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A Simple Transaction I

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Dark Abstraction said:
No. We have 11 Protection always, because that's an intrinsic quality of Hunger as a person, that's how stats work. On top of the PROT stat, the Mantle of the Evening Sky has percentage-based damage mitigation it offers as a magical clothing artifact. The percentage-based damage mitigation the cloak provides is only applied where the cloak physically is, however, because it is clothing; it is worn, and covers parts of the body with itself.
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huh.... I wonder if they stack the same way as having all of that Protection on the Sky would?
 
I just realized we picked Weapon-Defeating Stance right in time to let Gisena cut loose with a Nulltimatum. Not Magic-Defeating or World-Defeating, but Weapon-Defeating Stance...

Maybe the problem is we're too synergistic.
 
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Without hesitation they leapt at him, swiftness nearly the equal of his own. The man hunched forward like a dog taught to kill, his limbs colossal, barrel-like arms near twice the width of Hunger's own. He was a broad bear of a man, though he stood only half a head taller, nowhere near the old marshal's stature who had confronted him at the boundary of the Inner Temple. The woman tacked to the side, sword held defensively, examining Hunger's figure with a critical eye. Buoyed by the imminent prospect of its kin's rescue, his Ring flared crimson, and he felt their blood falter and tremble before him. Let it be enough.

He feinted at the man, committing hard to an attack on the breastbone, then switching last-minute to half-sword, adjusting the angle of his strike down towards the man's groin. His opponent reacted with admirable speed, stepping sideways to avoid the strike, but Hunger merely let go of his Blade and punched him in the face. The Power of Ruin infused in his strike left a crater of splintering skin and bone, but Hunger's own fist was repelled, every bone shattered by the terrible sharp tenacity of his opponent's flesh. It was like punching a cliff crag of pure adamant; and though his foe seemed equally surprised that the Ringbearer had hurt him, Hunger fell back, jaw gritted in frustration.

He knew his time was limited. It would not take long for the other Immortals to recover their powers as the Groundskeeper had. He had to finish these two great threats and steal their strength before then.
 
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"Break every bone in hand." Crap.

Does Hunger's regeneration extend to those? Though under time pressure it may not matter.
 
Priest said:
Vote Edeldross, since we might just be able to learn more about findross than we managed in the original Simple Transaction... like how to mine it! We can definitely mine it this time...!
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Rihaku said:
Edeldross actually does open up a way to generate findross with the tools you have now, though the mechanism is somewhat obscure...
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Rihaku said:
This precursor component of findross embodies redemption, perfection, restoration and the renewal of cycles. It is the liminal gloss between real and ideal, whereby the purposeless matter of the corporeal world becomes the refined substrate of supernal augmentation.
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Rihaku said:
Pure edeldross is semi-corporeal and swiftly fades beneath the withering indifference of the real, but contained within a person's body it holistically augments all elements of the self, supernal excellence beyond the reach of the mundane.
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Rihaku said:
"As I thought. The energy isn't being nullified - that is to say, the power of Nullity isn't rendering this Element mundane. Instead, they're actually cancelling each other out! I think this contains the parts of findross that uplift and restore, elevating the mundane to the supernal. In a sense, it can be considered the opposite of my own power!"
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Rihaku said:
Overwrite the real with the ideal.

Access the Praxis, the Accursed's personal casting style. A style of magic that emanates completely from the self, relies completely upon the self, and is developed completely by the self. Advancement in the Praxis depends little on talent, much on effort and self-sacrifice. A dream of fairness, defiant against an uncaring universe. And power enough, in time, to make the universe care.
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Hmm. Could we potentially generate findross through interactions between Edeldross and the Praxis? Findross itself is described as making things as they "should be" and overwrites reality rather than shies away from it. Is that not also the mechanism by which the Praxis operates? Could calling upon that higher ideal when we're saturated with Edeldross potentially initiate the transformation? Or considering ours is the Sword Praxis, should we attempt to infuse the Forebear's Blade with that power?

Alternatively, considering how we've seen that singularities of these substances allow them to evolve (in the way that a singularity of findross creates a Sorceress and a singularity of singularities creates a Maiden), could a singularity of edeldross create findross?

Or as @Shard brought up in Discord, perhaps binding it to a substance of the real, like Blood? Enhancing Gisena was more about empowering her superhuman qualities rather than any specific element of her blood but perhaps we could change that through a Conjunctional Advancement with Ennobling? To take EFB for an example, the excellence of Majesty seems to map fairly well to the bloodline empowerment of our Ring while also being like a more hereditary version of Edeldross. A long term exposure during the Ennobling process might allow for it to be integrated into the cells of the targets, allowing them to respire Edeldross the way Sorceresses respire findross. Perhaps one of them would accidentally trigger the evolution?
 
Rihaku said:
He feinted at the man, committing hard to an attack on the breastbone, then switching last-minute to half-sword, adjusting the angle of his strike down towards the man's groin. His opponent reacted with admirable speed, stepping sideways to avoid the strike, but Hunger merely let go of his Blade and punched him in the face. The Power of Ruin infused in his strike left a crater of splintering skin and bone, but Hunger's own fist was repelled, every bone shattered by the terrible sharp tenacity of his opponent's flesh.
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More broadly: see, this is the kind of shit we couldn't do with only one arm! See? ZWEIHANDER PAYS OFF!

Force enemy to choose between taking the Forebear's Blade to the groin, or the Power of Ruin to the face! I just hope that face crater inconveniences Sten as badly as a massively broken hand is going to inconvenience Hunger. :(
 
I would tentatively assume that findross, being perfection itself, is difficult to generate but nigh-impossible to accumulate. Perfection is fleeting, after all. So the question is how to hold in perfection? Shearing away the undesired isn't enough, you'd need to constantly resist imperfection.

So either means of recycling the imperfect or of being outright immune to contamination. Edeldross offers the former, Accretion the latter. Total Eclipse isn't happening any time soon, but at this rate only the Doom of Anti-Synergy will prevent us from ever getting it.
 
I think we can maybe generate findross by slapping edeldross and nullity together. Might need something extra as well though.
 
I wonder if we can become a 4Mage... We have Accretion and Edeldross, we'd just need Soul Evocation and one more.
 
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