THE FIRST OF HOPEFULLY MANY LAST FREE CITY TESTRUNS

[chump_samurai]

[1]

[Some minor piece of modern technology, let's say indoor plumbing, is baffling Shinsuke.]

To think, this city of gods even has magic for something like this.

[2]

[Shinsuke was somehow responsible for a great victory, and he seems to have let it go to his head. He's been quietly grinning to himself as flights of fancy float through his head. He's so disconnected from reality, in fact, that he just walked into you.]

Oof! Hey, watch it!

[3]

[Shinsuke just made a rather dramatic entrance, literally descending from a clear sky and flattening one of his foes. However, when he stands up he looks a bit unsteady on his feet.

In fact let's not beat around the bush here. He's drunk as hell.]

You're awfully cocky, releasing that much killing intent close enough that I can...

hang on...

[And now he's vomiting into a bush.]

Ugh...

Comments

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[lone_wolf_of_southtown]

...Ooof. Nails the mount, but totally flubs the dismount. You really need to work on your intimidate score, bud.

[chump_samurai]

I'll be good in a second. I just need to...

*HORFL*

...Okay...*pant*...I'm good.

[lone_wolf_of_southtown]

You sure? 'Cause barfing on the enemy would be kinda demoralizing, but it'd also just be real gnarly.

[chump_samurai]

Badguys that way. Stupid observations later.

[lone_wolf_of_southtown]

Ha! I don't think I'm the one that's gotta worry about knowing which way's right at the moment!

*But yeah, he's fighting.*

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[phobophage]

Are you a moron or just ignorant? I suppose if it's the latter, it's not that bad.

[chump_samurai]

I'm not at home with all this sorcery and magic, okay? I grew up as a simple peasant.

[phobophage]

So you're one of those guys from one of those places. It's clever engineering, not magic. They do a bunch of stuff with tubes and pipes that I haven't had the time to get around to figuring out.

[chump_samurai]

Not magic?

[Flushhhh.]

Huh.

[phobophage]

Some time I'll get around to learning how that works. Too busy right now.

[chump_samurai]

So if this isn't the power of the gods, I wonder what other things here are just tricks and cleverness.

[phobophage]

A lot of it. The rest of it's magic.

[chump_samurai]

The gods here must be very strange gods.

[phobophage]

They don't seem that much different from people like you. Except that they can do things you can't.

[chump_samurai]

Well that's kinda what a god is, isn't it? Someone with so much more power than normal person that he can do whatever he wants?

[phobophage]

That's exactly why I'm seeking to become a god. Though the gods here don't have the type of ability I'm looking for.

[chump_samurai]

A power beyond even the gods, huh?

[phobophage]

The power of creation.

[chump_samurai]

I don't follow.

[phobophage]

I suppose you aren't one of the more bright ones.

[chump_samurai]

I'm just sayin' it seems like they already can create things.

[phobophage]

If they were capable of the kind of creation I'm looking for, they wouldn't be having those problems.

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[were_all_gonna_die]

You watch it, pal!