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George said:
I think it'd be deeply unwise to reveal the Decimator's Affliction to Letrizia even by accident. It dies our life and death to her in a way that is not worth getting more knowledge about the mech.
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Yeah, Gisena needs to know in a way Letrizia quite simply doesn't. The Orcwaste makes it less of an outside context problem for her, even if the associations are unfavorable, and it's not her world we're eating (Jotarun's got that covered). Hunger can put two and two together on his own time.
Rihaku said:
Of course, if you can take Evening Sky it's a different story!
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Broad-spectrum protection and additional charisma, all under the same blanket. But can the Evening Sky compare to the Endless? The darkness behaved almost like a symbiote, abandoning the pirate in his final moments. Can't shake the feeling we killed someone with a backstory; he got a fair amount of description, we even learned his eye color, and all that was cut short by the Forebear's Blade. Not the rewards aren't impressive or we're in a position to allow narrative loose ends. The outcome isn't regrettable, there's just a sense of roads not taken.

Also, the line separators are still present, curious how many others see these. I can edit them out of story posts if you'd like.
 
[X] Hunger - Sleep of the Just
-[X] 2 Arete: Slumber of Aeons

Banking sleep is honestly incredible.

[X] Forebear's Blade - Fell-Handed Stroke

A solid bit of burst power to help mitigate our currently lacking attack stats, I think the tradeoff of lesser combat endurance is worth it.
 
Something like King of Thieves + Echo of the Forbear could be quite a good balance between power and greed; King of Thieves, being a scaling booster and lateral action enabler, is inherently greedier than a pure combat option, and still gives ++Agility which is relevant in almost all physical combats. Combine that with the +Might and +Agility of Echo and you're looking at pretty decent immediate power, though a bit frail!
 
Rihaku said:
Something like King of Thieves + Echo of the Forbear could be quite a good balance between power and greed; King of Thieves, being a scaling booster and lateral action enabler, is inherently greedier than a pure combat option, and still gives ++Agility which is relevant in almost all physical combats. Combine that with the +Might and +Agility of Echo and you're looking at pretty decent immediate power, though a bit frail!
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Honestly I'm a little uncertain what Agility means for you. Is it some combination of dexterity and speed?
 
[X] 2 Arete: Sword That Was Stolen - King of Thieves - It is the prerogative of the hero true to take the implements of his enemy and turn them against him. For what righteous weapon could deny the verity of his cause, or the valor with which he pursued it?
[X] Hunger - Sleep of the Just - While sleeping, the character is massively more difficult to harm or physically move, and may choose to deny interruptions to his slumber, allowing his body to be used as a potent shield.
-[X] 2 Arete: Slumber of Aeons - Increases well-rested threshold to 10 hours per day, but hours of sleep can now be banked up to a month in advance. Dramatically increases strength gained with age.

[Steal]
 
veekie said:
[X] 2 Arete: Sword That Was Stolen - King of Thieves - It is the prerogative of the hero true to take the implements of his enemy and turn them against him. For what righteous weapon could deny the verity of his cause, or the valor with which he pursued it?
[X] Hunger - Sleep of the Just - While sleeping, the character is massively more difficult to harm or physically move, and may choose to deny interruptions to his slumber, allowing his body to be used as a potent shield.
-[X] 2 Arete: Slumber of Aeons - Increases well-rested threshold to 10 hours per day, but hours of sleep can now be banked up to a month in advance. Dramatically increases strength gained with age.

[Steal]
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That build isn't actually valid right now. We only have 2.8 Arete.
 
I'm thinking about selling my vote again/vote trading this round. Anybody wanting to engage in some logrolling feel free to tag me with your request, I'll do it in exchange for the ability to call on you in a future vote with 1 Veto on your part.

Edit: People I already owe markers to can claim this in exchange for the marker being fulfilled.
 
I wonder how acting as a mercenary would work if space travel is unworkable for us, perhaps the option to directly tunnel through the astral realm still works?

Either way though I'm more and more inclined to stay in the reaches for the time being personally, it seems like the perfect place to grow and gather rare resources without alienating the governments we'll have to take over before we're strong enough.

Not being able to properly navigate it without the mech is a problem but we'll eventually get rank enough to do so.
 
[X] Forebear's Blade - Echo of the Forebear
[X] Forebear's Blade - Fell-Handed Stroke

Voting to save Arete.

Rihaku said:
"Wait, mercy, please-"
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Who was this man? What was his story? How did he put together his pirate crew and give them all magical powers? Why did he mistake us for another? Who or what is the being his mistook us for? Could we have become friends? Why did we find his power so recognizable? I guess now we'll never know.

Or, worse, we'll find out answers to the above the hard way. And we won't like them.

I know he probably deserved this, live by the sword and die by the sword and all, and I don't regret my vote for this, but still. It feels like a lost opportunity.

Rihaku said:
The sense of affinity between them seemed to have dulled somewhat, the sharp edge of its keening blunted by some unseen factor.
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Interesting. Was it killing the pirate that caused this affinity to abate, or was it feeding our hunger? Our hunger should return at some point, so we'll see if the affinity returns with it.
 
[X] Forebear's Blade - Echo of the Forebear
[X] Forebear's Blade - Fell-Handed Stroke

I'm also following the trend of saving up our Arrete. Who knows, maybe we'll have enough discipline to purchase exclusively EFB equivalent picks this time around? Given that they provide the most bang for your buck, that might be the best way to stay ahead of Apocraphya's level curve!
 
Thomasfoolery said:
I wonder how acting as a mercenary would work if space travel is unworkable for us, perhaps the option to directly tunnel through the astral realm still works?
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It likely would, the Astral's got plenty of life, we know because it keeps trying to kill Verschlengorge. Better yet, nobody's going to complain if we Decimate it! Apart from its denizens, but they seem like stuff out of H.R. Giger's nightmares, so fuck 'em. The Astral would make a great slumbering ground if we ever save up enough for Dead but Dreaming.

Hm, if we're confident or desperate enough, we could try to pull a Leman Russ and go for a very enthusiastic walk into the closest thing this setting has to an Eye of Terror. Endless battle means endless upgrades. That kind of glorious madness is why I wanted Feast of Lives.
 
Responsible expenditure in quests, I can't believe it! What has the world come to!? What happened to you all that made you capable of delayed gratification again?

To continue shilling:

Remember people, with Abduction the enemies strength can become our strength. The +3 Agility of Echo plus Thieves is comparable to Undying Strength, the imperfect translation to survivability compensated by the additional offensive power of Agility; they can't harm you if they're already dead! We also gain plus Stealth and plus Theft; very useful capabilities for a build that benefits so much from preparation like Praetor! It might make us asfer to pursue further conflict in a way just having a new burst option won't. We got the plusses to intelligence, why not get abilities that synergize so well with it?
 
Fark it:

[X] Forebear's Blade - Echo of the Forebear - Cloud-shadow of the Forebear's might. Legendary strength and speed, and the resilience to exert them. Can be taken multiple times. [+Might, +Agility]
[X] 2 Arete: Sword That Was Stolen - King of Thieves - It is the prerogative of the hero true to take the implements of his enemy and turn them against him. For what righteous weapon could deny the verity of his cause, or the valor with which he pursued it?
 
Speaking of Rihaku quests, I remember his old D&D vs Warhammer 40k one. That was fun. That was before his trend of truly unique settings and mechanics for everything, but the story was still fun.

Searching back in SB's archives, looks like that was his second one here? Had to look it up to find the name, anyway.

And wow, it looks like that was before he started rewarding thread participation. How things have changed.
Orm Embar said:
Accoutrement sounds like Sorceress terminology, I think Mary-Elizabeth used it? Checking... yep, during a tangent about her attempts to do mad science to elves, though this isn't capitalized. AST 1.0 had loads of cool anecdotes like that, I miss the longer updates. In other news we're still racking up EVA parallels, humanity harnessing an alien biological horror, adding armor and controls. I did have a crackpot theory that Verschlengorge is a Cursebearer with the Geas of Lunacy, locked in monstrous form and we're compatible with it, but not sure that holds water.
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I'm pretty sure she's just using it in a normal metaphor/reference way. In that the body beneath is the real beast, and its armor mere accessories. Just using a french word because she's Joanian.
Rihaku said:
Yeah, the split from SB actually harmed them quite badly in retrospect. Bleach Quest could get 2000 posts in a day, and the curve was only going up until the split happened.
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Eh, I dunno. I find this level of activity much more comfortable. I mean, not saying you're wrong for wanting more, just that I don't really understand it. At some point the cacophony detracts from the enjoyment, IMO at least.

But I'm pretty sure I've said this in previous threads.
 
Would anyone find it rude if I talked briefly about a project I've been helping with that seems relevant to the tastes of people in this thread?
 
[X] Forebear's Blade - Echo of the Forebear
-[X] 2 Arete: Undying Echo
[X] Hunger - Sleep of the Just

I guaran-fucking-tee that Undying's gonna be super relevant, don't want to rely only on Accretion bullshit for survival. This update proves that it's good shit, don't get me wrong, but you can't be a glass cannon with our Curse selection. Also with this build we no-sell attacks while sleeping, shit'll be hilarious.
 
@George Agility is the equivalent of Seram's Dexterity stat, yes. It covers physical speed (to an extent, alongside Strength) and bodily coordination / control.
 
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