OctarineShrike
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1 Marker with 1 Veto fine by you?
A Simple Transaction I
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1 Marker with 1 Veto fine by you?
We literally killed him with one of the most Dark Souls parries I've ever read about. I could almost hear the parry noise.
Accursed Hax might have been involved, but fortunately we have a avenue of producing effects equivalent to the Accursed's personal magic system by explicitly using the sword.
Given the Praxis' themes a blanket "You can't just invalidate my stuff" is pretty much guaranteed to be in there.
Duquette7
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DkArthas
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Praxis is the ultimate shield and SORD. And we access our SORD Praxis through Forebear's blade, so any upgrade that makes us Better at defending and killing through SORDING will probably work pretty well with Praxis effects we might get in the future or so I hope.
We will get +0.9 Rank special feat for 3 picks due to this impossible achievement(Storming the Temple of the False Moon). Of course people will use the 3 picks to get FQ + Honing.
You know it is true.
Already touched in the thread by Rihaku
It was unmovable object(Hunger`s ring) vs unstoppable force. Accursed was conceptually more powerful so Hunger`s ring won. Don`t expect to do this for a long time though.
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How can she be the winner if she's dead?! Anyway, time to do the write thing:
Treachery tactics:
Hunger and Stenallon faced each other, eyes of gold meeting eyes of grey. Liberator and jailor, former heroes both. The marble murals and splendor of the Innermost Temple paled in comparison to the contest ongoing within. Some spare scrap of Hunger's attention found it within himself to sneer at the trappings of a civilization that made torture a sacrament before he marshalled his focus. This foe demanded nothing less than his uttermost.
How best to prevail, to kill an Immortal that lived up to the title? A quote came to mind then, bubbling up from stygian depths that had survived the wracking of his Final Strike. Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
On the ground between them, the last vestiges of life slowly drained from Evangeline Worldkeeper. Though the Ring was separated from his body, the echoes of its singular pulse reverberated through Hunger, expropriating the strength she had stolen from its Azure counterpart. But there was another body flung into a far corner, its head pulped by impossible strength. A strategy crystallized, a different way to cut through.
There was no such thing as a good death. Only those few causes good enough that death in their service was preferable to failure. He understood intimately what it was like to see those you loved fall before your eyes. Powerlessness, soul-flaying guilt, remonstrations directed at an uncaring world. The endless refrain of if, relitigating battles as corpses that were once comrades rotted away.
He looked at the Azure Ring imprisoned in the Vise's cruel grip, crackling bolts an inadequate testament to the depth of its agony, and decided not to be merciful.
"What happens," Hunger began, "if you kill me?"
"The ones outside get to keep living their lives," Sten thundered in reply. "I get to rest. And she is avenged." A twitch of his foot carved a divot in the floor, tons of stone propelled toward Hunger. A feint, intended to conceal the Worldkeeper in the projectile's shadow. One swing obliterated the attack. Hunger juked free, staying just out of reach.
"How selfless." He didn't bother hiding his scorn. "But take it won't restore her to life. Time may be your prisoner, but you can't turn it back. However many years you give those faceless millions, you'll never have another day with Evangeline."
Stenallon shouted in fury. The dust of the Innermost Temple's masonry was driven from his form by a storm-wall of raw Presssure and he leapt at Hunger. But his epoch-shattering might struck nothing but air.
"Do not say her name."
Again he attacked and again Hunger dodged, avoiding the enemy's charges by the slimmest of margins. Blade-winds took flight from the Blade's edge like a flock of murderous birds. Sten bulled through them unbowed. Even out of practice and half-mad, he moved to close off lines of retreat.
"You know it's the truth. Just as you know what you're doing is wrong. Yet you refuse to act out of, what? Stubbornness? Simple inertia? Staying the course even as you decay into something unrecognizable? What is the half-life of heroism, anyway?"
Sten howled like a wounded beast. Bodily injuries he bore with ageless stoicism, but where the flesh was strong the spirit was weak.
"I'm the only one left now, thanks to you. The only one who remembers what we fought for. The price paid in blood and time, the monster we opposed. I will not let everything we did be for nothing!"
The ragged remnants of a rainbow mantle were gathering about his hulking form. The others would begin stirring soon. If Hunger had miscalculated...
"I don't know how this began," Hunger replied. "But like all men walking the road to hell, I imagine you took the first steps with the best of intentions. But now you have arrived. Jailor you may be, Stenallon Worldkeeper, but if you prevail here you will remain forever in a prison of your own sins. Utterly alone."
Hunger saw the final guardian break, some glimmer of resolve that had withstood the march of millennia dying in Stenallon's eyes. The unstoppable advance faltered. Gargantuan fists fell limp to his sides.
"I will not lie and say redemption is within your reach. Nothing you do now can pay for the atrocity you've perpetuated. But there is still enough time, to end as you began."
Slowly, like a great and hoary monument toppled at last by the ravages of time, Stenallon turned to the others.
[X] The Ring of Power - Avenger - 7 Arete
[X] Treachery
Power's out, decided not to let that stop me. Behold the Forbidden Art: omake phoneposting. Post, even if it cannot be posted!
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[X] The Ring of Power - Dominion - 2 Arete
[X] The Ring of Power - Preeminence - 7 Arete
[X] The Ring of Power - Hateful Might
[X]Treachery
Revoting for emphasis.
This build combines long-term power and immediate survivability in the best possible way. No need to worry about redundancy with The King Stands Alone, or having a third Stance when we can only use two at a time, and many other inefficiencies spawned by getting H-DS right now. It gives us the most Rank and decent amounts of power in one go! Hateful Might wrecks Sten should it come to blows and +0.5 Rank and +INT/WIS/CHA/Man/Luck is great for driving him insane. All while saving for Ruling Ring; what's not to like?
Avenger won't work the overwhelming majority of the time anyway so it's much more situational than this; and Headsman gives up our bread-and butter ranged option which is just bad. Preeminence Passion side-steps all these issues by banking itself towards something we are planning to get anyway, instead of something random like Blood Price. Plus, think of how much better at fishing we would be!
Plus, Passion Preeminence is rare too! One less thing to worry about when it comes to the Ruling Ring, and gotten at a pretty opportune time. There will be no better circumstance to pick this in when we are planning to get this anyway; why not now?
Really, if don't want to bothered by all the inefficiencies that buying H-DS would entail right now, just go for this! It's almost like banking the Arete, really.
[X] The Ring of Power - Preeminence - 7 Arete
[X] The Ring of Power - Hateful Might
[X]Treachery
Revoting for emphasis.
This build combines long-term power and immediate survivability in the best possible way. No need to worry about redundancy with The King Stands Alone, or having a third Stance when we can only use two at a time, and many other inefficiencies spawned by getting H-DS right now. It gives us the most Rank and decent amounts of power in one go! Hateful Might wrecks Sten should it come to blows and +0.5 Rank and +INT/WIS/CHA/Man/Luck is great for driving him insane. All while saving for Ruling Ring; what's not to like?
Avenger won't work the overwhelming majority of the time anyway so it's much more situational than this; and Headsman gives up our bread-and butter ranged option which is just bad. Preeminence Passion side-steps all these issues by banking itself towards something we are planning to get anyway, instead of something random like Blood Price. Plus, think of how much better at fishing we would be!
Plus, Passion Preeminence is rare too! One less thing to worry about when it comes to the Ruling Ring, and gotten at a pretty opportune time. There will be no better circumstance to pick this in when we are planning to get this anyway; why not now?
Really, if don't want to bothered by all the inefficiencies that buying H-DS would entail right now, just go for this! It's almost like banking the Arete, really.
OctarineShrike
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most of the time.
The Pooooooool is on FIRE.
Tangentially, Gisena's world apparently had a lot of edgelords, especially given how we could have taken edgelordy powers for us to get Brand of the Wretched mitigation out of it in the original A Simple Transaction.
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In hindsight this route would probably have been better given our brain damage.
Mitigated Apocrypha and hot springs time? Yes this is indeed respite, and a fleeting one. It's going by crazy fast like the flash.
Lord Hunger certainly has Jewelry and the Azure Ring on his mind right now. Though from a certain point of view, he literally is jewelry.
I wonder how they pulled that off aesthetically speaking? Creative usage of shadows? Are the wooden panels arranged in a way to make the panels resemble the muscular protagonists of various parts of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure? I looked for a comparison of wood finishes on youtube and I'm going to guess they used Linseed oil.
Ok, so they've got glowing doorknobs and countertops, jewelry in the keys, is there any way this place could possibly be even more comically opulent? If you needed a picture for conspicuous consumption in the dictionary, this place would be an excellent reference.
Gisena? Innocent? Hah! Sherlock Holmes and the Rihakuverse concept of Justice just called, she's guilty of all the things. All of them.
Well I suppose somebody has to be genre savvy/an anime stereotype. The thing is though, how many Hot Springs incidents have weird but sensible explanations? I haven't run the numbers but if she's being genre savvy enough to know about the cliche she could at least be genre savvy enough to know about people unlucky enough to fall in through the roof while trying to do something else or something like that.
Yeah for all the vacation time Lord Hunger's having, he's definitely got his mind stuck on the tortured jewel back in the temple. On another note, taking your sword to the bath with you is an entirely reasonable thing to do for one subject to the Apocryphal curse.
I guess the pressure was meant to ensure Gisena got hit by the water? I'm not sure how this fits into the sharpbright thematics.
I suppose this is for fanservicey fanart?
Evening Gown lost and we don't have a crafting magic system, so odds are you'll have to find your own sources until we get another conjunctional pick.
That in joke I lost track of a long time ago again. Presumably it's just meaningless banter at this point. Still, at least we lost some conditions from the pervasive warmth of the water here or whenver precisely we lost them.
More flirting? Ok then. *keeps building up for possible setup to give the ring to Gisena for contests of primacy to make this banter actually interesting*
What is the world without social constructs though? Would society even be possible without them? That speech death gives about atoms of justice in Hogfather seems relevant here.
Business Letrezia time. The business of training because training with Hunger always has to be serious business with stakes.
You could always stop procrastinating on your mediatations and ascend to High Sorceressness, even though we didn't bother spending the arete to make you Maiden tier, finally ascending could only help you. She can't get past your nullification yet after all.
Draw me like one of your James Bond girls?
Yadda yadda I fought Tyrants and Lords for years and don't want to have to be called one until I absolutely have to.
She deserves Philosopher's Wreath. The collective intelligence of this party will go way up when it happens.
Considering the example she has in Lord Hunger, she's right. It's just a question of getting her a panopoly as I keep saying.
In the end we managed to pick somebody without much moral ambiguity to bringing them along thankfully. In the end though she proved incidental to breaching the temple and became just another combatant though.
It redeems, it tunes, it makes you better, it plays you like a violin or a goddamn fiddle maybe if you aren't careful with your buffs? I'm craving an Edeldross/Forbear's Blade conjunctional advancement right now.
How much water did Gisena disturb to get there that fast? This is another case of Gisena's speed being fast enough to merit a Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff tier god damn. In Fending Off her walking speed was literally enough to keep up with Lord Hunger going at a fierce pace. im telling you.... speed like that is UNREAL, it doens't even HAPPEN.
most of the time.
The Pooooooool is on FIRE.
Yeah. It's interesting the kind of things people come up with to get places quickly when you don't have levels of speed exceeding most superheroes or teleportation.
I wonder what kind of epiphany was going through Letrezia's head just then?
The time to founding Aperture Science keeps getting smaller. Seriously. We've probably reached an asymptote or a limit though until we get out of the Voyaging Realm.
Like Darth Vader deflecting a blaster bolt with his hand.
So Findross has properties that diminish people, or some kind of inert neutral component Gisena has?
Perfect cancellation? Doesn't that mean if you put the two of you together neither of you exist like matter and antimatter? That seems more like a rebuttal of you two in a relationship.
How many edgelords are genuinely evil beings in need of redemption?
I still think that whether or not that guy is a pirate captain is a debatable subject.
And now we've got Vigor incarnate. Good god. Letrezia is going to be even worse with us when we see here again if she finds edgelords cool. Larissa already fell for us because of our brooding bad boy image.
See what I mean? There's lots of edgelords that are perfectly decent people.
Then it is a very good thing you never took Brand of the Champion. Or does getting the thing you wanted from them count as the reward meaning you should have taken Brand of the Champion? I'm not sure. *Thonk emote*
Tangentially, Gisena's world apparently had a lot of edgelords, especially given how we could have taken edgelordy powers for us to get Brand of the Wretched mitigation out of it in the original A Simple Transaction.
I guess that depends on your precise goal.
If they catalyze reactions with the relevant properties in peoples blood I suppose that's reasonable enough.
I would think so.
Looks like that debt is repaid I guess. So much shiptease.
*Sighs in exasperation*
I feel sorry for them but Edeldross was still totally worth it.
We got like, multiple 25 point purchases. Fark yeah it was.
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Like an apple of discord it will come, sowing chaos without measure.
I wonder if the reroll would have been enough to make up for our brain damage against Avecarn? Oh well, Edeldross Adept was worth it too.
Irrelevant Coca Cola unless we need more Power of Ruin for something, given we have Zweihander making it scale off strength.
It could have been more helpful then some of the stuff we've chosen in build or plot but we don't have it yet.
Wondering what 2 pick advancement getting 3 of these unlocks?
This got made obsolete by Crimson Flare
Maybe this could have been useful in other circumstances. At least now we've got a protection boost out of it to combine with the synergy with Philosopher's Wreath and Edeldross for Singularity purposes, maybe we'll get this after the temple?
Crimson Flare makes this obsolete.
This made us fabulous enough to attract Larissa's attention/become a cognitohazard at 80 percent of our social power when we got it.
This was still a good pick for the uttermost mitigation.
In hindsight this route would probably have been better given our brain damage.
Current plan is to go for hybrid stats/Rank build, making use of fact that Crimson Flare translates Rank into stats. So we'd go Silver(AGI buff/+1 Def Rank), Trinity, SJUC(Rank, AGI and CHA most likely), OfA and ADS. This would get us Forebear's Blade Special Advancement and lots of stats/Rank and powerful Rank scaling.
SJUC would increase our Rank by 15%; assuming that we are at Rank 6 at that point, which we should be if we take that build, it would launch us to 6.9. So general Rank 7, Defensive Rank 8 and Blood Casting Rank 9. Then you get OaF and you are relevant on Armament scale. Get ADS as needed for safety purposes.
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[X] Hero-Defeating Stance
[] Forebear's Blade - Echo of the Forebear
[X] Evening Sky - Opalescence
[X] Fierce Quickening
[X] Feat - Knife-2 Arete
[X] Age
I wouldn't mind picking Opalescence over Echo to amplify those Protection bonus from Charisma, but that might split the vote.
Edit: Fuck it,synergy fortune favors the bold!
[X] Evening Sky - Opalescence
[X] Fierce Quickening
[X] Feat - Knife-2 Arete
[X] Age
Edit: Fuck it,
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[ ] The Ring of Power - Avenger - 7 Arete
Damn good when it applies. No Rank.
[ ] Forebear's Blade - Headsman - 7 Arete
Strength not Might so no improvement to Ruin. AGI boost doesn't apply to dodging, closing or hitting. Basically called Headsman because it relies on enemies being tied up on a block.
[x] Hero-Defeating Stance
[x] Forebear's Blade - Echo of the Forebear
[x] Fierce Quickening
[x] Feat - Knife
[x] Age
With the Agility advantage from this build we can set up and execute multiple Cut Throughs in a fraction of a second. And then get the Ring back (and our arm).
Damn good when it applies. No Rank.
[ ] Forebear's Blade - Headsman - 7 Arete
Strength not Might so no improvement to Ruin. AGI boost doesn't apply to dodging, closing or hitting. Basically called Headsman because it relies on enemies being tied up on a block.
[x] Hero-Defeating Stance
[x] Forebear's Blade - Echo of the Forebear
[x] Fierce Quickening
[x] Feat - Knife
[x] Age
With the Agility advantage from this build we can set up and execute multiple Cut Throughs in a fraction of a second. And then get the Ring back (and our arm).
Yeah, I was thinking about Opalescence too - this is somewhat low intensity vote pick-vise, so it would be a good opportunity to start working towards Pearlesence.
Don't expect to fight Vanreir Mk 2 in the next fifteen minutes either.
Ultimately it's not really worth considering how we'd do against people who massively outscale us, but against those within striking range it seems rather unlikely that they have access to "You can't parry me" effects more potent than the "Nuh-Uh, I should be allowed to sword this" effects our Sword Praxis can give us access to.
Invalidating "unfair" avenues of attack and outright noping seems to be massively in theme and you'llfind it hard to find conceptually more powerful effects without going far outside our weightclass.
Duquette7
I am Fire, and I am Rain
So, Preeminence Passion, lets do this.
Much has been said about healing Hunger, it has been used as justification for taking picks, rejecting picks, rage quits, and so on, but the wounds that hurt Hunger the most aren't to anything as transient as flesh and blood, but to his Mind, and Heart.
Hunger burnt out parts of his soul, his mind, his very sense of self, healing that is going to be the work of a lifetime, luckily we have endless multitudes of them to work with, and this is the first step.
Passion has been stated to be a rare pick multiple times, why? Why does Hunger struggle to feel passion, there have been numinous passionate moments so far in this quest, yet Hunger has felt little.
He still seems to feel anger, he can desire Vengeance, he can rouse himself to outrage at the suffering of the Ring, but when offered the chance to save his wife, his child, he's numb, in the face of Gisena's superlative self, numb, hot springs, vacations, comforts of all sorts, the potential suffering of millions, mostly he seems numb.
Disinterested, depressed, empty. These are words I would use to describe Hunger.
We have been told that the Ring is one way to heal him, but it was not the rings power over life that was the rare pick, but it's power over passion.
Hunger's need to save the ring is the most passionate he's been the entire quest, many voters have torn their hair out over his unwillingness to leave it behind for safer pastures, but I say use this moment, this opportunity, it may be the greatest reward offered from the trial we have just faced, for who knows when it will come again?
Much has been said about healing Hunger, it has been used as justification for taking picks, rejecting picks, rage quits, and so on, but the wounds that hurt Hunger the most aren't to anything as transient as flesh and blood, but to his Mind, and Heart.
Hunger burnt out parts of his soul, his mind, his very sense of self, healing that is going to be the work of a lifetime, luckily we have endless multitudes of them to work with, and this is the first step.
Passion has been stated to be a rare pick multiple times, why? Why does Hunger struggle to feel passion, there have been numinous passionate moments so far in this quest, yet Hunger has felt little.
He still seems to feel anger, he can desire Vengeance, he can rouse himself to outrage at the suffering of the Ring, but when offered the chance to save his wife, his child, he's numb, in the face of Gisena's superlative self, numb, hot springs, vacations, comforts of all sorts, the potential suffering of millions, mostly he seems numb.
Disinterested, depressed, empty. These are words I would use to describe Hunger.
We have been told that the Ring is one way to heal him, but it was not the rings power over life that was the rare pick, but it's power over passion.
Hunger's need to save the ring is the most passionate he's been the entire quest, many voters have torn their hair out over his unwillingness to leave it behind for safer pastures, but I say use this moment, this opportunity, it may be the greatest reward offered from the trial we have just faced, for who knows when it will come again?
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DkArthas
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What? Pretty sure power of ruin scales with Strenght. That means an absolutely massive increase in our SORDing capability. The option is also about optimizing for close combat, which most fights end up us.
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You know, it would be good to get Passion in a context we can actually use it, yeah? If you want to save Arete this is actually the vote for you since it converts itself to Ruling Ring integrally, a linchpin of our long-term planning in this quest. We can solve this situation by getting something we wanted anyway; what a steal!
Who wants to spend 7 Arete on something that's just going to sit there unused. Don't you all remember Form of Rage and the subsequent regret? Over something similarly thought to have broader use than it really did. Let us learn from our mistakes, and avoid Avenger. Build towards the future while not neglecting our present, a good motto to have!
Who wants to spend 7 Arete on something that's just going to sit there unused. Don't you all remember Form of Rage and the subsequent regret? Over something similarly thought to have broader use than it really did. Let us learn from our mistakes, and avoid Avenger. Build towards the future while not neglecting our present, a good motto to have!
Long term planning, avoiding past mistakes, synergy? Sir, I have to ask you to leave. The people in this establishment prefer not to be exposed to such vulgar ideas.
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OctarineShrike
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Reaction finished Circa the Ultimate Price. 1452 Words.
Wow, that is seriously authoritarian. Good thing we were around to fark their shit up.
Guile-Defeating stance turned out to be helpful to stop Avecarn from tricking us even though we were too debuffed to be able to convince him we wanted to defect. We, for better or worse, still haven't gotten hero defeating stance, though we may get it to fight Sten since it's in contention this vote.
The Star Forge from Knights of the Old Republic was a major dark side artifact. Considering the Star Forges here run on torturing a ring, they are also dark side artifacts. Now I'm trying to think of a setting where star forges wouldn't be artifacts of evil and pain.
"Tends"? I think that's a spelling error and it was supposed to say "Tents".
Given how skeevy the merchant people we met are, I suppose it's a valid question how much of this is propaganda. Is this meant to be written in character from an Inner Ring resident's perspective?
I wonder how much we missed out on by never visiting the place? Not much?
Guardian Spirits? I wonder what kind of Soul Evocation you need to pull that off?
They could also be catspaws of inner ring residents to keep track of encampment residents.
She's like if Abridged Alucard was Sam Fisher and still liked to go on enthusiastic walks. She's just casually able to filch things like that from people.
I guess Letrezia's explained the concept of Accretion and how Panopolies work to Aeira then. We probably didn't need any of that swag anyways. We have enough trouble spreading out our picks across our panopoly as it is.
I guess Aeira's learning about the lunacy of traveling with the Ring of Blood that is also a person. She wasn't there to see Hunger encouraging people to try and do unpleasant things to him because he learns best under pressure for the sparring after all. Thinking you succeeded the mission, only to find your boss irritated that you didn't bring people to fight must have left her flabbergasted about his priorities. Let's hope we don't do something stupid like overexert ourselves fishing now that she's here.
We tried that but failed because of our social debuffs.
In the end we never had to worry about any of this.
So for middle temple residents who got into the inner ring. Also, the classification system is basically out of the SCP foundation. Also, Aeira filched this content from the vaults of patreon to bestow it on the F2P users symbolically. I wonder if there would have been another way this stuff got released if we had somebody besides Aeira?
The first half of that can be considered applicable towards basic legal systems as we know them. The second part though, especially with the way the first is phrased, makes Plerion sound like a real authoritarian fucktard. I can see why Sten and the others betrayed him. I wouldn't have been surprised if Plerion was still alive though. Also for whatever reason I'm drawing connections between the immortal council and the unsent from Final Fantasy X. We're sending some of them now at least with our sword. It'd be kind of hilarious if Hunger sent them via a dance battle though.
It's not impenetrable, especially if you've got a Sword that's a step along on the infinite singularity husk. Just cut it open like a balloon and hear all the air escape. Let's just hope we didn't actually cut the ring.
I wonder if there's anything special up with that?
What are the more unpleasant means of exploiting the ring then. Seriously. The ring is being tortured as it is and they could have been doing worse things to it? What the fark?
Even if all the lights in the sky are our enemies, that simply means we must strike them all down? It's going to a long, slow, unpleasant road for them then. Good thing we were around to interrupt them, we might actually have a chance of doing that within a meaningful time frame.
I wonder what's up with those stars?
The inner ring is literally inside the ring due to dimensional shenanigans supposedly. Also, I still wouldn't have minded the World-Defeating Stance/Calendar engine route for the evacuation with Aristesia. I wonder what precisely the moon represents in the ring though. The main jewel?
Wow, that is seriously authoritarian. Good thing we were around to fark their shit up.
So basically, magic and Soul Evocations are ubiquitous enough for it to be basically My Hero Academia, all the people with combat viable quirks sign up for hero schools like UA or join the inner ring's army.
How was it the anchor before it was unlucky enough to find its way into Plerion's vise though?
Is the light of the soul an individual's life our just their soul evocation I'm getting kind of confused at this point.
You must be this metaphysically swole to use your Soul Evocation without a ring helping you. We're like that. Unfortunately the ring residents aren't. Still, imagine if we came here with our Soul Evocation awake. Our imprisoner powers would be super farking ludicrous. Mage Lord would have been unfathomably viable in the inner ring. Seriously. What the fark.
There's a bit of a weird gap there between what they're saying to the Marshalls and what they're saying to native residents in terms of the long term viability of the ring. Maybe I'm just tired while I'm writing this but I'm wondering what's up there.
We have seen the immortals at this point. For better or worse, they are not exactly valiant defenders of their civilization these days, especially when somebody in their own weight class shows up knocking at their door. If they were like this now, how the fark did they stop Aristesia?
That's the most shameless bit of propaganda I've ever seen for this Logan's run esque sci-fi utopia/dystopia whatever the fark this place is. Sten is probably the only one who actually genuinely fits the propaganda in any conceivable way, everyone else is just corrupt cowards.
Semi-understandable given the nature of their society but still more Logan's Run esque bullshit.
The Ritual Grounds also power the vices containment system. It's not much largesse on your part you propagandizing fucktards considering how much you get out of it.
What kind of Soul Evocation do you need to imbue documents with memetic hazard properties? Also, "CENSORSING" is a typo and the runes make me suspect the now deceased amiable brutes are the ones who liberated this document. Maybe it got leaked to the encampment because council politics as people speculated?
So the sigils are surveillance equipment for outsiders. Could these people be any more authoritarian? Then again, are we any better considering how some smartphone apps harvest our data?
I still wouldn't have minded figuring out what Prelairn's backstory was by getting him with Inheritor. How did he get sent out in the middle of timbuktu? Did he lose a political fight?
The Accursed doesn't like people divining on his Cursebearers. Also, Vicissitude is incredibly metal, especially if that particular diviner got biomantic powers to go with their divination like the Vampire the Masquerade discipline for Clan Tzimisce vampires.
I'm too tired right now to have any speculations on what the types mean.
At least they're willing to lampshade stuff in their internal documentation. The light of fun hasn't completely faded from all of their eyes.
Duh. It's the ring calling people. It's that simple unless I'm missing something. Maybe the Apocryphal curse factored into this somehow?
We killed one and subverted the other high marshall to our side by seducing his boss. Capacitor turned out to be completely irrelevant. The Immortal Deployment act probably failed because they had enough connections to lean on people to stop it from happening even with their reduced direct influence because they're too busy guarding their lives jealously and failing to live up to their propaganda.
Crowlenarch, diagram lich or no, turned out to be completely and utterly irrelevant in the end. Oh well. Decent enough red herring.
This is the route where we get what we came for, which would have come in handy if we had the stats to successfully infiltrate the ring. Given our debuffs though, we were not able to make that happen so in hindsight taking combat was foresighted.
In hindsight this was a great decision. It'll be even greater when/if we can get Philosopher's Wreath on her. I wonder when the stage 1 liver cure will kick in though, its beens several updates and the penalties haven't been halved yet if I recall correctly.
We are probably going to be panicing our asses off about this in a week or two.
Guile-Defeating stance turned out to be helpful to stop Avecarn from tricking us even though we were too debuffed to be able to convince him we wanted to defect. We, for better or worse, still haven't gotten hero defeating stance, though we may get it to fight Sten since it's in contention this vote.
[X] Hero-Defeating Stance
[X] Evening Sky - Opalescence
[X] Fierce Quickening
[X] Feat - Knife-2 Arete
[X] Age
That seems good
[X] Evening Sky - Opalescence
[X] Fierce Quickening
[X] Feat - Knife-2 Arete
[X] Age
That seems good
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Quite true. On the other hand, situations where you're on the offensive, even for a good reason, are usually (but not always) situations where you can always in principle step back, re-evaluate the situation, and decide to take a different approach or find a power-up before coming back.
Not always, but often.
There remains something to be said for an ability that procs when the enemy comes to you. Those are the times when you don't even have a pretense of being able to decide whether or not to fight the battle. And yes, even then Avenger won't proc all the time- but the way I see it, the fights it doesn't proc for are, on average, going to be the fights we had the best chance to either avoid or work around.
So having it as a hole card, especially because enemies who have seen us in action but (as per Accursed interference) cannot just scry our entire life story won't know it's there.
Oh? Good of you to say so; I think a lot of us were still taking him seriously as a threat.
No beating them with S T A T S, I take it? Darn.
- Location
- Pindorama
Why did you do this? Who hurt you? How can I help?
Huh. So Rank stands a chance after all, conditional on HDS. What a strange feeling.