The teapot whistles, and there is a soft click as you lift the pot, heated coils beneath it automatically shutting down the moment it's removed.
You shift your grip slightly on the handle, carrying the pot over to the table, and pour hot water into three cups, steam rising from liquid and steeping, dried and shredded leaves.
You set the pot down in its place and seat yourself.
One cup sits before you. One before her. And one before a seat which remains empty now.
The silence hangs oppressively in the air, soft ticking rising from the hanging clock. You wait. She's always been better at judging when it's stopped being hot water with plant bits in, and started being more.
Once she lifts her cup of tea, you drink some of your own.
..... It's bitter, today, and the back of your tongue is awash in disgust.
She only takes a sip, and then holds the cup in her hands, looking out the window and towards the crops, and their younger tenders.
"He didn't wake up, today." She says, simply.
You nod.
You know that better than anyone else. It was your job to shake him awake. And you had already known that that wouldn't go well, the moment you swung the door open and were greeted by a thick and appalling stench of finality.
You had entered, and even gone so far as to nudge the cold and stiff form beneath the sheets, but then you quietly retreated and shut the door behind you.
You are more than familiar with death. Both in inflicting it on trespassers, and on dinner, and in realizing that someone you knew has gone away forever.
"... What now?" You wonder.
She sips slowly at the tea.
"I will stay." She says, eventually.
.... You had expected that. This place, or something like it, is simply in her nature. She's... Automatically predisposed to agricultural pursuits, he had said. Using words it had taken you the longest time to understand properly, never considering for a moment adjusting his own speech to make it easier for either of you, expecting you to keep up instead of having to slow down. From the beginning, so very long ago...
Horticulturist, that was a word he had liked. Plantation, and foundation of society, and poorly represented and understood by indolent urbanites.
Unconscious and instinctive biological trend towards sadism.
Oh yes, he had liked that one. Always with a chuckle. But then, he would continue, it was only natural to adapt yourself towards enjoying habitual efforts, if only to heighten the likelihood of repetition of actions not detrimental to species-wide survival.
And if that one hadn't been a mouthful to figure out...
"I know all the right words." She continues. "I can recite all the right numbers, and I have made the right exchanges myself. For a long time now, he's been... It has been more than a year since he last left the house."
Yes. This has been a long time in coming. Age is not an enemy that kills swiftly. A sadist as great as either of you, it takes its prey slowly, bit by bit.
If it had been directed somewhere else, you could almost smile in appreciation.
.... Your neck itches a little.
"... It won't be much different at all, from when he was still here."
She stares out at the field for a while, watching the crops being carefully tended. Then she turns her head back inside, and drains the remaining tea in her cup, before setting it back down with a soft clink.
"... Yes. I will stay here." She says again.
You manage another sip of the bitter liquid before giving up and reaching for the honey, letting it drip bit by bit into your cup, sweetening it to the point where you can drink it properly.
".... And you?" She asks. "What will you do now, Flandre?
Your wings clink slightly as you sip the tea.
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[ ] ???
No. 49950
[X] Finish my damn tea. |
No. 49953
Is she Yuuka and we Flandre? |
No. 49958
So, If I get the setting right... We're a Flandre, a Yuuka is with us and the owner of both just died. They lived for a long time and thus became quite inteliigent. Or at least loads better than normal Yukkuris. |
No. 49959
>>49958 |
No. 49960
.... You don't think he had a diary. |
No. 49961
Another quest, Kahi? Or is it a side-quest related to City Quest? |
No. 49962
[x] Ask Yuuka/The other yukkuri, what you're supposed to do now? Still the same duty? Will you two really be able to do this without a huma to do business with other humans? |
No. 49966
[X] Eat master's heart, bury the rest of him in his plantation. It's what he would have wanted. Probably. |
No. 49967
[x] Ask Yuuka/The other yukkuri, what you're supposed to do now? Still the same duty? Will you two really be able to do this without a huma to do business with other humans? |
No. 49968
[X] Conquer. That is what you will seek to do. |
No. 49982
==> Ask the other what to do. |
No. 49983
==> Be sad about his death. |
No. 49984
==> Devour the heart of your former master. Through this, you will gain his power. |
No. 49985
==> Conquest. |
No. 49987
[X] Go bury the master first. The smell won't get better with time. |
No. 49990
[X] Go bury the master first. The smell won't get better with time. |
No. 49991
[X] Go bury the master first. The smell won't get better with time. |
No. 49992
[X] Become a detective, Buddy-cop GO! |
No. 49994
==> Take up a detective business. Become the Buddy Cop. |
No. 49995
==> Inter the remains of your human compatriot and owner. |
No. 49996
==> Assess combat assets and supplies. |
No. 49997
[x] Overthrow humanity as the leaders and owners of the world. |
No. 49998
[X] Get the master's key from his nightstand, and finaly take a look inside that secret room he never let us see before! |
No. 49999
>>49997 |
No. 50002
[x] Yuuka will handle the farm and the buyers from the city, right? You need to do something else then. |
No. 50003
[X] How far the current crop are done? |
No. 50005
==> Propagate further members of your species with the available selection of mates. |
No. 50006
[x] Press down the move pedal as hard as you can. Then alternate with the stop pedal if necessary. |
No. 50007
[X] Do not drive car. You may damage the crop if you do. |
No. 50008
[X] Practice shooting lasers. |
No. 50010
[X] Go find master's cell phone, type in random numbers untill a human picks up. Tell them you are a poor Flandre down on her luck and really need some driving tips. |
No. 50013
The car/no-car mental debate has left you a little knackered. Instead, you focus your thoughts elsewhere. |
No. 50014
==> Utilize telecommunications device. |
No. 50016
[X] Find master's wallet, see how much Cash he was carring with him. Also check the place where he kept his life saving and see how much money we got total. |
No. 50017
Holy shit now I know why Flandre is like she is: her train(s) of though is a trainwreck from the start. |
No. 50018
==> Gather and collect Money, Phone, and Self-Defensive Projectile Flinger. |
No. 50019
==> Go to the urban area. Investigate the human life-forms. |
No. 50021
[X] Follow the swag human while remaining out of sight. |
No. 50022
Did you just steal the last of the farm money with no chance for Yuuka to acces the one in the bank? If so, great going you idiot. You just have to lose it now to make sure the farm can't pay for seed to plant in the next season. And why didn't nobody checked if the dude had family alive? |
No. 50023
==> Follow the human with human swag. |
No. 50024
In the meanwhile, you go back to the other humans. |
No. 50025
[X] Approach the one with a damaged eye! |
No. 50026
==> Approach the injured human. |
No. 50027
[X] Trick the human! |
No. 50036
[X] What do you call yourself, one-eyed human? |
No. 50037
[X] Do not show stack of money. |
No. 50038
==> Distract the human's further questions by displaying human currency. |
No. 50039
You are now this human, earlier today. Not long, in fact, in an absolute since, after a certain Flandre began flying from points A to B. |
No. 50040
..... you do not note these in a quest log. |
No. 50041
[X] Pink Human, go and make some food! |
No. 50042
Yeah, the siren song of your stomach is probably what you should deal with first. You're half tempted to eat anything else, just to spite the visual hallucination you don't actually see, but come to think of it, a sandwich would really hit the spot. |
No. 50043
You finish the sandwich and try your hardest to ignore that quest log continuing to pretend it exists right where nobody can see it. Because it isn't real, and so you don't. |
No. 50044
[X] Put the bloody stone in a bucket |
No. 50045
[X] Put the bloody stone in a bucket |
No. 50046
[X] Add Realize the quest log is real to the quest log. |
No. 50049
=> Realize that- |
No. 50050
[X] Use the nifty Pseudo-magic sigil to do real magic. |
No. 50051
[X] Nip out and check the mailbox. |
No. 50052
[X] Take the bloody stone out of the bucket, place it into a plastic bag and pocket it. |
No. 50055
=> Use the sigil to- |
No. 50056
Yeah, might as well check the mail, first. |
No. 50057
"......" |
No. 50058
"......" |
No. 50059
".... Yo yo yo yo it is the one and the only, the premier, it is Snoops McStuntz to fuck alla yo' cunts, in the hizzowss." |
No. 50060
[X] ....... |
No. 50061
[X] Spend 30 second calmly walking away from the explosion, giving zero fucks about all your worldly possessions. |
No. 50062
[X] Stab him. |
No. 50063
Oh come on. This isn't your fault. This couldn't possibly have been foreseen. I mean, what kind of retarded insight, what sort of crazy intuition, would have reasonably suggested to you that the heavy freaking chunk of stupid rock would be less safe inside of your house than out of it. |
No. 50064
Snoops McStuntz and Snoops McBluntz do not give a shit. |
No. 50065
This has been a really bad day. And it's already looking to get much worse. |
No. 50067
[X] Chill until Snoop McSwagz arrives, knowing at the end of the day you can still return to your cozy home and bask in the company of all your worldy possessions. |
No. 50068
[X] cry. |
No. 50069
So. Um. |
No. 50070
Once you've gotten your heart under control, you notice that, uh, he seems to have, sort of, shot the hell out of that watch. |
No. 50071
After a few minutes of silence, Redbone points out that it's really starting to fucking piss him off you quiet yo ass is being. |
No. 50072
Well. |
No. 50073
You are now Flandre again. |
No. 50074
[X] Ask where the Redbone is. |
No. 50076
[x] |
No. 50077
[X] ask about buying the female? Ish money? |
No. 50078
[x] Take her home. You got yourself a new pet. |
No. 50079
Huh, considering that "The Human"'s gender was never mentioned, I'm not really surprised that everyone assumes that its female considering the context of the flashback. |
No. 50081
>>50079 |
No. 50084
[X] Ditch the human, find someone else interesting. |
No. 50086
>>50081 |
No. 50087
[X] What do you call yourself, one-eyed human? |
No. 50088
[x] What do you call yourself, one-eyed human? |
No. 50091
==> The human is suitable enough. |
No. 50092
==> Destroy the Red Bone. |
No. 50093
Redbone wants to know what the fuck you fucking want, y'all skankalicious ho-bitches. |
No. 50094
[X] Practicality: [Purchase White Coat's contract from RedBone.] |
No. 50095
[x] Practicality: [Purchase White Coat's contract from RedBone.] |
No. 50101
[X] Tyranny: [Shoot RedBone.] |
No. 50102
[X] Practicality: [Purchase White Coat's contract from RedBone.] |
No. 50103
[X] Tyranny: [Shoot RedBone.] |
No. 50104
[x] Practicality: [Purchase White Coat's contract from RedBone.] |
No. 50105
>>50104 |
No. 50106
[x] Practicality: [Purchase White Coat's contract from RedBone.] |
No. 50107
[x] Practicality: [Purchase White Coat's contract from RedBone.] |
No. 50108
>>50101 |
No. 50109
==> Execute the Red Bone. |
No. 50110
You have lost some money, and your Fat Wad of Cash is now merely a much diminished Wad of Cash. |
No. 50111
.... You just have a few questions about the wording of the contract. |
No. 50112
.......... You are now Yuka. |
No. 50113
[X] You've got your duty! Upkeep the farm! |
No. 50114
[X] Tell the half the Yuukas to begin moving the farm perimeter out to current viewing radius. This should be safe since the area has already been scouted for landmines by Flandre, and the Devil Squirrel who previously held the land in his furry iron grip is defeated. |
No. 50115
[x] You've got your duty! Upkeep the farm! |
No. 50116
Banana... what? |
No. 50117
Oh. There was a banana missing. Oh good. |
No. 50118
..... Never mind that, though. As for expanding the farm.... that would take a ridiculous amount of effort. Just moving the fencing outwards a few meters in every direction would be months of work if you dropped everything for it. |
No. 50119
[X] Hurry and get inside before the sun sets and the zombie yukkuri awaken. |
No. 50120
[X] Make sure gates are close. |
No. 50121
[X] Take pride in a job well done. |
No. 50123
..... Well, you hate to brag, no that's a lie you love to brag, but if you stopped to feel incredibly smug and self satisfied whenever you did something correctly then you would have no time to ever do anything else. |
No. 50124
Fuck. |
No. 50125
[X] Good thing you left your initials on the trees you flew past. Just look for the big F near the top and follow them back home. |
No. 50126
==> Inspect the treetops for marks left in passing. |
No. 50127
..... But look, it was smiling! It's happy to see you. |
No. 50128
When you get back to the ground, after the big whatever it was rustles leisurely away through old leaves, the human is quick to inform you that it isn't sure what that was, but it saw a bit of it, and it's pretty sure that if it sees any more, or if something like it jumps out of the dark, it will pee itself at least a little. |
No. 50129
[X] South path |
No. 50130
[X] ask human to close eyes. |
No. 50131
>>50130 |
No. 50132
[x] Continue on the path that that closest matches the direction you were flying in. |
No. 50133
(X) South |
No. 50134
>>50130 |
No. 50135
Okay. |
No. 50137
[X] help the human make fire? |
No. 50138
[X] help human make fire! |
No. 50139
[X] Give salutations to the rustling grass. Be prepared to knife it if it tries to attack. |
No. 50141
[x] Give salutations to the rustling grass. Be prepared to knife it if it tries to attack. |
No. 50143
[X]Battle stations! |
No. 50145
==> Create a flame with which to drive off the fearful denizens of the night. |
No. 50146
[X] Wait for the sun and guard your human! |
No. 50147
[x] Say your name and invite the shaking bush to "play". |
No. 50148
Does the farm have night time lighting? |
No. 50149
>>50148 |
No. 50150
==> Await the dawn. |
No. 50151
[X] ask human what it wants. |
No. 50153
[x] Ask the human if she would rather fly or be eaten by the terrors of the forest. |
No. 50154
RUMIA!!!!! |
No. 50155
[X] Remember that Rumias can manipulate darkness. |
No. 50157
Fuck it, changin my vote. Don't want our human/wife to think we can't take care of business. |
No. 50158
==> Query the human. |
No. 50159
[x] Yeah, looks like it's time to beat a hasty retreat. |
No. 50160
[X] Hustle it with your human. |
No. 50161
>>50160 |
No. 50162
[x] Fuck this shit, make a break for it. |
No. 50163
You quickly retreat from the campsite, and note that it is probably not going to be a good idea to go back down that way until you have some means of shedding light on the situation. |
No. 50164
[x] Left |
No. 50165
==> Left. |
No. 50166
>>50165 |
No. 50167
[X] Exchange Money for lighter and firewood |
No. 50170
[x] Exchange Money and rabbit for lighter and firewood. |
No. 50172
[x] Exchange money and rabbit for lighter and hand axe. |
No. 50179
[x] Exchange money and rabbit for lighter and hand axe. |
No. 50180
==> Exchange and barter goods and currency. |
No. 50181
...... |
No. 50182
[X] Set the nearest tree on fire. |
No. 50183
[x] Pray the lighter emits enough light to ward them off and doesn't die while building a campfire (hint start with brush and dead twigs first). |
No. 50184
[X] Light Firewood with Lighter. |
No. 50185
You fumble with the novelty lighter, hoping that this will help. |
No. 50186
After a couple of presses, the tip erupts in flame, casting a small match-light glow around itself. |
No. 50187
........ Aaaaand then, with a soft and quiet 'Tss', a tendril of shadow snakes casually out and presses against the lighter's tip. |
No. 50189
[X] Light the nearby tree on fire, failing that maybe a pile of leaves? If either one works light your firewood on fire and use it as a torch. |
No. 50190
[X] Tentacle monster seems to display intelligence, attempt diplomacy. |
No. 50191
[x] Light the nearby tree on fire, failing that maybe a pile of leaves? If either one works light your firewood on fire and use it as a torch. |
No. 50192
[x] Gather your inner Futo and set everything in sight on fire. |
No. 50193
[X] Tentacle monster seems to display intelligence, attempt diplomacy. |
No. 50194
>>50190 |
No. 50196
[X] Quest for Fire! |
No. 50198
You are, for the moment at least, 'The Priest'. |
No. 50199
........... |
No. 50200
Oh. |
No. 50201
In retrospect, perhaps giving a Flandre access to fire and counting on some level of rational trouble-shooting logic to become involved in the situation might not have been your brightest of notions. It was probably, in fact, very irresponsible of you. |
No. 50202
You are now Flandre again. |
No. 50204
[X] Because the fire didn't completely drain our HP bars. |
No. 50206
>how are we still alive |
No. 50207
==> Was creation of a campfire such a difficult task? |
No. 50208
About that campfire....... |
No. 50209
See, in hindsight, these things are pretty obvious, but it would probably have been better if it had been started somewhere that campfires were supposed to go, or if you had the slightest idea how to go about keeping the fire in one place when there was so much burny undergrowth and dry-ish grass available for it to grab on and start spreading through. |
No. 50210
You helpfully explain that, while incidental burning and dingage was involved in first attempting to get the fire back under control, and later the panicked flight through burning undergrowth and forest area, at no point did either of your hp bars ever drop below one. |
No. 50212
[X] Check inventory. |
No. 50213
[X] Tell the bars and graph to sit down and chill the fuck out. You are fighting for your survival here |
No. 50214
No no, menu. Stop it. |
No. 50215
[X] Let fly back! |
No. 50216
I have no idea how the graph thing work. |
No. 50218
[X] Note castle's location for future conquest. In case that whole "Take Over the City" plan ever gets off the ground. |
No. 50219
[x] Note castle's location for future |
No. 50220
>>50200 |
No. 50222
>>50220 |
No. 50223
[ ] p [ ] y, y , y p y g y [ ] ( ) |
No. 50224
There seems to be a bit of dissonance amongst us readers concerning our relationship with the various Yuukas. |
No. 50225
[X] Note castle's location for future exploration. |
No. 50226
>>50224 |
No. 50227
>>50220 |
No. 50228
==> Return to the agricultural stronghold. |
No. 50229
In any case, you should get going. |
No. 50231
..... And there's Yuuka now, after only hours of flying! |
No. 50232
[X] Awwwww did you miss big sis? You know I can't resist you when you get all tsundere on me. |
No. 50233
[X] It's easy! You've lost a human, and so you went out to replace it! The farm just wouldn't be the same without one around. |
No. 50235
[X] It's easy! You've lost a human, and so you went out to replace it! The farm just wouldn't be the same without one around. |
No. 50236
Yep. You know she missed you when she's acting meaner than usual. |
No. 50237
The sickle swings and oh, hey, there go your legs, nice. One smooth stroke. There you go. You'll just, oh, okay, there go your wings too, though she had to rip those out by brute force. |
No. 50238
You are now White Coat again. |
No. 50239
[x] Ask what is going to be your job. Something a bit less broad as 'pet' or 'maid' or 'food' |
No. 50240
[X] Submit to the Yuuka. |
No. 50243
[X] Demonstrate your usefulness! Do something....useful |
No. 50244
[X] Demonstrate your usefulness! Do something....useful |
No. 50245
So. |
No. 50246
..... You feel pretty. |
No. 50247
If Yuuka she her sleeping, the S bar will raise again. |
No. 50248
[X] Relax, but don't sleep. |
No. 50249
[X] Appologise to the bars and graph for yelling at them. You were under a lot of stress, and would like to be friends again. |
No. 50250
[x] Enjoy the breeze for a few minutes. |
No. 50251
Flandre: [X] Appologise to the bars and graph for yelling at them. You were under a lot of stress, and would like to be friends again. |
No. 50253
>>50237 |
No. 50267
Flandre: [X] Appologise to the bars and graph for yelling at them. You were under a lot of stress,and would like to be friends again. |
No. 50268
You just take a few minutes to relax and enjoy the breeze. |
No. 50269
.... Oh fuck you, nonexistent meter. Negative readings? That doesn't even make since, and is impossible and insane, just like you. |
No. 50270
Hokay. |
No. 50279
[X] Spend 9 hours practicing your laser. |
No. 50285
[X] Spend 9 hours practicing your laser. |
No. 50286
[X] Try to pull yourself out of the last nail. |
No. 50287
>>50286 |
No. 50289
[X] Pull yourself out of the last nail. |
No. 50291
==> Attempt to utilize your ocular refractor beams. |
No. 50292
==> Request a soothing and healing massage from the chief harem slave. |
No. 50296
[x] Get the harem slave to carry you inside to the dinner table. |
No. 50297
[X] Get the harem slave to carry you inside to the dinner table. |
No. 50298
[x] Request orange juice from chief slave. |
No. 50301
[X] Get the harem slave to carry you inside to the dinner table. |
No. 50313
[X] Get the harem slave to carry you inside to the dinner table. |
No. 50315
Those brown dots? |
No. 50316
==> Reassure the human that you are unharm... |
No. 50318
At a certain burned out crater that used to be a modest but comfortable private residence.... |
No. 50319
"So. What are the damages?" |
No. 50324
Well it is obvious that, our team being a slave a madwoman and a sadist, their antagonists would be good-spirited honor-bound warrior who will only raid the farm because they are forced to. |
No. 50334
>>50324 |
No. 50335
Fucking Robes! I knew that bastard would stab us in the back. |
No. 50338
Yukkuri civ? |
No. 50342
>>50340 |