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Rihaku said:
Would the Forebear really need two stances active, though?
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An infinite amount of stances for each individual entity, atom, and concept, marshalled into the might of an all-powerful meta-stance... nay, an infinite amount of meta-stances, concatenating and scaling infinitely forever! The Infinite Singularity Stance!
 
@HoratioVonBecker
[D] House of Gold
[D] Beasts of Apocalypse
[D] Guardian Angel
[D] Go Further
[D] Express Train Number Nine

I'll confess I've only read some worm fanfiction and was hesitant to vote, but from what I know, I want Simurgh off our back.
 
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Eh, for VonBecker quest, can people consider not voting to start of with an S9 arc? Aside from that being cliche, it's a very risky starting situation. I still think my 14th Zone + Toolbox + Guardian Angel build is the best.

Unless people are voting purely for the train, which is understandable. Train tinker is a cool concept.
 
For fuck's sake Versch.

I know princesses and towers were always a package deal, but you should've told us that you qualified as both! Goddamnit.

Okay, we cool. We cool. This is fine.

Just need to raze the entirety of the Realm of Myth because they dared to steal our dog. No big deal. If some no name boonie retired backwater assassin could do it, then so can King Hunger.

Just need to play up to myths right. Hunger saved the princess in the tower. And the Lord Protector reveals himself as the mandatory evil vizier as he lets loose a scary looking Machine that was originally contained by our heroes.

For fuck's sake.

The one good thing about this update was that Hunger can walk on water. He has finally built up enough Chakra Control after just 2ish months of training.
 
Would it be possible to add a Curse to our panoply? We've added the Forebear's Blade so it's necessarily out of our reach as far as power goes. Moreover, this might open a path to novel mitigation or pseudo-mitigation with greater efficiency that just throwing raw power at the issue. Plus, there's little that's more metaphysically potent than a Curse so it would be quite a strong addition to our arsenal. If we pick Doom of the Tyrant, perhaps we might even figure out a way to bypass Uttermost.
 
runeblue360 said:
Would it be possible to add a Curse to our panoply? We've added the Forebear's Blade so it's necessarily out of our reach as far as power goes. Moreover, this might open a path to novel mitigation or pseudo-mitigation with greater efficiency that just throwing raw power at the issue. Plus, there's little that's more metaphysically potent than a Curse so it would be quite a strong addition to our arsenal. If we pick Doom of the Tyrant, perhaps we might even figure out a way to bypass Uttermost.
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It's such a cool idea- especially if it's the Decimation. Hunger - The man, the Ring, the Curse? But that almost certainly counts as eating an energy field bigger than your head. If you were concerned about Mental Corruption from the Forebear, becoming more Curse-like could be infinitely worse.
 
runeblue360 said:
Would it be possible to add a Curse to our panoply? We've added the Forebear's Blade so it's necessarily out of our reach as far as power goes. Moreover, this might open a path to novel mitigation or pseudo-mitigation with greater efficiency that just throwing raw power at the issue. Plus, there's little that's more metaphysically potent than a Curse so it would be quite a strong addition to our arsenal. If we pick Doom of the Tyrant, perhaps we might even figure out a way to bypass Uttermost.
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It seems like armaments have their curses as part of their panoply so it should be possible.
 
Going straight after Verch has its own problems, I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly what Lord Protector wants us to do since it would leave Adorie's forces defenseless. Once she and her legions are dealt with, he can force us to the negotiating table or something.

Man, if only Gisena stayed behind instead of coming with Hunger for some bizzare reason.
 
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Rihaku said:
"The Lord Protector stole him," Adorie said. "We believe it was sorcery operating off of a twisted principle of equivalent exchange, enhanced by the power of his Patron Spirit. Because you absorbed the Tower, he was able to somehow lay claim.
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>she didn't even have the right to give us the tower

Between their garbo rolls and the Lord-Protector's general competence, my opinion of the Royalists plummets with every single update. We should conquer Nilfel, if only for its own good. On the other hand, if we recruit Adorie, would that spread her awful luck to our cities? Very concerning. At the least, I'd really rather keep her at arms length.
 
runeblue360 said:
>she didn't even have the right to give us the tower
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Did people think we weren't just straight up stealing it? I was always under the impression Adorie was literally held prisoner in it and any idea that her family still had some sort of ownership of it was at best a polite fiction if such a fiction even existed when the Lord Protector had complete control over the country and she didn't even have some nominal government in exile rebellion status.
 
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runeblue360 said:
Between their garbo rolls and the Lord-Protector's general competence, my opinion of the Royalists plummets with every single update. We should conquer Nilfel, if only for its own good. On the other hand, if we recruit Adorie, would that spread her awful luck to our cities? Very concerning. At the least, I'd really rather keep her at arms length.
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Hey, Adorie is trying her best! It's not her fault she's outmatched in virtually every way. We just choose hard mode without thinking about it once again. And once again, we are stuck with the hard carry.
Sara said:
Did people think we weren't just straight up stealing it? I was always under the impression Adorie was literally held prisoner in it and any idea that her family still had some sort of ownership of it was at best a polite fiction if such a fiction even existed when the Lord Protector had complete control over the country and she didn't even have some nominal government in exile rebellion status.
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I mean, you'd think any metaphysical rights to it would belong to the Royal Family given they were its' "rightful owners", but I guess not. I guess if the Lord Protector has the deed it's good enough.
 
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Would it rot away, Hunger wondered, leaving only calcified remnants, a land of barren bone too vast for the waves to engulf? Would some aspirant colonizer chance upon this land, a thousand years hence? Would they dredge the marrow out from its cavernous ribs, opening tunnels a kingdom's width in size, the white curve of bone overhead so huge and so high that it served an adequate substitute for the sky?
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Real talk though, how is it that random throw away lines in this story are more interesting and thoughtworthy than entire novels. God that's a neat setting idea. While the Armament-Fish is exceptional even among Kaiju, i'm wondering how much of this applies to other parts of the Voyaging Realm. Does the Elixir Sovereignty draw upon the clarified blood of some ancient god, the Rotbeast the very last maggot in its corpse? If we dug deep enough, would we find some primodrial monstrosity neath Nilfel, forged into a land of myth at the hands of their (apparently real) gods, a creation myth in miniature?

While the section we saw was just a themepark to the Foremost, it's clear there was more to the Voyaging Realm. Some kind of escape shuttle, to help them flee this fraying universe? A scout ship to distant dimensions? Or maybe the assorted Realms are creche planets for novice Progression-types?
 
Having Totality interrupted by the Lord Protector taking Verslengorge might of had severe consequences, like for example, having parts of Letrezia's mind left in Verslengorge or vice versa.
 
ImperatorV said:
Eh, for VonBecker quest, can people consider not voting to start of with an S9 arc? Aside from that being cliche, it's a very risky starting situation. I still think my 14th Zone + Toolbox + Guardian Angel build is the best.

Unless people are voting purely for the train, which is understandable. Train tinker is a cool concept.
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And the neat thing about Apocalypse Zone is that you could go visit the train tinker afterwards!
Also, the monsters escaping is probably responsible for this particular attack on the Nine not having as much force as it needed - it was kind of an all-hands situation at the worst possible time. I hadn't really planned it that way, but it makes sense in retrospect!

Anyway, updates and votecall.
*Title is now Horatio, Philosopher of Hell. I'm crediting this bonus to SI-me, who is going to play tiebreaker.
*@Sara and @Aabcehmu both switched to follow Orm, putting Toolbox at five to Angel's four, but only @Hirorubie actually tagged me as requested. Hm.
*Express Train Nine has twice as many votes as Apocalypse Zone, although it's also got less than half the argument power. That said, disappointing two thirds of my voterbase seems like a bad idea.
*Overwhelming support for Beasts of Apocalypse means that one's locked in. Likewise, for House of Gold. SI-me, who's now going to go by Philosopher, doesn't want to try either of those without Guardian Angel if he can help it; he locks Guardian Angel in.
*Now for the controversial one. Philosopher is pretty sure that Go Further is not a great match for Express Train Nine, and wants me to give him Toolbox instead. Toolbox has five votes compared to Go Further's seven, and a significant advantage in argument power. I let him.

Final build:
[D] House of Gold
[D] Beasts of Apocalypse
[D] Devil's Toolbox
[D] Guardian Angel
[D] Express Train Number Nine

Writing now.
 
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