The Familiar of Zero - Guns, Germs and Zero (Quest) - Thread

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>>569907
Those two moons were really picturesque

Moons were responsible for the tides. No doubt, that one dangerous section of sea you read about in a book about Halkeginian geography was probably affected by it, somehow, even if only barely.

Herein laid your weakness. You did not know or remember clearly the relevant physical equations which explained the movement of the celestial bodies. You only knew the greater picture.

That was why, even as you thought how the expedition would run, if it did, any attempt to dig meticulously through your own knowledge to find blueprints or the specifications of historical inventions were futile.

Wardian cases, engineering, metallurgy and mathematics were things beyond your knowledge's reach. Your knowledge was only as broad as the knowledge of those who created you, humans who wanted to know the reasons for past events. Even if a rocket scientist had yearned to know about the history of equations being developed, he was focusing on a certain field of history rather than chanting equations.

An encyclopedia was not a textbook.

So, the only thing left to you here was to admire the moons' physical beauty. Whatever beauty they had in physics, that was invisible to you.

Unfortunately, this rather pleasant bittersweet chain of thought that to be interrupted by a, obtuse, loud thudding from outside that managed to penetrate the library.

It was the sound of rock against stone. It was constant, rapid and quite distracting.

Just as you were thinking the Academy was the safest place in this world, it had to be questioned by a thundering so familiar, yet somewhat out of place.

The analogy you had made for yourself was that Tristain was an early modern country. You saw at least one of the bank guards armed with an unlit matchlock.

Well, it wasn't Earth, so complete analogies weren't possible. Anyways, that was the sound of a trebuchet stone hitting one of the academy's walls.

[] Get to a higher vantage point and observe the threat. (1d20 minus 8 (do not roll, QM will roll))

[] Calmly and quickly make your way back to Miss Valliere's room and awaken her. (1d20 minus 7 (do not roll, QM will roll))

[] It's none of your business. (1d20 minus 10(do not roll, QM will roll))

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>>569910
>[] Calmly and quickly make your way back to Miss Valliere's room and awaken her.

>>569907
You only had like 30 posts on your last thread.
You don't need to make a new thread every day.

Putting aside the fact that we've apparently got some with a trebuchet assaulting the school, we have to figure out a way to improve the chance of success for the expedition.

While we don't know the specifics, we can try to stack the odds in our favor.
Perhaps we can consult the professors on any lines of inquiry or research that their colleagues might have, that would help our cause.

maybe we should start taking a look at our runes, no?

>>570898
Yeah, but is right now the time, what with someone apparently using a trebuchet to attach the school?

>>570005
This

Rolled 6 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>573434
>>570005

Rolling. Vote is locked.

Rolled 13 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>573471
Rerolling due to mistake

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>573471
>>573473

How does it even work?

Rolled 12 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>573471
>>573473
>>573482

Rolled 5 - 7 (1d20 - 7)

>>573482
dice+1d20+-7

>>573471
>>573473
>>573482
>>573485

https://rolz.org/dr?room=Guns%2C%20Germs%20and%20Zero

Rolled a 2. Writing up.

>>573487
Okay, I'm taking your result because you showed me. Writing it up.

>>573500
Admittedly the code for dice rolling is a slapped together piece of crap that'd get a barely passing grade from my old programming professor, but we work with what we have.

The "+" not an actual math operation being done, but an indicator that you want the thing after the "+" to be added to the previous variable, that's why you specify a negative number.

Don't think of the "+" as a mathematical operator, but as a separator, like a comma.

>>570005
>>573434

-2

Whoever had to interrupt your moon-gazing was quite rude. Now you were rushing your way towards Miss Valliere's room in order to notify her of the current situation when you could've been gorging more on your studies of Halkeginia.

It was quite frustrating.

A few flight of stairs up and you were in Miss Valliere's room. She was safe and sound. Whatever it was that attacked, the sound of stone clashing with stone was still reverberating in the background. She wasn't going to be safe for long if she didn't evacuate.

You shake her by the shoulders firmly but strongly enough to awaken her. She slowly start waking up. That wasn't fast enough. You shook her should again to the point where she was staring at you.

"The Academy is under attack. Get ready to go anytime as quickly as possible."

"Wha-?"

Her question was answered by yet another violent thudding noise that shook her room, ever though it was far away, as the noise would've indicated.

The appropriate measure now would to be treat this as:

[] a lockdown situation
[] a fire drill evacuation situation

[] Write-in

>>573565
>[] Write-in
We must have Miss Valliere evacuate with her fellow students on the side away from the attack, while we go and awaken the professors.
The fact that this attack is already happening yet no alarms sounded, no wards activated, no one else doing anything, means that we must assume that the defenses have been compromised.

The faculty coming to the defense of the school will occupy the attackers, and provide a distraction for our mistress to escape.
Miss Valliere must be strong here. She must show that she has the leadership and clear head needed to keep the students safe.

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Reminder Louise is perfect

Continue whatever you're doing

is a high or a low roll good?

>>577325
High roll good, low roll bad

>>577591
thanks

>>573599
This.

>>589073

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