(Quest Suggestions) SongsTress Quest Episode 25 - The Roads are Winding... (Patreon)

(Members of Star Tier or above can suggest actions for next week's episode, and they'll be voted on on Wednesday!)

The Story So Far...

You shuffle the pathways, spinning them around as you spin on stage, your eyes never leaving the screens as you track Serenity Painter through the building. You can't add space or warp reality to make your lair bigger on the inside - yet - but you can absolutely make it more and more confusing to advance towards you.

Oops! Sorry, those stairs just go round and round and round before leading backwards! That corridor is just one long loop back around.

It's fun, but you're just tiring her out.

"You're lost and on your own,

Now you'll reap the fate you've sewn,

'Cus your time has come to fall,

Yeah you're gunna be my thrall~..."

Tiring her out and mocking her. But...

[Resistance Check: Difficulty 70 - 1d100]

(Difficulty = Base Attack score (20) + Curse of Verse Rank Bonus (30) + Volume Bonus (10) + Lair Bonus (10) = 60)

Serenity Painter: 134 (Pass)

(Bonuses: Base Resistance (+10) + Rank 2 Serenity (+20) + Resistance (+10) = +40) Roll: 94

She just sticks her tongue out and flings paint at your cameras again. Argh. Okay, that is it. Painter wants to make a mess of the place? Then she can be the one to clean it up!

You snap your fingers, trying not to snarl, and turn the set of stairs she's on into a slide. For a moment you feel spitefully satisfied, and then she just splashes paint at her feet and slides down even faster, cheering with joy. Oh. Oh, how you hate her. Even her crash through the doors at the bottom of the stairwell isn't enough to cool your rage...

Of course, that may be because all you've done is throw her in the janitor's closet. There's a bunch of cleaning supplies and mops and whatever in there, but you can't really animate those like you did your merchandise. You're SongsTress, not SqueakyClean or anything like that. Your moves have got to be on theme, you have a brand to maintain.

But still. There are plenty of fresh speakers in there, waiting for your song - and you can definitely add a few surprises, too. That's going to be important, since she's still wearing those painted headphones of hers - she's still resistant to your lyrics... What are you going to hit her with, great Mistress of Music?

Your Character Sheet

(Lyrics alone may not be enough here. How do you want to weaken Painter for the final blow? Comment below with suggestions of what you'd like to see happen next, and I'll put it to the Vote on Wednesday! Bear in mind that Patreon Votes have a 140 character limit, so try to keep your suggestions below that.)