- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Eh, what the worst that can happen? We can take them, and besides, soon we will be invincible.
A Simple Transaction I
- Thread starter Rihaku
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Eh, what the worst that can happen? We can take them, and besides, soon we will be invincible.
OctarineShrike
Avatar of Mandos
Another Double Event, Lady of the Lake and The Hero's Panopoly, word count once I Libreoffice(Edit: 899 Words).
The Evening Sky is more than a toy, it's a comprehensive defense system! You just don't get it...
This fish is fabulous, I wonder if we're going to find a swallowed Buddha in there or something?
The side effect of a sensor power, Gisena being possessed, her having envy based superpowers? Who knows?
I ship it. With spades, but I ship it. So much wasted potential compared to King of Sorcerers. There's also the fact she may have to worry about Diarmuid problems a coalescence or two later as I said.
I think we all know that's a joke at this point Gisena.
I'm for whatever reason getting shades of the golden eyes of Madokami here. What was the Maiden's deal again?
No it doesn't, she'd need envy superpowers for that to work.
Hah!
The fact she has self awareness of how bad her cooking is is... concerning.
Humblebragging? Really?
That's the audience.
This may be relevant later and detracts from any claims she has to having forgotten things. Also, lucky her, she probably doesn't even have to resort to techniques like Memory Palaces, though she'd get ludicrous returns if she did I'd imagine.
Food Porn time! Also in hindsight it's kind of funny thematically to have cooking supplies on a giant robot themed around eating.
Glad to know your political ideals are relatively intact still. Also considering she has a palace maybe getting in the Robot was worth it.
Considering you didn't get Isekaied to Toriko I'd consider the possiblity of the Ring upgrading your cooking skills unlikely. I'm also wondering now if the hero and his wife had the kind of cooking scenes that wouldn't be out of place in saayyy, Fate Stay Night? He probably has at least Emiya Shirou tier cooking skills because Accretion I'd imagine.
*Gentle Everyday from Fate Stay Night starts playing*
Letrizia must have eaten a lot to get a food coma.
I suppose the question here is does the shimmering generate sound effects? Also, the message may be from a Buddha figure if the Rainbow Fish myth holds here.
This is a mix of smart and concerning.
I get the feeling the piano version of This Illusion is about to be in order here.
Called it! Really channeling Emiya Shirou there Lord Hunger. Except you're more of an edgelord than Shirou is, and your savior actually did expect payment in the form of curse mitigation.
Yeah definitely doing a better job than Rin.
Infodump Time!
Letrizia had the right idea, if Hunger was a more reasonable person he wouldn't have to worry about this stuff.
Seen it done before, Gisena?
*Ever Present Feeling plays things off*
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Looks like Dressing the Fish was ambigously worth it, depending on what we can get from the Pearl/Scale/Message in a Bottle, or is this us getting what we can from those items?
Preserves returns on other mitigation prospects, in spite of the fact we'll probably need to kick off third impact with the robot to get them.
Maybe? I'm iffy on this now that Rihaku reminded me of the moral dimension. This is a giant utilitarian ethical clusterfark, a trolley problem scenario in action. Lets not get Origin bullets if this wins ok?
The fact the robot was an option probably means it's going to be relevant at some point. The question though, is how?
Who knows? Maybe we've got plenty of time, maybe we find a way to soupe Gisena up to the point she can follow us, etc.
Was interesting to get Mitigation: Veschlengorge mentioned as a possibility. Still, I'm inclined to take the Arete, power begets power, the Kismessitude between Lord Hunger and Gisena isn't a worthy one, etc, we may need the arete depending on what precisely wins, etc.
We have an analog to Origin Bullets and now we've got real odds of getting Huntress Moon. All we need is the time powers to challenge the Hidden Masters and our Kiritsugu package will be complete. Frak.
This merits a long, drawn out God Damn. It's Sauron syndrome in action and we'll probably need a lot of Apocrypha mitigation to justify saving for this though.
Not sure what to say except winter moon is cheap enough to be tempting/worthy of serious investigation.
Pillars of Creation seems like a solution on a silver platter to the Companion problem with Decimator's Affliction and worthy of serious consideration.
The Evening Sky is more than a toy, it's a comprehensive defense system! You just don't get it...
This fish is fabulous, I wonder if we're going to find a swallowed Buddha in there or something?
The side effect of a sensor power, Gisena being possessed, her having envy based superpowers? Who knows?
I ship it. With spades, but I ship it. So much wasted potential compared to King of Sorcerers. There's also the fact she may have to worry about Diarmuid problems a coalescence or two later as I said.
I think we all know that's a joke at this point Gisena.
I'm for whatever reason getting shades of the golden eyes of Madokami here. What was the Maiden's deal again?
Yes! Do that, rather then continuing on this black flirtation that won't go anywhere due to the disparity in growth potential between the two of you.
No it doesn't, she'd need envy superpowers for that to work.
Hah!
The fact she has self awareness of how bad her cooking is is... concerning.
Humblebragging? Really?
That's the audience.
This may be relevant later and detracts from any claims she has to having forgotten things. Also, lucky her, she probably doesn't even have to resort to techniques like Memory Palaces, though she'd get ludicrous returns if she did I'd imagine.
Food Porn time! Also in hindsight it's kind of funny thematically to have cooking supplies on a giant robot themed around eating.
Glad to know your political ideals are relatively intact still. Also considering she has a palace maybe getting in the Robot was worth it.
Considering you didn't get Isekaied to Toriko I'd consider the possiblity of the Ring upgrading your cooking skills unlikely. I'm also wondering now if the hero and his wife had the kind of cooking scenes that wouldn't be out of place in saayyy, Fate Stay Night? He probably has at least Emiya Shirou tier cooking skills because Accretion I'd imagine.
*Gentle Everyday from Fate Stay Night starts playing*
Letrizia must have eaten a lot to get a food coma.
I suppose the question here is does the shimmering generate sound effects? Also, the message may be from a Buddha figure if the Rainbow Fish myth holds here.
This is a mix of smart and concerning.
I get the feeling the piano version of This Illusion is about to be in order here.
Called it! Really channeling Emiya Shirou there Lord Hunger. Except you're more of an edgelord than Shirou is, and your savior actually did expect payment in the form of curse mitigation.
I guess you're going to have better success than Rin did. Hopefully. Surprising yet not given your level of Spade compatibility, part of a Kismesis's job is rubbing their adversary's flaws in their face.
Yeah definitely doing a better job than Rin.
Infodump Time!
It is simultaneously going to be disappointing and relieving when/if they finally go red. Or possibly pale who knows this is kind of pale too.
Let's hope Letrizia didn't wake up and hear that. On another note, hearing that somebody took curses like that voluntarily, from the outside, seems like a pretty good grounds to question their sanity. Their moral fiber too, given Decimator's Affliction. Lucky us she took it in stride.
Letrizia had the right idea, if Hunger was a more reasonable person he wouldn't have to worry about this stuff.
Seen it done before, Gisena?
*Ever Present Feeling plays things off*
---
Looks like Dressing the Fish was ambigously worth it, depending on what we can get from the Pearl/Scale/Message in a Bottle, or is this us getting what we can from those items?
Preserves returns on other mitigation prospects, in spite of the fact we'll probably need to kick off third impact with the robot to get them.
Maybe? I'm iffy on this now that Rihaku reminded me of the moral dimension. This is a giant utilitarian ethical clusterfark, a trolley problem scenario in action. Lets not get Origin bullets if this wins ok?
The fact the robot was an option probably means it's going to be relevant at some point. The question though, is how?
Who knows? Maybe we've got plenty of time, maybe we find a way to soupe Gisena up to the point she can follow us, etc.
I'm in no mood to retread the thread discussion for these here.
Was interesting to get Mitigation: Veschlengorge mentioned as a possibility. Still, I'm inclined to take the Arete, power begets power, the Kismessitude between Lord Hunger and Gisena isn't a worthy one, etc, we may need the arete depending on what precisely wins, etc.
We have an analog to Origin Bullets and now we've got real odds of getting Huntress Moon. All we need is the time powers to challenge the Hidden Masters and our Kiritsugu package will be complete. Frak.
Badass tyrant super mode. Probably makes Doom of the Tyrant even worse.
Tempting.
That seems semi tempting, albeit a petty use of Arete.
This merits a long, drawn out God Damn. It's Sauron syndrome in action and we'll probably need a lot of Apocrypha mitigation to justify saving for this though.
Not sure what to say except winter moon is cheap enough to be tempting/worthy of serious investigation.
Pillars of Creation seems like a solution on a silver platter to the Companion problem with Decimator's Affliction and worthy of serious consideration.
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- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Yeah I imagine so long as its power level keeps up with our companions it should have no trouble generating treasures that restore lost life force - insufficient to deal with the Affliction as a whole, but more than enough to compensate for its effects on our allies I should think.
It seems incredibly useful, but somewhat difficult to justify compared to the opportunity cost.
It's surprising that people don't want all the Arete they can get, in the wake of being shown exactly how absurdly broken the things it can purchase are. We've been accumulating a large number of +Gisena bonuses as it is, it's not as if we need to invest more in her to acquire her assistance. Let their friendship proceed naturally or not at all; pushing for some kind of whirlwind romance flies in the face of Hunger's character, when the mere thought of his wife triggers conversational doldrums. There will absolutely be other opportunities to boost reputation with her, we haven't even reached a quarter of the way through this trip. But if we ever want to pay for the likes of Once and Future, it would behoove us to vote accordingly. We bloody just turned down one Arete for the piscine mystery box and credit with her! This is 2% of the value of an EFB effect, given to us gratis, as a bonus. Reactions don't write themselves, you know!
OctarineShrike
Avatar of Mandos
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
It seems like one to buy second or third. At our rate of growth that should still be well within safe margins for our companions, but have a lower opportunity cost as we'll already have a reasonable amount of immediate power.
- Location
- Rivendell
Last post appears to be the update.
- Location
- Pindorama
[X] Fierce Vigor
[X] Spend No Arete (top 2 picks)
[X] Tyrant - Trusted Counsel
-[X] Trust Gisena
[X] Apocryphal Curse - Direct Mitigation: Reduces the difficulty of encounters by roughly 10%.
[X] +0.5 Arete
Now that Direct Decimator Mitigation seems to be out of the running, I am more open to seeing what Verchlengorge can offer us. As long as Huntress' Moon is still available as an option one month from now we will have not lost much time. Since even Pillars would stop providing targets eventually, it seems prudent to consider all our options before committing.
Rihaku did say there wouldn't be an update today, bu perhaps he's changed his mind; I don't know how effective this rallying cry would be. Considering we will meet civilization soon, Tyrant mitigation is still a strong option. So let prudence win this time and let's not commit to Hunting.
[X] Spend No Arete (top 2 picks)
[X] Tyrant - Trusted Counsel
-[X] Trust Gisena
[X] Apocryphal Curse - Direct Mitigation: Reduces the difficulty of encounters by roughly 10%.
[X] +0.5 Arete
Now that Direct Decimator Mitigation seems to be out of the running, I am more open to seeing what Verchlengorge can offer us. As long as Huntress' Moon is still available as an option one month from now we will have not lost much time. Since even Pillars would stop providing targets eventually, it seems prudent to consider all our options before committing.
Rihaku did say there wouldn't be an update today, bu perhaps he's changed his mind; I don't know how effective this rallying cry would be. Considering we will meet civilization soon, Tyrant mitigation is still a strong option. So let prudence win this time and let's not commit to Hunting.
OctarineShrike
Avatar of Mandos
Fark it:
[X] Fierce Vigor
[X] Spend No Arete (top 2 picks)
[X] Tyrant - Trusted Counsel
-[X] Trust Gisena
[X] Apocryphal Curse - Direct Mitigation: Reduces the difficulty of encounters by roughly 10%.
[X] +0.5 Arete
[X] Fierce Vigor
[X] Spend No Arete (top 2 picks)
[X] Tyrant - Trusted Counsel
-[X] Trust Gisena
[X] Apocryphal Curse - Direct Mitigation: Reduces the difficulty of encounters by roughly 10%.
[X] +0.5 Arete
Lealope
Not yet invincible
- Pronouns
- She/Her
But they can be written. Arete is a matter of work on the part of the thread but +Gisena options can't be obtained the same way. Considering how terrible a Tyrant proc could be at this point, I think a suitable buffer would be worth building. It's one thing to know your friend has some kooky beliefs on law and authority but another thing entirely to see a Sovereign Citizen in action.
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Honestly I'd happily trade away a 25 Arete option for 50 +Characters with characters that are meaningful and useful
Lealope
Not yet invincible
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I think it depends on the rule you select. Something like "being a guest comes with both rights and responsibilities that should be upheld" might be worthwhile. Guest right and the value of hospitality is a pretty widespread idea and can be finagled into a rough approximation of a civilized attitude most of the time while still being narrow enough to not be universally applicable.
OctarineShrike
Avatar of Mandos
Tally incoming:
OctarineShrike
Avatar of Mandos
Indecisiveness spurred by concerns about Doom of the Tyrant impeding our ability to get medical attention and our regen speed(Makes things Fierce Vigor 22, King's Blood 17, before I changed it was 23 to 16):
[X] King's Blood
[X] Spend No Arete (top 2 picks)
[X] Tyrant - Trusted Counsel
-[X] Trust Gisena
[X] Apocryphal Curse - Direct Mitigation: Reduces the difficulty of encounters by roughly 10%.
[X] +0.5 Arete
[X] King's Blood
[X] Spend No Arete (top 2 picks)
[X] Tyrant - Trusted Counsel
-[X] Trust Gisena
[X] Apocryphal Curse - Direct Mitigation: Reduces the difficulty of encounters by roughly 10%.
[X] +0.5 Arete
Rihaku
The Internet
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
Could you add some kind of index in the base vote so its obvious which are competing? Just something like A. B. C. Would make it simpler.
Course if that's more work for you just ignore me.
- Location
- Rivendell
Would this even really be a Rihaku quest without neat voting colors?
My favorite is "Open violence requires first a sincere opportunity for equal restitution."
Better than the Champion's Brand, or even worse? You decide!
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
The big problem with that is that Rihaku can't write 50+ characters. Even 10+ would be pushing it.