Suddenly... exploding acid pee missiles.
It's not wrong to make Friends in the Dungeon (Danmachi / Sanctioned [Worm])
Daimah
Lurking lurker that lurks
- Location
- home
Meanwhile in Apollo's mansion.
Hyacinthus: "And those are lord Apollo's orders."
Cassandra, shaking him hysterically: "No! I know you guys always ignore me but I don't want to die, so no harassing the girl with a powerful spirit watching over her."
Hyacinthus: "But..."
Cassandra: "NO!!!"
Wolfund
{Verified Historian}
- Location
- France
because they have crunch time worse than hell and google translate is a thing
- Location
- Terra-Luna
Well, it seems that attaining monarchy is not so simple as merely a matter of stealing it from someone else. Nor is attaining a monarch such, which I suspect Apollo shall discover before long. Sure, QA is quite the prize, but one that has already cast down a god, and she's only going to become all the more formidable with time... and quite rapidly at that. Last week, Hestia was effectively nobody; now, she is one whom others are starting to become hesitant to cross her and she is quite well guarded. Her Familia also consists of a pair of psycho-murderers liable to put out the eyes of anyone too uppity who isn't simply eaten first, too, and I imagine that plenty of gods are sensible enough to try to garner an excellent ally even if actually taking QA for themselves should be deemed too risky, which itself would see them prone to objecting to anyone else trying to get QA all for themselves, which is in turn a deterrent as well. No one wants to make enemies of Freya, for instance, much less an appreciable portion of the entire city and mysterious, unknown parties beyond.
Eh, in her particular case it might be more forgivable; she's a princess and her father bears the same name, which may be something of a rather literal title and descriptor as much as a name, akin to the house name of a royal family being the very name of the country that they rule, or more specifically with the nation named after the ruling and founding family. There's an arguable possibility that the light elves are so named because they are the people of "The Light Elf", which itself may be a name gained through deed or recognition in the past when the name was initially formed. There's an analogue to real-world Roman naming practices there, actually, which extended further into later custom beyond the actual Roman culture itself. People had personal names and surnames, and could also gain that which was both a title and a name, and said gained name could itself go on to become a familial name. Great people quite literally made names for themselves.
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Motile Mollusc
Bitten by a radioactive were-tilde
- Location
- Here
Don't be rude, <Trickster Deity-Avatar Version 2.1b>
Purring will continue until morale improves?
- Location
- US
love the skill rhymes. I wonder about that second skill though: can it be manually/temporarily turned off? Some skills might require rage or hate or other negative emotions to power them and Felicity's skill might be harmful in those cases in the dungeon.
I'm also curious about something else: will this story ever progress far enough for
that happens pretty early on in SO, so... curious.
I'm also curious about something else: will this story ever progress far enough for
Similarities and timing coincidences from QA's friends vs the weird monsters appearing from SO to come into play? And who will Dionysus go to if it seems Loki is compromised by the presence of Felicity?
that happens pretty early on in SO, so... curious.
Teiwaz
Beloved of Adorjan.
- Location
- RUNNING AWAY
Pretty sure the Ph of healthy urine is actually neutralish at like 5 or 6
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'm sure Friends can pee at whatever pH they want.
94000130FFF70000
Absolutely the Worst
- Location
- Midwest USA
Fixed that for you.
Good chapter, yo. Aiz once again proves that she's the only sane person in this whole mess, though Lili makes some good points (but partially misattributes stuff to malice rather than stupidity)
I doubt it. Why would they have bladders at all? That's a really lousy place for a weapon system. Spitting acid, or shooting it out of your tear ducts, is much more efficient.
Finally back on track!
But why is that? Knowing a foreign language is cool, but saying things you don't understand just makes you look like a fool.
Pronoun disagreement.
- Location
- Somewhere.
Goodness sakes, please don't get him distracted!
Czlyydwr Llrngwl
"Sell ya a door Learn gull," Czly/Celly for short
- Location
- Where the Beef is
- Pronouns
- Any
It gives the impression of secret or rare knowledge I guess? Same as why magic spells often get incantations in shoddy Latin/Greek/Chinese/etc., gibberish syllables, or at best a constructed language built for the setting.
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
At least Dresden Files put a lampshade on it by having the spell words be literal gibberish so that your mind is protected from manaburn by having the word unassociated with anything other than the spell; using an actual language's vocabulary there would result in neurological damage due to imperfect shaping of the spell due to subconscious word association.
Which is how we get the candle-lighting spell, "Flickum Bickus".
Lol.
I know that some adventurers cheated Lili, but does she seriously think that all adventurers owe her money?
As for robbing the Loki Familia, the fact that she was always a smalltime thief never exposed her to the hazards of robbing people with the facilities and motivation to expend magic and resources tracking a thief down.
Or the difficulty of fencing identifiable material from a large and powerful family, since she previously only dealt in mass produced stuff.
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
It wasn't only Soma Familia that would rob her. She got to be the way she was in part because the adventurers she worked for often used the flimsiest excuses to avoid paying her a fair share, when they didn't just straight up threaten to kill her if she didn't give them everything valuable she had once in the Dungeon.
She just stopped seeing "adventurers" as anything individual: they're "all the same" to her at this point. So obviously any wealth they put on display is ill-gotten, just like the money taken from her.
That's why it was okay to trick and steal it right back.
- Location
- Home
In case of sadness apply kitten to the face, warning: side-effects may include tiny claw marks.
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
This is horribly immoral and no one should do it, but it turns out that you can keep adult cats roughly kitten-sized simply by stunting their growth by horribly malnourishing them when very young.
(Note: I know this because I have an adorbsicle mini-calico I adopted from the humane society who was found abandoned in a rain gutter and nearly dead of starvation. It took me several months to convince her that the wet stuff from the cans was actually edible -- she kept on only eating dry food for the longest time. She's a healthy weight nowadays.)
I'm sorry did someone mention Uric Acid?
Nope.
Pure FOOF.
Hemispherical coverage bio-turret?
Lucky she has a Spirit guide who knows all about crime and the administration thereof!
I also note Lili's plans to follow in QA's footsteps and take up the Familia practice of almost-but-not-quite forcible adoptions once she's rich.
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dracklor
Beyond the Frontier
- Location
- Texas
And now I'm remembering the heroine pissing dinosaurs from Exalted...
- Location
- Here
...It pissed out female heroes? Or am I reading this wrong?
- Location
- Italy
heh, I was thinking about QA background
"Mother was the Thinker she took all decisions, Father was the Warrior, he was the strongest so he protected her and destroyed all her foes, she made a mistake during an experiment and bacame crippled and helpless and was killed by an underling, Father become depressed and after some years decided to end it all and kill everyone so I took command of the others and fought him back, in the end I killed him and when I was wounded and tired, the same one who killed Mother stabbed me in the back and then cast me away only to land not far from here, I'm better now, I have a new Family and I'm healing"
If that doesn't cause some BSOD in 90% of the ffemale cast I'll eat my hat!
"Mother was the Thinker she took all decisions, Father was the Warrior, he was the strongest so he protected her and destroyed all her foes, she made a mistake during an experiment and bacame crippled and helpless and was killed by an underling, Father become depressed and after some years decided to end it all and kill everyone so I took command of the others and fought him back, in the end I killed him and when I was wounded and tired, the same one who killed Mother stabbed me in the back and then cast me away only to land not far from here, I'm better now, I have a new Family and I'm healing"
If that doesn't cause some BSOD in 90% of the ffemale cast I'll eat my hat!