Would you Distort or manifest EGO?


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Looking at the list of things we need to do. There are a lot of votes we need to go through.
From E.G.O testing, Abnormality testing, etc.

This battle is quite the treat for the brain though.
 
Regarding the current discussion:
Barriers aren't going to mean much for a fully unleashed Aleph, they'll just leave if they want to
And NT already managed to rehatch the same Witch numerous times and beat it back down - only Witch fusion might be relevant on an Aleph scale of things, except as a distraction or a tiny amount of time

On A Bird, Abnormalities can leave Saplings by themselves under the correct circumstances, so that's not a guarantee at all; we'd need to convert one of them into EGO Gear for that to work
 
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Honestly speaking.

We might need to stop being such a dick to QB. Sure. He's Satan.

But given the fact that Aleph classes are horrifyingly overpowered, cooperating with him would likely be more advantageous for us in the near future.

Until DoSaM can control herself better.
 
Not saying the above is wrong (I agree), but I don't think we've ever been actively hostile to QB before? Only passively at most, trying to make things easier for certain future scenarios
 
Your wings- not those created by Lobotomy, your physical wings- unfurl and fold over you to block the sudden shockwave as Nothing There extends a hand. The patterns across their surface flash, and a crystalline field of red energy flickers into place over your body.

The physical wings represent the shield bullets apparently.
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Two of your tails lash out, flaring with energy. While neither connect, your opponent in again forced back, this time slower than before.

The tails apparently stand in for the slowing bullets.
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Sure, there are many other Abnormalities more 'powerful' than Nothing There, and you are among them, but only the Beast of the Black Forest itself could be considered 'stronger' in a straightforward sense.

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*looks at havoc wrought by NT*
*looks at the two birb saplings standing in the same spot in our backyard*
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I think we really need to resolve at least one of those posthaste after this.
If it didn't already happen due to the e v e r y t h i n g going on here.
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You can feel yourself dying, dragging out your life for more strength. Too much, too soon for an Abnormality still unfinished.

But Abno's are immortal?
Without further detailling I will just expect it to mean that DotSaM just has a manifestation time limit and is NOT actually mortal.
Will change my opinion on Word of Lepi, but that is where I currently stand.
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A distant voice cuts through the screams. A tiny, almost inaudible cry.

We never told any kid that our form is but a seal.
And we are looking quite like a witch right now...

No wonder Homu lost it.

But hey. If she distorted instead of witching that means high exposure is actually an improvement for MG's.
For one Distortions are not innately forever turbo-suffering. For another they can be brought back without specialised equipment as long as they are understood well enough.
Not easily mind. But much more realistic than doing the same for a witch.
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Now looking at the page of Wind-Up Soldier:
Shimmering: Each Scene, exhaust all Pages in the Hand and Deck and add new Pages to Hand. Reduce their Cost to 0.

So all of Soldier's many die are gonna be filled per turn

Artificial Speed: Speed Dice Slot +4. Gain an additional Speed Die at Emotion Levels 1, 3, and 5.

Every third Speed Die is untargetable.

Due to that second effect I think Soldier starts at two die with the +4 going to six at combat start.
Just so it maxes out at 9 for 3 untargetables on emotion level 5.

Wind-Up: Can Store up to 300 Charge. Starts the Act with full Charge. Dies upon reaching 0.

Cherished Moments: On reaching 0 HP, spend 30 Charge to fully recover HP and gain 5 Protection and Stagger Protection that Scene. Next Scene, create a Parallel.

Combining this with how much charge the Soldier bleeds per turn due to shimmering I guess the best move is to not hit her and just have her exhaust herself to empty charge.

False Singularity: Combat Pages played by this Character cycle through the following effects each Scene:
  • On Use: Spend 5 Charge to give all Dice on this Page "On Clash: Opposing Dice lose 2 Power".
  • All Dice on this Page gain "On Hit: Gain 2 Charge."
  • Combat Start: Spend 5 Charge to gain 1 Strength and Endurance this Scene.
  • For every 5 Damage dealt with this Page, Inflict 1 Fragile and Paralysis next Scene.
  • Combat Start: Spend 5 Charge to give all Dice on this Page +3 Power and "On Hit: Inflict Power Nullification next Scene".

If I read this right then the Soldier will bleed more charge than she gains on average, so waiting her out and focusing on dodging instead of blocking may be the better approach.

Or you go the Gebura Unga Bunga route and just burst all of them down as none of the combatants seem to have all that much HP.

I haven't actually played Ruina, so all this is just speculation.
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Interesting: We should put some thought into how exactly we want to guide the finishing process though - we won't get any takebacks when done, this is likely the thing that determines whether the quest is a Good End or one of the many Bad Ends floating around

To quote L-Corp Abel: "You can reverse time. But you cannot reverse a tale."

Good news though is that a good parent/teacher grows/learns just as much by nurturing/teaching as the one getting nurtured/taught.
So X deciding "I need to be better and treat myself better so the kids know I mean what I tell them about self-care" is very likely.

Should maybe officially take on Madoka as a Pupil to X, they seem to have many similar issues with self-deprecation and being excessively self-sacrificing.
So taking her on and teaching her would force X to confront those issues about themself too.
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And furthermore we should definitely use
Order: Commands imbued with intent. Allows for communication unmarred by misinterpretations and with additional effects on Distortions. Those given commands are not obligated to obey them but can go beyond their normal limits to complete assigned tasks.

this on the distorted kids as a therapy tool.
Getting them to engage in topics and having to face what they want to turn away from.
Distortions are by definition mostly too self-absorbed to engage in the communication necessary to help them.
THIS can cut through all that nonsense.

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A distant voice cuts through the screams. A tiny, almost inaudible cry. The voice of someone who absolutely, without question, should not be here now. Cannot be here now. With what little strength is left in your body, you turn to see no one who could have called out. Confused, you raise your voice into the empty air.

Also as a last bit Homu distorted so quick I do not THINK she got to hear Carmen for it.
So maybe small mercies? At least she didn't fill Homu's head with strange ideas that X needs to work through as well after this.
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Am tired; so sorry if anything is obvs off here, but yeah let us see where this goes from here.
 
Good news though is that a good parent/teacher grows/learns just as much by nurturing/teaching as the one getting nurtured/taught.
So X deciding "I need to be better and treat myself better so the kids know I mean what I tell them about self-care" is very likely.
"For the sake of our children, we must be better."

Or you go the Gebura Unga Bunga route and just burst all of them down as none of the combatants seem to have all that much HP.

I haven't actually played Ruina, so all this is just speculation.
Distortions aren't immortal, what we should do, is do the Blockma route and not hit her at all.

Because if DoSaM attacks Homura, I have a pretty good hunch that the girl will immediately die.
 
I don't even know what's happening anymore.

Homu was outside when the isolation field went up, and Kyubey didn't have much reason to let her in. I'm thinking this isn't really her, just the nu-Facility's version of an Ordeal, a phantom of X's fear like the Fixers and Claw were for Ayin.

Also, I expect TT2 to be used before the end of the day, because there's just too much stuff happening from an OOC perspective.
 
I don't even know what's happening anymore.

Homu was outside when the isolation field went up, and Kyubey didn't have much reason to let her in. I'm thinking this isn't really her, just the nu-Facility's version of an Ordeal, a phantom of X's fear like the Fixers and Claw were for Ayin.

Also, I expect TT2 to be used before the end of the day, because there's just too much stuff happening from an OOC perspective.
Homu hit level X exposure and mark of qilipoth- Lilith right before QB construct the isolation field.
So there's a pretty good chance that homu is on the way to distord in the middle of NT fight, especially the last time we say homura is she is staring blankly in to the space
 
Homu hit level X exposure and mark of qilipoth- Lilith right before QB construct the isolation field.
So there's a pretty good chance that homu is on the way to distord in the middle of NT fight, especially the last time we say homura is she is staring blankly in to the space
That doesn't explain how she got in.

In case this is actually her, I'd be very interested in seeing the sidestory that explains what happened outside the barrier, because as it stands things are not making sense.
 
Quantum Tearing to break in, Unraveling Chronology to just inflict "Yeah I've always been inside the barrier. :)"

Edit: and now I'm imagining Unraveling Chronology as a 1-1 card that's always played on an untargettable dice every so often that just puts a character into complete stasis for 3 turns on use (technically more of a yeet them into 3 turns from now.). (Effectively disables passive procs, buff/debuffs wearing off, gaining emotion coins, and inflicts untargettable and immobilized.)
 
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Continuing the talk about family traditions;

I wonder what are the odds of X believing the true self is gained through getting beat up, and thereby the Mark Of Qliphoth (similar to Qliphotics) being granting the opportunity for Shonen Therapy?

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As for how to "fight" Distorted Homura, create the ultimate Shell Game and use our Teleportation to move between our Eternal Minions so that Homura doesn't know what to target
 
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I wonder what are the odds of X believing the true self is gained through getting beat up, and thereby the Mark Of Qliphoth (similar to Qliphotics) being granting the opportunity for Shonen Therapy?
What odds?

It's practically guaranteed. X's whole family are all BDSM enthusiasts who believe that getting beaten up is a good way to have therapy.
 
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Well it worked
Not the best way but it worked for gebura and binah
Others........ well easier said than done
 
Maybe.

But looking at this, I am curious about one thing.

Do we know whether the Agents/Assistant Librarians stayed around with Angela after she released all the lights?
 
If the Sephirah stayed, I see no reason for them to have left either? (The Sephirah have the exact same problem as the Librarians, and the One True Book is not available)

...unless of course X is unintentionally gathering Light for Angela to eventually use
 
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Not enough Light to summon them up at that point, and the Librarians would just be cannon fodder at a fight of that level? (No Key Pages etc iirc)
 
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