In Progress [LP CYOA] Tower

Serious question: assuming that we and the girls stay together, what is preventing us from asking them for a read later, if it is indeed a source of ancient knowledge? It obviously own't be free, but not impossible.

Then the pair of comfortable, well-maid tarpaulin boots is obviously the best choice!

 

I'm expecting Andrew to come in, Scotty's blood fresh all over his face, wielding his Sword Astra and demanding that we surrender all the loot.

I mean, at least I'd then have some respect for the guy.

 

Sadly it's looking like the boots are going to win. When do we lock it at BB.

 

Several things.

If it is an Astra, those are synched to the user. I would assume someone not synched wouldn't gain much from it.
We are not guaranteed to keep the items, or at least not all of us are. We have the benefit of being a protagonist, and a sneaky git with no social connections, who wouldn't boast about having a book and have it confiscated.*
And of course, we aren't guaranteed to stay together, or even in the village.

* how much do you trust Scotty to keep it a secret from his dad who is with the expedition? If he gets caught, we are all getting shook down for anything we might have taken.

 

I'm thinking the book is the item most likely to be confiscated by any authorities we run into. Boots and glasses should appear to be of less value and thus be less likely to be taken from us by these knights.

 

Whenever treave calls it...so is anyone actually willing to flop to 1A, or are we just circlejerking?

 

This is a treave lets play. We don't usually get to have our cake and eat it too.

Maybe we get separated, maybe it can only be read by the one it's bonded to.

I could just as easily ask what's to stop us from borrowing the book or the spectacles from them? Get real, dude.

 

Unless there's more flopping soon, I would say we can lock it.

No one seems to be budging from their position.

 

Well, boots and spectacles aren't items that you usually just pass around, unlike books. All's I'm saying is that, if the book contains some cool knowledge, we could try to barter for that knowledge later, circumstances permitting. And you are right, we don't usually get to have our cake and eat it too, so we might have to eat a muffin for it.

Yeah, I'll flop back to 1A, just so I can be smug if we miss out on some cool stuff later. Follow me, or don't, I think we'll be fine no matter what we pick. Inb4 the boots are the only Astra in there.

Be rational.

 

I'm willing to budge. I'm flopping. Again. Starting the Aflopalypse

AB

Wait, are we voting for the book or Yuhe Finger? I'm just voting for whatever results in six years of lingering butthurt.

 

Win or lose, A will deliver butthurt: if A loses, then we will be butthurt about all the secrets of the universe that we missed out on, and if A wins, then we will blame Lambchop for all the blisters we will get.

One more flop will tie A and B, btw.

 

Life of the Party Come on, no point in wasting a vote on E. Put your vote to A.

Kipeci Book is better than boots, come on now.

 

Eh, if the girls leave the book I’d take it but I prefer boots. Very complicated books don’t seem to be something our protagonist could assemble a strong handle on now (recall how he’d have fared poorly with the more complex titles earlier in the sense of actually understanding them versus being a show-off) and I’m still chewing on the substantial lore dump we got from learning to read. I’d rather firm up our physical capabilities that have now deteriorated a bit and better boots for our damaged legs seems like the perfect fit. Plus it can be worn without taking up space that could be used for useful material like salves and lanterns and is less likely to confiscated or stolen. I think the girls will get better mileage out of peeping and turning those pages than the boots, too.

 

Solid points. In any case, I think we should be thankful that we (hopefully) got something out of this first adventure for our character. Assuming that whoever's on the other side of that door isn't (a) hostile, and (b) doesn't find us. Let's lock it up - I think we've generated enough butthurt for one DISCUSS.

 

Thing's like dakka, can't have enough.

 

Will close votes in around 4 hours.

 

I did a conditional flop, to annoy the boots faction.

 

It would be greatly appreciated if you guys informed what you flopped to (since you make another post to inform us of the fact anyways). Not everyone remembers a post from 5 pages back.

 

Kz3r0, would you be willing to flop back to book now since that will cause book to win?

 

We don't know yet, of course!

 

With Azira's conditional flop, it is now

===Poll===

==1st choice==
A - 8 (9)
B - 8 (10)
C - 0
D - 3 (1)
E - 1

==2nd choice==
A - 3
B - 17

@kz3ro If you flop back to book, the book will indeed win. There won't be no tie and this is the better choice as you previously agreed.

 

Get the
BOOK
A

 

AB

 

We're already capable of literacy. The reason why those books were pretentious shit is because we didn't study them properly but would have used them as our version of leisure reading, with predictably half-baked consequences. Now I ask you, how can we get our Indiana Jones on if we're unwilling to read books we find in ruins? What happens if this book ends up being a treasure map or captain's log to bigger treasures and we let it slip through our fingers? Ponder it, my man. Choose the book. It is waiting for you, promising its secrets.

 

But that wouldn't be as trollish behaviour.