Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
Sleep well! Dream of players' screams in agony and terror!
Dragon Ball: After the End
Ridiculously Average Guy
I'm you, but stronger
- Location
-
Alternatively. Dream of that creepy dreaming song from Sharkboy and Lavagirl.
- Location
- Actually pretty lost
It does make sense. Oozaru are stronger and tougher but slower, and Solar Flare is an attack that bypasses toughness and is only defended against by reacting in time - it's an ideal anti-Oozaru weapon.
Well, that and swords.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Like Turtle Style, only with a focus on swordsmanship and speed eating?
- Location
- The Great Beyond
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Yajirobe Style: for when you absolutely, positively must troll someone who bothered to train Oozaru.
Workarounds
- Location
- Rockford, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X][ACTION] Figure out a gambit to neutralize the Lords without fighting them. They might be mind-controlled, but maybe they're on some really restrictive programming that you can exploit? Without knowing what that programming is?
-[X] Write-in: Right now, fighting a mindless raging oozaru instead of a mindful raging sorceress sounds pretty good. Throw a power ball out there, in hopes of catching Dandeer off-guard and causing her to transform.
[X][OTHER] This is a bad situation, but you need to handle something.
-[X][OTHER] Find somebody who can get out a message and get Dandelor in here now! There's other sorcerer in the world who you'd bet even stands a chance against the woman who soloed fifty sorcerers at full power. He's already incoming, but if you can get somebody to tell him things have gone sideways, he might be able to speed up by abandoning any efforts at subtlety.
-[X] Write-in: Right now, fighting a mindless raging oozaru instead of a mindful raging sorceress sounds pretty good. Throw a power ball out there, in hopes of catching Dandeer off-guard and causing her to transform.
[X][OTHER] This is a bad situation, but you need to handle something.
-[X][OTHER] Find somebody who can get out a message and get Dandelor in here now! There's other sorcerer in the world who you'd bet even stands a chance against the woman who soloed fifty sorcerers at full power. He's already incoming, but if you can get somebody to tell him things have gone sideways, he might be able to speed up by abandoning any efforts at subtlety.
Workarounds
You take a quick breath, close your eyes for a moment of frenzied contemplation, and open them again. Jaffur, Grandma, Power Ball out.
Understood, says Jaffur in a distant tone of voice.
Yes, says Grandma, ducking under one of Yammar's swipes.
You raise your hand overhead and form a ki sphere. Then you throw it straight at Vegeta and your father.
Deceit [Kakara vs. Berra and Vegeta]: 68 vs. 26 and 16. Success.
They both spring into action immediately, jumping in front of Dandeer and crossing their arms, tracking the sphere's flight path. You grin. "Burst open and mix!"
Their eyes have just enough time to widen in shock before the Power Ball bursts open and floods them with mutative light. They both howl in bestial tones and begin expanding.
Yourself, you turn your head to avoid it, and so does Jaffur. Grandma, overhead, doesn't have the space to take note of it.
Even as you feel triumph at having disabled them both, however, you frown. Dandeer closed her eyes in time. No, that's not right; Dandeer's eyes started closing before you threw the Power Ball.
Something is very wrong.
Jaffur half-starts forward to dash at his mother, only to flinch back with a muttered curse as your father starts carpet bombing the air between you and him with area-denial blasts. In the chaos, your Power Ball shatters, though the damage is already done. Your fellow Scion's eyes flicker at the bursts, calculating. He continues to mutter under his breath, the feeling of sorcery spilling off of him.
"I hope that spell's going to be worth the time," you say.
"Easily," he replies, absently.
You start trying to chart a path that doesn't involve you taking a full-power blast to the face, and feel outside of the Hall for Dandelor with a ping of ki. He's suppressing, but up against your skills, it's not enough, particularly when he's also trying to move fast.
Things have blown up. Dandeer subverted Yammar somehow ahead of time. Dad, Vegeta, and Yammar are fighting me, Grandma, and Jaffur, and Dandeer is unoccupied. Need you here now. Go loud.
Whatever his reaction to that is, you can't feel it through the wards, but a moment later, the Senzus' ki signatures pop onto your senses, rapidly accelerating for the Hall.
You turn towards Jaffur slightly, not taking your eyes off of the blasts. "I know that I can't see any openings, but I honestly thought you would have by now."
"Sorry," he says. "Distracted. Worth it."
"What's worth it?" you say, frowning.
"Cheating," he says, reaching out and laying a hand on your shoulder. "Hold still. Synchronicity."
You blink, and-
Your eyes widen.
From two perspectives, you watch the blasts-
No, no, that's not right. Your perspective, but also...
My fingers on my left hand are twitching.
You can't actually feel them, no, and they're out of your line of sight, but you know that they are.
They've stopped.
You know that Jaffur is shifting his weight forward, just a bit. A tiny correction in his stance. You can tell that Jaffur just inhaled, and that he's nowhere near short of breath. You can tell that he can tell these things about you, and that he can tell that you can tell that he can tell, and so on and so forth, except that it doesn't feedback loop you into oblivion, instead seeming to make the details sharper.
You barely have time to register your utter bafflement at what this is before you hear him explaining.
Uncle Dandelor made me invent a spell to prove that I was ready for the breakout. I figured that if there was fighting, teamwork would be our best strength. Didn't know that we'd be fighting them, but nobody we were planning on having on our side is very good at fighting together. Seemed an obvious weakness to patch.
It's not telepathy, because ordinary telepathy isn't this fast. This blazes through you brain in a single piece, the sentences' contents simply stamped onto your consciousness without needing to take any time on parsing. You just know.
Jaffur you couldn't possibly have done this with sealing. What did you do?
It's a marvel, to see it happening in reverse. Your auras haven't finished their current flickers, and you're already receiving his reply. It is sealing. I'm sealing our awarenesses together. It's temporary. Also very expensive. Sloppy. Burns power way too quick. It's only because I have so much ki that I can do it at- okay, look, we're obviously fast right now, but we're not-
-made of time, no, you're right. What do we do next?
Visions?
Only one a day.
Useless-
-it takes finesse-
-I can do this with years less education than you've had, what are you trying pull with, "it takes finesse-"
-tell the future and change it some time and you try and tell me what's more impressive, Jaffur.
You don't glare at him, but you feel him receiving your irritation nonetheless. Still, he possibly has a point. A vision wouldn't go entirely out of-
* * *
Gone- BACK, BACK, WHAT THE HELL?!
* * *
You blink, eyes wide. That hasn't happened in years, ever since-Gone- BACK, BACK, WHAT THE HELL?!
* * *
* * *
G- NO-
* * *
JAFFUR WHAT DID YOU DO-G- NO-
* * *
This isn't me, the spell couldn't possibly have done this! I don't have Sight, it couldn't-
* * *
Gone.
* * *
Sensei Carrick watches you carefully during your first vision-Gone.
* * *
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BACK WHAT THE SHIT I HAVEN'T HAD THIS PROBLEM SINCE I WAS NINE-
* * *
It goes on like this. Vision after vision pummels at your mental barriers as you and Jaffur stand frozen. After a few seconds, you drag yourself back under control, reasserting your barriers. You take stock. Credit to Jaffur, he's right that this isn't him overcharging your visions or anything. You're very perfectly aware of everything he's doing right now, and nothing about his spell is affecting your Sight. However...BACK WHAT THE SHIT I HAVEN'T HAD THIS PROBLEM SINCE I WAS NINE-
* * *
It takes a moment to dig into your joint internal monologue and find what's going on. Nothing either of you had consciously noted, but...
...something is blocking you, says Jaffur.
Something was blocking me, you say. You saw it-
-and I don't know anything about the Sight, so I just assumed it was normal-
-and I was distracted, so I didn't really dig into it, but when a vision came, I just went around the block without thinking about it.
It's not magic, says Jaffur.
I know it's not magic, I can see it now. It's Sight! Seers can't do this! Sensei would have warned me about-! You stop dead as a notion flickers through Jaffur's mind. ...you take that back.
With the mental equivalent of a resigned sigh, he says, He was supposed to warn us about something going wrong today.
Jaffur, shut up-
And I'm just now realizing that you've always said that the Seers deliver their predictions through him, which isn't really suspicious when you're trying to run a conspiracy and thus avoid big gatherings or implicating more people than necessary if you're caught, but taken with everything-
You hiss at him. Loudly.
But you don't disagree.
How many visions do you have in you right now? asks Jaffur in a muted tone.
You prod at the feeling of your Sight. Your stomach twists on itself. ...more than one.
He swallows. I'm not saying that it is what we're thinking...
...but she did something to him, you finish, staring at the cloud of blasts.
Both Lords are in the middle of going oozaru, and are effectively incapable of making snap reactions for the duration of this vote, after which they will be able to act as normal. Berra, recognizing this, has begun nuking the air between you and Dandeer to deny you passage. Vegeta is going merely normal oozaru, and is also going berserk.
Jaffur has cast his spell, "Synchronicity," on you and him. While the two of you remain within 15 feet of each other, you receive a +50 boost to all Team Fighting checks, resolve all combat exchanges as Team Fighting, and remain perfectly aware of each other's awareness and intentions at all times. This has had the side effect of Kakara becoming aware of (and effortlessly circumventing) a block on her Sight. This, along with other factors, has led both Kakara and Jaffur to conclude that Dandeer has done something to Sensei Carrick at some unknown point.
Your people, already busy fleeing, have not been affected by the Power Ball. They are almost done with filtering out of the Hall.
Over the course of the next few seconds, what do? Seconds, remember; plan accordingly. If you wish, make a plan from the following items instead of merely one, but remember -- seconds.
[ ] This cannot distract from what you're doing. Both Lords are effectively out the ability to make snap reactions, and Yammar is occupied. With both of you watching for an opening, and this coordinated, you'll find an opening. When you do, go straight for Dandeer and take her out of the fight. Whatever's happening, she is the linchpin.
[ ] Your Sight is clearer than it's ever been. Visions are coming incredibly easily, and you have far more than a paltry one a day. Vision, now.
-[ ] Specify what.
[ ] Is now the time for a Genki Dama?! Yes! yes it is! With this spell Jaffur will be better than ever at keeping them off of you, and you have a few seconds where they're unable to interrupt at all while the two of you get ready.
[ ] You don't know what's going on with Sensei Carrick, but you can't take any chances. Start contacting every Seer you can sense and order them to do anything they can to disrupt his visions since that's a thing Seers can apparently do.
[ ] Now that people are mostly out of the Hall and out from under the line of fire, you have an opportunity. Contact Head Raditz and have him start organizing people for a fight. He'll do more good preparing a tide of angry saiyan reinforcements than any direct action.
[ ] Write-in.
MANUAL MORATORIUM, WRITE-INS ALLOWED THROUGH THAT. APPROVAL VOTING.
All is not as it seems, ever. There is a lot going on to which no single party is privy. Nobody has the full picture, even if they all seem convinced that they do.
Hope you all enjoyed! We continue now with the Unsealing!
Lots of exciting things this update. Kakara and Jaffur have an absolutely broken skill right now, thanks to Jaffur's choice of training targets. Kakara, meanwhile, has far more facility with the Sight than she ever dreamed. To put this all in perspective: Kakara can now easily make multiple predictions -- how many, she doesn't know -- and then she and Jaffur can use their buffed TF stat to execute whatever she projects. What this means is: those who remember Berra's character sheet from before I deleted it may remember that he had an insane dueling stat, but negligible Crowd Fighting. Well, now he can't use Dueling against you.
In direct action, you and Jaffur are now terrifying. Have fun leveraging that.
See y'all around the thread!
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Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Ahhh, that's why.
Dandeer subverted the best seer in the world, because of course she did. Why wouldn't she? It's not like anyone else on this fucking planet has agency but her and allegedly the protagonists.
And right now, she's either got him as an info-slave, or she's just reading our minds.
Dandeer subverted the best seer in the world, because of course she did. Why wouldn't she? It's not like anyone else on this fucking planet has agency but her and allegedly the protagonists.
And right now, she's either got him as an info-slave, or she's just reading our minds.
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Nix's Warden
Welcome to Hades
- Location
- United States
It gives you Active SM Flashbacks doesn't it? It sure as hell does for me.
Sidenote: the block may not be something Dandeer had Carrick do. While it's a logical assumption, it's also possible this is a standard part of the curriculum, to gradually teach the young Seer control, restraint and possibly efficiency and/or strengthen their mental muscles. And depending on how dangerous the Sight can be to user, for their own protection.
So, I'm wondering a few things:
1) How long does each vision take?
2) How fast can we form a multiform clone?
3) Does having split affect the speed of the visions?
4) How fast can we reform from cancelling multiform?
Because I'm wondering if it forming a clone, so there's two or more Kakara's having visions, would be faster then having one Kakara have them sequentially.
1) How long does each vision take?
2) How fast can we form a multiform clone?
3) Does having split affect the speed of the visions?
4) How fast can we reform from cancelling multiform?
Because I'm wondering if it forming a clone, so there's two or more Kakara's having visions, would be faster then having one Kakara have them sequentially.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Stop and think for a minute.
You're a mind-control witch. You're squishy. You've pissed off one or more super-saiyans.
OF COURSE you will try to find a way to bewitch at least a few Seers. Among other things because you need a Seer on retainer, and you damn well can't trust anyone you haven't personally mind-controlled.
We should be glad Dandeer wasn't paranoid and didn't, for example, tell Carrick to use his Sight to search for any threats to her continued power and primacy/serenity, in an open-ended manner. Because then we'd be fucked.
Hey, everyone, remember that time right before the Sealing where Berra effortlessly restrained both of us?
Are you thinking of a rematch? Because I'm considering a rematch.
Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
pointing out dandeer has agency is kind of orthogonal to his point that other characters don't.
Really getting tired of this. Okay, Dandeer needs to fucking die. I suggest instant transmission followed by kikoho. Even if she fucking precognitive all of a sudden, she shouldn't be able to react fast enough to get away.
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The fact that Dandeer's moves are logical for her doesn't mean the story line is a good one for the quest, you know?
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The fact that Dandeer's moves are logical for her doesn't mean the story line is a good one for the quest, you know?
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Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
Even if we kill dandeer literally anyone on the planet may be mind controlled with a dormant command or/and any other sorcerer could also figure out how to start mind controlling people.
The obvious solution is to blow up the fucking planet. Duh.
Honestly, we should be able to simply it jafur past Berra.
Golden, obviously. Our seer sensei is subverted, remember? We have no secrets. Since he is apparently incapable of using his incredible power to see the future to to stop himself from being mc'ed. Speaking of which, how the fuck did all the sorcerers get slaughtered without the seers fucking noticing? The great mc spell wasn't in place at that time, so at least fucking one of them should have seen that shit coming. Sigh.
- Location
- Australia
There was something from a while back that may be of use to us. It should disrupt Dandeer without having to get past her bodyguards.
So it should affect her mentally, it's just that we can't ONLY affect her mentally, but that's fine. Affecting her mentally and physically is acceptable.
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The two obvious priorities are exploring the opening and closing the gap. Assuming that with multiform we can attempt two approaches we should shout to shut down her precog and move for a decapitation strike.
-actually, that's an idea. Can Kakara literally "shout" loud enough telepathically to shut down other telepathic communications?
-actually, that's an idea. Can Kakara literally "shout" loud enough telepathically to shut down other telepathic communications?