Hyperdimension Dwarf Fortress Quest 73

>[ ] [EXAMINE KEY FRAGMENT] Okay, you keep thinking these damned plot-important rocks are just.... rocks, rather than the things keeping Histoire imprisoned. Look it over and see if there's anything important that you're missing.
>[ ] [CHECK PHONE] Come to think of it, you actually have service on this damn thing again, now that you're not floating in the horrific nullspace between universes. Check your messages, look at the news, maybe make sure your friends don't think you're. Y'know. Dead.
Replace/connect phone antenna with key fragment , WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!?

[ ] [CHECK PHONE] Come to think of it, you actually have service on this damn thing again, now that you're not floating in the horrific
nullspace between universes. Check your messages, look at the news, maybe make sure your friends don't think you're. Y'know. Dead.
[ ] [Booze]
[ ] [Make pillow fort]

[x] [NEPGEAR] See how your surrogate little sister is doing. What's it like, coming "home" to Planeptune and the church-like palace she was literally born to inhabit?

Don't let Neptune take her away from us.

>[ ] [CHECK PHONE]
[ ] [WRITE-IN] GET OUT.

>[X] [CHECK PHONE] Come to think of it, you actually have service on this damn thing again, now that you're not floating in the horrific nullspace between universes. Check your messages, look at the news, maybe make sure your friends don't think you're. Y'know. Dead.

>[X] [BOOZE] Offer booze to IF and Compa.

>Replace/connect phone antenna with key fragment , WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!?

We could accidental summon Plutia or 5pb. And I don't think we could dispose of either of them, them former because of Iris hearth, the latter because gruesome death are only inflicted upon monsters.

>[ ] [NEPGEAR] See how your surrogate little sister is doing. What's it like, coming "home" to Planeptune and the church-like palace she was literally born to inhabit?

>We could accidental summon Plutia
And that's bad because?

>[ ] [EXAMINE KEY FRAGMENT] Okay, you keep thinking these damned plot-important rocks are just.... rocks, rather than the things keeping Histoire imprisoned. Look it over and see if there's anything important that you're missing.
>[ ] [CHECK PHONE] Come to think of it, you actually have service on this damn thing again, now that you're not floating in the horrific nullspace between universes. Check your messages, look at the news, maybe make sure your friends don't think you're. Y'know. Dead.
>[ ] [BOOZE] Offer booze to IF and Compa.
>[ ] [WRITE-IN]
Connect Booze to Key Fragment connected to Phone

Raising Nepgear with Rokko and aunt Estelle when?

Right, looks like [CHECK PHONE] ekes out a win! Writing! And belatedly, evening, folks.

>[ ] [EXAMINE KEY FRAGMENT] Okay, you keep thinking these damned plot-important rocks are just.... rocks, rather than the things keeping Histoire imprisoned. Look it over and see if there's anything important that you're missing.
Who knows, we might accidentally get to talk to Histoire again.
>[ ] [BOOZE]

>Replace/connect phone antenna with key fragment.
This seems like a fun idea.

>[X] [CHECK PHONE]
>[X][BOOZE ] We can get drunk now, yes? Now seems like as good a time as any to find out how much booze it takes for us to start forgetting stuff.

>And that's bad because?

I have a sense of Deja Vu.

SM without safewords or consent is a bad idea. Iris Hearth's whole shtick is in essentia combat SM, which is without both of the aforementioned.

>[X] [CHECK PHONE] Come to think of it, you actually have service on this damn thing again, now that you're not floating in the horrific nullspace between universes. Check your messages, look at the news, maybe make sure your friends don't think you're. Y'know. Dead.

You're getting me turned on.
Continue...

Oh and, and are good ideas too.

What about [BOOZE] did that win?

When does [BOOZE] not win?

Urist does sound like the kind of person that would call Iris Heart out on her bullshit and stand her ground.

And then die horribly.

Think booze is automatically applied now

>Urist does sound like the kind of person that would call Iris Heart out on her bullshit and stand her ground.

...... interestingly I have never thought in that way. Could be interesting, but I think we still shoudn't tr to summon her until we are either stronger, have all our big hitter teammates near us or need a distraction for our enemies while we make our escape.

At least we'll be able to trust her to shake informations out of people without breaking their teeth.

Yes, but she does something way, way worse to them. I would rather have my teeth, bones and/or nose broken then my free will. Or my personality.
It is way easier to replace the physical damage than psychological one.

You're exaggerating, Plutia doesn't do that much damage.
Even Noire managed to recover after Plutia molested her. Even Nepgear (who said that her entire body hurt) managed to recover very quickly.

At any rate, it's 4:16AM here so I'm off. Sorry Blorp.

We could probabl trust her to do that without psychological damage if we break Iris Hearth's free will first. So, who wants to break an unresponsible dom in?

She does. See IF in Neptunia 3.

Let's fuckin' do it! Champions are rewarded by fortune!

Or the whole
>LOWEE
>I MUST GO TO LOWEE
Part

>[X] [CHECK PHONE]

A stray thought occurs to you, and you start digging through your inventory.

... correction: first, you chug down half your tertiary flask of booze. THEN you dig through your inventory. Y'see, you've forgotten all about your phone.

You've never gotten into the habit of using, abusing, and endlessly checking your phone. It's /convenient/, sure, but only as far as checking the weather and news to make sure your immediate surroundings aren't consumed by some dumb adventurer-vs-adventurer grudge match.

Thing is, up 'til recently, you've only had one number in your phone, and Mojang rang you up much more often than you'd bothered calling her. Since then, though, you've been steadily adding contacts- not that you've had much need to use them, because you'd probably spent more time with them than without.

Still, old habits die hard. You don't think you even looked at your phone when you got warped to the hyperdimensional void- although maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it would've had no signal, or maybe you would've connected to some nightmarish version of Planeptune where alternate dimension Neptune is some terrifying evil overlord.

Anyway, you pull out your phone, that little ancient model that today's newfangled smartphones could run circles around, and start scrolling through the shit you've missed over the past few days.

For better or worse, the news isn't very helpful: no big honking exposé about how Leanbox crippled itself by fucking up the Red Ring of Death and sucking half its adventurers into the void, zero news about CPU White Heart's tragic glitching, and there's nothing definitive about Arfoire's reappearance. Even the controversy around that national television beatdown between Blanc and Vert has fizzled; both of their Basilicoms are treading on eggshells, spewing all sorts of noncommittal garbage that doesn't deposit the blame at either party's feet.

(Cont.)

Sure, people are antsy, and there're a lot of strange rumors flying around, but there's nothing that'll make adventurers sit up, start panicking, and bust everyone's fucking heads. NO one seems to want another goddamned console war.

... guess that's the upside to how Gamindustri's compartmentalized into its separate rival nations: every news companies is based in one of the four nations, so no single one of them bother looking at the whole Gamindustri-wide picture to connect the dots.

Well, whatever, that's none of your concern. You breeze through the rest of the news- Planeptune's is filled with funny pictures of dogoos accidentally slipping down peoples' shirts, while Lastation's is mostly human interest stories- before figuring that you can't put it off any longer.

Time to call one of your friends.

>CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
[ ] [CALL ESTELLE] Tell your surrogate big sister that you're alive, and check that SHE'S okay; Ein seemed to be gunning for her the last time you saw them. Let her know where Blanc is.
[ ] [CALL ROKKO] Tell the super fighting robot that everything's okay, and check what's been going on in Gamindustri since you were out. She's a robot, she's got her finger on the nation's heartbeat.
[ ] [CALL VERT] The goddess probably isn't /dead/, but it's probably a good idea to check up on her anyway. Also, let her know that Mojang's doing a-okay up in the hyperdimensional void.
[ ] [CALL EIN] You still have her number. Honestly, you're curious what Ms. Final Fantasy has been up to, and you DO need to ask her why she, say, was trying to fucking murder Estelle right before you'd gotten warped to the hyperdimensional void.
[ ] [CALL EVERYONE] Just go down the damned list, because you're sure as hell getting to them all in one sitting.
[ ] [COMBINE PHONE AND KEY FRAGMENT] Because this is an excellent idea that can, in no way whatsoever, go horrifically wrong.
[ ] [WRITE-IN]

[ ] [COMBINE PHONE AND KEY FRAGMENT] Because this is an excellent idea that can, in no way whatsoever, go horrifically wrong.

>[ ] [CALL EVERYONE] Just go down the damned list, because you're sure as hell getting to them all in one sitting.
>[ ] [COMBINE PHONE AND KEY FRAGMENT] Because this is an excellent idea that can, in no way whatsoever, go horrifically wrong.

>[ ] [CALL EVERYONE] Just go down the damned list, because you're sure as hell getting to them all in one sitting.
>[ ] [COMBINE PHONE AND KEY FRAGMENT] Because this is an excellent idea that can, in no way whatsoever, go horrifically wrong.
HI GUYS, I'M ALIVE. ALSO, I'M ABOUT TO DO SOMETHING SUICIDALLY DANGEROUS AGAIN, BEEN NICE SPEAKING WITH YOU.

>[ ] [CALL EVERYONE] Just go down the damned list, because you're sure as hell getting to them all in one sitting.
>[ ] [COMBINE PHONE AND KEY FRAGMENT] Because this is an excellent idea that can, in no way whatsoever, go horrifically wrong.

DO THEM IN THIS ORDER

[ ] [COMBINE PHONE AND KEY FRAGMENT] Because this is an excellent idea that can, in no way whatsoever, go horrifically wrong.

>[ ] [CALL EVERYONE] Just go down the damned list, because you're sure as hell getting to them all in one sitting.

But instead of going down the (probably) Alphabetical list, a more need orientend one:

>1.: Estelle
>2.: Rokko
>3.: Vert

....... we only have the number of 4 persons who are not currently residing in "The dimension between dimension aka Limbo aka boring hellhole aka new jersey on a tuesday."?

>[ ] [CALL EVERYONE] Just go down the damned list, because you're sure as hell getting to them all in one sitting.
>[ ] [COMBINE PHONE AND KEY FRAGMENT] Because this is an excellent idea that can, in no way whatsoever, go horrifically wrong.

>[ ] [COMBINE PHONE AND KEY FRAGMENT] Because this is an excellent idea that can, in no way whatsoever, go horrifically wrong.
>[ ] [WRITE-IN]
More [BOOZE]

GO SLEEP, BECAUSE IT IS A WONDROUS ACTIVITY THAT'S NOT JUST FOR THE DEAD

Please do not take the shmuck bait.... again.

>[ ] [BOOZE] Offer booze to IF and Compa
>[ ] [CALL EVERYONE] Just go down the damned list, because you're sure as hell getting to them all in one sitting.

>[ ] [CALL EVERYONE] Just go down the damned list, because you're sure as hell getting to them all in one sitting.
Conference call?

Why not?

[ ] [COMBINE PHONE AND KEY FRAGMENT] Because this is an excellent idea that can, in no way whatsoever, go horrifically wrong.

>[ ] [CALL EVERYONE] Just go down the damned list, because you're sure as hell getting to them all in one sitting.

It's bait yes, but we don't care.

You do realize that a large majority of people here are from EVO and Ogre Quests right, which was constantly taking those kinds of choices and then riding the wave.
This is par the course, just sit back and enjoy.

>GO SLEEP, BECAUSE IT IS A WONDROUS ACTIVITY THAT'S NOT JUST FOR THE DEAD

Blorp, here it is 4:32 am. Don't be too concerned I sleept yesterday until ~6 pm. That should hold me awake, unlike my y-ke.

But I suggested it, user, I must take responsibility for my actions.

>[X] [CALL EVERYONE] Just go down the damned list, because you're sure as hell getting to them all in one sitting.

Remember to yell. Those are pretty long distance calls.

how the fuck did the witcher get on that list?

Unfortunately, there are those here who always pick those options for nothing more than the hell of it. Even if it's extremely obvious that it's a trap option.

I think it is a character popularity poll.

I know, I have read the entire Ogre batch while Blorp had one longer stretch of time between Quest sessions. I still maintain that we shouldn't take bait because we are no blue creature made out of luck and imagination anymore.

I picked it assuming we'd be able to call Histoire whenever we wanted, not summon someone from the Ultradimension.

Because the japanese could find something good which wasn't made in japan? That it wasn't made in the US surely helped though.

>[X] [CALL ROKKO] Tell the super fighting robot that everything's okay, and check what's been going on in Gamindustri since you were out. She's a robot, she's got her finger on the nation's heartbeat.
We need to make sure the wife knows we're okay.

>[X] [COMBINE PHONE AND KEY FRAGMENT] Because this is an excellent idea that can, in no way whatsoever, go horrifically wrong.
Creating great works out of random crap after being hit with a bout of inspiration is the dwarven way.

Man, catching a live thread is surreal.
>[ ] [CALL EVERYONE] Just go down the damned list, because you're sure as hell getting to them all in one sitting.
Seconding Conference call

Let us just hope that we summon something like this instead of worse options.

More like how the fuck is SAO above the witcher

YOU ARE CRAZY AND I SALUTE YOU

nah, that's not surprising. People eat that shit up, and despite Witcher being great, it's also a bit harder to get into the flow of the games.

Eh, Blorp quest is worth it, even though I have to be somewhere at 9 am today.

Right, looks like [CRUNCHING PHONE AND KEY FRAGMENT TOGETHER] and [CALL EVERYONE] wins, so- writing!

The question I have is, how did the Sword Art Online guys get on that- or, okay, what said.

That's a character popularity poll. Which Kirito is near the top of. Japan confirmed for shit taste.

Big Boss for the win

Japan has always been confirmed for shit taste. That's why Best Girl never gets a route

It could be worse. He could be at the first place... which is occupied by one of the characters I like less but still.
(Also Log Horizont is better than SAO everyday.)

Japan has always had shit taste. Kira and Lacus topped the popularity polls for a long ass time.

Well, I have probably just to add that in a poll which character out of Majoras Mask to include ijn Hyrule Warriors Tingle was number 1 in Japan.

>Also Log Horizon is better than SAO everyday

the only good thing to come out of SAO was the abridged series.

...

...

FOCUS PEOPLE, we're supposed to be doing DWARFY THINGS here!

..... ou really did choose the Nuclear Godwin Option? Also, those words do not work in german, except in angering or alienation other people.

BITCHING ABOUT EVERYTHING THE ELVES PRODUCE IS DWARFY!

>DWARFY THINGS

Oh, right. back to behaving like [Image]

anime people are always perfect
they are like elves
*sudden horrifying realizations*

Hey Blorp. Yandere Simulator-chan when? Because another psychopath is what this quest needs.

>[ ] [CALL ESTELLE] Tell your surrogate big sister that you're alive, and check that SHE'S okay; Ein seemed to be gunning for her the last time you saw them. Let her know where Blanc is.

Oh how I long for the days where it just were Ljolsalfar and Svartalfar and both were neither perfect nor benelovent. But alas, they got Vampired before the vampires.

Chill senpai, it's just a reaction image.

presumably when she gets out of pre-pre-alpha

Picture related

>[X] [COMBINE THE KEY FRAGMENT AND THE PHONE]
>[X] [CALL EVERYONE] (Next Post)

Now, see, you're a dwarf. You get terrible ideas. It's just what you do.

So when you're fiddling with your phone, and that damned key fragment's sitting in your lap, you can't help but get to thinking.

The Key Fragments are apparently what're being used to jail Histoire. However, they're also what you use to contact Histoire, through some strange technomagical means that are completely beyond your comprehension.

The phone is used to contact other people, also through some strange technomagical means that are completely beyond your comprehension.

You weigh them in each hand as you consider your chosen course of action.

Just before you slam them together, IF looks up and has just enough time to scream "WAIT-"

>Urist Twelfthbay commits an act of !!SCIENCE!!
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Taking the best of three!
DC: The higher the better!

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