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You are a creature of darkness and shadows. Stripped of your memory, you seek to learn your true nature and find your place in the world.

Suptg Archive: (scroll to bottom)

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=Shadow+Quest+

Archive compiled using with only story posts for easier read-through (update status unknown):

http://pastebin.com/6RzLX9Yp

Twitter (quest times, cancellations, updates):

https://twitter.com/ShadowMaster_tg

Theme music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLTQ5PlEWko

>sorry I'm late!
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Events Summary:

You continued to follow Adavan's trail. After walking through Tarun Gakth for some time, you were set upon by a large group of orcs, led by an old orc mage named Rogul. Rogul denied you passage across his land, but, inspired by Flint's plea, a human with Rogul's group named Kirt offered to vouch for the party while they were in orc territory.

You've spent the day recuperating, then sparring with Flint and Kirt, who is an incredibly skilled swordsman himself.

You found a Shadow mana pool hidden below refuge in the upper levels of the Timorian Deep. You fought a powerful Shadow Elemental and consumed it, earning a Shard of True Darkness...though you don't yet know its purpose.

In the early morning, you finally resolved Flint and Auriel's relationship. Flint has openly declared his affections for her, and, for now, has put his old pains firmly behind him. Satisfied, you took some time to reflect.

You met with the Sage, Taremtis, who answered one question from each member of your party. You learned that Kirt is in fact Obis Vin, the rightful king of Kan Abar. He has decided to assist you on your journey, but remains undecided on whether he wishes to return home and face his brother.

You managed to resummon the succubus, Annette - and learned her true name, Xella. Using your Shard of True Darkness, and with a little help from Joey, you managed to convince Xella that indiscriminately devouring humans is not a good thing. She has promised not to question you again, at least on that.

You've made it through the Rock Worm nesting ground, but Adavan chose a dubious exit - the tunnel left behind by a huge worm. You fought and delayed a smaller rock worm from, but the battle collapsed the cavern entrance behind you.

The party continued through the cavern, but were soon surrounded by a new enemy...
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Saily reminder.
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It's shadowin' time!
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Ability Tree

GREEN abilities have been unlocked and learned.

BLUE abilties are unlocked, but are not yet purchased.

RED abilities are revealed, but locked due to prerequisites.

UNDERLINED abilities are active-use, as opposed to passive. Not all active abilities require mana.

Unlocked Ability Descriptions Located in the following Pastebin link (full list in progress):

http://pastebin.com/jTS7uCVX

Books the Main Character has read can be found here:

http://pastebin.com/X59yWD5p

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Active (intent-use abilities that don't require mana)
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Consume - Devour the latent energy of enemies and magical artifacts to add to your own power and restore your health.

Glide - Your aura allows you to glide, dropping safely from large heights or covering large distances if starting from a high position. Gliding is always stealthier than flying.

Flight - Spread wings of darkness to soar through the air. Carrying capacity is based on physical strength.

Supersonic - Fly at supersonic speeds. You'll move extremely fast, but suffer a large penalty to stealth and magic stealth. Takes 1 turn to activate.

Mimic - Take on the vague form of things you've seen. Won't stand up to close examination, but works well in the dark.

Snuff - You shadow can put out the lights it touches.

Blink - Sight-range teleportation. (Cannot blink through walls, through the ground, into places you can't see, etc. 5-turn cooldown in battle. Auto-cooldown if battle ends. You can only Blink yourself and inanimate objects on your person. Max range 1/4 mile or 0.4 kilometers)

Focus - With a burst of concentration, you can significantly improve your detection of both the mundane and magical, but you also drastically increase the risk of giving yourself away...
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Spells (and other abilities that DO use mana)
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Shadow Strike - Strike the foe with needles of darkness. (base power 2. Costs 2 mana)

Shadow Assault - Launch a flurry of shadowy projectiles at the enemy. (base power 4. Costs 4 mana. Can hit multiple enemies)

Nightflare - Disrupt target spell or enchantment. (costs 2 mana)

Shade - Create an illusory projection of yourself to confuse enemies. (dodge buff. Costs 1 mana)

Spirit Whip - Lash the enemy with a whip of spirit magic. (base power 2. Costs 2 mana)

Bind - Trap an enemy in ropes of spirit magic. May spend 0 to 10 mana (determines strength).

Water Strike - A pressurized blast of water imbued with magical force. (2 base power. Costs 2 mana)

Heal - Spend either 2, 4, or 6 mana to heal a target 4, 7, or 10 HP, respectively.

Purify - Spend 3 Mana: 100% chance to heal 1 ailment on target. Spend 6 mana: 85% chance to heal all target's ailments. Spend 9 mana: heal all of a target's ailments and the ailments of all those you are physically touching.

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Summons
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Wisp - A shadowy wisp from the Nether. (2 base shadow attack). Costs 1 mana to summon, 1 mana per action. Never breaks your control; if you run out of mana, it will merely vanish. [Level 0, Shadow]
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Current Statistics:

HP: 35/37
Mana: 5/10
EXP: 0
Humanity: 94
Temerity: 51
Shards of True Darkness: 1

Party Members:

Sir Donovan Flint - A knight of Dobshire, the capital of Arland. Fourth son of the lord and ruler of Arland. Wears iron armor and wields a two-handed longsword. 29 years old.

Joey - A young boy from Jacob's Field, now Sir Flint's squire. No particular magical talent. Wields a shortsword. 16 years old.

Angel Auriel - Formerly a powerful angel of the Ringed City, now traveling with you, ostensibly to protect Sir Flint and Joey from you. Wears heavy plate steel and wields a one-handed sword and a wide, round buckler. 732 years old.

Obis Vin - The exiled Prince of Kan Abar. He wears steel-adamantium plate armor and wields a Ram-headed shield and a one-handed sword. 32 years old.

Xella - A succubus firmly bent to your will. She has agreed without condition to obey your commands - when they're important, at least. She commands powerful fire and shadow magic. ??? years old

Summoned:

Wisp (1 mana per order, does not break control, stealths with you)

Equipment:

Utility belt with purse

Inventory:

Shadow Sword Shard x 2
Fancy Sun-Moon Key
Mind-Scribing Pen
Succubus Reagents x 1
Jen Fang's Diary (Abigail's father)
Summoning Textbooks (in saddlebags)
Golem Power Core

Current Location:

Tarun Gakth
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>>25122362
...and we're live!

Welcome back!
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>last time...

You manage to spot one clearly. It ducks out of sight, but not before you take it all in.

<...small, perhaps two feet tall. Long arms, ending in large claws. Shorter legs. Its limbs are jointed in many places. It has no visible head. Its torso just ends.>

"Vog," Auriel mutters. "Shit. Shit."

"What?" Flint asks. "What are Vog?"

"...small, burrowing creatures that infest the Timorian Deep." She glances around at the party. "The sounds are to distract us. They're highly intelligent. Plotting an attack as we speak."

<I can sense some below us,> you say. <They're gathering into groups.>

"...they're small, but vicious. Cruelly vicious. And determined. They'll just keep coming."

"How many would you say?"

<...thirty or so. More are arriving at the edge of my senses.> Auriel's face takes a grim cast in the faint light of her orb. <Is that bad?> you ask.

"The more their are, the smarter they get. The more difficult it is to protect yourself."

"What do we do?" Flint asks.

"...we run," Auriel says. "On three, everyone runs. Get ready." Everyone sets themselves. "3. 2. 1. Go!"

You take off at a sprint through the caverns.
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I had an idea for the vog.

They get smarter in a group, but have minor intelligence alone, right?

Let's project Isolation all over them. That should fuck up their hivemind.
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>>25122362
IT'S SHADOW TIME!

Just letting you know SM that I have 20 tabs open of things I need to read, but i'm stopping everything just for this quest.

Keep up the wonderful quest.
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>>25122458
time to put that nat 100 from last quest to use
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>>25122362
Finally making a fucking thread! It'd been forever!
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>>25122466
Not sure why my name came off. Oh well.
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>>25122486
The president of the High Rollers club has arrived.
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The party bursts forward. The two horses quickly trot while the rest run as fast as they can.

<Xella, with me,> you say. <We hold the rear.> The succubus moves next to you. <Auriel, Flint, you two take point.> They guide their horses in front of the party. The height should help them clear a path. <Obis, take the center. Support whoever needs it. Joey - stay in the middle.>

Joey looks too frightened to argue. The others nod, and keep moving. With his life-force concealing cloak, Obis will help shore up the gaps - you hope.

The Vog, who have been screeching and shrieking periodically, fall silent. They move quickly, staying abreast of your group with long, galloping strides of their arms.

The ones under the ground move even faster. You sense them split into two burrowing groups. They flank you and Xella.

They dig up toward the surface.

<Xella. Back, and just to your right.>

"I can't sense anything."

<They're coming in two groups. Prepare an attack. I'll take the left.>

The vog burst from the ground behind you! They swarm out of their holes and gallop foward to watch you. Shrill cries echo off the cavern walls.

>Last time, you rolled a 100! You'll be using that for your first action.

What do you do?

>physical attack + CONSUME
>just physical attack, there's no time for a meal
>magic attack
>keep them off Xella while she fires magic attacks
>hang back; distract the Vog while the party continues forward
>something else

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>EXP from worm battle: 2 (total: 2)
>humanity: 3 (total: 97)
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>>25122466
I'm willing to try.
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>>25122458
Don't forget about that 100 we rolled last night!

...please?
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>>25122507
>>something else
Project Isolation all over them to try to break their bond thing. Then physical attack simultaneously.
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Rolled 71

>>25122507
>just physical attack, there's no time for a meal
remember to use shiva to attack multiple
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>>25122507
Physical attack only. We'll eat when they retreat.
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>>25122507
>>just physical attack, there's no time for a meal
or this
>>25122538
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>>25122507
>physical attack + CONSUME
Do it as brutally as possible.

If these things are a hivemind, perhaps it will damage their cohesion of some of their number are suffering hideously.
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>>25122538
I'll try that. You mean impression, right?
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>>25122362
I-I'm here on time for once... Neat.
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>>25122507
if we get an auto 100 the physical and CONSUME! otherwise join it with that Isolation plan since we can't fail this roll
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>>25122616
> we can't fail this roll
Unless SM makes us roll again anyway to see if we get a 1 and we get the 1.
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>>25122538
Hmm, unveiling the shard of true darkness doesn't make us traceable like using Focus, right?
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Vote 1:
>physical attack only

Vote 2:
>physical attack + CONSUME (nat 100 goes to attack)

Vote 3:
>Impress them with Isolation, then physical attack (nat 100 goes to impression)
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>>25122662
not hearing this tonight tsun tsun, tonight I say we go all out rolls or no rolls
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>>25122507
>physical attack + CONSUME
We're getting faster with our CONSUME, we need the new abilities that their lifeforce will give us, and watching their brethern be eaten alive has got to horrify these things.
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>>25122692
3
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>>25122507
Use Shiva to kill them to death
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>>25122616
We can't fail directly, consuming might still take long enough for the others to get themselves in serious trouble while we're away...
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>>25122692
Vote 3.
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>>25122538
I can dig it. I'm wondering if intimidating a hive mind would give a bonus or a penalty to the dice rolls, though...

Or at least ones that don't crit.
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>>25122692
3
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>>25122692
Since we got a nat 100, why don't we just
>CONSUME
without the physical attack?
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>>25122692
2
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>>25122692
3
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>>25122692
3.
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>>25122679

You don't understand the shard very well.
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>>25122692
1
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>>25122692
2
>physical attack + CONSUME
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>>25122726

Because you don't want to waste it consuming a single Vog?
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>>25122743
This is certainly true OOC, I'm guessing that IC Shadow's not much better off...
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>>25122692
>2
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>>25122692
3, we'll consume them when their reeling from the surprise round.
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>>25122692
i'm feeling lucky
2
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You voted 3, impression + physical attack.

Roll 1d100 for your actual attack
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Rolled 97

>>25122840
MECHA SHIVA
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Rolled 13

>>25122840
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Rolled 80

>>25122840
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>>25122845
Damn. The dice rolls will come to me, I swear.
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>>25122692
3 for now. If we get 'em good, we can try to eat one or two whole while the others run!
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Rolled 14

>>25122840
rolling
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Rolled 24

>>25122840
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>>25122843
>>25122845
>>25122863
keep
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Rolled 19

>>25122840
COME ON
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>>25122864
The dice gods have moved on from the Void to Dice Atheists.
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You seize the Shard.

The energy sits within you like the shadow of a blizzard - cold Isolation. Its the feeling of every connection to every other thing frozen over until it's unrecognizable.

You throw the feeling outward. It blooms out form you, stealing the very life from the air - cold - so cold it doesn't feel cold. But cold, not in the sense of heat - cold, without ANYTHING.

It shocks the cavern in a huge radius.

The Vog go wild. Some fall flat, seemingly dead. Others trip and writhe on the ground, hurting each other and those around them. Still others shriek like mad and burrow back into the ground, or run screaming down the tunnel. Even the Vog surrounding the other sides of your party feel the effects, some turning tail, the rest freezing in place as if cut off from one another.

When you leap at the confused enemy, it's almost unfair. But you already know the world isn't fair. There is only Shadow, and Justice.


You eviscerate them like so many cattle. Your limbs warp and stab through the air, killing them all in an instant. Their blood spills across the ground. Xella throws her magic in exploding balls of flame and shadow, taking out her own distracted group in moments.

You and your demon hurry up back to the flanks of your party as they pass through the still-reeling Vog ahead. Her magic and your shadows tear into them, taking out at least another dozen.

And then, you're through.

What do you do?

>try to consume as many as possible before moving on
>just keep moving
>have Xella guard you while you consume
>something else
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>>25123102
>There is only Shadow, and Justice.
You mean there is only Shadow, right?
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>>25123102
We can eat the remains later. Let's help the rest of our party out.
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>>25123102
>>have Xella guard you while you consume
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>>25123147
Unless, the Vog are fully routed. Then it's snacktime.
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Rolled 66

>>25123102
>try to consume as many as possible before moving on
"xella, cover the rear of the rest of the group"
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>>25123143
I dunno. We've got a high humanity rating and we've built the character up around the idea of natural rights and judging on an individual basis.

>just keep moving

Aurelia was pretty scared of these things, and I don't trust us to make more excellent rolls to fight off the backup that will come during feeding time.
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Well...

If the Shadow is Justice, and there is only Shadow, then there is also Justice.

I think.

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In character, Shadow likes the idea of being an arbiter, or sorts. He is a rather logical sort of existence, isn't he?
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>>25123102
>>try to consume as many as possible before moving on
>>just keep moving
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>>25123102
>>try to consume as many as possible before moving on
We got this
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>>25123211
That does seem to fit how we made the character out to be...
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>>25123102
>>have Xella guard you while you consume
better be sure
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>>25123102
>try to consume as many as possible before moving on

We should scoot, but I'll be damned if we don't get some xp from that.
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Seems like most people want a snack.

Vote 1:
>Xella sticks with the party

Vote 2:
>Xella sticks with you
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Rolled 7

>>25123302
1
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>>25123302
2

I'll switch to 2
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>>25123302
2
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>>25123302
With us for a bit. We should tell the rest of the party what we're doing, though...
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>>25123339
Good idea. We don't want Joey to piss himself from fear.
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>>25123302
1
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2.

If we let her out of our sight, she's gonna try to suck someone's soul out.

Of their dick.
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Xella is with you. You'll explain to the party that you're hanging back to "mop up" the stragglers.

Roll 1d100
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Rolled 50

>>25123443
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Rolled 98

>>25123443
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Rolled 31

>>25123443

Saint Peter guide my dice
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Rolled 48

>>25123443
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Rolled 39

>>25123443
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>>25123471

nice
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Rolled 26

>>25123443
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HAHA TIME FOR SHADOW QUEST
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<Keep moving! We'll take out any that follow!>

The party begins to grow distant. Auriel's voice echoes back to you. "Don't linger!"

Silence. You feel a few Vog in the earth, scattered here and there, but none grouped together.

<Xella, stand guard.>

"Yes, Shadow."

She goes alert, eyes scanning the dark.

You roil over the bodies of your fallen foes. The dribble of life remaining in each one is sucked into your body as you latch onto their corpses. You become a liquid cloud of acid, dissolving and absorbing every torn up bit.

It gives you a good chance to study them. They have no heads; their jagged, gaping mouths are where their necks should be. Their arms are rotated so that their natural position is hanging up above their bodies. You assume this is helpful for burrowing, or scooping prey toward the mouth.

You consume 6 of the Vog.

>you gain 9 exp (total: 11)
>you gain 3 temerity (total: 54)
>HP: 37/37

There are plenty of Vog to eat...but you can feel the rest of them gathering into a group underneath you. They haven't moved as of yet.

You feel at your Shard of True Darkness. The Isolation lingers there...but it feels...fragile. Used. You feel wary. Perhaps you're better off not messing around with it too much until you fully understand it.

What do you do?

>CONSUME
>run down the tunnel toward the party
>something else
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>>25123716
Do we know exactly how many Vog?
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>>25123716
>>run down the tunnel toward the party
suggest Shadow mask as first purchase
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>>25123716
>run down the tunnel toward the party
Let's a go!
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Rolled 88

>>25123716
Watter strike.

Drown them
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>>25123716
Head back towards the party. We've had enough to eat for now.
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>>25123716
I think we should run. No sense in pushing our luck here.
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Towards the party. They can get into trouble very quick. And without the ability to see spirit runes they will get lost.
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>>25123716
Time to go.
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>>25123716

Rejoin the party, tell them to keep moving.

Really don't want to be experimenting with that thing right now, we have other concerns and in a tight, confined area.
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>>25123716
head back! We have had a snack!
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Rolled 1

>>25123716
>run down the tunnel toward the party
and buy observe and poison
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Also, 9 xp.

1 more and we can buy another level of magic power.
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>>25123797
ohh thank god he didnt call for rolls
sorry guys
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>>25123756

There are 13 Vog left.

There are 5, perhaps as many as 7, down in the ground.

'Focus' might allow you to better detect the enemy. But they would quite certainly be made aware of you, if they aren't already.
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>>25123716
move
>shadow mask
>observe
>iron stomach
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>>25123801

You could buy that now. You have 11 total. You need ten for Magic Power 2.
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>>25123813
MMMmmm going for go after the party, since we don't actually know how effective the Vog are yet
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>>25123716
either>>25123822
or>>25123801
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>>25123837
Oh noice. Thought it said 9 total.

Let's get that. Anyone else onboard magic power?
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Time to test our other abilities. Kindle, Doom Aura, Poison, Observe. Should be interesting
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>>25123837
Do it. We need more magic
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>>25123797
Why do you think we haven't mobbed you with torches and pitchforks?
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>>25123822
My vote is for this choice.
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>>25123822

I would suggest

>soundless
>multishade
>something else
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>>25123822
we really need mask and observe, and i think we've been ignoring iron stomach for to long
>>25123716
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>>25123852
Hell yeah motherfucker
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But magic power would also be good. Changing vote for magic.
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>>25123837
I say yes to this. I feel like we've been cutting back on magic too much, and it looks super cool anyway.
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>>25123852
I'd prefer to unlock a bit of the Summon Tree, myself.
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>>25123837
Ah, fuck it, why not?
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>>25123852
I'm down. Magic is really powerful. More mana, more power.
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>>25123716
Fog and twisting gloom please, I want to get the most out of our stealth.
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>>25123822
third/fourth
>>25123837
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>>25123837
Buy that now
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>>25123892
My, mothafuckin nigga
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>>25123822
I agree with this.
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>>25123797
>>25123837
alright, switching from this to magic power. thought we didnt have enough
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>>25123837
Magic right meow.
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>>25123900

seconding we have been neglecting our stealth for WAY to long now
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>>25123822
these are good
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>>25123822
magic detection is killing us
>>25123837
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Rolled 60

>>25123813
I think we should buy mighty strength soundless and observe
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>>25123822
Magic is our secondary, our limit break if you will. Voting for shadow mask and observe.
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>>25123900
>Fog and twisting gloom please

By our stealths combined, we make CAPTAIN SHADOW!

Seriously though, why is the Lord of Shadows not stealthier?
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>>25123980
ie magic detection
>buy shadow mask
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>>25123967
Limit breaks are bad ass, voting for magic
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You want to consume the others...but there's no sense pushing your luck. It's time to move on.

<Come. We're heading back.>

You both take wing. You make quick progress up the cavern.

Xella glances at you, then away. Then she looks back at you. She wears a curious expression.

<...what?>

"...it is nothing."

<Ask your questions. You are my servant, but you are not a slave.>

Xella frowns. "...you command me not to eat souls...but you consume them yourself. I could not eat the Vog, myself. But still."

<They'd be a waste, left to rot.> You glide closer to her. <But the difference is, they attacked us without provocation, and we slayed them in battle. Most humans are innocent of any action that deserves the punishment of having their soul stripped from them.>

"...as you say." She doesn't look all that convinced.

You both land for a moment, then take off again.

What do you do?

>fly in silence
>add something else (write-in)
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>>25123980
Because we are Justice, and mama Shadow didn't raise no bitch
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>>25123994
<Are souls your only nourishment, or just another fetish of yours?>
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>>25123994

fly in silence.

If our words don't sway her opinion, our actions will.

Hopefully.
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Can't really stealth with a party. Anon like to run Shadow in open warfare half the time. We haven't even touched the summoning tree and magic needs improvement baaadly~
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>fly in silence
And grab magic power on the way
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>>25123994
Do we actually CONSUME their souls, or just their lifeforces and bodies? We nourishment from CONSUMption of food.
It seems that this is actually a different type of CONSUMption
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>>25123994
Don't care which we do. I wanna get magic power 2 though.
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>>25123994
>>25123822
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>>25123994
We should probably give Xella authorization to eat the souls of adversaries in combat, if she wants to.
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>>25123994
<So how do you normally hunt for sustenance? Is it purely from that "attack" you tried on me during the battle?>
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>>25124037
Summoning just looks really really bad without a larger mana pool.
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>>25124037
I really like summoning in all things I do and we'll probably need an army eventually because of how we seem to be doing things.so I'll always push for it, and the magic is really powerful so far
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>>25123994
<If it means endangering your life than I would see it differently, but to talk of stripping another of their soul for no true reason is.....saddening>
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>>25124045
I think we eat the souls. It's why we get exp from consuming a living or recently slain enemy, but not from long dead foes.
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>you've purchased Magic Power 2!
>you now have a maximum of 20 mana!

Mana: 15/20
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>unlocked for purchase: Summoning I - level 1 and 2 summons will not break from your control

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>>25124087
Seconding. It would be hypocritical not to.
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>>25123994
<I will admit, consuming the Vog, that was purely for a selfish reason. They attacked my friends with possible intent to harm them or kill them. I have few things of worth in this world. My friends are my most precious of them.>
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I'm just waiting for one of the side characters to actually bring forth a logical and effective argument against us. We've been "in the right" so often that it's actually beginning to get boring.
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>>25123994
<Those who seek to take life must be ready to lose their life. Those who sought my end only had what they wished to steal from me taken instead.>
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>>25124165
Sweeeet.

Now we can get into summoning when we grab more xp!
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>>25124165
>>25124105
well, that is just plain useful
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>>25124165
>Summoning I - level 1 and 2 summons will not break from your control
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>>25124021
>>25124087
>>25124089
>>25124115
>>25124169
All of these, if possible.
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>>25124165
>summoning 2 exp
>1 exp remains
SOON
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So, what should we get as our first summon?

I like fae, since it's fire. The only 'higher' element summon we have available there.
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Magic power is fun, but I'd like to buff our physical stats up some more. A lot of our recent fights have been close calls.

Specifically, diamond barrier to finish up the defense tree and work towards unlocking the darkness tree.

Or perhaps Shadow Beam. I'd like to put more into our shadow "theme" before branching out into more elements.

Better to be a master of one than a jack of all.
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>>25124226
ghoul
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>>25124169
i like this. it shows we are not a perfect character. and also we could probably point out that this kind of thinking is probably what started the great war, but it is a subtle trap to fall into
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>>25124198
Agreed, plus this >>25124185. There's just too much good stuff there.
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To Xella a soul is just like meat. She eats it survive. Demons are to souls as vampires are to blood. The difference is that souls are the last remnant of a things existence. We do not know where the souls go. But if Xella eats them that is the end. For those that are irredeemable we will consider it. For all we know the souls reincarnate without memory a blank slate or they reincarnate with full memories. Or drift in a different place. But such introspection should be left for another time.
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>>25124226
ghoul. its stealthy, and unlocks other shadows.
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>>25124236
Not really. Since the elements all have differing levels of effectiveness versus eachother.
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>>25124236
>Better to be a master of one than a jack of all.

Anon is wise.

Trying to do a little of everything will probably get you killed. That would make me sad.

That said, you ARE really fucking fast, which is why the Demon Lord didn't eat you for breakfast.

>>25124198

I think so too.

Writing.
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>>25124226
Ghoul all the way.
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>>25124226
Personally I like Ghost or Ghoul, but Fae gives us 2 options after it so I'd vote for that
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>>25124270
I think ghouls are Spirit aligned, seeing as that what Adavan had summoned to fight us towards the beginning of the quest.
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>>25124295
>>25124185
this to if possible
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>>25124298
Ghoul gives two options as well.
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>>25124306
nah, the right tree is shadows and undead. but all summoning is realy spirit aligned. spirit is the summoning magic
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>>25124306
ghoul leads back into the magic tree though
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>>25124323
ah, so it does. Off the summoning track though
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>>25124345
still, what if its magic power?
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>>25124339
>>25124345
it might. but the servant bubble lets us see that the summoning tree extends a to the right and a little up. so it implies that there is a tree in the direction that might meet up with magic
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Didn't Flint say that if we started summoning shit he'd call off our partnership?

And I think that Cone of Destruction might work good for us. Since we're so damn fast, we can rush in with a tackle, then blast them while they're down.
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There's a ton of low cost stuff in the Shadow tree that we should really be grabbing before branching out further, IMO.

Twisting Gloom, Doom Aura, Fog, Soundless, Multishade, Shadow Mask, Shadow Control.

They may not be as fancy as the higher stuff but they'd offer some amazing potential combos and buffs for less cost.
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>>25124411
not really
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>>25124411
Well we just summoned Xella so i think he's pretty OK with it, unless we go full Dark overlord mode
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>>25124411
That was a long time ago, like in thread 4 or something, and that was about trying to take over the undead that was attacking Jacob's Field. He's long over that, considering how loyal we are to him, and vice versa.
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>>25124448
Summon thousands of wisps.

Wisplord.
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You almost let the matter drop, but then begin to think once more. Xella has potential - if she can reign in her darker impulses. Perhaps, if you seek understanding, you should offer it yourself.

<Those who seek to take life must be ready to lose their life,> you say. <Those who sought my end only had what they wished to steal from me taken instead. In battle, you make take souls, if necessary.>

"Thank you."

<But only to defend yourself - never to prey upon the defenseless.>

"I need to eat to live," she says. "I can subsist on ambient mana alone, but I will grow weaker. We are predators, Shadow. You are like me in that respect. Humans slaughter and eat their cows. We slaughter and eat them. Such is the order of things."

<Do cows think, and feel? Do cows have souls?>

"Bulls have horns," Xella says. "Intelligence is just a mechanism the developed to defend themselves. Souls are merely a form of motive energy. You yourself salvaged such energy from the Vog." She shrugs her wings mid-flight. "Rather than eat flesh, and crudely digest that energy, I suck it up all at once. Humans are right to fear me, but to say that is evil - is eating, evil, then?" She shrugs again. "I care not. They brought me into existence. They can reap that evil, if that is what they choose to call it."

<What do you mean, exactly?>

"...it is strange, how ignorant you are in some respects. I will explain."

>con't
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I just don't think that summoning is really our thing. We have our wisp, and we've steadfastly ignored it entirely. I think that trying to keep track of a bunch of summons would bog us down, both in game and in meta, as we all argue the best ways to use our minions.
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>>25124474
20 wisps, all with our stealth bonuses
>mother of god
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>>25124474
Let's summon a shitload of wisps and have them form into a combining wisp-mecha!
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>>25124419

What this guy said. I think we ought to stick to our guns as the Shadow, at least temporarily.

Being the utility has its benefits but there are some very low hanging fruit in the Shadow tree we have yet to pick up.
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I think we need an inventory of all our available non-spell options on a spreadsheet in group type. Its getting kind of large. Its been a while since we used crunch, barrier of darkness, and spirit whip
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>>25124504
GIGAAAAAA SHADOW BREAKAAAAAH
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>>25124527
We used spirit whip to cut the arms off Isolation.
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>>25124488
19. They all disappear when we lose our last point of mana.
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>>25124554
We could totally summon up a shitton of Wisps, we can do nothing with for intimidation
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>>25124295
About this. We're pretty far into physical and our magic seems to be doing pretty well but stealth is severely lacking. I hear the point about not being jack of all, but I'm worried that charging in isn't going to work every time. It would be silly to assume it always will. Fighting face to face has worked pretty well so far but considering our story so far it seems reasonable that there are going to be things far outclass us.

TL;DR need some stealth
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>>25124527
I think that Shadow Master applies them when they're appropriate.

For example, the way we dealt with the vog is remarkably similar to Shiva.

Though if we didn't, then we really need to decide between Physical or Magical. Because it's gonna be rough trying to keep the extremes of both branches in mind when we're fighting. As it is, I feel that we might get bogged down by our options.
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>>25124578
Goddamn it. We should have done that when we still had access to the Mana Pool...
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>>25124597
>things that far outclass us

We could go pick from the other trees to try and stack bonuses, OR we could keep pushing the physical attacks and defenses and BECOME the thing that outclasses others.

Giant sand worm? Meet diamond-armored, hundred-bladed, poisonous, inking, berserking, sound-breaking shadow.

We have the capability to be a truly horrendous thing to fight. I want to pursue that, not spread ourselves out evenly over everything in a vain attempt to cover weaknesses. It'll work for now, but when we run up against an extreme foe, we won't be able to compete.
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>>25124671
It seems like long term goal is peace, however so magic and summoning, could be more useful in a wider scale battle
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>>25124671
I agree for the most part but I worry a bit about fighting a heavy magic user. Most of our enemies have been physical but every time we've gone against mages they've torn us up. I think physical/defense should still be our main focus but goals like Hydra seem less useful than steath. I don't want to see Mr. Shadow charge up to some archmage and get his facd blown off or be bound in a second.
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According to the tree we now regenerating and vampiric. If we get fastblink and a ton of stealth ups we can... become the night
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<Consider me young,> you say. <My knowledge is marked with holes.>

Xella nods. "The nether is energy," she says. "Chaotic, unformed energy. Life draws its power from this pool of energy. But have you asked yourself, where, then, do demons come from?"

<I have not.>

"We are made out of that energy," she says. "Humans, and other forms of life, grasp that energy for themselves in the act of birth. But demons are made." She looks at you. "Demons are imagined. It is magic power that creates and brings forward a demon. Artificial life, in a way.

"The form, shape and power of a demon is limited only by the will and power of the mage. Demons can BE anything that can be imagined, assuming someone has enough power to carve that something out of the nether. Common, well-known demons, like fae, and even succubi like myself, are merely templates created for ease of use.

"Demons, at their core, are weapons created by human mages to attack other human mages. What better weapon than one that can think for itself, use magic? One that strikes fear or entrances with its very appearance?" Xella makes a flat smile. "So you see, Shadow, teaching me morality is like teaching a rock how to be water. A rock simply is what it is. The rock might get wet, but the water rolls right off of it."

<...then I must make rocks into water?>

"I suppose so."

<The spell that holds you here is linked to me, isn't it?>

"Indeed."

<Then I'll work on it.>

Xella chuckles. "I see. Let me know how that goes."

<Meanwhile, control yourself.> You stare at her. <I admit that consuming the Vog was for my own selfish purpose. But it made me stronger, and strength is useful. I have few things of worth in this world; my companions among them. I need strength to protect them.>

"I understand the usefulness of power."

<Good.> You look away from her. <But even for all its use, for all I could gain...stripping the soul of another sentient being for no reason, other than to feed...it is wrong.>

"Why?"

>con't
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The bats are now wisps.
Anything is possible when you have magic.
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>>25124784
>We can invent shit
Well I'm all for magic and Summoning now, if I wasn't before
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>>25124784
><...then I must make rocks into water?>

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
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<Why is what wrong?>

"Why is it wrong to feed on what is so obviously your prey?" she asks. "You are -higher- than they are. You do not need to eat, or drink. You don't even need to breathe - even I must do that. Even now, it is difficult for me to even see you. I don't doubt you could erase me, should you chose to do so. I have seen swords slip off your skin. I have seen you dodge spears merely by contorting to the side. I have seen you kill ten men at once, all in different directions.

She takes a breath. "You are greater, perhaps, than demons. Your potential may be greater than even the angels. You are an elemental - and not just any elemental. You are superior. Do you not recognize this?"

What is your response?

>write-in
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>>25124880
for some reason i am getting superman vibes from this. anyone want to pull out some man of steel to go with all this I AM THE NIGHT?
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>>25124880
"I am different, but that does not make me greater. I may be stronger and tougher, but that does not mean that I have more worth than others. We are all equal in our ability to think, to feel, to suffer, to hope. It is who we are, not what we are, that determines value."
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>>25124880
<Being higher does not make me better. I have seen my superiority to most as well as my inferiority to them, but being such is only what I was born as. What matters in life isn't what you are or how others perceive you, its what you choose to be despite all that>
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>>25124784
Well, I know that this won't be added in, but I just feel like it would be right to say this.

<Xella. I am a shadow elemental. One of the most feared things humans know of. I have been hated for simply being what I am, accused of doing deeds that I had no inclination of doing. If you are the same as me, wouldn't it be nice if you could walk down a street without being hated and feared, and to have others who support and appreciate you for simply being you?>
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>>25124880
<From what I have heard, Erebus' followers placed believed him above all others. And perhaps he was. But it caused nothing but strife. I refuse to make the same mistakes he did. I will be better.>
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>>25124880

<When I set out on this journey, I decided that I would not bend to what the stereotypes of what people think Shadow should be. I refused to be defined as a monster and chose that what I am to be will be decided by my own actions, not any inherent quality of my elements.>

<If I am to be the greatest, then I will earn it through my actions and earning respect on my own terms. If I take it only through force, then I am no better than that stereotype I rejected.>
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>>25124913

(That's kind of what I'm drawing on for my response, actually.)
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>>25124880
<Explain to me in what way being stronger makes the rest of the world my prey? The logic behind that statement seems very clouded in your own preconceptions. If the world really worked that way, then the Great Elementals would have killed all life on this planet. Instead they gifted man with their powers and helped them flourish.>
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>>25124964
>placed believed
Yeahh... Remove one of those
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>>25124880
<Because being at the top of the peak is lonely, without someone to share in the story being made.>
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>>25124880
Superior physically? magically? Perhaps. But war and combat are not life, Xella. I have been around for such a short while and learned so much. Humanity teaches me something new everyday. I was a feral blob once, lurking in a graveyard. But now? I have learned of compassion, anger, justice, hatred, love. I want to feel, to understand and to learn. These people all know and live these emotions. I dream of such an existance.
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>>25124880
<Just because I may be more powerful, it does not mean my life has any more meaning then another's>
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>>25124784
>I don't doubt you could erase me, should you chose to do so.
<And if I chose to do so, how would you feel about that? Would you willingly submit and allow yourself to be consumed without protest? I think not. Humans may be our inferiors, but they value their lives no less dearly than you or I value our own, and suffer no less keenly when deprived of it. The decision to kill a sentient being should never be taken lightly.>
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>/tg/ wrestling with questions of morality and ethics and responsibility
>and coming up with some kickass monologues in the process

I knew there was a reason why I love this board.
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>>25124949

I know what you're trying to get at...but the character just doesn't care about that sort of thing.

Shadow is apathetic to how people "feel" about him. He wants to walk down the street without being bothered, but if people scattered in fear, he just wouldn't give a fuck, as long as they let him go where he wanted. The only person who's good opinion he's really shown any interest in is Sir Donovan Flint.

While I sympathize with your choice of dialogue, it just isn't the right tone, you know?
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>>25125036
It surely isn't the dice.
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>>25125036
And they say /tg/ is going downhill. Pah.
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Rolled 90

>>25125058
Dammit, forgot how to dice.
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>>25125036
>I knew there was a reason why I love this board.

I thought about offering some suggestions...but letting is just be >write in is working out very well.

This is cool. It's like you guys are chiseling the character from marble, and I apply the file to smooth out the edges.

Well, let me try to put this together...
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>>25125075
"They" can't even tell that they've been sitting in the ditch the entire time.

Pity.
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>>25125075
It went downhill for awhile, as a bunch of people seemed to leave, but as always more people like SM filled the Gaps
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>>25124880
<To be greater is to stand alone. Superiority only separates you from those you wish to stand by. I began as nothing, no voice, no knowledge, not even a name. Everything I am, everything I will be, is what I choose not what the world chooses.>
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>>25125093
>This is cool. It's like you guys are chiseling the character from marble, and I apply the file to smooth out the edges.

You like Gargoyle Quest, don't you SM.

I wish I had that spongebob pic.
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>>25125093
Damn, nigga that shit's biblical
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>>25125050
Yeah, I know... (kicks stone at feet) ...stupid SM, ruining my plans for major feels moment...
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>>25125117
>are thou feeling it now Shadow Master?
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>>25125101

I've been here for about three years. I think there's more quest threads now, but you guys still have some of the best discussions out of any of the boards.
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>>25125117
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Follow my template. Is that all I am, a template? All these memories, emotions. Do they mean nothing. If summoned another succubus would she be you. Maybe with a different hair color or different structure. But to me physical structure is hardly defined. I met another shadow elemental. It was feral. Exactly as the humans described. What separated me from it was my mind. But there was something else. Through kinship I knew of its loneliness. I know you know the pain of non-existance. Do you spend energy like that or are you simply idle? Unable to do anything.
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>>25124880
I understand my potential, but that does not define me. I could be just like Raziel, oppressively dominating anything that won't conform to views. I could be another Erebus, having the whole world bathed in my starving wasteland of ever present dark. I -could-. But I don't, and I'll never stoop to such lows. Xella, I strive to be something the world is convinced I can never be, it comes as no surprise that angel and succubus alike cannot comprehend my motives. In the future, you may never come to accept what I've chosen as my path- however, I will endeavor to forge a shared understanding between us.
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>>25125117
this one?
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>>25125014
I like it. Framing the issue in terms of self interest should help her understand it a bit better.
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Not to start anything, but I think Xella should be one of the first we gift with shadow.

Maybe the added element of shadow will allow us to better manipulate her nature, and separate her from the issues demons have?
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>>25125233
Servant does not allow us to control them.

SM you really need to change the name so people stop thinking this.
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>>25125233
first she has shadow
two it doesnt give control
3 servant on a summon, way to waste 15exp
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>>25125254
No.. Very much no.
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Humans inferior? In what way? Do think in terms of your template. Judging them in combat, magic, and physicality? There is more, so much more them then those few notions. I admit combat and magic are how I survive but there is more to existence than that.
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>>25125283
Meant to link to>>25125233
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>>25125233
Yeah, I'll agree with that. We should find out a bit more about that "Humanization" thing and she if she would prefer that, though...
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>>25125233
Fuck no.
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>>25125233
I'd prefer Gifting Xella over Abigail anyday, do to the fact that Xella's a combat experienced succubus, and Abigail is a ten year old.
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>>25125233
Joey seems more fitting in my opinion
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>>25125233
Read the daily reminder. No waifuing the succubutt.

In fact, she should get unsummoned asap to prevent you doorknob chewers from doing something retarded like using servant on her
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>>25125233
Nah. She already has a very high power level, and she's basically immortal since we can re-summon her if she's killed.

We should save Servant for our weaker allies. Maybe Joey or Abigail.
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>>25125350

I think we were worried about how Auriel would react.

Plus, I'd rather like to see Joey find his own strength rather than us just handing it to him.
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>>25125349
servant her, she dies. not servant when resummon her, why is this a good idea again?
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Anyone else think of Iron Giant while reading through these, because I did.
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>>25125302
>>25125349
Jesus christ listen to yourselves.

No. nononononononononononononononononono.

We are not throwing out 15xp for your demon waifu fantasies.

I kept quiet about unsummoning her, because I thought you guys might be reasonable. I was wrong. She needs to get gone. Now. Get rid of her.
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>>25125353
I know! Let's give our Shadowgift to a rock, so we can get it under our wing and romance it!
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>>25125385

Yeah, it's no coincidence that the other thing that got mentioned was Superman.
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>>25125349
>>25125350
>>25125372
>>25125373
IF we servant anyone, Abigail is our best CURRENT choice
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>>25125233
That would overwrite the fire elemental portion of her nature and probably kill her you realize?
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>>25125396
Latch licker get out.
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>>25125373
I don't know, I thought the sage implied that he wouldn't survive this unless he trusted us enough to empower him?
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>>25125395
Honestly, it's only if we have to gift at all. I'd much rather keep the xp for ourself. Too much neat shit to bother with that.
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>>25125400
I'd rather wait until we actually -have- a consistent rate of double digit exp before we think of gifting ANYONE.
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>>25125373
Well we could always just give him a abit of power, and discuss it with him fo course, he seems like one of the few people that has been easily open to us, plus he could turn out to be Flint shadow edition
>>25125400
Abigail would also be a good choice, A knight and a mage together is always a good combination though
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>>25125395
>she needs to be gone
No, she doesn't. She has proven to be useful in battle. If Shadow cares about defending his companions, she can help with that. If he cares about regaining his memories, she can help with that. For 0 mana. We should just use her for our own devices and let her parish in battle.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LtnLVRvypw

<I am different, but that does not make me greater. I may be stronger and tougher, but I do not judge worth through power. We are all equal in our ability to think, to feel, to suffer, to hope - and if you were wrought by human hands, then I place you among us. If the world worked as you believed, than the Elemental Lords would have long since killed all human life.

<Superior,> you continue. You linger over the word. <You link me superior. How? In that I kill easily? I am Shadow, not Death. I am inferior in many ways. Though there are many things I have that humans do not, I lack many things they have. I was born a feral, emotionless blob of nothing. I have learned - absorbed - so many things beyond power, beyond strength. It is only because of what humans gave to me that the strength I possess has any meaning in the first place. And even if humans are inferior, they value their lives no less than we value ours, and suffer no less keenly when deprived of that life.

<Like you, I am hated for what I am. I have been blamed for evils I have never committed. A stereotype of Shadow traps me, an inherent ignorance that labels each element as if they have some inherent quality. They do not. In this manner, so you have labeled yourself - as if your intelligence, your existence is the lesser, simply because it was made, rather than born.>

"...I am what I am," she says. "I am carved from energy. A golem of magic."

>con't
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>>25125350
>>25125372
Joey probably isn't the best choice, since he's now Flint's squire and Flint is strongly light aligned.

I'd say we use it on Abigail if she wants dat magic power.
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>>25125396
ROKKU-CHAN I RABE U!!!
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>>25125453
She is infinitely more poisonous to this quest than she is helpful. Get rid of her. If you knob nibblers could be sensible about this, she could stay. But you aren't, so she must go.

Get rid of the fucking succubus.
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>>25125471
We're Flint's best friend and we're a shadow elemental.
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>>25125489
What has she done that has harmed our cause?

I just got here and boy you guys are upset about something SM already said isn't going to happen.
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>>25125489
>She is infinitely more poisonous to this quest than she is helpful

So are you
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>>25125489
We'll just find something else to try to molest.

That rock is lookin' pretty good, eh?
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>>25125489
>she is more poisonous than helpful
How? She hasn't harmed anyone yet, she hasn't even tried--only hinted at it. She has, however, helped us defeat foes, watched our back while we were CONSUMING, and told us information about the parasite.
If you mean that by "muh waifu", then you're being a retard. No one here wants a waifu, we're a goddamn genderless shadow, what good would a waifu do us?
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<You belittle yourself,> you say. <You were made from a template, but you are not that template. If you can think, you must therefore have the potential to grow beyond that. It is not what we are, or how others perceive us, that determines our value. It is who we choose to be that is important. The world does not lock us into predetermined motions, simple roles that we must play as if we have no will of our own. What I am - what I will be - will be as I choose, and of my own making. No one else's.

<But moreover, Xella. Might does not make right. Power is not Justice. Justice IS, independent of power, of perception, of good, and evil. And Shadow is Justice.>

You stare into her eyes. <So when I tell you something is wrong, it is because I have weighed the action upon the scales of my morality and found that action wanting of any justification. As long as you accept my will, you will accept my arbitration.>

Xella says nothing. She stares back at you, then nods.

You fly the rest of the way in silence.

>con't
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>>25125517
>>25125514
Don't bother replying to him, he goes away if you ignore him long enough.
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The succubus is a weapon. With a human face. It's primary weapon is deception secondary is magic. What else are we going to use it for. The only way she's getting more powerful is feeding her souls. Who says all that she says is true. Of course this conversation happened away from the others because it is of a sensitive matter. But remember the warnings. Demon summoning marks the soul. They are known for corruption. The huge demon that we slayed was summoned by someone, that if rumors are true, is going or has gone completely insane. Tread lightly.
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>>25125514
She's dangerous to the integrity of this quest. Poster's proposed actions have proven that she is not something that can exist without being a problem.

It's like leaving a gun in the playpen. Nobody in their right mind would ask "what has the gun done?"
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>>25125473
Goddamnit. Why did I laugh?
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>>25125465

Jesus Christ, how much clearer can this get?

Xella does NOT understand morality, and NEVER will. She's exactly right - she's a golem of magic and does not have the ability to change her own programming, nor should we bother to do so.

I think we should unsummon her the moment we meet Adavan. She's not worth the risk, she'll still mass murder the moment she goes free, and she's already causing friction in the party. Out she goes.
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>>25125554
Nigga, your grammar.
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>>25125537

Now just to wait and watch and see if our words pay off with her own actions.
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>>25125588
How much clearer can /this/ get?
>>25125537
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>>25125588
>Xella does not understand morality, and never will
Nigger, what? She's already begun to see our side of things
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>inb4 she just says "I don't get it, but I will obey you."
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>>25125588
So we need to learn magic construct programming? Time to start buying into the summoning tree.
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>>25125588

We're giving her a chance.

The same chance that we used to carve our own path.
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>>25125554
Considering what we just learned about demon creation, I think the problem is that the person who summoned that Demon Lord didn't have the same amount of magic power/force as the person who originally created it.
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Holy shit Xella sucks.

SM this is the only thing you've done wrong in this quest. She's a miserable thing and she sucks any fun out of participating in this.

She baits out the anti-wafufags and they just make this whole thing intolerable. And then there's the few people that actually look like they might want to. I think the antis are still overreacting, but it's frightening.

Can we please, please, just get rid of her?
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>>25125588
We really ought to just point her at our enemies and tell her to go have fun.

Like, back when we were raiding the encampment of the army that attacked Jacob's Field, she'd have been awesome at thinning the ranks.
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You land once more, then continue flying. It isn't long before you hear the clomping of boots and horses on the cavern floor.

You pull even with the group and land, blending your flight into a quick trot alongside Flint's horses.

"You were gone a while," Auriel asks. "Anything happen?"

<A few Vog were gathering underground, but we left them behind. The rest are dead.>

"Good," she said. "We really got lucky."

<Are they that dangerous?>

"They didn't have time to use magic," Auriel says. "Whatever you did took them by surprise. What did you do, anyway?"

<I sent them impressions of...disconnection. It seemed to disrupt their communication.>

"Good work," Obis says.

Something picks at the back of your senses. You feel around your for life, but nothing presents itself. Just a general sense that you're not alone. <Does anyone else feel that?>

You get a chorus of "no's".

What do you do?

>try using Focus
>keep moving. You've made good progress
>something else
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>>25125697
>And then there's the few people that actually look like they might want to
"waifu her" should be at the end of that sentence.
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>>25125582
Because

1) It accurately describes just how hard it is to predict just what a random person would find attractive and/or interesting enough to waifuize,

2) You've just imagined some random bishie template character try to make a move on a rock with googlie eyes and lipstick, and

3) Admit it. Both 1 and 2 are true.
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>>25125697
Majority rules, and it seems like, no matter how much anti-waifu faggots want to use caps lock, they want heer to stay.
It's in character for us to keep her, and less for us to kick her out.
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>>25125697
and what you just said applies to you as well

can we get rid of you?
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>>25125657
True. I'm all for good but we are being more Superman than Batman. And the light lord is being more batman... scratch that more Moriarty than Superman.
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>>25125704

FOCUS!
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>>25125704

try focus. What is the point of a new toy if left unused...
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>>25125704
>>try using Focus
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>>25125704
<Stop, I sense.....something.>
>focus
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>>25125704
No focus, no to anything else- We need to keep moving. Do NOT stop unless it's a fucking emergency.
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>>25125733

Batman and Superman have been around for so long and reinterpreted in so many ways that likely we are being both at some point in their history.
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>>25125704
>surrounded by allies
>every enemy already knows we are here
>of course Focus
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>>25125735
And give away our position! Good idea!

NO.

>>25125704
Keep moving. We don't want to meet the queen bee...
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>>25125704

>try using Focus
Shadow used focus.
It was super effective
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>>25125773

How do we know it's an emergency unless we stop to focus?

If we sense something that sets off our "OH SHIT" meter, then we book it.
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>>25125697
Hey, I'm one of your "antis" and I have to admit Xella just got much more interesting. Probably because I'm not thinking of her as a pet project instead of as a character, but still.
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>>25125704
Focus.
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>>25125704
I worry about staying still, but focus anyway.
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>>25125824
You're a lying bolt biter and you need to get out.

Xella is trash. Poison. She needs to go.
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>>25125811
>>25125824
>>25125827
>>25125833

You guys really sure you want to use the "active ping" ability in the rock worm cave?

I'm voting no to this.
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>>25125704
take a ride in flints shadow for a while. warn them. then
>try using Focus
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>>25125852
trash that is still useful and bent to our will, just leave her for now
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You guys are going to use focus, and fall right into SM's trap.
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>>25125802
>All these votes for focus
GUYS
WUT R U DOIN
GUYS
STAHP

Please tell me you guys aren't planning on handing ourselves over to the fucking Vog after we just spent the whole fucking thread dealing with them, RIGHT?
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>>25125874
Or we aren't going to use focus, and fall right into his trap.
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>>25125704
Explain to group
Warn group then use focus
Use focus
Enemy Encounter!
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>>25125868
In the quest, yeah she's useful.

Meta reasons and in thread politics? She's fucking terrible. Grating obnoxious filth.
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>>25125704
tell everyone to get ready to bolt first
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Fine then, be that way.

Don't focus for now, but warn everyone else that we sense something and to keep moving.

if the feeling gets worse then we should have a better look at what we're dealing with before it attacks us anyways.
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>>25125858
Doesn't everyone know we're there already? It's not like focus makes us detectable to everyone, it's just easy to pick up magically, IIRC.
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>>25125852
Not the same guy, and somewhat sarcastic, but if tonguing doorknobs to taste people's leftover palm sweat on the flavor of cold brass is wrong, then I don't want to be right.
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>>25125704
Get going. Focus will just cause another encounter.
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>>25125868
She's a ticking time bomb. We keep her around because some of you powergamers think the stats is worth it. Then some are waifufags that just want they succubutt.

But eventually she will blow up. Either in quest where she kills a ton of people or gets us attacked for consorting with demons, or when the knob gobblers vote for us to do something stupid with her.
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>>25125954

I don't know about the rest of you, but I want to keep her around to see if she actually comes around to our way of thinking.

What can change the nature of a man? Or a demon, in this case.
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>>25125954
When that happens, we'll deal with it. Getting rid of her, in character, we have no reason to do, so that would be meta.
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>>25125954
I'm really just interested in seeing what happens. If she is redeemed, that's cool. If she goes on a killing spree, that's cool too. Status quo is the enemy of quests.
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>>25125954
>ticking time bomb
why does everyone keep forgetting she's bound to our will and is incapable of doing that
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>>25125954
LIES. ROKKU-CHAN IS BEST! (Starts to grope rock)
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>>25126006
Because "our will" includes the waifuer votes. Which is in itself a time bomb.
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>>25125888
Then the problem is meta and the people who keep bringing it up instead of playing the quest; not the character
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You slow slightly as you focus...

The world around you explodes to life. Spiders. Bugs. Worms. Fungi. You can feel them all.

...somewhere...other elements...

But something more immediate grabs your attention.

Five groups of Vog are tunneling in behind you. There's at least 10 Vog with each group, and they're burrowing forward in tight packs a lot faster than the party is moving. Something surrounds them...some kind of shield. Were they hiding themselves?

<More Vog coming up behind us, underground. At least fifty. We need to move faster.>

"Dammit!" Auriel shouts. "Joey! Grab my hand!"

Joey runs over and clasps Auriel's wrist. She hoists him up onto the saddle, then spurs her horse faster. Joey clings to her back as the horse breaks into a gallop.

Obis runs toward Flint. He doesn't need any help to lift himself into the saddle. Flint snaps the reigns, and the horse takes off alongside Auriel and Joey. You sprint alongside them easily; Xella flaps hard to keep up.

The Vog don't gain any more ground, but they don't fall behind, either.

A point of light grows in the distance.

"It's the exit!" Flint shouts. He snaps his reigns again, urging the horse forward.

"Are they still following?!" Auriel asks.

<Yes, but we're keeping ahead of them!>

Auriel looks surprised.

<What's wrong?>

"They can burrow faster than a horse can gallop!"

<They aren't gaining!>

Auriel turns back, but her scowl doesn't go away.

What do you do?

>use focus again
>keep moving; you don't have much of a choice
>hang back, distract the Vog that are following you
>something else
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>>25126037
The problem is meta, I will fix it with meta.

I can't stop people from being waifuing faggots by keeping it all in character.

I tried that for a couple threads and it just got worse.
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>>25126062

Shit shit shit

it's a trap

they're driving us towards the exit for something
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>>25126062

Motherfuckers.

>they can burrow faster than a horse
>they're not gaining

USE FOCUS AHEAD OF US
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>>25126062
>>use focus again
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>inb4 rock worm
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>>25126100

THIS

They're totally attempting to shepherd us into a trap.
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>>25126006
She is capable of lying and slipping her bonds. But that is an in game worry. I haven't suffered any really bad waifu threads. But the arguments are detracting from the quest.
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>>25126090
Or they're aware of a peril ahead and don't want to get too close.
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>>25126062
jump in shadow so we dont get left behind, focus
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>>25126062
rest in someones shadow so we dont drop behind. use focus. while getting in someones shadow yell at auriel asking what kind of magic they use
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>>25126132
>>25126129
>>25126062
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>>25126062
Perhaps a shade back towards the pursuer vog group?
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>>25126062
yes, try a shade toward the pursuing vog, then focus
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>>25125954
Nigga I been telling you, ALL OF YOU. Auriel and succubutt are RED HERRINGS! Shadow master has secretly trying to railroad us towards the Vog.

Don't come crying to me when shadow master starts writing posts about how shadow wants to stick his "shard of true darkness" into their "hivemind" to cure our "loneliness". Nigga I warned you.
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>>25126132
>>25126100
I think these sound like a good idea.
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>>25126071
That's not how it works. You don't "fix" anything with meta. You just add more meta and make the whole damn thing even worse as the quest loses all sense of immersion and verisimilitude.

Trust SM to cut the meta out of people's suggestions when making his posts and stop being a complaining faggot. It's your arguments and meta fears that are shitting up this thread.
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>>25126148
Better yet, shade in front of the vog, and we blink behind them...
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>>25126062
This is a trap. I am worried something/one is shielding.
Could we suprise attack them while they're underground? 50 is a lot.
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>>25126207
OOOH, good idea!
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>>25126189
The only reason anybody wants her around is because succubutt.

That's it.

And they try to justify it as in character. They don't give a fuck about in character. They probably all came over from BFQ when it disappeared, and now they're shitting this up because they don't have their trashquest to roll around in.

They don't care if this is a good quest. They don't care if they ruin it. They don't care about immersion, they just want succubus. And you're being a fool to let them do it.
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>>25126164
>Shadow master has secretly trying to railroad us towards the Vog.
>my face

But no, seriously, I laughed when I read that. Where the hell did you pull that from?

>unless that's what I WANT YOU TO THINK

Anyway.

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Sounds like people want to send a shade back toward the Vog behind you, and Focus ahead of you. You'll hide in a Shadow of one of the horses so you get carried along while you Focus.

In the interest of brevity,

Roll 1d100
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>>25125852
Actually I'm not. Un-waifuable demon that we can turn into a pet project to study mental/elemental control and modification magics on? And utterly amoral as a bonus? Of course she's trash, the question is what we can build from that material.
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Oops, I forgot my face.
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>>25126062
Why don't we just shiva and water strike to drown them? Stick a bunch of tendrils into the ground and flood the place?
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>>25126252
rolling
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>>25126252
Don't forget about this bit here >>25126207
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>>25126278
water strike is pressurized, i think we'd need a more quantity water attack to drown them
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>>25126164
the Vog are from that 1 we rolled....
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>>25126278

A lot of people seem to be under the impression that Shiva is an active-use ability. That's not the case at all. It's passive. It grants you strength and accuracy bonuses, and lets you hit many enemies at once. It also greatly reduces penalties from getting flanked or surrounded in battle.

When I describe you using a variety of tentacles and hacking appendages to chew up and stab your foes, that's Shiva working for you.
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>>25126325

Shhh. Let them be paranoid.
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>>25126328
So it's mainly for getting through the mooks quickly, then?
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>>25126251
The only person who doesn't seem to care is you. Since you can't pull your head out of meta arguments for even an instant regarding the whole issue and just play the damn quest.

You're a fool for tilting at windmills.
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>>25126164
Are you okay? I can call a doctor if you want.
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>>25126365
Don Quixote tilted at windmills, are you calling him a fool?
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>>25126345
>>25126325
No man, we're not paranoid. The Vog were coming one way or another, and that 1 just accelerated the process.
Soon, we will be surrounded by Vog, immersed in Vog, and we will have two options: 1. Assimilate or 2. waifu
And they wwon't pick one.
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>>25126370

Dammit, man, if you're not linking to SM's post for rolls, take the dice out of your email field!
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...Kiss-Shot? Why? Why would you do that to us?
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>>25126353

Pretty much.

Alright, writing.
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>>25126404
I know! I'm sorry! I'm doing this from mobile and the email field is tiny.
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>>25126370
You'll all rue the day when the true waifu'ing begins. I pity you poor misguided souls still raging over Auriel and Xella. I have seen the end, I have seen the nibbling and gnashing of knobs, I have seen the future that is Vog.

Why didn't you stop this /tg/?
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>That realization in the dead of night...
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>>25126468
The Vog will be the one true waifu, to unite this quest. It is not a bad thing. Instead of waifu-fags and anti-waifu-fags bickering all day, it will just be... just be Vog.
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You launch a Shade back toward the Vog behind you. It walks a short distance, then flails around and shrieks a bit.

Two Vog groups emerge from the earth like coordinated sharks. They leap through your shade. It dissipates. The two groups merge into one larger group that burrows back into the ground.

It might have slowed them a few seconds, but it's not what you were hoping for.

You dive into the Shadow of Flint's horse, then Focus ahead of you.

<...oh.>

"What is it?!" Auriel shouts.

<More, up in the ceiling of the cavern!> Their life force blinks at you, Earthen nodes interconnected by sharp lines of Spirit. <Dozens! We've almost reached them!>

"Is there a safe spot?!"

<...they're scattered around, everywhere!>

"If you have any defensive magic, get it ready!" Auriel shouts. "We've got to charge through! Expect Earth and Spirit magic!"

She says that...but you feel as though you're being herded like sheep.

What do you do?

>the best defense is a good offense. Use Shadow Assault to blast anything that emerges.
>try to use your aura to protect your allies
>give orders to the Wisp or Xella
>something else
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>>25126498
Is he gonna be okay? That looked painful.
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>the best defense is a good offense. Use Shadow Assault to blast anything that emerges.
Put that mana pool to use
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>>25126545
Aura to protect.
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>>25126545
>>try to use your aura to protect your allies
>>give orders to the Wisp or Xella

Both of these, please. Try to guard, and get Wisp and Xella to fill any holes in our defense.
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Oh and have Xella fireball them too,
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>>25126545
>expect earth and spirit magic
We should use water to lessen the power of earth.
That is how it works,, right?
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>>25126545
>>try to use your aura to protect your allies
>>give orders to the Wisp or Xella
>>something else
cover every as best we can
Xella cover behind, wisp bro assist
we in cave, try a shrieking howl to echo and disorient the Vog
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>>25126545
Shadow Assult.
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USE WISPS AS MEAT SHIELD, ALL THE WISPS GO
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>>25126588
Nope. Wind does that.
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>>25126545
Use aura, we've got a lot of hp to spare plus the 25% chance for each attack to not hit.
>I'm back!
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>>25126588
Nope, Wind and Lightning work against Earth and Spirit.

>>25126545
>try to use your aura to protect your allies
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>>25126545

Instaspend some XP on the FEAR spell.

It may disrupt them enough to give us an opening.
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>>25126635
Good idea. Couldn't hurt to have them flail about a bit.
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>>25126545
<"Wisp, Xella, get ready. We'll have to call their bluff. If they're herding us towards the exit, an ambush must be waiting. So we've got to go on the offensive. On my mark, fire on as many as you can sense.">

As for ourselves, liberal dosage of shadow assault.
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>>25126635

Nevermind, we're actually an experience point short.
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>>25126635
>>25126665
This is actually a good idea - if strong feelings affect all of them, and we have an AoE effect, then it builds on itself, right?
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We KNOW these things use magic and have a hive consciousness. Presumably they would cast spells as a group as well. We should be ready to use Nightflare to counteract whatever the group above us is preparing if it's magical. Auriel seemed to suggest that the ACTUAL scary thing about the Vog comes when they're doing magic things rather than just trying to skitter around and bite your kneecaps, so stopping them from doing magic seems like an excellent plan.

If their plan is just "herp, drop down onto them and eat!", that's more easily handled by protecting allies with our Aura and beating on them with Shiva.
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>>25126726
Actually, I'll support this
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>>25126726
That reminds me, we should work on getting nightblaze. It seems like it would be a really useful ability.
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>>25126726

Seconding Nightflare. We have MP to burn.
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>>25126726
And good times were had. Just not for the Vog.
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>>25126770
>>25126775
>>25126776
Dosn't nightflare only work one one spell? which would make it useless against 50 enemies?
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Orders will be given to your summons to shore up your defenses no matter your choice.

Vote 1:
>use your aura to protect your allies

Vote 2:
>try using Nightflare to disrupt their magic

Vote 3:
>use Shadow Assault to counterattack; leave the defenses to the others

>>25126710
>>25126665

Fear costs 3 EXP, you only have 1.
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Rolled 94

>>25126798
2 while defending with aura
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>>25126798
2
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>>25126798
can we 2 then 1
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>>25126798
2
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>>25126798
2

>>25126792
Target the spirit strings that they're using to connect with eachother.
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>>25126798
Vote 2.

These little niggas seem easy to kill in close combat. As long as we can keep them from firing off spells at us, we should be good.
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>>25126798
2 followed by 1
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>>25126798

I'm voting 2 -

if we pop Nightflare, and our allies start frying them as we flee, we have a decent shot of removing enough of their magical power to get away.
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>>25126798
2, followed by 1.
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>>25126798
2 then 1
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>>25126834
>Target the spirit strings that they're using to connect with eachother.
Should make them writhe around like the first sharding did.

Hope the strings count as one spell.
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Alright, 2, then 1.

Roll 1d100
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>>25126895
LET'S GET IT ON, BRO'S
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>>25126792
That's how it seems to work, yes.

That said, if we look back a little bit
>Five groups of Vog are tunneling in behind you. There's at least 10 Vog with each group, and they're burrowing forward in tight packs a lot faster than the party is moving. Something surrounds them...some kind of shield. Were they hiding themselves?

It seems from this (the fact that the whole group was mass shielding the whole burrowing pack, rather than each Vog shielding themselves) as though they're capable of using magic as a group, much the same way as they have some kind of hive mind when doing tactical things.

(I'm assuming? Having multiple casters channel a single spell is a classic way of handling this kind of thing; not sure if multiple caster rituals are an actual possible thing with respect to this setting's magic.)
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The classic method of breaking a hammer-and-anvil trap is to smash through the anvil before the hammer comes down, then whirl around to fight the hammer.

So we should've powered through them, but I got in here too late.
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>>25126895
>100
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Oh darn. I missed the first part of the thread. So how have the dice deities been? Nonexistent, I'll bet!
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You ride into the attack zone.

Webs of Spirit flare bright, connecting wider groups of Vog. Each group casts its own spell - six, in total. That's the last thing you can clearly see before your Focus fades.

Stalactites begin to form on the ceiling.

You unleash nightflare. For an instant, the world turns into a negative of itself. The images fades. A group of stalagmites quivers to a halt.

The rest shoot toward the party, aided by gravity and magical power both. You raise and stretch your aura over the heads of the horses.

Xella launches blasts of fire, exploding a few of the stalactites, but where she doesn't score direct hits, the earth pushes through with just a few scorches.

Light magic appears over head, bolstering your own defenses. The stalactites rain down on your aura, beating you down. But you hold out.

>you take 3 damage (HP: 34/37)

The Vog underground are burrowing faster. They've almost drawn even with the party.

The light is growing brighter, but the exit to the tunnel is still a ways off.

What do you do?

>keep defending
>launch a shadow assault
>order Xella into an all-out attack on the cavern roof
>order wisp to attack
>some other strategy
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>>25127089
They have been glad for the nonbeliever's leave, our rolls have been plentiful without you.
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>>25127089

somewhat merciful
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>>25127089
How dare you! Dice lords, SMITE HIM!

(waits for a few seconds)

They're cooking something special for you...
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>>25127105
>order Xella into an all-out attack on the cavern roof
It should delay them a little longer.
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>>25127105

shadow assault sounds good
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>>25127105
Oh shit, /tg/ created these things, right?
In the loudest thought you can muster, say to them, "UR MOM".
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>>25127105
>>launch a shadow assault
It could wreck golems.

It will wreck vog.
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>>25127105
>order Xella into an all-out attack on the cavern roof
behind us
>keep defending
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>>25127105
>some other strategy

Can we do a "wall of blades" type thing with Shiva? Ink around the party and do a blade-barrier.
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>>25127105
Launch Shadow Assault just as they emerge. give them a taste of their own medicine.
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Rolled 924

>>25127144
>>25127111
>>25127121
All good things. Let us see how it develops beyond this point. Practice is essential, after all.
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>>25127105
shadow assault ahead
order Xella to destroy cave behind us
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>tfw realizing that Shadow is an asexual transhuman
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Rolled 29

>>25127105
>keep defending
>launch a shadow assault
i am wary about xella going all out. i am pretty sure she is going to run into the same problem as us pretty soon. no mana. and she cant top off at a mana pool. so i say let her decide how to spend it.
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>>25127175
We did that before, during the attack of Jacob's Field, and we didn't have Shiva then. I don't see why not.
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>>25127199
>atheists
>practicing
Y-you're a fraud!
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Roll 1d100 for Shadow Assault
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Rolled 65

>>25127281
.
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Rolled 78

>>25127281
The halls of luck are calling. Will they disappoint?
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Rolled 9

>>25127314
Fuck.

>>25127281
Rollin for salvation 100
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Rolled 43

>>25127281
>>25127314
They will. Oh deary. You need to practice!
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Rolled 10

>>25127281
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>>25127314
>1
>in the first three

Here we go.
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Rolled 88

>>25127281
fuck
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>>25127314
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>>25127314
Deleting your roll is cheating, mister!
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Rolled 3

>>25127281
stop that, play fair
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Deleting your post does us no good mr. one roller. It only makes us have to bend over harder.
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>>25127347
Now we're super boned...
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>>25127314
Did you really try to delete it you little fucker? Like no one would notice?
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>>25127281

>trying to delete your post

You're only making it worse for yourself.
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Rolled 54

>>25127281
It is unlikely that we'll roll a proper number to cancel that.
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Rolled 35

>>25127281
why?
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Time for snacks.

I'm feelin' fancy tonight.
Time to bust out the saltines.
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>>25127367
anons these days
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>1
>we trip over ourselves and skewer Xella, Fint gets torn apart, Aurelia gets taken prisoner for horrible Vog rape, Obis and Joey get eaten alive, and we get kicked out of the cave and told to live with our failure.
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Rolled 32

>>25127281
I pray! To no one. It is in all in the die. One try.
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>>25127379

I enjoy Ritz, myself.
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>>25127152
>>25127173
>>25127209
It's not like taking out the roof of the cavern itself is going to stop the ones that are burrowing underground.

The most pressing threat facing us at the moment is the burrowing ones taking out one of the horses, so we should be focusing most of our energy on the ones below us. Auriel seems capable of focusing on keeping a horse at a gallop and dealing with the ones up top, but keeping watch UNDER the horse you're riding seems a lot harder.

...But I probably shouldn't be making suggestions like "Hey, Shadow Master, I think that if one of our horses got dragged underground by a hundred scrabbling claws, we'd certainly be in a pickle" with the roll that just happened.

It's ok; a little bit of REJOICING can't hurt now and again, now can it?
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>>25127314
>deleting your post
Not leaving the dice where they lie? That's more blasphemous than the dice atheist.
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>>25127314
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Rolled 26

>>25127281
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>>25127396
>and we see the remains of Adavan and Abigail as we leave.
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>come back from delicious Stir fry
>this happens

Oh No
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Rolled 61

>>25127281
save our butts
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>>25127367
Maybe i zuck ya dik instead?
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Rolled 63

>>25127367
you want million dollar?
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>>25127404
GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN, LOLWUT! WHAT'S THAT? I COULDN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF YOU GIVING SM IDEAS!
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You blast Shadow Assault up toward the roof of the cave as the Vog emerge.

>Mana: 10/20

Spears of shadow collide with stalagmites. Most miss, and soar on to strike the cave. The explosions rip through the air.

The Vog tunneled through the ceiling...and then they used part of it to attack you...and then you tried to blow them up.

The cave rumbles. Cracks spider across the walls. The ceiling begins to collapse. The Vog are desperately trying to dig away, but most of them are falling along with the huge chunks of rock.

This is not good.

What do you do?

>Flint and Obis
>Auriel and Joey
>Xella
>focus on protecting yourself
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Rolled 15

>>25127506
>>Flint and Obis
>>Auriel and Joey
>>Xella
screw ourselves, grab all we can
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>>25127506
We tell Xella to do her best to shield Flint and Obis while we shield Auriel and Joey
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>>25127506
WE BECOME A HERO OF JUSTICE AND SAVE EVERYONE
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>>25127506
Oh fuck me, uh get Auriel and joey tell xella to get flint and obis
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>>25127506
All of them. At once. Let's stretch our Aura as far as it can go.
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>>25127506
Oh damn, that choice.

Xella can be resummoned whenever she "dies" so she's not an issue. Flint and Obis are heavily armored and pretty kickass, but I doubt that Auriel is going to be able to protect both herself AND Joey.

[x]Auriel and Joey
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>>25127506
we can survive this, they won't. Become a hero
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>>25127533
>>25127519

>justicemind
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>>25127506
>What do you do?
>
>>Flint and Obis
>>Auriel and Joey
>>Xella

What do you mean by this, exactly?
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>>25127550
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>>25127551

Pick what you want to protect.
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>What do you do?
>>Xella

ITS HABBENING
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Rolled 21

>>25127506

Focus on all humans.

Xella can fly, she'll be okay.
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>>25127519
The only in-character decision.

Actually screw that. We can re-summon Xella, right? Let's protect the others together, we will (probably) survive and she can be re-summoned later.
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>>25127551
Within the context it seems we must devise a way to save them from the collapse. Personally I'm thirding;
>>25127539
>>25127530
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>>25127546
>>25127533
changing to this FOR GREAT JUSTICE
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>>25127506
grab humans, Xella can be resummoned
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>>25127572
Oh, my tired mind interpreted it as... something else.
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>>25127519
>>25127533
>>25127540
He who protects everything, protects nothing.

If we tried that, we'd probably be stretched so thin that they'd all die anyways.
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>>25127506

>Flint and Obis
>Auriel and Joey
>Xella

YOU BETTER NOT BE PLANNING SOMETHING HEARTBREAKING, SM. GOD HELP ME, IF YOU MAKE ME CRY, I WILL BEAT YOU TILL YOU PEE BLOOD.
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>>25127506
>everyone
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Rolled 105

I can't wait to see what happens.
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>>25127506
Everyone.
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>>25127506
focus on humans, i have to say xella is more expendable
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Shadow assault caused this problem.

Shadow assault can blow up even more stuff to solve the problem.

FIRE MORE SHADOWS
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>>25127506
Auriel and joey, as they are they most vulnerable. Tell xella to protect flint and obis
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Save no one, might as well start a new life with just Adavan and Abigail.
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>>25127506
EVERYONE. AT ONCE.
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>>25127506
>What do you do?
>>Xella
Waifuing officially condoned! You heard it here first, folks!

>>25127579
WELL, SECOND!

That said...

Protecting Xella is a freebie considering all she has to do to get protection is to fly down by the horses. Impress on her that if she wants protection, she will have to come down to the area we're protecting. Otherwise there's no possible way we could stretch ourselves enough to guard everyone.

Auriel also showed that she was able to use some sort of light magic barrier at the very least, so hopefully that'll take some of the burden off.
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Auriel is the second strongest in our group behind us, but we have to protect her.

>Hurrr save the woman she defenseless!

Nice one guys... Let Flintbro and Pirnce whatshiface get crushed.
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>>25127679
>Xella as an option implying Waifuing

Goddamn, there is no waifuing going on. It's all in the heads of two or three people who are on a witch hunt.
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>>25127679
>Waifuing officially condoned! You heard it here first, folks!

They're separated that way because that's how they're physically separated in space.

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Vote 1:
>protect everyone but Xella

Vote 2:
>protect everyone

Vote 3:
>protect Auriel/Joey

Vote 4:
>protect Flint/Obis
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>>25127685
It's more like save joey. he is the weakest, while flint and obis are pretty tough, having armour and whatnot
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>>25127708
3
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>>25127708
2
even though it's gonna be a dc of 95
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>>25127708
2
>justice
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>>25127685
I'm more concerned about Joey. Everyone but him is a trained fighter and wearing armor. Xella can just be resummoned and doesn't actually die.

Joey is weak and squishy.
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>>25127705
Waifu deniers get wrecked
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>>25127730
>>25127726
>protecting Xella
>implying
1
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>>25127708
2
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>>25127708
3
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>>25127708
1
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>>25127708
2, in the shit again, eh?
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>>25127708
3.

protecting everyone is a fools errand, Flint and Obis can handle this.
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>>25127708
2
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>>25127708
2, and ask Auriel for help with a barrier.
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>>25127726
>>25127730
>>25127749
>>25127756
You shits we can just resummon Xella
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Rolled 55

>>25127708

1.

We can always resummon.
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>>25127705
The joke was that
>Xella
was an option when the question proposed was "What do you do?"

>>25127708
Voting 2.

Protecting just one group is a terrible idea, since half of our effort is going to be in keeping the collapsing tunnel rocks from blocking the way out. Horses aren't exactly great runners when there's debris in front of them, so keeping a clear path so that they can keep running at full speed seems like a good plan.

All Xella needs to do is stick closer to the horses and she'll be mostly protected by proxy, so the difference between 1 and 2 is negligible.
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>>25127708
2
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>>25127770
>>25127767
WHY!?!?!

Is Buttzilla really worth this retardation people?
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>>25127708
...goddamnit, this is such a bad idea, but it fits in so well...

2, for great justice.
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>>25127708
>1
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>>25127795
succubus can go fuck herself, she just happens to come with the option
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>>25127795
Damn straight it is.

Plus, since it is in character, we just might get a bonus dice modifier for doing it!
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>>25127823
So then why'd you pick 2 instead of 1?

I smell the stench of waifuin'
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>>25127708
3
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>>25127833
You. delusional. motherfucker.
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You voted for 2,

Protect Everyone.

I'd like to welcome you all to Shadow Quest,

The game that is not an anime in which that kind of strategy works.

Roll 1d100
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Rolled 58

>>25127849
My roll is the roll that will pierce the DC!
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Rolled 53

>>25127849
>for Justice
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Rolled 6

>>25127849
I hope I get a 1 just to spite you waifuing faggots.
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>>25127849
>RIP
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Rolled 57

>>25127849
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Rolled 74

>>25127849
Okay, SHIIIT! BABY SEALS! PANGOLINS! HEEEEEWLP!
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Rolled 74

>>25127849
That's the sound of Joey dying.
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Rolled 92

>>25127849
u wot m8
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>>25127834
Now, now. You all know that Rokku-chan is our only waifu for us.

Isn't that right, Rokku-chan?
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>>25127863
>>25127860
>>25127856
Everyone was not protected.
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Rolled 56

>>25127849
>implying I won't still try
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Rolled 70

>>25127849
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Rolled 28

>>25127849
...DICE GODS! The venerable and hateful! JUST THIS ONCE! UPON THE VOID!
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Rolled 83

>>25127849
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Rolled 66

>>25127849
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Rolled 28

>>25127849

God fucking dammit.

Are you guys serious? Why are you so retarded?
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>>25127863
>>25127860
>>25127856
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>>25127849
If we take most of the damage and our friends survive, then that's worth it to me...
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Looks like someone is gonna die. You all asked for it.
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>>25127880
You can do the Rokku-chan schtick all you want, but in all likelihood, waifuing just got someone killed or injured.

I hope you're happy with that. Oh why even bother. You're just gonna sit there and type more Rokku stuff, or Vog waifu stuff and say I'm full of shit even though the fact that I'm right is staring you in the face right now.

I want characters to die, but you're too much of a retard for it to matter. It won't sink in.

Yes, I'm mad.
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>>25127916
And if we die and the quest ends?
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>>25127923
Would you fuck off? no one picked that option for the fucking demon it was for our friends
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>>25127849
>make my vote
>everyone else votes retardedly

There's just nothing I can do. You're all retards, I'm the only smart one here. Democracy has failed us.
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>>25127923
>I want characters to die
because hopefully then it will sink in that this waifushit needs to stop.
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>>25127906
>>25127920
And no-one could have possibly died if we only helped one group!

Yeah. I doubt that.
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>>25127923
Vog waifu doomsayer here, don't lump me in the rockfuckers.
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>>25127938
How about you fuck off? It would be much more beneficial to the quest.

But no. You have to pick the terrible choices and drag everyone down with you.
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Rolled 9

>>25127938

>Vote 1:
>>protect everyone but Xella
>Vote 2:
>>protect everyone

Are you serious?
>>
These characters are tearing us apart /tg/isa!
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>>25127938
We could have left the STRONG, NOT DEFENSELESS demon to herself instead of spreading ourself out too far. Now someone is certainly going to die, and it probably is going to be Joey.
than god, fuck joey
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This shit is next level doorknob chewing.

I don't even know what to call this.

It's like you all wen't out and got your teeth individually replaced with doorknobs.
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Rolled 49

I've picked option 3 but there is no use arguing about this now. We can only wait for SM and pray.
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>Rocks fall, you die
This is not how I wanted Shadow Quest to end.
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>>25127986
>>25127979
>>25127970
I completely didn't see that first option. I am sorry

Oh God what have I done
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>>25127943
Clearly, you need to keep all the retards away from your game that you play alone with SM, where no-one else is allowed into you super secret hideout.

It's a collective game, you sad little man. Live with it.
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>>25128010
Doesn't matter now. People got blinded by justice.
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>>25127999
I'm thinking more
>rocks fall
>party dies
>slaughter all the vog
>massive roaring and aura scares the shit out of everyone like when we ate the dynamo
>kill tons of shit
>Shadow overlord
>Wisp legions scour the world

I wouldn't have much of a problem with it.
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>>25128010
I hate you so much right now.
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>>25128042
That would probably piss me off more than us dying.
>Fuck consequences, we badass
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Rolled 61

>>25128062
I agree, rolling poorly and doing retarded things should affect us first, not those around us.
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>>25128062
I'm just going by how tough isolation was.

Yeah, I think it mighta had more regen / defenses, but I doubt rocks are enough to kill us.

Although the vog following up immediately with tonsa magic might do the trick.
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>>25128059
I'm not too happy with myself either
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You grab Xella and hurl yourself between the two horses. They've pulled up short, whinnying as rocks crash around them.

<BRACE YOURSELVES!>

You throw your body up above the party as hundreds of tons of rock bear down on you.

You're crushed by the weight.

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You burst out through the rock. You were nearly cut in half by the force...and you're greatly weakened. But you're still alive.

>HP: (13/37)

You glance around. Life forces poke out at you. You hear a moan.

You stumble forward across the jagged rubble. <Is anyone there?!>

You stumble around a pile of rock toward the life you can sense.

Auriel and Joey are on the ground. Joey appears unharmed...he's surrounded by a soft white light. It quickly fades, then vanishes. Auriel herself is in rougher shape. One of her legs is broken - you can see the exposed bone of her shin. A long cut across her forehead is bleeding profusely. She must have used most of her power to protect Joey.

Both of them are unconscious.

"Shadow."

You glance back. It's Xella. <Good. Assist me in moving them. We need to get out before the Vog re-coordinate.>

"...get out, with an angel," Xella says. "...this is your chance."

<My chance?>

"Of course. Consume the angel and be done with her."

<What?!>

Xella gives you a look. "Shadow. What do you think will happen when this is done with? She's only here for Donny - even I can tell that. As soon as he's fixed up, you'll be dead weight. All of your goals are opposed by the empire - she won't help you, if she doesn't outright try to stop you. And she'll pull Donny away from you, to boot." Xella shrugs. "Or, you eliminate the problem, here and now."

What do you do?

>...you're right, of course. (CONSUME Auriel)
>...just grab Joey and get him out of the cave
>Here's what I think about that! (use Heal on Auriel)
>write-in
>>
This is going to fuck us over but I think our party members are capable enough to not get killed at least.

Honestly, I don't know what SM was expecting trying to make us choose someone over someone else. He probably wanted us to go for all and fail horribly
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Rolled 73

>>25128093
>Here's what I think about that! (use Heal on Auriel)
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>>25128093
FOR JUSTICE (heal)
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>>25128093
>>Here's what I think about that! (use Heal on Auriel)
>>write-in
<I will not leave her to die!>
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>>25128093
>Here's what I think about that! (use Heal on Auriel)
Oh you shit eating fuck.
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>>25128093
Use heal on auriel
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>>25128093
>Here's what I think about that! (use Heal on Auriel)
"If I was the kind of person to do behave like that I would have already sent you back for getting in my way and disobeying my orders."
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>>25128093
Heal her. Flint would hate himself if he had lost his second love.
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Rolled 71

>>25128093

>Heal Auriel

Command her to search for Flint and Obis immediately.

There's a chance they're alive.
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>>25128093
Can we get rid of Xella NOW?

She caused you tards to have this tardstorm.
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>>25128093
>healing her
No. Conserve the mana. I don't want to outright CONSUME her, but we shouldn't heal her, either. Just get her out of the fucking cavern, I guess.
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>>25128093
Oh you fucking whore

heal Auriel
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>>25128093
Take Auriel with us, but don't waste the time to heal her just yet. Who knows how many Vog are left.
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>>25128093
>Heal
<While we may not be friends, I WILL NOT leave an ally to die when I can prevent otherwise!>
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>>25128149
You have no right to vote for anything.
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>>25128093
Holy fucking shit nothing we said to Xella got through to her AT ALL.

SHE just blew her last fucking chance. We tell her the protection of our friends and preservation of their happiness is what we're striving for and she says ALL OF THIS SHIT?

...If this isn't worth a desummon I don't know WHAT is. It's typical
>demon trying to separate the party
as far as I'm concerned.
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>>25128106
>>25128112
>>25128114
Guys. Tell Xella to grab Joey and evacuate him first.

>>25128093
We can heal Auriel just fine while NOT in the presence of the succubus that has continuously failed to understand our reasoning behind doing things that don't selfishly increase our own strength.

If we go rub our righteousness in her face AGAIN, she's just going to become more and more disillusioned with us. Make her do busywork, and let us do the right thing while she's distracted with it.
>>
Can we PLEASE get rid of Buttzilla now?
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>>25128165
kinda agree, lets get her to help get everyone out then deal with her
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>>25128093
>Here's what I think about that! (use Heal on Auriel)
>write-in

<I see no angel here, do you? I see only a woman that tried to save a young boy and I will do anything I can to make sure her efforts are not in vain.>
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>>25128183
>>25128152
>>25128138
>>25128114
>>25128093
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>>25128179
>Tell Xella to grab Joey and-
NO, FUCK NO. Do not leave her with anyone for a fucking second.
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>>25128093
heal auriel (does a broken leg count as an ailment, for purify?) and send xella to find flint and obis
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>>25128152
>>25128183
Those two as write in seems best.
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>>25128180
Oh, we are. We're gonna order her to help us and them get out of here and that's it.
We spent... two and a half threads diplomancing her and it's turned up nothing. I even wrote some of great things we've said to her. She's just not 'getting it.'
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>>25128212
Pretty much. Gotta cut our losses, since diplomancy and justice just ain't working.
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>>25128163
I'm going to anyway
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>>25128196
I figured she'd at least follow orders while she still thinks we're considering her proposal to eat the angel but don't want to do so in front of the person she nearly died trying to save.

But yeah, maybe that's optimistic.
>>
You people are insufferable.

I pray that the only point of intersection in our lives is a mutual enjoyment of this quest.

>>25128227
Then you're the proof for the failure of democracy.
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Heal - Spend either 2, 4, or 6 mana to heal a target 4, 7, or 10 HP, respectively.

Vote 1:
>heal Auriel, tell Xella to get Joey out of the cave (specify mana cost; If this choice is selected, the first mana-cost selection to reach five votes wins)

Vote 2:
>tell Xella to get Joey out of the cave, but conserve mana unless Auriel's life is in danger
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Rolled 72

>>25128165

No shit, I don't know some of us thought she could EVER be redeemed. SM has NEVER indicated that she understood human morality, even when we were in full righteous monologue mode.

Why you people want a soul-sucking evil demon around is beyond me, she's only ever been a liability and now you guys can't hide behind the "oh but give her a chance" excuse.
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>>25128249
>heal Auriel, tell Xella to get Joey out of the cave (specify mana cost; If this choice is selected, the first mana-cost selection to reach five votes wins)

4 Mana
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>>25128249
PLEASE don't heal Auriel
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>>25128249
1
6 mana
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>>25128249
1
4mana
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>>25128247
>being this upset
Bitching about it isn't going to do jack shit
>>25128249
1, 4 mana
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>>25128249
2

>>25128260
Remember when we tried to communicate with robots? Good times, man, good times.
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>>25128249

2
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>>25128212
>>25128223
I kind of feel like we're giving up on her much quicker than Auriel simply to appease the anti-waifuism but I have to agree. Any help she would have been is slowly becoming redundant due to her obvious inability to even really consider our views.
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>>25128249

1 for 4 MP, Alex.

Hopefully that's enough to at least wake her up.

I'd like to follow that up with a FOCUS around us to quickly locate Flint and Obis and immediately begin Inking to their location.
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>>25128249
Voting 1, with 6 mana. Flint needs some good news in his life. A dead love interest is not good news.
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>>25128260
Because they're doorknob chewers.

Just you watch, they'll try to twist some in character reason to keep her around.

>Muh succubutt
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>>25128249
1
use 4m
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>>25128249
1
4
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>>25128260
You are just as bad as the waifufags. Most people kept her because:

a) Free high level summon (we would be pretty fucked without the added firepower)
b)Pet project to see if even demons can be redemed.
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>>25128249
1
6mana
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>>25128249
1.

4 mana
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>>25128249
Voting 2.
>tell Xella to get Joey out of the cave, but conserve mana unless Auriel's life is in danger

Maybe spend 2 mana on a small heal to stabilize her slightly, but otherwise healing can wait until later. When we are able to do multiple, more efficient 2-mana heals rather than wasting mana on inefficient larger burst healing.
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>>25128249
1
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>>25128285
Oh godashdsihs even bring that up is godawful. At least we gained the knowledge that the dwarves used visual basic and javascript but other than that it was a total wash of a thread.
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>>25128093
This one isn't even a choice. We've built up too much towards goodness to make this kind of sacrifice. Besides, we don't leave party members behind.

[x]Heal

I'm starting to think that Xella would've fit in the party a lot better if we had gone evil at the start of this quest, rather than good. I imagine a mirrored party full of meaner folk, and a different adventure entirely.

She's the Viconia of our group. And we can't cure her with lawful good dicking on account of we don't have a dick, and we're mostly chaotic good.
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>>25128249
1, 2 mana
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>>25128321
forgot mana cost 6
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>>25128277
It might dissuade others from being as retarded as you.

You've made it abundantly clear that you're going to chew as many knobs as you damn well please.
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>>25128296
fuck focus, detect life should be MORE than enough without alerting us AGAIN to the vogs
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You'll be healing for 4 mana.

Roll 1d100 (all spells have a random component, fyi, the healing stats are just baseline)
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>All these people voting 1
It's wasting MP for no purpose. We should just fucking wait. It's not going to kill her if we don't heal her, it' just going to be us acting like a prick because
>lel u dont justice
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>>25128324
At least we'll always be able to count on our whisps!
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Rolled 81

>>25128342
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>>25128320
Actually, this is basically just voting 1 and saying 2 mana, so just count it as that if you think it fits better.
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Rolled 50

>>25128342
be healed
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>>25128342
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>>25128294
Nah, I've been on the side that wants to keep her up until now just to spite the cancer that is the anti-waifu coalition, but frankly there is just no hope for this one. Time to can the succubus
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Rolled 73

>>25128342
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Rolled 34

>>25128342
Rollin' for healin.
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Rolled 79

>>25128342
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>>25128351
>>25128358
>>25128359
boosh
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>>25128304
a) yes
b) now we know what we needed to. SM's demons are not "Fallen" they are "Destiny Golems."
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>>25128344
It might wake her up and let her help find Flint and Obis, though.
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Get rid of this thing. All of you that want to keep it are cancer.
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>>25128323
>At least we gained the knowledge that the dwarves used visual basic and javascript but other than that it was a total wash of a thread.

Yeah, that entire thread was me desperately trying to communicate that you weren't going to be able to effectively negotiate to the robots without coming right out and railroading you.

It was annoying.
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>>25128382
Xella and us are more than enough to help Flint and Obis.
This is pretty much us wasting MP for the sake of saying "Fuck you" to her.
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>>25128389
And NOW you tell us!
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>>25128395
Honestly? I think it's worth it in this situation.
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>>25128401
Was it really THAT difficult to infer?
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>>25128395
Given that we aren't going to be consuming her, we're going to have to heal her at some point anyway in order to keep travelling.

No reason not to do so sooner rather than later.

(Still think we should've min-maxed our mana usage a little better and just threw multiple 2-mana heals for optimum mana-to-health conversion.)
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>>25128389
>Putting robutts in a fantasy setting
>not expecting players to tinker with them in order to get their gundams and energy shotguns so that they can break your setting

Heh
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>>25128418
Yes.
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>>25128434
We could save it for later so, if we need to heal something else, like ourself or Flint, we could do that.
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>>25128401
Oh please. It was pretty obvious. Programmed robots with dead masters (not without masters, with DEAD masters) don't, in any work of fiction or literature, have ever been able to communicate cleanly and negotiate with the protagonists.
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>>25128344
>>25128395
>Not healing an unconscious heavily injured party member

You sir are a swine and you ain't my nigga.
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It took how many threads to get Auriel to not try to murder us? And she still doesn't like us, but we consider her an ally.

It may turn out that Xella really is a hopeless machine that just looks pretty, but we still should try. She obeys our direct orders, so at the very least she won't actively harm someone.
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>>25128461
Fuck no. We're done with her at the soonest occasion. She's already trying to separate us from the party, and decide what we should do.
>all the warning signs
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>>25128447
Kind of a diplofag, here. Give me some leeway. Plus I thought that there might have been more of them out there.
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Something I think everyone should remember:

A summon can be dismissed at any time, but this triggers a control-break check.

If you run out of mana while controlling a summon, either from casting a spell or using the last of your mana to direct it in some task, your summon is automatically dismissed, and a riskier control-break is triggered.

When using a ritual to summon a demon, the summoning cost is cut in half (rounded up). Additionally, the demon has no maintenance cost. However, demons summoned in this manner always have a risk of breaking your control, which is somewhat greater than summoning via spell. The more demons summoned, the greater this risk.
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>>25128461
>Let's trying reprogramming the machine with a language unsuitable to its system or merits

It's like Xella is the Commodore 64 and you're trying to get it to run Unreal Engine 4.
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>>25128456
>healing an unconcious heavily injured party member
There's a difference between Auriel and a party member. She would NOT do the same for us. If we were almost dead, and we weren't absolutely crucial to saving Flint so she can fuck him, she wouldn't eeven try. She also doesn't bring anything to the party but incessant bitching and moaning, hell, she's probably less useful than the demon. If we were to get rid of her now, we would probably get more shit done instead of replying to her attempts at sewing mistrust between Adavan and us.
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>>25128461
>It took how many threads to get Auriel to not try to murder us? And she still doesn't like us, but we consider her an ally.
>It may turn out that Xella really is a hopeless machine that just looks pretty, but we still should try. She obeys our direct orders, so at the very least she won't actively harm someone.

I agree. I think the problem with Xella is that he hasn't really met any NORMAL humans. The only thing that thinks of her as an equal is something that she thinks is something godly.

I say we have her stick around Joey (remember how he said that she didn't look different back when we summoned her?) and she if she awakens to the magic that is friendship.
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>>25128501
>implying the Commodore couldn't run Unreal Engine 4

gr8 b8 m8
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>you gain 2 hp from regeneration (15/37)

You stare at Xella for a long time.

You are forced to conclude that she might be a lost cause. Auriel, at least, debated the points with you. Xella simply doesn't acknowledge them. Maybe she can't. Maybe, the fact of the matter is, the magical template of a summon is just that rigid.

The fact sobers you. Demons are dangerous creatures.

The immediate frustration you felt fades. Provoking Xella won't get you anywhere. You say nothing, and turn to Auriel.

You see the Water within you. It's harder to find than the shadow...tucked away in a corner. But you dredge it out, and our it into her wounds.

Her bone makes a nasty crack, but it realigns and swiftly mends. The muscle and skin knit and stitch themselves back together. The cut on her forehead rapidly scabs over, but doesn't fade completely.

She blinks. "...what...Shadow?"

<The cave collapsed. I healed you. Come, up.> You offer her your hand.

She takes it, and you pull her to her feet. "Where's Jo - oh." She kneels next to him. "Oh, thank Light. He's alright." She glances around. "Where's...Donovan?"

<I haven't had a chance to search yet.>

"Hey! Shadow!" You all turn toward the voice. Obis is slowly meandering over a pile of rubble a few yards distant. Blood is running down his face, but he's in one piece. Flint is draped over his shoulder. "They're coming!"

You dash forward to meet them. You stiffen. At least fifteen Vog are swarming toward you not ten yards away.

What do you do?

>fight the Vog while your allies escape
>grab the two of them and take off. Have Xella take Auriel and Joey
>make a stand with all your entire party
>something else
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>>25128493
Aw hell.
Thank you very much for reposting that, this means we cannot keep her around and simultaneously dig into the dregs of our mana pool.
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>>25128461
We should still try to desummon her. Make it very clear that we're doing it because she's not getting it and she's not helping our cause.

See how she reacts to it.
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>>25128513
Normal humans are just going to run away.

Or try to fuck her if they're particularly ballsy.
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>>25128523
>grab the two of them and take off. Have Xella take Auriel and Joey
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>>25128513
No, just... No.
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>>25128530
>not reading the whole thing

Normal humans=Joey.
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>>25128523
grab the two of them and take off. Have Xella take Auriel and Joey
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>>25128523
>Slaughter vog
>Buy mighty strength
>Carry everyone
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>>25128523
>grab the two of them and take off. Have Xella take Auriel and Joey
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>>25128539
>No, just... No.

Great response 10/10, I now see the error of my ways.
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>>25128523
One last judicial shot of Shadow Assault.
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>>25128541
You're right, sorry.

I glossed over the ponyshit because I didn't think there's any way you could be serious.

How about no. Get out.
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>>25128549
NIGGA WE AT 15 HP

ERRYONE FUCKED EXCEPT THE WHORE AND AURIEL.

>>25128523
HIGHTAIL IT NIGGA
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>>25128523
>>fight the Vog while your allies escape
get 5 exp, buy mighty strength. grab and run
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>>25128554
How else am I to respond? Everything we've been given has shown that that particular method will fail. She eats normal people. They're food. Their emotions exist only to be manipulated into prey.
No, just... No. Having her around at all is bad. Trying to get her to stick around Joey? Seriously grognard.
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>>25128523
>>grab the two of them and take off. Have Xella take Auriel and Joey
lets not test our luck
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>>25128342
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>>25128549
>Eat our dead horses
>Hope they were spiritually powerful horses so that they give us 5 XP.
>Buy mighty strength.
>Etc.
AN EVEN BETTER PLAN!

>>25128558
Weren't we just talking about how we shouldn't run out of mana while Xella is still around? This is not exactly the best plan.

>>25128523
>grab the two of them and take off. Have Xella take Auriel and Joey
Staying and fighting Vog while our whole party is injured to the point of uselessness is a terrible idea, and if Xella is capable of carrying two people, this is what we should do.
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>>25128566
....What fuck are you even talking about.

Holy shit guys, look what your "antiwaifuism" is doing to you, you cannot even think straight anymore.
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>>25128583
thats a pretty compelling argument
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>>25128523
either grab them and bolt, or take a few out for mighty strength
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>Try to get people to understand that Xella is bad for the party and bad for the quest as a whole
>Get ignored / insulted / have my points denied to even exist
>SM throws it all in your face, and pretty bad (still not worst) case scenario happens
>Everyone's all "hurrr we can rehabilitate her with frundshup and jistax!"
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Rolled 60

>>25128523

Fight vog while our bros limp to safety.

We can always blink+superspeed flight to safety if they really start gnawing on us.

With any luck, Auriel and Flint can do enough minor healing to keep the party running until we return.
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>>25128586
...a bit late to the party, dude.
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>>25128523
>>grab the two of them and take off. Have Xella take Auriel and Joey
this seem like the right idea
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>>25128594
I clearly have Unreal Engine Four running on my Commodore Sixty Four. Obviously, we can get JUSTICE running in Xella.
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>>25128602
The issue with "taking a few out" is that we still need to stop and consume them.

Which we can't do while there are still hostile Vog around.

Which means we have to take ALL of them out in order to safely consume any of them. Which ruins the entire point of sticking around to kill some of them.
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>>25128592
I can see perfectly clear.

I called out Xella for what she was, a weapon, before SM told us that's all demons were.

And guess what. That's all she is. You're a blind idiot.
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You're not about to stand against a small army of Vog while you and your allies are in this state.

Roll 1d100 to bug the fuck out

>Yes, Xella can carry two people
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Rolled 81

>>25128638
I want this to get worse
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>>25128606
I know, this is fucking insulting to my intellgence as a player. I can see the warning signs, I can see that if we reach 0 mana before desummoning her she is free to do as she pleases. I can see her running away to cause trouble or worse- abandon us the moment the players rely on her. They call it anti-waifuism but I am seriously trying to not get us killed.

And as SM has said, "I will kill you."
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Rolled 46

>>25128638
exit, stage shadow
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Rolled 43

>>25128638
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Rolled 19

>>25128638

Rolling for hopefully bloodless getaway.
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>>25128529
Not in the middle of a fight for our lives, please. Even if we disagree with her, she's still capable of throwing fireballs at the enemy.

>>25128523
>not ten yards away
>they're fucking fast

I don't like any of these choices. Can't trust Xella or Aurelia with each other.

>Something else

Fighting retreat. Allies escape, we follow but act as rearguard and focus on deflecting their attacks rather than trying to kill them. once we're in the open we have a lot more options.
(see guys, if we had shadow cone we could blast the entirety of the tunnel's width and hit them all with a single attack)
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Rolled 28

>>25128638
lets see what we can do
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Rolled 49

>>25128638
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>>25128606
>Try to get people to understand that Xella is bad for the party and bad for the quest as a whole
>Get ignored / insulted / have my points denied to even exist

You are one of those retards that didn't even want to summon her when we needed more information about flint's parasite, are you?
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>>25128636
So what you are saying is that you were metagaming?

Not cool, dude. Not cool.
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>>25128606
The problem is Xella, up until now, has seemed like a tough nut to crack, but crackable. I mean, it seems like we're getting somewhere with the angel, why not the demon, right? Also, any posts about Xella being an in-game problem got swallowed by the sea of anti-waifu screeching.

I don't know what these friendship-will-fix-the-demon motherfuckers are thinking.
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>>25128638
rerolling for the hell of it
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>>25128646
>>25128644
how average
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>>25128606

I'm laughing so hard right now.
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>>25128645
>intellgence
But yeah I feel your pain brother. We just need to find a plan to pull through all this, don't you worry.
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>>25128636
If you wanted to be taken seriously you shouldn't use phraces such as "I glossed over the ponyshit because I didn't think there's any way you could be serious."

Just saying.
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Rolled 52

>>25128659

What's done is done, friend. As soon as we're out of immediate danger, she goes home to the Nether.

If you don't agree, you're not thinking with your head.
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>>25128664
>All use of logic and reasoning is metagaming
Go watch some tv if you want to think less.

This isn't exactly hard, but you seem to need to tae it down a notch.
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>>25128606
She still has done literally nothing bad except for suggest we kill the angel who has seeked to destroy us since the beginning of our journey, who has only tolerated us living because her man's our best friend and we are traveling with him, who opposes almost everything we do, who attempts to incite paranoia among us, mainly about our friends (Adavan). So, what is THAT bad about what she has done?
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>>25128690
if anyone wants to be taken seriously, they shouldn't spend so much time arguing with each other over inane shit instead of participating in the thread.
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>>25128694
Naw. We consume her in the night after we find a way to heal up.

Fuck summoning her again.
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>>25128664
Using the in-setting foreshadowed details that have been given to us by the grace of the DM is not meta-gaming. Especially not in the case of "demons being used as dangerous weapons."
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>>25128687
You know exactly what you're doing and you're one sick fuck.
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>>25128709

0/10.
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>>25128709
She hasn't *done* anything bad, not really. But she has proven that despite all of our talks with her, she just can't grasp our set of values. Eventually that will become a problem
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>>25128742
>>25128732
How is that bait in any way?
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>>25128694
>As soon as we're out of immediate danger, she goes home to the Nether.
>If you don't agree, you're not thinking with your head.

>Implying I care about anything other than the facts

The fact is that she was useful until now. Let's wait until we are not running for our lives to see what happens.

I mean, come on people. Some of you seriously want to start the banishing ritual HERE. Calm the fuck down.
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>>25128687
Laughing at all the idiots that just don't get it? I suppose it must be funny if all you have to do is watch.
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The problem with Xella is that she IS a template. And a combination of both just not wanting to change and the very essence of her existence is not being very malleable.

Making Xella see our side is less an issue of diplomncy and more of the reworking the very magic that allows her to exist.

We should desummon her. If there is a way to redeem her it is going to be through an alternate method of summoning/binding/whatever. This was already hinted in this thread in a previous conversation Shadow had with her.
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>>25128758
>Some of you seriously want to start the banishing ritual HERE. Calm the fuck down.

This. Waifu and antiwaifu brigades shut the fuck up and wait until we are safe.
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>>25128758
You're trying to goad the antis into attacking you.

I know you're game. Nice try.
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>>25128709
She doesn't get our goal or message and has dismissed doing so, so she will never agree with our goals or desires. She's not trustworthy because she can break the control once we get zero mana, and if she already realizes we're not game for her ideas that she could slaughter better elsewhere.
>that is very, very bad

Have you also noticed that she's trying to do the same thing to us that we've been trying to do to her? Manipulation? Twist perceptions? It's not subtle either. She's a hammer that we can't convince into a shovel.
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>>25128774
We'd be safe NOW if it wasn't for the fucking waifuers!
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>you gain 2 HP from regeneration (17/37)

You grab Obis and Flint. <Hold on!> You soar into the air, barely avoiding the lunging Vog. <Xella! Get Auriel and Joey and get out, now!>

Xella hops to obey your command. Auriel doesn't protest as she's lifted into the air under one of Xella's arms - rather, she prepares a spell. Light twists between her hands.

You fly toward the exit of the cave. It's not far. You've never been so happy to see the sun.

Another group of Vog burst from the ground up and to your left. You can feel them beginning to cast a spell!

What do you do?

>try to dodge
>nightshade
>use a Shade to distract them
>something else
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>>25128774
Agreed. Let's just finish up this thread and see if she learns something by the time we reach Adavan.
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>>25128791
How the hell would we be safe FROM THE GE- VOX?
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>>25128772
I look forward to future developments in applied Shadow Super-Science in the field of summoning.
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>>25128798
>>try to dodge
No more spending mana
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>>25128798
Dodge.
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>>25128798
>>nightshade
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>>25128791
THERE ARE NO WAIFUERS. There are people who thought she might be an interesting character to add to our party. No one ever suggested pursuing any kind of relationship with the fucking succubus. EVER.
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>>25128798
>nightshade
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>>25128798
>something else
drop Joey and use him as bait. Its the only reason we even took him this far
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>>25128798
dodge
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>>25128758
She can also try to break control if we try to desummon her. So we'll need the party in fighting shape in case something goes wrong.
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>>25128829
Don't even start that shit.
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>>25128825
Oh look.

More waifu denial.

>BOOOOO IF I SHOUT LOUD ENOUGH AN PLUG MY EARS IT DOESN'T REAL BOOOOO!
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>>25128742
>>25128776
Goddamnit, neither of these hooks has anything on them.

This isn't even the bait you're talking about, and I'm STILL falling for it.

UNLESS THAT WAS THE TRUE BAIT ALL ALONG. Like the "you're"

>>25128798
Nightshade worked before on a spell being cast by a single group of Vog, so there's no reason it shouldn't again.

WE can dodge just fine, but keeping them from doing something to either Xella or any of our four passengers is probably pretty important.

We have 6 mana left, so we can Nightshade once, heal Flint once and still keep Xella reined in.
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>>25128798
dodge, time to put that speed to work
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>>25128825
Which means there are also no anti-waifers, just people who believe that she is an untrustworthy liability that needs to be desummoned once we're safe and able.
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Rolled 25

>>25128818
>>25128823

DODGE.

DO NOT USE MANA.
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>>25128798
Dodge.
>not using our best stat in this situation
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Rolled 44

>>25128846
>>25128856

Actually I'm changing my vote to Nightshade on this rationale here.
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>>25128833
You know, I wonder what rank in the summoning tree Succubus are, cause theoretically we could use Summon mastery to keep her in check at all times.
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>>25128833
Oh please, don't worry- no one has suggested desummoning her immediately. I read all the posts and the ones directed at making Xella leave has stated very clearly that we should wait until we're safe and healthy.
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>>25128839
trying to waifu joey now are we? Not only are you a pedophile but you are a gay pedophile!

FOR SHAME
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>>25128852
no, no, I'm pretty sure the people who won't shut up about waifus are in fact anti-waifuers
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>>25128798
Dodge that shit.

>>25128824
>>25128827

We're almost out of mana, with a summon right next to us who does not approve of our ways waiting to be set free. BAD IDEA.
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>>25128798
we currently have 6 mana. nightflare costs 2. shade costs 1. That being said, I think nightflare would be a better option right now.
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>>25128844
Find me even one instance of someone trying to make the succubus our waifu. Do this and I will write a formal apology for ever doubting the glorious anti-waifuers.
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>>25128884
>We're almost out of mana
See >>25128887
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>>25128844
OH HEY, SINCE I CAN SPLIT IN HALF, MAYBE I CAN GO MAKE MYSELF MY OWN WAIFU!
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>>25128861
>>25128848
>>25128884
It's moronic to try and dodge when we can just spend 2 mana and not have to risk making a roll while already in critical condition AND while encumbered by two people.

People always seem REALLY antsy to Shadow Assault anything that moves, but when time comes to avoid the possibility of getting dicked by the Omnimalevolent Dice Overlords nobody wants to spend the pittance of mana it'd cost us.
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Roll 1d100 for your dodge.

Can we shut up about "waifu" and "anti-waifu" yet? It's steadily devolved from impassioned but somewhat plausible arguments about the thread to people just calling each other names.
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>>25128917
Dodge is literally our best stat, and mana is not an easy resource to regain.
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>>25128933
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>>25128905
This. entire. thread.

She should never have been summoned. We shouldn't have let her stay after she told us she knew jack shit about the parasite.
She should have been long gone back to the nether by now.

But no.

You had to 'save' her. You had to have the beautiful succubus in the party even though she offered nothing of substantial value.

>>25128933
You started this.
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>>25128933
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>>25128933
roll for people to grow up
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>>25128933
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>>25128933
The Ride is just about to start
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>>25128933
I think all the arguing is fun. I'm just here for the dice.
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>>25128933
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>>25128933
To be honest we wouldn't have that if you just didn't actively fan the flames of that argument.
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>>25128933

Hoping fo' the best.
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>>25128933
>1
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>>25128933
That's what it's been since like thread 15, when the anti-waifu brigade decided that a quest about a genderless shadow elemental was going to rake in the waifuers.
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>>25128933
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>>25128933
please dice atheism PLEASE I NEED YOU BABE
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>>25128941
Having a succubus in our party is not proof of waifu-ing a succubus. Try again, and this time actually think about what the word waifu means.

>>25128933
Be real, SM, it's been name-calling and idiocy from the first doorknob comment.
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>>25128933
Sorry Shadow Master but this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. You knew she was a magic weapon suited to model a purpose and nothing else, and you played your players against each other in how they decided to deal with it.
You are as much a part of it as both of those sides are.
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>>25128978
fuck you and your 1d1
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>>25128978
cut that shit out
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>>25128941
Now, now, be specific!
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I still want to keep working on Xella, just to see if it will actually work. I'd be disappointed if the quest ended and Shadow Master told us that we just needed to put in some more effort to have her as an ally.

She can whisper poison in our ears if she wants, we're incorruptible by dint of being a hivemind of white knights. She's already stated that she won't hurt anyone we don't want hurt, and we can feed her bandits.

Let's look at facts:
Pros:
She's a powerful caster, physically strong, can fly, knows a lot of shit, and has sworn herself to our service.

Cons:
She believes herself to be superior to humans and that they are food for her. She attempts to convince us of the same, and sees Aurelia as an enemy.

Frankly, I don't think the cons outweigh the pros.
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>>25128978
and here comes the 1d1 brigade
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>>25128973
It wasn't until around then that succubutt, Ila savin' plans, and Auriel in the party became a thing.

Before that there was no problem.

And Shadow be genderless does not make this quest waifuproof because the posters are not genderless.
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>>25128933
You literally made this character to teach waifuers a lesson, if I'm remembering correctly. Kind of started the whole thing yourself instead of leaving the argument alone; pretty poor form.
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>>25128973
>>25128985
It's everyone that uses the word in place of actual arguments.

I'm really frustrated that the backlash against the one side that seriously hates that character will have the legitimate arguments destroyed because they're lumped together with angry idiots.
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>>25128933
I told you once sm, I'll tell you again: gender, people are too immature to handle the concept of gender. Be honest, no one would complain about an angel or succubus joining us if gender wasn't an issue(a succubus probably wouldn't even exist if this was the case but whatever). This will keep happening until either you remove gender, or the board grows the fuck up. Your choice sm.
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>>25128999
>She's already stated that she won't hurt anyone we don't want hurt
>Don't worry guys, the succubus can't lie

She's gonna be watching for every chance, and as soon as she gets one, shit will hit the fan.
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>>25128935
Just because dodge is our best stat doesn't mean we're going to be good at it while A) Encumbered by two fully grown men, one of whom is flopped over unconscious., and B) Trying to dodge an unknown magic spell being cast by C) Hive minded pack hunters that proved capable of outspeeding our horses even while tunnelling through solid rock.

Shit, man.
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>>25129013
>>25128941

I like her more already. Let's keep her as the token evil team-mate.
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>>25128985
Keeping a ticking bomb in the party for no reason other than "shes a hot succubus" is the definition of waifuing.

She doesn't know anything else we need. And even if she did we could resummon her. Not like we have to travel to see her.

She offers nothing but the threat of bad things. She's only kept around because lelsuccubutt.

This is bullshit and you know it.
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>>25128986
>>25128985
>>25128961
>>25128941

>you are responsible for our assumptions

I hate railroading. The freedom to chose is also the freedom to fail. So, I let you screw yourselves over. It's as simple as that.

Writing...
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>>25129058
>I hate railroading. The freedom to chose is also the freedom to fail. So, I let you screw yourselves over. It's as simple as that.
This proves me right.

Fuck you, Xella.
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>>25129026
>Don't worry guys, the succubus can't lie

To be fair she hasn't lied so far and Durga (or whatever the orc's name was) was able to see whether she was lying or not back when we used the summon circle. I assume we would be able to sense if she said any lies as well.
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>>25129053
>She offers nothing but the threat of bad things
>nothing
THAT is bullshit and you know it. She's a powerful fighter who can help us defeat things that stand in our way.
I hardly want to keep her, but you should know that she doesn't offer nothing.
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>>25129058
K. We're desummoning her once we're safe. Too many warning signs and too much trouble.
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>>25129026
And Auriel could go back to the Ring City and turn us in the moment we've gotten rid of the parasite. Does that mean we should've consumed her?

I'm not waifuing, I'm just upset at the hyposcrisy. You people complain about showing favoritism to women, when in actuality you're showing favoritism to stereotypes of good and evil.
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>>25129053
>for no reason other than "shes a hot succubus" is the definition of waifuing.
>She's only kept around because lelsuccubutt.

Please see >>25128999 . Also remember that the situation would be way worse right now if we didn't have her carrying the other 2 party members.
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>>25129053
We have her in the party because she's a powerful demon who has offered us fealty, and because we wanted to see if we could bring her around to our way of thinking. Obviously it's not working out, but you're making stupid assumptions about our reason for keeping her with us so far
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>>25129058
Okay, let's all take a step back and look at this response from SM.

It's telling us that our assumption that we could possibly change the Demon with speech and example and action is the wrong idea, or at least the idea that will be us screw ourselves over.
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>>25129058

>So, I let you screw yourselves over. It's as simple as that.

Well, that's settled.
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Whatever happens next, the vote to desummon/keep Xella is going to cause a truly epic shitstorm.
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>>25129107
Gee that's funny. The original reason to resummon was to help get rid of the parasite.

And she couldn't do anything but tell us it's name and that it's in two parts.

So the waifuers invented excuses to keep her around. This is denialism of the highest caliber.
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A flurry of stalagmites leaps up from the ground to strike you!

You roll to the side, dodging the attack. The rocks smash into the ceiling behind you.

But the weight is far more than you're used to! Your momentum carries you on. Obis shouts as you tumble into the wall.

>You've lost 2 HP
>you gain 2 HP from regeneration (still 17/37)

You're almost out of the cave, but it looks like the Vog are preparing another attack...

Roll 1d20
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>>25129107

>offered us her fealty

No. She is under magical control, and has specifically told us she wants to mass murder. She has no loyalty to us.
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>>25129142
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>>25129058
Can we cut the thread after the next post? This is clearly going to keep devolving to the point where people are going to keep calling each other names rather than participate, important details are going to be missed in the chaos. Let's just pick this up again from the weekend.
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>>25129132
Of course we're keeping her. It's not like she is a complete liability that itching for freedom, and a powerful caster too, so if she does get free she'll be oh so wonderful to fight or defend ourselves from.
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>>25129090
Nah, Auriel came around rather quickly, if you consider the fact that we ate another Angel's face off right in front of her. Xella has made absolutely no concessions toward us making good points while talking to her.
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>>25129142
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>>25129142

Rolling again.
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>>25129117
Or that the idea to desummon the demon will screw us out of a powerful subordinate.
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>>25129154
>>25129162
>>25129163
dodge that shit
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>>25129161
>Nah, Auriel came around rather quickly

I wouldne call around 20 threads "quickly".
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>>25129171
Whoops left my dice on
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>>25129090
To be honest. The situation with Auriel was a lot different. We caught her at a junction of her life where she didn't know who she was or what to do anymore and she's always been interested in helping people. We had plenty of opportunity to convince her and much greater odds.

Xella, on the other hand, is VERY certain of what she is and what she wants to do, which is be an unapologetic soul sucking demon. She has no reason, existential or otherwise, to consider changing herself.
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>>25129165
A powerful subordinate that while also being powerful can turn on us if we ever have a serious need to rely on the last of our mana.
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>>25129140
Alright, I'm done. This is like talking to a brick wall. I'm going back to lurking.
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>>25129196
I could say the same to you.

Almost poetic, considering the fact that repetition of what I've said has been the majority rebuttal I've seen this thread.

It's like arguing with toddlers.
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Why is everyone saying that the succubus would go on a rampage when we are low on mana? Didn't she volunteered to help us fight the demon lord back in thread 12ish out of her own free will?
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>>25129196
>>25129214
'tis strange times we live in when brick walls begin arguing with each other
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>>25129161
>rather quickly
>like 10 threads of conversation
>don't get immediate results with Xella
>"Welp, it's no-go. best cut and run"

We've made Shadow out to be a character who believes that anything can become greater than it already is. I believe that character would require more proof than a violent suggestion. Auriel has done worse.
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>>25129222
She told us that she'd get free if we took the demon lord out, so it was more of a mutual thing than an altruistic offer for aid.
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>>25129228
My brick walls argue all the time.
Sometimes I think they're /v/, though, because they keep me up all night yelling "Ur a faget", and "MY PLASTER IS 20% BETTER THAN YOURS"
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>>25129249
To be fair, my plaster IS at least 20% cooler than his
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>>25129222
She... Told us that it's exactly what she would do if she got free. "Slaughter a bunch of humans."
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>>25129248
Didn't she also accept Shadow as her lord and Savior out of her free will back then?
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>>25129262
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?
YOUR PLASTER HAS SHITTY ALWAYS-ONLINE DRM, I BET IT EVEN WATCHES YOU WHILE YOU SLEEP. MY PLASTER FUCKING DOESNT DO THAT SHIT.
Your plaster also has nobricks
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>>25129267
Where was that?
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>>25129262
You think you're hot shit huh? My plaster may not be new but it's retro, majestic, and most importantly VINTAGE.
Plasterpleb.
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>>25129239

I'll quote Shadow Master again.

>I hate railroading. The freedom to chose is also the freedom to fail. So, I let you screw yourselves over. It's as simple as that.
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>>25129270
She saw the truly impressive smackdown we layed out, and kneeled to us and swore her fealty to us.

She is our servant. We don't need to worry about treachery.
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>>25129291
>nat 20
The dice listen to reason
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>>25129270
She got impressed by our Shiva-powered slaughter. She doesn't give a shit about us or our ideals, she's just interested in the power we wield and doesn't get why we aren't being super murder-king with it.
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>>25129262
No. NO. Don't you even start that, I don't even care if you weren't making the reference. THAT is the last thing we need in this debacle we call a quest.
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>Demon
>Don't gotta worry about treachery
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>>25129298
I'm not worried about her loyalty to us, I'm worried about her thinking that devouring all of our allies will help us realize our full potential, or some such bullshit.
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>you gain 2 HP from regenerations (19/37)

You flap as hard as you can to escape the cavern. Xella is churning her wings beside you.

Auriel drops her spell.

You confused for a moment. You hoped it would be something to distract the Vog, at least.

The ball of light splits in two. And then each piece splits. And again, and again. A shower of multiplying white sparks drifts down through the air.

The lights explode in a cacophony of light and sound. Streamers of every color soar through the air, flashing up against the walls of the cave. Booming cracks echo around you like the sound of a hundred spells going off all at once. The Vog spell shrivels up. You can feel them burrowing under the ground.

You make it out of the cave.

The sun is just setting, and everything is cast in red and gold. Plains stretch before you. Scattered stands of trees mark the landscape.

Directly ahead lies a mountain range. The mountains are huge. It makes the Steelback Mountains around Detson seem like toys in comparison. Deep green pine forests rest around their bases, but fade into black, rocky cliffs halfway up the slopes. Almost all the peaks vanish somewhere up into clouds.

You an Xella briefly land. You set Flint out on the ground. Auriel sprints over.

>con't
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>>25129315
he started it >>25129249

:P
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>>25129283
Here.
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>>25129291
And I'll repeat myself: He didn't specify what choice led to failure.

Besides, using his posts as a guide is metagaming. Shadow doesn't know what SM says.
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>>25129365
Shadow doesn't need SMs posts to reach these decisions.

All the information is there, SM is just desperately trying to get you dense motherfuckers to see it.
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It's the first time you really get a good look at Flint.

A shard of rock has punctured his thigh. Cuts run up and down his arms. His face is pale, and he's losing a lot of blood.

"Donovan!" Auriel throws herself next to him. Gold light is already forming around her fingertips. She presses her hands to his chest.

What do you do?

>let her work
>ask if you can help
>something else
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>>25129308
I don't usually comment. I listen, and I roll. But seriously, Until I find proof of a past precedent that SAYS a demon can actually even choose to not be a murdertool, I say ditch her. Preferably in a manner that doesn't leave a sour taste in her mouth Don't you make a sex joke you fuckers, I'd hate to have to encounter her as an enemy informant later.
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>>25129392
>something else

Search for the next magical thinky the Lich left us.
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>>25129392
>>ask if you can help
<Please, let me help>
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>>25129392
Dismiss Xella, heal Flint with all mana
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>>25129392
let her work

look around, see if we can find a sigil
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>>25129392
>>ask if you can help
>>something else
try to help, find sigil
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>>25129392

>ask if we can help

Rev up a minor heal if we can keep at least 1 MP in the pool.
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>>25129392
ask if we can help, find the sigil. no more the a 2 mana heal.
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>>25129418
stop
>1d20....
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>>25129392
>ask if you can help
I'd favor wording it as "What can I do?"

This helps us gauge Auriel's disposition as well, since if she just goes "Go away, I can do this myself" then hey, that's kind of what we expect out of her at this point.

But if she actively requests our help? Now that's progress. (Or just her freaking out about Flint so much that she's willing to overlook the fact that she still sort of hates us if it'll help him. Who knows.)
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>>25129446
Seconding this
and
>>25129398
this
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>>25129446
I like this thinking.
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>>25129446

Good call, let's go with this.
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>>25129403
We need our team at full ready before we do that, just in case we fail the roll.
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btw, do we currently have 2 or 6 mana? I lost track.
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<...can I help?>

Auriel glances up at you briefly, then sets her face back to her spell. "...I barely have any mana. If you can...we need to heal his leg. He's losing too much blood."

<Understood.> You set yourself down next to Flint. Auriel sweeps her fingers up his arm, focusing on restoring the minor cuts and lacerations.

You look at his thigh. The rock sticking out of it looks a lot bigger close up.

What do you do?

>mana: 6/20

>Heal with 2 mana
>Heal with 4 mana
>heal with 6 mana
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SM, I hope you realize that if Flint doesn't die from this, you just gave the idiots free reign to fuck everything up because lelhealz.
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>>25129503
We have 6.
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>>25129507
Heal 4
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>>25129507
4
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>>25129507

>Heal with 2 mana
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>>25129508
>SM, I hope you realize that if Flint doesn't die from this
>actually wanting Flint dead

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU EVEN WANT THAT
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>>25129507
Dismiss Xella.

Heal 6
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>>25129507
>Heal with 4 mana
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>>25129507
4
>think about xella once we set up camp
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>>25129507
2 heals approximately 4 hp, and 4 mana heals 7
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>>25129508

>there's no such thing as decapitation

Healing can't magic away everything.
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>>25129507
Can't we use 2 mana multiple times?
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>>25129507
For as much as I want to slowroll things and gain the extra 1 HP out of two 2 mana heals over one 4 mana heal, the larger up-front heal is probably more conducive to stopping his bleeding.

So Heal 4.
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>>25129528
I don't. but he, and everyone else, need to know that this situation has no way of getting unfucked.
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>>25129530
tsun tsun I understand your want but she becomes dangerous if we fail the desummon roll, we need Flint/Auriel & our 15hp self to back it up.
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>>25129552

Sure you can.

See:

>>25129555
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>>25129548
You think they'll realize that? You thin, they'll realize that even with you having said that? You think they won't deny that you ever said that?

Cmon man. You're ringmaster to this circus. You know how the clowns be.
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>>25129508
>have healing
>NO YOU CAN'T USE IT
you're a colossal faggot
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>>25129556
WHY THE FUCK SHOULD THIS SITUATION HAVE NO WAY OF GETTING UNFUCKED
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>>25129507
I vote healing with 4 mana.
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>>25129574
Reading comprehension motherfucker.

Oh wait, you're the retard that picked 2.

Fuck off, retard
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>>25129568
Then I vote we do.
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>>25129556

Just as I won't arbitrarily save you if you fuck up, I won't arbitrarily fuck you to make a point.

You made your saves. This time.

Well, assuming you don't fuck up right now.

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Roll 1d100 to heal with 4 mana
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>>25129591
>Reading comprehension motherfucker.
>Oh wait, you're the retard that picked 2.

What
the
fuck
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>>25129574
>>25129576
Even if Flint lives through this, idiots like you will see it as an excuse to take bigger risks than needed.

If he doesn't live the downside is really fucking obvious.

¿COMPREHENDE?
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>>25129571
Still, it's our job to not be clowns in the first place. I don't think losing flint is going to make the rest of players reach the same conclusion.
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>>25129601
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>>25129601
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>>25129601
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>>25129601
Ah, rolls. I can do this.
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>>25129601
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>>25129605
>BR faggot

Please see >>25129601 and get the fuck out
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>>25129601
Rolling until 1
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>>25129591
How the fuck did I not understand you, you literally said if SM lets us heal Flint that it's a bad thing
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>>25129601
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>>25129637
I said him getting healed had a bad side effect.

Retard.
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>>25129647
That's saying Flint getting healed is bad, why the fuck do we even have heal if not to get us out of deep shit like that
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>>25129647
>I said him getting healed had a bad side effect.

You are a faggot of the highest order.
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>>25129647
>>25129664
no
stop
pls
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>>25129664
>Not understanding that the entire situation can be so fucked that the best action is still bad

Retard
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>>25129672
>Not understanding that the entire situation can be so fucked that the best action is still bad

Its time for you to stop posting.
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>>25129672
>so we shouldn't take the best action and instead do worse things

I won't call you a name, I really don't think anyone even needs to.
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>>25129647
>>25129672
>>25129666
Are we in kindergarten again or something? grow up and stop with the name calling.
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>>25129668
Don't you see, anon? This is a quest thread, there must always be dumb arguments. always.
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>green text one word reply
Yeah, okay. We're done here
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>>25129689
I'll stop calling Darkling a retard when he stops being a retard.

Although I'm starting to think that copyfriend is using his name, because nobody can be this thick.
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>>25129709
Actually its you here having retarded opinions and shitting up the thread.
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>>25129700
You want it in ungreentexted form so you actually have to deal with it instead of just saying "greentext, done"? Ok, just letting you know, though, most humans can do this in their heads.

----

>>25129682
Sometimes a situation is so bad overall that the best possible action taken in response to said situation has negative consequences as a result. And although we do not want those consequences, we are forced to deal with them.

----
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>>25129709
I'm sorry, if I don't understand what the fuck you're saying. What I'm reading is that using a spell, that we decided to get specifically to heal people and ourselves, and healing an ally that is about to die, is a bad fucking choice
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>>25129728
Then It's SM's decision, he's even having us roll on it, We have a very real chance of failing it or botching it, it's not a magical fucking cure all button
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>>25129728
Sure, but that is not that situation
see >>25129601

Also, you're really bad at communicating your point, just saying.
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>>25129728
...Which doesn't change that we still must take the "best" action, and heal Flint. You're going nowhere, a very circular kind of nowhere.
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>>25129729
A metaphor; We are in a room. It's on fire. We have to jump through a glass door to escape. We get cut up. Getting cut up is bad. But we live and don't burn. But getting cut up still fucking sucks even if we don't burn.
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You focus your energy into Flint's leg.

>Mana: 2

The rock is slowly pushed out. There's a spurt of blood as his heart beats - but then the vein seals itself. You shove hard on the force of water, and you manage to shove some of the blood back in.

The muscle around the vein wavers, then grows back around it. You feel the strain building on your body as you push the spell forward. When you're done, the wound is still exposed - barely scabbed - but its sealed, and most of the color has returned to Flint's face.

Auriel is lying on top of him, shivering. She cries into his chest. She murmurs something - in a language you've never heard before. But you feel the Translation unravel in your mind. "Please don't die."

Flint's hand moves. It brushes the back of her head. "...hey, look."

Auriel draws her head back. Her eyes are red and puffy. "...Donovan?"

"An angel fell out of the sky to save me," Flint mutters. He closes his eyes and sighs. Auriel cries harder.

"Shadow," Obis says. He's spent the last few moments with Joey, tying some bandages on the nastier scratches. "We need to keep moving."

<We do.> You spread your senses thin, and - without any trouble at all - you find the next sigil.

It floats into the air, rotates...and points along the curve of the mountain range, almost due east.

>you gain 8 humanity
>you gain 3 EXP

HP: 19/37
Mana: 2/20
EXP: 4
Humanity: 105
Temerity: 54
Shards of True Darkness: 1

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End of Thread

Ask me meta while I brush my teeth, argue about succubi, etc.

It's archived at suptg.

Next thread will be a few days out, I've got work late a number of days in a row. I'll keep the twitter posted.
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>>25129758
that analogy doesn't work here though, we're not doing anything fucking dangerous to get out of a worse situation, we even got hit while we ran away
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>>25129728
>>25129758
Take a deep breath and come back when your thoughts are more coherent.
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>>25129763
can you give us more details on the specifics of the heal spell?
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>>25129767
You never seemed to understand that the negative consequences I was talking about were the effects this will have on poster behavior.

It was never an in quest thing.
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>>25129763
Aww hell Adavan took Abigail to the Black Lady and this is all kinds of not good. At least he was honest about taking her far away from the Empire.
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>>25129763
Damn lich and his twisting trail of terror.
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>>25129763
>Ask me meta while I brush my teeth, argue about succubi, etc.

Why are you railroading us so hard into hating/not hating the succubus?
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>>25129788
it would've worked if there was a reason to have negative effects, we made our saves, we used our spell, Flint isn't even in top condition he still has a stabilized, but serious flash wound
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>>25129763
>EXP: 4

I say we use 2 exp to learn Summon Mastery.
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>argue about succubi

Found the part where she swore herself.

"I am your servant."

"If it is your order not to harm humans, then I will do so, but I don't pretend to understand it."

From this it seems that rehabilitation is unlikely, but following our orders is. I'm alright with that, because we get a powerful caster minion. Other people might not want such a mercenary creature around.
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>>25129763
Why is Darkling such a retard. You understood what I was saying the first time.

Why is he such a moron?
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>>25129763
shadow mask
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>>25129824
You mean Summon I?
I dunno man, kinda wanna save up for mighty strength, then we could carry everyone.
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>>25129753

>Also, you're really bad at communicating your point, just saying.

I'm being intentionally vague and mysterious because I'm trying not to lead you on one way or another. None of my points are meant to be all that clear.

I proceed with the assumption that people are basically paying attention and making decisions using what has been posted, rather than baseless speculation. I refuse to lower my expectations. This isn't /b/, it's /tg/.
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>>25129824
>>25129834
Personally, whetever we do, I vote to use exp burn to gain 4 mana back, we are going to need them.
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>>25129815
And we got out of multiple critfails and blatantly making the wrong decision.

And the next time something looks dangerous, some people will just think "we can heal it off. No problem."

That line of thinking is a huge problem.
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>>25129827
I'm still very concerned about how she'll react if we encounter a situation where we need to use all of our mana, and she becomes truly freed in this world for the first time. Unless we somehow roll gloriously in maintaining 0 mana control.
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>>25129763
either shadow mask or save for mighty strength
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>>25129803
He isn't; people are doing that all on their own trying to wage war on each other about something SM said will not happen under any circumstances. The slightest bit of argument about her usefulness is obviously trying to get Shadow laid by a succubus and couldn't possibly have any other motive. And the slightest bit of argument against her based on her evil tendencies is seen as the far opposite extreme of "antiwaifuing" when there isn't any "waifuing" to begin with. It drowns out any useful discussion.
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>>25129829
No one understood what the fuck you were saying, and the reason it didn't have negative effects is we made our save

>>25129862
You don't know that though, it could, but we made the saves, all we cab do is put in our votes, or 2 cents and hope we sway the majority
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>>25129888
lLook at the email field of the post you just replied to. He rused you.
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>>25129853
That post was obviously aimed at >>25129728.

>>25129824
>>25129876
I agree, we should try and invest into Summoning 1 as a start since its only 2 exp.
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>>25129888
Read the email field
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>>25129853
Oh, sorry SM, I didn't mean you. I meant the other person I linked to.
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>>25129909
I'm not sure Summoning 1 will be enough for a succubus though, are we sure of her "level" of summoning?
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>>25129895
>and the reason it didn't have negative effects is we made our save
You god damn retard this is not about the negative effects to the characters' health.
Flint can be perfectly healthy now. People are still going to develop a shitty sense of invulnerability from it.
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>>25129900
Doesn't matter; it's the same true argument no matter whether it replies to the one person being sarcastic or the hundred not being sarcastic.
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>>25129787

Sure.

In this quest, magic is essentially more "reliable" than other abilities. Mana is meant to be a pool of "reliability" that you can draw from when you need a big attack. Magic seems powerful because its very consistent. That is completely intentional.

Healing is a bit more subtle than Shadow Assault. Each level of healing has a baseline score. The baseline is modified by the roll; however, it's still pretty stable. Rolls between 30-70 aren't going to change anything. 71-90 gives a bonus; 10-29 hurts you. Higher and lower rolls give larger bonuses and negatives, respectively.

>>25129854

Actually, each experience point is with 4 mana.

>>25129803
>this is sarcasm retards
>my face
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>>25129933
People being the posters in this quest.

It doesn't matter how many saves we make.

We live through this clusterfuck, they think we're godmode.
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>>25129824
I think we should try and get multi shade, shadow control, or nightblaze.
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>>25129930
I don't know maybe 3? We need SM to specify it. Even still Summoning 1 is only 2 exp. Maybe Summoning 2 for rank 3 and 4 summons costs 5 or 6 exp only? WE need to know.
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>>25129927

Oh. Well, okey-dokey then.

You know, I was sort of confused, but I figured I might as well say something anyway.
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>>25129933
I'd rather develop a shitty sense of invulnerability than let a major character (and our primary plothook) die because you wanted to teach us a lesson we didn't need.
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>>25129933
You don't know they will though, people know we have healing, and he's not perfectly healthy, he has a serious fucking wound, he can't walk and he's barely conscience, on top of that we had to use up valuable mana, that we need to also control the ruthless fucking demon

>>25129930
depends on how far she is in the tree, we'd have to get fae to see if she's in the 2nd level, and if not it won't affect her
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>>25129933
...You're kind of the only person saying that everyone is going to feel that way. If anything the posters are going to go into the next thread with more paranoia than before and have huge hate-boners for risk, considering the evaluation of the risks that we went through previously in the thread and are still mentioning now.
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>>25129933
So, you're arguing that Shadow should, in-character, choose not to heal Flint (one of the people he's closest to and one of the only we've had no arguments over the usefulness and loyalty of) because, out-of-character, you believe that we should not learn to rely on healing, even though we have limited mana to heal with and there are plenty of things we can't heal from.

I have nothing to add to that argument, it pretty much speaks for itself.
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>>25129947
So using 4 mana at once might be better than using 2 mana twice if we roll 71+ ? Good to know.
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>>25129947
Hey SM can you throw us a bone and tell us what rank in the summon tree succubus are?
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>>25129969
>>25129975
>>25129977
You idiots need to learn to read. My first post I said the shitty invulnerability complex was preferable to Flint dying. And then I spent all this time trying to explain this concept to Darkling.

The first post was just bitching. The rest was borderline-autistic ranting trying to explain what I meant to you morons.
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>>25129978

Yes, there's a higher risk/reward with a larger heal. It also has the benefit of being faster than the cheaper heal (more healing in one turn).
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>>25129994
I have a feeling your question is being processed by the Hal 9000.
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>>25129994
Well we already summoned Xella (although that might be due to us having previously identified her, and her cooperation on her end)
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also, I think it might be a good idea to see joey wants to become a "servant", since he doesn't have much power as it is.
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>>25130008
It would help if you presented your argument better.
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>>25130008
>SM, I hope you realize that if Flint doesn't die from this, you just gave the idiots free reign to fuck everything up because lelhealz.

At what point did you state healing flint was better? this reads like your saying flint should die
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>>25130008
Intelligence is the ability to make yourself comprehensible and communicate your own ideas clearly, anon.
If you had said your second sentence in this post in your first post, this all could have been slightly waylaid.
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>>25129994

...eh...I guess.

As you can see, you learn various summoning "templates" through the summoning tree. Succubi are NOT one of those templates. That means you need an ability which lets you design your own summons, or go beyond templates in some manner.

Needless to say, it's a high-level ability.

Alternatively, you can always get help from someone you know, if they're willing, or use a ritual summon. Etc.
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>>25130045
>confirmation we can make our own summons

I need it
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>>25130045
If I'm understanding demons correctly:

You take a big mass of free energy, weave it into a form, give it intelligence, and call it a demon, then send it out on its mission.

So demons are literally an artificial life form.

What's preventing them from developing outside their created parameters?
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>>25130045
Thank you.
I guess we'll save for mighty strength then. Unless anyone wants to get shadow mask right this second, guys?
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>>25130045
>As you can see, you learn various summoning "templates" through the summoning tree. Succubi are NOT one of those templates. That means you need an ability which lets you design your own summons, or go beyond templates in some manner.

Hold up, templates? So we aren't summoning the same wisp everytime?

I THOUGHT HE WAS OUR PAL. DID HE GET NTR'D BY THIS NEW WHORE WISP THAT TOOK ITS PLACE?
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>>25130068
>>25130073
I think it's like really advanced 3D printing.
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>>25130069
I think shadow control or multishade would be more useful than the mask
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>>25130045
>As you can see, you learn various summoning "templates" through the summoning tree. Succubi are NOT one of those templates. That means you need an ability which lets you design your own summons, or go beyond templates in some manner.

Hold up to your butts.

So summoning Xella with a way to not feed on human souls might be possible?
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>>25130073
if it summons what we see, then it will always be wisp bro unless otherwise
>summon 20 of the same wisp bro
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>>25130045
SM, how much difference did Vampirism make for us with the latest CONSUMEs?
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>>25130085
helps prevent magic detection our repeated downfall
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>>25130083
For me 3D printing is way advanced already
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Personally, I'd vote to get either Shadow Control or Doom Aura next, to see what's behind them in the tree.
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>>25130068

Yeah, that's correct.

>What's preventing them from developing outside their created parameters?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx8LAFSY3Ws

>>25130073

You're summoning the same wisp every time. Its knowledge and experience carries through it being destroyed and re-summoned. Xella recognized you for the same reason.
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>>25130068
>What's preventing them from developing outside their created parameters?
Their created parameters are stopping them from developing outside their created parameters.

They don't have the 'I can learn from my experiences' or 'make my own choices about morality' parameters. They're basically robots that can fake their way past the Turing Test.
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>>25130085
I'd second shadow control, but
>>25130069
I'd rather we save for mighty strength, because then we could carry everyone if we needed to.
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>>25130100
I'ld rather we get Shadow Control since it leads to Pure Darkness.
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>>25130045
Is there any ability we can get (or create) that would decease the 5-turn cooldown for Blink in battle?
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>>25130089

It slightly increased the upper limit on your EXP-gaining rolls.
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>>25130045
shadow mask
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>>25130125
Isn't fast blink that?
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>>25130112
>true wisp bro 4 lyfe

Hell yeah nigga, we gotta give him like a minigun or some shit later
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>>25130125
yeah. fast blink
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Shadow Control or Deep Focus.
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>>25130125
It's probably something after Fast Blink.
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>>25130087
Or summoning Xella with the ability to actually empathize with other sentient beings.
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>>25130132
>>25130136
No, read the description of Fast Blink:

>Fast Blink - You can unleash a flurry of sight-range teleports, baffling and confusing your enemies. (exceptional dodge buff for two turns; opens additional movement and escape options. Costs 6 mana. Negates enemy initiative. 5-turn cooldown.)

That doesn't let us do normal blink more frequently.
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>>25130112
>That is the right question

Alright. Max out summoning tree, develop free-will black box, insert into choice demons (lol) new species!

This isn't even about Xella. I just wanna play god.

Ooh! If we max out the servant tree, could we create Shadow Angels? I'd pay money to see Aurelia's face when some human sprouts dark wings.
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>>25130147
Wouldn't that also mean we could summon, or rather, restructure the energy of the nether into beings that CAN empathize by pouring our friendship experiences into them when we get a high enough summoning?
And we could totally make them take the form of a small horse.
Sweet.
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>>25130157
>Ooh! If we max out the servant tree, could we create Shadow Angels?
>Implying thats not the highest ranked template for the shadow summon tree
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>>25130164
Yes we can.

And don't think I didn't see what you did there asshole, expect me to veto it every time.
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>>25130164
>And we could totally make them take the form of a small horse.

And with that, I need to sleep, because I'm already going to dearly regret staying up this late.
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>>25130187
Nobody in this quest has veto power except SM
>>25130194
who just used it.

Get over yourself.
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>>25130194
Goodnight SM.

>>25130204
>implying other questers can't veto retarded suggestion from other questers as long as they get the majority
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>>25130187
We could make them into any form, so yeah. We could be much more imaginative than ponies though. The stuff of night terrors or really really harmless looking but still deadly fluffy wamblers or something.
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So basically, what I've got so far is that Demons, once summoned, are effectively static unless they specifically have traits that allow them to do so, yeah? So no convincing Xella to be nice to people or not to go on a slaughter rampage once free unless we alter her on her most fundamental levels, or in other words reach in and fuck around with her 'soul'.
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>>25130213
That's not a veto, that's normal voting and argument.
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>>25130220
>unless they specifically have traits that allow them to change
herp
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> over a thousand replies

Wow.
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I want to make the wisp the party mascot.
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>>25130234
We've had at least 5 of those, it's pretty much an occasional standard now.
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>>25130247
>Implying Xella isn't the party mascot
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>>25130263
All who stand in the way of the wisp inevitably fall, it is a force of nature that no man, woman or otherwise can stop.
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>>25130290
...
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>>25130294
I know right? Fucking Wispwaifags.
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>>25130294
Yet another demonstration of the raw manly power of mother nature. Bask in it.
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>>25130322
>...
...
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>>25130322
Could we give the Wisp huge arms?
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>>25130336
you mean like a
>Muscle Wisp
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>>25130336
Musclewisp. Comes out of the shadows in a boxing stance, ready to swing.
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>>25130345
>>25130352
YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING ANON!
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>>25130352
>>25130345
>>25130354
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>>25130335
Blatherskite. Those who fall shall rise, for we are all one with the wisp. Why are you not one with the wisp, anon?
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I DREW XELLA
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>>25130406
you fuck I was eating
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>>25130406
10/10 my waifu is as beautiful as I though she would be
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>>25130406
I'm crying.
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>>25130406
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>>25130406
Please post in the next thread right at the start with taht faggot that does the daily reminder.

Will be godtier
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>>25130406
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AURIEL
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SHADOW
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SHOULD I DRAW THE REST OF THE GUYS?
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>>25130650
What even is?
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>>25130650
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>>25130745
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>>25130864
Oh lord



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