In Progress [LP CYOA] Tower

Dude, this guy just detected and exposed our friends hiding outside behind a closed door. I'm certain he's gonna find and expose us if we go with E.

 

And yet he didn't detect us upon entering the room.

Scotty and Andrew aren't exactly masters of stealth. He could have simply heard their footsteps.

 

He was preoccupied when he entered the room. Right now he is exposing the kids in hiding.

And treave explicitly ended this update on the note that "you have the feeling that he is looking right at the metal block you are hiding behind."

If that were the case it should've been the guard captain to notice them, not the priest.

 

What Lambchop said. There is nothing to suggest he can detect us. We've been in the room the whole time, if he had magic powers of detection it would have been over for us already. He probably heard the footsteps of the two kids along with some unconscious premonition ability he has to sus out them being behind the door. Giving away our position and trying to squeeze by a bunch of Knights and a creepy Monk in the dark, while they're literally standing close to the exit, is stupid, and all the other slingshot options are dumb too. Giving ourselves up is undesirable because of Rain.

 

Because the feeling of a 10-year-old is so reliable.

That's likely just our imagination.

Look, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Either the priest can see through walls (and per the update, his own closed eyes) or he can't and it's simply a very good sense of hearing.

He didn't detect us upon entering the room, so if we stay quiet, things should be ok.

 

I was speaking of the burn scars on our face ffs.

edit:

 

It's been reliable so far, yes.

Or maybe the priest was focused on his holy mission when he walked in and started paying attention to his surroundings later. He's got some kind of weird senses to detect people nearby. Stop assuming it has to be permanent X-Ray Vision or nothing.

 

Did you buy into Scotty's vampire story?

It is the only one that connects Rain to our house burning down, after all.

 

If his holy mission is that important, he should have been on the alert for some time. It makes no sense that his special power would switch on and off like that.

More likely, the boys had been following them and only just now got close enough for the priest to hear them.

He likely has no special powers other than a really high perception stat. (Ours is decent at 6, but higher than that is very possible).

 

Again:

There are several references to our face being burnt and Sophie being repulsed by it. How can you doubt that it is?

edit: I didn't see your edit until after I quoted and replied to it.

 

Our face was burned since we were five and our (former) Master fished us out of the ruins of our house.

It has nothing to do with Rain.

 

Yeah, why would an important priest on a mission to unlock the 30th floor's wall who gives us an unusual feeling of wrongness that uses a ritual dagger with a blood offering and unusual chant to unlock faraway secrets have any special powers or astras or shit? Are you trying to go full retard, Lambchop? Because you're doing an admirable job of it.

 

Ah, I forgot about that. I thought it was the flames from the creature we fought.

I thought you didn't believe we were burnt at all. My bad.

 

He might have an astra and it might give him special powers, but that doesn't mean that clairvoyance is one of them.

 

I would... probably be inclined to agree with that.

I would also agree that our character feeling that something may be the case does not automatically make it so. Unreliable narration exists, and we are a (remarkably rational) kid who was nonetheless unsettled by a strange monk even before he started doing blood rituals.

But then one has to question, does him having a "really high perception stat" make things better for us? There are three of us here, after all.

 

damn Harry Potter book fans choosing an item of no immediate utility

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damn fire mage Rasputin posing as a cleric, he was either the nazgul or a close friend and can smell the corruption in our wound

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E (wait one turn - too bad none of our potions can serve as buffs, can we at least cast True Strike oh ffs)

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A (cast Chaos, save vs. spell +5 - we're not dealing with a bunch of kids afraid of the dark, and they have more lanterns to light - at best we'll give Fancy Boy a bonus on his next attack, too bad he's too far/dumb to strike Rasputin instead of the minions)

P.S. damn fake clerics hindering the communist revolution with their mumbo-jumbo, too bad we're in no position to backstab him

 

The exact nature of his perception is not as important at any rate as the fact that he already exposed our friends hiding outside behind the closed door and that we have a feeling he is already looking at us right now.

In Lambchop19 and ItsChon's view none of this suggests anything and the kids were just unlucky to get caught while we would not be noticed. Somehow, I suspect otherwise.

 

Unlucky? They’re fucking morons who just assaulted a knight for no reason. Think about how such a moron might try to sneak and you’ll have your answer as to why they got caught.

 

Baltika9 I love you buddy but you're either trolling hard or getting corona in the brain cells. I can't take a single thing you say for this decision seriously.

 

It really doesn't suggest much beyond good hearing, especially since his eyes were closed. Shutting out one sense sharpens others, it's not unheard of.

Whether he has anything else going for him on account of being a magic man is pure speculation.

Edit: ...which I nonetheless tend to believe. The man has bad juju written all over him.

 

Back to business,

I don't share absinthe's certainty that Rasputin has already detected us, but I do think, in the absence of alternatives, we should be taking our hunch seriously.

And yes, while A is the only reasonable distraction option, A also carries a fair risk that Andrew continues to go berserk, the dumbass.

Actually, I think there's a question here - just why is Andrew so panicked at seeing the knights? If he's just scared about getting in trouble after venturing into the ruins, there's no way he's panicked enough to literally swing a sword at the knights. He's more likely to be both relieved at finding help and scared of being grounded. Andrew & other kids never talked about the knights with any such great fear. I feel like Andrew saw something that spooked him after our separation, or he has some reason to be very scared of the knights.

Perhaps I'm reaching, but that makes me even more uneasy about getting ourselves caught by these guys. Maybe it's not just the case that they'll give us a slap on the wrist and send us back home.

 

It's between D and E, the other options really sound like plans only a child could come up with. We're not going to outrun them, outfight them, outmanoeuvre them, any of that stuff.

I kinda like E, to be honest. I suspect it might lead to either the twins joining the party or to Rasputin pretending he didn't sense us.

 

also, our chances of seeing Rain any time this decade have just been reduce to "slight to none" - no wonder she looked so disappointed in us

also, if all three items were astras, the girls are getting conscripted right alongside us

assuming kids with astras get conscripted instead of "conscripted, died in the line of duty shortly after, tragic really (was real tasty though, delicate soul with a hint of cinnamon)"

 

For all we know, he witnessed the knights killing someone, overheard them talking about killing someone or else Scotty has been spooking him with scary stories.

We really don't know, but I think that if he was so afraid of these knights, he shouldn't have been following them so closely or should have tried to run.

There's very little that can justify this level of idiocy.

 

Oh, I don't give a shit about Andrew. I just think that Andrew must know / have seen something to make him very fearful of the knights beyond reason - and that's a useful sliver of data for us right now.

It suggests that the situation isn't exactly "oh shucks sorry dad we thought it'd be fun to sneak in".