[X] The Plumed Offering
[X] Evening Sky - Shine Bright

Similar reasoning to Pristine Star, except I don't want us to spend several days wasting around recuperating while the Gamer Enemy scales up like mad + This offers Findross Research.
 
[X] The Mire Wolf
[X] Evening Sky - Shine Bright
[X] Forebear's Blade - Second Stage


Rapid(if non combat) heal for allies, a massive defensive boost that itself is also a full heal once out of combat for ourselves, we can use Shine Bright to heal Letrizia and Gisena quickly then trigger our second stage to return to full health tomorrow. All while only being 4 Arete.
 
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Actually now I have to ask this: @Rihaku: Forebear's Blade - Second Stage gives us a second form and reversion to full health. Does that include fixing our lost body-part injuries? I'm assuming not given it's only 2 arete, but it's also a forebearer effect, and those seem like exactly the kind of thing that could beat the Tyrant at his own game.
 
Is Ber his actual name, or is it short for something? Some suggestions for possible names: November, Amber, Ember, Bertrand, Kimberlee, Bernard? Ember sounds suitably gamer, so that would be my guess.
 
I realized I was ambiguous with my question about arm regeneration. What's our burned arm regeneration like with or without Pristine Star?
 
[X] The Tyrant Beast
[X] Hunger - Pitiless Maw


It simply has to be done. It sets us up for the future, gives us 100% lifesteal (extremely powerful even for its high cost) and it's the best narrative.

A battered old hero should fight and defeat hoary old monsters, not go picking on young and untested weaklings
 
[X] The Plumed Offering
[X] Evening Sky - Shine Bright


Similar reasoning to Pristine Star, except I don't want us to spend several days wasting around recuperating while the Gamer Enemy scales up like mad + This offers Findross Research.

The ability to heal others also offers considerable social utility! People are a lot more likely to forgive Panacea acting like a tyrant than Assault!
 
[X] The Tyrant Beast
[X] Hunger - Pitiless Maw


It simply has to be done. It sets us up for the future, gives us 100% lifesteal (extremely powerful even for its high cost) and it's the best narrative.

A battered old hero should fight and defeat hoary old monsters, not go picking on young and untested weaklings
You can get Pristine Star with that build too ya know.
 
[X] The Mire Wolf
[X] Evening Sky - Shine Bright
[X] Forebear's Blade - Second Stage


Rapid(if non combat) heal for allies, a massive defensive boost that itself is also a full heal once out of combat for ourselves, we can use Shine Bright to heal Letrizia and Gisena quickly then trigger our second stage to return to full health tomorrow. All while only being 2 Arete.

That's 4 Arete, they're 2 each!

Actually now I have to ask this: @Rihaku: Forebear's Blade - Second Stage gives us a second form and reversion to full health. Does that include fixing our lost body-part injuries? I'm assuming not given it's only 2 arete, but it's also a forebearer effect, and those seem like exactly the kind of thing that could beat the Tyrant at his own game.

No, you don't even have those limbs in ghost form! The Tyrant's power is not to be underestimated!

Is Ber his actual name, or is it short for something? Some suggestions for possible names: November, Amber, Ember, Bertrand, Kimberlee, Bernard? Ember sounds suitably gamer, so that would be my guess.

It's not his true name, but it is shorthand for it.

[X] The Tyrant Beast
[X] Hunger - Pitiless Maw


It simply has to be done. It sets us up for the future, gives us 100% lifesteal (extremely powerful even for its high cost) and it's the best narrative.

A battered old hero should fight and defeat hoary old monsters, not go picking on young and untested weaklings

You get one more pick! Pristine Star is a good combo with that.
 
20% chance of crippling or death. No. We're near the bottom of a death spiral that comes from being tired, then more wounded, then becoming more tired dealing with problems that are complicated by our wounds, then more wounded because we were too tired. We have to make and take time to recover.

[X] The Plumed Offering
[X] Evening Sky - Pristine Star


No, they were made by the Tyrant's blade. "Enemy effects may contest this" would certainly apply to a weapon of such power!
Are there effects powerful enough to contest the enemy-effects of the Tyrant's Blade? Because I seem to remember you strongly implying we could eventually fix those injuries, though a mere two-Arete option may not be the way to do it, obviously...
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Conjured Blade on May 31, 2020 at 9:50 PM, finished with 54 posts and 22 votes.
 
Looking at the Tyrant as naturally the shiniest pick... Considering we took the Rank build that +.25 is very valuable, the Arete also puts us in the range for a 7 cost buy even if we might need to go into debt. So it definitely has it's perks even disregarding the Apocryphal. As for the risks/returns though I think it's probably basically:

80% chance it's worth it, even a moderate complication wouldn't outweigh what we get in return.
10% It's not but we can potentially recover.
10% The quest is over.

With an additional unknown risk of our companions being attacked.

So I think the biggest question is if the Apocryphal reduction might cumulatively decrease our chance of death by over 10%.
If it does have that much effect, it'll be because we're constantly recklessly increasing our chance of death by making suicidally ill-advised choices. In which case we'll just keep making more such choices until one of them kills us anyway.

Can we PLEASE take some low risk options until we recover our full strength? Please?
 
Can we PLEASE take some low risk options until we recover our full strength? Please?

You know that the nature of the quest and the curses we took means that we'll always be dancing on some sort of knife's edge, right?

Sure this is risky, but we'll always be doing something that's a little risky. When we're back up to max HP all we'll be doing is picking harder fights that are just as risky to us then as this is to us now.

The reason we're backing hunting the Tyrant is that it's a bit of risk now for a much cleaner recovery and more powerful options in the future so we don't ever have to be in a position like this one again.
 
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