Agreed. I'd actually rather get all the way up until Preeminence: Passion and then wait for Verschlengorge to be repaired. So long as we can synchronise with him, I think any concerns about us being spiritually outgunned can be laid to rest. Combine that with some +Willpower and Stranglethorn and I think we're good to go.
 
Agreed. I'd actually rather get all the way up until Preeminence: Passion and then wait for Verschlengorge to be repaired. So long as we can synchronise with him, I think any concerns about us being spiritually outgunned can be laid to rest. Combine that with some +Willpower and Stranglethorn and I think we're good to go.
Incidentally, Passion's not a throwaway pick anymore with Sword Praxis training in our future. You know what helps with training? Wanting to do it.
 
Update should be in about an hour or so. This one was longer than I expected.

After slaying dozens of Elites, at last a greater monstrosity emerged, the fell wind of its Pressure forcing down his shoulders at its approach. The ground beneath him gave way, muck and grime hollowing out as if pressed by an industrial stamp. He leapt back, launching downward blade-winds to go airborne, but every movement felt stilted and slow in the grip of that Pressure, and he was not able to clear the fog as he would've liked.

It emerged at last from the mist, a golden-eyed creature whose skin was bleached pale, its face an uncanny mix of sublime and grotesque, fine-angled bones above a tusk-bristling maw that drooled syrupy blood. Three meters tall at the very least, with four powerful arms, each holding a curiously curved halberd-like weapon.

It was no Tyrant, but this was the greatest disparity of Pressure he'd felt since coming to this Realm. Hunger attacked without hesitation, knowing that the only way out was through, three dozen blade-winds in the blink of an eye sent screaming towards the foe. One arm snapped forth, halberd twirling, each successive arm taking a guard position behind the last. It weathered the storm of his attacks with sullen indifference, though the one projection that got through tore a deep strip of flesh from its cheek.
 
Why is the dice so committed to having us fight the baddest dudes available!? Everytime it's up to chance it pulls this shit. First the Worm, the Vanreir, now this. Is this the true form of the Apocryphal Curse?
 
Arete Ledger bug fix: I applied the FLOOR function (intended to make it so that Arete is only awarded after integer numbers of months) in the incorrect place, which was annihilating all of the values. This has been corrected. As it stands, we currently have 1.05 Arete from monthly income specifically, though we might have spent it already, I'm not sure.

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Rihaku has confirmed that our monthly income Arete has not been spent yet.
 
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I am mildly grumpy about the winning vote. The minutes between the preview and the update can be HIGHLY misleading, though.
 
Note that this roll probably gives us .5 arete, and a complication.

This makes finishing the Ring more important, annoyingly.

Nah.

Well, on the bright side, more Arete?
I think we may have broken the table, given we are fighting something with significantly more pressure than us. So far that's always been at least a 3 pick fight, so unless this Primary Rotspawn is super weak in everything but pressure it would be odd to only be two picks despite having high rank.

...We may have crit failed.
 
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Ah, fuck. What fight gives us 2 picks, but a Major Complication 100% of the time? A slightly weaker enemy with a type advantage, I was assuming, but might be the other possibility. A fight we lose and survive. We get an A for effort, do we?
/paranoia
 
Ah, fuck. What fight gives us 2 picks, but a Major Complication 100% of the time? A slightly weaker enemy with a type advantage, I was assuming, but might be the other possibility. A fight we lose and survive. We get an A for effort, do we?
/paranoia
A lost fight here is possible, though I would expect others to step in given we are defending the city and this thing is too dangerous to let approach it. (And we know a fight with assistance does count for xp)

Though I'm wondering how a minion can be this strong. Just how nasty is the boss?
 
Could just be something that screws over people with a 400% disease resistance debuff and we were just unlucky in the regard.
 
Could just be something that screws over people with a 400% disease resistance debuff and we were just unlucky in the regard.
Potentially, but Hunger is specifically noting the Pressure difference, and I assume he can tell the difference between that and disease.

But anyway, this is the sort of thing I hope we can deal with with Cut Through. Attacks that simply can't be intercepted.
 
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On the bright side, the nastier the things we kill the more the colony rewards us. And I think Vertex won? If it did then we could get some nice free Vertices for our trouble.

If Surgecraft won maybe they can restock our Armament for us and give Gisena a gun.
 
Time to come up with anti-Gisena tactics. Does anyone have a good comeback for "I thought you came here to get less injured, not more?"
 
As annoying as an major complication is going to be, it would be incredbile if Hunger got his arm back in the same update as he gets cut trough. Maximum swording.
 
Unfortunately, it's only 2 picks. But considering our luck, i wouldn't be surprised if we recovered it soon anyway.
 
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