If the Wolf Princess (or whatever we evolve her into) messes with Bitch's dogs, that's going to lead to, uh, unfortunate events. For someone.
I still feel like we're getting the high level jobs a bit too easy, but perhaps that's because we're still in the early game and not under time pressure to deploy units yet?
I still feel like we're getting the high level jobs a bit too easy, but perhaps that's because we're still in the early game and not under time pressure to deploy units yet?
Yeah, it's come up in discussion before the hiatus that until we become 'active', we're basically able to 'waste' time building up. I also think we're getting them faster than the once-a-day/major event we were getting them before the hiatus? Likely a 'bonus' from the hiatus that'll run out sometime soon. Also something that's going to allow us to build up faster, and thus reach the point Taylor becomes active on the cape scene.
That said, I do think the idea someone else had of using Reveal Info on Natalia is a good idea next update. Because it'll give Taylor a lot more knowledge about just what her Summons can and can't do.
I still feel like we're getting the high level jobs a bit too easy, but perhaps that's because we're still in the early game and not under time pressure to deploy units yet?
As it stands cards have a rather big opportunity cost due to them preventing us from playing consumables.
There are also practical limits on the amount of sapient cards we may want to draw. There steep learning curve for high level cards due to their learning curve. We will have to parent Natalie and the future little red into functional members of society and that will take time and resources.
[X]Deck
-[X]Feral Hunter (SR)
--[X]Evolve ---[X]Wolf Princess (SSR) [X]Believe in her and let her tug on her energy once again [X]Draw
-[X]Treasure Chest (2 CP)
-[X]Day/Night Skip (5 CP)
-[X]Thunder Strike (3 CP)
"Okay, you can do it." Taylor said while at the same time, choosing some cards to buy with her CP, and evolving the one she is holding. Discarding the others to the nothingness of her mindscape.
As the girl nodded, she closes her eyes once more just like she is meditating, and then Taylor felt the area around her becoming a bit heavy after waiting for awhile. A shimmer of some sort of energy gathering around her body, with the added effect of some translucent aura coating her body once more. The air around them rippling, and an illusion as if space itself is shaking is happening around her vision. Even she felt her body shuddering at the mysterious force coalescing on her summon.
Taylor decided to distract herself by focusing on the new card in her mindscape. She looks at the evolution of the red riding hood/big bad wolf fusion. Her eyes squinting for a bit as she saw the change on the image shown.
The girl in the picture seems to be proud of her wolfish features. Her hood is down, showing off her beautiful ash grey hair and her ears that are perked up proudly, her glowing crimson eyes gazing straight and her grin seems a bit dangerous and predatory. A bestial silhouette emanating an intimidating aura is behind her, along with the background of the moon shining gently above her features.
'That looks intimidating.' She thought to herself with a shake of her head. Her image of the red riding hood is utterly broken by that grinning face of hers at that image.
She looks back at the girl who have now opened her eyes and looks at her. The heavy air around the room slowly becoming light and easier to breathe once more. Taylor just noticed that she seems to be holding her own breathe, and has just exhaled after Natalie is done doing her own meditation.
"So, did you get anything that will help us?" Taylor asked as she turns to the girl.
The girl nodded. "Yes." She said before continuing. "I think I can use my.... magic?" She looks a bit unsure about that word, before deciding to continue. "And then... I think I can also... summon... someone?" She said, her tone is still unsure about the concepts of what she got as an insight to her own power, but she seems to be going with those terms.
"Oh.... magic..." Taylor felt like correcting her, but she thinks she will just confused the girl more if she did so. So she lets her be, for now. "Okay, what can it do?"
Natalie nodded, before trying her best to explain it with her limited vocabulary. Based on her explanation, which Taylor tried to parsed through as she the girl is unsure of most of her words, it seems like she can use two "Spells" that she seems to have created deep within her to help with that.
One of the spell is something a bit unbelievable. She said it will convince reality itself that she has been a part of this family for a long time now, or that's how Taylor tried to understand her outlandish claims. Another spell makes her invisible to the eyes of others, until she willingly stops it.
There is also another one, which is summoning someone. It seems like she managed to discover one of her abilities by meditating, though she is unsure what she can summon.
Anyway, that summon might be able to take care of her somewhere out of this house. Though Taylor felt a bit dubious at letting her use it, as she doesn't know who she will summon. They might be someone who are living on some part of this world, and that dilemma that she currently have is making her hesitant to let the clueless girl to use it.
"Master?" Natalie called out, causing Taylor to flinch and blink her eyes for a bit in surprised. She just noticed that she was being a bit quiet, thinking and parsing what she said to her.
"Oh.... yes." Taylor muttered, before shaking her head.
Before she can say what she wanted to say, her mind wanders to her mindscape once more as she internally gasps, hearing the sounds of cards shuffling once more, and then being presented by eight cards.
'What the fuck!? That's too fast!' She thought to herself in surprised. Then she shakes her head. 'Fine. This is not that bad....' She thought.
If she can have more of those cards, she thinks she will have more options to herself. She thinks she needs to be happy that she is being given more chances to draw cards than not.
She glances at the cards once more, seeing the usual three job cards. Then seeing the five consumable ones. One of them being the familiar Freeze card. The other four is unique.
One is a card showing a stickman holding a card with a pointer directed to a large card with some silhouette of image in it. Another is an image of a bomb. The other card shows an image of a table with a lot of meals with it. Then the last new card shows a circular something showing a different place than the one on the background.
She also takes note of the feeling of the job card she is holding, feeling a single choice within it if she ever holds onto it.
As she answers Natalie of her decision to hide her, she also have decided what she wanted to choose on her new draws.
Next Action
[]Let her use the spell to be a part of your family
[]Let her use a spell to make her invisible to anyone
[]Let her summon someone
-[]Write-In
[]Write-In
Voting time is open until tomorrow or if I find the time.
She has now fully embraced her own royal blood and a kin of the night. Holding dominion over every wolves and their relatives. Due to being originally a bow-wielding hunter, she is extremely good at tracking preys on any environment.
Name : Natalie (Dawn Flower)
Gender : Female
Species : Human/Goddess
Age : 0 (Physically 13)
(Abilities) Magic Creation (Dark)
Wish
Infinite Magic Power
Unlimited Potential
Dark Will Manifestation
Dark Spiritual Manifestation
Dark Ascension
Minion Summoning (Darkness)
Curses (All)
Perfect Witchcraft
All Elemental Immunity
All Physical Immunity
All Spiritual Immunity
Time & Space Resistance
Dimensional Resistance
Conceptual Immunity (Darkness)
Sorry for the short update. I did say that you will get more draws anytime Taylor was put in a place to choose a path for her. A path that will affect this quest, and also her life down the line.
It will be up to you to force her to situations that will cause her pick an option for her life, or put her on the most stable one that she won't need to choose anything at all, so the days will pass.
Still, sorry for the short update....
P.S. As for the summon thing. If you ever decide for it, you can decide how they look and their race. Though preferable if they are human-looking as they are looking for someone to take care of Natalie so Taylor can hide her from her Dad.
EDIT: I have edited all the informational sections. You can look into it if you want!~
[X]Let her use the spell to be a part of your family
I was wondering, how we could get some fake's IDs, for her and our future's summon units.
But this is the best thing we could get.
Forcing Danny to adopt doesn't sit well with me, feels a lot like Mastering to me.
That said, I think that we should tell her:
[] Ask her to address you as Taylor or a codename when in costume.
I don't want people to get the wrong idea when she calls us master.
[X]Let her use a spell to make her invisible to anyone
[X] Ask if she can learn to expend the invisibility effect to other people before we summon anyone else.
[X] Ask Natalie to address you as Taylor when you out of costume or a cape-name when in costume.
She has Wish and Magic Creation, if we give her long enough she'll probably be able to make fake magic ID, and that's assuming she needs offical ID in the first place. Who's going to ask a Cape for their official ID? And there's plenty of ruined places in the city where, if we go exploring, we might be able to get Taylor to use her minions to set up a base for herself and said minions.
Like, if we give her long enough even without making more minions I wouldn't be surprised if she could eventually make a stabilized pocket dimension base given she's got Infinite Magic Power and Unlimited Potential, even if a different mage type might be more directly suited for that. Or maybe she'll be able to stabilize a shadow realm for us?
But the only reason she'd need an official ID is if someone tries to force her to give one up, and good luck with that especially once we've given her permission to turn herself invisible at need.
(We might want to put off actually summoning the Wolf Queen though, given she probably can't turn herself invisible, until we can get Natalie to figure out how to make items of invisibility or something alike.)
Given Taylor's general experience with school I highly doubt that she's going to casually consider sending her super powered summoned 13 year old out into school, or in public in general where someone could ask her where her parents are really, and given what kind of city the Bay is... like, good luck there.
I feel you're somewhat forgetting that the setting isn't a reasonable city with a general expectation of things working and being in repair instead of... well, what kind of city Brockton Bay tends to actually be. Like, consider the average levels adult concern and caretaking that Taylor experienced on a day to day basis as a calibration for how likely an invisible magic girl is going to get ID checked or sent to school.
[X]Let her use a spell to make her invisible to anyone
I think that we should talk with dad first, before doing mastering him. I'm also going to tack on some other stuff, because these are necessary, but probably boring to spread over many votes.
[X] Plan Getting basic social stuff out of the way.
-[X] Ask Natalie to address you as Taylor when you out of costume or a cape-name when in costume.
-[X] Write in: the next time you see dad how he would react if you hypothetically had became that would make you a prime kidnapping that wouldn't even be able to trust the PRT, making your only protection secrecy.
--[X] Ask if she can learn to expand the invisibility effect to other people before we summon anyone else.
--[X] Look for old schoolbooks and other things for Natalie, so that she0 doesn't have to become bored when you are occupied.
EDIT: adding this, Buffet table seems really useful for us right now.
[X]Draw
-[X]Freeze (1 CP)
-[X]Buffet Table (3 CP)
-[X]Portal (3 CP)
I think that we should talk with dad first, before doing mastering him. I'm also going to tack on some other stuff, because these are necessary, but probably boring to spread over many votes.
Not going to do any of the card stuff in your plan? I don't see any reason not to evolve the wolf girl to the final stage even if you don't want to buy any consumable cards.
Not going to do any of the card stuff in your plan? I don't see any reason not to evolve the wolf girl to the final stage even if you don't want to buy any consumable cards.
Card stuff and has been treated as a separate vote until now and the plan isn't reliant on card stuff. If I wanted card stuff I would have complicated the plan with a 'summon her to demonstrate' if...
On the matter of the upgrading I'm undecided, because
is something that for idiots of the E88 or drug addicts then that might cause problems for us. (Though that might be solvable by telling her not to use it.)
[X] Plan Getting basic social stuff out of the way.
-[X] Ask Natalie to address you as Taylor when you out of costume or a cape-name when in costume.
-[X] Write in: the next time you see dad how he would react if you hypothetically had became that would make you a prime kidnapping that wouldn't even be able to trust the PRT, making your only protection secrecy.
--[X] Ask if she can learn to expand the invisibility effect to other people before we summon anyone else.
--[X] Look for old schoolbooks and other things for Natalie, so that she0 doesn't have to become bored when you are occupied.
[X]Let her use a spell to make her invisible to anyone
[X] Ask if she can learn to expend the invisibility effect to other people before we summon anyone else.
[X] Ask Natalie to address you as Taylor when you out of costume or a cape-name when in costume.
So folks, are we going to use the 'Reveal Info' card on either of our two current summons (as I'm assuming we're bringing our Wolf Queen ASAP once we've got the 'where do they live?' issue solved) to learn about them? Because it's something I believe Taylor would really like to have, as it should also answer a lot of information about just what the deal with her Summons are.
That said, two questions about some of the Consumables. @Levelgap Tribute says it 'discards' that Job Card. Do we know if that is discard as in 'gets put into the discard deck which eventually gets shuffled back into our draw deck', or discard as in 'burn/exile the card from play'? Also, is there a duration or movement limitation on the portal the Portal card creates? Because I'm thinking we're going to want to set up a portal between wherever we set up the 'base camp' for our Summons and Taylor's room/house.
Oh, and as for the location of that base camp... Our Wolf Queen is going to be a Wolf Queen that came from a Hunter. Just how good will she be at 'living off the land'? Because I'm wondering if that can be used to set them up in any nearby wilderness areas to at least temporarily reduce the burden until they can start their anti-gang attacks. After which, being able to use the loot from the gangs should solve that issue.
Tribute says it 'discards' that Job Card. Do we know if that is discard as in 'gets put into the discard deck which eventually gets shuffled back into our draw deck', or discard as in 'burn/exile the card from play'?
Okay yeah, not going for that just yet. I do think it's something we'll want to create a few 'generic' Cards for, so we're not concerned about destroying a potentially unique character when they're removed. But that can come after we've built up enough summons that we're safe.
[X] Plan Getting basic social stuff out of the way.
-[X] Ask Natalie to address you as Taylor when you out of costume or a cape-name when in costume.
-[X] Write in: the next time you see dad how he would react if you hypothetically had became that would make you a prime kidnapping that wouldn't even be able to trust the PRT, making your only protection secrecy.
--[X] Ask if she can learn to expand the invisibility effect to other people before we summon anyone else.
--[X] Look for old schoolbooks and other things for Natalie, so that she0 doesn't have to become bored when you are occupied.