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Events Summary:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The party continued through the cavern, but were soon surrounded by a new enemy...

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Saily reminder.

It's shadowin' time!

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Ability Tree

GREEN abilities have been unlocked and learned.

BLUE abilties are unlocked, but are not yet purchased.

RED abilities are revealed, but locked due to prerequisites.

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

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

http://pastebin.com/jTS7uCVX

Books the Main Character has read can be found here:

http://pastebin.com/X59yWD5p

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Focus - With a burst of concentration, you can significantly improve your detection of both the mundane and magical, but you also drastically increase the risk of giving yourself away...

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Spells (and other abilities that DO use mana)
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Shadow Strike - Strike the foe with needles of darkness. (base power 2. Costs 2 mana)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Current Statistics:

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

Party Members:

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

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

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

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

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

Summoned:

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

Equipment:

Utility belt with purse

Inventory:

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

Current Location:

Tarun Gakth

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

Welcome back!

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>last time...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"How many would you say?"

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

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

"What do we do?" Flint asks.

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

You take off at a sprint through the caverns.

I had an idea for the vog.

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

Let's project Isolation all over them. That should fuck up their hivemind.

>>25122362
IT'S SHADOW TIME!

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

Keep up the wonderful quest.

>>25122458
time to put that nat 100 from last quest to use

>>25122362
Finally making a fucking thread! It'd been forever!

>>25122466
Not sure why my name came off. Oh well.

>>25122486
The president of the High Rollers club has arrived.

The party bursts forward. The two horses quickly trot while the rest run as fast as they can.

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

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

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

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

They dig up toward the surface.

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

"I can't sense anything."

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

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

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

What do you do?

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

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>EXP from worm battle: 2 (total: 2)
>humanity: 3 (total: 97)

>>25122466
I'm willing to try.

>>25122458
Don't forget about that 100 we rolled last night!

...please?

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

Rolled 71

>>25122507
>just physical attack, there's no time for a meal
remember to use shiva to attack multiple

>>25122507
Physical attack only. We'll eat when they retreat.

>>25122507
>>just physical attack, there's no time for a meal
or this
>>25122538

>>25122507
>physical attack + CONSUME
Do it as brutally as possible.

If these things are a hivemind, perhaps it will damage their cohesion of some of their number are suffering hideously.

>>25122538
I'll try that. You mean impression, right?

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>>25122362
I-I'm here on time for once... Neat.

>>25122507
if we get an auto 100 the physical and CONSUME! otherwise join it with that Isolation plan since we can't fail this roll

>>25122616
> we can't fail this roll
Unless SM makes us roll again anyway to see if we get a 1 and we get the 1.

>>25122538
Hmm, unveiling the shard of true darkness doesn't make us traceable like using Focus, right?

Vote 1:
>physical attack only

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

Vote 3:
>Impress them with Isolation, then physical attack (nat 100 goes to impression)

>>25122662
not hearing this tonight tsun tsun, tonight I say we go all out rolls or no rolls

>>25122507
>physical attack + CONSUME
We're getting faster with our CONSUME, we need the new abilities that their lifeforce will give us, and watching their brethern be eaten alive has got to horrify these things.

>>25122692
3

>>25122507
Use Shiva to kill them to death

>>25122616
We can't fail directly, consuming might still take long enough for the others to get themselves in serious trouble while we're away...

>>25122692
Vote 3.

>>25122538
I can dig it. I'm wondering if intimidating a hive mind would give a bonus or a penalty to the dice rolls, though...

Or at least ones that don't crit.

>>25122692
3

>>25122692
Since we got a nat 100, why don't we just
>CONSUME
without the physical attack?

>>25122692
2

>>25122692
3

>>25122692
3.

>>25122679

You don't understand the shard very well.

>>25122692
1

>>25122692
2
>physical attack + CONSUME

>>25122726

Because you don't want to waste it consuming a single Vog?

>>25122743
This is certainly true OOC, I'm guessing that IC Shadow's not much better off...

>>25122692
>2

>>25122692
3, we'll consume them when their reeling from the surprise round.

>>25122692
i'm feeling lucky
2

You voted 3, impression + physical attack.

Roll 1d100 for your actual attack

Rolled 97

>>25122840
MECHA SHIVA

Rolled 13

>>25122840

Rolled 80

>>25122840

>>25122845
Damn. The dice rolls will come to me, I swear.

>>25122692
3 for now. If we get 'em good, we can try to eat one or two whole while the others run!

Rolled 14

>>25122840
rolling

Rolled 24

>>25122840

>>25122843
>>25122845
>>25122863
keep

Rolled 19

>>25122840
COME ON

>>25122864
The dice gods have moved on from the Void to Dice Atheists.

You seize the Shard.

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

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

It shocks the cavern in a huge radius.

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

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


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

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

And then, you're through.

What do you do?

>try to consume as many as possible before moving on
>just keep moving
>have Xella guard you while you consume
>something else

>>25123102
>There is only Shadow, and Justice.
You mean there is only Shadow, right?

>>25123102
We can eat the remains later. Let's help the rest of our party out.

>>25123102
>>have Xella guard you while you consume

>>25123147
Unless, the Vog are fully routed. Then it's snacktime.

Rolled 66

>>25123102
>try to consume as many as possible before moving on
"xella, cover the rear of the rest of the group"

>>25123143
I dunno. We've got a high humanity rating and we've built the character up around the idea of natural rights and judging on an individual basis.

>just keep moving

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

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Well...

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

I think.

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In character, Shadow likes the idea of being an arbiter, or sorts. He is a rather logical sort of existence, isn't he?

>>25123102
>>try to consume as many as possible before moving on
>>just keep moving

>>25123102
>>try to consume as many as possible before moving on
We got this

>>25123211
That does seem to fit how we made the character out to be...

>>25123102
>>have Xella guard you while you consume
better be sure

>>25123102
>try to consume as many as possible before moving on

We should scoot, but I'll be damned if we don't get some xp from that.

Seems like most people want a snack.

Vote 1:
>Xella sticks with the party

Vote 2:
>Xella sticks with you

Rolled 7

>>25123302
1

>>25123302
2

I'll switch to 2

>>25123302
2

>>25123302
With us for a bit. We should tell the rest of the party what we're doing, though...

>>25123339
Good idea. We don't want Joey to piss himself from fear.

>>25123302
1

2.

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

Of their dick.

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

Roll 1d100

Rolled 50

>>25123443

Rolled 98

>>25123443

Rolled 31

>>25123443

Saint Peter guide my dice

Rolled 48

>>25123443

Rolled 39

>>25123443

>>25123471

nice

Rolled 26

>>25123443

HAHA TIME FOR SHADOW QUEST

<Keep moving! We'll take out any that follow!>

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

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

<Xella, stand guard.>

"Yes, Shadow."

She goes alert, eyes scanning the dark.

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

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

You consume 6 of the Vog.

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

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

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

What do you do?

>CONSUME
>run down the tunnel toward the party
>something else

>>25123716
Do we know exactly how many Vog?

>>25123716
>>run down the tunnel toward the party
suggest Shadow mask as first purchase

>>25123716
>run down the tunnel toward the party
Let's a go!

Rolled 88

>>25123716
Watter strike.

Drown them

>>25123716
Head back towards the party. We've had enough to eat for now.

>>25123716
I think we should run. No sense in pushing our luck here.

Towards the party. They can get into trouble very quick. And without the ability to see spirit runes they will get lost.

>>25123716
Time to go.

>>25123716

Rejoin the party, tell them to keep moving.

Really don't want to be experimenting with that thing right now, we have other concerns and in a tight, confined area.

>>25123716
head back! We have had a snack!

Rolled 1

>>25123716
>run down the tunnel toward the party
and buy observe and poison

Also, 9 xp.

1 more and we can buy another level of magic power.

>>25123797
ohh thank god he didnt call for rolls
sorry guys

>>25123756

There are 13 Vog left.

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

'Focus' might allow you to better detect the enemy. But they would quite certainly be made aware of you, if they aren't already.

>>25123716
move
>shadow mask
>observe
>iron stomach

>>25123801

You could buy that now. You have 11 total. You need ten for Magic Power 2.

>>25123813
MMMmmm going for go after the party, since we don't actually know how effective the Vog are yet

>>25123716
either>>25123822
or>>25123801

>>25123837
Oh noice. Thought it said 9 total.

Let's get that. Anyone else onboard magic power?

Time to test our other abilities. Kindle, Doom Aura, Poison, Observe. Should be interesting

>>25123837
Do it. We need more magic

>>25123797
Why do you think we haven't mobbed you with torches and pitchforks?

>>25123822
My vote is for this choice.

>>25123822

I would suggest

>soundless
>multishade
>something else

>>25123822
we really need mask and observe, and i think we've been ignoring iron stomach for to long
>>25123716

>>25123852
Hell yeah motherfucker

But magic power would also be good. Changing vote for magic.

>>25123837
I say yes to this. I feel like we've been cutting back on magic too much, and it looks super cool anyway.

>>25123852
I'd prefer to unlock a bit of the Summon Tree, myself.

>>25123837
Ah, fuck it, why not?

>>25123852
I'm down. Magic is really powerful. More mana, more power.

>>25123716
Fog and twisting gloom please, I want to get the most out of our stealth.

>>25123822
third/fourth
>>25123837

>>25123837
Buy that now

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>>25123892
My, mothafuckin nigga

>>25123822
I agree with this.

>>25123797
>>25123837
alright, switching from this to magic power. thought we didnt have enough

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>>25123837
Magic right meow.

>>25123900

seconding we have been neglecting our stealth for WAY to long now

>>25123822
these are good

>>25123822
magic detection is killing us
>>25123837

Rolled 60

>>25123813
I think we should buy mighty strength soundless and observe

>>25123822
Magic is our secondary, our limit break if you will. Voting for shadow mask and observe.

>>25123900
>Fog and twisting gloom please

By our stealths combined, we make CAPTAIN SHADOW!

Seriously though, why is the Lord of Shadows not stealthier?

>>25123980
ie magic detection
>buy shadow mask

>>25123967
Limit breaks are bad ass, voting for magic

You want to consume the others...but there's no sense pushing your luck. It's time to move on.

<Come. We're heading back.>

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

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

<...what?>

"...it is nothing."

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

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

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

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

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

What do you do?

>fly in silence
>add something else (write-in)

>>25123980
Because we are Justice, and mama Shadow didn't raise no bitch

>>25123994
<Are souls your only nourishment, or just another fetish of yours?>

>>25123994

fly in silence.

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

Hopefully.

Can't really stealth with a party. Anon like to run Shadow in open warfare half the time. We haven't even touched the summoning tree and magic needs improvement baaadly~

>fly in silence
And grab magic power on the way

>>25123994
Do we actually CONSUME their souls, or just their lifeforces and bodies? We nourishment from CONSUMption of food.
It seems that this is actually a different type of CONSUMption

>>25123994
Don't care which we do. I wanna get magic power 2 though.

>>25123994
>>25123822

>>25123994
We should probably give Xella authorization to eat the souls of adversaries in combat, if she wants to.

>>25123994
<So how do you normally hunt for sustenance? Is it purely from that "attack" you tried on me during the battle?>

>>25124037
Summoning just looks really really bad without a larger mana pool.

>>25124037
I really like summoning in all things I do and we'll probably need an army eventually because of how we seem to be doing things.so I'll always push for it, and the magic is really powerful so far

>>25123994
<If it means endangering your life than I would see it differently, but to talk of stripping another of their soul for no true reason is.....saddening>

>>25124045
I think we eat the souls. It's why we get exp from consuming a living or recently slain enemy, but not from long dead foes.

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>you've purchased Magic Power 2!
>you now have a maximum of 20 mana!

Mana: 15/20
EXP: 1

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

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>>25124087
Seconding. It would be hypocritical not to.

>>25123994
<I will admit, consuming the Vog, that was purely for a selfish reason. They attacked my friends with possible intent to harm them or kill them. I have few things of worth in this world. My friends are my most precious of them.>

I'm just waiting for one of the side characters to actually bring forth a logical and effective argument against us. We've been "in the right" so often that it's actually beginning to get boring.

>>25123994
<Those who seek to take life must be ready to lose their life. Those who sought my end only had what they wished to steal from me taken instead.>

>>25124165
Sweeeet.

Now we can get into summoning when we grab more xp!

>>25124165
>>25124105
well, that is just plain useful

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>>25124165
>Summoning I - level 1 and 2 summons will not break from your control

>>25124021
>>25124087
>>25124089
>>25124115
>>25124169
All of these, if possible.

>>25124165
>summoning 2 exp
>1 exp remains
SOON

So, what should we get as our first summon?

I like fae, since it's fire. The only 'higher' element summon we have available there.

Magic power is fun, but I'd like to buff our physical stats up some more. A lot of our recent fights have been close calls.

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

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

Better to be a master of one than a jack of all.

>>25124226
ghoul

>>25124169
i like this. it shows we are not a perfect character. and also we could probably point out that this kind of thinking is probably what started the great war, but it is a subtle trap to fall into

>>25124198
Agreed, plus this >>25124185. There's just too much good stuff there.

To Xella a soul is just like meat. She eats it survive. Demons are to souls as vampires are to blood. The difference is that souls are the last remnant of a things existence. We do not know where the souls go. But if Xella eats them that is the end. For those that are irredeemable we will consider it. For all we know the souls reincarnate without memory a blank slate or they reincarnate with full memories. Or drift in a different place. But such introspection should be left for another time.

>>25124226
ghoul. its stealthy, and unlocks other shadows.

>>25124236
Not really. Since the elements all have differing levels of effectiveness versus eachother.

>>25124236
>Better to be a master of one than a jack of all.

Anon is wise.

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

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

>>25124198

I think so too.

Writing.

>>25124226
Ghoul all the way.

>>25124226
Personally I like Ghost or Ghoul, but Fae gives us 2 options after it so I'd vote for that

>>25124270
I think ghouls are Spirit aligned, seeing as that what Adavan had summoned to fight us towards the beginning of the quest.

>>25124295
>>25124185
this to if possible

>>25124298
Ghoul gives two options as well.

>>25124306
nah, the right tree is shadows and undead. but all summoning is realy spirit aligned. spirit is the summoning magic

>>25124306
ghoul leads back into the magic tree though

>>25124323
ah, so it does. Off the summoning track though

>>25124345
still, what if its magic power?

>>25124339
>>25124345
it might. but the servant bubble lets us see that the summoning tree extends a to the right and a little up. so it implies that there is a tree in the direction that might meet up with magic

Didn't Flint say that if we started summoning shit he'd call off our partnership?

And I think that Cone of Destruction might work good for us. Since we're so damn fast, we can rush in with a tackle, then blast them while they're down.

There's a ton of low cost stuff in the Shadow tree that we should really be grabbing before branching out further, IMO.

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

They may not be as fancy as the higher stuff but they'd offer some amazing potential combos and buffs for less cost.

>>25124411
not really

>>25124411
Well we just summoned Xella so i think he's pretty OK with it, unless we go full Dark overlord mode

>>25124411
That was a long time ago, like in thread 4 or something, and that was about trying to take over the undead that was attacking Jacob's Field. He's long over that, considering how loyal we are to him, and vice versa.

>>25124448
Summon thousands of wisps.

Wisplord.

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

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

"Thank you."

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

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

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

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

<What do you mean, exactly?>

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

>con't

I just don't think that summoning is really our thing. We have our wisp, and we've steadfastly ignored it entirely. I think that trying to keep track of a bunch of summons would bog us down, both in game and in meta, as we all argue the best ways to use our minions.

>>25124474
20 wisps, all with our stealth bonuses
>mother of god

>>25124474
Let's summon a shitload of wisps and have them form into a combining wisp-mecha!

>>25124419

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

Being the utility has its benefits but there are some very low hanging fruit in the Shadow tree we have yet to pick up.

I think we need an inventory of all our available non-spell options on a spreadsheet in group type. Its getting kind of large. Its been a while since we used crunch, barrier of darkness, and spirit whip

>>25124504
GIGAAAAAA SHADOW BREAKAAAAAH

>>25124527
We used spirit whip to cut the arms off Isolation.

>>25124488
19. They all disappear when we lose our last point of mana.

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>>25124554
We could totally summon up a shitton of Wisps, we can do nothing with for intimidation

>>25124295
About this. We're pretty far into physical and our magic seems to be doing pretty well but stealth is severely lacking. I hear the point about not being jack of all, but I'm worried that charging in isn't going to work every time. It would be silly to assume it always will. Fighting face to face has worked pretty well so far but considering our story so far it seems reasonable that there are going to be things far outclass us.

TL;DR need some stealth

>>25124527
I think that Shadow Master applies them when they're appropriate.

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

Though if we didn't, then we really need to decide between Physical or Magical. Because it's gonna be rough trying to keep the extremes of both branches in mind when we're fighting. As it is, I feel that we might get bogged down by our options.

>>25124578
Goddamn it. We should have done that when we still had access to the Mana Pool...

>>25124597
>things that far outclass us

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

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

We have the capability to be a truly horrendous thing to fight. I want to pursue that, not spread ourselves out evenly over everything in a vain attempt to cover weaknesses. It'll work for now, but when we run up against an extreme foe, we won't be able to compete.

>>25124671
It seems like long term goal is peace, however so magic and summoning, could be more useful in a wider scale battle

>>25124671
I agree for the most part but I worry a bit about fighting a heavy magic user. Most of our enemies have been physical but every time we've gone against mages they've torn us up. I think physical/defense should still be our main focus but goals like Hydra seem less useful than steath. I don't want to see Mr. Shadow charge up to some archmage and get his facd blown off or be bound in a second.

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<Consider me young,> you say. <My knowledge is marked with holes.>

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

<I have not.>

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

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

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

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

"I suppose so."

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

"Indeed."

<Then I'll work on it.>

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

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

"I understand the usefulness of power."

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

"Why?"

>con't

The bats are now wisps.
Anything is possible when you have magic.

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>>25124784
>We can invent shit
Well I'm all for magic and Summoning now, if I wasn't before

>>25124784
><...then I must make rocks into water?>

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

<Why is what wrong?>

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

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

What is your response?

>write-in

>>25124880
for some reason i am getting superman vibes from this. anyone want to pull out some man of steel to go with all this I AM THE NIGHT?

>>25124880
"I am different, but that does not make me greater. I may be stronger and tougher, but that does not mean that I have more worth than others. We are all equal in our ability to think, to feel, to suffer, to hope. It is who we are, not what we are, that determines value."

>>25124880
<Being higher does not make me better. I have seen my superiority to most as well as my inferiority to them, but being such is only what I was born as. What matters in life isn't what you are or how others perceive you, its what you choose to be despite all that>

>>25124784
Well, I know that this won't be added in, but I just feel like it would be right to say this.

<Xella. I am a shadow elemental. One of the most feared things humans know of. I have been hated for simply being what I am, accused of doing deeds that I had no inclination of doing. If you are the same as me, wouldn't it be nice if you could walk down a street without being hated and feared, and to have others who support and appreciate you for simply being you?>

>>25124880
<From what I have heard, Erebus' followers placed believed him above all others. And perhaps he was. But it caused nothing but strife. I refuse to make the same mistakes he did. I will be better.>

>>25124880

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

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

>>25124913

(That's kind of what I'm drawing on for my response, actually.)

>>25124880
<Explain to me in what way being stronger makes the rest of the world my prey? The logic behind that statement seems very clouded in your own preconceptions. If the world really worked that way, then the Great Elementals would have killed all life on this planet. Instead they gifted man with their powers and helped them flourish.>

>>25124964
>placed believed
Yeahh... Remove one of those

>>25124880
<Because being at the top of the peak is lonely, without someone to share in the story being made.>

>>25124880
Superior physically? magically? Perhaps. But war and combat are not life, Xella. I have been around for such a short while and learned so much. Humanity teaches me something new everyday. I was a feral blob once, lurking in a graveyard. But now? I have learned of compassion, anger, justice, hatred, love. I want to feel, to understand and to learn. These people all know and live these emotions. I dream of such an existance.

>>25124880
<Just because I may be more powerful, it does not mean my life has any more meaning then another's>

>>25124784
>I don't doubt you could erase me, should you chose to do so.
<And if I chose to do so, how would you feel about that? Would you willingly submit and allow yourself to be consumed without protest? I think not. Humans may be our inferiors, but they value their lives no less dearly than you or I value our own, and suffer no less keenly when deprived of it. The decision to kill a sentient being should never be taken lightly.>

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>/tg/ wrestling with questions of morality and ethics and responsibility
>and coming up with some kickass monologues in the process

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

>>25124949

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

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

While I sympathize with your choice of dialogue, it just isn't the right tone, you know?

>>25125036
It surely isn't the dice.

>>25125036
And they say /tg/ is going downhill. Pah.

Rolled 90

>>25125058
Dammit, forgot how to dice.

>>25125036
>I knew there was a reason why I love this board.

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

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

Well, let me try to put this together...

>>25125075
"They" can't even tell that they've been sitting in the ditch the entire time.

Pity.

>>25125075
It went downhill for awhile, as a bunch of people seemed to leave, but as always more people like SM filled the Gaps

>>25124880
<To be greater is to stand alone. Superiority only separates you from those you wish to stand by. I began as nothing, no voice, no knowledge, not even a name. Everything I am, everything I will be, is what I choose not what the world chooses.>

>>25125093
>This is cool. It's like you guys are chiseling the character from marble, and I apply the file to smooth out the edges.

You like Gargoyle Quest, don't you SM.

I wish I had that spongebob pic.

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>>25125093
Damn, nigga that shit's biblical

>>25125050
Yeah, I know... (kicks stone at feet) ...stupid SM, ruining my plans for major feels moment...

>>25125117
>are thou feeling it now Shadow Master?

>>25125101

I've been here for about three years. I think there's more quest threads now, but you guys still have some of the best discussions out of any of the boards.

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>>25125117

Follow my template. Is that all I am, a template? All these memories, emotions. Do they mean nothing. If summoned another succubus would she be you. Maybe with a different hair color or different structure. But to me physical structure is hardly defined. I met another shadow elemental. It was feral. Exactly as the humans described. What separated me from it was my mind. But there was something else. Through kinship I knew of its loneliness. I know you know the pain of non-existance. Do you spend energy like that or are you simply idle? Unable to do anything.

>>25124880
I understand my potential, but that does not define me. I could be just like Raziel, oppressively dominating anything that won't conform to views. I could be another Erebus, having the whole world bathed in my starving wasteland of ever present dark. I -could-. But I don't, and I'll never stoop to such lows. Xella, I strive to be something the world is convinced I can never be, it comes as no surprise that angel and succubus alike cannot comprehend my motives. In the future, you may never come to accept what I've chosen as my path- however, I will endeavor to forge a shared understanding between us.

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>>25125117
this one?

>>25125014
I like it. Framing the issue in terms of self interest should help her understand it a bit better.

Not to start anything, but I think Xella should be one of the first we gift with shadow.

Maybe the added element of shadow will allow us to better manipulate her nature, and separate her from the issues demons have?

>>25125233
Servant does not allow us to control them.

SM you really need to change the name so people stop thinking this.

>>25125233
first she has shadow
two it doesnt give control
3 servant on a summon, way to waste 15exp

>>25125254
No.. Very much no.

Humans inferior? In what way? Do think in terms of your template. Judging them in combat, magic, and physicality? There is more, so much more them then those few notions. I admit combat and magic are how I survive but there is more to existence than that.

>>25125283
Meant to link to>>25125233

>>25125233
Yeah, I'll agree with that. We should find out a bit more about that "Humanization" thing and she if she would prefer that, though...

>>25125233
Fuck no.

>>25125233
I'd prefer Gifting Xella over Abigail anyday, do to the fact that Xella's a combat experienced succubus, and Abigail is a ten year old.

>>25125233
Joey seems more fitting in my opinion

>>25125233
Read the daily reminder. No waifuing the succubutt.

In fact, she should get unsummoned asap to prevent you doorknob chewers from doing something retarded like using servant on her

>>25125233
Nah. She already has a very high power level, and she's basically immortal since we can re-summon her if she's killed.

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

>>25125350

I think we were worried about how Auriel would react.

Plus, I'd rather like to see Joey find his own strength rather than us just handing it to him.

>>25125349
servant her, she dies. not servant when resummon her, why is this a good idea again?

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Anyone else think of Iron Giant while reading through these, because I did.

>>25125302
>>25125349
Jesus christ listen to yourselves.

No. nononononononononononononononononono.

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

I kept quiet about unsummoning her, because I thought you guys might be reasonable. I was wrong. She needs to get gone. Now. Get rid of her.

>>25125353
I know! Let's give our Shadowgift to a rock, so we can get it under our wing and romance it!

>>25125385

Yeah, it's no coincidence that the other thing that got mentioned was Superman.

>>25125349
>>25125350
>>25125372
>>25125373
IF we servant anyone, Abigail is our best CURRENT choice

>>25125233
That would overwrite the fire elemental portion of her nature and probably kill her you realize?

>>25125396
Latch licker get out.

>>25125373
I don't know, I thought the sage implied that he wouldn't survive this unless he trusted us enough to empower him?

>>25125395
Honestly, it's only if we have to gift at all. I'd much rather keep the xp for ourself. Too much neat shit to bother with that.

>>25125400
I'd rather wait until we actually -have- a consistent rate of double digit exp before we think of gifting ANYONE.

>>25125373
Well we could always just give him a abit of power, and discuss it with him fo course, he seems like one of the few people that has been easily open to us, plus he could turn out to be Flint shadow edition
>>25125400
Abigail would also be a good choice, A knight and a mage together is always a good combination though

>>25125395
>she needs to be gone
No, she doesn't. She has proven to be useful in battle. If Shadow cares about defending his companions, she can help with that. If he cares about regaining his memories, she can help with that. For 0 mana. We should just use her for our own devices and let her parish in battle.

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

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

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

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

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

>con't

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

I'd say we use it on Abigail if she wants dat magic power.

>>25125396
ROKKU-CHAN I RABE U!!!

>>25125453
She is infinitely more poisonous to this quest than she is helpful. Get rid of her. If you knob nibblers could be sensible about this, she could stay. But you aren't, so she must go.

Get rid of the fucking succubus.

>>25125471
We're Flint's best friend and we're a shadow elemental.

>>25125489
What has she done that has harmed our cause?

I just got here and boy you guys are upset about something SM already said isn't going to happen.

>>25125489
>She is infinitely more poisonous to this quest than she is helpful

So are you

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

That rock is lookin' pretty good, eh?

>>25125489
>she is more poisonous than helpful
How? She hasn't harmed anyone yet, she hasn't even tried--only hinted at it. She has, however, helped us defeat foes, watched our back while we were CONSUMING, and told us information about the parasite.
If you mean that by "muh waifu", then you're being a retard. No one here wants a waifu, we're a goddamn genderless shadow, what good would a waifu do us?

<You belittle yourself,> you say. <You were made from a template, but you are not that template. If you can think, you must therefore have the potential to grow beyond that. It is not what we are, or how others perceive us, that determines our value. It is who we choose to be that is important. The world does not lock us into predetermined motions, simple roles that we must play as if we have no will of our own. What I am - what I will be - will be as I choose, and of my own making. No one else's.

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

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

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

You fly the rest of the way in silence.

>con't

>>25125517
>>25125514
Don't bother replying to him, he goes away if you ignore him long enough.

The succubus is a weapon. With a human face. It's primary weapon is deception secondary is magic. What else are we going to use it for. The only way she's getting more powerful is feeding her souls. Who says all that she says is true. Of course this conversation happened away from the others because it is of a sensitive matter. But remember the warnings. Demon summoning marks the soul. They are known for corruption. The huge demon that we slayed was summoned by someone, that if rumors are true, is going or has gone completely insane. Tread lightly.

>>25125514
She's dangerous to the integrity of this quest. Poster's proposed actions have proven that she is not something that can exist without being a problem.

It's like leaving a gun in the playpen. Nobody in their right mind would ask "what has the gun done?"

>>25125473
Goddamnit. Why did I laugh?

>>25125465

Jesus Christ, how much clearer can this get?

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

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

>>25125554
Nigga, your grammar.

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>>25125465
>>25125537

Now just to wait and watch and see if our words pay off with her own actions.

>>25125588
How much clearer can /this/ get?
>>25125537

>>25125588
>Xella does not understand morality, and never will
Nigger, what? She's already begun to see our side of things

>inb4 she just says "I don't get it, but I will obey you."

>>25125588
So we need to learn magic construct programming? Time to start buying into the summoning tree.

>>25125588

We're giving her a chance.

The same chance that we used to carve our own path.

>>25125554
Considering what we just learned about demon creation, I think the problem is that the person who summoned that Demon Lord didn't have the same amount of magic power/force as the person who originally created it.

Holy shit Xella sucks.

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

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

Can we please, please, just get rid of her?

>>25125588
We really ought to just point her at our enemies and tell her to go have fun.

Like, back when we were raiding the encampment of the army that attacked Jacob's Field, she'd have been awesome at thinning the ranks.

You land once more, then continue flying. It isn't long before you hear the clomping of boots and horses on the cavern floor.

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

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

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

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

<Are they that dangerous?>

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

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

"Good work," Obis says.

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

You get a chorus of "no's".

What do you do?

>try using Focus
>keep moving. You've made good progress
>something else

>>25125697
>And then there's the few people that actually look like they might want to
"waifu her" should be at the end of that sentence.

>>25125582
Because

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

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

3) Admit it. Both 1 and 2 are true.

>>25125697
Majority rules, and it seems like, no matter how much anti-waifu faggots want to use caps lock, they want heer to stay.
It's in character for us to keep her, and less for us to kick her out.