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- Location
- Simping for DSB
You've doomed us all
A Simple Transaction I
- Thread starter Rihaku
- Start date
- Original
- Location
- Pindorama
you fool, that was my plan all along
- Location
- Pindorama
Inserted tally
"All Curses are crippling," as the aphorism goes, but this Affliction especially so. The Apocryphal Curse doesn't have a monopoly on probability manipulation, having the rug pulled out from under you at inopportune moments versus foes with Rank or Ruling Ring-type effects would be unfortunate. No Combat-type should ever pick this; even if it's technically possible to regain what you lost, why would you choose to sacrifice the power you paid such a high price for? A bit better with Progression, you can grab as many growth multipliers as possible and try to shelter them under the preexisting mitigation umbrella, ideally just winding up with extremely elastic power-levels.
Take this alongside Indenture, laugh, and try not to spend all your Remittance Value in one place. Seriously, what a non-Curse, it's an incentive to explore and take in the wonders of countless worlds! Travel to unusual places, meet interesting people, and kill them to complete Geas tasks! The conditional activation of the Apocryphal Curse is inconvenient, certainly, but if you truly wish to stick around it's not like it gives the Apocryphal additional scaling based on how long you linger beyond its inherent ability to match Cursebearers. There are inconvenient interactions with stuff like Inner Sanctum, the baseline Curse prevents you from making your own paradise dimension and towing it along with you, but that's what mitigation is for. The ability to return to a set area after enough time's elapsed would be neat too, but Indenture makes it less important.
This Doom's awful at first glance, and you have to question the sanity of who or whatever thought it was a good idea to slap the Accursed with this in the first place. But what constitutes a person? If you can redefine personhood through either sophistry or mitigation to include wildlife, targeting things that are sentient but not sapient, it becomes tolerable. You're pretty much locked into vigilantehood in the beginning, though, better hope your starting Remittances give you divination or sensory powers to locate the really reprehensible.
A friend on the force would be valuable early on, but a Progression-type'll swiftly outscale the ability to sate themselves hunting down metaphorical monsters. I can see this working as a Combat-type, find yourself a nice forever war or righteous cause and go to town. Surely no coincidence that the Doom of the Murderer makes becoming Doomguy a viable path, but the disincentive to grow stronger is a seriously dangerous downside. But still, wouldn't Doom of the Murderer make the Decimator's Affliction... comfy? Taken together, with enough callousness to let it run, you'd be riding a neverending high. Not sure if synergistic or likely to Sparta-kick someone off the slippery slope.
This Brand reminds me of Broken Kaleidoscope. I like its aesthetics, though insanity on a timescale of minutes is a painful downside even for a Major Curse. Still, there are ways to work around it. Interacting with civilization through an immunized proxy - might as well lean into the Lovecraft and call them a Herald, the Nyarlathotep to the Cursebearer's Azathoth - is the obvious one. The insanity-inducing effect is a potent deterrent as well, even if enemies go mad in ways that don't impair the threat they pose, lots of people value their sanity and wouldn't want to engage in brinkmanship with someone with such a track record. Take the Plenary Brand alongside this, double the soul-shattering ineffable majesty, double the fun! It's a shame the Accursed wouldn't look kindly on seeking out worship-fueled power sources given his origins...
[X] SAVE
[X] Titan-Felling
Damn it all, at leasty TF get us 2 Arete if we go for ADS
[X] Titan-Felling
Damn it all, at leasty TF get us 2 Arete if we go for ADS
Rihaku
The Internet
30-40
The Evening Sky wrapped around his face, its tatters boiling away around him, nonetheless he continued his excavating advance, the power of his Ring holding back the immensity of the Rotbeast's toxin for the moment. This was the Tiller Wurm writ large and he sought a similar means of bringing it low.
He plunged forward into the poison and dark, burrowed until he was entombed within a semi-solid sea of dull grey flesh, a great tremulous ocean bereft of blood or vigor which receded endlessly before Ruin's might only to reveal more and more of its seemingly-infinite depths. There were no nodes of power or neural clusters to target, nothing but an undifferentiated mass all of which was equally vital and equally useless to the organism comprising. For long minutes he cut and cut, each fall of his blade conjuring wounds the length of high towers, yet finding no respite from this vastness unending.
The Evening Sky wrapped around his face, its tatters boiling away around him, nonetheless he continued his excavating advance, the power of his Ring holding back the immensity of the Rotbeast's toxin for the moment. This was the Tiller Wurm writ large and he sought a similar means of bringing it low.
He plunged forward into the poison and dark, burrowed until he was entombed within a semi-solid sea of dull grey flesh, a great tremulous ocean bereft of blood or vigor which receded endlessly before Ruin's might only to reveal more and more of its seemingly-infinite depths. There were no nodes of power or neural clusters to target, nothing but an undifferentiated mass all of which was equally vital and equally useless to the organism comprising. For long minutes he cut and cut, each fall of his blade conjuring wounds the length of high towers, yet finding no respite from this vastness unending.
Huh, I was sure the golden jewel cores the Elites and Primaries have were a hint regarding the Rotbeast's interior. Instead it's just raw biomass, no weak spot to hit for massive damage. Maybe it's a good thing we didn't take Artful Thorn and try for precision over power? Or perhaps Hunger just hasn't delved deep enough to strike gold yet.
Projectile
Thinking of Rabbits
- Location
- USA
Lemme scribble out those "go for the neural clusters again" sections of the tactics post... you didn't see anything. : p
- Location
- Earth
CHOO CHOO HERE COMES THE UPDATE PRAEHIHRS
It's okay, we can all be mistaken together.
Lealope
Not yet invincible
- Pronouns
- She/Her
So we probably didn't get Outer Sky, or else this toxin is the most hardcore shit imaginable for it to be burning through our cloak.
Dig ever deeper, hunger
Seriously, let's get some mines of Moria-tier delving, the only way out is through. That, or total destruction of the creature's biomass...
OctarineShrike
Avatar of Mandos
Rip and Tear Until it is Done
ImperatorV
The Laughing One
- Location
- The Voyaging Realm
If we had Outer Sky, this would be a lot safer... Oh well, I guess it's complication time.
Possibly I should have advocated harder for Outer Sky, more defensive measures can't hurt if we insist on these suicidal shenanigans. At least the Sovereignty's Elixir springs should suffice to cure anything the Rotbeast inflicts? The leadership has no right to refuse us anything, not after we solved both their pressing problems in quick succession.
Rihaku
The Internet
Artful Thorn doesn't care, it will hurt you. It'll target the ontological foundation of the Beast if it has to.
