>>18289775

To your surprise, you find yourself falling, tumbling into a space which is best described as "the air", which is not where you were about a second ago, which was best described as "standing on a surface". Very shortly, you get the idea that you will meet something best described as "the ground".

"Red" unhooks from you, leaps away and to the side of the building both of you just vacated. She sticks out a palm, lighting first, into the wall and starts grinding down it, leaving a trail of crimson sparks and hunks of debris in her wake. But she'll also probably make it to the ground. Besides, she can just portal out. You, on the other hand, are currently plummeting to the ground through the empty air between two high-rise buildings, with an alley composed almost, but not quite, entirely of asphalt. Your brain, in a very detached fashion, notes that this would be bad, and you should probably do something about it. Sooner, rather than later.

>OMGWE'REGOINGTODIEWATFUCKINGDO?

>>18289824
Barrier Up.
Air evocation to slow our descent.
Try to follow Red if she's beneath us.

>>18289824
First, spread out your body to get more wind resistance - then try to spread out your barrier as wide as you can, this'll slow you down.

After that, start running down the side of the building, this is for you ParkourAnon! IT'S YOUR TIME!

>>18289932

Barrier does not spread. It is a field which envelops you.

Deploying it would, however, decrease damage.

>>18289932
Instead of running down the building, shouldn't we run up it?
So that we don't accelerate our fall?

>>18289843
This seems like a good plan.

>>18289967
Doesn't work that way, we'd just start falling again, only backwards.. By running down we can control the fall and redirect it into forward momentum when we reach the ground.

>>18289843
As an addendum, see if we can't use a Psibolt directly beneath us to offset our downward flight and slow us down, if not generate some extra height. Use energy to propel us and keep us from hitting more lethal velocities.

>>18290016
I mean run up the wall as in gain traction.
We wouldn't be able to actually move up it physically, we'd just fall more slowly.

>>18290027
At best, we'd lose the current momentum we have, and then be left hanging on the side of the building way the fuck up. What then?

No, I think it's better if we do a controlled fall.

REALLY wish we had the SERAPH module right now, we really need to look into getting that once we go into space.

>>18290058
I think you are overestimating our ability to even temporarily defeat gravity here.

And yeah we really need to get back to picking up more modules soon.

So the agreed move is pop barrier and then Evocation to slow your fall? (Keeping in mind you are entitled to a reflexive Agility, Athletics or Endurance test to reduce damage anyway)

Was just about to go to sleep...

Oh well, guess not.

>>18290115
Yep.
Can we add in trying to follow/catch Anna?

>>18290115
Can we use our Psibolt to offset our downward velocity ala >>18290017 ?

>>18290115
well, seems like barrier+air evocation+acrobatics etc combo seems best.

>>18290130
I don't think Psibolt is going to do anything but soften the ground. Since it's pure friction created by psionic energy, it probably doesn't push us back when we fire it any - meaning it'd be useless to slow our descent.

>>18290017
>>18290130
psibolt doesn't have a kickback. At least, not as far as I'm aware.

>>18290130
Does friction have mass?
From my limited understanding of physics, it shouldn't.

>>18290127

She's slowing her descent to, so unless she portals out (which you can't stop anyway), she'll end up at ground level with you eventually.

>>18290130

We haven't really discussed this a whole lot, but the psibolts aren't like throwing matter around. I seriously doubt throwing a couple of them, or however many you can get off would slow you down any more than flapping your arms.

Newtons laws were not intended for Psychic Powers.

>>18290207
So the Psibolt idea is out. We'll stick to the original Barrier+Evocation idea, in that case.

>>18290222
don't forget we can also do an agility test for safe landing (leaving out endurance and athletics since agility is the highest of the three)

>>18289824

(2x1 on Barrier, so all Falling damage is reduced by two)
(3x9 and 3x10 on Evocation, so you slow your descent down so that you can land on your feet and take no damage anyway, no Agility required)

First, you snap your barrier on, and rotate around, feet first. This is what Cyreans experiencing unplanned freefall are supposed to do. Of course, most of them are encased head to toe in heavy, power-assised armor and tend to have potent psychic implants. Sail past Red, who looks at you as you go by, and her eyes seem to be glowing red. Not just the irises, the whole eye.

But, no time to dwell on that, you're falling a very long distance to your death. Luckily, you're prepared for this kind of eventuality, in away. You were already considering this spell, since you were planning on putting it on a permanent enchantment to your shoes. It only goes to show this was a good idea. "Ximocahua nihuetzi!" You put as much effort as you can into the spell. Air wraps around you in an invisible bubble, distorting your view of the world. Your ears hurt as the air pressure around you shoots up, your blob of heavy air basically breaking itself up to slow your descent. You smack into the asphalt feet first, but catch yourself and are able to stand up as the bubble pops, sending a torrent of wind around the alley, blowing around debris and knocking over small objects.

A burning red meteor smacks into the alleyway a number of yards from you, sending up a plume of dust and debris, forcing you to shield your eyes as a couple of the larger chunks 'ping' off your barrier.

>>18290490
It's time to DU-du-du-duuuueeeeeelll!

>>18290490
PSIBOLTS

PSIBOLTS ERRYWHERE, AS MANY AS WE CAN MANAGE

>>18290490
Meteor is Red, presumable?

Well then, Psi bolts out if we don't have any other weapon, and lets get to this. Don't think the Red Star is going to want to fist fight this time.

>>18290592
weren't we still in the fist fight?

>>18290617
Ah never mind, I didn't see the thread of Nr19 had been continued after it was put on hold. I'll be reading for the next few minutes...

Quick Summary.
Dr M showed up, we left the dream world, and then Anna tackled us and teleported us here. She also seems weirder than normal and her eyes are glowing red.
Presumably she is being possessed by the Red Star properly now, and will not be fighting with honor.

>>18290617
That was when we were still in Dream Land. We've woken up just now, only to get ambushed by a berzerking Red.

>>18290490
Quickly use our new necromantic powers to snuff out her life force while backing away towards the street.

>dsondie dan
Hopefully not Captcha.

>>18290637
Did she ever fight us with honor outside of the dream which didn't matter? She ambushed us for no reason on a date, I don't think she values honor very highly.

>>18290744
Last I checked, we wanted to save Red, not nearly kill her. If it comes to it, sure, but let's knock some sense into her first.

>>18290584
>>18290592

Despite those hours you spent watching Dragonball Z, you lob a couple psibolts in to the debris cloud and hear them smash into some inanimate objects. Red steps out of the cloud, all eye-glow and not quite right. Her implacable nature reminds you of someone else, but you don't have time to place it as she draws a glyph in the air, and then hurls an invisible ball of force at you, warping space as it passes. You shoulder roll, and the dumpster behind you is struck. Its surface warps and deforms inward, like it was struck with a giant spinning ball.

You stand there, squared off, as glass and other shrapnel from above comes down in a rain, all dramatic like.

I keep forgetting to bring this up, but the spooky!dar is going off, like crazy. And not just when she does magic shit, like, all the times.

>>18290764
>>18290773
It's Moreau, she's testing us.

>>18290773
So like previously mentioned, we're probably dealing with a full-on possession. If the Red Star can't manifest himself, he'll use Red as his avatar.
Can we get our bearings and figure out where we are? We need to hold out long enough for cops to show up.

>>18290788

The spookysense only applies to magic things.

Psychic things are entirely different kind of sensation.

>>18290773
slowly back towards the street while calling up option.

>>18290790

You're standing in the alley between ashwoods building and the next one over. She literally popped the window behind you and dragged you out to plummet to your death.

>>18290801
Oh like that would stop her. I'm betting the spooky sense is from the area she brought us to, and Moreau is possessing Red.

>>18290790
>>18290788

My money's on the Red Star taking an active role.

In which case, we should try to remove its hold in a non-lethal-ish manner.

We're in between two buildings, right? Why don't we Geomancy a few bricks from either side to pelt her at 100 mph? Hopefully we can deal some serious damage without catching her across the head and killing her.

>>18290833

She brought you nowhere. Red can't teleport anybody but her, she doesn't have Mass on her power. You were just shoved out a window 30 stories up.

>>18290833
She told us she wasn't going to directly interfere, like five minutes ago.
If anything, she's still in our head and we should try asking her for advice.

>>18290833
Red is not part of Moreau's color scheme, at least not normally.

Let's try an Earth Evocation to force her to lose her footing before we do something.

>>18290846
Red seems more brash now.
Let's try a feint into a called psibolt to the head to disrupt her vision, and then try moving to a more favorable position.

Lets call up Option!

Right, finished reading the end of part 19, now I got a bit better understanding of the situation. Red is definitely possessed by the Outsider. Probably snapped when she was curbstomped by Eve in the dream and made some additional pact with the Outsider for more power in exchange for her body or something like that.

Anyway, shout up for some assistance, we're probably not gonna be able to hold her off on our own when she's like this.
Throw up barrier and then
>>18290855
Earth evocation to throw her off balance.

>>18290936
How did I forget about our lil' buddy like that? Do that with psibolt option. All dice to full assault or whatever it was called again.

>Am I the only one picturing Option like the combat drone in ME?

>>18290968
I pictured the Vic Viper's option from Gradius.

>>18290968
No, I'm totally picturing it that way too. But yeah, bring up Option, set it to unload on Red all the time. Also, Red is clearly possessed by the Voice. Just saying. Also, just making a point of reminding everyone of this, our breastplate has a magic-resistance spell on it. So, you know, keep that in mind.

>>18290990
>>18290968
And let's not forget barrier...

>>18290855
>>18290845

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or6yqwAkVcQ&feature=related)

(2x8 and 3x4 on Earth evocation)
(Red gets 2x4 and 3x8 on her Defense power, so all your possible sets are blocked)

"Tetontli!" you shout out, and start backing up toward the entrance of the alley. You don't really want civilians involved, but at the same time, you know from experience that she's really dangerous in close quarters, and this alley is not an optimal arena for combat. Chunks of stone from the ground and walls sail toward her. She simply mutters something, and her walls of symbols appear and repel them, drawing lines in the universe again.

>>18290990
>>18290985
>>18290968

"Option!" The little blue guy pops to life, just over your shoulder and rotates around to aim in her general direction, and you designate it to suppress the are of the alley before you.

>>18291070
FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS. Let's use our new Necromancy to suck some life out of her so that she can have our damage now instead of having to deal with it ourselves. Use the Evocation club and Roxy relationships because they're right above us and we're protecting them and both Nerio and Veritas since we are fighting and experimenting, respectively. Hopefully her defensive sets will be taken up by trying to bloc Option.

>>18291070
right, let's not forget she probably got ANOTHER power boost. Let's try to lure her into the open, and hold out until the Ashwoords & co. can come to help us.

Throw up a barrier too.

>>18291109
That's rather malicious, isn't it? I suppose since we're in a corner against avatar!Red, it may be necessary, but let's refrain from offensive Necromancy in the future unless necessary. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

>>18291070

Alright, so clearly she's got some serious magical bullshit going on. The Outsider is probably trying to kill us, seeing as we're the most major impediment so far to its ascension. Let's think logically how to proceed.

Who has the equipment and training to bring this girl down? Not us; the Outsider is probably way out of our league. In the city? Any number of metas we don't know...except for the police. They have hardware.

What are we good at? Parkour.

I say we fire up the air evocations and bait Syrpent across town, taking side streets to minimize casualties if possible. The Ashwoods will either send in their private resources or understand we're baiting Syrpent across town in the hopes of attracting someone strong enough to help out.

>>18291109

You have no damage, currently. The 2K from earlier was healed. All fresh. You can just try and Power Word: Kill on her, but that seems kind of excessive due to possession.

>>18291117

Would you like to replace the existing 2x1 barrier?

>>18291145
didn't the Ashwoods have this big estate along with gardens that are devoid of any life except maybe the gardner? seems empty enough to me.

>>18291109
>>18291137
And yeah, we learnt the necromancy to heal and to counter other similar magic, not to use it as offence.

>>18291145
That'll just make it harder for the fuzz to track us down if we're busily bounding across the city. Plus, what's to stop her from just rampaging across the city if we lead her on a chase (besides us)? Parkour, while nifty, is not the answer to anything.

>>18291147
We still had a 2X1?
Well, 2X1 is the weakest possible anyway, so yeah, replacing seems like the best option.

>>18291169

Estate, what? You're in the middle of downtown. Ashwood has a penthouse apartment where he lives stateside.

The actual family estate is back in England.

>>18291147
Ah, fantastic. I hadn't realized we had been healed. Let's refresh our barrier.
>>18291137
Throwing a damaging attack doesn't leave you with a bad taste, but throwing a damaging attack which also heals us in the process does? I think your logic is flawed. This is the way necromantic healing works - you take life force from someone else and bring it to you. If we have to heal, we either have to use a willing person or an enemy, in which case we're killing two birds with one stone, so to speak.

>>18291187
I think he meant estate as in his household.

>>18291187
>>18291204
No, I kind of derped there. I thought it was a big house with garden etc.

So yeah, try to lure her to some place we can easily defend ourselves and with a minimum of people around.

>>18291174
>>18291169

This might be true, but Syrpent is clearly beyond our ability to subdue on our own. We need police help. Calling Philips to warn the police while we fucking book it seems like a good idea.

Also, my plan is to lead her to the actual police station; sorry if I didn't make that clear.

>>18291194
Throwing an attack that simultaneously heals us, I have no issue with, mechanically. It's just the nature of the spell -- stealing the essence of others -- that leaves me wary. Fortesque is a defender of his friends and humanity, not a leech. It's a weapon in our arsenal, but it should be used sparingly, considering its design.

>>18291263
/agree.

>>18291263
I would sooner take essence from someone else for ourselves than just simply wound them. Doing anything else is simply wasteful. It's like throwing something away instead of recycling it because you don't like the idea of something made out of something that's used. The context in which we shouldn't use necromancy is when we aren't wounded and/or don't want to make mages startled by us. If we're wounded, though, it should be one of our primary offensive tools.

> ENABLE FREE RUNNING MODE IMMEDIATELY!

^_^

>>18291322
If you're going to use that analogy, it's more the idea of throwing something away instead of recycling it because of HOW it's recycled. It's the HOW that bothers me, not the WHAT.

>>18291322

Normally I would agree with you man, but we've established the character of Dan Fortesque: really, he's a big softy. Fortesque would never WANT to use Necromancy offensively; sure he'd realize the tactical advantage, but he explicitly took Gespenst's advice to learn how to HEAL, not maim.

>>18291363
Going to second this.
We're all about being a gentleman and helping people.

>>18291363
It's why, when initially offered the choice, I wanted us to go with Restoration instead of Necromancy when it came to healing options.

>>18291363
>>18291350
this. I was trying to formulate something, but after refreshing I saw they already did it better than I did.
And as I said before, Dan learnt it for healing and countering necromancy, not to go full lich warlord or something.

>>18291380
Necromancy is better than Restoration at healing, and isn't inherently "evil" or anything.

Seriously you guys. This is the best time time use some mad parkour.

>>18291341
Agreed. Let's lead her to the police station. They'll probably be able to deal with her better than us. Let's see if we can call the cops on the way too. Or just dial 911, they can track where our phone is and send support to us.
>>18291350
That's fair. It's like not liking recycling because you know that your friends don't like it and you've heard that only bad people do it even though it leaves no noteworthy pollution. In this setting, necromancy could easily be called vitacation, because it's the manpulation of life energy.
>>18291363
Except he said in the last thread, literally the only way to use this to heal someone is to move life force from one person to another. We can take damage to ourselves in order to heal others, or heal ourselves by draining someone else. Unless you're suggesting we try to use our friends as batteries of life force, shunting our wounds onto an enemy is the ideal way to magically heal.
>>18291380
When he was describing Restoration, he specifically said that a huge chunk of it was just renamed necromancy. Or did you forget that?
>>18291381
And how is he supposed to heal without having a source of life to use for the healing?

>>18291070

(2x3 and 3x6 on fresh Barrier)
(Red goes on 2x9 with an Agility test)
(Option gets no matches)

You need back-up, clearly. Thus, you must back the fuck up. You cycle your barrier, this time trying to impart some more force to it, while you start retreating. Option snaps off a shot, but it fails to track her as she runs up along the wall, over some objects, then back around in front of you. Shit.

You get ready to defend yourself, but like a striking snake, she latches a hand around your throat and picks you up off the ground and slams you into the wall, cracking the concrete. Then it speaks. You call it 'it' because, while Anna's voice can also be heard, the voice it speaks in is the Voice. "The spirit was weak, but the vessel is strong! I have assumed direct control!" Your vision is getting a little dark around the edges as the possessed Syrpent is pressing your own barrier into your throat. Which totally blows.

>Thoughts before the world goes black?
>Regret
>Defiance
>Did I leave the iron on?

>>18291408
>Thoughts before the world goes black?

"WTF did I learn parkour for if I wasn't going to use it to run away."

>>18291408
Fuck that, use Air and Water evocation to keep the blood and air flowing in spite of her.

>>18291408
Necromancy that out of her, or at least connect us to keep us alive.
>>18291421
We learned it to improve our Balance. Nothing more, Parkour!Anon.

>>18291408
>Did I leave the iron on?
A college student who uses an iron?

>>18291442
Dan is dapper.

>>18291442

I think you underestimate just *how* dapper Dan is.

>>18291438
>>18291433

Verbal components.

>>18291438
Clearly you haven't realised that IT'S A WAY OF LIFE, and not just for christmas.

>>18291408
... I always sucked with witty retorts. Some anon, please find something witty to say.

>>18291408
I prefer the fourth option. Psibolt uppercut to the jaw to try and loosen her hold on us.
>>18291438
>We learned it to improve our Balance. Nothing more, Parkour!Anon.
Plus, if we bailed like parkour!Anon keeps wanting, Nerio, the spirit of courage, would have words with us.

>>18291456
Fuck. Can we make some kind of somatic sign? Some vague hand motions Dan associates with water or air? If not, well, we're point blank with Red. We could blow off her head. Or at least to a psibolt-augmented nose-punch, like we did with wolfy.

>>18291468
Don't worry, we can't breath anyway! Isn't it great when problems solve themselves like this?

>>18291408

> Defiance

"We're stronger than you might imagine."

It's time to finally use that Peak Performer trait.

Using our insane, genetically altered strength, shatter her forearm with one hand and following it up with a headbutt.

>>18291478
Yeah, we're not allowed to retreat, just fall back and regroup. I think he keeps forgetting that.

>>18291456
We should be able to mutter something.
But I guess you don't want us magicing, then we can still psibolt without talking, right?
Don't throw them, just hold them and press them into her. If her defense catch it, stop, new psibolt, try again for as long as we can. Eventually we breach defenses and we weaken her grip, or pass out.
Might be an abuse of the mechanics, but I don't really care and we're desperate so lets cheat.
>>18291466
...not just for Christmas?

>>18291489

shit yes. add our relationship dies too, we're literally fighting a fucking Cthulhian Old One right now

>>18291489
That's a thought. We've never really gone Captain America on anything since we became the human paragon. Let's try this. Psibolt augmentation is also welcome.

>>18291489
We're at peak human strength, she is possessed by an evil god from beyond time and space, I don't see this working out.

>>18291513
We're not even at peak human strength yet, actually. Peak Performer just makes it so we can level up all of our ability scores way faster than normal and, eventually, get an HD or WD in them. We're currently at Body 4, whereas 5 is human peak.

>>18291507
Add as many relationships as we can to anything we're doing. We are fighting to protect all of humanity, and especially Roxanne, Johnny, and the Evokers club.

I'd go for a bunch of psibolts to the chest, she's basically holding us right next to her with barely any room to manoeuvre out of the way or cast protection stuff.

And we still got option floating around.

>>18291408
I'm going to vote for dialing 911 on our phone, then dropping it, if we're blacking out right now.

>>18291559
No, you bastard, don't drop it. Dial it, then leave it in our pocket. They'll be able to track us that way.

>>18291559
We are fighting a being from beyond time and space.
I do not believe the cops will come quickly enough or in enough force to deal with her, and I doubt she is going to leave us here unconscious.
If we're doing that we have to keep it on us, because if she's letting us live at all it is to take us away from here.

>>18291559
bit early to give up really. we can still psibolt her arse you know...

>>18291559
There's a full party of our friends and acquaintances standing up in Ashwood's apartment that saw us get thrown out the window by a portalling Red.
If they haven't called 911 by now, I'll eat my Option.

>andyain plowman

>>18291573
Dude, this setting has Super Cops. Ones with more powers and experience than we have. The police would be good.

>>18291588
see:
>>18291584

it's 99% certain they already called the metacops.

>>18291502
>>18291489
>>18291483

You lob a psibolt enhanced punch at "her" head, but she catches you at the goddamn wrist and pins your hand against the wall. Shit. She is, however out of hands. You try and press your palm bolt first into her face with your left hand. When she maneuvers out of clawing range, you settle for grabbing her wrist. The handwraps she's wearing boil away instantly, and showers of purple sparks fall to the alley floor as you directly apply the force. You use this opportunity to leverage yourself, pressing your feet against the wall and leaning up, giving you sufficient freedom to at least say something cool. Then you're beaten to the punch. "Stop!" Someone says over an external speaker.

"Hammertime!" You find yourself hanging off the floor of the alley unassisted for a second, then drop back down, as the armored "foot" of a suit of Mk 1 Power armor connects with Red's chest and flings her about six feet back into the side of the dumpster. You're pretty sure you heard some ribs crack.

(Also, you guys are like, so hard core. Like, way Hard(dice)core.)

>>18291629
I think this might be deserving of an extra point in our relationship with Johnny, yes?

>>18291629
HNNNG DAT COMMAND HD. Now it's time to bring up Charm.

>>18291629
Hell yeah, son.

>>18291644
Absolutely. He's the super hero. We're just his gentleman adventurer friend. Eh wears power armor and kicks elder gods and doesn't afraid of anything.

>>18291629
That punchline (pun intended) was awesome. Still, the Hammer probably isn't manoeuvrable enough to go against her long enough in actual combat, plus, it doesn't have any specific defence against magical attacks

Guys, we need to teach Johnny how to parkour in the power suit.

>>18291682
Yeah, but now we have Option, the Hammer, and Javelin all going at her at once. It's our job to maneuver her in such a way that he can flank her.

>>18291683
If there is ANYTHING not built for freerunning, it's Mk. 1 power armor.

>>18291629

"Johnny. I am literally in love with you right now."

Take this opportunity to kick Red's dome; the Voice wouldn't care one ounce about broken ribs, but we have a chance at "interrupting the connection" as it were.

>>18291682
We need to get around to magic warding it next.

Anyway, if we're able to get up, we should start hurling psibolts again, while Red is distracted.

>>18291699
AND THUS we imbue it with some AIR wards or some magical shit to make it light on its feet. And then we can go soaring across the cityscape together.

^______________^

>>18291700
A running punt to the head?
Brutal.

>acoard contract
We are trying to break a contract of sorts, Captcha.

Now, main problem is we gotta try to take her alive. This is gonna be a battle of attrition.

>>18291697
This is a fine suggestion.

>>18291706
stfu troll. Also, 0/10 for using smiley on 4chan.

>>18291706
Improving its manuevrability is a good idea, but not with air evocation.
Its going to need thrusters when we got to space with our bro.

>>18291755
Whoa, whoa, I don't like his suggesting either. I don't think he's a troll, though. He isn't making me mad, and you only seem to be made at the presumption that he is trolling. I think you should calm down, mate.

>>18291781
That's the next logical step for us, way down the line, take Johnny into space and...SPACE PARKOUR!

I see great things ahead.

>>18291644
Unless its Roxy in the Hammer, though probably not, considering time of the fall, compared to an elevator going down 30 stories, and getting the Hammer running.

I've been thinking about the social aspect of it, and I believe that what Red needs is compassion.
Not love, not pity, not help. Compassion. Understanding.
I don't think she's beyond redemption just yet, but damn is she trying.

>>18291629

"Wow, bro, you know how to make an entrance." You cough. Your lungs appreciate the sudden resurgence of air. The optical ball on top of the Hammer wheels around. "I got your back, man. I'd give you the thumbs up, but... forklift arms." The armor's arms move up and down ineffectually. Red leaps to her feet, and closes the distance, but Johnny raises the foot to meet her, and slams her back down, cracking the pavement. "Stay down, bitch."

Red coils around the leg, pressing both arms and legs into it. Crimson sparks flash, there's a sound of liquids boiling, then a gout of steam comes from a release port on the armor's leg. "Shit!" Johnny leans the armor back with the other leg, allowing Syrpent to make like her name sake and wiggle free, jumping back several yards into the alley. "Hey, get back here!" He shouts, and tries to follow, but the zapped leg just teeters forward and smacks into the spot where it was before. "Aw, fuck. She boiled out all the hydraulics in the leg!" Well, that'll take some maintenance time. And you'll need a fresh coat of paint, there are prints in the old one now, down to the bare armor plating. The possessed Red just smiles, and summons the Voice's War-Scythe.

>>18291851
Roxy might have personal, local teleportation. Or she could even be remote piloting.

>>18291907
Same. She's not beyond saving, but the longer we wait the fursther she will be from it. Like this pact she probably made so the Red Star could take over her body. It might actually put her beyond redemption, but we still have to try.

>>18291928
Nope its Johnny. Roxy doesn't call us bro.

Anyway resume Psibolting and get option in on this. And make sure our barrier is still up.

>>18291917
Yeah, it's a utility vehicle and not made for fighting cthulhu. Do we have any weapons with us?

>>18291917
I knew it. We're dealing with the Voice, not Anna. There's no reasoning right now. Can we increase the Johnny relationship by a point? I do hope so.

Now, what I want to do is see if we can use magesight/whatever to differentiate between the substance that is the Voice and the substance that is Anna. Then, I want to use Necromancy to rip the voice out of Anna, to give her back her body. Is that possible?

>>18291948
Our wits, our magic, and our Cyrean genetics.

>>18291948
We have psibolt. It's better than any other weapon we've used by a fair margin.

>>18291935
Very true.

>>18291959
>I knew it. We're dealing with the Voice, not Anna
>>18291408
>Then it speaks. You call it 'it' because, while Anna's voice can also be heard, the voice it speaks in is the Voice. "The spirit was weak, but the vessel is strong! I have assumed direct control!" Your vision is getting a little dark around the edges as the possessed Syrpent is pressing your own barrier into your throat
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>>18291959
Oh, I like this idea. It's a way of fighting the Voice without necessarily hurting Anna.

>>18291959
Hey, slick idea. I'll second it if it's possible to do.

>>18291959

Possibly. You might need to get the body to hold still to do it, but is has been noted several times that the Voice exists only here in spirit, and does not have a physical presence.

>>18291959
I suggested this earlier when we were being throttled, but its still a good idea now.
Even if it doesn't work, attacking from three sides will overload defenses at the very least.

>>18291959
>>18292003
Rip to where, though? To us, to the ether in the sky, what?

>>18291968
It's not very good for parrying scythes though.

>>18291959
magesight is a bad idea. Omega already warned us against using it on the Voice before. We'll have to do a trauma check, and no thanks.
>>18291961
Don't we have our knife? better than nothing.

>>18292009
Just out.
>>18292010
The way defenses work in ORE, dodging and parrying do the exact same thing. Since our Agility is so much higher than our Melee ability, we're much better off dodging. Make sense?

>>18292017
I think, could easily be wrong, that it's in the ritual kit bag

Given that her defense works on physical and non physical attacks, and our psibolts do the same damage as the knife, should we waste time getting it out?

Kiss her!

>>18292085
Oh god not this again.

>>18292065
No, we shouldn't. Especially since our psibolt does way more damage than our knife. We have a much bigger dice pool with the psibolt. We've been over this in previous threads. Our psibolt is better than any melee weapon or Cyrean firearm that we've used. Better than the shard rifle, better than the ghostglaive.

>>18292065
>dodging is more effective than parrying
Given that we still have human reflexes and aren't some magical super-ninja, no that doesn't really make sense. I'll take your word that it's true in the game mechanics and we don't need a weapon though.

>>18292105
right, I forgot that.

>>18292149
Yeah, I know what you mean, but in the game mechanics, dodging and parrying are equally effective, but we have a much higher score in the skill for dodging than the one for parrying. Our Coordination + Agility (Dodging) is 8, while our Body + Melee Weapon (Parrying) is 6.

>>18291959
I back this option. We might hurt ourselves, but so far Dan has shown a propensity to trying to help people above and beyond the call of duty.
That, and it gives us some practice.
Hell, we may want to just try taking out the scythe. Logically, the blade is a sign of the Voice, and some sort of metaphysical projection, rather than an actual object.

>>18292149
Bro, the first thing they teach you in any martial arts class is to dodge and that, while you should always block and parry, you're only supposed to be doing that in case you didn't dodge far enough. Dodging is always more effective than parrying - it's just that parrying often supplements dodging.

>>18292191

The blade may be made of mojo, but its still a solid object. Unlike the Voice, who is not a solid object.

>>18292214
Scythe is lower priority, threat wise, to Anna's continued Empowerment and Possession.
We eliminiate that first, then destroy the scythe.

>>18292191
this is indeed a good moment to put the necromancy to the use we learnt it for (besides healing): countering weird magical shit. Main problem is probably gonna be discerning what's her soul and what's the voice, but I suppose those finer points can't be known until omega writes about them

>>18292193
>Dodging is always more effective than parrying - it's just that parrying often supplements dodging
Yes, because dodging is harder. You have to move your whole body instead of just an arm. I was expecting to need to supplement with parrying, hence asking about a weapon, but according to the game mechanics, you never need to supplement with parrying because if we can parry it you can dodge it much easier. That doesn't make sense. Maybe effective was the wrong word but that's what I was saying. We shouldn't be able to just dodge everything with normal human reflexes.

>>18292251
Game mechanics always involve a little bit of abstraction don't worry about it.

>>18292251
it might be harder, but we're better trained at it. We've been focussing on the athletic part, not on the melee fighting, so naturally we're not as skilled in blocking things with a blade as we are in jumping around evading stuff.

>>18292251
We have better than normal human reflexes. The real issue is that trying to dodge and parry at the same time uses the lower dice pool -1, just like all combined actions. If we were better at parrying, we would be trying to parry instead of dodge. And dodging is definitely easier than parrying. I've taken a fair number of contact martial arts, and you always, ALWAYS try to move out of the way. A block or a parry is a last resort, not a first one.

>>18292214
But, as it is made of the Voice's mojo, it can serve as a conduit for our magics to attack him instead of Red.

I say we fire a Necromantic blast into the Scythe, invoking Mictlantecuhtli, god of the dead, devourer of stars, to draw this spirit from this host, and back to the realms of Dust, where he belongs.

>>18292291
I kind of agree. We can probably use the scythe as an anchor point so that we don't hurt Anna, just the Voice. Once we have that, we invoke all of our relationships. Yes, all of them. They all apply here. And then we just rip. It doesn't matter where, since the Voice is a spirit; it should just dissipate or at least be impotent.

>>18292313
All of them? Let's see.
>Club, Johnny, Roxy - They're present, and we're protecting them
>Nerio - We're fighting
>Veritas - We're experimenting
Yeah, all of them, I guess.

The soul-stripping is still a good choice imo, but nobody seems to even react to it. this is what we learnt it for guys!

>>18292337
It's gotten a lot of support and almost no opposition, bro.
>>18292326
>>18292313
>>18292291
>>18292009
>>18292006
>>18292003
>>18291990
>>18291988
>>18291959

>>18292337
I'm a derp, I was reading into the whole scythe discussion that it was for physically fighting, not ripping.

>>18291408

> I have assumed direct control!

OSHIT.

>>18291917

You step away from the side of the alley, and rap your fist against the outside chassis of The Hammer. "I'll take it from here, chief." You hurl a couple psibolts down the alley. Voice/Red responds with another of her "warp" bolts, which your attacks smack into, which sounds roughly like to unstoppable forces smacking into the same immovable object, which is made of chalkboards. Clearly, the possession aspect is improving Red's performance above and beyond human norms. If it wasn't clear before when she was tossing you around like a doll, it is now. You sigh. You need to see what is up. Option takes a pot shot, but she deflects the bolt with her scythe.

(2x5, 2x7 and 2x9 on Magesight)

You open your perception on the alley. Surprisingly, its less terrifying than you'd think. You can see the vestiges of the evocations you used earlier, wafting around, along with whatever weird form of space-altering magic Anna has. You can also see the possessed Syrpent. Oddly enough, it looks like how you'd expect, you can see Anna beneath, but with the Voice overlaid her as kind of a mist shape, like it appeared in the dream world. Underneath it, you can see Anna's face. Her eyes are closed, like she's asleep. Given that you're magical, you can accurately process this to mean that she's still in a way asleep, and that the Voice has decided to take a joyride.

Then you hear a small explosion, and blink your Sight away. "Tally ho!" someone shouts. Ashwood lands on is feet in a crouch, katana drawn. There's a silvery box on his chest which smokes faintly. You recognize it as a one-use anti-gravity harness from the W&U catalog. Voicepent takes a sweep at him with the war scythe, but Ashwood blocks, then the two proceed to trade blows back and forth.

>>18292365
It's all good, mate. Better something be explained than have someone not be on the same page. The general plan seems to be to use the scythe as a focus for a targeted necromantic rip on the Voice to try to free Anna. Yeah?

>>18292277
>We have better than normal human reflexes.
Only slightly. I meant that we don't have superhuman reflexes.
>The real issue is that trying to dodge and parry at the same time uses the lower dice pool -1, just like all combined actions. If we were better at parrying, we would be trying to parry instead of dodge
I'm fine with the game mechanics, I already said that. Game mechanics are never perfect. Let's dodge the shit out of that scythe. I just made a little comment about them not making sense, it's not a big deal.
>And dodging is definitely easier than parrying. I've taken a fair number of contact martial arts, and you always, ALWAYS try to move out of the way. A block or a parry is a last resort, not a first one.
Obviously dodging is preferable, but you still resort to parrying sometimes. I just wanted to get something to parry with if we needed it and was told it was completely unnecessary.

>>18292387
Cool cool, bro. I get what you mean. I wish we could parry to add a die to our dice pool instead of the other way around. Supplemental actions and all that.

>>18292376
I'm kind of surprised Omega didn't use that image.

>>18292378
And okay, Red is probably more distracted now.
In the interests of helping Ashwood, lets keep hurling bolts and start moving up.
Hopefully we can grapple and then soul rip.

>>18292378
Well, it looks like we have a plan in mind involving necromancy, invoking all of our relationships, and using the scythe as an iconic focus. The magesight just really reinforces the decision we've made now.

>>18292404

>throw psibolts
>into a melee

>>18292413
As long as we're reasonably close and on the opposite side from Ashwood, why not?

>>18292381
>>18292378
Right, Ashwood couldn't have come at a better time, he's distracting the Voice. Time to RIP AND TEAR.
Minus the tear I guess.

>>18292426
Because we've, more than once, missed a target and destroyed something behind them, and our psibolts hit harder than a gun. Let's just go with the soul rip plan. Multiple-actions in a single round in ORE are very, very, VERY hard to pull off.

>>18291629
Hey Omega, you could probably just use 4+1 for the Command dice.

>>18292473

Need to communicate its a Hard die. Important factor. I might drop the 'd' on the end, though, clean it up a little.

>>18292473
No, he can't. We might eventually upgrade that HD into a WD. He might be able to do 4+h, though.

>>18292439
indeed

>captcha: hopital all
I hope captcha isn't prophetic atm and foreseeing us hospitalising everyone.

>>18292496
Well, let's see. Anna will probably be hurt by the end of this. We'll probably want some ice for our neck. Johnny probably split some stitches, operating that bigass machine. I hope Ashwood doesn't get hurt. I think we should take some of Johnny's leg's killing damage onto ourselves. After all, we heal faster than him.

>>18292537
Or we could just transfer it to Anna.

>>18292623
Not if she isn't actively trying to harm us. If she is attacking us, though, I agree. We should heal Johnny and give her a limp.

>>18292623
Actually a good idea. If we do it subtly, and it doesn't kill her, it'll keep her from escaping the hospital.

>>18292638
Good Anon! I'm all for forcing the injuries of our friends and ourself onto enemies in combat, as long as we don't do it to someone who isn't actively hostile to us. After all, forcing it on an enemy who isn't trying to harm us is a slippery slope to forcing our injuries on random criminals, which is itself a slippery slope to doing it to people that we just aren't too fond of.

>>18292638
Are you serious? You're STILL white knighting over her?
SHE IS ACTIVELY TRYING TO END THE WORLD. We need to stop her any way we can.
>>18292678
Oh for fuck's sake.

>>18292694
Chill, bro. She might come out of this whole Voice thing having realized how fucking stupid she's been. If that's the case, we shouldn't needlessly harm her. Just forcibly break her connection to the Red Star and give her to the cops.

>>18292678
I agree.

>>18292694
We saw a glimpse of what was underneath that, and so far Dan has always white-knighted, why change that now?

>>18292694
Yeah, same as I would if people were suggesting necromantically taking life from anyone else who surrenders. If she doesn't actively resist, we just restrain her for the police. If she does, though, fuck yeah, let's fuck her up. Starting with healing Johnny at her expense. But only if she is still resisting once the Voice is gone.

>>18292694
You seem kind of mad.

While I'd agree that going easy on Red probably isn't the best course of action, it seems the most in character for Dan with what we've seen so far.

Right, whatever, I'm out. Nice quest Omega, hope you have fun with it.

>>18292851
Didn't you say that before?

>>18292851
why do people keep raging if Dan stays in character?

Oh well...

If only we'd joined that parkour gang and been way elsewhere Eve would've had to deal with her silly failure of a subject on her own and we could've just been out there...soaring....

>>18292378

"Ashwood, keep her- it, busy, I'm gonna try something." You call out. You're still a little hoarse from the strangulation, but manage to get your point across. "Will do, old chap!" Says Ashwood a little strained as the Possessed Anna swings around her weapon with a lot more strength and speed than a normal person. You take some careful steps forward, trying to to draw attention to yourself. Your current plan is to use the scythe as a medium to pull the Voice out, employing your necromancy to counter-act possession, which is totally something you can do, probably.

The plan becomes a little moot as Red opens up Ashwood's guard with a powerful swing, then elbows him in the gut, and casually backhands him, sending him flipping up into the air, smacking into the lid of a dumpster on the opposite side of the alley, which slams down behind him as he falls into it. You're beginning to doubt you'll be able to hold on to the scythe long enough to cast your mojo.

(cont)

>>18292868
Because they want to be ruthless and thing that it's dumb, rather than flavorful, to be anything but.

>>18292893

A tiny four-legged robot drops from the sky and onto her face. The Voice gives a cry of alarm, and starts trying to pry the fucker off. Roxy gently floats down to street level, holding Lady Ashwood's parasol, which appears to double as a personal helicopter. She calmly folds it back up with a flourish, removed her labcoat and thrusts both of them at you. "Would you mind holding these for me, Daniel? Mama needs to knock someone out." You're to dazed to do anything but take them. Roxane turns and starts walking toward Red Anna, pulling out some black anodized knuckle-dusters as she goes. They have unusually large handles, and metal prongs at the end. Then they spark with electricity. Roxane just walks right up Red, gives he a hook, which is ducked, then as Red comes back up to counter attack, Roxy just headbutts her. Red stumbles a few paces back with a grunt, and holds her head. "My daddy was Irish and an airplane mechanic. Only thing he taught me better to do than fight was drink!"

>>18292889
We were way elsewhere, she teleported to us to beat us up.

>>18292889
Except she would have tracked us down and we would have had to rely on a support network of traceurs to have our back instead of a lich and a third generation super hero.

>>18292893
might have to incapacitate her first. But if breaking a few ribs won't do that, what will?

btw, good night everyone, I've only got 3 hours of sleep left and I intend not to be a complete zombie during classes tomorrow.

>>18292905
I like her...more and more.

>>18292905
I bet she has a really good brawling score, but just in case should we put a barrier up for her?

>>18292905
So she's a hard-fighting, hard-drinking, red-headed science chick? I wonder what else she does hard.

>>18292935
I think Barrier is a personal-only effect.

>>18292905

>>18292927
Oh god yes

>>18292905
Tear out the Voice! We might lose the chance to fuck it up if Roxy knocks Red out with the Voice still behind the helm instead of Anna.

>>18292905
>"My daddy was Irish and an airplane mechanic. Only thing he taught me better to do than fight was drink!"
>by law, can't drink unless under police supervision
She must lead a tortured existence.

>>18292905

You need to make your move, but given the fact Roxy just parasoled down 30 stories and is now engaging in hand-to-hand with a dangerous metahuman, you're not sure you want to just toss her stuff aside. You decide to compromise, and toss the coat and umbrella behind you at Johnny, saying; "Hold these." The Hammer's arms flail wildly for a second, and manage to catch the coat and parasol.

Roxane is actually holding her own pretty well, by virtue of standing inside of the scythe's reach, thus preventing it from being used as appropriately. While Red under possession is quick enough to dodge most of the blows, Roxane is sufficiently shielded. She's also standing directly between you and Anna's body, so you can't do much to help.

Then Roxane manages to get a blow in, and sweep the scythe away from Red. Score! You rush over to the spot where it landed, reach out to pick it up and... it dissipates into a burst of mist then vanishes, since the Voice is no longer actively keeping it solid. "Well. Shit." You look over your shoulder. You'll probably have to get up close and personal now.

>>18293297
Then let's fucking do it!

>>18293297
I say we air parkour over them, and then, on our next turn, do the "cast ye out" trick.
PROS: defending from both sides will be more difficult, more likely for us to succeed.
CONS: she may just teleport out if she thinks she's in danger.

>>18293375
I second the Parkour motion.

If anyone ever suggests anything to do with Parkour, I will automatically second that motion.

So take it as a given, Omega. TAKE IT.

>>18293478
Parkouranon, sometimes I love you, and sometimes I hate you. This is one of the times I love you. Have a redhead.

Did... did we lose Omega?

>>18293956
It seems that way. He's been gone more than an hour. Someone should make sure the archive the quest in case he doesn't return tonight.

Archived, don't forget to upvote.

>>18293956
>>18293968

Oh, sorry. Thread activity suddenly died for a bit there, and I got distracted.

Next post up in a jiff.

>>18294091
It's all good. I'm glad you weren't pulled away by something bad, like LG in MSQ getting his tooth knocked out.

>>18294096

He lost a tooth? This sounds like a interesting story. I mean, how does one get a tooth knocked out while you're writing a quest?

>>18294111
It was from reading SWQ, actually. He laughed too had, fell out of his chair, punched his desk with his mouth.

>>18294096
He wasn't pulled away by that though. He just carried on like an idiot when he should have been in the emergency room. That guy is just stupidly dedicated. I mean, two quests a day? Does he not do anything else at all?

>>18294111
He laughed so hard at Strike Witches Quest that he fell off his chair.

>>18294111
He was laughing at Strike Witches Quest so hard that he fell out of his chair and hit his face on his desk. He says he's going to trade it for a new choppa, though, so it's all good. Maybe some shoota - but I doubt it's big enuf fo some dakka.

>>18294111
In a fight wth ninjas hired by rival quest masters.

>>18294132
>rival quest masters
Omega, did you have something to do with this? LG isn't Dan. He doesn't get stronger the more you throw at him.

>>18293297

You shift around, needing a change in action. You'll cast your speed boosting evocation, dash over and grab Red while Roxane is distracting her. You breathe deep, and prepare to cast a spell. While you do it, Roxy blocks Voicpent's punch with an arm, and gives her two quick jabs to the chest. Red twitches with each blow, and lets out a pained grunt. You'd guess the stun-knuckles are working. Or Roxy is punching her in the cracked ribs. You remember you wanted to cast an evocation.

(3x3 on Air evocation. If there was another 'round' to this combat, you'd totally get +3d on an Athletics check)

"Ehecatl." You say. Air wraps around your limbs, making you feel much lighter. You brace yourself for a run, ready to take off, and see Roxane give Red a resounding hook to the head, and the latter goes down. You're in motion. Roxy moves up a little, intent on making sure she's down for the count, but you interrupt. "Wait!" You say, the distance about half closed, Roxy shifts over to you for a second. Red gets up into a crouch, and you can see the light in her eyes fading. She grabs Roxane's hand in a crushing grip and says, "This will not be forgotten." Then her eyes roll up in her head, and she falls to the ground. Then the red mist envelops her unconscious form and scoots off down the alley. Roxane is holding her left hand, which appears to be smoking, but otherwise unharmed.

>>18294144

We don't talk about the Quest Author cold war.

Mostly because enemy wet work teams could be anywhere. Even right behind you.

>>18294275
The floor is right behind me. I'm lying on my back in my flat.
>>18294262
First thing's first. "Damn it. Are you okay, Roxy?" Then, once we confirm she's okay, "I'm sorry, I was going to try to tear the spirit possessing her out."

>>18294262
"Aw, man, I was getting ready to be all heroic and shit. Try and rip the Voice out of her."

>Air wraps around your limbs, making you feel much lighter. You brace yourself for a run, ready to take off
>You're in motion

I ... I think I just came.

>>18294376
Parkouranon, this is another of the times that I love you.

>>18294342
>>18294326

"Are you alright?" You ask. She clutches her hand so you can't really see, but when she looks up at you, she doesn't seem to be in a lot of pain. "I'll be fine. No real damage, done." You nod. "Sorry about the distraction. I was going to try and depossess her." You look at the alley where the mist disappeared. "Though I think that last one might of gotten her guest to leave anyway."

You hear a sound like a sawblade on sheet metal, and look over at the dumpster on your side of the street, and find Ashwood literally slicing his way out of it. He clambers out, a little dirtier, but not much worse for the wear. "Got away, did she?" He asks. You just nod in response. Then you look over at the Hammer, as Roxy picks her coat off one of the forklift prongs, and puts it back on. "Let's see about getting this thing towed out of here. Then I think we need to talk to the police." Ashwood sheathes his sword. "The constabulary should be on their way as we speak. This is downtown, too, shouldn't be long."

>>18294461
Take the damage onto ourselves. She wouldn't have gotten hurt if we hadn't distracted her. While we're at it, take Johnny's damage too. This all feeds back into Dan's guilt complex.

>>18294487
What guilt complex? Dan's a bro, that's all.

>>18294487

Funny thing, she hasn't actually taken any damage.

>>18294505
It was confirmed way back in the beginning that Dan has a tendency towards guilt complexes, specifically survivor's guilt. Whenever something bad happens to one of his friends but not him, he feels hella bad about it.

Yes, let's become something of Jesus figure, I like that idea. Take both their pain unto ourselves!

>>18294562
DIVINE NECROMANCY. But yeah, let's at least take, say, half of Johnny's killing from his leg. We heal faster, so if we split it, we should still be fully healed before he is. Also, let's insist on taking a look at Roxy's hand. The concern and immediacy of the contact will be really romantic.

>>18294575
>DIVINE NECROMANCY.

YES! YESSSSSS

>>18294575

Johnny doesn't actually have any killing in his leg, its all shock. You guys have just never had him handy since learning the power to check.

Well, technically you still don't have him handy, since you haven't told him to disembark the hammer.

>>18294629
Baller, then take ALL of the shock instead of half of the killing. We should get some wicked bruising or something while his bruising and scars fade and his muscles regain what tone they lost.

>>18294648
Broest bro of all time! YESSSS

Necromancy just needs life energy, we don't need to like eat human souls or something. Why can't we just transfer his shock into a nearby tree or something?

>>18294667
Especially since we heal so fast. It should be gone after a good sleep for us, versus in a few days with Johnny. That Peak Performer thing really seemed to boost our vitality, which is great, since we're a necromancer now. It's good to have vitality to spare.

>>18294690
That... Sounds like a shockingly good idea.

>>18294710
I concur.

>Parkour Jesus - runs through the city in a really cool way, absorbing damage from sick children and little old women.

>>18294730
>and putting it into trees, rats, cockroaches, bed bugs, and other harmful vermin
Fixed that for you.

>>18294740
...We need some kind of injury sink. Lemme google shit that is extremely hard to kill.

>>18294690
>>18294710
>>18294728
I was wondering how long it'd take you guys to think of taking the life energy from nature.

>>18294772
I'll preempt you. Water bears.

>>18294777
If you thought it was such a great idea, why didn't you propose it sooner?

You're in the middle of downtown. Trees are in short supply.

And also city property.

>>18294740
...would you cure HIV by giving someone vitality or by pulling vitality out of the HIV viruses? Could you simultaneously kill the virus and use the life energy from it to repair someone's immune system? Can we cure AIDS? If so, fuck being a super hero, we're becoming a medical practitioner. Ideally a Doctor Without Borders, so that we can keep up the Gentleman Adventurer schtick.

>>18294779
I literally, JUST found out about them, as you posted that.

>>18294791
Oh come now, every downtown has little annoying-ass trees lining the sidewalks.

>>18294791
Then could we, say, head back to the suburbs and shed the shock one point at a time into bushes and trees and stuff? No enough to kill the plant outright, just weaken it for a bit?

>>18294777
I thought it was pretty obvious, I was expecting us to wake up at the beginning of the last thread and was going to propose buying a pot-plant or a pet on the way home, but then dream-fight and shit and necromancy never really came up.

>>18294791
Yeah, we live in the middle of a city and our first planned expedition is to a nuclear wasteland. We really should have gone for restoration. But then we wouldn't have learnt German for free!

>>18294784
Because I thought it was an obvious idea. Nature has life. Why not use that?

>>18294820
And we can still learn restoration. It took us a single afternoon to learn necromancy. It will probably take us weeks of studying books to learn restoration. I am not at all opposed to knowing both.

>>18294838
Then again, that single afternoon involved drawing a small portion of one of the most powerful necromancers in history and a top meta of the Third Reich. Take that for what you will.

>>18294854
>portion of the spirit of

>shrub enormsr
Captcha agrees with the idea of drawing from nature.

>>18294854
Oh, I know. It was too good to resist. I'm just saying, Restoration and Necromancy aren't mutually exclusive. Hell, for all we know, studying Restoration might upgrade our Necromancy to White Necromancy.

>>18294854
Which is rather why it would take longer to learn Restorative magics.

>>18294518
Thats just setting off all sort of warning bells.
Can we try to peek at her hand with our magesight?

>>18294797

You're talking about fine control that would take years for Dan to learn.

There are disease curing magics, but particularly virulent or extensive problems are probably hard to permanently fix unless you're some kind of healing master.

>>18294803

Hence "city property". The idea about maybe going out somewhere and picking on a group of plants to spread the love a little is probably good though. Just need three decently healthy plants, pull a shock from each one.

>>18294880
It only destroyed her electroknuckles. The pained look was because she gets emotionally attached to her inventions. Make sense?

>>18294891
Fantastic. I bet we could do that to some shrubs on campus and nobody would get upset. We need to go to the police station first, though. Like, right now. We need to see if Phillips is okay.

>>18294871
We must appease Veritas and learn all of the magic. All of it. But after the world is saved, unless we find a convenient nazi lich healer lying around somewhere.

Regardless, I think we need to get a colony of tardigrades to use as a injury sink. If they can survive in space for TEN DAYS they should be able to take a few magical killing damage...

Actually I wonder if anyone has ever worked magic! on microrganisms for science!?

>>18294920
Dude. We just need a greenhouse filled with kudzu.

>>18294932
>>18294920
The real question is, will Omega allow it and how in the world could we attain these things if he does?

>>18294941
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLH1qLCvqSg

Kudzu won't be hard to get. It will just be hard to contain.

>>18294920

Actually no. Mechanically, they probably have like, 1 hit locate and 1 wound box there, they're just inherently resistant to certain environments.

>>18294958
I know, right?
http://youtu.be/tiYrqucl2vg

I should probably we say we're pretty much done for tonight, so what exact course of action you guys want to take will play out next thread. Police action, healing, exposition, whatever.

Then Dan will have the rest of the afternoon free decide how to prepare for the following day as he likes. The final day will probably be taken up by lots of action in leading up to the finale.

Also, just so you guys know, the events of Tuesday will comprise the end of Act 1, of a three Act story.

>>18295043
I'm thinking we should start with heading to the police, then break in our DIVINE NECROMANCY.

Cheap purchases don't affect our wealth at all, we can just buy a new plant/pet every time we kill our old one. Doesn't really matter how resilient the thing is. That's kind of cheating though. I think that instead of looking for something with raw toughness we should be looking for something that regenerates quickly.

>>18295058
Like a potted plant of kudzu. Shit's fucking ridiculous. We're far enough north, though, that it shouldn't be TOO crazy. Just enough.

>>18295071

You could always just turn on your necromancy and kill the shit out of the plant.

>>18295099
Or, you know, use some pruning shears. Using necromancy in that situation is like bringing a hand grenade to a slap fight.

>>18295111
>Using necromancy in that situation is like bringing a hand grenade to a slap fight.
Awesome? Hey, if necromancy is just transfering life energy why does it need to be transfered into skeletons? Could we make golems? GOLEMS POWERED BY PRUNING KUDZU.

>>18295134
And if it can't be used to power golems, can it if we combine it with Evocation?

>>18295134

Because skeletons lack life? Undead need juju to move.

>>18295147
I think we'd need to combine it with a school of magic other than evocation.

Maybe conjuration or transmutation.

>>18295236
No, he's asking if it has to be undead specifically. He wonder whether it has to be specific inert matter, like bones, or if we could use a bunch of rocks to achieve the same effect.
>>18295247
If those schools exist. The only schools we don't currently have that we've had confirmation of are Restoration and Divination.

>>18295236
Piles of guns lack life too. I want to animate piles of guns. It's cooler and less morally ambiguous. Why does everyone raise skeletons? That shit is just asking to get you mobbed.

>>18295267
I would rather animate a small, carefully-crafted metal manikin with a large-caliber gun for a head, if we make armed constructs. Ideally, I would rather have the constructs not have any built-in weapons, to keep from scaring people, and just arm them if the situation arises. This is, of course, presuming that we are even capable of making constructs without some serious practice.

>>18295267
>>18295256

In the case of necromancy, yes. Basically dead thing is out of life, you convert some juju back into life, dead thing walks around for a while.

Transmutation is probably the proper school of Golem-making. You could ask Miles, he seems to be pretty good at it, but since he tried to dream-assassinate you, you're probably not inclined to chat with him.

>>18295285

You assume you guys need to make constructs at all.

Anybody remember what Roxy's first degree is in?

>>18295308
We're keeping an eye to our own capabilities first before imposing upon our friends. I have a feeling that Roxy is going to be building a small army this afternoon while we're training now, though. Because SHIT JUST GOT PERSONAL.

>>18295308
Robotics, right?

>>18295308
Sounds like you're hinting at ROBUTTS

>>18295308
Robots are boring. They need to follow the laws of physics and everything.

>>18295362
NOT WHEN MADE BY SOMEONE WITH MSRD.

>>18295362
Omega seems to be following Dresden Files magic rules for most things (excluding reality warping outsiders for obvious reasons).

This means that, while you can do some impossible things with magic, those things still have to do business with the laws of reality to function. You can conjure fire out of nothing, but it still acts like real fire.

>>18295379

Correct. There is actually an extra called "No Physics" which means your Miracles do not act under normal physics. Red has this extra, you do not.

>>18295408
Out of curiosity, is there a way to obtain that extra without fucking around with Outsiders?

>>18295455

Depends on the nature of the power. All of Dan's powers operate within conventional physical bounds. He'd just need to find something that defied normal physics operating procedures. Like Captain Skinner, who has "No Physics" on her Firearms skill and can curve bullets with her robot arm.

Outsiders, since they originate from universes other than our own, with different rules, tend to automatically have this distinction. They don't play by the same rules as us.

>>18295483
Good to know. Something else I've been wondering, what are the possible options for us to push our six base stats beyond 5? If I understand correctly, that's the normal human limit, yes?

>>18295525
We can't push them beyond five. We can just start upgrading one die to a hard die, then a wiggle die. Like our Command? That's one tick away from our own personal maximum. The highest it can get is 4+wd.

>>18295555
(Sweet quads)
I understand that normally we can't do that, but I'm wondering if there are any supernatural/superscience ways to push beyond those limits?

>>18295525

You would have to gain a new Permission (Basically get a new source for powers) that either gives you Inhuman Stats or a permission called Prime Specimen, which allows to you buy Hyperstats. The hyperstat pool is separate from your regular stats, but you add them together (Along with Skill dice and hyperskill dice) when you roll.

To do this, Dan would need to either have some external source, like tech, or fundamentally alter himself through further genetic modification, or with cybernetics or something.

>>18295555

Actually, technically Dan can have as many of his native stat or skill dice hd or wd as he likes. Peak Performer doesn't allow you to have more total dice than the human norm, but you can have as many of those "native" dice be any kind of dice. I just gave to the hd because Dan hit his cap, so he needed some manner of improvement to show for being defiant to the end.

>>18295637
So hypothetically speaking we could have 5WD in a given stat?

>>18295661

Hypothetically.

>>18295713
Hypothetically, would you write a 5,000 word side-story of Dan parkouring his way around the city if I asked you to?

>>18295774

Not if you asked, no.

I don't have time to write a 5,000 word short story, I have *papers* to write.

>>18295774
I'll do it. I can't assure it's level of quality though.

>>18295798

Careful now. The legal disclaimer at the bottom of 4chan says I own all the words I post.

>>18295875
It's a work of parody, fair use.

But if you don't want me to I won't.

>>18295875
Oh god, what're we gonna do?

>>18295891
"Danny Fortesk, free-runner with wind evocation and Siyrean psychic powers participates in a race against Blue, his Lovecraftian rival from Kanto!"

>>18295927
...oh god, how horrible.