"Jez give the money back, cheers"

2 whole chests? I'm not carrying them!

Protip: begin all quest threads with a quick summary or link to the archived previous thread(s).

Ask about the money, wait for father. Ask Wormwood if the escape route he mentioned is death. Because if it is then we need another option.

>>12538762

I had forgotten.

You are Harry Spigglesworth, Con-Maker.
You have been instructed to make a Con-Man (An animated golem made of human flesh) within a year, but on your first day you succeeded with the Metal-Sifting Con-Man.

A Hooker Con-Woman lured you into a trap, and she has a symbiotic relationship with a large, and now dead beast.

Your father has just killed the Dean of your school. You are hiding in your lab, waiting to see if his Giant Con-Man, Wormwood, will let you leave.


>>12516053

>>12538762
This is following on from a 360+ thread that is still on the board. We moved because of autosage.

>>12538824
Oh, didn't know the last one was still on the board.

Just trying to be helpful!

Has the beast been awakened? We could awaken it so Wormwood has to fight it to protect us and then flee while he's doing so.

>>12538759

Ordering Jezebel to wake, you put a hand out and politely ask for your money back.

Bending forth over your hand, she makes several, choking noises until your coin, very wet, falls onto your hand with a disgustingly wet plop. You can guess where she was holding it.

Dropping it into your purse and wiping the slime off your hands, you turn to Wormwood.

"Where's the escape route?"

"Wait for your Father."

"He might KILL me! Where's the escape route?"

"He would not kill you."

"Fine! I'll just go up to him, after he tore a mans throat out with his hands!"

Wormwood pauses. When you motion for Cassius to pick up the chests, he reaches out his hands, grabbing you, Cassius, and the chests.

"Then we will leave..."

He turns over to the wall opposite the stair case, and pushes it inward, revealing a massive entrance as tall as Wormwood, extending off farther then you can see before the light goes out.

Any thing to try to say to Wormwood before he goes off?

>>12538902
"You were a good friend..."

>>12538902
Awww, and here I was hoping we'd be able to just ASK him if we were half Con-Man. Why do all awesome dads have to end up being separated from their protagonist children?

"Why?"

>>12538950

He's holding you in his man-fists. I guess I worded that wrong.

>>12538967
Nah, you didn't. I just figure this is it. He's take us out and then go back to our father, probably.

It's a long, awkward walk down the tunnel, and Wormwood never relents in the grip. After falling asleep, and for once having no dreams, you wake up, outside of New London, with Wormwood still holding you.

It is bright, sunny, and the smog over New London is no longer as omnipresent. The forests, though thinned from logging, are still large. There are 3 main roads leading to Old London, and Yorkshire. Old London gets two roads because it's London.

You look up at Wormwood, saying what seems to be your final goodbye.

Wormwood only gives one last hug, hunching down to reach you.

Letting go, he goes back down the tunnel, pulling the massive iron door back into position.


You are alone now. Cassius is there, Jezebel is in your lab, and you have money and supplies to last a decent while.

What do you do?

>>12539066
So, um, why exactly were we afraid that our father would kill us? He seemed pretty damn protective about us. He killed a dude for insulting us. That's pretty hard core. But what's done is done. Let's go to Yorkshire. Best to go some place out of the way for now. Is Cassius with us still?

>>12539100
>You are alone now. Cassius is there, Jezebel is in your lab, and you have money and supplies to last a decent while.
>Cassius is there

I can't into reading comprehension.

>>12539100

You aren't the only one wondering why Harry ran.
So, Yorkshire or bust?

>>12539135
Damnit, we blew it. God, come to think of it, why did WORMWOOD think we should run? Why didn't he point out that we had no reason to run? Bah, whatever. ACTION has reared its head, so we'll go it it. To Yorkshire!

And I mean, it's not like we can't ever see him again. I assume we can send him a letter or something.

>>12539237

He did point out that you shouldn't run. Multiple times.

Assuming you don't want to TURN BACK ON YOUR WORD and go try to see if you can bring Jezebel (I'd be okay with going to work on getting Jezebel out) but you can't stay at the school.

But for now, you need supplies and a new lab to transfer Jezebel and the Beast to. That is your new goal.

>>12539265
Yeah, but when we mentioned that he killed the Dean, Wormwood seemed to reconsider.

Oh well. Paranoia got the best of us. Seeing death is one thing, but seeing your own father kill someone got to us in a way we didn't anticipate I guess. For now, make for Yorkshire. We'll find some work there, maybe strike some valuable metal with Cassius, and have a new lab in no time. Then we rescue Jezebel. Though moving the Beast without Wormwood will be a bitch. Oh, and once we've settled in, try to contact father and explain our sudden paranoia attack, so that he knows we still love him.

>>12539265
Let's go back on our word

>>12539265
Lets work on getting Jezebel out

>>12539298

Gathering your things (Well, ordering Cassius to pick up the trunks) you begin the walk down the Yorkshire roads. Hooking up with a Caravan (Gypsy Con-Makers, the best kinds), you begin the slow, on-foot trip. You could have gone by air, but that would have been more money than you have.

It has been 2 weeks since you left the lab. You have 38 Queens, 13 Blueboys, and 24 Shirks. (Money. 25 Shirks to the Blueboy, 20 Blueboys to the Queen. A queen will buy you a 3 course meal and 1 night at a good inn). Cassius earned more then half of that, purifying random metals as a parlor trick, and for the more canny merchants.

You have not made any friends amongst your new "family". It is midnight, you are eating thick stew, and everyone but you is partying.

What do?

>>12539333
But first we need a new lab and supplies.

>>12539357
We're not leaving her for dead. Right now, she's sleeping, and will remain so until we wake her up. Now, I can't be sure, but I'd assume that they wouldn't just go and destroy a Con-Man, even if it was ours. And that's assuming that they even manage to find our secret lab.

>>12539350
Wait until we get to Yorkshire?

It's 2 days till Yorkshire. Simply handwave, or do you want to try and haggle with some merchants, talk to people, try to set up some connections?

>>12539464
Hmmm.... Con-nections sounds good. See if any of them know about rare/valuable ores.

find out who we need to know to buy land or mineing rights and who might pay to have metal or ore refined

There are 4 people of importance.

Jeremiah Stuntzham, a travelling merchant who, if the local talk is to be believed, very well connected, and willing to set up promising Con-Makers as long as he can get something out of it.

John & John Spitzick, a traveling father and son pair who sell Con-Man parts, and are returning to their store in Yorkshire after sealing a deal for parts from the same suppliers Marsham used.

And Johanna, a slavic woman from the north, a Con-Maker like yourself visiting from whatever land she comes from. She has two wolf-shaped Conmen, Kara and Stefania.

Which one do you talk to?

>>12539523
We can get parts from the Spitzicks and sell Con-Men to Stuntzham. Let's talk to the father and son first. Without Wormwood, we'll need a reliable supply of parts.

>>12539543

No dissent? If not, talking to Spitzick's about a reliable supply of parts.

John & John Spitzick are arguing amongst themselves furiously when you walk up, but their lips purse shut when they notice you.

The larger one stands up, beard covering his portly chin.

"John of John & John, how may I help you?"

You have 2 options, from the dealings your father told you of. Try to get a subscription deal, where certain parts are free to you as long as you pay a hefty monthly fee (Being everything but the hardest to find things, such as Infant Skulls with Ruby eyes for one). Or you could just buy from them whenever desired.

Whichever you choose, you need to talk to them first.

Make a decision, I'm getting off soon.

>>12539632
The second one. If we get to the point where ordering individually becomes more expensive then the first option, we can switch then.

>>12539768

Telling them of your profession as a Con-Maker upcoming, they delight at Cassius, pointing out the flaws in his manufacture, particularily along the joints (Too much stress and they would snap like twigs), but otherwise of fine quality. Setting up contact for purchase...

Roll d10. Multiple degrees of success/failure here.

rolled 4 = 4

>>12539828

rolled 2 = 2

>>12539828

>>12539833
A success.

Your smooth tongue convinces them to give you 1/4th off in all future purchases, so long as they might commission you for 2 Accounting Conmen and a Guard Conman, to be produced within the month.

And on that note, I'm done for today.

>>12539848
Well, it's been fun. Have a good night. Any idea when the next thread will be?

>>12539856

Possibly tomorrow at 12 o clock eastern.

I intend to finisht the first "Chapter" of your story before taking a longer break.

>>12539877
Awesome. Just a bit of warning, 12 Eastern tomorrow is when Zeonquest runs, so people's attentions might be slit between the two.

>>12539927

Should run it later in day though.

Not much of a Quest-Player though, so I don't really know the schedules. If you know a better time, I'd love to hear it. I'm open all weekend.

>>12539950
Oh, 12 should work. I'm just saying that if things start to slow down, you might want to put the quest on hold for a few hours until some of the other quests end.

Also, archived poorly by me this thread is.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12538730/

>>12543678
God man, /tg/ will be pretty not busy now. You don't have to run it constantly whenever you are awake.