[Haunted Mansion] vampy chats (jess/daryl)

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This works for me, I’m... surprisingly okay with getting vamped

I’m waiting on my new role PM for now though

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I had to either get funding for my startup or find someone to fall in love with so... kinda did okay on the second one even if it’s a much more undead bonnie and Clyde mistress/slave thing than I imagine daryl originally had in mind

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I’m going to keep roleplaying in the main thread(s) but will probably talk normally here?

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Okay cool, that sounds good, Daryl has done some very fruitless searching and had a bath and that’s about it haha

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I am on tenterhooks btw

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lol it’s cool, I’ve just lowkey felt the whole time until now that I was waiting for the game to start in like an extended prologue and now it finally has I’m excited! Honestly, if you’d told me “hey I’m a vampire I’m gonna vote you k?” Things basically wouldn’t have gone down any differently

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*gonna bite you

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Holy shit there’s a lot going on I didn’t know aha

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Also how has your move gone/have you settled in? how’s school going?

School starts next month! I’ve found a place to live now, and I’m going away this weekend to climb with friends. It’s a lot of fun but very, very hectic so far! Thanks for asking

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Did your gun only have one bullet?

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I think we need to try to isolate people and then pick them off

How about we try to get Mark to trust us and get him to come with? We tell him we have something to share and then we finish him off

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Where did you kill Lindsay and what did you do with the bodies?

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So how do you wanna play this?

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What do you think of luring dsjstr there? We tell him we’ve found something incriminating but we’re not sure what it means and that we think he’s trustworthy then... bam

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So are we gonna lie about having been together last phase?

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Ehhh I’m not sure? I think there’s probably some degree of advantage to presenting as a fairly united front but equally as people start dying that might make them suspicious of us? I guess I’m kind of enjoying the roleplaying of crushing on Jessica tho so for that reason I’d also say it’s more entertaining sticking together:lol:

I’m your vampy slave tho so you make the final call

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okay, let’s lure dsjstr into the bedroom. do you want to whisper him and tell him we found evidence of another body or something? and want his help investigating? that could be a fun and/or spoopy lie

Sure, that sounds fun! And then if anyone else comes along then we pull the “but... but there was a body right there where the broken shards of glass are! What... what /is/ this place? *fear.png*” card

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also how did they die? I think it has to be stabbing so it could have been silent. Or maybe it was like, they were petrified to stone like they had been killed by a basilisk. ..... too outrageous?

I kinda love it tbh, I don’t think anyone would even question it with everything else that’s happening

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unrelated, but I sent you an invite for the game I'm running a little bit ago and now I need a replacement... can I peer pressure you into replacing in for me?

ahhhhhh i just checked the playerlist and... okay, I’ll take it but I feel obligated to warn you that I /might/ not be able to stay until the end/may have to make heavy use of V/LA after my master’s course starts in 3 weeks. Fwiw I’ve only ever repped out for illness but, yeah, idk how intense starting is gonna be which is why I dont wanna deprive you of someone who can 100% say they’ll be able to stick it out to the end hell or high water

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Argh sorry I forgot! I’ll do it this afternoon!

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Dsjstr says “the detective” brought in the second gun and he’s confused as to how he was overpowered because of this

Idk who he’s talking about

He thinks the other gun (yours) came from the briefcase in the bedroom which the detective apparently also found earlier and told dsjstr about

He doesn’t have a weapon as he couldn’t find one in the solarium so if we get him alone we should be able to overpower him

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Do we go to the bedroom with everyone or do we try to lure dsjstr elsewhere?

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Also, I saw you found someone for the betrayal game, I hope that’s going well :3

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Whats ducky saying to you?

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Oh, nice, good idea

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Yeah it’s kind weird no? Idk I’ll suggest to dsjstr when he replies to me that he try to keep Andy away because we don’t trust him after how he behaved around me grindwaer?

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I went for the petrified statue facedown thing, said I wasn’t sure if it was a guest because we couldn’t turn it up as it was too heavy

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I’m asking him to go to the bedroom

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I’m going to submit privately to go to bedroom for now but if I see that dsjstr wants to go elsewhere beforehand or if you do I’ll change

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Tbf if Andy comes solo we could just get him instead?

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Okay, I’m wondering if we can take Andy out here or just take him down or whatever, if we can then overpower Sam next

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lol yeah

Also, I thiiiiink so? Like he’s trying to get people hooked maybe?

Or he’s just leaning into the roleplaying element REAL HARD

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Which, tbf, is what I’ve been doing so I wouldn’t rule it out

But then, he doesn’t seem to have been that committed /all/ the time, so I think wincon it is

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What about ducky? I wonder if his wincon is similar to my old one? Find love etc and maybe something to do with the supernatural

You think maybe he could help us with the ritual to get your dad released?

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okay, so shall I defuse things with Andy then? you'd better tell me so in-thread if you want me to as it's proooooobably better that they don't know we can communicate psychically

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What are andy/Sam saying?

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hey, sorry, I've been neglecting this a bit! what do you wanna do?

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okay, I'll pm pooky that I'm coming with

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god fuckin' dammit we cannot catch a break

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so pooky said I can attack someone from behind and I get a +1 modifier

I'm waiting to hear if I can draw my carving fork first to use as an aid in the combat too

if so, how about I just go for dsjstr while he's busy looking at the fireplace stuff and then we tag team the second guy? based on the general flavour pooky has been using I'm worried we're running low on time and we've still got a fair bit of murdering to do to meet wincon

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I was thinking maybe I could take one down fast, pooky says that with a surprise attack you proceed directly to combat no one can assist

But the other way to play it also works for me

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You make the call, I’m just worried that dsjstr will do the same thing ducky did when I was trying to find an excuse to engage icon in the bedroom

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okay I've done it, fingers crossed

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I think yeah, I don't think nexus is likely to just hang around and do nothing so let's take advantage of this being a 2v1

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best option provided we win is that we each drain 1 right? then we both get the strength bonus for a movement phase

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for 2 movement phases*

sorry

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I think if we can win this and separate at least one more person we probably win, especially if we surprise attack again/can get weapons

there's only 8 people left as of last count. if we kill both of these it's 2 v 4, and Datisi's character is described as "frail" so probably won't help that much in a fight? so if we can finish off pablito separately then we're probably good to take the other three on directly if we can get a surprise attack on Andy

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it's a bit fucked that the knockout somehow lasts less time than the fight initiation is going to take? like I'm gonna try to drain mark quickly first if the fight won't start earlier unless both players agree, then support you, but if not then I'm gonna beat mark's brains out while he's passed out to make sure he can't help clines

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confirmed with spooky, the knockout timer will get extended once the fight resolves

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We need to get some murderin’ done next movement phase

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I think I’ve hopefully(?) defused the situation enough that we don’t have to fight 2v3 here?

We need to try to get one of the others alone next phase to finish them off then maybe get the jump on someone in the following hallway phase while we have +1 combat from draining the body

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Alice asked if there’s anything we can do to help her trust us. She says Clines was being weird and she doesn’t know if she can trust a cokehead but that she’s not sure what to believe.

This is what I replied:
“Hi Alice, listen, you tell me. I’ll be honest, I’ve grown very attached to Jessica and all I really care about right now is making sure she makes it out of here alive, preferably with me at her side. I’m happy for us to mind our own business and steer clear of everyone the best we can, but if you want to team up, that would be great. What would help you trust us?”

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She said “I’ll avoid you and you avoid me?”

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I’m not gonna reply or do I say bedroom to build trust

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I’ve told pooky bedroom

This way so long as they’re not in lounge we can spy on them and see where their heads are at

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sigh, idk what to do here

we probably can't win an outright confrontation

maybe we can turn Alice against the others? if we can just get one more kill then I think if we're armed (the poker and the carving fork) we'd stand a reasonable chance even if it was 3v2, especially if we have the +1s from draining another body

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fucking smoke bombs

also I think the last thing nexus said implies he has more of them?

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that would have been cool potentially

looks like we're taking our chances on the dice here

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I have no idea! I was thinking I should play up the innocent role and try to give you medical attention or something? very glad you didn't die

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Sorry! Taking action now!

On the plus side Alice seems to have died?

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So I’m not gonna post anything of content due to being unconscious, but can I just say with regard to whatever happened: what the

fuck

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good luck!!!

I'm a little bit pissed off that my "look around for medical supplies" was taken as a "Daryl gets up and starts searching and ignores all the threatening people in the room" as opposed to "Daryl stays at Jessicas side and uses his eyes to look around for whether there are medical supplies anywhere in the room"

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waiting now, cause if you can be awake for killing Andy together that’d be ideal

HYPE

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given that it's icon he shouldn't be awake/on forums until tomorrow morning Europe time, so if there's only like 3 hours or so left on my timer then it should finish by then

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omfg you're kidding! will pooky backdate the timer for where it should have been given fast combat resolution?

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like I think that's what happened when we killed dsjstr although I'm not sure

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if you drain clines too do you get another +1? and if you haven't already grabbed it to use, you could take the poker off my body for a weapon bonus too

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I guess it's a hedge, depending? like you prob have a good chance with the drained body bonus + a potential weapon bonus (and if Andy has lost his coke which he was implying gives a combat bonus then I guess he's weaker rn too?) but the downside would be if you did lose then that's our only shot at it and he can murder us both while we're unconscious

whereas if I wake up then I can support for the extra bonus AND if you did roll like a 1 and he rolled a 6 then I could take another shot at him

up to you really, I think if you don't have a weapon yet/you can get another bonus from draining clines then you'd have like +3 so he'd have to roll a 4 or better even to tie you

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niiiiiice

maybe try to sweet talk him and tell him you can turn him or something if he doesn't want to die? like eternal life yada yada just to stall out the timer

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also clines had a fucking knife what the shit!?

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I'm just super confused where he got one seeing as they'd all disappeared from the kitchen lol

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I'm awake again! Do you wanna trick Andy into letting himself be drained, or do you just wanna fuck him up?

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yeahhhh, I mean, I wouldn't disagree with that assessment

I was gonna suggest that even in that case we make him demonstrate that he doesn't have a weapon on him before you go to 'turn' him

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on the plus side, hopefully me smashing sam's brains out reduces the odds of her reanimating

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do you think we win instantly on finishing Andy off, or do you think we'll have some more us vs House stuff left?

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Yeah, that’s mine too

Was my thing with Sam too graphic? I don’t really see how to put what I want to do in a less graphic way than that tbh

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Yeah... like, that’s what I was thinking?

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I think you can trick him into just letting you drain him here

he seems pretty keen on the idea

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so cloooooose omg

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LIIIIILIIIIITH LET'S WIN THIS BABY WOOOO