She doesn't react, instead firing two shots in tandem at the entrances to the tunnels. Bursts of angry red static fly out and explode against the floor. The stone crumbles and rubble floods into the entranceways.
Not too bad, everything is in small enough chunks to dig through fairly quickly.
This indicates it won't take long for the demons to get through the tunnels.
[] Head down deeper.
-[] Knock Starlancer out
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
This one sounds like the most promising out of the bunch.
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[X] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
[X] EXP-Plan
-[X] Save it
That was great, everyone got totally rekt. Go Summit!
...we might actually get enough EXP to buy Pioneer soon. That'd be something to look forward to.
On the subject of Discord stuffs: I teased Superslayer being behind Pioneer, Level 50 Panoply, and six other slayer abilities. Tear the Gods from their Heights is behind Abomination and a personal accomplishment of beating something where TTGFTH would be very useful.
Well, Twisted Metal shows us we do need SuperSlayer. Or a different method of piercing Existence-based barriers. Would Trans Smasher work?
Not that getting SuperSlayer is very realistic - 12'000+ EXP is a lot to ask. And that's without SuperSlayer itself, as it probably costs 2000+ on its own.
Dakkamania (2500)(as if we won't purchase these ASAP)
-Panoply 40 (1850)
-Rain of Light (80)
-Juggernaut (80)
-Versatility of Form (5th Protean slot) (490)
Pioneer (3500, 6000 total)
Panoply 45 (2100, 8100 total)
Panoply 50 (2350, 10450 total)
Slayer x4 (1680, 12130 total)
Extras (650, 12780 total)
-Curse (80)
-Slash Hell (80)
-Versatility of Form (6th Protean slot) (490) SuperSlayer (????)
Even if Pioneer itself has an effect preventing outright attack negation like we've seen Twisted Metal do, 3500-to-6000 EXP is a lot. That said, if we ever got a 10000 EXP windfall my purchases would be to get 2/3 of gates open. It would take 7000+2450/2250 EXP.
And then there's a 100k dream... I wonder if anyone else contemplated it.
Panoply 50, Pioneer, Versstility of Form x6, Ladders (570), Slayer x4, SuperSlayer: 6300+3500+3000-60+570+1680 = 14990 + ???
Aegis Field 100, Formidable Defenses x16, Paragon, Emblem of Endurance: 49500-1900+2100+1260+3500+455 = 54915
Ceaseless Warrior 40, Abomination, To Tear The Gods From Their Heights: 5700+3500 = 9200 + ???
Total EXP so far - 88030. Enough to get lots of things from beyond the gates and refocus on upgrading teleportation more.
And that's just enough to get most of shinies and proficiencies we can see right now.
Anyway, with our newfound influx of EXP, my option is:
[] Save EXP
No, I'm actually serious.
Sure, we can purchase very lucrative things like:
1) Panoply 40, Juggernaut, Rain of Light (2010/2281 EXP)(Anti-Greater Nightmare, 54k+ damage per ranged attack)
2) Aegis Field 25, Formidable Defenses, Ceaseless Warrior 25 (2210/2281 EXP)(+5500 HP, +500 RES, Guardian Touch gains +3500 HP, +500 RES)
3) Ceaseless Warrior 30 (2250/2281 EXP)(+4500 HP, Abomination Prerequisite Gained)
4) Gating 15, Shifting 15, Standing Wave (1685/2281 EXP)(Long-Ranged Wave Force)
However, none of these are in any way critical right now.
And that is reason why I am going to wait and see. If we get 3500 total EXP (just 1219 more!), we can purchase Pioneer. If we get 6000 total EXP, we can purchase any one of the three gated abilities - be it Pioneer, Paragon, or Abomination. And are mostly guaranteed to have at least one of the other two with prerequisites complete.
This is my stated EXP goal right now - to get 6000 EXP (5950 - the highest - if we're trying for Paragon directly, 6370 if we also purchase Formidable Defenses x2) and get at least one of the gated abilities out of the way. With how generous this mission has been to us so far, I think we can do that.
Now for the update.
1) I find the behavior of the demon positively hilarious! He acted very much like someone trying to be unobtrusive, unnoticed, out of the way, non-threatening, and not-at-all-a-target bystander. It's like he was traumatized by Summit or something! Oh, wait, wasn't she the one to give him the scarring?
2) Huh, for a Red-Resurrected Meatpuppet, and even for a normal person, Starlancer is acting remarkably level-headed. And she has excellent survival instincts - what with recognising she'd be killed in a single strike from Summit. I'm not certain if she had recognised DarkSlayer for what it was, or whether it's simply instinct - but her being compliant is a pleasant surprise. ---That said, Starlancer is not our friend. Knock her out immediately.
3) Twisted Metal has Super Drowning Skills, apparently. Color me surprised.
4) Silver Regent uses Rule of Gold! It's not very effective... Summit uses Vengeful Braining! It's super effective!
5) Silver Regent and Twisted Metal destroyed the tunnels leading out. How helpful of them.
Now, for the few questions I'd like to ask, from @kelllogo:
1) How many Attacks per Turn do we have now? The last Ceaseless Warrior blurb seems to indicate we have 4 extras, and 5 base - for a total of 9...
2) Can we Shift to the other side of the cave-in, kill everyone, collapse the tunnel - the most important part - and return back to the room, in 2 turns?
3) Silver Regent and Twisted Metal are knocked out. Good. Are they untransformed?
4) This is... the second time I've seen Summit do "Resistant to AFFINITY Effects". The first time, it was Darkness Effects, vs StarLancer. The second time it is Rule Effects, vs Silver Regent. Notably, StarLancer's attack this time does not have this. Last time it was said that the damage reduction is supposed to be "10% of the most significant digit", and this seems to work the same in this situation. But what are the affinities that trigger it and why?
5) Would Trans Smasher have any effect on Existence-based no-sells like Twisted Metal's?
6) Back in the day, we purchased Serene in Adversity. It's supposed to work against damage from environmental effects. Does UD Zone of Control count as an environmental effect? And why not, if it doesn't?
7) Back in the day, you gave us OP Fiat on Unstoppable-Supremacy-SuperSlayer that Crystalwatcher later (the very next post) yoinked to use in the main quest. According to that, Unstoppable should leak through Twisted Metal's Existence-based defense. Is that still true?
8) Back in the day, you told us Peerless Explorer upgrades Upon Iron Wings, removing its downside. Unfortunately, it's just about the only ability Summit had that I cannot track the original text for. Care to tell us what the drawback was?
Now for my thoughts about the plan.
With the device exploding, we have succeeded in the stated goal of distrupting whatever means of making new tunnels quickly the demons had. Presumably. This means we can actually go and kill the demons on the other side, and in doing so delay the most likely means of entry. Luckily, we hit Silver Regent fast enough to prevent the negation of our teleports. I am somewhat unhappy about the idea of shooting up the ceiling to cause further cave-in within the room itself - but I believe this is one of the cases where "perfect" is the enemy of "good enough".
Things to also do:
1) Call the base, tell them to prepare for your return
2) Check the captives and the rescuee for magical marks, scrape them off with Horrorslayer panoply - after you've returned
3) See about acquiring a couple of automatic turrets for the next time you need to teleport away and need some cover.
4) If the demons actually break through - cast Guardian Touch on High Card.
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[x] Knock out Starlancer
-[x] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[x] Start forming a Gate. If the demons start breaking through the rubble or a new tunnel starts forming, grab everyone and hide on the ceiling.
--[x] Be sure to use everyone else's bodies, and maybe some rubble, to block as much of the light from your Panoply as possible.
@Mellithae, I'm using your plan with an additional line taken from @ltmauve.
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[X] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
[X] EXP-Plan
-[X] Save it
EDIT: Fair warning, there are questions I'm also asking here that will be added to the list until kelllogo logs in back. They will be in the spoiler.
Adhoc vote count started by Faraway-R on Apr 21, 2018 at 6:26 AM, finished with 25 posts and 9 votes.
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[x] Knock out Starlancer
-[x] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[x] Start forming a Gate. If the demons start breaking through the rubble or a new tunnel starts forming, grab everyone and hide on the ceiling.
--[x] Be sure to use everyone else's bodies, and maybe some rubble, to block as much of the light from your Panoply as possible.
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[x] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[x] Knock out Starlancer
-[x] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[x] Start forming a Gate. If the demons start breaking through the rubble or a new tunnel starts forming, grab everyone and hide on the ceiling.
--[x] Be sure to use everyone else's bodies, and maybe some rubble, to block as much of the light from your Panoply as possible.
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[x] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
Oh! I missed that part. I just kept seeing, "dump the bodies in the aquarium and hide on the ceiling".
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[X] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[X] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
[X] EXP-Plan
-[X] Save it
Sure. All good points, Faraway.
(Though I would note that we don't actually need the 6th protean slot (juggernaut+superslayer+rain of light+multi-shot (or slash hell+crush) is enough. That gives us an extra slot for vampire or whatever situational mod we want.), don't benefit much from curse (I guess it helps against MM specialists, but we can use it as a situational purchase), and only need 3 more slayers.)
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[X] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
[X] EXP-Plan
-[X] Save it
Instant gratification or long-term planning - decisions decisions. Oh well I am a patient cerebrate.
So Faraway's plan is to utilize an air pocket and do some EXP-saving. I dig it.
Now I just got to change my vote and....there we go!
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[X] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
So yeah, decided to make a quick run of the updates and mark out our EXP expeditures.
Also, did some franken-merging the votes and quotes of people to put EXP Plans and their results in the same posts, so you will not usually find the particular EXP Plan in the linked post.
I'd say I was busy, but really it's just a case of lazy.
(and blanking on on the skill tree, I thought you guys would fixate on one of the super abilities.)
[X] Plan Abilities are King (555 EXP total, 114 remaining)
-[X] Increase Self-Repair to level 2 (10 EXP)
-[X] Increase Halting to level 5 (90 EXP)
-[X] Purchase Static Wave (105 EXP)
-[X] Purchase Serene in Adversity (350 EXP)
Vote locked. I'll edit in your receipt
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Ability Purchased!
Serene In Adversity
-350xp
Aura effects and Environmental effects can't damage you.
Ability Upgraded!
Self-Repair
Level 1 -> 2
-Spend an action to regain 24 Health. 2% chance of removing negative status effects each use.
Ability Upgraded!
Halting
Level 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5
-Summit may block space-altering effects within 25 meters of her. Doing so prevents her from using her own space-altering abilities.
So yeah. Those. These two level ups are what we got before Millidia.
1) Guardian Touch (number of people saved: 2)
2) Machine Talk (communication problems solved: priceless)
3) Self-Repair (number of times it saved Summit: 3 - Toxic Horror, Brandcraft Overload, Starlancer #1)
4) Static Wave (Wave Force no longer Harmful: priceless)
5) Halting in wider area (current number of times it helped: 2)
6) Serene in Adversity (is it me or we never had to use it yet?)
[X]XP Plan Crystal
-[X]A Law Unto Yourself (105xp)
-[X]Fuse Level 15 (390xp)
-[X]Self-Repair Level 7 (200xp)
Ability Upgraded!
Self-Repair
Level 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7 (200xp)
-Spend an action to regain 84 Health. 7% chance of removing negative status effects each use.
Ability Upgraded!
Fuse
Level 12 -> 13 -> 14 -> 15 (390xp)
-Summit can merge items into herself to add their abilities to her Panoply. Some items may allow for new Abilities to be purchased. Higher levels allow for larger items to be absorbed.
Peerless Explorer
-Improves Discovery Abilities. Immune to Blind and derivative Abilities. Allows improving assimilated Abilities. Targets of a Discovery attack take an additional 200 damage. Allows casting and development of spells as though you possessed the Light Affinity, May be improved.
Ability Improved!
Upon Iron Wings -> Upon Wings of Imagination
-The Panoply is sword, shield, and support. Body Modifiers do not restrict actions.
Ability Improved!
Fuse -> Inspect
Level 15
-Summit can merge items into herself to add their abilities to her Panoply. Some items may allow for new Abilities to be purchased. Higher levels allow for larger items to be absorbed. Summit may also discover Abilities by holding magical items for one minute or remaining within an immaterial effect for the same duration.
10cm radius per level.
Is Gaia wanting a weapon that could hurt Divine Beings the reason Humanity built 180+ stupidly overpowered (40 Megatons -- 250 times as powerful as the bomb used on Hiroshima) bombs instead of a few thousand nukes of useful yield (300-475 Kilotons)? Or maybe the magic boosting effect worked really well?
It's been a while since the last vote, so to move the conversation away from genocide have a I'm going to tally the votes. I'm pretty sure Jolly Cooperation wins handily.
[X] EXP Plan Summit Genius
-[X] Panoply lvl 15: Emulate Magic 30xp
-[X] Diamond Mind 70xp
Ability Purchased!
Diamond Mind
Level 1
Allows thinking 10 times faster than the human baseline. Doesn't help with people.
The first few days on Millidia were hectic and yet productive. Summit had managed to get a few good things:
1) Self-Repair against Toxic Horrors' DOTs
2) Larger Fuse radius
3) A Law Unto Yourself (directly useful once; but saved Summit's life by virtue of being a prerequisite to To Defy The Gods)
4) Peerless Explorer (worth oh so many times over! Even the Protean slots were more than worth it!)
5) Diamond Mind (hmmm, not bad)
6) That ??? was never stated clearly - but given how Gaia has hinted on gifting something to Summit, I expect it to have been the access to Child of Gaia ability ladder. 10 EXP for useful magical effects was a clear bargain. Our All-Mother Titan is awesome, when she is being nice.
She also managed to meet her first "redefine how bad I ever had it" thing - the aforementioned Toxic Horror. Meet her first Greater Nightmare (Reinforce OP, please boost Summit!). And get into her second fight on the Moral High Ground... Speaking of which.
Summit will be attempting to facilitate a sneak attack via a portable HumanTech dimensional waypoint. This will entail hauling a bunch of equipment through a 'light horde' of demons, as well as escorting a couple of technicians with the relevant codes committed to memory.
Good luck!
[X] EXP Plan Crusader-[X]Ceaseless Warrior (1150 XP)
Here's the receipt for Ceaseless Warrior:
Super Ability Purchased!
I Shall Not Fall, Lesser Horrors Scorned, and Health have been replaced!
Ceaseless Warrior
Level 1
-Years of fighting have strained your mind and body, but you are all the stronger for it. Stuns and mental effects do not restrict Summit's actions. +500 Health per level. Reduce End Damage by 60%. Each time you are attacked increase your Attacks Per Turn by one, up to the level of this ability, bonus attacks granted this way are shed after combat ends.
(Overwhelming Presence still works since it doesn't mention OP effects. e.g. If Summit somehow ran into Sixth Heaven Summit would be stuck at 1 Attack Per Turn from Sixth's OP Ability.)
Laying down Magical Girl Iron Age to rest (may her soul find peace) had given Summit some very important things:
1) A number of Protean abilities, including Spell Boost and Multi Shot (always useful)
2) Skydance, for airborne power (made much better with the following)
3) Ceaseless Warrior (incredibly good survivability/offense boost - saved Summit from a lot of trouble)
It was good, because we prompted her to attempt an "infiltration" mission. And to her first battle with Starlancer.
[X][EXP] Purchase Flawless Interruption - purchased, no Receipt...
[X] [EXP] Upgrade Gating to level 10 (300 XP) - I'm going to hold off on spending XP. I don't expect improving Gating to have any effect on the next update and the EXP will still be there if the option gets more support.
Plan Smackdown wins. In the next update Summit will trash the Furies until interrupted and try to regroup to get in touch with the rest of Milidia.
Here's the Receipt for your XP Store Purchase.
[x] EXP plan Reinforce
-[x] Fierce Protector (350 EXP, 842 remain)
-[x] Elsewhere to level 13 (810 EXP, 32 remain)
Ability Purchased!
Fierce Protector
+75% damage when attacking a target that means to harm something other than yourself.
Ability Upgraded!
Elsewhere
Level 5 -> 6 -> 7 -> 8 -> 9 -> 10 -> 11 -> 12 -> 13
-Summit may expand or contract distances 130 meters during her action
162 EXP Remaining
I was anticipating Decim's spending plan to win myself...
Anyone have some ideas for more Protection-flavored ideas? I didn't plot out into that tree very far
In all honesty, EXP spending was chosen poorly in the first StarLancer battle. With the right choices (Double Hit, Versatility of Form), we actually had a chance of killing her in straight melee.
1) Flawless Interruption - used once, on an Intercept where our Resilience would have sufficed
2) Fierce Protector - used once, on an Intercept where our HorrorSlayer did a much better job
3) Elsewhere 5-13 - useless under the circumstances, and costly - this should have been spent on melee boost. That said... See below.
Halting
5 → 6 → 7 → 8 → 9 → 10 → 11 → 12 → 13 → 14 → 15
-Summit may block space-altering effects within 75 meters of her. Doing so prevents her from using her own space-altering abilities
Ability Upgraded!
Elsewhere
Level 13 → 14 → 15
-Summit may expand or contract distances 150 meters during her action
210 EXP Remaining
I keep oscillating between feeling I'm giving out too much EXP and not enough...
[X] [EXP] Plan Wave and Rend (335 EXP)
-[X] Inchoate Wave - 245xp
-[X] Emulate blood - 40xp
-[X] Rend - 50xp
Spell Improved!
Wave Force
-Summit riles up the space between dimensions, then flings it at an enemy.
Level 20
Base Damage: 80% of target's max health
Magic Modifier: 400
Affinity: Discovery
Ability: Unstoppable | Scale To Target | Grand Dispel
Health: 12500 → 14500
Resilience: 800 → 1000
Aegis Field now grants 20% of incoming damage as bonus Resilience!
Each level of Aegis Field now adds 200 Health and 50 Resilience.
To Defy the Gods
Divide incoming damage by the first digit of the attackers Existence bonus.
[Special: This also divides the Resilience granted by Aegis Field.]
Ability Ladder Purchase!
Heavy Caliber
Bypass "Large Enemy" damage reduction.
Adamantine
Reduce the effect of Armor Pierce and derived Abilities by 50%
Ability Ladder Purchase!
Double Hit
Duplicate attack string on melee attacks.
Anti-Infantry
x6 damage multiplier against mooks.
Ability Ladder Purchase!
Multi-caster
Increases the number of spells that can be cast in a single action. May be selected multiple times to improve Ability level.
Ability Ladder Purchase!
Danmaku
Gives ten damage ticks to attacks, each tick gives +25% of Base Damage.
That said, Inchoate Wave has proven its worth time and again already. 10/10, would use again.
And the high boost to Panoply (and lesser to Aegis Field) was also welcome.
(Though I would note that we don't actually need the 6th protean slot (juggernaut+superslayer+rain of light+multi-shot (or slash hell+crush) is enough. That gives us an extra slot for vampire or whatever situational mod we want.), don't benefit much from curse (I guess it helps against MM specialists, but we can use it as a situational purchase), and only need 3 more slayers.)
Not quite.
On the topic of Curse - Silver Regent (who benefited from high MM of her direct superior), Brilliant Key (abysmal Resilience, but MM twice her Health and an ability that negates any attack that exceeds her max health), nasties of BoatShrieks (MM in above 5000 for most) and many others have them. Of special note are BoatShrieks nasties, who get Juggernaut, Smite and so on if their MM roll is high enough. In fact, even Tarser, who we just killed, had both a high magic modifier AND an ability that would have messed us up if he rolled it high enough. Curse is a dual purpose attack/defense booster, so useful.
I expect that going forward we'll be meeting numerous high-level demons with high-level magic modifier as opponents.
On the topic of Protean Slots? We currently have 4. Four.
My desired number is no less than 8. So that I don't have to choose between All-Melee (Rain of Blows, Crush, Slash Hell), and All-Ranged (Rain of Light, Ray, Multi Shot) - but can have both. And still have openings for Juggernaut and SuperSlayer. 10 Protean Slots is better, as it gives Vampire and Curse as well. And flexibility enough to slot in Spell Boost, Heavy Caliber, Anti-Air and others as needed. Also, I expect that QM at the 10-Protean point will state "expect Summit to have all the necessary abilities to strike the opponent optimally" so we won't need to actually write up the Panoply designs anymore.
As is, with FIVE slots (5), we could have All-Melee, or All-Ranged, and two additions for situational purposes. What we have right now (4 slots) is barely enough for me, and so I want more.
Adhoc vote count started by Faraway-R on Apr 21, 2018 at 11:58 AM, finished with 32 posts and 10 votes.
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[x] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[x] Knock out Starlancer
-[x] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[x] Start forming a Gate. If the demons start breaking through the rubble or a new tunnel starts forming, grab everyone and hide on the ceiling.
--[x] Be sure to use everyone else's bodies, and maybe some rubble, to block as much of the light from your Panoply as possible.
Not quite.
On the topic of Curse - Silver Regent (who benefited from high MM of her direct superior), Brilliant Key (abysmal Resilience, but MM twice her Health and an ability that negates any attack that exceeds her max health), nasties of BoatShrieks (MM in above 5000 for most) and many others have them. Of special note are BoatShrieks nasties, who get Juggernaut, Smite and so on if their MM roll is high enough. In fact, even Tarser, who we just killed, had both a high magic modifier AND an ability that would have messed us up if he rolled it high enough. Curse is a dual purpose attack/defense booster, so useful.
I expect that going forward we'll be meeting numerous high-level demons with high-level magic modifier as opponents.
On the topic of Protean Slots? We currently have 4. Four.
My desired number is no less than 8. So that I don't have to choose between All-Melee (Rain of Blows, Crush, Slash Hell), and All-Ranged (Rain of Light, Ray, Multi Shot) - but can have both. And still have openings for Juggernaut and SuperSlayer. 10 Protean Slots is better, as it gives Vampire and Curse as well. And flexibility enough to slot in Spell Boost, Heavy Caliber, Anti-Air and others as needed. Also, I expect that QM at the 10-Protean point will state "expect Summit to have all the necessary abilities to strike the opponent optimally" so we won't need to actually write up the Panoply designs anymore.
As is, with FIVE slots (5), we could have All-Melee, or All-Ranged, and two additions for situational purposes. What we have right now (4 slots) is barely enough for me, and so I want more.
Oh, I'd like more protean slots. But they aren't part of getting superslayer, for the most part.
Regarding curse, most of those qualify as MM specialists. Decent point on Tarser - The boatshrieks nasties aren't demons, though.
I'm not saying it's not useful. Just that it's more of a situational purchase for if we need it. It is cheap enough to buy anyway, I guess? But in most situations, it'll be better to just increase the attack's damage.
Do they know we can gate out? I think they are still under the impression we'd die if we tried to like if we used the shift ability.
[X] Stay put and try to use Gating to open a portal.
-[X] Blast down the ceiling around the tunnel. Even if they can open a new one it'll slow them down.
-[X] Knock Starlancer out and hide everyone in the aquarium. (Reconstruct the lid if you can do so quickly, make your panoply look like a fake bottom if you can.)
Now for the update.
1) I find the behavior of the demon positively hilarious! He acted very much like someone trying to be unobtrusive, unnoticed, out of the way, non-threatening, and not-at-all-a-target bystander. It's like he was traumatized by Summit or something! Oh, wait, wasn't she the one to give him the scarring?
2) Huh, for a Red-Resurrected Meatpuppet, and even for a normal person, Starlancer is acting remarkably level-headed. And she has excellent survival instincts - what with recognising she'd be killed in a single strike from Summit. I'm not certain if she had recognised DarkSlayer for what it was, or whether it's simply instinct - but her being compliant is a pleasant surprise. ---That said, Starlancer is not our friend. Knock her out immediately.
3) Twisted Metal has Super Drowning Skills, apparently. Color me surprised.
4) Silver Regent uses Rule of Gold! It's not very effective... Summit uses Vengeful Braining! It's super effective!
5) Silver Regent and Twisted Metal destroyed the tunnels leading out. How helpful of them.
You got the drop on them because Starlancer was holding Tarser at spear-point. Suffice to say that he had no dog in this fight and badly wanted to be far away from whichever overpowered Magical Girl ended up victorious.
Yes, Starlancer did notice the Darkslayer effect and decided discretion was the better part of valor. In a way she's being obstructive. Killing her would be easy, but Summit might not kill her if she surrenders and now has to figure out what to do with her. Red's seal isn't doing much to her either.
I hope everyone spotted that Starlancer is considering escape
Twisted Metal is too heavy to swim when transformed. She'll have an easier time of it once she gets her Sea Legs ability... and she was a little out of breath when she got dunked.
Yeah, Summit got mad when she realized that Silver Regent was trying to make dying look like a good idea. That sort of muddling with thoughts invites massive retribution.
The idea was that it would keep Summit from flying away after Zoe locked her teleportation away...
Now, for the few questions I'd like to ask, from @kelllogo:
1) How many Attacks per Turn do we have now? The last Ceaseless Warrior blurb seems to indicate we have 4 extras, and 5 base - for a total of 9...
2) Can we Shift to the other side of the cave-in, kill everyone, collapse the tunnel - the most important part - and return back to the room, in 2 turns?
3) Silver Regent and Twisted Metal are knocked out. Good. Are they untransformed?
4) This is... the second time I've seen Summit do "Resistant to AFFINITY Effects". The first time, it was Darkness Effects, vs StarLancer. The second time it is Rule Effects, vs Silver Regent. Notably, StarLancer's attack this time does not have this. Last time it was said that the damage reduction is supposed to be "10% of the most significant digit", and this seems to work the same in this situation. But what are the affinities that trigger it and why?
5) Would Trans Smasher have any effect on Existence-based no-sells like Twisted Metal's?
6) Back in the day, we purchased Serene in Adversity. It's supposed to work against damage from environmental effects. Does UD Zone of Control count as an environmental effect? And why not, if it doesn't?
7) Back in the day, you gave us OP Fiat on Unstoppable-Supremacy-SuperSlayer that Crystalwatcher later (the very next post) yoinked to use in the main quest. According to that, Unstoppable should leak through Twisted Metal's Existence-based defense. Is that still true?
8) Back in the day, you told us Peerless Explorer upgrades Upon Iron Wings, removing its downside. Unfortunately, it's just about the only ability Summit had that I cannot track the original text for. Care to tell us what the drawback was?
1) Summit is up to 9 attacks per turn, as you calculated.
2) With Twisted Metal no longer emanating her magic it has become much more difficult to cut through stone. The carpet no longer tears like rice paper, etc...
3) Twisted Metal is transformed, Silver Regent is still in her Magical Girl form.
4) uhhh... Starlancer only has Darkness on her weapon when Lingering Darkness is working for her (Author's saving throw). Neither Light or Legend trigger a resistance effect so it didn't show in this instance (okay, Legend does trigger a resistance effect, but not the defensive string one). There's a Gordian knot of Affinities that are strong or weak against other Affinities that basically boil down to what makes sense to the GM. Summit's Discovery Affinity is weak to Deception and visversa, kind of like Light and Truth, unlike Light it resists Darkness and doesn't cause extra damage to Darkness targets.
5) I haven't thought about it.
6) Let me ask another question: Is a minefield an environmental effect? A burning forest or oil field, hailstorm or tornado counts though.
7) Unstoppable would leak through, yes. It just wouldn't do enough damage to outpace Twisted's regen in this case.
8) It used to penalize Base Damage if Resilience was reduced.
>_> I thought juggling Abilities was fun. In fact I'm kicking myself a bit for not putting some more limits on that (like 1 slot per 10 Panoply levels). The reduced marginal effectiveness makes trying to do 3-4 slots for melee plus 3-4 slots for ranged very uneconomical; you could have put that EXP into something helpful since half those slots won't be active on any given attack.
I think all the plans we have call for knocking her out/choking a bitch. Considering if she tries to transform we'll likely just make her pop instead, it would stick I think.
If I am not mistaken, Summit is supposed to be able to gain new abilities easier. She was also said to be incapable of getting Slayers based on existence (such as LegendSlayer or HeroSlayer). And yet, she has both eaten a HeroSlayer weapon recently (Mica's Spear IIRC) and has been known to get new Protean ability options from eating interesting things (she got Fire and Blood by eating weapons of Asura). Finally, TTTGFTH was teased as one of abilities Summit might gain, and she already has TDTG, so Existence-based modifiers aren't altogether an alien concept to her.
To sum up, I would not be too surprised if she gets the purchase option once she eats a LegendSlayer to go along with HeroSlayer she already ate, and/or Inspects an actual Trans Smasher. No damage boost, but sufficient commonality in defense negations to pierce no-sells based on existence disparity. Say, is there MythSlayer or StorySlayer?
2) With Twisted Metal no longer emanating her magic it has become much more difficult to cut through stone. The carpet no longer tears like rice paper, etc...
Fair point. Summit having the capability to do 5100*5*3=76500 damage with Danmaku, Ray (5 attacks) and Triple Shot should still allow us leeway at least if we aren't distracted.
I never equated it to a minefield though. I thought they, say, metaphorically filled the higher dimensions with fire or a similar hazard. Not that they put in lots of pressure sensors that trigger pitfall traps.
>_> I thought juggling Abilities was fun. In fact I'm kicking myself a bit for not putting some more limits on that (like 1 slot per 10 Panoply levels). The reduced marginal effectiveness makes trying to do 3-4 slots for melee plus 3-4 slots for ranged very uneconomical; you could have put that EXP into something helpful since half those slots won't be active on any given attack.
Those 10 slots are a late-game desire, as in "nothing better to do but raise Aegis Field and Teleport". Don't worry, I'm not taking away your fun any time soon. I'm having fun too, you know.
If you want to make the limit, make it the same progression as Panoply attacks sans Ceaseless Warrior. 1 base and one more for 8 full levels. Gives us a limit of 5 now, 6 at Panoply 40 and 7 at Panoply 50, at the practical limit of Panoply leveling. Additional bonus is that in this case we NEVER were out of bounds with the number of slots, not on level 1, and not when we first raised the number of slots to 4 before the night watch. Another bonus is ease of bookkeeping.
If I am not mistaken, Summit is supposed to be able to gain new abilities easier. She was also said to be incapable of getting Slayers based on existence (such as LegendSlayer or HeroSlayer). And yet, she has both eaten a HeroSlayer weapon recently (Mica's Spear IIRC) and has been known to get new Protean ability options from eating interesting things (she got Fire and Blood by eating weapons of Asura). Finally, TTTGFTH was teased as one of abilities Summit might gain, and she already has TDTG, so Existence-based modifiers aren't altogether an alien concept to her.
To sum up, I would not be too surprised if she gets the purchase option once she eats a LegendSlayer to go along with HeroSlayer she already ate, and/or Inspects an actual Trans Smasher. No damage boost, but sufficient commonality in defense negations to pierce no-sells based on existence disparity. Say, is there MythSlayer or StorySlayer?
Just going to say it here. Lost has confirmed that this is not plausible. Kellogo could countermand it, but lost has claimed we could get it by, well...
Revolver Ocelot-Yesterday at 9:57 PM
To reiterate
the "mug a god" prereq was not a joke
Just going to say it here. Lost has confirmed that this is not plausible. Kellogo could countermand it, but lost has claimed we could get it by, well...
I haven't seen that line about mugging a god. Even though it does make sense somewhat.
I have to wonder if roughing up Solid Core's Gabriel or perhaps Judgement Core (poor dear is so bulliable) would suffice.
P.S. Assuming 90% damage reduction for Wave Force leaking through Twisted Metal's no-sell, it has (6349*0.8)+1400+200+d400+d700 = 6680-7780 damage, or 668-778 with the damage reduction.
Even assuming regen does not work on the seal, it's around 10 Wave Forces. Not in a timely manner indeed.
If I am not mistaken, Summit is supposed to be able to gain new abilities easier. She was also said to be incapable of getting Slayers based on existence (such as LegendSlayer or HeroSlayer). And yet, she has both eaten a HeroSlayer weapon recently (Mica's Spear IIRC) and has been known to get new Protean ability options from eating interesting things (she got Fire and Blood by eating weapons of Asura). Finally, TTTGFTH was teased as one of abilities Summit might gain, and she already has TDTG, so Existence-based modifiers aren't altogether an alien concept to her.
To sum up, I would not be too surprised if she gets the purchase option once she eats a LegendSlayer to go along with HeroSlayer she already ate, and/or Inspects an actual Trans Smasher. No damage boost, but sufficient commonality in defense negations to pierce no-sells based on existence disparity. Say, is there MythSlayer or StorySlayer?
Oh, wait, wasn't she the one to give him the scarring? 
