Triad (Game Topic)

Jay: "Sweeeeeet these really are cool!"

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Hanzo: Buy the copper short sword, and 2 viridian brews. Apply the conceal power to the copper short sword. Also if possible buy the wooden training sword to duel wield with the copper short sword if not just keep it anyway, I should have 80 m left.

Thomas: Ask Wilhelm Kaufmann "So what exactly is Sigma Shot?"

Allistor: Buy Emerald Brew, then rendezvous with and bother Urabask and Arachne.

Arachne: Pull out your handy dandy shopping list!

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Then, when you're done shopping, go meet back up with everyone else!

Arachne leads everyone to the courtyard with all the shops and immediately starts having some sort of really excited seizure talking about how awesome everything is.

"See guys, I told you these shops were awesome! So what kind of stuff do you want to get? You all have money, right? I like the tech shop the best."

A few people mumble some words in agreement and quickly get to work inspecting everything the Kaufmann family has to offer.

As the stunning narrator, I will take this chance to portray the courtyard in graphical detail considering I hadn't the chance to do so in the previous update.



This place is a pretty nice corner of the city, despite the fairly bland and generic fronts to each of the shops you all are currently visiting. A fountain bubbles away in the center of the courtyard, seemingly putting on a show for the 10 crazy, multicolored, stranger-confronting teens that pace around it. There's a small, natural patch of grass in which grow Sigmatic Flowers. They're like regular flowers except... No, wait... They pretty much are regular flowers. I guess putting "Sigmatic" before every noun doesn't actually make it special.

Inside the weapon shop, Thomas asks Wilhelm Kaufmann what exactly a "Sigma Shot" is. The burly Wilhelm flexes his biceps, excited that Thomas would take an interest in such a weapon, but a bit confused that he does not recognize its iconic status.



He inches closer and speaks softly. "Ah... Yes, the Sigma Shot. You see the canister near the back? That's the power source, an Ambient Charge if I could just advertise Terry's shop. It takes in the power that is naturally surrounding the user, which will most assuredly be a pretty high level Sigmatic being as humans often are. It fires a short to mid range burst of Flux and Force energy. I suppose a quick modification could concentrate the energy... I've actually never seen what an enchantment from Sal's shop could do to one of these things. Food for thought..."

He keeps on like that for at least a solid five minutes. Jeez this family is weird.

Everyone keeps wandering around, getting a pretty good idea of what they want to buy on this outing. Word circulates from the shopkeeps that final payments should be directed toward the older and wiser Terry Kaufmann in the Tech Shop. He's the one who handles all the finances. It also seems as if each member of the Kaufmann family has knocked down a section of wall to an adjacent shop, allowing patrons to easily walk between each of their shops. Interesting design choice...



Eventually everyone gathers in the Tech shop, including the rest of the Kaufmann family. They seem to enjoy chatting with the group. Although it's kind of strange to see them all together in the same room.

A few people have already decided what they want and made the appropriate purchases. The rest remain indecisive.

The pleasant chatting is interrupted by another flicker of the lights. This time they seem to stay off for at least 20 seconds before coming back on. It's getting a bit dark, so the unreliable power is even more inconvenient.

Carl Kaufmann: "Tsk, tsk, tsk. I find it utterly dreary in this city with all these power outages. Just dreadful... And for weeks too!"

Carl strokes his beautiful beard and adjusts his fabulous and youthful hat.

What happens now?

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Arachne: "The outages do seem to be getting more and more frequent. Even I've noticed them back at my lab! Do you guys know anything about them?

Thomas: "Hmmmm interesting. I guess I'm not getting anything today. Nothing really stands out, that's in my price range.

Dexter: "Does anyone know why the power outages started?"

Hanzo: Yes does anyone have a clue, I as well am curious as to why this is happening?

Claude: You know you guys are a bunch o' thieves. I know a guy who's sellin' sigma shots for 500 money. Military grade my ass, I used to make them with PBC pipe and potatoes when I was a littlin' and they did twice the damage.

I'll be back for that sigma shot. For now give me that Iron Short Sword, as well as an Umbra Submatrix. Have your tech geeks set it up for me.

And whats all this about power outages. I smell a quest.

David: Quit staring blankly into space and jot down a shopping list for Terry.

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Give the shopping list to Terry, I'm too shy to haggle about it, obviously.
He's the left one, right? Or the right one? Second to left? No, right? Right? It's right, left? I mean right?

Claude: Wow classic Dave. I have Umbra, so he's got to have it. Why don't you grow up magenta face.

David: W-well I'm a..... void mage... so it makes perfect sense for me to use that. Y-you don't have to get all red faced about it.

Hanzo: Whoa guys lets all settle down in front of these kind shopowners, you are making us look like....well teenagers, but not just teenagers immature jerkface teenagers.

David: Mutter: "then you should tell Mr. Redhead over there to cool it"

Homer: Walk outside and be on the lookout for a PLOT DEVICE

David: Forcibly advance the plot by spinning around in circles and shouting "DEMACIA!!!" for no apparent reason.

Mr. Bronson attempts to think up the next update by himself. However all of his ideas involve unnecessarily punching things.

Arachne: Aid in search for PLOT DEVICE, as well as think of all the cool ways you're gonna be able to modify your fancy new toy.

Allistor: Fold arms and saunter around the shopping and walking crowd. Roll eyes at purchases.

"So are you guys, like, insecure or something?" Prod Dexter with an elbow. "Do we need to roam the streets with guns and flaming, invisible swords, eh?"

Dexter: Well no Allistor, we don't need to have flaming and invisible swords but it is better to have it and not need it than to need it and don't have it. Also, I only got the sword so I could use the Submatrix's."

Hanzo: I think I made some decent purchases,as I think you all did as well, no one will mess with us anytime soon.