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You already know it has no mechanical effect...
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You already know it has no mechanical effect...
No I don't
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This is FALSE. The next time we meet the Accursed, he will Favor us ten more than before. Ten! That's almost as much as eleven, which would be one more than ten!
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Mountain Hero, the Final Aspect of Pasiap, Successor to Resolute Flame, the Rock of the Faith, the Dragonfist; Master of the Wyld Hunt, the Unbroken Earth, the Immaculate One. Runes of blistering gold and amaranth violet sprawled across ever inch of his face, the barely-bridled fury of the Perfected Lotus threatening imminently - as it had for decades - to spill over its container. Only the combination of adamantine will, legendary sturdiness, and peerless martial talent had kept the Unbroken Earth from rupturing, all these long years.
An enemy who had once numbered among his closest friends. The Earth Aspect's scar-riddled face held a carefully-schooled expression, sharp contrast to the hate and powerless rage with which he usually regarded Odyssial. In one hand he held his grand goremaul-daiklave, and in the other an immense rugged sack.
Mountain Hero, the Final Aspect of Pasiap, Successor to Resolute Flame, the Rock of the Faith, the Dragonfist; Master of the Wyld Hunt, the Unbroken Earth, the Immaculate One. Runes of blistering gold and amaranth violet sprawled across ever inch of his face, the barely-bridled fury of the Perfected Lotus threatening imminently - as it had for decades - to spill over its container. Only the combination of adamantine will, legendary sturdiness, and peerless martial talent had kept the Unbroken Earth from rupturing, all these long years.
An enemy who had once numbered among his closest friends. The Earth Aspect's scar-riddled face held a carefully-schooled expression, sharp contrast to the hate and powerless rage with which he usually regarded Odyssial. In one hand he held his grand goremaul-daiklave, and in the other an immense rugged sack.
But what about the narrative effects?
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We do know it has no mechanical effect, but the original description for getting 1 AF is:
" Forgo a Lesser Remittance. Causes the Accursed to like you slightly more. Benefits uncertain, can be taken multiple times."
the 'benefits uncertain' part, specifically, implies that it has some quantity of benefits in at least some scenarios, though I suppose that's kinda implied by the existence of the Wishes primary-remittance which we didn't take.
" Forgo a Lesser Remittance. Causes the Accursed to like you slightly more. Benefits uncertain, can be taken multiple times."
the 'benefits uncertain' part, specifically, implies that it has some quantity of benefits in at least some scenarios, though I suppose that's kinda implied by the existence of the Wishes primary-remittance which we didn't take.
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Very interesting omake. There's a dissociation between what I usually picture and write, and between what you've pictured and written that fascinates me.
For a lack of a better comparison, it reads kind of like you're usually a comic reader and have gotten to know Batman that way, but then you watch the movies. It's not "wrong." It's still Batman, but details are different; the Joker might've had a slightly different origin or personality, Batman's suit had a pure-black instead of a slightly bluish cape. Your interpretations of what I've written down are interesting, and I approve of them.
Especially how you chose to see Arcadia's Heart as a fully physical thing. That's funny. Maybe I'll write some omake in the thread later, to show everyone who picked Turenval as a drawback just how f**ked they are. Notice that I'm censoring the word "f**ked." That's how f**ked you are.
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here's a question. Suppose a person with... oh, let's say White-division Archmastery... were to work purely on holding back Turenval for, let's say completely hypothetically... the lifetime of several thousand universes... without getting any better at using any of their magics. so just, a days work on holding him back, itterated several thousand more times then the lifetime of the universe.
would this be sufficient to hold him back for a minimum of one day?
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Deathly star description:
Also Rihaku said:
Unless "stellar precision" means that Deathly Star is only precise up to tolerances measured in Astronomical Units, I have no idea what "lacking granularity" means in this context.
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maybe it means 'each time you fire the Star, you're unloading a huge amount of firepower at once, and you can't just fire half a star even if that would do the trick'?
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Huh. That says...things.
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It means that you're still targeting a single unit. You can't divide the Star between a foe you're fighting now, and one you're fighting fifteen minutes later.
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In my mind she wants him to have to deal with the messy, fleshy realness of it. To feel some part of her own disgust and disquiet. So he literally gets her heart, gets drenched in her blood, feels it squish in his hands, etc.
It's a very spiteful way of doing her job, that hurts her more than him since she has to give him the benefits of her offer regardless. Worse the system can be relied on and will stuff her heart in storage without complaint or real drawback. So she hurts herself for very little gain.
It's that depressive spiral, where everything gains a jagged hurtful edge and when it's missing one you find a way to tape some on yourself. She'd need outside help or an extensive run of good luck to start making permanent headway. If only there were someone there who knew it needed doing and could find ways to make it happen... But Diur can't get in, the Lord of Seasons sort of likes his cushy position and Tyrmillion has issues of his own. Ah well, it was a vain hope anyway.
Can't be that bad, blue entropy and diamond perfection alone are enough to give a chance against the old ones after all.
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If you survive all the Splinterings caused by the Dark Ones disapproving of your rapidly-growing existence, sure. The chance of winning is one-in-a-thousand or less. At least you should be good for the first half if you pick some less-terrible drawbacks.
And it'll be a while - at least a century or several, assuming you're lucky - before you can openly challenge Turenval. Turenval is what happens when you take Orochimaru and hand him pure success in his endeavors, alongside the talent of Nameless for magic.
Make no mistake - I approve of it entirely.It's that depressive spiral, where everything gains a jagged hurtful edge and when it's missing one you find a way to tape some on yourself. She'd need outside help or an extensive run of good luck to start making permanent headway. If only there were someone there who knew it needed doing and could find ways to make it happen... But Diur can't get in, the Lord of Seasons sort of likes his cushy position and Tyrmillion has issues of his own. Ah well, it was a vain hope anyway.
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Obvious solution is to shoot the writers providing his BP equivalent with Blue Entropy.
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Hm... if you guys are so heavily into Honing, you should consider saving Arete for Blood Advancements rather than buying Flight, since the tactical function of Flight doesn't really benefit from higher INT in most combats. You hit them with the Deathly, there's not much thinking required!
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Personally, I think flight is worth it even for purely non-combat purposes. while certainly useful in combat and by default attached to Star, there is no stated limit to combat use, as one can encounter an opponent without using the specifically bound ability on them, and it seems quite clearly implied to be non-star-specific. As such, if Hunger at any point obtains an ability with a, say, ten year long cooldown, this will instead allow him to use it three times per day, which is an effective multiplier of (365*10*3=10950)x to the utility of the ability.
basically my suggestion for the best currently known plan for Falling Star, over the longer-then-one-battle time horizon or once we reenter evening and assuming that the swapping process takes less then a day of effort and has less then a week of delay, would be to have Gisena research an Edeldross equivalent of Hyper Reactor, then spam it 3x per day on our companions of choice or ourselves for, in Serams system, a total of +945 to all stats via reaching the 63rd Coalescance
(or half that if Edeldross-reactor is half as strong as normal, of course.)
The obvious conclusion is 'FoFS is overpowered if this combination is valid, therefore this combination isn't intended by rihaku and is invalid', but while this logic does seem to be correct basically always, Using this logic is like saying "I give up", so I won't. Besides, my experience says that DMs say 'this isn't possible' somewhat more often then they actually don't let you do it, if you follow through.
basically my suggestion for the best currently known plan for Falling Star, over the longer-then-one-battle time horizon or once we reenter evening and assuming that the swapping process takes less then a day of effort and has less then a week of delay, would be to have Gisena research an Edeldross equivalent of Hyper Reactor, then spam it 3x per day on our companions of choice or ourselves for, in Serams system, a total of +945 to all stats via reaching the 63rd Coalescance
(or half that if Edeldross-reactor is half as strong as normal, of course.)
The obvious conclusion is 'FoFS is overpowered if this combination is valid, therefore this combination isn't intended by rihaku and is invalid', but while this logic does seem to be correct basically always, Using this logic is like saying "I give up", so I won't. Besides, my experience says that DMs say 'this isn't possible' somewhat more often then they actually don't let you do it, if you follow through.
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That's exactly the way I like it.
The extra power from Flight gives us cover to get a lower tier advancement in Honing. Which might open up a new path of blood advancements as well.
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