Convergence (>talk with the catgirl)

[Fuade]

Is this there another room underneath you? If you really want out you could just break your way down.

[GeneralMister]

Oh no. If I am guessing correctly, I think that's a portal that will slowly get bigger, which will force you to fall.
Brace for impact.

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thumbs up if the other side of that portal is orange.
Also, like the adventure! You got another reader.

[torac]

Is this one of those chalk circle things? Try scuffing the edge of the portal to disrupt the spell.

[Squiggles]

Is this one of those chalk circle things? Try scuffing the edge of the portal to disrupt the spell.

Is this there another room underneath you? If you really want out you could just break your way down.

You really don't want to use spells in this thing, the best case scenario it'd do nothing but on the most likely and also most gruesome case, it'd explode kinda violently. You'll scuff though, you'll scuff like you've never scuffed before.

Jesus christ Hawk did you learn to make expressions from watching the smug bully villains in various 80s and 90s children's movies or does it just come naturally

>Hawk: Take a little pity on Jack, at least tell him where he's going. I mean, if you're actually trying to not kill him instead of just sending him to his death in a way where you don't have to see it or feel truly responsible for it.

Hawk: Hey, look on the bright side Jack, you have a whole new opportunity for life out where you end up. I wouldn't really know, I'm rather new at this whole portal magic business. Usually it takes lots of painstaking research and practice to make a navigatable portal. I sort have skipped a lot of steps, for you see I really don't care where you go. So long as it isn't here with me. After this I can put the time into ironing out the bugs for actual use. Aren't you impressed?

Oh no. If I am guessing correctly, I think that's a portal that will slowly get bigger, which will force you to fall.
Brace for impact.

Oh yeah, it's doing that getting bigger thing. Ohgodsohgodsohgods. Can't panic... You can't panic. Don't let Megan see you're afraid. We got to bluff, and bluff big.

>Jack: Oh, dude, that's all? Bro, I am ALL ABOUT adventures in the unknown! You could have just asked!

Jack: Man, I just love the unknown Hawk. How did you know? Gosh gee, wow. This will be fun! This is the best, most thoughtful gesture you've ever made for me. Oh yes, great job Hawk! Heh heh.

HawK: Perfect. I'm glad this has made you so happy. In fact, why don't you just jump on down the portal already, what with how you're just rearing to go and all.

Damn it. He's too clever and saw right through your bluff.

> Jay: Punt Miss Chief Kitty through Darkness Buddy's circle. Cackle because cackling is fun.

Too many chances with that! You could kick a hundred times the fluffy cat butt and only a few will end the way you want. You've got something but you don't like it. You hate it even. It'll be icky and gross and very unpleasing to do. This isn't even something your kind normally do, it's something to avoid. Hee hee, maybe that's why it'll work so well.

>Jay: First, be the chessmaster. Then, check.

It's super fun making ideas that mess with the thinking box. Your kind don't like doing this for example. Really it is cause you're all fleshy sacks that hold energy slurry in them. That tasty goo really mucks up fancy circles something bad. This is going to be unpleasant but it'll be oodles of fun when it all falls like a funny block line.

Gremble: Expect the fact that Hawk might do something to you

You can sense he has no harm meant for you. That doesn't mean the two whelps aren't in danger from that magic the one's cast. If only you could get out you could pull them away and get Master.



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The thing that looks allot like your chewy toy just barfed up a slimy, sugar scented ooze right in front of you. The field is down! You waste no time.



The cat unsummoned itself. It doesn't want to deal with you. Your first goal is the little creature that was once yours. It has fallen and is not moving.



The floor is very slick and you have poor traction. The thing is now held firmly in your jaws, a dead limp weight. It's master can deal with it.



The boys are in front of you and you're going to drag them away from the circle. The one is about to fall in. The other is watching, oblivious to the dangers. You try to stop, to grab the one.

You did not count on the slick surface impeding your ability to stop.

Jack: Be transported/Land already

You're falling, at least, that's what it sort of feels like. You can't describe this very well. You're falling up and down, left and right. How can you fall in all directions!? You see Jay, your master's summon, and Megan but promptly you don't care enough to try to take in the scenery. Disorientation like a tidal wave has come over you and you kind of want to hurl. There's no sense of equilibrium here, only nightmarish amounts of vertigo. It becomes too much and suddenly you don't feel anything at all anymore.


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thumbs up if the other side of that portal is orange.
Also, like the adventure! You got another reader.

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Glad you like it and welcome aboard!

[Naesr Tazam]

> Interlude: Squeakers At Home.

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Bravo. I was half-expecting curtains to close, "End of Act 1" and all that.

[Fuade]

>Jack/Hawk: Strangle eachother

[Wessolf27]

> Interlude: Squeakers At Home.

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Bravo. I was half-expecting curtains to close, "End of Act 1" and all that.

seconding this

[Doorhandle]

>Portal: Reopen.

[Stinkosar]

Convergence got equipped with.... A NEW READER!

[Yamtaggler]

>Jack: Get Megan in a headlock before you hit the ground!

[epoxy]

...End of Prologue?

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Very cool! I think both apprentices and Gremble are interesting characters, so I'm psyched to see them land somewhere together... maybe?

[Squiggles]

It is a quiet afternoon at the Master Summoner's Manor. This is the day of reflection, a day of the week dedicated to thoughts and pondering. As it is, the house wards are set to prevent the apprentices from mana use and if any fights are to be had today the Master will punish the three of them. None of this really concerns you personally.

You are a vermin spirit after all.

The name you were given is Squeakers. You are a very old and clever spirit indeed, having been around for a very long time. Your summoner is a boy named Jack, whom you have grown fond of over the years of being owned by him. He's a bit of a pushover but his intentions are good and his heart's in the right place. You are currently in his bedroom sitting on his desk.

What will you do?

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Bravo. I was half-expecting curtains to close, "End of Act 1" and all that.

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I was thinking about doing something like that but I couldn't figure out what act closer to go with. There's just so many and each has its own narrative flavor that I just couldn't make up my mind. I contemplated a book, a game load screen, so many. possibilities. I'm bad at that sort of decision.

Convergence got equipped with.... A NEW READER!

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Hooray! Welcome and enjoy your stay.

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Very cool! I think both apprentices and Gremble are interesting characters, so I'm psyched to see them land somewhere together... maybe?

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Ha ha I'm psyched too. Glad you like the characters.

[Naesr Tazam]

> Leer out the window at those strange mouse-like creatures.
> Off to the kitchen (for cheese!)
> Make your way through the walls. Safer that way!

[Don]

> Investigate the scroll sitting on the desk. See if you can make sense of the symbols/diagrams.

> Leer out the window at those strange mouse-like creatures.

Seconded.

[Yamtaggler]

>So, you keep saying "Vermin Spirit" and not "Mouse Spirit." Can you be other vermins?

[Doorhandle]

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Go with the book, Squiggles. Matches the setting of the game.

>So, you keep saying "Vermin Spirit" and not "Mouse Spirit." Can you be other vermins?

[Squiggles]

> Leer out the window at those strange mouse-like creatures.

There's nothing special with the creature out the window, looks like a squirrel to you. A rather handsome looking squirrel at that. Leer you will, hee hee!



You leer as well as a Vermin spirit can leer at the squirrel. What is this?



It looks like he's called for.



It wouldn't have worked out between the two of you anyways. You're over him already.

> Off to the kitchen (for cheese!)

Cheese sure is good and you wouldn't mind having some right now but you shouldn't leave the room without Jack knowing first. He'd get worried if he woke up and you weren't there. He spent a late night switching out his spell set, something he does often and is now sleeping in. You've been contented so far with waiting but you wouldn't mind getting some food. Jack has some crackers in his watch meant for you.

> Investigate the scroll sitting on the desk. See if you can make sense of the symbols/diagrams.

There's not much to it. Looks to be a scroll about your kind. Jack was looking for inspiration. Considering the spell he left the scroll on he might just be considering summoning another vermin spirit. Not a keeping one like you. But a more temporary summon that goes with the spell, back where it came from once canceled out. You wouldn't mind the company.

>So, you keep saying "Vermin Spirit" and not "Mouse Spirit." Can you be other vermins?

Hee hee! You know the answer to that! Your kind were discovered back during a rather nasty plague epidemic when the mages and monks teamed up to find a cause. They couldn't figure out whether to consider your kind mice or rats and so settled for "vermin".

You can not change your shape, only your size.

[Wessolf27]

> Go up towards Jack, and pull a little prank on him by growing big

[Don]

>Squeakers: be the living alarm-clock.

[Elkian]

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==> Noninterlude command: Jay: Be in your element (chaos)

==> Squeakers: Gently rub your whiskers over Jack's ear and wake him.

==> Third, living/not lost apprentice: Intro?

[Yamtaggler]

>Bring your master half of a dead cat as a gift and hope he appreciates the irony.

[Elkian]

>Bring your master half of a dead cat as a gift and hope he appreciates the irony.

THIS

[Naesr Tazam]

> Maisie: Barge in, uninvited. Hannah's gone missing!
> Squeakers: Vow to teach the elf girl a lesson in etiquette in the near future. For now, though, hitch a ride on Jack's cloak.

[epoxy]

> Squeakers: try to get the tasty crackers out of Jack's storage watch.

[Elkian]

> Maisie: Barge in, uninvited. Hannah's gone missing!
> Squeakers: Vow to teach the elf girl a lesson in etiquette in the near future. For now, though, hitch a ride on Jack's cloak.

Ohhhhhh, so THAT'S what happened to her!