>>618395
Check in that pile of clothes, you messy person. Or under your bed maybe?

Investigate under the bed after doing so take a pillowcase, could be used for something.

>You have to keep in mind that I will be fighting alongside you
Thank you. Didn't want to be presumptuous about the kind of aid you would offer.

>where look
You can probably find a container for the water pretty easy in your kitchen.

drawer and closet, obviously.

FORGER OF ARMS (1/7) Reinhild 2015/01/06(Tue)23:07 No. 618643 ID: c00971
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We look under the mess of clothes and we find a backpack! That'll be good for putting all of your quest inventory.

In Backpack:
-One (1) map of East and Central Tsava

I'll convert it into a pocketspace so that you won't be encumbered with the items you carry, plus there will be much more space than a backpack alone.

FORGER OF ARMS (2/7) Reinhild 2015/01/06(Tue)23:13 No. 618644 ID: c00971
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Now we search under your bed. There are a lot of dust bunnies that make you cough violently. You see a small box that had gathered dust over the months, and you know exactly what it is...

A pair of shoes you were planning on giving your mum for her birthday, but you'd lost the shoes under your bed and your mum went missing last month. Of course, you reported her disappearance to the police, but you have lost hope of ever seeing her again.

You slip on the shoes, shedding a small tear.

FORGER OF ARMS (3/7) Reinhild 2015/01/06(Tue)23:14 No. 618645 ID: c00971
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You're taking the pillowcase? Okaaaay, whatever floats your boat, Wilma.

FORGER OF ARMS (4/7) Reinhild 2015/01/06(Tue)23:17 No. 618646 ID: c00971
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You look in the drawer and find your favourite blue sweater. It'll keep you warm in the chilly air of night.

That gives you a thought. You check your calendar, and discover that it is your 18th birthday. Congratulations!

FORGER OF ARMS (5/7) Reinhild 2015/01/06(Tue)23:20 No. 618647 ID: c00971
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You go into the closet, first looking in the big cardboard box to your right. You see nothing except for some old toys that you and your older brother had owned. You take nothing from here.

FORGER OF ARMS (6/7) Reinhild 2015/01/06(Tue)23:23 No. 618648 ID: c00971
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In the pink box, however, you find something that may of be some use to you.

Your old sparring sword.

You remember fondly the times where you and your brother would have sword fights. Those days are sadly over, as your brother had been found hanged in the woods nearby.

FORGER OF ARMS (7/7) Reinhild 2015/01/06(Tue)23:26 No. 618649 ID: c00971
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Your Pocketspace:
-One (1) East and Central Tsava map.
-One (1) pillow case.
-One (1) sweater.
-One (1) wooden sparring sword.

You arrive in the kitchen, though I'm still up in the bedroom because it's so comfy I think I may...zzzz...

Oh! Where in the kitchen are you going to search first?

>>618649
Check in the cabinet for some dried foods to take on the road? I can't imagine anything in the fridge is good for travel, but you can eat some of it before you leave.

Check cabinets. There should be a jar or water bottle or something you can store the lake water in (can't just use a glass- you want something that seals so you can't drop or spill it before you need to forge your weapon).

If that fails, check the fridge. We can always finishing off a bottle or carton of something and then rinse it out.

check the oven, too. oh, and list all the rooms your place has.

Search for a knife, meat tenderizer, or soup ladel. Also put on the comfortable sweater.

FORGER OF ARMS (1/6) Reinhild 2015/01/08(Thu)14:01 No. 618917 ID: 520f16
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>Put on sweater

Fiiiine...go put on the sweater.

FORGER OF ARMS (2/6) Reinhild 2015/01/08(Thu)14:19 No. 618921 ID: 520f16
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>cabinets

You have found trail mix! You find eight individual pouches of the trail mix.

FORGER OF ARMS (3/6) Reinhild 2015/01/08(Thu)14:22 No. 618922 ID: 520f16
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You also find a kitchen knife in the drawer above the cabinet. Now you can stab things!

FORGER OF ARMS (4/6) Reinhild 2015/01/08(Thu)14:23 No. 618925 ID: 520f16
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In another cabinet under the sink, you find a mason jar!

FORGER OF ARMS (5/6) Reinhild 2015/01/08(Thu)14:25 No. 618926 ID: 520f16
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>Fridge

You find a plate of...something...moldy.

FORGER OF ARMS (6/6) Reinhild 2015/01/08(Thu)14:37 No. 618927 ID: 520f16
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>Oven

You find a whole roast turkey with pan!

In Pocketspace:
-One (1) East and Central Tsava map
-One (1) pillow case.
-One (1) wooden sparring sword.
-Eight (8) packets of trail mix.
-One (1) plate of mold.
-One (1) roast turkey.
-One (1) roasting pan.
-One (1) kitchen knife.
-One (1) mason jar.

Equipped:
-One (1) pair of black shoes.
-One (1) comfortable sweater.

The rooms in your house are:
-Bathroom
-Sitting Room
-Your Bedroom
-Kitchen (you are here)
-Basement
-Master Bedroom
-Spare Room (formerly Brother's Room)
-Study (Locked)
-Attached Garage (Locked)

ask Kalypso if she's hungry. enter bathroom.

FORGER OF ARMS (1/2) Reinhild 2015/01/13(Tue)12:49 No. 620149 ID: 767ab3
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>ask Kalypso if she's hungry

I'm starving, but that plate of mold looks delicious. Don't mind if I do!

In Pocketspace:
-One (1) East and Central Tsava map
-One (1) pillow case.
-One (1) wooden sparring sword.
-Eight (8) packets of trail mix.
-One (1) empty plate.
-One (1) roast turkey.
-One (1) roasting pan.
-One (1) kitchen knife.
-One (1) mason jar.

Equipped:
-One (1) pair of black shoes.
-One (1) comfortable sweater.

FORGER OF ARMS (2/2) Reinhild 2015/01/13(Tue)12:52 No. 620150 ID: 767ab3
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You now enter the bathroom. It is quite bare ever since you were the last of your family left.

You are pretty sure the only places to look for anything is under the tub and under the sink. After all, you aren't about to dig around in the toilet, are you?

There should be something useful under the sink, look there first.

check the sink

FORGER OF ARMS (1/2) Reinhild 2015/01/16(Fri)21:22 No. 620636 ID: 8c7420
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You look under the sink and find some drain cleaner. It is extremely toxic, and was found beside a dead rat, which you also take.

FORGE OF ARMS (2/2) Reinhild 2015/01/16(Fri)21:26 No. 620637 ID: 8c7420
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In the sink proper, you find a sticky hairball. It's been sitting in the drain for a while.

In Pocketspace:
-One (1) East and Central Tsava map
-One (1) pillow case.
-One (1) wooden sparring sword.
-Eight (8) packets of trail mix.
-One (1) empty plate.
-One (1) roast turkey.
-One (1) roasting pan.
-One (1) kitchen knife.
-One (1) mason jar.
-One (1) dead rat.
-One (1) bottle of drain cleaner (1 L).
-One (1) sticky hairball.

Equipped:
-One (1) pair of black shoes.
-One (1) comfortable sweater.

What do you do now?
Keep in mind that you can try to combine things in your inventory or try to use them on stuff.

well we've been to the
-Bathroom
-Your Bedroom
-Kitchen

which leaves us with the
-Sitting Room
-Basement
-Master Bedroom
-Spare Room (formerly Brother's Room)
-Study (Locked)
-Attached Garage (Locked)
still to explore.
I'd say either the master bedroom or your brother's old room since they might have left something useful behind. After that try the basement and unless we find the keys to either of the looked rooms hit the sitting after that.

>Keep in mind that you can try to combine things in your inventory or try to use them on stuff.
I suppose we could poison something with the drain cleaner, but I don't see a pressing reason to, right now.

FORGER OF ARMS (1/1) Reinhild 2015/01/20(Tue)22:13 No. 621417 ID: 54de49
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You think to yourself if the drain cleaner might be used to poison something, but you decide against it since there is no need right now.

You walk to the master bedroom, where your mother had slept when she was alive.

The sight inside frightens you. What do you do now?

Do what all good adventurers do, pay respects then loot the body.

Oh geeze. What happened to your mother? When did this happen?

>what do
Her remains were never cleared and treated with the proper respect. You don't have a priest or a coffin, but you do have an avatar of your god, present. Seems to me this might be a good time to pay your respects.

Pray over her body, and say some words. (And if roguelikes have taught me anythings, then your god will accept her and the remains will vanish into the shadows).

...not sure if that's consecrating or desecrating the room, considering who you worship, thought.

FORGER OF ARMS (1/1) Reinhild 2015/01/20(Tue)23:30 No. 621437 ID: 54de49
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You approach the body in the room. You have the clear intent to examine her body for anything useful, and to say a quick prayer to the Dodecaeon for her safe arrival into the afterlife.

You see, first of all, that despite all the blood, she'd died from hanging. The blood was merely there due to a clumsy failed attempt to dismember the body for disposal.

From the intense smell, it seems that the body had been dead for over a week, but the master bedroom was empty yesterday.

As your fingers touch her torn dress, her eyes suddenly open, and she lets out a blood-curdling scream.

well now, I think this is a good time to take out the wooden sword and defend yourself. Also
>the blood was merely there due to a clumsy failed attempt to dismember the body for disposal.
the fuck? Please tell me it wasn't you who tried that and besides isn't there someone you call who would remove the body, like the police or something?

Kalypso, can you confirm whether we are actually seeing this? Rotting bodies appearing inexplicably then screaming sounds a lot like a hallucination.

In the meanwhile, lets jump out of arm's reach then try to talk to her. If that doesn't yield anything check whether the blood trail is still fresh and where it leads.

>her eyes suddenly open, and she lets out a blood-curdling scream.
She's not dead? She's undead?

Look to your goddess for guidance, she should know more about the supernatural than you.

>The blood was merely there due to a clumsy failed attempt to dismember the body for disposal.
Typically one cuts down hanging victims by severing the rope, not by dismemberment. Although I suppose we can't fault you for not acting rationally, in the circumstances.

Can you apply knife to rope? (If you can't reach, can you preform a combo attack with your bat's help to get high enough?).

AH a zombie, jump away from the undead spawn of evil!

Okay, try to calm her down. You might be able to gain a subordinate if you can help her survive her new undead status.

If she's hopelessly feral, just kill her in self-defense.

FORGER OF ARMS (1/1) Reinhild 2015/01/27(Tue)22:18 No. 622609 ID: f6a516
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I can and do confirm you are in fact seeing your own mother coming back to life and screaming.

What? No, you didn't do this to your own mother! You didn't even know she was in here until now! In fact, she hadn't been as you recall from earlier in the week.

You cut the rope from around your mother's neck, and she still remains standing. She groans a little bit, almost like a zombie, and you're far from prepared to deal with a zombie despite your arsenal.

"Mum?" You say calmly.

In a strained, gurgling voice, she replies back.

"Wilma...the study."

You notice that her strength had faded when she'd talked. Maybe if she talked less, she could be valuable to you.

What do you do now?

>>622609
How strange... alright, new task. Get into the Study. Time to find the key. Ask her to point towards the key, if she knows where it is. If not, then we'll have to go find it. Are the keys to the house in her pockets, perhaps?

>You notice that her strength had faded when she'd talked.
My guess is that she is some kind of ghost, and talking uses up whatever energy ghosts run on faster.

>>622613
That works.

ok I'm going to throw my vote in with asking Kalypso exactly what the hell is going on here because this sure as hell isn't normal.

Looks like you have your first follower. Macabre as it is, she's obviously not in control of the possession of your mother's corpse.

First things first: find a way to anchor the spirit to your mother's corpse more permanently. Then find a way to preserve the corpse without overly limiting muscle control.

Ask about how much she remembers, and what she can do for you. If she asks why she is obligated to follow you, explain to her carefully that she is wearing your mother's face, which has a SERIOUS toll. If she pays the debt of stealing your mother's body, she is indeed free to leave.

Be sure to give her some appropriate gear. She has rights and free will as a person, even though she is indebted to serve you.

Take your mother's hand, tell her she doesn't have to talk, and lead her to your study.

>>622657
And yes, please this. You have something confusing and distressing and impossible happening in front of you, and you have your god right there. This is the kind of thing people turned to gods for in the first place.

FORGER OF ARMS (1/1) Reinhild 2015/02/12(Thu)21:00 No. 624938 ID: 612919
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You ask your mother for the key to the study, and she searches her dress pockets for it. She produces a small silver key, though the key is for the basement, but maybe the study key could be found there. Your father was very secretive about his study and what he did in it.

You trust that this revenant mother of yours will not harm you, so you give her the wooden practice sword. It's light enough for her to carry, and could be defended against if she betrays you for whatever reason.

You turn and ask what is going on. You are right to question this; this is actually your mother's corpse, inhabited by her spirit that refuses to leave for some reason. Technically she's dead, and her body will decay as any dead body is wont to do, so there needs to be a way to preserve her before letting her join in on the quest.

What do you do now?

>so there needs to be a way to preserve her before letting her join in on the quest.
There are magical ways to preserve the dead (and undead), aren't there? Seems like the kind of thing a dark-element god of stealth would be good at (concealing a dark thing, letting it blend in). Or if we get our moonlight powers working- would an animated corpse count as a dark object we could bless? Maybe we could keep her fresh that way.

Either way, this kind of thing seems in keeping with the elements we chose. It should be feasible.

>What do you do now?
Go to the study. You're not about to ignore the dying, er, dead words of your mother.

Formaldehyde. Lots and lots of formaldehyde.

Or some bee honey, which has a slow decomposition rate. You'd have to get it in her entire body somehow but bee honey doesn't spoil easily, which is really weird but also effective. (The secret is that it's a sugar environment that most bacteria and viruses cannot survive in, preventing decomposition by cellular attacks. Half-life decay, not so much.)

Look, just preserve her body in a coffin for the moment; you need to find a doctor or taxidermist who can deal with this, but you need her body to be as fresh as possible for maximum preservation. As tormenting as this is going to be for your mother, would you rather have her constantly freak out at her own rotted organs?

You're likely going to need a therapist by the end of this quest.

You got a key to the basement, go there and look for the key to the study.

outside of magic not sure what you could do and with both measures I don't know where you're going to find something or someone to actually help.

Anyways how urgent is this little side quest? I ask because dead bodies don't just turn to dust over night so I think we can explore the basement for now but I would like to know how long we have if we need to go out and try to find someone or something for the side quest.