17th Dec 2020, 9:56 PM
Set it aside for now
"We should talk to Deedee about it first, though," Cici points out.
"Oh, yeah," Kate replies. "Natch."
"It might be a while before we can even think about going in on this plan, if we ever even do," you remark. "We need to at least figure out what the mayor's actually after, first--like, if she's trying to leverage the house to conquer the world or raise a dead god, then obviously we don't want to unshackle her from the law and help her hire a supercop."
"Yeah," Kate says. "Table it for now, keep an eye out for more info on Parsons. This could be a prime-ass end game strategy if it pans out, though."
"If Parsons isn't really the final boss," you add.
You all finish eating.
You grab the book about haunted houses from your room, since you know you won't just immediately fall asleep while staying at a stranger's house.
You return to the living room.
"So are you two both going to stay here tonight, or--?"
There's a brief pause.
"Huh," remarks Cici. "I, uh-- that's--"
"Exactly what we were thinking," Kate interjects. "Yeah. Yessir. We'll both stay in the Spooky House tonight."
You continue. "So whose place am I staying at...?"
Another pause.
A... strangely long pause, and several unreadable glances.
Cici finally gives a big shrug. "Whichever! You can stay at my place OR Kate's place."
Kate chuckles lightly, pulling out another stick of level. "Yeah, it's whatever you want."
Kate's hiding it better, but Cici had clearly not considered both of them staying in the house without you after Kate's original pitch of staying here by herself.
"Oh, yeah," Kate replies. "Natch."
"It might be a while before we can even think about going in on this plan, if we ever even do," you remark. "We need to at least figure out what the mayor's actually after, first--like, if she's trying to leverage the house to conquer the world or raise a dead god, then obviously we don't want to unshackle her from the law and help her hire a supercop."
"Yeah," Kate says. "Table it for now, keep an eye out for more info on Parsons. This could be a prime-ass end game strategy if it pans out, though."
"If Parsons isn't really the final boss," you add.
You all finish eating.
You grab the book about haunted houses from your room, since you know you won't just immediately fall asleep while staying at a stranger's house.
You return to the living room.
"So are you two both going to stay here tonight, or--?"
There's a brief pause.
"Huh," remarks Cici. "I, uh-- that's--"
"Exactly what we were thinking," Kate interjects. "Yeah. Yessir. We'll both stay in the Spooky House tonight."
You continue. "So whose place am I staying at...?"
Another pause.
A... strangely long pause, and several unreadable glances.
Cici finally gives a big shrug. "Whichever! You can stay at my place OR Kate's place."
Kate chuckles lightly, pulling out another stick of level. "Yeah, it's whatever you want."
Kate's hiding it better, but Cici had clearly not considered both of them staying in the house without you after Kate's original pitch of staying here by herself.
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Also re: Laundry Machine, I was thinking earlier. The hot water in the house has to come from somewhere, and something tells me Ninelives doesn't have a massive boiler room for the entire town! We've gotta have something here. Best to check around one last time before heading out for the night.
In regard to the laundry room, I was wondering if some cleantex might help us? It's a drug from the Blood Is Mine story that allows a person to recall every memory they've ever had. I'm wondering if it could counteract the Spooky House's memory-donking powers.
Edit: also we should spit on the walls to see if the house absorbs that too.
Also we should give Kate the dream ring if she can wear it.
With regards to cleantex, I don't think Plaire knows it exists yet? Although if enough of us gave it a +1, it'd probably happen regardless, and Plaire would probably be a little wigged out at eldritch powers beyond her comprehension shoving info directly into her brain, haha.
...Although, I wonder if that might have any practical uses, beyond stupid party tricks like making Plaire imagine that Mondol is run by a sentient rutabaga or something.
Kate did(did this happen before or after her turn in the dungeon?) and isn't.
Just throwing that out there.
Hmm, I would go for Cici's place. We already spend the night there once so Mondel probably won't get any info it doesn't already have, and if something odd happens we are closer to the house.
But also, uh, Cici's visually melting into the walls a bit? Dunno if it's intentional shading, but it's different. Just a heads up!
Really, it might be worth it at some point in the future to sit down and take stock of all the eligible ladies in Plaire's life, and the pros and cons of pursuing a romance with one of them.
whowhat you have to do... Then again I guess the Mondol option has a less dangerous road leading to it and also a couple identical large buff ladies."I have work in the morning, and have to go to bed a lot."
In context, that means, given the dream has shown a correlation with sleeping in, that Cici might not want to sleep here. Wouldn't want to be late to work in the morning, you know.
Bear that in mind, but otherwise, everyone may do as they see fit.
Potential Mondel nonsense or a mile of dark country road. Staying at Cici's sounds slightly better, but could clue observeres in that something is going on.
+1 to searching for laundry. It is a small house. Did we find the basement yet? How about stairs up? Attic?
Potatoes. You've confirmed wearing your armor to bed results in wearing your armor in the alcazar. However, you still don't know the exact mechanics very well.
Hence, potatoes. When Kate goes in (wearing armor and hugging toolbox, presumably), ask her to Place more potatoes, and see which ones make it in. In the bed, under the bed, on the bed, etc. If all goes well, you can use the knowledge gained to avoid some hours' discomfort every morning after you dream.
I'm even imagining something absurd like having Cherry park at the street, tying a string around Plaire's finger, and stretching it through the window and, I dunno, tying it to Cherry's axle or something and bringing the bus into the dream that way. (Of course, if it comes through as an actual bus, and into a room too small to hold it, Bad Stuff might happen).
Hook Deedee up with Parsons, and empower them to do something great... then watch and enjoy. I, for one, would find that sufficient. Grabbing for more strikes me as a bit greedy.
Anyway, would Player make a good officer? Underweight, out of shape, and zero firearms training, you know. Unless we're looking for free weapons and no actual law enforcement duties?
I suppose actually fulfilling law enforcement duties would be a good thing, since it might help us make friends around town and give us a leg up on investigating Mondol shenanigans. Plus, another thing that just occurred to me: it might be a PAID POSITION, so we'd have more money to throw around. (Now I'm imagining trying to convince Deedee to let us claim sleep as overtime, as long as we wear our badge into the dungeon and frame it like we're fighting dream crime, haha).
Well, I learned they're not actually rodents. Check out Wikipedia's mammalian Order table (link), you can see opossums (Didelphimorphia) are actually almost as far from Rodentia as you can get while still being a mammal at all.
Cici's your animal expert, and she's seen a picture, so it must have been a possum, all right. Don't call it a "rat" in her presence unless you want another biology lesson, though.
just to update: I'm still here, and more pages are coming; I've been having to juggle a lot of real life business (mostly involving my living situation, non-patreon income and mental illness), but it's coming
I'm sorry for all the huge breaks in content, and I'm trying really hard to get shit back on some sort of track. Maybe 2021 won't suck quite so much ass for everyone but also me and trying to write