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Now You Feel Like Number None [Bleach Arrancar Quest]

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On a side note, reporting that we killed the holding of the crown might make Baraggan marginally more impressed.
 
[X]Defeat the Butcher King. Even if you claimed the advantage this will be easier said than done; but the other Hollows will be too terrified to intervene, and if you engage and slay the King one-on-one they will surely run rather than cause you any more trouble. You can take the crown from his body.
 
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Using Resurreccion now is a bad idea.

There's a concept I've been bouncing around for a while, called 'conservation of narrative agency'. It can be annoying to talk about, but the basis is this; the more you see something in a story, the less useful it is.

Consider a well-known anime, Dragonball Z. In that show, there's a well-known power up called Super Saiyan. When it's first introduced, it's a substantial power up, allowing Goku to effortlessly beat down Frieze. But then Saiyans start going Super Saiyan at a moment's notice; and so, when a new threat is introduced in Cell, Super Saiyan is no longer as effective a power up, and so the protagonists have to find a new one.

A similar principle applies here. By using Resurreccion at the first remotely challenging fight, you're showing Omicron that when faced with anything remotely approaching danger, you're going to enter Resurreccion- meaning that whenever Omicron wants to design an opponent he doesn't want you to steamroll, he's going to have to design it for Nemo with the assumption she's going to enter Resurreccion in mind. Effectively, it won't be a power up; it will become her base combat state.

Keep in mind the role of Resurreccion when thinking about when to use it- it's a tool for escalation within a fight, not a standard combat technique like a Cero.

And you don't need to escalate against a fucking Gillian. That's such a waste. Only a worthless Arrancar would need to unleash against someone so far beneath her.

Then again, it's a pointless question anyway, because the job was to get the crown, not to slaughter Hollows. Barragan isn't going to be impressed by killing this guy. This guy is so worthless Barragan could probably just look at him and he'd die. Just grab it and leave.
 
Something that has been brought up before but bears mentioning: Resurreccion instantly heals most wounds. This is one reason (on top of the energy consumption) that most Arrancars don't go straight for it. It's not just poor shounen tactics, it's also that you can wear down an opponent while taking wounds that don't matter in the long run because your power-up heals them.
 
Omicron said:
Something that has been brought up before but bears mentioning: Resurreccion instantly heals most wounds. This is one reason (on top of the energy consumption) that most Arrancars don't go straight for it. It's not just poor shounen tactics, it's also that you can wear down an opponent while taking wounds that don't matter in the long run because your power-up heals them.
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That was part of my reasoning. :)
 
[x]Defeat the Butcher King. Even if you claimed the advantage this will be easier said than done; but the other Hollows will be too terrified to intervene, and if you engage and slay the King one-on-one they will surely run rather than cause you any more trouble. You can take the crown from his body.

Full shonen is a go
 
So I guess we're going full Yhorm on this guy, eh?

At least it'll be cool looking.

I hope we get something spiritually significant from him that can be used in some way to acquire properly useful loot, though, because I don't think that we'll be rewarded for this adventure any other way.


... Ignore Power Levels, acquire Knight Errant stories? @Omicron has already demonstrated that they're willing to mix up the endless sands of Heuco Mundo if they think that it needs more variety for some reason, so it's not like it'd get tedious...
 
[x]Take the crown and run. You don't have to risk yourself facing this opponent. Now that you know the crown is stuck in his mask, you can strike where it's embedded and make off with it. That means getting out of the fortress and away with the Menos and his army at your back, but it's better than a chancey duel.


Yeah, my mental picture of Nemo is someone who's half-driven by fear, and half-driven by purpose. Most of the time, this is in tension, because the people who give her purpose and duties are fucking nuts and hilariously lethal, but right now her task is to take the crown, not fight.
 
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[x]Take the crown and run. You don't have to risk yourself facing this opponent. Now that you know the crown is stuck in his mask, you can strike where it's embedded and make off with it. That means getting out of the fortress and away with the Menos and his army at your back, but it's better than a chancey duel.

Blood of Gaea said:
On a side note, reporting that we killed the holding of the crown might make Baraggan marginally more impressed.
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More likely he would ask why we're even mentioning it. Executing a pretender is something he would expect from anyone that works for him.
 
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HavocKeeper said:
-[X]You have seen hollow and arrancar fight and fall, some from a difference in strength, but far too many from underestimating their foes, dallying in nonsense like fair fights and playing around instead of going for the kill. You are not the strongest, but you are no fool. Release your full power and go for the kill immediately.
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Did you not read any of the reasoning presented by both other plays and the GM himself why we shouldn't go Resurreccion right off the bat? And why not go for fair fights anyway? They're a lot more fun to read than the "pragmatic" fights that are epidemic on SB and SV. Just look at the fight going on in We Stand in Awe with Makoto and OMG.
 
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Sivizt said:
Yhorm without Storm Ruler? :o

Not sure we are ready for that yet :V
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Would you believe I didn't even know Storm Ruler was a thing until I'd already beaten him and was searching his room for more loot?
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[x]Take the crown and run. You don't have to risk yourself facing this opponent. Now that you know the crown is stuck in his mask, you can strike where it's embedded and make off with it. That means getting out of the fortress and away with the Menos and his army at your back, but it's better than a chancey duel.


Yeah, my mental picture of Nemo is someone who's half-driven by fear, and half-driven by purpose. Most of the time, this is in tension, because the people who give her purpose and duties are fucking nuts and hilariously lethal, but right now her task is to take the crown, not fight.
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That picture never fails to convince me.

[X] Take the crown and run. You don't have to risk yourself facing this opponent. Now that you know the crown is stuck in his mask, you can strike where it's embedded and make off with it. That means getting out of the fortress and away with the Menos and his army at your back, but it's better than a chancey duel.
 
Andres110 said:
Did you not read any of the reasoning presented by both other plays and the GM himself why we shouldn't go Resurreccion right off the bat? And why not go for fair fights anyway? They're a lot more fun to read than the "pragmatic" fights that are epidemic on SB and SV. Just look at the fight going on in We Stand in Awe with Makoto and OMG.
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I edited my vote almost immediacy after I posted it. I'm voting for snatch and run now.
 
Andres110 said:
Did you not read any of the reasoning presented by both other plays and the GM himself why we shouldn't go Resurreccion right off the bat? And why not go for fair fights anyway? They're a lot more fun to read than the "pragmatic" fights that are epidemic on SB and SV. Just look at the fight going on in We Stand in Awe with Makoto and OMG.
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A: Fair fights to the death are stupid. Entertaining and dead does not appeal to me at all, neither does the shinigami habit of being idiots and playing like they're in a spar instead of a fight to the death. That's one thing I fully agree with Shunsui about; fights aren't fair, and playing at it is just asking to die.

B: We already are injured, we are in hostile territory, and I'd rather not drag this out and potentially encourage any more brave hollow to jump in and let their leader get free hits.
 
darkoda said:
A: Fair fights to the death are stupid. Entertaining and dead does not appeal to me at all, neither does the shinigami habit of being idiots and playing like they're in a spar instead of a fight to the death. That's one thing I fully agree with Shunsui about; fights aren't fair, and playing at it is just asking to die.

B: We already are injured, we are in hostile territory, and I'd rather not drag this out and potentially encourage any more brave hollow to jump in and let their leader get free hits.
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This is a story, you know. Not a simulation. If we go for what's cooler, we're going to get that, unless we massively screw up.

Not releasing our full power against literally a single Gillian, while fighting an otherwise fair fight, isn't massively screwing up.

Therefore we will get Entertaining and Alive, the result your false dichotomy has forgotten.
 
[X]Defeat the Butcher King. Even if you claimed the advantage this will be easier said than done; but the other Hollows will be too terrified to intervene, and if you engage and slay the King one-on-one they will surely run rather than cause you any more trouble. You can take the crown from his body.
-[X] Hold back on your Resurrección. You need the practice, and such a thing is not for casual use anyway. If you can't even defeat such a foe without it, then what good are you?
 
[X]Defeat the Butcher King. Even if you claimed the advantage this will be easier said than done; but the other Hollows will be too terrified to intervene, and if you engage and slay the King one-on-one they will surely run rather than cause you any more trouble. You can take the crown from his body.
 
We should at least take his cleaver as a trophy and if we gain his men we can learn more about bug lady, I like to think Nemo has an obsession on hollows who look like insects due to her friend.
 
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[X]Defeat the Butcher King. Even if you claimed the advantage this will be easier said than done; but the other Hollows will be too terrified to intervene, and if you engage and slay the King one-on-one they will surely run rather than cause you any more trouble. You can take the crown from his body.
 
Or we just leave it were the king fell to signify our victory over the so called Butcher king. Like that one dark souls tombstone fans know the one.

Hint:guarded by a giant wolf
 
[X]Defeat the Butcher King. Even if you claimed the advantage this will be easier said than done; but the other Hollows will be too terrified to intervene, and if you engage and slay the King one-on-one they will surely run rather than cause you any more trouble. You can take the crown from his body.
 
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