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Hmm... Can we actually use IAT in concert with Contested-Movement?

It'd be expensive, but I'd like to run this strategy by @Imperial Fister first to see if it's something Halla can try.

A) Open with Leaping-Cleave
B) Use Ember Winged Cloak to nullify the usual disadvantages by using it to reposition mid-trick, allowing us to avoid any traps he lays down for us, while also allowing us to 'Home in' on the guy in mid-air
C) In the subsequent exchange, use Contested-Movement to outmaneuver him, and hit him with Inertia-Arresting Throw by catching a chunk of him with our Standstill, pinning him in place.
D) MURDERFACE while he's unable to disengage.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
@Imperial Fister how close is Abjorn and could he realistically join us in wrecking this guy? And if not him, is anyone close enough?
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He could, but you would have to eat some nid to call in help. It would be light nid, as you're in tutorial pt 2 — which lasts until you have your first child — but it would still eat away at some of your orthstirr.
Alectai said:
It'd be expensive, but I'd like to run this strategy by @Imperial Fister first to see if it's viable.
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To be clear, you are forgoing using CM's attack-back feature in favor of using it to dodge, correct?
 
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KreenWarrior said:
If we deliberately hit that roof with Ignition and start a town-wide fire, maybe we can bait him into spending Fervor to contain it?
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His Fervor recovers, making him spend it is verging on irrelevant, I think. Certainly not worth a significant quantity of our rapidly vanishing orthstirr.

Imperial Fister said:
He could, but you would have to eat some nid to call in help. It would be light nid, as you're in tutorial pt 2 — which lasts until you have your first child — but it would still eat away at some of your orthstirr.
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Well that's no good. Hmmm...
 
Imperial Fister said:
He could, but you would have to eat some nid to call in help. It would be light nid, as you're in tutorial pt 2 — which lasts until you have your first child — but it would still eat away at some of your orthstirr.

To be clear, you are forgoing using CM's attack-back feature in favor of using it to dodge, correct?
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Basically, the idea is "Instead of clap him back with an attack, use IAT to pin him down" Just shove our proverbial cloak over his arm or his face or something.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
IAT can be used as a defense, I don't think Contested Movement is necessary here?
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Okay, that works too. The point is ultimately that we get him trapped in our cloak so he can't just teleport away again. Since if we can strip him of his shield, chances are that he's very squishy, and Leaping Cleave explicitly counters that kind of shield-tech by shattering it.

If we use EWC to allow us to maneuver mid-Trick, we get in close. If we then use IAT to trap him while his shield's down, the rest is just a matter of the bloodshed.
 
Alectai said:
Basically, the idea is "Instead of clap him back with an attack, use IAT to pin him down"
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I'm gonna have to say...
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
IAT can be used as a defense
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Deadman beat me to it, lmao
KreenWarrior said:
Can we hit him while he recovers? Next time, I mean.
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The prayer he did at the end here has nothing to do with his natural Fervor regen, by the way

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Imperial Fister said:
I'm gonna have to say...

Deadman beat me to it, lmao

The prayer he did at the end here has nothing to do with his natural Fervor regen, by the way

Voting is now open
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Fair enough, but is using EWC in conjunction with Leaping-Cleave to nullify it's usual weaknesses a viable move? Being able to reposition mid-flight to counter any evasion or evade a trap he leaves for us while still being able to cleave his shield wide open looks like the winning play here.
 
So he likes to look down on us while standing on thatched roofs...
Kindle Spinner means we can make it so that the buildings are too on fire for him to stand on their roofs (probably).
If we use Inertia-Arresting-Throw successfully beforehand we might be able to force him to stand in the flames.
 
Alectai said:
... What the hell was a top tier Cultivator doing at a random town like this?
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Divine providence? I could definitely see a Catholic cultivator going "The Lord Guides my Steps" and appearing when needed. And/Or it could be a case of top tier cultivators staying low in the hierarchy, humility is a virtue after all. Alternatively, he might just be punching far above his weight class because Christian cultivation is really good at protecting innocent villagers from bloodthirsty pagans.
 
Mmm,

So Prayers might not be much different than stoking for us. There's almost certainly some limit or tradeoff (well, for one thing, we know it leaves them vulnerable, so even if we can't exploit it, we might be able to prevent him from having the breathing room to use it).
I hope he was Flash-Stepping or flying instead of teleporting; if he was teleporting I'm not sure IAT would help, but also not sure what else we could do about it.
 
From what I gather, the box-thing and his staff also serve to bolster his power. Getting rid of those might also help in the long run. Although I don't think we can actually afford to think in the long-run right now, since we're running pretty low on orthstirr.

So what, the plan is to somehow trap him with IAT, then engage with EWC+LC and meleespam until he dies? I mean, it's not the worst plan, but he definitely has some more tricks up his sleeve...

It's not like there's anything else we can really do, though. Except for trying to break his faith, but I have no idea how we'd achieve that.

Oh wait, yeah, is it possible to use EWC to get close to him if he tries to do his prayer thing again? Or would the fireballs be able to interrupt/stop us from doing that?
 
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KreenWarrior said:
Mmm,

So Prayers might not be much different than stoking for us. There's almost certainly some limit or tradeoff (well, for one thing, we know it leaves them vulnerable, so even if we can't exploit it, we might be able to prevent him from having the breathing room to use it).
I hope he was Flash-Stepping or flying instead of teleporting; if he was teleporting I'm not sure IAT would help, but also not sure what else we could do about it.
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He'd still have to break the IAT before teleporting unless he wanted to break his arm or lose his head.

Still, with the confirmation that we Can Use EWC to counter LC's weaknesses, our play seems obvious.

Use LC to close, using EWC for attitude control and homing in on him and/or evading his trap. (Expensive, but we've still got one more stokable and Sagaseeker to draw on). This strips his shield too.

Then use IAT to lock him in place, from then on, we just start Blending. Without his shield and with his relatively low Body stat, he should go down quickly, especially since he doesn't seem to have any armor.
 
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Constenanto said:
From what I gather, the box-thing and his staff also serve to bolster his power.
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I think the 'box' is a wood-bound Bible. It could also be a Saintly relic. They're probably like Sagaseeker, providing Fervor instead of orthstirr, though there might be other effects. Destroying or breaking them would likely be good (again, see breaking the monastery shield from an earlier story by breaking the relics).
 
Imperial Fister said:
The total cost of the maneuver would be — unHoned — 21 orthstirr. Using tricks simultaneously increases the cost by half
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A gamble, but it should let us turn the tables on this guy. Leaping Cleave explicitly trades off being predictable in exchange for stripping magical protections, which is--as best as we can tell--this guy's only significant line of defense aside from his mobility. Combine that with IAT to seal his mobility, and we should have him in checkmate.
 
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