[LP CYOA] Spiral

[Nevill]

How exactly the villagers will react is another matter that you can discuss, but there will be a reaction.

Children will scream and bring a mob of idle onlookers eager for an entertainment straight to us. People will surround the building. Perhaps there will be a call for a representative to speak with a strange newcomer who appeared in the middle of the village with nary a cloth on him. Or they will forcibly drag us out as a vagabond.

Hopefully, we will succeed in feeding them a story about how we were attacked and robbed by bandits, whereupon they will hand us over to the baron because we are not in their sphere of competence.

Or Ei might attempt to have some lulz at our expense, and make a story of her own.

Ah, I can't take it anymore, if I don't vote this I will regret it for the rest of the LP. I'll vote for going straight to the Baron's estate. C3>C2.

 

[Nevill]

This isn't some flopping cock Scandinavian nudist paradise.

Hmmm...

What would it take to turn 'the world' into one? This place could use a bit of rebranding.

Also, bit of clarification. Is there a hut nearby that looks uninhabited, or are we going to run naked through the village in search of one? It can be read both ways...

 

[treave]

There's a hut nearby that looks like no one might be living in it.

 

[Nevill]

As in 'the owner is out', or as in ' the owner is long dead' (a building in a state of disrepair with weeds, webs etc)? Just curious.

I might be overthinking it, but I can't shake off the image of that 'unknown woman' from my mind. The one we found in a book.

 

[treave]

As in 'the owner is out', yeah, since you're not very likely to find clothes in an empty house.

Current tally:

A - 2
B - 1
C1 - 1
C2 - 4
C3 - 1
C4 - 1

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Being naked vs being naked and stealing someone's clothes. Hmm.

Let the record show that my C2 vote was conditional and that I am not responsible for our inevitably being captured and having our hands amputated as a thief.

I am far more in favor of going to the shrine and exposing our body to the maiden.

 

[Nevill]

The baron has stolen all the maidens and made them his waifus. There are only wrinkly old priests left there now.

Hm, I wonder how old are the Baron's daughters. If Tendou miko on the photo was ~30, the twins should be about 10 or so.

treave, how does this miko stuff work? Are shrine maidens allowed to marry and maintain their status? When do they give their office to the young ones?

 

[Kz3r0]

Actually I like C3, after all I theorized that Ei originally was one of the Baron's daughters, this will be a funny way to find out.
If enough people will flop to that I will too.
As of now C2 has won, the problem is that the second is A, hmm, oh well, amending my vote with a conditional.
C3>C2

 

[Nevill]

Yes. It will all end with us being handed over to the Baron anyway. Why then not tell him our story first-hand, without it being distorted by inevitable rumors?

As a bonus, the mansion is not far, which means we won't be advertising our body for too long.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Well, the thing is, if we go straight to the baron, we only know what he tells us. I think the priests and the villagers might have a different perspective and might tell us things that he wouldn't. Once we are in the mansion, there is no guarantee we can come out again and find out.

 

[Kz3r0]

treave , probably it's obvious but better be sure. Ei is wearing clothes right?
If yes I would like to know of which kind.
Also, can we ask her for a suggestion on what to do/go?

 

[Nevill]

I did not come here for the villagers' take on our situation.

The baron, his wife, and the unknown woman - these three are of interest to me. All of them belong to the Sakaguchi household.

His wife is a representative of the priests and the keeper of the eastern traditions, while the Baron is a hermeticist and represents the western occultism. These two are the ones that should matter to us.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

And are all of them just going to tell a naked stranger everything? We are here. We might as well investigate more than one angle.

 

[Kz3r0]

Well, the thing is, if we go straight to the baron, we only know what he tells us. I think the priests and the villagers might have a different perspective and might tell us things that he wouldn't. Once we are in the mansion, there is no guarantee we can come out again and find out.

Good point, on the other hand the villagers could know very little of what's going on and the people at the shrine can be in cahoots with the Baron.

 

[Nevill]

We might as well investigate more than one angle.

What is that angle you are talking about?

Something happened in the mansion that warped this place and the powers of Juunimon. I very much doubt that it was fully intentional - or if it was, that someone is going to speak about it aloud.

Good point, on the other hand the villagers could know very little of what's going on and the people at the shrine can be in cahoots with the Baron.

Oh, come on. The village is nothing but a decoration. I bet it is no more detailed than the woods surrounding the Ikei hospital. A wrapping for a candy that has no meaningful purpose by itself.

'The world' is a really cramped place centered around the building and certain personalities. The farther you go from them, the scarcer is the level of detail with which 'the world' is recreated.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Of course it isn't "real". But we've never really run into any humans that were "nothing but a decoration" and right now there's a group of kids standing in front of us, which suggests that there are others here too - dead and not realizing it or else somehow trapped here alive as Mori and the rest were. Regardless of where we go, it's likely we can meet some ghosts who reside in this place and don't know they are dead - it's happened before. Therefor, I see nothing wrong with getting the stories of multiple ghosts et al.

...of course, then again, there could be zombies or ghosts who do know they are dead waiting out here for us. The kids could be zombies too. It's a risk I'd be willing to take.

 

[Kz3r0]

'The world' is a really cramped place centered around the building and certain personalities. The farther you go from them, the scarcer is the level of detail with which 'the world' is recreated.

You are probably right, both if this place is a computer simulation or a layer of the spectral hospital we can only rely on the connections that certain people have with cerain events/eras or certain places, the mansion/hospital trough the ages.
Logically speaking C3 is the only option that makes sense then, it's unlikely that this is time travel, so everything outside of the Mansion/hospital will only lead to fall off the edge of this world, so it's the abyss of soul or returning to the outside of the bubble.
Hey Lambchop19 wanna come with us to cockslap the Baron?

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Nevill And the "angle" I'm talking about is getting different stories about this village and the baron. Maybe there is someone who might let a useful fact slip. I mean, it's only happened the entire freak'n LP. Everyone has dropped hints and clues about what was going on - even the ghosts. Never the full picture, but better than just talking to two or three of them.

 

[Nevill]

Logically speaking C3 is the only option that makes sense then, it's unlikely that this is time travel, so everything outside of the Mansion/hospital will only lead to fall off the edge of this world, so it's the abyss of soul or returning to the outside of the bubble.

Not everything. The simulation maintains some internal coherensy up to a certain point.

The woods are probably a death sentence as they are definitely outside that bubble. Ei told us as much before:

It isn’t going to be that easy to escape. Besides, running into the woods would be… splat!

Ei mimicks – in a disturbingly realistic way – the wet, slimy sound of raw flesh and blood splattering on the ground.

 

[Kz3r0]

Not everything. The simulation maintains some internal coherensy up to a certain point.

The woods are probably a death sentence as they are definitely outside that bubble. Ei told us as much before:

It isn’t going to be that easy to escape. Besides, running into the woods would be… splat!

Ei mimicks – in a disturbingly realistic way – the wet, slimy sound of raw flesh and blood splattering on the ground.

Going by previous experiences then the only available places are the hut, if is not too far off and the mansion, the shrine can be the same as the woods and we can't really follow the kids to the village.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

We have no idea of the scale of the village or the hospitals. Most hospitals are a rather large set of several buildings. It's very possible that everything, including the shrine is included in the area the hospitals - particularly the newer "medical center" - were built on and therefore able to be explored. The wooded area surrounding us is the only thing that is a confirmed "splat".

 

[Kz3r0]

We have no idea of the scale of the village or the hospitals. Most hospitals are a rather large set of several buildings. It's very possible that everything, including the shrine is included in the area the hospitals - particularly the newer "medical center" - were built on. The wooded area surrounding us is the only thing that is a confirmed "splat".

True, but let's not forget that we are stiill in the hospital area, that hut can be like some of the rooms we entered before, we enter the hut, statics happens, surprise hungry ghost.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

If it's possible there, it's possible anywhere - including the mansion, the shrine and the village.

 

[Kz3r0]

If it's possible there, it's possible anywhere - including the mansion, the shrine and the village.

The hut looks more ominous to me.
Amending my vote again.
C3>C4

 

[Akkudakku]

Flop to B> C4 dis gon b bad