Part I: http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/13796767
Part II: http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/13808265
Part III: http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/13868014
Part IV: http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/13892779
Part V: http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/13928333

I HIGHLY SUGGEST you read them all if you're a newcomer because a shitload of things have happened and although I'll try to summarise shortly I won't be able to get down all the details.

Skills:
Guns - all guns, rifles, semis etc
Bartering - The bluffing, the negotiating, the double dealing, it all comes naturally to you.
Intimidation (basic) - You can scare civilians if you give them the evil eyes.

Spells:
Summoning (Level Four) - you can now summon people up to 3 years dead, faster and with less energy than you used to.
Bind (Level Four) - You've used Bind often enough that you've gained a new level of mastery. You can now bind a ghost to your cause for 30 days. You've also gained the ability to bind a ghost to items in a manner of ways. You can bind a ghost to a container, in order to imprison them, or you can bind a ghost to an item like a knife, dagger, amulet or what have you in order for the item to gain magical characteristics. For example, binding the spirit of a war veteran to a rifle will give you a sentient, bloody minded rifle with an offensive bonus that speaks to you and wants to attack all Germans on sight. And so on and so forth.
Life Leech (Level Two) - you now have the ability to heal minor wounds. If you're already healthy and use it you get stronger, quite a bit faster and gain some stamina. Your target feels like they've run a marathon unless you decide to only take a little. You still cannot leech from magicians.
Rip (Level One) - essentially ripping out the souls of living people from their bodies by summoning them. Makes them unconscious for about 30 seconds since their souls return to the bodies relatively quickly.
Ghost Whip (Level One) - you can now cause untold amounts of agony to the newly dead, up to three days. As you get more practice at this you can cause more damage to older ghosts.

Items of Note:
Magic Knuckleduster, with ONE charge left in it. Each charge that connects is a killing blow. The kid was quite clearly an amateur so he could only throw the energy a few inches forward of the knuckleduster. You're experienced so when you use it you can punch from several feet away and the knuckleduster's energy will take a man down, permanently. You noticed the two times you've used it so far that it wanted to be used.
Happy Magic Juice - a high quality concoction that mystics use to power their astral wanderings: some laudanum, a some rare chinese opium, and a dash of Ghost. You've got enough in the bottle to get a mind and soul high and keep it there for a whole weekend.
Medium Physical Protection Amulet - This can take killing blows and spread out the attack evenly on the shield so you don't get broken bones or incapacitated. It can only take 3 killing blows before having to be recharged.
Medium Astral Protection bracelet - This will protect you from attacks on the astral plane, whether you're a sleep or you're awake although it does require a ritual in the mornings to activate it for the rest of the day.
Distraction Charm - This will allow you to walk through white neighbourhoods without having the police called on you or get undue attention. You're part of the background but if you do something out of the ordinary you will get noticed.

Fuck yeah, Harlem Quest!


Duke, What did you think Of the Item Ideas I put forward at the end of the last quest? (I was tripless at the time)

Your underlings are as follows:

- Randy, an innocent sounding name for a dangerously cynical 16 year old kid. Loyal beyond death, really, because you helped him kill the judge that sentenced his father to death. You've taught him a bit of magical theory but he's not your kind, so for now he's a low level elemantal magician until he gets some real training. But boy can he set fire to shit. Special Items: 1 Elemental Booster stone. 1 Basic Physical Protection Amulet. (BONUS: Pyromaniac.)
- Big Jim, a muscular behemoth with no magic whatsoever. He resents the fact that he is the same age as you and yet you give the orders. Nevertheless he obeys because you've got the juice and he don't. He ain't all that smart but he's good in a scrap. Special Items: 1 Medium Strenght Amplifier necklace. (CURRENTLY INCAPACITATED DUE TO NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE WITH A WEREWOLF)
- Chandler Raymonds. A punk kid you killed that has agreed to work for you for a time as a ghost, to spy on your enemies for you on the understanding that you keep his brothers safe if he finds out they're in danger. Because he's a free ghost who you haven't bound he can show initiative and do things on his own away from you and for extended periods of time without having to constantly rebind and set the parameters of his mission to him. He's agreed to work with you on a long term basis now.
- O'Leary, a cop you killed. You've got him Bound for 3 more days at which point he turns into a free ghost.
- Patrick, the brother of O'Leary who you killed when he was trying to avenge his brother's death. Bound for 3 more days.
- The Three Amigos, three nameless henchmen who've been with you through thick and thin. (BONUS: Loyalty Level Two - cannot be influenced mentally against you or each other).

>>13986218
Hey, I definitely wanted to address your posts before starting this new thread. First of all, great job on thinking them up, those are some real nice options you've got, and secondly they're all doable although they'll gain power over time and not be immediately as powerful as you'd hope they'll definitely do what you want though.

Please feel free to repost your ideas/posts now so people can see them and discuss them and vote on which ones they'd like to try out, some of that stuff might be useful in an assault on the Wessler building.

>>13986254
Also, I just wanted to add a few details on the binding process.

When you bind to imprison the ghost remains in tact and can be extracted at a later date and sent on its journey, etc, etc.

When you bind a ghost to an item in order for it to gain magical characteristics, you're basically squeezing the soul of the ghost dry and forcing it's essence into bonding with an item. The new item will be an amalgamation of the original item and the ghost, so there will be no extraction and it will be a completely new entity. You'll effectively have destroyed the soul of a human being.

Just wanted to make that clear.

Anywho
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DISADVANTAGES:
DEATH LEECH - if you're mortally wounded and you get knocked out you will drain until death whoever is standing closest to you in order to recover and wake up. This disadvantage will stay with you until you gain better control of leech life (i.e. Level Four).
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Summary:
You've just dropped off Big Jim at Doc Greens and then entered an alley nearby to summon Henderschmidt. After you summoned him he gave you some more information about the layout of Lord Pitt's Wessler building and what you can expect when you set up an assault on the place.

----Last Post From Me In Previous Thread---Contains Conversation with Werewolf Ghost----
"On the 18 floor is a small office vith library. Behind bookcase in the back is entrance to take you up into his sanctum. Or on the 19th floor, there is a similar office with a similar book case that you take to go down into it. There is also a balcony in the sanctum that overlooks the city. If you can fly you can entere through there."

"The wards are in the foundations. The wards are defensive and keep out ghosts, spirits, and astral meddlers. They also affect the minds of people hoping to attack the Wessler building. They find themselves turning on each other and attacking other, or if it is one man the man becomes so paranoid he attacks himself. It is not instantaneous but the effect builds up over a few minutes."

"The only way to disrupt the ward is to completely take out one of the walls that make up the StarWard in the basement. Once that gap is there, it is disrupted and useless."

"I know no weakness of Pitt himself. He is a strong and cruel man. A powerful man. There is a reason I follow him."

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So you're still in the alley, facing a werewolf ghost and things are as they stand.

We'll start in about 15 minutes. I need to get me some tea!

>>13986322
Good to know.

I'm also a bit wary of using the knuckleduster ourselves. Seeing as the two times it was used, it "wanted" to be used, maybe when the last charge is used something happens.

Maybe it's just good at killing stuff though. Whatevs.

Anyway, call up Smokey, a Lt. working for one of Olukewele's peers, and see if he can set us up with a large supply of explosives.

If he's already bound, keep him with us for now. I think the consensus was to get a truck filled with explosives and drive it into the foundation ward.

>>13986221
So the Loyalty Level Two is overcome by Pitt's spell?

>>13986388
Not official, since I'm just a player, but I don't think he'll tell us that, since we wouldn't know until we try.

If we're worried about Pitt's shit wrecking people when they go in, we could do a truck with a weight on the gas pedal.

Ok, so here's the thing though. If we go in with a big truck and explosion on the ward, that's going to draw a TON of attention.

That's going to mean, even if we get into the building, there'll be who knows how many "soldiers" of Pitts looking for us. And if we manage to go in and ice Pitt, steal some shit, and get out, we're going to find ourselves face to face with a shitload of cops.

Alright. I'm ready to begin.

You guys want to do some planning or shall we procure some explosives by getting a meet with Smokey?

>>13986504
I don't know man. Explosives seems the way to go, but that will draw major attention.

Maybe if we distract the cops with something else at the same time? Anyone have an idea?

>>13986520
We could maybe have the folks under us stir up some shit in the streets to act as a distraction?

Let's go ahead and get some explosives now, then. We'll sort out an attack plan later.

>>13986536
Nothing could distract the cops from an act of terrorism. However, we DO need those wards down. Our only option is explosives, really, since we don't know anyone alive who's savvy enough to disarm the wards - and the wards will stop ghosts.

We could TRY giving a strength amplifier necklace to whichever of the Amigos is burliest, and having him break down a wall with a sledgehammer - but I honestly think that's a bad idea, because there WILL be people with guns and spells in the basement, and they WILL shoot him before he can knock down the wall.

So, explosive a go go

We can do several things at once. You guys discuss how you want to get away with all this and we'll begin gearing up for it.
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You take the bound ghost of Henderschmidt with you and drive into West Harlem to see Smokey.

You see him and his head before you see his face clearly, he's got his back to you and clearly he's doing his version of walking the rounds. Smokey is a short black man with very dark skin and a head of hair that's gone prematurely white. It's always odd seeing that white hair on such a relatively youthful face, he's a few years older than you, a peer. Smokey turns around, somehow sensing that you're nearby, and smiles as he sees you. He's got small lips, terribly pointed at the sides. When he smiles it doesn't look like he's being friendly, it looks like his cheeks are being cut up and he's in pain.

The thing about Smokey is his voice. It sounds gravelly and hoarse all the time, like he was smoking in the womb and never quit. He's got a crazy story about that, about how he was in space once and the air elemental he was travelling with betrayed him and left his throat to be destroyed by the cold vacuum, but Smokey's always full of crazy stories and nobody knows quite which of them are true. Most of them are though. Smokey never speaks above a whisper and asking him to speak up is taking your own life into your hands.

"Well, well, the conquering hero graces us" he cackles in his hissing voice, "why do I get the feeling it's only to cause someone somewhere some trouble?"

>>13986639
Also, is there a way we could get in touch with a user of a specific form of magic?
There's a lot of dead bodies pile up in the ghetto every day, and as a Black Magician, we should find a use for those bodies.

>>13986654
"You know me all too, well? How's business?" Small talk with him a bit. Listen to how things are, unless he cuts that bullshit out. Then say, "But you were right, I aim to cause some trouble. I need to take out part of a foundation for a high rise down in the financial district. I need something, big. You know what I mean?"

Also, we could try to enlist his help in this operation. "You heard anything about this Welshman Pitt?" See if he says yeah or no. He could be lying, trying to see if we talk. Which we should. We should tell him most of what's going on, but we should leave out the specifics about the crystals. He should just know that Pitt's up to shit and is gonna cause us all some serious trouble if we don't take care of him. Tell him about the warded basement, the secret floors, our plan to infiltrate the building, sic ghosts on his ass, and kill him as well as we can.

>"why do I get the feeling it's only to cause someone somewhere some trouble?"
Life in the hood, brother. You know how it is. It's a good day if there ain't trouble with someone, somewhere.
Today, a powerful whitey magician is gon' cast a spell to turn ALL the booze in Manhattan to water. ((Note: Do not mention 'crystals' as that might trigger an astral attack)) We've found out where the fucker's hidin' - in a 30 story skyscraper warded against every kind o' magic known to me. So, I ain't gonna use magic - I'm gonna blow the fuckin' building up from underneath him.

Know where a brother can buy some explosives?

Tonight's the night I get in some shiiiiiiiiiiiiit. Deep cover in the incognito hit.

>>13986724
>>13986733
"Haha, boy do I like that." Smokey says.

"Man expects himself a left hook in the form of some magical attack and you hit him with the mother of all uppercuts. I gotta say, you're a stylish operator, Duke."

"I'm afraid I can't help you out personally, I got some business to run myself with some uppity Dutch boys trying shit on, you know how it is, but I can get some explosives if that's what you need. One of my guys is crazy about explosions. If I let him he'd probably blow up half of New York just to watch it happen. About this thing you got going in the Financial District," his tone changes into one of advice, one of warning, "don't get too fancy. You know how heavily entrenched we are here and no doubt that guy you're gunning for is just as entrenched there. You gotta be quick and decisivie, no hesitation once you get started. Good luck to you, brother. Kill a few whiteys in my name if you get the chance."

Smokey hands you an address nearby and the name of his underling, Shelly, and tells you to get what you need from him.
--
Jump forward
--
You're in the attic of some place crawling around with skinny black kid with a mad gleam in his eye. There's crates all around with enough explosives to blow up several skyscrapers.

"Er...sir, how much exactly am I supposed to give you? Only we're going to need most of this to deal with Van Drijj eventually and err...just how big do you want it?"

>>13986915
"Big enough to do the job. Small enough not to be missed. I gotta blow the hell out of a concrete support wall in the foundation of a skyscraper. Shit's gotta be broken. I don't have to demolish and entire building or nothin', just gotta break that fuckin' circuit. And it's gotta be fast."

>>13986915
*An image of a 30 story skyscraper collapsing due to a truck full of explosives in its basement*

>>13986972
>>13986951

Guys, do you want to bring down the whole building or just that one wall to break the ward?

>>13987018

Blowing the whole thing to kingdom come would save us a lot of trouble with taking down Pitt, but I have a feeling would be far too difficult to cover ip afterwards. Destroy the wards only.

With less explosives, it'll also be easier and faster to transport and set up.

>>13987018
...Better a wall or two, no need for extra collateral.

>>13987063
>>13987066
>OK!

"Hmm. I got just the kind of thing you're looking for."

Shelly crawls over a crate, under two others and comes back with a box.

He activates some magical light so you can see what he's about to show you.

He opens the box and what you see inside is a red ruby.

"This is a little something I've been working on."

"I made a deal with a djinn so he'd store an explosion for me in this ruby," he smiles like a master jeweller showing off his best piece, "I've got two keywords for you to use. First, you stand about 5 or 6 feet back from the wall you need to break up, and then throw it while shouting TAKBIR. That activates a kinetic boost to the ruby which propels it forward and makes it penetrate the wall, it will get about 3 or 4 feet in depending on the strength of the concrete. After that you shout ALLAHUAKBAR, and then you have 30 seconds to run the fuck out of there before the explosion takes place."

"Any questions?"

>>13987079
Can we get a little bit of traditional explosives, just in case we need them. A few sticks of dynamite for emergencies would be pretty useful. Better to have them than not.

>>13987079
>>13987111
In addition to the ruby.

>>13987111
>>13987116
"Sure boss. What's it them Italians say? My case is your case? Hehe."

Shelly hands you a small box with 10 sticks of dynamite in it, and explains that the fuse of each one is 12 seconds long once you set it.

"Good luck, Mr. Duke. Please let me know how the epxlosion goes. God I'd love to see that," he says dreamily, sounding like a girl who's missing out on meeting her idol.

GAINED - EXPLOSIVE RUBY
GAINED - 10 STICKS OF DYNAMITE

You step outside of the attic and then outside of the building to find your car awaiting you outside, with Randy and the Three Amigos within, as well as the ghosts of Chandler, the two O'Leary's and your pet werewolf ghost. The ghosts are all studiously not speaking to each other.

What now?

>>13987111

I second this. No sense putting all our explosive eggs in one basket. We won't get a second chance at this.

>>13987175
Plus they can be useful as we go commando into the building itself. A gang of thugs holding a hallway? Toss some dynamite their way.

>>13987158
What time is it?
Also, will our "Part of the background scenery" charm work for, at least, getting us TO the building?
Finally, do we know of any contacts who can use magic to assist our exit from the place (via travel magic, or stealth magic)?
Ask Patrick's ghost if he can still teleport things.

Ok, unless anyone can think of something we're forgetting, I think now would be a good time to prepare the assault.

>>13987158
If it's dark, head right the fuck over to the building.
If it's day, head over to the building, but don't go as fast. No need to get a fucking cop on our ass for traffic violations.

>>13987079
Nice keyword dude,

I'm thinkin we should get some Close Quarters weapons, shit like some sawed off shotguns nawmean?
Also, some bullet proof vests would in junction to the amulets would be a life saver.

>>13987245
I don't know if bullet proof vests exist, but we do have some defense amulets.

Also, spread Jim's gear out among the Amigos, since he's out of commission for now.

And a few shotguns would probably be a good idea.

>>13987197
It's late evening, early night. It's definitely dark now. It's been raining all day and the streets are wet with water.

Patrick informs you that he can't teleport for shit any more. And unfortunately you don't know anyone who could quickly get you out with magic either.

>>13987285
We've got tommyguns and pistols, though 2 shotguns and a sledgehammer for the amigos wouldn't go amiss.

>>13987285
They do, but they're only effective against pistol rounds.

>>During the late 1920s through the early 1930s, gunmen from criminal gangs in the United States began wearing less-expensive vests made from thick layers of cotton padding and cloth. These early vests could absorb the impact of handgun rounds such as .22 Long Rifle, .25 ACP, .32 S&W Long, .32 S&W, .380 ACP, and .45 ACP traveling at speeds of up to 300 m/s (980 ft/s).

Let's buy 2 shotguns and some shells to spread through our ranks.

Arming:
Duke - Thompson + ammo. Revolver + ammo. Some dynamite and a lighter.
Randy - Thompson + ammo. Revolver + ammo. No dynamite.
Amigos - One with a new Thompson. Two with shotguns. All with pistols (1911's would be nice), and dynamite.

Let's go to Hell's Kitchen, pick up the extra (1 Thompson, 2 Shotguns, 4 1911's [one for Duke to use later], and ammunition.

On the drive south to get to the Financial District, you pass through Hells Kitchen and have a quick stop at Winters' shop of horrors.

All three amigos are equipped with Tommy Guns at this point, and one of them has both of Jim's power ups (the strength amplifier and the basic protection amulet)

---Order----costing 400 dollars-----
- 5 shotguns with over the shoulder straps.
- 100 Shells for the shotguns.
- Gangster Vests for the Three Amigos.
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You're not going to be able to carry anything else just so you know. Just on yourself you've got a BAR, a shotgun, two revolvers, two knives, an explosive ruby and 5 sticks of explosives (the other 5 you handed to Randy).

Alright, what do you want to do now?

>>13987388
We don't have time to go to Hell's kitchen, sadly.
We have to get rolling now.
So, just give the Amigos the three Thompsons.
Randy can have a pistol and half the Dynamite, 'cause Randy fucking loves fire.
Duke, of course, keeps a pair of pistols and the other half of the Dynamite. Duke will probably be making use of rip and life leech most of the time.
Give the Str charm to whichever Amigo's the burliest, and instruct him to pick up something heavy and solid - something to bash walls and faces in with.

>>13987402
I'd say now is time for "Ghosts, keep a lookout for shit. Everyone, stay low. We're driving to the Hessler building" time.

>>13987483

I agree. Let's get this party started.

Tonight's the night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foydBgsse6Q

>>13987483
>>13987502
You drive into the Financial District and as you approach the Wessler building from the north, you see that it's just as ugly as your city planner friend previously said. Your ghosts keep an eye out and so do you.

The building itself seems to be dead, all the people who work in it seem to be long gone and you can't tell anything of what's going on inside. Driving past Frelling, you see that the road is empty and it shouldn't be difficult for you to enter from the side.

No overt traps are visible.

>WELL NOW.

Come up with an entry strategy, tell me how you're going to deploy your forces, and then we'll get this party started.

>>13987563
Is there a loading dock or anything of that sort?
A back way in?

>>13987623
Yes. That's the side entrance that heads into the basement/foundation rooms from Frelling Street.

We need to bust into those doors. Hopefully they're unlocked and unguarded. If they are, we just roll right in and blow the wall with the stone.

If it's not that easy, we turn to some dynamite to make our entrance into the foundation.

>>13987634
Send one of the Amigos in with a pistol and knife. Scout/silent kill guards.

Let's also send a message to Brokowitz that shit is about to go down.

can one of our ghosts trow a stick of dynamite through one of the windows a few floors up? Just in case there are people waiting for us in the foundations

One of the amigos goes to scout out the entrance to the foundation.

He comes back and reports that there are no guards there but there is a locked gate with chains keeping it closed.

I'm going to ask for specific instructions, as well as consensus, on how you guys proceed from here.

You're still undetected.

>>13987677
No, all your ghosts are weak ghosts with no abilities to affect the manifest world.

>>13987669
Brokowitz and his legions of ghosts are ready to be called up at a moments notice when you tug at him.

before we attack we should checkout/prepare a fall back point, somewhere to keep our car/truck or one we hotwired for our escape. we can meet up there if anyone gets seperated.

Go with Randy. Have him heat up the lock hot enough to weaken it so that we can bust it loose.

>>13987787
get some bolt cutters to cut the chains, at the moment we still have time to break into a maintnce room or hardwhare store. Any of our guys know how to pick locks?

>>13987826
I vote for this. As well as leaving the keys in the ignition for speedy getaway.

>>13987797
You talk to everyone in the car, park it two blocks away and make it clear that if anything goes horribly wrong, you're to meet back here and get ready for a quick exit.

>>13987853
>>13987826
You and Randy head to Frelling Street together, armed to the nines, and find the side entrance.

He's about to set fire to the locks and get you inside when the locks all off a sudden slither apart, fall to the ground and the gates suddenly open for you without you even touching them.

A quaver is heard in Randy's voice as he turns to you and says "Boss...Boss, what the fuck just happened?"

>>13987881

My trap senses are tingling like a motherfucker now. Can we send in a ghost to scout or are we too close to the ward for that now?

>>13987881

Either there are people you don't know about who want Pitt dead as well, or the ward's already trying to confuse the hell out of you and your team.

Keep moving forwards but be insanely cautious.

>>13987881
"I don't know, but I'm not liking it." Back away from the door a bit, keep our eyes open and check behind us real quick."

These people would sort that shit out

>>13987908
No, the ward is still up and no ghost can enter the building. In fact, your four ghosts are on the other side of the street from building, right on the edge of of where the ward's power ends.

By the way, is it just you and Randy or are the 3 Amigos with you to go to the foundation? Or are they up to other things? Tell me now, please.

>>13987936
Duke and Randy were working on the lock. The three amigos were with us, but not walking up to the lock. They would have been several feet back, still in the alley, but ready to enter in with us if we got it open.

>>13987913
>>13987909
You look around but all you see is complete darkness. It's the height of the night and there are no lights in this sidestreet. You look into the entrance to the place and you don't sense any magical traps or energy webs hanging around.

All you is a gaping darkness in front of you that seems like it could go on forever.

"Boss. You want me to get a fire globe going?"

>>13987936
They're on stand-by at the car. We go on alone since we don't want Randy you knife us in the back.

>>13987957

Nah.

Tell Randy that at this point, you're going to have to go it alone. Be sure to explain it's not that you don't trust him, but that you don't know how strong the confusion effect comes on and you don't want to take any risks.

Do we have anything we could rig into a torch, or maybe a lantern of some kind?

You explain to Randy that you want him to stay behind you and you venture in yourself.

It seems you spent just a little too long examining the entrance because you can already feel yourself getting a little dizzy. You don't have a torch or a lantern but what you do have is a lighter.

And it illuminates...a little.

You feel the gradient of the ground you're walking on get steeper as you head deeper into the underground.

At one point it turns into some steps, a narrow hallway of steps, before becoming flat ground once again. The darkness around you expands suddenly and you realise the narrowness is gone, the light of the fire is being absorbed by a large cavernous space.

You're in.

You hear hissing.

>>13988086
Leach like a motherfucking sponge.

>>13988086

Christ, why haven't flash lights been invented yet?!

Try to pinpoint the source of the hissing as you move towards the foundation's walls. Move quickly.

The lock "slithers" apart.
We hear a hissing?

Pitt's got some kind of snake magi working for him.

>>13988101
You don't know what it is that's in the room with you but you feel it out there, not with your eyes or your natural senses but with your magical ones.

You leech immediately and you feel a new burst of speed and strength. However you don't know what effect that had on your leechtarget.

"....interesssting..." you hear from the darkness, unable to tell where that's coming from because of the echoes. By the perky tone of the voice, female? male?, it clearly has more energy to spare than you could possibly leech.

You realise that your source of light is not doing much to help you see what it is you're sharing the room with, but it is making it very easy to pinpoint your exact location.

You're becoming increasingly disoriented. You know that you've come far away from the exit but you don't know how close you are to one of the walls you have to break.

You should do something soon. Or maybe you'll faint and who knows what your partner-in-the-dark will do.

>>13988179
Light a stick of dynamite. Toss it towards where we heard the voice. But wait until the fuse has gone down a bit.

"You'd do better to run and leave what's gonna happen to it's course."

Do we know if we are close enough to a nearby wall to activate the ruby?

>>13988203
wtf no way. you trying to get us killed? throwing around an explosive like DYNAMITE in an enclosed space whose size we don't actually know?

veto!

>>13988221
No. You don't know.

All you know is that the Wessler buildi--

YOU FALL TO THE GROUND AS YOU FEEL A BITE ON YOUR SHOULDER.

Your medium physical protection amulet protects you from the actual bite, and whatever poison is contained in the bite, but you feel a heavy man's weight on top of you as pressure mounts on your left shoulder. You're not sure whether or not your MPPA was built for sustained pressure like this. You feel that you once knew this but are already forgetting this fact.

You have 1 move.

>>13988270
Whoops. Obviously me.

>>13988270
Call out to Randy as loud as possible, and pull the 1911 and shoot that motherfucker.

>>13988270
We have that large knife we carry. It's on our back, I believe, so I don't know if we can reach it, but if we can, grab it and stab behind us into the person.

If we can't, then try it with our revolver. As in, shoot through the crook of our arm into the person behind us.

>>13988270
Magic Knuckleduster to the face?

sounds like some sort of gorgon(based on the traditional myth with medusa) it was probably a good thing that we cant see it.

>>13988335
Seeing as we know were its face should be as it is trying to bite us

You feel the snake monster(?) wrapping your legs together with it's hugely muscled tail as you pull out your revolver and try to position yourself so you can get off a clean shot at the head biting down on your shoulder.

Eventually you fire, and in the moment that the bullet passes through the brain of your partner-in-the-dark, you see for the first time what it was. A huge snake with the upper body of a scaled woman, horrific with a hugely distended jaw and pincer like teeth, claw like hands trying to cut into your suit and failing. Her slitted eyes don't even react as you kill her.

She dies.

You're seriously confused. If you don't hurry up and set the explosive soon you won't be able to even find the exit of the room so the explosion doesn't kill you to.

As you realise this you see the body of the she-snake-woman begin to twitch.

"....interesssting...."

>>13988381
KNUCKLEDUSTER, KNUCKLEDUSTER TO THE FACE

>>13988381
"Better watch your tongue, bitch. Fore I blow it the fuck off." Hold a stick of dynamite to our lighter, threaten to light it.

>>13988381

Fuck.

Rip, then Leech again.

Find that foundation NOW, and blow it to shit.

Hopefully the confusion effect will lessen as soon as the warding is damaged.

>>13988416
>>13988410
>>13988402
1) Knuckleduster to the face.
2) Dynamite-threaten the snake lady monster.
3) Rip, leech,

VOTE.

>>13988402
Nah, I'd hold off on that. We don't know that we aren't seeing illusions. We've got one shot on that fucker left. We'd best save it.

>>13988402

This. Kill the bitch dead, set the explosives, GTFO.

>>13988436
Rip and leach attempts while threatening with dynamite?

>>13988436

RIP AND LEACH

RIP AND LEACH YOUR GUTS.

>>13988437
Thinking of it he makes a good point, i say attempt rip/leech from the 'dead' target if we feel the power coming directly from the body, knuckleduster to the fac

>>13988436

Honestly, I think we should go with Option 4) Put another round in it's face, leech again and find a foundation wall.

We don't have time to talk.

there may be another of the she snakes

>>13988470
also shout for randy to send in a globe of fire

You stand up quickly as the snake bitch begins to gather herself up again. It's hard to tell in the dark but it looks like the wound in her head is beginning to heal itself.

You rip the spirit out of her body and she falls over again. Her spirit looks around disinterestedly examining her new surroundings. Once again though her body is already summoning the spirit back to it. You begin to leech and feel yourself getting stronger but something of the inhuman nature of your foe means that she has limitless physical energy, you can leech from it all day long at your level but it'll do very little to her stamina or her will to kill.

You have 2 moves before she wakes up again.

In those two moves you can 1) Use the knuckleduster, or gun again, to try and kill her, or 2) use the ruby to set an explosion and then run.

Decide.

>>13988531
Shove a stick of lit dynamite right into her snake mouth. DEEP into her throat.

"I told you to run."

>>13988531
could we seal her soul into a object during this soulrip or after a second soulrip?

>>13988531
Only do this if someone agrees with me or if its a good idea but I say set her on fire for a light source, ruby a wall, put a bullet in her head a get the fuck outta dodge.

>>13988570
No, you couldn't because her soul still has a connection to her body that hasn't been severed, so at your level of bind you can't.

>>13988562
You stick a dynamite deep into her throat and set it a light.

You run as far as you can to the other side and the explosion seems to rock the cavernous space, illuminating it fully for the moment that the explosion occurs. You take advantage of that moment and map the room as the snake woman's body is blown up into tiny giblets and pieces.

It's clear to see. The wall that you've got your back to is perfect for what you need and the exit is almost directly behind you.

You turn around, take six or seven steps back and then pull out the ruby.

TAKBIR! it flies through the air like a bullet and embeds itself.

ALLAHUAKBAR! you shout and then begin to run in the dark.

You feel the ground you're running on begin to rise and it soon turns into steps. You're confused as to why they're steps and begin to slow down, crawling up the steps. What are steps? Who are you? What are you doing here?

THHHRRRRWWWWKKKKK!!!!!!!

A massive reverberation rocks the corridor you're in. And suddenly all your faculties are back. The ward is down. The Wessler building is wide open.

Undoubtedly, Lord Pitt knows his wards are down.

What's the next stage of your assault?

>>13988742
Call the ghost army

>>13988742

Run back to the meeting place with the henchies, tugging on the Jew ghost as you do so.

Then, activate your charms and walk through the front lobby, watching your ghost allies for signs of trouble and any other wards that might be present.

We should try to get to a floor ABOVE Pitt, rather than attack from below. If possible, we should wait until he takes an elevator and then drop dynamite down the shaft.

>>13988742
Signal the ghost jew, check ourself for injurys then head back to or if were close enough call for Randy and the Amigos.

>>13988742
Call those fucking ghosts. They need to be coming in right about NOW.

Then look for an entrance that will get use closest to the way to take to the secret floors.

>>13988770

This. Send in the fucking cavalry.

Are the enchantments that cause people to turn on each other down to? If so, get Randy and start heading up to get Pitt.

You head out of the tunnel and see Randy waiting for you at the top. You smile at him as you walk out of the alley and to the front of the building where the 3 Amigos and your four ghosts are waiting for you.

You tug on the string in your body that leads out to Lenny Brokowitz and before you know it, he's joined you at the front of your lobby with almost 60 ghosts, all of them between 7 and 20 years dead, all of them angry and Jewish, all of them vengeful and ready.

You walk in through the front lobby and fucking murderers come streaming out of siderooms, and behind pillars to kill you and the 3 Amigos.

But they don't see the ghosts.

Your Jewish Ghost Army have been on this plane long enough to learn a trick or two, especially manifesting on this plane, and they descend on Pitt's Henchmen like invisible piranhas, ripping bodies and limbs apart leaving screaming torsos and blood drenched floors. It's a gruesome sight.

You, Randy, and the 3 Amigos head up the staircases going up one floor at a time, and every time that some foolish white boy looks to be getting in your way to kill you, your favourite Jews rip them to pieces and wail in yiddish to claim the victory.

The way to the top is clear.

You come out on the floor above Pitt's sanctum.

What's the plan here?

also, dont forget to check the snake wench. We dont want her ambushing us on the way out of the building.

>>13988885
Dynomite through the floor, then send in the jews?

>>13988885
"Hender. Show us the way." As we move along, take a cursory glance for anything of value. Amulets and what not. Tomes or grimoires.

>>13988907
We blew her to hell.

God damn, Rip has been a useful ability.

>>13988941
>send in the jews

Why does this sentence make me laugh so much?

SEND IN THE JEEEEEWWWWSSS!

>>13988979
They're. All. Read. Y. Here.

>>13988943

This. Have some dynamite ready.

As powerful as Pitt may be, his snake bitch didn't take a dynamite sandwich better than anyone else. It might be useful to fuck up summoning circle too.

If we're lucky we can break the circle while he's summoning something nasty.

If we're luckier, it'll eat him.

If we're REALLY UNLUCKY, it'll eat us next, lol.

>>13988953
We also shot her in the head, and that only slowed her down. For all we know she could be pulling herself back togather. Even if she is dead we should go back to grab some hair or whatever to summon her with, we could use her soul to make some sort of healing ring or amulet

>>13988941
Or something along these lines

>>13989024
Fuck, that's a good idea.

Ellington, for the purposes of infusing an item with a soul, maybe you should include a new ability, separate from ripping. "Soul Crafting" or something of the like.

>>13989024
....interesssting....

>>13989064
Hahahaha

Ellington, I love your characters. And I love how you let us come up with characters that you flesh out. Like Gregor. The big Russian monster that rules Central Park. Man, I hope Duke can go meet him some time.

Henders' wolf form leaps out from the crowd of ghosts and leads you through the narrow halls of the offices on the 19th floor to a specific one within the maze.

He says "Here it is. Pitt avaits you, I'm sure."

You pull out three books in a certain order and the shelves move out of the way to reveal a well illuminated staircase that leads downwards.

Ok. Once again I'll require specific instructions. Who goes in what order, and what is the SOP?

>>13989088
If you have business with him you'll meet him. Or maybe you'll take some time out of kicking ass and necromancing all over the place to go have a beer with the guy.

You guys make the decisions after all!

>>13989103
SEND IN THE JJJJJEEEWWWSSS,
Then lead the assualt of the living.

For anyone who has to leave midthread, we are now archived here: http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/tg/thread/13986169#p13986169

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>>13989103
I'm sure he'll tear through the ghosts. But they're already dead and eager for revenge.

I say we go with theatrics. Duke walks down the stairs calmly. He sidles up to Pitt and they have themselves a little introduction. A little talking. A little Bad Guy talks too much cliche. Then we unload with a wave of ghosts. While he's distracted, we knuckle duster his ass.

>>13989103
Randy all lit up, an Amigo, Us, the last two Amigo's.
Fan out into a line taking cover and what not, pour it on.

>>13989103

Crank up our magical detection gear to maximum. We have no idea what kind of magic bullshit Pitt is capable of.

It's almost certain that Pitt can detect ghosts and defend himself against them somehow, but we don't know how effective that might be.

Send in O'Leary to scope things out and maybe get a glimpse of Pitt.

Additionally, can any of the Jews hold something? Like a lit bundle of dynamite? Even if they can only repeatedly throw it, that's fine.

Basically, we should have the ghosts juggle a dynamite surprise directly into Pitt's lap.

Then we roll around the corner guns blazing with our henchies, and throw out some knuckleduster shit if he's still standing.

>>13989151
Thanks, I might not make it to the end.

>>13989103
A expendable ghost first to play scout i think the irish cop would work well. Then us chucking a stick if lit tnt in after whoever says if Pitt is in the room. After the exploson happens everyone rushes in and opens fire. (make sure were wearing the Knuckleduster)

if pitt is not in the rirst room quietly sneak in.

1) Send in the ghosts army with some dynamite, follow up with Randy lit up, Enter the Duke, Enter the Amigos.
2) Randy playing Johnny Storm, followed by the Duke and the Amigos and then the ghosts.
3) The Duke leads from the front. Followed by the ghosts and the henchmen altogether.

VOTE. I'm only counting votes from this post onwards, fyi.

>>13989222
Number 1

>>13989222
One one.

>>13989222

1 is probably the best option.

Have your knuckleduster primed for action, and bring your BAR to bear.

>>13989222
Going with #1

Looks like we're doing 1.

>>13989222
1 it is.

Keep the werewolf in the back - without a doubt, Pitt has contingencies for disloyalty. The 5 living should try to stay close and prepare to fire on Pitt or Pitt's guards.
The Jews and the O'Leary brothers should lead the way, juggling Dynamite forward and blow it up on anything that seems even remotely useful to blow up.

A question. Can we bind 2 spirits to the same object?
I'm wondering if we can bind the Werewolf and the Snake into the same amulet, to get an amulet of Crazy Regeneration.

You call over Lenny Brokowitz and confer with him about your plan to hand him and his boys some dynamite. He grins and laughs with the glee of an old man who's rediscovered the joy in life and goes along with it. One of them carries a lighter, some of them carry the remaining nine sticks of dynamite, and the rest carry a hatred nourished like a beloved plant over long cold years in the world of ghosts.

They rush in ahead of you, with you and your mortal allies remaining outside until the count of thirty.


KRAKKATHOOOOOOM

TTTHRWWKKKKK!!!!

You hear explosion after explosion blowing away beneath your feet and yet you see no physical ramifications on the floor you're one. Clearly the sanctum that Lord Pitt built for himself is made from sturdier things than yours.

You listen out for the the tell tale signs of that yiddish victory wailing and you don't hear it, as you walk down the steps.
>continued

You arrive inside with your BAR, ready to kick ass when you see the scene in front of you.

First of all the room is huge and is definitely two floors long and wide.

The ghost are attacking Pitt in the middle of it, and Pitt is somehow managing to kill them one by one. You think for a moment that you're seeing double but you're not, Pitt is a normal man, a tall man, and yet at the same time the exact space he's in seems to contain an enraged dragon.

You open fire, the Three Amigos open fire, Randy quite literally opens the fire from inside him while shooting his Tommy gun, and nothing is happening.

Maybe one day, when you've lived for over a hundred years and gained the magical experience to have that much fine control you'll be able to do the same, but for now you're awed that Pitt is somehow singlehandedly holding off 50 or so ghosts, 1 necromancer, 1 elementalists and 3 mortals armed to the teeth. You glare at him and see no unnecessary expenditure of energy. A dodge leads to a ferocious attack that takes out two ghosts, he uses cold air and water to hold back the flames Randy throws at him, which makes steam appear that Pitt uses to launch an attack on a further three more ghosts.

What's your plan, Duke?

>>13989407
Shit just got real

>>13989423

Well, dicks.

Here's a thought; could our Ghost Whip attack his astral form?

If so, do that. Attempt to leech him constantly as well, maybe we can slowly wear him down.

>>13989423
Will our ghost whip to any damage to his dragon form?

>>13989423
We know some history. Hold fire for a second. Yell loud enough for him to hear. "Your mother was nothing more than a whore, cast away when her cunt was filled. You were nothing. Refuse, tossed away by your father. Not forgotten. Not even cared about. Lord Pitt? Lord fucking Pitiful."

Trying to make him mad and lose concentration. Calling in his alleged beginnings and mocking him.

Also, get those knuckledusters on our hand. And prepare to smack his shit.

>>13989423
get close and use the Knuckleduster

>What's your plan, Duke?
Make a spot check, looking for:
A. Magic wards, summoning circles, or magical reinforcements in the surrounding environment
B. The Crystals that turn water to wine (and back)
Chuck the Knuckleduster to the Amigo with the strength charm and have him run in and hit Pitt.

Ask the werewolf how the fuck we kill this thing.
Send the O'leary brothers in to piss him off.
And I agree with taunting him as in >>13989474 as long as we stay the hell back.

>>13989523
I'm sure he doesn't know. If he did, he probably would have done it himself years ago.

>>13989474

This sounds like a good idea. If we're failing in a straight-up slugfest, maybe we can get the upper hand by distracting him this way.

>>13989474
>inb4 he just laughs and says the entire thing was bullshit he made up

>>13989459
>>13989470
Nope. Neither ghost whip, nor rip, nor leech will work on Pitt because he's a magician. At the level you've got those spells they don't work on magicians.

>>13989581
Well, knuckledust him then.

>>13989500
You look around for a while as the attack goes on and don't see the kinds of things you're looking for. Until you look at a corner of the ceiling and notice your eye flicking by it just a little too quickly. You try to focus on that part and notice that things are being clearer, you're avoiding some kind of distraction charm.

You see the on the ceiling is chained a being in a circle. A child with wings. With the winged child in the circle is a pulpit of some sort with three crystals on it, and somehow they're not falling down. In fact the winged child sits like the ceiling is the floor. Strange.

>>13989474
>>13989523
You taunt Lord Pitt and for the first time he stares into your eyes and identifies you as the man behind this attack on him. He sees Henderschmidt's ghost sitting smugly behind you and glares at that loss too. Your words do in fact incense him.

Which is a mistake.

Unlike many others Lord Pitt is not the kind of man who has hot, volcanic rages, but instead his rage is a thing of ice and patience, a focusing tool that makes his mind work faster and with a vicious turn he begins to kill ghosts in the way between you and him. He's killing them more efficiently now.

You have two moves before he is in close enough to attack you and kill you.

Your move Duke.

>>13989656
Time for The Duke to put The Lord in his place......Somehow

>>13989656
Pray to our god, grab our dick through our pants, and prepare for a haymaker with the knuckledusters.

>>13989656

Use your BAR to blast the angel-kid away.

If he's been charmed, Pitt doesn't want us to know he's there. We kill it and see what happens.

>>13989656
Shoot at the magic crystals supporting the angel-child (We're a gun master, we should be ablet o hit them) then RUN.
we leech life'd the snake, that should make us faster. Shoot at the things holding up the Angel Child, and RUN.

>>13989706

This. When we run, also prepare the knuckledusters.

>>13989656
>You see the on the ceiling is chained a being in a circle.
Obviously he needs to be released.
We've built summon circles before. What's the best way to DISRUPT a summon circle?

>>13989656
Take out those chains/summoning circle. The crystals are our loot, so don't smash them, and the creature/child probably isn't Pitt-friendly if it's chained. Best to set it loose and hope it wreaks some havoc.

>>13989706
>>13989729
Like the expert summoner you are, you see what's holding the angelic child chained isn't anything physical but the circle it's surrounded in. You wish for a moment that you had the leisure to study that circle and it's glyphs so that you too could one day soon summon and use these beings in your own research but alas time does not permit such a study.

What time does permit is for you to use your mastery of guns to aim your BAR at the circle and begin to make a dent in their structure. Before you know it the angel child has noticed that it's free of its constraints and so it stands up and jumps up (down) and within a moment it disappears.

Lord Pitt has noticed this. He is now further incensed and would be only 1 move away from killing you if only you hadn't started to run.

You make your way around the room, all of you spread out into different corners as the ghost hold the center ground and keep attacking. Randy seems to be beginning to tire because he's done nothing but throw fire at Pitt which hasn't had much effect on the man.

Once again you have 2 moves and you're the target of Pitt's rage.

>>13989774
"Randy! SUCK HEAT OUT OF HIS LILY-WHITE ASS!"

>>13989805
That sounds pretty damn gay.

>>13989774
Go for the crystals and attempt to turn the water in his body into alcohol

>>13989806
The crystals are nowhere near you and are unattainable at the moment unless you want to risk damaging them by shooting them down.

>>13989774
I'm not sure. It looks like we're missing something obvious about how to kill him, but we REALLY don't have the time to look around the room for something.

Have the Werewolf and Brokovitz (if he's still existant) spot around the room for anything of use or interest, and direct Randy and the Amigos to deal with it.

Meanwhile, we do what any person does when he has Aggro and is Faster than his opponent.
We KiT him. Run, out of the room if necessary.

>>13989774
Fuck, I don't know. Pitt's stood up to our magic, our ghosts, our bullets, and our dynamite; the only trick we have left is the knuckleduster and that's pretty much do-or-die only.

We can have someone grab the crystals and split, or try to use them as per >>13989806.

>>13989832
>The crystals are nowhere near you and are unattainable at the moment
The Jew ghosts can knock them down, yes?

>>13989806

Are we even sure they're the same crystals?

If they are, then HELL YES WE'RE DOING THIS.

we have no idea how to use the crystals

>>13989832
>>13989845
>>13989856
Sorry deleted my post cuz i said almost the exact same thing here
>>13989829

>>13989875
>>13989846
Yes, you can, I didn't think of that, but this other anon has a point. The crystals require a specific ritual that takes several minutes to do that you don't know how to actually accomplish.

>>13989891
...well, Jesus was a Jew, right? So if we shove enough Jewish ghosts into the crystals, they'll activate!

(yeah, even I don't buy that one)

>>13989891
I think a situation such as this requires the exploration of all posibilities, like it could be that the ritual wasd only needed 'cause he was changing something far away from him?

>>13989774

Are there any other hidden, charmed circles?

Where is the balcony in relation to us?

>>13989913
Who knows? If nothing else we can have someone run off with the crystals to make sure that Pitt's plan is ruined even if we die. Though he'd probably be able to astrally hunt down and rip the soul from whoever we would send, so that might be pointless.

>>13989891
Bah. No point taking the crystals and leaving since having a powerful magician pissed at us is a massive death sentence - to say nothing about how he'll have the police on his side.

Have Henders and Brokovitz look around the room for something - anything - that might be useful in the fight.
Throw the knuckleduster to Randy and have Randy run in and punch the guy (because Pitt is trying to kill us, not him).
The 3 Amigos should run in and try to wrestle any magical shit off Pitt's body. It's likely that it won't work but it's worth a shot.
Finally, we should keep running and firing (our skill in guns will let us not hit our allies).

Thoughts, gentlemen?

>>13989930
No other hidden or charmed circles.

The balcony is on the opposite of you, i.e. Pitt is facing towards you fighting ghosts while his back is to the balcony.

>>13989913
Sorry but the crystals do require a ritual, whether it's in distance or close up. Unless you know the procedure there's not much you can do. It's not exactly the same kind of magic that you do.

>>13989946
Oh, right. Send the O'Leary brothers, useless shits that they are, to stand in between Pitt and us. Hopefully they'll buy us a round by dying. :P

>>13989960

Well, at this point, I guess we should start herding Pitt towards the balcony if possible.

Going toe to toe with him seems to be a death sentence.

Do we have any dynamite left?

18 JewGhosts left.

They have however had an effect on Pitt, he doesn't seem quite as relentless as he was before and he is in fact slowing down.

None of your bullets are getting through despite how you and the three Amigos are running around avoiding him and shooting him, but some of Randy's fire occasionally gets under his skin and takes him by surprise. Clearly fire is not the element that Pitt uses the most.

Henders and Brokowitz furiously try to think of something in the room they or you could use in the battle but nothing is immediately apparently.

As this goes on, you begin to wonder exactly why Olukwele had so much faith in you that you could handle a big player like Lord Pitt.

>>13989960
Can we on the fly bind a ghost into a knife and throw it at him to see if it does anything? And keep running so we don't die obviously

>>13990034
Yes. Choose a ghost.

>>13990018
No dynamite left. The Hebrew Ghost Army of the District used it all up in their initial strike against the most foul Lord Pitt.

>>13990026
For crap's sake, throw the knuckleduster to someone other than us, and hit Pitt with it.

>>13990057
How many knive do we have?

>>13990057
HENDEEEEERS

>>13990034
That'll basically just be a magic weapon- probably no more effective than a powerful ghost attacking or using the knuckleduster.

>>13990057
Let's see.
Bind Patrick O'Leary into the BAR.
See if the Luck buff will help hit him.

>>13990083
Henders would be damn good for a knife, but I'd wanna use his regeneration abilities if we survive this battle.
Try the knuckleduster and the PatrickBAR first.

>>13990074
You throw the knuckleduster to the head of the Three Amigos, the one that has the basic protection amulet and the strength amplifier.

He puts it on, puts aside his Tommy gun and goes for it.

He runs through some ghosts and then strikes with the knuckleduster when he has the chance.

The Green Energy in the knuckleduster finally get their wish and spring forth from it, attacking Lord Pitt in a horrendously sharp arc that acts as a right hook, instantly breaking Lord Pitt's jaw.

Some of Lord Pitt's jaw intervene from the blow killing him in one go, but he's got a broken a jaw, has fallen to his knees and is very close to unconsciousness.

Now is your opportunity to strike at him, if ever.

While you think about this, you notice that the knuckleduster that the Head Amigo is wearing has begin to leech the life out of him. In fact within moments it's turned him into an old man. His hands are so skinny that the knuckleduster falls off, completely inert, a meaningless trinket, while he falls backwards unable to move himself.

>>13990057

Henders.

Do it now.

>>13990134
Bind brokowitz into our big knife and decapitate him

>>13990134

BAR.

Full auto, now now now!!

>>13990157
THIS. A MILLION FUCKING TIMES. THIS.

SHOOT THAT AUTOMATIC FUCKING RIFLE AT HIS FUCKING MOTHERFUCKING HEAD.

Bind Henders to the knife, stab Pitt.

Once we make sure he's dead, do something about our Amigo, pump some life force into him to counteract the aging.

>>13990134
If only we could rip him..

I'd say get Randy to set the fucker on fire and/or throw him out the fucking balcony while he's dizzy.

>>13990157
Yeah, I'll go with this. Unconscious mage->defenseless mage.

Poor fucking head amigo. We're really using up our faithful followers on this job. We've got to see if we can undo that shit.

>>13990157
>>13990167

You aim your BAR at Pitt's head, his pathetic kneeling form looking around in disbelief.

You sofly squeeze the trigger, and then in controlled bursts you shoot the bullets at his head.

And his head pops like ripe melon. His body tumbles forward as blood begins leaking out of the headless corpse.

Lord Pitt is dead.

Long live the Duke.

>>13990206

>>13990206
Thats what a Lord gets for challenging The Duke.

>>13990206
Acquire summoning stuff, then throw his body from the balconey.

>>13990206
grab some of pitt's hair, help the amigo, search for loot both magic and money(the crystals and hopefully a instruction manual), grab some of the snake ladys hair and check that she is dead then get the fuck out of there.

>>13990206
See what we can do about the rapidly aging amigo.

>>13990206
Before we have any celebrations, we should go check on Head Amigo!

>>13990206

FUCK. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH.


Kay, first order of business.

Scout out the rest of the floor for immediate dangers.

Go through Lord Pitt's stuff for magical goodies.

Check on our Old Amigo; is there anything we can do for him? Is the knuckleduster recharged?

Can we get the crystals down off the ceiling?

Lastly, thank our ghosts for their help, and fulfill our promises to any ghosts that we have bound. We should reward the dead for their efforts, and push them down the path.

>>13990206
Keep a finger or something to summon him at some point in the future.

Loot his lab.

Then let's see if we can dredge up any more of his minions, catch them, and pump their life force into our Amigo to try and counteract the rapid aging shit.

>>13990263
this, THEN throw his ass out the window.

>>13990206
Fuck, we better give all our underlings a pat on the back after this.

Well then Getlemen it has been fun actually contributing to a thread for once, please keep it and duke alive so I may catch up with what I missed on sup/tg/ tomorrow, and I bid you Adeu.

>>13990206
Would it be too much to throw his body out of the window (after we recover some hair) to send a message?

mabey we should make the werewolf into a healing item to help the amigo?

First order of business, check up on Old Amigo, see if anything can be done to reverse the effect.

As you stand over the Head Amigo's unconscious form, you realise he's still alive, and as you pump your own life force into him you realise he's going to stay that way but there's nothing you can do to reverse his condition.

Thinking back on it this is just the kind of revenge that Freeman would plan. It was quite cute how the knuckleduster just -happened- to fall into your hands after Chandler just -happened- to be ordered to kill you. It was meant to be a...what's that phrase....a trojan horse, to get in your confidence until you used it without thinking until one day when you needed it the most, it turns on you and gets you killed.

Fucking Freeman.

A nuisance and a menace, even now.
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You grab some hairs from Lord Pitt, then ask Randy to set fire to the rest of him and throw him off the balcony.

Then you look at the remaining Hassidic Polteirgheists surrounding you and they're too elated to even look at the cost in souls it took to take down Lord Pitt. They're too ecstatic. Even before you get a chance to thank them, they're already drifting away, the one anchor that kept them here being gone.

Lenny Brokowitz is there last, he thanks you amiably for the service you've done him and then departs.
>continued

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The Three Amigos lean on each other as they walk out, heads held high. You give them the keys to the car and give them orders to head back to Harlem. You give them the utmost praise and respect, and tell them you'll see them at Doc Green's when you're done here.
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You and Randy examine Lord Pitt's sanctum and unfortunately for you any items of interest to you disapperead during the Jews' initial dynamite attack.

What are left are shelves and shelves of books with knowledge that will interest you.

GAINED: Knowledge of Higher Circles (i.e. how to truly contain demons, angels and fairies once you know how to summon them).

What you now have is a toehold into the Financial District. The Wessler building and the nightclub the Henderschmidt ran are effectively yours, now that their ghosts Henders, Pitt and their knowledge is at your hands.

The next few hours are going to be vital for getting the Outfit into this place, if that's what you intend.

Are you man enough to do that? How are you going to do it? Talk it out, then tell me what you want to do.

Guys once again on an OOC note I just have to quickly say what a good job you've done.

I'm really fucking annoyed because once again I feel like this was too easy for you. Because you did all the background work in getting Lenny and his ghosts to join you, all those murderous henchmen became a joke when if you had to do that yourself, alone, it would've been much more protracted and more of your henchmen would've died and been used up before you even arrived to face Lord Pitt. And because you did serious background into the building and its wards, it didn't turn into a horror show where you and your underlings turned on each other.

Fuck. You guys did a great job and kicked ass, and made it look far too easy!

Just saying.

>>13990403

Get back to our sanctum and summon Pitt. We need to know his henchmen, his command structure, any magical items he's secreted away in the building, and how to summon demons and angels.

Our next move should be building renovations to Wessler, in order to prevent the same kind of power-grab we just pulled on Pitt. First order of business should be the reconstruction of the foundation wall, then the bricking over of the alleyway entrance. We're going to need heavy ghost sentries and shitload of manpower to turn Wessler into the fortress sanctum we need.

Once defense construction is under way, we should deliver the crystals to our Boss, or let him know Pitt is dead and we're running the Financial District. Reassure him of our loyalty; we're getting stronger, but not any dumber.

first off, check that the snake woman is dead and grab some hair.
second, summon and make into some sort of healing or youth amulet for old-amigos
third, alk the wolf who we will need to talk to to steal pitt's former kingdom

>>13990403
FIRST OF ALL: Have Chandler search all of Pitt's place. IE, where he lived and worked. The rest of the building can wait. What he's looking for are safes, any money lying around, any kind of valuable. Magical gear. ANYTHING. An address book. Ledger. LITERALLY ANYTHING.

Get on the phone and make some calls. Olukewele may not be reachable by this, but some other lieutenants can be.

It takes a man to be the Duke.

>>13990403
I don't know that we can feasibly get ourselves into the Financial District. From what we heard before, it's pretty locked down by some very nasty characters; Pitt was only able to stand in it because of his own sheer magical power (which was ridiculously impressive, as we saw) and even then he had to stay forted up all the time. Throw in the fact that we'd be a black boss in a white neighborhood... and I just don't see it happening.

I think our best bet is to strip out what loot we can, then 'sell' this building and the nightclub to one of the established financial district factions, establishing amicable relations and alliance which might let us work with another outfit against the others in the future.

We told Olukewele what we were planning, so hopefully had some things in the works. If The Outfit can't fill this power vacuum, someone else will.

Get some people to hold this place, and then go see our boss at his park.

This is also a good opportunity to reward people who we trust and know do good work by giving them leadership positions. Offering Sweets a job to help you get stuff set up here seems like a good idea.

>>13990509
>>13990509
I actually really really REALLY like this idea. Take everything not nailed down and sell off what's left.

It should be our backup plan though. What we really need to do is talk to Olukewele.

>>13990461

To be honest I'm just as surprised as you that we pulled that off with minimal losses. When you described how easily Pitt was fending off attacks, I seriously thought for a minute that we fucked up somewhere and were about to be killed by a raging Welsh magician.

Well, the overly aged amigo can spend his time playing chess in our joint if he wants. At least that's something.

I wonder if taunting Pitt helped or hurt us.

>>13990541
I would agree. We're damn good, we kicked ass, but he's the boss, he's the one with the plan, and he'd know whether the Outfit holding this place themselves is viable. At a guess, we could hold the nightclub without too much trouble, but the tower would cause too much shit to rain down on us. Again, though, ask Olukewele. He knows better. What we can't hold, we strip bare and sell the husk.

>>13990461

To be honest, I'm surprised we won too.

The initial description of Pitt made me shit my pants; I thought he was going to tear us a new one.

Then again, I was pretty convinced we were going to die in the basement, as well, lol.

Agreed. So, grab the crystals and anything else exceptionally important and portable, dash off to see the boss?

These first few hours after Pitt's death are critical. I'm somewhat concerned that by the time we arrive back after talking with the boss we'll find that a bunch of other Financial District gang types have moved in.

>>13990581
Pretty sure Wellington flat-out said it hurt us.

Speaking of bad moves (sort of), was that your plan for the knuckleduster the whole time? Kill us off if we used it a third time ourselves, with no warning? If so, would there have been some chance to save ourselves? (Ourself? One body, many minds. Confusing.)

Alright we've got a few different schools of thought here.

1) Use the Wessler building as your toehold in the Financial District and try to expand slowly and carefully while using whatever information and/or backroom deals Pitt had in place once you've summoned him and squeezed everything out of him.
2) Steal as much as you and your boys can, then sell everything that you can squeeze out of Pitt's ghost to the people he plundered and ruined.
3) Inform Olukwele that the immediate mission has been accomplished, get him to come down here and begin planning whatever he wants done with this temporary advantage you have, because it's not going to be long before the cops and feds turn up and wonder why more than a hundred white men have been killed in a building while explosions were set off.

This is going to be one of those medium-strategy votes, so if anyone doesn't have anything else to add, please vote.

>>13990637
Do we know any Jews we could use as frontmen? A white agent could allow us to hold this place.

>>13990637
Begin packing up everything here. All the books, ledgers, valuables. Make some calls, get trucks here and ready to take shit away. Leave our boys to take care of that, and we go talk to Olukewele.

>>13990666
Yes, Lenny isn't that far gone yet and I'm sure he has a nephew or two he could convince to be your underling and be a polite white face for you. People would know you're the real deal but he'd be a polite little face saving mechanism so they wouldn't have to lower themselves to working for a darkie.

>>13990637

Option 3.

We should inform Olukwele immediately of what just went down.

He has all the information we want to know, like whether we actually have a shot at holding territory out here or not.

Also, purely from a self-preservation angle; we just took down one tough motherfucker on smarts and planning alone.

We should reassure Olukwele we're still his man, and by going to him and letting him plan our next move, we're letting him know that. We don't need our immediate superiors thinking we're too dangerous to have around.

>>13990666
Forgot to vote. Failing the above, get a ghost to contact Olukewele while you start stripping the place just as a precaution.

>>13990637
I'm going with 2. Olukwele was fairly clear last time we spoke to him that he was leaving this matter entirely in our hands; I believe that includes handling its aftermath effectively. We won't be able to hold his area, and that means getting what we can out of it and getting the hell out.

Call in more people to help with looting the place, and start figuring out which of the Financial District factions we would be most advantageously able to hand over everything to.

>>13990679

This would be a good option to bring up if Olukwele decides that holding the Financial District is feasible.

>>13990679
Then either get some Jews in here stat, or go with >>13990684

We need to talk to Olukewele and tell him it's done. But we need to make sure we gain all the good info we can.

Most people seems to be trying to hybridize option 2 and 3 so hybridize those options involving ghosts.

Things to do:
>Grab hair of snake woman
>Keep hair of Pitt
>Keep hair of Henders
>Ensure Old Amigo is being adequately cared for. Even in his old age, he is valuable to us.
>Bind that motherfucking toolshed of a fucking mick, Patrick, into our pistol. It shall be our lucky pistol. Every Duke needs a lucky pistol.

What we should do with Pitt, Henders, and Snake woman:
Summon Henders, get his knowledge of Pitt's outfit, how he runs his shit, who the underbosses are, what places he holds, how shit runs. Basically, the stuff you need to know if you wanna be a competent boss.
Summon Pitt, ask the same questions. Cross-reference with Henders to check whether Pitt is fucking us from beyond the grave. Also, ask Pitt about elemental magic, summoning demons, and all sorts of magical crap like that.
Summon Snake woman. Ask her if she has any valuable knowledge on magic or pitt's stuff or anything.

When we're done with the interrogation:
You said Binding destroys a ghost, yes? That'd prevent them from turning on us.
Bind Henders into a knife. A really big, sharp knife.
Bind Pitt into our favourite suit. Duke's gotta have a nice suit.
Bind the Snake woman into a pair of pants. Snake leather pants, ideally. Might see if they provide regeneration to the wearer.
Give Chanders 2 days off, he needs 'em.

Don't contact Olukewele yet until after we've interrogated Henders and Pitt about their operations. We -need- to have started taking over their operations, i.e. HAVE DONE OUR JOB, before talking to him.

>>13990802
It's got to be the 1911 though, so we can carry it around everywhere.

Hybrid. 2/3 fusion, either contacting Olukwele with ghosts while stripping the place or having your men do the raiding while you visit the boss in person. Depends on how Olukwele would take a spectral emissary. The presumption might piss him off.

If Olukwele thinks the place is viable, get in touch with Lenny's relatives. If not, take the place apart, leave nothing behind.

loot the hell out of the place, talk with lenny about getting a jew goon and contact the boss and inform him of our success also ask what he wants done with the crystals and if we should try to take a major foothold in the finacial district or sneak in while the other powers are fighting over the remains of pitt's terratory

also grab some of the gorgon's remains if shes dead

Why do I think that if we go talk to Olukwele, he'll say something to the effect of "I know all that shit, why are you dicking around talking to me instead of exploiting your success on behalf of the Outfit?"

>Bind the Snake woman into a pair of pants. Snake leather pants, ideally. Might see if they provide regeneration to the wearer.

Boots. Snake. Skin. Boots.

>>13990844
FUCK YES. Snakeskin boots. At least until we meet a stingray demon. Then it's time for an upgrade.

>>13990679
Oh. Better summon Lenny then and ask him. Politely, obviously, about any frontmen for our operations in an OBVIOUSLY white district.
After that's done, give him a push on his journey. Gotta show respect for our allies, even if they aren't black.

>>13990843
>Why do I think that if we go talk to Olukwele, he'll say something to the effect of "I know all that shit, why are you dicking around talking to me instead of exploiting your success on behalf of the Outfit?"
He will. He'll berate us for not DOING WHAT HE TOLD US TO DO - i.e. get a foothold in the financial district.
He's our boss, that's what he told us to do, that's our job, and we gotta do it before we piss him off by bothering him again.

Anyway, we should be in Autosage now. Let's get the votes in on a medium term strategy and leave the DM to wrap it up and sort out the details.

>>13990887
>>13990843
Okay, you guys make a good point. Forget getting in touch with the boss, get some whiteys in here. Start moving the best shit out, though, just in case.

So we need to find some front men to present a face to this district and to actually run the district we want to get trusted members of the Outfit. Front men we can find through the ghosts we have around but we'll need to go back to Harlem or at least send a messenger to get more outfit members in town.

Do it all. Get info out and to our HQ. Get some people in to take control of the rackets, with a White Face acting as a middle man. And then get in with Olukewele.

The majority of votes went for two and three, which aren't mutually exclusive.

You find the nearest telephone and make a call to your allies in the Outfit, not the rivals who are tiring of seeing you succeed. You call Winston, and Doc Green, Smokey and some of his boys, and all your own underlings that aren't on critical duties.

You get them to pull up to the Wessler building with huge trucks through the back and begin to unload stores of heavy weaponry that Henders has informed are in the building, not to mentions at least 120,000 dollars in the form of gold, bonds and plain old cash. That you asked the trustworthy Winston to keep an eye.

Then you decided it's time to get in touch with your boss, and as you wondered some letter seemed to open up in your mind.

It seems the last time you met him, Olukwele left a bit of his magic inside you so you could quickly get to him once you were done.

>continued

You stand up and find a nearby closed door.

You look at the door and slowly turn the handle and pull it back. A light that shouldn't be there shines into your face.

You step in and find that you've walked into a formal dining room.

A small round table is in the center of it, and sitting across each other are Olukwele and a lady. A light brown, Indian possibly, woman with a sleek red dress on and completely serious face.

Olukwele looks at you and smiles. "Duke, excellent. I was just expecting you. I felt you would either come to tell me you were victorious or your shade would come to wish me farewell for a last time." He chuckles to himself. "Please, join us. This is a dear...dear friend of mine called Ghativa. She is a certain aspect of Kali."

Olukwele extends a seat to you on the round table.

"Tell us of your battles, my dear Duke. Make it glorious for Ghativa here has seen a lot in her millennia and she bores easily."

Your move Duke. This is your first meeting with one of the faces of Kali herself.

>they see me rol(eplay)ing, they hating

>see Kali
>shitself
No wait, I'm Duke

>natural 20s, natural 20s everywhere

>>13990997

"A pleasure to meet you, ma'am."

"Well, turns out Lord Pitt had made quite a few enemies in his time..."

Go on to describe how the Jewish Ghost Army was instrumental in the battle, and how admirably our allies performed. Don't forget to heap some praise on Henders fighting ability, and how terrifying Pitt was in action.

Spin them an tale of battle and terror, and let the truth of the story shine through.

Don't forget the bit about the snake woman, shooting her in the head, ripping her soul out and shoving a stick of dynamite down her gullet. She ought to find that part particularly dramatic.

>>13990997
Kali? Fuck!
>"Men call you merciful, but there is no trace of mercy in you, Mother. You have cut off the heads of the children of others, and these you wear as a garland around your neck."

We better tell an awesome story. An epic in three parts- first the werewolf, then the snake, then Lore Pitt himself.

>>13990997
Link her to the last 6 threads on the suptg archive.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13796767
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13808265
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13868014
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13892779
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13928333
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13986169

Of note:
We beat Freeman, mostly by shooting him with bullets.
We beat the O'Leary brothers in a wave of fire, ghosts, and gunfire.
We talked to a demon.
We won some fights with a Werewolf and a Succubus
We did some legwork - tracking down an entire jewish legacy of ghosts.
And finally, we had our showdown with Pitt.

The building was intense. The walls fucked with our heads, but we used a gem from a Djinni to ALLAHUACKBAR up one of the walls
Then these ghosts poured in like VOOSH and tore up, like everyone.
And we come into Pitt's chamber and we say to him "Your mother was nothing more than a whore, cast away when her cunt was filled. You were nothing. Refuse, tossed away by your father. Not forgotten. Not even cared about. Lord Pitt? Lord fucking Pitiful."
So he's really angry - and while he's fucking chasing us, tearing down ghosts by the fucking jewload, we try lookin' for ways past him - release a chained angel, go at him with magic, bullets, and cursed weapons - and we finally get the fucker down.

So here we are. Hi!

Also make mention of how we taunted him and freed an angel he'd entrapped.

rolled 18 = 18

>>13990997
I fail so hard at roleplay. Have a d20 for Perform (story).

Just wanted to say, I'm glad I finally got a chance to participate in this. This is the best quest since TempDM left Doppleganger Damacy unfinished, and I'm happy to finally get involved.

>>13991144

Hahaha, the gods favor us today, gentlemen!

OH MAN, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE TO TELL HER ABOUT THE SHAPE CHANGING MAN/WOMAN. She'll get a kick out of it, I bet.

Give me a second, I'm writing something up.

rolled 10 = 10

>>13991180
The shape changing GAY man/woman.

>>13991180
Fuck no. That secret is not ours to tell, and we do NOT spill it on a whim merely to add to our story a bit.

>>13991188
Depends. Which was the natural form? Or was the natural form something else entirely?

>>13991191

Yeah, Anon makes a good point. We're a man of our word, we're not going to break that trust just for the sake of entertainment.

You tell the whole story from beginning to end, weaving a story that was both darkly funny and just plain grim at times for the both of them. Olukwele listens appreciatively and so does Ghativa, who seems to enjoy the lurid details rather than the grandiose larger brush strokes that Olukwele finds fascinating. You find a nice balance of both and the tale pleases them.

"Your army of Yids," Olukwele says admiringly, "that was very masterful of you. It reminds me of this druid I knew once who a long time before had killed every single member of the Ninth Roman Legion, and then carried them with him everywhere he went as his personal legion. Your vision reminds me of his."

Ghativa smiles silently.

Finally she says, "The Ormunggar you killed in the basement. I'm afraid it's not actually dead, despite that explosion. They're much harder to kill than you'd imagine though they're not much use. That Pitt would have trapped her there with his ward but when you destroyed it she was free to move on to whichever Heim she descended from. Ugly creature," she says disdainfully.

Her face loses its humanity and she once again returns to being an utterly serious manifestation of death.

"I must leave. There are worlds calling for me, whose every death I must see to." She stands up, and Olukwele stands with her (and you do too out of politeness). She walks up to Olukwele who embraces her and plants a soft kiss on her lips, which she returns willingly if not gladly. She looks at you and says "We will meet in the future again, I am sure. And not just on your final day." She promises.

"Isn't she wonderful?" Olukwele asks, once she steps away from him and disappears with the second step away.

>>13991230
>>13991191
Agreed. Kali herself or no, some things need to be protected.

"Well I was doing my rounds when this young turk comes stepping up to me. Sitting down across the street I see Freeman, that broke ass nucca. So when the kid pulls out some chinese knuckle dusters, I've gotta blow him away.

Turn out it was all for the best, since the kid decided to help me get some revenge on Freeman. That's for later though. Because first, I get into a bit of a tussle with this cop. Irish fucker. Starts shaking my men down looking for those crystals. I use the dusters on him and take him down.

So then we go to bushwhack Freeman down at one of my boy's place, and when he comes through, I toss the dusters towards him, but blow away a mirage he'd set up. Ended up shooting his ass and cracking his skull. Fucker's a vegetable now.


Well shit, look at me. I've gotten rid of a pretty big rival here in the streets. Things are looking good. Except for that cop. See, he was looking for those crystals. And when his brothers from back in the old country hear about his death, they hop through some magic plane shit and end up here looking for me. They killed a good man. And we killed them all. Ended up summoning an extraplanar being to finish off one of them, but sheeeeit, what's to be expected.

>>13991302
Anyway, I'd asked this clairvoyent woman about those crystals. And fucking Pitt killed her ass in the astral plane. Took a bit of muscle to find out about him, but once I did, it was like knocking down dominoes. Find out who his enemies were? Check. Get them ready to kill his ass? Check. Take out his lieutenant? Check. His cunt bitch, no offense, ma'am. But, check. Blow away the enormous ward he'd set up in his building? Big fucking check, a long with some scaly bitch down there. Watch an army of dead jews tear through mothafuckas like a knife? Big ass check. Building was a slaughter.

And then Pitt. God damn. Ghosts run in carrying dynamite, trying to blow his ass up. He knocks it all away, and before I know it, he's tearing through these jews like he was Roman. Course, once he lost his little pet Angel, and took the last hit from those dusters, which by the way, wilted the man who was carrying em'. Jeffrey's his name, old man now. Fucking Freeman, always a conniving shit. But fuck, once Pitt was down, bullets killed him the same as any man."

>You're an enforcer called Duke, you're a midlevel guy in one of the three black gangs

What? No, i'm a university student, and i sure as hell am not in a gang. I'm not even black.

>As well as being a black man, you're a black magician

I'm not black, and i don't know any magic tricks. Try again.

>Welcome to Harlem.

I don't live in America, sorry.

Please get your facts straight OP before talking about me.

>>13991302
>>13991320

You guys think Olukwele has some juju to restore youth to our now elderly amigo?

>>13991341
I think he's too important to ask for such small favors.

God damn. If Olukewele is doing this, imagine how powerful Papa is.

Or the other bosses for that matter. Maybe one of the Italian bosses is an actual Roman. Fucking Caeser himself or something.

>>13991341
Could give us a point in the right direction, at least. I don't know how much he's into closely looking after subordinates, though; from what he said it sounds like he gave us 50/50 odds of dying on that last mission and he sent us off without blinking.

>>13991348
But we were responsible for it and he is one of our more trusted underlings so we should at the very least try to help him.

Well, I'm going to stop there now guys. I'm pretty tired and can barely think so I'll stop before I start pumping out stupid drivel.

Once again we A LOT of shi/tg/ot done.

I don't know when I'll run the next round of this. If you're already on my list of emails, I'll let you know and if you're not please send me an email so I can send you one in return when I'm ready!

>>13991361
asking for a nuge in the right direction seems reasonable

By the way this officially concludes the first chapter of Harlem Quest.

What would you guys like more of for the next chapter? What would you like less of? Other than my relentless typos that is. Going for speed and trying to respond quickly does horrible things to my spelling.

Gimme feedback and I can tailor make this a bit better.

>>13991521
More:
ZOMBIES
Tactics in fights
Dice rolling
ZOMBIES
Magic items that do neato stuff
ZOMBIES
possibly even creating magic items
A means by which a corpse can be reanimated, and used as a mindless attacking pile of meat.
Perhaps offer the player a choice where he HAS to give up something - e.g. he can romance a powerful necromancer lady who can accelerate his studies, or the sub-boss of his biggest gang rival to help kill the rival, but not both?
Oh, and
ZOMBIES.

Less:
Standing around waiting for things to happen
Lack of zombies

>>13991521
Same amount of:
Weird creepy fetish shit (i.e. 0)

I don't want things to start randomly sprouting dicks and engaging in some type of homogay fagging spree. I know that /tg/ isn't /d/, but it seems awfully close at times.

>>13991603
>Weird creepy fetish shit (i.e. 0)

evidently you werent around when we were having fun with good ol' Willy ^_^

>>13991632

It dealt with sexual issues, yes, but I think that scene was handled in a way that didn't overtly aim to pander to fetishes.

But then again, when you look at some other stuff here on /tg/, it's not too hard to be subtle in comparison.

As for stuff to add, now that we don't have to worry about an enraged Welsh dragon tearing us a new one, maybe some more astral plane shenanigans?

>>13991708
Depends how it's handled. Astral projection seems like a natural direction to take our powers, but if possible, I'd prefer to avoid the trippy/fever dream/psychedelic planeswalker routine. Those sequences always give me a colossal headache.

i'm going to bed. ellington whatever crazy meth you're smokiing - keep smoking it because i'm have a world of fun with your quest.

>>13991763
Actually, I would think that astral projection is the way that we would definitely NOT want to go. The logic being that if a necromancer leaves his body, he's putting himself on par with the ghosts he tries to command- exceedingly dangerous. Having a body to anchor the soul gives solidity and strength that we desperately need.

>>13991937
Salient point. I was thinking purely in terms of logical power progression, with no thought as to the practical considerations. I withdraw my vote for astral projection sequences. I'd also like to veto the zombi suggestion, though. Black magic or no, we don't seem to follow that style. They're nothing but meat puppets, while we tend to focus on skill, charm, and knowledge. There's just no subtlety to the zombi. Let's focus on spirits and the still-living for now.

>You're an enforcer called Duke, you're a midlevel guy in one of the three black gangs

What? No, i'm a university student, and i sure as hell am not in a gang. I'm not even black.

>As well as being a black man, you're a black magician

I'm not black, and i don't know any magic tricks. Try again.

>Welcome to Harlem.

I don't live in America, sorry.

Please get your facts straight OP before talking about me.

>>13992116