In Progress [LP CYOA] Tower

alright, flopping to:

1C
2A

edit: wait, you already have me down as CA in

while i voted for CC?

 

"Hey, I've never fired a gun in my life and I'm like ten years old, but sure, let's just wade in there and shoot at the grandma fighting the monster in melee combat in a fucking swamp, especially when she isn't expecting it! What can go wrong??"

Don't be a fucking Andrew.

We need one person to recover their brain and confirm 2D so we don't Leeroy Jenkins and kill a grandma.

 

better to light a single very loud gunpowder candle than curse the darkness play bodyguard to a Jane Austen fan

 

If the Jane Austen fan dies, we are in very deep shit with our town and benefactor (reminder that McClellan is Sophie's father).

 

And if we're tag-teaming one shifter with gram-gram, and the other is running towards Liz and Bernard, then what are we guarding Sophie against?

And Bernard seem to be a just a leopard. A well-trained and impressive leopard, but a leopard nonetheless. Again, the original plan involved Tlalli killing off the shifter that is currently fleeing towards Elizabeth, not Bernard. If we help finishing this sucker off with a revolver in close quarters, then Tlalli can proceed with the original plan as best she can.

I'm not seeing any issues here.

Nah, I'm just that quick with the edits. Fastest hand in the West, you know.

 

ERYFKRAD Neither D or A is going to win the first vote. Care to swap over to C? I'm sure you'll agree, the revolver is way cooler than a silly slingshot.

 

"our town"
it's "our tower", and nothing less

 

You're just going to shoot her by mistake and/or get in her way.

Great job picking the two worst options (besides E, which is silly because Sophie will see them before us).

And we're a 10-year-old with a gun we have no idea how to use.

You're also forgetting the magic orb trap Liz is armed with.

 

The problem is I don't think we're good enough to be a tag team with Tlalli. That's just hubris. Our version of a tag team is Tlalli (the expert) suddenly having a noob teammate insert himself into her fight. We'll just end up making a bigger mess of things.

Bernard was trusted to be able to escort our party to town and see to any dangers on the way, so it's clearly not just a normal leopard. That leopard has been fighting together with Tlalli for a while. Just because the situation isn't going to plan doesn't mean it has exceeded what the fallback can handle. We're talking about an injured shifter that's about to get hit by a sphere that will weaken it and harm its mobility. Bernard can take care of that. Even if he were to somehow fail at killing it, at the very least Elizabeth can run for it without getting herself injured. Don't tunnelvision on trying to make the situation go according to the original plan. We just need to make sure the current situation works out.

On that note, I may as well set my 2nd vote to just 2D.

 

I'd share your concern if we were fighting in melee with her, but with a ranged weapon we simply need to stand there and shoot the damn thing. Breath, aim, squeeze the trigger at the right moment. I think that you're exaggerating the difficulty of this task.

 

That's actually worse, Baltika9. If we were to slug it out we might hold it down or something for her. But firing into a melee is pretty fucking dangerous. There is a real risk of friendly fire there.

 

With the gun we don't know how to use and our 1/5 ranged weapons skill. Great plan.

btw, the waters are rising. Tlalli will be slower. If it runs and attacks Sophie, there will be nothing stopping it.

 

Tigranes was so right. The longer discuss goes on, the more people forget what we've actually read and go off into retarded fantasies about fighting along side "gram gram" with our gun that we have no idea how to use.

Add to that people get irrationally tied to their positions and even forget why they want to choose them.




I'm just going to quote some sentences from the last update:

Make of these what you will.

Just read them before deciding to go with Baltika9's fantasies of helping "gram gram" by pointing our gun we have never even fired before in her direction while she is in heated, close-quarters combat with a monster. 1/5 ranged weapons skill. smh

 

I think our hunt3r boi is smart, experienced with killing stuff and disciplined enough to not shoot until he has a clear shot, or if the changeling tries to pass Tlalli.

I'm afraid I don't follow. I'm under the impression that 2A has us attacking the changeling with the weapon we pick. If that weapon is a ranged weapon, we shoot it.

 

2A is explicitly a vote for trying to kill the thing as quickly as possible. The slow and steady trigger discipline you speak of is not how that option works.

 

Exactly. Add to that that this is a 10yo with a gun who thinks that the basic idea is point and shoot. Why would he regard it as anything other than just another weapon?

 

The kid has NEVER TOUCHED A GUN until this morning, has NEVER FIRED IT, has had no training, has LIVED AWAY FROM CIVILISATION MOST OF HIS LIFE by the way so hasn't even seen the movies. Kid isn't James Bond.

We ain't hitting anything other than our own allies unless we roll a nat 20.

 

Nah if the monster is rushing at us we don't need to have great skills. We just need our weapon to pack a wallop and preferably not require reloading to shoot more than once. Revolvers are easy enough to use if your enemy's fairly close and coming at you. Firing a revolver into a melee would be an extremely bad idea though. That requires much more skill than we have. Even trained soldiers avoid shooting into a melee if they can help it.

For 2A a revolver is a terrible choice of weapon. For 2D it's good.

 

I agree that 2D is the only one we'd have a chance of hitting anything with. Plus, I'm hoping that having Sophie right next to us as our eyes will help.

 

Will be closing votes in around 9 hours.

 

I am not changing my vote bro, sorry.

 

We're going to shoot Bernard, aren't we?

 

After a day away from the keyboard and a good night's sleep, I have seen the error of my ways. I was (am?) retarded.

Flopping to BD

 

A will definitely lose to B or C. Might as well pick one of those so your vote isn't thrown away.

 

When people start stating that "this or that is OBVIOUSLY the right choice", I kinda zone out.
No. It's not obvious. You can see that from the votes. So stop being a haughty son-of-a-bitch.

It's only obvious if you're a certified Treave mind-reader.

We really don't know what either of these choices will lead to, but we're all guessing.