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Fanwork#1350 Words of spoilerbox flowchart fight tactics. No Administration speculation involved here, though.
How to murder a rank 6.5 enemy when you are a Rank 4 scrub. I'm visualizing a flowchart, so I'm trying something more creative here but I think my organizational efforts only made more of a mess for you guys to look at. For me, though, it was actually a huge help brainstorming, because I can clearly see where I'm making assumptions. There's no "Avecarn chases Hunger's friends and ignores him" branch, for example, which I didn't consider was a possibility until I thought of alternatives. I hope this is helpful.
>Begin! I recall old discussion posts about how explosives would be more effective than blaster bolts against precognitive, superhumanly graceful Jedi, and Rank-based instincts amount to basically the same thing. I'm also in the middle of writing an Age and Treachery reaction, and Hunger was having a huge amount of trouble defending Gisena while pushing against the flow of the world. Combining these two thoughts, after Hunger gives an Edeldross buff, Gisena should push herself to the limit immediately, maybe even using her Ult, and debuff Avecarn as much as possible. (Hunger protects himself with Edeldross, he shouldn't be too close to Avecarn.) Aeira should do also go all out and muddy the waters as much as she can, if she's around. She has no business being close to this fight tbh. Hunger should take advantage and try to score a blow that will bleed out, in soul and especially in body, if Crimson wins, while he's weakened. Then, Gisena and Aeira should get the hell out immediately and fall back to Verschlengorge while Hunger focuses fully on defense and distracting Avecarn. Aeira is either a liability or a sacrifice in this fight, honestly. It'll totally suck to do this without Gisena, but at Rank 6.5 one of his attacks is going to get through Hunger's guard and kill her, I think. She'll be sublime and Rank 7 bloodboosted, but even so.
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How to murder a rank 6.5 enemy when you are a Rank 4 scrub. I'm visualizing a flowchart, so I'm trying something more creative here but I think my organizational efforts only made more of a mess for you guys to look at. For me, though, it was actually a huge help brainstorming, because I can clearly see where I'm making assumptions. There's no "Avecarn chases Hunger's friends and ignores him" branch, for example, which I didn't consider was a possibility until I thought of alternatives. I hope this is helpful.
>Begin! I recall old discussion posts about how explosives would be more effective than blaster bolts against precognitive, superhumanly graceful Jedi, and Rank-based instincts amount to basically the same thing. I'm also in the middle of writing an Age and Treachery reaction, and Hunger was having a huge amount of trouble defending Gisena while pushing against the flow of the world. Combining these two thoughts, after Hunger gives an Edeldross buff, Gisena should push herself to the limit immediately, maybe even using her Ult, and debuff Avecarn as much as possible. (Hunger protects himself with Edeldross, he shouldn't be too close to Avecarn.) Aeira should do also go all out and muddy the waters as much as she can, if she's around. She has no business being close to this fight tbh. Hunger should take advantage and try to score a blow that will bleed out, in soul and especially in body, if Crimson wins, while he's weakened. Then, Gisena and Aeira should get the hell out immediately and fall back to Verschlengorge while Hunger focuses fully on defense and distracting Avecarn. Aeira is either a liability or a sacrifice in this fight, honestly. It'll totally suck to do this without Gisena, but at Rank 6.5 one of his attacks is going to get through Hunger's guard and kill her, I think. She'll be sublime and Rank 7 bloodboosted, but even so.
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Now, hopefully Avecarn will be wounded by everyone burning the candle at both ends at this point, and hopefully he doesn't have a way to heal cursed wounds in combat time, because then time will be working against him as well as us. From there, the main goal would simply be to not make any mistakes that Rank can exaggerate to ridiculous degrees. Keep the pressure up with high-percentage swordsmanship (I'm using tennis terminology because I'm not a sorddude, but I hope the idea comes through), but don't follow the impulse to do heroic improvisations. To assist in this, Hunger should destroy everything around him without leaving convenient weak spots like the crater that contributed to Vanreir's death. Every object is a potential banana peel in a fight with an overwhelming Rank difference.
I maintain that grappling is a good idea, there are so many fewer points of failure. The new complication with that plan is Edeldross, we don't want to buff ourself while we're on him, Hunger might be slick and controlled enough to manage to hit only himself while literally on top of his foe normally, but at Rank 6.5 it'd be impossible. I don't know how long the buff lasts, but if it wears off the choice would be between keeping the grapple without the buff, buffing both himself and his foe, and breaking the grapple to re-buff, but that can't be the next level of the flowchart because that one's reserved for whether or not this even works. This is hard, eh, I'l work it in.
I maintain that grappling is a good idea, there are so many fewer points of failure. The new complication with that plan is Edeldross, we don't want to buff ourself while we're on him, Hunger might be slick and controlled enough to manage to hit only himself while literally on top of his foe normally, but at Rank 6.5 it'd be impossible. I don't know how long the buff lasts, but if it wears off the choice would be between keeping the grapple without the buff, buffing both himself and his foe, and breaking the grapple to re-buff, but that can't be the next level of the flowchart because that one's reserved for whether or not this even works. This is hard, eh, I'l work it in.
In order to pull this off, the first step is getting close. We outspeed him, so theoretically we could decide the range. His Rank and Administration will make it hard, the latter of which we don't know enough about; Hunger should learn about it over the fight, but he doesn't need me to tell him that. Use Ruin and Cut Through to get to him, the combination might work as a shitty knockoff Mage-Defeating Stance. Run at him while making a whipsaw motion with the sword? Feints will fail, but Hunger should be willing to take a hit to make this work.
I'm out of ideas, but Quora says to advance where there's a wall behind him to close distance, which makes sense so do that. It also suggests feinting a slow retreat before surging forward, but the inconsiderate users are only talking about non-supernatural fights, how rude. :S Damn, so much of fighting is psychological, this guy has a list of like 14 things and 10 of them are noped by Rank. One of them is good, use striking motions that push you forward.
I'm out of ideas, but Quora says to advance where there's a wall behind him to close distance, which makes sense so do that. It also suggests feinting a slow retreat before surging forward, but the inconsiderate users are only talking about non-supernatural fights, how rude. :S Damn, so much of fighting is psychological, this guy has a list of like 14 things and 10 of them are noped by Rank. One of them is good, use striking motions that push you forward.
He allows himself to be grappled, and does not break the grapple easily. Ha, yeah right. If we're this lucky, apply Blade until dead. I'm not a fighter, but I realize that holding a humongous sword will make this awkward. Luckily, we have swordikinesis, so if we get it behind him we have an extra limb that we can summon to us through his body, like we did with Elizabeth. Other than that bit, the assumption of this section of the flowchart our higher physical stats would carry the day. Bask in your survival and be happy.
Well, shit, Administratoin lets him teleport or he's just that good, so much for my big idea. Time to try everything else. Fortunately, he's still bleeding out according to this flowchart, so we'll have to stall another way. Bladewinds are unlikely to work, the Primary Rotspawn showed that Rank is protective against that attack. Directly attacking his blood is out for the same reason. Be defensive and hit him with the sword until he dies. Sorry, other people need to make the tactics for this one, I'm wiped and defaulting to Cut Through.
This is an opportunity to reapply our Edeldross buff if it had run out; carefully, because he'll know about it now. Gain distance first. Then, depending on how easily he broke the grapple and what Hunger thinks about his ability to counter it, try again. Avecarn obviously won't want this to happen, but I've already wrote my best ideas for forcing it, so if it doesn't work it doesn't work, go to the "We can't manage to grab him" section of the flowchart.
If, despite our best efforts, Avecarn is pristine, yikes. Time to run away. We could do it either with Gisena and Aeira or separately, and I'm not sure which is the better option. He'd almost certainly chase us rather than them even before Aeira works forgetfulness magic, so they'd be safer. But even though Hunger is faster than Avecarn, Rank 6.5 would bring Looney Tunes coincidences all over his path. Cutting Through them anyway would be the solution, I suppose. One of his unknown powers is probably arresting people, based on nothing more than a vague thought that that would fit. Cut Through that as well. Eh. I don't like it.
I take back my indecision, staying together while running away is clearly the better idea, Gisena and Aeira and Hunger each have their own magics that would make escape easier. Nullity on Rank or Administration tricks, shadow on the environment because his Rank is too high to get his mind easily, and Hunger's speed buffs and his own protective Rank. Run to Verschlengorge.
I take back my indecision, staying together while running away is clearly the better idea, Gisena and Aeira and Hunger each have their own magics that would make escape easier. Nullity on Rank or Administration tricks, shadow on the environment because his Rank is too high to get his mind easily, and Hunger's speed buffs and his own protective Rank. Run to Verschlengorge.
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Either we escape from Avecarn or we do not. If he kills us, we die. If we lose him, we live to fight another day. If he follows us all the way home, we might actually have an opportunity. Crash-heal Verschlengorge as fast as we can, Rank 6 takes hours and Rank 7 Days, but he's only 4.5 right now so if we burn Arete we might be able to get him to a reasonable level. Then we Blood and Edeldross boost the giant robot. And continue to run away, I think, killing him would be difficult even with the robot if everyone's tired and injured. This line of thought made me consider trying to deliberately ambush him with Verschlengorge, but that's the kind of complicated plan his Rank will nope.
