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Re: Jojo's Bizarre Grail War Part 3: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #720 on: April 25, 2018, 06:20:03 AM »
>"....."
>See if we can at least squeeze out some mana now, no matter how minimal.
>If yes, do we have any abilities that we could use to make our music louder?
Did you bring a light?
...No...


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Re: Jojo's Bizarre Grail War Part 3: A Z-Machine Adventure
« Reply #721 on: April 25, 2018, 04:54:09 PM »
>"....."
>See if we can at least squeeze out some mana now, no matter how minimal.
>If yes, do we have any abilities that we could use to make our music louder?

>You have no luck drawing upon mana right now.
>Your spells are not designed for that, you would need to find another way to do it.

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« Reply #722 on: April 26, 2018, 12:56:58 AM »
> "Aaagh, nothing's working! I couldn't even use my stored mana when I tried earlier. It's just totally blocked."

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« Reply #723 on: April 26, 2018, 01:22:11 AM »
> "Aaagh, nothing's working! I couldn't even use my stored mana when I tried earlier. It's just totally blocked."

>"Were you trying to drown it out?" Archer sends. "Maybe it wasn't loud enough?"

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« Reply #724 on: April 26, 2018, 04:17:24 AM »
>"Less drowning it out than getting the music to cause enough dissonance within his music to cancel it out or at least make it awkward, but yeah, that's the problem, I think. If I had some speakers or something to attach it to I could get a better volume, but I don't."
>"I'd have you go swipe something like that, but then I'd be a sitting duck."
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« Reply #725 on: April 26, 2018, 04:33:11 AM »
>"Less drowning it out than getting the music to cause enough dissonance within his music to cancel it out or at least make it awkward, but yeah, that's the problem, I think. If I had some speakers or something to attach it to I could get a better volume, but I don't."
>"I'd have you go swipe something like that, but then I'd be a sitting duck."

>"Maybe we could use something else?" Archer sends.

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« Reply #726 on: April 27, 2018, 01:35:24 AM »
>"Hmm."
>Look around. Is there anything we can use here for that purpose before we really have to retreat and come back?
>Like, if someone left their boombox on the beach or maybe a closeby lost and found or something.
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« Reply #727 on: April 27, 2018, 02:36:20 AM »
>"Hmm."
>Look around. Is there anything we can use here for that purpose before we really have to retreat and come back?
>Like, if someone left their boombox on the beach or maybe a closeby lost and found or something.

>You don't see anything of the sort. Do people even use boomboxes anymore?

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« Reply #728 on: April 27, 2018, 06:05:18 PM »
There's probably newfangled models that play digital media these days. But eh.

>Time to think of a new, albeit related strategy!
>Do we have earbuds on hand?
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« Reply #729 on: April 27, 2018, 06:53:40 PM »
>Time to think of a new, albeit related strategy!
>Do we have earbuds on hand?

>You do.

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« Reply #730 on: April 27, 2018, 11:27:57 PM »
>"Hmm, maybe..."
>Turn down the volume a little bit and plug said earbuds into our phone.
>Put them in ears, adjust volume until we can hardly hear Caster's tune, if at all.
>Try dredging up mana again.
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« Reply #731 on: April 28, 2018, 12:58:25 AM »
>"Hmm, maybe..."
>Turn down the volume a little bit and plug said earbuds into our phone.
>Put them in ears, adjust volume until we can hardly hear Caster's tune, if at all.
>Try dredging up mana again.

>Still no luck.
>"What should I be doing?" Archer sends.

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« Reply #732 on: April 28, 2018, 03:07:04 AM »
>"Damn, so it's not that. looks like we really do need to at least drown his music out with our own..."
>Sigh. Archer's asking us what she should do, but we don't know. Well, if we're going to go with the original idea...
>"Fall back for now, we need to find something with a little more oomph if I'm going to go through with this plan of mine."
>Do so and start looking for an electronics store.
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« Reply #733 on: April 28, 2018, 04:07:48 AM »
>"Damn, so it's not that. looks like we really do need to at least drown his music out with our own..."
>Sigh. Archer's asking us what she should do, but we don't know. Well, if we're going to go with the original idea...
>"Fall back for now, we need to find something with a little more oomph if I'm going to go through with this plan of mine."
>Do so and start looking for an electronics store.

>You don't think there's much in the way of electronic stores here, given it's just a little suburb and a shopping center.
>You continue to draw back, and find yourself drawing close to the Yacht Club. The parking lot is empty, but there at a few boats laid out in neat stacks around it.  The building itself is a essentially a large rectangle, nothing much to look at. In the nearby channel, you see a couple of boats have been moored. You think you'd struggle to call any of them "yachts".

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« Reply #734 on: April 30, 2018, 11:00:22 PM »
Well, we've come this far, might as well run with the idea.

> Can we see any speakers indicating the building has a PA system?

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« Reply #735 on: April 30, 2018, 11:34:53 PM »
> Can we see any speakers indicating the building has a PA system?

>You do not.  WHat you do see, however, is that one of the boats moored nearby does seem to have something like that.

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« Reply #736 on: May 01, 2018, 12:26:01 AM »
> "Ooh! Archer! There! The boat with the speakers!"
> Hustle over to it.

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« Reply #737 on: May 01, 2018, 12:38:18 AM »
> "Ooh! Archer! There! The boat with the speakers!"
> Hustle over to it.

>"He's starting to follow," Archer says. "But he's taking his time. I dunno, I get the feeling he's building something up."
>You hustle toward the boat. It is a decent-sized boat, you guess. About thirty or so feet long, white, with a cab that that is large enough to be its own room. You think it's more of a fishing boat than any kind of yacht. Honestly, you are kind of out of your sphere of knowledge with this thing. It's easy enough to hop from the pier onto it, though. It's also nice that there's less sand in the air, since you left the beach proper, though the wind hasn't let up, nor has the music.

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« Reply #738 on: May 01, 2018, 12:42:47 AM »
> Head over to the...steering wheel? Does it have one? Man, we don't know shit about boats.
> Anyway, look around there for the speaker system controls.

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« Reply #739 on: May 01, 2018, 01:44:12 AM »
> Head over to the...steering wheel? Does it have one? Man, we don't know shit about boats.
> Anyway, look around there for the speaker system controls.

>You head for the cab, and find the door is locked.

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« Reply #740 on: May 01, 2018, 01:56:48 AM »
> "Really??"
> Any windows big enough to crawl through?
> (Presuming intent to do away with any impeding panes, obviously.)

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« Reply #741 on: May 01, 2018, 02:10:25 AM »
> "Really??"
> Any windows big enough to crawl through?
> (Presuming intent to do away with any impeding panes, obviously.)

>The front windows are pretty large.

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« Reply #742 on: May 01, 2018, 02:59:56 AM »
> Oh man, I'm sorry, boater dude.
> "Archer, smash this for me!"

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« Reply #743 on: May 01, 2018, 03:11:38 AM »
> Oh man, I'm sorry, boater dude.
> "Archer, smash this for me!"

>Hopefully whoever can afford this boat can afford insurance or basic repairs.
>"Coming!" Archer sends, giving up on firing on Caster with little effect and dashing toward you. She dashes up the pier, hops onto the boat without slowing, and lands a kick on the window! It shatters into a countless little shards; thank god for safety glass.

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« Reply #744 on: May 01, 2018, 05:18:29 AM »
> "Thanks! I sure hope this pays off. Watch your ears."
> Slide in and scrutinize the controls.

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« Reply #745 on: May 01, 2018, 05:30:40 AM »
> "Thanks! I sure hope this pays off. Watch your ears."
> Slide in and scrutinize the controls.

>You scrabble inside; trying to avoid the glass. You also manage to avoid falling over as you clamber inside. The cabin is not particular large, and the control panel is fairly foreign-looking. There is a seat and a fairly large wheel, and some monitors and analogue gauges. Something that looks like a loudspeaker. Several large levers.  Shattered glass is everywhere.
>"He's coming!" Archer sends, "He's deployed that parachute thing again!"

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« Reply #746 on: May 01, 2018, 05:51:15 AM »
> "Crap! Try to keep him busy, I'm gonna need a minute..."
> Examine loudspeaker and nearby controls. Use our keychain flashlight if we need to.

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« Reply #747 on: May 01, 2018, 06:47:50 AM »
> "Crap! Try to keep him busy, I'm gonna need a minute..."
> Examine loudspeaker and nearby controls. Use our keychain flashlight if we need to.

>"I'll hold him," Archer sends.
>You examine the loudspeaker. It looks like it was something that was bodged into the boat's dashboard, rather than something that was originally designed for it. Certainly there's some rough spots where the plastic was cut out for it.  But it looks like it works like any walkie talkie or PA system, just talk into the speaker. Near it is a dial that looks a whole lot like a speaker's volume dial. The dashboard doesn't appear to be powered at the moment, but you note there is a turn-key built into the console.
>Caster's music is getting louder, the wind is causing the boat to rock.

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« Reply #748 on: May 02, 2018, 04:40:32 AM »
> Try the turn-key!

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« Reply #749 on: May 02, 2018, 05:09:44 AM »
> Try the turn-key!

>You do so, and much of the instrument panel lights up. Something heavy slams into the side of the cabin; thankfully not near the windows.

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