Is it an action to get into the projector room or naw?

Nah. You can just have her doing projector room stuff and file it under "she was doing it while they were opening the door."

If she opens the projector room:

The lock is one on the knob, so it's not very secure. Kicking it open is enough, but it would take Yasu a few kicks. She can pick it too, but it takes a bit of time. Either way, she can hear some shuffling and goopy noises inside before she can get the door open.

Inside the projector room is a set of four corpses. The bodies are pretty recognizable: they're wearing the uniforms of Hylic operations teams. Think something like this but everyone is wearing a mask/helmet. There isn't a sign that the supernatural killed them, but their necks have been snapped and bones broken. The bodies seem recently deceased judging by their lack of smell. Besides that, the room is filled with boxes and old reels.

There's a single green finger that's difficult to spot (lack of light) on one of the boxes. If Yasu sees it, it'll red flag every one of her base human instincts and she'd want to leave the projector room as soon as possible.

There is a faint smell in the projector room, but Yasu wouldn't know it. The most she knows is that it smells wrong and seems vaguely poisonous, but her instincts tell her that it won't actually harm her at this level.

For everyone:

The left and right stairs both lead to the same hallway that surrounding the theatre filled with doors to access the balcony.

Aighto, guess I'll post later on in the week. Give Vertigo a chance to do something if she followed along up the stairs.

@OwO Good shit. I'll try to get a oost soon. B)

Sorry for the wait, posting tomorrow now that I'm back on my feet.

Oh no, baddies!

Will catch up on the thread today and then start pondering my post.

Had 90% of a post written up but I passed out and it got lost. Ughhhhh

So almost done with my post, just a quick question re: how to end it.

Emma would've definitely followed Yasu up the stairs (or rather, tried to drag her along, even), so I can react to the stuff in the projector room if I decide to yeet her there, but should I end the post upstairs or is the hope that we'll all end up in the theater asap? Also, would we see down to the theater from the projector room/the hallway/the balcony? Might have her peek down there while Yasu's doing projector room stuff.

So almost done with my post, just a quick question re: how to end it.

Emma would've definitely followed Yasu up the stairs (or rather, tried to drag her along, even), so I can react to the stuff in the projector room if I decide to yeet her there, but should I end the post upstairs or is the hope that we'll all end up in the theater asap? Also, would we see down to the theater from the projector room/the hallway/the balcony? Might have her peek down there while Yasu's doing projector room stuff.

You can do either or both. You can hop down from the projector room to the theatre since there's a big window where the projector is. You could see below for the same reason. From the hallway, not unless you go further than the project room (think of the stairs and projector room all converging at the bottom of the U). It's basically a U-shaped hallway with door frames. One door leads to the projector room, the rest are open to the balcony.

You don't have to immediately participate in combat, either. You can wait and do a sneak attack (or abuse summons) from projector room.