Varder
Tired Cultist
- Location
- Hell
If it's like this then the perk is as much a hindrance as it is an advantage.
Eldritch Avatar Quest - You are the Outside-Context Problem!
- Thread starter shibosho
- Start date
- Original
If it's like this then the perk is as much a hindrance as it is an advantage.
How so? When would we want to NOT dodge an attack? And how often are those events gonna happen, that it's a big hinderance?
Varder
Tired Cultist
- Location
- Hell
When there's an objective we should accomplish at all costs, even taking a wound. Like, when we try to save someone but are just barely late because we dodged that one shot on the way.
Thats what force walls are for. Bodies are shitty shields
yeah and we could you know grab the person and move out the way, like why the fuck do they not do that.
- Location
- Sydney
[X] The hungry soul that lies underground, devouring the souls that it draws in, growing ever stronger even as its hunger grows as well.
Varder
Tired Cultist
- Location
- Hell
Okay, well, then we want to grab something from the fleeing enemy? Like, there are lots of situations where it's worth taking a minor injury for tactical advantage.
Since we'd be dodging with the least amount of movement neccessary, it wouldn't be a minor injury if it's enough to make us back off.
At this point you're reaching, because a reflexive dodge HELPS a strategy of closing in to grab something, as the main counter to that is a severing or shoving attack to make distance or remove the grabbing limb.
Keep in mind that we're hooked up with magical girl Megumin. She casts Explosion, and also Explosion
0.5 - Souls for the Lord of Ebon
shibosho
The Face of Procrastination
- Location
- The Land of Oz
AN: Okay, so I was looking through some of my stuff, trying to get myself out of a lethargic rut that I seemed to be stuck in for the last year or so and then I remembered this quest. After looking through my notes, I've decided to continue this quest. Hopefully, I'll be writing regularly again.
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...
[X] The hungry soul that lies underground, devouring the souls that it draws in, growing ever stronger even as its hunger grows as well.
...
Watching Maki try and find her way underground had been particularly annoying, especially since you no longer had full access to your many useful powers such as clairvoyance and teleportation. Still, your future vessel and current wielder manage to find a route to the underground location where you sensed the conglomeration of soul essence.
Unfortunately, you may have been too rash in urging your wielder to hunt for the largest sources of energy. In your haste to acquire more power through Maki, you neglected to account for the possibility that the level of power that you were sensing was not necessarily an approximation of the target's true power.
"What the hell is this thing!?"
Deep underground, there was a cavern filled with bones. You know nothing of their origins but if you had to guess, the place was once a mass dumping ground for corpses. The pieces of armour, broken weapons and rusting arrowheads suggested that these were either the bodies of those that fell in battle, most likely the results of a war.
The malice, regrets, and resentment that permeated the air in the cavern seemed to agree with your hypothesis. At some point, these dumping grounds were either closed off or forgotten and the dead were left to rot in the darkness. And in these dark caverns, the negative emotions left of the losers of history built up and gathered until it became something else altogether.
The entity born from the grudges of the fallen masses was an undead monstrosity that wished only to reap vengeance upon the living.
And it has sensed Maki's presence.
For Maki, it was something that she and her friends had never encountered before, not even in their past lives. Being connected to her, you can tell that she is afraid. She trembles in fear as she stares that the amalgamation of vengeful souls. She knows full well that the thing in front of her is beyond her power to do battle.
But she is not alone.
She has you after all.
You are the Ebon Lord, diminished as you are, and a mass of resentful souls is but a banquet to you in your current state.
It is time to feast!
But first, you need to be stabbed into the damn thing.
…
...
Maki was terrified.
For some reason, she was in down deep underground cavern that was beneath the city. She had felt something when she had gone out to give her new sword a test drive. It took a bit of effort and searching but she had somehow managed to find a path down into some ancient catacombs via a closed-off section from a long-abandoned subway station.
At the time, she hadn't questioned her instincts as she made her way down into the darkness.
Now, faced with a giant mass of rusted, serrated edges bound together by ancient flesh and creaking bones, she realised that she should have been warier of why her instincts had led her here. Clearly the ghost zombie monster must have lured her here somehow. And even to her less than stellar magical senses, she could feel the nauseating presence of the monster smothering her, suffocating her.
She shouldn't have come here.
But she was here so she might as well stab the thing.
Maki paused as that thought crossed her mind. Distracted by her errant thought, the monster lunged towards her, intent on ripping her to shreds and feeding on her soul.
"RAAAAAAAAARGH!"
"Shit!" Maki cursed, realising her folly. Swinging her new sword haphazardly, she closed her eyes to avoid watching her demise. She felt her sword pass through something before things got weird.
"AAAAAAAAHH!" The angry cacophony of rage and hatred that made up the entity's voice suddenly turned fearful and pain-filled. Maki opened an eye before her expression turns to shock as she bore witness to the power of her sword.
Her sword had been stabbed into the chest of the creature. Such a shallow wound should not have done anything but Maki could see clearly how her sword was suddenly somehow sucking up the black smoky substance that was part of the ghost zombie monster's form. She could feel the hilt grow warm in her hand.
All this despite the monster trying desperately to pull out the blade that was killing it out of its body. Tendrils had burst out from its back and wrapped themselves around the blade. The strength it had was more than capable of smashing through steel walls yet it could not remove the black sword that had been stuck into it like an afterthought.
Maki stood there, watching as the Black Sword sucked away the monster's Soul Essence like a vacuum. Almost pitifully, the creature reached out towards Maki as though begging for mercy as it was stripped of the power that had allowed it to continue moving despite the death of its flesh to no avail. As the last of its soul essence disappeared into the sword, the creature's mass disintegrated into a pile of desiccated flesh, ancient bones, and metal fragments.
Whatever suffocating presence that had drawn her to this place was gone.
For several silence moments, Maki stared at the remains of what should have been a monster beyond her abilities to defeat by herself before turning her attention to her new sword which had destroyed - no, devoured the monster like it was nothing.
"...Okay. Maybe the sword is sort of evil." Maki finally admitted. "Still cool though."
If this sword was some kind of evil cursed sword, maybe she could cleanse it or purify it or something. It was a thing in fantasy novels where a cursed sword's true power could only be awakened after it was freed from the curse. Maki's new sword had to be the same.
In any case, with whatever the hell that monster was dead, she had accomplished what she had set out to do. With the test drive of her new sword done, Maki began making her way back to the surface.
…
...
As expected, the amount of soul essence you have obtained from devouring that undead mass of negative emotions has returned to you a sliver of your original strength. It was fortunate that the prey was just a mass of souls that were more like a swarm of vermin than a coherent concentrated soul that it would have become if it had been left alone. Otherwise, it would have been considerably more difficult to devour the combined soul essence.
Still, it is unlikely you'll find such a haul again in the future.
It doesn't take long for you to process the soul essence you had obtained and use it to strengthen your own existence. As you do so, you find that you have reawakened one of your powers along with a slight strengthening of your connection to your wielder.
Connection strength: 5% => 10%
Though it has been remade into a form suitable to your current state, it will prove to be an invaluable tool in the days to come. That which you have reclaimed is yours and will also become Maki's and the more Maki make use of you, the more of what is Maki's will become yours.
What power have you regained?
[ ] Black Infusion - Anything and everything is a weapon, you just need to know how to use it. With an infusion of your energy, anything that you or Maki choose to infuse will gain properties that will enable it to become a better weapon. Not all objects can be empowered in this manner. And not all weapons will allow themselves to be wielded by one chosen by you - at least not yet.
[ ] Dark Mirror - Anything you can do, I can do better. You can replicate the appearance and functions of objects that you come into contact with. Not only that, you can further enhance aspects of what you are mimicking to beyond what the original was capable of. Maki can make use of this ability herself, copying the appearance of others to such an extent that they appear more "real" than the original. Object and people with supernatural capabilities, however, will be much much harder for you and Maki to copy - for now, anyway.
[ ] Shadow Warrior - There is no more loyal being than the Shadow that follows your every movement. Now command them to do more than just copy your actions and make them do something much more meaningful. Your shadow rises from its place, gaining a physical presence. Maki's shadow too will also be capable of rising from the ground and acting just like the original. Remember though that they are but shadows and lack the more esoteric abilities that you and Maki have, at first at least.
…
...
[X] The hungry soul that lies underground, devouring the souls that it draws in, growing ever stronger even as its hunger grows as well.
...
Watching Maki try and find her way underground had been particularly annoying, especially since you no longer had full access to your many useful powers such as clairvoyance and teleportation. Still, your future vessel and current wielder manage to find a route to the underground location where you sensed the conglomeration of soul essence.
Unfortunately, you may have been too rash in urging your wielder to hunt for the largest sources of energy. In your haste to acquire more power through Maki, you neglected to account for the possibility that the level of power that you were sensing was not necessarily an approximation of the target's true power.
"What the hell is this thing!?"
Deep underground, there was a cavern filled with bones. You know nothing of their origins but if you had to guess, the place was once a mass dumping ground for corpses. The pieces of armour, broken weapons and rusting arrowheads suggested that these were either the bodies of those that fell in battle, most likely the results of a war.
The malice, regrets, and resentment that permeated the air in the cavern seemed to agree with your hypothesis. At some point, these dumping grounds were either closed off or forgotten and the dead were left to rot in the darkness. And in these dark caverns, the negative emotions left of the losers of history built up and gathered until it became something else altogether.
The entity born from the grudges of the fallen masses was an undead monstrosity that wished only to reap vengeance upon the living.
And it has sensed Maki's presence.
For Maki, it was something that she and her friends had never encountered before, not even in their past lives. Being connected to her, you can tell that she is afraid. She trembles in fear as she stares that the amalgamation of vengeful souls. She knows full well that the thing in front of her is beyond her power to do battle.
But she is not alone.
She has you after all.
You are the Ebon Lord, diminished as you are, and a mass of resentful souls is but a banquet to you in your current state.
It is time to feast!
But first, you need to be stabbed into the damn thing.
…
...
Maki was terrified.
For some reason, she was in down deep underground cavern that was beneath the city. She had felt something when she had gone out to give her new sword a test drive. It took a bit of effort and searching but she had somehow managed to find a path down into some ancient catacombs via a closed-off section from a long-abandoned subway station.
At the time, she hadn't questioned her instincts as she made her way down into the darkness.
Now, faced with a giant mass of rusted, serrated edges bound together by ancient flesh and creaking bones, she realised that she should have been warier of why her instincts had led her here. Clearly the ghost zombie monster must have lured her here somehow. And even to her less than stellar magical senses, she could feel the nauseating presence of the monster smothering her, suffocating her.
She shouldn't have come here.
But she was here so she might as well stab the thing.
Maki paused as that thought crossed her mind. Distracted by her errant thought, the monster lunged towards her, intent on ripping her to shreds and feeding on her soul.
"RAAAAAAAAARGH!"
"Shit!" Maki cursed, realising her folly. Swinging her new sword haphazardly, she closed her eyes to avoid watching her demise. She felt her sword pass through something before things got weird.
"AAAAAAAAHH!" The angry cacophony of rage and hatred that made up the entity's voice suddenly turned fearful and pain-filled. Maki opened an eye before her expression turns to shock as she bore witness to the power of her sword.
Her sword had been stabbed into the chest of the creature. Such a shallow wound should not have done anything but Maki could see clearly how her sword was suddenly somehow sucking up the black smoky substance that was part of the ghost zombie monster's form. She could feel the hilt grow warm in her hand.
All this despite the monster trying desperately to pull out the blade that was killing it out of its body. Tendrils had burst out from its back and wrapped themselves around the blade. The strength it had was more than capable of smashing through steel walls yet it could not remove the black sword that had been stuck into it like an afterthought.
Maki stood there, watching as the Black Sword sucked away the monster's Soul Essence like a vacuum. Almost pitifully, the creature reached out towards Maki as though begging for mercy as it was stripped of the power that had allowed it to continue moving despite the death of its flesh to no avail. As the last of its soul essence disappeared into the sword, the creature's mass disintegrated into a pile of desiccated flesh, ancient bones, and metal fragments.
Whatever suffocating presence that had drawn her to this place was gone.
For several silence moments, Maki stared at the remains of what should have been a monster beyond her abilities to defeat by herself before turning her attention to her new sword which had destroyed - no, devoured the monster like it was nothing.
"...Okay. Maybe the sword is sort of evil." Maki finally admitted. "Still cool though."
If this sword was some kind of evil cursed sword, maybe she could cleanse it or purify it or something. It was a thing in fantasy novels where a cursed sword's true power could only be awakened after it was freed from the curse. Maki's new sword had to be the same.
In any case, with whatever the hell that monster was dead, she had accomplished what she had set out to do. With the test drive of her new sword done, Maki began making her way back to the surface.
…
...
As expected, the amount of soul essence you have obtained from devouring that undead mass of negative emotions has returned to you a sliver of your original strength. It was fortunate that the prey was just a mass of souls that were more like a swarm of vermin than a coherent concentrated soul that it would have become if it had been left alone. Otherwise, it would have been considerably more difficult to devour the combined soul essence.
Still, it is unlikely you'll find such a haul again in the future.
It doesn't take long for you to process the soul essence you had obtained and use it to strengthen your own existence. As you do so, you find that you have reawakened one of your powers along with a slight strengthening of your connection to your wielder.
Connection strength: 5% => 10%
Though it has been remade into a form suitable to your current state, it will prove to be an invaluable tool in the days to come. That which you have reclaimed is yours and will also become Maki's and the more Maki make use of you, the more of what is Maki's will become yours.
What power have you regained?
[ ] Black Infusion - Anything and everything is a weapon, you just need to know how to use it. With an infusion of your energy, anything that you or Maki choose to infuse will gain properties that will enable it to become a better weapon. Not all objects can be empowered in this manner. And not all weapons will allow themselves to be wielded by one chosen by you - at least not yet.
[ ] Dark Mirror - Anything you can do, I can do better. You can replicate the appearance and functions of objects that you come into contact with. Not only that, you can further enhance aspects of what you are mimicking to beyond what the original was capable of. Maki can make use of this ability herself, copying the appearance of others to such an extent that they appear more "real" than the original. Object and people with supernatural capabilities, however, will be much much harder for you and Maki to copy - for now, anyway.
[ ] Shadow Warrior - There is no more loyal being than the Shadow that follows your every movement. Now command them to do more than just copy your actions and make them do something much more meaningful. Your shadow rises from its place, gaining a physical presence. Maki's shadow too will also be capable of rising from the ground and acting just like the original. Remember though that they are but shadows and lack the more esoteric abilities that you and Maki have, at first at least.
[X] Dark Mirror - Anything you can do, I can do better. You can replicate the appearance and functions of objects that you come into contact with. Not only that, you can further enhance aspects of what you are mimicking to beyond what the original was capable of. Maki can make use of this ability herself, copying the appearance of others to such an extent that they appear more "real" than the original. Object and people with supernatural capabilities, however, will be much much harder for you and Maki to copy - for now, anyway.
I'm so happy to see this updated.
I'm so happy to see this updated.
- Location
- Connecticut
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Dark Mirror - Anything you can do, I can do better. You can replicate the appearance and functions of objects that you come into contact with. Not only that, you can further enhance aspects of what you are mimicking to beyond what the original was capable of. Maki can make use of this ability herself, copying the appearance of others to such an extent that they appear more "real" than the original. Object and people with supernatural capabilities, however, will be much much harder for you and Maki to copy - for now, anyway.
ThatGuyWithIdeas
Treize died for our sins
- Location
- Romania
[X] Dark Mirror - Anything you can do, I can do better. You can replicate the appearance and functions of objects that you come into contact with. Not only that, you can further enhance aspects of what you are mimicking to beyond what the original was capable of. Maki can make use of this ability herself, copying the appearance of others to such an extent that they appear more "real" than the original. Object and people with supernatural capabilities, however, will be much much harder for you and Maki to copy - for now, anyway.
[X] Dark Mirror
I miss the quest where our best friend was the ninja heir.
Pathetic King
"I Speak To The Audient Void."
- Location
- Colorado
[X] Shadow Warrior - There is no more loyal being than the Shadow that follows your every movement. Now command them to do more than just copy your actions and make them do something much more meaningful. Your shadow rises from its place, gaining a physical presence. Maki's shadow too will also be capable of rising from the ground and acting just like the original. Remember though that they are but shadows and lack the more esoteric abilities that you and Maki have, at first at least.
- Location
- .... earth
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Dark Mirror
This is the least evil seeming one.
This is the least evil seeming one.
- Location
- florida