You enjoy the fresh sea air in your lungs and the cool mist against your skin. It's a welcome reprieve from the city at noon, both the stench and the heat. You remain above deck just long enough to see that the ship is turning west and sailing along the waterfront of El-Amin. Eventually you grow board of watching the city drift by and turn once more towards the door to the officer's quarters, ducking through the squat doorway and making swift progress through the narrow corridor beyond.

When you once more find yourself in the cramped quarters you've been provided, you strip down to your trousers. Your turban, cloak, vest, and shirt are tossed on your bed while your boots are kicked aside. Once stripped you go through a series of stretches, pulling your legs up behind your back and your arms across your chest. Last time you used this technique, you were so sore that you could barely move for days afterwards. You'd like to at least try to avoid that this time around.

You sit down, folding your legs into the lotus position. You close your eyes, and let your consciousness slip away. As you sink deep into a meditative trance you begin to gather vys, replenishing your reserves slowly and gradually. It's surprisingly easy, out on the open ocean. The water is practically alive with vys, as far as your mind can perceive. You find that with your reserves full you feel somehow imperceptibly different. Sturdier, for lack of a better word.
>Vys Pool: (50/50)

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With your reserves full, you begin to slowly channel vys. You feel your skin grow hard, and your muscles tense. Carefully, you place your hands upon the ground and lift yourself into the air, contorting yourself slowly such that you're able to wrap your legs around one of your arms, supporting yourself on your hands. From there you twist yourself a position where you're supporting the weight of your body with your head and hands, your legs held straight up in the air above you. Finally you let your legs fall backwards, arching your back as your feet hit the wooden floor.

You slide smoothly from one pose to another, your body slowly hardening as you twist yourself into all variety of seemingly impossible shapes. You find yourself with both legs behind your head, supporting yourself in mid air horizontally with only your arms while your calves are pressed flat against your thighs, at one point you even find yourself standing on your own biceps while performing a hand stand.

You lose track of time as you fall into a comfortable routine, always sliding smoothly into a lotus position at the end of each cycle. You focus on what the magic is doing to your flesh, your movements becoming progressively slower yet strangely easier as more and more of your flesh takes on a metallic shine.
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Whilst supporting yourself on your elbows, torso perpendicular to the wooden floor and one foot pressed against the top of your head while the other rest against the opposite thigh, something clicks. Your body has been screaming out in pain this entire time, desperately telling you that no mortal man ought to be able to bend like this. That your joints are moments away from splitting open. Yet, you've easily ignored the pain. It hasn't even registered until this very moment.
>Vys Pool: (51/51)
>Congratulations! You're now Vatis Rank in Metal Magic!

Slowly resuming the lotus pose you started in, twisting your body until you can sit once more on the floor, you ponder your ability to block out pain. It's not a new phenomena. You're forced to wonder if it's really magic at all, or if perhaps you're merely enhancing a natural ability rather than performing some impossible task. Unfortunately your thoughts are interrupted by a loud knocking on your door, pulling you out of the shallow remnants of your meditative trance.

Pain surges through you as you open your eyes. Pani's bountiful breast, you can't feel your legs. You can't feel anything from the neck down. You're paralyzed. You try to wiggle your toes, and are relieved to find that you're still able, but attempting anything more strenuous proves an impossible task.

You try channeling some water magic to heal yourself, but it's useless. You're not actually injured, it's just soreness. Grabbing hold of the edge of your bed, you pull yourself to your feet. You're dripping sweat, it's fortunate you had the presence of mind to take off your shirt.
(3/4)

Hobbling to the door you tug it open, finding the same boy who came bothering you earlier standing before you. He flinches at the sight of you, but at least he manages to form a coherent sentence on his first try this time. “S-sir, the Captain told me to fetch you and tell you that rations are being served in the hold.”

Your stomach growls angrily. Apparently that workout left you with quite the appetite.

>Join the rest of the crew for dinner.
>Snack on some rations from your cloak.
>Write-in

>>38665916
>Join the rest of the crew for dinner.

It better be fucking oats

Join the crew, maybe check them over for injuries to heal

>>38665916
>Snack on some rations from your cloak.

>>38665916
>>Join the rest of the crew for dinner.

>>38665916
>Join the rest of the crew for dinner.

>>38665916
>Join the rest of the crew for dinner.

Socialize

>>38665916
>>Join the rest of the crew for dinner.

Rumor finding?

>>38665916
>>Join the rest of the crew for dinner.

>>38665943
>>38665961
>>38666002
>>38666004
>>38666035
>>38666053
>>38666054
>Be a little social butterfly.

>>38665996
>Fuck interacting with people.

>>38665916
>Join the rest of the crew for dinner.
HA HA TIME FOR CARBS

>>38665916
>Join the rest of the crew for dinner.
Would crazy yoga help with dodging?

>>38666112
Yo soma quick question did we do anything special surpassing 50 Vys? when we hit on spice we capped at 50 just wondering if it was a special number.

>>38666206
Not particularly. It's a mile stone, but spice simply doubles your maximum vys for a short while. So if you dosed up on spice now, your max vys would be 102. Spice also removes any limits on spending vys.

>>38666270
So could we wear Warnock armour comfortably now?
Also any thought about crazy yoga helping us?
I know yoga c as n help from escaping things.

Next med should be Point Offense, or Earth/Nature for easy vys.
Soma, we know Point Defense now, right? Or do we need to meditate on it to fully learn it?

It suck how this Hardcore Yoga will pretty much never be used by mik since no BQ player would ever not use armor.

>>38666353
we could get jumped

>>38666325
Try it, Anon. Find out.

If you do this particular type of meditation enough, you'll eventually get some sort of fitness bonus to certain actions.

>>38666351
You know point defense, but you've yet to attain the full bonus offered by point defense. Need to git gud at nature magic first.

>>38666325
You mean like making us more flexible?

>>38666270
Oh. Sweet man. Thanks for the reply.

>>38666391
>If you do this particular type of meditation enough, you'll eventually get some sort of fitness bonus to certain actions.
Cool.

>>38666392
More in shape too. Probably make us a nice lean and cut kind of in shape.

>>38666392
>>38666426
Well the shield made us more flexible. Could be a dodge bonus.

>>38666391
What was the point you said we'd get full bonus PD on? Expert Nature?
Also, would Metal help with PD/PO, strengthening the protective ice or the blades?

>>38666507
Expert in Nature, yeah.
Try it, Anon. You might be surprised.

>>38666535
Not that anon
But lets do it


Put on the armour before going out.

>>38666351
I support Earth just to get us to minimum vatis rank in all elements

>>38666535
I sort of recall you saying Metal can't reinforce magical ice like that, but I'm not sure if this is just my imagination.

>>38666391
>If you do this particular type of meditation enough, you'll eventually get some sort of fitness bonus to certain actions.

Is just being generally more attractive considered a fitness bonus?

>>38666665
>>38666666
So close.

>>38666699
Don't start, Anon. Don't start.

I kind if wanted Nik to sit with all his friends at the party, then have something hapoen and Rajani leave, and for him to say "I'll never understand lesbians" and everyone to just stare at him blankly.
Not sure if they'd tell him, but if yes, either a good bro like Ismail, or the motherly type chick, I guess,

>>38666755
>Rajani
Aren't we going to have to save her from the Elaudian jungles when we get back?

>>38666755
I wonder if Rajani even realizes Mik thinks she's a dyke and is completely oblivious to her feelings.

>>38666755
u wot m8

>>38666755
lrn2type

>>38666844
u wot lad?

>>38666822
More like convinced that she is both a tease as nd a dyke.

>>38666961
Anon are you tired?

We know yoga would give escaping abd dodging bonuses, but is that all?

Soma, what bonus would trying to turn metal liquid without heat give to meditation? How about sublimating metal without heat? Having tiny pellets/balls separate and float in the air as we command them? Turning a piece of ore into pure metal by transmuting? Turnig a crystal into metal while keeping its structure? Levitating ores by moving just the metal in them? Going colossus and the manipulating our body, having pellets, spikes or blades separate and float above us?

>>38666665
>>38666699
I was almost double satan.
Story of my life.

>>38666982
>going to sleep when it's a wrong day
It's like you wish for eternal torment

>>38666982
On my phone, I have too many tabs open to navigate on my toaster.

>>38666986
It'd probably give a yoga bonus too.
If you're really reaching, then maybe a bonus to sex.

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>>38667028

Could Mike give dicks to girls using water?

>>38667104
Begone futafag. Your kind is not welcome here

>>38667104
Trannies are an abomination

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>>38667104
>mfw when i read that as give girls the dick with water
>mfw when next anon said futafag
>mfw when i reread that
>mft when this was the image i was going to use
>mfn when i just barely aborted the post

>>38667163
Careful anon you might trigger tumblr with that post.

>>38667104
Shut your trap you, you double nigger!

You shoo the boy away. “I'll be there in a moment, allow me to change and freshen myself.” There's no real harm in joining the rest of the crew for dinner, and to be perfectly honest you could really go for a nice, hearty meal right about now. Something hot, and preferably rich. You need to replenish your energy after a strenuous exercise like that.

The boy seems all too happy to leave you alone, and you shut the door as he retreats up the stairs. Quickly condensing some water from the air, a simple task considering you're on a boat in the middle of the ocean, you heat it with a touch of water magic and allow it to cascade onto your head. You give yourself a rudimentary wash and then dry yourself using magic. The cost to your reserves is negligible.

Feeling refreshed, you quickly dress yourself. You decide not to wear your turban, since a glance out your window reveals that the sun has gone down hours ago. You debate whether or not you should wear your cloak, considering it can be rather unsettling in the dark. Ultimately you decide the benefit of wearing it outweighs the risk of scaring the crap out of some of the crew.

Thus dressed, you slip out the door of your cabin and shut it firmly behind you. It's a short walk up the stairs and out onto the deck. As you leave the lantern-lit hallway of the officer's quarters, your cloak melts into a semi-ethereal wreath of shadows which cling to your form, allowing you to appear for all intents and purposes as a vengeful wraith. Instead of walking, you appear to drift across the deck, floating noiselessly across the wet wooden planks.
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>>38667213

Fortunately the hold seems to be well lit, and you can hear at least a dozen voices inside. You reach down and lift the hatch, letting it clatter to the deck loudly before descending the steps. Your cloak shifts smoothly into corporeality once exposed to the lantern light of the hold.

You find that the crew seems to consist of about fourteen men all told, though there was a watchman and a steersman above deck, so you suppose that would be sixteen total plus yourself makes seventeen. A rather large crew for a vessel of this size. Conversation seems to have stalled with your entrance, all eyes in the room turning warily towards you. Save those of the Captain, who stands to greet you warmly. “Mikhael! Come, take a seat. I'm afraid our rations are meager but the gruel is hot, the liquor is strong, and the salted pork is tough as shoe leather.”

You oblige the Captain, picking your way through the hold to take a seat at the long communal table that the crew seems to eat at. You pluck up a bowl from a small stack next to a brass pot, ladling out a generous helping of thin gruel into your wooden bowl. It seems to be oat-based, and they've added sliced apples and cinnamon to the mix to make it slightly more appealing. There seems to be nothing one could possibly do to make the salt pork appealing, but you take a few slabs anyway. After all, a balanced diet is important. Finally you fill a cup from a bottle of amber liquid, you're not entirely sure what it is but it smells like honey and citrus.

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The sailors seem to lack silverware, so you merely raise your bowl to your lips and tip it back, slurping down the contents. It's not nearly as unappetizing as it looks. Actually rather tasty. The cinnamon makes it, you have to say. The drink, whatever it is, is similarly quite good. You detect hints of lime juice, sugar, and nutmeg. You're still not sure what the actual liquor they used is. Some sort of rum, you think.

You're in the midst of eyeing the salt pork suspiciously when a voice calls your name. Glancing up, you see that snaggle-toothed sailor from earlier eyeing you across the table, he's using a tooth pick to dig some rotten chunk of a meal likely years old out of his teeth. “You're Mikhael, yeah? You know, I got a brotha what's a Vatis. Ain't seen 'im in... oh, decade or so I guess. Don't quite trust you magic-y folk. What with you locking yourselves away in them fancy little estates of yours.”

>Admit that you've actually spent very little time living in the Vatis District, you've spent much of your career traveling the world.
>That wasn't even a question. Just ignore the man and eat your oats.
>Vatis are just people like anyone else, just far more powerful than most. Try to put the crew at ease.
>Write-in

>>38667367
>Vatis are just people like anyone else, just far more powerful than most. Try to put the crew at ease.
>Admit that you've actually spent very little time living in the Vatis District, you've spent much of your career traveling the world.
Both of these.

>>38667367
>>Admit that you've actually spent very little time living in the Vatis District, you've spent much of your career traveling the world.

>>38667367
>Admit that you've actually spent very little time living in the Vatis District, you've spent much of your career traveling the world.
>Vatis are just people like anyone else, just far more powerful than most. Try to put the crew at ease.

>>38667367
>Vatis are just people like anyone else, just far more powerful than most. Try to put the crew at ease.
Talk about how we've always had an interest in sailing

>>38667367
>Vatis are just people like anyone else, just far more powerful than most. Try to put the crew at ease.
Perhaps a demonstration of fire? What could possibly go wrong?

>>38667367
>>That wasn't even a question. Just ignore the man and eat your oats.

>>38667367
>>Vatis are just people like anyone else, just far more powerful than most. Try to put the crew at ease.

>>38667367
>>38667388

This please.

>>38667367
>Admit that you've actually spent very little time living in the Vatis District, you've spent much of your career traveling the world.
>>38667414
>Get a load of this faggot.

>>38667367
>Admit that you've actually spent very little time living in the Vatis District, you've spent much of your career traveling the world.

We like a more on hands approach to magic. Testing ourselves against bandits and monsters.

>>38667367
>Vatis are just people like anyone else, just far more powerful than most. Try to put the crew at ease.

pour booze on the table and juggle fire over it to calm them down

>>38667367
>Admit that you've actually spent very little time living in the Vatis District, you've spent much of your career traveling the world.

>>38667461
>0/10 apply yourself.

>>38667388
>>38667396
>>38667408
>>38667409
>>38667414
>>38667429
>>38667437
>>38667461
>Vatis are just people.

>>38667408
>>38667388
>>38667396
>>38667442
>>38667437
>>38667454
>>38667485
>You've actually spent much of your career traveling.

>>38667424
>Man, fuck this guy.

Writing for
>Just people
>Spent traveling.

>>38667367
>Admit that you've actually spent very little time living in the Vatis District, you've spent much of your career traveling the world.
>Vatis are just people like anyone else, just far more powerful than most. Try to put the crew at ease.

>>38667367
>>Vatis are just people like anyone else, just far more powerful than most. Try to put the crew at ease.
>Admit that you've actually spent very little time living in the Vatis District, you've spent much of your career traveling the world.

>>38667172
Speaking of dicks, should we give Mik two dicks?

It's interesting that every samjan could be a vatis, given what the cat said was true.

Did we know this before?
And why aren't all Samjan vatis then.

>>38667579
Why would you want two dicks?

>>38667609
Mik did know this before, and it's been mentioned that it isn't rare for even peasants and commoners to know some modicum of magic. It's just that some Samjan are more naturally gifted than others, and the Shahdom can afford to only take the best of the best.

>>38667609
Some would make better vatis than others so they get selected for training

>>38667609
Degenerates taint the bloodline. Some of the current samjan could be descendants of the mega-tribe the Hakims fought against, who wouldn't be blessed.

>>38667609
Most people of our race can use magic(on average being apprentice level, sometimes even vatis), it's that the vatis are the above average nigga that can become gm.

>>38667367
>>Admit that you've actually spent very little time living in the Vatis District, you've spent much of your career traveling the world.

>>38667647
This is why the empire fell, dirty umie fuckers and a lack of interest in the arcane arts

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>>38667579
?the quester in me says no
>the part of me that i have invested into mik says no
>my normal sense of what i consider acceptable for deviation in a setting with biology, even with magic says no
>>38667612
one for each hole. really, doesn't take that much of a stretch that to occur to you.

>>38667647
Would our game change that?
Will our game be in your book?

>>38667579
No. It's not even possible. Stop posting

>>38667647
Thanks soma, knew I'd heard something like this before.

>>38667715
Very good question anon.
Our game might actually serve as a way for non vatis to get some training and meditation time in as younglings.

Much like CHILDRENS CARD GAMES teach kids valuable lessons about...lots of things.

>>38667771
It's entirely possible. Its like you doubt the abilities of mik the supreme giganigga

>>38667785
Pokemon taught me how to steal without getting caught.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cn7ZW8ts3Y

>>38667827
Spyro taught me that turban wearers are GIANT FUCKING COCKS SLOW DOWN SHIT NIGGA IM 5 YEARS OLD

>>38668027
Yu-gi-oh taught me the secrets of scalping, and how profitable it can be.
Also that Mexican children are Fucking thieves.

>>38668161
I went to a charter school. Mexicans were the best. They'd get you as much candy and 99% legit looking counterfeit cards as you'd like if you paid them enough. It was the fucking Asians you had to look out for. Sneaky fuckers and their tiny hands would reach right into your pocket and steal cards right in front of people. Caught one Japanese kid trying to filch my limited edition Blue Eyes.

>>38668205
>eating Mexican candy
You poor man

>>38668260
What can I say? After a while, sweet and sour and spritzy just got plain boring. I needed something new. You get used to the texture after a while. The taste is worth it.

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You shrug your shoulders, raising your cup and kicking back the contents all in one go. With a relieved sigh you set the cup down. “Vatis are just people like anyone else. Granted we're more naturally gifted in the magical arts than most, but all of you could learn to do what I do to some degree. Perhaps not as well as I'm able, but most of our kind are capable of becoming at least equivalent to your average Apprentice, or even full blown Vatis, in one element at the very least.”

The Captain nods approvingly. “He's right, you know. I myself am quite good with fire and water magic. I recommend all of you pick up at least a little bit of water magic if you plan on continuing on as sailors. It will save your life one day, mark my words.”

You slurp down another mouthful of gruel, then refill your cup once you've set down your bowl. “Your Captain gives good advice. It's not hard to learn. We'll be at sea for a few days at the very least, perhaps I'll find time to teach you a few tricks. Oh, and by the way. I haven't even gotten to enjoy the perks of being a Vatis. I've spent a good portion of my career traveling abroad, exploring the world, risking life and limb, all in search of ancient artifacts from Hiacia and Rhynia.”

That seems to spark the interest of the massive tattooed fellow, who suddenly sits up straight. “You're living the adventurer's life, then? I gave it a go myself, for a few years. Found it wasn't really for me. Signed up to play escort to a merchant vessel going south and fell in love with the sea, haven't spent more than a month on dry land since. That's exactly how I like it too. All them underground tunnels, I'll die a happy man if I never see another abandoned mine shaft so long as I live.”
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You seem to have succeeded in setting the rest of the crew at ease, and the conversation starts to flow more easily. You enjoy your meal, filling your bowl for seconds and then again for thirds. Once you've finally eaten your fill and sated your thirst, you simply sit in the comfortable warmth of the ship's hold and chat with the rest of the crew, swapping stories and trading tales of women you've loved, battles you've fought, and sights you've seen.

Apparently one of the men, a fairly unassuming sort, was a pirate for a few years before he was captured in a raid against a merchant vessel that went wrong. He has quite a number of stories to tell. How many of them are true, you couldn't say. You're fairly positive he never banged Padishah Kadir's mother, though. Not certain, you heard that she was something of a loose woman before her marriage to the Shah, but a lowly pirate seems a bit below even her.

Eventually the Captain puts an end to the revelry by slamming his palm against he wooden table. “Alright, yah whoresons. Early day tomorrow. Try to get some sleep, when it's your shift on the watch you'll be fetched by one of the men who was on the shift just before yours. We should have another full day and night of sailing before we reach Anthus, and depending on the weather another day and night after that.

>ROOOOLL 1d100. I need one for weather, and two for Random Encounters. We'll probably be doing a bit of a timeskip.

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>38668383
Yo-ho, it's a sailor's life for me.

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>38668383

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>38668383

Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>38668383
SATAN

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>38668383

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>38668383

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>38668383

>>38668383
>everyone but kadir has fucked his mom
Kek

Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>38668383
Two separate rolls?

>>38668422
Prolly first three.

>>38668383
I want to do more of this, this is fun, boats are fun.

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>38668383
Second roll here.

Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>38668383

Rolled 87, 46, 28 = 161 (3d100)

>>38668383

>>38668391
>>38668395
>>38668402
>Mild storms
>One random encounter.

Alright, we're going to be doing a bit of a timeskip, two days. You can read up to 16 chapters from any number of books of your choose. By that I mean, you could read four chapters from one book, four chapters from another, and eight from a third. You could also meditate up to 4 times. For every four chapters that you read, you can meditate one less time. For every meditation session, you can read four fewer chapters.

So
>Don't meditate, read 16 chapters.
>Meditate once, read 12 chapters.
>Meditate twice, read 8 chapters.
>Meditate three times, read 4 chapters.
>Meditate four times, unable to read.

>>38668491
>Meditate three times, read 4 chapters.

>>38668491
>Meditate twice, read 8 chapters.

>>38668491
>>Meditate four times, unable to read.
To git gud, one must obviously sail the open seas for dem sweet time skips

>>38668491
Will we get maluses for our meditations since we're doing them repeatedly?

>>38668491
>Meditate twice, read 8 chapters.

>>38668491
>Meditate three times, read 4 chapters.

>>38668491
>>Meditate twice, read 8 chapters.

>>38668521
Nah, since it's a timeskip I'll assume that you take breaks in between and do other shit; eat, nap, work, that sort of thing.

>>38668491
>>38668497
Actually, could we get some martial training with the crew?

>>38668491
>Meditate three times, read 4 chapters.

>>38668491
>Meditate three times, read 4 chapters.
NATURE

>>38668491
>>Meditate three times, read 4 chapters.
Gotta get my book fix.

Meditate on metal and nature

>>38668541
can we wrestle with the sailors? Make use of our shiny metal body

>>38668491
>Meditate three times, read 4 chapters.
Here is hoping you guys vote for an element.

Its the end of BQ! We are entering into timeskip territory now.

>>38668491
>Meditate twice, read 8 chapters.

>>38668541
Can we ask our friend to start searching for the scroll?

>>38668572
>gay sailor detected

>>38668491
>Meditate twice, read 8 chapters.

>>38668579
If it's not timeskip, you'll probably be saying Namek 3.0

>>38668491
>Meditate three times, read 4 chapters.

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>>38668608
nothin gay about some man on man grapplin

Captcha: Euroo

Yeah Euroos are pretty gay.

>>38668491
>meditate twice, read 8 chapters

>>38668572
>>38668546
Sure, you could get your fight on with the crew. It could be something you do between meditation sessions, if people are interested in that.

>>38668632
>>38668577
>>38668566
>>38668557
>>38668549
>>38668534
>>38668497
3x4

>>38668511
>>38668533
>>38668538
>>38668586
>>38668613
2x8

>>38668518
4x0

>>38668491
>>Meditate three times, read 4 chapters.

>>38668671
Fuck yeah let's do that

>>38668643
That orc is gonna kill Bruce lee!

>>38668671
Soma, are there any books we borrowed from Anthus we can finish before getting there? I don't remember which ones we borrowed, some scrolls/effects/metas books maybe?

>>38668671
All on nature

Okay, so you have three meditation sessions. What will you meditate on? Pick three options from the below list. The three most popular choices are what we'll go with.

>Metal
>Nature
>Fire
>Earth
>Beam
>Delay
>Create
>Confuse
>Speed
>Slow

Note, picking any one option from this list will necessitate that you use 3 of your chapters to read the entry from the book. You can only pick one.
>Mark
>Animate
>Sleep
>Pain
>Hallucinate

Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>38668729
>>Nature
>>Nature
>>Speed
>>Animate

>>38668729
Oh, and if you want to meditate on something more than once, simply pick that option twice.

>>38668729
>Nature
All on this.

>>38668729
>Metal
>Nature
>Fire

>>38668729
>Beam
>Animate
>Create

>>38668729
>Metal
>Nature
>Create
>Animate

>>38668729
>Nature
>Nature
>Nature

>>38668729
>Beam
>Delay
>Earth

>>38668729
>Metal
>Fire
>Beam

>>38668729
>Metal
We are dangerously close to becoming crazy. Need that mental shielding.

>>38668729
>Earth
get that easy 1 vys
>Water
we're at sea
>Speed or Slow

>>38668729
>Create
>Metal (Can we ask our master or someone to try to use their brooch to distract us while we block it out?)
>Fire (Magnification specifically)

>>38668729
>Nature
>Nature
>Nature

>>38668747
>>38668729

How about we don't meditate on fire out of respect on our hosts concerns on the matter?

>>38668729
>Nature
>Metal
>Slow

>Mark

>>38668729
>Metal
>Create
>Fire

>>38668729
>nature
>nature
>create

>>38668729
>Metal
All metal

>>38668729
>Metal
>Metal
>Create

>Beam

>>38668729
>Metal
>Metal
>Nature


>animate

HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>38668747
changen to
>Metal
>Metal
>Metal

>>38668729
>Nature
>Beam
>Speed

>Hallucinate

>>38668729
How many same insihts do you need for halfGM soma? Can we med on fire once and still get halfGM even if it's different from our gate insight?

>>38668729
> vortex
> whatever
> whatever

>>38668769
meditating on water doesn't do anything since we are already a grandmaster

>>38668729
>Metal
>Metal
>Metal

>Animate

>no one picks water
Why? Thisbis the best time to make more techniques, which are useful against pirates. Reminder that we have to be careful if we want halfGM Fire.

>>38668729
>Earth
>Nature
>Animate

>Metal
>Nature
>Beam

>>38668839
see
>>38668823

>>38668839
We've already completely mastered water magic. You'll have to specify learning some sort of technique for it to be of any use.

>>38668805
It's either 2 or 3, so we could definitely get triple gate insights for GM level gate entry(?) skills

>>38668823
that's retarded, we need to meditate on itraileRel if we want new tehniques like Point Offense, idiot

>>38668805
It should be 3 for the same focus (illusions, healing). I think gate insight was simply normal fire manipulation but not too sure.

>>38668866
>>/out/

>>38668859
which is exactly what I want

>>38668861
It's 3, and yeah I think we should save fire insights for the gate.

>>38668881
>>>/b/

>>38668866
Is there something wrong with your keyboard?

Soma said that meditating on water will do nothing now.
If you want to learn a technique, meditate on the technique.

>>38668756
>>38668743
>>38668740
>>38668756
>>38668788
>Multi-Nature

>>38668773
>>38668767
>>38668766
>>38668754
>>38668791
>>38668797
>>38668801
>>38668802
>>38668831
>>38668842
>At least one metal

>>38668791
>>38668797
>>38668801
>>38668802
>>38668831
>Multi-metal

>>38668788
>>38668785
>>38668797
>>38668773
>>38668754
>>38668748
>Create

>>38668842
>>38668841
>>38668804
>>38668801
>>38668788
>>38668780
>>38668775
>>38668756
>>38668754
>>38668747
>>38668743
>>38668740
>At least one nature.

>>38668841
>>38668769
>>38668764
>Earth

>>38668740
>>38668748
>>38668754
>>38668801
>>38668831
>>38668841
>Animate

So you're doing one Nature meditation, one Metal meditation, and then Animate and Create are tied for third place. Other options didn't seem to have much support.

VOTE
1
To meditate on Animate

VOTE
2
To meditate on Create.

>>38668896
We should get expert level metal so we can reinforce our mind before we enter gates. But I really want to know what kinds of insights we get from those gates.

>>38668915
1

>>38668915
1

>>38668915
2

>>38668915
2

>>38668915
1

>>38668911
I would've been more insulted if you correctly linked to the other board.

>>38668915
2

>>38668912
What are you een saying, of course we'd be meditating on the technique, just like how for Fire we could meditate on Magnify, but that has always been voted on later.

>>38668915
2

>>38668915
phasing

>>38668915
1

>>38668915
1

>>38668915
1

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>>38668951

>>38668915
1

>>38668915
2

>>38668942
Same for me, m80

>>38668915
1

>>38668915
1

>>38668915
2

>>38668951
Bahahahaha.

>>38668915
2

1

>>38668951
I still laugh every time, i didn't even mind it, but you guys constant bitching and ragging about it pleased me greatly.

>>38668915
What is this samefagging you speak of, friend?

>Animate
I wonder if anyone will be able to tell me how that will be useful to us now, or in the near future.
The only thing ir could do is golems, which are a ways off at the least.

>>38668915
>2

>>38669009
One of these days the power vote will be so split that my samefag phasing votes will win. We almost got it last time.

>>38669017
We can have knives that follow us around of their own accord.

I don't know how useful it is, but it's pretty sweet.

We should go for create, since we already meditated on it once, and it's going to be much more useful to us in the future because we're heading for the desert.

>>38669031
you must be new here

>>38669017
>which are a ways off
We already know Permanency.

>>38668931
>>38668934
>>38668938
>>38668952
>>38668953
>>38668954
>>38668962
>>38668968
>>38668980
>1

>>38668935
>>38668937
>>38668946
>>38668949
>>38668966
>>38668985
>>38668990
>2

>>38668951
>Phasebros, UNITE!

Looks like the 1s take it. Animate it is. Save your dice, we'll roll at the start of next thread. Lets get reading knocked out so I can have that written up for Saturday.

>Excidium (7/13 Chapters Read)
>On Empire: The Rise of Civilization (Unread)
>The Serpent and The Staff (Unread)
>A History of Pidjata (Unread)
>Devotional Booklet to Pani (Unread)
>The Fall: A Hiacian Perspective (Unread)
>Utility Effects (3/15 Chapters Read)
{Mark, Animate, (Create) +2, (Confuse), Sleep}
> Enhanced Interrogation (Unread)
{Pain, [Poison], Hallucinate}

>The Varistha's Notes (Partially Read)
>The Varistha's Memoirs (Unread)

You can read up to four chapters. You can distribute those chapters however you like. It takes 3 chapters to read one of the entries from either Utility Effects or Enhanced Interrogation.

>>38669017
we are heading to the magic city, we are gonna be digging in the library for a few things.
>Shit about our armours
>vys scroll
>shit about golems
>shit about both the desert and the jungle
I think thats all, no clue if i forgot something..

>>38669060
>>The Varistha's Notes (Partially Read)
We have a decent amount of time to do so now, and nobody on this ship should recognize anything incriminating.

>>38669060
>Excidium (7/13 Chapters Read)
All 4

>>38669060
Doesn't animate take a chapter?
If not than
>VarVars notes

>>38669049
And we're not making boats on a ship, or in Anthus, we're only making golems at home if at all.

>>38669060
>Excidium (7/13 Chapters Read)

>>38669060
>The Varistha's Notes (Partially Read)
>The Varistha's Memoirs (Unread)
>The Varistha's Notes (Partially Read)
>The Varistha's Notes (Partially Read)

>>38669060
>>Excidium (7/13 Chapters Read)

all on dat baby

>The Varistha's Notes (Partially Read)

>>38669093
Shit, you're right Anon. Muh bad.

Allow me to rectify that mistake, you have ONE chapter.

1

>>38669060
Tell me whih are borrowed from Amthus, Soma.

>>38669060
>The Varistha's Notes (Partially Read)

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>>38669115
>>38669093
I am disappointed in this revelation.

However this only strengthens my desire to read the notes.

>>38669097
We could make the boat a golem. We could make Siege! golems. We could find that Vys scroll and turn it into a golem. We could turn Chrys' soon to be ex-husband's corpse into a golem. We could turn sand we find in the desert on the way back into a golem.

>>38669120
Dial up really slow tonight bro.

>>38669060
>Excidium (7/13 Chapters Read)

>>38669060
>The Varistha's Notes

>>38669060

All 4 into Excidium.

>people are literally retarded tonight
We could've had 1 vys from getting Earth to vatis level, but no.

>>38669107
>>38669103
>>38669089
>>38669184
>>38669159
>Excidium

>>38669124
>>38669108
>>38669106
>>38669093
>>38669084
>>38669172
>Notes

>>38669106
>Memoirs

>>38669121
None of them, anymore. I'm relatively certain that you own all of the books in your cloak.

Notes it is. Alright. YET ANOTHER ROUND OF VOTING.

>Focus on his musings regarding how to make friends and influence people, he seemed to have researched it extensively.
>Focus on his writings regarding various theoretical effects, both metamagic and otherwise. It's by far the largest pile.
>Focus on his theological writings, on the nature of the Gods and their relationship to Samjan and the Shahdom.

>>38669185
Nigga how exactly would one meditate on earth magic in the middle of the ocean?

>>38669193
>>Focus on his theological writings, on the nature of the Gods and their relationship to Samjan and the Shahdom.

>>38669185
oh boy, 1 whole vys.
This is truly the end of days

>>38669193
>>Focus on his writings regarding various theoretical effects, both metamagic and otherwise. It's by far the largest pile.

>>38669193
>Focus on his musings regarding how to make friends and influence people, he seemed to have researched it extensively.

>>38669193
>>Focus on his theological writings, on the nature of the Gods and their relationship to Samjan and the Shahdom.

Super duper relevant with the child around

>>38669193
>Focus on his writings regarding various theoretical effects, both metamagic and otherwise. It's by far the largest pile.
>936 NH
>wanting friends

>>38669193
>Focus on his theological writings, on the nature of the Gods and their relationship to Samjan and the Shahdom.

>>38669202
How would one meditate on Nature?
We have rocks in our cloak.
>>38669193
I'm 100% certain we have borrowed books, because Mik is a jew and had the option to indefinitely borrow books from the library for free.

>>38669193
>Focus on his writings regarding various theoretical effects, both metamagic and otherwise. It's by far the largest pile.

>>38669193
>>Focus on his musings regarding how to make friends and influence people, he seemed to have researched it extensively.

Zig Zigler won't have nuttin on us.

>>38669193
>Focus on his musings regarding how to make friends and influence people, he seemed to have researched it extensively.
Where are the notes about how enchantments could be intelligent?
I remember we stopped at something like that.

>>38669248
>How would one meditate on Nature?
by trying to sense the life around the boat and discern it.

>>38669291
It was a retorical question.

>>38669248
The ocean is literally filled with life to detect

Rolled 3 (1d3)

Also, if there is anything else you'd like to do over the time skip toss it out now. If it gets support, it'll happen. Things like sparring with the sailors, playing cards, using specific meditation methods, getting involved in the day to day of sailing. Anything like that, toss it out.

>>38669243
>>38669237
>>38669217
>Theology

>>38669264
>>38669257
>>38669230
>Influence

>>38669227
>>38669240
>>38669252
>Magical theory.

Alright, I'mma roll for it.

>>38669323
Looks like you'll be reading more of the Varistha's notes on magical theory. For the Anon that asked, those were the notes which left off with a section about sentient enchantments.

>>38669323
Point Offense.
Mist.
Try to combine Fire and Nature to become invisible to Nature Sight.
What do you say about >>38667001?

>>38669323
Ask the sailors what they know of the death desert and jungle, they should know some stories since they traveled around.

Should we shitpost until we fall off the board again? That was fun.

>>38669323
Sparring and meditation on forms

>>38669323
See if the merchant guy can tell us more about his treaty, it could be something that helps our father.

>>38669374
I support these. For nature we should try to detect life at the deepest depth possible

>>38669323
>>38669395
Oh, also helping out with the sailing

Work on point defence.

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>>38669388
this is now a spider-man thread

>>38669323
Heal any sailor on board, that should give us some browny points.
>>38669385
Seconded

>>38669418
I think you mean offense.

>>38669323
1.Work on our forms
2.Heal everyone
3.fix the ship using our magic
4.Point defense
5.Try and squeeze some relevant info out about our quest.
6.Ask about barbarians(meta gamming, but you spoiled us about this a long ago)

>>38669374
>>38667001
I don't really think either turning solid to liquid without heat or sublimating metal without heat would be possible at Mik's level, or even at the Grandmaster level. Tiny pellets/balls just breaking off and flying about is also sort of a master/expert level sort of thing. Ore into pure metal would be pretty simple, +4 bonus I suppose. Crystal to metal... +8, and you'd need to be Expert to do it if you didn't want to compromise the structural integrity of the crystal. Levitating ores would only be a +2. Last idea wouldn't really be possible at Mik's level, and probably not at any level if I'm understanding the way you're conceptualizing it. You can't turn into that liquid metal dude from the Terminator movies.

Also, point offense would likely require a meditation session, which you're out of.
Not really sure what you mean by mist. Just making mist? You can do that easy, no problem.

Fire and Nature combo would be a reasonable experiment.

>>38669385
>Swap stories in more detail.
Can do.

>>38669395
>Sparing, meditation on forms.
Can do.

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>>38669424
All I had were Raziel edits and they are on my laptop.

Archive:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Banished%20Quest

>>38669489
I mean just the same as the balls from a piece of metal, but from our body. I assume we can shapenour metal body since Mik gave himself joints during a meditation on forms.

>>38669513
>>38669489
What about my suggestion
>>38669488
?
It was basically trying to milk any info related to our quest and trying to earn brownie points.

>>38669548
You'll heal people and work on forms. Point defense, as I've said, just requires you to better understand Nature magic. Expert level, and all that. You'll also swap stories in more detail, some of which will be quest relevant.You'll hear about barbarians via swapping stories.

>>38669489
Oh, and by mist I meant making a way to do it easily if we can't already, like making enough mist to cover the ship and then some, and manipulating it,
>anons wasted our chance to make Point Offense
simply great

Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>38669503
I think everyone exhausted themselves with that Pratchett thread and the earlier shitposting. Go to sleep Anon.

>>38669565
You can already do mist easily and make plenty of it, so long as you put the vys in. Also manipulating mist is easy. To cover the entire ship and some extra, that'd probably be about 4 vys.

>>38669587
What was master having Rasim do again? Could doing that on a larger scale lead to something beneficial, or lead into an experoment?

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alright, sound off, whose not dead?

>>38670013
Too Late, everyone is dead.

>>38670013
Taking bets on how long this update is going to be.
I'm thinking probably double digits, 8 at the least.

>>38670013
Fuck that douche canoe

>>38670073
i can't find the picture of him with the match anywhere on line. really great scene though.

but yes, he is an ass. should have just taken the knowledge back to the surface and sold it for billions of dollars instead of taking kida/crystal thing

>>38670053
You do know Soma's retired for the night right? Just checking.

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>>38670127
...
shit

>>38670133
Go to sleep anon. You've a bright day ahead of you.

>>38669565
Point Offense would have honestly been the best thing to meditate on, but there are some players who have ADD, and some who jump on an option and refuse to change their opinion.

>>38672668
>People didn't do what I wanted! They're all stupid!
It's a question of priorities, you think a new method of attack is the most important thing, I think protecting ourselves from further sanity loss is

>>38672702
You have to consider the circumstances.
Right now we're on a merchant ship going through an area that is threatened by an elven warlord, pirates, and barbarians.
What do you think pirates are better at, causing high level vatis to lose sanity points, or sink ships and kill people with physical wounds? We were hired to protect the ship if they attack, and the best way to do that is with Point Offense, as that gives us something like a +4 or +6 to all attack rolls even without having Expert Nature, in which case it would give us +8. I seriously doubt sanity protection is an urgent issue, but even then, we could have skipped out on Animate, which is an even less urgent matter than almost everything else we could meditate on as it has no rapid, active combat uses outside of making golems, which we have no expertise in, and I doubt want to do on a random shit instead of doing it at home with Fulvia's help.

>>38672734
>on a random shit
On a random ship, I mean.

>>38672734
We're a grandmaster of water, we are quite literally in our element, I don't think we'd have as much trouble as you seem to think
You are right that point offense would have been a better choice than animate though

>>38672813
I mean, sure we're in our element, but I'd like to remind you that many sailors and pirates become Water vatis over the years, and it's not all that unlikely that a pirate group would have a Water GM in it. Also there are things called cannons.

>>38672831
I suppose they could, but didn't we pretty much wipe out all of the pirates in the area?

>>38672866
and also, I don't really see how point offense would make a difference against cannons

>>38672668
Soma said that shit is pretty fucking useless until we start improving in nature.

>>38672831
>>38672734
Cannons are more or less forgotten and that pirate vessel have cannons was what made it exceptional.

And you're pulling those numbers from your ass because I've yet to give stats for point offense.

>>38672923
That's straight up wrong, he said we won't get full bonus, but we will still get some benefit from it.
>>38672866
We did, which is why I'm thinking some independent ones might have popped up, or the Warlord might have moved in.
>>38672897
Makes sinking ships and killing people easier, even if they don't have cannons Mik could have a hard time killing a dozen or more pirates who have boarded the ship.

Will Soma ever update the Magic pastebin to include aspects of the elements we learned in their description, like illusions for Fire and so on?
>>38673224
Hey, at least I said "something like" but I guess I was misremembering, or just assumed it'd be similar to PD's current +6, or is what's in the pastebin its potential total bonus and not what we have right now?
Although if it gives less than +4 then you might as well just say it's completely useless.

>>38673224
Friday the 13th thread for dem triple ones?

>>38673224
One more for healing everybody.

>>38673224
Would PO give the same bonus right now as PD does?

Next thread when?

>>38674069
I assume Saturday or Monday, as per schedule.

Water>Metal>Fire>Nature>Earth

>>38676443
Water>Fire>Wood>Nature>Metal/>Water/>Earth/>Fire/>Wood/>Water>>Metal>>Earth>>Wood>>Nature>>Fire*>Metal*>Water*>Wood*>Nature*>Fire<Wood<Water<Metal<Earth<Fire.

GIT GUD