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Welcome to Banished Quest!
You take the role of a young mage labeled a criminal by his people and cast out into the wider world. In the last thread you called in a few favors from a cat, took up residence in your new personal realm, and got killed by one of your companions.

It is currently the 3rd of Yuddha, in the year 936 NH.

Character Sheet:
http://pastebin.com/8wLGz3HQ
Inventory:
http://pastebin.com/9mxDQn7N
Companions:
http://pastebin.com/tWc3Zjje
Spellbook:
http://pastebin.com/Tu1sVEnQ
Runic Library:
http://pastebin.com/7zQt9XLy
Current Missions:
http://pastebin.com/rzD5PPsU

Dice:
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Magic:
http://pastebin.com/aYPzn0aU
http://pastebin.com/2iHKTQTS
Combat:
http://pastebin.com/e1peu2ih
http://pastebin.com/1niidZEa
Enchanting:
http://pastebin.com/jUQKQLLx
Fluff:
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http://pastebin.com/sijmZSSf
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Notes:
Using names or trips in this quest is heavily discouraged. While it is impossible for me to prevent you from doing so, I ask that you not. I will also not count any votes made while using names or trips.
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As you rise unsteadily to your feet it strikes you just how short you are. Chryssa is tall for a human woman, but compared to most Samjan she's pitiably short. Unfortunately, now you are too. The perspective shift has left you feeling almost like a child, everything seems so much larger than you remember it being. The doors in particularly are enormous, you'd have to jump just to touch the top of the frame.

You still don't remember where you are, not with any sort of clarity. There's a vague notion that you're in control here, but that's more a natural sense than due to any sort of retained memory. You're likewise uncertain what to do about your current predicament. Restoring your previous body should be as simple as rotting this body's flesh and bones and then regrowing your own to replace what was lost. Yet even if you are disgustingly pale, laughably short, and hideously ugly there are certain benefits to being in this form. For one, you're incredibly muscular and you have the strength to match. You feel like you could rip a man in half with your bare hands.

With your soul in its currently depleted state your memory is not what it could be, but you still get the sense that a compromise doesn't necessarily need to be made. You feel like you might have read somewhere that there's a way to edit memories and self-image. Certainly your people tell stories of... well, a person who could freely alter every minute detail of how they perceive themselves. They were among the most famous of the Sikari, an elite unit within the military of the Hiacian Empire which was responsible for hunting down and killing Vatis who have either risen against the power of the Shahanshah or gone on some manner of insane rampage.

So perhaps, via the proper manipulation of your soul, you could retain the elements of this form which you enjoy and discard those that you dislike. However, the idea sets you ill at ease. You'd be incorporating the elements of a degenerates soul into that most intimate and closely guarded portion of your own, that which contains your self-image. Although, that brings up a curious point.

What part of the soul contains the self-image? It certainly couldn't be the husk, you've exhausted your husk entirely and even in that state Zahak managed to heal you in a manner consistent with how you view yourself. Granted he wasn't skilled enough to heal you without turning you into a scarred abomination, but it still worked. If you'd lacked any sort of self-image, his magic should have simply rolled off of you, unable to bind itself to anything substantive. It should have been like trying to heal a corpse.

(1/2)
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Perhaps the shell could contain one's perception of the self? It is, after all, the part of the soul which seems most tied to the physical world. It would make sense for it to also tie itself closely to the mortal vessel housing the soul. It also seems to be primarily responsible for binding the soul to a vessel. Indeed, based upon what you know of the soul's structure and function, that would seem the most logical place to search for the self-image.

You glance briefly towards the unconscious woman sprawled across the sands of the sparring grounds. A vivid memory springs unbidden to the forefront of your thoughts, a memory of your father returning from a hunt with an enormous boar towed behind him on a sled. Bandages were wrapped around his abdomen, blood-soaked where one of the animal's tusk gored him through his leathers.

He sees you standing by the gate, and perhaps sensing your worry hands the sled's rope off to one of the other hunters as he draws near. You're scooped up into a loving embrace, twirled through the air before he sets you gently on the cobblestones and affectionately ruffles your hair. “A warrior never shows the pain they feel. It only encourages the enemy. Remember that.”

It's a pleasant memory, until you realize your father isn't a human. Then you're not quite sure what to think. The knowledge that a human's memories have been so completely integrated into your own that you couldn't immediately tell them apart worries you immensely. What if you start to think like a human, perhaps even grow fond of human women? What would your parents think? Your father, may he feast among the ancestors, would probably hide you if he thought you were interested in other women.

>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
>This is too weird, you don't like this. Rot away flesh and bone until you're normal again.
>Bear with it for a while, you want to conduct a few experiments. (Write-in)
>Write-in
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>>270696
>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
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>>270708
We don't have much.
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>>270696
>>Write-in
Make sure Chrys is ok, then go sleep
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>>270696
>>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
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>>270696
>Bear with it for a while, you want to conduct a few experiments. (Write-in)
Analyze the strings as discussed before and compare them to Chryssa's body and a dead clone of your original. Make it an experiment. Memorize the strings that make up this vessel so we can ditch it if we're in danger of losing ourselves and also isolate the strings responsible for strength if possible.
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>>270696
>>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
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>>270724
>and a dead clone of your original
Don't have one.
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>>270696
analyze strings or read shaping arts
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>>270737
We're in our magical realm.
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>>270720
FUCK her,

Go gutterstomp that stupid psycho bitch.
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>>270696
>Sit down and organize our memories
It should also offer some insight for later husk eating shenanigans
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>>270696
>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.

A nights rest keeps the gods away
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>>270741
We still don't have a dead clone of our former body.
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>>270696
>Bear with it for a while, you want to conduct a few experiments. (Write-in)
Try to identify the parts of Husk we took from Chryssa. We're already confused about who our father is and these new memories might interfere with our natural husk regeneration.
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>>270741
And we don't an original. Our self image got changed to a point.
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>>270741
Can't Xerox something we don't got, foo.
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>>270744
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>>270696
>>This is too weird, you don't like this. Rot away flesh and bone until you're normal again.
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>>270696
>GO TO SLEEP!
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>>270750
>>270754
>>270755

And we still can create one from memory. Perfect memory, remember?

>>270759
Pussy.
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>>270751
>>270696
Supporting
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>>270696
>>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
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>>270768
We don't have a perfect memory of every metaphysically relevant detail of our body. We've never looked at that shit properly.
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>>270696

>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.

Can we leave a small note telling Chryssa that we're this guy and not dead so she doesn't try anything rash if she wakes up before us?
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>>270751
Changing my vote to this. Deleted my previous vote.
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>>270783
No, but the spirit realm covers for us in that regard. It creates things we don't know about. We don't know every detail of a microscope or a sensory deprivation tank, and yet we have both those things.
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>>270751
>>270696
This'n.
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Wait now that I think of it couldn't the training have a way to increase gravity so we could get mad gains?
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>>270796
Yeah and they feel distinctly unreal. We need a perfect replica, not a "good enough" one.
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>>270768
That's not quite the way Shaping Arts memory works, even if you are within your realm. Something as complex as a body, even a dead body, ain't exactly easy to just make on the fly and Mik never really examined the strings which compose his own body.
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>>270801
Probably. Having a realm where we can fuck around with fundamental laws at will strikes me as a particularly great environment to study the effects of strings of reality.
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>>270696
>Bear with it for a while, you want to conduct a few experiments. (Write-in)

It could be a good idea to examine the husk of our soul like >>270751 said. I think we should try to incorporate some of Chryssa's self image so we can make her super strength part of how we view ourself.
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>>270805
>>270804
Fair enough, but we can still do the experiment without it.
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>>270801
You actually probably could make things heavier or lighter in your realm, even without a proper concept of gravity.
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>>270696
>>This is too weird, you don't like this. Rot away flesh and bone until you're normal again
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>>270811
The best experiment would be to compare the strings of our current body, Darzi's body, and Chryssa's body.
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>>270696
>>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
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>>270812
>eventual death by black hole confirmed
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>>270696
These:
>>270751
>>270809
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>>270751
This
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>>270812
we hyperbolic time chamber now
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>>270759
>>270814
>Fuck this shit I'm out.

>>270769
>>270751
>>270747
>>270724
>>270739
>>270793
>>270799
>>270809
>>270830
>>270831
>Various flavors of experiment

>>270778
>>270765
>>270748
>>270736
>>270721
>>270720
>>270712
>>270789
>>270823
>Get some sleep

I'm gonna call it in favor of Experimentation, before we wind up with another tie.

Going with >>270751 for what you'll actually be doing.
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>>270696
>>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
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>>270696

Supporting >>270809
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>>270822
Possibly, but Darzi isn't here.

It's a moot point, though. People seem to be more concerned about making sure we can tell what's Chryssa's memory and what's ours before they end up blending together. Not what I would've prioritized, but sensible enough.

I doubt the experiment will ever happen. We're gonna get distracted by a long string of things Soma came up with until eventually the new cool thing to do is something else and we forget about all this forever.

Welp. You win some, you lose some.
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>>270839
Can we further the experiment a bit, see if we can mess with the memory strings or use Shaping Arts get to keep the memories but retain the ability to tell which are Mik's and which are what he st- uh, borrowed?
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inb4 this experiment doesn't count as an "experiment" experiment
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>>270862
Why would it? We're just meditating on something, not experimenting.
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>>270866
We even have a hypothesis and everything. But you're probably going to wind up right.
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>>270866
already the jew shows its face
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>>270850
Eh, I'll push for it. Wanna see our friends' reaction. Also extra magical muscle for experimental safety.

I wonder how Zahak is going to react.
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>>270866
>Various flavors of experiment
>I'm gonna call it in favor of Experimentation

I don't know what led me to that conclusion.
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Oh God. Guy, we forgot. How could we forget? To call this spirit realm truly ours would be an affront to our very existence at this point. Not without this.

Not without creating a mile-wide island solely dedicated to a giant memorial to the greatest companion we've ever had.

I'm sorry we forgot, Al Gasreed. I'm so, so sorry.

May Pani forgive me.
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>>270900
we need to have bag pipes playing in the breeze to honor our most valuable companion
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>>270839
Do we not need to roll for this?
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>>270918
Anon you are a right tosser.
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>>270900
He was a gay lizard who died because he was too retarded to know we weren't coming back for him, zahak is superior in all ways
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>>270926
Some of us prefer fairness.
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>>270918
Of course not, Anon. This is an automatic failure. :^)
Nah just kidding, I sorta forgot desu. Lemme figure out modifiers.
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Rolled 8, 4, 1 = 13 (3d10)

>>270930
I will literally fistfight you, anon.

>>270934
And some of us prefer nat3s. Let me warm them up.
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We should change our realm to have pleasant oud music playing in the background at all times
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Rolled 8, 7, 3 = 18 (3d10)

>>270940
You mean THIS nat 3?
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>>270940
reminder that he died over a hundred threads ago and we had him for very little time. Anons are children who will cry for a snail if you let them name it
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>>270945
No, it must be Mik's own rendition
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>>270945
Reminder that musical instruments+metal magic stuns the enemies.
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>>270951
Oh God, you just reminded me of poor Abdul Gra-Hopper. WHY DID HE HAVE TO DIE
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>>270930
you understand nothing about the bond between man and beast.
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Rolled 10, 5, 2 = 17 (3d10)

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ROOOOOOOOLL 3d10+22 (+6 from Method of Meditation, +4 Preceptor, +2 Vatis Training, +2 Shaping Arts, +4 A Terrible Thing to Waste, +4 Expert Nature Vatis) vs DC 30 (Base 30)

I'm going to treat this as a Nature Magic meditation, frankly. Since this is basically pure Nature magic. Which means if you succeed you get an insight, and you should probably succeed.
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Rolled 1, 3, 7 + 22 = 33 (3d10 + 22)

>>270976
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Rolled 6, 1, 5 + 22 = 34 (3d10 + 22)

>>270976
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Rolled 1, 1, 4 + 22 = 28 (3d10 + 22)

>>270976
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Rolled 2, 5, 6 + 22 = 35 (3d10 + 22)

>>270969
Anon he was a lizard we bought specifically because he was cheap and could carry shit. Pack animals are not pets
>>270976
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Rolled 6, 4, 8 + 22 = 40 (3d10 + 22)

>>270976
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Rolled 7, 8, 7 + 22 = 44 (3d10 + 22)

>>270976
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Rolled 10, 7, 3 + 22 = 42 (3d10 + 22)

>>270976
PANIC ROLL
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Rolled 8, 7, 1 + 22 = 38 (3d10 + 22)

>>270976
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Rolled 1, 10, 8 = 19 (3d10)

>>270976
NAT THREEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Rolled 8, 7, 6 = 21 (3d10)

>>270976
TIEM FOR MY CURSED DICE! NAT 3 HERE WE COME!
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>>270977
>>270978
>>270979
>33, 34, 28 vs DC 30
>Success!
As per usual, meditation rolls are pass/fail.
Writin'
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>>270979
Fucking hell that was close.
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>>270979
What the fuck anon.
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>>270979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c15fvEHKXCU
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>>270976
Don't spend. Put on the Crown instead.
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>>270979
Jesus anon, cutting it close aren't we? Another nat 3 could've happened!
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Hey Soma I see you're having a hard time getting creative with those "thread up!" posts.
Here's an list of all possible anagrams for "thread up".
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=Thread+up&t=1000&a=n
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>>270839
Hey Soma, since stealing husk gives us a temporary boost to our max vys, would permanently incorporating some of it by making some memories permanent make some of the temporary gain permanent? It seems like having more memories and soul that regenerate ought to increase the amount of vys we have proportionally.
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hey think we could use the memory trading to gain insights?
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>>271061
>copying and stealing peoples memories for magical power
Well ain't this familiar...
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>>271061
I think the maximum husk our soul can support is limited by SOMETHING. Shell or Shard, dunno. Stapling more on by itself probably isn't sufficient.
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>>271073
But why would increasing our max vys by learning new things be any different from incorporating the learned knowledge from someone else's soul into our soul? Right now stolen husk goes away. If we could make it a part of us then presumably the memories would be indistinguishable from our normal memories. If they were indistinguishable then why wouldn't they contribute to our max vys?
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>>271073
Well, husk originates from the Shard. Even with zero husk you eventually regain all of your memories. So that's the ultimate source.

I'm sure there's a way to forcibly cram stolen memories into the Shard, but there is no way that won't damage/warp the Shard itself, and through that, your sanity. There's probably more side-effects, too, like forgetting who you originally were and your body not knowing what to look like and possibly more.

Basically this is such a shortcutty shortcut to gaining power that it all but forces Soma to have our soul metaphysically raped six ways from Sunday.
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>>271101
Well don't spirits straight up put more divine essence into a mortals shard to make them stronger?
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>>271101
hence we get a soul-surfing shapshifter's identity crisis.
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>>271116
no, it's like a spiritual intoxication thing. Too much divine essence into a mortal and the essence subsumes the mortal's soul essence, resulting in a lifeless husk filled only with divine essence.
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>>271116
In Disciples, the shard of the spirit is separate from the shard of the mortal, but within the same shell. They get two forms and a third Final Form if you kill them, but I'm not sure what that does to them as a person. They also have to obey the spirit to a limited degree and they die if the spirit dies if I remember right.

And then there are servants, which are mindless slaves that result when the two shards are not only in the same shell but actually merged like you say. In this case the spirit's will takes over entirely. You really don't want that.

You also don't want the first option, since we've proven ourselves capable of getting comparable or greater power-ups without compromising our freedom of will.
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Post never
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>>271173
It's not even been an hour, nigga
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You allow yourself a deep breath to calm your nerves, focusing on the matter at hand. You're in a body that's not your own, and your head is filled with memories of somebody else's life. There's a very real chance that if you go to sleep now you'll wake up unable to tell the difference between your actual memories and the ones you stole from Chryssa, and since you doubt you'll be able to solve the various issues with the body you inhabit in your current state it would seem wise to first deal with the matter of this degenerate contamination mingling with your soul.

Thus you take a seat by the door, just beside your discarded clothes. It's fortunate that Chryssa is so masculine, otherwise her clothes would probably be wildly uncomfortable. As they are you can hardly tell the difference between these and a man's clothes, though you somewhat belatedly realize that there's a strip of cloth around your chest intended to bind your nonexistent breast. You take the time to remove it and set it aside.

Once you've made yourself comfortable and assumed a meditative pose, you focus on your breathing. Not on controlling your breathing necessarily, but just on the rhythm and sensation of air filling your lungs. It seems like you breathe deeper than you used to, as though your lungs are somehow larger, but why would that be the case when Chryssa is so much smaller than you are?

Right, you suppose you're the same size as her now. Gods and ancestors that's going to take some getting used to. You force yourself to focus, and as your breathing slows you begin to feel the pounding of your heart in your chest, and the blood flowing through your limbs. At least this sensation is more or less unchanged. In short order the outside world begins to fade away, the rush of blood drowning out the soft susurration of Chryssa's breathing and the muddled thoughts of your draconic son Zahak, so focused upon some task or another.

A few brief moments pass in which the world is black, but soon the elaborately swirling collection of red, blue, and purple fills your vision. It's still striking to you just how saturated this place is with vys, but you don't let it distract you. As your mind further opens to the world around you, ambient vys gives way to the twinkling lights which are the souls of you and your companions. There are only four here, counting your own and not counting the plethora of permanent enchantments dotted across Fulvia's form.

(1/2)
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Your perspective shifts as you focus upon your own soul, the golden orb coming to consume your vision. It's a curious thing to look at, and it quickly becomes apparent which memories are yours and which are Chryssa's. Two separate collections of husk have formed around the shell of your soul. The inner layer is tightly compacted, appearing as a metallic gold. The outer layer is less defined, transparent, and connected to the inner layer only by thin strands which you might guess represent shared memories, though you're far from certain.

It would seem that separating Chryssa's vys from your own would be as simple as severing those thin connecting strands and cutting it in half to drift off harmlessly decaying into vys. However, that brings up a curious point. Why are your thoughts so muddled if the distinction between your husk and the husk you stole is so clear and distinct?

You channel Nature inward, towards your own soul, and the thin strings of creation which compose your mind flare into brilliant light. They bend inward, forming almost an hourglass figure around you, and as the strands make contact with the outermost layer of your soul you see the husk explode outward. Those thin connecting strands become flurries of muddled images, the same story told from two perspectives simultaneously.

Elsewhere you see two different versions of the same memory playing out beside one another. In one which you find particularly striking your father reads to you from the record of the Abdul-Hakim family, recounting the exploits of your greatest ancestors as you lie half-asleep in your bed. Yet, in four separate versions of the same memory you and your father seem to vary wildly. In one you're both human, and in another both samjan, but in the other two it switches between you being human and your father being human. It's all rather confusing.
>Congratulations! You gained an insight into Nature magic!

You see that what you initially thought were only small connections were only those most prominent connections. In this expanded view a thousand thousand strands connect the two different layers. Each one perhaps representing a memory which, though not shared, is perhaps similar to another. It would take you weeks, months, perhaps even years to review each and every connected memory.

>Sever all the strands between the two layers, hopefully releasing Chryssa's husk from your own.
>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
>Write-in
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>>271186
>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
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>>271186
>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
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>>271186
>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
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>>271186
>>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
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>>271186
>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
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>>271186
>Sever all the strands between the two layers, hopefully releasing Chryssa's husk from your own.
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Post never ever.
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>>271212
It'll get here eventually.
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>>271193
>>271197
Be honest, did you even read the post before voting?
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>>271186
>Sever all the strands between the two layers, hopefully releasing Chryssa's husk from your own.
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>>271186
>>Sever all the strands between the two layers, hopefully releasing Chryssa's husk from your own.
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>>271186
>>Write-in
Try channeling Nature into your Shard.
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>>271186
>>Sever all the strands between the two layers, hopefully releasing Chryssa's husk from your own.
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>>271193
>>271197
>>271201
>>271206
>>271208
>>271209
>Leave the shared memories.

>>271211
>>271227
>>271228
>Cut it all

Seems pretty clear.

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLL 3d10+2 (+2 from Earth Vatis) vs DC 21 (Base 25, -4 from Preparation)
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>>271224
Some of us aren't as slow as you are, anon.
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Rolled 5, 8, 10 = 23 (3d10)

>>271233
CURSED DICE NAT 3
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Rolled 3, 10, 5 + 2 = 20 (3d10 + 2)

>>271233
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Rolled 1, 6, 5 + 2 = 14 (3d10 + 2)

>>271233
Jew
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Rolled 6, 5, 2 + 2 = 15 (3d10 + 2)

>>271233
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Rolled 4, 6, 1 + 2 = 13 (3d10 + 2)

>>271233
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Rolled 4, 6, 3 + 2 = 15 (3d10 + 2)

>>271233
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>>271242
>>271241
>>271238
whelp, we spending,
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>Soma not asking if we want to spend
RAILROAD
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>>271247
With what vys?
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>>271238
>>271241
>>271242
>25, 20, 14 vs DC 21
>Failure!

This is not a meditation roll, so you can fuck up pretty hard. You're also at (15/[15]) vys.

>Spend 1 for a Success
>Spend 8 for a Great Success

The good news, goyim, is that this is the part which earns you that +1 experimentation vys.
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>>271259
>Spend 8 for a Great Success
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>>271259
>Spend 8 for a Great Success
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>>271259
Spend just the 1
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>>271259
>Spend 8 for a Great Success
How?
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>>271259
>Don't spend
You fucking jew.
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>>271259
>Spend 8 for a Great Success
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>>271259
>Spend 1
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>>271259
Spend. Spend hard.
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>>271259
>>Spend 8 for a Great Success
also what did you fucks get us into now?
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>>271259
>Spend 1 for a Success
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>>271259
>Spend 8 for a Great Success
we can recover said vys and husk by sleeping/cuddling with Chrys.
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>>271279
Good taste
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>>271259
>Spend 8 for a Great Success
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>8

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>1

>>271267
>Oy vey! It's anudda shoah!

Writin'
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>>271292
oh shit ITS A TARP!
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>>271186
>>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
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I gotta go masturbate. Does anyone have any suggestions? All the hentai I have has grown stale.
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>>271311
what tags you looking for?
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Wow man, I was just about to masturbate too. I've started skimming the 200+ pages of the "anal" tag and I've found some good stuff.
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>>271331
<Soma_QM>Fuck, I can't shitpost anonymously anymore. Someone call that Anon into anal a normie.
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>>271331
>anal
normalfag pls go and stay go
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>>271325
Any combination of Femdom, Incest, Lactation, Feet, Cosplay, Monster Girls, Reverse Rape
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>>271349
femdom is the worst fetish
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>Feet
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>>271362
>not wanting to be drugged, tied up and stepped on by your little sister
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>>271349
Don't worry mate, I've got you covered I have just the porn that fits all the criteria you listed. What's better is that they're all in English. Lemme know if it's something you've already fapped to.

https://hitomi.la/galleries/104340.html
https://hitomi.la/galleries/242148.html
https://hitomi.la/galleries/340458.html
https://hitomi.la/galleries/386593.html
https://hitomi.la/galleries/803382.html
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>>271356
It really is.
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>>271370
I thought you couldn't post anonymously, Soma.
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>>271371
>>271371
Yes, Brandish and my dick are well-acquainted.
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>>271370
you can be a woman if you want to anon, plenty of people are into traps nowadays.
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>>271373
kek
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>>271383
Are you familiar with Masamune Shirou?
https://hitomi.la/galleries/484791.html
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>>271418
His art is so fucking bad now.
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>>271344
Anal is the BARE minimum you shits. I won't even bother with most doujins unless they involve assholes. I am an anal connoisseur. I have sampled 100 different shades of sodomy. I have dabbled in 360 degrees of degeneracy. I don't go to page 200 for fun. I go to page 200 because i've fapped to everything worth fapping to before that. Normie? Please, you are like a baby to me.
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>>271441
>bane.jpg
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>>271441
I much prefer the hole meant for breeding.
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>>271441
>only 100
>he thinks 200 is a lot
Normies are so cute when they try to fit in.
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So whats our new negative trait?
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>>271477
*Maligned: After repeatedly flaunting the cosmic order, Mikhael has earned the ire of the Gods themselves.
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>>271441
why would a normal person stick their dick in a literal shithole?
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>>271477
boku no lurk moar faggot
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You don't want to entirely separate Chryssa's husk from your own, but you do want to know with certainty what your father looks like and where you grew up. Those are sort of important parts of your identity, you'd rather not have any confusion about them regardless of how slight it may be. Perhaps, if you focus on just cutting away those strands which connect similar rather than shared memories, you'd be able to retain the husk itself but avoid any further cross contamination?

Unfortunately, that would seem easier said than done. At least, that's what you'd initially thought. However, as you focus upon the idea of your memories being sorted along the lines of those shared with Chryssa and those not shared with Chryssa your husk begins to rearrange itself. It's a slow process, but channeling a little more Nature magic serves to accelerate the process. Soon those shared memories sit tightly packed together, a rope bridging the space between the inner and outer layers of your husk. Similar memories dominate the other half of your soul, far greater in number but lesser in substance. You suppose the unconnected memories separating the two layers from one another are neither shared nor similar. There seem to be quite a number unconnected memories, actually.

With your task simplified all that remains is to hack, or rather erode, away those connections you've deemed undesirable. You're relieved to see that segments of the outer layer do not fly off and begin to deteriorate once separated from those connecting strands. Still, the sheer immensity of the task before you is a little off putting. You're going to be at this for hours.

You lose track of time as you focus upon the task at hand. As you work, you notice that the inner layer of your soul is glowing just a little brighter than it was at the start of your task. It's only belatedly that you realize the reason for this change, your husk is slowly growing. You wonder if this happens every time you meditate, or discover some new fascinating bit of information. Watching it expand is almost a surreal experience. It's like you're witnessing the creation of a memory.

The difficulty in severing strings does not come from the task itself, which is simple in both theory and practice, but from the fact that your reserves are so low and your skill with Earth so lacking that every little exertion of will feels immensely draining. It's like your will to live is being sapped away with each passing second, consumed by your labors. Yet, on the other hand with each passing moment your head feels a little clearer and your thoughts less muddled. It's working, even if it's taxing your abilities.
>Vys Pool: (8/[16])

(1/2)
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Fortunately even in this reduced state you have enough power at your disposal to finish off the last few connecting threads, and once you do you're a little surprised by the sudden shift which takes place. An enormous portion of the outer layer, perhaps two thirds, collapses into the inner layer. Simply absorbed by the the gleaming ball of gold surrounding your soul. You don't feel any different, but you can only assume those memories have been wiped away and the husk which held them incorporated fully rather than left to hover in the now exceptionally thin outer layer.

For the most part you think that's the end of the problem. No longer does the thought of your father generate conflicting images of a skilled hunter and a shrewd politician. You are Mikhael of the clan Abdul-Hakim, born twenty seven years ago in the grandest city of them all, El-Amin. You were apprenticed at the age of twelve to Master Karim, not taken under your father's wing to learn how one shoots a bow and skins an animal. This certainty of your identity brings with it an overwhelming calm, a sense that perhaps everything is going to be alright even if you still don't feel quite yourself in this body.

>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.
>Fiddle with your soul in some other manner before withdrawing from your trance. (Write-in)
>Write-in
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>>271488
Soma siad he git sone extra ideas from an anon.
So i want to know if Murphy's law will play out with mik, and if getting fatally hit will be harder to fix.
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>>271498
>>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.
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>>271498
>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.
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>>271498
>Fiddle with your soul in some other manner before withdrawing from your trance. (Write-in)
Attempt to find the exact location of our sense of self within our husk/soul
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>>271498
>Fiddle with your soul in some other manner before withdrawing from your trance. (Write-in)
Find memories of Chryssa's super strength and try to reinforce those
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>>271498
>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.
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>>271498
>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.
>Write-in: Cuddle next to Chryssa
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>>271498
>Fiddle with your soul in some other manner before withdrawing from your trance.
just support other ideas
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>>271498
>Fiddle with your soul in some other manner before withdrawing from your trance. (Write-in)
Get a clear image of our self and save that shit.
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>>271498
Supporting these:
>>271509
>>271511
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I will be back shortly, I'm going to try and get some food before the only thing open is questionable chinese food or a burger joint.
>It's already 10PM
I probably already missed my chance desu.
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>>271498
>Fiddle with your soul in some other manner before withdrawing from your trance. (Write-in)
Supporting super strength as in >>271511
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>>271511
>>271498
dis
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>>271511
Nah that is human taint and is useless in miks hands especially with vys spending which has shown to be equal to what she has.
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>>271529
Do you not buy food ahead of time?
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>>271509
>>271523
This please.
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>Me
>Planning anything
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>>271498
>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.
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>>271553
Fair enough.
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>>271553
Mind closing the vote before you leave, since leaving it open is asking for same fagging.
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>>271521
adding an addendum to my vote. find the strings related to strength
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>Sleep

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>>271551
>Fiddle yourself
I'll get writin' when I get back.
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>>271498
>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.

Guys we're not gonna be able to copy her super strength through just memories. It don't work that way.

It's more complicated and we don't have the vys for experimentation like that right now.
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>>271566
we still have that vys crystal
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Wonder how our artefacts gonna work with the new body, will the centurion armor even work with Mik? Don't even get me started on Ricky.
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>>271609
oh yeah, not to mention the brooches.
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>>271609
Its soul linked.
Which now that you mention it i think means we cant use our artifacts since our soul is technically still different.
I di wonder if adding the chrysa muscle or saving the memory of them will affect us.
Honestly i think we could already copy them since we healed her body before a few times(not as detailed as now, but if we tried we could copy her muscles).
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Man the soul link mechanic is obe of this quest oldest mechanics. I beleive only we can use an item since its linked to is, and the next person that kills us cant use our gear because of enchantments to stop theives who killed the person for their shit. Was there a third system or was it only these two?
Its been so long since this was relevant.
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This also reminds me of varvars notes on how enchanted equipment is somewhat intilligent. We still havnt gotten iito that portion of his notes about that and his theory about it.
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>>271665
you know that's also the solution. The artifacts still recognized us even when we were husk depleted, gotten dragon tattoos that messed with our soul, and even when ascended. This may not be an issue. Until we try out brooch comms. if it doesn't work then we know what the issue is.
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>>271565
Hey soma we got the enchated sword,sheild, and armour combo of the hacian "set", but is there any stores or legends of other peices of hacain military enchantments?
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>>271665
>We still havnt gotten iito that portion of his notes about that and his theory about it.
It was never in his notes. Everything worthwhile is in his Memoirs.
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I wonder how Zahak would react to our new change:
>Zahak: Papa looks like Mama now!
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>>271693
Now kiss
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Rolled 1, 1, 1 = 3 (3d01)

>>271698
Whoops
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>>271681
>The artifacts still recognized us even when we were husk depleted
They might depend on the shell since husk are only the surface.
>dragon tats
They didnt mess wwithour soul, but with our body. Also since we died do they actaully work? You would think mik would mention on what they did after our death.
>god mode
No clue about wether we could use artifacts with this or even need to and this form is based on our shard.
I could be wrong though, but i figrued i might as well voice this.
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>>271693
>>271698
Oh no, is our son shipping us with Chryssa? He is isn't he?
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>>271706
The tats are on our soul for sure. Our Ascended form has them, it was mentioned in the update after we died.
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>>271693
We alreafy fixed this misconception the second he mentioned it to us.
He now calls her autie i think, and prof little bro.
No clue on the others.
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>>271714
What ecactly did they do is what im asking simce mik didnt notice them do anything.
Speaking of which are they even on this form or we will have to remake them through magic.
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>>271715
why would you ruin the fun in shitposting while Soma's out?
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>>271720
The tats are permanently tied to us.
They had the effect of not letting us fly off into Pani's tits the second we died, and it kept our soul in place when we opened the box that sucked souls into it.
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>>271720
They're imprinted on his soul and self-image, they regenerate no problem.

They CONTAIN + SOUL, silly billy.
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>>271720
Jesus christ typing on my phone is a pain in the ass now since auto correct is wierd now.
>>271726
I like our sons preceptions of our companions more since they are funnier.
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Dammit, I missed the vote.
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>>271735
Your vote wouldn't have mattered anyway.
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>>271698
wouldn't that be considered genderbent (mtf) selfcest since Mik is inhabiting a male version of Chryssa's body?
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>>271729
Thats the thing i dont know of that were the tats, and we were losing 10 vys a sec.
>>271730
True, but i firgured they could be removed , thanks to the convos anons had about the tats in past threads before god mode was unlocked.
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>>271720
I don't wanna just give out the answers, but I'll repost the hint.

>The neck is bent at so sharp and unnatural an angle it hurts just to look at, and blood streams readily from the back of his head, so you can only assume he's quite dead. Realization dawns on you only slowly. Surely that could not be you, could it? The tattoos are the same, though his are dull and lifeless. Your own writhe across the surface of your flesh, cast in gold against the coal black of your flesh in this ascended state. Yet, you were the only one of your kind in the tower. If you truly lie dead at the opposite end of the room how are you still here? Why have neither Pani nor Surya not claimed your soul for their own respective purposes?

Anyway, writin'
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>>271745
Everyones' vote's matter.
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>>271747
It's just masturbation
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>>271753
But it's deluxe masturbation!
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>>271735
Not that important since what won was keeping a mental copy of mik, and memorizing chryssa muscle compistion (though i think mik already has an idea on how to make this).
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>>271748
We were losing vys cause our husk burns itself up maintaining our ascended form, basically.

And our arms can be removed, no problem. We have an unlimited supply of arms, after all.
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>>271751
>Your own writhe across the surface of your flesh, cast in gold against the coal black of your flesh in this ascended state.
Thats what i forgot.
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I just have this feeling Chryssa is going to legit panic when she wakes up.
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>>271760
Yeah, it's what I would've voted on.
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>>271752
Except yours.
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>>271771
I vote we axare her by making a fake dead mik body and than using illusions+vys to make a convincing evil mik ghost spirit to spook her.
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>>271779
Supported
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>>271751
I get it, it keeps our mind and soul contained within base reality the moment our mortal coil is severed from the current body. But there's a flaw to the runic tattoo circle. It's too simple of a design. I propose we improve the runic design to our tattoos so we can last longer in ascended form or while dead and separated from a body, limit the husk/vys decay rate.
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>>271784
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>>271751
Would mik do this as a small revenge for getting killed?
And also to lighten the mood of his death to her?
>>271779
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>>271779
That is a legitimately retarded idea. Possibly the most effective way to worsen the situation as much as possible with the least effort.

That said, it also sounds hilarious, and we might be able to upgrade our 2spoopy trait
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>>271779
support, it's time for Jedi ghost Mentor shenanigans
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>>271785
The Runes on our arm are only operating at half power anyway.
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>>271785
I'd support that, would we want to spend spirit favor on it too?
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>>271779
Lets upgrade spoopyness.
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>>271779
nah
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Sustain+Reinforce+Conceal->Vys+Soul, maybe?

Still, carving shit into the soul is an Earth thing, so we gotta get better with it to increase power and precision. Too bad Earth is our least priority right now. Although, we do have an experienced soul surgeon on hand, who just might feel like she owes us something.

It'll have to wait, anyway. We're already beyond mangled up metaphysically at the moment.
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I want our first words to Chrys to be: "That must have been cathartic for you huh?" while casually cracking our neck.
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>>271779
as much as I hate to say that now is absolutely not a good time to spook a recovering Chrys, I can't think of another way that'll let Chrys know that Mik in his new body is actually Mik.
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I like that idea. I think the difficult part with that will be figuring out a way to create a soul containment field strong enough to minimize husk drain when we're killed, but won't prevent us from touching our soul at all. It'd have to be selectively permeable somehow.

Maybe we could structure the containment enchantments so that they partially disengage when we channel vys into them, or something of the like. That way they're up by default, but we can easily access our soul when we need to.

>pic unrelated
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>>271794
>Chryssaaaaaa
>you killed me
>do not fret, you can still salvage this situation
>I am incorporeal and barely hanging on, but through a very specific set of rituals you can give me form
>listen carefully, for you are still untrained
>do a handstand
>now jump in a circle on one hand with your eyes closed
>do a bunch of bodyshots off Profectus at midnight
>now chug a pint of ale from the opposite side of the glass while zahal does a barrel roll midair. If you spill any you must start the ritual again
>surprise!
>nah sorry I was just fuckin with ya, I was fine the whole time
>what? No you did actually kill me
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>>271779
there never was a better use for magic
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>>271808
but wouldn't CONTAIN -> VYS prevent us from using vys while alive or dead? or am I getting things mixed up?
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>>271808
Weak.
Also the way you're going about it is wrong. You can't carve runes into our shell like that.
>>271819
Yup.
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>>271816
I love you Anon
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Our tattoos are fine, stop trying to break them retardedly.

The reason our Ascended form is so costly is because that's how much husk we have to actively channel into sustaining it. We aren't, like, losing husk. It's just super expensive.
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>>271829
We're not talking about husk drain in ascended form, we're talking about husk drain when our body gets killed. Right now, the tattoos keep us slightly anchored to this plane after death, but they're imperfect/weak. We want to improve that aspect of them somehow.
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>>271813
So, I feel I should add a little bit to this discussion. In some ways the Invert rune can serve as "not", which with the proper context can turn a logic gate from "in the presence of" to "in the absence of".

So if you built up a enchantment with a logic gate which stated. "In the presence of (Invert+Metal), create Fire", what you're really saying there is "In the absence of metal, create fire." Because what really is the opposite of metal? It doesn't have one. So the invert just functions as a negative, thus turning the entire statement into a negative.

This doesn't work with everything, though. Like... "In the presence of (Invert+Destroy), create fire". That would translate into "In the presence of create, create fire", and the universe will basically read that as a syntax error.
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>>271823
We don't know anything about carving things into any part of the soul. We don't even know it's on the shell. I mean, did we just get a brand new shell, or did we retrieve it from beyond the veil? Do we need the dragon blood and secret spice mix to do it, or are those two just ingredients of a preudo-draconic ritual that gave us the tattoos? Are they even technically carved, or did Mahana mean it less literally?

You can't just assume you know this shit before we actually examine our soul for those runes and look closer. Because you don't, smartass.

>>271819
I didn't say contain, I said conceal.
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>>271816
>Chrys: why. why do you look like me.
>Mik: well...... It's a long story
>Mik: First of all you did kill me. And I kinda had to use you to create a body to create a vessel for my soul. But something went wrong and we now have shared memories of each other's lives and now my clone body of you is now a boy and I also gained the ire of all the gods because of what I had to do after you accidentally snapped my neck so no hard feelings!
>Chrys:.......*facepalm* Gods dammit Mik.
>Pani, Surya, all the other gods: Agreed
>Stooges: *rofl in the background
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>>271847
Are you 13?
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>>271847
It's like I really am in YouTube Comments.
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>>271841
>You can't just assume you know this shit before we actually examine our soul for those runes and look closer. Because you don't, smartass.
We know it's connected to our self image so we'll use Nature+Water+Shaping Arts to change it. Not Earth.
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>>271847
QUALITY post.
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>>271837
Good to know. Are there any negative effects to syntactically broken enchantments other than them just not working?

Also, is it at all possible to get more specific with identifier rune? ie, would it be possible to do something like: "In the presence of a certain alloy of metal, trigger x effect"
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>>271829
>>271832
Besides without us raping Chryssa's soul for husk, we only lasted 6 rounds before permadeath, 4 rounds without support we need to last longer when our body is killed.
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>>271832
No you ain't, read what >>271785 said again.

They're clearly talking about the ascended form broadly, which by the way was synonymous with the form we were in post-death cause it's the same one.

It's super expensive.
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>>271857
And I'm saying we don't actually know that. Could be carved right in our divine shard for all we know.

Look, literally the next post is going to tell us where our self-image is contained if we make the roll Soma forgot to ask us for. If it's there, chances are it's also easy enough to spot, since Mahana recognized it with an idle glance.
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>>271861
Get more max Vys. It's super expensive for a reason. We're bootstrapping ourselves to a higher order of being by channelling husk into our soul.
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>>271861
There was always the cat option, i bet the fucker was waiting to come in and help.
Hell i wouldnt put it past soma to have the cat cash in on his promises to mik to just save his body/soul if anons really did fail(though i do think he would roll for it).
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>>271813
>>271870
>>271841
do you guys think that MIND would affect our Husk decay rate? Since our Memories are part of our mind, wouldn't adding MIND inside the CONTAIN reduce the husk decay?
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>>271861
I bet you the cat was waiting to help us since i doubt he woundt notice us dying.
Its why i think soma was just messing with the players the cat would have used up miks favors to save his body/soul and in return he owes us nothing and instead we owe him.(though honestly he probably would have rolled before doing this since anons would scream railroading, but the cat of saving us was always there.)
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>>271884
>>271871
Jesus why did this post 3 min late.
Oh well a repeat post i guess.
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>>271878
I think contain would make it harder to cast where reinforce would make it decay slower.
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>>271878
No, because I don't think the husk is decaying. It's being spent directly via husk casting.
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>>271891
Reinforce sounds like a nice addition to the runic design, but REINFORCE will need a power source to maintain it's power.
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>>271864
Oh shit, yeah.
desu finding your self image and exploring Chryssa's memories is sort of a combination of nature and metal. The latter is more metal, the former is more nature.
The former is also really pretty easy at this point, since you're sorta already exploring her memories, so I won't make you roll for that.

And actually, now that I think about it. Mik is a Grandmaster Metal Vatis, and he has a trait which allows him to channel his husk at will. Plus some huge bonuses to nature. I don't know. It doesn't really feel like something he'd need to roll for either.

Yeah, I'm just gonna write. If I change my mind further in, I might decide on a roll. If not, meh.
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>>271915
ok Senpai
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>>271915
Second nature insight faggot. Make us roll.
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Rolled 3, 9, 5 = 17 (3d10)

>>271878
No. Memories are not a part of our mind. Kind of. I think technically the mind stems from the husk and/or the shard. Memories are contained in both of those. But the mind is not contained, but rather generated as a reality distortion field.

I think this and Vicitra losing his memories when rezzed tells us something. Maybe the mind is not linked to the shard directly, so your conscious can access your memories only when the corresponding portion of the husk is intact.

So why doesn't he have his memories? Did we create a new mind that's out of sync with his core personality? His shard is intact, so they can be brought back, but why do they not return on their own?

Either way, Soma let slip that sustained enchantment upon the mind damages sanity, so I wouldn't go there even if I thought it would help.

>>271915
Will you take a nat3 if we roll one though?
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>>271925
Probably he lost his memories because his Shell fully dissolved, whereas Mik's remained intact.
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new post never
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>>271925
Perhaps it is because of it's nature, the memory must be less solid than our core of our soul, as it is constanly flowing and changeing as a person experiences new things.
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>>271837
How about combining those 2 enchantments?
First the absence of metal creates fire and the creation of fire triggers the other enchantment which creates fire as long as something is being created, leading to an infinite loop of create fire.
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>>271931
We woke up without a shell when we died, didn't we? I mean I kept asking Soma about it but he didn't answer.

>>271939
Nah.
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>>271948
No, your shell was still intact.
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>>271947
That'd be a city killer meant to burn everything but metal buildings
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>>271915
No you fucking jew let us roll for it. It's the only fair thing to do.
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>>271949
Now that changes some things.
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>>271955
why is it that we all want a nat 3 all of a sudden for any roll?
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>>271948
Mik in Ascended form is weird bullshit with a Shard, Shell, and Husk. The Shell existing outside of a physical body is probably part of why it's so expensive.

This raises a question though, our body didn't exactly die in our soul's absence, so did we leave a copy of the Shell behind there when we Ascended the first time?
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>>271956
I guess that means Contain+Soul also included the Soul Shell.
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Rolled 5, 5, 5 = 15 (3d10)

>>271959
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Rolled 8, 5, 10 = 23 (3d10)

>>271963
How so?
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>>271949
Wouldn't creating a living, breathing clone out of the strings of reality count as an experimentation too?
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>>271965
witnessed
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Rolled 3, 8, 4 = 15 (3d10)

>>271915
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>>271965
something perfectly average happens
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Rolled 6, 9, 2 = 17 (3d10)

>>271915
:^)
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>>271952
It's the perfect choice for our next enchantment experimentation.
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Rolled 8, 7, 2 = 17 (3d10)

>>271976
Nice try.
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Rolled 5, 7, 8 = 20 (3d10)

>>271997
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Rolled 9, 4, 2 = 15 (3d10)

>>272002
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Rolled 1, 4, 1 = 6 (3d10)

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>>271997
We're dice brothers now Anon
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I'm honestly wondering if we shouldn't just spend a favor to have Mahana spoonfeed us everything he knows about the soul and explain what happened to hours desu.
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Rolled 3, 6, 6 = 15 (3d10)

>>272008
close
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>>271973
unsurprising
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All these anons rolling to get the nat 3.
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>>272010
Mik's the type of person that'll try to find out/discover things on his own. Rarely if ever will he go the 'easy route'.
You don't deserve the knowledge you don't earn.
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>>272010
but that would mean no vys from experiments
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Rolled 6, 8, 7 = 21 (3d10)

>>272016
Haha it's just a prank bro.
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Rolled 4, 5, 5 = 14 (3d10)

>>272016
check these rolls
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Rolled 4, 5, 6 = 15 (3d10)

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Rolled 4, 6, 3 = 13 (3d10)

butt
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some one is going to roll a nat 30 and it wont count and your have only your self to blame
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Rolled 4, 3, 10 = 17 (3d10)

>>272029
And we'll enjoy it.
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Rolled 2, 1, 1 = 4 (3d10)

>>272029
Fuck you.
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Rolled 8, 2, 5 = 15 (3d10)

>>272029
Witness
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>>272032
Anon, please
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Rolled 5, 5, 10 = 20 (3d10)

>>272032
close
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>>272032
Why the fuck are nat 1's and rolls so close to them so fucking common?
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>>272018
>>272019
I know, I know. But between gitting gud in elements, reading and learning sandnigger fu we probably won't have enough quest to unlock all of its secrets.
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>>272032
even if it was a one, i dont think even soma would take it
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Rolled 9, 1, 6 = 16 (3d10)

>>272035
Please roll a three? Sure, watch this.
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>>272032
oh gosh...
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>>272032
so close
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Rolled 2, 9, 8 = 19 (3d10)

>>272041
kek
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Rolled 1, 8, 2 = 11 (3d10)

>>272048
Okay for real this time.
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Post never
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>>272038
>implying that ADHD cunt soma won't keep getting distracted by more plot and run this for another 2+ years
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Rolled 9, 5, 6 = 20 (3d10)

>>272049
never ever for you anon
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Rolled 4, 6, 3 = 13 (3d10)

>>272055
I just have to roll a thousand times.
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>>272052
>>272052
>implying he'll only run for 2 years
>implying 2 years is anywhere near enough time
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You focus your thoughts on Chryssa's immense strength, and hope that perhaps your soul will sort those memories to the forefront just as it did with the division between shared and similar memories. You're disappointed with the results. Many of the thickest connecting threads which yet remain unbroken retreat towards one end of your soul, while only a bare handful remain intertwined. Perhaps it would have been wiser to attempt this before severing all of the similar memories which bound her husk to yours? You probably would have had more to work with.

Still, experimentally you brush your mind across one of the strands which retreated rather than staying put. Much as you expected, it is not a memory of combat. Instead you watch as two different perspectives on the same conversation play out in tandem. In one you watch yourself, in your real body, staring passively down the road with your camel's reigns in hand. Chryssa hands you a bottle of wine, which you take gratefully and raise to your lips.

In the other perspective you're watching the road, casting the occasional glance towards your bow-wielding companion. It seems a fairly insignificant memory, but then you realize she's saying something between sips from the bottle. You can't actually hear what she's saying, but you think you can guess which conversation this is. It seems to have taken place on your trip north to the Water Temple, so you can only assume it's the one in which you agreed to kill her husband. That's the only truly significant conversation you think you had on that particular journey.

As much as you might like to explore your memories further, you did set out to accomplish a specific task. Turning your attention to the other side of your soul, you focus upon one of the intertwined memories and watch as again, two seperate perspectives on the same event begin to play out. You and Chryssa stand on opposite ends of a sand-covered floor, both in a fighting stance. Chryssa's perspective goes black just as you see her close her eyes in the other.

What follows is a hectic sparring match which at first seems to be going distinctly your way. You score several good hits against Chrys and receive seldom few in return. Yet the tide turns as Chryssa's perspective shifts. No longer does she perceive only black through the lids of her eyes. Instead you appear as a collection of highly concentrated vys. You glow white, bright enough to stand out in a room already saturated with vys.

(1/3)
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She swings herself around, the sudden motion dizzying but ending, in your view, with her heel crunching into your nose. Blood spews everywhere, which itself is saturated to a lesser degree with vys. A fact you find somewhat curious. Chryssa strides forward confidently in both perceptions and plucks you up by the horns, and twisting her entire body she hurls you bodily across the room. Your perception goes black before she can even finish the throw, and as you fly away from her you see that your neck is bent at an awkward angle.

You spin through the air until finally smashing your head against the stone wall, having completed two entire rotations in midair. Her strength truly is horrifying. You watch as the haze of white cuts out in Chryssa's view and her eyes snap open, your crumpled form slumped against the wall. This must be how you died, a remarkably uncomfortable thought. She rushes forward and gently raises you into a seated position, two fingers coming to rest upon your neck.

You see her hand trembling wildly as it withdraws from your neck, her vision growing blurry. Is she crying? You can't really be certain, due to the nature of this voyeuristic ability, but she certainly looks like she's crying. She sinks to her knees next to you, cradling your shattered head against her chest. However, from your broken corpse a new figure strides forth. It moves as though asleep, shedding such immense amounts of vys that it takes on physical manifestation in the form of blue smoke boiling off the figure's limbs.

The figure is enormous, nine feet tall with two great horns crowning its head. Its skin is coal black, save where white markings discolor its skin. Upon its back is draped an enormous black cloak, so dark it seems almost a hole in creation, and it is ornamented in all manner of gold. The backs of its hands in particular hold strange patterns which writhe across its flesh, disappearing underneath its gauntlets only to emerge near the crux of its arm.

Only belatedly does Chryssa seem to realize that those tattoos match the ones on your physical body's arms, and by that point your perspective has returned. You think you know how the rest of this goes, though it's interesting to see your ascended form whip around to face Chryssa, the cloak billowing dramatically. Your eyes glow a lustrous gold, everything about your demeanor calm even though you know you were consumed by confusion and panic at the time.

(2/3)
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You withdraw from the memory, unsure what to make of what just happened. It doesn't seem like it would be beneficial to reinforce anything specifically about this memory. The two perspectives are so unerringly distinct. It would seem like, if you wanted to change your memory, you should have reinforced one of the muddled perspectives you encountered in the similar memories, like the four different versions of your father reading you to sleep. You would guess if you could find a memory of combat in which you employed Chryssa's immense strength, reinforcing that perspective would have ingrained it in your own memory.

These shared memories though seem to clear for you to be able to pull off the same trick, an unfortunate turn of events. You seem to have unintentionally sabotaged yourself.

Disappointed by this turn of events, you shift your focus instead to locating where exactly it is your self image resides within your soul. Focusing your will, the inner and outer layers of your husk part willingly to reveal the shell beneath. It is flawless, a golden barrier surrounding the shard of divinity which allows you agency in this world. Curious, you channel Nature magic into its brilliant surface. The result is immediate.

You see yourself, or rather you see how you should look. Tall, with pitch black skin and golden designs crawling up the length of your arm nearly to your shoulders. Your horns have grown longer, now turned upwards at their ends. They look less like a circlet and more like a proper crown. You see yourself as far from muscular, but certainly not the pudgy lad who was first banished to wander the desert. You've gained some measure of definition in your arms and especially in your legs, but have only the barest hints of muscle tone in your chest and abdomen.

High cheekbones, almond shaped eyes, an unerringly straight nose, and a thin-lipped smile define your face. Your eyes are green, but you can see a thin ring of gold framing your iris. Perhaps not noticeable except upon close inspection. Your hair drapes down to your shoulder, straight and untamed. You should really start tying it back if you're not going to cut it, it's really getting in the way lately. Then of course there's your ears, extending six inches from your head and swept back close to the skull.

(3/4)
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Overall you'd call yourself good looking, though you could certainly stand to put on muscle. You're also perhaps a bit gaunt in the face, but personally think it suits you. Still, something's off. For one, your tattoos were red last you checked and they ended at your elbow, not just below your shoulder. Also you think your skin is darker than you remember it being. You were always pretty dark, but you were never pitch black. Will your Ascended form always influence your self-image, or is this merely an adjustment period?

>You're not going to figure this out tonight, get some sleep before you exhaust yourself.
>Write-in
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>>272070
>You're not going to figure this out tonight, get some sleep before you exhaust yourself.
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>>272070
>check dick size
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>>272070
>You're not going to figure this out tonight, get some sleep before you exhaust yourself.
>Cuddle with Chryssa
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>>272018
dude, what dyou call books
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>>272070
>write-in
>meditate on Chryssa's unconscious form and try to find memories of strength and steal those
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>>272070
seconding
>>272072
Also check to see what chrys looks like naked
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>>272079
but anon, that's rape!
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>>272070
>You're not going to figure this out tonight, get some sleep before you exhaust yourself.

Maybe we should check on Chrys or something. Nah, lets just nap.
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>>272070
>Write-in
Attempt to use Shaping to help Chrys's memory recovery, then rest after moving your friend to a bed.
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>>272070
This desu >>272078. It's not rape if she doesn't know we're taking her memories. She's still recovering so the only husk she'll have will be the memories closest to her identity. That means they'll be the best for defining self-image
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>>272078
>>272072
These
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>>272070

Also this
>>272072
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>>272070
Check on Chryssa, then get some sleep.
Maybe leave a note of some kind for Chryssa, she could wake up first
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>>272070
Supporting >>272078
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>>272079
>>272078
>>272081
these are pretty fucking similar, anon.
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>>272070
>You're not going to figure this out tonight, get some sleep before you exhaust yourself.
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>>272070
>You're not going to figure this out tonight, get some sleep before you exhaust yourself.
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>>272072
This desu
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>>272078
You mean the memories we used to stave off death?
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Rolled 7, 1, 5 = 13 (3d10)

>>272072
Rolling for dick size in centimeters.

>>272070
>>272078
Support.
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>>272072
Metaphysically check dick size though, it'll be better for improving magically.
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>>272078
Just pointing this out, you already pretty much stole all her memories when you drained her husk completely.
There ain't much left.
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>>272070
>You're not going to figure this out tonight, get some sleep before you exhaust yourself.
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>>272061
>That's the only truly significant conversation you think you had on that particular journey.
We also stated that the group was like family.
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>>272105
Can we do what we just did with our soul and check out her self image and try to steal some of that, then?
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>>272101
She's been asleep for hours, she should have regenerated a bunch of memories by now
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>>272078
It's not memories we need to steal, it's self-image. So Shell, as we just confirmed. We could try channeling Nature into her shell to see how she views herself.

But how do we dissect a self-image? Just take pieces of one shell and replace it on another? We'd have to identify the part that contains strength. And copy it so we don't damage her shell- we don't know if it regenerates. So... Nature+Metal?

Fuck, I bet Shaping Arts has something. Fuck.
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>>272105
Just gib muslces soma!
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testing
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>>272111
>We could try channeling Nature into her shell to see how she views herself.
I'd support doing this.
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>>272105
>You're going to be at this for hours. You lose track of time as you focus upon the task at hand.
Mik gets most of his memories back after a full night's sleep. Chryssa, having been out for hours should have regained some of the memories core to her identity, shouldn't she have?
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>>272105
Two things
1. I love this quest it's writing is superb
2. If what we look like is based on mental image did our dick shrinks cause as a male i'm always scared of my dick being tiny
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>>272108
You kind of already severed all the connections. Memories don't fuse naturally unless they're similar, and Mik could only really inspect points where the outer and inner layer connected. Those were obvious individual memories and they were... decompressed, I guess is the word I want to use here. If you tried to read a normal section of husk you'd just get scattered half-thoughts and broken images.

>>272110
That argument could be made actually. I imagine Mik has been meditating for about 4-ish hours. So she'd probably have maybe a fourth to a half of her memories back.
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>>272121
Mik isnt a bitch tho
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>>272111
Wait, the Shell is connected to the string unlike the rest of the soul. So we can copy her Shell by manipulating the strings. Also possibly narrow down which part is which. Maybe pinpoint the string of STRONK SELF-IMAGE and insert it into our own.
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>>272121
Glad you enjoy the writing, and that actually puts you somewhat in the minority. Most folks picture their dick as being larger than it actually is. So no, Mik's dick was incinerated at some point a long time ago and he grew it back to reflect his self image, it gained a little length at that point but hasn't changed much since.
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>>272122
Would channeling nature to her shell do anything?
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>>272131
Logic would dictate that it probably does the same thing with her that it just did to you.
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>>272129
You're welcome I just love the lore behind everything and seriously crap I thought I only had minor self esteem issues
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>>272132
Then I'm supporting the idea of channeling nature to her shell and trying to copy her super strength from there.
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>>272132
Fuck off, either let retards be ignored or mocked.
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I think water+metal might allow us to change the shell, but I'm scared because of what water did to our former body.

>>272129
>pic related
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>>272141
Using water on our body only did what it did because we were husk casting at the time.
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>>272149
So what did it do? Heal it into nothing because there was no shell?
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>>272070
>You're not going to figure this out tonight, get some sleep before you exhaust yourself.
Fuck yall, let's sleep.
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>>272152
Everything is vys, since our corpse no longer had a self image attempting to heal it while husk casting had us turn it back into vys, I think.
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I sorta got distracted trying to figure out average samja height based on average penis size, but voting closed. Give me a chance to count.
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>>272149
Possibly. But an alternate hypothesis could be that water signifies reversion to the default state which explains why spacetime went blank locally. It might also mean restoration/cohesion like we originally thought, but end up reverting our self-image to a former shape because what we have now is an anomaly or a sign of insanity.
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>>272158
Shouldn't that be established the other way around you homo?
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>>272156
Are you sure you actually read the quest, anon?
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>>272141
here is the fixed version
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Rolled 6, 6, 10 = 22 (3d10)

>>272158
Just roll for it and hope for nat 3.
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>>272168
Why is Darzi white
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>>272156
That's what I thought. Our soul wasn't attached to the body so it had no self image to revert to, and thus reverted to it's natural state, vys/strings.
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>>272168
You forgot the horns on Mik.
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>>272171
Darzi is black, Mik is the white midget cause of his new body, doy
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>>272153
>>272106
>>272097
>>272095
>>272091
>>272082
>Sleep

>>272072
>>272079
>>272086
>>272090
>>272098
>>272102
>Ogle yourself. It's not gay. Even if you're technically admiring a dick which isn't currently yours.

Also it kinda seems like quite a number of people want to experiment with Chryssa while she's still unconscious so before you go to sleep although this will be the last action, there's other stuff I wanna get to before the end of the thread vote real quick

>Steal those portions of her soul which have regenerated, those which she likely holds most sacred.
>Inspect Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength.

>>272161
Well yeah, ideally. But average penis size was a known quantity and at the time height wasn't. It's more or less resolved now.
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>>272183
>Inspect Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength.
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>>272183
>Inspect Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength.
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>>272183
>Inspect Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength.
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>>272183
>Inspect Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength.
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>>272183
>Inspect Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength.
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>>272183
>Inspect Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength.
>Steal those portions of her soul which have regenerated, those which she likely holds most sacred.
They don't seem mutually exclusive.
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>>272183
>Steal those portions of her soul which have regenerated, those which she likely holds most sacred.
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>>272183
>Inspect Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength.
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>>272183
>>Inspect Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength.
I give zero fucks about her inner workings
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>>272183
>Inspect Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength.
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>>272183
Wouldn't the "Inspecting Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength" thing also count as a Nature Magic Meditation for Insight?
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>>272194
Lets not poke through her most cherised memories
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>>272183
>Inspect Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength.
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>>272202
If it did then it'll have a sequential mediation malus attached to the next meditation.
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>>272183
>Inspect Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength.
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>>272187
>>272188
>>272190
>>272191
>>272192
>>272194
>>272198
>>272199
>>272200
>>272205
>Look at her naked

>>272194
>>272195
>STEAL HER SOUL

>>272202
Maybe. It is nature magic. Indeed, Nature Magic can be characterized... well, I don't want to spoil anything.

This Anon is right though >>272206

Writin'
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Rolled 3, 9, 8 = 20 (3d10)

>>272210
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Rolled 9, 4, 1 = 14 (3d10)

>>272210
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>>272210
>Look at her naked
Oh God, we're gonna drown in our own vomit before we can leave the trance.
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>>272183
>>Inspect Chryssa's self image to get an idea of how she views herself and perceives her strength.
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>>272215
but we're already degenerate. We fucked a human way back then, we also saw Mortia in the nude. WHat difference does it make to look at Chryssa's self image?
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>>272178
I got you covered
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Oh right, rolls.

This is pretty much straight up Nature magic again. I guess I'll count it as a meditation roll again. What you're gonna be doing is really a sort of Shaping Arts, and that's where it's...

Actually, I'll count this as a meditation to advance Shaping Arts a level. From novice to apprentice.

desu I'm kinda thinking I might move that trait down to the same section where you have "basic elements", creating a new category called... I dunno, "alternative traditions" or something. Restructure the way its bonuses work. Maybe change the trait into something like "Shaper" or "Shaper Training" and then have shaping arts advance on a scale like other schools of magic. It's just so intimately tied to metal and nature though. I don't know.
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>>272219
Amazing
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>>272217
Because girls with significant chest muscles have gross body parts. Even implants invariably look "wrong" because of the lack of fat.
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Rolled 1, 4, 5 = 10 (3d10)

>>272220
check this crit
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Rolled 7, 9, 4 = 20 (3d10)

>>272222
>not into muscle girls
>>272220
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Rolled 4, 1, 10 = 15 (3d10)

>>272226
only animu muscle girls

>>272220
state the modifiers you amnesiac
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Rolled 10, 7, 2 = 19 (3d10)

>>272220
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Rolled 5, 7, 2 = 14 (3d10)

>>272220
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Rolled 4, 4, 3 = 11 (3d10)

>>272220
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Rolled 9, 9, 5 = 23 (3d10)

>>272220
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>>272219
fixed it
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>all these people not realizing Chrys is pretty tall
She's a head shorter than Mik and a head taller than Mortia.
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Alright, I'll treat it as nature mediation roll. Basically what you're going to be doing here is using the threads which compose the mind almost like puppet strings to manipulate the husk and reveal the shell.

Bonus: +4 Preceptor, +4 Expert, +4 A Terrible Thing to Waste, +2 Shaping Arts, +2 Vatis Training, -2 Successive Meditation
+14

DC: 30 (Base 30)

>>272224
>>272226
>>272229
>24, 34, 29 vs DC 30
>Failure!

I'm gonna keep writing while y'all vote. You're at 8/[16] right now.

>Don't spend
>Spend 1
>Spend 7
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>>272261
Spend 7 obviously. We get back 8 from meditating
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>>272261
Wait, shit. Scratch that. All you've gotta do is spend 1 since it's pass/fail.
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>>272261
If it's a meditation roll isn't it pass/fail? There's only need to spend 1 vys.
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>>272261
>Spend 1
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>>272261
>>Spend 7
Yeah, it's not like you didn't know the result of this vote. We're probably going to bed immediately afterwards.
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>>272261
>Spend 1
Oy goy this is a meditation so it's pass fail.
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>>272261
>Spend 1
Spending 1 boss
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>>272261
>>272264
>spend 1
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>>272261
>Don't spend
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>>272261
>Spend 1
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>>272261
>Don't spend
too expensive
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>>272261
>Spend 1
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>>272219
You are my hero.
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>>272261
spend 7
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>>272246
seeing your corrections made me realized that there were a few things missing
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>>272261
>>Spend 1
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>>272261
>Spend 7
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>>272261
spend 1
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>>272283
You forgot about Mik's now-canon nigger dick.
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>>272283
Wouldn't this comparison be better if the hobbit was Chryssa, the girl was Mik, and the guy was Darzi?
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>>272288
remember this is white-boi mik.
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>>272261
>>272264
spend 7 anyways
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>>272293
Spend 7 husk
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>>272301
changing my vote to this
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>>272301
>mfw

Do it faggot
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Soma spent the last 40 searching if he has ever mentioned Mortia's pubic hair.
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>>272322
He has not mentioned it.
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For some reason you suddenly recall that blonde human girl's reaction to the sight of you naked. You've always been proud of your assets, so to speak, but the outright fear in her eyes seemed a little excessive. It's not that large, big sure but not excessive. Maybe human men don't quite fill their trousers as well as samjan, or at least not as well as you? Very possible, you suppose. They are pretty short, it would make sense for everything to be proportional. That actually brings up a worrying thought. What if, in this body, you're under equipped?

You dismiss those thoughts before they distract you from your task. You can check later, maybe. Frankly the very thought of a reduction in that most cherished part of your body is cause for anxiety. What would Darzi think? Actually, she probably wouldn't touch you regardless looking like you do now. You couldn't even really blame her, you're a little hard to look at.

To distract yourself from this unproductive line of inquiry, you turn your thoughts to Chryssa's soul. It is significantly reduced, but she has already recovered perhaps half of her husk simply by sleeping off the stress of having her memories and personality stripped away in order to sustain your life for a few more seconds. Channeling Nature magic, the threads which compose her mind blink into visibility. Each one gleams against the black of your surroundings, and with care you set yourself to the task of manipulating them just as you read in the book on Shaping Arts.

While it seemed simple on paper, in practice it proves incredibly difficult. Each minor correction shifts the husk in some manner, and actually parting it requires moving each and every one of the various strings into just the right positions in just the right order. It takes nearly an hour for you to finally reveal her shell, and every minute wasted fiddling around meant more of her husk regrew to make your life more difficult.
>Vys Pool: (7/[16])
>Congratulations! You've gained an insight into Nature magic!

Still, the final result is worth it. You didn't have to waste vys eroding away her soul with Earth magic, your weakest element and thus least efficient. Her shell does not look like yours, but nor does it look like those of the various other people who's souls you've inspected in the past. You imagine the manner in which she achieved Earth grandmastery has something to do with it. While it is compose of black stone, as is usual, it presents a solid front not eaten through with holes.

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Yet what it does possess is cracks. The entire shell is broken up into large plates which remain in constant motion, some flowing under, others pushing against, but most grinding past one another. You don't know quite what benefit this provides, but it seems worth keeping in mind. You can't help but wonder how that might affect your own soul in its altered state. Come to think of it, what did your shell look like before you achieved Water grandmastery? You never really got the chance to observe it.

Focusing upon the shell in a more general sense rather than solely upon its appearance, you channel Nature magic. As you'd hoped, you're treated to an image of Chryssa as she sees herself. You certainly wouldn't call her an attractive woman, far from it in fact. Her body is covered in scars, though not the puckered masses of tissue that once covered Darzi's body. These appear almost as rips in her flesh, healed over only loosely. Most look to be old, none are the angry red of a freshly healed wound.

Perhaps predictably your eyes are drawn to her breast. They're small, less than a handful, but that's still larger than you'd thought. Just how often does she bind her chest? Does she do it everyday, or just when she thinks she'll see combat? Regardless, you're soon distracted by her borderline grotesque musculature. She has sculpted muscles you didn't even know existed. Her shoulders bulge upwards in tiers, her biceps are as thick around as your thighs, and her thighs look like tree trunks. Perhaps her face is her saving grace. She's actually acceptable from the neck up, though still horribly pale.

She's also much hairier than you or Darzi are. There's a light dusting of orange hair under her arms, and a wild tangle crowning her womanhood. It's strange to look at, gross frankly. You suppose Profectus mentioned this but it's still just odd to you. That blonde human must have removed whatever body hair she had, because there was nothing like this. You can only assume Mortia took the same steps as well.

This isn't productive, you're wasting time thinking about this and it's unpleasant to begin with. You're doing this with a purpose, not to gawk. Still, this is less than intuitive. How would you even go about altering or picking apart her self image? Do you just focus on her strength and hope the depiction responds? You try that, but nothing happens. The depiction remains standing, its posture stiff and military.

>Try to erode parts of her shell to see how her self image changes. Granted, these changes will probably be permanent.
>Channel Metal magic into her shell to see how that alters her self-image.
>Channel Water magic into her shell, you have no idea what will happen.
>Channel Fire magic into her shell, what could possibly go wrong?
>Perhaps you're simply not good enough at Nature magic to pick things apart in any greater detail? You've done enough for now, and frankly she's hard to look at.
>Write-in
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>>272333
>>Perhaps you're simply not good enough at Nature magic to pick things apart in any greater detail? You've done enough for now, and frankly she's hard to look at.
Sleep
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That was a weird post to write, being honest. I don't know.
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>>272333
>Write-in
Just take her husk and incorporate it into ours. Gives us a chance to copy self-image without worrying about doing any (permanent) damage.
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>>272333
>her thighs look like tree trunks
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHICCCKKKKKKK
>>Channel Metal magic into her shell to see how that alters her self-image.
>>Try to erode parts of her shell to see how her self image changes. Granted, these changes will probably be permanent.
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>>272333
>Try to erode parts of her shell to see how her self image changes. Granted, these changes will probably be permanent.
Make her beautiful.
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>>272333
Supporting just stealing the memories >>272339. We don't want to mess with Chryssa's self image permanently or try anything that might mess up her soul.
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>95% of the update is about dicks and cunts
God. Fucking. Dammit.

>>272333
>Channel Metal magic into her shell to see how that alters her self-image.
>Channel Water magic into her shell, you have no idea what will happen.
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>>272333
>Channel Metal magic into her shell to see how that alters her self-image.
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>>272333
>Channel Metal magic into her shell to see how that alters her self-image.
Then do >>272339
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>>272346
>God. Fucking. Dammit.
It felt relevant. It's not like anyone's self image ever features clothing. Otherwise they'd heal flaps of oddly colored loose skin to mimic the clothes in their image. That's probably how Rhynian abominations got started.
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>>272346
>eww they're being dirty and talking about private parts
This is an 18+ website.
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>>272330
>7/[16]
oy goy we regain vys from meditation.
We should be at 15
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>>272333
>Perhaps you're simply not good enough at Nature magic to pick things apart in any greater detail? You've done enough for now, and frankly she's hard to look at.
I hope our nightmare includes a naked Chryssa.
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>>272350
one day I'll find the doujins soma, one day.
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>>272339
Goddammit, self-image is not contained in the husk. How is this not clear already? And what about her memories blending with ours once again as before? We've tried this method before. It didn't work. Is there any reason you thought it might work, or did you just not think at all?

>>272350
Look, I'm not gonna pretend I wasn't curious about Chryssa's muff, so you don't have to pretend you didn't thoroughly enjoy writing about it.
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>>272333
>Channel Metal magic into her shell to see how that alters her self-image
I want to just give up for now, but goddamn some of these choices are way too dumb.
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>>272350
We're there ever any Rhynians that regrew natural armor?
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You are going to do irreversible damage to Chryssa
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>>272358
Yes.
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>>272359
And?
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>>272359
>implying damage
We're fixing her, anon. We're making her better.
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>>272356
I though it might work because last time we did it we cut away all the relevant memories beforehand. This time we'll have the memories that might actually influence how we see ourself.
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Do nithin
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>>272359
It'll be fine. Don't vote for earth and it'll be fine.
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>>272333
>>Perhaps you're simply not good enough at Nature magic to pick things apart in any greater detail? You've done enough for now, and frankly she's hard to look at.
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Alright, this shit has gone on long enough. Does anyone else notice the ridiculously bad decisions that have been made over the last two threads? I mean I don't expect much from you guys but this almost seems intentional.
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>>272369
Or fire.
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>>272333
Supportan >>272339
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>>272343
supporting
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>>272357
>>272349
>>272348
>>272346
>>272343
>Metal

>>272354
>>272335
>>272371
>You've done enough.

>>272339
>>272345
>>272349
>>272374
>Drain her husk.

>>272343
>>272344
>Fuck her up permanently on a random whim.

>>272346
>Water

Metal it is, after that let's call this session of meditation done with. It's eaten up pretty much the whole session and I at least want to get Mik to the point that he's asleep so we can do other shit in the next session. Y'know, because then Mik will actually know where the fuck he is and what he's doing here.
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>>272372
Welcome to banished quest, newfriend.
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>>272372
Ircabal always vote for bad decisions.
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>>272376
Are you at least going to have us drain her husk afterwards? It not mutually exclusive with the winning vote and it's only off by 1
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>>272377
No, he's right. There's been an exceptionally high number of people who either didn't read the archives at all or lack any hint of reading comprehension. Might be the move to /qst/.
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>>272381
One vote for not doing that.
We're going to sleep after this anyways, we don't need to screw with her even more.
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>>272381
Anon, that will just lead to more memory shenanigans which will mean more meditation and it will just drag on, maybe later. Y'know, once she's not unconscious and this isn't all entirely against her will.
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>>272376
Hey guys let's vote to not sleep after this meditation and instead do something else so the session doesn't end.
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>>272386
>which will mean more meditation

soma confirmed for not wanting us to git gud
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>>272381
It's pretty mutually exclusive with our previous decision to purposefully divest ourselves of big chunks of her Husk because of exactly why you lot are voting to drain it.

Also, again, seriously the strength thing is not in her Husk.
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Wasn’t there a time limit for getting that armor? Something like 11 days remaining and it’s at the other end of the world?

Should have gotten some somewhat rapid transport vehicle or something…
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>>272386
Soma, if we keep one half of our flesh pale we're one step closer to CHIM right?
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>>272389
Well, at this point Anon you'd have a -4 to any meditation. If you still chose to meditate, you'd have a -8 the next time. Then after that a -16, -32, -64, et cetera.
The malus increases exponentially.
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>>272395
...holy shit, we Vivic now?
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>>272391
It's literally in the first post of the thread, too.

>What part of the soul contains the self-image? It certainly couldn't be the husk, you've exhausted your husk entirely and even in that state Zahak managed to heal you in a manner consistent with how you view yourself.

>>272393
No such thing. All we have to do is activate some artifact in the Rhynian forest. There's an armor nearby that we want, and another in the middle of the wasteland, but there's no time limit on those.
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>>272395
We'd have to come up with a cool name for the pale half so people don't just assume we have vitiligo.
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>>272400
>Rhynian forest
I meant Elaudia. I need to sleep.
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>>272402
>The dancer in white

Haha holy shit we really could be the immortal Michael Jackson lich, charming the masses with our charisma and terrorizing them with our oud in equal measure
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>>272129
>minority
Are you drunk, Soma? I don't think many people'd be here if they didn't think your writing was great.
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>>272433
I meant mostly in the sense that a minority of dudes think their dick is smaller than it actually is. I actually don't usually worry about my writing quality. I mean, I know I make a lot of typos and for this to be anywhere near passable it would need a shit ton of editing, but for some stuff I just write off the top of my head without much prep I think it's pretty good.

This thread has gone weird places.
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>>272433
The existence of /qst/ and akun is proof that a qm's writing ability has no effect on his ability to pull in players.
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>>272440
find a place to talk about your dreams and it could get weirder
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>>272441
>The existence of quests is proof that a qm's writing ability has no effect on his ability to pull in players.
Fixed
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Siege never ever
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>>272461
As it should be
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>>272461
Playing Siege! with Zahak never ever. Even here in the spirit realm where the models have no size or crazy limit.
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>>272464
If you vote for it I'll vote for it. Promise.
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>>272372
>Banished quest
>good decisions

lmao
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While maintaining the flow of Nature magic into the shell, you begin to channel vys simultaneously but separately. If you weren't so skilled in Metal magic, this would prove difficult. However, because of your mastery it's a simple task, despite your relative lack of understanding in Nature.

Though the two streams of magic travel along different paths they arrive at the same destination, and as Metal begins to infuse Chryssa's volatile shell her self-image undergoes a few subtle changes. For one, everything about it becomes incredibly detailed. Previously there had been some slight ambiguity about certain aspects of her self, it was though the further away one traveled from the heart the less defined that area became, with the exception being the head.

However, that is no longer the case. You could probably pick out every individual striation on her fingernails, every follicle of hair on her arms. The changes to the shell itself are similarly drastic. The black stone does not vanish as it usually did in your previous attempts performing this upon yourself, but instead the cracks in its surface are bound with gold, and the stone takes on a perfectly smooth surface, almost as if it's been glazed. Her shell reminds you of the sort of fine ceramic or porcelain you might find in a noble's home.

Other than that the changes to her soul and her self-image seem minimal. It didn't actually change any of the details, only sharpened them. You wonder, if healing is merely supplying the body with enough vys to restore the soul's image of the body and Metal magic seems capable of reinforcing and bringing clarity to that image, could a symphysis of Water and Metal heal faster or with greater accuracy than if you were to simply use Water magic?

Perhaps something to ponder another time. For now, you're exhausted beyond belief and you've been meditating for hours without actually recovering at all. You allow yourself to withdraw from your trance, aware on some instinctual level that there are bedrooms upstairs which you might take advantage of. Yours, and something about it just marks it as belonging to you, is at the end of the hall. The others remain unclaimed.

Rising to your feet, you walk unsteadily towards Chryssa. Though tired, she feels light as a feather in your grasp. You throw her over your shoulder and carry her with you through the suddenly oversized doorways, letting your feet guide you where they will. A brief ascent of the stairs places you before a long hallway lined with doors on either side, yet another flight of stairs behind you leading to the next floor. You open the first door on the right and decide to deposit Chryssa on the enormous feather mattress within.

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After giving her the courtesy of throwing the covers over her, you stumble back out and slam the door behind you. It was an accident, but she doesn't seem to notice. You realize somewhat belatedly that she probably still thinks you're dead, and this thought is soon followed by another. You didn't actually bother to look around the room you tossed her in. The details all sort of just blurred together. Is that due to your own exhaustion, or the nature of this place you've found yourself in?

Your rooms are, as expected, richly appointed. Thick carpets line the wooden floors and candles scattered about the place provide light. There's a plush sofa situated before a fireplace just as you enter the room, and further in a long desk in front of which yet more seats are arranged. This would be a good place to meet people, you have absolute power here after all. Plus it would probably impress clients.

The walls are lined with bookshelves, each stacked to the brim with books, yet as you grab one and flip open the front cover you find the pages are filled with nonsense. Random letters, numbers, and symbols of no meaning. Unfortunate, but not wholly surprising. Perhaps your subconscious mind isn't able to simply populate a library with books. You set the book back but realize another one has already taken its place, and then realize you're not holding a book. How you'd missed that, you can't be certain.

Wandering further into your rooms you find balconies to either side open up to reveal vast chambers in which statues of the most fearsome beast you've managed to slay are rendered in aching detail. However, based simply upon the manner in which space works these chambers shouldn't be possible. They would exceed the size of the tower. You also don't see any method by which to enter these chambers other than simply leaping over the balcony. Perhaps illusions, or just some sort of perception trick?

It doesn't really matter. You push on into your bedroom. It's separated from the office area by a wooden screen, presumably to afford you privacy. Your clothes, those that you still wear at least, fall away readily. You leave your trousers on, or Chryssa's trousers rather, but leave nothing else. Actually, now that you have the opportunity, you decide to inspect the gifts that this body possesses in a little more detail. Sliding a hand down the front of your trousers, you're quickly able to ascertain that this current state of affairs is absolutely unacceptable.

Yet despite your displeasure with the current state of affairs, fixing it can wait until tomorrow. You collapse onto your bed, finding the mattress exactly the right firmness to maximize your comfort. Enough to support, but it retains that luxury softness you so enjoy. You worm your way under the covers and finally close your eyes, the candles extinguishing themselves without any conscious effort on your part.

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Almost the moment you close your eyes, you're asleep. Unfortunately your rest is not to be a peaceful one. Previously when an otherworldly presence sought to invade your dreams, they'd always had the courtesy to knock first. That is not the case this time. You do not feel any foreign presence, you simply become aware of yourself in standing before an enormous creature surrounded on all sides by its devoted followers.

Your eyes are drawn first to its mask, intricately wrought steel emitting a warm, almost inviting light from within. It doesn't strike you as particularly malevolent, at first glance. Candles adorn its back, their wax almost a part of the creature's robes. Perhaps most striking is its height, the four armed spirit stands twenty feet tall if it's an inch, and adorns itself in thick armor and elaborately decorated cloth.

From underneath its robes emerge four arms, two of them holding aloft burning braziers which fill the air with the thick scent of incense. As its gaze turns towards you, along with the gaze of its hundreds of disciples, you feel an overwhelming desire to kneel before a creature so obviously superior to you, a creature which could crush you as an ant but due solely to its benevolence chooses to let you live.

You don't kneel, but you do bow your head as a sign of respect. You're not sure what it is you face but it's clearly powerful, and you don't wish to cause offense.

{Strong willed.} It's voice wells up through your thoughts, tender and affectionate. It uses the same tone in addressing you that another might use with a favored pet. {As you must be. A meek coward would never dare to anger the Gods as you have.}

>EEEEEEEEEEND THREEAAAD
Next thread Monday.
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>>272492
>Water and Metal heal faster or with greater accuracy
We should really try that out some time. Considering we've GM'd both elements, it could reduce the cost of healing significantly.
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http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Banished%20Quest
Archive here.
Turns out we actually didn't need a new thread, the old one is still up, but c'est la vie.
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>>272506
2/4. The character sheet should be up to date.
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>>272498
how many nature insights do we have?
gud thred btw
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>>272505
Next thread when?
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>>272510
see >>272498
>Next thread Monday.
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>>272498
This should be good.
Thanks for running Soma, see you wednesday.
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>>272513
Right, but when are you actually running the next thread?
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>>272498
Yay, more spiritual exposition to make notes over. And another metal-water experiment noted as well.

>>272513
So, when?
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>>272498
Personality
Positive:
*Clever
*Stoic
*(Generally) Friendly
Negative:
*Dickish
*Arrogant
*Passive Aggressive


Time to Jew a Void being or whatever. Might as well be flip with him, we're already committed.

"Wait, so you mean even more so than when I brought the other guy back to life?"
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>>272515
>>272517
Sometime before the heat death of the universe.
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>>272508
Need to update our appearance I think.
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>>272498
How does the power level aura of this one compare to the one we felt from the Void Janitor? I vaguely remember it felt powerful as well, though this one seems to be about what I'd expect from an Ancient and that one did not.
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>>272519
Do you like the /qst/ thread features? Bold, italics, colored, etc. I only ask cuz you don't seem to use 'em much.
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>>272524
I'm also interested in how it compares to the child of the gods we encountered in the void.
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>>272524
literally surya
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>>272524
Keep in mind, Anon. Mik is not the same man he was during that meeting. He's a Grandmaster Metal vatis. That's nothing to shake a stick at. This emissary is the Child of a Child, so an Ancient.

>>272527
I hate colors with a passion. Not too fond of bold either. Italics I might use from time to time for emphasis. Frankly though I find that sort of... reliance upon something other than the text to generate interest or focus or attention to be a little bit cheap, I guess? I don't like it, leave it at that.

I do love the new character limit, though. Having it longer is great.

>>272523
The appearance is currently tied to Mik's self-image, so it's not going to update based upon this current body unless he continues to inhabit this body long enough for it to start shifting his perception of himself.
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>>272531
That one pretty much made our soul tear itself apart in a desperate attempt to unite with the magnificent being in its vicinity, but I wonder if what would happen now? Perhaps we'd even survive a chat with a vys pool of over a hundred?
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>>272498
Sucks we get this trait. I think actual direct issues due to having a fake body, with a depleted husk and foreign husk together, and having the original body destroyed would be more appropriate.
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>dealing with a void entity with no vys to fix bad rolls

Whelp, pray to whatever you want to for that luck boys, we're gonna need it.

>inb4 nat 30 to get a permanent stay of execution where we are on divine probation and are warned to not body hop again and if we die we need to stay down
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>>272544
>waaah i don't like this thing that's been said to not be negative unless we go above and beyond the usual to fuck ourselves over
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>>272544
I think the trait will be interesting. As long as we get to keep super strength and our relationship with Chryssa gets repaired I would say it was all worthwhile.
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>>272536
Why is an Ancient Grandchild of the Gods able to speak to us, but a Void spirit like Ricky can only screech?

Has whatever keeps him in our cloak to organize things diminished or damaged him in some way?
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>>272544
>notto disu shitto agen
>>272554
So we can immediately haggle with it next thread, of course. I wonder how many shekels he'll want to call off the hunt?
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>>272553
Even if we don't keep the strength we've got two Nature insights out of it, a slightly clearer understanding of the soul, and we know what Metal and Water do when used in conjunction.
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>>272554
desu there's a pretty large difference between Ancients and Elders. Elders are the last generation of 'pure' void creatures. After that all bear the taint of the Great Rebellion which created spirits.

I don't want to get into it much further than that, because spoilers, but yeah.

Anyway, I need sleep. It's like 5 AM. Night folks.
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>75 gold, 314 silver, 1 silver pendant, 2 diamond earrings,

What the fuck Zahak? Where did you find the coins and the earrings?
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>>272561
Water heals but it also makes ice and wets things. Metal reinforces the body and soul, but it also makes hard rocks and sharp spikes; there should be 2 results from combining each of the elements-we shouldn't assume there's only one.
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>>272552
What you wrote has nothing to do with what I wrote.

>>272553
Yeah, those parts are neat. They seem to straight up positive for the result of a nat triple 1 though. It would feel more genuine to me if we had some actual negatives from destroying our original body etc instead of just waiting to learn how to incorporate superstrength before getting our old body back, which seems to be the plan.
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Rolled 10, 6, 4 = 20 (3d10)

>>272551
>nat 30
You called?
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>>272567
I know, I left it out to make the post briefer.

Combining the mundane uses of Water and Metal should be interesting, though. The most obvious application would be to reinforce the ice used in Point Defense.
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>>272575
You can also use fire magic to control heat to make cold
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>>272561
>>272553
Mik thinks her muscles look fugly and deforned though, and also why not just use shapping arts and water to remebr whatwe did when we fuxed her up.
It doesnt make sense to look at her soul for this, and hell we have a body we can study now in the abomination and taint that is our current body.
I think the muscles anon want will have to be made after experimenting with healing, amd not just copy pasting a steroid filled human.
On a side bote i find it funny that some guys were agianst something becaise its cutting corbers, but anon is soing that now with just ttying to give mick permanent steroids instead of the shit this body has now.
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>>272599
>bote i find it funny that some guys were agianst something becaise its cutting corbers, but anon is soing that now with just ttying
Anon are you alright?
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>>272599
I need sleep.
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>>272599
>that retard tier spelling
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>>272600
>>272602
Its a tripple combo of using a phone with wierd auto correct, lack of sleep, and ridding the bus.
I honestly forgot to check the spelling before pressing post.
My point still stands in that we dont need to copy paste her malformed muscle when we can experiment with water (maybe gain some vys) or even look at our current body.
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>>272614
>malformed
Anon what part of your retard brain told you shehulk had malformed muscle?
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>>272576
No. No, you can't. That's water magic. We've been a water mage since thread 1. We've been using it to make desert weather and the depths of Longia more bearable. How can you be this wrong?

>>272601
A bullet in the brain is what you need. How the fuck is water magic going to give you muscles? That's not what it does by a long shot.
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>>272615
Miks words.
>>272616
Was mainly talking about studying muscles throigh water magic and finding a way to make muscles that fits miks needs instead of just giving him a steroid filled body.
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>>272618
Mik will genuinely use any excuse he can come up with to find a reason to say he totally wouldn't fuck any of those piss haired women
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>>272618
Mik thinks her muscle is malformed because she's a woman but ripped.

He's not into musclegirls.
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>>272618
You can't just make shit however you want with water magic.

It just restores your current form according to the self-image restored in your soul.

You don't actually make anything new with water. You fuel the soul and it remakes its own body.

This has been stated again. And again. You. Goddamn. Fuckhead.

Also, her muscles are only ugly because they're on a woman and that does not match Mik's ideal of a beautiful woman. That's it. There is no deformation, they're just regular muscles. There are no steroids, she's been that way since birth. There is no cutting corners, we are trying to learn a perfectly valid but lost school of magic.

Just stop trying to think. Don't try to come up with ideas. You were so clearly not made for it.
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>>272633
Loke i siad study muscles, not use water magic to make muscle and through that understanding make better muscles that fit mik instead of copy pasting.
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>>272641
AAAAAA MIK CAN'T MAKE HIMSELF MORE MUSCULAR UNLESS HIS SELF IMAGE BECOMES MORE MUSCULAR HOW ARE YOU NOT ADFGADFHADFHAGNFHGBD

You know what? I choose not to believe a person can be this moronic. Congratulations on successfully trolling me. 6/10. Now post your "I was pretending to be retarded all along!" macro and go away.
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>>272627
I dug through soma's ask.fm to find the name of the chick he said had a similar body to chrys, ps stop being a retard
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>>272643
I never siad no to using shapping arts, but not to just copy paste chrysa shit and instead make our own.
You seem to assume i was saying to use water for everything when i just wanted it to give us the proper understanding so that we can make the right adjustments and strength to mik.
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>>272647
Nope. Not even gonna.
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so if we spent a week/month/year with metal magic skin, would our self image turn into metalMik?
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>>272676
Maybe. The question then would be whether Water magic would be able to heal us, since Soma said that if someone's self image had clothes it'd result in the skin trying to mimic those clothes, rather than Water creating new clothes.
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>>272676
Easier to just get more dragonblood tattoos with reinforce+body.
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>>272536
So we spend a day working out and combat training non stop and we gain super strength and skill?
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Why nobody wany to read the book about how shaping the soul works? It actually explains how shapeshifting works.
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>>272794
Because there are lots of things to do, all of them are useful and will help us git gud but we don't have a lot of time.
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>>272810
What we are trying to do is change our self-image. If you wanted to do that anytime soon you'd be reading the Shaping Arts.
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>>272817
True. But we also need to learn lots of effects so we can counter them with manipulate, get better at earth magic, read Varvar's memoirs, train martial arts and very importantly fulfil the Stooges' task. We just don't have time for everything at once and anons have different preferences on what to do first. I personally want to improve Mik's soul, yes, but I'd prefer to get to the Stooges' temple in Elaudia first before the timer runs out. We still have enough time, but knowing anons we will find 10 side quests on our way and then we'll have to race it, so we should at least start out now (after sleeping to regenerate vys and then reforming Mik's true body).
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Holy shit, sides are in orbit over spellcheck anon and angryanon arguing

>>272645
desu that doesn't really look like tree trunk legs and thigh thickness arms though

pic related was how I pictured her physique
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>>272655
So you were the one trolling me?
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>>272906
I just used the chick soma mentioned, Alevtina Titarenko for those who give a shit
Also heres her when shes actually cut down for a show
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It's a little annoying that absolutely zero progress was made this thread
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>>273197
we advanced our magical knowledge a lot in a short time, gained a better understanding of the soul and self image, and brought us closer to gaining super strength.
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>>273205
>and brought us closer to gaining super strength
Not really. We're miles away from doing that unless we have something that tells us what we're suppose to be doing.
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>>273215
>It would seem like, if you wanted to change your memory, you should have reinforced one of the muddled perspectives you encountered in the similar memories, like the four different versions of your father reading you to sleep. You would guess if you could find a memory of combat in which you employed Chryssa's immense strength, reinforcing that perspective would have ingrained it in your own memory.
>These shared memories though seem to clear for you to be able to pull off the same trick, an unfortunate turn of events. You seem to have unintentionally sabotaged yourself.

Seems obvious enough to me, though I think that attempting this will have implications on our sense of self and memories beyond just getting stronk. Maybe we should wait until we master the shaping arts before obtaining hulk mode.
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>>273317
we coulda achieved it this thread if we hadnt been stupid idk how it was that people voted to sever the similar threads
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>>272505
>archive description doesn't mention us getting killed and self-rezzing from the dead
DROPPED
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>>273317
Incorrect. The self-image is contained in the shell not the husk which anybody smart enough should have figured out. The problem is messing with the shell is dangerous since we don't know what we're doing.
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>>273317
>>273392
You should realize nothing in the text suggests that reinforcing a memory of being stronk would have ingrained that strength properly into our self-image. While memory clearly does impact self-image to some degree, it's horrifically imprecise. We'd likely sooner ingrain being short and white on our self-image than having magical muscles.

We sabotaged messing with our memories; this has no bearing on whether we sabotaged self-image manipulation. Like. guys, come on it's not that hard to just follow along with the information we've been getting.

It's depressing, frankly.
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>>273449
I'm a bit confused as to what exactly we sabotaged in regards to our memories and self-image. Can you clarify?
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>>273467
Some people wanted to use magic to imprint select memories of Chryssa's more strongly into Mik's soul in hopes that it would confer her strength to his self-image and allow him to retain it even after restoring his body.

When we cut the strings of connecting the most closely related memories shared between her husk and ours, we basically made that really hard to do at our current skill level. So, we inadvertently sabotaged that approach to gaining her strength by our previous action.

Only, that approach is highly unlikely to work in the first place without serious side-effects, so bitching about it is dumb. The smart approach is to identify precisely the strings of reality/self-image that relates to her super strength and adjust things accordingly.

Starting with memories in the husk is a little like trying to construct a building from the top down. I'm not going to say it's impossible, but it's riskier and I doubt it'll be as stable.
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>>273488
I would be happy with just restoring our body to what it was before this incident.
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>>273488
huh, in a sense that's a good thing.

I think the safer and more stable way to get Chryssa's Impossible strength trait is to become proficient in our genderbent body of Chryssa and use Metal magic to reinforce our self-made memories of having and testing our immense strength.
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>>273488
The thing about memories in the husk though, is that we have much more experience with manipulating them. We're much less likely to make a deadly change with husk manipulation even if we might make a lot of unintended minor changes. Obviously it would be better to just manipulate the strings of reality directly to work it out, but we would first need to learn HOW to find super strength and make it permanent before we could even try it. That becomes harder if we ever lose the strength that this body has, which will happen once we return ourself to normal or become severely injured. Simply put, it would just take a long time to figure out how to do it perfectly right, whereas doing it with memories in the husk is much quicker and easier.

The trade-off is that we're taking risks about unintended changes to our self image, but in my opinion it's better to get what we want quickly and deal with the consequences than do it slow and methodically. That sounds rash and stupid, but we have so many other facets of magic that we need to improve on and not enough time. I would argue that if we ever get to a point where we have the luxury of time to perfectly correctly manipulate reality and add super strength, that we could just as easily use that time to fix any undesirable changes to our self-image. However, in one scenario we have super strength in the interim, and in the other scenario we do not. That's why I think that going the husk and memory route, unstable though it may be, is better.

I don't believe we'll make any dangerous changes, even if we make some bad ones, but without time that we don't have to study, we can't say the same thing about other options.
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>>273536
That would probably be safer, yeah. But I doubt we'd get the whole +8 out of it, maybe a lesser diminished form of the trait. Since that wouldn't really be cutting to the core of what generates her strength. I strongly suspect that going deeper is necessary for that, a more fundamental examination of the construction of her body.
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>>273536
>>273488
>>273569
>>273570
Why not just READ THE FUCKING BOOK? It the best thing we could be doing right now. The Shaping Arts has an entire chapter on this shit.
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>>273569
Most of the high-priority magic stuff we want to do is directly related to this stuff. The Shaping Arts, directly related. Improving as a Nature vatis, directly related. Understanding the fundamental nature of the soul, directly related.

We don't have to perfectly understand everything, we just need to slow down enough for this process to be a real learning experience.

What I think of the -conservative- approach would be doing another nature meditation, this time on Mik's own self-image at as deep a level of clarity as possible; then a second nature meditation, this time a group meditation involving Mortia, Chryssa, and probably Darzi as a Samjan control subject to examine the DIFFERENCES in the strings of reality and/or self-image. Optionally, we could read a bit more of the Shaping Arts book.

It's like half a day of work I want to do on this before deciding whether it's even safe enough to go forward on. That is not too much time to take, in my opinion.

>>273584
Way to be reasonable, asshole.
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>>273584
>reading
>when we could be experimenting on our soul and figuring shit out for ourself
desu senpai we get vys from each experiment, but only 1 for finishing the book. We have to counter-jew Soma for vys wherever possible
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>>273584
por que no los dos?
We can read the book to learn about the using the shaping arts to mould the "immense strength" memories onto our self-image, then we can use Metal and Water Magic combined to graft and reinforce the trait to our own self image.
Reading the book gets us 1 vys, meditating for shaping arts experimentation gets us another 1 vys, and since this is a nature magic meditation to examine our soul/self-image even further in order to safely "graft" the immense strength trait onto our self image, this would also land us another 1 vys. Then experimenting with combined Metal and Water magic on our self image would give us 1 more vys.
we'll get +4 vys if we do the suggested above.
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>>273604
Alright I could get behind that idea. Meditating doesn't lock us out of anything and has the advantage of improving nature as a side effect. I'd vote for it.
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>>273604
>>273570
>>273569
I still think we should go the physical route with water magic and figure out what makes her muscles so strong, and if we can improve it to miks needs using shapping arts.

Still no clue why that anon was pissed at the sugestion of memorising what her muscles are built like and maybe work.
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>>273632
>We can read the book to learn about the using the shaping arts to mould the "immense strength" memories onto our self-image
>Memory
Why do you keep calling it a memory? It's not even in the husk.
>then we can use Metal and Water Magic combined to graft and reinforce the trait to our own self image.
Because that's clearly working.
>Reading the book gets us 1 vys, meditating for shaping arts experimentation gets us another 1 vys, and since this is a nature magic meditation to examine our soul/self-image even further in order to safely "graft" the immense strength trait onto our self image, this would also land us another 1 vys. Then experimenting with combined Metal and Water magic on our self image would give us 1 more vys.
>we'll get +4 vys if we do the suggested above.
It's actually +2 vys.
>meditating for shaping arts experimentation gets us another 1 vys, and since this is a nature magic meditation to examine our soul/self-image even further in order to safely "graft" the immense strength trait onto our self image, this would also land us another 1 vys. Then experimenting with combined Metal and Water magic on our self image would give us 1 more vys.
This is all just +1 vys since we're trying to do one thing.
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So How many days do we have left before the Stooges Repo Ricky?
From what I understand, our time table is like this:
>Last warning given was 2 threads ago: {Twelve days.}
>We spent 1 day haggling with Sadik and Mahana, getting the deeds to our personal magical realm, created our wizard tower, got killed and respawned into a body of genderbent Chryssa, then diddled Chryssa's and our own self-image to figure out what just happened then went to sleep.
>That leaves us with 11 days left to complete the Stooge's debt.
>If we do what >>273604 says, this'll take half a day to complete, but before all of that we'll also have to spend the 1 whole day going back to Nazir and clearing up all the confusion and drama that our "death" has caused, no doubt needing to explain a WHOLE LOT of shit just to prove to our immediate families that Mik is still Mik despite his soul being in a genderbent clone body of his degenerate mutant ex-waifu which I'll round to taking needing 2 days to complete and leave us with 9 days left.
>From there we begin our trek to the artifact by porting to Majhaya using the teleporter in our brother's basement.
>From Majhaya it's three or four days to reach the artifact the Stooges want Mik to activate so that leaves us with 5-6 days left.
We still have time to spend some days to prepare and power level our party but given how prone we are to side quests I really like to finish the Stooge's quest with a 1 day buffer from the deadline.
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>>273935
autism
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>>273935
or we could just continue being mik and not explain to anyone why we look like chryssa with a dick and just skip step 2
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>>273947
>>273935
Or we could just fix the problem right now.
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>>273954
We could but how willing do you think Chryssa will be to Mik fucking around with her self image?
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>>273954
>problem
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>>273954
that would only make Surya happy if we kill the resurrected elf boy.
And do you want the Strength trait or not?
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you fags still wanking each other off?
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>>273971
>>273961
>>273963
Being a Samjan > Strength trait.
Hell all it takes is one good hit and it'll be gone anyway.
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>>274006
Samjans are faggots
Chrys can crush stone with her hands
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>>274006
but a super strong samjan > both
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>>274008
Mik can crush stones with his mind, whats your argument?
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>>274016
>not realizing life is all about making your use of vys efficient
Crushing shit with your hands costs 0 vys, mind shit costs some amount of vys
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>>274008
And? You want to lock us out of the Paramatma for a retarded trait that isn't even permanent. It take months for the trait to become permanent.
>>274013
Fair point.
>>274022
And mind shit > muscle.
Always has been always will be.
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>>274035
>it takes months
If you're a retarded nigger who can't figure out how to just shove shit onto your self image
>mind shit > muscle
Have fun being zero vys while shehulk crushes your skull with her thighs
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>>274006
Being Samjan is overrated. Imagine what we could do with the strength trait, metal magic, and dhatu-school martial arts. Our metal magic bonuses are +18, so if we could use those in combat with dhatu martial arts and we had super strength that's +28 to melee combat. With super strength Mik has that bonus while completely naked and spending trivially small amounts of vys, since he's GM metal.

It's not like Mik loses any powers from this anyways. The only downside is our appearance, and it's stupid to value that over such a huge bonus.
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>>274022
Not when you are an expert/master/grandmaster.
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>>274072
Not all things are about power. Mik is distressed about his current situation, and wants to turn back into his Samjan self.
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>>274053
>implying we cant leech vys or use a 1 vys spell to paralyze a bitch.
We can akways go into the negatives, but some has stated that we would need to get out of them before combat ends or have a constant supply of vys.
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>>274092
>not draining yourself of vys before fighting the vatis
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>>274084
>Not all things are about power
Name one instance of Mik passing up a unique opportunity for power.
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>>274105
When he decided to split the loot, back in the mines of Longia? We value things beyond power, namely ourself, our friends, and our family.
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>>274105
Discipling to name one.
>>274101
Then you're already dead.
>>274072
>Being Samjan is overrated
Strongly disagree with this race traitor thinking.
>Blah blah blah muh trait
Don't care. I'm one of the first people to just on the opportunity to powergame and I'm against Mik staying the way he is because it goes against his character.
>The only downside is our appearance
He's refused more for a lot less.
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>>274132
>he thinks you need vys to live
Stupid vys using goyim, you'll never be free of the gods imposed shackles that keep you tied down
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>>274138
>Being this stupid
By this logic we should be trying to destroy our shard of divinity since it's the entire reason we have vys.
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>>274150
I'm glad you finally understand
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>>274084
>>274132

This whole quest is literally the story of Mikhael's pursuit of power. There have been tens of characterizing decisions in which Mikhael tried to do the dangerous, reckless or stupid thing because he thought it might make him stronger. Do you remember when we used the Rhynian needle chair? Asking Atma for power? What about the crown? The paramatma ball? Letting Chryssa rip our soul apart to remove the Entity? Entering the gate in the void? Stealing a dragon egg? Tatooing contain+life instead of something simpler? Getting a bunch of untrained vatis to repair a hole in reality? Staying in a reality that was falling apart to GM metal?

Holy shit there is nothing MORE in character for Mikhael then pursuing power in spite of undesirable circumstances. The only time I can think of when Mik passed up an opportunity for power is when he refused to become a disciple. And even then, that was because he didn't want to be beholden to Mahana because that would be limiting. Additionally, we haven't even lost that opportunity, we could at any moment tell Mahana we want to be his disciple and he would literally put everything else on hold to make it happen.

>>274121
I can see what you're saying about valuing friends, family and self over power. But risking our appearance is much less than risking our life and limb over power. Also the example of splitting loot is a bad one because it's easy to get more loot, but this trait is not something that can just be found in any dungeon.
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>>274156
Whatever you say Adalwulf/Rob. Nothing is beyond your clearly subhuman intelligence.
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>>274167
>dropping irc names
spicy meme bro you sure le showed me
Stay cucked by the gods goyim
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>>274166
>But risking our appearance is much less than risking our life and limb over power.
Mik pride > Power
Didn't discipling teach you that.
>>274176
Whatever you say Scholomo.
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>>274166
Look. We're getting our body back. There's nothing more you can do.
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>>274166
There is literally zero reason we have to risk appearance at all. We just have to not be retarded.
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>>274182
While I disagree with both of you morons:
Becoming a discipline is permanent.
Having this body is not.
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>>274194
>Having this body is not.
I pointed that out a while ago.
>>274035
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>>274200
We can get the trait, or one like it, without being short or pale, or sitting around short or pale for long periods of time.
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>>274150
>>274167
>>274182
>>274200
You're posting ironically right? BQ players don't actually believe the things you do, right?
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>>274205
Not arguing against that.
>>274208
>getting bothered by shitposting
What's wrong with you? Did you even read what the other guys were saying.
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>>274166
>MORE in character for Mikhael then pursuing power in spite of undesirable circumstances.
>>274166
>And even then, that was because he didn't want to be beholden to Mahana because that would be limiting
Being considered a freak and a lesser race is a bigger reason to mik than this.
Hell mik is super racist, but still beleives these savages can rise above their base level.
Hell he is still filled with immense guilt about his drunken mistake and purposley keeps it under wraps and even fears about anyone finding out.
Do you thunk he would taimt himself like this?
Honestly i think he would keep using ascended form since i think that form would align with his views more and maybe give bonuses since it seems to transform him/change his race.
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>>272513
Yo soma when you come back can you have mik give us the pros and con he can think of to sort this whole convo?
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>>274226
>And even then, that was because he didn't want to be beholden to Mahana because that would be limiting
Limiting in terms of power and freedom. Looking like a degenerate doesn't change Mik's intelligence or reduce his magical power. Being a disciple of Mahana means we can be forced to do things we don't want to do. We also die if he dies, which I would argue is actually more likely than Mik dying(permanently) right now. So yeah, being a disciple is not an objective gain in power, while super strength is. The degenerate appearance doesn't weaken him. Plus it can be undone while becoming a disciple cannot be undone.
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>>273400
That was last thread, Anon.

>>272926
desu I didn't mean in the sense of her as a female bodybuilder, I meant in the sense of her as a gymnast for cirque do soliel or whatever the fuck.

but >>272906 is just as good, though Chryssa's upper body is a little bulkier than that.

>>274138
If you drop to -10 vys, you die. So yeah, you kinda need vys to live.

>>274166
The more in-character option for Mik is to eventually change himself back into the form he's comfortable with. Maybe I haven't really emphasized this enough, but he really hates the body he's forced to inhabit for the moment. He's not a vain man, not really, but he did value his appearance and he takes pride in his heritage. He also thinks humans are an inherently inferior race and has no desire to appear as one for any longer than is absolutely necessary.

I think he'd be willing to endure it for a little while, but frankly I think the most in character thing for Mik to do would be to give up if, after today, he still can't conceive of some manner by which to alter his self image to feature strength.

>>274194
This body will eventually shift your self-image towards its own, if you don't change anything about it. It's not a rapid process, but I'd probably start making little changes to certain aspects of Mik's appearance (a little shorter, a little paler, a little stronger) two or three days in.

>>274247
>Limiting in terms of power and freedom.
Arguably, looking like a degenerate would do much the same, but in terms of social interactions rather than in terms of limiting free will. NPCs, at least Samjan NPCs, won't take Mik seriously. At all. They'll treat him like a child or like a nuisance, and likely assume that Darzi is the leader of your party and treat her as such. Because at least she not some degenerate foreigner. It will be a lot harder to make your way through Pidjata in Mik's current form than it would be in his old form.
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>>274297
>Arguably, looking like a degenerate would do much the same, but in terms of social interactions rather than in terms of limiting free will. NPCs, at least Samjan NPCs, won't take Mik seriously. At all. They'll treat him like a child or like a nuisance, and likely assume that Darzi is the leader of your party and treat her as such. Because at least she not some degenerate foreigner. It will be a lot harder to make your way through Pidjata in Mik's current form than it would be in his old form.
Not to mention we'd be locked out of stuff like the great library and the Paramatma.
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>>274297
A day or so of experimenting is what I had in mind. Dunno about the rest of these retards.

Also, where's our -2 penalties to nature meditations from being a x2 GM desu?
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>>274297
Even if we change our self-image to be that of a human we can always change it back. It is a logical consequence of such a change that we could change our self-image back to being Samjan, since being able to change in the first place implies that one's self-image of their race can be altered. Because of that, a degenerate appearance is inherently less limiting that becoming a disciple, since undoing that would shatter our divine shard.
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>>274297
>but I'd probably start making little changes to certain aspects of Mik's appearance (a little shorter, a little paler, a little stronger) two or three days in.
So we have 1.5 days left to keep trying.

Then we give up and go back to our body.
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>>274322
>muh hivemind
Nigger we got fuck all out of them, they just sucked out a copy of our soul and shoved us out
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>>274326
that only affect meditations of Master rank and above.
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>>274332
>Nigger we got fuck all out of them, they just sucked out a copy of our soul and shoved us out
They answered a shit ton of questions. Dumbass.
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>>274297
>he still can't conceive of some manner by which to alter his self image to feature strength.
What about applying Earth magic to the husk? Mik saw that that would have changed Chryssa's self image.
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>>274297
This desu >>274346

We should have Chryssa use Earth magic to alter our self image. She's GM Earth so it should be easy for her. All we need to do is explain the theory.
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>>274322
Well, Mik is locked out of the Great Library of El-Amin anyway, because he's not registered as a Vatis in the Shahdom anymore. The Paramatma though... I don't know how concerned that is with your physical body. You'd probably appear in that sort of weird middle ground in the guise of your self-image rather than your physical form. It wasn't really relevant last time, but it's not like the Paramatma physically transports you anywhere.

Granted, if your self image started to reflect this current body, too severely at least, then you'd be shit outta luck.

>>274326
Shit, you're right. I forgot about that.

>>274328
That's all well and good, but Mik has no idea how to change his self image let alone how to do so fluidly. Though it's certainly possible to change shape as easily as others change clothes, getting to that point isn't going to be easy. It frankly involves a sort of ego death, the complete loss of any sort of subjective self identity. Normally this would also entail actual death, but I won't say anything more on the topic.

>>274346
>>274351
Eroding the shell, logically, ought to change self-image. However, there's no telling whether or not doing so would alter the self-image in a good way or if it would just slowly but surely destroy the self-image.

And since the shell embodies the self-image, destroying one destroys the other.
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>>274326
>>274362
So Mik doesn't get penalties until he's triple GM then, right?
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>>274333
Wrong~

>>274362
Also, where's our synergy bonus from being a Water GM desu?
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>>274362
Soma our soul responds to our will now because of whatever trait it was that does that, wouldn't that let us do all kinds of shit to our self image seeing as how its stored in our soul?
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>>274362
The Shaping Arts had a section on "Shaping the Flesh" if we read that would it tell us what we're suppose to do?
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>>274362
>Eroding the shell, logically, ought to change self-image. However, there's no telling whether or not doing so would alter the self-image in a good way or if it would just slowly but surely destroy the self-image.
Right, but that's a way Mik can conceive of that MIGHT alter the self-image, so it's worth continuing the line of study to see if we can't figure out exactly what it will do and if it can be used to get Super Strength
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>>274378
Who knows~
You'll just have to read it and find out.

>>274375
It gives you control over your husk, but the husk is not the shell and the shell is not the shard.
Each layer of the soul works differently and must be handled differently to avoid accidentally killing yourself.

>>274374
It's just been so long since you've meditated on things, Anon. I'm slippin'.
Although to be fair, you usually only get the Water GM synergy bonus if the meditation method you use entails the use of both Water and Nature. I think.

>>274373
No, he gets them now. I just forgot.

>>274385
Earth Magic removes things, Anon. It strips them away.

Mikhael wants to add something in.
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>>274396
>Negates any limitations upon the manipulation of your soul
This doesn't actually prove you wrong but fug u
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>>274396
>Earth Magic removes things, Anon. It strips them away.
>Mikhael wants to add something in.
It isn't Earth and it isn't Metal.
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>>274396
>Earth Magic removes things, Anon. It strips them away. Mikhael wants to add something in.

So what about reinforcing memories? Consider:
>You would guess if you could find a memory of combat in which you employed Chryssa's immense strength, reinforcing that perspective would have ingrained it in your own memory.

If we hadn't cut away the relevant memories before trying then maybe reinforcing memories would work. That's another method that Mik could conceive of to alter his self image. And that method is additive, so it's a potential path through which we might obtain super strength
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>>274396
http://pastebin.com/ibi8j7Md
Fire magic can be conceptualized as the magic most concerned with directly manipulating the world around us.

So fire then.
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>>274423
Anon you're going to get us killed.
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>>274396
>It's just been so long since you've meditated on things, Anon. I'm slippin'.Although to be fair, you usually only get the Water GM synergy bonus if the meditation method you use entails the use of both Water and Nature. I think.
I always assumed the synergy bonuses were an artifact of modern Vatis' incomplete understanding of the elements, and that there were more potential synergies than the water<->nature and earth<->metal depending on the specific techniques used.

Like right now, metal and nature got some good shit going on.
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High risk magic for retards
Water reverts
Earth destroys
Nature reveals
Metal reinforces
Fire manipulates
t. retarded magician
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>>274435
It makes sense. Water makes strings as they were. Metal reinforces them. Earth erodes, nature reveals properties. But when someone casts fire, they're introducing new energy and strings.
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>>274423
I'll give you Mik's thoughts on the matter.

He thinks, that with the proper care, he could probably alter the self-image by slowly adapting similar memories which features the use of Chryssa's strength. There seem to be a range of possible interpretations of each memory, some of those at least would likely feature Mikhael, in the form he's comfortable with, employing the strength which Chryssa enjoys. However, the extent to which it's possible to change the self via this method is somewhat questionable.

>>274435
Who knows~
Fire is a generative force.

>>274439
That's a good point desu. I'll need to go back and refresh my memory regarding how I used to do it before the next thread.
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>>274480
You done with school Desu sempai?
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>>274480
Hey Soma are we going to be able to have a proper conversation with the Divine Emissary? If we could get him to go smite that enchantress lady below our sister's city that would be a bit of weight off our mind. We could tell her we handled it and she wouldn't have to worry about a ticking time bomb set to explode her city in a couple decades.
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i'm starting to think this is based around some shitty tg fetish
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>>274533
Or we could kill her for some perks.
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>>273197
>what are two nature insights and +1 vys pool

>>273433
We need a victi- er, volunteers to experiment on. Freely channel whatever the fuck we want into their shells. Try shoving in the strings from individual memories, see what that does. Maybe swap shards between shells for shits and giggles.

>>274226
Reminder that you can't unfuck that humie, anon.

>>274297
>if you don't change anything about it
This is where all the arguments fall apart. We can easily regrow out outer appearance and small, separate sections of our skeletal structure to negate pretty much every compromise Mik has to make to stay strong.

You also neglected to mention that we can use illusions to appear as we were before at 1 vys/hour.

>>274332
Yeah, it's not like we'd still have a world-ending entity in our mind if it wasn't for the Paramatma or anything. Dumbass.

>>274453
>But when someone casts fire, they're introducing new energy and strings.
Fire doesn't create strings, though. It burns them away and spreads like wildfire. We've been using it instead of Earth because of how much easier it is for us.

>>274576
Magic mai waifu.
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>>274668
>Fire doesn't create strings, though. It burns them away and spreads like wildfire.
Fire can be creative or destructive depending on how it is used.
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>>272616
I'm right actually, fire magic is all about controlling heat, we can research and learn a technique to make cold with fire Magic.

Soma confirmed this before I believe, but I don't have the citation
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>>274695
You can indeed sap heat from an area using Fire magic to make it colder.

So you could technically make ice with Fire magic, though it's not nearly as efficient a method as using Water magic. Water magic can basically just shift water between ice and steam at will.

>>274522
Nah, I've still got a few semesters to go in all likelihood. I could graduate now with my History degree, but I'm behind on Math.

>>274533
You'll be able to converse with the Emissary, yeah. Although I'll probably have it rant for a little bit first.

>>274576
My only sexual fetish is sweet, sweet lore.
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>>274778
>My only sexual fetish is sweet, sweet lore
I was talking about people wanting to keep this body or retain traits (other than strength) from it.
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>>274797
That's more of a /d/ thing.

>>274778
>Although I'll probably have it rant for a little bit first
We don't get to rudely interrupt it and question its heritage and sexuality? I call railroad.
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>>274778
Right but that's the thing, that can be a complement to water magic, because water can only change water between states, and fire magic can control the enviornment temperature to support that

Did you say we could make cold beams using this technique?
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>>274814
Well, not without the Beam metamagic. You could certainly make cold fire though, so it would make sense for you to be able to make a beam of cold fire.
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Just change the body back to slamjam if you want to get the retarded strength simply knock out Chryssa later on and experiment.
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>>274819
yes I was thinking of the Beam metamagic when I said that.

So what happens when you combine elements like Ice and Coldfire and Beam that?
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>>274830
Well, Fire+Water can make liquid fire, so maybe if you switch the heat to cold you could make some sort of supercooled liquid which freezes shit on contact. Like liquid nitrogen or something like that.

Then adding Beam would just shoot that at someone with incredible force.
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>>274845
Well I'm excited to learn that later.
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>>274845
Could we do things like make fire solid or stone flow like water?
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>>274864
Solid fire would be a combination of either Earth and Fire or Metal and Fire. Stone flowing like water would be Earth and Water.
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>>274332
We got the enchanting temple and they are bassucally magic google if google was a reclusive autist.
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This may have been answered but here goes. So the reason our body dissappeared when we tried to "heal" it was because we tried to heal a vessel with no self image?
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>>274808
>implying these aren't the same people that browse /d/
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>>274898
I believe that's right, and because we also tried to heal a dead body with husk healing
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>>274898
We husk casted water magic which just resulted in us healing the universe, aka reverting it to its natural state, which did not include a dead nigger
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>>274873
So soma could mik connect this realm to the enchating palace?
Just asking since the place has an enchated protective bubble around it.
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>>274936
Well, he probably couldn't connect the two but he could replicate the enchantment, with the proper runes, which linked the enchanter's palace to that tomb in the Pa'vala. So he could teleport between the two.
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>>274936
>Just asking since the place has an enchated protective bubble around it.
It doesn't yet.
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>>274944
Can we do enchanting inscription without rolling in our pocket reality because we have control over everything? Or would we still need to roll?
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>>274944
Thanks for confirning that portal tech is in that place, but than agian there is also a portal under our brothers house.
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>>274944
Is the whole "school of shaping arts" thing still on? If so, will we need all our companions to do a group meditation to pretty much turn this body into "organic clay" to build it back up? Will the aid of the party have some effect of the image that is made e.g profectus thinks we have longer ears or darker skin and that is implemented to a limited degree? Also, will they gain knowledge of the shaping arts from their assistance?
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>>274864
>>274873
What iwanna do is upgrade Point Defense where we make Water + Metal water instead of freezing it. We're better at metal magic anyway.
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>>275084
Point Offense comes first.
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>>274849
>implying we learn things
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>>275125
I don't even remember what that does. Except it relies on getting gud at Nature, which I approve of.
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>>275084
Do we even need to do anything? We can into Point Defense and Elemental Combination. Seems to me like we have all we need.

On the other hand, if this has to be developed as a separate technique that eats up one of our gitting gud sessions, it gives us +1 vys, so that's just as fine.

>>275125
Shaping Arts comes first, we need it before losing our muscles.

Nature needs 2 insights for master, which is more than twice as useful as Point Offense. Mind reading, haggling bonus, Shaping Arts, string identification... So it also comes before Point Offense.

Fire needs 2 insights to let us GM with Prof. We may or may not need to read Breaking the Ninth Barrier on top of that, but it's a freaking GM for both Mik and Prof. So you better believe it comes before Point Offense.

tl;dr you're waifu a shit
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>>276659
I agree with most of this. Also add in our "daily" Martial training with Darzi. Gotta stay fit and all that. Plus it's great wake up/warm up for sex.
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>>276674
I doubt we're sadistic enough to have Darzi fug us in our double degenerate mutant midget strongman form.

I still don't get why people don't want to just regrow our outside appearance, since that's pretty much been stated to regrow according to the slamjam self-image we still have.
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we should really consider putting some more work into earth before we grab our next gm, it's only going to be harder to do if we put it off too long.
Also, we should get Chryssa to tell us more about high level earth magic.
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>>276681
Not shit. I'm talking about the future. We have one left stuck in this form. Confirm canon that Mik will change himself back after that., super strength or no, because any longer and things start becoming permanent.
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>>276682
I agree with this.

Also is anyone else pretty excited to see Chryssa's reaction to us being alive and in this body?
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>>276694
>one day
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>>276694
I can't read most of that, but long-term, sure, we should git gud at combat and keep fugging Darzi. Though to be honest I'm more enthusiastic about Metal Fu than Worst God Style. Way less insights needed to advance and learn new maneuvers.

>>276698
SHUT UP LET ME DREAM
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>>276706
We should at least hit Master in Marsla Ve.
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>>276718
I honestly don't know how many insights we have/need or even what all ranks are called since they're unlisted.
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>>276720
think we need like 2. We're only a few sessions away.
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>>276659
Fire GM when?
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>>276842
after the stooges temple
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>>276875
How many days was that again?
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Oh, and reminder that Fulvia probably has a world map. It's only outdated 1000 years!
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>>276889
like 10 days left
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>>276889
And it takes like a week to get there and complete
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>>276916
Ok, now I know that's not quite true. We need to get to the portal at our brother's, which is less than a day with Zahak. After teleporting to... Majhaya, I think, it should be a half a week at most. I could be wrong about this though.

If we're really in a hurry, we can ditch our party and fly ahead with Zahak, which multiplies our travel speed a lot, especially with his new artifact and especially when the trek is through a murderous forest by land and through (presumably) clear skies by air.

>>276739
Apparently, we only need one to get Master. Darzi's Marsala is capped off unless she does her not!GM, but Profectus is at 3/4 himself to get Master, so the next spar should be with him.

the next sex scene too because he has way better on-screen chemistry with Mik desu senpai
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>>276979
Prof doesn't know Marsla Ve
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>>276990
So? Doing Rhynian vs. Marsala Ve still works as a training session.
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>>276682
We should also focus on learn more about each element and gather up more bonuses before attempting a GM.
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And I just realized why don't we review the Metal GM meditation since we alter our self-image then? I should give us an insight. I also suspect the tattoos became a part of our self image when we got them.
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Profectus' Regenerative Scarab could give us more insight on where magic draws from to heal injuries. It also gives us a reason to spar with him and rank up both of our martial arts.
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>>277779
Uh, we know where it draws from. We've known it was from the Self-Image for dozens of threads now and literally just now we confirmed that's kept in the Shell.

Please try to keep up, people.

Studying the scarab won't do much more than learning the runes on its array, and if there are any unknown runes on it, we'd have to meditate to figure them out. It'd also reveal any hidden functions.

And that's assuming all the runes are visible to the naked eye, otherwise we need to bring it here and put it under a magnifier. We might also have to enchant a lens with an Invert+Hide array if the runes are magically hidden and the spirit realm doesn't cover for it.
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>>277818
I know about self image and the husk, but we went into the shell to see her self image. if we go into the shell again, we can see if altering the self image will change the husk's memories like it does when you take someone else's husk for your own.
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or if it the husk's memories will try to correct the changes made to the final self-image by going off of what it knows.
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>>277884
So far any husk memories have shown things from 1st person perspective with no signs of what the observer looks like.

Besides, whose self-image you want to mess with? Mik's? Chryssa's? All changes made are permanent as far as we know, so fuck that.
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>>277895
The perspective of the memories does not matter since we live through life in a 1st person perspective. Unless you are claiming that you cannot know your body, because you are not looking at it through someone else's eyes. I went with prof because of his scarab, since it is artificial and its effects would probably be easier to see with the side benefit of possibly figuring out one of the runes. I also assumed during the sparing when level up both our styles to master there would be a few bruises and cuts that need to be healed where we can observe how the artifact pulls from the shell and into healing.
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>>277932
Are you retarded? The problem is we don't understand how to modify the self-image. What you suggest is to learn about something we already fully understand.
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>>277932
Memories work differently than you seem to think. Remembering is done in vague concepts, not like a film reel with tangible imagery. If you try to visualize a memory, your mind gives you something appropriate but definitely different and more vague than actual reality. Very little visual image is contained in each memory, and you need multiple memories on an object or a person before you can recall them as they actually are in any kind of detail.

Why do I need to explain this to you? You have a brain, so you should know the absolute basics of how it works, right? Well, maybe I should've assumed you do. That's my bad.

You don't ever "see" your own hands in front of you when you remember yourself doing something with them. So it's entirely reasonable so far you can't know your own body, because you can't even know automatically if a memory in your head is yours, unless you deduce it via logic or directly observe your soul. The self-image is separate from memories. Whether or not this is in line with real-life is irrelevant. We know they're stored in different sections of the soul. We know faces and identities melt together when memories of different people are owned by one person. It literally happened last thread.

On to the next point.

The scarab won't give us anything new on healing, and healing won't give us anything new on modifying self-image. Healing uses the self-image as it is to mend the flesh. The scarab does the same. Nether has anything to do with altering the self-image.

Runes have no effect on any skill. We never got any side-boosts to anything along with runes. They're good for enchanting, nothing more. Unless there's more to runes than that, which there certainly is, but we don't know. It's not like anyone's ever gonna get anon to vote on enchanting. Bottom line is, enchantments and runes have nothing to do with getting better at shapeshifting or healing.

Which you should know already.

And if you're talking about how vys flows into the shell and from there to the rest of the body, we have been very intimately familiar with that for over a hundred threads, what with having a healing-focused grandmastery and all.

You're trying to steer us down all the wrong avenues, and you're making it painfully obvious you haven't the slightest clue about how any aspect of magic works in this setting. I hope this is because you haven't read the quest, because that would merely mean you're a lazy asshole with no measure of your own understanding, whereas if you actually did read it and are still this clueless, you probably need a form of cranial surgery that won't be invented for another 200 years and are doomed to live out your pathetic life as a complete and utter retard.
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>>278051
>They're good for enchanting, nothing more. Unless there's more to runes than that, which there certainly is, but we don't know.
Actually they can be used to learn new effects and metas in theory and give bonuses if used in a meditation.
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>>278084
Those aren't true runes, they're pseudorunes like the carvings on a weapon with spell amplification. They're also only a tool used as an aid rather than a necessity. True enchantment is way more srs bsnss.
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>>278093
Um Soma confirmed the second half on tumblr and the first half is a logical assumption that we never tested.
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>>278107
Sauce?
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>>278113
http://somaqm.tumblr.com/post/144053714977/considering-that-runes-highlight-the-strings-they
Finally found it.
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>>278173
Kind of a vague answer. I mean, does he mean it gives you a bonus towards the next insight, or a permanent bonus on all fire magic performed thereafter? Because that's pretty baller.

I'm still not sure what you mean by the former, however. Do you mean like studying the effects on the strings the rune creates and attempting to replicate them, or do you mean like the stuff that happened whenever we learned a metamagic like leaping or hidden that forcibly does shit to your vys for you to replicate, overcome or go along with more easily without experience? Because that second thing is what I was talking about.

Either way, studying strings to identify them is one of those great things to do you won't even convince anon to vote for.
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>>278217
>>278173
It would be a meditation method bonus, but a bonus which unlike most you could probably get for effects and metamagic as well as elemental schools. It would only be a +2 or maybe +4 bonus, so there are better methods to choose from for the elements.
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>>278254
So it's a method, not a bonus to all meditations? Damn.

What would the dc be for hard shit like Mind? I bet that faggot in Anthus still didn't figure it out. I'd be fun to shove it in his face.
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>>278217
>do you mean like the stuff that happened whenever we learned a metamagic like leaping or hidden that forcibly does shit to your vys for you to replicate
Yes but...
>Do you mean like studying the effects on the strings the rune creates and attempting to replicate them
We'd have to do this first.
>>278254
Good to know. Could we modify the meditation to increase the bonus?
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>>278254
While we're in our realm, could we magic up a few set of robes? We blow through those things quick as fuck. Speaking of seeing as we're in our realm could we mess about with possibly armoring a set of robes so we have a little bit of protection even when we take off our armor? Maybe some plates of metal sewn into the robes, or maybe because we're a metal gm we could try metal fabric of some kind
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>>278265
Mind is a DC 30 base, it's a complex metamagic, but if you're trying to recreate it from scratch without anything else to go on then it's more difficult. Mik has a pretty intimate understanding of the mind, so I'd give a bonus for that. A bonus from Nature magic.

I think I'll multiply the DC by 1.5, for creating effects and metamagics without something to go off of. However, I'll also give vys both from experimentation and learning something new. Thus, you could earn 2 or 3 vys this way. 2 for effects, 3 for metamagic.

So all in all I think I'd have you roll 3d10+24 (+4 from A Terrible Thing to Waste, +2 from Vatis, +2 from Shaping Arts, +4 from Preceptor, +4 from Nature Expert, +6 from Circumstance, +2 from Method of Meditation) vs DC 45 (Base 30, *1.5 due to Creation)

You'd probably pull it off, it's not a terribly hard DC. If you weren't so familiar with the mind itself, and if you didn't have the rune, that DC would be essentially impossible. You would be looking at 3d10+16 vs DC 45, and there's a 0.4% chance of any individual roll passing that DC. So I'm pretty okay with that being a system. In fact, I'll add that to the magic pastebin.
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>>278254
>but a bonus which unlike most you could probably get for effects and metamagic
That's good.
>>278311
I'd vote to do that experiment while wearing the crown.
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>>278306
Mik isn't wholly certain that things created in his realm like the body he currently inhabits can pass outside the realm without dissolving into vys. Obviously the artifacts mahana creates from his realm can pass through, but Mik isn't sure why that is.
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>>278331
So we're stuck here forever because our old body is gone?
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>>278337
Who knows~
It could be the case that enchanting an object supplies it with the necessary metaphysical weight to persist even outside of a spirit's, or in this case Mikhael's, realm. It might also be some specific enchantment placed upon artifacts which allows them to freely pass between subjective and objective reality.
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>>278311
...And you realize the implications of having the mind metamagic combined with water to restore sanity, nature to improve mind-reading, fast to probably give crazy bonuses to all kinds of things, manipulate to increase haggling and spooking, paralyze to completely fuck any vatis over, and god knows what else?

This might just break the game.
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>>278361
>Implying sanity is an aspect of the mind.
>Implying manipulate+mind does what you think.
>Implying you can paralyze the strings of reality.
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>>278372

That's a good point! Too bad we also know the runes for Destroy, Reinforce, Repel, and yes, even Soul.
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>>278347
If just having the metaphysical weight is all thats needed then mik should be fine, his body is a giant enchantment even if only a copy, and it has a soul, also we could just shove ourself in our cloak and have chrys carry us out
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>>278361
We could get a Soul meta too you know. Hell the sky is the limit know since we make any effect or meta we can imagine. Hell I just thought up of one called Split/Divide that could allow us to bisect people with ease.
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>>278376
>Destroying the strings of reality
The rest of that though is fine though. Repel+Mind would just force away any entity with a mind, making them feel uncomfortable, their thoughts muddled, so on and so forth. They'd probably pass out if they got too close.

Reinforce+Mind is something you've already done just with Metal magic, on a fairly routine basis.
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>>278393
Wait we can get Reinforce as an effect? If we could we could break out of the Five School system right now.
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>>278399
I honestly don't see how, Anon. You can already reinforce most shit with Metal magic. That's like, kind of its bread and butter.
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>>278393
>not destroying what the gods sought to create
लांब क्रांती राहतात
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>>278393
No, I mean think about having the Soul meta and using water on it, or repelling literally anything thrown at us, or (re)inventing proper air and sound magic with Air, or leeching husk from foes on the fly, or poisoning any of those things.

There's also the possibility to create metas for the various portions of the soul.
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>>278391
>Paralyze+Soul
What would that do, really? Prevent the formation of memory, perhaps? It would certainly disorient someone but it wouldn't be fight-ending.

>Destroy+Soul
That'd probably fuck someone up pretty good, destroy their husk, knock 'em unconscious. It wouldn't be immediate though, it would eat away at their husk slowly but surely, until there was nothing left.

>Manipulate+Soul
Mik can pretty much already do this to himself, and I think he already did it with an untargeted manipulate spell when he was dissecting the soul of that disciple, but I might be remembering wrong. Would be really convenient though, make fucking around with the shell and the husk a lot easier.

>Healing the soul.
Who knows~

>>278419
>Repelling anything thrown at us
Like? Repel + Soul/Mind would just force away living creatures. Most attacks aren't alive. I also don't see how either soul or mind could lead to air magic. You've also already leeched husk, and you can already poison husk. You leeched from Chryssa's husk last round just by using a leech spell without a metamagic. In fact it's less effective when used with a metamagic.

Mik already has the hard counter to pretty much any conceivable combination of effects and metamagics thrown his way in the form of Manipulate+Vys.
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>>278441
>Destroy+Soul
Actually now that I think about it, husk can never be created or destroyed through regular magic alone. Enchanting is a different story, but husk only ever decays into vys under normal circumstances.

Thus, that would just be a spell which fizzles.
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>>278441
What would Large and Small metas do?
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>>278441
>In fact it's less effective when used with a metamagic.
Not what you said about speed or slow. Or maybe those are technically effects? Anyway, my point was that we wouldn't need to go into deep meditation to affect the soul if we had a meta for it. We'd just drain memories or deal sanity damage on the fly, and since we have Hidden, we could do it to anyone without them knowing.

>I also don't see how either soul or mind could lead to air magic.
I was referring to the Air rune and creating a meta out of it, not about the soul or the mind. You can get pretty creative with manipulating Air. Create sounds, choke bitches, maybe even fly.

Same with Repel, I'm talking about creating a Repel meta which in theory could be used against anything. Vys for mages, Soul for spirits, Metal for arms and armor, more shit. Honestly the more I think, the more sadistic applications come to mind.

>Mik already has the hard counter to pretty much any conceivable combination of effects and metamagics thrown his way in the form of Manipulate+Vys.
That's actually new information. A lot of people were really spooked about not having the Sleep meta to counter that stupid sexy skeleton's little trick.
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>>278441
What would we get if we were to combine all of the elements together?

Water+earth+air+metal+nature+fire=???
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>>278502
We have the Contain and the "teleportation" rune by the way. We really need to get move runes.
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>>278521
Someone had to.
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>>278525
>move
*more
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>>278525
>"teleportation" rune

I just noticed that in the pastebin, when did we get that? Also, I was under the impression that teleportation was done by a complex array of runes, judging from our observations of teleportation arrays so far.
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>>278537
We recognized all the runes on both except for one.
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>>278541
And then we noted it down, but didn't do the necessary meditation to actually make it usable.

Enchanting never ever.
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>>278463
Are you running today?
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>>278644
>Soma
>Running
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>>278704
He obviously is running away.
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Hey guys, how long do you think Mikhail could last in a Microwave?

How long before Mikhail would drown, eventually, under enough vys-straining deep sea pressures?

How long before Mik burns down a stretch of Elaudia? How long will that stretch of Elaudia be?
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>>278868
>Hey guys, how long do you think Mikhail could last in a Microwave?
A few minutes, unless his fire magic's good enough to manipulate that kind of energy. Probably not.

Of course, when he dies, ascends and the microwave gets BTFO from reality. And then he finds a mortal to bodysnatch and he's fine.

Alternatively, he husk casts fire around him from the start and whatever device you had containing and frying him is instantly incinerated.

>How long before Mikhail would drown, eventually, under enough vys-straining deep sea pressures?
He can probably last really long against the pressure, since he can counter that with water magic and build a dome of ice around him. Reinforced with metal, it wouldn't melt or break for days.

Breath is an issue, but he has big lungs, meaning if he can enchant a piece of anything with a simple create+air in under two minutes, he could survive until he starves. This is questionable.

If the dome is big enough, the bubbles of dioxide he'd have to let out to relieve air pressure and the occasional reinforcement of the dome could conceivably cost less vys than he generates. And even then he can further stave off death by growing or attracting food with nature magic.

Alternatively, he shoots himself upwards through the water at impossible speeds because water GM and gets away anyway.

>How long before Mik burns down a stretch of Elaudia? How long will that stretch of Elaudia be?
Fire magic intimidation is a barterer's best friend, so... As soon as he encounters a mildly unpleasant person, and probably all of it.
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>>278934
Please don't "the bar" the Elaudian jungle.
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>>279016
What could possibly go wrong?
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>>279016
We need ourselves a Lucky guide.
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So what other spells could we get?
Sadik had a bottle that transmutes water into a potion that imbues it's user with great strength. I think it might have the runes for Strength.
Float is another potential effect we could get.
What else is there?
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>>279632
invert rape
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>>279632
Don't we have access to Mark? Create+Mark would let us clone things, and on its own Mark can be used to figure out spatial relationships in the void, and the rotation therof around reality. Also where exactly Ricky is located in the void.
>>279658
You joke, but an invert metamagic could wreck serious shit.
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>>280884
Oh, and the intangibility potion is also enchanted.
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>>281104
I think that's actually some form of Draconic magic. Ritual magic isn't enchanting.

Or Draconic magic mixed with alchemy.
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>>281108
Ghada specifically referred to it as a potion made via the lost art of enchantment so she can't replicate it. It also has the same bottle as Spice that delivers exactly one dose per squeeze. Her not being an enchanter means she could be mistaken, but she could into rituals, so it was at the very least an educated guess.

That said, whether it was merely created with enchantment or actually has decipherable runes is questionable.
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Do you think we could make a 'teleport' magic effect by studying the teleportation arrays and Mahana's coin? I imagine if such an effect was possible it would be very expensive, but it would also be incredibly useful.
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>>281399
Seems like it would rely heavily on Nature to target appropriately.
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>>281476
target it through the brooches.
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post
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Thread today?
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>>281872
No
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>>281880
Thanks anon
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>>281905
You're welcome.
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Rolled 1 (1d100)

What are the odds of Soma running today?
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>>281977
Kek, what a realistic roll.
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>>281977
The dice gods know what's up.
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Threadly reminder that mik is technicaly shit at water and needs to learn more about it.
Soma has siad that we can get some books to help us out in this and that var vars notes has some.
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>>281622
We could teleport directly into our closest allies, excellent!
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>>282254
Our immediate reading list is:
>Shaping Arts for memory-stealing, shape-shifting goodness
>Ninth Barrier for co-GM with Prof
>Maybe Excidium because it's as good as done

Our healing is awesome, we go from seconds away from dying to peerless health in moments. Other aspects of water are a secondary concern, since we don't lack firepower or defense.

We have like 20 unread books, and they have things like pressure points and anatomy. And more importantly, whatever's in the book we found in the magic barrier (Forbidden Arts) is sure as shit more important than whatever it is you have in mind. Varista's notes and the rest of our backlog will have to wait for a long, long time.

And if you're that faggot who insists on undoing the water GM, you can fuck right off because we've a hundred more immediate concerns than that.
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What Mik needs is a priority list.
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1st is fixing our body.
2nd is getting the crew together and setting off to pay our vig to the Skelebros
3rd prbs dealing with whatever BS the gods want because we didn't have the dignity to lay down and die like a bitch
4th is books
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>>282654
>Not reading through the gods' BS
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>>282654
Well I mean the next post is directly going to be about the Divine Beef, but yeah this is pretty much it.

You could add meditation and experimentation next to books though, it's hard to convince anon not to meditate on an element.

Do you niggers want to just regrow the outer layer for slamjam appearance, or the whole thing? I want the former personally because it has so many advantages.

Those concerned about height: If we destroy and regrow smallish sections of the skeleton, we could probably regain like half the size we lost without tearing too many muscles. Kinda like height surgery, but instead of lengths of metal it's streches of Mik's original self-image bone between bones as they are now. Not sure if I'm explaining it right.
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>>282758
I want back to the complete half-ascended Samjan body. Tall, dark-skinned, long-lived, non-degenerate, long-dicked. If we can keep some of the muscle mass fine, but I don't want to trade anything for it.
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>>282766
Can't we just juice on vys increase our strength? Really we need to avoid experimenting On the fundamental nature of our being right before a huge expedition and right after literally dying. We ressurected ourselves, that's enough of an accomplishment for today. Know when to walk away from the table.
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>>282766
You mean like organs and stuff? Because I'm like 80% certain Soma >implied it wasn't just a muscle mass thing, it's also because of her metabolism in general. Stronger heart, better circulation, that kind of shit. And it has to, when you think about it: Chryssa is stronger than the strongest strongman, and yet weighs so little. She isn't just jacked, she's straight-up bio-engineered to be a superior human. I wouldn't be surprised if her eyesight is enhanced on top of that.

If we delete our organs and regrow the slamjam ones, they more than likely won't be able to keep up with the muscles. Especially condsidering that samjans are the physically weakest race out of all the ones we know about.

Long-lived is also far from being an issue. We're nearly halfway to being able to restore our youth anytime we want. Presumably other people's youths as well. Old age is the last concern of a demigod shapeshifter-in-making with a GM in water.

The dick should be fine if regrown, though, it's a fairly simple biological mechanism. Reminder though: no matter how many times you cut off and regrow your dick, you can't unfuck a human. That degeneracy is lodged right into the depths of Mik's soul.

>>282800
Only to a point, the point being your 25% of your vys pool. You're talking about spending vys.

With muscles, you can still spend on top of what you have.
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>>282303
Im the ass pirate who has been advocating on getting gud with water ever since we asked our master's opnion on our ability as a water gm.
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I know I'm talking about spending vys. More importantly having raw strength is okay, but really it isn't a feature of the class Mik is. He is, for a bad example, a high level Psion with high Dex. Our skill comes from casting and artifacts. I'm sure we can enchant a stupid ring with something like +20 STR CON rather than mucking about with our souls body image. Perhaps that is how artefacts work, physical contact with the body allows metaphysical contact with a soul which then induces a temporary change in the nature of the image. It would be neat when we have time and breathing room to examine our souls self image when wearing various artefacts and armor. This is all moot as we are still stuck in the body of one of the degenerate races, about to get a spanking from jesus and Satan for breaking the rules, get another spanking from our gf for getting rough with an ex and experimenting with each other's bodies and then having to go out into the jungle to flip a switch for some lazy skeletons and then steal some plans for an even crazier old man.

Not to derail myself, if we really, really want to level up our body why don't we make the best choice and copy our soul into the body of a dragon.
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>>282862
Honestly i think this degenerate form is not in charatcer for mik (soma even confirmed it), and what I beleive to be in character would be trying to become our ascended form in the mortal realm which we seem to get closer every time we use this form in great amounts.
Mik is after all a racist mofo who will likley only try to go up instead of down.
He is also religous to a degree.
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>>282816
>no matter how many times you cut off and regrow your dick, you can't unfuck a human. That degeneracy is lodged right into the depths of Mik's soul.
Good thing we learned how to erase that taint.
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>The tattos in our ascended forms got smaller
What does that mean?
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>>282896
bigger*
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Rolled 51 (1d100)

rollin
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>>282862
Okay, first off, giving yourself a better body with artifacts has a limit. Your body can only handle so much vys flowing through it. It's why the Siege Armor messes us up if we overuse it. An artifact that more than doubles your strength and endurance? That's gonna fuck you up pretty fast.

Second, artifacts have little to do with self-image when used. The only time they do is when they reshape to fit you perfectly or when they improve your health passively. But enhancements are an additional, artificial thing on top of self-image.

And then there is the fallacy of the degenerate argument. We've done many degenerate things, and outside appearance can be restored to Samjan form without sacrificing muscle.

We can still git gud while traveling, so that's not really relevant. Our companions have to sleep. We can meditate/experiment/read while they do so.

Finally, we can't copy souls, and putting a samjan soul in a dragon body is a really, really bad idea for so many reasons I can't even explain in a single post. You know souls alter the body they inhabit to match the self-image closer. You know the dragons have different souls than other mortals and thus a body specifically made to house it. You know we still want to be a person for countless reasons. Or maybe you don't, but that would imply a baffling amount of shit you must have glossed over instead of actually reading.

>>282887
Mik could easily justify his decision if he becomes a samjan with Chryssa's muscles. He still looks like a samjan, his soul is samjan, his muscles are easily worth it.

He's also not religious at all.
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>>282941
Those muscles are not worth having a degenerate body.
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>>282941
>He's also not religious at all.
That's not actually correct. He's just not really observant because he's lazy.

>>282941
>>282961
We can get stronk without looking any less Samjan. And no, retarded 'just replace our skin!' or 'slowly restore only portions of our bones to end up almost as tall!' schemes are not the way.
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>>282941
>He's also not religious at all.
Soma confirmed he is religous, but not to the degree he was at the start of the quest.
Like i siad he is religous, and does still feel guilt about not praying and shit, but he cant be bothered to do it.
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>>282972
>He's just not really observant because he's lazy.
And also he's been going so much against the will of the deities of his religion that they personally have a problem with him. He's a straight-up heretic.

>>282972
>And no, retarded 'just replace our skin!' or 'slowly restore only portions of our bones to end up almost as tall!' schemes are not the way.
Yeah, thanks for providing a sound reasoning for why it wouldn't work, or an alternate method. You know that when you claim there's a better way, you're supposed to tell them about that better way, right?

You know Soma said our self-image will shift towards our current body in time, right?

>>282991
>guilt about not praying and shit, but he cant be bothered to do it.
We're so far past that point it's not even funny.
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>>282964
You forgot to green txt when you used your dank shit post.
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>>283003
Minimum effort shitposts get minimum effort replies.
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Why pray and worship gods when we are getting to the point of challenging them. We aren't close yet to even fighting their grandchildren but we're a lot closer than any regular jackoff vatis. It's hard not to be "religious" when a god literally shows up and is like "Mik stop being a shit and stop sticking your samijami dick in reality."
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>>277818
We have a reveal rune you idiot.
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>>283034
Anon this isn't t even their grandchildren that is speaking to us, this is literally one step above the bottom all we did is catch thier attention. Also i doubt we are the first or current vatis who is fucking around.
We might be the loudest though.
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>>283050
Same difference.
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>>283034
Also isnt proof of our gods existence reinforce our beleifs?
I think mik beleives in them,but time and meddling distorted the truth greatly.
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>>283000
Okay how about this. Instead of crudely butchering memories to slowly manipulate self-image over time in a mostly uncontrolled fashion we could, you know, just alter our self-image with exactly what we want and none of the rest of the shit using ~magic~.
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>>283068
*,but also thinks
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>>283069
"It's magic, I ain't gotta explain shit" is not a valid method. Magic has its mechanics here. You have to understand and exploit them to get the universe to do what it wants.

Also, nobody is talking about butchering memories, or in fact doing anything with the soul by hand. The self-image naturally changes over time without using magic on it. There is nothing uncontrollable about it. Something bad happens? You reset your body and abort the process, problem solved right then and there.

>>283068
Believing in the existence of a god doesn't make you its worshiper. If I believed in Jesus but worshiped Satan instead, you wouldn't call me a Christian. Same with Mik: He knows Pani and Surya exist, he knows they want their essence back, and he straight up refuses. If he didn't, he'd have sacrificed a boy and let himself die. If he called himself a devotee at this point, he'd have to be a hypocrite.

Unless he makes amends by killing the guy he rezzed for Surya and whatever this guy wants, but have fun convincing anons to have Mik get on his knees and fellate some divine entities.
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>>283057
Oh, and this is a grandchild of a god. The ranks go Child, Ancient (this guy), Elder (Ricky), Progenitor.
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>>283125
How about actually trying to understand and exploit them then instead of just being a lazy faggot and waiting until it's too late to prevent undesirable side-effects.

There's no reason we have to settle for your shit method, we can actually put in some effort and get what we want. We have a whole book on doing shit like this.
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>>283135
So this guy is stronger than Voidzilla. Seems like Voidzilla was either an Elder or Progenitor.
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>>283140
But I am exploiting the rules, you retard. I'm changing the self-image by changing the body. And it's a slow enough change that you can stop it before any permanent maluses accrue. Seriously, your fear-mongering is worse than Ron Paul.

We don't know what shapeshifting capabilities Shaping Arts provides. It is most likely limited to appearance only, and not about altering the inner metabolism. If it were, people would've recorded the guys who can instantly hulk out, growing to thrice their size. But no, instead history says they're just people who can switch identities.

Honestly, your entire post is just a long way to say "I don't like your method so you're a fag." Maybe you should stop? You don't seem to be good at actual, logic-based reasoning.
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So, I've recently found out that I have a test tomorrow which I haven't studied for, I'm going to take some time to knock out relevant homework assignments. If things work out, I'll run today. If not, I'll run Wednesday.

I've also been working on a bit of a secret project, which I hope to toss out tonight or tomorrow. So look forward to that. It's... not directly related to Banished Quest. I guess it's tangential. Anyway, you'll see.
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>>283187
Why even take the risk when we have so much going on for something we could achieve simply by fucking lifting more. "Hurr Durr guys, I know we just majorly fucked up and have a bunch of shit and consequences to deal with from it including regrowing our entire body, but hear me out, let's bend the rules literally and figuratively so we cam have bigger muscles through a process we just began to understand. It's a totally cool idea and we always take dumb risks so whatever. Let's do this super risky thing so we can lift a little more."
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>>283585
No one gives a shit about your stupid book
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>>283615
I will pretend to give a shit about his stupid book just to spite you.
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>>283615
I do
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>>283615
Anon pls, I haven't even started working on that and probably won't until the end of BQ.
It's related to some of the ideas I had for the Rhynian Mainland that I highly doubt you'll ever get to see at this point.
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>>283585
What a fucking surprise.
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>>283627
Just extend BQ until we decide to visit it.
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>>283681
extend my dick in your mother
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>>282297
I didn't say "target it through the enchantment in the brooches", I said target it through the brooches. So if a companion, or Karim or Deme are in trouble, we can just teleport to them.
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>>283681
>>283681
>>283627
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>>283627
Since your chubby ginger hairy ass is here,) fir a second, can you go into detail about miks religous outlook/belief's and back ground?
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>>283585
Hype
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>>283948
First off, I'm not ginger.
Secondly, yes I can.

Mik believes in the Gods, he thinks it's pretty clear at this point that they exist and have a somewhat active role in the function of the world. Certainly Surya would seem to, since by all accounts he's out there defending creation from the encroachment of whatever lives in this universe natively. Pani is less clear, but seems to play some role in the cycle of death and rebirth, which again Mik is fairly confident exist.

He doesn't know if there's any rhyme or reason to it, as some sects of Pani's worshipers assert, and he doubts that reincarnation as something other than a Samjan, as an animal or as one of the lesser races, is any conscious punishment on the part of the gods. That being said, he believes that his soul will be reborn after his death.

He thinks the gods are worthy of, if not subservient worship, then passive respect. He assumes they play a vitally important role in the continued existence of intelligent life, that they created what he terms reality, and that they are... in a vague sort of way benevolent. They don't seem eager to interfere in mortal affairs personally, though they've certainly been sending their underlings to bother him lately. The way he figures it, if they weren't benevolent than either all sentient races would be enslaved to their will or they wouldn't have created reality to begin with.

He's curious about Dhatu, that's probably the god he's most interested in learning more about if only because it's a god he didn't know existed until a few weeks ago. He also has directions to the space in creation which Dhatu physically inhabits, and enjoys the idea of meeting a god, or at least looking at one, in the flesh.

He doesn't think gods really care that much about sacrifice or prayer, and doubts they would ever step in to aid someone individually. He thinks they respond to threats against the sanctity of creation, nothing more and nothing less. He also assumes that's why the unnamed pre-Hiacian civilization was stomped out, they threatened creation with what they were attempting.

This of course brings up a question: Why did they use the tribe of Al-Hikar to stamp out the other civilization, and not simply do it themselves? To this, Mik has no answers.

As far as organized religion goes, Mik would probably hold the opinion that most of what they preach is misguided or an outright lie, but they an important and commendable role in civilization nonetheless. Religion is something around which communities might organize and the institutions erected perform vital social functions regardless of how true or false their doctrine is.

This is just me spitballing what I think it would be in character for Mik to believe. I'm not setting this in stone or anything, but it is what I'm going to operate off of when writing out options and in Mik's characterization.
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>>284045
Fuck off jew.

Or come operate with the IRCabal. Either is acceptable.
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>>284045
Running today?
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>>284112
Fuck off iou
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I'm not sure if anyone pointed it out or made a similar conjecture yet, but our body most likely disappeared because there was no self-image for water magic to stick to, and lack of it meant nonexistence.
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>>284192
I think it was due to using husk to fuel Water. Pretty sure whatever we did was mentioned as affecting the strings of reality, as well as our body.
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>>284204
It actually sloughed off your body and only affected the strings, which then revered the area where your body used to be into a colorless, substance-less white hole.
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>>284213
Wouldn't that mean that the substance-less white hole is the state of things before gods made reality?
Neat
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>>284045
in what specific ways do Miks beliefs/discoveries contradict the state religion? What about the religion of nomadic tribes such as Darzis? Will her people ever come into play, where are they exactly?
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>>284192
We husk casted water magic, water magic reverts things to their natural resting state, for a living thing with a self image it repairs them to that, for chunk of mik universe inherently lacking the capability to obtain a self image, it just reverts to what it once was, aka the animus
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>>284243
Does that mean that husk casting water instanly fully heals you as long as your soul still is in your body?
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>>284243
iirc we don't know how spirit realms work, whether it's a sub-reality of base reality or not. Should test this on strings in normal world and see if it removes all matter or not, it has potential.
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>>284267
It might, testing is needed
>>284270
I think the void is base realities animus, and the gods filled it with void monsters to to deal with assholes to poke holes in it
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>>284267
I wonder what affect it would have on artifacts.
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>>283681
>just run the quest for another two years
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>>284576
BQ won't ever end.
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>Implying Soma has any life outside of BQ and drinking
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>>284045
Soma, you aren't a redhead???
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>>284715
"he"s blonde and blue eyed
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test
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>>284646
Heat death of the universe will come first
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>>284213
Does that mean husk casting primarily affects the strings of reality
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>>284876
duh
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Do you think we could make a magic effect that replicates the effects of the intangibility potion we took? It seems like a pretty reasonable thing to have be an effect and would certainly be useful, though perhaps more for others than us.
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>>285169
lolno

That shit would be WAY to op
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We should call of Master and have a chat with him about everything that's happened lately. I'm sure he'll be thrilled about our second GM and will be interested to hear about our ascended form and us coming back to life.
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>>285273
>telling anyone we died.
No.
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“Γεια σου; kαμήλα πόρνη;”

“Μιλάτε νότιο; Γιατί kοιμάσαι σε ένα παλιό φρούριο;”

Did we ever find out what Surya said to us in the dream in thread 2 ?
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>>286014
>πόρνη
pretty sure he called us a whore
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>>286014
>being too retarded to drop shit into google translate
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>>286014
Surya didn't say anything to us. We were dreaming about Surya when those guys talked about the sleeping "camel fucker" they found. We incorporated their voices into the dream.
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Rolled 50 (1d100)

What are the odds of Soma running tomorrow?
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>>286971
That sounds about right.
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>>287719
That's very optimistic of you, anon
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How would idea anons go about artificially increasing someones talent as a Vatis? Is there a post detailing how talent is determined? (I've been looking for it, since it's been brought up before with Thad and possibly in a ask post)

The Banished setting resembles an Immortal Cultivation setting enough that we might be able to do some neat stuff with Vys Veins (Meridians) soon*


*when Enchanting starts getting used neverever
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>>288579
>artificially increasing someones talent as a Vatis
Tear apart the soul of a better Vatis, jam bits of it into their soul and hope it works.
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>>288579
>Is there a post detailing how talent is determined?
It's sorta buried in my pastebin, here's the link.
http://pastebin.com/cNSCzkQe
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>>288579
Well, Mik's spiffy trait lets him force people past barriers they normally would never break through on their own.

But doing that too far probably does silly things like erode sanity and junk.
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Since I am clinically unable to let things go, here's one last ditch effort for keeping the body.

The trait Chryssa gets from her unique physiology is
>Impossibly Strong: Capable of incredible feats of strength. The upper limit of what she can do is unknown. (+8 to Attack, Soak, Dodge)

If we stab, slash or throw something? +8 modifier. If we try to dodge a hail of arrows or a giant ball of holy wrath? +8 modifier. If we block an attack with a shield, or just stand there and have our armor absorb it? +8 modifier.

And since a guy was saying we can cover by this with vys, let me put it this way: A modifier boosts all rolls. Meaning all three rolls are increased by 8 each, as if we spent 24 vys. Except it's automatic, costs no vys and you get to boost it even more.

It's a fairly significant power-up to say the least, especially considering we'd get it by doing very, very little. And this remains true even if we have a watered-down version like +6 or +4.

Also, rolling for the chances the Stooges are the broken-off pieces of a god.
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>>290149
Soma won't let us get that power without turning Mik into a degenerate.
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>Okay, you're starting to lose your patience with this nonsense. You're just going for it. Crouching, you scoop her up in your arms before ducking through the doorway. She's surprisingly light, actually. You're not even all that strong. She cries out in surprise and slaps your chest nervously, not quite sure what to make of the situation. “Stop it, Mikhael. This isn't appropriate.”

>You drop her on her bed, beginning to unlace your vest. “Nonsense, this is perfectly natural. Besides that do you really want to give some old fat trader the honor? It's your last night as a free woman, live a little.”

>She seems to weigh your proposal for a time. Ultimately, she starts to wriggle out of her dress. You find that she's wearing some sort of binding around her breast, hooked at the back. You had thought her bust small, but in truth she has rather ample breast. She bites her bottom lip as you run your hands along the pale skin of her abdomen, stopping grope her breast. To flick one of her rapidly stiffening nipples. You can't help but find the color odd. Pink, of all things. Why wouldn't they be pale like the rest of her? An oddity of humans, you suppose.

>Having momentarily satisfied your curiosity you help her the rest of the way out of her dress, then assist her in shedding her strange undergarments. Some sort of comically poofy short pant. With those out of the way the only thing keeping you from your prize are her crossed legs, she seems rather loathe to part them.

>You take a moment to kick your boots across the room and shed your own shirt and pants. You weren't wearing anything beneath to begin with. Approaching her once more you grab hold of her knees, spreading apart her legs. At the sight of you, she turns a shade of red you didn't really think a human could turn. “By the Gods, there's no way...”

>You wave a hand dismissively. “You'd be surprised what proper care and magic can accomplish.” You take the opportunity afforded to you by her momentary surprise to spread her legs wider, getting to your knees on the floor at the edge of the bed and pulling her towards you.

>She squeaks nervously in surprise. “What are you doing? This isn't what I read about in my books!”

>You don't bother to respond, instead merely pressing your face into her crotch. Her cries of protest quickly turn into cries of quite a different nature, and when the time comes you find that you're able to slide into her with surprising ease.

>You awake the next morning with a foul headache, your stomach churning. You find yourself momentarily at a loss as to where you are, the bed you lie in as unfamiliar as the stuffed animal replicas which surround you. It's only when your companion nuzzles her head sleepily into your chest that you recall the events of the night before. Then the guilt strikes.

>Dear Pani, forgive you. You've had relations with a human. What sort of degenerate filth have you become?
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>BQ was a WE WUZ KANGZ propaganda all along
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>>290194
Mik should drink more often
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>>290213
To faithfully roleplay the character, the players should drink when Mik does.
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>>290228
>>290213
Mik should drink whenever Soma drinks.
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>>290232
We just gotta throw mik into some horrible trauma and make him develop an alcohol dependency. Oh wait we died, thats totally a reason to turn to the bottle
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>>290238
That's like everyday life to mik m8
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>>290727
>life
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>>290731
We're not undead unless Soma doubles our hit dice.
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>>290746
Mik shedding the bonds of mortality and just becoming a soul that floats around of its own will when?
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>>290194
>He seriously thinks we'll go race traitor for a trait
No. What you're suggesting is degeneracy on a completely different level. There isn't a single humiefucker among our race that would consider what yo
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>>291368
we do that whenever we go into the void
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>>290201
WE WUZ VATIS N SHIEEEET

>>290232
Mik probably drinks more than I do, being honest. More often at least. If you haven't noticed, wine is pretty much the go to beverage with every meal and at every time. Granted, it's often diluted, but still.

>>284227
His beliefs contradict the state religion in a number of ways:
>Mik doesn't believe Pani is benevolent, or Surya is full of boiling hatred for all living creatures.
>Mik doesn't believe that worship is important to secure a higher 'tier' of reincarnation
>Mik doesn't believe priest can achieve any greater closeness to the divine through meditation, but does believe they can often offer sound advice.
>Mik doesn't believe the rituals, festivals, and ceremonies carried out by priest hold any special significance.
>Mik doesn't believe giving tithes to a temple could ensure a better reincarnation in the next life.
>Mik doesn't believe priest have any special claim to authority on matters concerning the gods.
There are a few others, but those are probably the most prominent points on which Mik would disagree with, say, the new Varistha or the Amatya.

Incidentally, many sects of Pani worshipers don't believe in the whole tiers of reincarnation system, but it's the position espoused by the Amatya and most 'mainstream' temples, insofar as there is a mainstream.

The tiers, according to the Amatya, go: Noble Samja>Samja>>>Human>Sarada>Elf>Pets>Beast of Burden>Wild Animals>Rodents & Pest>Insects

Incidentally, Sarada is more a category of animal than an individual animal. You have the pure Sarada, which is the reptilian mount Mik got from the nomads, and then you have things like Kateri Sarada, which are long-necked omnivores which subsist primarily off desert plants. Then you have Kalla Sarada, which are huge obligate carnivores, bipedal lizards with a fin running down their spine.

As for the religions of nomadic tribes, Mik isn't very familiar with them. He knows even less about the traditions of the Bhataki, though he has a vague notion that both nomadic tribes and the Bhataki disagree with the Amatya on doctrinal points like the primacy of the Amatya's word on points of religious significance, or the importance of paying tithes to the temple.
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>>291556
>being a lizard is better than being an elf
I love how racist they are.
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>>291556
Quest fucking when
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>>291568
Telling the truth isn't racism, Anon.
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>>291556
Some please run everything else is basically dead and I need my fix.
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>>291568
The only reason humans are higher on the totem pole than Sarada is because at least Humans once ruled an empire equal to the glory of Hiacia. The elves can't make that claim, for from the very beginning of recorded history they have been a subservient people.

>>291587
Soon, I'm all settled in so I'm gonna get started writing.
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>>291615
How many days left until stooges take direct control?
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>>291615
See you in three hours.
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So what are wr going to ask the Child of the Gods?
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>>291634
10, I believe. About to be 9 though. You went to sleep in the morning, around 6 AM, and you're waking up now at around 2PM. So in four or five hours it will be 9 days left.
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>>291725
The Stooges and this pissant entity are now on our case. We've stumbled right back into Soma's magical realm. Well, at least well probably be able to get most of people firmly into elder dragon territory in another day or so.
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>>291475
I honestly don't get why people make decisions on what's a pretty worn-out meme at this point. I get it, Slamjams think they're better, but that thought became pretty meaningless to me as soon as it got in the way of the gud I wanted to git.
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>>291740
The way ShindoL draws eyes kinda weirds me out sometimes desu.
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>>291740
>wah why do people keep making decisions that are IC for Mik?
Because they care more about story you dumb shit and
>implying it's meme because it's wrong
Also we just got unbanished so being a human would counterproductive.
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>>291740
Because it's not a meme.
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touch+attract+Remote runes on an item, linked to an item with mark+large.

Would these enchantments mimic in any way teleportation? i'm half asleep, sorry if it doesn't make sense
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>>291740
Tbh senpai, the best chance you have for getting Mik permanently buff is to get anons to read Profs fire technique book to see how fire magic can be used generative and then to apply said principles to string manipulation.
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>>291764
>a pretty intelligent and open-minded dude
>hangs around humans, elves and mutants 24-7
>doesn't realize the fallacy of his previous beliefs
>remains stubbornly racist despite all evidence to the contrary
>makes for a better story
Yeah okay guy.
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>>291777
Or reading the fucking chapter in the Shaping Arts on shaping the flesh.
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>>291786
>He thinks this is where the story will go.
>He the world is like one big liberal arts campus.
There is a reason there is a that won't work.
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>>290149
Soma said Mik wont keep the body
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>>291786
He never stopped believing his friends are inferior to himself.
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>>291786
Soma's literally said he's still the same as he was.
Mik thinks Samjan are objectively superior in every way, but his companions have proved themselves beyond their own inherent inferiority. That's why he won't take some rando cunt talking shit about them, even if they're samjan; because though the Samjan may very well be superior in every way, he hasn't proven it- whereas his companions have saved his life and made it easier countless times.
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>>291805
You realize that none of his thoughts on being a pure nigger elf will matter because sooner or later he will become far too warped to be considered a nigger elf, right?

>>291813
He's admitted to believing his friends are much better than some of the shitty samjan he's known.
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>>291786
He believes that his companions have risen above their race, much like Mik himself has risen above death.
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>>291751
I like them the most m8
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>>291828
What part of "he's going to change back before then" do you not understand?
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>>291844
The part where there's no reason to do it other than "m-muh purity."
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>>291853
That's good enough reason, away with you pleb.
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>>291853
after clicking your ID and seeing your posts i have to say i'm a fan now :)
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>>291853
I bet you also support racemixing.
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>>291723
Nigger it's not a Child. It's an Ancient.
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>>291866
>femdom
>feet
pleb tier blog would not subscribe
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>>291878
Lolidom and feet are great you fucking pleb.
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>>291853>>291853
>The part where there's no reason to do it other than "m-muh purity."
>no reason
>"muh purity"
I never actually stated that as my reason you dumb shit. And reason why there is going to be a massive pushback against you is because it would require him to abandon his civilization and disgrace his family. Both of which are are wildly out of character. Not to mention he still considers samjan better than humans.
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>>291882
Literally trash.
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>>291882
Well if it's lolifeet
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Reminder that we are currently a pale white boi and can fuck all the humies and fulvias we want until we turn back into a Samjan. Its not degenerate because we technically aren't Samjan.
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>>291871
Gods only to talk to their Children.
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>>291891
It's the inside that mattress
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>>291863
Not a better reason than +8 to all physical actions.
>>291869
Blasians are objectively the best race. Pure caucasians are objectively the worst. Come at me, internet. I'm not afraid.
>>291883
Not really, I've also been suggesting that we regrow our outer layer and part of our skeletal structure. The in-character thing is never going to stop being a retarded reason.
>>291866
Honestly I'm well aware that at this point spiting my autistic ass is more than enough reason for anon to vote against keeping the muscles

My giant pile of personality disorders have been doing the posting all by themselves for days now
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>>291906
Then stop man, slow down. Just chill for a bit.

No matter what happens BQ will be fine.
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>>291906
Definitely superior reason.
>come at me internet
nice fucking tumblr-tier response
>being in-character
>retarded

>spiting you
Nah you're just a spastic who acts the right way to make me hate you
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>>291906
You literally have no reason other than "muh trait" which isn't a good reason especially when we have a book on shaping the self-image.
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Angered the Gods? You're well aware that you've drawn Surya's ire, or at least his subordinate's ire, but what could you have done to anger Pani and Dhatu? Does Dhatu even have a presence in this cosmic bureaucracy you grow increasingly familiar with?

{They yet slumber, uninterested in the affairs of their host. Perhaps that may one day change, but that day is not this one.} Despite its obvious power, you almost get the sense that the spirit, or whatever this creature is, restrains itself. Its thoughts do not overwhelm your own, and though you found its presence initially oppressive the sense of inferiority you felt has thankfully abated. {I come to you as an emissary, representing the interest of the Creators in all things.}

You question that assertion, but decide to play along for now. “I-” At the sound of your voice a great, moaning wail arises from the creature's gathered disciples, many falling to their knees and clasping their hands in front of them, their attention focused solely upon the object of their worship. The scent of incense grows heavier as the masked figure draws smoke from one of his braziers, casting it through the crowd gathered around him. The wailing dies down, an almost meditative calm descending over those nearest the figure.

Right, well. That was odd. {I don't suppose you'd be willing to explain precisely what I've done to offend the gods.} It's more a statement than it is a question, if there's one thing you've learned in your dealings with spirits and those void entities capable of communicating with mortals, it's that they love their metaphor and have a tendency to be vague or blatantly mislead. The stooges come to mind, in light of this damnable task they've assigned you.

{On the contrary.} The wax-laden creature drawls. {You have upset the natural order, repeatedly flaunted death. Stolen your own soul and the souls of others away from the grasp of first our Divine Guardian, and now our Illustrious Ruler. Perhaps one such offense could be forgiven, but to commit the same offense twice is a crime not so easily pardoned. Thus, I bring you an ultimatum.}

A figure begins to take shape from the smoke which lingers around the figure, resolving itself into a disturbingly accurate depiction of your current form. {Surrender your soul so that it may be recycled.} From the figure's chest emerges a roiling ball of fire, tightly contained by some unseen force. The smoke dissipates once robbed of this core, which is snuffed out in short order.

{Or submit yourself fully to the service of the Gods, as many have before you.} The creature gestures around to the devoted worshipers gathered at his feet, each of them wearing a mask nearly identical to the one worn by their patron, save for the fact that theirs do not glow with the same internal fire.

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Its message apparently delivered, the Emissary slips its lower arms into the voluminous folds of its robes. {If you refuse both of my offers, know that I will stalk you across the landscape seeking at every turn to bring about your demise. Your death will be neither quick nor pleasant, but rest assured eventually you would succumb to the forces or nature, beast, or mortal rage.}

>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
>Write-in
Updated pic of Mahana's realm and former shrines, just in case I haven't posted it yet.
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>>291954
>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
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>>291954
>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
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>>291954
>>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
Nah.
>>291920
This pleases me.
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>>291954
>>Write-in
Can I simply kill the kid instead?
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>>291954
just so i get this straight, this nigga wants us to become his disciple? or the mindless shit tier of disciples?
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>>291954
What if we offered to kill the kid?
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>>291954
>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
well fuck you too gods.
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>>291970
Mindless shit tier disciples.
Well, 'mindless' is a bit of a strong word, but lemme just say that agreeing to devote yourself fully to serving the gods would pretty much end the quest. Mik would cease to have any real agency in the story.

>>291974
>>291967
A valid question to ask.
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>>291954
>Call it a nigger
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>>291954
>>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
Bring up the enchanter lady. statign how her crimes are much larger than our own and asking why he hasn't fucked her up then?
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>>291954
>Offer the kids life.
Holy shit Soma, you actually updated.
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>>291954
>>Write-in
>Accept to surrender our soul
I see nothing wrong with this deal.
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>>291954
>>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
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>>291970
We'd have to ask.
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>>291954
>>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
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>>291954
>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
So, fellow shitposters, with all our potential tools and allies, how would we go about preparing ourselves to trap this thing or at least reduce its effective power on the world /circumstance? I have difficulty believing it's entirely invulnerable.
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>>291954
>>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.

Pass on that, we only acted on the use of the gifts the gods gave our people. Our soul might yet pass naturally to Pani's sweet tited embrace.
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>>291983
we could also bring up the draco-lich.
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>>291954
>I'll give you the kid's soul, but not my own. I still have business with the Stooges.
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>>291986

This is fine too.
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>>291954
>>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
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>>292000
All void beings are vulnerable to spirits and husk.
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>>292001
>we only acted on the use of the gifts the gods gave our people
That's a good way to say it.
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>>270696
>Write-in
Party up, group meditation, if we want to try and go for super strength me might as well do it right.
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>>291954
>>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
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>>291954
>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
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Offer the kid and mention the crazy enchanter bitch
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>>292000
If it shows up, we run away. At least until the fire GM or some other comparable gain.
>>292003
Actually, that guy is way worse than us, and fucked with us personally to boot. I support this approach to haggling.
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>>292017
your right, that is why the gods have told me to take away your people's gifts and make them elves again.
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>>292028
Second that
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>>292001
>>292000
>>291998
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>>291978
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>>292029
>Fuck off m8

>>291974
>>291967
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>>292028
>>292029
>What if I killed the kid?

>>291987
>Take me, senpai!

>>291983
>Ey yo waddafuk about enchantress?

>>292023
>Just drag your entire party into your dreams and meditate without answering the twenty foot tall walking candelabra

>>291982
>Call it a nigger

I'll write for
>Bring up Dracolich
>Bring up Enchantress
>Ask about sacrificing the kid
>Refuse the ultimatum.
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>>291954
>>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
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Can we eat these faggot's hearts one by one consume their power and eventually challenge the Gods themselves?
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>>292023
If you want to get strength so much why not read the Shaping Arts? It has a section on shaping the flesh.
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>>292040
>Ask about sacrificing the kid
>Bring up Enchantress
Jew Bargain his ass.
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>>292046
Tbh mi familia, the Voidzilla battle wasn't really even a fight. He didn't even strike us. It was just a curbs top battle. That's with 240 units of husk, 140ish actual points spent. We get something similar to that, by capturing souls, spirits, or artifacts, we can probably take this shitter out too, though it might be closer.
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>>291954
>Refuse the ultimatum offered, knowing full well what that may entail.
We only worship us. We declare war on the cosmos now.

Is Chryssa gonna kill us for this?
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>>292061
I want our Samjan body back, but if fags insist on doing it I want to live through it.
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>>292076
she worships her ancestors not the gods
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>>292081
How can you hope to live through it if you don't even know what you are suppose to do? The Shaping arts will at least give us an idea.
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>>292094
Well, we're essentially giving great cosmic beings several orders of magnitude more powerful than ourselves the finger. And she said we're only one or two decisions from going over the edge.
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>>292100
>How can you hope to live through it if you don't even know what you are suppose to do?

By having enough Vys and Husk on hand to bullshit our way out of any trouble we toss ourselves into.
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>>292124
Except experiments don't work like that. If you start off with the wrong idea you're fucked regardless of if you get a great success.
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>>292100
>>292137
Are you suggesting we maybe read the shaping arts book if we want to seriously shape ourselves into a bigger better dudezilla than would otherwise be possible and perhaps inform ourselves on the pitfalls that would no doubt be avoided by reading through someone else's recorded experience?

Anon, that sounds ridiculous. Wayward fumbling is always superior to concentrated learning. We can safely ignore the book, really, and just keep trying experiments on ourselves or someone else until we get it right. And why not? It's not like we're on a time limit.
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>>292137
I don't know why i'm arguing, I want to rot everything and reform our old body
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>>292149
Because people on BQ respond to reason over emotion so well.
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>>291954
Is Mahana's realm yellow because of cat piss?
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>>292163
Yes, anon.
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>>292163
also because Mahana is a Siamese cat.
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>>292190
Where's the second one then?
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>>292199
Locked in the vault.
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>>292202
Could probably voidwalk into it
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>>292040
>Demand trial by combat with Surya instead
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>>292206
The creators probably thought about that possibility.
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>>292214
Never know until you try. No spirit is capable of moving through void, might have slipped their minds that a non-spirit could do it.
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>>292219
You mean it might have slipped their minds that a disciple could do it?
Well, maybe. The majority of the ancients are dead so they're probably not all that smart.
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>>292220
Probably has anti-disciple and anti-slave measures in place. We're neither. I mean, still, just a gues.
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>>291786
>>291805
>>291813
>>291823
>>291829
I thought that superiority was a soul-ingrained belief in most Samjan souls? It's the first thing Mik remembered when he wiped his husk, if he 'forgot' at all, since freaking out at degenerate companions was the his first conscious act

>>291772
Doubt it, don't see how they'd affect each other to create that effect.
I know Runed Age, the system Soma based enchantment on, requires two Arrays(Enchantments) have a Send(Possibly our Transfer/Move rune) or Receive rune combined with an element-rune phone number
for teleportation.
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{Do you seriously expect me to accept either dying or becoming a slave?} Perhaps it's your pride getting the better of you, but you're frankly offended. {If that's your best offer, it looks like you'll be hunting me across the jungles of Elaudia and beyond for the foreseeable future. I don't plan on going quietly into my next life, not anytime soon, and considering the people I've met and things I've experienced thus far I'd be inclined to brand you incompetent.}

The Emissary is unphased by your refusal and condemnation, his thoughts drifting languidly through your own. {What in particular do you name incompetence, mortal?}

Is it merely leading you on, or is it truly unaware of your various cohorts in thwarting death and stealing souls? {There is a woman living in a private realm within the void, the access to which lies beneath the city of Marqash. She has been stealing souls one by one for millennia, but when I met her she did not seem to fear death. Indeed she seemed hale and healthy despite her immense age.}

{The mortal you describe, I am aware of them.} The way the Emissary sleepily drones on almost gives you the impression that it's bored. {Her actions do not constitute a threat to the natural order, for invariably they will lead to her own demise. You, on the other hand, do not commit yourself to any such action which we would deem tantamount to suicide. Thus it is necessary for me to manipulate events such that your demise is assured.}

In a way, that's almost a backhanded compliment. You suppose it's nice to know you haven't yet doomed yourself to an early grave. {And what of the draconic patriarch lying deep within the Mines of Longia? My understanding is that he had turned his heart into a phylactery, though a flawed one, to avoid Pani's grasp. Does that not also constitute a crime against the natural order.}

The Emissary's thoughts carry with them notes of curiosity and vague amusement. {Until your meddling, we thought that issue resolved. The dragon was divested from its physical form, its soul slowly deteriorating. Perhaps in another few hundred years we could have at last claimed what is rightfully ours, but with the return of his heart this 'Patriarch' as you termed it has once again enshrined itself within a suitable vessel. Know that as we actively seek your death, so too do we seek the dragon's.}

Truth be known, you feel a little bad about giving the heart to that spirit. You probably could have convinced it to take some lesser artifact if you'd tried. Now you've probably condemned Anthus to destruction by dragonfire, or at the very least immense hardship. Still, your guilt over putting several of your friend's lives at risk can wait until you're not embroiled in a conversation with an ancient entity which hopes to kill you.
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{What if I were to kill Vicitra, and thus undue the offense I'd caused Surya?} It's not something you want to do, but at the end of the day he's a boy with no memories, no true family, and little to offer society. If it could potentially make your life easier, killing him might be worth it.

{The mortal you resurrected will meet his death in good time.} You can't really see how, he doesn't seem inclined to go running off endangering his life any time soon. {That being said, it is possible that whatever offense you've caused could be, if not forgiven, reexamined if you were to offer their soul in sacrifice to Surya. We are not so cruel as to ignore a heartfelt act of contrition.}

Heartfelt might be a strong word, what you had in mind would be a glorified bribe. Still, it's something to think on. Killing him would be a simple task, one which you could accomplish with little more than a thought. Dissolving his heart in his chest would likely do the trick, and it would be a quick death as well. Still, the idea of killing the boy simply to ease your own trials sits poorly with the vestigial remnants of your conscience.

{Know that I do not bear you any ill will. You have not personally wronged me. This is but the task assigned, and I intend to carry it out with the appropriate vigor until such a time as the task is complete or I am given a new task.} The Emissary spreads its four arms wide, though it's difficult to tell whether the gesture is welcoming or placating considering it lacks proper facial expressions. {As a show of benevolence, I will permit you to ask one question. Otherwise I will leave you to sleep in peace.}

>You've no questions for a glorified bureaucrat.
>Write-in
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>>292275
>You've no questions for a glorified bureaucrat.
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>>291772
Soma confirmed that the enchanting palace we visted and know how to control hold the runes needed for teleportation.
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>>292275
>Write-in
What do the Three seek?
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>>292275
>Write-in
Do you enjoy your work?
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>>292275
So, got anyone who's so horrifyingly abominable to the natural order, an entity of such woeful evil, that their death would remove be full repayment for my own sins?
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>>292275
>Write-in
"Have you ever commanded all your slaves there to suck your dick? I know I would."
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>>292275
>Write-in
Call him a nigger
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>>292292
That's an interesting question. Seconded.

Though maybe phrase it as though we'd be sacrificing them.
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>>292275
>Write-in
Ask Him to show us what happened when Varvar entered the void to his eventual death all the way to where his soul now resides.
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>>292292
Seconding.

Time to sign up for another quest we'll never do!
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>>292292
>become triggerman for the gods to prolong our own life

im okay with this
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Quick question why dont we pursue our ascended form and see what bonuses it gives us?
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>>292275
backing >>292292
it's win win for them really.
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>>292292
And suddenly Mik is now the hitman of the gods.
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>>292275
whats the deal with airplane food?
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>>292275
Ask if he would teach us about this cosmic bureaucracy.
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>>292329
Its there to feed you?
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>>292271
Kek the water spirit made the dragon his discple.
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>>292292
>>292302
>>292306
>>292324
>Who can I kill to make this go away?

>>292303
>What happened to my main man Sehzade?

>>292294
>What does a blowjob from a hundred dudes feel like?

>>292290
>How's work?

>>292288
>What's with those creepy skellingtons?

>>292278
>What didn't you understand about fuck off, m8?

>>292329
>A show about nothing

>>292334
>Teach me about the universe, Onii-chan!

Writin'
I'd like to ask a few of these questions desu, just to satisfy my raging lore boner, but sadly I've constrained myself to one question.
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>>292340
How about a roll to convince him?
We are charasmatic enough.
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>>292340
Well, humor us and let us roll to convince him to answer more.
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>>292340
Maybe he'd be willing to talk about such things if we complete this task.
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>>292348
>>292340
Plus it can be an all or nothing play.
Also soma did this spirit just confirmed that the water spirit helped the dragon or made him his discple?
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>>292340
Too bad kike. We get one question and then it's off to Elaudia. No stopping the jungle train.
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>>292340
how hard did your lore boner get and how much did it hurt when you willingly blueballed that lore boner?
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>>292356
It confirmed that the phylactery has made its way back into the hands of Papa Dragon. What that means for the dragon's relationship with the water spirit, Mik isn't sure.
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>>292362
Kek it wasnt the cooler, but the heart.
At least that line of bitching is long gone.
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>>292340
>>Who can I kill to make this go away?
I bet it's Sadik.
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>>292340
Go ahead and treat us like your sister.
Relieve yourself on us.
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>>292362
I bet we could take him. Spirits aren't shit to us and papa dragon probably owes that spirit. We could just put a metaphorical gun to the spirit's head and have him flip the kill-switch that he hopefully rigged papa-dragon with. It's a plan that only relies on 5 or so huge and likely incorrect assumptions
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please onii-san, i want your lore in my head pucci
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>>292370
Wait, that was a question? Whether the massive nest of creatures, who are each born master fire vatis, improve their arcae potence at ludicrous rates, with millenia-old members among them ranks, can get rid of a coldness machine?
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>>292376
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>>292387
fuck off you retard cunt
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A thought occurs to you, this is all just a roundabout method of extortion. What they want are souls. You're not sure what they really want them for, whether the gods truly demand what is rightly theirs or if this Emissary merely seeks personal gain, but either way their desire remains the same. They seek a mortal's demise, and perhaps you don't necessarily need to be that mortal. Perhaps if you perform some task for them, this could all be forgotten. The Gods know it would not be the first time you acted as an assassin for forces beyond your understanding.

{Is there anyone who has committed offenses as dire, or worse, than mine whom I might offer up to the gods as a fitting sacrifice for the forgiveness of my own misdeeds?} You channel a little Metal magic to guard your mind against intrusion by this supposed messenger, though you restrain yourself to prevent potentially silencing the creature.

Your fears prove unmerited, for its voice intrudes upon your thoughts with the same clarity as before. {I am not in a position to negotiate such bargains, any such decision would remain in the hands of my progenitor.} The passivity which colored his thoughts is gone now, replaced by careful neutrality. {However, speaking from past experience, you are not the first to offer such an arrangement, nor would yours be the first accepted.}

A vision of a figure garbed in several layers of thick robes fills your mind's eye. His skin, what little you can see of it, is dark but you're not sure if this is enough to determine his race. His head is encased within what appears to be some sort of carapace, three holes cut into the face of the helm and a curious sort of apparatus arranged over where his mouth ought to be. Of course, the most interesting aspect of the image is the sphere of solid black he wields in one hand. It appears almost as a hole in reality, but surely no mortal could so easily control a tear in the fabric of reality.

The image is cut off abruptly as the Emissary speaks once more. {You journey into Elaudia, a land touched by the Gods yet paradoxically a home for many who flaunt their laws. Seek out this creature. I will conspire to guide you towards it. If you offer up the soul of the mortal you snatched from Surya's grasp, and can put an end to this mortal's life in addition, you would likely enjoy the favorable opinion of my peers. I cannot be certain of course, perhaps my Progenitor will not be content with but two souls in payment for your crimes, but this would at the least serve as a good start to making amends.}

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With that somewhat lackluster guarantee of forgiveness, the dream ends. You become dimly aware of the world around you, of the silken sheets and the weight of the blankets layered over them. You're unsure of how much time has passed but feel your reserves replenished regardless, hopefully a sign you've enjoyed a full night's sleep. For a moment as you lay half-awake in your bed reliving the last few moments of your encounter with the Emissary, you forget the events of the day before which led you here to begin with.
>Vys Pool: (71/71)

Then your horns catch against the sheets, and the ripping of fabric drag you forcefully into the waking world. You let out a weary sigh as you struggle to untangle yourself from the bed's confines, the sheets repairing themselves the moment you've freed your horn from the tear you created.

As your awareness returns, you realize a few things. First, Chryssa seems to be entirely lost. She's wandering about the fourteenth floor of your tower. Zahak sleeps within his boiling pond, his head rested upon the rim and coated in a light dusting of salt. He seems quite content despite that fact, and the stillness of his thoughts would seem to indicate he won't be waking anytime soon. Meanwhile, Fulvia seems to be in the process of cutting open her arm in your workshop, the black substance which oozes from the wound disturbingly similar to blood.

>You should probably drag Chryssa back down, before she gets herself further lost.
>Gather your companions, and your son, so you can return to the mortal realm. You've spent too much time here already.
>This hideous form you inhabit grows taxing, and you'd rather not suffer it any longer now that you have the necessary vys to restore your self-image.
>Write-in

Aaand I'm gonna run out for some food. Getting dizzy.
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>>292586
>This hideous form you inhabit grows taxing, and you'd rather not suffer it any longer now that you have the necessary vys to restore your self-image.
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>>292586
>>You should probably drag Chryssa back down, before she gets herself further lost.
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>>292586
>This hideous form you inhabit grows taxing, and you'd rather not suffer it any longer now that you have the necessary vys to restore your self-image.

We better do this now than later. Less explanations and trouble that way.
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>>292586
>>You should probably drag Chryssa back down, before she gets herself further lost.
Can we at least fuck with her a little before ditching this meatsack?
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>>292586
>You should probably drag Chryssa back down, before she gets herself further lost.
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>>292586
>This hideous form you inhabit grows taxing, and you'd rather not suffer it any longer now that you have the necessary vys to restore your self-image.

Watch'cha eaten tonight, boss?
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>>292586
>This hideous form you inhabit grows taxing, and you'd rather not suffer it any longer now that you have the necessary vys to restore your self-image.
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So I've been thinking about effects and I think there are a lot of possibilities for effects that Mik might be able to create in order to get that sweet sweet vys. Off the top of my head:
Regular Effect:
>scrying
>teleportation
>intangibility
>magnetism (might just be metal magic)
>reveal (might just be nature magic)
>link

Metamagic
>invert
>revert
>refine
>triggered
>negate

To elaborate on some of these:
Link: the idea would be to metaphysically link things together so that anything you do to one affects the other. I got this idea from the 'domino' ability revealed for Dishonored 2.
Reveal: I got this idea from the reveal rune. It would just show us hidden things. It might need to be a metamagic and be combined with something else to make sense. It also might just be nature.
Triggered: I got this idea from the way enchanting works. It would basically allow us to cast a spell but have the spell only go off once a certain condition is met, such as something with a soul entering its presence, for example.
Negate might not be a thing distinct from manipulate, Invert too.

Teleportation, intangibility and scrying seem pretty OP and might just not be doable as effects, but I think it would be worth trying to learn them.
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>>292606
or will the corridor she is walking in to become a giant circle/never ending hallway?
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>>292586
>This hideous form you inhabit grows taxing, and you'd rather not suffer it any longer now that you have the necessary vys to restore your self-image.
>You should probably drag Chryssa back down, before she gets herself further lost.

get chryssa down first, freak her the fuck out, freak out Prof and Drazi, have a few laughs, then get our body fixed.
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>>292586
>You should probably drag Chryssa back down, before she gets herself further lost.
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>>292586
>>You should probably drag Chryssa back down, before she gets herself further lost.
>This hideous form you inhabit grows taxing, and you'd rather not suffer it any longer now that you have the necessary vys to restore your self-image.
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>>292586
>Write-in
Gather your companions, and your son, sit down with them in your tower to unlock this body's secrets and teach them how you will regrow your body's self image.
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>>292586
>You should probably drag Chryssa back down, before she gets herself further lost.
Don't go back to normal just yet. We still haven't figured out how to steal super strength
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>>292586
1. Create another perfect copy of Chryssas body.
2. Examine the strings that define Chryssas self image
3. Examine the strings that define this bodys attributes
4. Above all MEDITATE NIGGA MEDITATE
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>>292586
>>You should probably drag Chryssa back down, before she gets herself further lost.

>Write in ask Chrys if she can go assassin the other cunt for us with her no magic bullshit bow
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>>292623
>>292629
This desu
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>>292629
I'd support that too.
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>>292586
>You should probably drag Chryssa back down, before she gets herself further lost.
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>>292586
>>292615
I wanna see our companions reactions to our body as well
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>>292629
support
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>>292629
supporten
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>>292629
>>292586
I'm with this motion while we do our full-body plastic surgery.
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>>292586
>>Write-in
come on guys
Meditate on our current body. Learn everything we can about it. Improve that Anatomical Knowledge and gain some str.
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>>292586
>You should probably drag Chryssa back down, before she gets herself further lost.
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>>292615
Also supporting this. But the thing is only Fulvia, Chrys and Zahak are with us in our personal magical realm.
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>>292586
>This hideous form you inhabit grows taxing, and you'd rather not suffer it any longer now that you have the necessary vys to restore your self-image.
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>>292644
Get that mediation going!
Learn the strength boost and add to ours then fuck off into our own body!
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>>292629
I'll cast my support. One more meditation can't hurt our self image any worse.
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>>292586
>This hideous form you inhabit grows taxing, and you'd rather not suffer it any longer now that you have the necessary vys to restore your self-image.
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>>292644
i'll back this i guess
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>>292586
>Meditate on your body. Create memories needed to retain the idea of Chryssa Strength via fucking shit up.
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>>292644
>>292586
Also want to meditate on this shit once we get our companions or before either one
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>>292586
>>This hideous form you inhabit grows taxing, and you'd rather not suffer it any longer now that you have the necessary vys to restore your self-image.
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>>292586
>This hideous form you inhabit grows taxing, and you'd rather not suffer it any longer now that you have the necessary vys to restore your self-image.
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>>292586
>This hideous form you inhabit grows taxing, and you'd rather not suffer it any longer now that you have the necessary vys to restore your self-image.
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>>292586
>You should probably drag Chryssa back down, before she gets herself further lost.
>This hideous form you inhabit grows taxing, and you'd rather not suffer it any longer now that you have the necessary vys to restore your self-image.

Unfaggotify ourself in front of Chys.

>>292629
We already discovered what we need to know about her hulk strength. We fucked ourselves over by destroying the foggy memories, is there anything more to learn?
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>>292677
Memories are only one way to modify the self image. My idea is to understand the strings that either define the part of the self image that corresponds to Stronk or the strings that define a body as Stronk and inject the idea of those strings into our self image.
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>>292611
>scrying
Already have a Prism.
>teleportation
Gotta meditate on the rune first to even know if it's possible.
>intangibility
Gotta examine the potion metaphysically.
>magnetism (might just be metal magic)
Already have it from GM metal.
>reveal (might just be nature magic)
Nature for vys, the rune for runes. We got both these things. Though we should ask Soma whether nature can counteract things like the Hidden meta.
>link
Already have this in the form of Mark.
>invert
>revert
These are good, but we don't know if they're possible. I'd vote for it, though, provided nothing more urgent is going on.
>refine
That's just invert and revert combined.
>Triggered
Delay sets a timer. That's good enough. No need to waste time on this, especially since we seem to do everything on the fly.
>negate
There's probably something that can negate any given thing, and we have many of those things. We have no hard counter for husk or spirit shenanigans and powerful artifacts, but a simple vys-cast meta won't cover for it anyway, since it'll just be overridden.

>>292629
Yeah, okay.

>>292677
Its source code. I think the idea is to start learning how to reprogram reality at the seams, possibly as a warm-up for the fire GM, and seize an opportunity before it passes while we're at it.
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>>292684
The point of learning effects that we already have the ability to duplicate is to get the +2 vys (or +3 for metas) from creating them. 1 for the experiment and 1 for the actual magic. Each one would be only 1 meditation (assuming we succeed), so we'd be able to very quickly increase our vys pool in that fashion
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Votes are closed ,gimme a sec to count.
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>>292696
True, but there are effects and metamagics we can't duplicate we could learn first. Several we've read and have yet to meditate on, in fact.

I hear you about the vys pool, though. I dunno. I guess I'd decide on a case-by-case basis whether I'd support it.

>>292701
If you aren't tapping into your autism, you're doing Banished Quest wrong.
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>>292701
D I C K
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C
K
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>>292705
You must of drilled the wrong end m8 cause you're pumping out fucking shit
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>>292594
>>292596
>>292601
>>292603
>>292615
>>292620
>>292649
>>292658
>>292672
>>292673
>>292674
>>292677
>Fuck this degenerate humie shit

>>292667
>>292666
>>292644
>>292656
>>292660
>Meditate on your current form.

>>292629
>>292634
>>292635
>>292641
>>292642
>>292643
>>292657
>>292684
>Ask Chryssa if you can clone her and fuck around with her self-image.

>>292638
>>292630
>>292626
>>292620
>>292616
>>292615
>>292599
>>292598
>>292595
>>292645
>>292677
>Call Chrys down.

Writin' for drag Chrys down and full body plastic surgery.

>>292601
Chicken pot pie mah nigga.
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>>292741
>Ask Chryssa
Consent never even crossed crossed my mind desu, I figured we'd just do it in secret.
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>>292603
>>292649
>samefagging with IDs enabled
For what purpose, Anon?
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>>292776
This is banished quest, it wouldn't be the same unless soma counted samefagging. ID's or not
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>>292776
Shit, how'd I miss that?
Doesn't change the results, even if I toss out both votes, but fuck that guy.
That might be a good punitive measure, actually. Samefag for the same option and both votes get discounted. Dunno, need to think about that.
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>>292776
these are all the ones that were samfagged
>>292677
>>292674
>>292673
>>292672
>>292658
>>292594
>>292596
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>>292741
Change back
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>>292586
>>292741
>>292629

Clone chrys
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>>292741
Clone Chryssa. My previous vote is >>292626
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>>292791
Yeah Soma, you should punish the samefags. Make banished quest great again.
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>>292791
So if we were able to clone Chrys would that mean we are able to clone artifacts as well?
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>>292741
>ask chryssa
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>>292791
>>292793
Thoughts, Soma? Also tell me what you're having for din-din.
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>>292828
I'm not gonna worry about it desu, if people can change their IDs to samefag they probably won't be deterred by final destination voting or anything of that sort.

Also I already did, man.
>>292741
>Chicken pot pie mah nigga.
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>>292828
He said chicken pot pie
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>>292826
Nah, they got souls. We can't copy that or the finalization progress.
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>>292834
So tell me what you really had for dinner.
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>>292793
>>292594 is my only vote thank you
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>>292846
A big tube of cookie dough, with a spoon.
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>>292846
Shit, you caught me.
A gallon of semen whiskey and half a kilo of cocaine.,
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>>292846
a dumb joke about it being his little sister
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>>292852
At least you're eating healthy desu. That's all I wanted to know, thanks Soma.
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>>292852
>half a kilo
At least you're using the proper unit of measurement.
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>>292852
We weren't asking what you were feeding the imouto.
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>>292858
Thanks Anon~
I gotta stop shitposting and write.

>>292869
I would never give my sister cocaine, what sort of monster do you think I am?
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>>292873
The kind that force feeds her semen whiskey through a funnel.
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>>292873
>not giving cocaine
I thought you were a good onii-san
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>>292873
I want you to live a very long time; this quest won't end.
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>>292895
THE RIDE NEVER ENDS
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Surprised clone rapping didn't win.
Also reminder that this spirit siad that he will make sure the kid will die so we might as well kill him now.>>292917
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>>292993
Yeah in the sense that he's a mortal that will die eventually.
I doubt the void bureocracy is very concerned with some non-vatis random kid that will be dead in a hundred years.
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Post never
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>>292993
The being actually said sacrifice the dudes soul to Surya, so we would have to find a way for it to go directly to him. Wether taht involves just popping a hole into reality that we then patch up or otherwise, It's gonna be a little harder than that.
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>>292873
Is the usual sacrifice in Surya's name usually involve immolation? Or can it be a simple slitting the kid's throat? Or does Surya approve of any method of sacrifice as long as there's fire involved?
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Chryssa seems to be in a bit of a panic at the moment, and you figure you probably owe her an explanation of sorts. This is actually a pretty interesting opportunity now that you think about it, you get the sense that space here will bend to your will, so you should be able to observe the strings of reality as you transport Chrys to see just how it is teleportation works. At least, how a form of teleportation works. You can't really speak to how the form employed by enchanters might function.

You channel Nature magic, the strings of reality fading slowly into view. They cut through your realm as thousands upon thousands of golden threads, all of them serving to define some aspect of your subjective reality. All you're required to do in order to move Chryssa from the fourteenth floor to the second is to focus upon the idea of moving her, and the strings eagerly contort themselves to obey.

Before your very eyes those threads surrounding Chryssa and those defining the space immediately in front of you begin to bend towards one another, until finally making contact at the midpoint between them. The strings twist themselves together, a connection forming, and then in a flash Chryssa is dragged through this connecting space and spit out directly in front of you. It's strange, there was no physical manifestation of this connection between two distinct points in space, but the results are undeniable.

When your attention slips, the strings quickly resume their previous positions. You cut the flow of Nature magic and your vision clears, revealing a very confused woman standing not four feet in front of you. She doesn't seem to recognize you, her confusion at this turn of events evident. Before she can speak, you hold up a hand begging pause. “It's me, Chryssa. It's Mikhael.”

As though to emphasize this point, your left arm up to the shoulder simply sloughs off, leaving nothing but bone behind. As the skeletal limb falls to your side, deprived of muscle and tendon to hold it aloft, the bones themselves begin to break down and elongate. “I know I don't quite look myself, but that will change soon. When you killed me, either the tattoos upon my arms or the method by which I achieved Grandmastery of Metal Magic ensured that my soul lived on even without a mortal vessel. However, it was deteriorating rapidly and if I didn't get a body I'd soon be dragged into Pani's loving embrace to await reincarnation.”

The flesh on your other arm has been slowly sliding down, peeling itself away in thin strips all the while. It too fell to the floor with a sickening squelch, your right arm now undergoing the same lengthening process as your left. Chryssa watches on in abject horror, though you ignore her for the most part. “So I made a copy of your body, but this wasn't enough. You see the copy was linked to your self-image, so my own couldn't assume control. Fortunately I found a way to decouple you from your copy and the rest is, as they say, history.”
(1/3)
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The muscles and tendons of your left arm have finally finished attaching themselves to bone. You probably look almost comically lanky, and will until you can finish reforming the rest of your body. As your face slips off, flopping wetly to the floor, you point to it with the length of exposed muscle and bone. Your teeth clack loudly together as you try to talk, a formless gargle the only sound which escapes your mouth. Frustrated, you switch to communicating telepathically. {That's what you'd look like as a man, incidentally. I'm not sure why, but when I pushed my soul into the copy of your form that's the appearance it assumed. I suppose my soul identified what it perceived as the most grievous discrepancy between my body and my self-image and sought to correct it.}

The entire process of rotting away your flesh, bone, and internal organs takes several minutes. You don't alter your brain, fearing what may result. Perhaps that would be cause for worry, but you assume that if your self-image altered the body's sex it probably also altered the body's brain to suit the form you're most comfortable in. Otherwise you assume your perception would be significantly different than usual, and that hasn't been the case.

When it's finished, you tower once more over Chryssa, perhaps a little taller than you were before. The tunic and trousers you'd been wearing are now much, much too small. The latter are more like shorts at this point, and the former reveals a wide expanse of your shapeless midriff. Your tattoos, once swirling red lines reaching your elbow, now assume the form of great golden lines sprawling up your arm to your shoulder in dizzying patterns, nearly impossible to follow. In addition your skin has grown darker. Where before it was a deep, rich brown you're now pitch black. You'd probably vanish in a dark room if you closed your eyes.

You feel good, you feel great in fact. Perhaps you're only just now beginning to appreciate things you hadn't noticed prior to being forced into that abominably short, stocky little body. However, something's off. You find your vision drifting down for reasons other than just to look Chryssa in the eye. The weight of your horns upon your head is distracting, and some brief investigation reveals why. They've grown perhaps another four or five inches, curving up at their ends like some sort of headdress or crown.

“Your alive!” Chryssa exclaims, finally having recovered from the shock of seeing you shed several hundred pounds of meat only to emerge from within like some sort of disgusting butterfly. Strong arms wrap around your chest, nearly crushing your ribs. “Gods and ancestors I thought I'd killed you!”

(2/3)
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Her horns are digging rather uncomfortably into your chest, but you doubt you could extricate yourself from her. You settle for patting her comfortingly upon the shoulder. “It's fine. You did kill me, actually. I just came back is all. As I'm wont to do.” You sort of thought that's what you just explained a few minutes ago, but maybe it went a bit over her head. “I've been pretty inconsiderate of your feelings for quite some time now, frankly I wasn't sure you had them, and now you've killed me. I think we can call that pretty much even, yes?”

She releases you, and despite yourself you enjoy a deep lungful of air after that crushing embrace. “I'd hardly call those comparable, Mikhael!” She exclaims readily, with more fire than you think you've ever seen from her. “I killed an ally and a comrade for reasons other than necessity. Granted it was an accident, but in my home this would be a crime punishable by death. I owe you an immense apology, I lost control of my own strength and you suffered for it.”

Chryssa is obviously contrite, a fact you appreciate. What she says is true, to an extent, she did cause you significant inconvenience, but she's your friend. You don't know if you really want to hold this over her head or anything. Truthfully, you're about ready to just be done with the various conflicts and disagreements between the two of you. She used to be your closest friend, after all.

>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.
>Well... maybe she could do you a small favor. (Write-in)
>Write-in
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>>293068
>“Gods and ancestors I thought I'd killed you!”
kek
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>>293071
>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship
It's fine. I got better.
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>>293071
>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.
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>>293066
>Chryssa watches on in abject horror, though you ignore her for the most part.
The fact that Mik managed to make Chryssa look horrified is fantastic.
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>>293071
>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.
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>>293068
>You'd probably vanish in a dark room if you closed your eyes.
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>>293068
>You'd probably vanish in a dark room if you closed your eyes
We are the niggest
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>>293071
>Well... maybe she could do you a small favor. (Write-in)
Would you allow me to make another copy of your body or allow me to study what makes you so strong?
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>>293071
>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.
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>>293068
>“Your alive!” Chryssa exclaims
>
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>>293071
>Write-in
Inform her that the creators of existence as we know it are after your life.
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>>293071
>Well... maybe she could do you a small favor.
Allow us to fuck around with her soul so we can experiment on our self image.
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>>293071
>Well... maybe she could do you a small favor. (Write-in)
Blowjobs settle all such matters.
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>>293071
>Well... maybe she could do you a small favor. (Write-in)
She can help our experiments to copy her strength.
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>>293071
>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.

I want to make a joke about her right hook but I fear that will only make her feel worse.
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>>293089
We should only do that after reading more shaping arts.
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>>293071
>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.
>Could you at least try to expand your view on polygamy?
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>>293071
>>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.
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>>293071
>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.
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>>293071
>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.
It's cool senpai, we don't die if we're killed.
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>>293071
>>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.
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>>293094
Skip to that section in the book and then dick around with her soul afterwards.

I'm sure Soma didn't want to write any story content today anyway.
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>>293097
>Could you at least try to expand your view on polygamy?
Never gonna happen, anon. Even if she and Darzi agreed to it, the anti-Chryssa brigade is too big of a voting bloq.
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>>293071
>Well... maybe she could do you one small favor
Let us try to get super stronk from her soul
Also don't leave
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>>293071
>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.
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>>293071
>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.
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>>293071
>>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.
Also inform we are on the gods' shit list.
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>>293104
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>>293093
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>>293116
>It's cool brah

>>293110
>>293092
>>293089
>>293084
>Lemme fuck around with your soul.

>>293091
>SUK MUH DIK

>>293087
>>293116
>Yo by the way I got the cosmic popo on my ass.
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>>293071
>Reassure her that all is forgiven, all she owes you is her faithful companionship.
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>>293068
Hoo boy.
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>>293119
>SUK MUH DIK
>Cmon bby, just suckle the Mickle's pickle a little.
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>>293119
What would she have said if we actually asked her to suck our dick?
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>>293071
So does Mik's pitch black skin make him even more attractive or has he started to veer into Uncanny Valley territory?
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>>293128
"Sure"
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>>293128
Tbh she'd probably just clock us one in the jaw.
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>>293128
"no"
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>>293127
>someone still remembers mikkle the pickle
my greatest contribution to this quest
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>>293131
It hasn't veered into uncanny valley, pitch black is pretty much the ideal for most folks. If Mik got /fit/ he'd be pretty good looking. As is he's well above average but nothing exceptional or extraordinary quite yet regarding appearance.

Y'know, except for the horns.
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>>293146
I hope that wasn't your answer to how most slamjams would view our changing skin tone
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>>293119
Are our companions used to the impromptu plastic surgery Mik does to himself? Sometimes I swear the whole "lop-an-arm-off-and-regrow-it" thing while calmly explaining the Mik's-poor-decision-of-the-day is how Mik's friends identify him.
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>>293146
It's truly a sign of Mik's arrogance that his self image just keeps getting sexier and sexier...except for the horns.
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>>293125
>The niggest
>The spoopiest
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>>293146
So mik basically know the horns are because of surya right?
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>>293146
We need to get buff to complete the 'god' look.

And as a bonus make Darzi gush every time she looks at us.
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>>293149
Miks' skin tone changes probably aren't going to be noticed by folks that know him. His friends... probably used to it by now. I mean they'll be a little surprised but Mik's gonna Mik.

His family will be a little shocked when they next see him, as will old friends, but they'll get used to it. The horns are gonna take some time though. Probably a lot of time.
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>>293146
Wouldnt our new skin colour upgrade our sneak trait?
All mik needs to do is hide his pearly whites at night.my sisters exhusband could disapear on a brown couch if he is shirtless and there isnt much light.
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>>293156
cant wait
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>>293161
Yeah, horns are the kind of thing that your parents or siblings would remember.
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>>293169
Let's just pretend that we've always had horns.
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>>293161
I bet the kids 8 & under might view them as something to play with.
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>>293161
Mik could easily hand wave it away with saying he channeled suryas power, but doing so changed his self image.
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>>293173
Good idea. We'll just act really confused if anyone asks about them. Maybe get our companions and master Karem to play along.
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>>293174
>Post-quest Mik just constantly has children dangling from his head like weird screaming earrings.
Could see it desu
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>>293173
kek
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>>293165
That only means something to people who can't literally turn invisible.

>>293169
The mother, at the very least.

Think about it.
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>>293174
I'm imagining a bunch of toddlers hanging from the horns on his head and using them as an improvised jungle gym.
Adorable.
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>>293146
Other than the tats,his skin, heaight, and horns. Did mik notice anything else knew?
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>>293178
Adorable, amusing, and horrifying at the same time for all parents.
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>>293184
Are you asking if his penis is equivalent or larger than it was?
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>>293189
Considerig his height and skin tone changed his dick probably got bigger too
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>>293178
>all these children are on their way to being adept in an element because mik was obsessed with force feeding the unborn fetuses with each school of magic
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>>293184
>>293189
the answer is
____YES_____
FEATURE LENGTH
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>>293189
Yes since he values his anaconda.
Im surprised the pants arent loose/comming off especially since they should be filthy with human taint.
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>>293197
If you think about it, his experience with the human body made him realize that it was huge. That might have actually altered his self image to see it as bigger than before!
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>>293178
If given the time would mik seriously try to force feed his babies in the womb with vys?
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>>293209
Kinda depends desu. On how his brother's kid turns out.
Recall that his wife has been hanging around the vessel of the Paramatma for basically the entire duration of her pregnancy, and it's been pumping as much vys into the air as pretty much anything short of a Rhynian generator.
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>>293209
Let's find a pregnant woman and meditate on the strings comprising the fetus.
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>>293213
After that we should meditate on turning people into fetuses.
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>>293213
first of all, pic related

>>293211
second of all, is that the key to making higher end vatis? just pump the fetus full of vys as it gestates-

holy shit magical eugenics program with vatis manipulating the strings as they are being born to create designer children
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>>293211
But wasn't that vys specifically not affecting anyone in its surroundings? The brother hadn't so much as noticed it.

>>293213
We should switch the souls of the embryo and its host, see what happens.
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>>293221
It seemed to pass harmlessly through most everything, but it was still vys. Mik could absorb it and use it just as he could any other vys.

>>293219
>holy shit magical eugenics program with vatis manipulating the strings as they are being born to create designer children
That's some Alia of the Knife tier shit fampai.
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>>293221
>>293219
>>293215
>>293213
Pls. Only when our sanity's permalocked at 9/10
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>>293221
Children are always special or sone shit.
>>293211
So when will mik congragulate his brother?
Also when he ask about our looks i vote we tell him the whole truth and how the godly popo is on our obsidian ass.
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We should create an effect. I vote for the linking effect since we experienced something similar to what I want it to accomplish when we copied Chryssa. All we need to do is find a way to temporarily replicate that link.
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>>293239
He can barely take care of his own asshole, anon. What do you expect him to do for us?

If we ever go back there, it's Paramatma we should seek help from. I wonder what it'd give us in exchange for a copy of our soul, now that we're like this? Nigger can copy souls, so I'm guessing it's got power to spare.
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>>293234
As long as Soma allows us to vote the sanity is permalocked at 10.
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>>293245
>What do you expect him to do for us?
Nothing i just dont like lying to family and to see his reaction.
Also it would seem to be something that mik would mention off hand like he did with his sister.
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>>293249
Which is why if it hits 10 it's quest end dumbass
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>>293252
Ha! You're right, that shit's always fun.

Motherfucker better not go babbling to the priest, though, he might be privy to the consequences of jewing Surya.
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>>293264
soma considers us part of Mikhael, he's stated as much.
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>>293273
He's also said it dozens of times that it's quest end if we hit 10 insanity.
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>>293264
>too dumb to get the joke
>calls others dumb
Why do I even bother replying to you?
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>>293264
>source: my ass
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>>293173
kek, I like this. Convince a whole bunch of people to act like we've always had horns. Half of the people we know will be confused as fuck, and the other half will swear that there have always been horns sprouting from our heads.
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>>293282
Soma is his source.
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>soma is finally throwing us chryssafags a bone
th-thank you master
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>>293282
no, he really did say that. if at any point it got to 10, he would switch over control of characters to one of our companions and have us fight mik to put him down, most likely chrys since she is promised to hunt us down if we go full crazy.
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>>293264
Soma said he'd consider having the quest be write-in only, first post is chosen if we got to 10 insanity.
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>>293299
Are you implying Chryssa's vagina is haunted?
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>>293282
Soma does occasionally incorporate things like write-ins that almost but not quite made it or civil discussions (read: rampant spergfests) among anons into the quest, as part of Mik's thought process.

It's why the "in-character" argument triggers me so much; anything reasonable enough for Soma to take as a serious vote is in-character enough for Mik to go along with it. "This is the IC thing to do" doesn't really amount to much more than "This is how I want Mik to be."

>>293276
That brings up a question, actually. Isn't sanity the measure of samjanity? Wouldn't ascending to a higher state of being require the sort of change that causes you to cease thinking like a person?

>>293303
Are you implying her massive bush doesn't have its own ecosystem, including tiny spirits that accost the noble pube fairies and the valiant pthyroid civilization?
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>>293321
One-shot material
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Soma, what is your secret to quest vitality?
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>>293333
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>>293333
Rampant shitposting.
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“The important thing is I didn't stay dead.” Not for very long, that is. “No permanent harm has been done and after a good night's sleep all is back to normal. Let's just agree that the only debt you owe me is your faithful companionship and move past not only this incident, but whatever indemnity we might have held for one another previously. I want to be friends again, not merely tenuous allies.”

Chryssa nods her head firmly in response, her resolve strong enough that you don't even need to channel vys to detect it. “It's as you said, whatever prior offenses might have poisoned our view of one another have been wiped away by your untimely demise. As my father said, the lack of something often makes one realize how much they value it. I would say that is certainly true in this case.”

Well, you'd call this a productive conversation, even if it did necessitate your death. “If you'd excuse me, I think I'm going to change into some of my own clothes and get ready to return to the mortal realm. If you could gather the others in the foyer, I'd be grateful.”

She seems wary, her tone growing hesitant. “I don't know, Mikhael. Space here does not seem as consistent as I'd like. Doors do not always open into the rooms I would expect them to, and often hallways seem to double back on themselves or do not lead where they once did.”

What is she talking about? You've noticed no spacial distortions since arriving here. “If you get lost, just reach out for me via the brooches and I can steer you towards your destination. Fulvia lies just out my door and straight down the hall, you'll pass the room you slept in on the way. Then down the stairs and take a right, that should place you in the alchemical laboratory. You'll pass through the only other door in the room to enter the workshop, and therein lies Fulvia. The foyer is just through the other door in that room, and Zahak lies across a arched bridge in his own little personal chambers.”

Chryssa bows her head in acknowledgment of your directions and turns sharply upon her heels to march out the door. You turn your attention to your cloak, where you'd set it aside the night before, and quickly strip off the copies of Chryssa's clothing. You discard them, and they dissolve into nothing the moment you push them from your thoughts. Just as the discarded meat of your previous form.

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Succumbing to the necessities of your ego, you allow yourself a brief check of that most sacred of organs. You honestly hadn't realized how small humans were. Maybe it was just because you were in a altered version of Chryssa's body? She's not particularly well endowed after all, perhaps that transferred over. That's probably it, you decide. Regardless, your manhood has been left exactly as it always was, much to your immense relief.

You put the thought from your mind and extract a pair of brown cotton trousers and a shirt of the same fabric dyed a rich burgundy. You pull on both, along with your well-worn hide boots. Come to think of it, you might purchase some replacements before you enter the jungles of Elaudia. You wouldn't want the soles falling off in the middle of a trek through the immense jungle from which nobody has emerged alive after venturing far enough into the interior.

Still, they'll do for now. You slip the amulet Mahana gave you around your neck, enfold yourself within the confines of your fine black robes, trimmed as they are with silver, and then at long last fasten your cloak about your shoulders using your communication brooch. Dressed and ready to face the day you strive out of your room, marching through the hall and down the stairs into the foyer beyond.

You find your companions waiting for you, Fulvia and Chryssa standing to either side of the front door, with Zahak between them. He fills the hole of the door, to the point that you doubt he could probably turn himself around within its confines. Directing them all to quickly link hands, you join your own to theirs and in an instant you no longer stand within the foyer of your private realm. Instead you are surrounded upon all sides by the warped and twisted landscape which marks the point at which the fabric of reality was shorn apart.

The sun shines brightly overhead, already halfway finished with its journey across the sky. You spent more time in there than you'd anticipated, in but a few hours you'll have a bare nine days to reach Elaudia and accomplish whatever this task is that the stooges have set out for you. Pulling yourself into the saddle of a very uncomfortable Zahak, he's never quite enjoyed spending any amount of time in this place, you extend your hand to help Fulvia and then Chryssa onto your son's back.

Time grows short, so you urge Zahak skyward. A powerful leap carries the four of you into the air, and with each beat of Zahak's wings you're carried higher. You note with some mild curiosity that the sheathes of bronze scales which coat each leather appendage do not flap wildly through the air, but stick quite close to the form of his wing and even seem to streamline your son to some degree, allowing him to pull each enormous collection of membrane and bone through the air with greater ease.

(2/1)
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With the course set for Nazir and the setting sun, you lean back in the comfortable saddle and resolve to enjoy the ride while you can. You've died, you've come back to life, and now you're about to set off through a portal into the forgotten reaches of the world. It all feels incredibly surreal, in a way. You're not even sure if it's really struck you yet exactly what you've accomplished or what you've been dragged into as a result.

Which brings you to the matter of Vicitra. You've barely spoken to the lad since bringing him back from the dead, perhaps due to your own fault. You feel no affection for the boy, though nor do you disdain him. His death has been deemed a necessary part of your redemption, but can you truly kill a man so young purely to ease the trials and tribulations you're soon to face?

>You'll kill him in his sleep. It will be quick and painless, and perhaps most importantly of all untraceable.
>You can't morally justify killing a boy with his whole life ahead of him simply to make your own a little easier.
>Write-in
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>>293391
>You can't morally justify killing a boy with his whole life ahead of him simply to make your own a little easier.
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>>293391
>You can't morally justify killing a boy with his whole life ahead of him simply to make your own a little easier.
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>>293391
>You can't morally justify killing a boy with his whole life ahead of him simply to make your own a little easier.
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>>293391
>You can't morally justify killing a boy with his whole life ahead of him simply to make your own a little easier.
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>>293391
>You can't morally justify killing a boy with his whole life ahead of him simply to make your own a little easier.

Gods pls fuck off
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>>293391
Perform potentially soul destroying experiments on him since we are not worried about his health.
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>>293391
>>You can't morally justify killing a boy with his whole life ahead of him simply to make your own a little easier.
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>>293391
>write in

confront him, tell him the semi-truth that you brought him back because you thought you could, but you realize that you have done him wrong by not allowing him to pass into pani's embrace.
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>>293391
>You can't morally justify killing a boy with his whole life ahead of him simply to make your own a little easier.
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>>293391
>You'll kill him in his sleep. It will be quick and painless, and perhaps most importantly of all untraceable.
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>>293391
>>You can't morally justify killing a boy with his whole life ahead of him simply to make your own a little easier.
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>>293391
>You'll kill him in his sleep. It will be quick and painless, and perhaps most importantly of all untraceable.
RIP Again Dumbass
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>>293391
>You'll kill him in his sleep. It will be quick and painless, and perhaps most importantly of all untraceable.
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>>293391
>You can't morally justify killing a boy with his whole life ahead of him simply to make your own a little easier.
I don't actually care about the morality of it, I just refuse to be a scared motherfucker go to church.
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>>293391
>>You can't morally justify killing a boy with his whole life ahead of him simply to make your own a little easier
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>>293391
>You'll kill him in his sleep. It will be quick and painless, and perhaps most importantly of all untraceable.
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>>293391
>You can't morally justify killing a boy with his whole life ahead of him simply to make your own a little easier.

Did they actually say doing so would redeem us or was it merely possible if we killed him and the other guy?
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>>293391
What the fuck are you idiots doing
Who gives a fuck about the kid who cares if he lives or dies, why the fuck are you guys moralfagging now
>Write in
Bring him to meet the prophet lady with us, sacrifice him in a massive ceremony in front of all her followers to get the gods off our back
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>>293391
>You'll kill him in his sleep. It will be quick and painless, and perhaps most importantly of all untraceable.
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>>293426
they said it would be a big first step, an act of contrition
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>>293397
>>293411
>>293416
>>293420
>>293424
>>293430
>He's dead anyway, might as well make it quick.

>>293406
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>>293426
>You're not killing children, damn it!

>>293404
>Might as well derive some use from him before he dies.

>>293407
>Oi bruh, here's what's up.

>>293427
>Sacrifice him in an elaborate ceremony.

>>293426
They said if you killed him AND the other guy you'd PROBABLY be forgiven.

Anyway, looks like Mik's not killing any children... NEXT TIME ON BANISHED QUEST
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>>293427
>>293391
That's not a bad idea. But there is the problem of breaking the news to the kid when he sobers up.
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>>293427
Because we ain't afraid of no bitch ass void messenger
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>>293391
>You'll kill him in his sleep. It will be quick and painless, and perhaps most importantly of all untraceable.
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>>293433
>NEXT TIME ON BANISHED QUEST
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>>293427
edgy
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>>293414
>>293409
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>>293395
There is a compromise. Use preceptor to teach the academy of Anthus' Metal GM's ascension, steamroll pap dracolich. Set the price of our expertise as a strike by these same vatis on a target later of our own choosing. Find another fuccboi on the gods shitlist, plug him. Two lost souls, back in the cycle.
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>>293433
goddamit you guys are stupid sometimes.

if you voted to sever chryssas unique memories and you voted to let the kid live, you make bad decisions, please abstain from important plot related votes
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>>293433
i mean, i guess down the line we could do something else, but would lettinghim live now only to be hunted down for a long time, possibly years if he is lucky, really right? we can handle ourselves just fine, but condeming a kid to that sort of thing also seems wrong.

which is the lesser of the two evils?
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>>293447
Well that fulfills our quota of Mik's poor decision of the day(read:session). We gotta at least make one every time.
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>>293435
And we don't have time for this "Gods want us dead" bullshit. Kill the kid, find whatever the Spooges wanted us to, then kill Shit-head Blackhole-in-hand. In. That. Order.
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>>293391
>You'll kill him in his sleep. It will be quick and painless, and perhaps most importantly of all untraceable
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>>293445
Heck, with pap draco, that's two souls back in the cycle already. We're done. We could get some other reward like more artifacts. It'll keep our two mortal children safe, allow Siege! to survive, earn Suresh's respect back, and we'll forever be Demetrios' broest of bros.
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http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Banished%20Quest
Archive here famalams.
Next thread Friday.
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>>293448
who cares
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>>293448
As things stand, its unlikely that the gods will come after him. They didn't bother going after Dracolich or Crazy Enchantress because they were irrelevant/unable to do anything significant or were already on a road leading to their death. The kid isn't a vatis and shows no signs of being a pain in the ass for the gods. They'll probably just let him die of aging, its easy and effortless for them. Its not like they're in a rush; he's not going to do anything. Us, on the other hand...

>>293445
Fuck off rob that plan is retarded
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>>293445
the sperg is real.
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>>293427
I like this idea. Tell the prophet of the situation on the way back from elaudia, fetch the kid, sedate him, and burn him alive
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>tfw samefagged the lg paladin option
feels good man. fuck the edgy child sacrifice cunts
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soma, assuming we don't kill the kid, what are the general changes going to happen to mik and his further adventures? is everything just going to be harder to do when we do rolls, or are we talking random encounters

also, still assuming we don't kill him but we gank the the other guy, what would be the general effects
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>>293434
just to remind you, we have and can cast the paralyze and sleep effects
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>>293474
i was in favor of a compromise, get him to understand then have him peacefully accept his death.

>hey kid, brought you back by accident, cosmic order has to be maintained, got any last minitue things to take care of?
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>>293474
It's the smarter decision man
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>>293479
basically encounter rolls will have some results replaced with the various traps, spirits, and divine hitmen hired by the gods whom are out for Mik's ass and dick.
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>>293479
I'm going to be altering the random encounter rolls to include more high level enemies and fewer generally beneficial options.
As for the rest of your questions... Who knows~
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>>293479
>assuming we don't kill the kid
>still assuming we don't kill him
What an unreasonable assumption considering that's exactly what we decided to do.
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>>293485
>tfw we are considered more of a nussiance than the enchanter woman and the dracolich because we are 'threat' because we make 'smart' decisions
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>>293487
>implying that between now and friday we won't get the option to really decide if we want to kill this kid as a last chance of temptation

if we had voted to kill him, im sure that we would have gotten that option
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>>293486
Does in what way does Surya approve of sacrifices made in his name? Are they simple slitting of the throat or do they have to include immolation or fire for the sacrifice?
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>>293487
I promise you the kid will die, ceremoniously.
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>>293487
It'll be revisited in the next thread I'm sure
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>>293490
We would have gotten it had we decided to kill him here, but that doesn't mean we'll get the chance to change our mind after having decided not to. This railroad only goes in one direction.
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>>293448
>implying those are the only two choices
All the best things in this quest have happened by thinking outside the limits set by others. There are so many alternates that could yield even more favorable results to us.

Maybe we team up with Voidball!Mik, Prophet!Mik and Aleamond!Mik, see if that's enough to defy the cosmic order, maybe by costing the gods far more servants than we're worth, maybe by inventing a way to nuke reality and using the threat of mutual destruction as a deterrent. Maybe we end up carving a nice little corner of reality for us.

Maybe we track down objectively evil defiers of the cosmic order, killing the dracolich, lady lich, and then some more assholes who add up to way more infractions than ours and Vicitra's. And we also loot all their shit.

Maybe we find a way to hide from the gods by using the Conceal rune in dragonblood tattoos and throw the scent off enough for it to be a minor enough concern overall.

Maybe we decide to leave reality and its 216 condom planes and create our own, with blackjack and hookers, possibly by imitating Paramatma.

I'm just spitballing here. If this is what one autismo can come up with, what when all the anons think on it, and then have Mik meditate on the situation to narrow down the options, as with the Kadir plot?

There's all kinds of ways to not be a bitch and still come out on top, is what I'm saying.
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>>293505
if we keep the kid alive, major plot will be devoted to how we do that and avoid the consequences. to make it worthwhile the kid will have to become a central/powerful figure, and I dont see how that can easily happen when all existing power structures and spiritual forces are against his existence. theres no benefit, and the cost is changing miks whole life style to save some kid who already died from going back to the grave.

on the other hand, if we kill the kid, the mark the spirit gave us, ad probably one or two more people we are free to carry on doing what we are doing without the threat of the heavens rising against us.

we have no attachment to the kid and its not worth it to have the gods angry at/hunting us
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>>293525
Asking the real questions
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>>293505
Mik in my mind is, and always has been, a young Divayth Fyr. The kind of guy who hangs out in Daedric armor, hosts impossible beings in his pimp pad full of custom made bitches, and regularly invites the greatest of thieves to test themselves on his security to obtain even a single piece of the vast hoard of wealth he accumulated from his adventuring days.

Divayth Fyr wouldn't let Azura dictate to him the need to murder a child to save his own life. He'd go down swinging first. Not for the kid, but because a god had the audacity to try to tell him what he can and can't do with his life.
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>>293525
He's what Mik would have been if he had gone to Elaudia in thread 1. Just like the prohpet woman is Pa'vala Mik and there's a Mik equivalent running around in Aleamond as well.
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>>293535
>Mik creates a palace that can only be traversed with sufficient magical knowledge
Seems like a pretty great idea desu.
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>>293536
so basically the gods are asking Mik to kill his other selves from different timelines who went to different locations after his banishment.
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>>293526
>major plot will be devoted to how we do that and avoid the consequences
That's fine. It's an interesting plotline and I welcome the challenge. Defying the gods is benefit enough for me.

>>293535
Exactly. Playing that kind of person is worth it even if we end up, say, losing a companion or two.

It's gonna happen eventually, guys. Just pray it'll be Chryssa.
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>>293540
he already has, didnt you see that chryssa couldnt find her way around without mik guiding her?

>>293535
the gods of this setting interact with the living MUCH less than the daedra. it is a much more significant thing Surya or Pani to ask/demand something of Mik than it is for a daedra to do so. and you used the phrase "go do swinging." maybe we can avoid death, but there is a great possibility this will lead to miks death
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>>293551
We should've lost several already, but we keep getting lucky as fuck.
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>>293551
the plot will be
>run
>hide
>study
>hide
>fight boss sent by god
>hide and study
>fight stronger boss sent by god
until we eventually die or redeem ourself
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>>293526
>we have no attachment to the kid and its not worth it to have the gods angry at/hunting us

>not taking the kid on as a travelling companion to hold our stuff
>not shipping him off to Alyin and having magical highschool hijinks as her bumbling but ernast friend/adoped brother and having them bond

this is how adventures begin anon, from crazy beginings.

>no name kid get's caught up in crazy war between rampaging spirits and local guard
>dies
>random wizard comes by, brings him back to life just to study what happens to the soul
>promptly marked for going against the cosmic order
>spend your life wondering why you were brought back, and seek to get the most out of this new life
>track down crazy wizard years later for hard questions

anon you gotta get some backstory for the unimportant NPCs that meet the PC and become extraordinary NPCs
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>>293564
>{The mortal you resurrected will meet his death in good time.}
from the emissary. what you said is a intersting plotline, but we will either have to babysit the kid or the gods will have him killed before he makes to great of an impact
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>>293571
>in good time

they were content to let the chick stealing souls and eventually get herself killed alone, same with the dracolich over time.

'in time' is vague for them, could be next week or 250 years from now.
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>>293556
It's just an analogy, anon. I'm not suggesting we go punch Surya in the nose yet.
But a spirit? Yeah, we'll find a better solution first. A smarter one, that makes Mik even more of a bad ass mother fucker.
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>>293578
Im pretty sure they said nothing about the soulstealer dying alone. Just her dying. For all we know she might accidentally build a soul powered nuke and set it off.
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>>293571
We tricked what may as well have been the arbiter of souls into giving us the cure for insanity. Cosmic entities have been wrong before.

>>293562
>making wild assumptions about the kind of trouble we're in
>forgetting we specialize in turning 100% death situations into outright advantages
>still limiting the outcome to only two possibilities after that post I made
I get it, you're an unimaginative, unambitious, uncomprehending moron not even worth holding a conversation with. I'll stop replying to you now.
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>>293578
youre not wrong, but dude i really feel like the gods are one of the most interesting things about this setting, and the cult of surya one of the most interesting factions, and the messianic subplot one of the most interesting stories.

we risk alienating all of these things if we go full neckbeard and tell the gods to fuck themselves. if we keep the kid alive we should at least try to make an agreement with the emissaries boss for his life, but killing him is much much easier
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>>293585
excuse me for being concerned on for having been warned on two seperate occasions by different spiritual entities of increasing power to stop what we were doing or suffer the consequences, with the most recent one intially giving us the ultimatum of enter a life of servitude, accept death, or be destroyed.

that ultimatum hasnt even been replaced, btw, itll just be revisited when the emissaries boss gets back to it
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>>293585
>wake up Dhatu
>in thanks, says he'll talk with Pani and Surya about not being on the cosmic hit list anymore

>>293586
it's not saying fuck you to the gods, i was just spitballing what would happen if he lived, made lucky rolls and got even more lucky. im just saying that he might end up going full PC. sure we could bargain for his life, with what i don't know at this time, but he will always be hounded.
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WAKE DHATU.

The answers to all your problems with Gods.
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>>293633
This would be interesting but also seems like a great way to accelerate the heavenly assassination attempts soon to come
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>>293633
It's on the list. Right under "get to Elaudia".
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if we're not going to kill the kid, we should at least take him with us. We can tell the messenger that we'll kill the kid after he's had a little more time to enjoy life- whether or not that's a lie remains to be seen. If it is then we can protect him from other divine hitmen just for another fuck you to the gods.
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>>293633
>inb4 last time that happened he deleted Rhynia from existence
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>>293648
We should use him for our experiments.
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>>293781
Experimenting on a non-standard person is useless, we wouldn't know if we can generalize our findings or if it has to do with him being revived. Either we kill him to get the void police off our backs or we ignore him.
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>>293829
Actually, checking to see how his shell differs from other people and attempting to restore his memories through Shaping Arts are two experiments we can only perform on him.

I'd also like to bring him to the point where he's only mostly dead, but not dead-dead, then restart his heart, just as a big fuck you to that guy.
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A late idea, but here we go.

When we get to Elaudia, we find Elaudian Mikael.

And then have him join the party.

Perfect, right?
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>>294023
No, we find Elaudian Mikhael.

And then we fuse our souls and bodies together to become Double Mikhael. Afterwards we travel the land repeating the process with the other two Mikhaels, until we become Perfect Mikhael.
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>>294023
How about we suck his dick instead?

Nah, I actually don't think it's a bad idea to ally with him, though adding him to the party depends entirely on what kind of guy he turns out to be. Mostly I'm worried about having unknown variables hanging around with a clear view of our back.

Betrayals are the worst, and I already worry about Mortia. She has very little attachment to us as it is, and might decide to abandon ship if she finds out we're on the Cosmic Shitlist. Or worse. And that's not even the only reason she might decide it's better to be against us than with us.
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>>294035
This is also an acceptable proposal.
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The last few threads have been huge holy shit
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>>294053
Multiple sessions/thread, anon. But yes, huge is still huge.
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>>293633
>Wake up Dhatu
>he kills us for disturbing his sleep
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>>294062
I don't know, he's slept in pretty late. He'll probably thank us for waking him up in time to create his new race before the world ends.
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>>294068
Fun fact: The Metal Codex referred to him as the Guardian of the Underworld at one point.
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Whatever we do, talking to the Chimera and the prat whatchamacallits should be high priority. As a conglomerate of reality warping and creating enchanters, they'll doubtless have some expertise in dealing with the divine bearucracy and the Elaudia. A second, educated and experienced opinion is always good.
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>>294086
We should decipher its enchantments.
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Oh shit nigga

I just realized the Manipulate meta could be modified into full-on telekinesis

As in, enough power to pick ourselves up and fly around type of telekinesis
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>>294035
'P' is for 'priceless', the look upon your faces
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>>293391
>You'll kill him in his sleep. It will be quick and painless, and perhaps most importantly of all untraceable.
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>>294139
You're a bit late. The vote closed a couple minutes ago.
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>>293525
Basically, for every option you didn't pick and for every major plot line y'all avoided there's another 'protagonist' character. I refer to these as Miks. There's an Aleamondian Mik, a Pa'valan Mik, a Elaudian Mik, and a... I guess, Warlord Mik who is trying to steal that gem from the Elven Warlord on behalf of Sadik.

You've already heard about the Warlord Mik and Pa'valan Mik. You've also vaguely heard about Aleamondian Mik. Now you've been assigned to kill Elaudian Mik.

Each has the same agency within the quest and comparable power to Mikhael. However, that power is not necessarily distributed into the same things. Mik has invested pretty heavily in:
>Artifacts
>Personal skill
>Companions

Elaudian Mik has focused pretty much solely upon personal skill, and to a much lesser degree upon artifacts. Aleamondian Mik has focused upon political power, personal skill, and companions with a slight dip into artifacts. Pa'valan Mik has heavily focused upon political power, though also devotes her attention to personal skill and artifacts. Then Warlord Mik has invested heavily in personal skill with a secondary focus on artifacts.

>>294053
>>294061
I think 1000+ post behemoths are going to be the new norm desu.
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>>294376
AND WITH THEIR POWERS COMBINED
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>>294376
So Euladian Mik is the strongest Mik in single combat?
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>>294433
We have the spell eating cloak desu
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>>294433
I bet that nigger doesn't even ride a dragon.
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>>294450
True. Without a doubt we have the best companions.
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>>294450
>>294459
The best.
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>>294465
Shit, I hope he grows spike sideburns when he grows up. That shit's bound to get him all kinds of draconic poon.
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Euladian Mik>Our Mik>Warlord Mik>Aleamondian Mik>Pa'valan Mik
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>>294376
*Buuuuuuuurp*
Aylin, you know I got a loooooooot of enemies. Religious fanatics, a few spirit dictators, most of the divine bearucracy. Wherever you find people with heads up their asses, someone wants a piece of your Mik, and a lot of versions of me in different places had the same problem, so a few versions of me had the ingenious idea of banding together like a herd of cattle or a school of fish or those people who answer questions on yahoo!
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>>294616
Last post for pic related
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>>294646
Last post for me.
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Last post for Effects
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Last post for the cock Mortia grew while being tutored by our master.
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Chryssa is best girl
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Chryssa a shit, Darzi is the best.
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Last post for Somouto.
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benis
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For shooting flames out the crotch.
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We need penis rings that shoot flame and attract women.
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Lewds
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For cleansing the outdated divine authority by flame.
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>>294709
lel

But nah. Still fire.
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>>294717
Water > fire.
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>>294682
Mik and Prof burn down the forest while Fulvia and Chryssa build a great Rhynian paved road.
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>>294728
>implying mutual exclusivity
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>>294741
Last post for burning Mahana.
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>>294749
Your ass will burn when he sticks his spiky dick inside you.
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WE WUZ VATIS AND SHIEET
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Last post for creating the Mikvengers
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>>294756
We'll need to create an airship for that.
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>>294756
Last post for you being a flaming faggot.
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last post for enchanting: never
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Last post for crashing our airship on the moon.



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