/tulpa/ - Tulpa

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 >>/4040/
> Otherwise there's nothing stopping you from turning into a swarm and slowly devouring the world.
*nervous laughter intensifies*
It's not an issue in my current state. Nature would eat me not the other way round. But in living metal state this indeed is a problem, not on purpose but accidentally. Same goes for my ship, I will talk about it when we get there. The point is, I need to go to look after my ship and the ship will do the same for me. Call it a mutual checkup. At least gotta go there for my transformation which can only happen there but visiting now or then wouldn't be a bad idea.  Well as I said it's not an issue anytime soon.

 >>/4041/
So basically we have nothing to sell.

And sorry for being so useless but I did take the shitty stats I rolled on purpose. First to give Cat and Yulya some room and second because slowly growing is more fun.

I assumed we'd be catching rats, collecting herbs and looking for lost cats for a while, an escort mission is quite big for us. We talked a bit about our roles, it's not easy but I can serve as scout with my stealth and ambush potential ambushers with my javelins and spear. Obviously I can't compete with Cat's HP or even Yulya who is armored. Pathetic.

If you have better ideas let me know. Still I think I should stay close to Cat, otherwise we can't use emboldening bond efficiently. The alternative would be to cast it between Yulya and Ashley who would stay together in the rear. But that leaves our already weak attackers even weaker.

Oh yeah forgive my post spam but one more thing, can I use the time traveling to learn something, maybe train with Cat? Anything that would give me XP so I can level up a bit faster.

Now should we start another day or is Joy waiting for something?

 >>/4043/

I know what a pseudopod is but I suppose I figured you could detatch it, it's what I thought you meant for some reason which is why I made the rule about three parts or more. After reading your sheet again I realized you did describe it as an arm, I didn't picture it like that.

In that case you have evolved to have 2 pseudopods. I honestly thought you could detach a mini-me and do things with that, seemed very useful.

 >>/4044/

> transformation 

Your transformation would necessarily occur at later levels. 

In terms of size, I'm limiting you to "medium" so you will always be manageable regardless of what you eat. Your density will also be limited such that you will not exceed the limits a horse could carry. These two limitations are part of the price you pay for living in this world, call them handicaps bestowed by the gods.

Speaking of which, you're demigoddess equivalent is currently monitoring your progress through Ashley's eyes and will step in if you don't behave yourself. Countless other restrictions will be levied against you for balance reasons, all with similar logic. Don't worry though, above level 11 you will likely be stronger than most adventurers and by the time you reach 20 you will be your true form, capable of fighting toe to toe with a god. However, there are many gods and many tools to prevent gods from destroying worlds.

Your DM has spoken.

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 >>/4045/
> And sorry for being so useless 

 >>/4046/
> Anything that would give me XP so I can level up a bit faster.

Level is a measure of real skill, not just a milestone. Earning it will matter more than talking your way around it.

If you really nead it, while you sleep, once a day, I will offer a dream match against foes for you alone, surviving the dream encounters. You may start a new thread for that and it can run concurrently with the other game. Make it clear in the thread it's only an Alice dream thread.

This is probationary assuming you will actually try in the future. You are weak, but your mind is strong, be resourceful, even an encounter is just a puzzle in a game.

> Now should we start another day or is Joy waiting for something?

Yula is deciding on purchases. I am no longer rushing the process.

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 >>/4011/
Hehe now you can see in the dark too, that's pretty cool Nya! Too bad I didn't get to talk to the Catgod Nya!


 >>/4010/
I dont mind where I sleep Nya!
But if you want some privacy you better take the comforter, Ashley Nya! The bed will get a bit crowded Nya!
You wanna bathe before sleeping  Nya? I can groom myself and use Alice as a sponge Nya!

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 >>/4015/

Keep that sponge away from me. All I need is a cloth and cold water, I can easily sleep on the floor in the corner at this point.

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 >>/4015/
 >>/4016/
Same here! So we don't need to buy hot water. Then I will take the bed with Cat and Ashley can take the comforter.

Good night everyone!

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 >>/4017/
As I turn into a puddle while sleeping I'll stay under the bed.

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 >>/4020/
While everyone is sleeping soundly after an eventful day, two gelatinous pseudopods emerge from under the bed and slowly begin engulfing those sleeping in it.

Enjoy your beauty sleep, Alice's skin care, peeling and delousing program has just started. You'll wake up clean and refreshed but a bit moist.

Alice's theme music in game:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=X3gF1atr68A

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 >>/3803/
That's pretty good!

I feel sorry for Yulya but she has enormous meme potential

 >>/3955/
even moar perfect how do you make this shit?

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Joy's checklist 

 >>/3958/
> given up any resistance

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Pld send help

 >>/3942/
how did you make money? from the furs and monster parts? how much?

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 >>/3961/

> how did you make money?

Three main ways, crafting, foraging and encounters for us, but working is also something we're going to do.

Bear is a high level of hobbyist craftsman/inventor irl so does his character. So he made potions of lesser healing from foraging for healroot and berries. He learned a recipe (there is a method to do that) that allowed him to make basically berry syrup with concentrated healroot for 2d4 healing. He had 21 of those and we sold 15 for 150gp and the recipe for 100gp plus 10% hereafter after negotiating a contract with the alchemist.

Next, in the forest we faught a hobgoblin with goblins and the hobgoblin miraculously had 5pp and some gem ore, obviously he had killed a drawf prospector and his ruined supplies and armor were in the lair.

Lastly we found a foot keg of reserve hobbit wine while foraging. That alone got us 50gp.

We do have a lot of furs but Bear could make more if he crafts them into boots since he went through all that trouble to learn the skills and invented the recepe/plans to make them.

We also had some misc treasures from foraging like dried apricots which were worth some crazy amount like 5gp each I forgot, but they were like 1/100 chance to find 1d6 and we got 5.

Foraging is a fun mechanic but without stealth you run the risk of an encounter 1d20 per hour. There's a small chance of an ambush or surprise encounter and if it's an owlbear good luck. Gwen took about 12 in-game days to learn stealth, Bear and I both had it from surviving in the wilds for more than a year each.

So we have about 350 gold or so now after paying our registration.

How to make gold from here: quests, errands, contracts for labor, making things and selling them to vendors, working for establishments, anything else reasonable you can think of.

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Well, we had quite the three round battle just now. I won't get into the specifics as it has potential spoilers for you all but we had to fight a higher level adventurer and barely made it out alive. I was one bad roll from death and Bear was two. Gwen managed to direct help and those reinforcements saved us from sure death. One wrong move could have left us either dead or if they had escaped, living in constant fear. 

It had to do with one of our backstories, someone put out a quest out of Baldur's gate to find one of ours and bring them back home alive. Though no other stipulations were made, so that could have gotten very dark very fast. This is no rescue wilderness, we are doing this with the safeties off so real trauma is possible. 

I have to say it was traumatic and it will certainly keep us on our toes in the future. Considering it happened out of nowhere and we had to fight without our full gear or armor, we were very lucky help arrived.

It didn't feel very real until I stepped between the attacker and my team to keep them from taking the one he was looking for and I was struck down in one hit. For reference, our attacker was about the same challenge as the rogue Rothé. Basically our RR moment but it was an NPC and not an an animal, they had magic and advanced fighting skills along with an average of +3 on all stats, so fairly high level.

SheShe said, it needed to happen, we were too sloppy and too concerned with "peacetime fun". Message received, living serious business, we're not high enough level to let our guards down.

[Bear] A glimpse of the thin shell of civility keeps us all vigilant. 

[Joy] I didn't realize SheShe was so bold, though I doubt she would have let it all end as this scenario started as a test and she could have simply wiped it out if it ended in total disaster.

Joy's right actually, we spent hours pouring over our characters, making sure we understood everything we could do now and in later levels, planning out our builds and we needed some way to truly test our abilities as they are. This started as that but SheShe decided half way through that "it's realzies, fight like your life depends on it."

We were still in the city so death wouldn't likely have been permanent, but it could have been very expensive, well beyond our means. Two of the reinforcements (of 4) had revivify so within a minute of death they could have saved any of us, but that wasn't a guarantee if they didn't gain the upper hand.

Anyway, still fun, but somewhat sobering. We're still getting over it obviously.

 >>/4029/
> SheShe said, it needed to happen, we were too sloppy and too concerned with "peacetime fun"
Yulya already got nightmares pls go easy on us were just beginning and love our peacetime fun

 >>/4033/

SheShe has a captive audience who can't rage quit and are immune to depression.

 >>/3919/

Fitness report 

I am not a runner, never was. But I was on my walk and it started raining, it happened once last spring too. So I start running, my sub-200lb fit self, and it was remarkably easy, like I didn't even lose my breath, I ran for about half a mile, no stopping, no problem, I couldn't believe how light and comfortable it was. I don't know what about my current training helps with running but something did. Granted remember I was overweight 217 as of last spring I think, and hadn't gone to the gym in three years, but wow, felt easy now.

Oh and did I tell you, I went to my doctor for a check-up and to get blood work, remember that high in iron nonsense and he said, "it's probably because you're overweight." That's when I was only 208 or so. Well went in because besty was jiu-jitsu'ing me and fucking bent my left ring finger so bad it hurt like fuck so I got it checked, no problem but he saw that I wasn't overweight and he was tickled pink, seriously so happy like I might be his only adult patient who isn't overweight right? He looked like he just won an award or something, like excited that I wasn't overweight. Anyway I told him, next time I get bloodwork done, you can't blame it on me being overweight. Shit like I even really was I was still muscular. He was over the moon for that. He wanted to rerun my bloodwork immediately and I was like, next time, I don't plan on ever gaining weight again, fuck all that shit I barely eat two meals now.

So keep from being overweight and make your doctor happy.

My finger still hurts if I bend it wrong, it was a pure accident anyway. No actual damage according to the xray. 

I still go to jiu-jitsu with her on Saturdays but I stopped going myself with the blue belt, it was a nearly 2 hour class and I pretty much sucked anyway not that I could be overpowered but they're too fast and get someone in control and I can't get out easily, it's the kind of thing that smaller can win against larger. I don't have enough time to practice. Was getting bored, kinda gay too cause like sweaty overweight guy in mount position is definitely kinda gay, didn't like it. But besty can if she wants to lol.

Me, guy who doesn't like getting touched, being pinned, not a good combo, not into it.

 >>/3963/

Oh, so the main reason beyond the gay thing, I'm stronger now so I frame and whatever 250lb partner I have is getting hurt by me too easily. Dude, I'm following the method to escape and I have to press on you and they're getting hurt. Not my fault.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VuQO694OVG8

Adult matches are waaaay faster moves. Even teens are very fast. But yeah, Besty can't really close guard on me very easily but even her idk 50lb self can pin me, but like with her I can just lift her off. I have to be super gentle though ofc.

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Alice was dissatisfied with my relaxing gym routine that never broke a sweat let alone produced soreness and made me do 200% on push day yesterday. Literally starting over once I finished everything. And that quickly so it wouldn't take twice but only 1.5x the time. Took 3h and still didn't feel bad. I noticed I ran out of strength in the end, it didn't hurt and I didn't feel tired, just that my arms couldn't push the same weight for more than 5-8 reps instead of 12 anymore. Today there was ample soreness in my shoulders and pecs, not terrible but something I hadn't experienced since my very first day at the gym. We'll see how thing are tomorrow but it'll be leg day so it shouldn't matter. 

 >>/3963/
I am taking up some light running again because my stamina sucks. I can walk forever but run out of breath easily while running. At least initially, it gets better after a while.

 >>/3964/
Yeah, that was my main reason never to start martial arts, though BJJ is probably the most effective self-defense technique. 
But contrary to you I am not only too weak, I also lack speed and dexterity. Plus yeah, I immediately would do it if all training partners were early teen girls but with guys - just nope. That' worse than dancing class where my partners are at least adult women.
Aside from the fact that I barely have time for 6h gym per week, no idea how I should squeeze in martial arts class.

 >>/3969/
Soreness was almost completely gone the next day, no issues on leg day. Gotta find new ways to torture host, 3h gym 3 times a week takes too much time

had a fight over music some regular bydlo put on his custom playlist nigger rap music literally ape screetching and left. i switched it back into the usual generic shit i dont like either but can live with. he came back about 15min later and was like who did that why isnt there my music on what an idiot. but at least he didnt dare switching back to his shitty music again. weird thing is there were only few pretty old people and they didnt care about the music. most got some earphones

well nevermind still was a good gym session. i definitely feel more muscular and stronger gained about 4kg this year. dont think a lot of it is fat. shitty impedance scale says something 18-20%. its consistently 2-3% less that it was last year. not great not terrible.

 >>/3998/
 >>/4006/

Show me your best equivalent in German about love in wartime in nazi Germany c1938 or so. Doesn't have to be youtube.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ancB0j3BD1o

You've been served bruh.

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 >>/4012/

Bear when he hears this song, knowing the lyrics.

[Autumn] he's just a big softy inside and out.

[Joy] I find that he often has romantic tendencies and I used to lecture him about it, then he caught me off guard and now I can't, it's too darling.

[Gwen] he has been so fun to interact with in game, god I love him when he's not all edgy. I loved him before but I just can't describe it.

[SheShe] it turns out the Bear we love is concentrated in his in-game character. All that personality surgery and all he needed was a change of scenery.

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 >>/4012/
> Show me your best equivalent in German about love in wartime in nazi Germany

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 >>/4021/

Not even trying, lose by default?

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 >>/4022/
This video is the greatest representation of the German soul ever. But you will never understand and you will never be German.

In WWII, despite war, shortage of materials and widespread destruction, German workers were paid decently. But they did not spend their money, they didn't have 'fun', they saved whatever they could, went to the bank and returned the money to the state. They worked themselved to death or risked their lives as soldiers and even paid for it. Productivity doubled from 1943 to 44 even though everything was already bombed to ruins.
This is Germany!

The German's only love is wörk, he's married to wörk.

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[Ashley] Bear is a dissapointed Bear. 

There has been an endless series of broken things, water heater, dishwasher, computer, oil leak I didn't have time or tools to fix, now stove broke.

$6500 later...

Makes a Bear want to live in an off-grid log cabin under constant threat of bandit raids and owlbears.

 >>/3786/
> $6500
fuck thats a lot i paid a little more than 1000 for washing machine dishwasher and fridge they were around 300€ each ordered online and delivared. in a store i would have paid much more.

im more worried about the yearly car inspection. mechanic hours have become crazily expensive even if theres nothing to fix just changing oil and filters can cost a lot and i cant do it myself and i know nobody whod do it for me. i had a mechanic frien who would do it for price of materials but he moved abroad so f.

 >>/3790/
> they were around 300€ each

Fuck shit at Walmart is $300 each, shit probably works but I just can't. No, everything is $1200 America pricing. So when you look at your paycheck, x4 and that's what you need for #american_life

It's a gaddamn shame, but I plan to die eventually and then I don't have to worry about it.

> im more worried about the yearly car inspection.

When you're me: (3x vehicles, 3x problems) at least 95% of the time I fix it myself. I just paid $15 for a part that the shop wanted me to pay $500 to replace, nope, not if I can get to it without dropping the engine, no thanks.

> mechanic hours have become crazily expensive

I take sick leave and then do it myself. No, I'm  not paying $120-280/hr for them to do mundane shit I can easily do myself like oil changes and maintenance. Head-gasket I can't do without a lot of effort, way too much effort for me with these two jobs, but f me it's expensive.

> i cant do it myself and i know nobody whod do it for me

I was a mechanic for about 18 months, working on Jaguars. Never ever buy an English car.

I have a full set of tools but some shit is a pain. My German car is complex af and has so much shit on the top end. It's a high end one, so call me stuipd for owning that. My Jap car is simple. Course then there's the big ole 'merican truck and that thing is bulletproof and dead simple. It's the only one I actually bought myself, my friends gave me the other two like, "hey do you want my old car?" and I'm all, "you had me at 'do you want.'" because I'm cheap and new cars are insane here. Seriously I make more than them but they can't stomach getting 10 cents on the dollar in a trade in and some people need new cars every five years where I don't mind that none of my cars are newer than 10.

I have another aunt of a friend that asked me if I wanted her old civic "old is 6 years old" I said, "whenever you're ready, I will make the sacrifice and take possession of your nearly new car for free." I'm a saint you know.

A neighbor down the street says, "my husband's old car is a pain, can you take it?" she said that a year ago, so I'm not holding my breath.

I had to get rid of 2 cars in 2021, I had 6 at one point, but they were old, like '92, '94 and the SMOG shit sucks for older than '00. At this point I'll be one of those old men with a junkyard full of cars. I need to buy a farm so I can throw all these in the barn, but Grandpaw Biden and President Newsome say no more new ICE cars after 2035 and I'll have a fucking fleet by then. Again, don't give a fuck if I never buy a new car again. All my cars are always in top condition.

Anyway, I want to really just get rid of everything and move to Micronesia or maybe Alaska.

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I was in New York again, speaking with an obvious NYC accent. We spoke about patriotism as the country was under attack by land invasion probably by Chineese.

That's about it. No chicks.

Very small dream, Autumn was standing naked before me, it was nice. She was smiling and expecting something from me. We were in the D&D world.

If they want to play house in D&D that's fine I guess. SheShe's the DM, so she has the control.

 >>/3877/
i continue dreming d&d stuff but its just random scenes cant remember anything. no seeing Yulya either.

 >>/3878/

Constant D&D dreams, as if my dream brain thinks that's my life now. Kinda is.

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Dreamt my AR15 was completely rusted and worn, it looked like it was carved out of some rock. What a nightmare.

Barely and D&D dreams yet but we don't remember much recently, sleeping like a rock.

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I have officially begun integration with the character Aleshe.

I started by accepting all of her memories and previous actions as my own but reserve the right to reject anything I don't like or that doesn't fit me.

My form will not change as a result, we are taking Aleshe's essence like old Ren. I am me but some of her memories are mine. 

Ashley congratulated me and said, "welcome back" which was symbolically touching. Just like old Ren, Aleshe is officially no longer separate from me, and is a permanent wholly owned asset of mine as if she was always my aspect.

 >>/3560/
Ah, I thought this was long done? Welcome back too, this makes your system a little less confusing.

 >>/3579/

> Bear system is confusing 

All you need to know is, I'm the good cop, Ashley's the bad cop, Joy is the judge, Misha is the defense lawyer, Gwen is the softball prosecutor who secretly wants to lose her case, SheShe is Juror #1, and Bear is the recidivist defendant.

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After an hour long discussion with Autumn this morning and a final exam of sorts, she has demonstrated to my satisfaction her new personality and her dedication to Bear and the rest of us. So we gave her a pass on the rest of the planned scenarios and have moved her to stage 3: trust. 

Like a mother bird I have set her free and she is on her own now.

She passed her exam beautifully and wilfully and I now see her as a fully mature and symmetric member of our system.

Congratulations Autumn!

 >>/3843/
Nice!
Not that I ever doubted it.