>>25363764
Holy shit perfect timing

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Events Summary:

You disguised yourself as a subordinate of the lich, Magnock, to infiltrate his base and save your friends.

However, before you could escape, the lich Yi Fang appeared, backed by powerful angels and the forces of the Ringed City. Fang destroyed Magnock with ease, and you confronted him, prepared to hold out while your friends teleported to safety. To your surprise, Fang was willing to negotiate, and quickly wrapped you up in a scheme to escape back to Archon right under the nose of the angels.

It wasn't long before you encountered Sandalphon - the Most High, leader of the angels. While Abigail avoided notice, he honed in on you, demanding that Fang, who was pretending that you were his summon, turn you in for study. Unwilling to endanger your allies, you submitted to capture.

The angel Michael, one of the greatest healers in the world, is responsible for your 'examination'. But a curse he received from a Demon Lord twisted his mind into that of a psychotic madman - and you were at his mercy.

Auriel is working with him to restore her powers. You communicated with her telepathically, begging her for help and informing her of Michael's insanity. Before she acted, however, you managed to burst free of your cage and attack and consume Michael.

You snuck into the city sewer's and used them to access the underground complex holding the souls of many Shadow and Spirit mages captive. You destroyed the magic holding them in place - and the suddenly-freed slaves immediately turned on their masters, throwing the city into chaos.

Intent on helping them escape, you rushed to the Airship Noiralev to consume its core and use its power, but you ran into Auriel and Flint in the engine room. They explained that they'd found the remains of one of Michael's victims. That - combined with Flint's encouragement, and her own experiences - has lead her to put her trust in you.

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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:

http://pastebin.com/zYkUY1zM

Books the Main Character has read:

http://pastebin.com/dAXR00gP

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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. (think sonic ping)

Deep Focus - Long-range focus with heightened detection and scouting ability, but with a correspondingly higher chance of revealing yourself.

Berserk - Ignore your defenses and strike all around you in a vicious physical assault. Difficult to determine friend from foe.

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Hot damn we are rolling high on JUSTICE now.

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Shadow Eater - Eat an enemy's shadow for a small heal. Their shadow will regenerate over the course of a day. However, things might turn sour if they notice their shadow is missing...

Doom Aura - Puts out all lights in an area at once. Large penalty to dodge if used during battle.

Compress - By sacrificing strength and defense, you can compress yourself and your aura to the size of a small mouse, greatly increasing dodge and physical and magical stealth. Warning: requires a turn to activate and deactivate.

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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)

Shadow Beam - A concentrated beam of shadow power. Attacks faster than shadow strike/assault, and is more accurate. (Costs 6 mana; 6 base damage)

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

Nightblaze - Cancel enchantments and spells in an area around you. Success and range based on mana spent. (Spend 4 to 10 mana. Radius: 30 feet. Additional 20 feet per mana. Alternate: Spend 10 mana to attempt to cancel any one single spell in sight-range with a greatly enhanced success rate)

Shadowmeld - Magic-based stealth. Pay any amount of mana. Physical and magical stealth increases based on how much mana was spent until stealth is broken. Can be used to re-stealth mid-battle.

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.

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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]

>>25363810
Dat jpg!

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Current Statistics:

HP: 46/56
Mana: 13/20
EXP: 3
Humanity: 184
Temerity: 178
Shards of True Darkness: 2 (Isolation, Hunger)

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.

Angel Auriel - Formerly a powerful angel of the Ringed City. Wears heavy plate steel and wields a one-handed sword and a wide, round buckler. 732 years old.

Summoned:

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

Equipment:

None

Inventory:

None

Current Location:

Ringed City

>>25363782
find this, first time live SM.......... is lying in bed about to sleep. MFW!
also, make sure you get as many as the shadow mages as you can. couldn't believe when i read the last one and auriel was the one taking the initiative one that, wtf guys?

imustrep persons
- so trap persons guys :)

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>Last time...

<Auriel.>

The angel stops for a moment.

<Thank you.>

She doesn't respond, but continues on out of the room.

You turn to Flint.

"So," he says. "How's it going?"

<...I've been better. But I don't think I'll ever have a better friend than you.>

"...Shadow...what's happening right now...it's going to change things," he says. "You have to be careful."

<I might not have time to be careful, Sir Flint.>

"Always with Sir Flint," he mutters. "Just call me Donovan already."

<As you wish, Donovan.>

He makes a face. "When you say it like that, it barely makes a difference."

<Do you wish to know what happened?>

Flint pauses for a moment, then nods. "Tell me everything."

So you do. You send him impressions of everything that happened.

At the end of it, Flint's sitting on the floor, breathing hard. "...holy shit. That was one fucked up maniac you ate."

<Where is Abigail, and Obis?>

"Abigail is with Fang. In Archon, I'd presume," he says. "Obis mentioned that he wanted to find that Blackwater person. He said he was headed for Port Vanta. That was a week ago, though, now."

The airship begins to turn. You both shift slightly as the momentum changes.

"Attention, crew of the Noiralev!" Auriel's voice comes in crackly over the loudspeakers. "This is Auriel Lightchosen, Fifth Highest. I'm now the commanding officer on this ship. And if you chose to remain, you - along with myself, and Lieutenant Tyrael - are now traitors to the order of the Most High."

You and Flint both look at each other, then back to the speaker.

>>25363764
It's SHADOW TIME!

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"For some hundred years, I have begun to doubt," Auriel says. "I have heard the whispers. In public, I denied them. But in my heart...in my heart, they have grown. Silently, and in great uncertainty. But they are there, and I believe this is the day on which they have been realized.

"When the Ring City was founded - when I helped found it - I rejoiced, for I believed we had brought from the ashes of the Great War the new seed of civilization. When the elections for the first ruling council of Heavensgate were held, I was there to shake the hands of those who wanted to build a new home for their people. With great hope, I believed something new would come from this. Something great. We would have peace.

"When Sandalphon appointed himself leader of the council, years later - I said nothing, for we faced great danger from Archon. We needed strength.

"When Sandalphon authorized the enslavement of Shadow mages, I said nothing, because I believed it was necessary to maintain peace.

"When we established full military rule over the Empire to fight the 60 Years War, I said nothing, because I believed it was necessary. And I said nothing when Sandalphon extended that dictatorship indefinitely, because we then faced the Black Lady.

"How is it, that what began in such hope, ended in constant, unending war? The common denominator, in this, is not our enemies. They have changed. No - the common thread throughout all of this, has been us.

"Long have I meditated on this subject, and I realize that the reason I stayed silent was for the same reason we all stayed silent: because I was a coward. Because I was afraid of being labeled a sympathizer. Because I was afraid to believe that those of the lesser elements could be good, could be pure, because of what they had done to me. Because I was afraid that peace would make me, in all my strength, irrelevant, and that I would live out my days as an artifact of lessons learned.

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"The time to speak has come and gone - and I said nothing. But today, I hope to make up for my own cowardice.

"Look out the windows. See our own city be destroyed by our own forces because Sandalphon cannot tolerate the idea that the Shadow might be free.

"But I tell you this: if we never give them a second chance, then we don't deserve one ourselves. This is what I have come to believe. I refuse to abide by laws that have grown stale and corrupt with mindless repetition. Today, I do what I believe is right.

"The Noiralev turns onto the Ring City. We are going to extract as many shadow mages as we can, and then we are going to run. And from there - we forge our own path. If that doesn't sound like something you're interested in, then get the hell off my ship. No hard feelings.

"Full speed toward the city. Raise the main front shields! Half power to the side cannons, one quarter top and bottom! Move it!"

The voice cuts out.

"...I think I might be in love," Flint says. He looks at you. "Told you she'd come around."

<...good call.>

The speaker next to you both crackles. "Hey, you two! What's it look like down there?"

"Uh...uh...uh..." Flint darts around the room. The machines churn and pound in haste, and the sound increases as energy is shunted to various parts of the ship. "...everything looks fine! Power readings good!"

"Shadow, do something useful and get on that damn dynamo. Give it some juice or something!"

<How?>

"I don't know! Do Shadowy stuff!"

Her voice cuts out.

<That was not helpful.>

Flint just shrugs.

>con't

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>>25363857
>"This is Auriel Lightchosen, Fifth Highest. I'm now the commanding officer on this ship. And if you chose to remain, you - along with myself, and Lieutenant Tyrael - are now traitors to the order of the Most High."

FUCK YES.

LET'S DO THIS SHIT.

He thinks for a moment, then looks around the room. He jogs up to a panel full of buttons and dials, and, after a brief search, finds what he's looking for, and hits it.

A screen above the panel lights up. You can see a view of the mountains behind the ship. "...that's the aft...let's see..." He flicks a nob near the button.

The view jumps to the bow of the ship. You can see the battle in progress, crystal clear - horribly clear. A cloud of angels sits above the city, channeling their power into some kind of huge spell that radiates out in a massive circle of light. It spins slowly. You can feel the energy building.

Smaller battles play out below. Clouds of shadow burst against walls of light. Beams of magic flicker and strike against one another like a laser light show. Inside the city, a great cloud of shadow is beginning to build, forming into what seems to be some kind of large, enveloping shield. Territories are firmly established - the angels, above and around the city, and the shadow mages within it.

"...that spell..." Flint whispers. He's staring at the giant, glowing ring. "That's the Sun Call. Elements preserve us."

<What's the Sun Call?>

Flint ignores your question and pounds another button. He shouts into the speaker. "Auriel...uh...Captain!"

"What?" comes an annoyed squack.

"That spell! Do you see that?!"

"I'm staring at it out the bridge windows."

"We've got to stop that thing! They're going to anihillate the entire city! There's innocent people down there, for Light's sake!"

"I'm aware," Auriel says. "Shadow! Whatever you're going to do to help, it better happen, fast!"

What do you do?

>consume the dynamo; use the raw power to attack
>latch onto the dynamo; try to direct its power
>leave the ship, and try to disrupt the building spell
>some other strategy

When we get the chance, we should ask Auriel how she did the words coated in magic thing

>>25363897
>latch onto the dynamo; try to direct its power

Rolled 47, 30, 93, 85, 56 = 311

>>25363897
Boost the dynamo

>>25363897

We need to get the mages out of there before the angels nuke them all. I'm having trouble figuring out how we can use the dynamo and the airship to collect them all.

>>25363889

>latch onto the dynamo; try to direct its power

Try to make it spin faster?

>>25363897
>latch onto the dynamo; try to direct its power
YARR MATIES! FULL POWER TO THE FOWARD BATTERIES! OPEN FIRE ON THESE ANGELIC SCALLYWAGS!"

>>25363900
Woops,
>>25363897
>>latch onto the dynamo; try to direct its power
Try to direct the shadow power at them.

>>25363897
>>latch onto the dynamo; try to direct its power

Gotta spin fast!

>>25363897
>latch onto the dynamo; try to direct its power

We still need this airship to function to get out of here when we're done. Can't afford to destroy the dynamo now.

>>25363897
>latch onto the dynamo; try to direct its power
Lets see if we can use it to direct a full power Nightflare into the spell. even if it doesn't totally cancel it, it should disrupt it enough to buy time.

>>25363897

Mass Destruction Spell, Meet Anti-Magic Field Spell...

>>25363927
yes, this

>>25363943
seconded

Attempt to interact with the core to make it give off more power. We are the commanding force of that element, make it obey. Feel how it moves within the core, empower it.

>>25363975
Ah, first things first. Suppress the hunger shard.
We don't want any influence from any partially subsumed shadows.

>>25363975
I should add, our ship has cannons and if we manage to make the dynamo more powerful, those cannons would obviously have more power as well. The ship itself appears to have power redirecting systems which are apparent when listening to the captain's commands.
We'll get full power to the weapons even without forcing it ourself, better make it count.

>want to suggest something ingenious involving the core and some unlocked abilities
>brain too stupid to put things together into harmony or even remotely put 2 & 2 together
>fudgemunchkins

Rolled 60, 17, 34, 19, 20 = 150

>>25363994
and now you gave him an idea

>>25363897
>latch onto the dynamo
Try to resonate with it and then direct it's power.

We should probably send out a call for the shadow mages to converge on our location, having them shove energy into our hunger shard should allow us a number of options, like busting the ships shields beyond the absurd with Isolation or manually activating and empowering the teleportation systems.

You leap onto the dynamo.

Your senses jolt with a sudden, newfound awareness. You can feel the ship. Lines of mana extend from the dynamo - from you - like veins. The magic shielding surrounding the hull feels like a second skin that you can morph at will. The system directs itself, but you feel as though you could push, shove, override the programming that's already there.

<Auriel!> you shout. <What are we aiming at?!>

"The spell, dammit!" she says through the speaker. "No point if that thing destroys all the mages, and the rest of the city with it."

Flint shakes his head. He's covering his eyes with his hands. "...I can't believe Sandalphon would think like this. If he can't control them, he'll just kill them all, the city included?"

<Believe it,> you say.

You feel the guns on the front of the ship slowly swivel to face the ring of light. What do you do?

>spin the dynamo like a top, pushing more power into it.! Trust the Captain to do her thing.
>try to imbue the dynamo with a flavor of your own...Shadow Beam. Kill the angels, kill the spell.
>We're trying to avoid destruction. Nightblaze is the way to go. Just target the magic.
>some other strategy.

>>25364026
>>We're trying to avoid destruction. Nightblaze is the way to go. Just target the magic.

>>25364026
>We're trying to avoid destruction. Nightblaze is the way to go. Just target the magic.
Voting.

>>25364026
>We're trying to avoid destruction. Nightblaze is the way to go. Just target the magic.

>>25364026

The leadership is corrupt, not the soldiers.

Nightblaze.

>>25364026
Nightblaze! Hopefully the ship is immune, right?

>>25364026
Target the magic. We don't want collateral and nightblaze has proven incredibly effective so far.

Rolled 18, 54, 81, 29, 48 = 230

>>25364026
Wait, nightblaze is centered on us right?
anyway, shadow beam

>>25364026
>We're trying to avoid destruction. Nightblaze is the way to go. Just target the magic.
and >spin the dynamo like a top, pushing more power into it.!

>>25364026
>>We're trying to avoid destruction. Nightblaze is the way to go. Just target the magic.
NIGHTBLAZE ALL DAY ERRYDAY

>>25364066
We can be the center of the nightblaze sphere or it can be targeted at a specific spell.

>>25364026
Also,
>interacting with dynamos like this makes us part of the ship

Do you know what kind of worm can you just opened SM? The sheer possibilities?

>>25364066
We can also launch it at a specified target.
Though it says we have to be able to see it.
We probably can do it with magic-vision though.

A bit afraid channeling anti-magic through the systems may mess up the ship. Still voting for it, let the cannons do the job they were made for: To focus the magic pumped into them.

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>>25364067
>spin the dynamo
>like a top

Sure, that's totally the metaphor we're thinking of...

>>25364026
I'd say night blaze, we want to avoid collateral damage, as in, what we're trying to prevent them from doing...

>failing here could kill everything

>>25364108
>we are aware.

>>25364114
>i'm just so tense, hold me

>>25364118
>I don't deal well with people in heightened emotional states. Sorry.

>>25364108

There are plenty of places where we could've died from our failure. We were dangerously close to failing to sway Auriel to our side last night. We can't let that fear of failure stop us now, we never would've gotten this far if we let it get to us.

If we fail here, we become a martyr, a hero to every shadow and spirit mage that makes it out alive. Our ideal will continue, even if our revolution doesn't.

>>25364108
Hey, if our antimagic works we can be proud it was done with minimal collateral damage. If not... We'll probably have to consume the dynamo, blot out the sun and snuff out the little specs of light who claim to be angels.

>>25364091
seconded

>>25364128
>you're never there from me when I need you anon! i'm leaving and never coming back!

>>25364108
If we roll low, we still have EXP to burn for mana, and we can batter away at the spell with more nightblazes.
It probably won't launch soon anyway.

>>25364026
Nightblaze.

Since Shadow seems to want to establish a balance between all the elements eventually, that includes light, last thing we need to do is turn the more reasonable light mages who could be convinced of our cause against us with indiscriminate slaughter.

>>25364145
>Goddamnitall.
>tentative physical contact in the form of a pat on the shoulder.
>I'm sure it will be fine anon.

>bracing for impact...

>>25364166
>it's not fine! it's NEVER fine with you! you're just pretending and you've never really cared at all! goodbye.

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>>25364166
>>25364145
>>25364128
>>25364118
>>25364114
>>25364108

Death may be a result of your actions...but it is not your goal. You need to save the mages; you need to counter that magic.

Maybe if you focus your magic into the dynamo, it can be channeled into the ship's weapons?

You begin to press your power forward....

...it's whipped into the dynamo! The swirling black pulses with power, taking on a slightly different hue, a dark mixture with added essence of Shadow.

Something inside you hums...Isolation.

The ships cannons fire.

Lines of black light erupt from the guns. They speed toward the swarm of angels. A battalion of them splits off, throwing up a flurry of shields. The cannon fire slams into the magic.

And passes right through.

The cannon fire slams into the spinning circle, and explosions of shadow rip across its surface. The wheel of light fractures, and stops spinning. But even as you watch, the cracks begin to heal...the angels pour more energy back into it, determined to save the spell.

"Weapons recharging!" Flint says. "45%!" He glances at you. "That slowed them down, but - oh, shit!"

The battalion of angels that tried to stop the spell outright is now speeding toward the airship!

"Keep our aim on the spell!" Auriel's voice commands. "Harm as few as possible! Prepare for boarding action!"

Below, the shadowy shield continues to build. They're trying to fortify themselves against attack - they must have thought the Noiralev was coming to assist their enemies. But they do still have the Sun Call to worry about.

"...what the..." Flint is bent over his readouts. "...Shadow...what the hell?"

<What is it?>

"The jump drive," Flint says. "It's at 10% charge!" He slaps the panel. "That's three days worth! What did you do?"

Isolation rings out to you. <...I'm not sure,> you say.

"If you can get that working, we've got an escape route!" he says.

>con't

>>25364191

What do you do?

>remain hooked into the guns. Destroy the spell.
>override the guns, focusing Shadow Beam on the incoming angels
>take over the ship's loudspeakers. Call out to the shadow mages
>use your Shards to charge the ship's jump drive
>some other strategy

>>25364179
>ciao

>>25364180
your are just saying that cause you nee loving, come here you and let me heal your heart whole

>>25364191
>"If you can get that working, we've got an escape route!" he says.

That's great, but I don't want to leave all the mages we freed behind to get cut down by the angels.

>>25364197
Use our isolation shard to charge the guns against the Sun Call spell to prioritize saving the shadow mages, and the city as well.

>>25364197
Call out to the mages, get them onboard so we can jump out of here.
Then return to stalling the spell. if it goes off, we are all dead.

>>25364197

Do


>remain hooked into the guns. Destroy the spell.

Then

>take over the ship's loudspeakers. Call out to the shadow mages

>>25364225
>>25364191
This, we need to save all the mages we can and get the fuck out of here.

>>25364224
Seems reasonable.

>>25364197
>take over the ship's loudspeakers. Call out to the shadow mages

and

>remain hooked into the guns. Destroy the spell.

We need to tell them to get their asses out of there, and disrupt the spell long enough for them to do so. Hopefully, if the angels aren't total psychos, they'll stop trying to nuke the city when they realise the shadow mages aren't in it any more.

>>25364197
>remain hooked into the guns. Destroy the spell.

>>25364224
>>25364232
Seconding.

Also, where's our ability tree?

>>25364197
Call out to the Shadow mages and stall those mages.

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Alrighty. You will:

1) call out to the shadow mages

and then

2) focus on firing upon the building spell

Roll 1d100

>>25364250
>WOOPS

>>25364242
>Hopefully, if the angels aren't total psychos
>if
>hopefully

There's probably some reasonable angels out there capable of seeing their error, like Auriel, which is why we're not killing them all now. But the higher-ups in charge? I sincerely doubt it. And Sandalphon himself is just fucking nuts.

>>25364232
This, though it might be best to send an impression of shadow and spirit mages converging on our location. That way the shadow mages will know its us and not a trap.

Rolled 66

>>25364277
Rolling.
>aidw)AHW)*(H@ADWawdAwda

Rolled 6

>>25364277
Oh no.

>>25364191

Could it be that Isolation is recharging the jump drive? Maybe the drive temporally separates the ship from the rest of world. That's why Isolation is humming, its resonating with the jump drive.


>remain hooked into the guns. Destroy the spell.

Rolled 58

>>25364277

Guys, I just realised, Vellik is in the city somewhere. If it comes to combat near him with us involved he might have to show his true colours. We might see if he's with or against the angels then.
Just thinking out loud here, dunno if we actually want that to happen.

Rolled 27

>>25364277

Rolled 34

>>25364277
two actions? six rolls? yikes.

Rolled 65

>>25364277

Fire first they will be more willing to believe us then.

Rolled 69

>>25364277
Boom.

>>25364277
Merde, actually.

Rolled 14

>>25364286
>>25364287
>>25364298
>>25364302
>>25364303
>>25364310
I really hate /tg/ dice.

Rolled 81

>>25364277
Rollin!

Rolled 20

>>25364277

i fear our luck may be desearting us this day...

>>25364299
Well, he did specifically reference a desire to enslave us, so I'd say his true colours are pretty well shown by this point.

Rolled 42

>>25364277
all our rolls ...

>>25364318

Yeah, they're pretty spotty tonight.

But it's going to be hard to live up to last night's supercrit.

Rolled 54

>>25364277

>>25364322
...
..
.

Rolled 51

>>25364277

Rolled 80

>>25364277
nat 1 incoming

>>25364329
12 rolls and only 1 of them is above 80. That's simply wrong. Shenanigans.

So I guess we'll be rolling companion saves.

Rolled 39, 6, 58, 64, 44 = 211

>>25364362
Or the shards save us

Rolled 67

>>25364277
k

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>>25364367
>Hunger accidentally the whole dynamo

>>25364362
Well, with any luck we at least issued an evacuation order to the city. Maybe some people will be able to take shelter or something.

>>25364380
Ahh shit if we get a supercrit fail that's incredibly likely, especially since it's been strengthened to normal.

>>25364380
Look. We didn't roll a 1 so chill out a bit. Pls

>>25364383
If "Sun Call" is anything like its name implies I don't think there's any point in running. If the fire and heat doesn't kill them the debris and smoke will.

Rolled 90

>>25364277
Dice gods, I humbly beg for your favour!

>>25364411
Bit late there, mate.

Rolled 36

>>25364411
And they answered! Praise the dice gods!

>>25364411
And NOW you do it, not when it would have mattered?

>>25364403
True. I can pretend there are a few nuke-equivalent bomb shelters scattered throughout the city though. I mean, some angels were outright paranoid about a second elemental war.

>>25364380
>Why I said we should suppress it before doing this.

Maybe we should start using isolation with our attacks, to cut them off from the spell.
It would probably end up breaking it if it isn't strong though...

The guns are still charging. You might be able to ramp them up quicker...but right now, you need to get the shadow mages on board.

You reach through the ship. You can feel them - lines of mana connect them in a tight net. You direct your power to the external speakers.

Your voice booms out over the city. <Mages! You've been freed! The Noiralev fights at your side! You cannot linger in the city. Make way to the ship!>

For a few moments, nothing happens. But then, a flock of dark lights splits off from the cloud of shadow, hurtling toward the ship!

Light flares from the angels. They target the mages while they're in the open. Cover fire erupts from the cloud on the ground to protect their allies. The vicious blasts of magic collide. The force explodes in midair.

More than a few shadow mages die, but the majority make it through, landing on the top of the ship. Before you can think to do so, Auriel's control room is already opening the hatches closest to their position.

The incoming angels reach the ship, heading straight for the weakest point - the opened up top! Battle erupts on the outside of the hull. The shadow mages desperately defend their position as they retreat into the hull, but they're severely outnumbered.

In the meantime, though, you've focused on charging the guns, and they're back up to full power much faster than they would have been otherwise.

"Guns at 98%!" Auriel shouts. "Shadow, get ready!"

What do you do?

>try to direct the ship's shields at the boarding angels; protect the shadow mages
>focus nightblaze's essence into the guns. The spell is almost back where it was before your first strike.
>try to charge the jump drive
>leave the engine room and help fend off the angels in person
>consume the core
>some other strategy

Rolled 66

>>25364323
He said that in the face of an angel. Whom he might just be playing. Or he might have shown his true colours then. We don't really know, that's the problem.

>>25364447
>focus nightblaze's essence into the guns. The spell is almost back where it was before your first strike.

Because I kinda want to prevent a Nuke. Hopefully the shadow mages can handle a bit of defense for now.

>>25364447
>focus nightblaze's essence into the guns. The spell is almost back where it was before your first strike.

>>25364447
>>focus nightblaze's essence into the guns. The spell is almost back where it was before your first strike.

We need to save as many as we can.

>>25364447
Nightblaze on the guns, if that spell goes off, I suspect we're all boned whatever happens.

>>25364447

Do


>try to direct the ship's shields at the boarding angels; protect the shadow mages

Then see if we can recruit the shadow mages power combined to disrupt the giant Sun Nuke immediately.

Rolled 89

>>25364447
Nightblaze the spell, then quickly jump to the mages and help fend off the angels.

>focus nightblaze's essence into the guns. The spell is almost back where it was before your first strike.

>>25364447
>focus nightblaze's essence into the guns. The spell is almost back where it was before your first strike.
Voting.

>>25364447
>focus nightblaze's essence into the guns. The spell is almost back where it was before your first strike.
There will be many feels by the end of this battle, no matter what we choose.

>>25364447
>focus nightblaze's essence into the guns. The spell is almost back where it was before your first strike.

>>25364447

Nightblaze into the guns.

maybe give Hunger a spin on the spell, don't just damage the spell, Let the Anti-Magic consume the spell

Your immediate action is to focus nightblaze into the guns.

Roll 1d100

>>25364447
>focus nightblaze's essence into the guns. The spell is almost back where it was before your first strike.

But after that is done quickly try to direct the ship's shields.

Rolled 89

>>25364520
FOR JUSTICE

Rolled 32

>>25364520

Come on

Rolled 1

>>25364520

BLAZE IT ALIVE

Rolled 68

>>25364520
I don't really believe in gods.

Rolled 6

>>25364520

Rolled 3

>>25364545

/tg/ DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE

>>25364520

Hoping to offset that.

Rolled 58

>>25364520
I submit to you powerful dicegods! Your whims rule our fate!

Rolled 13

>>25364520


>>25364545
WHYYYYYYYYY

Rolled 35

>>25364520

OH GOD

>>25364545
Well... there's that.

Rolled 47

>>25364520

Here we go.

Rolled 19

>>25364545

welp. looks like we just put out the dynamo...

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>>25364545

NOOOOOOO

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>>25364556
>WHYYYYYYYYY

I'm sorry!

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>>25364545
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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>>25364545

That miracle save with Auriel had to come back around at some point.

Rolled 38

>>25364545
*salutes*
A shame.
We had our moments.

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>>25364545

Oh god no, not now, not this

we've got too many people counting on us to fail now

Rolled 47

>>25364520
Don't worry!

We'll succee-
>>25364545
>1

FUCK

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>>25364545

>>25364571
Do we get a saving throw?

Rolled 62

>>25364520
>>25364545
trollercoaster ride incoming!

>>25364585

That's more of a good thing, rather than bad considering this quest.

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>>25364580
This is going to hit right in the feels.

>>25364545

Oh fucking hell, it's a supercrit too. Third roll.

Rolled 59

>>25364520

>>25364588

Well, yeah.

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Roll 1d20

You know who's closest to us right now?

Flint.

>>25364605

Our high from last thread just couldn't last.

Rolled 10

>>25364612

Rolling

Rolled 14

>>25364612
Fly true DICE!

Rolled 14

>>25364612
Enterim Agonis!

Rolled 20

>>25364612

Oh god

Rolled 9

>>25364612

Rolled 10

>>25364612
PLEASE DICE GODS! HAVE MERCI!

Rolled 14

>>25364612

>>25364627

FUCK YEAH SAVED

OR AT LEAST NOT AS BAD AS IT WOULD BE

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>>25364627
>4th roll

>>25364627
In the top five for saving throws! Yes! Now it isn't the worst possible situation but still pretty bad.

Rolled 56

>>25364627
Oh thank god. Right as the 3rd die.

>>25364621
>>25364623
>>25364625
>>25364627

Phew, well there's that at least.

Fingers crossed, everyone.

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>>25364612
>>25364627

>>25364627

Well, that helps substantially.

>>25364545
I leave to get a snack and when I get back the ship's been broken...

>>25364650

Not yet, god willing. When definitely slipped up though.

>>25364650
Fuckin' snacks.

>>25364661
>when

WE

Rolled 2

>>25364612

>>25364649

Yeah! Second time I save the day with a critical success.

>>25364638
Still, no just no I can't watch must wander off to calm down a bit, how have I become so emotely attached to this?

>>25364649
Everytime we need to roll a saving throw, we succeed.
It's fantastic

>>25364742

NO YOU IDIOT, DON'T SAY THAT

YOU'VE JINXED US NOW

>>25364742
You just doomed everything forever.

>>25364742
there are no words for what you've done.

Only thoughts of rage and murder

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>>25364768
>>25364759

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>>25364742
They are watching us...

>>25364759
There's the bag of candy dilemma. Why must they have bad ones in them?

A philosopher answered this question, and he said it's so you would appreciate the good ones more.

>>25364791

"This is /tg/ gentlemen. Not even the gods won't save you."

>>25364742
Not true. Also, you are a bad anon. A very, very bad anon.

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You put your power into the guns again.

They fire.

But this time, the angels react differently. A plume of white light expands from their core. The spell cuts off the ship's cannon fire, and it blows up early. Some of the angels die, and others drop from the sky, their magical flight cut out. But the Sun Call sigil is preserved.

The spinning increases in speed. You sense a massive presence at its center...Sandalphon is directing the spell personally.

The mages on top of the ship are throwing up a valiant defensive, but they're begin cut down at an alarming rate by the attacking angels. You can feel points of Light on the inside of the ship!

Another flock of shadow mages leaves the ground! Again, there's an exchange of attacking magic and cover fire. Most of the mages make it out alright.

A battalion of angels breaks off from the sky-based force and heads down, directly into the darkened cloud. Their spells don't have any effect on the defensive barrier, but they're able to pass through directly.

The ship rumbles. Flint is thrown back. He groans, then crawls back upright.

<You alright?!>

"Still kicking. What was that? He flicks the nob next to the camera, switching the view. "The angels didn't - oh, SHIT!"

The panel is stopped on the image of an approaching airship. It doesn't look friendly.

"That's the Ragnarok!" Flint shouts. "It can't jump...but it has a core of light. It's the most powerful assault ship in the Empire's arsenal!" He looks at his dials. "...shields at 75% power. We can't take too many hits like that one. Shit. Shit!"

Auriel's voice crackles over the loudspeaker. "Squads 3 and 4, get upstairs! Take out those boarders and give the mages some support!"

Angels fight angels inside the hull of the ship, trying to support the battle taking place on the outside. The new group of shadow mages bolsters the defense, but they're coming in under heavy fire. Many are dying.

>con't

>>25364812
Pretty dumb philosopher. If you don't like bagged random candies just order the ones you want and enjoy. Pfft.

>>25364812

that is true. As was discussed last thread, all the failures and 1's serve to make successes and 100's all the sweeter.

Otherwise we wouldn't have to roll and SM would just Fiat the results...

This is not good. It's time to pull out all the stops...

What do you do?

>focus on the guns. Delay the Sun Call! (use Hunger shard)
>push extra power into the shields to repel the boarders and protect the ship! (use Isolation shard)
>one of the above, but don't use a shard
>aim the ship's main cannons at the Ragnarok!
>some other strategy

>>25364867
>focus on the guns. Delay the Sun Call! (use Hunger shard)
Tough choice, but we can't let that spell fire or EVERYONE is dead.

>>25364867
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK


>focus on the guns. Delay the Sun Call! (use Hunger shard)

>>25364824
>>push extra power into the shields to repel the boarders and protect the ship! (use Isolation shard)

>>25364867
>>push extra power into the shields to repel the boarders and protect the ship! (use Isolation shard)

Damn, I don't think we can overpower Sandalphon. New plan of action should be to get as many mages on board as we can, and then get the fuck out of here.

>>25364867
>aim the ship's main cannons at the Ragnarok!
Aim for their cannons.

>>25364867
This ship feels ineffective. Let's see if we can supersonic fly to Ragnarok and eat that light core.

>>25364867
Aim for the head.
Focus on the guns using the hunger shard, but target it at Sandy who's directing the spell rather than the spell itself, as it just keeps getting repaired by those supporting it.

>>25364867

>focus on the guns. Delay the Sun Call! (use Hunger shard)

Don't pull any punches any more.

>>25364867
>>push extra power into the shields to repel the boarders and protect the ship! (use Isolation shard)

>>25364900
>target Sandyass
Second.

>>25364867
How many of the shadow mages are on the ship?
Can we get a feel for how long we have till the sun call goes off?

>>25364867
>push extra power into the shields to repel the boarders and protect the ship! (use Isolation shard)

We have to protect the mages! Once we have them safe and sound they can help out in the deference.

>>25364927
And let the nuke go off? NTB.

>>25364867

How about we don't try to delay the Sun Call but instead we try to destabilize the spell for an early casting.

>>25364922

>How many of the shadow mages are on the ship?

A coupe dozen. A hundred or so are still outside fighting.

>Can we get a feel for how long we have till the sun call goes off?

If you want to spend a turn on Deep Focus, you could probably find out. I don't think many anons would want to sacrifice the time.

>>25364940

By that I mean the it could go off in the air and not the city.

>>25364867

Focus the Guns on Sandaphlon, charged with Shadow Beam. If we kill the focus, the spells energy should loose coherency and disperse. Worst case scenario, the ringed city is flooded with magic and is rendered uninhabitable due to concentrated mana....

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>>25364959
>A couple dozen on the ship and a hundred down below
>There were hundreds, if not thousands of orbs in the soul vault
...Oh dear.

>>25364867
CONSUME the Sun ca... I mean

>focus on the guns. Delay the Sun Call! (use Hunger shard)

>>25364959

by the way, has Wispy found Ila yet? I do recall we sent him to find her...

>>25364984
I believe the hundred or so are on the outside of our ship. There's way more still on the ground.

>>25364984
Bear in mind that some of the shadow mages are probably out on mission, like Illa was when we met her. The ones in the city most likely don't account for all of their number.

>>25364984
Not all of them were in the Ring City, a lot were probably out on missions and stuff.

>>25364984

Only two groups of mages have tried to get to the ship so far. A lot of them are still down on the ground. Several dozens are dead.

>>25364995

Why do you think the Shadow mages responded to you so quickly?

>>25365002

Also, this.

>>25364984
What makes you think they were all in the city if not still trapped in cells and what not

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>>25364984

We decided when we were trying to figure out how to release the souls, death is better than enslavement. The mages chose to fight, we must not let their sacrifices go to waste, but the odds were never with us to begin with.

>>25364987
Well... we always do seem to roll better to CONSUME

>>25365002

And others may have escape by their own means.

ALRIGHTY

Roll 1d100

Actions:

1) Fire at the spell using the Hunger shard. Special emphasis on Sandles.

2) Use Isolation to empower the ship's shield. Repel the boarders, and protect against the Ragnarok's fire.

>>25364867
Let Flint and Auriel control this ship.

Supersonic over to the Ragnarok and try to take out its core.

Rolled 100

>>25365048

Rolled 77

>>25365048

Rolled 13

>>25365048
Here we go indeed.

Rolled 7

>>25365048
>1) Fire at the spell using the Hunger shard. Special emphasis on Sandles.
Rolling to CONSUME

Rolled 98

>>25365048
1)

Rolled 84

>>25365048

1

>>25365063
OHMYGODOHMYGODMOHMYGOD

>>25365063
Hah!

>>25365063
based gods we are saved pls thank the shadow pls omigod pls thank yuo based dice rolls gods pls of dice pls god!

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>>25365048
Wait, is this a call for a vote on actions or is it a call to roll for both actions SM?

>>25365063

Hue hue hue.

Goodbye Sandals.

please 1.

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>>25365063
>>25365063
>>25365063

>>25365096

I asked for the roll, so it's a roll on both actions.

Rolled 55

>>25365048
>>25365048
I have trust. Not faith, as I still don't believe in gods.

>>25365096
It calls for a roll and then says "actions" so I'd hope that's a call for rolling the actions. We did pretty great on both of them within those six rolls too.

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>>25365063


TIME TO SHOVE A NIGHTBLAZE UP SANDALPHON'S SMUG ASS

>>25365123
>>25365131
sweeeet

>>25365063
>>25365075
delicious angel magic is about to be CONSUMED

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>>25365063
>Sandles' face when

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>>25365063

Yeah, baby.

>>25365184
Yeah, this is probably going to hurt a lot for him.
But we can't get too cocky just because we rolled 100.
Our priority is still getting out of here as fast as we can, what with them bringing in the heavy artillery and still having a lot of angels around.

Also, Lucifer is unaccounted for, so there is that.

>>25365123

Beautiful, this is why I love shadow quest. There is no greater victory than that snatch from the jaws of defeat.

>>25365230
He's probably stealthing up to the ship. Or he's the one that got in command of the other airship. Or he's still on his date with the Duke. None of it matters, recklessness ho!

>>25365230

We'll have to ask Vellik about that when we meet with him again.

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

You grab a hold of the hunger shard within you.

-can I eat it?-

<Oh, you can eat it.>

Green-tinged shadow spins into the dynamo. The power of the shard seeps into the airship, then flares out of the guns.

The smokey white clouds rush to the angel's defense...and the green ink eats straight through them, leaving gaping holes.

The lines of darkness converge on the bright core of the Sun Call.

You hear an ugly shriek. The spell stops spinning.

A sphere of darkness expands, warps, and consumes nearly half the spell. The rest of it disintegrates. Sparkles of light drift across the sky, then vanish. Your shard feels tremendously weakened by the effort...more than fragile. You gingerly bring it back to your core to let it rest.

At that cue, the cloud of darkness covering the city begins to fade. Hundreds of shadow mages head for the Noiralev, abandoning their position to try and escape.

The Ragnarok fires straight at them.

But this time, you're ready. You grab your next shard - Isolation.

It doesn't really like anything. It wants to keep it all out out. The shield is a perfect fit for the dark power. The Shard vibrates, humming with an off-pitch tone of loneliness.

The shields around the ship, previously invisible, begins to twist with streams of darkness.

Flint glances back at you. "Shields...at 157%!"

Your shield expands out, enveloping the shadow mages in a protective blanket, and simultaneously pushing the angels out and away. The Ragnarok's fire is deflected into the sky. Many angels are caught bare in the midst of friendly fire.

The isolation shard settles, and it, too, feels used beyond what caution tells you is wise. You tuck it away.

"Damn," Flint says. "Light-dammit, Shadow! You're actually doing this!"

The door to the engine room bursts open.

It's Duke Vellik.

Lightning wraps around his arms. He brings his hands together. A bolt of lightning flares toward Sir Flint!

Roll 1d100

Rolled 36

>>25365312
>Rolling b4 Readin'

Rolled 79

>>25365312
>He brings his hands together. A bolt of lightning flares toward Sir Flint!

YOU BACKSTABBING, CONNIVING SON OF A BITCH FUCK YOOOOUUUU

Rolled

>>25365312

ROLLAN

Rolled 24

>>25365312

fffffffffffff screw you Vellik

Rolled 94

>>25365312
NOOO

Rolled 53

>>25365312
skit

Rolled 50

>>25365312

VELLIK!

Rolled 37

>>25365312
TRAITOR!

Rolled 31

>>25365312

Shadow preserve Flint

Rolled 57

>>25365312

Rolled 52

>>25365312

>>25365353
>Rolled


...How did you do that?

>>25365356
>>25365345
>>25365322

Roll 1d20

>>25365345
Look at it this as an opportunity, we've never consumed a duke before...

...as far as I can recall.

Rolled 15

>>25365353
>Rolled
SON OF A BITCH YOU BROKE IT

Rolled 17

>>25365387
Fuck you this means Lucifer is on the ship too.

Rolled 20

>>25365387

pls Dice pls

Rolled 19

>>25365387

Rolled 14

>>25365387

>>25365397
YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Rolled 6

>>25365387

>>25365395
>>25365396
>>25365397
>>25365400

Eat it, Vellik.

>>25365397
>>25365396
>>25365395
>>25365400
I think we can consider that a success.