A Simple Transaction I
- Thread starter Rihaku
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- Pindorama
We can just get War Preeminence now so we benefit from it and then head into the contest when we think we are ready. That might even be right away!
- Location
- Canada
NO. Any strenuous exertion in the next three days will provoke severe damage. This is a terrible idea.
Could be a good idea? The risk is minimal, at this point, but the potential reward is way lower too. Still, getting some companions with abilities that synergize with ours could always be useful?
Maybe? Hunger does need some rest and recuperation, right now...
There's some risk that this end up counting as strenuous activity but we will need to restore Verschlengorge's power at some point and getting a bit more power before returning to the Temple certainly isn't a bad idea.
Consume too much time, for my tastes. The benefits are real but I don't think it's a good idea.
Stats are always good, but it get overshadowed by the blood buffs at this point.
Advance us towards the ring. The benefit of Dominion: War of +.25 Rank while fighting for one pick and 2 Arete isn't even a bad deal...
Blood buff, it's good.
Another blood buff. It's also good, though the penalty to Charisma +s decreased it's value somewhat.
The benefits are a little to narrow to my taste.
Not a blood buff and it's value is diminished by the penalty to Protection +s, pass.
We can't actually pick this without Opalescence.
Pretty incredible value, but it doesn't really give us anything particularly useful for surviving the rest of the Temple.
7 Arete for an ability that offer only minimal immediate power and doesn't even advance us towards the Ring? Hard pass. Maybe after we've got the Ruling Ring?
For now, I'll go for this:
[X] Heal Verschlengorge
[X] The Ring of Power - Dominion
-[X] War
YOLT
Remember, Blood does a ton - healing, buffing, debuffing etc. It's arguably better than War; lack of 2Arete cost can be chalked up to Progression+
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[X] Heal Verschlengorge
[X] Vigor Itself
Slack off isn't looking good, so it was between this and fishing, since I think vacation costs too long timewise. After thinking about it i'm pretty sure Hunger could balance the struggle of the play in the line in short enough bursts to not aggravate his condition, but healing is also a pretty good use of our time, something we'll have to do eventually anyway so now when other choices are constrained and the new monsters won't be extremely dangerous to Gisena anymore is a good pick. Plus we might pick up a small bit of experience
[X] Vigor Itself
Slack off isn't looking good, so it was between this and fishing, since I think vacation costs too long timewise. After thinking about it i'm pretty sure Hunger could balance the struggle of the play in the line in short enough bursts to not aggravate his condition, but healing is also a pretty good use of our time, something we'll have to do eventually anyway so now when other choices are constrained and the new monsters won't be extremely dangerous to Gisena anymore is a good pick. Plus we might pick up a small bit of experience
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Does anyone have some insight for me on the contest of primacy? I feel like I'm about to say some famous last words, but isn't this a masterless ring we're talking about? what kind of danger does it represent to us?
I get the context clue that rings can get in hissy fits with eachother, but not a whole lot of specifics about what that might entail.
I get the context clue that rings can get in hissy fits with eachother, but not a whole lot of specifics about what that might entail.
Apparently Rings of Power(i.e. Hunger is Ring of Blood) and Ruling Rings are different things. It would seem that Ruling Rings work on "there can only be one" logic - as such upgrading our Ring can cause us to challenge whatever currently holds Ruling Ring(Astral Lord?), as we are likely to mess with their own Ring.
Lealope
Not yet invincible
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Before we go into the contest, given the kind of metaphysical and spiritual fight it'll almost certainly be, I'd rather pick up some more +Willpower and Rank.
Keep in mind, we're pretty much done for the next three days. Spending more time on this rather than the others doesn't matter because none of them will do any real fighting in the immediate term anyway. I think the benefits of +0.5 Arete, +Relationships and potentially finding some treatment for Lingering Paralysis (which is -15% to our physical attributes) would be worth the costs involved.
Keep in mind, we're pretty much done for the next three days. Spending more time on this rather than the others doesn't matter because none of them will do any real fighting in the immediate term anyway. I think the benefits of +0.5 Arete, +Relationships and potentially finding some treatment for Lingering Paralysis (which is -15% to our physical attributes) would be worth the costs involved.
Projectile
Thinking of Rabbits
- Location
- USA
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used to, Vanreir also has a much more powerful Form of Rage. That's what the title means, right?
No? Good, that would be the worst, he wouldn't even have any blood.
Interesting that he doesn't notice the kidney damage until later if his stride is irregular now, but it's not like he wasn't stabbed in the eye, the heart, caught red-handed, and generally beat to shit, so he gets a pass.
When you talk about how impressive Vanreir is you sound like a veteran outrider slayer, but you can stop putting on airs, we all know you just started with this.
I love that even when Hunger is fighting yesterday's enemies, he's still old and treacherous about it. Even if it might have been better to start with Echoes instead of Nightmare Praetor, I love playing a character who gives off such a good-at-things vibe.
Hunger has noticed that his body has become sharper, which perfectly explains why he now has a Charisma mauls! 6/10, elbows too pointy.
It's nice to see that Letrizia wasn't bored, but the party's over now that Hunger's here. He kills all the baddies, but I can't help but wonder if he feels kinship for their pointy-bodiedness. You, too, are becoming as ugly as an Astral Beast.
Slashing people like the horizon is my favorite description ever. Good night, everything I see dies. You don't actually see him move, of course, the screen just goes black before a slash appears, because ++Budget was not included in the All Stats.
It doesn't matter now that Amarlt is dead, but I guess retroactively all of his strikes were capable of spirit damage. Scary guy. I'm incredibly pleased by this complication (what a thing to say), because exhaustion is horrible. And if we took the -40% to social stats on top of the .7 multiplier, we'd never recover from how thoroughly and sublimely Gisena would out-banter us. You want a real devastating complication, there it is.
And it seems like Vanreir's level did retroactively increase, which is the best of both worlds for Hunger. He gets to be both badass and alive.
I can't believe Hunger has the audacity to call winning with a single blow that tells a "tired cliche" with all the Forebear juice we've been guzzling recently. Power? Skill? Nothing compared to the power of the Accursed, even in a, uh, ring. Wait, are we the waifu here? We... did make a promise to him, didn't we.
Nice nod to Liefang, the master of circumstance, the most cynical idealist I ever did see. Admire him, but from a distance. Thank god he didn't have Rank, now that would be unfair.
First on the list is a nap, he earned it.
Smh, only a kid would be so excited about getting to be the grown up, but this isn't at all bad. Letrizia's cuteness is overwhelming, I'm suspicious that it's the primary stat used for robot piloting.
The appropriate thing to do would be to go back to sleep, but even with Letrizia backing off, Hunger realizes that he couldn't possibly miss the opportunity to brag about his sword. +Cute for Hunger, but he's still far behind.
Tune in next time for Hunger's greatest powerup yet: armless no longer. It's a bit melancholic, though, because it illustrates the tragedy of progression. If he advances so far past the masses as to have two hands, will he even be able to relate? Will he still be human?
Looks like the joking accidentally hit a sore spot, House Artriez probably is having financial difficulties. Since Zee's dad was sick, and the house was weakened to the point of almost losing everything, it makes sense. She's very confident that the Empire (the one that almost certainly was responsible for her exile) will pay for her return, so I guess they have a policy in place for similar situations.
I take back everything I said about pointy elbows, Hunger's first-name comment was smooooth. At first it's like a joking, cliche sweet-talk line (teaching moment!), but Zee had just identified with functioning under the Empire rather than her family a line ago, actually does fluff her ego despite the transparency, probes for more information on areas she's been defensive about... while exhausted, and not an iota of heaviness about any of it. I absolutely love this magnificent bastard.
I know we've tossed around the mercenary idea for the medium-term, and it makes perfect sense, but it seems Hunger has fairly firm plans there. Good for him.
Ha ha, Gisena is on our side! That's what happens when you respond to someone undergoing "professional development"/awesome powerups in aim of a raise by docking their pay, what an amateur move. Luckily Hunger is a good boy, so instead of scamming you he gives you what you want.
Unfortunately, Gisena is without mercy. Noogies happened immediately offscreen.
Fishing is a meme vote, meme votes have gotten us into trouble before. Fishing meme votes have brought great trouble before. It's not even mondo bait at this point, he just threw the Rod of Ages in the water. We could visit the encampment and not fish, but the difference between it being too dangerous and being useless is a few days for Hunger, who is now well on his way to having two hands and becoming incomprehensible to mortal minds. We could still see some of the people in previous options, like Gabri- like the Amia- like the Advent-... we could see the merchants again? Nah, fuck those guys.
Mystery box and naptime in one package, what's not to like? The mystery box, for me. It could be anything, even trauma. Unclench so all the memories come spilling out? Unlikely, but as amusing as it would be to go Even Further Beyond on chilling out, I don't wanna roll the dice right now.
I was a bit confused about why healing Verschlengorge would be physically straining, but oohhhh, the monsters. We should get around to doing that sometime, and now is a time. Eh, all non-fish votes are good, even if they feed our grinding addiction.
Last, but not least, road trip! Even better, we get to do chores for people. Wait, wasn't that a curse, you ask. It's only a curse if it doesn't give you rAnK. Grow Hunger's Astral legend by de-catting trees and helping old ladies across the street, before stabbing the lidless eye of Sauron or something. This option also heals Verschlengorge, because obviously fixing the car before the road trip makes sense, but I didn't realize that earlier. Brb, changing vote. Relationship boosting is cool, we need more trust to get all Zee's secrets, and all these people need happiness.
Vacation takes time, which is bad because Apocryphal's coming back online, but on the other hand we've got three (2.5?) debuffs holding us down that'll clear up by waiting. And I don't really like the idea of stalling for more Arete, that just slows stuff down, but since I'd actually like a vacation update or two it's not a problem for me.
To be honest, I kinda want to do inane sidequests at least once, to see what they're like.
[X] Vacation
[X] The Ring of Power - Dominion
-[X] War
Like Hunger
No? Good, that would be the worst, he wouldn't even have any blood.
I see that edit there, I thought it was odd that Hunger was at 50x speed and strength still, because that was so three days ago. 200x is more in line with where I thought we were. And its enough that we're causing small dust kabooms by slowly staggering to safety. Physics just aren't the same when you have superpowers... or they are, and that just makes it weirder! Pretty soon the ground isn't going to be strong enough to support us, so our running speed will no longer be a function of Str and Agi. Actually, Fall of Night is probably helpful for going fast, keeping us on the ground so we can more easily avoid moon jumping or having to do goofy Naruto runs.
Interesting that he doesn't notice the kidney damage until later if his stride is irregular now, but it's not like he wasn't stabbed in the eye, the heart, caught red-handed, and generally beat to shit, so he gets a pass.
When you talk about how impressive Vanreir is you sound like a veteran outrider slayer, but you can stop putting on airs, we all know you just started with this.
Yes, of course, luckily you only encountered cannon fodder enemies on the level of those that had a 35%? chance of killing you yesterday, leaving you partially paralyzed for weeks. Training standards have truly fallen, can't these guys decuple their strength in 30 hours? You snooze you lose, unless you're Hunger, in which case you only win more. Really, though, progression-types are unfair.
I love that even when Hunger is fighting yesterday's enemies, he's still old and treacherous about it. Even if it might have been better to start with Echoes instead of Nightmare Praetor, I love playing a character who gives off such a good-at-things vibe.
Hunger has noticed that his body has become sharper, which perfectly explains why he now has a Charisma mauls! 6/10, elbows too pointy.
Slowly he zoomed at not-even-hypersonic yet speeds, what a scrub.
It's nice to see that Letrizia wasn't bored, but the party's over now that Hunger's here. He kills all the baddies, but I can't help but wonder if he feels kinship for their pointy-bodiedness. You, too, are becoming as ugly as an Astral Beast.
Slashing people like the horizon is my favorite description ever. Good night, everything I see dies. You don't actually see him move, of course, the screen just goes black before a slash appears, because ++Budget was not included in the All Stats.
Ah, he was still healing on the run back, that explains it.
It doesn't matter now that Amarlt is dead, but I guess retroactively all of his strikes were capable of spirit damage. Scary guy. I'm incredibly pleased by this complication (what a thing to say), because exhaustion is horrible. And if we took the -40% to social stats on top of the .7 multiplier, we'd never recover from how thoroughly and sublimely Gisena would out-banter us. You want a real devastating complication, there it is.
Dammit, Hun, I'm a magician, not a doctor. Green eyes activate... as expected, it's fucked. The professional opinion of a genius is don't get stabbed.
And it seems like Vanreir's level did retroactively increase, which is the best of both worlds for Hunger. He gets to be both badass and alive.
I can't believe Hunger has the audacity to call winning with a single blow that tells a "tired cliche" with all the Forebear juice we've been guzzling recently. Power? Skill? Nothing compared to the power of the Accursed, even in a, uh, ring. Wait, are we the waifu here? We... did make a promise to him, didn't we.
Nice nod to Liefang, the master of circumstance, the most cynical idealist I ever did see. Admire him, but from a distance. Thank god he didn't have Rank, now that would be unfair.
Lots of silly juxtapositions in this update, I love it. Letrizia justly calls out Hunger being an XP-stealing meanie, and it's clear that Hunger's pointy elbows are responsible for him losing a banter to Zee. We have to get our Charisma back, it's like priority on-, well, like priority twenty. But it's on the list!
First on the list is a nap, he earned it.
The giant robot looks inquisitive. I was going to ask if even facial expressions are transmitted, and if all the faces do the same thing for incredible spooktacularity, but then I realized you can just tilt your head, and it's more anime besides. Still terrifying, so Hunger's paranoia is understandable.
Smh, only a kid would be so excited about getting to be the grown up, but this isn't at all bad. Letrizia's cuteness is overwhelming, I'm suspicious that it's the primary stat used for robot piloting.
The appropriate thing to do would be to go back to sleep, but even with Letrizia backing off, Hunger realizes that he couldn't possibly miss the opportunity to brag about his sword. +Cute for Hunger, but he's still far behind.
You can't walk up to the edge of backstory like that and just stop. Mean. Hunger is good at understatement, because there's no point in worrying the daughteru. It's true, and doesn't even sound like an understatement, but Zee knows that Hunger beats up people he shouldn't be able to, so the fact that he really should have died there stays concealed. And jokes happen! Joke's on you, Zee, we are now less undead and less chimera, having discovered the power of an almost-coherent build.
Seems to be a response to the "Forebear was a jerk" going around, but he did give us +Heartlessness... Well, cruelty exists even without need. but at least he probably wasn't a monster. Just cold. It's interesting that the power of the Blade, of Ruin, gets ice imagery. Seems too orderly, but ice cuts better than fire. Oh, hey, my power just came back on after an outage, thanks 4bear.
Hint taken, bossman. As they say, two hands are better than heavy work. Ruinous Valor is a three-pick option, therefore we need to immediately find the strongest person in the area and charge directly at them. Wait, Not Dying faction, what are you doing with those pitchforks?
Tune in next time for Hunger's greatest powerup yet: armless no longer. It's a bit melancholic, though, because it illustrates the tragedy of progression. If he advances so far past the masses as to have two hands, will he even be able to relate? Will he still be human?
However much she pays us, it should be twice as much. Well, she doesn't pay us anything, but that just means it should be easier on her. Maybe the real paycheck was the friends we made along the way.
Looks like the joking accidentally hit a sore spot, House Artriez probably is having financial difficulties. Since Zee's dad was sick, and the house was weakened to the point of almost losing everything, it makes sense. She's very confident that the Empire (the one that almost certainly was responsible for her exile) will pay for her return, so I guess they have a policy in place for similar situations.
I take back everything I said about pointy elbows, Hunger's first-name comment was smooooth. At first it's like a joking, cliche sweet-talk line (teaching moment!), but Zee had just identified with functioning under the Empire rather than her family a line ago, actually does fluff her ego despite the transparency, probes for more information on areas she's been defensive about... while exhausted, and not an iota of heaviness about any of it. I absolutely love this magnificent bastard.
I know we've tossed around the mercenary idea for the medium-term, and it makes perfect sense, but it seems Hunger has fairly firm plans there. Good for him.
Ha ha, Gisena is on our side! That's what happens when you respond to someone undergoing "professional development"/awesome powerups in aim of a raise by docking their pay, what an amateur move. Luckily Hunger is a good boy, so instead of scamming you he gives you what you want.
Unfortunately, Gisena is without mercy. Noogies happened immediately offscreen.
I... think I said that Uttermost had my uttermost contempt only mostly-jokingly yesterday, but I already love it. Hunger doing swordbeams constantly is my new brain screensaver. It's great that we're not screwed if a fight comes up, too. Even if there should be only peace, our votes will decide.
Fishing is a meme vote, meme votes have gotten us into trouble before. Fishing meme votes have brought great trouble before. It's not even mondo bait at this point, he just threw the Rod of Ages in the water. We could visit the encampment and not fish, but the difference between it being too dangerous and being useless is a few days for Hunger, who is now well on his way to having two hands and becoming incomprehensible to mortal minds. We could still see some of the people in previous options, like Gabri- like the Amia- like the Advent-... we could see the merchants again? Nah, fuck those guys.
Mystery box and naptime in one package, what's not to like? The mystery box, for me. It could be anything, even trauma. Unclench so all the memories come spilling out? Unlikely, but as amusing as it would be to go Even Further Beyond on chilling out, I don't wanna roll the dice right now.
I was a bit confused about why healing Verschlengorge would be physically straining, but oohhhh, the monsters. We should get around to doing that sometime, and now is a time. Eh, all non-fish votes are good, even if they feed our grinding addiction.
Last, but not least, road trip! Even better, we get to do chores for people. Wait, wasn't that a curse, you ask. It's only a curse if it doesn't give you rAnK. Grow Hunger's Astral legend by de-catting trees and helping old ladies across the street, before stabbing the lidless eye of Sauron or something. This option also heals Verschlengorge, because obviously fixing the car before the road trip makes sense, but I didn't realize that earlier. Brb, changing vote. Relationship boosting is cool, we need more trust to get all Zee's secrets, and all these people need happiness.
Vacation takes time, which is bad because Apocryphal's coming back online, but on the other hand we've got three (2.5?) debuffs holding us down that'll clear up by waiting. And I don't really like the idea of stalling for more Arete, that just slows stuff down, but since I'd actually like a vacation update or two it's not a problem for me.
To be honest, I kinda want to do inane sidequests at least once, to see what they're like.
[X] Vacation
[X] The Ring of Power - Dominion
-[X] War
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Rings might be associated with corresponding Ages, so if one Ring says it's the Age of War and another contradicts that it's the Age of Magic, they need to decide who is in the right.
- Location
- The savanna.
[X] Slack Off
[X] Vigor Itself
Slack off... with uttermost vigor. But seriously we've gotta ditch some of these debuffs, maybe we can get rid of Chill by chilling or lose Paralysis? Also we lost some cha with Uttermost, gotta shore up weaknesses. The Quickening options are efficient since we don't have Rage anymore to multiply non-blood stats. Wonder if we can sac second stage too, as is it kind of sucks.
[X] Vigor Itself
Slack off... with uttermost vigor. But seriously we've gotta ditch some of these debuffs, maybe we can get rid of Chill by chilling or lose Paralysis? Also we lost some cha with Uttermost, gotta shore up weaknesses. The Quickening options are efficient since we don't have Rage anymore to multiply non-blood stats. Wonder if we can sac second stage too, as is it kind of sucks.
Rihaku
The Internet
I'm surprised Dominion is so popular here. What if you guys end up wanting to go for Cut Through? There's value in getting the Blood Advancements and saving Arete. You get the power of Blood and keep your options open for any 7 Arete picks you might end up wanting! Philosopher's Wreath, another high-tier magic system, some utility effect that saves you a lot of quality of life, or a critical combat upgrade! The Apocryphal Curse lying dormant means an opportunity for you to accumulate Arete towards flexibility in planning! You could even save up for Once and Future, not just for the power but for that sweet Forebear lore!
Maragas
Nothing to see here.
- Location
- Tree House
Easy, I want the Ring. End of discussion for me
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I think one major concern is there being another Ruling Ring somewhere in the Voyaging Realm
Projectile
Thinking of Rabbits
- Location
- USA
precioussss...
Rihaku
The Internet
Current vote count?
Edit?
No, you need it to become a super juggernaut undead etc.
Or even outside of it!
Edit?
No, you need it to become a super juggernaut undead etc.
Or even outside of it!
Projectile
Thinking of Rabbits
- Location
- USA
I could've sworn that the speed and strength of X men said 50 rather than 200 the first time I read it, but it's entirely possible I made that up, I was half asleep at that time.
Lealope
Not yet invincible
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'm 99% sure he's goofing fam.
ImperatorV
The Laughing One
- Location
- The Voyaging Realm
Well, I suppose saving for a magic system sounds nice.
[X] Vigor Itself
[X] Vacation
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If we heal stay and heal Verschle, depending on how long it takes that could mean Gisena is able to scout out the encampment while we do so. Since she should have some free time after powering up and at that point is strong enough it's not particularly risky for her to solo it. Giving us better info on how risky the fishing competition might be in our state. We could potentially have our cake and eat it too!
Less excitingly there's probably some other minorly useful things over there she might acquire or get a lead on.
Less excitingly there's probably some other minorly useful things over there she might acquire or get a lead on.