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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 returned to Nazir, spoke with the Paramatma, read a book, and journeyed to Majhaya.

It is currently the 4th of Yuddha, in the year 936 NH.

Character Sheet:
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Inventory:
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Companions:
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Spellbook:
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Runic Library:
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Current Missions:
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Dice:
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Magic:
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Combat:
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Enchanting:
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Fluff:
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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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For a temple dedicated to Pani, their hospitality certainly leaves something to be desired. Is one of the faithful's central tenants not to provide bread and water to any weary traveler whom they come across? That's what your mother used to tell you when you were still but a boy. As the echoes of the lone guard's footsteps slowly fade you turn your attention to the chamber you've found yourself in.

It's much the same as it was the last time you were here, walls carved with figures bowed before the glory of Pani and the domed ceiling depicting a four-breasted woman with more arms than you have time to count. Unlike the room teleportation array beneath the city of Nazir, there is but one structure in this room. Two ornately carved pillars rise up from a platform at the center of the chamber, the runes on each still softly glowing in the dim light provided by what you can only assume are enchanted pedestals. The fires burning atop each simply hover a few inches above the stone.

Nothing in the room strikes you as being responsible for controlling the portal. You try channeling a little vys into the twin spires themselves, but that doesn't seem to do much of anything. There are nine sheltered alcoves branching from this central chamber, and then of course a stairwell leading further into the temple complex.

Actually, now that you take the time to examine the geometry of this place it's rather strange. The central chamber has ten sides, each adjoining alcove seems to have five. Lines of black stone running along the floor form a dizzying lattice of interconnected octagons and other lesser figures. It's almost as if the entire room has been set up as some sort of vast runic array, or rather as a part of some larger runic array. You're honestly not quite sure what to make of it.

Dismissing the strange geometry of the room, you resolve to try and finish off those last few chapters of the book on the Shaping Arts. There are benches in each of the branching apse, so you decide to take a seat before an enormous statue of bare-breasted Pani wearing a necklace of skulls and holding aloft a monstrous severed head. It's never been your favorite depiction of Pani, as a blood-soaked protector of creation, but it allows you to position yourself such that when the guards inevitably come searching for a horned intruder they won't immediately realize you're still here.

The leather-bound books slips easily from your cloak and you flip quickly to the page where you'd last left off, marked as it is by a thin strip of cloth. When you'd stopped reading the author had remarked that some among the High Council were rumored to have destroyed their shell without dying as a result. The only mortals without a shell you can think of off the top of your head are the disciples of spirits. However, from what you understand your earliest ancestors enslaved spirits with far more frequency than they worshiped them. Thus it seems unlikely that this would be the case.
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Reading on, the book begins to delve into the limitations of the Shaping Arts. Though a powerful tool, the author admits that the practices described in this work are not what many might call practical. They're useful if one wishes to conceal their identity or heal wounds which have become internalized as a facet of how one views themselves. They're also a boon for the narcissist who seeks perfection of form. However, if one finds themselves challenged to defend themselves against a skilled swordsman, even the most talented shaper of mind and flesh would find themselves gutted upon the sands of the arena if the entirety of their efforts were devoted to advancement within the Shaping Arts.

Thus, the author emphasizes the necessity of mastering both armed combat and something he calls the 'Greater Aspects' of magic. You can only assume that these greater aspects are what you would call the five basic elements, though you have no real way of proving this assumption. It just seems the most logical explanation. The author also mentions that repeatedly altering one's form into and out of some specific configuration can allow even a novice of the shaping arts to achieve that same configuration without the need for meditation a well prepared practitioner of the Shaping Arts ought never be truly unarmed. What this means exactly, the author fails to elaborate.

The book goes on to mention that though a skilled practitioner may achieve unrivaled control over the minds of others, it's very difficult to actually change someone's opinion on an issue via the shaping arts. Shaping Arts, the author asserts, cannot be used to simply control someones' thoughts. Even once a memory is removed, the subject may recall having that memory even if they can't bring to mind the memory itself.

Nor is replacing a single memory sufficient to drastically alter someone's personality, unless of course that memory is tied to the shell itself. In this case, its removal or alteration can have wide ranging effects upon the way someone else perceives the world. However, altering memories so deeply ingrained is no simple task. Locating them within the husk requires the manipulation of every aspect of the mind.
>Shaping Arts: (15/17 Chapters Read)

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You're just beginning to read a segment on the relationship between the shell, the shard, and the husk when you hear metal pounding against stone, the temple's guards no doubt coming to investigate your presence. It certainly took them long enough. You could have been off slaughtering innocent pilgrims by now if you felt any particularly desire to. They pause at the foot of the stairs, their erratic thoughts giving away their position even though you can't actually see them. However, as you passively examine the guards and the chaotic slurry of thought formed by so many men standing in formation, you notice something odd. The man at the head of the formation, though you can sense his presence, does not seem to possess a mind of any sort. At least, not one that you can detect.

>Reveal yourself to the group, in as nonthreatening a manner as you can. Surely they'll listen to reason.
>Wait until they fan out to search the room, then jump out and give one of them a good scare. What could possibly go wrong?
>Write-in
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>>330051
>>Wait until they fan out to search the room, then jump out and give one of them a good scare. What could possibly go wrong?
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Soma confirmed for fag
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>>330051
>Wait until they fan out to search the room, then jump out and give one of them a good scare. What could possibly go wrong?
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>>330051
>Reveal yourself to the group, in as nonthreatening a manner as you can. Surely they'll listen to reason.
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>inb4 banned for posting blue tiddies
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>>330051
>Reveal yourself to the group, in as nonthreatening a manner as you can. Surely they'll listen to reason

But do it like the Balrog from LOTR
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>>330051
>posting NSFW content on a blue board
>Reveal yourself to the group, in as nonthreatening a manner as you can. Surely they'll listen to reason.
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>>330051
>Reveal yourself to the group, in as nonthreatening a manner as you can. Surely they'll listen to reason.
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>>330080
Blue boards are sfw. Blue tiddies must be sfw too
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>>330051
>Wait until they fan out to search the room, then jump out and give one of them a good scare. What could possibly go wrong?
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>>330051
>>Reveal yourself to the group, in as nonthreatening a manner as you can. Surely they'll listen to reason.
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>>330051
>>Reveal yourself to the group, in as nonthreatening a manner as you can. Surely they'll listen to reason.
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>>330051
>Wait until they fan out to search the room, then jump out and give one of them a good scare. What could possibly go wrong?
What Could Go Wrong?
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>>330051
>>Reveal yourself to the group, in as nonthreatening a manner as you can. Surely they'll listen to reason.
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>>330051
>>Reveal yourself to the group, in as nonthreatening a manner as you can. Surely they'll listen to reason.
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>>330120
>>330112
>>330102
>>330093
>>330092
>>330081
>>330068
>>330126
>Reveal calmly

>>330059
>>330063
>>330100
>>330115
>Spoop

Writin'
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>>330051
>Wait until they fan out to search the room, then jump out and give one of them a good scare. What could possibly go wrong?
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>>330051
>>Reveal yourself to the group,cloaked in flame
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>>330129
>not spooking won
neo-bq is hell
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We should enchant the inversion ring as soon as possible.
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>>330140
You should fuck off back to your circlejerk.
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>>330144
You should learn to love our lord and Savior Rob
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>>330129
>This Time for Real Edition

I think we all know this is a lie.
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>>330138
Mik is already spoopy enough with the horns, blackened skin, golden arms, and cloak that seems wrong to anyone who looks at it
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Will the jungle be the new Namek?
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>>330194
Fuck off rob
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>>330199
Fuck off iou
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>>330204
You owe me for what?
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Slipping the book back into your cloak, you rise from your position seated before the statue of wrathful Pani. This temple certainly does emphasize her chest, which is a little odd. Certainly she's revered as a goddess of fertility and passion, but usually she takes on a more motherly persona. Rather than this untamed, sword wielding, wild woman you see carved across the walls and painted onto the ceiling. Certain temples are widely known to revere certain aspects of the goddess as more important than others, but you've hardly seen any other depictions of her at all in this grand chamber you've found yourself in.

Then again, you've only seen one room of the temple thus far. It wouldn't be unusual for a particularly large temple to devote prayer rooms solely to one aspect of the goddess. Smaller temples typically have only a single grand hall at the center of the complex where Pani in all her forms is revered, so by separating out her divine aspects a larger temple might both flaunt its wealth and allow its worshipers contextualize their prayers based upon the facet of the goddess which they worship.

You're distracted by the sudden clattering of metal against stone, the men of the temple guard beginning to advance upon the chamber. You hadn't heard the commander issue any orders, so it caught you a little off guard. Moving quickly, you step out into towards the center of the chamber, but stop short as soon as you're in sight of the assembled guardsmen. They're quick to respond to your presence, the guards upon the stairs let out some indecipherable cry which prompts the entire formation to turn itself as one to face you.

Perhaps most people would raise their hands to show they're unarmed, but a vatis is never truly without a weapon. Instead you merely fold your arms within the sleeves of your silver-trimmed black robes and maintain as relaxed a posture as you can manage. “I trust that brave guard who greeted me by fleeing in the opposite direction told you of my presence. Rest assured that I've only come to prepare you for the arrival of my friends and allies.”

That probably doesn't sound as reassuring as you'd intended, in retrospect. “I previously met with your Varistha and the other leaders of this temple. Mikhael, of the house Abdul-Hakim. I understand I don't look quite the same as I did the last time I visited, but I assure you it's still me.”

From within the formation of guards emerges a familiar face, or rather a familiar mask. The Captain of the temple guards, wearing his gilded armor and blue robes trimmed with delicate golden thread. It seems exceptionally foolish to wield two heavy blades, but just as in your first encounter with the masked Captain he has two sickle-shaped swords in hand. His equipment is probably enchanted, or so your intuition suggest, but it's impossible to get any sort of read on him. You can detect his vys pool certainly, and it's rather sizable, but everything else about him remains inscrutable.
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A vague impression of safety bombards your thoughts, though it's lined with the promise of violence. You're not really sure what to make of the vague impression of emotion, but you think it's the Captain's attempt to communicate with you. It's not the sort of connection you share with Zahak, it's a far less intimate, less detailed link the Captain seems to have established. “Are you mute? If our only avenue of communication is the vaguest of emotional impressions, this conversation is very quickly going to tire my patience.”

The only response you get is that same sense of soothing comfort colored lightly with the impression of vengeful wrath. The best interpretation of the message he's trying to convey is that you'll either safe so long as you don't piss anyone off, or he's going to kill you to preserve the safety of the temple. Either interpretation is equally valid based on what you know of this place.

Fortunately a different guard provides you with some sort of explanation. “If you'll come with us peacefully to see the Varistha, you won't be harmed within our custody.” The man who speaks is dressed similarly to the Captain, in gold arm with a bright blue robe, except his helmet features a horsehair burr running along the top and he wields a black axe banded with gold rather than the twin sabers of the Captain. He's essentially indistinguishable from ever other guard in the formation, but seems to have some sort of leadership role judging by the way others defer to him.

>Agree to peacefully enter their custody. You'd rather not start things off with a fight even if you will only be staying here a few days at most.
>You're not going to let them treat you like some sort of prisoner. Sweep them aside, and find the Varistha yourself.
>Write-in
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>>330426
>You're not going to let them treat you like some sort of prisoner. Sweep them aside, and find the Varistha yourself.
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>>330426

>Write-In

Demand to be treated as a guest, not a prisoner. From what I've read, Samjan culture is pretty huge on hospitality.

Going into custody assumes guilt.
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>>330426
>Agree to peacefully enter their custody. You'd rather not start things off with a fight even if you will only be staying here a few days at most.

be nice, no reason not too. we are using his portal after all
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>>330426
>>Agree to peacefully enter their custody. You'd rather not start things off with a fight even if you will only be staying here a few days at most.
really play the part of an arrogant noble, it shouldn't be hard.
also this>>330437
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>>330426
>Agree to peacefully enter their custody. You'd rather not start things off with a fight even if you will only be staying here a few days at most.
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>>330426
>>330437
This.
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>>330426
>Agree to peacefully enter their custody. You'd rather not start things off with a fight even if you will only be staying here a few days at most.
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>>330426
>Agree to peacefully enter their custody. You'd rather not start things off with a fight even if you will only be staying here a few days at most.
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>>330426
>>330437
support
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>>330437
Support
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>>330437

Expanding on my post, also act vaguely insulted since you were previously attended to by the Varisatha and given hospitality before.
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>>330426
>Agree to peacefully enter their custody. You'd rather not start things off with a fight even if you will only be staying here a few days at most.
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>>330437
>>330426
Supportan
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>>330437
this
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>>330432
>Fek off m8

>>330468
>>330466
>>330444
>>330441
>>330443
>>330493
>Don't resist arrest

>>330437
>>330443
>>330460
>>330471
>>330480
>>330494
>What am I, chopped liver? How about some hospitality!

So going peacefully but demanding the proper respect you're owed. Writin'
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>>330426
>Write-in
Remove your arms as a gesture of goodwill.
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In a full scale battle, just how many degenerates could we slaughter while ascended before we run out of soul fuel? Thousands?
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>>330539
assuming no magic usage, 7 rounds of combat.

assuming that we rip husk and vys as we go along, as long as there is bodies we can march
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>>330539
probably an entire nation/continent if we use a husk bomb.
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>>330539
depends on how much we can absorb from our enemies
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>>330539
Probably, depending on how the power is used. Millions depending on the conditions
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>>330500
i second this
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>>330500
>>330579
Honestly it fits with how insane he is so sure if soma is willing to squeeze it in then thirded
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Or we could get together with our resident mad scientist Skull Kid and make a dirty delerium bomb to cause unfathomable damage.
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>>330601
sure anon, we can put throw it down the mine and have it bury all the dragons.
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>>330601
>>330610
I like where this is going.
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>>330672
Yypee ki yay motherfuckers.
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>>330426
Nice work ripping off DSQ, senpai.
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>>330690
literally who?
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>>330695
Dick Sucking Quest. Or Dark Souls Quest. One of the two, probably.
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>>330690
>Not realising Soma is king of the jews
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Post never
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>>330770

He should tattoo INRI on his upper arm.
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>>330865
He's gonna need a number of he doesn't start writing faster
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>>330051
>>Wait until they fan out to search the room, then jump out and give one of them a good scare. What could possibly go wrong?
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“What's all this nonsense about entering your custody?” Perhaps you're being paranoid, but you'd rather not inadvertently imply you're guilty of anything. Especially since you actually aren't guilty of anything, you've even behaved yourself since being left unattended in the middle of their temple. “I'm not a prisoner, I'm a guest. I expect to be treated with the according level of respect, or has that famed monastic hospitality been forgotten?”

The guard who spoke glances towards the masked Captain, who continues to focus the face plate of his featureless mask in your direction. You can only assume that it's been enchanted, probably to allow him the Second Sight, but everything about the man strikes you as odd. You don't like the man, and you get the impression that he doesn't like you either. As for what you've done to offend him, your guess is as good as anyone else's.

Finally the silence is broken by that same guard, apparently finished communing with his commanding officer. “Very well, if you would follow us we will lead you to the audience chamber where you may meet with Varistha Firdaus and break your evening fast.”

You hold up a hand, begging pause. “There's no need for that, I've already eaten.” It's polite to initially refuse a meal offered by one's host, but it's also simply the truth. You could hardly eat another bite after the veritable feast the slaves presented you in Nazir. “A cup of wine would be more than enough.”

That ritual out of the way, the formation of guards begins to reassemble itself into two columns of men, the Captain's attention lingering upon you a moment longer before he finally turns sharply and marches off to take his place at the head of the formation. You trail along behind as the guards march through the elaborately carved halls, every inch of the temple seems adorned in a manner similar to the chamber in which you'd first arrived.

You must have been fairly deep underground, as it takes several minutes of walking up various flights of stairs to finally reach what you think is the grand hall. An enormous, golden statue of Pani reclining upon her throne and crowned with a lotus rest against the far wall. The statue alone must measure some thirty feet tall, and the platform upon which it sits nearly doubles that height. The mural pained upon the wall behind stretches all the way to the ceiling high above, and depicts Pani's battle against Surya. Unlike most other renditions you've seen of this battle, it ends with Surya surrendering himself willingly. He draws Pani's blade across his own abdomen, thus spilling vys into the world and allowing mortals the use of magic.

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Every pillar is decorated with lengths of cloth and elaborately dyed tapestries, giving the impression that the hall is decorated for some sort of celebration. However, the only other people in the room are a handful of solemn monks bowed upon plush woven rugs which line the ambulatory leading up to the statue. Offerings are draped across the first two levels of the tiered pedestal, while the third tier and the statue itself remain unadorned. None of the assembled monks pay you or the guards any attention as you're led around the edge of the ambulatory and over a squat bridge to the other end of the hall.

The doors permitting entry to the temple are sealed shut and barred, a fact you find exceptionally odd. More so than the fact they stand some several hundred feet tall and are made of solid stone. From the grand hall, you're led up yet another flight of stairs into a room which would not look amiss in El-Amin's finest inn. Long benches line the walls, covered in thick cushions and providing squat tables upon which food might be served. At the center of the room is a small garden, from within which the burbling of a fountain issues forth, though you can't actually see the fountain itself.

You're led quickly through the only other door in the room, since there's nobody else here to treat with the Varistha evidently. The garden in the room before was but a pale imitation of the garden you find yourself in now. Greenery fills the room, as does the sweet scent of burning incense. Light streams into the room through narrow slits cut into the walls at regular intervals, the barest rays of the early morning spilling across the pond at the center of the room. On a raised pedestal sits an empty stool, the Varistha of the temple nowhere to be seen.

The guards fan out around the edge of the pond, one taking up position at each of the seven pillars and eight altars surrounding the pond. Those that remain wait patiently by the entrance, alongside their Captain. You're about to ask what the meaning of this is when the door swings open once more, and a hunched over old man hobbles into the chamber.

He looks exactly as strange as you recall, a thick golden disk implanted in his chin and his white beard tied tightly around a golden ring housing a number of keys. His lone visible eye is covered in a thick white film and yet more disk pierce the lobes of his ears. You step aside to permit him passage, then follow along as he makes his way at his own limping pace to the stool.

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{My apologies for the Captain's rude reception.} His thoughts drift lazily through your own as he finally sits down, emitting a sigh of relief. {Wine will have to wait, I'm afraid. We don't usually receive visitors this early in the day so the brothers and sisters of the temple have yet to fully rouse themselves from the grip of sleep.} He leans his weight heavily upon an iron staff, its surface inlaid with interlocking bands of red copper. {Until then, what do you request of my temple, False Child?}

>What does he mean false child?
>Just warn him that you're bringing along your draconic son and he should plan accordingly.
>Ask if he would be kind enough to dismiss the guards.
>Write-in
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>>330918
>>Just warn him that you're bringing along your draconic son and he should plan accordingly.
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>>330918
>>What does he mean false child?
Do you mean the fact that I haven't gone through the gate yet?
>warn him that you're bringing along your draconic son and he should plan accordingly.
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>>330918
>What does he mean false child?
Seems like he knows.
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>>330918
>Just warn him that you're bringing along your draconic son and he should plan accordingly.
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>>330918
>>What does he mean false child?
>>Just warn him that you're bringing along your draconic son and he should plan accordingly.
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>>330924
>Do you mean the fact that I haven't gone through the gate yet?
No. It's more likely the Gods told their priests about our shit.
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>>330918

>What does he mean false child?
>Just warn him that you're bringing along your draconic son and he should plan accordingly.

Write-In
>I am the father of Dragons and you should give me some respect. *makes dragon noises*
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>>330918
>What does he mean false child?
>Just warn him that you're bringing along your draconic son and he should plan accordingly.
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>>330918
>What does he mean false child?
Well actually we know what he means. We should inform him that we intend to make our journey through a gate as soon as we have no other pressing matters. We'll do the task we need to in Elaudia, maybe GM fire with Profectus, then we'll get right on it.

Also
>Just warn him that you're bringing along your draconic son and he should plan accordingly.
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>>330918
>Just warn him that you're bringing along your draconic son and he should plan accordingly.
and let him know that we intend to finish the ritual at a later date
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>>330918
>>Just warn him that you're bringing along your draconic son and he should plan accordingly.
Don't hate me for getting by accident what many of your fellows fails to attains in a lifetime
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>>330918
>What does he mean false child?
>Just warn him that you're bringing along your draconic son and he should plan accordingly.
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>>330931
No. No that is not more likely at all.
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>>330918
>What does he mean false child?
Do you have any advice for the ritual. We know little other than where to go. If you could give us any indication as to how we might face the challenges that await us we'd appreciate it, face disc guy.
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>>330918
>Just warn him that you're bringing along your draconic son and he should plan accordingly.
NOPE NOT GETTING ON THAT TRAIN AGAIN
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>>330939
>>330938
>>330937
>>330935
>>330934
>>330930
>>330927
>>330924
>>330921
>>330943
>Oi bruv me sprat's a dragon

>>330943
>>330937
>>330935
>>330934
>>330930
>>330926
>>330924
>>330964
>u trynna talk shit m8

I'll write for both.
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>>330934
I am Mikhael Abdul-Hakim, The Unbanished, Father of Dragons, Parbau, Child of Surya, Dual Grandmaster, Rediscoverer of Enchanting and Protector of the Shahdom
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>>330918
>>What does he mean false child?
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>>331000

Also Inter-dimensional traveler, creator of Seige, and conqueror of death.
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>>331000
>>331007
Actually we're more a child of dhatu currently
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>old man who has no fucks to give calls us by an arbitrary nickname based on some sort of readily visible (to him) trait
>sorta like "hey big guy"
>anons decide he's talking shit
>even though it's true and we literally are a false/incomplete child
>decide to sperg out and list our titles like this is some kind of autistic dickwaving contest

>hey big guy, you need something? Sorry we can't serve you anything fancy, it's a bit early
>What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the vatis academy, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on void-quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in dragon warfare and I’m the top enchanter in the entire slamjam armed forces.
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>>330690
How did he rip it off?
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>>331046
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>>331058
Hey soma i've been thinking and the piece of Surya is either his heart (and vys is his blood) or his dick (as he his the God of cucks which explains why you worship him)
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>>331046
>anon is unable to recognize a joke
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>>331046
'Strayan jew niggers, not even once
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The moniker surprises, more so that he so easily identified what you are, and knew that you had yet to undergo the Ritual of the Gate. He's obviously old, though he still has his hair so he can't be as old as Varistha Sehzade. Unfortunately, your questions will have to wait. There's actual business to attend to. “I came to give you a warning. When next I pass through the portal, I'll be bringing along my adoptive son. He's quite unusual, by samjan standards.”

The Varistha shrugs his shoulders, evidently uncaring. {I would be surprised if he was normal, considering who he calls his father. What exactly about the boy merits passing along a warning?}

“Well, the most important way in which he differs from most samjan youth is in his forty foot wingspan.” That at least gets the man's attention, his only visible eye flying wide. “He's also about thirty feet long from nose to tail, covered in thick scales, and weighs several hundred pounds. Speaking of, you may want to have an Earth vatis on hand to repair any broken tiles. I count a grandmaster of the discipline among my companions, but she seems to use her skills primarily to carve her name into walls.”

The old man descends briefly into a fit of coughing, though he's quick to recover. {Eight hundred years, I thought there was little left which might surprise me. You've adopted a dragon? Pani's divine tits, how did you manage that?}

You're a little caught off guard by the vulgarity, but you suppose the gods probably don't care in what context mortals use their names. “Well, I found his egg sitting buried underneath some stone at the bottom of a mine. I dug him out, and incubated his egg when the opportunity arose. Eventually, he popped out in all his draconic glory and I've raised him as my own ever since. I don't think you necessarily need to worry, he's as well behaved a child as you'll ever come across, but I assumed you'd want to warn the monks before we suffer any unfortunate misunderstandings.”

The Varistha never actually makes eye contact, you can only assume he's blind and not being rude. It seems a common disability among ancient samja regardless of how skilled they are as Vatis. {You were right to warn me, False Child. I will have the brothers and sisters assemble before the temple is opened to pilgrims and prepare them for your son's presence. How long will you be staying?}

>You've still got nine days left until you hit the deadline for the Triarch's task. You'll spend a day or two here preparing.
>There's no time to waste, you'll be leaving as soon as you've purchased whatever supplies are deemed necessary for your voyage.
>There's plenty of time between now and the deadline. Spend a week here reading, meditating, and seeking your own personal improvement.
>Write-in

I'll write for the "Whaddya mean False Child?" bit in the next post, but it woulda felt weird including it in this one.
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>>331177
>You've still got nine days left until you hit the deadline for the Triarch's task. You'll spend a day or two here preparing.
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>>331177
>There's no time to waste, you'll be leaving as soon as you've purchased whatever supplies are deemed necessary for your voyage.
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>>331177
>>You've still got nine days left until you hit the deadline for the Triarch's task. You'll spend a day or two here preparing.
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>>331177
>There's no time to waste, you'll be leaving as soon as you've purchased whatever supplies are deemed necessary for your voyage.
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>>331177
>>You've still got nine days left until you hit the deadline for the Triarch's task. You'll spend a day or two here preparing.
Don't throw any plot hooks.
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>>331177
>You've still got nine days left until you hit the deadline for the Triarch's task. You'll spend a day or two here preparing.
Meditate on fire while we wait in the temple
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>>331177
>There's no time to waste, you'll be leaving as soon as you've purchased whatever supplies are deemed necessary for your voyage.

I can compromise at one day.
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>>331206
I actually probably won't bait you out with anything too involved. I mean, there's a few characters here I want to develop, but nothing major. I'm kinda ready to hit the jungle.
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>>331177
>There's no time to waste, you'll be leaving as soon as you've purchased whatever supplies are deemed necessary for your voyage.
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>>331214
About time.
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>>331177
>There's no time to waste, you'll be leaving as soon as you've purchased whatever supplies are deemed necessary for your voyage.
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>>331177

>There's no time to waste, you'll be leaving as soon as you've purchased whatever supplies are deemed necessary for your voyag
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>>331177
>There's no time to waste, you'll be leaving as soon as you've purchased whatever supplies are deemed necessary for your voyage.
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>>331177
>There's no time to waste, you'll be leaving as soon as you've purchased whatever supplies are deemed necessary for your voyage.
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>>331177
>There's no time to waste, you'll be leaving as soon as you've purchased whatever supplies are deemed necessary for your voyage.
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>>331177
>You've still got nine days left until you hit the deadline for the Triarch's task. You'll spend a day or two here preparing.
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>>331177
>“Well, the most important way in which he differs from most samjan youth is in his forty foot wingspan.” That at least gets the man's attention, his only visible eye flying wide. “He's also about thirty feet long from nose to tail, covered in thick scales, and weighs several hundred pounds. Speaking of, you may want to have an Earth vatis on hand to repair any broken tiles. I count a grandmaster of the discipline among my companions, but she seems to use her skills primarily to carve her name into walls.”
This entire fucking paragraph.

I'd like a book of this quest put to prose.
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>>331177
spend today gathering supplies, leave tomorrow morning
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Why are there so many 1 posts for every vote?
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>>331177
>There's no time to waste, you'll be leaving as soon as you've purchased whatever supplies are deemed necessary for your voyage.
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>>331207
>>331206
>>331199
>>331196
>>331234
>Spend a day, two at most

>>331223
>>331222
>>331215
>>331210
>>331205
>>331197
>>331226
>>331229
>>331231
>>331239
>>331241
>Buy your shit and leave.

>>331240
That's how lurkers work.
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>>331236
>I count a grandmaster of the discipline among my companions, but she seems to use her skills primarily to carve her name into walls.”
Chryssa a shit
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>>331177
>>There's no time to waste, you'll be leaving as soon as you've purchased whatever supplies are deemed necessary for your voyage.
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>>331245
Did you even notice how both votes have the exact number votes? That's kind of suspect.
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>>331177
>>You've still got nine days left until you hit the deadline for the Triarch's task. You'll spend a day or two here preparing.
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>>331262
If you exclude new IPs, it's still 5 vs 6 in favor of buying your shit and leaving.

There were 6 new IPs in this count >>331245 and 3 new IPs in this count >>330973. Two of the new IPs in the last count have posted since. One of them has not.
I dunno, just doesn't seem like an issue man.
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>>331291
I came in for that last vote and haven't posted otherwise till now
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>>331291
I just got in myself. Think that one guy who had a mental breakdown will show up? Or has he killed himself when he realized what a fag he was?
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Literally Soma has implemented a "no new IPs" rule before and it didn't change anything. All it did was force people to post shit like "I exist" at the start of the thread and then go back to lurking for the whole quest. Implementing such a rule again won't do anything.
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>>331446
It does techincally block a single exploit but how much that deters a motivated samefagger is questionable.
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“I won't be spending more than a day here at the absolute most.” Much as you might like some time to read and meditate, you're working on a schedule here. “I need only buy supplies for my trip into Elaudia, and then I intend on setting off for that forsaken jungle. I'm operating on something of a time limit, you see. So I don't have the luxury of enjoying all that your temple has to offer.”

The Varistha makes no attempt to hide the mixture of disappointment and relief he's currently feeling. {Though I mourn being unable to examine this draconic son of yours, I must admit my gratitude. Housing a dragon for any longer than was necessary seems as though begging for trouble of one sort or another. We have seen them patrolling the mountains to the north of our temple, and the people who call Majhaya home are already on edge.}

The dragons truly have expanded their territory if they're patrolling this far to the east. “Do you have any recommendations regarding what I ought to bring with me on a trip into Elaudia? Assume the money at my disposal and the amount that I can carry are effectively infinite.”

Your host thinks on your question for some time, only to be interrupted by the sound of the door swinging open and slamming shut. A young woman, no older than twelve, garbed in the orange robes of a monk enters the room holding a clear glass pitcher filled with deep red wine as well as two cups. She's followed shortly by an older boy, perhaps fifteen, with a yellow sash. This brother carries a platter holding a bowl of stew, as well as a curious wooden contraption. The scent of pomegranates is almost overpowering as he sets the snaps the legs out underneath what you now realize is some sort of portable table and sets down what you think is a mixture of duck and rice.

The Varistha tucks into the stew greedily. It's not exactly what you'd call a breakfast dish, but it does look pretty good. You sip passively at your wine, finding it a passable vintage. It's just a little too tart, and they haven't spiced it at all, but it's certainly drinkable.

The monks depart, and even as the old man eats like a man starved his thoughts muddle your own. {I'm well aware that you posses a passage into the void dangling from your back. I can only assume it's been in your possession for some time, most men would not sit so comfortably at the edge of death otherwise. Know that you will need a several hundred feet of rope, many Elaudian temple complexes are constructed vertically and if you wish to rob them of their wealth you will be required to climb down quite a number of deep holes.}

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The girl returns, this time with a small glass cup of yellow bastani. It's no more than a few spoonfuls, and you're surprised when she sets it down before you rather than the Varistha. You're not really opposed to a little something sweet, and if it's poisoned you can always just cure yourself with barely any expense of vys. Taking up the polished silver utensil, you scoop up a generous portion of the cold treat and enjoy the taste of rose water and saffron upon your tongue.

{You'll also want at least a few months worth of food and water.} You try to think off the top of your head how much food you have in your cloak. There's a few thousand pounds of meat, from that gargoyle you killed, and there's also of course the three months of food and water you still have stored away. {Unless of course, you count a skilled Water Vatis among your number. Other than that, I can't think of anything else you might need. Of course, perhaps once you're closer to the jungle you may encounter someone who knows the area better than I.}

The bastani is finished in only a few bites, and you return to your wine feeling quite content. “I think I should have food and water covered. I myself am a grandmaster of the second order, one of those being Water.” You pause to sip your wine, trying to decide just how you wish to ask your next question. “How did you know that I hadn't yet completed the rituals necessary to truly name myself a Child?”

Varistha Firdaus pauses his breakfast for only a moment to consider your question. {I have met a Child of Surya once before in my life. When I was still but a child. Despite the centuries which have passed, it has not been an experience easily forgotten. He was old, though I've since surpassed him in age. A man with grand horns crowning his head, and skin as black as coal. He did not have eyes, just hollow sockets filled with the fire of that realm he died in. I spent three days in his company and came to know him well by the end of our journey together. There is nothing specific which marks you as incomplete, but had you finished the process of becoming a Child I would surely know.}

>Ask if he has any advice to offer regarding the Ritual of the Gate
>Ask Varistha Firdaus something else. (Write-in)
>Thank him for his time, but you should be getting back to Nazir to finish preparations.
>Write-in

Be right back, gonna grab some food.
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>>331475
>Thank him for his time, but you should be getting back to Nazir to finish preparations.
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>>331475
>>Ask if he has any advice to offer regarding the Ritual of the Gate
>>Does he know about the spirits that infest Elaudia? What are their mannerisms, how one should approach them, what their resources are, etc.
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>>331475
>Thank him for his time, but you should be getting back to Nazir to finish preparations.
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>>331475
>>331486
This seems reasonable, so I'll second it.
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>>331475
Did you know Shezade, the old bastard was pretty cool
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>>331475
>>331486
can second
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>>331493
ooh that's a good question
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>>331475
>>Ask if he has any advice to offer regarding the Ritual of the Gate
>>Ask Varistha Firdaus something else. (Write-in)
ask him for general advice on useful tricks he's learned and for more specific advice about different methods of achieving grandmastery
also, ask about the armor we're looking for for the cat, just in case he knows anything about it
also this>>331486
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>>331486
Sure, sounds good.
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>>331475
>Ask if he has any advice to offer regarding the Ritual of the Gate
>Ask Varistha Firdaus something else. (Write-in)
Ask if he know's anything reguarding the Shapeing arts, the Higher tiers of Magic beyound the Basic elements, and advice on Nature and Fire Grand master meditations.
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>>331475
>Ask if he has any advice to offer regarding the Ritual of the Gate

Better take the change to get some information on the ritual. But after this lets get moving.
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>>331475
>Thank him for his time, but you should be getting back to Nazir to finish preparations.

LETS
FUCKING
GO
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>>331475
>>Ask if he has any advice to offer regarding the Ritual of the Gate
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>>331475
>>331502
Add on, should we introduce this guy to the Paramatma? They have on memories of Children of Surya in their number I believe.
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>>331472
>{I'm well aware that you posses a passage into the void dangling from your back. I can only assume it's been in your possession for some time, most men would not sit so comfortably at the edge of death otherwise.
What did he mean by this?
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>>331515
not an enchanter and we're not going to be teaching him.
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>>331475
>>Ask if he has any advice to offer regarding the Ritual of the Gate
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>>331517
for most people the void is a scary dangerous place.
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>>331475
>Ask if he has any advice to offer regarding the Ritual of the Gate
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>>331515
no memories*
>>331528
Nah not teching him anything, I think they'd like to meet him though.
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>>331515
Nope.
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>>331475
>>Ask if he has any advice to offer regarding the Ritual of the Gate
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>>331517
>everyone assumes we know the dangers of the cloak
>Mik assumes everyone's just overreacting to the void
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>>331590
But anon, we've been in the void.
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>>331590
Every new person we meet we should have Ricky bring out a tentacle to shake hands with.
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>>331590
Ricky would never let anything bad pass through.
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>>331475
>He did not have eyes, just hollow sockets filled with the fire of that realm he died in
>he died in
So is that how it works? We have to die in whatever place the Gate takes us to?
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>>331595
i agree show them there's nothing to be feared
>>331594
>>331597
other people have not and wouldn't know that
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>>331598
I assume he's implying that when a Child of Surya dies, they "return to Surya." Since Surya = Fire the child could have eyes that reminded the Varistha of Surya's domain
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>>331479
>>331488
>>331507
>I'm out nigga

>>331568
>>331536
>>331533
>>331509
>>331503
>>331502
>>331497
>>331486
>Got any advice for a little nigga bouta light his ass on fire?

>>331486
>>331491
>>331494
>>331497
>>331499
>Elaudian Spirits

>>331493
>>331495
>Ask about Sehzade

>>331497
>Ask about armor

>>331497
>General tips n' tricks

>>331502
>Shaping Arts and other sorts of magic

I'll write for
>Ask about Ritual of the Gate
>Ask about Elaudian Spirits
and then I'll toss in at the end, as Mik's walking out the door
>Ask about Sehzade
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Next time we meditate, we should meditate on creating a new effect of some kind.
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>>331848
we should meditate on how to jerk ourselves off without using our hands.
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“Did the child you meet pass down any advice regarding the Ritual of the Gate?” You've drained your wine cup by this point, so set it aside for now. “I've been thinking about undergoing it myself, but from what I've heard it's a tremendously dangerous undertaking. The vast majority of supplicants die and those that don't return altered by the experience.”

The Varistha nods his head, eyebrows drawn together in thought. {We spoke of many things, and the land beyond the Gates came up more than once. He told me of a land where the blood of the Earth boiled up through cracks in the ground, forming great lakes of molten rock. He described a pyramid, as the sort which populates the southern reaches of the Samrajya. Formed like grand steps. At the top sat an altar, and a horned woman with hair like fire.}

{She greeted him as a loving mother welcoming home a long lost son, and under her sway he laid himself willingly upon the blood-soaked stone. The woman whom he named Death incarnate drew a knife from her robes and carved the eyes from his skull, and the heart from his chest. He sought to exert his will upon the world but could not muster so much as a flickering flame in response, nor mend the wounds she'd dealt him. As the last vestiges of life drained from his mortal form, he woke upon the sands of the desert, just outside the temple where he'd been trained.}

{He says she turned his heart to stone and replaced his blood with molten rock. I was inclined to believe him, he had the scar upon his chest to prove it and lacked the vital pulse of life. He was a dead man, save for the fact he yet possessed the capacity for action and will.}

{I suppose my advice would be to undergo the ritual only when you're ready, for to enter that place to accept the will of the Gods. Letting them shape you as they see fit. It was not an undertaking without reward of course. The man I speak of, his soul did not dwell within his body. He merely inhabited it for a time. Crush his skull, sever his head, stab him through the chest and dismember his limbs. No harm done to him could ever truly rob him of his will. He did not die, merely passed once more through the gate. Grown tired of the life he lived, and hoping once more for that woman's embrace.}

(1/3)
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>>331862
Darzi.
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>>331862
We've already got manipulate.
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You're a little surprised, being honest. You weren't expecting something quite so detailed. You'd also thought the mention of fire burning in empty sockets had been metaphor, but you suppose that wasn't the case. Certainly being unable to die would be useful for a man in your position, but you're not sure you'd want the reason for your invincibility being that you had already had your beating heart ripped from your chest. Still, the Paramatma said that for each man the Ritual of the Gate was different, and that nobody was granted exactly the same boon twice. Hopefully that means you won't necessarily be forced to sacrifice yourself upon an altar for a god you only tenuously revere.

{Have you any other questions, Mikhael of the Abdul-Hakim?} The old man's thoughts drag you forcefully from your own. {If not, I believe I will retreat to my chambers to meditate until such a time as I must announce your arrival before the assembled brothers and sisters of the cloth.}

You're about to thank him for his time, but on the other hand you do have one more question. “Do you happen to know anything of the spirits which dwell within Elaudia? I imagine they'll play a central role in my coming journey, and I'd rather enter conduct this mad errand I've been tasked with knowing what to expect.”

The Varistha rocks briefly in his stool, pushing himself to his feet with the aid of his iron staff. {I know some.} He professes, as he begins to hobble towards the door with you trailing behind. {Those most ancient of spirits are indistinguishable from the jungle itself. Fused with the landscape, an all-pervading presence at the edge of one's consciousness. These ancient spirits will not usually treat with mortals, though they will seek to defend their territory from mortal encroachment. It's for this reason that so many loggers vanish beyond the treeline.}

The guards fall into formation behind you and the Varistha, the monks from earlier slipping in to clear away the cups, dishes, and furniture. {As for the younger spirits, they tend to prefer mortal form. Rather, nearly-mortal form. You will easily recognize a spirit by its manner and appearance, I assure you. They may not recognize you nearly so easily. The half-snakes, they are not in truth spirits but a curious race of mortal. I cannot begin to guess at their origin. However, they worship a pantheon of powerful reptilian spirits. These I would not recommend offending.}

He stops at the door to the grand hall, leaning his weight heavily against his staff. {That is all I can profess to know of Elaudian spirits, I'm afraid. Have you any other questions?}

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“Only one.” It's only just occurred to you, but your curiosity demands you ask. “Did you happen to know the Varistha Sehzade before his recent death?”

Concern flashes across the Varistha's face. {Sehzade is dead? We'd not received word. He taught me all I know of the elements, and was the man who inspired me to take on the vows. His last letter arrived naught but a few months ago, I'd been expecting his reply to my own shortly.}

How has the news not reached him? For what is supposedly a Grand Temple and a pilgrimage site, Majhaya certainly doesn't seem to get much news of the outside world. “He died no more than two months ago, so in all likelihood shortly after you received his last letter. There was a tear in the void on an island just off the coast, where the pirates who'd destroyed the fleet and killed the Shah made their base. He entered the portal alone and closed the breach before the creatures within could do any further harm.”

The Varistha's frown deepens as he pushes open the door to the grand hall and begins to hobble out into onto the balcony. {Sehzade always was a fool, always cherishing the idea of a warrior's death. I will need to begin preparations for a day of mourning.} He pauses just a few feet from the door, eye focused sightlessly upon the tiles below. {Thank you, for informing me. Though it wasn't your intention.}

With that, you and the Varistha part ways. Under less than happy circumstances, unfortunately. Still, a productive conversation over all. As you begin the long walk back to the chamber in which you'd arrived, your thoughts turn to just how exactly you intend to reactivate the portal.

>Contact Fulvia, you know she'll be awake at this hour and ought to be able to activate the portal.
>Search the chamber for some method of activating the portal from this side.
>Write-in
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>>331865
So don't even think about doing it while we are on the god's shit list. Got it.
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>>331871
>>Search the chamber for some method of activating the portal from this side.

Might find a neat rune or two.
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>>331871
>Contact Fulvia, you know she'll be awake at this hour and ought to be able to activate the portal.
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>>331873
Another reason to off Vic I suppose. Or to renegotiate our Contract with the Triarch for a middle route in getting them to fuck off.
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>>331871
>Contact Fulvia, you know she'll be awake at this hour and ought to be able to activate the portal.
Just get everyone here.
Wait by reading the Shaping Arts
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>>331871
>Contact Fulvia, you know she'll be awake at this hour and ought to be able to activate the portal.
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>>331871
>>Contact Fulvia, you know she'll be awake at this hour and ought to be able to activate the portal.
Finish reading Shaping Arts while waiting.
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>>331871
>>Search the chamber for some method of activating the portal from this side.
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>>331871
>write-in
Scream at prof via the broaches until he does it
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>>331871
>Contact Fulvia, you know she'll be awake at this hour and ought to be able to activate the portal.
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>>331871
>>Contact Fulvia, you know she'll be awake at this hour and ought to be able to activate the portal.
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>>331871
>Contact Fulvia, you know she'll be awake at this hour and ought to be able to activate the portal.

Lets get to Elaudia before a sidequest shows up and we delay another 20 threads
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>>331871
>search the chamber
plus this
>>331889
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>>331885
>>331881
>>331880
>>331877
>>331892
>>331899
>>331902
>Contact Fulvia

>>331874
>>331886
>>331904
>Search the Chamber

>>331889
>>331904
>Wake up Prof for shits and gigs

Writin'
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>>331912
Don't forget to write the fucking ending of Shaping Arts you kike.
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>>331869
>reptilian spirits
Makes sense, samjans are jews and their ancestors lived in Elaudia.
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{Fulvia.} Your thoughts ring out through the intervening distance, making contact with the vastness of your artificial companion's alien mind. {I've resolved my business in Majhaya for the moment and I need you to get down to reopen the portal so I can return. It's the third pillar, starting from the left. All you need to do is channel a little vys into the stone and that should activate the array.}

Her response comes with its usual immediacy. {I will see it done, Mikhael. Have you informed the temple of our imminent arrival?}

You pause at an intersection, struggling for a moment to recall in exactly which direction the chamber lies. {Indeed I have. I can't profess any fondness for the Captain of the Temple Guard. I know that he isn't mute, though he acts as though he is.} Perhaps he was being punished for speaking out of turn when he suggested your arrest the first time you visited the temple? Weeks spent condemned to silence are not an unusual punishment among Pani's faithful, though it's hardly a punishment at all for sufficiently skilled Nature Vatis. {How go your experiments with the new body? I noticed you seemed quite fascinated with the properties of its flesh.}

{They're going well, I have learned that this body possesses a sort of artificial flesh which heals of its own volition, at a very rapid pace.} Her response arrives just as you recognize a carving upon the wall of Pani mounting a figure you can only assume is Surya with the edge of a blade pressed against his throat. You head in its direction and soon find yourself once more in familiar territory. {It is also warm to the touch and capable of limited sensation, though I cannot judge whether this is due to the properties of the substance itself or some aspect of the enchantments placed upon it.}

Why would someone create an artificial body capable of both sensory perception? That doesn't seem like the sort of capability you'd expect a vessel designed solely for combat to possess. Regardless, you allow the conversation to peter off after that point, focusing instead on navigating the maze-like corridors of the temple. By the time you finally arrive once more at the chamber housing the portal, you find it open and waiting for you. Fulvia is nothing if not efficient.

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Striding through, you're allowed some time to gather your thoughts without distraction. After all, the only things in this strange passage between the layers of creation are the pale shadows of reality, the curious grey fog which sits heavy upon the floor, and the pockmarked barrier separating your world from the void. Quite naturally you ponder just how long to wait before bringing your companions through the portal.

>Give the Varistha some time to inform the monks. You'll finish reading the Shaping Arts and perhaps start a second book first.
>Wake your companions, but allow them a moment to eat and dress themselves. After that, it's through the portal.
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
>Write-in
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>>332054
>Give the Varistha some time to inform the monks. You'll finish reading the Shaping Arts and perhaps start a second book first
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>>332054
>>Give the Varistha some time to inform the monks. You'll finish reading the Shaping Arts and perhaps start a second book first.
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>>332054
>>Give the Varistha some time to inform the monks. You'll finish reading the Shaping Arts and perhaps start a second book first.
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>>332049
>Pani mounting a figure you can only assume is Surya with the edge of a blade pressed against his throat
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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>>332054
>Give the Varistha some time to inform the monks. You'll finish reading the Shaping Arts and perhaps start a second book first.
>Put the wagon in our magical realm for now so we can take it through the portal.
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>>332054
>Wake your companions, but allow them a moment to eat and dress themselves. After that, it's through the portal.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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>>332071
>>332054
>>Put the wagon in our magical realm for now so we can take it through the portal.
Great idea.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
Read while on the road.
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>>332071
Or we could get Chryssa to separate it into parts, carry it through the portal, and then re-assemble it once she's through.

She's an Earth GM, after all.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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>>332054
>Wake your companions, but allow them a moment to eat and dress themselves. After that, it's through the portal.
Finish Shaping Arts while they eat.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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>>332054
>Give the Varistha some time to inform the monks. You'll finish reading the Shaping Arts and perhaps start a second book first.
>Wake your companions, but allow them a moment to eat and dress themselves. After that, it's through the portal.

Like give time to both groups.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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>>332054
>Give the Varistha some time to inform the monks. You'll finish reading the Shaping Arts and perhaps start a second book first.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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>>332054
>>Give the Varistha some time to inform the monks. You'll finish reading the Shaping Arts and perhaps start a second book first.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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>>332054
>You've wasted enough time as is, and there's food in the temple. Assemble your party and get going already.
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Voting's closed. Gimme a sec to count.
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>>332054
>Give the Varistha some time to inform the monks. You'll finish reading the Shaping Arts and perhaps start a second book first.
Let's not undermine the whole reason we went over there to warn them just because we're impatient fucks.
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Pretty suspicious desu
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>>332110
>>332109
>>332108
>>332104
>>332101
>>332099
>>332093
>>332092
>>332090
>>332085
>>332084
>>332081
>>332077
>>332073
>>332069
>Wasted enough time.

>>332056
>>332062
>>332066
>>332071
>>332091
>>332094
>>332106
>Give Varistha some time.

>>332091
>>332083
>>332072
>Call your companions down for breakfast.

Because it is sorta weird to see a long string of new IPs all of a sudden, and because I'm about ready to put this samefag bullshit to rest. I'm gonna host a Final Destination vote with some tweaked rules.
>No New IPs
>Five Minutes Only
>Link to my post with the selected option, no other text.

So with all that in mind
VOTE
1
To leave immediately for the temple.

VOTE
2
To give Varistha Firdaus some time to prepare.
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>>332137
2
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>>332137
2
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>>332137
2
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>>332137
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>>332137
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>>332137
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>>332137
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>>332137
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>>332140
wai
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>>332137
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>>332137
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>>332137
2
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>>332150
wham
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>>332137
1
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>>332154
Been lurking and was curius which one was mine cause i wanted to see how many posts i had.
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>>332137
>Finally doing something about it
My work here is done. Time to sleep.
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>>332137
1
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>>332159
you have earned your rest.
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>>332137
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>>332137
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>>332137
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>>332148
>>332151
>>332155
>1

>>332139
>>332140
>>332142
>>332143
>>332144
>>332146
>>332149
>>332152
>2

>>332153
Doesn't count.

Alright, well... I suppose samefagging is a bit of a problem. I'm honestly impressed three dudes could make that many votes that quickly.
Suppose we've got some new Final Destination rules.
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>>332137
2
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>>332167
*ahem* people admitted to samefagging in the vote for whether or not to kill vicitra, considering the shenanigans i hope you revisit that decision
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>>332175
I samefagged the vote to be a Vatis.

When are you going to hold a FD vote for that, Soma?
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When are we going to revote on becoming a disciple of Mahana. I samefagged the shit out of that vote.
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>>332179
look at you, doin your thing, workin hard to put the Fag back in samefag. keep doin you anon, were all super proud of ya
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>>332167
when are we going to revote on the lockout from the chryssa route? i samefagged the shit out of that vote
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>>332189
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I just got into this thread and all samefagging aside the actual quest is pretty dope
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>>332199
This post is me by the way
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>>332199
>>332205
These posts are me
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>>332199
Glad yah like it, Anon.

>>332186
>>332179
Never ever.

>>332175
Asterisk actions make me want to shitpost at you, but on a serious note I'll probably host a revote before Mik leaves Nazir once and for all. Not the first post of next thread, but probably the second post of next thread. With the results being the third.
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>>332199
There's an archive absolutely full of it. Start reading.
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>>332199
>>332205
>>332207
I posted these
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>>332209
This is me by the way.
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>>332213
>>332207
>>332205
>>332199
This is me desu
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>>332209
>probably the second post of next thread
>Trying to manipulate the outcome by having a vote before half your playerbase shows up
baka senpai desu
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>>332209
>>332167
>>332137
>>332054
>>332049
>>331912
>>331871
>>331869
I posted these
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>>332217
Nah, it'll be the opening post. Then a second post. Then the vote will happen, and the results will be in the third post. I figure that will give people more than an hour to show up.
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>>332221
Forgot to factor in your post time desu
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>>332222
ye that's like 6 hours in thread.
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>>332222
Check my quints
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>>332209
*winces* sorry soma
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>>332209
Thank jesus, that decision was one of the dumbest decisions that the playerbase has made, and that's really saying something.
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>mfw I foretold the revote for killing the kid and people called me a fool

Who's the fool now!
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>>332227
check my quints
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>>332259
You
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>>332221
is BQ still live?
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>>332271
Y-yes?
Anyway, writin' the last post of the night now.
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>>332254
i still dont understand why anyone thought that was a goodidea. i think it had to do with the way the responses were phrased
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>>332277
The decision is either murder an innocent, mainly because it's convenient, or defy the gods and risk their wrath for a bystander we have little attachment to. It's not exactly cut and dry, either choice will alter Miks character

Not to mention how are the others going to respond to either choice, I can see 2 specific companions abandon us based on either decision if it's not handled right
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>>332304
The option is be a good little beta or don't be a beta.
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>>332304
The option is be a white knight or dont be a huge faggot
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>>332304
The decision is to either murder an abomination or endager everyone in our group. Mik has done a lot of worse shit than this.
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No. This spirit is basically Extorting us. Mik is not someone who takes that lying down. See our Banishment as a prime example.
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>>332310
fuck off Rob
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>>332304
Killing Vicitra in cold blood is fucking stupid. If we want to act out of character to be safe then we should just go to our spirit realm and never leave or do anything remotely dangerous. The servants of the gods can't fuck with us there so why not just stay there forever?
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this all really depends on whether we kill elaudia mik and we dont know if he is annoying or not.
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>>332314
This is a character defining moment, there is no out of character here. Either choice will affect what his character is
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>>332315
We're not going to. The paramata basically told us that even killing Elaudia Mik wouldn't "forgive" the debt. He'd just keep asking for more and more.

That's what extortion is.
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>>332314
Kill Vic is a step towards solving our current problem with the divine bureaucracy, either in engaging in conflict with them or carrying out their whims. Whatever everyone thinks of the Emissary, killing Vic buys us time and safer passage through Elaudia. It also allows us to gather more resources and allies, as we may build alliances more easily without the intervention of the Emissary denying us potential allies, and his forces potentially disabling our allies and resources.
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>>332317
Paratma told us to not let it trick us into killing more.
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>>332317
They said 2 or 3 deaths is what it would take, including vicitra. Don't pretend that continual hit jobs are what's at stake here
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>>332317
the point is that if mik is going to bother with this he will only kill the guy if he does not personally identify with him. and if elaudia mik lives there is no point in killing vicitra. the spirit trying to jew us for more killings is irrelevant.
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>>332319
What just means we'll have to keep doing shit to suppress the trait. No mobster is going to stop demanding protection money from someone that pays it like a good goy.
Seriously the asshole has no need to uphold his end of the bargain and can just keep getting us to do shit until we refuse and he kills us off.
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>>332318
>>332317
>>332316
>>332320
how will we do dual fire-gm meditation with prof if we're not going to come out of the Gate alive? We've been told in this thread that the meditation we want to do would bring us in line with servants of Gods.
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>>332325
We're not doing that Gate any time soon.

Fire Gm comes after we reach the Temple.
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>>332325
Simple. We don't do the gate shit.
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>>332327
>allowing moralfaggotry to deny you access to Divine Magic and GMs

How, silly.
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>>332330
firstly doing none of the known GMs require or benefit from being inside a Gate and secondly becoming a Child of Surya isn't necessary to learning divine magic.
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>>332331
http://pastebin.com/ibi8j7Md
>“These 'Children of the Gods' as you call them. We refer to them as Servants, and this is an umbrella term for all beings which serve the gods directly or indirectly. Separate from spirits, which once served the gods but do not any longer. Regardless, these most powerful servants which the Gods created possess a form of divine magic. It is akin to enchanting, in that it relies upon directly affecting the strings which bind reality...“The insight you gleaned likely pertained in some way to this form of magic the Children employ. Directly affecting the strings which bind reality without using vys, or the husk. I imagine when this happened you were not physically inside the void, correct?”

Except Gate Meditations are the pathway to truly Divine Magic, one of the highest forms there is.
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>>332333
Stop shitposting Rob. Soma already confirmed that it's not what it is.
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>>332333
Alright I should have clarified: Let's not do any of the shit that involves becoming a Child of Surya while figuring out the divine magic while near the Gates. Or just leave that area of magic for later when we can just safely ignore anyone short of a god. We're certainly not running out of ways to progress.
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>>332337
Well gee, the pastebin certainly says "Divine Magic" in plain text and it certainly says the way to advance in understanding of Divine Magic is through Gate Meditation in plain text.

>>332167
Could you please clarify where in your plain text it says the opposite of what you said in plain text boss?
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>>332273
*Combat Trained
Veteran Rank in Marsala Ve
Trainee Rank in Rhynian Martial Training
When are you going to fix it?
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>>332343
He also needs to update the Shaper status to Apprentice.
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>>332324
You'd have a point if Soma hadn't comfirmed that would remove the trait.
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>>332333
>you were not physically inside the void, correct?”
I'm pretty proud of all the little hints I've dropped earlier on in the exposition of lore which have since paid off.

Anyway, meditating on the gate won't earn you Fire Magic insights anymore. However, entering the gate will allow you to do the whole Child of Surya thing. So, there's that.

Incidentally, I think >>332324 has a bit of a skewed view of how the Cosmic Bureaucracy works. Dudes can't just do whatever they want. They're constrained by a plethora of rules and regulations. Granted, rules and regulations which Mik doesn't know. And the Paramatma said that the whole 'should be enough, gotta talk to my boss' thing was probably just a way to string Mik along, not that the Servant was going to whip out and demand more assassinations. He might, or he might not.

Honestly, Mik doesn't know enough about this shit to make any kind of informed decision. Well, that's not quite true. He knows the Paramatma recommended just killing the kid and killing the other guy and being done with it. That's really the only knowledgeable source he has, so I don't know.

Y'all do your thing and I'll write it.

>>332343
Ten seconds ago senpai.
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>>332351
There is also the Wildcard I set up, and we haven't played yet. So far, speaking with our most reliable contact the Prat hasn't yielded anything substantial towards fixing our problem or even intel we can use against him. However, they did reveal that the Triarchs demanded a task of them. How is fair to demand a man pay a debt twice?

We have a unique opportunity to demand renegotiation of our debt with the Stooges, and to recontract for something substantial against the Emissary. Intel, an artifact, anything. The game isn't very favorable to us right now. The Triarch could be the tip that gives us more favorable odds.
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>>332353
Pram Mik and Mundus Mik Are actually two different people.
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>>332351
if we manage to fool the gate into thinking we are not a child of surya could we get more insights?
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>>332353
desu the debt is like the distributive property. Where 'd' represents debt and Mn represents iterations of Mik.

So d(M1+M2+M3+...+M(n-1)+Mn) where M = 2 would look like d(M1 + M2). Or dM1 + dM2.

You'll note that the debt d is not removed by dividing one element of this formula by d.

dM1 + dM2/d does not equal M1 x M2. It equals dM1 + M2, meaning the debt is still applied to Mikhael Prime.
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>>332359
Soma stop working your devil jew magic.
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>>332359
To translate this for retards, there's 1 debt. Half of it goes to our Mik. Our Mik is half the Miks that exist. Therefore our Mik has to pay off 1 debt worth of debt in order to pay off his portion of the debt applied to all Miks.
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>>332359
Seems like the only thing the Triarch will offer us is advice telling us to JUST DO IT.
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>>332360
>I didn't pass basic algebra
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I posted this post
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>>332359
so what you're saying is that the stooges are jews.
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>>332366
>implying
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Does it make sense now?
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>>332365
Don't blame him blame the education system.
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>>332372
No. Just write the update you autist.
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>>332372
post the update already eternal hibernian
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>>332369
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>>332374
>>332375
Now now, no need to be rude, he does this
>for free
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>>332378
>for free
Back me on Patreon, Anon :^)
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>>332353
since MundusMik's debt was passed along to other Miks, it follows that the rewards will be as well.
As PratMik can't collect a reward being that he's just a soul imprint and doesn't have a material body, and technically hadn't 'merged' with the Prat at the time of the debt being called in; means the reward still goes to Mik, not the collective. The reward that should be PratMik's should be sent along to MundusMik.

It could be argued that PratMik, since he's a part of the collective now, isn't a real Mik, and thus has forfeited any rights to collect a reward for a deed that a Mik had done.
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>>332380
Anon, you don't get a reward for paying off a debt.

Or rather, you get the reward at the very beginning, and the pay off the debt to earn the reward you already got.
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>>332380
>reward
>for fulfilling a debt you owe
That's not how that works you manchild. Borrowing 10 tendies from someone and then giving 10 tendies back to settle your debt doesn't mean they owe you a reward.
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>>332380
Our reward was not getting fucked by the Entity or dragon lich dozens of threads ago.
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>>332382
>>332383
>>332384
Pretty sure Soma confirmed the Stooges would/have given rewards for these deeds they've asked of us
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So wait when is the next thread?
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>>332390
Monday mi familia.
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>>332390
Wednesday.
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>>332391
See you next month
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>>332379
we all know that this quest is just a way to get us NEETs to use our monthly allowance to buy your eventual book
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>>332390
1/82020
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>>332273
>Almost 2 hours ago
RIP in peace Soma
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>>332397
80000 years seems unrealistic even for Soma.
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>>332391
See you friday
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>>332384
it was a pretty good reward.
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>>332304
Darzi-known huge hypocrite and sometines follows the end justify the means shit.
Chrysa- bitch will do it for us
Fulvia-the fleshlight will do it for us.
Prof-maybe get upset
Skull kid-the terrorist wouldnt care
Mortia-this bitch reproduces through sacrifing innocent niggas
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You emerge from the portal after several minutes of walking, to find Fulvia standing just beyond. Presumably she's using a leech spell to maintain the portal, though she severs it once you step fully from within the grey hallway. Just as before, the portal snaps shut and the array slowly dims. {Shall I ready the others to depart, Mikhael?}

“No need for that just yet, Fulvia.” You slip the book on the Shaping Arts out of your cloak, tucking it under one arm. “I think I'm going to try and get some reading done, let everyone else wake up and eat breakfast at their own pace. That ought to give the Varistha plenty of time to prepare for Zahak's arrival, and I'd rather not surprise him by showing up too early.”

She nods brusquely and begins to walk at your side as you make your towards the stairs. The twisted iron statue has begun to recede back into its domed housing so you're not barred from advancing up the stairs to the waterlogged doorway above. Your journey through the long carved passageway is blessedly undisturbed, though you pass a band of soldiers carrying alon a wounded man on a make-shift stretcher. You absentmindedly mend his wounds as you and Fulvia wander past, though he remains unconscious.

Finally you emerge into the light of the palace corridors, having escaped at last the dimly lit dungeons. It's still early, but now slaves hurry busily through the halls to attend to their duties and as you set course for the foyer you note a handful of noble courtiers attending to your brother and his wife in the dining hall. You don't bother to investigate, more concerned with the matter of the book tucked under you arm.

Upon reaching the foyer, you're quick to find an unoccupied spot amidst the cushions at once corner of the room, the bowl of the hookah already packed though not yet lit. You manifest a little ball of flame above the screen, and draw in a few deep breaths from the hose to get the mixture of opium and tobacco well and truly burning.

You know your brother used to add small portions of datura to his pipes, and some among your peers claims that it enhances their connection to that most intrinsic level of reality. Personally, you're not fond of it. Too often it makes you forget where you are and what you're doing, so you tend to avoid it. Once you have the pipe lit, you flip open your book and make yourself comfortable, allowing the metallic bit of the hookah to dangle from your mouth as you begin to read.

The book begins to recount how the soul is structured on its most basic level, and in the pleasant haze brought on by the sweetly scented smoke drifting from the corners of your mouth and comfortable cushions you find yourself drawn into the lines of text swirling across the page.

>Shitty ending, I know, but it's 5 AM and I'm exhausted.
>I'll start next session with Mik finishing the Shaping Arts, then a vote to decide reading/meditating/et cetera,
>Then it will be Vicitira vote, then it's outta here man.
>Next thread Monday.
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>>332414
See you next Saturday, Soma!
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http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Banished%20Quest
Archive here.
Next thread Monday.
I already said that.
Happy... Well, I guess I'll see you on the Fourth of July. Should have named this Happy Birthday America Edition.
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>test
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>test
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>>332418
>>332420
Just testing proxies desu, nothing to worry about. Unless you're one of those edgelords who want to kill the kid.
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>>332422
>being an antigod edgelord
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"You talk about your encounter with Sadik, which gets a smile out of your old Master. “Sadik is still alive? Well cast me into Surya's burning maw, that bastard actually did it...” You ask your master what 'it' is, but that seems to be all he has to say on the matter. Perhaps something to ask the merchant when next you see him?"

From thread 54.5 did we ever find out about what it was ?
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Uwhab
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>>332422
You clearly don't know edgelord means. If killing the kid is being edgelord than revolting against the Gods is flat out being edgy than a razor factory. Killing the kid is actually being pragmatic.
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>>332530
Thinking about it. Why do think killing the kid is being a cuck when he already fits the definition?
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>>332446
Not that I'm aware.
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>>332446
>>332545
There's probably like 50 more random plot points that we've missed and never followed up on
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yeah
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>>332551
Nice proxy post.
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Guys I'm writing a whole shitton of meta magic ideas and magic general stuff on a word right now.

Can we vote to buy a journal as well? Or do we already have one. I just want the context to make sense in the story when I lay this all out in the ether.

The idea for this is, after this expedition blows over and we have down time to read all of our books n shit we can use the wizard tower place for something productive without anyone getting a heads up.

And if your curious the magic is all about reality thread type shit so it's really high level (and honestly op) soma has the authority to change shit as seen fit though, I just wanna get my ideas in here
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>>332563
I already figured out a way to get Amplify but I see little reason to offer that until we kill the kid.
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>>332569
This is for the future, I don't expect anything on this list of mine to be seriously investigated in multiple threads at least.

Something in the bank for the paste in bassicly
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>>332580
*pastebin
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>>332563
Okay I'm posting the low level stuff for criticism and speculation.

Incoming wall of text, prepare yourselves
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This is all under a kind of magic that will be (hopefully) named in vote

This type of magic uses influence from all of the elements, but mostly metal and fire as they are the most intrinsic to reality thread manipulation

Low level meta magic:

>finite -Insert name- manipulation meta magic
This meta magic is a low level manipulation technique that is very similar to the regular manipulation meta magic, the main difference is is that it is directly linked to the threads of reality and involves the bending and shaping of the threads in order to change/carry objects. There are some distinct limitations which make this meta magic largely useless in comparison to its more advanced counterparts, mainly being that the manipulation can only occur in one distinct direction or wavelength making it uni-purpose because managing the ripples it causes is very taxing for someone trying to attain this first level. This meta magic can combine with others however to make very startling results, such as the blast meta magic. This combination is very dangerous and requires extreme concentration at the beginner level in order to avoid tearing a hole into the void, the process is essentially hyper compressing energy at a certain location at the threads, pulling them inward and stretching/compressing the outer and inner threads respectively and then blasting the energy in a single direction. The more focused you make the blast, the harder to maintain the ripples.
The results this makes will generally speak for themselves as do most reality bending things.

>finite -insert name- transmutation meta magic
This meta magic focuses on transmitting matter into vys and vice versa, with some very obvious repercussions if abused and used incorrectly. There is already a similar meta magic to this being create, however this meta is not as utilitarian (however far safer) than F{}T. The entire point of the destructive side of this meta magic which holds most of the allure is to isolate and break down material using the threads to splice and subsequently convert the spliced material into vys, unfortunately the process is very precise and during the act of splicing most of the vys is lost in the material and turned into ambient vys. Side effects include massive vys implosions and... Not much else actually, but vys implosions are more than enough to worry about. The creation side of things is really just a more fancy, inefficient method of create as the process is slow because the process like everything else in the finite spectrum of -insert name- type magic it is uni-purpose and can only accomplish one task at any given moment. This meta magic has some definite offensive and defensive combat capabilities but requires large amounts of concentration and some time.
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>>332569
Oh you mean Reverse+Contain?
yeah the irc sure is a handy dandy source of ideas.
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>finite -insert name- enchantment meta magic
This really isn't that complicated to explain, just extremely hard to do. Using a unique mixture of the F{}M and the enchantment skill, the user can bend and compress the threads of reality to draw and incantate a maximum of one letter and maintain it for as long as the threads are held together by the user.

>finite -insert name- sensory meta magic
This meta magic uses the principles of echolocation to sense topography, moving and invisible objects for as long as the user can sustain the use. It essentially entails sending a light ripple throughout the users beings and surroundings while in a trance, the vibrations received detail density of an object went through and magical affinity of an object passed, reading exact details takes time and skill to be proficient at. But again, it's uni-purpose and can only throw another wave after the vibrations are received or else really bad stuff will happen when the waves collide.

You guys think this is possible? Soma?
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>>332649
Invert+Contain=Exclude.
What a useful combination.
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>>332649
damn it I'm still in MAQ runes. I meant Invert
>>332653
the inverse of "not affected by" is "affected greatly by"
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>>332661
Soma himself said Invert+Contain is Exclude numbnuts.
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>>332667
irc logs are a hell of a drug

>[09:43:55] <Soma_QM> Invert+Contain would be like, Amplify.
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>>332692
I doubt that.
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>>332661
>the inverse of "not affected by" is "affected greatly by"
That'd be relevant if Contain meant "not affected by", which it doesn't.

To contain is to keep within. The inverse therefore would be to keep without.
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>>332768
-Contain: This rune is primarily useful when it's affecting another rune. This rune bars whatever the rune it is affecting represents from affecting the enchanted object. Using the example of a flaming sword, instead of being alight the sword would never be affected by fire. It could never be heated and it would always be cold to the touch. Alternatively, with the right runes it could be used to make a flaming sword which can never be put out by water.
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>>332792
Yet we can trap souls inside a gem using Contain. That implies he's right anyway.
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>>332792
That really doesn't make any goddamn sense. That effect has nothing to do with the meaning of the word contain. You ought to end up with a sword that retains heat like the Saturnite knives in New Vegas, not a sword that refuses to retain heat. Why would Contain+Fire result in something that LOSES heat more easily?

What the hell Soma.
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>>332811
Yeah it's a bit weird but Contain essentially increases an objects resistance to something.
This is why our Contain+Soul tattoos used to limit us both when we left and when we returned into our body.
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>>332820
Except Reinforce fulfills the same function.
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>>332830
there is a lot of overlap with function in runes
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Anons, the IRCabal, IRC, whatever you call those faggots are going to crash the vote.
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>>333071
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>>333071
Rob pls go and stay go
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>>333071
turns out forcing a FD by samefagging can backfire.
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>>333080
Except it's not. It's those fucking IRC fags. They're literally cancer. They slow down the threads by hours, and now they're going to shit on everyone and Soma by samefagging it to hell. Literally organizing to crash it. I've held my silence before, but enough is enough. The IRC needs to go.
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>>333071
Now is not the time for fear, that comes after
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>>333093
I actually did suggest an alternative vote system to nullify samefagging though votes would matter to a degree.
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>>333093
This. They've done nothing except ruin this quest since it was introduced. The circlejerk needs to go.
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>>333122
Publicly announcing their activities has done absolutely nothing to slow it down. The only way you can stop this is act against them. Because of the IRC, this quest is no longer about how anons will have to choose the best actions that are in character for Mik. It'll be about how willing a circlejerk to go to get their way.
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>>333122
>>333099
>>333093
So how will we remove the IRC Kikes.
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>>333138
Rob, this is getting pathetic.
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>>333138
>Their
Come back to us Rob and stop being a pussy ass bitch
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>>333142
>>333143
Remove IRC Caliphate.
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>>333138
You see this? They just use the thread for shitposting at one another. This yuppie faggot is apparently in a spat with the other irc faggots so he's making some pretentious ass shit in thread to turn everyone else who's not an irfaggot against whoever he's fighting against because he clearly can't win an argument on his own. IRCfaggots are the worst and need to he removed.
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>>333151
Just wanted to make sure you know he's no better than anyone else on IRC. Wouldn't want you to be manipulated by a cabal of shadowy Robs
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>>333155
>Wouldn't want you to be manipulated by a cabal of shadowy Robs
Better a Rob than a Anonyt, consultx, or Adalwulf.
At this point we can no longer rely on a democracy.
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>>333154
>>333155
You know what? I don't give a fuck. Rob is a fag, he's an IRC cocksucker, and he's part of the IRC problem. That doesn't change a single god damn thing about the fact that we now have logs of you IRC faggots planning to shit on all of us. Leave you autistic circlejerking cunts.
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>>333163
Democracy has always been a historically flawed system.
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>>333165
>Democracy has always been a historically flawed system.
No fucking shit. The only system that has ever been remotely good was monarchy and even it turned to shit.
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They're disgusting creatures
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>>333190
Suddenly I'm reminder of the Left and their bullshit.
Are there any good persuaders here?
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A few things:
>Argument-driven voting system.
This is a retarded idea. For one, I don't trust anyone on 4chan to construct a well reasoned, convincing argument on the fly. For another, argumentative quality is an entirely subjective measure and it would be impossible for me to act as an unbiased judge.

>IRC slows down threads
Not really, I use /away so that I'm not notified about anything going on in the IRC while I write. Anyone who's been in the IRC can testify that I don't really talk all that much when I'm in the IRC. I'm just slow, that's on me. There's no outside source for my slowness other than my being a lazy ass.

>They're going to samefag the vote!
Their plan, as it's been described in these screencaps, is idiotic and easily rendered ineffectual. I'm not entirely convinced they aren't just shitposting to be honest, because the issues with using a shit ton of proxies to vote should be pretty obvious. I'm not going to elaborate on how exactly I intend to prevent this sort of blood suckin' foolery but suffice to say it's not going to be an issue.

All that being said, they are being faggots so I'll mute the channel until after the next thread. It ought to be an objective lesson in how little shit changes.
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Rob is actually a cool guy, it's just the rest of the IRC is so shittty that they shit on him constantly and that has spread to the thread at large.

Adalwulf is easily the worst one of them
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>>333244
Having been to the IRC I'd have to agree. Adalwulf a shit.
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>>333238
>being this salty about shitposting
ayyy lmao
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>>333238
OY VEY IT'S ANUDDA SHOAH
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>>333263
that's a real beaut.
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https://www.rizon.net/chat
#SomaIsGay
cum and get ur neghole pozzed cute little thread anons :^)
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>>333238
He says that but he joins >>333273
Not only does Soma not care, but also he's in league with the ircfags.
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>>333263
>>333296
Fuck off Adal
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>>333238
>I'm not entirely convinced they aren't just shitposting to be honest
No shit.

Look at>>333190
>we rigged the nat3
>we created /qst/
>we rigged the bar scene

This new /qst/ atmosphere doesn't even feel like 4chan any more like what the fuck.
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>>333487
people don't know when others are shitposting at them and it's depressing.
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>>333494
>>333487
Why are repealing to yourself?
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>>333676
I mean replying.
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>>333676
Presumably he was appending that statement to his previous post.
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>>333687
Why are you replying to yourself?
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>>333692
it comes off more as a response though.
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>>333693
Correcting myself but the other guy seemed like he was responding to himself
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>>333724
it was a clarification
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>>332414
How did Fulvia having a Fuckable body not get her the second wife position right away? Reminder that Chryssa is the only one against Polygamy.
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>>334136
Now now anon, that hasn't been confirmed yet. It just says her body is "flesh-like"; we don't know if there's a vagoo to perform the ol' lickaroo on.
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>>334155
And capable of mild sensation. Man if there's no vag I'll Fuck her armpits. Or wherever her most sensitive spot is.

Or we could dive into her core and Fuck her in there.
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>>334165
Or, since we have our own magical realm in which we can manipulate reality in, we could pull her in there and make her have one?
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Wtf I hate the IRC now..
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>>334165
Speaking of her core why don't we go update her knowledge of magic and other bullshit
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>>334212
>going to the IRC Channel
That's where you went wrong bro
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I'd rather do the void voyage to go see Dhatu before we go threw the gate again.
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I'd personally prefer to check on Eluadia Mik first to see what he's like before deciding whether or not to kill the kid.

Like, shit, he's just chilling there waiting to be killed any afternoon.

Besides, maybe we can find deserving dickholes to kill in exchange.

Or we can wake Dhatu and get our own divine protection/Magic and start a godly war which we will immediately "nope" out of.

Or we could turn the servant dude into a Spirit by trickery with the help of the Cat and Ricky.

Or we could get transferred to Ricky's department, if the spirits use bureaucracy then we can totes use that against them.

We have so many options. But first of all, we should do >>334173 and >>334449.
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>>334173
i think soma covered this question in the thread we remade Chryssa's body
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>>333238
Yo Soma with our new found knowledge of souls and memories can we finally enter Fulvia soul and fuck her with our magical Dick and have chrysa shove her over sized clit in there for good measure too?
You would think mik would notice her starting to lag behind and also wanting to test his new found knowledge.
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>>334965
we should wait until either prof or mik learns gm fire and then have them, chryssa, and mortia pump her full of knowledge, because we are not going to do this again.
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>>334972
You mean anons wont do it agian.
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>>335012
thats what we means.
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>>334781
The only situation you will be meeting him in if you don't kill the kid is one where he tries to kill you and trying to hold back against anyone in the Elaudian jungle is suicide.
Also this vote is to see if Mik will ever kill the kid and if the itanswer is no then it'll be never.
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>>334449
We still don't actually know how to do that.
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>>335047
That's what I'm saying, killing the kid is a thing that could be dependent n if we kill Eluadia Mik.

I mean, won't you feel like a fucking Rob if you kill the kid for no reason?

Might as well just Disciple to the Cat why don't you.
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>>335494
>won't you feel like a fucking Rob if you kill the kid for no reason
>no reason
>getting rid of Maligned is not a good enough reason.
>When Soma said killing the kid alone would be enough
Most of your ideas were either impossible or impractical either way.
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>>335552
Killing Vicitra doesn't rid us of Maligned only that the asshole stops bothering us for a while.
If it turns out that we like Elaudian Mik and we killed Vicitra he'll have died for your paranoia and desire to suck dick.
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Just kill the damn boy. I don't get it why not, we tried to bring him back and we failed. Should have killed him right after we realized we've failed.
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>>335569
Killing the kid is a necessary step in getting rid of Maligned
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>>335569
>Killing Vicitra doesn't rid us of Maligned
Soma literally said this would. It's a very easy natural 3 trait to get rid of all you have to do is stop being such a little bitch and kill the kid.
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>>335629
Have you been reading the quest at all? Doesn't matter what Soma may have said at some point, Mik was explicitly told to kill Elaudian Mik and the kid. We should just deal with cooler encounters for a little while until we meet Elaudian Mik and decide from there. Killing that dude might be plenty for appeasing Surya and whoever. If so, then we don't have to indulge the random murder boner some anons have for this unimportant kid soma barely wrote about in passing. If not, I guess we'll have to waste 50 threads going back to nazir and killing the little shit. Lets just fucking get to the jungle already, we're on a time limit.
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Or are anons that scared of a new encounter table?
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>>335664
>If not, I guess we'll have to waste 50 threads going back to nazir and killing the little shit.

Or we just kill the shit before going anywhere, problem solved.
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>>335665
Apparently yes. Hell we haven't even experienced the new table and people are willing to throw corpses at anyone telling us they can remove it.
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>>335664
>Mik was explicitly told to kill Elaudian Mik and the kid
Correction Mik asked if killing them would solve the problem. Are you really trying to spin this shit you kike?
>We should just deal with cooler encounters for a little while until we meet Elaudian Mik and decide from there.
>cooler = more dangerous
You're really bad at spinning this shit aren't you?
>Killing that dude might be plenty for appeasing Surya and whoever
That's exactly why I want to do it.
>If not, I guess we'll have to waste 50 threads going back to nazir and killing the little shit. Lets just fucking get to the jungle already, we're on a time limit.
Are you fucking retarded? If you have problem you should get rid immediately. This constitutes a problem.
>>335665
>>335693
>Muh encounter tables
My response.
>Muh planned events.
Anything that is not fucking rolled is a planned event and Soma said they are going to get dangerous so it's reasonable to assume any plan/deal we try to put in place will backfire horrifically which we'll have to constantly deal with problems that could have easily avoided if we killed the fucking kid.
And
>Muh party's safety
If we were an edgy antisocial faggot I might be inclined to agree with you but we aren't. We have party members to look out for, one of which is our son, and this trait puts them at risk. Why would we allow to more risk for less reward. Yes Maligned gives us less and worse rewards.
>Muh gate ritual
Maligned locks us out of options like the gate ritual. I'd rather be able to do it as possible and it seems like it involves Surya so logically we have to kill the kid to do it.

And here's something else you have yet to address.
>If it is against Mik's character to change his mind and this vote will be about whether Mik will ever kill the kid. Why would Mik change his mind? What's to even guarantee kid surviving anyway? He's on their shit list too and he dies before we can kill him and if we're required to kill him to be cleared of Maligned aren't we kind of fucked?
This leaves one logical option.
KILL THE KID!
You have yet to give a good argument against any of this.
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>>335763
It's against the law
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>>335763
Killing the kid would make Surya happy, but that wouldn't rid us of Maligned. The servant we spoke with suggested that killing the kid and Elaudian Mik would likely be enough to earn the god's forgiveness. Then the hivemind told us it almost certainly would and the servant was just hedging bets to possible string Mik along into more service.

These facts, we know. Arguing over them is a waste of time, and you're all being faggots. Weighing the benefits of killing the kid is fine, but don't go trying to revise very easily referenced RECENT history.

Also, the idea that being Maligned bars us from the Surya's gate ritual is speculation. We don't truly understand the nature of the gtes and their position in the divine hierarchy. It's entirely possible that whatever servants in charge of it don't care about the divine repo shit because it's 'not their department'. So it would be a gamble, but remember we don't know for sure.
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We lose nothing if we kill the kid, there are only positive things to be gained from it.
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>>335763
Shut up Rob
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>>335806
>It's against the law
Since when has that stopped us?
>>335811
>Killing the kid would make Surya happy, but that wouldn't rid us of Maligned.
The reason we have Maligned is because both Gods are pissed at us and Soma himself said that not killing the kid would mean he would have to change the encounter table. Thus meaning Maligned would be removed
Were you just pretending to be retarded?
Of course if I'm wrong you still get your "cool" new guaranteed encounter table and you lose nothing of value.
>Then the hivemind told us it almost certainly would and the servant was just hedging bets to possible string Mik along into more service.
Then they proceeded to say that you should do it anyway faggot.
Is this all you got?
>>335842
>everybody I don't like is Rob
I normally never post like this.
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>>335847
*guaranteed TPK
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Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>332417
What are the odds of Soma running today?
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>>335847
Are you an idiot? Yes, both gods are angry. meaning we have to do things to placate both of them, meaning we have to kill the kid AND Elaudian Mik to get rid of the trait. A temporary stay of execution doesn't mean the trait is removed. We'd still be Maligned, the enforcer'll just be too lazy to enforce the rules. Temporarily.

We can't kill just the kid then just walk off and have the trait removed. This is basic English why are you having such a hard time?
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Elaudian Mik obviously is going to be a bro since Soma wants to guilt trip us into not killing him.
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>>335909
>Elaudian Mik obviously is going to be a bro since Soma wants to guilt trip us into not killing him.
Why do people keep making these assumption about people we've never met? That lord we had to kill was a thorough asshole.
>>335903
>both gods are angry. meaning we have to do things to placate both of them
Great you agree with me then. We're going to kill the kid.
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>>335901
Astoundingly high. I don't believe it.
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>>335917
I don't actually care about the kid or if the gods are placated one way or the other.

Doesn't change the fact your argument is shit.
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>>335811
>Also, the idea that being Maligned bars us from the Surya's gate ritual is speculation

I don't think its far fetch to believe it could make things more difficult and/or dangerous.
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>>335903
>both gods are angry
More like the popo caught our ass.
The gods dont even know or care right now.
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>>335930
Which is why I think we might as well visit dhatu and get that nigga to get rid of this trait.
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>>335932
The last time someone was able to visit him, he had to sacrifice their entire cult and was thoroughly unable to even get his notice. This is a greater hail measure action than the one set before us.
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>>335925
>Doesn't change the fact your argument is shit.
Nice projection there.
>>335930
Soma has said otherwise.
>>335932
>He thinks we could survive a god.
We can't even survive Child and Dhatu gives even less of a fuck than rest of the Gods.
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>>335932
Also testing if putting airplane mode on changes ips.
I usually have it on when Im at work or reading a book on it to not waste the battery.
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>>335946
Seems like it does.
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>>335946
This is how little the IRC cares about Anons, Soma, and the quest. They're not even going to hide their blatant samefagging.
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>>335937
Nah we got the location we could visit any Time now it even says it after we read it.
>>335941
>We can't even survive Child and Dhatu gives even less of a fuck than rest of the Gods.
That was when we had zero metal and even before our tats and new traits(hell I dont remember if this was before our first gm even)
>>335941
>Soma has said otherwise.
He siad they are sleeping and that their underlings assusme they would be pissed.
>>335946
Huh it does.
>>335954
Not from the irc. I just noticed my ips kept changing too fast for a regular phone
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>>335959
>>335954
Also should have known since this is an easy way to get a better phone signal as well.
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>>335954
>irc is the illuminati
This meme is getting old now desu
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>>335959
>>335954
Also should have known since this is an easy way to get a better phone signal as well.
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>>335954
>IRC was a mistake
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>>335964
Just ignore Rob. That's his ID.
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>>335964
>>335959
With what I've seen in the past few days, it was a logical assumption to make. Their word is still not proof enough.
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>>335959
>>335954
Also should have known since this is an easy way to get a better phone signal as well.
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>>335959
>That was when we had zero metal and even before our tats and new traits(hell I dont remember if this was before our first gm even)
The Paramatma told us straight to our face we would die as we are now.
>He siad they are sleeping and that their underlings assusme they would be pissed.
No he said that the Gods with the exception of Dhatu do give a fuck.
>Nah we got the location we could visit any Time now it even says it after we read it.
Did you even read what he said? That's what it takes to survive Dhatu's presence.
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>>335965
Whelp this test helped a bit, but i wonder if the ips were different because I was on the bus I might as well check agian at home.
Also funny enough the ipS do recycle.
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>>335969
That's not how logic works. I'm sorry you're too autistic to recognize shitposting.
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>>335971
>The Paramatma told us straight to our face we would die as we are now.
Where?
>>335971
>No he said that the Gods with the exception of Dhatu do give a fuck.
No he said they were sleeping and that the people below them went throigh the motions do you seriously beleive the gods will notice a grain of sand?
>>335971
Where did it say that?
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>>335971
Those guys in the metal codex seemed able to handle Dhatu's presence for a little while. As long as we resist the urge to commit suicide I'm sure we'll be fine. When we met the Child in the void all we got was +2 insanity and a bit of our soul boiled away. Now that we have GM metal and Contain+Soul we'll probably fare even better when faced with an overwhelmingly powerful entity.
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>>335992
A sleeping one to also what were miks exact stats at that time?
Depending on things our traits could give a pretty big bonus.
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>>335986
The Paramatma said that if the Emissary from the gods had been a child that we'd surely have not been able to stand before them again. That said, we've encountered and successfully escaped from a child in the void before and we're much better able to resist outside influence now, so I think we'd be able to flee from a child under most any circumstances, though we'd probably suffer a fair bit in the process.
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>>335986
>Based upon your description, you would seem to have encountered a Child. However, were this the case you would not be standing here before us. We have theorized in the past that perhaps a younger Servant might gather a following not dissimilar to the cult which inevitably surrounds a Child.
Last thread.
>No he said they were sleeping and that the people below them went throigh the motions do you seriously beleive the gods will notice a grain of sand?
They woke up Dhatu. He apparently didn't give a fuck.
>Where did it say that?
See >>335937
>he had to sacrifice their entire cult
>>335992
See above.
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>>336001
That is we can't survive it under it.
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Regardless of whatever your final goal is, getting rid of Vic is absolutely essential to preserving our resources and time to achieve a solution to our Maligned issue, whether it's rebelling against heaven, waking Dhatu, killing Elaudia Mik, or something else entirely.

Vic is a noncritical asset. However, by being alive, he'll significantly increase the threat to critical assets, such as ourselves, our companions, and our son. This will leave us with less resources and time to deal with our Maligned status in total. It'll be potentially more injuries or deaths taking our companions out the expedition, husk spent in combat that could've been used to build artifacts to increase our personal power, and just time in general facing greater challenges, which might prove to be our most precious resource yet.
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>>335999
Shit I deleted a sentence.
*a sleeping one too, and onto of our other traits we have now.
>>336003
>>Based upon your description, you would seem to have encountered a Child. However, were this the case you would not be standing here before us. We have theorized in the past that perhaps a younger Servant might gather a following not dissimilar to the cult which inevitably surrounds a Child.
This was based on the terms of being visited on by doing something that would anger the gods.
>>336003
>They woke up Dhatu. He apparently didn't give a fuck.
>>Where did it say that?
>See >>335937 #
>>he had to sacrifice their entire cult
>>>335992 #
>See above.
They didnt wake his up.
It why the firgured seems to go mad screaming at his god.
Again where in the book post or Soma post does it say this.
Please dont point to an anons assumption.
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>>336003
They failed to wake up Dhatu even after sacrificing the entire cult and so commited suicide in despair. Mikhael isn't a fanatic Dhatu worshipper, and presumably would not lose all purpose in his life upon failing to awaken Dhatu. Because of this, he would probably not commit suicide because of such a failure. That said, when Mik encountered the child he felt the urge to prostrate himself and end his own life to pay homage to it, so it stands to reason that he might experience similar urges upon encountering a god, even a sleeping one. Mik, however, has an abnormally large number of bonuses to resisting outside influences and maintaining control of his own mind. Terrible thing to waste and Frosty were around when we met the child the first time, but we've since achieved GM metal+Force of Will trait and Mark of the Dragon Slayer, all of which contribute to Mik maintaining his agency when faced with mental danger. I think that Mik would be able to resist the urge to kill himself considering his different circumstances and trait bonuses.
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>>336029
If all else fails change into our ascended form since that is a divine form.
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>>336029
>>336027
This anon is right they sacrificed a large portion of believers to wake a nigga up, but not to visit him.
If it took that much to visit him than the location and the way to it wouldnt have been implanted in our mind.
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Nobody ever woke Dhatu up. They failed. That's why the metal codex told us where he was in the void. It's an instruction manual for aspiring Dhatu worshipper a trying to find and awaken Dhatu.
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>>336029
>>336027
The Book said Dhatu woke up when he was stabbed.
Also you'd need around +100 bonus to survive the presence of something like a God.
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>>336022
This i can agree on.
Also we heard of both sand nigger and jungle nigger mik.
Are we missing any other type of mik?
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>>336041
Post the proof instead of spouting shit.
Also until we get a solid answer pulling dcs out of your ass wont help you.
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>>336053
There's Aleamondian Mik, a humie, who's putting together a Mage's faction in steampunk Roman land. We've heard of him in passing. Then there's Pa-Vala Mikette, the Prophet whom we're supposed to be consort to.
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>>336022
Counterpoint: /shrug
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>>336056
I have 70 fucking threads to look through. Also the fact the guy could cut Dhatu implies he had an insane bonus to magic.
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>>336061
Adversarial activities are number games. With the dice and bonuses in BQ, this is even more so true. We have to increase our advantages and resources as much as possible, reducing risk and loss to them, while ensuring that our opponent loses or does not commit as much as his as possible.

If we gain his momentary trust, this opens up a lot of resources and positions that would otherwise be unavailable to us. With him hostile, it'd be harder to gain allies, as spirits we may encounter who would otherwise be neutral might be hostile. With him hostile, resources and allies we gain in Eluadia might need to be used in order to counter his aggression instead of invested in developing a solution for us. And finally, if he thinks that we're under his control or general direction, it'll be easier to catch him by surprise when we spring whatsoever measure we choose to develop against him and the cosmic bureaucracy.
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>>336069
Yes and?
I have done the same in the past and even admitted my wrongs when I found the answer or clarified something.
Just do ctrl+f it.
As for general location it was when we were on the carriage to other our brothers or home.
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>>>/tg/43335657
>The page turns of its own volition and the seen shifts, this time displaying that silver and gold figure striding towards a male Dhatu, seated on a vast throne in the middle of a shattered palace. Dhatu does not move. He does not so much as shift his weight as his servant prostrates himself on the ground in front of him. There's a few seconds during which the figures are all still, and then the worshiper rises to his feet. He hurls bolts of copper at Dhatu, tries to drag down the temple around the slumbering god, but nothing rouses him.

>>>/tg/43335715
>Well, it turned out to be an ancient religious text regarding a god Dhatu, the god of metal. Among other things, but metal is his primary concern. To be brief, he fell asleep at some point and has remained asleep ever since, his cult slowly but surely dwindling until none remained

>>>/tg/43337442
>Journeying into the void isn't really a voyage you could undertake in the near future, at least not safely. It would probably be wise to be at least a Grandmaster Metal Vatis before attempting anything of the sort. Still, you'd like to eventually stand face to face with a god. “Keep in mind, Fulvia, the figure depicted by the book was a fanatic devotee of Dhatu. Upon finding out that his god cared not one whit for him, after he sacrificed everything he had to bring back his god, it's no real surprise that he resorted to suicide.”
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But also keep in mind
>>>/tg/43335670
>After several minutes of struggling to wake his god, the silver and gold figure is starting to look far more silver than gold. His hand turns into a blade, which standing before the god he plunges into his neck. Gold spews from the wound, and much to your surprise into Dhatu. It seeps through his iron body, forming thin veins of gold throughout but accumulating specifically around his eyes, giving the impression that the god is awake.
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Anyways the metal codex indicates the supposed method for awakening Dhatu, but also that nobody ever succeeded.
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>>336097
Yup that's what I was talking about.
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>>336081
Counterpoint: /shrug
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>>336117
Good you have no arguments then.
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>>336110
Yeah but the guy never cut Dhatu. He stabs his own neck. It flows into Dhatu giving the impression that Dhatu awakened, but Dhatu is not actually awakened. Nobody ever succeeded to wake Dhatu up. The purpose of the Metal Codex is to recruit more people to Dhatu worship and instruct them on the means of awakening Dhatu, since nobody has yet succeeded.

We do have GM metal now, so it might be worth making the journey just to have the experience now.
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>>336126
Counterpoint: /shrug
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>>336126
Do you have any guarantee of our survival?
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>>336132
Meant for >>336128
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>>336132
>needing a guarantee of survival
What are you gay? Mik just does shit. We'll Jew bonuses and roll our way out of our problems.
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>>336142
Except there is nowhere we could get bonuses from in this situation.
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>>336142
They're just retarded safetyfags who are convinced Mik will die if we don't minmax powergame right now.
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>>336128
>instruct them on the means of awakening Dhatu,
Its never mentioned as a way, but a guess like how the other cult thought doing the exact same thing would bring back their dead god.
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>>336158
Not even that I honestly think its a new fag that blazed through the archive so he wasnt there to discuss this info or even take time to digest it properly.
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>>336158
In a normal situation you'd be right but dealing with a God is on a completely different level.
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>>336172
I've been around since the mines.
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Welp I'm fed, watered, and caffeinated so I guess it's about time I start writing.

To clarify a little bit what the Paramatma meant when it said Mik wouldn't be around anymore had he encountered a Child of the Gods, they weren't saying that the sight of a child would have just boiled his brains. Rather, they were saying that if he was a large enough threat to creation that a Child saw fit to interfere, there wouldn't have been any sort of negotiation. He would have just been wiped from the fabric of reality.

>>336129
>>336117
>>336061
Fuck off with this gay shit nigga, almost as bad as asterisk actions. God damn.

Any other questions before I get started?
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>>336188
So revolt against the Gods route is impossible. Good to know.
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>>336188
No, you fuck off with this gay shit nigga. BQ is almost as bad as facebook sonic RP.
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>>336183
Than a saftey fag who came off of life support.
I thought most of you guys left or stupped carring.
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>>336188
Do the Elves have a Fourth of July thing with throwing off the Dragon's oppressive rule? Might be fun to have Profectus realize that's a thing with his new watch.
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>>336200
I voted for the Crown and the Child.
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>>336188
Huh told you.
What about the other shit the anon was pulling out of his ass(he back pedaled a bit, but stuff like sacrificing being essential or some one actaully waking dahtu up or making him bleed)?
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>>336188
Thread when?
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>>336188
What were the results of the stawpoll yay did concerning to new players and old players?
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>>336211
Well, the passage here >>336097 ought to make clear a few things, which I think Mik would more or less be able to pick up on.
>The gold aura/whatever the figure gained by sacrificing the lives of the other cultist was protecting him from the God's influence.
>This protection was beginning to wear thin and he knew there wasn't much time left.
>Sacrificed himself so as to free what remained of his stored power in an offering to Dhatu.
Now, whether Dhatu woke up, or what have you, all that I leave open to interpretation. Maybe this is more of an instruction manual than a biographical account, although the text itself phrased it as a warning, if I recall correctly. Don't make the same mistakes we did. It may have been the author, who clearly couldn't experience the events themselves, merely taking some artistic liberty.

Regardless, it seems clear based upon Mik's interactions with the Emissary that if Dhatu woke up, he's since gone back to napping.
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>>336220
so should we start posting with our proxies now or wait until the FD is coming up? :^)
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>>336220
You ever contacted the one that got away?(the chick you were crushing on)
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>>336217
Well, assuming folks were honest about a third of people joined during the first thread and roughly a fifth of people joined during Mik's stay at Pani's temple. Another fourth of players joined during one of the two big dungeon crawling arcs, the Mines of Longia and the ruins north of Licae. The remainder were scattered across various points in the quest.
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>>336220
Thoughts about the phone IP thing I discovered?
Also will soon test to say if being on bus helped get the rotating ips.
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>>336240
famalam pls. The first thread didn't even have that many players in it. It was clearly a bunch of retards who confused "When did you join BQ" with "Where did you start reading [in the archive]".
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>>332446
You asked Sadik about how he knows Master Karim and he declined to go into any detail, but admitted that he and Master Karim used to be adventurers in their youth.
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>>336245
i'll come back in 4 hours and wait for your update Soma
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Test
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Soma should just have a patreon and only let patrons on it vote :^)

Have $1 = 1 vote, so for every dollar you give Soma you get an extra vote, that way only the people who really care about Banished Quest get a say :^)
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Test
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>>336290
Now you're a different faggot.
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It works, but sometimes it will go back to the old IP so you could get banned for spam.
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>>336286
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7XJIioZEgQ
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Test
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>>336306
Test failed
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>>336304
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7aG-VQYGhA
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>>336311
It rotates ips.
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>>336353
Check
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I just want you all to know before I leave for work that I'm concerned people are beginning to think of the irc as some sort of boogeymen. So to dispel that, I once caught one of the irc cabal accidentally posting his real address.

Since he's the type to fit in over in /pol/, I sent him several packs of feminine napkins, Hillary Clinton campaign support bumper stickers, and some gay and/or furry pride paraphernalia. None of this cost me a cent, and he admitted he found it "genuinely upsetting", as he had just been expecting dragon dildos at the worst.

The irc cabal are not people to fear, they're people with opinions that you can always safely ignore.
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>>336375
>ircfags mailing each other shit
Is this not the definition of circlejerk?
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>>336381
No, that definition explicitly specifies 3 or more people be involved. The mail was from one individual to one individual.
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>>336188
Should I start getting my proxies ready?
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>>336460
Of course
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>>336188
Post never ever
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For some time now, you've wondered about the exact nature of the various layers of the soul and how they're all connected. The husk and shell seem to have vastly different properties, and the same is true in respect to the shell and the shard. You barely know anything about the shard really, other than that the shard provides you with the capacity for will. Fortunately it seems that this book in its final chapters has set out to explain the anatomy of the soul in more detail than you've ever seen it explained before.

The author starts from the inside and works his way out. The shard, he claims, is a fragment of a fragment of a fragment of that substance which composes the gods themselves. However, according to the author this divine shard is not the same as that essence which dwells within spirits. The essence within spirits has been diluted over several generations to the point that it maintains only fractional similarity to the essence contained within the accursed Gods and their vile spawn. He further asserts that because the minuscule amount of essence contained within the soul of a mortal is so vastly superior to the essence which composes a spirit, it is right and natural that spirits exist to serve mortals and not the other way around.

In recounting the role of the shell, the author has much more substantive information to impart. First, he claims that the shell exist to protect the shard. A fact you are already more than familiar with. However, that is not the only role the shell plays according to the author. The shell also acts to channel, refine, and manage the influence which the divine shell exerts upon the world. In this way, the shell is ultimately responsible for the creation of the mind, for if the influence of the shard was not moderated then it would simply vanish beyond the strings of reality, pulled away either to rejoin the tyrant by which it was created or to be purged of mortal corruption and reused within the soul of another.

The relationship between the shell and the husk is similarly vital to one's continued existence. As previously stated, the mind is a product of the shell moderating the influence which the shard exerts upon the world. This fact, the author asserts, means that when the mind deems some bit of information important enough to store away as a memory that information is bound to the shell. This gives rise to the vast holes within the shell which only those most erudite and powerful of sandeste. The last word is one you only vaguely recognize as the term your people originally used for magic users, since replaced by the Rhynian term 'vatis'.

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The holes represent points upon the shell which have atrophied. The divine essence which composes the shard is remarkably volatile, and attempting to contain it is exceptionally difficult. Thus, the shell tends to erode over the course of one's life if not fortified by memories, these memories making up the husk of the soul. The husk serves as an additional buffer between the outside world and the shard, thus taking some of the burden off of the shell and allowing it to direct the power of the shard towards something productive. This relationship gives rise to the constant cycle the husk degradation, in which husk is turned into usable Sakti at the same rate as the shell generates new husk. Sakti being the pre-Rhynian word for vys, so far as you recall.

Memory formation is likewise a result of this process. As the husk degrades and new husk is created, there is naturally some excess available which the Mind in turn seizes upon as necessary. Creating a new memory is a laborious task, entailing the weaving of new information out of half-decayed, discarded memories. It's not fully understood how this process works during early childhood, when there are no old memories from which to construct new ones, but it is well understood that the vast majority of shell erosion takes place within the first few years of life.

There is only one part of the shell which is not destroyed and recreated over the course of each passing day, and this is the portion of the husk which attaches directly to the shell. So interwoven are these core memories with the shell that it's often hard to distinguish one from the other, leading some to theorize that the shell is initially created before a child is born. Some have speculated that within the womb, a child is reliant upon its mother's shell to prevent its soul from fleeing back to the void. Thus, the few memories which the child forms are exposed to the unfettered power of the shard and 'scorched' into the black stone which forms the shell. However, the author notes that this is a highly contentious theory. Traditional wisdom dictates that the shell is formed at the moment of conception and expands slowly leading up to a child's birth.

The last chapter of the book deals with manipulation of shard itself, the author noting that the rest of the text dealt in great detail with manipulation of the husk and the shell. One of the most basic examples given is burning away the husk so that only those memories most essential to one's personality remain. This is given as a method of purging the husk of fragmentary memories, an act which can protect the practitioner from being implanted with false memories or having memories removed. You suppose your own soul must be remarkably resistant to such intrusions.

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The text further notes that channeling vys into the shard itself can often elicit strange results, and list a few examples. Channeling those most basic, destructive tendencies of vys into the shard allowed one practitioner to rip away the strings of reality which defined one of their rivals, thus destroying the man completely and ripping a hole into the void. However, the same act led to another practitioner scorching themselves hollow, leaving nothing behind by a blackened shell of a man.

Channeling those aspects of vys which are most placid and easily manipulated led to one practitioner being able to mend a rip in the fabric of reality with barely any effort on their part. However, when another practitioner attempted the same thing they instead ripped apart the threads defining their personal realm, thus ripping the hole wider and permitting yet more of the Gods' vile servants to ravage their safe haven. A third claims that he found his thoughts much clearer and his mind less addled after the experience.

Those aspects of vys which are most caustic and volatile served only to drive the practitioner insane. Eventually his shell fractured and his soul fled his mortal form. Several other attempts have yielded the same result, eventually leading to the High Council deeming the practice tantamount to suicide.

Attempts to read the soul as one might read the shell have yielded strange results. One man recounted seeing himself ripped apart by a creature with eight mouths and sixteen limbs, and indeed some report that he met his death the following week during an incursion of void entities. Another practitioner claimed that her attempts at reading the shard yielded no results, and that her vys merely rolled off its surface. The author apologizes that he is not able to list further examples, but promises in his next book to include an exhaustive catalog of all surviving accounts. Not that his promise does you any good.

The final passage of the book is dedicated to efforts on the part of other practitioners of the Shaping Arts to channel into the shard those aspects of vys which remained after all others have been stripped away. The unchanging core of magic. The author claims that doing so resulted in one man gaining a temporary immunity of sorts to most forms of magic, a blast of fire rolling off of him as water across steel. Another claims that in doing so he achieved perfect focus, his mind and soul for once working in tandem to bring his thoughts and actions into perfect order and clarity.

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Upon the conclusion of this final passage, the author wishes would-be practitioners luck in their efforts to advance their understanding of the Shaping Arts. He also recommends that they visit someplace you have some difficulty translating. It could mean either 'Forgotten Archives' or 'Archives of the Forgotten' depending on the context. It might also mean 'Forbidden' instead of 'Forgotten', but then it wouldn't make much sense for the author to recommend you visit.
>Shaping Arts: (Finished)
>Vys Pool: (60/72)
I'd made an accounting error in the previous thread, since corrected.

You pull the bronze bit of the hookah pipe from the corner of your mouth, hanging it upon a hook attached to the body of the pipe. Sitting up, you rub your eyes for a moment. You don't feel too out of it yet, only an all pervading sense of warmth and well being marking you as not quite yourself, but having finished your reading it may be best to maintain a clear head going forward.

>Find a quiet place to meditate, if your companions haven't woken up by the time you've finished you'll wake them up yourself.
>Pull out another book and keep reading, you might not have a quiet moment like this to read for quite some time.
>Go looking for Darzi and ask her to train you on the finer points of Marsala Ve.
>Write-in
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>>336519
OY VEY BROTHER YOU MUST COME AND SEE THE UNHOLY PROSECUTION THE GOYIM AT US IN OUR MOST HOLY ON SANCTUMS
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>>336519
>Pull out another book and keep reading, you might not have a quiet moment like this to read for quite some time.
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>>336519
>>Pull out another book and keep reading, you might not have a quiet moment like this to read for quite some time.

Might as well finished Excidium for the Vys.
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>>336519
>>Pull out another book and keep reading, you might not have a quiet moment like this to read for quite some time.
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>>336519
ENCHANT NIGGA
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>>336519
>Find a quiet place to meditate, if your companions haven't woken up by the time you've finished you'll wake them up yourself.
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>>336519
>>Pull out another book and keep reading, you might not have a quiet moment like this to read for quite some time.
ninth dimension
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>>336533
2nd
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>>336519
>>336533
Seconded
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>>336519
>Pull out another book and keep reading, you might not have a quiet moment like this to read for quite some time.
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>>336519

>Find a quiet place to meditate, if your companions haven't woken up by the time you've finished you'll wake them up yourself.
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>>336533
Sure why not? Lets do this.
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>>336519
Changing my vote >>336537
to enchanting >>336533
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Yall know enchanting take more time than we have right?

We wouldn't even get to the finialization stage.
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>>336519
>enchanting
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>>336519
>Pull out another book and keep reading, you might not have a quiet moment like this to read for quite some time.
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>>336533
>>336519
Holy shit, this!
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>>336555
Nah, you have time. To carve, and probably finalize, though that will probably take 4-ish hours depending on complexity.
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>>336533
>>336519
Supporting. MAKE SURE TO DO IT IN OUR MAGICAL REALM SINCE WE HAVE BONUSES THERE
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>>336561
I was assuming our companions weren't gonna sleep past midday.

Looks like we're not going through the portal today.
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>>336519
>Pull out another book and keep reading, you might not have a quiet moment like this to read for quite some time.
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>>336519

This
>>336533
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>>336562
Nigger you obviously dont understand how anything works.

The time it takes to travel would mean we still wouldn't be able to leave for elaudia this thread.
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>>336555
We aren't going to get a better opportunity any time soon though
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>>336538
>>336526
>>336524
>>336523
>>336546
>>336558
>>336565
>Read another book.

>>336541
>>336533
>>336540
>>336549
>>336553
>>336556
>>336559
>>336562
>>336567
>ENCHANTING

>>336547
>Meditate

>>336564
Well, way I figure it it's about 8 AM right now. Four hours would put you at noon exactly. Mortia would probably just be waking up around that time. Enchanting all told will just be a few post, most of them not story post, so yeah.

ANYWAY
Same rules as last time. No new IPs, no text except a quote and the number of your choice. Five minutes only. Final destination.

VOTE
1
To enchant some object to be decided upon in another vote.

VOTE
2
To read another book, to be decided upon in another vote.
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>>336572
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>>336568
Don't worry about it. We'll have time. Maybe soma will let us timeskip
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Ya'know, one of the things we agreed was crucial for further enchanting was to have Chryssa use her Earth GM erosion and shaping skills to carve rings. That'll decrease the sanity damage users will take from the mind boosting effect.
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>>336597
If we cant fi d anything good idea for enchanting I say we read a book.
U dont feel like wasting an hour because some one wants to sperg out with runes.
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>>336572
>all these two post voters
seems legit
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>>336608
That's not how it works.
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>>336515
>The text further notes that channeling vys into the shard itself can often elicit strange results, and list a few examples. Channeling those most basic, destructive tendencies of vys into the shard allowed one practitioner to rip away the strings of reality which defined one of their rivals, thus destroying the man completely and ripping a hole into the void. However, the same act led to another practitioner scorching themselves hollow, leaving nothing behind by a blackened shell of a man.
Fire?
>Channeling those aspects of vys which are most placid and easily manipulated led to one practitioner being able to mend a rip in the fabric of reality with barely any effort on their part. However, when another practitioner attempted the same thing they instead ripped apart the threads defining their personal realm, thus ripping the hole wider and permitting yet more of the Gods' vile servants to ravage their safe haven. A third claims that he found his thoughts much clearer and his mind less addled after the experience.
Water?Metal?
>Those aspects of vys which are most caustic and volatile served only to drive the practitioner insane. Eventually his shell fractured and his soul fled his mortal form. Several other attempts have yielded the same result, eventually leading to the High Council deeming the practice tantamount to suicide.
Earth
>Attempts to read the soul as one might read the shell have yielded strange results. One man recounted seeing himself ripped apart by a creature with eight mouths and sixteen limbs, and indeed some report that he met his death the following week during an incursion of void entities. Another practitioner claimed that her attempts at reading the shard yielded no results, and that her vys merely rolled off its surface. The author apologizes that he is not able to list further examples, but promises in his next book to include an exhaustive catalog of all surviving accounts. Not that his promise does you any good.
Nature.
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>>336611
What are lurkers?
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>>336611
Want to do some CSI work anon?
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>>336611
Kek I know, and there is also a 1 IP vote so its a tie unless Soma wants to include the following two that us legit.
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>>336612
You know, Soma is right there. You can ask him if this is a thing. Go on.

>>336572
Boss, would using Spirit Ivory stabilize the Mind boosting effect, decreasing the sanity damage the wearer receives?
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>>336616
An excuse samefags use.
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>>336619
I don't see why he wouldn't, these anti-samefagging measures are pointless on a board with IDs
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>>336620
The Earth carving part is what I'm talk about.
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>>336622
They are only temporary, but atleast he can up the anti by make the next fd in thread a a 2 IP vote thing.
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>>336620
and what's stopping us from using it without chryssa?
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>>336574
>>336579
>>336580
>>336583
>>336585
>>336587
>>336588
>>336589
>1

>>336582
>>336581
>>336578
>>336576
>>336590
>>336591
>>336592
>>336597
>2

>>336594
This vote is invalid, so we're tied.

I think I'll go with enchanting, since y'all just finished reading the Shaping Arts and you'll probably have more time to read soon. Enchanting doesn't get much attention.

That in mind, I'll proceed to list some of the available items which are not as of yet enchanted. This would be a good time to start tossing around ideas for the enchantments themselves.
>Silver-Banded Opium Pipe
>Clavichord
>Brass Horn
>Crowbar
>Hammer
>Grappling Hook
>Piece of vys-leeching crystal
>Length of Boar Spirit's tusk
>Fine Silken Robes
>Shirts
>Pants
>Turban
>Hide Boots
>Rope
>Mirror
>Lantern
>Assorted gemstones
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>>336629
We have tools in our magical realm that can be used in place of earth magic.
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>>336635
Idea for making an elevator, could be sold to nobles as a fancy replacement for their old pulley based ones, or to those who want to show off. Would also be good for any plans to build things we might have at a future date.
We'd need to test how fast attract moves it but a few small or larges should fix any problems that arise. We can use now to test it with just a simple scale model of one.
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>>336629
>>336633
>>336636

As a grandmaster who specialized in Erosion for her GM, it'd be far easier for her to do so. She is a Sculptor. Furthermore, tools might not suffice for one of the very most durable materials in the world. Best to leave it to experienced hands.
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Someone post that list of useful shit that we could make with enchanting
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>>336631
It should be around 5 IMO, it's incredibly easy to post a one or 2 more posts on a phone

>>336635
>Rope
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>>336635
>Fine Silken Robes
Nice fucking railroad cunt. You could have at least rolled for it.
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>>336635
Create+Soul, Contain+Soul on the highest quality gemstone we have. Try to create a husk battery.
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>>336635
>Length of Boar Spirit's tusk
Use it for Rob's shitty inversion ring
>Assorted gemstones
Contain+Vys or (Create+soul)+Contain
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>>336635
>Rope

We'll need it
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>>336635
>Length of Boar Spirit's tusk
Travel to our realms enchanting area
runes would be
Amplify(Reverse+Contain)+RefineReverse+Revert+Mind
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>>336639
desu do this
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>>336635
[Invert + Revert] + Mind

on a ring.
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>>336635
>Rope
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>>336649
>me
I meant Invert+Contain and Invert+Revert
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>>336635
Would it be too much to write in asking Chryssa for assistance with the Boar's Tusk? We could go to her rooms and pop into our realm quickly.
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>>336649
>RefineReverse
What?
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>>336635
Forget whatever else I've said. We need rope more than we need anything else.
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>>336658
Nigger the travel time back from our realm to here is a few hours.

No.
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>>336659
I fucked up. I forgot spoilers don't work in /qst/ for non-OPs
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>>336660
>>336656
>>336647
>>336642
Any particular ideas on what to enchant the rope with?
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>>336635
>vys leeching crystal
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>>336665
Unbreaking. Infinite length if possible.
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>>336649
>>336655
supporting mind enhancing ring.
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>>336665
Contain and create soul. Reinforce.
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>>336649
supportan

>>336665
dont be a nigger soma
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>>336649
>>336635
Do it.
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>>336655
>>336649
>>336635
We must build a [Ring]
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>>336665
desu senpai would >>336639 this autistic shit work?
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We should try to replicate the teleportation enchantment on the coin that takes us to our realm.
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>>336649
the correct runes would be
Mind affected by [Invert+Revert] and [Invert+Contain]
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>>336635
>Rope
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>>336677
Way out of our league right now. We need to stick with something simple.
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>>336665
Reinforce, sustain, and experiment with move/transfer.
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>>336665
elevator
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>>336678
No.

It's just [Invert + Revert] + Mind

No contain shit. That doesn't even make sense.
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>>336635
>Rope
Unbreakable
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>>336669
Unbreaking would be simple enough Just the reinforce rune by itself.

>>336671
>A rope which creates and contains husk
For what purpose?

>>336649
So I suppose this would be (Invert+Contain)+((Invert+Revert)+Mind)?
Gotta get that formatting down Anon.
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>>336665
(Invert+Revert)+Penis
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>>336639
nigga why
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>>336688
Why enchant a fucking rope?
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>>336686
Yes. I fucked up.
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>>336635
What would happen if we used revert+vys?
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>>336686
Umm the [Invert contain] on that is superfluous.

The simple ((Invert+Revert)+Mind)? is necessary to fulfil what he wants.
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>>336686
Hey Soma, can large objects (like the wagon) be pulled along with us into our realm or not?
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>>336688
>not wanting to go through the temples with style
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>>336690
Because want to be le ebic trolls
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>>336686
A husk infused rope would be immune to tampering by Elaudian spirits, since husk burns them. Why wouldn't we want the rope to create and contain husk?
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>>336686
only if (invert+contain) is amplify instead of exclude, which doesnt really make sense to me but if it works then so be it
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>>336690
>Yo any tips for my trip to Elaudia?
>Yeah, bring rope.

Jeez, i wonder why?
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>>336698
Why not simply use Mormor or Chryssa to build some stairs?
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>>336708
Our rope isn't hundreds of feet in length. And enchanting it would do fuck all. Also you clearly need to accept the superiority of building an elevator as a means of scaling a vertical temple
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>>336709
because stairs don't burn spirits and can't be leeched to for use in husk casting.
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>>336702
I feel like he just added the Invert + Contain for no real reason. It doesn't do anything to the enchantment that i can tell. Invert contain would be exclude which seems like it would prevent the wearer of the ring from benefiting from the ring. Or maybe frvent them from seeing the outside world while wearing it. Either way it doesn't reallyt make sense. simple Invert + Revt + Mind is more than enough
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>>336709
Why not simply enchant ourselves some flying boots like that one adventurer guy?
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>>336715
Gemstones are better for that.
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>>336639
>>336650
>Build a test elevator

>>336642
>>336647
>>336656
>>336660
>Enchant a rope, to hang yourself with.

>>336649
>>336670
>>336672
>>336673
>>336674
>>336646
>>336655
>Ring to enhance the mind.

>>336702
Contain basically means that the substance in questions can neither enter, nor leave the area of the enchanting array, or the object upon which it's carved. So a big circle upon the ground which creates and contains fire would be a fire that can't spread beyond the edge of the enchanting array. I know, the example in the pastebin is pretty bad. Need to get around to changing it at some point.

So to me, it would seem logical that the opposite of contain would be a rune which allows some substance to pass into and through an area or an object more easily. The closest word I can think of to describe that is amplify.

Anyway, writin' for the spirit ivory ring. You'll recruit Chryssa to help out, since Mik isn't really skilled enough to carve through Spirit Ivory in any sort of timely manner.
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>>336725
wouldnt it make more sense to have weaken and amplify be opposites? contain literally means keep in, the opposite of keep in is keep out, so its opposite rune should be exclude

just shitposting here, but imo thats how it should work
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>>336725
So that would mean a ((Large) + (Fire)) in a ((Fire)+(Contain)) would spread upward?
>>336730
>wouldnt it make more sense to have weaken and amplify be opposites?
I think you mean Minimize.
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>>336730
>contain means keep in
>the opposite of keep in is keep out
the opposite of contain is the absence of something to be contained within.
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http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/contain
Here's Contain.
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>>336737
Yeah, if you created an array with, for instance create fire in the inner circle, acting as the base rune and then contain affecting this inner circle. You'd be able to create a pillar of fire by inscribing a few iterations of large on the fire rune.

>>336730
That would make more sense linguistically, but I don't know. I tend to worry more about the effects of the rune rather than its name. I suppose you could make an exclude rune which full stop prevents something from entering an area. I may need to alter how the contain rune works. Maybe it doesn't prevent stuff from entering, but keeps stuff in and absorbs stuff if applicable.
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>>336745
stop trying to justify the ring working (((Soma)))
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>>336725
that makes no fucking sense you kike
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>>336748
I still find it funny the kikes were trigger by (((this))).
>>336745
Maybe Isolate could be a rune?
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>>336745
Yeah, I think I'll do that. Because then Chryssa's antimagic field could just be REDACTED, and that's a much simpler array than the one I'm goin with right now.
Anyway, no need to roll quite yet, that will come after this next post.
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>>336766
So what is this mystery [Invert + contain] array going to be doing to the Inversion ring?
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>>336766
(EXCLUDE+VYS)

maybe?

which would mean husk casting could still fuck her up
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>>336771
I'm gonna toss that out, since it no longer does what that Anon thought it did.

>>336772
Little more complex than that desu. Just carving "Exclude+Vys" on her bow would also exclude Chryssa from the area of effect, basically ripping away her reserves and knocking her unconscious.
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>>336774
Cool so we're just making the Inversion ring. Awesome, should be a pretty easy Dc too.
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>>336766
http://onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml
http://www.wordsmyth.net/?mode=rs
Look what found Soma.
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>>336775
the dc isn't determined by amount of runes but the way they're connected.
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>>336780
Yea.

[Invert + Revert] + Mind. Simple nested array. Like super basic for an enchantment. Super basic.
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>>336774
(if vys)[(exclude+small+area)+(exclude vys)]
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What the hell? Did I miss the twitter notification?
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>>336784
You know that would literally be a death field around her. Any and every living this that came witthin that bubble would be completely stripped of all Vys and die.
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>>336791
It probably isn't instantly or that would be extremely overpowered.
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>>336791
nah, if it works like contain it just prevents stuff from leaving (or in this case entering), see >>336745

i think
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>>336796
Remember that most people only have vys reserves under 10 and don't have Miks incredible control over his soul and vys pool.
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>>336797
>>336796
see>>336774
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>>336774
Ur a shit for not announcing on twitter.
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>>336774
Say, didn't you say Rob's original design needed a Large rune to get a noticeable effect? We can add that on later, right?
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>>336780
>>336775
>>336775
It will be: ((Invert+Revert)+Mind)
Mind will be the base rune, Invert+Revert will be a separate runic array within the overall structure of the runic array.
Meaning it's a composite enchantment. Basically, anything with only requires the base rune and the outer circle remains a composite enchantment. If you need to have one enchanting array within a second enchanting array, then you get a nested enchantment. A basic array would just be (Create+Fire).

Something more complex would be (Sustain+((Create+Fire)+Self)||Vys), where || represents in the presence of, would be a nested enchantment. Designed to set the creator on fire when vys is channeled into the array. Self is the base rune in the inner circle. Create+Fire is a separate array within an outer circle connected to the inner by a broken line linked to the vys rune. Then Sustain is in a third tier affecting the entire enchantment.
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>>336807
>tfw we spend the entire session arguing about runes
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>>336808
This is why I avoid rune fags they spend too much fucking time on useless shit, and it doesnt ibtrest me so I just leave the thread for a few hours.
We literally wont get the kid vote in the thread at this rate.
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>>336807
Can we tack on a create contain soul enchantment, just for the sake of the children.
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>>336811
>useless shit
Enchanting is the most powerful force in reality. This shit is far from useless
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>>336819
Well second most powerful after Divine Magic.
Certainly most powerful that we have access to.
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>>336807
Here's an illustration of that array. Absolutely flawless as usual.

>>336815
Nah

>>336811
Anon we have 5-8 more hours, we're totally reaching the kid vote this thread.
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>>336807

Couldn't (Sustain+Mind) work similarly to ((Invert+Revert)+Mind) as far as our purposes go?
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>>336824
>we're totally reaching the kid vote this thread

just like we were totally reaching Elaudia last thread, right?
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>>336819
I meant in arguing over inane shit, and not enchanting it self.
To me it would have been better less complicated, and a bit more loose.
We spent more than hour on doing nothing and havnt even rolled or gotten the DC for this shit.
People used to bitch more loudly about reading or meditating since it was "boring and no interaction"(they dont anymore since its so rare these days to do either), but to me this screams that.
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>>336824
Just give us the rolls and write. Writing slave.
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>>336827
Nope.
I'm not wholly certain what sustain+mind might do. Perhaps it would allow you to resist falling unconscious or otherwise prevent interruptions to thought. Though, that seems more like the domain of Reinforce+Mind. I'd need to think about it.

(Invert+Revert)+Mind is basically going to provide a bonus to Nature Magic and a few other things.
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WTF can we just do something already?
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>>336836
Where do you think you are? Give it a few more hours
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>>336824
Soma you cunt why isn't the irc working
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>Anons blamed the irc for Soma's slowness
>Soma mutes the irc and leaves
>Anons blame enchanting for Soma's slowness
I think we really need to address the core of the issue, which is Soma's tendency towards autistic pedophilia
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>>336845
>blamed the irc for Soma's slowness
>people actually believed this
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>>336845
No this is why I avoid enchanting the last few times it was done, always took an hour or two.
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>>336845
That is the true reason why soma is slow
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>>336850
everything takes a few horus
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>>336853
We would have gotten a story post and a vote done by now, but we have yet to even get the DC here, and Soma hasn't even written yet.
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>>336856
hownew.ru
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>>336856
Lolno

Soma would still be "writing" for another hour or two.
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This is all assuming we succeed I might be a bit annoyed about this taking so long,but it would be worth it if mik failed since than I could laugh my ass off.
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>>336863
>not trusting Chryssa to provide enough bonuses to get it done

It's like you don't even acknowledge she's best girl.
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>implying Soma isn't being distracted by the IRC right now
You actually believed him?
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>>336862
>>336859
Second or third thread mate.
But yeah Soma wont take 100+ min of not writing he would atleast post sone updates along the way or make an excuse for being late.
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>>336867
>No timestamp
>implying
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>>336871
Oh jeeze. sweet naive child.

We've had to wait over 200 minutes for updates before. And not even very large ones.

We've had multiples time where between soma getting distracted shitposting on /pol/ or looking at latin literature where we've only had 3 story postes in the thread.
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>Implying I'm in the IRC right now
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>>336880
>Door synonyms
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>>336880
>door snyonyms
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>>336880
just unmute it you kike
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>>336880
hahahaha i've always loved those tabs people spring up for screenies
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>>336880
http://exhentai.org/g/950611/eb5ee4e7af/
for all to enjoy
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>>336880
>revamping enchanting again
That doujin better not be shit Soma
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>>336880
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWUywPwmidY
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>>336890
ghost pedophillia
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>>336880
sure you aren't
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>>336893
Approved.
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>>336824
>we have 5-8 more hours
That's like...maybe enough time for two or three posts including this enchantment, the rolling and the outcome bruh

Seems p optimistic that we'll be voting on the kid today
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>>336889
breddy gud, i demand more
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>>336901
>he went to the wrong channel
snowniggers go and stay go
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>>336906
http://exhentai.org/g/702213/046ba39b62/
more ghost loli
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>>336910
>incest

im not soma, you know?
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>>336916
Shit taste desu senpai
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>>336929
http://exhentai.org/g/888982/02ebb439d0/
http://exhentai.org/g/908378/b8257eec16/
even more ghost loli
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>>336244
I joined in the first thread but I don't think I actually voted in a thread for a while.
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Post fucking never.
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You're reminded of that enormous tusk sitting in your cloak, the entire reason you journeyed into Mahana's realm and fought off an invasion by a ancient spirit of the sea in the first place. It would seem like a waste to not do something with it, even if you would like to begin making progress on that Ninth Barrier text you've told Profectus you intend to read prior to his attempt to achieve Grandmastery of Fire magic. You'll have time to read later, though. You hardly ever do anything with enchanting, and hearing of Master Karim's efforts to fortify the city and experiment with the runes you've taught him has made you realize that fact.

That in mind, you tuck the leather bound tome that is the Shaping Arts into your cloak and rise to your feet. It's a short walk up the stairs to your suite of rooms, which you find largely untouched since your foray into Mahana's realm. Focusing your thoughts, you urge Ricky to extend a few inches of the tusk from the surface of your cloak. He's quick to comply, and you focus your will into a thin blade of corrosive vys using what you know of Earth magic.

Unfortunately, after several minutes of effort you've only succeeded in carving the slightest of gashes upon the ivory's smooth surface. Frustrated by this lack of progress, you reach out via the communication brooch to the only person in the party with what you believe is a solid enough grasp of Earth magic to successfully carve out the ring you desire. Chryssa's thoughts are a low hum of activity, focused as they are upon some task. However, they still upon your intrusion. {I'm having some trouble carving off a chunk of the Boar spirit's tusk, do you think you could give it a shot?}

{I will be there shortly, I need only to finish my task here and then I will join you.} Is all she offers by way of response. True to her word, there's a knock upon your door only a few minutes later and Chryssa enters your room holding a half-eaten lamb skewer.

You've spent what little time you had prior to her arrival sketching out the idea you had for the enchantment upon a piece of paper. The central rune will be mind, and connecting to this base rune will be a separate array composed of two runes you haven't yet had the chance to try actually enchanting with. Invert and revert, which you think once combined should translate to something like refine, improve, or develop. All in all, it's a fairly simple array to sketch out. Hopefully this should make you more capable as a Nature vatis, and perhaps provide other less tangible benefits besides.

Chryssa finishes chewing her bite of lamb before posing the question you've been waiting for her to ask. “So what is it that you require of me, precisely?”

(1/3)
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The boar's tusk emerges unbidden from the confines of your cloak, sliding out underneath your right arm. “I just need you to carve out a ring, sized to fit my finger, from the Boar Spirit's tusk. Then, if you're willing, there's a runic array I'd like you to carve upon its surface. After that I should be able to carry out the rest of the process on my own.”

Chryssa does not so much as gesture, nor blink. Yet a perfectly round ivory ring drops from within the core of the boar's tusk. It seemed like she barely required any focus at all to accomplish a task you'd spent nearly a half hour struggling with. Plucking up the little circlet of ivory, you slide it over your right ring finger and find it fits your finger comfortably, and doesn't come flying off when you shake your hand. That's good enough for you.

“Now, for the runic array.” The tusk recedes into your cloak as you collect the parchment upon which you've sketched out the array. “If the array isn't exact in every detail, then problems may arise in my attempts to finalize it. Thus, I'd ask that you exercise extreme care in carving the ring.”

She plucks the paper from your hands and examines it for a moment, nodding brusquely. “This does not seem excessively complex. Where would you like it carved upon the ring? Any preference regarding how I decorate its surface beyond the array itself?”

You hadn't given it much thought. “I'll leave any sort of extra decoration in your hands. As for placement of the array, how about at the very top of the ring?.” That reminds you, actually. “Before I forget, draw another rune upon the inside of the band, opposite the runic array at the top.” Using excess ink upon the page and just a touch of water magic, you draw a separate array containing only the Reinforce rune. “That should prevent the ring from breaking, though considering the material it's made of I don't think that's any great concern.”

She nods, and this time actually seems to focus upon the task you've given her. The larger runic array carves itself rapidly upon the top of the ring where it sits on your finger. The rest of the ring is soon covered in a pattern roughly resembling scales, fanning out from the untouched circle in which the array sits. The inside of the ring is not carved in this manner, though at the very bottom you feel the smooth indent of the reinforce rune pressed against the underside of your finger.

(2/3)
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“I thought about leaving my mark upon the ring, but decided that probably wasn't appropriate.” She professes, taking another bite of lamb. “I went with dragon scales instead, I thought you might appreciate the symbolism. If I knew what the runes actually meant I might have been able to concoct something a little more creative, but the ring as it is now seems sufficient. Is there anything else you have to ask of me?”

Running your finger over the design upon the ring, you find that it's nearly indistinguishable from the fines scales which cover the surface of Zahak's wings. “No, that's all I had to ask of you. Fine work, Chryssa. You have my thanks.” You don't bother to wait for her response, focusing your thoughts upon your tower within Mahana's realm and channeling vys into the amulet hanging from your neck. Suddenly you no longer stand within the suite of rooms within the Palace of Nazir. Instead you stand upon a platform rising from the endless sea, your tower of black and gold stretching endlessly towards the stars high above.

Finalizing the enchantment here should be much easier than finalizing the enchantment within the base reality. Plus, you have the sensory deprivation chamber in the workshop, though you're not sure if this little ring merits the use of such a device.

>Climb inside the tank in your workshop, you're curious to see what benefit it might offer.
>Just do it here, you don't want to waste any more time than is absolutely necessary.
>Write-in

The dialogue felt off in this post. I dunno.
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>>336953
>Just do it here, you don't want to waste any more time than is absolutely necessary.
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>>336953
>Climb inside the tank in your workshop, you're curious to see what benefit it might offer.
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>>336953
>Climb inside the tank in your workshop, you're curious to see what benefit it might offer.
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>>336953
>Just do it here, you don't want to waste any more time than is absolutely necessary.
The dialogue with our companions is usually weird desu
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>>336953
>Climb inside the tank in your workshop, you're curious to see what benefit it might offer.
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>>336953
>>Climb inside the tank in your workshop, you're curious to see what benefit it might offer.
We don't want to fail
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>>336953
>Climb inside the tank in your workshop, you're curious to see what benefit it might offer.
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>>336953

Couldn't we have just used the gauntlet instead of dragging Chrys into this?
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>>336953
>Climb inside the tank in your workshop, you're curious to see what benefit it might offer.
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>>336965
>>336961
>>336958
>>336956
>>336972
>>336980
>Use the tank

>>336955
>>336959
>Fuck it, we'll do it live!

>>336974
Yeah, that would have sufficed. But I wouldn't want to have Mik use the stone sleeve unless folks voted on doing so. What with the whole fact that it's slowly growing.

Gimme a sec to figure out modifiers.
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>>336981
>not railroading us into promoting it's growth
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>>336953
>>Climb inside the tank in your workshop, you're curious to see what benefit it might offer.
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ROOOOOOOLL ME 3d10+30 (+10 from Sensory Deprivation, +8 from Personal Realm, +6 from Insanity, +4 from A Terrible Thing to Waste, +2 from Enchanter) vs DC 35 (Base DC 35)

Is it safe to take tylenol with alcohol? Well, whatever. Should be a pretty easy DC to beat.
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Rolled 8, 3, 8 + 30 = 49 (3d10 + 30)

>>336997
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Rolled 5, 6, 3 = 14 (3d10)

>>336997
That's a big bonus.
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Rolled 1, 4, 4 + 30 = 39 (3d10 + 30)

>>336997
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MODS!!!!!!!
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>>337000
>>337001
>>337002
>49, 44, 39 vs DC 35
>Success!
Writin'
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>>337004
>Implying that the mods of /qst/ exist
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>>337008
>>337005
Soma, you should keep the IRC channel offline for a week to punish these autists
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>>337011
It's one gay, autistic, Swedish cuck desu. Just ignore the guy.
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>>337004
>>337011
>whining like a bitch
>even acknowledging it at all
You're only giving him what he desires. I am too by further discussing it, but you're still a little girl.

Besides, you should be fapping and celebrating the fact that mods don't exist on /qst/ anyway.
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>>337013
>tfw juden still exists
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>>337013
This is why Hitler tried to gas das juden
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>>337013
do /ban *!*@*.se in the irc to permaban all swedish ips
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>>337016
>>337017
Clearly he needs to get into the oven.
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>>337013
happy 4th of july fag
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>>337015
>tfw /sp/artan
>tfw not used to boards that aren't heavily modded
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Did a mod just put Juden in the oven?
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>>337034
Yep ^_^
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Mods = Gods. Banning the entirety of Sweden when?
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>>337036
Maybe Sweden will stop being cucked sometime this century.
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>>337034
nah, the mod showed up a minute or two after i decided to stop posting
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So because of our +30 bonus >>336997, we have an effective dc of 10 on enchanting rolls for nested enchantments, the most difficult type. That means we can basically enchant anything we want so long as we know the runic array. Nothing is outside our ability. So long as we copy the runes exactly, we could easily duplicate the enchantment of our sanity ring, Zahak's saddle, or mahana's teleportation coin.
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>>337071
We should make an elevator, maybe even a horizontal elevator
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>>337071
wasn't there a post about not being able to finalise enchantments that have runes we don't know (in order to prevent us mass duplicating enchants) also we'd probably need to beat a dc to see how the runes of the enchant worked in tandem etc. so it wouldn't be that easy
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>>337087
Actually our personal realm should be able to help us learn runes.
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>>337089
>wasting time learning runes
>when the cat can give us all we need
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The doors to your tower open as you approach, permitting you entry into the long hallway beyond. Perhaps you should add some traps, or other defensive features to the hallway? It's intended as a choke point of sorts where you might fight off an eventual spirit invasion without needing to worry about being overwhelmed. Perhaps a portcullis or some sort of triggered spike trap wouldn't go amiss.

Emerging into the sitting room, you turn sharply left towards the workshop. Within you find the room much as you left it, though the tools Fulvia was using have since been put back in their proper place. The pool of blue 'blood', if you can really call it that, has likewise been cleaned up. However, your attention is focused upon the domed hatch at the center of the room. Opening the hatch with little beyond some minor exertion of will reveals within the same pool of inky black liquid you saw within upon first inspecting the room.

Unsure of what exactly the protocol is here, you strip off your clothes and leave them folded neatly upon one of the workbenches. Left with nothing but the unenchanted ring upon your finger, you slide into the steel tank and the hatch shuts itself firmly behind you. Panic grips you briefly as the grinding of the wheel locking the hatch shut echoes in the pitch black of the chamber, but soon you're left in perfect silence. The liquid which fills the sensory deprivation tank is buoyant enough that you float easily on its surface, but you can't actually feel the liquid you're floating in. It's like you're suspended in mid air.

The fluid plays hell with your sense of direction and gravity, but the pitch dark is even worse. Even in the void there's some unidentifiable light, something to allow you to see by. Here there's nothing. You honestly can't tell if your eyes are open or closed. You think they're closed, but that may just be your mind filling in the blanks. Your will focuses upon channeling vys into the ring, and though you don't see the dim illumination of the glowing runes you feel it grow hot against your skin.

You enter a trance without even really consciously attempting to. It just sort of happens naturally as a result of your disorientation. You don't realize what's happened until the world becomes violently, brilliantly white. There is no ebb and flow of vys in this place, just an overwhelming saturation. However, this soon fades away once more to reveal only the endless void. This reality is populated by but a single soul, that being your own. It's a dim, flickering flame in an otherwise empty void. Its golden surface gleams metallically as you examine its flawless surface, so much more compact than the souls of your companions.

(1/3)
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>>337091
>Putting shrines down
>In the jungle
The cat doesn't want to get involved in that mess right now.
Also the runes he gives are not that useful.
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However, this too fades. Only to be replaced by the infinite network of interwoven strands which add definition, purpose, and meaning to this fabrication you call reality. The threads themselves are even more tightly defined than they usually are, every knot and every contortion is perceptible to your third eye no matter how slight these deviations from unerring, flawless linearity they might be. Those threads which define the ring upon your finger are easily plucked from the mass, their purpose as plain to you as writing upon a page. You focus your thoughts on this small collection of golden thread, and with absolute certainty cut away the relevant segments from the whole. One defining the ivory's immense strength, the other the ivory's nature.

From the runes upon the ring spring two separate runic arrays, quickly bent into two lengths of soft, golden thread which you insert in place of the sections you've removed. The threads snap back into place willingly, having remained in place rather than flying away to the far corners of creation the moment they were severed. You feel your thoughts grow sharper, and your understanding of the threads more innate. The fluid you drift atop, you realize, is defined by its lack of definition. The chamber, in contrast, is characterized by its immense density.
>Congratulations! You've gained the Ring of Acumen (+6 to Nature Magic, +4 to Finalization, +2 to Meditation)
>It's a working title.

The strings of reality fade, and though you remain within the ostensibly endless void you're quick to realize that you've awoken from your meditative trance. The grinding of the lock pounds through the chamber, eliciting a wince which is only further intensified by the sudden blinding light of the workshop. You have to raise an arm to shield yourself from the brightness of the light. Struggling out of the chamber, you find that the inky liquid does not cling to your form as you might expect, merely rolling off your body and quickly retreating back into the chamber of its own volition. That would probably concern you if you didn't realize it was responding to your subconscious desires.

You examine the ring as you finish pulling your clothes back on, twisting it lightly around your finger. You don't feel vastly different, though your thoughts do come a little faster than they once did. Likewise everything seems so much clearer and well defined, answers to questions more obvious and solutions more forthcoming. How this will affect your life more broadly, you suppose you'll have to wait and see.

Returning to your rooms within the palace of Nazir requires only the briefest exertion of will. Once more you stand before your wooden door, Chryssa apparently having closed it on her way out. You're unsure of precisely how much time has passed, but can only assume that it's been at least an hour or two.

(2/3)
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>>337094
>Its golden surface gleams metallically as you examine its flawless surface, so much more compact than the souls of your companions.

I wonder if there's a crazy enchanter lady out there that's sexually attracted to sleek souls like Mik's.
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Alone in your room, and finally free of distractions, your thoughts twist towards Vicitra. You've been thinking about him often over the course of the last few days, and with the approach of your journey to Majhaya you come upon the point of no return. Once you walk through that portal, you'll have no further opportunity to change your mind. Your enhanced intuition informs you that killing him would probably make your life vastly easier going forward, based solely upon what you've learned from the Paramatma and the the Emissary himself. However, the idea of bowing to what is essentially an attempt to blackmail you into murdering two people whom you barely know still sits ill with your conscience.

>FINAL DESTINATION
>Quote and number only.
>Five minutes.
>No new IPs.
VOTE
1
To decide on killing Vicitra as quickly and painlessly as possible, bowing to the spirit's coercion.

VOTE
2
To stick with your previous decision and spare Vicitra, accepting the consequences which will surely follow.
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
2
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
2
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>>337102
2
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>>337102
2
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
2
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>>337102
2
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
Meant to say 2.

Ignore >>337103
Use >>337109 instead
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
2
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>>337102
2
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
2
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You know if 2 wins I'm kind of looking forward to seeing the party die.
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>>337102
2
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
2
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>>337102
1
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>>337125
>(1)
Faggot.
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>>337102
1
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>>337127
:^)
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>>337102
1
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>>337127
>waaaaaaaaaaaa you guys are dumb
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THE MOST CONTENTIOUS FINAL DESTINATION VOTE EVER.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE A DICK!?
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>>337139
>>337133
Illegal votes, try again niggas
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>>337102
1
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>>337141
to be or not to be a cuck*
fixed that for you
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>>337102
1
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>>337142
Don't forget this faggot.
>>337135
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Should we have a vote on whether we should kill him immediately or just when we decide to kill elaudian mik?
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
1
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>>337102
1
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>>337116
>>337119
>>337132
>>337151
>>337153
Don't count
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>>337146
One of the options leads to the Gods cucking us.
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>>337102
>only just saw post on twitter
>come in
>see I missed the vote by ten minutes
Time to mcfucking kill myself.
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>>337148
Nah, that's just standard shitposting protocol
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>>337155
why not
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>>337104
>>337106
>>337111
>>337112
>>337116
>>337117
>>337118
>>337119
>>337121
>>337124
>>337130
>1

>>337105
>>337108
>>337109
>>337110
>>337114
>>337115
>>337122
>>337123
>>337128
>2

>>337130
Last valid vote.

Looks like 1 takes it. Killing Vicitra it is.
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>>337099
>>Congratulations! You've gained the Ring of Acumen (+6 to Nature Magic, +4 to Finalization, +2 to Meditation)
Neat. Hey Soma show this ring to our companions.
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>>337102
1
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>>337102

>>337123 was second. Count it rather than >>337106.
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>>337158
Whoops I didn't realize I linked the wrong guy.
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>>337161
Thank god I would have voted 1 if i could
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>>337161

We have kill people for less haven't we?
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>>337161
Hey fag. >>337119 doesnt count
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Fuck I missed the vote
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Now we can move on to adventure and more contract killing.
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>>337161
>>337165
>>337169
learn to count faggot
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>>337161
Don't count:
>>337123
>>337119
>>337116
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>>337176
1 still wins by 1 anyways.
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>>337169
Why not?
The time limit lasted until 22:19:12, this vote >>337119 came in at 22:12:19 and isn't from a new IP. So far as I can tell. I don't have the little (1XX) next to the timestamp which marks a new post.

>>337125
This vote is invalid though.
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>>337176
That doesn't change anything though.
1 still wins.
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>>337178
Nah, see

>>337103
>>337120

2 wins
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>>337179
It says "1 post by this ID"
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>>337179
>counting by (###) next to the timestamp
This is our QM ladies and gents.

Ctrl+F his ID you potato.
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>>337179
holy shit Soma. how about checking how many posts that ID has
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>>337182
Actually
>>337176
This implies you're wrong.
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>>337179
I'm with the folks watching fireworks. I think the system gave me a new ID. I posted >>336980 Sorry for the late response. Was cutting watermelon.
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>>337179
Both a8o/gUni and B891nr3X are votes for 1 with only 1 post that you counted. I canceled my vote for 1. You didn't count the vote by 5kTXPPQC for 2 in the first place so it doesn't matter.
Reduce the count for Vicitra by 3. Sparing wins 9-8
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>>337194
>No new IPs.
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>>337194
You're the faggot with the airplane mode
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>>337198
Oh shit I'm stupid. Discount >>337176. Cancel my vote >>337106
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>Missed the thread and the vote

Not that it matters, since this is a new ip.
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>>337194
sorry but I'm not sure Soma should count it. I mean sure you've got a second post but it's after the vote
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>Nothin personel...kid
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>>337104
>>337111
>>337112
>>337117
>>337124
>>337130
>1

>>337105
>>337108
>>337109
>>337110
>>337114
>>337122
>>337123
>>337128
>2

Wait, I fucked up. Last valid post time was at 22:14:12, not 19:12. Got right in my first count but fucked up in the telling, I guess.

Weird, usually my little IP counter is pretty good about catching the first post folks make in a thread. That's odd. Anyway, recounted only using those IPs which have posted previously in the thread. And it looks like 2 wins 8 votes to 6.
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>>337211
Ugh disgusting
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>>337211
Get fucked, edgelords.
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>>337211
TPK incoming get hype
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>>337211

What the fuck? I have posted several times.
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>>337211
Glad it all worked out.
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>>337211
>anti god edgelords wins the vote.

Wew
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>>337211
This was the messiest vote yet. How many lurker didn't get to vote?
>>337214
Bet you love dead party members.
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>>337217
>>337214
I don't understand why you people want to keep him alive we brought him back to see if we could why keep him alive and put ourselves at more risk?
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>>337216
Yeah, you have. But hoverin' over your name didn't say "Not the first post from this IP".
God damn it, give me a second here.
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>>337220
>>337222
Lmao keep crying kiddies. >>>/b/ is that way.
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>>337222
Because they want to see Mik getting killed by his own hubris which desu is a good end.
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>>337222
It's not about killing the kid or not. It's about giving in to the demands of the emissary.
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Mik's the type of guy to make everything except magic advancement in his life easy, to vote 'don't kill the kid' because >muh independance is fucking retarded. Mik looking over his shoulder, failing more rolls and having battles with spirits sent by cosmic bureaucracy is doing what they want, but not what they asked (making their job easier by killing ourselves instead of making it easier by killing a literal experiment and some random cunt).
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>>337225
Thats not an answer why keep this shell of a being alive and make our journey into the place no one returns from 10x more difficult?

>>337227
Oh yes fight the power and get killed for being a moron great plan
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>>337228
>Mik's the type of guy to make everything except magic advancement in his life easy
Nice headcanon
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>>337222
Because I don't want to kill a kid for no reason other than potential danger in the future. Mik wouldn't kill someone in cold blood for the sole purpose of making his life easier (if you think this is not the case, please provide examples of Mik being willing to do this with links to archive posts). Plus we haven't even decided whether we'll kill Elaudia Mik anyways.
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>>337233
Remember when we killed a guy just because the headmaster in Anthus asked? Or the adventurers during our first dungeon crawling?
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>>337233
If anything, depending on our meeting with him I expect we'll recruit him into our band.
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>>337224
Jesus christ Soma just use 4chan's built in "number of posts by this id" function. If you click the id it highlights all posts by it and says how many there have been. You can look and see if something has only one.
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>>337099
>Ring of Acumen (+6 to Nature Magic, +4 to Finalization, +2 to Meditation)

We have made something pretty cool. I feel like this is something we should make another for our master. At least let him know how to make one for himself.
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>>337235
Mikhael is an ally of justice, those were all bad people desu
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>>337232
Except that's pretty accurate.
>>337233
>Mik wouldn't kill someone in cold blood for the sole purpose of making his life easier
So you completely miss the point of party member safety.
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now it begins
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>>337104
>>337111
>>337112
>>337117
>>337124
>>337130
>>337118
>1

>>337105
>>337108
>>337109
>>337110
>>337114
>>337115
>>337122
>>337123
>>337128
>2

Okay, I think this is the final count. 9 to 7. Functionally the same, but that should have fixed that little glitch where a few people with previous post weren't showing up as having those post from just hovering over their IDs.

>>337238
I don't use the built in 4chan extension, I use 4chan X.
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>>337242
>pretty accurate
To your headcanon, yeah.
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>>337240

That's bullshit, headmaster in Anthus while a bro is also shady as fuck. Just like his request of kill that guy.
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>>337247
>that guy
Was with a prostitute. Which makes him evil.

Thus, Mikhael is good.
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>>337240
Not really. He kills good people just by existing
>>337246
Compared to your headcanon over here >>337240
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>>337242
>muh party member safety
We can take care of our party members. Maybe if they end up dying to some encounter I'll reconsider, but I'm pretty sure we can handle what the jungle throws at us without anyone dying. We are GM metal and water and we have a get out of jail free button in the form of at will teleportation to our magical realm. Not killing Vicitra doesn't flip a switch that kills our companions, just makes traveling harder. We can handle the difficulty and if you don't think so, what quest have you been reading?
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>>337251
But Anon, Mikhael's slept with prostitutes too.
That guy was planning a hostile takeover of Anthus though, with an army of bandits and Aghtaki at his back. Which probably would have entailed quite a lot of rape and pillage.
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>>337251
the boy was rolling around with some slave, if Mik killed him, Mik would continue to be good.
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>>337251
>Sleeping with a prostitute make you evil

Explain your reasoning.
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how does "ring of higher thought" sound?
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>>337255
Seems like is the bad guy like always.
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>>337254
See, I was right.

Also Mikhael did that ages ago, he's since made up for it by killing that guy and the pirate king and all those void monsters and so on.

>>337255
Okay but she wasn't some slut selling her body so it's fine.
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Welp, that's that. The votes is over and we have to live with the consequences now. Arguing about the past and Mik's actions won't do anything constructive. We have to, more than anytime than ever, git gud.

To start off, we should complete the last pieces of the Avatar Project, such as creating Suryan Firebrands (Fire + (Invert+Revert) and getting Prof and Darzi to Mastery in Nature. This will increase our party's combative abilities greatly. Then there is the matter of increasing Fulvia's capacities. I'll leave the floor open for any ideas on how to do that.
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>>337253
Admit you want to see the quest end.
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>>337258
It's disgusting of a woman to take advantage of men's lusts, and disgusting of a man to take advantage of a woman's stupidity.
>>337252
>Not really. He kills good people just by existing
Nah not really desu
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>>337266
>Nah not really desu
Well I mean, he indirectly caused the death of a few hundred to a thousand people in Khmedi. A few more thousand in the siege of Anthus, a city of nearly forty thousand people. Plus, he caused a few hundred deaths when he permitted Skull Kid to detonate those explosives at the top of the tower while still in Namek. There's also the various other traders and sailors killed in dragon attacks, numbering somewhere between fifty and a hundred. Then there are all those displaced refugees he's indirectly created...
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>>337266
>It's disgusting of a woman to take advantage of men's lusts, and disgusting of a man to take advantage of a woman's stupidity.
Samjan society doesn't work like that.
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>>337269
Mik's death toll is probably around 5,000 people. Give or take a few hundred in either direction.
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>>337269
>killing criminal scum and people living with criminal scum is a bad thing
ayyyyyy
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>>337269
>he indirectly caused the death of a few hundred to a thousand people in Khmedi
Was an accident, doesn't count. Also they were humans.
>siege of Anthus
Same. And mostly humans, again.
>Namek
Also humans, and they were from another dimension. Doesn't count.
>There's also the various other traders and sailors killed in dragon attacks
Not our fault desu, they should have been good enough to fight them off.
>all those displaced refugees he's indirectly created
So? They're not dead, so we didn't do anything wrong.
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>>337271
what about all the people he killed in that battle or just combat in general?
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>>337266
How it it disgusting when both have consented. Exchanging money for sex doesn't make it suddenly bad.
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>>337279
>Exchanging money for sex doesn't make it suddenly bad
It does. Read the bible some time.
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>>337271
>Mik's death toll is probably around 5,000 people

>people

Most of those were humans, they don't really count
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>>337281
>reading fiction books
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>>337272
I'd actually completely forgotten the pirate island. That's another few hundred.

>>337275
I haven't really kept a running tally. A few dozen bandits, a gargoyle, a shit ton of mostly nonsentient monsters, an AI and various other constructs.
Mik personally in terms of violence could probably make it onto a Saturday morning cartoon. Nothing too drastic. It's mostly the consequences of his actions which cause pain and suffering for untold masses of otherwise innocent civilians.

Like, at this point Mik has caused more deaths than all but the deadliest of hurricanes and other similar natural disasters.

>>337283
Sorry, I misspoke.
>Sentient creatures.
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>>337285
Lmao another edgelord. Back to >>>/b/ my friend.
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>>337283
This.
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>>337279
He thinks like a humie
>>337281
>Bible
Look at the infidel that wondered in here.
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>>337286
>innocent civilians
>>>>innocent
Nice headcanon.
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>>337286
>Humans
>Sentient creatures
I mean sure, if you count a degenerate dog sentient.
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>>337292
You really can't help shitposting.
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All this salt is more interesting to read than story posts because nothing is happening and salty anons aren't that fun to rile up because everyone knows bq anons who actually give a shit about what happens to mik out themselves as new to the quest simply by virtue of trying to convince people to side with them instead of pointlessly shitposting

Step up your game, soma sempai
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>>337281
>letting storybooks dictate your morals
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Soma is a hack if he doesn't kill at least 2 of our companions on this journey. The jungle is supposed to be deadly as fuck as we just made it harder.
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>>337299
E
D
G
Y
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>>337302
I'm expect Zahak to die.
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>>337303
Not an argument
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>>337302
But anon we already know he's a hack

At least he hasn't gone full SM and retconned + manipulated his player base into voting themselves 100% onto the railroad
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>>337296
It's not shitposting if it's true. baka

>>337306
Neither was your post. Calling it a ""storybook"" doesn't invalidate hundreds of years of factual history.
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Who feels read for the comedy to turn into a tragedy?
>>337308
When are you going to start telling the truth?
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>>337311
I've never told a lie in my life.
Like Mikhael, I am a man of impeccable moral character.
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>>337304
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>>337245

Fuck,I just double check every vote and that count is right. Hate to admit, but by the rules the 2 takes fair and square.
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>>337269
Forgot blowing up the island and creating a hole for the void to seep in.
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>>337313
Look more lies. Now tell me are you going to get Tim off your crotch?
>>337315
We are bring one of the worlds greatest material for enchanting into the jungle where morals are thrown out the window. What do you expect to happen?
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>>337308
The bible says its ok kill children if they call you bald by curseing them to be mauled by bears.

>letting others dictate your morals.
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>>337326
>The bible says its ok kill children if they call you bald by curseing them to be mauled by bears.
So then it's okay to kill children if they call you bald by cursing them to be mauled by bears.

What's your point, here?
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>>337304
Not if we take the proper precautions. The other Nat3 traits that were suggested had negative modifier roughly in the 6-10 range for future interactions and physical training, lasting for 8-10 threads. Considering that this trait is the result of our previous actions in resurrecting Vic, I would say that the worst case scenario will impose negative modifiers of possibly 12-20. We can prepare for this. The Avatar Technique turns an above average, but surely nothing special combatant like Darzi into an Elder Dragon tier combatant. If we are able to get Prof and ourselves and Chryssa to be able to deploy it, we'll be an extremely formidable force. If we create Husk Batteries and Generators, possibly by using Mahana's favor to incorporate less sentient Shards, we'll be able to deploy massive amounts of firepower at will, in the scale of dozens of manpower units.
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>>337326
The bible's all just metaphor and the old testament doesn't count, Anon.
Unless you're one of them filthy Protestants, in which case you're burnin' in hell anyway.
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>>337330
It would be closer to 18-30. This trait also replaced Chryssa's nat 3 trait.
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>>337331
>The bible's all just metaphor and the old testament doesn't count
Just a prank, bro: The book.
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>>337329
>kill children because they called you bald
>you see nothing wrong with this.
Your sandkike book is not a very good moral guide obviously.

>>337331
Fuck you faggot. Your next post when.
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>>337336
>Your sandkike book is not a very good moral guide obviously.
Keep fucking those whores, kid. Hope your dick rots off.
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>>337333
18-30 is still within our abilities to handle. We must be extremely vigilant in our tactics however. Remember, what Soma suggests as initial combative options is not always the best plan, and many of them might be anticipated by our foes. Furthermore, as we will be combating spirits, Vys and Spending will become every more important mechanics. We must immediately make every effort to increase our spending power and Vys pool. I have a feeling that the Cloak, as an antimagic device, will become even more important.
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>tfw the playerbase made an incredibly stupic decision while you were away
why do I even bother with this quest
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>>337336
>Your sandkike book is not a very good moral guide obviously.
Then why are you in a quest about a sandkike nigger elf? Why are you even following about a sandkike?
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>>337336
>a very good moral guide
Out of curiosity, though, what's yours? Richard Dawkins' Twitter? Freedomain Radio?

Or do you just do whatever you want, because you're so cool, edgy and more intelligent than the rest of us "sheeple"? Grow up.
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>>337345
The wording of Soma's post describing it is such:

>You're about to be going into an area of the world so saturated with magic, spiritual influence, and divine essence that people believe it's the place where a god died. Not a powerful spirit, not an exceptional Vatis, a literal god. One of the creators of the universe. It's a place where mutants run rampant and where the predominant religion is worship of individual spirits. Where sectarian violence is a way of life. Now, add into this chaotic environment the presence of a creature which claims to represent the Gods, tracking a strange foreigner with no prior attachments. Don't you think the locals, and the 'gods' they worship, would take an interest in such a creature? I'm steering this towards politicking, not inevitable demise.

>All that aside, this trait isn't even going to have any mechanical malus. I honestly consider this going easy on you.

We'll have more enemies and entities moving against us. If we play it smart, this might open opportunities as well. It's certainly exposed us to the existence of someone who might be our most powerful ally yet.
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>>337341
Fun fact Elaudia is not about combat.
It's about deception.
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>>337356
Speak softly, carry a big stick. If our frontline combatants Chryssa, Darzi, and Prof aren't at least Elder Dragon tier, we'll be pushed around.

The Inversion Ring also had another component; (Reinforce+Mind+Large).
Crafted once more upon Spirit Ivory, it'll be a useful precaution for our party to have to defend against mental manipulation.
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>>337354
Confirmed the dead god's mansion lies in euladia
Also I'm late to the vote but yeah shit we should kill the kid
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>>337362
You and thirty other people.
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You dismiss the idea of killing Vicitra, deciding ultimately that you will not bow to the will of the gods even if resisting them puts not only you, but your companions and your son at risk. It is a matter of principle. You are not a slave, you will not simply do the bidding of some foreign creature because it demands you do so. You could not give less of a shit about Vicitra himself, you've barely interacted with the boy since reviving him. Nor does the idea of acting as an assassin particularly bother you. The Gods surely know it would not be the first time you've acted on their behalf and on the behalf of others.

No, it is purely your own stubborn pride, and the firm conviction that you will not serve any interest save your own, that ultimately leads you to stick with your previous decision. Vicitra will live a long, prosperous life if you have any say in the matter. This decided, you reach out to your companions via the brooches. As your mind touches their own, you're able to quickly assess who is awake and who is not. You're surprised to find Profectus awake and apparently active at so early an hour. Darzi, Chryssa, and Zahak are similarly going about their morning routines. Only Mortia remains asleep, her mind untroubled and thoughts still.

Her peaceful rest is soon shattered by your thoughts roaring thunderously through her own. {In the name of all the Gods, Mortia. How long are you going to sleep?}

She flies into furious activity, you can only assume the shock that you've caused was immense. When finally she manages to calm herself enough to send a focused emanation through the network of the brooches, she's cursing you with words you don't actually understand, despite your rather masterful grasp of Rhynian. Only once she begins to calm down does she say something more reasonable. {I thought I was going to die! Don't ever do that again, or I swear by my namesake you'll choke to death on your own blood!}

{What can I say?} The rage she feels is palpable, boiling just under the surface. Though you do note that it's quickly settling into something more mild, minor annoyance at worst. {It's time for us to leave Nazir.} This you broadcast to the entirety of your party. {Meet me at the transport array beneath the city. We'll be leaving as soon as everyone has gathered there. Zahak, that includes you. I know it's a little awkward moving through the halls with how large you are. If you want help, Chryssa should be able to make things at least a little easier for you.}

You're met with a host of vague confirmations, more feeling than conscious thought. Mortia is the only one who doesn't actually respond, merely severing the connection. As you leave your room and begin to make your way down to the dungeons and the cave system beyond, Darzi's thoughts mingle pleasantly with your own. {Where were you last night? I stopped by your room, but it was empty.}
(1/2)
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Can someone tell me why the deadline for FD is only 5 minutes again? Samefagging is pretty much impossible because of IDs
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By her tone, she doesn't seem overly suspicious nor accusative. It's rather a genuine inquiry as to where you were, making no assumptions as to the answer. You suppose now is as good a time as any to reveal that Chryssa accidentally killed you, and you spent most of the early hours of the day desperately trying to recreate your body. However, it might be best to keep this a secret between you and Chryssa. You don't want to single out Chryssa nor inspire Darzi's wrath.

>No secrets within the party. Tell them that Chryssa accidentally killed you in a sparring match and you revived yourself.
>Best to just not mention it. Tell the party you journeyed to Mahana's realm and mention your new realm. Nothing more.
>Invent some fabricated story which maintains the mention of your death but leaves Chryssa out of it. (Write-in)
>Write-in
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>>337371
In this case doesn't actually matter.
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>>337372
>No secrets within the party. Tell them that Chryssa accidentally killed you in a sparring match and you revived yourself.
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>>337372
>>Best to just not mention it. Tell the party you journeyed to Mahana's realm and mention your new realm. Nothing more.
Show them our new ring.
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>>337371
You can't make two post with the exact same content within five minutes of one another.
I suppose it's mostly tradition at this point.
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>>337372
>>No secrets within the party. Tell them that Chryssa accidentally killed you in a sparring match and you revived yourself.
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>>337372
>No secrets within the party. Tell them that Chryssa accidentally killed you in a sparring match and you revived yourself.
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>>337372
>No secrets within the party. Tell them that Chryssa accidentally killed you in a sparring match and you revived yourself.
This is what I've been waiting for.
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>>337372
>No secrets within the party. Tell them that Chryssa accidentally killed you in a sparring match and you revived yourself.
just a tuesday
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>>337372
>>No secrets within the party. Tell them that Chryssa accidentally killed you in a sparring match and you revived yourself.
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>>337372
>no secrets, tell the truth. Honest mik is best mik
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>>337372
>No secrets within the party. Tell them that Chryssa accidentally killed you in a sparring match and you revived yourself and the Gods are very likely to fuck us over unless I some guy and Vic.
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>>337378
I know you can't it's just pointless now.
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>>337372
>No secrets within the party. Tell them that Chryssa accidentally killed you in a sparring match and you revived yourself.

Can we also mention that we've buried the hatchet with her thanks to our death? Seems very Mik-like to be blasé about death fixing all our interpersonal problems
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>>337388
*I kill
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>>337372
>No secrets within the party. Tell them that Chryssa accidentally killed you in a sparring match and you revived yourself.
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>>337372
>>No secrets within the party. Tell them that Chryssa accidentally killed you in a sparring match and you revived yourself.
continue to not give any fucks about having been killed and make sure to let them know that we've angered the gods, been advised on how to appease them, and decided against it because no one is the boss of us but us
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>>337352
>follow a book written by other fallible mortals. Follows it like a word of God
I am asking you to think for yourself and think why is it bad instead of just doing what a book tells you to. I am agnostic btw. My last reply on this because I am shitting up this thread with offtopic garbage.

>>337339
Different sandkike yo.
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>>337391
>>337372
Add the whole, "We good with Chryssa" thing to my vote here >>337380 too,
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>>337372
>Best to just not mention it. Tell the party you journeyed to Mahana's realm and mention your new realm. Nothing more.

what the fuck? do we absolutely need to share every detail of our lives with our party? is it even necessary for them to know?
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>>337372
Tell them that the gods want to kill us.
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>>337398
Sure I'd support that too
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>>337397
>I am agnostic btw
Oh wow. Okay, I'm sorry for taking you so seriously.
You were evidently dropped on your head as a child.
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>>337376
>>337380
>>337381
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>>337386
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>>337396
>Write a daring tell-all book.

>>337377
>>337399
>Pffft, nah man. I didn't die.

>>337402
>>337396
>Oh yeah, the gods wanna kill by the way.

Writin'
Mik will also mention that he and Chryssa are once again on good terms.
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>>337407
Are you going to tell them about the gods? What's the point of having the gods wanting to kill you if you aren't to brag about that?
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>>337399
Hey if we're not going to kill Vic we might as well tell them just so they can balk at our stupidity.
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>>337372
>No secrets within the party. Tell them that Chryssa accidentally killed you in a sparring match and you revived yourself.
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>>337409
That's like admitting you're not the chosen one.
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>>337413
Fine,we don't need to tell to the guys in the cult, just our companions.
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>>337415
Have you ever thought about the fact they would wonder why we're not under going the gate ritual? Dumbass.
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>>337416
>Implying we're not prepareing for it
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>>337416
So what? It'll be fun.
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>>337420
If the Gods hate us then we already failed it.
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In this addition of banished quest, we talked about runes, killing children, and sandkikes without any significant progression in the story.
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>>337429
Ooh but we got a ring!
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>>337428
>Implying they'll hate us forever
Everyone likes the underdog Anon.
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>>337420
How? We haven't even started on the first step yet (killing Vic).
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There is also some runes that have gone completely unappreciated, which we've yet to use.

-Conceal: This rune is primarily useful when it's affecting another rune. Conceal will render something imperceptible by mundane means. Even the extrasensory perception afforded to someone by Nature Magic are often insufficient to detect something concealed by an enchantment. However, 'Conceal' is countered by the rune 'Reveal'. Conceal is somewhat unique in that, when added to a runic array, it need not affect any other runes to function properly. When used as a base rune, Conceal affects whatever it is carved upon.

-Reveal: This rune is primarily useful when it's affecting another rune. Reveal has a number of economic uses in that when paired with the appropriate base runes it can detect ores, sources of fresh water, and even magical artifacts. It's also useful for detecting runic arrays or objects hidden via the 'Conceal' rune. Its effects when used as a base rune vary depending upon the level of reality one resides in. In Base Reality, it parts the veil between the mortal realm and the realm of spirits.

If the Elaudia is more about finesse and subtlety than the Dog eat Dog world of the Pa-Vala, they'll doubtless come in handy. Recall that the Warlock Armor and Heavy Warlock armor, when Vys is channeled into the helmet, imparts the same ability to view the realm of spirits.
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>>337432
Implying the only way to get back into the celestial bureaucracy's good graces is by killing him.

As Mik rises in power, new oportunities will present themselves.

Their are also likely to be lower tier spirits in the celestial order that could have tasks for us to regain our standing in the eyes of the gods. We've only talked to one spirit so far after all that represents the gods.
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>>337438
>As Mik rises in power, new oportunities will present themselves.
[citation needed]
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>>337431
Not Gods. Especially ones that have War, Justice, and Fire as their domains.
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>>337438
Supporting

But even so killing the lil shit will help right off the bat and is a guaranteed relations boost without any substantial risk
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>>337438
You clearly have no idea what Surya wants. He wants justice and our very action are unjust. What he wants is for us to correct our injustice.
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>>337442
>Implying Surya isn't Tsundere for the Mik.
Why do you think he want's Mik dead, he obviously want's to be reunited with an obviously Superior Divine Shard.
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>>337436
Thinking about it, we also have another unique opportunity to empower our companions.

>>>/tg/40805104
>"In very small amounts we have makar lea. A mix of the blood of trees with red cinnamon. Add ash, to darken. Add water, to make ink. Very bright pigment. Good for marking flesh or canvas. Ingredients rare, need certain type of tree and red cinnamon must be brought up from the earth. Tree only grows on the border of Elaudia and Pidjata, not in Elaudia and not in Pidjata.” Curious. So it's a type of tree sap mixed with cinnabar, or at least that's what you think she's referring to with that 'red cinnamon' part. You know the Rhynians used cinnabar to extract quicksilver. You wonder if that might have some sort of effect on the strength or effects of the enchantment in question? Quicksilver has always been said to hold magical properties, and according to a report you read in your Master's library it tends to absorb vys in vast quantities from its surroundings and store it indefinitely. This trait incidentally tends to make it quite toxic to non-Vatis.

If we find the necessary ingrediants that were used in our own Dragon tattoos, we might have everything we need to get some kickass tattoos for our companions.
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>>337449
No.
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>>337447
>Implying Saving your soldiers isn't good and just
Sure Anon, keep telling yourself that :^D
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>>337449
Yes.
To spite all IRCfags i'm going to vote enchantment route.
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>>337449
We should augment our current contain soul tattoos to contain our soul even more than before. Perhaps by simply modifying "contain" with "large". With Force of Will any impediments that might be added would be negated, while further defensive bonuses would be valuable against spirits and void entities, or if we ever decide to go visit Dhatu in the void.
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How does this quest not have fan art? Where da drawfags at?
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>>337449
You say that like we can't simple recreate the materials within our tower.
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>>337457
>a crime against Surya is the same as a crime against a nameless soldier.
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>>337407
Hey Soma is there anything potentially good from being enemies of the gods like opportunites to get stronger that we might have missed otherwise or is it a simple hard mode without anything good?
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>>337470
We get street cred with other maligned folks.
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>>337470
Think about it logically anon. Srsti, the goddess who was banished, as a God had children. Mortal worshipers. A bureaucracy of her own to run her whims in the mortal world. A servant of Pani and Dhatu and Surya, her killers? They wouldn't exactly be on the best terms. We can make something of this.
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>>337465
We get less loot and other such beneficial stuff.
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>>337472
Very difficult to gauge the use on that if it is true

Also 1k+bumps, new thread soon?
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>>337465
Exactly Anon
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>>337474
>forgetting to quote
Smh desu senpai
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>>337476
>new thread soon?
We're only on page 2 Anon.
We'll get two more sessions out of this thread, in all likelihood.
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>>337474
get back to writing you paddy cunt
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>>337473
That makes a lot of sense.

>>337474
This makes sense, right Soma?
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>>337473
>worshipping the banished god
>who Mik himself considers not worth worshipping.
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>>337479
He plans to refer all future questions to that post.
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>>337480
>2 sessions
Threads don't last 3 weeks Soma, even on a board this slow.
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>>337488
You'd be surprised.
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>>337485
We're not worshiping anyone. As an enemy of the those who "killed" Srsti however, we have common ground with what remains of her Children, if there are any, and her servants. We can use that.
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>>337477
>Exactly Anon
The fragment of fragment is almost worthless compared to one that is complete.
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>>337491
>a single mortal
>worth shit
We only have a fragment of fragment of fragment of fragment of divinity.
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>>337491
Why do you want make an enemy out of our entire race?
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>>337493
How do you even measure something which is Divine?
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>>337480
gotta love the new board. coming in handy
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>>337498
By how much divinity they have.
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>>337473
All about making enemies at the cosmic level.
I like it.
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>>337501
I wonder about that.
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>>337502
We've already made our enemies. Now it's time to find friends.
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1 more hour until post.
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You think you can trust your companions. They've been with you through thick and thin. Stayed by your side even when your decisions led them into danger or morally questionable circumstances. Surely they'll take the news of your death well. {Actually, there's a bit of a story to my whereabouts last night.}

You can feel the apprehension radiating from Darzi's thoughts, but you forge ahead. {So, there's something I ought to admit.} This you broadcast to all of your companions, though you get the impression Mortia would rather not hear from your right about now. {I died last night. Obviously I came back afterwards, but I was well and truly dead. Head smashed open, neck snapped, and spine severed. I was forced to, as a disembodied soul, create a new body based upon Chryssa's and reshape it in my image. Oh, and as Chrys can attest, she is the one that killed me. It was an accident, there's no hard feelings, in fact I'd say we're on better terms now than we were before my death.}

{Oh, and before I forget. Mahana granted me a corner of his realm to turn into a vast tower which I can access whenever I wish. I imagine we'll get quite a lot of use out of this little private realm. It can serve as a safe place to sleep, a place to recover from injuries, or just somewhere train for the challenges ahead. So, that's the good news. Bad news was that whole part about me dying, but really that's a minor inconvenience.}

Darzi is the first to break a growing silence. {Do you ever just go on a walk, or spend time with Zahak? You know, under circumstances that aren't immediately life threatening? Do you do anything that doesn't carry the threat of sudden, violent death? Because, it doesn't seem like you do. Every time you run off on your own it's something about meeting an ancient soul-stealing enchantress, or fighting off some invasion on the Cat spirit's behalf, or actually fucking dying and coming back to life.}

Though she tries to remain lighthearted throughout her little monologue the undercurrent of anxiety is fairly obvious. Especially now that the thoughts of others bear themselves to you with greater ease thanks to your new ring. {I don't set out to intentionally risk my life. It just sort of happens. Maybe I'm cursed by the Gods, doomed to an early demise thanks to some perceived rebellion against their hegemony over reality.}

{How could you have well and truly died, if you managed to come back to life?} Profectus ask, his confusion obvious. {If you had truly died, wouldn't that mean that your soul fled your body to join the ancestors, or whatever it is you people believe happens to your souls after death? I can't profess any true knowledge of samjan religious customs.}

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You could have sworn that you've explained this at some point to Profectus, but there's no real harm in explaining again. {We don't really practice ancestor worship. Rather, we believe that after death the soul is reincarnated in the body of another. Not necessarily another samja, incidentally. Animals, humans, elves, they're all possibilities. Anyway, my soul did flee my body. Recall though that I've managed to ascend beyond the need for a mortal form. I did tell you that, right? That I achieved a status akin to spirithood upon attaining grandmastery of Metal magic?}

{Yeah, I remember you explaining that.} Profectus admits, tone somewhat incredulous. {I just didn't think it would allow you to survive death. It's like...} he trails off, apparently at a loss for words. {I can't really describe it. Actually, now that I think about it, the experience you described having when you 'ascended' sounds pretty similar to what the author describes in Breaking the Ninth Barrier. Am I going to sprout horns too? I mean, I'd be okay with that, you pull 'em off pretty well, but I'd need to get a new helmet.}

Before you can answer, Fulvia cuts in. {The phenomena Dux Mikhael describes is not unheard of among the enchanters of Rhynia. They would create devices which, upon their death, would recreate their bodies and draw their soul back from the void using a copy of their shell. However, I have never heard of a man retaining the ability to act upon the world after death. Perhaps this is a result of his attaining the capacity for independent action outside of his physical body, but that alone would seem insufficient to survive the destruction of the body. I would conjecture that his markings likewise have something to do with the fact that he does not die when he is killed.}

{Look, we can discuss the fact that I'm alive later.} You interject before the conversation can steer itself any further off course. {For now, let's focus on getting out of Nazir. There's a long journey ahead of us and I'd like to get it started before the end of the day.}

Again, a vague sense of affirmation greets you. By this point, you've reached the dungeons and begun your descent towards the transport array below. You pass through the tepid baths and into the incense-filled chamber. Fulvia is there waiting for you, much to your surprise, and Chryssa is the next to arrive. She greets with a nod, and stands to your right side as the others slowly filter in. First Darzi, then Profectus. Mortia arrives, much to your surprise, some time before Chryssa and Zahak, the stone warping to accommodate your son. With everyone assembled, all that remains is to open the portal.

>Time to get the fuck outta here.
>Wait! You forgot something! (Write-in)
>Write-in
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>>337533
>>Time to get the fuck outta here.
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>>337533
>Time to get the fuck outta here.
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>>337533
>Time to get the fuck outta here.
Try and fail to not think about how good Fulvia giving you a handjob would feel.
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>>337533
>>Time to get the fuck outta here.
Show them our cool ring.
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>>337533
>Time to get the fuck outta here.
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>>337533
>>Time to get the fuck outta here.
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>>337533
>>Time to get the fuck outta here.
jungle time boys
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>>337533
>Time to get the fuck outta here
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>>337533
>>Time to get the fuck outta here.
I think this was longer than Namek.
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>>337533
>Wait! You forgot something! (Write-in)
Bring the kid with us as our apprentice. If we're not killing him we're teaching him.
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>>337533
>Time to get the fuck outta here.
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>>337548
>bringing an amateur with us to a death jungle
>good idea
Pick one
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>>337548
>>337533
Might as well.
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>>337553
We can leave him in our magical realm and make him spend the whole day gitting gud.
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>>337553
just make a new body for him and shove his soul back in, or do the same thing we did the first time we resurrected him.
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>>337533
>Time to get the fuck outta here.
>>337548
I'm voting against this.
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>>337533
>>Time to get the fuck outta here.
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>>337548
yea sure
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>>337533
Oh, and for fuck's sake, take off the ring. Sure, our sanity and mind is fortified as fuck and the ring is made of the least damaging material we could get, but for fuck's sake, it's still eroding our shell.
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>>337533
>>Wait! You forgot something! (Write-in)
>Bring the kid with us as our apprentice. If we're not killing him we're teaching him.

I'll second this.
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>>337548
>>337533
This is also immensely retarded. So I'm going to say I oppose this measure.
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>>337565
>>337533

Forgot to link my post here for bringing the kid along to train (and possibly use as bait, and then claim credit for him dying.)

Or I suppose we could send him to Anthus.
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>>337563

What are you talking about?
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>>337568
Why? We can keep the kid safe in the magical realm.
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>>337533
>Time to get the fuck outta here.


>>337548
Voting specifically against this. We've already voted that we're not killing the kid; bringing him along is basically sentencing him to death.
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>>337573
....why not have him become a disciple of Mahana?
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>>337571
The Ring of Acumen boosts the mind which places stress on the shell, causing Sanity damage. The rate on the original ring was 1 Sanity point a day assuming 24 hours of continual use/wearing. It's substantially less with Spirit Ivory, but it's still happening.
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>>337548
>wanting to kill him indirectly
I vote against this hare-brained scheme.
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>>337578
Because he isn't a worthy investment for Mahana yet.
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TIME TO GET DA FUG OUTTA DARE
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>>337581
>>337577

we can just fucking resurrect him again.
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>BRING VICKY
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>>337561
>>337559
>>337551
>>337547
>>337546
>>337545
>>337543
>>337542
>>337541
>>337539
>>337538
>>337537
>So long fuckers.

>>337548
>>337554
>>337562
>>337565
>Drag a horny teenager with no memory and few practical skills into the jungle of death.

Writin'.

Writin'!
About time y'all got creepin' on.
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>>337581
>>337577
>Not leaving him in the magical realm with some books for him to read and meditate
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oh shit hes running on the 4th

what is this fuckery
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>>337533
>>Wait! You forgot something! (Write-in)
put on the mask
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>>337589
>Writin'.
>Writin'!
This is what happens when you're four beers in.
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>>337589
I hope we're not bringing him with us.
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>>337594
Nah, Vicky is stayin' right where he is. For now.
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>>337578
>....why not have him become a disciple of Mahana?

Because right now, the only reason the cosmic bureaucracy aren't hunting him down is because he's set to live and die normally without having any major effect on the world. If he were to become more than just a regular person (such as becoming a disciple of an expansionist spirit blitzkrieging across the continent), he'd be targeted for death.
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>>337590
>no skills no talent
Why, how about getting someone more useful instead?
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>>337595
He better be dead when we are back
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>>337580

I still don't get why it could cause Sanity damage.
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>>337595
Could you please explain it to this anon boss? >>337603
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>>337604
Who knows~ What sort of adverse effects the ring might have after extended use.
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We are finally going to enter the jungle! This thread right? w-we're g-g-gonna actually get into t-he jungle?
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>>337606
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>>337607
>NEXT TIME ON BANISHED QUEST
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>>337603
Here you go anon. http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/45539164/#p45542838
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>>337607
I've been wrong before, and it probably won't be this session, but this thread. I'm feelin' it. I think it's possible.
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>>337613
My body is ready senpai
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so we remembered to feed ricky with actual food, right?
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>>337612
Shit, that reminds of one other effect I wanted the ring to have.
>Ring of Acumen (+6 to Nature Magic, +4 to Finalization, +4 to Resisting Outside Influence, +2 to Meditation, Hidden Effects)
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>>337618
I mean, I'm happy you're just adding shit willy nilly to my Ring and sorta combining the original two relays into one, but seriously. What's the other effect?
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>>337618
the hidden effect is that it makes us more of a douchebag isn't it.
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>>337619
We can just meditate on it ya know
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>>337619
>>337620
Hey, why are you asking me? They're hidden effects. For all I know, they don't do anything at all.
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>>337618
>+4 to Resisting Outside Influence
I feel like this could just as easily be a -4 instead. Makes it easier to sense the world, but also grants easier access to outside influences.
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>>337622
Can we find out the hidden effects of our things by looking at the strings?
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>>337623
Well, it's not amplify. If it was amplify, your assessment would be correct. It would make you more susceptible to outside influence. However, it's refine instead of amplify. You're not just more aware of the world around you. You're thinking faster, you're reflexes are improved, you've got better instincts, and can more easily trust gut response. Thus, in a time of crisis such as a foreign entity seeking to influence your thoughts, you'll be able to more rapidly and effectively respond to the threat. Either by reinforcing your mind or extricating yourself from that situation.

>>337624
Some hidden effects, yes. Although hidden effects may just be something social. Like your good robes, they color the way people respond to you.
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>>337626
>You're not just more aware of the world around you. You're thinking faster, you're reflexes are improved, you've got better instincts
Couldn't you also easily justify a dodge and/or attack bonus based on that description?
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>>337626
Dodge bonus?
Haggle bonus?
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>>337631
>>337632
Well, it doesn't correspond to any additional physical aptitude. You can't move any faster just because you're better able to sense the world around you.

You actually do sort of get a haggle bonus, because your Nature Magic modifiers apply to haggling when it's done in person.
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>>337632
Jew influx is imminent, buy the temple complex for 10 shekels and the lint in our trousers.
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>>337632
>haggle bonus?
the rune is 'refine' not 'degenerate'
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>>337635
>>337636
oy vey
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>>337634
But we'd be able to better see the attack incoming and move in the best way to dodge and counter it.
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>>337612
>However, what I'd probably do is have overuse of whatever artifact was enchanted in this manner gradually erode the soul, thus causing insanity. Since the mind is an outgrowth of the soul.

OK get it now. As the mind is "expanded" by (invert+revert) beyond the limits of the shell, it indirectly causes erosion. Making the holes in the shell bigger and thereby increasing insanity.

And if we go by what we read in Shaping Arts this could explain the correlation between insanity and it's bonus in enchantment. As the state of the shell moderates how much power the divine shard can exerts upon the world.

But we should also note that the rate in which it increases insanity seem lower than our other ring heals it.
>and I do mean overuse, so it wouldn't happen every time you use the artifact, but if you wore the artifact constantly for days on end you might gradually turn more and more insane.

Does this make sense or the lack of sleep is making me ramble incoherently?
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>>337661
It makes sense to me, but I've been drinking for a while now
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“Alright, the only way I can think to do this is for everyone to pile into the area of the runic array.” Your voice echoes in the space of the chamber, silent save for your voice. “I'll activate the array, while all of you enter the portal. I'll trail behind, entering last so as to prevent the portal closing prematurely.” Your attention turns specifically to your draconic son, uneasy in the relatively tight confines of the chamber. “Zahak, we might encounter some difficulties fitting you in the portal. If we can't make it work, you and I will fly to Majhaya and meet the others there before continuing on to Elaudia.”

Everyone moves to follow your direction, crowding into the space between the pillars. Zahak takes up the rear, his form making it difficult to maneuver your way back to the pillar corresponding to Majhaya. Placing your hand against the cold stone you feel it begin to drain your vys, the runes carved across its surface suddenly illuminating in the dim light afforded by the ceaselessly burning torches.

You watch the process unfold just as it has before, the slow expansion of power throughout the array until eventually the distorted iron statue rises from within the central dome to connect with the stone uvula dangling from the ceiling. It occurs to you that this array probably doesn't have the sustain rune included at any point amidst the expanse of curving lines and concentric circles. Surely though it must have some aspect which amplifies the amount of vys channeled into it, because there's no way the minuscule amounts it draws from you would be sufficient to power all of this.
>Vys Pool: (59/72)

At long last the portal opens, and it is not the slim little crack in reality that it usually is. It grows, and grows, and grows yet further until it's wide enough that Zahak ought to be able to fit easily through the opening created. You're a little shocked, but can only assume that it expands to suit the self-image of the creatures within the array. One by one your companions vanish into the grey plane, Zahak's thoughts emitting their worry in the moments before he too disappears. Once only you are left within the chamber, you cast a simple spell and step away form the pillar.
>Vys Pool: (57/72)

You have to take a somewhat circuitous route around the edge of the portal, since it has not corrected to account for Zahak's absence. The grey fog which spills from within shifts to actively avoid your presence, as though contact with you is anathema to the mist. Casting one more glance upwards, towards the palace you've spent the last several weeks, you step forward into the portal and it snaps shut behind you with little fanfare.
>Vys Pool:(56/72)
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You do not encounter your companions on your walk through the grey halls, even though consciously you realize they should be no more than a few feet ahead of you. Only once you emerge on the other side do you once again rejoin your friends and your son by extension. The portal snaps shut as you step fully from the grey hall into the temple complex, marking your final departure from Nazir with finality.

There is a contingent of guards there to greet you, but they do not bar your passage. Rather, they line the walls, as though there to receive a guest of honor. Profectus stands bewitched by one of the statues in the alcoves lining the chamber, apparently enjoying the sight of your goddess bare-breasted. Darzi and Chryssa chat quietly among themselves, while Zahak is quick to wrap a wing around you and pull you into an embrace of sorts.

{I was really scared!} He admits, thoughts chaotic. {That place felt wrong, and I couldn't find the others, I thought I was going to be lost forever.}

You comfort him as best you're able, affection and resolve spilling through the emotional connection you share with your son. {I was scared the first time I passed through the portal as well, it took hours for me to emerge out the other side, but so long as you enter confidently and without fear your journey will be peaceful and brief. At least, that's been my experience.}

Your reassurance seems to calm Zahak, if only for the moment. You still get the impression that he's uncomfortable with these new surroundings. Mortia and Fulvia stand with that alchemist woman you met during your last visit, apparently embroiled in a very heated discussion judging by the wild gestures being thrown by the two actual women. Fulvia stands passively observing, apparently nonplussed by what is obviously an argument of some sort.

Unfortunately, as much as your companions seem to be settling in, there's little time to waste. Supplies need to be bought, and there is still much ground to cover before you reach the jungle.

>Leave immediately, you can buy supplies in one of the logging tones which mark the border between the Shahdom and Elaudia.
>Buy supplies here in Majhaya, no reason to wait.
>Do you really need supplies? Just get going already.
>Write-in
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>>337673
>Do you really need supplies? Just get going already.
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>>337673
>Leave immediately, you can buy supplies in one of the logging tones which mark the border between the Shahdom and Elaudia.

they would most likely have what we are in more need of than what we would find here
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>>337673
>Ask everyone if they need to buy supplies and what they need.
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>>337673
>Buy supplies here in Majhaya, no reason to wait.
buy books!
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>>337673
>>Buy supplies here in Majhaya, no reason to wait.
and figure out what Mortia is freaking out about
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>>337673
>Buy supplies here in Majhaya, no reason to wait.
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>>337675
>>337674
All the same, some of our companions may need supplies or special provisions. We should check just to be sure.
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>>337673
>>Buy supplies here in Majhaya, no reason to wait.
Show the fucking ring to our group.
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>>337673
>Buy supplies here in Majhaya, no reason to wait.
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>>337673
>>Buy supplies here in Majhaya, no reason to wait.
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>>337673
>>Buy supplies here in Majhaya, no reason to wait.
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>>337673
>>Buy supplies here in Majhaya, no reason to wait.
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>>337673
We should get something special for Ricky too
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>>337688
>>337686
>>337684
>>337683
>>337681
>>337679
>>337678
>>337677
>Buy here

>>337675
>Buy in a logging town

>>337676
>Ayo niggas whatchu want?

>>337674
>Fuck supplies nigga. What am I, some kinda faggot?

All that and more...
NEXT TIME ON BANISHED QUEST.
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>>337673
>>Buy supplies here in Majhaya, no reason to wait.
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>>337691
>NEXT TIME ON BANISHED QUEST.
When is next time?
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>>337691
I mean, if we're shopping, surely we'll tell them that they should too, right?
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Thanks for playing folks, despite all the horsedick spam and shitposting. I'd call this a productive session, insofar as we're finally out of Nazir. That's another arc concluded, and now we march into the future.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Banished%20Quest
Archive here.
Next thread Wednesday.

>>337694
Yeah, o'course.
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>>337695
Which Wednesday?
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>>337697
The last one
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>>337697
The Wednesday happening tomorrow.
As per agreement, the IRC has been unmuted and all bans lifted. I think it's safe to say I was just as slow in this thread as I usually am.
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>>337700
Well you sure as hell weren't any quicker
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>>337700
So here's a query. Assuming we survive Elaudia, scam the cosmic bureaucracy, and get Anthus over it's Dragon issue.

Would we be powerful enough to take on the Dungeons underneath Nazir then?
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>>337700
But Soma, the reason you were slow this thread was because of enchanting :^)

The irc slows down threads that don't involve enchanting.
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>>337626
>Although hidden effects may just be something social. Like your good robes, they color the way people respond to you.
Perhaps you should replace those "hidden effects" with "social effect" in the pastebin. It has been bugging me since we got that signet ring.

>>337673
>>Buy supplies here in Majhaya, no reason to wait.
A herd of goats for Ricky

Thanks for the thead
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>>337691
THANKS FOR RUNNING SOMA
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I hate you all so much.
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Rolled 92 (1d100)

>>337969
I hate you as well, anon.
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>miss thread because of sleep
>wake up
>over 1k posts
>shit I bet they rolled another 3 or something
>it's just arguing about runes and samefagging

i expected higher quality shitposting from y'all to be honest
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Rolled 1, 7, 5 = 13 (3d10)

>>338105
>nat 3
Let me show you a nat 3.
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Rolled 1, 10, 5 = 16 (3d10)

>>338110
I'll show you how it's done.
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Rolled 2, 7, 10 = 19 (3d10)

>>338115
16-13=3
I guess that's something.
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>>337700
Here's another query. With Mik's knowledge as well as experience of string manipulation within his realm, how difficult would it be to copy paste enchanted items? We created a body and a shell, which are probably the most complex enchantments there are. Once we cast Permanency on this Ring of Acumen, how much Husk would Mik need to copy paste another? Two more?

One on hand, we didn't need to meditate to do so at the time. But on the other, we were in our Ascended form, which probably granted massive bonuses to string manipulation. Assuming we have to go into this form again, it'd really only save us time finalizing, crafting the ring, and materials. It's not like a ring needs a lot of Ivory.

On the other hand, we could copy paste our most powerful artifacts, like Darzi's Elaudian Armor, our the Crown. Darzi could use a shield, so we could just copy paste Prof's Shield of Leleki. Give everyone in the party a Regenerative Scarab. Oh, and speaking of Prof, we never did investigate the strange tattos he acquired from the mysterious old man who briefly abducted him.
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Does anyone have an idea of how yo go about getting Mahana to be subservient to us?

It'd be cool if we could disciple/vassal him
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>>338998
now thats the kind of mad science i would approve of

Just imagine the fucking reaction of the guy when we offer to turn him into our disciple instead of the other way around
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>>339007
>offer
>implying he'd have a choice
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>Stopped reading 20 something threads ago
>See that quests left /tg/ sooner than Mik left Nazir
Also he's apparently a spirit now which means he has horns or something? I know I should just go and read the archives but it feels like I've stumbled into the twilight zone.
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>>339085
Metal GM did strange things to us. We also died and revived ourselves so the gods want our anus.
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>>337639
That's probably rolled into the nature bonus, like with haggling.
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>>339007
>>338998
Definitkey feels like that's on the table, from the prophecy, where it said that Mik would be a master of spirits. Could be self fulfilling

What benefit is there from having a spirit obey us? Beyond powerful allies in combat, what would we gain?
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I'm interested in trying to see the future by channeling nature into the divine shard like it said in shaping arts.
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Hey Soma, when you start a new thread in an old thread, is there any way you can mark it somehow for control+f?
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>>340730
ctrl f soma !

highlight all

scroll up from the bottom of the thread
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>>340730
4chanx
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>>340866
>not just clicking on his ID
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>>341675
Old habits die hard I suppose.
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Oh shit, it's Wednesday.
Okay! Writin'. Thread soon.
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>>342169
Stop it.
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>>342169
Umm hi Soma
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>>342169
Faggot.
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>>342169
Twitter
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Post never
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>>342169
That's right Soma, it's time, get in the game!
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Post in 1 hour
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>>342591
thats a strange way of saying next week.
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>>342591
No, post next Wednesday.
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>>342169
Wouldn't it be nice to just sleep boss? Take a long, pleasant afternoon nap for once? With no worries on your mind or sound in your room except the continuous, soothing drone of the airconditioning?
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kek
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>>342684

STOP IT
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>>342169
Soma is dead
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>>342684
DELETE THIS
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>>343025
>>342933
It's been an hour. I'm sure that you're already too late to foil my dastardly scheme.
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>>342169
hurry up and tell us you're not running. i've got shit to do today
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>>343049
Soma is too busy fucking his sister.
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>>343046
>irc does not slow the thread
ircfags like him are the reason the kid is still alive. They're also the reason Soma never runs. The irc seriously needs to be deleted at this point.
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>>342169
We got jewed again
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>>342169
You okay boss?
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inb4
>I forgot I had a test
>I didn't know I had homework due
>I forgot that library resources are a thing and have been painstakingly translating Latin from primary sources
>my imouto came to visit
>I went down to the store to get condoms
>need coffee brb
He's never coming back

Wednesday is a lie
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>>343210
>>I forgot that library resources are a thing and have been painstakingly translating Latin from primary sources
I still find it hard to believe that this one is actually true.
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>>343210
No excuses. He's never coming back.
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>>343234
Just like my dad
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>>343236
Rob stop samefagging.
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>>343210
Shit I missed a few
>I partied too hard last night
>I'm not feeling it tonight
>I'm drawing a blank so I'll throw up the OP for the next thread on pastebin and run on Friday
>I'll do a bonus omake and put it on pastebin to make it up to you guys
>forgot I had a doctor's appointment
>STD clinic was more crowded than I thought
>tests took longer than I thought
>family obligations
>hanging out with friends
>going to the pub with friends
>gonna go work out instead
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>>343261
You forgot the most obvious.
>The irc distracted me.
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>>342169
>Writin'. Thread soon.

Nice bait, try harder.
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Soma is just trying to figure out ways to get us back onto his tracks. Our decision to enchant really threw him for a loop.
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>>337368
Why didn't we bring up this shit with our companions? What the cunt you niggers doing, this should be a companion influenced vote. Also why haven't we told them all about any of this bullshit. Can we stop being a shit bloke please
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>>343293
>waah the vote didn't go my way AGAIN
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>>343271
desu I think irccancer is mostly just a meme

delaying posts to explain something more in depth, sure. Can't imagine soma would skip running a thread outright in favour of explaining some minute detail to a handful of autists on irc though. Why would he jerk off to his lore with a limited audience, when he could do it on a wider, more long lasting scale in a thread?

I'd probably be more bothered if I was one of you 70+posters who's glued to the screen for every update but as it is, I only lurk and check the thread every few hours and do other shit between posts. Don't even bother reading other comments these days because it's less bantz and more angry autists sperging out about being right
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rip soma
post never
jungle never
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Hey so I've been thinking about enchanting, and Soma's statement in >>336774 about the effects of exclude vys has given me an idea.

If we enchant an object, preferably a projectile like a bullet or just a stone we could throw as though it was a grenade, with [exclude]+[vys] it should shunt away the vys of everything in its vicinity. This means we can use it to basically immediately win fights by evicting our opponent's vys pools and rendering them unconscious.
Obviously in order to use such an object we would need it to only occur on a trigger and not affect us or our companions. With that in mind I think I have an array that would work.

(([exclude]|\|[mark])+[vys])||[vys], where |\| means "not in the presence of"
Such an enchantment would, upon having vys channeled into it, exclude vys from the the nearby area from everything not marked with that specific instance of [mark]
We could then enchant some pendants or rings with [large]+[mark] and give them to our companions to protect them from the exclude vys projectile.
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>>343333
>not elevators
Shit idea would not vote for
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>>343346
I'd vote for horizontal elevators
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>>343346
Now this is an idea I can get behind. Does it come in horizontal form?
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>>343349
We have just such a product
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You channel a little vys to amplify your voice. “Alright!” The acoustics of the room render your efforts excessive. You'd only intended to cut through the low din of conversation, instead you drowned it out entirely. Even Zahak shrunk back a little, and you're not even entirely sure he has ears. At least, you haven't seen them anywhere.

Actually, that brings up an interesting question. How does Zahak hear? Sarada usually just have a hole situated somewhere near the back of their lower jaw, but that couldn't be the case for Zahak. They would almost certainly be obstructed by the bony protrusions of horn which cover his head. Examining your son in a little more detail, he does have tiny little slits just behind each eye, where a ridge of thicker scales and stunted horns might act something like the structure of your own ear. However, they're so small compared to the rest of your son that you can't imagine his hearing is very good.

Profectus snaps you out of your reverie. “Fucking Gods, Mik. Were you going to say something or were you just trying to ruin our hearing?”

“Right, sorry.” You need a moment to recall just what it was you were going t o announce to your companions, but eventually it returns to you. “As much as I might like to spend a few days preparing for the journey into Elaudia, we simply don't have the time. We'll be leaving as soon as we've purchased supplies.”

Your attention turns to the temple's apothecary. Surely she has need to interact with the villagers on a semi-regular basis, if only to purchase supplies. “You wouldn't happen to know where we could purchase transportation, food, water, general supplies like that would you?” Not that you particularly need either food or water, you have plenty of both in your cloak. The gargoyle meat alone would probably last you more than half a year.

“There are a few traders in horse and camel camped on the rim, and I know of at least one selling sarada as well.” She cast a sidelong glance at Mortia, distancing herself from the other woman. “Though, if you're heading into Elaudia you probably don't want a horse or a camel. Sarada might do, but only if you're looking for a pack animal. Most every logger I've spoken to swears off camels for anything except hauling cut logs to market. A lot of the expeditions going into the forest just end up hauling their own gear on their back.”

Well, that shouldn't be a problem for you at all. “That's what my companions and I usually do. My cloak makes carrying around inordinate amounts of food, water, and other various bits and pieces of junk pretty easy.” To illustrate, you spread the length of black cloth wide and the skeletal remains Ricky has been entertaining himself with for the last several weeks come spilling out all at once, scattering across the floor much to the confusion of your companions and horror of alchemist. “See?”
(1/4)
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>>343333
This is a good idea. Soma has stated that [exclude] + [vys] "immediately" drains all vys from the area. This means that the efficacy of the enchantment does not depend on the strength of our opponents.

Additionally, it could be augmented with a few dozen [large] runes to incapacitate an entire army/city at once.
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>>343354
Sold.
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That wasn't actually what you'd intended. You'd simply failed to specify what exactly it was you wanted Ricky to push through your cloak. You suppose he took the liberty of making you look like some sort of crazed serial killer rather than just pushing out one of your weapons or a tent or something innocuous like that. The situation isn't improved by the six translucent tentacles which come lashing out wildly from the flat surface of your cloak, coiling around each of the corpses in turn and dragging them back inside all at once. It's almost like some sort of perverse circus act.

“And here I thought I had a few skeletons in the closet.” Profectus' joke goes over about as well as can be expected. Darzi tries, and fails, not to laugh but she's the only one who seems to find it particularly amusing.

On that note you let your cloak once more fall back into its natural position and stride past the alchemist and your companions. What better way to escape from an awkward situation than to simple leave without explaining anything? Maybe Ricky is starting to take issue with the fact you've stopped feeding him goats? The subdued screeching which comes to pervade your thoughts suggest that yes, that is indeed the case.

Zahak, your companions, and eventually the guards all fall into line behind you after a brief delay. The alchemist comes jogging to catch some time later, shouldering her way through the guards and dipping underneath one of Zahak's wings to reach the front of your little procession. “Hold on, are you seriously not going to at least try and justify having a half dozen corpses just on your person at all times?”

“Look, they're not my corpses.” You want to get that out of the way first and foremost. “They're a friends corpses, he happens to live in my cloak and organize my things. Secondly, there aren't a half dozen corpses on my person. There's three. Don't blow this issue out of proportion.”

Actually, weren't there four corpses originally? You seem to distinctly remember finding Ricky seated at a table playing cards with four skeletons, the remnants of that pirate search party which stumbled upon your cloak. What happened to the fourth skeleton, if there are only three left? Does Ricky eat bones as well as flesh? Did he give it as a gift to one of his friends?

(2/4)
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>>343357
Fuck off
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You don't get asked anymore questions on the trip up the long flights of stairs and through the halls to the temple's main hall. There you find that some of the railings have been removed from the balconies which line the ambulatory running through the center of the room to he base of the statue. The stone gates have been opened, revealing the village beyond and perhaps more importantly the enormous canyon cutting off the structure into which the temple is carved from the rest of Pidjata.

Only a bridge roughly wide enough for two carriages to cross abreast of one another spans the gap and connects Majhaya to what appears to be a collection of tents, bazaars, and wagons. You recognize it from your youth, a Bhataki camp. There's one set up every year just outside of El-Amin that usually persist throughout the summer months. From what you understand, that's the tribe which Darzi belonged to and considering the month is Yuddha they ought to be there now. Perhaps this is a different tribe?

Camp of thieving nomads aside, the temple's position upon the peak of a hill allows you a commanding position of the terrain. The terrain here is markedly different than that which lies along the western coast. Gone are the towering sand dunes interspersed with the occasional oasis. Instead, scraggly brush and hardy grasses push up through rocky soil. You're in the foothills of the mountain range which marks Pidjata's northern border.

An unerringly straight road cuts through the sea of tents, its meticulously placed paving stones revealing it to be of Rhynian make. Some dozen or so miles distant it joins with another road running east and west, also of Rhynian make. Unlike in the deserts of the west, the roads here have not degraded over the millennia since they were built. Perhaps maintained by locals since then. You can only assume that the broad plateau in which the temple is carved is artificial, considering it's the only one in sight.

The apprehension which rolls off Darzi in waves distracts you from the sight laid out before you. It's colored by notes of eagerness and curiosity, though both are subdued in comparison. She's probably worried about walking amongst a tribe of her own people after so long spent living and working in El-Amin. Personally, you're a little worried yourself. Bhataki aren't exactly known for being morally upstanding, law abiding, loyal subjects of the Shah.

You recall an incident from your apprenticeship. Your Master, he absolutely adored the summer bazaar. He's always claimed the Bhataki sold the best opium a man could hope to enjoy. He'd drag you along with him into the sea of tents whenever he went out on one of his trips to restock for the rest of the year, and once when he was engaged in some rather heated negotiations with the tribe's patriarch you ended up separated.
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>>343357
>using text effects
You're a faggot. You should feel ashamed.
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A handful of boys probably no older than you were at the time, thirteen or fourteen, ambushed you and knocked you over. They were surprised when you started spraying them with water, which allowed you to escape with your coin purse still firmly attached to your belt. However, in your rush to escape your pursuers you ended up stumbling into a tent where a family was just sitting down to eat. The mother absolutely insisted on you joining them for dinner, doting on you all the while.

It was only after you got back to your Master's estate with a bag of dried fruits, salted meats, and various other leftovers slung over your shoulder that you realized your coin purse was gone.

>Maybe it would be better to wait until you hit a logging camp, you don't trust these thieving bastards.
>It's not like they could actually steal from the cloak without losing a hand. Look for someone selling supplies.
>Write-in

There we go, only took me four hours. I don't know why this post was so hard to write.
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>>343366
>Maybe it would be better to wait until you hit a logging camp, you don't trust these thieving bastards.
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>>343366
>Maybe it would be better to wait until you hit a logging camp, you don't trust these thieving bastards.

desu, they seem like they'd be fantastic hagglers. We might get our shit pushed in Jewry wise.
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>>343366
>It's not like they could actually steal from the cloak without losing a hand. Look for someone selling supplies.
Anything valuable that's outside the cloak goes inside the cloak.
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>>343366
Get some goats for Ricky
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>>343366
>It's not like they could actually steal from the cloak without losing a hand. Look for someone selling supplies.
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>>343366
>It's not like they could actually steal from the cloak without losing a hand. Look for someone selling supplies.

Use nature magic to watch for anyone trying to steal from our companions
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>>343366
>It's not like they could actually steal from the cloak without losing a hand. Look for someone selling supplies.
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>>343366
>It's not like they could actually steal from the cloak without losing a hand. Look for someone selling supplies.
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>>343366
>>It's not like they could actually steal from the cloak without losing a hand. Look for someone selling supplies.
Pay attention with nature magic and buy some goats
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>>343366
>It's not like they could actually steal from the cloak without losing a hand. Look for someone selling supplies.

I'm excited for the scene where some intrepid urchin gets his hand eaten and Mik regrows it for him, admonishing his carelessness and acting like losing a hand is less worrisome than even a stubbed toe.
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>>343366
Put on the crown when haggling for that sweet sweet nature magic bonus.
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>>343364
They're good for getting across when a character is being annoying tbdesu fampai.

Anyway, I spent way too much time looking up the structure of reptilian ears and whether or not they used horses to explore the Amazonian rainforest. The answer is no. They used rivers, and for the large part it remains unexplored. So, there yah go.

Not sure if I'll run a full session today. I want to sort of get us on the road to Elaudia but I'll probably call it once we hit that milestone. Or, y'know, if y'all vote to hit the road immediately and wait until you reach a logging post then I'll get y'all to a logging post and then call it there.

Gonna run out for coffee and some food real quick though before everything closes.
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give ricky the ok to devour any little children that tries to steal from us
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>>343394
>already going to get food
You're a fag tbdesu fampai.
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>>343394
soma horses only work when there is flat, wide, and open spaces so that they can run.
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>>343346
>Press button
>Elevator accelerates upward at 500 MPH due to the super-ultra-reality-bending magnets
>Elevator smashes into ceiling because no brakes

Might want to add an automatic washing system to clean the people off of the floor and ceiling desu
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>>343398
>haha I see your idea and will assert it will result in instantaneous failure!
I'm glad you're a forward thinker anon
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>>343299
Wat, no I don't give a fuck about the shitter. I think they'd let the kid live anyway. I would just like to see our companions better informed when we have decisions like this where their lives could potentially be fucked.
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>>343403
miks only reason for keeping the kid alive is to make a point. Our companions' view on the matter is irrelevant to him.
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>>343400
No problem senpai, always happy to help
For real though, you could add a repel+metal+small or something to slow and brake the elevator smoothly
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>>343406
repel+mark+small would work better since it wouldn't repel any objects the elevator users possess
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>>343406
You know, this just occurred to me, but you could probably make a rune directional by using, in your example, (Contain+Small/Large Repel)+Metal
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>>343406
desu senpai its not like its being driven by anything, it can't go above the landing it will only go to its mark, just limiting how fast the elevator moves normally will work.
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>>343362
>Personally, you're a little worried yourself. Bhataki aren't exactly known for being morally upstanding, law abiding, loyal subjects of the Shah.

Which is hilarious because Darzi is the most morally upstanding, law abiding and loyal subject of the Shah of our companions.
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>>343366
>>Maybe it would be better to wait until you hit a logging camp, you don't trust these thieving bastards.
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>>343366
>>Write-in

Ask Darzi if she wants to take a look.
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>>343430
Well of course we're taking our people. What, this isn't Dragon Age where the rest of the party just stands still staring at a rock in camp unless you tell them to come along with you.
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>>343410
Say, with what we know of these Gypsies being tier one jews, we should probably approach the oncoming bartering and negotiation as a team. Maximize our bonuses and minimizing the amount of coin they filch from us.
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>>343443
Mik should handle all negotiations and should be wearing all +nature artifacts while negotiating.
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>>343434

It was a subtle way to ask if she is OK with going to into a camp where she could meet relatives or past acquaintances.
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>inb4 we meet the guy Darzi used to slut around with.
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>>343476
>the guy
>singular
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>>343476
>>343481
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We should probably keep an eye on Mortia, she seems the most obvious target and we don't want some little thief kid getting a artifact that contains hundred of dead souls.
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>>343486
>>343394
Oh shit, right. We really ought to do this. Good catch Anon.
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>>343366
>Leave Mortica with the village alchemist
For her safety and alchemical advancement of course.
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>>343486
>this shit is shiny, I bet its worth something
>RELEASE US FROM OUR PRISON CHILD
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Anon please, how could you even suggest that I'd sink low enough to use such a cliche plot point?
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We're not even getting another post are we?
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>>343498
he looks like a bitch.
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>>343498
>heart tattoo on his chin
What a fag.
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>>343498

Dude. Boss. He literally has a dick on his face. Not even kidding.
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>>343498

Looks like a total tool.
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>>343508
Don't forget all the gay piercings
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>>343498
>he's more attractive than us
I want to watch him fuck Darzi.
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>>343498
turns out slut around with, means them fucking other guys.
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>>343514
truly the thinking man's fetish
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kek

Soma trying to rile bq anons up with a dude who looks like he got jizzed on, forgot to clean up, and ended up with a jizz tan on his face

Endless ridicule instead of shadowruns before he even appears

Step it up, fampai
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>>343526
Tbh if hes even mildly annoying we can just kill him, if hes particularly annoying we can shove his soul into gem anal beads.
I mean honestly we're probably only gonna be worrying about him trying to get in our pants
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>>343526
>Step it up, fampai
Do you know how hard it is to find descent male elf art that isn't effeminate?
It's even harder with samja, because pretty much every variety of dark elf has white hair. There can only be so many super young looking ancients in the setting, damn it.
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I just realized I never counted the vote, just started writing.

>>343367
>>343369
>Buy from good, descent, hard working citizens of the Shahdom

>>343371
>>343377
>>343382
>>343383
>>343387
>>343389
>>343390
>Buy from gypsies

Writin'
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>>343530

Hey senpai, I forgot my friend was getting married this weekend so I might not be able to play LawBreakers with you on the 9th depending on how long his cermony goes and how tired/drunk I get. I'll definitely be back on the 10th though and we can play then.
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>>343544
Bird got some extra dinner.
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>>343547
Birds are pretty smart. I've heard of chickens doing something similar with their own feed to bait rats into their pen.
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>>343544
Sounds like a plan, man. Have fun.
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>>343357
>“You wouldn't happen to know where we could purchase transportation
Didn't we bring the carriage? After all, the gate grew to be large enough for Zahak.

>>343362
>morally upstanding, law abiding, loyal subjects of the Shah.
Hear, hear, look who's talking
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>>343588
Did you see anything mentioning the carriage, anon?
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>>343357
>>343360
Ricky really is the best companion.
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>>343608
he should get his own companion stat line
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>>343615
>SKREEE
>SKREE SKREE SKREEE
>SKREEEEEEE
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>>343621
you joke, but if we ever get that translator soma would be forced to translate the screeing.
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>>343627
Everyones minds as we find out Ricky is really a girl. Flirting with Ricky when.
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>>343498
He's a spice user?
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>>343652
If by spice you mean cock, then yes he takes all the spice in the world
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The more you think on it, the more you decide there's really no harm in just buying from the gypsies. You're not a kid anymore, you're a full grown man with the power to bend the universe to your every whim. A grandmaster twice over, upon the cusp of achieving your third. Not to mention, if anyone tries to pickpocket Ricky they're more likely to lose a hand than anything else.

Your companions, on the other hand, do not have their possessions as secured upon their person as you do. “By show of hands, who has coin or artifacts on their person?”

All of your companions, save Zahak of course, raise their hands. “I mean, does armor count? Because I figured I couldn't exactly leave it laying around considering there's no going back to Nazir from this end of the portal.”

That's a good point, actually. “Allow me to revise that statement. Who here has coin loose artifacts upon their person? I'm talking about things that are not either a weapon, a piece of armor, or implanted somewhere on your body.” Profectus has that scarab in his chest. Why he chose to put it there instead of somewhere more reasonable, you'll never know.

This all of your companions with the exception of Fulvia and Zahak raise their hand. Right, well. That sure did you a lot of good. “Anything you don't want stolen should get put in the cloak. Just from personal experience, you walk among the Bhataki at the risk of your coin purse.” You pull off your cloak, turning to face your companions and holding it out before you. “Mortia, I know you've got more than a few artifacts which can steal souls, I'd rather not have you inadvertently kill some little urchin child when he goes rifling through your satchel.”

“I have a few vials of poison, and some pretty powerful hallucinogens and stimulants as well.” Mortia remarks, retrieving a broad jewelry box from within her satchel and cracking it open. “Plus, my necklace tends to turn people to ash who try to steal from me.” She unhooks the collection of golden beads from where it rest upon her neck, dropping it into the box. She does the same with the blue beads she seems to always keep on her person. However, rather than toss it into your cloak she eyes its black surface warily.

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Turning her body to the side as though to present as small a target as possible, she tosses the chest into your cloak. It slides beyond the event horizon as smoothly as anything else, and she lets out a sigh of relief. She does the same thing with her satchel, leaving her in her golden robes with the glass armor you bought her some time ago underneath. Come to think of it, where are her sword and mask? You haven't seen them for quite some time.

Darzi, in her heavy Elaudian armor, steps forward carrying her heavy pack. It's a collection of bags, a bedroll, a thick cloak, a net, and a pot all suspended upon a pole she usually keeps slung over one shoulder. She tosses the entire thing into your cloak, and then steps aside so Profectus can add his own items to the pool. He only drops in his satchel, your Hiacian Signet Ring, and the silver pocket watch you gave him. He wears his Centurion Armor and his golden shortsword sits within a sheathe on his hip you don't recall him having. Perhaps he got it made while you were in Nazir? His shield is simply slung across his back.

Chryssa only tosses in her hide backpack. She wears the odd conglomeration of armor you had made for her in El-Amin and carries her mace on a sling at her hip. Her bow sits in what you can only assume is a specially made sheath designed to accommodate its rather curious structure while her arrows are collected in a quiver dangling from her belt, grouped by the type of arrowhead they're tipped with you assume.

With all of your companion's belongings apparently collected, you drape your cloak once more over your shoulders and pin it there with your brooch. Turning to the apothecary woman, you bow low and offer as winning a smile as you can muster. “Give the Varistha my regards, and tell him that I look forward to seeing him again upon my return journey.”

She only stairs at you in response, but you don't linger too long. Instead you turn sharply on your heels and march with your companions in tow down the stairs. It occurs to you as you descend the bridge that your little party probably looks like a collection of rich assholes. You and Mortia are wearing fine silken robes and the rest of your companions are covered in all manner of high quality armors and expensive artifacts. Hopefully the merchants don't jack up prices too high.

Darzi rest a hand upon your shoulder as the end of the bridge nears, leaning in close and lowering her voice. “You lead the way, I'll take the rear and make sure nobody goes wandering off. Gods know if Profectus has the opportunity he'll get himself in trouble.”

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“Keep an eye on Mortia as well, she tends to be a bit naive and I don't know if she's had a chance to eat today.” You did end up giving her a rather rude awakening after all. “Last thing we need is her killing some idiot or getting lost when she wanders off looking for kebab.”

The two of you separate, with Darzi quickly dropping to the very back of your little caravan. As you enter the tent city focus on scanning the crowd for any sight of sarada or just general supplies. You do see one of those enormous wagons that Bhataki tend to keep their most valuable goods stored inside, mostly opium, spices, incense, and wood in your experience. However, you'd have to navigate a veritable maze of smaller carts, tents, and market stalls to get there. There's also a tent much larger than any of the others set up just to the side of the road. There's nothing really to advertise what it sells, but there's a lot of people coming and going.

>Check the market stalls, that's probably your best chance to find general goods.
>Head to the wagon. You might find someone knowledgeable regarding Elaudia there too.
>Investigate the tent. Foot traffic is usually a pretty good sign.
>Write-in
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>>343670
>Head to the wagon. You might find someone knowledgeable regarding Elaudia there too.
>Check the market stalls, that's probably your best chance to find general goods.
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>>343670
>>Check the market stalls, that's probably your best chance to find general goods.
>>Head to the wagon. You might find someone knowledgeable regarding Elaudia there too.
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>>343670
>>Investigate the tent. Foot traffic is usually a pretty good sign.
Mystery box
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>>343670

>Head to the wagon. You might find someone knowledgeable regarding Elaudia there too.

We can check the tent later.
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>>343670
>Check the market stalls, that's probably your best chance to find general goods.
>Head to the wagon. You might find someone knowledgeable regarding Elaudia there too.

Lets get our shit and get out.

>>343668
>stairs at you
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>>343668
Strange that Darzi didn't complain at how we pictured they sand gypsies
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>>343670
>Head to the wagon. You might find someone knowledgeable regarding Elaudia there too.
>Investigate the tent. Foot traffic is usually a pretty good sign.
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>>343681
I'm pretty sure she's mentioned at some point being a pickpocket and stuff for her parents when she was a kid. She knows that's what they're about.
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>>343670
>Check the market stalls, that's probably your best chance to find general goods.
>Head to the wagon. You might find someone knowledgeable regarding Elaudia there too.
First general goods. Then the fun shit.
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>Check the market stalls, that's probably your best chance to find general goods.
>Head to the wagon. You might find someone knowledgeable regarding Elaudia there too.
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Can't wait to see the gypsies reaction to a dragon walking among them to buy shit.
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>>343691
I fully expect zahak to give us a huge bonus to haggle
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>>343673
>>343675
>>343678
>>343680
>>343683
>>343686
>>343689
>Head to the wagon

>>343689
>>343686
>>343680
>>343675
>>343673
>Market stalls

>>343676
>>343683
>Investigate the tent.

Writin'
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>>343668
>It occurs to you as you descend the bridge that your little party probably looks like a collection of rich assholes
That's exactly what you are.
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>>343691
>>343696
speaking of, your writing's a bit off today and you forgot to remember people typically react adversely to a dragon walking through their village.
Character interaction is a bit shit and the rest is odd compared to even earlier in the thread.
Soma, you're either going to either hate what you've done today in terms of writing or you're going to retcon it. Take a rest and run another day.
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>>343699
Or, or, Mik is just crazy enough to not notice that the entire Bhataki camp has called for an emergency evacuation, everyone is running and screaming for their gods, and armed men are taking positions around us. Or thinks that all that is normal.
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>>343699
Well, I haven't forgotten Zahak yet, you're just not in the tent city proper yet. Rather, you've only just entered it.

Anyway yeah, my writing does feel off today. Felt off on Monday as well. Not sure what the deal is with my writing lately.
The character interaction in particular has given me trouble. Usually I can just slap some shit out and not have to think about it at all. Lately though I've really had to stop and consider what a character might say and I still don't feel like it's 'right', some imperceptible quality is lacking.
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>>343710
would you say that this started around 2 weeks ago?
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>>343706
It is normal for Mik at this point.
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>>343710
>Well, I haven't forgotten Zahak yet, you're just not in the tent city proper yet. Rather, you've only just entered it.
Ah, thought there was a village in Majhaya
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>>343714
It really is, isn't it?
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>>343710
desu try running drunk. Might help you not over think things.
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>>343711
What happened two weeks ago?

>>343715
There was, but it's pretty sparsely populated. The only permanent structures other than the temple itself are run by monks who sell shit to passers-by, things like basic food and water as well as rooms and beds to spend the night in. Then there are some folks who make a living as sort of laymen who do chores and such for the temple. Things like cleaning, cooking, helping fix up dilapidated portions of the underground structure, and all that stuff. They're provided houses on the rim. There's also a contingent of guards of course, the officers of which have their own houses but most of whom reside within the temple itself.
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>>343357
>>343360
Holy shit my sides, I love Ricky.
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I think I'll call it here for tonight, since yeah. Reading back my writing quality is shit. I probably should have just delayed until Friday, that's what I usually do when an OP takes me that long, but eh. I dunno. I'll write for:

>Folks react to Zahak trampling through their camp.
>Mik browses the market
>Mik buys goats for Ricky.

In the post to start us off on Friday. Then there will be a prompt and after that you'll probably get to the wagon.
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>>343736
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>>343736
all g soma, come back when you're not shit!
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>>343736
Thanks for running Soma. Maybe it's because you haven't had a dose of imouto today?
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>>343736
Finally, Ricky is going to get his goats.

See you Friday, Soma.
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>>343736
>Mik buys goats for Ricky.
Definitely worth waiting for.
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I was pretty bummed about missing BQ due to travel. Little did I know.
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Rolled 12 (1d100)

What are the odds of Soma running tomorrow?
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Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>347695
That's a pretty realistic number.
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Why are we not gaining 1-3 vys per meditation by focusing on metas and effects already? It's a far more profitable path of study power-wise no matter how you look at it.
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>>347785
We have a backlog of books that increase the amount of effects and meta magic that we can learn in addition to some neat stuff like the metal codex.
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>>347785
>>348277
How about we make two spears that gives us +12 to attack and +8 to fire magic?
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So, to summarize a few things which I think have been sorta discussed and tossed around at various points but never really set down in stone:

>((Create+((Invert+Revert)+(Large Fire))) || Vys)
This is the gist of the enchantment folks have been discussing. It would be the first weapon Mik has ever created, up until this point he's mostly stuck to less destructive artifacts. ((Invert+Revert)+Fire) would translate into something like Refined Fire, which I've chosen to interpret as lightning. The Large aspect of the array brings the created lightning in line with Surya's Vice in terms of power and destructive potential, but with the proper care one could reasonably control said lightning to a far greater degree than they're able to in Surya's Vice. Now, it wouldn't be in line with the sort of power at the disposal of a Grandmaster Fire Vatis, but it wouldn't be anything to gawk at.

Now, the weapon this is eventually carved on is important. At the moment, Mik's only unenchanted weapons are:
>Custom Spear ([Range: Medium] +4 Dodge, Spell Amplification)
>Ornate Dagger ([Range: Close] +1 Dodge)
>Compact Sword ([Range: Close] +10 Smuggle)

However, enchanting the compact sword would require being able to carve runes onto Elaudia Steel, and is thus not possible at the moment.

The most interesting out of these options is his custom spear. As is noted, it's been carved with designs and pseudo-runes intended to amplify spells channeled through it. Meaning you do not need the weapon channeling meta to use the weapon in conjunction with magic, and any effects channeled through the spear are more effective than they would be otherwise. You also have in your inventory:
>1x Boar Spirit's Tusk (~120 lbs of spirit ivory)

Enchanting the spear as it is with no modifications would create a weapon which provides a (+10 Attack, +6 Fire Magic, +4 Dodge, Spell Amplification). This is a pretty good weapon, all things considered. However, by having either a skilled smith (you know of at least one in El-Amin who's a master of working with artifacts) or Mahana, or perhaps some other entity inlay spirit ivory into the designs carved upon the spear's surface you could get a objectively superior weapon as the result.

All told, the bonuses would probably somewhere around (+14 Attack, +8 Fire, +4 Dodge, Spell Magnification). Spell magnification is sort of a working title, it's essentially just the second level of spell amplification. It retains the quality of not needing the weapon channeling meta to cast, but also increases the effectiveness of any magic channeled through it. Both effects and elemental spells would benefit from being channeled, this benefit being represented as those spells require less vys, or even no vys at all for some simpler task.
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>>348456
oy soma how does the mark rune work?

if an enchantment does something to a mark, how does it know which mark rune? and how does that look in the enchantment?
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>>348471
Well, typically you want to create a enchanted object which affects the mark and the mark itself either in tandem or shortly after one another. It has to do with the fact that, if both objects are made in the same place at the same time by the same person, they share far more similarity with one another than they would with just random mark runes scattered across the country.
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>>348478
so having an enchantment (target+(leach+vys)) wouldnt work with carving mark into things?
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>>348456
Of course, this weapon will be best served when we can channel both its lightning and use the weapon itself in combat maneuvers. With our hypothetical Avatar technique, if Darzi channels the lightning from this weapon and say, takes the Piercing Strike combat maneuver while using the Avatar technique to maximize her bonuses and make said fusion action possible, how much shit would she smite? Lightning halves soak. Piercing strike halves remaiming soak. That's pretty much smiting someone, is it not?
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>>348478
Say, assuming our companions have the hypothetical Avatar technique, how much would Darzi's, Prof's, and Chryssa's bonuses be? Assuming Expert Nature and that they're wearing Rings of Acumen? What kind of feats could they pull off while using said techniques to do fusion attacks?
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>>348478
Lastly, the Varistha who we spoke to this morning revealed himself to be a student of Sehzade at the tail end of our conversation. Having been educated and trained by Sehzade, a practitioner of combat meditation and martial trances, techniques which we witnessed him using to defeat the army of entities at the Pirate fortress void incursion, talking to him about our hypothetical technique would probably yield extremely valuable info, would it not? Info that could be used to remove the need for later meditations in experimentation with our companions about the Avatar technique, that would make such meditative opportunities open for important things like enchantment and our personal advancement in power.
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>>348456
>>1x Boar Spirit's Tusk (~120 lbs of spirit ivory)
That's a fuckload of enchanting material.
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>>348456
>>Custom Spear ([Range: Medium] +4 Dodge, Spell Amplification)
Hey Soma if you ignore the spell amplification would you still say it's a good spear? What would be the stats of an unenchanted masterwork spear made with good materials.
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>>349022
And the good thing is: it grew back! We might even "harvest" from the boar if we get its and Mahana's permission.
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>>348663
We left the temple. Also we don't know how willing he'd be to share.

Honestly I've been getting a weird vibe from that temple as well, like it's a secret base for a cult or the Samrajya or whatever it was called. It seems way too mysterious compared to Varvar's crib and also pretty culturally outlandish.
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Just a thought: We're probably getting better armor soon, but nothing says we can't have Mahana merge weapons instead.

Mage or not, having a vys-leeching, weakness-identifying, mind, body and soul-rending, lightning-shooting spear ought to put Mik at a slight advantage when facing most enemies.
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Wearing the armor of the Al-Hikars when?
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>>348456
>(+14 Attack, +8 Fire, +4 Dodge, Spell Magnification)
Is that the strongest weapon that has appeared so far?
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>>349044
The correct thing to do is to subjugate our own spirit minion and enchant with their tusk/scales/whatever, since we could just order them to give it to us no negotiation required.
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>>349281
You know which spirit would be great practice? That imp nigger in Prof's arm.
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bread today?
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>>349400
No bread 2day Soma got drunk and pissed on his PC
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>>349470
can't he just type on his phone

or did he piss his pants with his phone in it too
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>>349481
He dropped it in the toilet when he went to vomit.
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Obviously we have displeased Soma with our lack of shitposting!!
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>>349497
easy, he can just mail the bread to chinese m00t and ask to post it for him
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Reminder that it is possible for humans to become biologically immortal with shaping arts.
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>>349515
But he hit his mailbox when he drove in from the bar.
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>>349543
surely there must be some ways Soma can post, no matter how much he has to summon his inner drunken macgyver
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>>349534
wait we need a reminder already? did the participants get that bad?
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>>349613
Yes.
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reminder that both Mik and Thad are capable of designing a vacuum cleaner, one of the greatest overlooked inventions of all time

reminder that prof has an enchanted tattoo on his fleshy arm which soma probably forgot about

reminder that we can transmute our flesh into pseudometal and control electromagnetism well enough to create an armor of electricity

reminder that we can enchant shields and armor to electrify anything that strikes it or repels any unmarked iron, the marked iron being the wielder's own equipment

reminder that we can create equipment that conceals the wearer's body, vys, soul, etc

reminder that we're one spar away from being ready to create asura's wrath mode

reminder that you're not going to have any of this actually happen
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>>349825
>reminder that we're one spar away from being ready to create asura's wrath mode
We don't even need to spar, just use meditation on forms and we can train a martial art along some kind of magic at the same time.
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>>349900
not sure if that's true

/r/ confirmation
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>>349935
-Meditation on Forms: Allows you to gather vys and meditate, while at the same time improving your martial skill. At your level of martial expertise, provides a +4 bonus on meditation rolls and no longer increases the time it takes to meditate. This will improve as your martial talents improve.
Source: http://pastebin.com/Tu1sVEnQ
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>>349948
thanks senpai, it's hard to check shit on a tablet
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Markov chains of soma tweets are scarily accuate


Quest should start in 3-4 hours.
Thread tomorrow, around 1500 server time.
Quest moved to tomorrow.
Look for it around... 1500 server time.
Quest will also be canceled, I've gotta drive a few hundred miles.
Sorry for the threa
probably going to run late to make up for the thread.
Oh shit, forgot to mention, around 1500 server time.
Quest moved to tomorrow.
I really gotta ge
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>>350685
>Quest moved to tomorrow.
This is what is going to happen.
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Sorry folks no thread today. I stayed up all night drinking whiskey and only just woke up right now. I'm just gonna write the OP and post it on pastebin. Next thread in November.
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>>350881
you tried
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>>348456
What would it look like if we made the spear completely out of the ivory? Assuming we also added the Spell Magnification.
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>>350881
Spot on anon.
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Alright, well. Fuck me I guess. This is an objectively easy scene to write but for some reason getting words on a page is like pulling teeth.
I'll run tomorrow instead, and post up the OP on twitter when I get it done.
Sorry folks.
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>>351323
>no smug shota pic
Fuck he's serious.
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>>351323
Stay gone.
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>>350951
We should wait until we have access to euladian steel. Might serve well as a spearhead and bracers for the shaft.
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Seems like Soma wrote himself into a corner.
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>>351390
Been writing for a year now, two or three times a week, for 8 or so hours a time, in addition to schooling. It'd drain anyone.
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>>351406
>It'd drain any autistic pedophile.
Fixed.
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>>351323
Don't forget to announce on twitter that you cancelled the thread.
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So how long will the hiatus be, do you think?

Will he be back before Diarca?
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>>351323
>This Time for Real Edition
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>>351390
>into a corner.
Nigga, where's the corner?
The course forward is obvious. You're going into Elaudia, there's an objective to retrieve on the other side for a guy you know in a town that might not be there by the time you get back.

Writing yourself into a corner is reaching a point in the story where there's no obvious way to progress. It's sort of a logical conundrum. Like that old question "If God is all good and all powerful, why does evil exist?" That's an example of being written into a corner. You've established certain rules and then set up a situation where the only resolution is to break those rules. In the prior example, breaking one of the rules would be admitting that God is either not all powerful, or God is not all good. Of course, the way to avoid that corner is pretty obvious. God's perception of what constitutes good and evil could be vastly different from our own.

>>351422
You got it senpai.

>>351427
I'm not going on break for another two weeks-ish. Then I return to Dallas, and there's some sort of vacation planned, so I probably won't be running much for about three weeks until the start of the new semester.
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>>351484
>responding to my shitpost seriously
I'm dissapointed.
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>>351492
>Not treating each and every shitpost with the respect it deserves.
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>>351484
>God's perception of what constitutes good and evil could be vastly different from our own
Nice cop out desu
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>>351503
Well, you could pull a T-Aqua and just say that Goodness is defined by a being (in so far as everything is a "being") having that which it is right and proper for that being to have. Evil, then, is the absence of this metaphysical property of Goodness. However, under this definition everything, every action, and every creature contains some measure of the metaphysical Good, because presumably all things possess some of that which they are due.

Of course, that makes no mention of morality. Morality, to Aquinas, was simply that which was dictated by human reason. Thus any act which someone carries out freely and deliberately is directed by reason, it can be said to have all that which it is due and thus be 'good'.

Also note that since Evil is simply defined as the lack of, or as nonexistence, it technically falls outside of God's purview as the creator of all things. One does not create nonexistence, it's simply a contrast to existence. Defined relative to that state of being. God is only responsible for evil in so far as light is responsible for dark.
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>>351548
>God is only responsible for evil in so far as light is responsible for dark
Nice
Cop
Out
desu
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>>351548
That's some mighty fine pointlessly inapplicable philosophy there. Real nice defining his subjects to be virtually incompatible with the question.
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>>351323
Hey Soma. Why not write an omake? Since you're having so much trouble writing for Mik maybe a different character would be easier. Plus you still owe us roughly 1208499148289 omakes from various promises.
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>>351548
Well, while you're discussing hypothetical, can I get an answer to these three queries with the material we discussed last night?

>>348619
>>348634
>>348663
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>>351608
Fuck off Rob.
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>>348619
The spear in conjunction with a specialized technique would probably allow Darzi to one-shot a minor void entity pretty easily desu. Emphasis on minor. Ricky and similar tier entities could probably shrug it off.

More mundane folks, like say your average soldier or a big ass dinosaur, would be flashed cooked from the inside out if she could score a good hit.

>>348634
I honestly couldn't tell you until the technique is developed. I assume it's going to entail a little more than just using the enchantments placed on the spear in conjunction with mundane attacks, because pretty much all artifact weapons work that way. Anyway, this little bit extra would determine a lot about how the technique affects rolls.

>>348663
Well, I think Mik would logically be able to reason that pic related.
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>>351654
Hey Soma
>>349041
Can you answer that?
Are you ever going to write those omakes?
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>>351668
Thread never
omakes never ever
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>>351668
>>351654
>Aylin daily life side story
>Mahana shitting himself at ascended Mik
>Mahana's salty tears at getting second rate disciples compared to the one that got away
>BQ novel humie protag teaser
>Prof's most excellent adventure in the city
>Darzi's insecurity and burgeoning feelings for Mik omake
>Skull Kid doing ¡SCIENCE! omake
>Karim proudly bragging about Mik during his slamjam Illuminati meetings
>Varvar wreckin' shit in the void

I NEED THESE
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>>351717
>Soma
>Writing
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>>351668
I'd say minus the spell amplification it's a decent spear. Not masterwork quality but definitely a good, solid weapon. Masterwork quality weapons are those with a bonus equal to or above +8 cumulatively. So a +2/+6, +4/+4. +4/+2/+2. All of those would be masterworks. If your spear had a +4 to attack base in addition to a +4 to dodge, then it would be a masterwork quality weapon.

>Omakes
Eventually, I hope.
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>>351740
Another question
>(+6 to Spear and Unarmed combat. +4 to Long Swords and Daggers, +2 to Bows and Short Swords)
Shouldn't martial arts give some dodge bonus?
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>>351763
Some martial arts do, but Marsala Ve isn't really one of them. Marsala Ve is all about being direct, relentless, and acting without mercy.

You haven't unlocked all of the bonuses to Metal Martial Arts yet, but in the book the practitioners are often portrayed as doing flips n' shit.
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>>351768
One more reason to keep training it. Is the blocking bonus only for shields?
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>>351548
>Thus any act which someone carries out freely and deliberately is directed by reason, it can be said to have all that which it is due and thus be 'good'.

So basically Hitler did nothing wrong
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>>351771
With the Rhynian martial art, yes.

The metal martial art?
>Iron Body - Through relentless conditioning and the use of Metal Magic, one may render a shield redundant. Mikhael can block blows from weapons with any part of his body.

Which is totally OP because we our +18 metal bonus on top of our martial bonus. Which is sadly only +1 at the moment. Still, +19 total is nice.
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>>352558
reminder that avatar mode requires marsala ve training specifically
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>>352571
I super don't care about that.

Also if you're going to make up new bullshit combat techniques, you can make them out of whatever. Don't be lazy.
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>>352574
then you're a moron
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>>350814
>>351323
Markov chains tell the future confirmed
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>>352579
Nah, I just don't care about some fruity-named speshul technique.
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>>352602
>manifesting six arms of flame
>sporting the wrathful maw of surya himself
>becoming a whirlwind of blaze and martial glory

shit you're right mate that sounds gay as fuckkkk
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>>352607
It is pretty flaming desu
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>>352607
That does sound pretty gay.
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>>352614
if you think that's flaming just wait until we develop the husk-fueled version

the baby bearing varvar's reincarnated soul will get a boner in the womb over the amount of void scrubs we'll obliterate with that kind of divine fury
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Is there a enchanting rune or does the name of the language have a rune ?
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>I actually found an interesting looking treatise on water magic in the library at the estate.”

>“It was the critical analysis of an ancient legend your people once told, regarding a Vatis who could change his shape at will. They were called Sushila the Mad, and were able to change their form at will by rotting the flesh from their bones and healing themselves rapidly. The author found the idea ridiculous, stating that Sushila would need to be able to alter their perception of self at will. Personally, I found the concept interesting.”

Posting on the off chance it has some useful tidbit, a theory we haven't come up with or something.

Seriously, all these paths of study we can't follow are hurting me in the autism. Why couldn't this just be Magical Research Quest? Adventuring is for faggots anyway.
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>>353109
>a theory we haven't come up with or something
Nope, that's just GM Shaping combined with Water. Presumably GM Water, given their ability to rot off their own flesh.
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We could leave our companions in our magical realm and fly ahead with Zahak to the border of the jungle once we are done shopping. That would save us 1 day or 2 of travelling.
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>>353122
Yeah, but that's just the one part of the treatise. There might be more about this Sushi dude in there.

Also reminder that metal already allows for some limited temporary kind of shapeshifting when becoming metal, so meditating on the connection between that and shaping arts may provide a bonus, and combining the technique with water might net something akin to mercury form.
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Oh shit nigger

Does ice conduct electricity

Because point defense+metal reinforcement+reactive zapping sounds like a good upgrade to it
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>>353590
Shit, nevermind, it doesn't. But it could be kept wet, I suppose.

Also reminder that a ring of sustain(conceal(mind+soul)) would be super useful against a forest filled with Srsti's creations as well as pursuers from Maligned.



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