>>3208
>absolute nothingburgers

Meanwhile...

>>3208
>>3212

Forgot mag name.

No I made tons of money bc had rich relatives that threw money at me bc my mom was so far in debt she could never recover. She died in the red.

For 2001, no I didn't see any action bc too smol, but 2008 I put money from inheritance in the market $12,000 invested.

That investment ia still in an IRA, should have been a college fund but u know, stupid. Anyway, didn't spend it for college and now it's like 200k or something. I'll have to look. My 401k is a separate thing, that's not on the same order, but again, can't spend it unless I want yo give half to taxes and fees.

I'm poised to put cash in when it drops. If it never drops again, well fuck me, but I'll bet it does. 25% at least. As you know, I made some cash over the summer and I had more. It's going in.

If gold comes back down, do'll that too.

>>3714
Not bad but mine is better!

America if liberals never existed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aeL9gagV_VA [Embed]

This and probably a slave class that picks strawberries... wait

Inconvenient but highly necessary question.

I don't know about Cat but I know that both me and Yulya have a huge problem with mortality in general and seeing our friends die permanently and 4real would be a traumatizing experience. We won't just choose the similarly named replacement from the guild and carry on, that would be disrespectful to the deceased party member and friend. Honestly, that's 2real4me and it would suck. You know I'm still a tupper of my Highly Sensitive Person host who'd mourn the loss of a D&D character for real and the party dynamics would be quite awkward with having to play a different newbie. And just using the 'replacement' to bring back the dead character 1:1 would be cheating. In this case death would have no consequences at all. So yeah, I'm not sure about the optimal way to handle this but I would like to remind our dear higher plane beings that this party was assembled for a divine mission of great importance. We are doing their dirty work, might as well request some protection in return.

Personally I won't say not having to worry about death but it should be manageable to return. Imagine someone would die on our first mission. It takes 2000 gp to revive her. We would have to play for weeks IRL just to earn that money until that player can return. That's not very feasible and sucks having to wait at the sideline until you respawn. I don't really know how to handle this. We certainly won't be reckless but death should not have such dramatic IRL consequences for the player. The character should be able to return at least for the next mission.

Also I still have the coolest revival spell ever as monk of the Way of Mercy:
LV 17 Hand of Ultimate Mercy (TCoE)
lets you revive a creature per long rest for free, well it costs 5 KI points

So should we ever play long enough to reach lv17 the problem is solved pretty much. I can reassemble everyone.

The real problem is me however. I already stated I cannot be revived by terms of magic or the church because I do not have a soul. I am a machine. I would rather propose that I slowly regenerate unless supplied with materials to speed things up. Also I cannot even be healed once in living metal form either. This is the price to pay for being OP as fuck. I must regenerate myself, I would even propose that 'death' throws me back one form into emergency recovery mode. living metal->viscous->liquid. So I will be fine, I'm extremely tough. Spells like disintegrate will remain a problem however. Do you have any proposals, Joy?

>>4209
>You know I'm still a tupper of my Highly Sensitive Person

Yes, and whereas my headmates seem to crave hardcore rules, and I've read online about how many others also want permadeath, I do still recall a young Bear who refused to maim or kill his characters (me). So I can understand that this could be both unwanted, not fun and traumatic.

>that this party was assembled for a divine mission of great importance

>I'm not sure about the optimal way to handle this

As far as I'm concerned this is about fairness and I am very against cheese, like what Bear used to do with save-scumming in Rimworld, I didn't like it then and don't like it now. Nor would I allow Frodo-esque death scenes where he's not really in any real danger.

So if the characters can never die, that's probably too safe and if they have a chance to die pointlessly, I also don't like that and SheShe and I can argue about it but I'm the DM here.

The way I read it, after level 9, characters are very hard to kill and keep dead. We're mostly talking about level 1-4 getting harder to kill the higher the level and with Revivify at level 5, the fear of death would be far less.

>We would have to play for weeks IRL

i agree with Alice never thought about it but how does vanilla d&d actually handle this?
you meet up with friens to play and your character dies so you can go home and they tell you lol come back in a few months when we got the money to revive you you cant play with us until then?

deat should have severe consequences but theres gotta be some limit or gameplay is ruined. our tuppers play themselves and dont want ro play another character obviously so they need to be brought back somehow. i didnt know about Alices monk feature but thats lv17 lol. no idea how we handle that now. 2000 gp cost is the same as permadeath we gotta save every penny thats why Yulya always told everyone to be super careful. honestly we dont mind to play it safe we dont have to battle challenge 10+ type monsters lets get real were rookies. slow and steady no drama

>>4224
>how does vanilla d&d actually handle this?

It's not set in stone as far as how individual DMs handle it but if I'm understanding it correctly:

If you receive damage >2x max hp, that's an instant kill, no saving throws. If your HP goes below -max hp then same, dead. If you go below 1, you must make three successful saving throws before three unsuccessful ones, once per turn. Or be stabilized or healed.

I relaxed it to no instant kill, your hp would be set at minimum -max hp and start your saving throws. SheShe is allowing one saving throw at the point where damage exceeded -max hp if you pass that it counts toward your passed saving throws and you need only 2 more, but you fail you die.

I am proposing that you may want a different system all together and we should discuss it.

Vanilla D&D is harsh and TPK (total party kill) is common.

>you meet up with friens to play and your character dies so you can go home and they tell you lol come back in a few months when we got the money to revive you you cant play with us until then?

Oh, not exactly, they either let you create a new character with a new backstory and start at level 1 again or are boosted to the level of the party. No one stops playing on death unless the group doesn't want you back as a player.

>>4225

Based on your comments and other sources, I have tentatively worked out a strategy with SheShe that will make death less deadly but also still costly in different ways but more reasonable at lower levels.

The penalties for higher levels have increased, however; it's far less likely that you will ever die past level 4 and extremely unlikely past level 8.

Changes effect Revivify, Raise Dead and Resurrection. These three spells will be replaced. Other spells and abilities have not changed.
Stay tuned for its implementation.

>>3310
damn where have you been?
good to have Alice back maybe well have some more activity now i try to contribute but you know i cant think of much not even what to do with tupper. no progress with visualization whatsoever.

Interacting with other tuppers really is something else than just hanging out with host. Cat is happy to participate in D&D and much more lively than before!

>>4109

Joy and I are glad you're here and having fun. Doing it right.

>>4109
>>4112
yeah same with Yulya though i admit its a wild ride that brought her to the verge of tears several times. shes taking this all a bit too serious but thats what she wants to do and shes working really hard to be a good party leader

>>4116

I'm glad she's having fun and getting tulpa-exercise. I don't play as myself so I don't take it as personally, but this is probably good for her anyway. Plus if I die, which is like really possible since I'm so weak, no problem, I could be a poltergeist ghost and mess with Alice or make a new character or just cheer you guys on. As a ghost I could also sabotage the enemy which sounds cool. And haunt you in your dreams! Mwahahahaha!

>>4100

It's fucking rediculous

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

Joy's checklist

>>3958
>given up any resistance

Pld send help

>>792

Update on this book.

It made it to maybe 50k words but no matter how awful and heinous I made it, I'd here about some atrocity that actually happened that trumped me.

I literally couldn't make it hard enough and even to the point I would make myself disgusted, nope, not hard enough.

Then the kind of stuff that Aleshe had to deal with in that book, no wo der she wanted to self-delete by becoming part of Autumn and I don't have the heart to do that to Autumn, she's too good, we made her right this time so I don't want to mess that up.

No, it's done, it's scrapped.

In the end, Autumn taught me that I am just not hard enough. I saw myself through her loving eyes and now I can't dissapoint her.

[Ashley] this is f'ing bs, I had plenty of loving eyes moments and he couldn't care less.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>4069
Didn't I tell you no fiction no matter how grim-dark can match the horrors of reality? This is why I never understood why people would make ugly things on purpose. Aren't there enough already?

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.

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.

>>3685
happy birthday /tulpa/

yeah it turned out even more ebin than i ever imagined. so thx guyse its an honor to be with you here

i didnt make it with drawings maybe tomorrow

This is the way of the Bear

>>3685

I tried to describe playing DnD "by myself" to a friend.

She called me delusional and made fun of me the rest of the day.

[Ashley] She bullied my Bear!

>>3690
Well, now you know that at least one person sees your post. I can't guarantee reading 'em.

Happy Birthday!

I'm also surprised it didn't turn into a Tulpanetwork Bernd monologue. Guess having a Bear around helps a lot with activity.

>>3686
We're under close surveillance!

>tulpa.tribe.net
Never heard about it, sorry!
If there's nothing on the wayback machine you're probably out of luck.

I was just a camera angle, looking over mostly middle-eastern women soldiers who were tasked to kill a group of Jewish women for their meat. The women were bound and naked, but huddled and grouped. One had been through a procedure that had a name in the dream but I don't remember it, she'd been boiled alive and her outer skin removed and then forced to do the killings but she was an undercover liaison to the Americans, though they were late. So nearly blind and skinless she was stalling for time at this final hour to save as many jews as possible.

Since she wasn't doing her job fast enough a girl no more than 14, also middle eastern (they all look vaguely middle-eastern, the Jews look Jewish) was given a sword but it wasn't flat, it was triangular in cross section.

A pot of Jew meat, looked like chicken thighs, was passed through to the kitchen. This semi-circular killing room had a drain in the middle, it was all as if carved out of stone, like under ground. The middle easterner captors were wearing nothing more then rags.

The Americans still hadn't shown up by the time I woke up. What's the point of this dream? No point.

We dreamt something about a marathon or other race and Mr. Bear was participating, a literal huge bear among runners with a number on front and back. Or rather it was a big man in a realistic bear costume. It was odd because I wasn't sure how I knew Mr. Bear was inside the bear costume but I wanted to know what he really looked like. It made no sense.

Dream thread reached bump level!
As usual I got nothing to make a new one.

Thank whatever heathen God you ascribe to, and pray you never get lasting depression. It's in itself traumatizing and leaves a lasting scar.

Though only good things came of it for me.

For comparison, the PhD program was about as traumatizing. ABD all the way, every day, best choice. I advanced to candidacy, got a masters too.

I doubt I'll ever get depression again but if I do, I'm taking the easy way out. Be a fucking man and just end yourself (me to me).

[Ashley] uh no. SheShe would ironically be happy if Bear got depressed because she loves that kind of thing. Like endless problem solving.

[Bear] my body my choice. Feeling as good as I do with so much to live for if I got depression it would mean brain is broken, time to move out, keep my deposit.

>>3045
>SheShe would ironically be happy if Bear got depressed because she loves that kind of thing. Like endless problem solving.
Yandere vibes

>I doubt I'll ever get depression again but if I do, I'm taking the easy way out. Be a fucking man and just end yourself (me to me).
Based self-remover.
Don't forget to livestream it for our entertainment when the time comes.

>>3064

Deadstream.

It's fun to think about, I don't want to live forever. Maybe just to 85 or 90, reevaluate then.

>>3099
>85-90

Dang see, if I were metric I'd already be dead. I'll never give up good old American units.

Did you know Americans tried to go metric and it failed harder than anything with Adam Sandler in it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AqngwJ0nK0g [Embed]

>>3100
Not Rob Schneider?

Well now it's too late, you'll be stuck with your medieval units forever.