[Mafia] Witch Trip

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Xue glares at the sky, as if she wanted to face down the ghost. "Burn me then, coward. Oh wait, you won't. Fuck."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

The voice chuckles before saying, You asked for it.

The ghost possesses Larson again, who then proceeds to set Xue on fire again, this time leaving notable burns on her body. The fire stops and the ghost leaves the Pokemon again.

Do you want me to go for three?

[PopcornPie]

Quinarva tapped her chin. "Hey, ask for it again, maybe someone else can tackle the fire-bear thing while it's possessed."

[Florien]

Yeah. You call it immortal, we call it time is neutral. Time is not helping or hindering you. Most people have time against them. Time actively hinders them.

We have time on our side. Time accommodates us as we command it to. Mostly.

They call it immortal back home too of course, but considering that 98% of things described as immortal historically have been killed, we figured "time neutral" was better.

[MadameButterflyKnife]

"Time neutral, whatever, I'm starting to feel negative 'bout you assholes. Go for three."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

The ghost possess Larson one last time, making it lunge at Xue, just biting and slashing her for a few moments right before the ghost leaves.

I believe the point has been made.

[TenOfSwords13]

Sorry I am late, I observed a very interesting rock… you all look like you have seen a “ghost”. Did I miss any peculiar happenstances?

Jimothy is now here. (sorry was asleep)

[Florien]

Oh, yeah, you! Timmofer, was it? Yes! The guide is dead like he always is, there's this guy who's cointoss going to get us out of this, three of us are trying to kill the others...

Standard antiventurer killer stuff. Utter debacle, and right now we're trying to make it as grating as possible for the ghost witch person who's... surprisingly young for an undead being out for blood, all things considered. Though I did lose my sense of time scales. It's kind of like living next to big trees, you lose sight of what constitutes something "big".

[TenOfSwords13]

Oh desr… muder? I just want to do perfectly normal human things like hiking, and now there is this definitely not normal event! I hope we can all get through this together.

[Florien]

Yes! Muuuurder! Lots of it! At minimum, I'd say half of the people who came here aren't going to leave entirely alive, if just by virtue of how numbers work!

Also, yeah if you're a murderer you could turn yourself in now and we could get out of here with less casualties than the minimum.

Luki. This isn't your new strategy. We are not trying that.

No! I promise you, I promise you, I'm not...

You're leading with your default opening persuasion attempt. We aren't doing this. We're not going to exploit it this time. This time, we're going to show off as much as possible and leave them worshipping us or promising to kill us for being so smug about our rightness. Or maybe end up piked the first night, there really hasn't been much of an in-between there. Then, win or lose, we go home and deal with our daughter... our youngest is our daughter, right? I think? Whatever, deal with the celebration of presumably her turning however old. And attend the opening of that new roadway. And meet with the linguistics society to figure out how to finish restandardizing the language. And the consolidation committee to finish delegitimizing the kingdom of Sunre.

...actually maybe we should stay for a few more iterations.

Lukanios angrily tosses the empty doritos bag into the river. Or tries. It lands about a foot away due to air resistance and he has to pick it up and throw it again to get it to land in the water.

Ugh, alright we can go home after this time around. Can't believe you're stopping me from having fun this iteration.

Your "strategies" aren't fun for anyone except you. Remember that time you refused to get any closer than three days to that meeting because "I'm sick and I want to only go there if I'm better" and kept resetting us? WE SPENT EIGHTY YEARS IN THOSE THREE DAYS BEFORE YOU GAVE UP ON GETTING BETTER IN TIME!

Well EXCUSE ME for not wanting to throw up on someone. That would RUIN the whole "third unifier dark overlord" thing I've got going on. Dark overlords DON'T THROW UP ON PEOPLE trying to DEFECT TO THEM!

They're very quickly throwing insults back and forth and referencing past perceived insults and slights built up over thousands of lifetimes over the past decade. Soon enough, the pair are actually exchanging blows while yelling long strings of obscenities in english and some other language.

[noodlesnook]

Sinuhe leans against a tree trunk. Ghosts? Murderers? What is going on here? His mind races and he gets the urge to run away. However, he can't help but feel that there's something holding him back.

Or is it someone?

[Dookie]

June sits down and eats her squirrel, her half-effort laughs turning into sobs.

"Oh...we're all gonna die here. Painfully and gorily. Just so some old geezer can watch their own free snuff film."

[Oggy123]

Anya looks at Jimothy in confusion.

[PointMaid]

Taira is sitting against a tree, still angry at herself for burning her sleeping bag of all things. She does not appear to be having a good time. Or paying too much attention to the... weird... goings on.

You're all certainly very creative, that's for sure.

[Oggy123]

Elster stands near June and says the following. "Hey, hey! As long as we stick together, we will never perish in this forest! Isn't that right, Anya?"

Anya then smiles and nods.

[TenOfSwords13]

Fellow Earth-originating beings, death does not seem like a 100% possibilty. All we need to do is use human ingenuity and work together!

Oh, my name is Jimothy, by the way. Jimothy A. Realman.

[artsyGeek]

"Yeah, and I'm not a talking dog. Hey, Jim - If you don't mind me callin' you that, of course." Crow greeted the "human". ". . if we're doing introductions here, I'm Professor Crow. Pleasure to meet ya'."

[TenOfSwords13]

It is also a pleasure to meet you, Professor Crow. Might I ask what you are a Professor of? Or is Professor simply your given name?

[artsyGeek]

"Well- Obviously, 'Professor' isn't my first name. I hope nobody has that as a name in general - That sounds incredibly confusing. Can't tell you much on it otherwise, really."

[PointMaid]

Okay, this time I'm just hallucinating. Right. Hallucinating. Must be something in the air. That's not right, releasing hallucinogens to people not expecting it. It's dangerous.

[Dookie]

Elster stands near June and says the following. "Hey, hey! As long as we stick together, we will never perish in this forest! Isn't that right, Anya?"

Anya then smiles and nods.

”Have you seen what's been going on? People are being tortured. People are being possessed so that they kill us unless we can find who exactly they are. If we skip up for even a second, we're dead meat.”

[TenOfSwords13]

Hmmm… note to self- proffesor is not a name

Oh, so, super-secret government stuff, then? If I were a Kirexan infiltrator, I would love to know more. But I am not, so I will instead change the subject. Do you like… skateboards? I like skateboards!


Jimothy takes out his skateboard.

[artsyGeek]

Hmmm… note to self- proffesor is not a name

Oh, so, super-secret government stuff, then? If I were a Kirexan infiltrator, I would love to know more. But I am not, so I will instead change the subject. Do you like… skateboards? I like skateboards!


Jimothy takes out his skateboard.

. .suspicious. He ain't answering shit about the first question.

"It's alright, I guess. As you. . Might expect from my canine body, I can't exactly ride it all too well, though."

[Oggy123]

"Well then. If we want to get out of here alive, we'd better do things right! Good thing i have experience with forests. I mean, we've been exploring forests for years! We can handle some supernatural stuff too!"

Meanwhile, Anya just looks at Crow and Jimothy, utterly confused...

[MadameButterflyKnife]

"I hate forests. They're coarse, rough, irritating...."