A Simple Transaction I
- Thread starter Rihaku
- Start date
- Original
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I think you're forgetting we spent 7 Arete on it, so it wasn't a casual acquisition
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
I expect that by virtue of possessing an investing in it we will end up making it better than it than anything we could pick up anyway, because progression-cursebearer. We're turning it into our artifact. The conjunctional advancements with our other two being fairly powerful ties into that - the Evening Sky is ours now. The no-name we got it from was insufficient to leave a true impression, so now it's a cursebearer-forged artifact.
According to Rihaku it's actually quite good for our level. We just kinda went into a place far beyond our level and are making the poor thing work really hard to keep up.
ImperatorV
The Laughing One
- Location
- The Voyaging Realm
Well, the Mage Lord build is spending a lot on it. But yeah, we should probably get the low-tier essentials like Opalescence and Iridescence at some point.
Projectile
Thinking of Rabbits
- Location
- USA
Well, in character it did contribute to Hunger's exhaustion, but the man did kinda just wave at the evening sky and say "come here bb" and it obeyed, so casual is... not inaccurate.
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
Yeah, like the Sword we've invested a lot of power in (Echo, anyone?) And the Ring we've put some into as well.
It should not be surprising the defensive effects of Evening Sky aren't keeping up given we haven't invested anything into them.
He called it from the space between spaces. That's why it cost a full 7 arete.
Also Rihaku noted the version we got is significantly stronger than the version the Pirate had. There's a reason I'm calling it a cursebearer-forged artifact - we reshaped it when we called it back into the world.
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- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
his ring flared as bright as the setting sun, he didn't casually wave
Talace
It must be raining somewhere else!
But he did say "come here bb" and that's an indisputable FACT
Talace
It must be raining somewhere else!
Turns out, this came way sooner than we thought. Ghost Mode Hunger was not a mistake!
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
I suspect Rihaku was tickled pink we grabbed the first Mantle we saw and fulfilled the poem without even noticing. He definitely has a scheme of some sort for what we are being offered.
Lealope
Not yet invincible
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I thought the same thing but nah, he made that poem up after the fact. Maybe there's a scheme there but it's probably just a nonsense rhyme.
- Location
- Pindorama
Ugh, I'm so tense because of the vote, but I need to sleep soon and I kind of want the peace of mind from the vote being called. I think I can speak for everyone when I say this vote has been quite exhausting.
@Rihaku are you closing the vote soon? I don't think anyone else is popping out of the woodwork, and we are just left running in circles here.
@Rihaku are you closing the vote soon? I don't think anyone else is popping out of the woodwork, and we are just left running in circles here.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
I would try and get like 3, due to the low odds of Gardener returning.
Lealope
Not yet invincible
- Pronouns
- She/Her
On the other hand, it's very possible that Rihaku's already started writing the update so there may or may not be a real impact to the switch.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Mage Lord seems pretty sketchy in this specific situation. Linear Halo is nice and all, but there's no way in heck that the boost in learning speed can compare to being a Progressive Cursebearer with the Hunger boost.
If we had a decade of timeskip time, sure, a magic system to work on during downtime would be great - but we're on a very short time limit between the Apocryphal Curse kicking back in soon and Ber showing up.
This is literally the perfect situation to lean hard on gaining experience to become swole, while Mage Lord doesn't really benefit that much from the progression we took all those Curses to obtain.
Bloodmight is in the enviable position of being better in both the immediate short term and the extreme long term.
If we had a decade of timeskip time, sure, a magic system to work on during downtime would be great - but we're on a very short time limit between the Apocryphal Curse kicking back in soon and Ber showing up.
This is literally the perfect situation to lean hard on gaining experience to become swole, while Mage Lord doesn't really benefit that much from the progression we took all those Curses to obtain.
Bloodmight is in the enviable position of being better in both the immediate short term and the extreme long term.
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- Location
- Omniverse #1345
To me Mage Lord seems like it would be the perfect Final Drop of the dungeon. Getting it now is because we can't be sure when next it will show up.
...There's a reason I want to see if we can pay the Caravan to summon monsters for us to fight.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Pfft, can you really call it the "Final Drop" when a scrub gardener in the outermost, weakest part of the temple dropped it?
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
That's my point. This is... less than ideal timing for this, but it's also potentially the only time we'll get it thanks to the high arete cost.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
We're a progression type Cursebearer. Generally speaking, the moment we defeat an enemy, we escalate in power such that enemies of the same tier become much, much lesser threats, and provide much less experience.
I'd expect to get "one single pick" from fighting the knight army right now, and something like "two picks, no Astral Rank, no defining Achievement" from fighting the Dreadbeast.
In other words, I expect the gains to be mediocre enough that it's probably not worth the time.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
5 Days of prep already made it equal to Full Might in power, though.
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
Right, but if we get Bloodmight we get a progression boost which may be sufficient to offset the xp decrease
But 5 more days of dungeon-diving would put us far above the starting level of Full Might, though. It wouldn't be an issue except for the limited time we are free from Apocryphal.
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OctarineShrike
Avatar of Mandos
Not sure if you're aware of this or not but in the right circumstances we can get the hunger learning speed boost too.
A Simple Transaction I Original
Current vote count? Hm... an interesting thought. Hunger rewards genuine endeavor, after all, and not just battle! As well it should. Hm...? The real question is, who is Best Girl? There may certainly be more of that down the line. And offscreen interactions, of course. Word count is...
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A Simple Transaction I Original
A quest about a simple transaction and the consequences that follow.
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